A/N: Weeee, hope you like it.
I'm Perfectly Capable on my Own
First Day at Work
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 characters 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.
Last Time
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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"SASHA!!!" Ginny called out early the next morning, "I don't want to have to face Malfoy!" she whined out to her best friend.
"Well maybe you won't even be seeing him," Sasha muttered, clearly getting sick of Ginny's whining and nagging.
"You're the one who told me yesterday that I had to see him since I'm his secretary!"
Sasha groaned loudly when she heard Ginny complaining again, "Ginny! You're out here to prove to your parents that you can do something on your own right?" Ginny nodded, "WELL I'M BEGINNING TO THINK THAT YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE TO PROVE TO YOUR PARENTS ANYTHING AT THE RATE THAT YOU'RE GOING!"
"You're right Sasha," Ginny said sighing defeatedly to her best friend. "If I'm going to chicken out of this job just because of Malfoy then I'll only be proving my parents right." She reached over to hug Sasha, "Thanks for helping me see that, I know I can be a little annoying sometimes. I'll be off now."
Sasha smiled as her best friend apparated out of their apartment, 'Good luck Gin, let's hope that you don't tear off Malfoy's head before the day is over.' she chuckled softly thinking of how Ginny was ever going to survive.
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"I'm still not sure how you managed to convince me to hire that Weasley instead of just rejecting her right away," Draco Malfoy grumbled out to Mark as he fixed his sleek and obviously expensive black robes. "It's going to be so incredibly awkward because the first thing she will think of when she sees me is 'oh, it's the cocky arrogant Slytherin bastard from Hogwarts,' while I will just think of her as Weasel's little sister whom I tormented throughout my school years. To sum it all up, the girl hates me entirely, makes me wonder why she even signed up for a job at my company anyways."
"Well judging from the interview yesterday, the girl most likely does not even know that you're going to be her boss," Mark replied in a jovial voice, "Come to think of it, she seemed to think that it was I whom she would be working for. So just imagine her surprise when she finds out that the boss is really you."
"Please remind me again why I am doing this in the first place Mark…." Draco groaned, running a hand through his silver blonde hair.
"For the company Draco, it's that simple, it's all for the company," he said patting his best friend and colleague on the back.
"Right," Draco muttered under his breath, "It's all for the company," he muttered trying to convince himself. Then softly, but still loud enough so that Mark could hear, he muttered, "stupid darn company." Mark could only smile and shake his head cheerfully at Draco.
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Ginny Weasley sat in a chair on the 96th floor of Dragon Enterprises, biting her nails out of nervousness. 'I have got to stop this habit,' she admonished herself silently. It was one of the many bad habits that Ginny seemed to have, and this one was administered in times of nervousness. She was desperate to get rid of this habit, but sadly no matter how hard she seemed to try, the habit stuck.
"Miss Weasley, Mr. Malfoy is ready to see you," the same lady from yesterday said to her with a warm smile, obviously sensing Ginny's uneasiness.
Once the word Malfoy was said, Ginny's heart plummeted down. All hopes that maybe Malfoy would not be her boss were immediately curshed. Sulkily Ginny got up from her chair and proceeded into what she presumed to be Malfoy's office. 'I could walk away right at this moment you know….yes, I can but I desperately need this job too! Remember what Sasha said to you this morning Ginny! If I can't do this, then I've only proved my parents right!' With a little bit more persuasion on her part, Ginny headed on with an eensy weensy bit more confidence.
She had already reached the door by the time she was done battling with her inner conscience and knocked on the door politely.
"Come in," she heard a voice drawl, which she automatically placed as Malfoy's.
She rolled her eyes at the tone of voice, 'Still sounds like the same old arrogant bastard of Slytherin we used to all know and hate.'
"Good morning Mr. Malfoy," she said to the man while trying her best to keep on a polite face as she stepped into the room.
He merely nodded at her, motioning for her to sit on one of the two chair that were placed at the desk. "So it's Virginia Weasley, I see," he sneered to her when she sat down, disgust laced evidently in his voice.
"I see you recognize me then, judging by your tone of voice," she said to him, the disgust plainly shown on her face.
"Obviously I do, who wouldn't recognize mounds of red hair from even a mile away, and now to have you sitting directly in front of me, a blind man could obviously tell who it was."
"I'm here for a job Malfoy, not to listen to you while you throw insults around acting as if you're still in Hogwarts." she snapped at him.
"Do I need to remind you Weasley, that I am your boss, and if you don't watch your tone of voice I could fire you."
"I don't need your reminding Malfoy, and besides you couldn't fire me even if you wanted to." she replied back at him, a smirk forming on her face.
"What's that supposed to mean?" he asked her with a questioning look.
The smirk grew even bigger if possible, "seems that good old Mr. Connor liked me so much that he decided to write up a 2 year unbreakable contract with me Malfoy."
"Unbreakable two year contract?!"
"It would seem so Malfoy."
"No…Mark would never do something like that, not without my permission at least!" Malfoy began talking quickly, almost muttering to himself.
"Hate to break it to you, but he has, so now no matter how much you may want to fire me, you won't be able to. Well, at least not for another two years." she smiled evilly at him.
Draco proceeded to bang his head upon the table, while Ginny smiled, happy at the way things had turned out. Then all of a sudden though, Draco lifted his head up, and smiled maniacally.
Ginny, obviously surprised and scared at the way Draco was smiling, asked him cautiously, "Um…Malfoy, what's up with the maniac smile that you have on your face?"
"I just realized my dear Weasley, that the contract is two way. I can't fire you, and you can't quit no matter what."
She pondered it for a couple seconds, "I really don't see what is so bad with that Malfoy, I don't intend on quitting this job." she told him obviously confused as to why he was so happy about that.
