A/N: the usual; I only own the characters you don't recognise
Glad people are liking it, thanx for the reviews and yes it was a pain in the arse changing it all but I couldn't be bothered with the whole nagging comments so I thought what the hell.
Cheers for the reviews, enjoy =) cheers babes xx
The lyrics at the beginning are from 'So Confused' by 2Play
Chapter Eight – The Foretold Six
Babe you leave me confused
Dont know if I
should let you know or wait it out girl
Wish I knew just what to do
Im so confused
So girl what you wanna see
Wanna see me get down on my knees
Wanna hear me begging baby please
Wanna hear me crying for mercy
Oh girl I wish I knew your world
I think im losing my head over you
'Ginny!'
Ginny spun around involuntarily and scanned the corridor for Blue, she could hear his voice in her head and she knew he must be close by.
'Yes?'
She gave up looking for him and dropped down onto the floor pretending to be fastening her laces as he continued.
'You remember that Prophecy Dumbledore mentioned?'
Ginny nodded before realising how stupid she must look crouched in the corner of the corridor tying then retying her laces and nodding her head at the floor.
'What about it?'
She could feel his excitement as his voice reverberated in her head.
'We think we've found what it could mean.'
Ginny very nearly shrieked when she felt someone slip something into her pocket but she didn't turn around and she didn't touch whatever was in her pocket yet. As quickly as it had begun his voice faded away and she got to her feet, jogging up to the library and slumping into a seat at the very back.
She opened a book and propped it up on the table before her, slipping the note in her pocket into the pages so she could read it privately.
... it is written that when the final six descendants of the original Six come to their powers the Final War will continue and it will be the newest Six's responsibility to destroy the descendants of the original Rebel vampires...
Ginny rolled the slip of parchment up and shoved it into her robes before heading towards Griffindor Tower. She froze when she heard what sounded like icicles striking a marble floor and she broke into a run. She skidded around the corner so fast she fell to floor, but she paid no attention and scrambled to her feet at what she saw.
A cloud of silver that was unmistakably a Protector's smoke shield was whirling around in the centre of the mercifully empty corridor. Ginny could just make out a dark figure spinning around in the centre of the cloud before the smoke began to clear and the figure could be seen properly.
"Frankie?"
Ginny gasped, dropping back down onto the floor as her friend stared back at her through the same four diagonal slits of pupils Ginny was familiar with. Her friend's hair fell smooth and paper-straight down her back and reminded Ginny for no reason of a sheet of ice. She quickly caught on that Frankie was the last of the Six to be found and was obviously the One of Ice.
Getting slowly to her feet she spun around when a gasp sounded from behind her.
"Whoa!"
Ginny rolled her eyes at Noah before grabbing his arm with one hand and Frankie's with her other in a vice-like grip and dragging them down the corridor towards the room Blue and Draco had first taken her to.
"What the hell is going on?"
Ginny didn't even look at Frankie to know it was her that had spoken, her voice was icy cold and sharp and her skin was cold underneath Ginny's hand. Tracing the password into the wall she pulled her friends through and spun around to face Frankie.
"Did you get the little pep talk from your parents on your birthday?"
Frankie nodded weakly, her sensitive eyes taking in everything around her as Noah gaped at the room they had just entered. Even Frankie's mouth dropped open when she saw Blue, Draco and Juno sat on the scattered cushions chattering. One trio looked at the other before all eyes flickered to Frankie who was slowly coming out of the Change as whatever had triggered it was long gone.
"Well."
Juno sneered, scowling at the Griffindors who glowered back, Ginny wishing more than ever that looks could kill.
"Looks like we found the last."
Blue broke the tense silence and they all turned to look at him.
'Way to state the obvious.'
Blue shot Ginny a look and both Noah and Frankie looked at the pair of them with their mouths open.
"You didn't say that out loud."
Blue smirked up at the Griffindors and Ginny scowled back.
'Quick on the uptake isn't he.'
'He's new to it, leave him alone.'
Ginny hissed reproachfully, collapsing onto the sofa and pulling her friends down besides her.
"So now what? I mean we've found each other, so now what do we do?"
Blue grinned at her and knelt up;
"I say we come up with names for ourselves."
