A/N: So here's the chapter we have all been waiting for The Talent Show. I hope it lives up to everyone expectation.
Disclaimer: I disclaim all the characters and anything else you would recognize as the wonderful and talented J.K. Rowling. And the songs in this chapter aren't mine either!
Rated: PG-13 – there's a lot of cursing…I have a potty mouth!
Summery: Draco Malfoy and Ginny Weasley find each other in their 7th and 6th year. But what happens when Ron gets in the way and Draco has to become a Death-Eater?
Fluff-o-meter: Not that much…maybe like a 1 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Recap: Draco's week without Ginny. He becomes very cold and decides on what song to sing at the talent show.
The Talent Show
Draco stood in an empty classroom they were holding some students in. He was listening to a faint Colin Creevy make jokes. He could hear laughter and clapping from the students and faculty in the crowd.
"Malfoy…you're up next" Hermione whispered loudly at him.
Draco nodded his head and followed her out to the side of the stage to wait. Finally Colin was done and with a roar of applause and whistle he got off stage.
Hermione walked on stage and turned on the muggle microphone they were using. "One more time for Colin!" She said loudly. Applause and whistles followed her statement. "Okay…for our next act we have Draco Malfoy singing a song" she said then walked off the stage as Draco walked on.
Once Draco approached the microphone her looked up at the crowd.
They were in the Great Hall, but all the tables were pushed to the side leaving the center for seats. He couldn't make out everyone's faces just the first two rows of people. The stage was actually where the teacher's table sat.
"Um…this song is called Selfish" Draco said and the music started.
"I just don't understand
Why you're running from a good man baby
Why you wanna turn your back on love
Why you've already given up
See I know you've been hurt before
But I swear I'll give you so much more
I swear I'll never let you down
Cause I swear it's you that I adore
And I can't help myself babe
Cause I think about you constantly
and my heart gets no rest over you
You can call me selfish
But all I want is your love
You can call me hopeless (hopeless)
Cause I'm hopelessly in love
You can call me unperfect
But who's perfect?
Tell me what do I gotta do
To prove that I'm the only one for you
What's wrong with being selfish?"
Draco sang pouring his heart out with every word. This is how he felt. This is what he wanted Ginny to know.
"I'll be taking up your time
Until the day I make you realize
That for your there could be no one else
I just gotta have you for myself
Baby I would take good care of you
No matter what it is you're going through
I'll be there for you when you're in need
Baby believe in me
If love was a crime
Then punish me
I would die for you
Cause I don't want to live without you
Oh what can I do?
You can call me selfish
But all I want is your love
You can call me hopeless (hopeless)
Cause I'm hopelessly in love
You can call me unperfect
But who's perfect?
Tell me what do I gotta do
To prove that I'm the only one for you
Why do you keep us apart
Why won't you give up your heart
You know that we're meant to be together
Why do you push me away
All that I want is to give you love
Forever and ever and ever and ever"
He knew that by singing this song he was risking showing every emotion he wasn't supposed to show, but that was a risk he was willing to take. He had to tell her that breaking up with him was a mistake and he needed her and he would do anything to get her back.
"You can call me selfish
But all I want is your love
You can call me hopeless (hopeless)
Because I'm hopelessly in love
You can call me unperfect
But who's perfect?
Tell me what do I gotta do
To prove that I'm the only one for you
Selfishly I'm in love with you
Cause I've searched my soul
and know that it's you
Selfishly I'm in love with you
Cause I've searched my soul
and know that it's you
Selfishly I'm in love with you
Cause I've searched my soul
and know that it's you..
To prove that I'm the only one for you
So what's wrong with being selfish, selfish, selfish, selfish...
So what's wrong with being selfish..."
Draco finished the song and the hall erupted with applause, whistles, and "Go Draco's". Draco smiled out to the crowd. "Thanks" he said then walked off stage.
Hermione walked back on. "One more time for Draco Malfoy!" she said and one more time the Hall erupted with cheers. "Okay…now for our final act it is one of my very good friends. Her voice is like an angel's and she plays the piano like it's nobody's business! Give it up for Ginny Weasley!" Hermione said loudly then walked off the stage.
Everyone started clapping, Ron and Harry whistled.
Ginny didn't hear any of it she was oblivious to everything. She walked to the center of the stage where the black piano from the music room that she knew so well was levitated to a moment ago. She sat down on the stool and the memory of when Draco first brought her to the music room hit her. She remembered the songs she sang and how they snogged until they fell off the bench. Ginny smiled at the memory then stretched out her fingers and played some scales.