"What it means Weasley, is that I can make your life a living hell here, and you won't be able to quit." Once again, he smiled that scary smile….
Realization finally dawned on the young Weasley's face, and she let out a gasp of horror, "But you wouldn't!"
"Oh but I would Weasley, and you know it." he replied back to her, the wheels obviously already turning in his head as to how to torture this little Weasley.
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There was a jingle and a click, and soon the door opened with Ginny Weasley emerging from it, looking both extremely pissed off and tired.
"So how was your first day at work Ginny? You showed that Malfoy guy didn't you? Haha, I'm sure that you did. Want to go out now and celebrate your victory, and you getting a job and actually keeping it?" Sasha bombarded Ginny with questions once the girl had set foot in the door.
Ginny only shook her head tiredly and collapsed onto the couch. She groaned and sighed, "I'm telling you Sasha, that job is not what a secretary would normally do!" she complained loudly. "And answering all of your questions in order, it was horrible, no I did not, and no I do not want to go out since there is nothing to celebrate!"
"Come on Ginny, what could be so bad about the job? Go on and tell me your sob story." Sasha nudged at her friend with a grin on her face, clearly thinking that Ginny was over exaggerating about how bad it was.
Ginny rubbed at her temples, took a deep breath, and began telling the events of the day to Sasha.
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"Ok Weasley, your desk is going to be over there," Draco said as he pointed over to a medium sized desk that was at the right of his office. "As my secretary I expect you to take all of my phone calls, get my messages for me, accompany me to my meetings, that sort of stuff."
Ginny nodded her head absentmindedly, 'Well this job doesn't seem that hard…"
Draco's voice quickly brought her attention back, "I have a meeting in about ten minutes and I want you there recording down all of the important events that happen." Again Ginny only nodded her head and proceeded to follow him when he made his way to the elevator to get to the conference room. "Why are you following me Weasley? Go get me a cup of coffee first," he ordered her.
Ginny narrowed her eyes at him, "You didn't mention that among the list of things that were required of me."
"Well it's on the list now, so get to it!" Draco said to her, "The employee lounge is over by that door, in there you'll find a pot of coffee, when you're done making it, then you can come to the room."
Ginny only glared at him, "Stupid malfoy," she began grumbling as she stalked towards the lounge.
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"Ginny, I really don't see what is so bad with making a cup of coffee for your boss, I mean a lot of secretaries do that."
"That isn't what I'm complaining about! When I made his highness' cup of coffee, I realized that I didn't know where the heck the conference room was. So I had to run down every flight of stairs looking for the stupid room."
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Ginny ran through the halls furiously searching for the conferece room, mentally cursing at herself for forgetting to ask such an important question, but cursing Malfoy even more for not telling her.
She was still running around the halls when she heard somebody call out her name, "Ginny! Hey Ginny, is that you?!"
She turned around in surprise wondering why anyone here would ever know her, "Oh! It's you. Good morning Mr. Connor." she said to him politely when she realized who it was.
"Didn't I tell you to call me Mark?"
She grinned sheepishly at him, "yeah, well, hi Mark then."
He chuckled at her, "So what are you doing here, aren't you supposed to be with Draco in that conference meeting?"
At the mention of that, the girls eyes flashed angrily, "He's the reason as to why I'm running around! He told me to go make him a cup of stupid coffee," she said angrily gesturing towards the coffee cup, "before I came to join him. But he forgot to mention where the darn conference room was, and this building is so big!"
"Oh, so that's it?" he said chuckling, "I'd be glad to show you where the room is."
Ginny looked up at him and smiled, "Would you really? That'd be great."
So Mark led Ginny to where Draco was, and once she saw him, she was about to pounce on him. Sadly though, she noticed that there were other people in the room so she sat down quietly.
"I see my secretary has finally cared to join me," Draco said with a smirk.
"Your cup of coffee Mr. Malfoy," Ginny said through gritted teeth.
He waved it off, "Yes, yes, set it down in front of me."
Ginny stared at him, he didn't even drink it after she went through all that trouble!
She was right about to get out her wand to mutter a charm to record the meeting when Draco's hand stopped her, "There are a lot of muggles in here, so you're going to have to take notes with this laptop."
Ginny stared at him with a blank expression on her face. Draco sighed and leaned over to her, "Ok, you see this pad over here with the letters? Hit each one and it will appear onto the screen in front of you."
"Why can't I just write it down?"
"Because a quill and parchment would look strange to Muggles, besides, a laptop is much more efficient."
More efficient if you knew how to use it…Ginny realized by the end of the meeting. "That lap thing or whatever is not efficient at all, I would have much preferred to have used normal quill and parchment."
"That laptop would have been a lot more a efficient if you had knew how to use it."
"You failed to mention that before, you git," Ginny snarled at him.
Draco smirked at him, "I know."
She glanced up at him, "So what do you want me to do now?" she asked him, eager to get the day over with.
"I have a list of errands for you to run around the building," he handed a slip of paper over to her, "This will tell you where to go and what to do. Each time you finish one, a new one will appear."
'Running errands shouldn't be hard, not all.' Wrong. It ended up that Ginny had to go up and down the building since the order in which the errands occurred required her to do just that. She could have used the elevator of course, if it were working, but with her luck, it was out of order that day.
It was hours later before Ginny was finally done, and by then she was tired and her muscles ached from all of the walking. "That was cruel Malfoy, that was cruel, even from you that was cruel!"
Again he smirked at her, "I know, I told you I would make your life a living hell working here didn't I?"
Ginny only glared, and Draco only smirked.
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A/N: Ok everyone, so how was it??? Sorry about the long delay… =D I made it up with the long chapter didn't I? But it was grades and everything… got my report card back, only one b in STUPID Spanish!!! Ugh… BUT!!! REVIEW PLEASE!!!
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