Draco and Ginny sat alone in the deafening silence of his office waiting for Starr to return. They refused to look at each other. Each still blamed the other for Kari's disappearance, and neither would talk.
When Starr walked in, Draco stood up.
"Well?" He asked impatiently.
"There was a note." She replied. "It told me to leave the money and they'd return her tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Ginny asked quietly. Starr looked toward the quiet Mrs. Malfoy. In the time since Kari had been kidnapped, Ginny had begun to grow quieter, with the exception of the time she spent fighting with Draco.
"Yes, Mrs. Malfoy. And if they don't…"
"If they don't?" Ginny asked, her voice rising to a squeak. She couldn't imagine how she'd live without her little Kari.
"Then we'll find those that took your daughter away. Maskichaleklldi will eventually be brought down." Starr said with such confidence that Draco fully believed her. Ginny, however, surveyed the young Agent with skepticism.
"What, Mrs. Malfoy? You think I'm lying?" Starr asked, almost losing her temper.
"Don't talk to my wife that way!" Draco said angrily.
"Why not? You do."
"That's different!"
"How?"
"She's my wife."
"So?"
"So what? That explains everything, thank you very much."
"Oh, go…" Starr began, then the door swung very loudly into the wall.
Ginny had left the room. Draco and Starr glared daggers at each other before Draco went to the fireplace. Throwing some Floo powder in, he said,
"645 Third Street." When his head was in Cat's living room, and she was looking at him, he said, "Do you think you could come here and talk to Ginny? She's rather upset, and…"
"Of course. I'll be right over." And with a pop! she was there. Nodding to Starr and Draco, she trudged up to Ginny's room.
"Ginny." She said, walking into the room. Ginny looked at her. Surprisingly she wasn't crying.
"Cat? What are you doing here?"
"Just coming to cheer you up! Trevor and I think that you and Draco should come out with us tonight to take your mind off of all this that is going on."
"But…"
"Ginny, if you don't, I will drag you out by your hair."
Ginny smiled slightly. How could she not? Cat's threat was real, and Ginny knew it.
"What does Draco think?"
"Um… he doesn't exactly know about it, and…"
Ginny gave Cat a look and said,
"I'd rather not have him come with us. He can stay here and flirt with the damn woman if he wants. But I don't want him with us."
Cat's looked at Ginny. What a change two weeks made! But if Ginny didn't want him with, then he wouldn't come with.
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Trevor burped.
"What a delicious meal!" he said. Ginny smiled slightly, secretly thinking What a pig!
Cat noticed that Ginny wasn't having very much fun.
"Trev, do you think you could give us a moment?"
"Of course, dear." He blew her a kiss before walking out of the room.
"What's the matter, Gin? I thought we were here to have fun…"
"You two can have fun, Cat. I'm not in the mood. I think I'm going to go home and go to sleep. Maybe I can have some 'fun' doing that."
And with that bad mood, she Apparated out.
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Hi. So, the good news: this chapter is done. The bad news: I don't like it. The other bad news: me not getting reviews leads me to writing chapters that I don't like, which leads me to not liking the story, which leads me to stop writing the story, which eventually leads me to stop writing on this site all together. If you don't like the story, that's fine with me, but you should tell me what I can improve so that you do like it. I don't necessarily expect the "great story, keep up the good work!" reviews, but I do want to say: if you read the story, please review. If I don't get at least three reviews this chapter, I'm not going to continue writing this story, because (as I've said before) although I enjoy writing, it is always nice to know that other people are enjoying (or at least reading) what I write. I don't like this ranting that I'm doing now, and I hope that I don't have to be disappointed when I only get one review on this chapter. (By the way, thank you Karania Avalon for actually reviewing)
Now I'm going, and I hope that I do get those reviews. Because I enjoyed writing the next chapter, but I don't have any reason to write past that if no one else reads it.
Good day
-Lili