Ginny snorted and he shot her a burning look, she stuck her tongue out at him and tugged her legs up under her.
"What are you eleven years old?"
He stuck two fingers up at her and she rolled her eyes.
'Loser.'
'Banshee.'
'Blast-ended Skrewt.'
'Harpy.'
'Philistine.'
'Quit it both of you!'
Ginny stuck her bottom lip out and sat back in her seat muttering.
"Names is crap, maybe we should decide exactly what we contribute to the group."
Ginny looked at Juno with contempt, trying desperately to prevent her eyes rolling or her giggles escaping.
Draco looked around and then shrugged he was rather enjoying the whole group thing, it was nice to have people that didn't just talk to him because of his money or his name or his good looks, of course he'd rather feed himself to a pack of ravenous Blast-Ended-Skrewts than tell anyone this, ever.
"Guess I'm the brains then?"
Frankie shook her head, enjoying knocking him down as much as he was enjoying winding them Griffindors up.
"Nope I get to be the brains, and Noah's gonna be the brawn. Sorry."
He glared at her before turning to Ginny who was blushing as he caught her watching him.
"Well, erm...you could be the beauty."
Juno decided that the look Draco gave Ginny that moment was much too hot for her liking and butted in before Noah could strangle Draco and Blue could physically haul his best friend away from Juno.
"So, what am I then?"
Noah's glance flickered down.
"How about the body?"
Ginny elbowed him hard in the ribs, knocking the wind out of him.
"Hey!"
He grumbled, rubbing his fast bruising chest, Juno on the other hand shot him a heated look that made him flush.
"I know; you could be the bitch?"
Ginny snarled, stamping hard on Noah's foot and dragging him towards her on the couch out of Juno's reach. Juno gave her a filthy look.
"I'll take the body I suppose."
Blue edged a little towards Frankie with a hungry look in his eyes Draco found fascinating.
"What about me then?"
Frankie looked him up and down, her gaze lingering on his body causing him to raise an eyebrow at her.
"You can be the erm... personality."
She finally said, dragging her eyes upwards with unnerving slowness. Juno cleared her throat noisily and pointed at Draco who was complaining again.
"I still think I should be the brains."
Frankie rolled her eyes and edged ever so slightly off of the couch, her hand sneaking into Blue's behind their backs.
"Well we are sorry but Frankie's the brains; it's already been sorted."
Noah muttered, his eyes scanning Ginny and Draco suspiciously as Ginny edged closer to him, their eyes locked.
Draco snorted;
"Well it's not like you could be the beauty." He growled, his eyes challenging Noah's softly.
Ginny and Juno immediately jumped to his defence for very different reasons.
"Now who's being a bitch?"
Draco rolled his eyes and looked at his watch before sauntering towards the door with an odd gleam in his eye.
"And where are you going?"
He turned to look at Ginny who was watching him suspiciously and winked at her.
'I have unfinished business with a certain hot Ravenclaw fifth year, later."
The door received several death glares aimed at him as he slammed it shut behind him and wandered off down the hall humming.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
A knock on the dormitory door made Ginny jump one of her friends Harry looking for Cass or someone.
"Come in."
She called, continuing with unpacking the three large boxes of treats her mother had sent her and Ron and trying to wrestle her newly washed school uniform onto a hanger so it would be neat for Monday. Turning around she saw Blue on her doorstep with Draco lounging arrogantly against her door frame, blatantly checking her out as she bent over her trunk to retrieve a few packets of Every Flavour Beans that were slowly sliding over the edge of her bed.
"I take that back, get out."
She ordered, shoving her sweets into the drawers by her bed and turning her back on him once more. She surveyed the chaos of her room happily; since the Six had now discovered each other it was Dumbledore's job since it was his ancestor's all those years ago, to make sure they were comfortable so each had been given their own room in their respective common rooms to decorate how they wished.
Her walls had been painted a rich dark purple colour and a new silver-grey carpet had just been fitted. Her four-poster bed was swathed in a thick silver quilt with purple sheets and a mountain of purple and silver pillows rising up at the end. She had only just finished draping the purple netting around the top of the bed, clipping back the single see-through purple net that dropped down to the floor, leaving her bed clearly visible but shadowed when they were closed.
