A/N: Weeee, hope you like it.
I'm Perfectly Capable on my Own
Ginny Gets the Job
CarEtoDreaM
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, everything belongs to J. K. Rowling (darn that woman!!!) The only thing that I seem to own is the plot, and my two character Mark and Sasha.
Summary: Ginny Weasley is trying to prove to her parents that she is perfectly capable on her own. All of a sudden though, the plan doesn't seem that simple anymore especially now that her boss seems to like making her job as difficult as possible for her.
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Ginny Weasley, at the age of 22, sat in the waiting room for an interview at Dragon Enterprises to be secretary for the president of the company. 'Funny that I don't even know my maybe boss' name.' Ginny thought, smiling faintly.
"Ms. Weasley, Mr. Connor is ready to see you now." the lady at the front desk told her softly.
'So it's Mr. Connor….' Ginny stood up, and smoothed down the front of her simple black dress robes. Giving the lady a smile and a quick thank you, Ginny prepared herself for what was to come next.
"Have a seat Ms. Weasley, please make yourself comfortable."
"Thank you, Mr. Connor," Ginny replied back politely as she sat down. She took in his features quickly careful not to tarry on for too long lest he notice her staring. The man had light brown hair that was slightly mussed, and nice clear hazel eyes. His demeanor seemed friendly enough to Ginny, and she relaxed slightly as she took in note of that.
"No need to be so worried Mrs. Weasley, I assure you that I don't bite." Mr. Connor said to her jokingly with a cute boyish grin on his face.
It was such a cliché, what he had just said but Ginny couldn't help but let out an amused laugh at it. Her uneasiness quickly floated away as she took in his smile and his attempt to try and help her loosen up. 'Perhaps this isn't going to be so bad after all….'
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"I guess this means that you're going to be coming back to her tomorrow." Mr. Connor said to her after asking her a series of what was considered to be the normal 'routine' interview questions.
"You mean I got the job?" Ginny asked, just checking to make sure she had heard right before she allowed herself to be too happy.
Mr. Connor nodded at her, "I think that that was what I said," he told her with a smile. Ginny was hardly able to contain her happiness, but she had to act professional in front of this man if he was to be her boss. "You don't have to hide it all you now, you're not going to be working for me."
Ginny stared at the man before her, "What do you mean by that?" she asked him questioningly.
"Oh, I assure you, you have the job," he added first to the confused look that was on Ginny's face. "What I'm trying to say though, is that I am merely the man who conducts the interviews for jobs," while also muttering quickly "while also being vice-president of Dragon Enterprises…." so as to Ginny could not hear him. "But the man that you will be working for is not me.
Realization dawned on Ginny's face as she quickly processed what Mr. Connor had just told her. "Oh, I get it now!" She stuck out her hand for him to shake, "Thank you Mr. Connor."
"No need to be formal around me Ms Weasley, just call me Mark."
"Well, I guess if I'm not going to be working for you, it's ok if I call you that, and you can call me Ginnay, Mark." she told him with a smile on her face.
"Of course, and if you would like to express some of your joy in getting the job, then by all means do so."
"Well, in that case," Ginny smiled widely. "SCORE!" she screamed joyously as she pumped her fist up into the air happily.
Mark merely chuckled at the girl before him, she was truly different from all of the other people that the had interviewed earlier that day. Mark was almost positive that Draco Malfoy would indeed love Ginny Weasley (in a friendly manner of course) as much as he did.
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"I got the job!!!" Ginny screamed happily as she sagged down into the couch that was in her flat. A small smile played faintly across her face. 'I told them that I could survive on my own without their support. But nobody seemed to believe that little Ginny Weasley could ever accomplish anything on her own. Well I guess I proved them wrong.' Ginny thought as she closed her eyes and rested her head on the soft cushion.
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(things that happened in the past are in italicizes.)
"Mum, Dad, PLEASE! I want to have a life on my own! Why don't you two just let me get a job and a flat on my own?!" It was another one of those normal routine fights that Ginny seemed to be having with her parents lately.
