Chapter Three – Vengeful Denial
I need you
By my side
And although we're going to
Fight sometimes
I need you
By my side
Please don't walk away and we'll be fine
Ginny crept cautiously from her room that morning, hoping to god she wasn't about to walk into a smug Draco fresh from Pansy's arms. With that thought in her mind she suddenly decided she had nothing to be ashamed of; it was her goddamn house for Merlin's sake! Stiffening her resolve she held her head high and stalked out of her room, striding down the stairs as though she didn't have a care in the world she danced into the kitchen and switched on the kettle.
Pansy looked up smugly and eyed her cautiously from where she was sat at the breakfast bar with a large mug of coffee cupped in her hands on the counter before her. Ginny nodded coolly at her before pouring herself a mug of coffee from the coffee machine and shoving some bread in the toaster, making sure she kept her back to Pansy.
"Draco!"
Pansy squealed, jumping to her feet and throwing herself at Draco who had just descended the stairs and stood in the doorway looking for once something less than gorgeous. Ginny turned around slowly and glared as she saw Pansy, clad only in Draco's black shirt from the night before and a pair of his boxers, wrap her arms around Draco and rub against him. She felt her anger rising up inside her but fought hard to control it. She turned her back on them again and tipped the coffee out of her mug and down the sink.
"Get off me Pansy."
Draco growled, viscously shoving her off him making her pout and flounce out of the room to get dressed. As soon as he heard the shower switch on Draco turned to Ginny sheepishly;
"Sorry, about you walking in on us last night."
Ginny shrugged, still not turning to look him;
"It didn't give me nightmares as I expected it to so it doesn't matter."
She replied coldly, slamming the dishwasher door closed and switching it on. Looking up at the calendar on the wall she realised it was Saturday and sighed; she didn't have to rush off to work and could spend the day relaxing.
Draco stared at her for a moment before shrugging and pouring himself a cup of black coffee, not bothering to add milk or sugar, and slumping down into Pansy's discarded seat. Ginny determinedly ignored him and sat with her back to him, flicking through a magazine and watching the beautiful models twirl in their long ball gowns before her. There was a ball that evening for all the Junior Auror's but she didn't have much hope of being invited.
No sooner had she thought this then the phone rang, startling her and making Draco leap a foot out of his seat. She smirked and wandered over to the wall-phone above the breakfast bar. Picking it up mid-ring she listened carefully for a few minutes, perfectly aware that Draco was eyeing her suspiciously.
"I don't know Parker... I..."
She trailed off as Pansy descended the stairs and dropped into Draco's lap, draping herself over him and nuzzling his neck. Ginny's stomach tightened in jealousy and she smiled widely;
"Of course I'll go to the ball with you, Parker. Why don't you pick me up at my new house at seven?"
Draco narrowed his eyes to slits as he glared at her putting the phone down and dancing past him;
"Pansy?"
A sudden idea hit Ginny and she smiled mischievously, stopping next to the couple and tapping Pansy on the shoulder, she looked up warily;
"I have a ball to go to tonight, could you please help me pick out a dress?"
Draco gawped at Ginny; was she serious?! Pansy continued to stare at Ginny for a while before smiling slowly;
"Of course, shall we go now?"
Ginny nodded and darted upstairs to pull on some clothes; quickly slipping into a white gypsy dress that floated about her knees but accentuated her brown cleavage and arms. Skipping down the stairs she just noticed Draco staring from Pansy to herself as though he had never seen them in his life before she took Pansy's arm and sauntered out of the door with a smug smirk at Draco.
Ginny stared critically at herself in the full length mirror adorning her wall, slowly spinning around to check her backside didn't stick out too much. She had to hand it to Pansy; the girl had taste. The dress they had agreed on was of pure black material that shone when she moved, plunging right down to her navel at the front and gathered with two jewelled straps holding it together over her breasts, it was completely backless, practically giving her cleavage at the back as well.
But the dress was so beautifully designed it didn't look at all tarty, just sexily seductive. It fell in long silken folds down to the floor, with two long slits up the outside of her legs to mid-thigh. Her newly waxed and bronzed legs seemed to go on forever as she pulled on her black high-heeled sandals that wrapped up to her knee, her crimson toe-nails shimmering in the soft light cast by the lamp on her bedside table.