Her huge window from floor to ceiling was flung open, causing the long silver velvet curtains to billow into the room with every slight breeze. Neither of them noticing Blue had left Draco followed her gaze and shrugged.
"Nice place, almost as good as mine."
Ginny narrowed her eyes and swung around to look at him.
"What are you still doing here? I thought I told you both to leave so I can finish."
He pushed himself up off the doorframe and wandered into the room, his hands thrust into his pockets.
"Oh you did, you're not losing your mind. I just don't want to leave."
Ginny shrugged off the hand he had placed on her shoulder and shuddered.
"I don't know how you can be this stupid; those lessons must be real good."
She snarled, taking a rapid step back as his proximity was sending her sense reeling; his scent filling her head.
"I get my money's worth."
He replied, his face blank. He was slowly closing the gap between them, his breath was warm on her lips and it made her heart race as her breathing quickened. His eyes were still staring into hers in amusement; darkened with desire. As his lips touched hers Ginny let him pull her closer, allowing him to play with her tongue with his own until the need for air made them pull away.
He watched her meditatively and she stared boldly back up at him; she had really kissed him back and enjoyed it, but there was none of the toe- curling, bone-melting desire there was like when she was angry with him. She took a step away from him and re-applied her lip gloss.
"Not bad."
He stared at her in amazement before his usual cold, deadpan manner took control and he shrugged.
"I've kissed better."
She smiled cheekily up at his reflection in her mirror as she leant over the desk to apply another layer of lip gloss.
"What's going on?'
A suspicious voice made Ginny jump as she swung around to see her friends stood in the doorway looking in curiously.
"Nothing! I asked this imbecile to leave but he doesn't seem to speak the Queen's English."
Ginny jerked her thumb over her shoulder at Draco who held up his hands and sauntered out turning in the doorway behind them to wink at Draco who glared back.
"Wow it looks great, you do realise we'll be spending all our spare time in here now, it's much more private than the normal dorm rooms."
Ginny rolled her eyes at Ron as he threw himself across her bed and the rest of her friends dropped down onto the scattered purple man size cushions on the floor or onto her bed.
"Where's Noah?"
She suddenly realised her friend was missing and her eyes swept the room again unnecessarily, he was only noticeable by his absence.
"Didn't you hear? He's up in the hospital wing, that's where we've just been."
Ginny didn't even bother asking why she just shook her head and crossed the room, turning around at the door to glare at Rindy and Xander who were giggling with their heads very close together on one end of her.
"Don't do anything dodgy in my new room."
She warned before leaving the room, waiting a few seconds then poking her head back around the doorframe;
"And if I come back and there are some suspicious looking stains on my bed, Harry Potter, you and Cass are dead. That goes for you too Ronald Weasley."
He shot her a shocked look as Hermione blushed and Harry and Cass immediately lay on top of each other to piss her off.
The castle was nearly silent as everyone was either outside enjoying one of the last sunny days of the year or in some hidden places taking advantage of the empty school. Wandering along the corridors on her way to the Hospital Wing she felt uneasiness at the quiet atmosphere and sped up slightly, looking around her as she walked.
Tugging open the doors gratefully ten minutes later she immediately saw only two of the beds occupied, one by Noah and one by Blue, both of them were shooting daggers at each other with their eyes and she had to clamp her mouth shut to keep from laughing.
Ginny dropped down on the edge of Noah's bed, raising an eyebrow as he looked up at her.
"So what in the name of Merlin name are you doing in here?"
She asked, staring at him as he blushed but glared boldly back.
"I don't seem to be too popular with the Slytherins it appears, and your boyfriend wanna-be's bum chum over there got a little bit angry with me when I was talking about how we were planning on whipping their asses at Quidditch ."
Ginny's eyes flickered over to the bed across the room where Blue was sporting a bloody nose and a busted lip while the nurse bent over him, fussing with bandages and warm water.
"Did you Change?"
she asked, startled about what the two might have done to each other if they had, he shook his head and pointed at Blue who waved a bruised hand at her which she regarded with amusement.