"You're too young sweetie! What's so bad about staying here at home where you won't have to work hard just to get something to eat?" her mother pleaded with her.
"That's the problem Mum! I want to do something with my life. You two were perfectly fine with Percy, Bill, Charlie, Ron, and the twins establishing their own lives. Why can't you just let me do the same thing?"
"It's different with them Ginny!" her dad protested.
"How's it different Dad?" she questioned her father, "Is it because I'm a witch and not a wizard?" her dad didn't respond, and that was all the answer that Ginny needed. "It's the 21st century Dad, witches can do just as much if not more than wizards can."
"That's not what your father means!" Molly cut in, "We're only trying to protect you sweetie, why can't you just see that?"
"What are you trying to protect me from Mum, the world that's out there? The world that I'm going to have to one day end up facing anyways? I never asked for you two to protect me, I never wanted your so called 'protection.' You two both knew that the day would come when I had to face the 'big bad' world, you just never thought it'd be so soon."
"Ginny, don't!" her parents protested as she stormed up the stairs. They thought that she was only going to pout a little bit like she normally did, but a couple minutes later, Ginny had reappeared with her trunk levitating after her.
"What are you going Ginny?" Molly asked her daughter even though she knew exactly what her daughter was intending on doing.
"To start a life on my own, I'll be back when I've proved you both wrong." She gave her tearful Mum a quick peck on the cheek, "Maybe if you hadn't tried to shelter me so much, this may never have happened." She went over to her Dad and hugged him, "Bye Mum, bye Dad, I love you both."
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And now here she was, two weeks later in a small flat that she shared with her best friend from Hogwarts, Sasha Singh, looking to prove to her parents that she truly was capable of a life on her own.
"Glad to hear that you got it." Sasha said to Ginny as she too sat down on the couch. "Where is this job going to be anyways?"
"Oh, I'm going to be secretary for the president of Dragon Enterprises." Ginny replied happily.
Sasha on the other hand, looked positively horror stricken. "Ginny, you do realize where you're working?"
"Um, duh! Dragon Enterprises silly, I just told you that!" Ginny said rolling her eyes slightly.
"I don't literally mean where you dimwit, here let me rephrase my question so that you can understand me, do you realize who you're going to be working for?"
"HEY! Don't call me a dimwit! But no, come to think of it," Ginny paused slightly, "But I also don't care so long as I have the job!" Ginny cried out gleefully.
"Ginny, I really think that you'd want to know." 'Because after you find out, I'm afraid that you won't be so happy….' Sasha thought regretfully.
"No, it's ok, I'll be finding out who my boss is tomorrow anyways, so I'll just wait until then." Ginny said while stifling a yawn. "I'm getting a little sleepy here Sasha, I think that I'll just take a quick shower and then head off to bed. Big day I got ahead of me tomorrow." Ginny headed over to the showers yawning and stretching.
Meanwhile Sasha could only look at Ginny and shake her head. The girl was going to be in for a surprise tomorrow--one that she was likely not to like. Why couldn't she just listen to what people had to say once in a while? "Ginny," she called out after her, "Believe me when I say this , but I think that you would really want to know who you're going to be working for."
Ginny sighed and headed back to the couch knowing that it must be somebody really important or else her best friend would never have pleaded like that just to be heard. "Ok, I'm all ears now, who is my boss going to be?"
Sasha took a deep breath, "Are you sure that you really want to know?"
"Good God woman! You're the one that really wants me to know in the first place, so spit it out already!"
"Ok, ok," Sasha cried defensively holding out the palms of her hands, "Sorry, didn't mean to annoy you or anything," she took a deep breath again, "Your boss is…." she paused for a couple more seconds.
Ginny looked at her as if prompting her to go on, but still no response, "I swear Sasha, you're just wasting my time here." Ginny muttered clearly irritated by then as she got up to leave.
"Fine, sorry! Listen Ginny come back here now, I'm ready to tell you!" When her best friend still did not come back, "Your boss is going to be Draco Malfoy!" she screamed out quickly and loudly.
