Chapter 19- Death Eater Meeting
It was now one week until Christmas break and Ginny was quickly, but cautiously heading to the Forbidden Forest. She had been awoken in the middle of the night by the burning of her Dark Mark.
"Ready?" Came the voice of Draco when she stepped outside of the castle. He had been waiting for her there for a couple minutes. He hadn't gone to sleep yet, so when his arm started burning all he had to do was grab his cloak, pull up his hood and rush down.
Ginny nodded her head and then felt Draco grab hold of her hand and pull her into the forest. Once they were inside Draco pulled out the map. "Ok, this time we need to go straight." He said studying the map. "And it looks like we are heading very deep into the forest. So keep your guard up."
Ginny quickly pulled out her wand and followed closely next to Draco as they walked through the forest. "Do you have any idea what we have been called for?" She asked quietly.
"None." Draco whispered back to her then he noticed a couple small lights not to far ahead of them. "This must be where we are to meet tonight." He said to Ginny.
Ginny looked ahead at the lights and figured he was right. 'Must be." She said before she felt Draco take hold of her hand again and pull her there.
Once they got to where they were supposed to be they noticed that Lord Voldemort had not arrived yet and figured that they weren't late because many wizards were still apparating there.
A couple minutes later Lord Voldemort appeared. Another wizard quickly moved up and stood beside him. "I have called you all here tonight to meet the newest Death Eaters." He said as he looked around at his followers. "First I would like those of you who have been initiated on and after Halloween to come up here."
Ginny and Draco quickly made their way up front and stood beside Lord Voldemort. To there surprise 4 more wizards came out of the crowd and stood with them.
Lord Voldemort walked down to the other end of the line and spoke to all six of them. "Please pull off your hood one by one and state your name for your fellow Death Eaters to hear."
Quickly the first person pulled down their hood. "My name is Aidan Peterson." Claps were heard from the crowd then the second person pulled down their hood. "Blaise Zambini." Once again the crowd clapped then the third person pulled down their hood. "I am Ruby O'Reilly."
Before the next person could pull down his hood Lord Voldemort began speaking again. "You three may go stand with the crowd now." The three of them nodded their heads and walked back to where they were standing before. Lord Voldemort then gestured to the next person to continue.
Without hesitation the next person pulled down their hood. "Cole Black." The crowd applauded as Lord Voldemort gestured for him to head back to the crowd.
Draco stood their watching for Lord Voldemort to give him the signal to continue. When he did Draco pulled down his hood. "Draco Malfoy." He said as he looked out over the crowd. The crowd quickly clapped for Draco, but stopped when Lord Voldemort raised his hand at them.
"And now for the last one. Please remove your hood." Lord Voldemort said to Ginny.
Ginny slowly pulled down her hood and stated her name clearly. "Virginia Weasley." After she spoke her name she heard a mixture of clapping and gasping. She was sure that almost all of the people there were surprised. Ginny then turned her head and saw Lord Voldemort heading her way. He walked over and stood between her and the hooded man that was beside her.
"I have one more person to introduce you too." He said loudly. "He is my heir." The crowd broke out into quiet whispers for a couple seconds then was silent again. "Let me introduce all you to my son, Ryan Riddle. Or as many of you might know him as Ryan Adler." Without hesitation ever person who was standing in the large crowd of Death Eaters was on their knee bowing to him. "He is second in commend. For those of you who go to school with him, he will be giving out orders to you from me. And will be reporting back to me on a regular basis. So if you have anything you need or want to ask. Go through him." He said looking around the crowd.
Simultaneously the crowd answered. "Yes, My Lord."
Voldemort stayed silent for a couple seconds then spoke again. "This meeting is now dismissed. Everyone may leave except Draco Malfoy and Virginia Weasley." Draco made his way up to the Dark Lord as everyone else disapparated out of the area.
"Ryan has told me all about your plans to get Harry on our side." Lord Voldemort said as he looked at Ginny. "I must admit, you came up with a exceptional plan."
Ginny smiled. "Thank you, My Lord."
"May I ask how it is coming along." He said in a low voice.
"It is going good. I've gained a little of his trust, but I still need to work on him more." She paused for a moment. "I can definitely see that he is starting to question his friendship with my brother." She grinned. " After Christmas break I will start on trying to make the mudblood look bad." She smirked. "That shouldn't be to hard."
Voldemort nodded his head and came at her with a question she wasn't expecting. "May I ask how your relationship with the rest of your family is right now?"
Ginny sighed. "Horrible. Last week my father told me if I didn't break it off with Draco that he would disown me. He said that no daughter of his would be with a Malfoy." She looked over at Draco who looked angry and gave him a look of sympathy. She then turned her attention back to Voldemort. "Dad said the only reason he is allowing me to go to the Malfoy's over break is because it has to do with school." She smirked. "But it actually doesn't. I'm training."
He nodded his head and walked closer to her. "Virginia, your father does not deserve you." He said looking down at her.
"What do you suppose I do then? Find a new father?" She said joking around.
After she said that Voldemort was quiet for a couple seconds before nodding his head. "Yes and I think I know the perfect father for you." He said putting his hand on her shoulder.
Ginny hadn't been serious, but the more she thought about it, the more she realized that she deserved a better father than the one she was born to. Ginny didn't say anything. She just waited for him to tell her.
"As of this moment, Virginia. You are my adopted daughter." He then gestured over to his son Ryan. "And you are his sister."
Ginny looked up at him surprised. She had never imagined that he would want her as his daughter, but she didn't want to impose. "My Lord, I don't want to impose on you. I am not your blood."