"And you're telling me you didn't try and hit him back at all, you just took it?"
She muttered disbelievingly, turning back to Noah, trying desperately not to laugh as he looked down at his hands, resting in his lap on the crisp white sheets of the hospital bed.
"Well...erm...actually I sort of...hit him first."
Ginny laughed and collapsed onto the bed next to him, suddenly realising how exhausted she was.
"And you find it hard to believe you're not more popular around here?"
She snorted, snuggling into his chest and closing her eyes, ignoring the suspicious glares from Blue and the disapproving looks of Madam Pomphrey as she shook her head and wandered off muttering under her breath.
"So how's the new room?"
Ginny made a noise at the back of her throat and he took that as a positive remark before taking the hint and shutting up.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
"Ughh!'
Ginny cried, rolling over and falling off the bed with a loud thump and some equally loud cursing.
She shook the remains of sleep out of her head and made to climb back into her bed before noticing who was also sleeping in it and leaping back as though she had been scalded.
She glared at Draco as he lay on one side of the double bed, his head cradled in his arms that were folded behind his head; he eyed her with an amused look on his face, wondering if she was going to start a fight with him; he half hoped she would.
'I am not sharing a bed with you.'
He raised an eyebrow at her before shooting a sceptical look at the jumble of quilts on the sofa-bed where her friends had all crashed, Harry and Cass in a tangle of limbs, Xander and Rindy the same and Ron and Hermione snuggled up against each other in the corner with Mason, Noah, Blue and Frankie as far away from each other as possible so no one could accuse them of being a couple.
'Why are you in here anyway? This is my room!'
He rolled his eyes and pointed at the clock that read one thirty in the morning.
'Do you really think I'm risking getting a detention of Filch just because you can't control yourself if you're in the same bed as me?'
She snorted and shivered, the night brushing over her skin as she glared at him.
'Come on; you could at least try and pretend to be a gentleman just once.'
She pleaded with her mind, wrapping her arms around her and hopping up and down with the cold.
'Chiveralry's dead.'
He replied flatly, fighting hard not to laugh at the look on her face, Ginny sighed and shot him yet another venomous look.
'Fine, but you dare make a move, and I'll rip out your lungs and make sure you can never have children, ever, understand?'
He looked at her as she climbed into the bed and quoted a programme he had once seen that was remarkably like the situation they were in;
"Oh look, we even have pillow talk."
She scowled at him and darted under the quilts, ripping the covers up around her and curling up in them tightly, half hoping he would reach out for her but he didn't. She sighed at the exact time he did but resisted the urge to turn over and look at him.
'Thinking about your Ravenclaw whore?'
Her mind hissed as she edged even further away from him until she was practically balancing on the edge.
'Not really, but that's a good idea, she wasn't half bad.'
The bolt of jealousy that shot through her made Ginny twice as angry and she snorted.
'More than can be said for you, girl's gossip remember.'
He made a noise as he closed his eyes and she waited for his reply, she didn't wait long.
'Do I have to tell you everyone I've satisfied to prove I'm good?'
The very idea revolted Ginny and she put him off as quickly as she could.
'I don't need to hear about all your conquests thank you.'
He half opened one eye and turned slightly to look at the Berlin Wall of her back, her shoulders hunched to block him out.
'Jealous?'
She snorted and pushed his probing thoughts out of her head.
'Sickened.'
He rolled his eyes under his eyelids and closed his left eye again, pushing the sheets down to his waist so his bare chest could cool down.
'Trust me I know how to satisfy a woman, I didn't hear any of them complaining.'
Her eyes flew open but she shut them again and replied smugly;
'Did any come back for more?'
He contemplated that, not liking what she was hinting at but unable to stop himself from replying.
'No.'
She gave a half laugh half snort and he waited for her explanation.
'See? Woman won't go back for seconds if its crap.'
He thought about snapping back but really couldn't be bothered; he was saved the trouble anyway as Frankie's voice drifted into both their heads.
'Will you two shut up?'
Noah's followed immediately after and they heard the sound of the cushions and sheets moving as he rolled over.
'Whatever it is it can wait till the morning can't it?'
He whined before Blue joined in as well, unable to stay out of the centre of attention for long.