Ginny paused in midst ride, she hadn't been expecting somebody bad….. "What did you say?" she somehow managed to squeak out, hoping and praying that she had just heard wrong, after what seemed like an hour of silence. (When it was really only 30 seconds)
"Come here Gin," Sasha said lightly while leading Ginny over to the couch once again.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier Sasha?! And you call yourself my best friend, psh."
Sasha rolled her eyes, "I was trying to, but you wouldn't--" Sasha stopped talking when she realized that Ginny had stopped listening and was already rambling on once again.
"Ugh, I can't believe that I didn't see this before!" Ginny cried out as she smacked her palm against her forehead. "You see, draco means dragon in some foreign language of some sort. I should have connected this a lot earlier but I was so happy about getting the interview let along getting the job that I didn't even think about anything else!"
"I really don't see what the big problem in this is though Gin, I mean, you could just quit this job and find another one."
"I can't Sasha, believe me, if I could I definitely would. But this was the one company that would even send a reply back to me!" Ginny shook her head firmly, "No, I can't let something as small as a childhood feud get in my way."
Sasha smiled at her friend, "See, I that's the way to think, don't let Malfoy get in the way of you!"
The smile quickly faded though once Ginny spoke, "Besides, I mean, I might not even see the guy that much…." Ginny said with a wishful look on her face.
"Get real Ginny, you're his secretary, you have to see him all the time." Seriously, how much slower could her best friend get?
"Hey! Once can wish can't they?!" Ginny screamed back.
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Draco Malfoy leaned back in his large leather armchair in the Malfoy Manor and sighed, sipping his wine slowly. "Ok, so who did you hire as my secretary?" he asked his friend and co-worker Mark.
Mark quickly flipped through his papers trying to find the paper that had all of Ginny's information on it. "Here's her job applications." he said as he handed the piece of paper over to Draco.
Draco glanced over the paper taking in the contents quickly, "Name = Virginia Weasley, graduated from Hogwarts in 2000 (A/N: I'm not sure if this date is right, but it's just a made up year anyways so don't complain if it's wrong!)" He paused suddenly, as if just realizing what he had read and quickly turned to face Mark. "Weasley?!" he said stressing out her surname, "You hired a Weasley?!"
Mark nodded at him, "Yeah, obviously. Why do you care so much anyways, what's wrong with the girl?"
Draco took in deep breaths, 'Ok, maybe this isn't the same Weasley from Hogwarts, perhaps this name is actually very common….' 'Fat chance!' "How did this girl look Mark?" he asked, hoping that maybe it was a different one…
"She had um, dark auburn colored red hair, sort of, not that sure how to describe the hair color come to think of it, but it definitely leans towards the red side." Mark paused slightly trying to remember the image of the girl, "Her face was covered with freckles, but there weren't that many that they were all cramped together, in fact they were all scattered around her face." yeah, with some tickling her nose, and some dotting her cheeks giving Ginny a young, innocent look.
Draco groaned, the description fit exactly, it was definitely a Weasley, red hair and freckles…. "I-I-I, don't want a Weasley to work for me Mark."
"Why not? What's wrong with her? She seems sweet to me!"
"I just can't Mark, it's just one of those childhood feud things. Our families didn't really like each other that much…."
"That's no reason to fire anyone Draco, besides, how many years has it been since you've last seen the girl?"
"At least five, but listen Mark, I don't want her working for me!"
"You can't fire her though Mark, she was the best one there, it's surprising as to why nobody has ever hired her already. The girl is fast at taking note of things, remembers things always, and is a great people person. If you want the company to benefit, you're going to have to keep her."
Draco groaned again, except this time it was even louder than before, "Fine, we'll keep the girl!" Mark smiled slightly, shaking his head all the while. 'If I look at it this way, I can certainly make the girl's job more difficult than it has to be….' the devil in him thought. And with that settled, Draco finally smiled at the thought, an evil smile that is.
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A/N: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, ok, so there it is!!! What do you all think of it? REVIEWS please people!!! I want to know if I should continue this fic or not!!! If I get reviews, then that means yes, no reviews means now. So if you want me to continue on with it, REVIEW!!! Thanks for reading by the way. =]