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A/N: Sorry if Draco was a little bit OOC in the last chapter, I'm trying really I am! Thanks to all of the reviewers I hope you like this next installment.
Babysitting with the Dragon chapter 5
Ginny woke up to someone crying her name. She rolled over groggily and looked at her clock. One o'clock in the morning.
She sat up and looked at Agatha who was standing in the doorway with Draco. Agatha was crying, not just crying, bawling.
"She had a bad dream," Draco explained tiredly.
Ginny held her arms out and Agatha climbed up onto the bed and into Ginny's arms.
"Do you want to tell me about your dream?"
"No," Agatha shook her head. "It was really scary."
"Okay well nothing scary can get to you here. Draco and I are here to protect you."
Agatha nodded and cuddled up against Ginny.
"Draco, I think you can go back to bed now," Ginny said trying to let Draco get some sleep even if she wasn't going to get very much.
"Thanks," he mumbled walking away when Agatha started screaming, "Don't go you have to protect me!"
"I'll protect you Agatha. Why don't we let Draco sleep?"
"I want you AND Draco," she whimpered.
Ginny gave Draco an 'I'm sorry I tried' look.
Draco sat down in an armchair fully intending to leave and get some sleep as soon as Agatha shut her eyes.
"Draco, will you come sit with me in the bed?" Agatha asked.
"Can I just stay here? I can protect you from over here better than if I was in the bed."
"No, I'll be safer if you and Ginny are next to me," Agatha said decisively.
'She has both of us wrapped around her little finger,' Draco thought tiredly as he sat on the bed next to Agatha.
"You have to get under the covers or else the monster will come eat you."
Draco got under the covers and he was suddenly very aware that he didn't have a shirt on and Agatha was the only thing separating him and Ginny.
Agatha gave a contented sigh. Ginny and Draco both fell asleep again but were soon awoken by the same little girl.
"I can't sleep," Agatha said as she poked Draco and Ginny with her little fingers.
"And what would you like us to do about that?" Draco asked irritably.
Ginny gave him a death glare saying through eye contact 'if you make her upset we will never get to sleep'
"Why don't we go to the kitchen and have some hot chocolate?" Ginny asked.
Agatha nodded and all three began the trek downstairs to the kitchen. Draco stared at Ginny in her nightclothes. She looked enchanting. 'Did I just think that?' No, no, no, she's not enchanting, she's a Weasley,' Draco reprimanded himself for thinking these things but he still couldn't stop staring at her. Her red hair was down when it was usually up. It fell in waves to the middle of her back and was layered in front to frame her delicate face. She was wearing dark blue flannel pants and a silver silk tank top that flattered her figure.
Ginny turned around with three cups of hot chocolate in her hands. They sat there in silence for a few minutes when suddenly Agatha started to cry.
"What's wrong?" Ginny asked with concern.
"I want Grandma!" she wailed. Ginny picked Agatha up and tried to quiet her but to no avail. The next two hours were spent trying to calm Agatha down. Finally Agatha fell asleep in her bed at four in the morning.
Draco and Ginny walked tiredly to their rooms and got three hours of sleep before Agatha woke them up again at seven.
Ginny got up tired to the bone. Draco looked much the same but Agatha was as chipper as she always was. They all went downstairs and ate breakfast, Agatha talking up a storm but Draco and Ginny just nodded along. They went into the living room and Agatha and Draco started playing a game. Ginny laid out on the couch watching Draco and Agatha play.
Draco looked over at Ginny laying on the couch after he finished playing with Agatha. She was asleep. Agatha went over to her and started laughing.
"Ginny fell asleep," she giggled to herself and was about to poke her.
"Why don't we let her sleep?"
"Why?"
"She's really tired, she'll soon wake up again."
"Okay, but I'm hungry can we have a snack?"
"Alright," Draco answered as he headed towards the kitchen.