She quickly bustled into her bathroom and applied the new makeup she had purchased only that morning. Ringing her eyes with black eyeliner she flicked out at the corner of each eye to make them look bigger. She applied layer after layer of black witch mascara that heated up as soon as it was put on and curled the eyelashes automatically. Finally she used her new eye shadows and out first a line of black, then a line of grey, then a lighter grey and lastly a line of white before flicking her wand at her eyelid so the eye shadows merged making her eyes look as though they faded from black into white.
She nervously re-checked her hair, pushing any stray strands back up into the jewelled clip her lustrous waves were pinned into, making sure the little curls fell just right into her face and that they weren't entangled with the long silver drop earrings that almost touched her shoulder. Slipping on her silver bracelets she caught sight of two deep scratches along her right hand.
"Damn that bloody cat!"
She cursed, muttering a healing spell and watching as they sealed themselves; turning she gave a start as she saw Hades glaring at her from her bed, his eyes watching her; so cool and detached she shuddered. No wonder he's Draco's cat, he's just the bloody same.
"Ginny; your date is here!"
Draco bellowed up the stairs, distaste evident in his voice and Ginny straightened up, silently reminding herself that she wasn't trying to make him jealous at all. Yeah right, and you also don't want to jump on him every time you see him. That annoying voice that sounded just like her brother Bill at the back of her head was kicking in again.
"Be right down!"
She called, grabbing her little black shoulder bag, making sure her wand and purse were safely inside before darting out of the room and down the twisting stairs. She paused on the last step and both men stood to meet her; their eyes travelling from her feet to her face, Parker looking terrified and Draco about to punch him. Parker swallowed before striding over to her and kissing her hand, one hand holding hers to his lips his other pushing his long black curls out of his eyes. He led Ginny to the door and pulled it open;
"Ready?"
Ginny's smile faltered before she grinned and nodded, turning coldly back to Draco;
"Don't wait up."
She winked at him, noticing his eyes clouding over with anger but she paid him no attention, she simply followed Parker out of the house without looking back.
"Are you sure?'
Parker mumbled; his voice muffled as he nuzzled her neck, his hands spreading heat through her body, one on the back of her neck and one resting lightly on her stomach. She sighed; did she want to do this? Pushing all doubts from her mind she forced a smile and nodded;
"Yes."
She whispered, looking up at Parker before pulling his head down towards her so she could kiss him. He deepened the kiss, moulding his body to hers as he lay her down on the bed; gently kissing down her body as he slowly pulled her dress off. Ginny smiled weakly at him before squeezing her eyes shut; this wasn't right! She held back the tears she was desperate to cry; he was perfect for her, sweet, kind, gentle, cute, dependable, but something wasn't right.
She didn't move much as he explored her body, she just lay back and tried to enjoy the sensations rippling through her body. She bit her lip hard as he entered her for the first time, tears welling up once more in her eyes. She couldn't deny she was enjoying it, it just didn't feel right. She dug her long nails in his back but he didn't complain, just carried on, his lips leaving hers every now and then to check she was alright; he knew it was her first time and was terrified of hurting her.
Later that night Ginny lay cradled in his arms, her body aching; was it meant to hurt this much after your first time? She gently wriggled out of Parker's embrace and silently pulled her dress on, fumbling around for her purse which had fallen out of her bag earlier;
"Oh this is ridiculous! Accio purse!'
She hissed, catching her purse as it came zooming towards her and shoving into her bag before grabbing her shoes from under the bed. She gazed down at Parker's sleeping form and it suddenly hit her what was wrong; the hair that was splayed out across the snow-white pillow black and curly, not blond and straight and the muscular brown body barely covered by the sheet wasn't long, lean and pale.
"I'm sorry."
She whispered kissing him gently on the forehead and brushing away the tears rolling slowly down her cheeks. She quickly left the room without looking back; thanking Merlin that she had passed the Stealth and Tracking portion of her training with full marks. Once the front door of Parker's apartment block was closed behind her, she leant against it and closed her eyes, letting her head fall back with a dull thud against the wood she made no attempt to stem the flow of bitter tears now racing down her pale cheeks;
"You're just not Draco."