"This song is called My Immortal by Evanescence." She said into the microphone on the piano. She hit the first two lines of notes then brought her voice in.
"I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me"
Ginny sang with so much passion. This is how she felt everyday and it made Ginny feel just a little bit better…but not much at all.
"You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me"
By the middle of the song Ginny had tears streaming down her face and her voice crack, but she kept that under control. So she lied…its hurt looking back on her memories with him and knowing that there wouldn't be anymore.
"I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me"
Ginny finished the song, wiped the tears off her face then ran off the stage. On her way out Draco grabbed her by the wrist.
"Ginny" he said almost pleadingly.
Ginny had tingles going up her arm and hand. She heard him perform. She heard the emotion that at one time was only shown to her. She knew that song was for her and she knew that he wanted her back and that he needed her just like she needed him.
She felt like a bad person and her heart was breaking. Right now all she wanted to do was throw her arms around his neck and tell him she was sorry and that she wanted to be with him, but she couldn't, she couldn't lose her family.
"Draco…please" she pleaded not looking at him but at the floor.
Draco knew what she meant a let go of her wrist. Ginny ran down the corridor and towards the Gryffindor common room.
"Ginny!"
Ginny turned at the sound of her name. Ron and Harry were running towards her.
"Gin are you alright?" Harry asked heaving in breaths of air.
"Do I look alright?" Ginny asked coldly.
At this same time Draco walked out of the classroom he was in heading back to his room. He went to round the corridor of the hall when he heard Ginny, Harry, and Ron talking.
"Gin what was that?" Ron asked obviously upset.
"What was what Ron?" Ginny asked annoyed.
"The crying and the running off Gin! I thought you were over him!" Ron yelled clearly pissed that Ginny had not gotten over Draco.
"I'm not!" Ginny yelled. She looked down at the floor examining her hands. She looked back up her eyes glistening with tears. "Do you know what it feels like to have your heart break?" she chocked out a lonely tear falling down her pale cheek.
Hermione walked up to them now and took part in the conversation. Draco continued to listen.
"To have something that you've always wanted then have to give it up?" Ginny asked now crying harder her already tear stained face becoming more stained with fresh tears.
"You've wanted Malfoy!?" Ron asked shocked "What did you love the git!?" He yelled.
Hermione put a comforting hand on Ron's shoulder trying to calm him down.
"I am not going to talk to you about this" Ginny said "It obvious you don't care" she finished coldly. Then she turned to leave.
"Gin I care about you!" Ron yelled flabbergasted that she would think otherwise.
By now there was a crowd of people gathered around. Ginny turned back around abruptly.
"You care!?" Ginny yelled, "Well you have a nice fucking way of showing it!"
"What do you mean?" Ron yelled back.
"You don't care about me! All you care about is yourself! For six years I have tried to desperately to become one of you and all you guys do is ignore me! You go out on these stupid adventures just so you can come out on top! So you can come out as the fucking heroes! You don't give a shit about anyone else besides the three of you! Did you even notice that for once in my life I was happy, truly happy? No! Because you couldn't look past his name and notice my happiness!" Ginny shouted panting with rage.
Still standing in the shadows of the corner was Draco with a big smirk on his face. Finny the Trio got what was coming to them and from Ginny herself. He was proud of her.
Ron, Harry, and Hermione stood shocked at her outburst.
"Gin…we're sorry we didn't mean-" Ron was cut off by Ginny.
"Ron I'm tired of the I'm sorries and the I didn't mean to" Ginny said her voice becoming tire. "It obvious who your top priorities are and I'm not one of them." She turned and pushed her way through the crowd forcing her tears to stay inside, but it wasn't working.
The crowd started to disperse the leaving being the infamous, just smashed, Trio. Once the hallway cleared Draco came out from the corner's shadows and walked back to his Head Boy room.
Once inside he took out the box holding the necklace. He opened it and fingered the pendent. "She does still care," he said to himself.
He looked at the necklace once more then and idea popped into his head. He closed the box and got together Ginny's Christmas gift.
A/N: Did it leave up to the expectations? I finished this and I have to leave for my test in like 3 minutes so this is all for you! A special thanks to DuskTilDawn for you very encouraging reviews. I love them and thank you. Oh! And another note Draco's song has some foreshadowing in it so maybe you caught it if not you'll find out soon. Please review!
Preview for next chapter: Christmas Surprises
Draco gives Ginny the most personal Christmas gift he could think of.