Agatha started looking in the fridge (the wizard equivalent of fridge of course) for something to eat.
"Can I get you something Master Malfoy?" a servant asked Draco.
"No I think we can find something ourselves." Draco replied.
Agatha took out a can of frosting that was almost completely full. "Can I have this?"
"Are you allowed to have frosting?"
"Ginny let me have some."
"Okay, if Ginny let you have some then I guess you can."
"Yay! Can we eat it outside?"
"Sure."
Where am I? Ginny thought groggily as she sat up.
'I must have fallen asleep!' she thought with alarm.
She walked into the kitchen to find a servant. "Do you know where Agatha is?" Ginny asked to the first servant she saw.
"She is with Master Malfoy outside having a snack."
Ginny let out a sigh of relief and made her way outside.
"You gave me a fright!" she said as she sat down next to Draco. "Thank you for letting me sleep though."
"No problem."
Draco had charmed a water hose to chase Agatha around and spin above her head. Agatha was giggling wildly and was soaked from head to toe. She caught sight of Ginny and ran over to her and gave her a big hug as she screamed, "Ginny! You're awake!"
Ginny laughed as she felt the water seep into her shirt from Agatha's wet hug.
"Do you want to play with me Ginny?"
"I don't think I want to get wet right now Agatha, maybe I'll join you later," she replied.
"Okay," Agatha said as the hose started chasing her again.
Ginny took off her shoes and sat on the grass next to Draco. Ginny looked at Draco and noticed that he had a mischievous glint in his eyes. He picked up his wand languidly at one of her shoes and said, "Wingardium Leviosa!"
"What are you doing?" Ginny cried as her shoe went flying to a wet part of the grass. Ginny rolled her eyes and went to retrieve it. She was almost to her shoe when the hose stopped spinning and turned around and started floating towards her.
"Oh no Draco, no you can't do this!"
Draco just grinned at her as the water hose started spraying her mercilessly. Ginny was trying to run from it but to no avail, everywhere she went it followed.
She finally figured that if she went over to where Draco was sitting he would have to turn it off if he didn't want to get wet. As she was nearing him he flicked his wand and it started chasing Agatha again.
"Ha, ha, very funny," she said with good nature. She was about to sit down again and demand a drying spell when Agatha suddenly said; "I don't feel so good." Ginny walked over and Draco killed the hose.
"What's wrong?" Just then Agatha threw up…all over Ginny.
"Sorry," Agatha said as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"It's alright." Ginny said as she looked at her clothes that now stunk to high heaven. She looked at where Draco was sitting and saw for the first time the empty frosting can.
She picked it up and looked at Draco and said, "You let her eat the entire thing didn't you?"
"Was that wrong?"
"Yes! You made her sick! You have to think!"
Draco stood up indignantly. "She said that you let her have some!"
"Yes, a spoonful!"
"So you're saying this is all my fault."
"It is all your fault!"
Draco glared at her and said, "You reek, go get cleaned up."
Ginny raised her eyebrows and said, "Don't order me around. I am employed by your grandmother, not by you."
"She's not here and in her absence you will follow my orders. I'm going flying." At that he turned around and walked away towards the quidditch pitch that is in the castle's backyard.
"So what, you're just going to leave me here dripping with water and vomit with a sick five year old girl?"
"It's not my job to take of her, it's yours and you're getting paid handsomely so don't forget that. Everyone knows that you desperately need the money," he sneered at her and walked away.
"What about last night?" Ginny called after him.
"What about it?" he asked daring her to mention what almost happened.
"Nothing, just you acting like a human being, but I guess you can't expect a Malfoy to act like that all the time," Draco balled his hands into fists but chose to keep walking not wanting Agatha to see him angry. Both Agatha and Ginny watched Draco's retreating back.
"Is Draco mad at me?" Agatha asked.
"No, he's mad at the world."
"Why?"
"I don't know, maybe you should ask him."