She breathed, gazing hard at the full moon looking down on her.
Draco had waited until Ginny had left with that moron from the Junior Auror's before he pulled out the bottle of Firewhiskey he had bought that afternoon. Three quarters down the bottle he glared once more at the Grandfather clock, wincing as it struck two o'clock. He was just about to down another double when he heard the front door click open and he quietly placed the glass on the table in the centre of the sitting area in the drawing room.
He sat in the dark silently, not having bothered to turn on any of the lights when the dark had crept into the house. Glaring at the door he narrowed his eyes as Ginny slipped into the house, tiptoeing barefoot across the hallway, her underwear hanging out of her bag.
"Have a nice time?''
He growled, jealousy burning through him as the smell of sex wafted over from her. She uttered a small scream and spun around to find him sitting in a chair by the fire watching her; his eyes were dark and his face a mask of anger and desire that made her shudder. Spotting the nearly empty bottle of Firewhiskey next to him she shrugged and scurried up the stairs, almost screaming again when he grabbed her arm at the top of the stairs and spun her around to face him.
His anger died when he saw the dried tears on her face and his eyes softened;
"What did he do to you?"
His voice was gentle and persuading and made fresh tears well up in Ginny's huge eyes, making her look like a deer caught in the headlights. He felt a violent rush of anger towards Parker and pulled her into his arms, stilling her trembling with his warm strength and gently stroking her matted hair; still damp from sweat and tears.
After a while she pulled away and looked up at him, tears once more falling from her trusting eyes. Despair overwhelmed her and she shook her head fiercely;
"You're too late."
She whispered, spinning on her heel and racing to her room. Slamming the door behind her and locking it.
Draco watched her go, forcing the violent urge to pummel Parker to death down. Feeling drained and weary from so many forceful emotions coursing through him in one night he dragged himself to his room and collapsed onto the bed, falling asleep straight away still fully clothed.
A/N: The lyrics at the beginning are from 'Need You' by the Pointer Sisters I own Parker but that's it unfortunately. R&R ppl please! Thanx to ppl who have reviewed so far! Cheers babes!
I need you
By my side
And although we're going to
Fight sometimes
I need you
By my side
Please don't walk away and we'll be fine
Ginny crept cautiously from her room that morning, hoping to god she wasn't about to walk into a smug Draco fresh from Pansy's arms. With that thought in her mind she suddenly decided she had nothing to be ashamed of; it was her goddamn house for Merlin's sake! Stiffening her resolve she held her head high and stalked out of her room, striding down the stairs as though she didn't have a care in the world she danced into the kitchen and switched on the kettle.
Pansy looked up smugly and eyed her cautiously from where she was sat at the breakfast bar with a large mug of coffee cupped in her hands on the counter before her. Ginny nodded coolly at her before pouring herself a mug of coffee from the coffee machine and shoving some bread in the toaster, making sure she kept her back to Pansy.
"Draco!"
Pansy squealed, jumping to her feet and throwing herself at Draco who had just descended the stairs and stood in the doorway looking for once something less than gorgeous. Ginny turned around slowly and glared as she saw Pansy, clad only in Draco's black shirt from the night before and a pair of his boxers, wrap her arms around Draco and rub against him. She felt her anger rising up inside her but fought hard to control it. She turned her back on them again and tipped the coffee out of her mug and down the sink.
"Get off me Pansy."
Draco growled, viscously shoving her off him making her pout and flounce out of the room to get dressed. As soon as he heard the shower switch on Draco turned to Ginny sheepishly;
"Sorry, about you walking in on us last night."
Ginny shrugged, still not turning to look him;
"It didn't give me nightmares as I expected it to so it doesn't matter."
She replied coldly, slamming the dishwasher door closed and switching it on. Looking up at the calendar on the wall she realised it was Saturday and sighed; she didn't have to rush off to work and could spend the day relaxing.
Draco stared at her for a moment before shrugging and pouring himself a cup of black coffee, not bothering to add milk or sugar, and slumping down into Pansy's discarded seat. Ginny determinedly ignored him and sat with her back to him, flicking through a magazine and watching the beautiful models twirl in their long ball gowns before her. There was a ball that evening for all the Junior Auror's but she didn't have much hope of being invited.
