Chapter 12- Draco and Ginny both the Passionate

WARNING! WARNING! EXTREME (R) ALERT! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS CONTENT THAT MAY OFFEND PEOPLE! IT'S NOT TOO BAD BUT JUST BE AWARE THAT A BIT MORE THAN SNOGGING GOES ON!

Right good, got that out of the way : ) So I'm back and so soon, you proud? You better be! I know this chapter is amazingly short but just imagine it as a sort of interlude!

Disclaimer: If JK ever makes any of her characters behave like this there would be parent meetings all over the country to determine how best to get rid of her books. Yikes let's hope that never happens!

"Hold still." Ginny laughed gripping Draco's chin and dabbing at his cuts with a tissue. They were perched on the edge of the bath in the girls' bathroom in the infirmary; the sink was filled with warm, but now dark pink stained, water. She had already wiped the excess dried blood from Draco's face and it was only oozing slowly now from his wounds. Every time she touched the cuts to wipe away the blood Draco hissed with pain and jerked away from her. "There," she said at last, "that's the best I can do. I just wish you'd let me call Madam Pomfrey. What if it gets infected or something?"

"I'm not having that meddlesome old witch poking around my cut asking me how I got it." Draco said reaching up to touch the cut on his lip but Ginny slapped his hand away.

"Don't touch." She instructed.

Draco glared at her "So where's my sweet?" he demanded suddenly.

"What sweet?" Ginny asked, laughing.

"Well when I was younger and I had to go to the medi-witch I got a sweet." He explained crossly and Ginny smiled.

"Yeah I know what you're talking about. Although I can't seem to reconcile that sort of normal, happy childhood memory coming from you. No offence.

"None taken, I'm sure." Draco replied dryly

"So where is it?" he then asked, crossing his arms defiantly. Ginny shook her head

 "What?" she asked, deliberately misunderstanding.  Then, taking a risk she usually would never even have considered she leant forward and placed her lips softly against his for a moment. She moved back and cocked her head to one side.

"Well?" she asked innocently, "Sweet enough?"

Draco stared at her, completely stunned. It had been so fleeting but she had kissed him as if it was the most natural thing in the world, which it quite obviously wasn't. He gulped then, recalling her attempt at being coy, he gave a sort of choked chuckle.

"Well I don't know." He said solemnly, "I didn't really get much of a taste." So saying he grabbed her face and kissed her fiercely. Ginny sighed against him and he gathered her close to his body. Butterflies exploded in her stomach and her hands gripped his shoulders as she pressed herself unabashedly against him. Draco ran his tongue gently along her bottom lip and she opened her mouth willingly. Draco's hands roved up and down her back then, seeking further closeness, he slid his hands under her layers of clothing and against her smooth skin. She shivered at the contact and moaned into his mouth. The noise made Draco tense and he removed his hands from her as if her skin had suddenly become too hot to touch. He wrenched his mouth from hers and tipped his head back.

"We have to stop." He panted.

Ginny hung her head and bit her now swollen lips.

"I'm sorry, I'm pretty new at this." she apologised, thinking it was her inexperience which had driven him away.

Draco shook his head.

"You didn't do anything wrong." He said fervently, "I on the other hand am walking down a dangerous road."

Ginny's brow furrowed in confusion. "What do you mean?" she asked.

Draco suddenly stood up.

"You know I could quote the age old 'Gryffindors will mutilate my body' routine but to be honest, and let's face it, I rarely am…" He took a deep breath and shoved his hands into the pockets of his robes. "There is no way I ever want Potter to be right, and especially not about you." He suddenly growled looking anywhere but directly at her.

"I'm not following." She said quietly looking up at him.

"See that there." he suddenly pointed at her, "That is exactly what I mean, you have no idea what I'm talking about and that's amazingly attractive but leaves me with no hope whatsoever. Tell me truthfully, your other boyfriends you held hands, kissed a couple of times with your mouth closed that kind of thing but did you ever get even close to the kind of intensity from just a moment ago?"

Ginny didn't even have to think about it. She doubted that anybody else could ever have felt the fireworks she had just experienced. She shook her head slowly in reply and he smiled mirthlessly, "I thought not. You're so new to all this it's charming and that's why Potter and your brothers are so terrified of leaving you alone with me. And come on, you can't blame them! If I had a sister I wouldn't let her within a mile of someone like me."

"We just kissed!" Ginny pointed out, "And it wasn't as if it was something I didn't want."

The comparisons between what she said and what Draco had used to wind up Harry earlier wasn't lost on either of them.

"You've got to be the only person in the world I don't want to take advantage of. Just my bloody luck!" Draco groaned and Ginny stood up beside him.

"And what happens if I want my advantage to be taken?" she whispered. He looked down at her with a shocked expression and she blushed and looked away. "I can't believe I just said that." Ginny breathed and Draco grinned.

"You have no idea what you're doing to me, do you?" He said with a shake of his head

"Oh I have some idea." She said cheekily

"Get along with you." He laughed opening the bathroom door and giving her a shove out of it, followed close behind.