"Okay." They walked to the house and Ginny had the servants clean them both up.
They spent the rest of the day indoors doing quiet things so as not to upset Agatha's stomach.
Ginny put Agatha to bed and promised her many times that there were no monsters anywhere in the house. 'Except Draco' Ginny thought bitterly.
It was eight o'clock and Ginny was reading in the living room when suddenly Caroline and Greg Connors apparated right in front of her.
"I thought you weren't returning until the end of the week," Ginny said as she closed her book.
"Our plans changed. How's it all been going?" Caroline asked as she hugged Ginny.
"It's going great. Agatha missed you but nothing major happened." Ginny didn't mention the frosting incident. What Caroline didn't know about her grandson wouldn't hurt her.
"Oh that's wonderful, Ginny why don't we chat tomorrow, I am dead tired."
"Oh by all means, go rest!" Ginny said as she shooed them out of the door.
"Wait, there's something that I have to tell you before I forget, where's Draco?"
"Right here grandmother," Draco said from the doorway.
Ginny glared at him. He acted like he didn't see.
"I have some really exciting news," Caroline told them. "In honor of a big sale that I made, me and some of business associates are having a party here! We're having a muggle theme since muggle parties are all the rage in all of the prominent social circles."
"Would you like me to keep Agatha upstairs during the party?" Ginny asked.
"Oh no! Dear me, why would we do that? Agatha is our pride and joy we want to show our granddaughter and grandson off! So," she clapped her hands together, "Agatha already has her muggle dress but I'm guessing that neither of you have muggle party clothes." Draco and Ginny both shook their head. "Well I've arranged for all of that. You two are going to have an outing into muggle London. You can go by floo powder," she said to Ginny, "And Draco can apparate. So tomorrow evening I expect you both to come back with muggle formal wear. Greg and I will take care of Agatha."
Ginny and Draco both gaped at Caroline.
"Is it really necessary that I go? I am just a nanny," Ginny said.
"Of course it's necessary! I've been just raving to my friends about how good you are with Agatha, they all want to meet you, and one of my friends has a grandson who is just about your age," she winked at Ginny and Ginny blushed.
"So there will be other teenagers there?" Draco asked, resigned to his fate. He hated parties of all kinds.
"Not really, it will only be Mrs. McKinley's granddaughter and Mrs. Cabot's grandson. And you two of course."
Ginny went up to her room and thought about going shopping with Draco. What a nightmare! This was not what she had bargained for when she took this job. Half of her wanted to quit but she knew that she never could. She wouldn't be able to leave Agatha or disappoint Caroline. She took a long bubble bath that she deemed necessary after such a long day.
Ginny headed downstairs awaiting the outing into muggle London with apprehension. She really had no idea how this was going to turn out. Hopefully it wouldn't be too painful.
"Ginny, here's some money for your dress, I'm sure that will be enough. I want you to buy whatever you want, money is no object. Oh, and you should get shoes and jewelry too, everyone needs matching accessories." Ginny thanked her and took some floo powder from the jar on the mantle and said "London"
She was swirling around and around, flames tickling her face. Soon the ride was over and she stepped out of the fireplace in a deserted building. She went outside and found Draco waiting for her.
"Come on let's get this over with," he mumbled and started walking very fast in the direction of one of the muggle stores.
Draco went to the men's section and Ginny walked towards the women's section. An attendant walked up to Ginny and asked if she could help with anything.
"Yes I think you can actually, I need a formal dress."
"Oh, are you getting ready for a party?" The young attendant asked excited, "I just love parties! Don't worry," she said grabbing Ginny's arm, "We'll get you everything you need from the dress to the shoes and the jewelry."
Ginny looked at the girl in wonder but just followed as she led the way to the back of the store.
"Size ten right?" the attendant asked.
"Yes, how'd you know that?"
"This is what I do, and I am good at it if I don't say so myself. Oh, by the way you can call me Emily. Wait right here."