'Yeah some of us are trying to get our full six hours of beauty sleep over here.'
He shot angry thoughts to all four of them as they snorted with laughter before burrowing back under the quilts, his cursing thoughts filling all their heads.
Glad people are liking it, thanx for the reviews and yes it was a pain in the arse changing it all but I couldn't be bothered with the whole nagging comments so I thought what the hell.
Cheers for the reviews, enjoy =) cheers babes xx
The lyrics at the beginning are from 'So Confused' by 2Play
Chapter Eight – The Foretold Six
Babe you leave me confused
Dont know if I
should let you know or wait it out girl
Wish I knew just what to do
Im so confused
So girl what you wanna see
Wanna see me get down on my knees
Wanna hear me begging baby please
Wanna hear me crying for mercy
Oh girl I wish I knew your world
I think im losing my head over you
'Ginny!'
Ginny spun around involuntarily and scanned the corridor for Blue, she could hear his voice in her head and she knew he must be close by.
'Yes?'
She gave up looking for him and dropped down onto the floor pretending to be fastening her laces as he continued.
'You remember that Prophecy Dumbledore mentioned?'
Ginny nodded before realising how stupid she must look crouched in the corner of the corridor tying then retying her laces and nodding her head at the floor.
'What about it?'
She could feel his excitement as his voice reverberated in her head.
'We think we've found what it could mean.'
Ginny very nearly shrieked when she felt someone slip something into her pocket but she didn't turn around and she didn't touch whatever was in her pocket yet. As quickly as it had begun his voice faded away and she got to her feet, jogging up to the library and slumping into a seat at the very back.
She opened a book and propped it up on the table before her, slipping the note in her pocket into the pages so she could read it privately.
... it is written that when the final six descendants of the original Six come to their powers the Final War will continue and it will be the newest Six's responsibility to destroy the descendants of the original Rebel vampires...
Ginny rolled the slip of parchment up and shoved it into her robes before heading towards Griffindor Tower. She froze when she heard what sounded like icicles striking a marble floor and she broke into a run. She skidded around the corner so fast she fell to floor, but she paid no attention and scrambled to her feet at what she saw.
A cloud of silver that was unmistakably a Protector's smoke shield was whirling around in the centre of the mercifully empty corridor. Ginny could just make out a dark figure spinning around in the centre of the cloud before the smoke began to clear and the figure could be seen properly.
"Frankie?"
Ginny gasped, dropping back down onto the floor as her friend stared back at her through the same four diagonal slits of pupils Ginny was familiar with. Her friend's hair fell smooth and paper-straight down her back and reminded Ginny for no reason of a sheet of ice. She quickly caught on that Frankie was the last of the Six to be found and was obviously the One of Ice.
Getting slowly to her feet she spun around when a gasp sounded from behind her.
"Whoa!"
Ginny rolled her eyes at Noah before grabbing his arm with one hand and Frankie's with her other in a vice-like grip and dragging them down the corridor towards the room Blue and Draco had first taken her to.
"What the hell is going on?"
Ginny didn't even look at Frankie to know it was her that had spoken, her voice was icy cold and sharp and her skin was cold underneath Ginny's hand. Tracing the password into the wall she pulled her friends through and spun around to face Frankie.
"Did you get the little pep talk from your parents on your birthday?"
Frankie nodded weakly, her sensitive eyes taking in everything around her as Noah gaped at the room they had just entered. Even Frankie's mouth dropped open when she saw Blue, Draco and Juno sat on the scattered cushions chattering. One trio looked at the other before all eyes flickered to Frankie who was slowly coming out of the Change as whatever had triggered it was long gone.
"Well."
Juno sneered, scowling at the Griffindors who glowered back, Ginny wishing more than ever that looks could kill.
"Looks like we found the last."
Blue broke the tense silence and they all turned to look at him.
'Way to state the obvious.'
Blue shot Ginny a look and both Noah and Frankie looked at the pair of them with their mouths open.
"You didn't say that out loud."
Blue smirked up at the Griffindors and Ginny scowled back.
'Quick on the uptake isn't he.'
'He's new to it, leave him alone.'