The playfulness and ease which seemed to have slipped unnoticed into their relationship after the fight continued with them for the rest of the day. Ginny, revelling in the lack of insults and snide remarks, couldn't help but think the fight hadn't been such a disaster after all. During the afternoon she suddenly became aware of the fact that they were both waiting for something. What that something was she couldn't quite pin down but there was definitely something waiting on the outskirts of their consciousness and it developed into a fluttering feeling of anticipation. The cramped and excited feeling in Ginny's stomach reminded her of the feeling she got just before she used magic and she felt the power coursing through her veins. Something had to come to a head soon, change was in the air.

By the time night time came around Ginny felt like she had a fever. Her skin flushed whenever she came into contact with Draco and she found herself literally having to hold herself back on more than one occasion from throwing herself into his arms and kissing him for all she was worth.

They skirted around mentioning their few moments of passion in the bathroom but they couldn't erase the knowledge and every touch, accidental or not so, had set the fire burning ever more brightly. As they crawled into bed that night they turned their faces away so the longing in each other's eyes wouldn't be seen. Ginny left one candle in the room burning and its soft orange flicker made the small circle of light it threw seem cosy and safe. They lay still for several minutes then one of Draco's hands reached out, as if of its own violation, and swept Ginny's hair off her neck. He regarded the smooth, pale patch of skin then gently, ever so gently, he lowered his lips to it. Ginny gasped as he made contact and her arm snaked round to cup his head. His mouth slowly trailed up her neck to her jaw line then round to her mouth and she rolled towards him as, finally, he kissed her full on the lips. This kiss was slower and sweeter but in no way less demanding then their other two. There was no thought of interruption or lack of time so they slowly lingered over every touch. Gradually Draco shifted over until Ginny was totally beneath him and their bodies were pressed up against each other. Hesitantly Ginny's hands slipped from his face down his body. As he wore no shirt her fingers found skin and she ran her hands appreciatively over his bare torso. Draco growled a low, deep sound from the back of his throat at her wandering touch and this emboldened her to spread her palms out and press him closer to her. Draco's hands were supporting his weight on either side of her head so he was experiencing a rare and torturous feeling of being touched rather then doing the touching.

They continued this way for some time, they couldn't have said how long. Maybe it was an hour, maybe only five minutes but the time was both an eternity and much too short. Ginny's wandering hands were driving Draco insane and he couldn't handle not touching her so he gathered her up and pulled her and himself upright so she was straddling his legs. Desperate to feel her skin Draco ran his hands up under her white night dress. He closed his eyes briefly and then captured her lips in his own again and let his hands wander up and down her body catching her gasps and moans inside his mouth. The sweetness and tenderness he displayed with his hands overwhelmed Ginny and a solitary tear trickled out from beneath her closed lids. Draco saw it and immediately drew away.

"And that's quite far enough for one day missy." He said sternly but with a hint of hoarseness in his voice which betrayed his emotions.

He kissed her abruptly on the forehead then pulled down her nightdress so it sat properly and demurely. Ginny couldn't believe he was stopping it. Recalling his reaction to her playfulness earlier she fluttered her eyelashes at him and shot him a longing look. He rolled his eyes to signify he knew her game then kissed her quickly but drew away before she really had time to register his lips on hers. She groaned in frustration and he smirked at her in amusement.

"Git." She muttered but this only made him smile more widely.

He gestured for her to lay back down and she snuggled under the covers, when Draco made no move to join her she cocked her head to one side on the pillow.

"Aren't you going to lie down?"

He shook his head slowly and settled himself sitting up with his elbows resting on his knees and his chin supported by his clasped hands.

"Extinguish the light Virginia, and go to sleep." He instructed.

The candle was close enough for her not to bother to use her wand so she blew lightly and the light flickered and died. Settling back into the bed Ginny turned towards Draco and relished in the fact that he was nearby and watching over her. She was safe and warm and tomorrow could just wait until tomorrow.

In the darkness Draco sat hunched, deliberately keeping himself uncomfortable, he wouldn't sleep tonight, he had some thinking to do. It was time to let Virginia go, the only question was how.

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Me: So I didn't review the next day but it was the day after so quit whining! Yes I know you're whining because I can hear it from Australia and that's saying something.

You: whining

Me: and to think I mentioned the word mature in your presence1

You: abruptly stopping your whining Hang on who has the power here? Who is the one who basically keeps you writing? Oh yeah that'd be ME, so lets have a little respect going.

Me: sighing you're right of course. Hey I know you can have Draco. I'm bequeathing him to you. Let's get rid of this Ginny bint and put you in her place. Actually I don't know if the other reviewers would be cool with that. How about we just pretend that you're Ginny, or, even better, when I'm done writing about him you can have him as your hypothetical, purely fictional slave, sound cool?

You: Let me think on it and I'll get back to you.

Amazing review as always, I was reading it in my info sys tutorial and giggling away to myself like a nutter! See what you do to me?! But don't stop, thank you!

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Phew, I've done it. The reviews are probably longer than the chapter, sorry o0OMariaO0o!

Goodnight everyone,

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