No sooner had she thought this then the phone rang, startling her and making Draco leap a foot out of his seat. She smirked and wandered over to the wall-phone above the breakfast bar. Picking it up mid-ring she listened carefully for a few minutes, perfectly aware that Draco was eyeing her suspiciously.
"I don't know Parker... I..."
She trailed off as Pansy descended the stairs and dropped into Draco's lap, draping herself over him and nuzzling his neck. Ginny's stomach tightened in jealousy and she smiled widely;
"Of course I'll go to the ball with you, Parker. Why don't you pick me up at my new house at seven?"
Draco narrowed his eyes to slits as he glared at her putting the phone down and dancing past him;
"Pansy?"
A sudden idea hit Ginny and she smiled mischievously, stopping next to the couple and tapping Pansy on the shoulder, she looked up warily;
"I have a ball to go to tonight, could you please help me pick out a dress?"
Draco gawped at Ginny; was she serious?! Pansy continued to stare at Ginny for a while before smiling slowly;
"Of course, shall we go now?"
Ginny nodded and darted upstairs to pull on some clothes; quickly slipping into a white gypsy dress that floated about her knees but accentuated her brown cleavage and arms. Skipping down the stairs she just noticed Draco staring from Pansy to herself as though he had never seen them in his life before she took Pansy's arm and sauntered out of the door with a smug smirk at Draco.
Ginny stared critically at herself in the full length mirror adorning her wall, slowly spinning around to check her backside didn't stick out too much. She had to hand it to Pansy; the girl had taste. The dress they had agreed on was of pure black material that shone when she moved, plunging right down to her navel at the front and gathered with two jewelled straps holding it together over her breasts, it was completely backless, practically giving her cleavage at the back as well.
But the dress was so beautifully designed it didn't look at all tarty, just sexily seductive. It fell in long silken folds down to the floor, with two long slits up the outside of her legs to mid-thigh. Her newly waxed and bronzed legs seemed to go on forever as she pulled on her black high-heeled sandals that wrapped up to her knee, her crimson toe-nails shimmering in the soft light cast by the lamp on her bedside table.
She quickly bustled into her bathroom and applied the new makeup she had purchased only that morning. Ringing her eyes with black eyeliner she flicked out at the corner of each eye to make them look bigger. She applied layer after layer of black witch mascara that heated up as soon as it was put on and curled the eyelashes automatically. Finally she used her new eye shadows and out first a line of black, then a line of grey, then a lighter grey and lastly a line of white before flicking her wand at her eyelid so the eye shadows merged making her eyes look as though they faded from black into white.
She nervously re-checked her hair, pushing any stray strands back up into the jewelled clip her lustrous waves were pinned into, making sure the little curls fell just right into her face and that they weren't entangled with the long silver drop earrings that almost touched her shoulder. Slipping on her silver bracelets she caught sight of two deep scratches along her right hand.
"Damn that bloody cat!"
She cursed, muttering a healing spell and watching as they sealed themselves; turning she gave a start as she saw Hades glaring at her from her bed, his eyes watching her; so cool and detached she shuddered. No wonder he's Draco's cat, he's just the bloody same.
"Ginny; your date is here!"
Draco bellowed up the stairs, distaste evident in his voice and Ginny straightened up, silently reminding herself that she wasn't trying to make him jealous at all. Yeah right, and you also don't want to jump on him every time you see him. That annoying voice that sounded just like her brother Bill at the back of her head was kicking in again.
"Be right down!"
She called, grabbing her little black shoulder bag, making sure her wand and purse were safely inside before darting out of the room and down the twisting stairs. She paused on the last step and both men stood to meet her; their eyes travelling from her feet to her face, Parker looking terrified and Draco about to punch him. Parker swallowed before striding over to her and kissing her hand, one hand holding hers to his lips his other pushing his long black curls out of his eyes. He led Ginny to the door and pulled it open;
"Ready?"
Ginny's smile faltered before she grinned and nodded, turning coldly back to Draco;
"Don't wait up."
She winked at him, noticing his eyes clouding over with anger but she paid him no attention, she simply followed Parker out of the house without looking back.
"Are you sure?'