Ginny hissed reproachfully, collapsing onto the sofa and pulling her friends down besides her.
"So now what? I mean we've found each other, so now what do we do?"
Blue grinned at her and knelt up;
"I say we come up with names for ourselves."
Ginny snorted and he shot her a burning look, she stuck her tongue out at him and tugged her legs up under her.
"What are you eleven years old?"
He stuck two fingers up at her and she rolled her eyes.
'Loser.'
'Banshee.'
'Blast-ended Skrewt.'
'Harpy.'
'Philistine.'
'Quit it both of you!'
Ginny stuck her bottom lip out and sat back in her seat muttering.
"Names is crap, maybe we should decide exactly what we contribute to the group."
Ginny looked at Juno with contempt, trying desperately to prevent her eyes rolling or her giggles escaping.
Draco looked around and then shrugged he was rather enjoying the whole group thing, it was nice to have people that didn't just talk to him because of his money or his name or his good looks, of course he'd rather feed himself to a pack of ravenous Blast-Ended-Skrewts than tell anyone this, ever.
"Guess I'm the brains then?"
Frankie shook her head, enjoying knocking him down as much as he was enjoying winding them Griffindors up.
"Nope I get to be the brains, and Noah's gonna be the brawn. Sorry."
He glared at her before turning to Ginny who was blushing as he caught her watching him.
"Well, erm...you could be the beauty."
Juno decided that the look Draco gave Ginny that moment was much too hot for her liking and butted in before Noah could strangle Draco and Blue could physically haul his best friend away from Juno.
"So, what am I then?"
Noah's glance flickered down.
"How about the body?"
Ginny elbowed him hard in the ribs, knocking the wind out of him.
"Hey!"
He grumbled, rubbing his fast bruising chest, Juno on the other hand shot him a heated look that made him flush.
"I know; you could be the bitch?"
Ginny snarled, stamping hard on Noah's foot and dragging him towards her on the couch out of Juno's reach. Juno gave her a filthy look.
"I'll take the body I suppose."
Blue edged a little towards Frankie with a hungry look in his eyes Draco found fascinating.
"What about me then?"
Frankie looked him up and down, her gaze lingering on his body causing him to raise an eyebrow at her.
"You can be the erm... personality."
She finally said, dragging her eyes upwards with unnerving slowness. Juno cleared her throat noisily and pointed at Draco who was complaining again.
"I still think I should be the brains."
Frankie rolled her eyes and edged ever so slightly off of the couch, her hand sneaking into Blue's behind their backs.
"Well we are sorry but Frankie's the brains; it's already been sorted."
Noah muttered, his eyes scanning Ginny and Draco suspiciously as Ginny edged closer to him, their eyes locked.
Draco snorted;
"Well it's not like you could be the beauty." He growled, his eyes challenging Noah's softly.
Ginny and Juno immediately jumped to his defence for very different reasons.
"Now who's being a bitch?"
Draco rolled his eyes and looked at his watch before sauntering towards the door with an odd gleam in his eye.
"And where are you going?"
He turned to look at Ginny who was watching him suspiciously and winked at her.
'I have unfinished business with a certain hot Ravenclaw fifth year, later."
The door received several death glares aimed at him as he slammed it shut behind him and wandered off down the hall humming.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
A knock on the dormitory door made Ginny jump one of her friends Harry looking for Cass or someone.
"Come in."
She called, continuing with unpacking the three large boxes of treats her mother had sent her and Ron and trying to wrestle her newly washed school uniform onto a hanger so it would be neat for Monday. Turning around she saw Blue on her doorstep with Draco lounging arrogantly against her door frame, blatantly checking her out as she bent over her trunk to retrieve a few packets of Every Flavour Beans that were slowly sliding over the edge of her bed.
"I take that back, get out."
She ordered, shoving her sweets into the drawers by her bed and turning her back on him once more. She surveyed the chaos of her room happily; since the Six had now discovered each other it was Dumbledore's job since it was his ancestor's all those years ago, to make sure they were comfortable so each had been given their own room in their respective common rooms to decorate how they wished.