Emily came back in a few minutes with five dresses over her arm. "Try these on."
"Thanks" Ginny said as she entered the dressing room.
The dresses all fit but none of them were THE dress. They were either not the right color, too revealing, not revealing enough, etc. etc. After a half an hour of trying on without any luck Emily suddenly gasped.
"What? What is it?" Ginny asked.
"I just remember we just got this new dress in, I think it will look fantastic on you, I can't believe I didn't think of it before!" Emily ran to the back of the store and brought out a beautiful dress. It was sleeveless and dark green with a skirt that flowed out at the bottom. The middle of the skirt flared open to reveal silver material beneath the dark green. Ginny tried it on and walked out. Emily gasped, "you look beautiful!"
Ginny was in love with her dress. She didn't even care that it was in Slytherin colors. The green looked great against her red waves and it brought out the greenish tint in her brown eyes. It hugged all the right places and it minimized all the places.
"Oh I have just the right shoes!" Emily came back with a pair of silver sandal style heels.
"They're perfect, thank you," Ginny said to Emily as she changed back into her clothes. They then went to the jewelry counter and picked out a diamond and emerald necklace and a matching set of earrings. Caroline had given Ginny a lot of money and had told her to buy whatever she wanted so Ginny did just that. She paid for everything at the counter while Emily gushed about how good she looked in her new dress.
"Are you done?" a familiar voice drawled behind Ginny.
"Yes, and you?"
"I'm done, I can't believe grandmother is making me where a suit," he grimaced.
"Is that your date?" Emily asked in Ginny's ear. "He's really cute."
"No," Ginny blushed not knowing how to explain since he wasn't what she would call a friend. Although she did have to admit that Draco looked good. He was wearing black slacks with a white button up shirt he had rolled the sleeves up to the elbows and his blonde hair wasn't gelled back like it usually was. Draco never dressed down. Ginny had never even seen him in jeans. Ginny shook her head and blushed a deeper shade of red.
Draco hadn't missed the blush and he knew just what the girl had asked Ginny. He felt like embarrassing her so he decided to play along with this Emily person's notion.
"Come love," he said as he grabbed her bag. "Let's get a bite to eat before we head home." He put his arm around her waist and led the flustered Ginny away from the counter.
"Young love," Emily sighed wistfully.
As soon as they were away from Emily Ginny regained her senses and pushed Draco away saying, "What are you doing? Get off me!" she violently pushed Draco's arm away.
"What's the matter, love?"
"Don't call me love! You are a horrible, horrible person!"
"I try" he smiled.
"You did that just to embarrass me!"
"You catch on quickly," Draco said sarcastically.
"Whatever let's just get something to eat."
They sat down at the restaurant and Ginny sighed.
"Now I know I haven't done anything to bother you in the past few minutes."
"No it's not you, I just can never decide what to order."
"You are barmy." (A/N: that means crazy in England)
"No I'm not, it's just that everything looks good."
The waiter came over after a few minutes and asked what they would like to drink.
"Pumpkin juice please," Draco said.
The waiter stared at him and said, "I'm sorry sir, we don't serve that drink."
"We'll have two sodas please," Ginny said, knowing that Draco didn't know what drinks to order. The waiter then asked if they were ready to order.
"Yes, I'll order for both of us." Ginny stared at Draco and was about to say "Excuse me!" when she thought maybe this is his way of being nice. She decided to keep quiet.
"Thanks," Ginny said once the waiter was gone.
"Don't thank me, I just wanted to get our food quickly."
Ginny merely smiled at his harsh tone.
A/N: What do you guys think? Did you like this chapter? Ugh, my school just started so I don't think I'll be able to update as soon as I have been but you never know, maybe I will have time but it's doubtful, just warning you all. Tell me watch you think and if you like this story you should check out my other G/D story called The Room of Requirement. Oh, and don't forget to REVIEW!