"You may not be my blood, but since I met you I have always had this feeling to protect you. Just like I have for Ryan." He then stepped back from her and looked at his son to see his reaction. And he looked happy.
"Ryan I thought you already had sisters?" She asked looking at him.
"They really aren't my sisters." He said grinning. "Besides I hate them. It would be nice to have a sister I actually like."
Ginny nodded her head. "Well alright. But what do I call you?" She asked Lord Voldemort.
He stood thinking for a minute. "You can call me father if you like."
Ginny nodded her head then turned to Draco smiling. "Guess I don't have to worry about being fatherless after all."
Draco nodded his head. "Yes, but now I have to deal with dating the most powerful wizard in the worlds daughter." He reached over and grabbed her hand.
Lord Voldemort looked up at the sky then back down at his son, new daughter and Draco. "You three should head back to school before your absence is noticed." He then disapparated out of the area.
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By the time the three of them got into school they saw students heading down for breakfast. "Guess we should go eat then." Draco said as they headed down a corridor.
"Guess so." Ryan and Ginny said at the same time.
When they got to the Great Hall the three of them stopped just inside the door. The hall was half way filled with students.
Draco looked over at Ryan. "Why don't you come eat with you sister and I."
Ryan nodded his head and looked at Ginny. "I think that would be a great idea." He put his hand on Ginny's shoulder. "I hope I do a better job at this than Ron did. I don't really have experience with caring for a sister." He said grinning. "I barely even talked to the ones I've lived with all my life."
Ginny smirked. "I'm sure you will do great. Now lets eat. I'm starving."
When they headed over to the Slytherin table Ginny sat down beside Pansy. "Morning Pans."
Pansy finished drinking her juice then turned her head to her. "Morning. How did you sleep last night? You look so tired." She said looking at Ginny's face.
"I slept horrible." She said tiredly. "I'm going to eat then go back up to bed."
"Would Draco be the reason you couldn't sleep last night?" Pansy said nudging her arm.
Ginny smacked her friend in the arm. "No he isn't!" She said grinning. "He was the reason I couldn't sleep last weekend."
"Well at least it was a weekend for you. Blaise kept me up all night Wednesday." She smiled. "The whole next day I was falling asleep in class. I had to tell the teachers I was up all night doing homework." She smirked.
Ginny just laughed and looked down the table at Draco who was busy talking away with Ryan, Blaise, Crabbe and Goyle.
"I heard Malfoy invited Potter over to his mansion for a day during Christmas break." Pansy said following Ginny's eyes down the table to Draco.
Ginny turned her head back around to Pansy and nodded her head. "He did. I asked him to so they could get to know each other better. I told them both that I don't want hostility between them anymore, because I'm sick and tired of getting caught in the middle of their stupid fights."
Pansy nodded her head. "Potter has seemed different lately." She said looking across the hall at him.
"How so?" Ginny asked, because she hadn't really noticed any changes in him. But maybe Pansy had since she doesn't really spend that much time with him.
"I don't know. His attitude has changed and sometimes I catch him glaring at Ron or rolling his eyes at him." She laughed. "Did they get into a fight or something?"
"Oh my god! It is working!" She screamed inside her head. "I'm not sure. If they did, Harry didn't say anything to me."
Pansy just shrugged her shoulders. "Well lately he has been tolerable for me."
"I told you he wasn't as bad as everyone thought he was." Ginny said looking at the Gryffindor table.
"I guess he isn't. But I still want Slytherin to kick his ass in Quidditch this year." She laughed.
"I don't know. See that is a tough decision for me, because I'm in Gryffindor. But I am with Draco, who is your house seeker." She smiled.
"So who will you root for then?" Pansy asked.
"Draco. Definitely Draco." Ginny responded grinning. "But I must be off now. I feel like I'm getting delirious because I'm so tired."
"Alright, I'll talk to you tonight then. Good night, Gin." Pansy said laughing.
Ginny got up from her seat and walked over to where Draco was sitting and stood behind him. "I'm going to bed now. I'll see you at Dinner." Ginny said yawning.
Draco turned around and looked up at her. "I'll be heading up soon. I'm so tired." He said as he stood up and leaned into her ear. "Night, love." He said before giving her a peck on her cheek.
Ginny whispered back. "Night." Then hurried off out of the great hall and up to her private dorm to go to sleep. "God, I can't believe I have a new father." She thought to herself as she put on her pajamas.
Just as she was about to climb into bed she heard a knock on her door. "Damn!" She thought aloud as she went over to the door and opened it. "What do you want?" She said sleepily.
"Going to bed now, Gin?" Harry asked looking at her in her pajamas. "Didn't sleep well last night?"
"I slept horrible. I think I got an hour of sleep." She said yawning. "Now what is it that you wanted?"
"Oh well I just wanted to let you know that I got a letter back from the Dursley's and they said I could come over Draco's one day over break." He said smiling.
"That's great!" She smiled. "Are you sure you don't mind spending the day with Draco and I?"
"Honestly, Draco isn't as bad as I thought he was." He said nodding his head. "We have great discussions about Quidditch."
"Well I'm glad you two finally found something to talk about." Ginny said tiredly. "Well I suppose you should go tell Draco. He will let you know when to come over."
"Alright, I'll let you get to sleep then." Harry said. "Good night, Gin."
Ginny nodded her head and quickly closed the door. She walked over to her bed and pulled the covers down. "I still can't believe Harry and Draco are getting along." She thought to herself as she got into bed and pulled the covers up over her.
To Be Continued…
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