Parker mumbled; his voice muffled as he nuzzled her neck, his hands spreading heat through her body, one on the back of her neck and one resting lightly on her stomach. She sighed; did she want to do this? Pushing all doubts from her mind she forced a smile and nodded;
"Yes."
She whispered, looking up at Parker before pulling his head down towards her so she could kiss him. He deepened the kiss, moulding his body to hers as he lay her down on the bed; gently kissing down her body as he slowly pulled her dress off. Ginny smiled weakly at him before squeezing her eyes shut; this wasn't right! She held back the tears she was desperate to cry; he was perfect for her, sweet, kind, gentle, cute, dependable, but something wasn't right.
She didn't move much as he explored her body, she just lay back and tried to enjoy the sensations rippling through her body. She bit her lip hard as he entered her for the first time, tears welling up once more in her eyes. She couldn't deny she was enjoying it, it just didn't feel right. She dug her long nails in his back but he didn't complain, just carried on, his lips leaving hers every now and then to check she was alright; he knew it was her first time and was terrified of hurting her.
Later that night Ginny lay cradled in his arms, her body aching; was it meant to hurt this much after your first time? She gently wriggled out of Parker's embrace and silently pulled her dress on, fumbling around for her purse which had fallen out of her bag earlier;
"Oh this is ridiculous! Accio purse!'
She hissed, catching her purse as it came zooming towards her and shoving into her bag before grabbing her shoes from under the bed. She gazed down at Parker's sleeping form and it suddenly hit her what was wrong; the hair that was splayed out across the snow-white pillow black and curly, not blond and straight and the muscular brown body barely covered by the sheet wasn't long, lean and pale.
"I'm sorry."
She whispered kissing him gently on the forehead and brushing away the tears rolling slowly down her cheeks. She quickly left the room without looking back; thanking Merlin that she had passed the Stealth and Tracking portion of her training with full marks. Once the front door of Parker's apartment block was closed behind her, she leant against it and closed her eyes, letting her head fall back with a dull thud against the wood she made no attempt to stem the flow of bitter tears now racing down her pale cheeks;
"You're just not Draco."
She breathed, gazing hard at the full moon looking down on her.
Draco had waited until Ginny had left with that moron from the Junior Auror's before he pulled out the bottle of Firewhiskey he had bought that afternoon. Three quarters down the bottle he glared once more at the Grandfather clock, wincing as it struck two o'clock. He was just about to down another double when he heard the front door click open and he quietly placed the glass on the table in the centre of the sitting area in the drawing room.
He sat in the dark silently, not having bothered to turn on any of the lights when the dark had crept into the house. Glaring at the door he narrowed his eyes as Ginny slipped into the house, tiptoeing barefoot across the hallway, her underwear hanging out of her bag.
"Have a nice time?''
He growled, jealousy burning through him as the smell of sex wafted over from her. She uttered a small scream and spun around to find him sitting in a chair by the fire watching her; his eyes were dark and his face a mask of anger and desire that made her shudder. Spotting the nearly empty bottle of Firewhiskey next to him she shrugged and scurried up the stairs, almost screaming again when he grabbed her arm at the top of the stairs and spun her around to face him.
His anger died when he saw the dried tears on her face and his eyes softened;
"What did he do to you?"
His voice was gentle and persuading and made fresh tears well up in Ginny's huge eyes, making her look like a deer caught in the headlights. He felt a violent rush of anger towards Parker and pulled her into his arms, stilling her trembling with his warm strength and gently stroking her matted hair; still damp from sweat and tears.
After a while she pulled away and looked up at him, tears once more falling from her trusting eyes. Despair overwhelmed her and she shook her head fiercely;
"You're too late."
She whispered, spinning on her heel and racing to her room. Slamming the door behind her and locking it.
Draco watched her go, forcing the violent urge to pummel Parker to death down. Feeling drained and weary from so many forceful emotions coursing through him in one night he dragged himself to his room and collapsed onto the bed, falling asleep straight away still fully clothed.
A/N: The lyrics at the beginning are from 'Need You' by the Pointer Sisters I own Parker but that's it unfortunately. R&R ppl please! Thanx to ppl who have reviewed so far! Cheers babes!