Her walls had been painted a rich dark purple colour and a new silver-grey carpet had just been fitted. Her four-poster bed was swathed in a thick silver quilt with purple sheets and a mountain of purple and silver pillows rising up at the end. She had only just finished draping the purple netting around the top of the bed, clipping back the single see-through purple net that dropped down to the floor, leaving her bed clearly visible but shadowed when they were closed.
Her huge window from floor to ceiling was flung open, causing the long silver velvet curtains to billow into the room with every slight breeze. Neither of them noticing Blue had left Draco followed her gaze and shrugged.
"Nice place, almost as good as mine."
Ginny narrowed her eyes and swung around to look at him.
"What are you still doing here? I thought I told you both to leave so I can finish."
He pushed himself up off the doorframe and wandered into the room, his hands thrust into his pockets.
"Oh you did, you're not losing your mind. I just don't want to leave."
Ginny shrugged off the hand he had placed on her shoulder and shuddered.
"I don't know how you can be this stupid; those lessons must be real good."
She snarled, taking a rapid step back as his proximity was sending her sense reeling; his scent filling her head.
"I get my money's worth."
He replied, his face blank. He was slowly closing the gap between them, his breath was warm on her lips and it made her heart race as her breathing quickened. His eyes were still staring into hers in amusement; darkened with desire. As his lips touched hers Ginny let him pull her closer, allowing him to play with her tongue with his own until the need for air made them pull away.
He watched her meditatively and she stared boldly back up at him; she had really kissed him back and enjoyed it, but there was none of the toe- curling, bone-melting desire there was like when she was angry with him. She took a step away from him and re-applied her lip gloss.
"Not bad."
He stared at her in amazement before his usual cold, deadpan manner took control and he shrugged.
"I've kissed better."
She smiled cheekily up at his reflection in her mirror as she leant over the desk to apply another layer of lip gloss.
"What's going on?'
A suspicious voice made Ginny jump as she swung around to see her friends stood in the doorway looking in curiously.
"Nothing! I asked this imbecile to leave but he doesn't seem to speak the Queen's English."
Ginny jerked her thumb over her shoulder at Draco who held up his hands and sauntered out turning in the doorway behind them to wink at Draco who glared back.
"Wow it looks great, you do realise we'll be spending all our spare time in here now, it's much more private than the normal dorm rooms."
Ginny rolled her eyes at Ron as he threw himself across her bed and the rest of her friends dropped down onto the scattered purple man size cushions on the floor or onto her bed.
"Where's Noah?"
She suddenly realised her friend was missing and her eyes swept the room again unnecessarily, he was only noticeable by his absence.
"Didn't you hear? He's up in the hospital wing, that's where we've just been."
Ginny didn't even bother asking why she just shook her head and crossed the room, turning around at the door to glare at Rindy and Xander who were giggling with their heads very close together on one end of her.
"Don't do anything dodgy in my new room."
She warned before leaving the room, waiting a few seconds then poking her head back around the doorframe;
"And if I come back and there are some suspicious looking stains on my bed, Harry Potter, you and Cass are dead. That goes for you too Ronald Weasley."
He shot her a shocked look as Hermione blushed and Harry and Cass immediately lay on top of each other to piss her off.
The castle was nearly silent as everyone was either outside enjoying one of the last sunny days of the year or in some hidden places taking advantage of the empty school. Wandering along the corridors on her way to the Hospital Wing she felt uneasiness at the quiet atmosphere and sped up slightly, looking around her as she walked.
Tugging open the doors gratefully ten minutes later she immediately saw only two of the beds occupied, one by Noah and one by Blue, both of them were shooting daggers at each other with their eyes and she had to clamp her mouth shut to keep from laughing.
Ginny dropped down on the edge of Noah's bed, raising an eyebrow as he looked up at her.
"So what in the name of Merlin name are you doing in here?"
She asked, staring at him as he blushed but glared boldly back.
"I don't seem to be too popular with the Slytherins it appears, and your boyfriend wanna-be's bum chum over there got a little bit angry with me when I was talking about how we were planning on whipping their asses at Quidditch ."
Ginny's eyes flickered over to the bed across the room where Blue was sporting a bloody nose and a busted lip while the nurse bent over him, fussing with bandages and warm water.
"Did you Change?"
she asked, startled about what the two might have done to each other if they had, he shook his head and pointed at Blue who waved a bruised hand at her which she regarded with amusement.
"And you're telling me you didn't try and hit him back at all, you just took it?"
She muttered disbelievingly, turning back to Noah, trying desperately not to laugh as he looked down at his hands, resting in his lap on the crisp white sheets of the hospital bed.
"Well...erm...actually I sort of...hit him first."
Ginny laughed and collapsed onto the bed next to him, suddenly realising how exhausted she was.
"And you find it hard to believe you're not more popular around here?"
She snorted, snuggling into his chest and closing her eyes, ignoring the suspicious glares from Blue and the disapproving looks of Madam Pomphrey as she shook her head and wandered off muttering under her breath.
"So how's the new room?"
Ginny made a noise at the back of her throat and he took that as a positive remark before taking the hint and shutting up.
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"Ughh!'
Ginny cried, rolling over and falling off the bed with a loud thump and some equally loud cursing.
She shook the remains of sleep out of her head and made to climb back into her bed before noticing who was also sleeping in it and leaping back as though she had been scalded.
She glared at Draco as he lay on one side of the double bed, his head cradled in his arms that were folded behind his head; he eyed her with an amused look on his face, wondering if she was going to start a fight with him; he half hoped she would.
'I am not sharing a bed with you.'
He raised an eyebrow at her before shooting a sceptical look at the jumble of quilts on the sofa-bed where her friends had all crashed, Harry and Cass in a tangle of limbs, Xander and Rindy the same and Ron and Hermione snuggled up against each other in the corner with Mason, Noah, Blue and Frankie as far away from each other as possible so no one could accuse them of being a couple.
'Why are you in here anyway? This is my room!'
He rolled his eyes and pointed at the clock that read one thirty in the morning.
'Do you really think I'm risking getting a detention of Filch just because you can't control yourself if you're in the same bed as me?'
She snorted and shivered, the night brushing over her skin as she glared at him.
'Come on; you could at least try and pretend to be a gentleman just once.'
She pleaded with her mind, wrapping her arms around her and hopping up and down with the cold.
'Chiveralry's dead.'
He replied flatly, fighting hard not to laugh at the look on her face, Ginny sighed and shot him yet another venomous look.
'Fine, but you dare make a move, and I'll rip out your lungs and make sure you can never have children, ever, understand?'
He looked at her as she climbed into the bed and quoted a programme he had once seen that was remarkably like the situation they were in;
"Oh look, we even have pillow talk."
She scowled at him and darted under the quilts, ripping the covers up around her and curling up in them tightly, half hoping he would reach out for her but he didn't. She sighed at the exact time he did but resisted the urge to turn over and look at him.
'Thinking about your Ravenclaw whore?'
Her mind hissed as she edged even further away from him until she was practically balancing on the edge.
'Not really, but that's a good idea, she wasn't half bad.'
The bolt of jealousy that shot through her made Ginny twice as angry and she snorted.
'More than can be said for you, girl's gossip remember.'
He made a noise as he closed his eyes and she waited for his reply, she didn't wait long.
'Do I have to tell you everyone I've satisfied to prove I'm good?'
The very idea revolted Ginny and she put him off as quickly as she could.
'I don't need to hear about all your conquests thank you.'
He half opened one eye and turned slightly to look at the Berlin Wall of her back, her shoulders hunched to block him out.
'Jealous?'
She snorted and pushed his probing thoughts out of her head.
'Sickened.'
He rolled his eyes under his eyelids and closed his left eye again, pushing the sheets down to his waist so his bare chest could cool down.
'Trust me I know how to satisfy a woman, I didn't hear any of them complaining.'
Her eyes flew open but she shut them again and replied smugly;
'Did any come back for more?'
He contemplated that, not liking what she was hinting at but unable to stop himself from replying.
'No.'
She gave a half laugh half snort and he waited for her explanation.
'See? Woman won't go back for seconds if its crap.'
He thought about snapping back but really couldn't be bothered; he was saved the trouble anyway as Frankie's voice drifted into both their heads.
'Will you two shut up?'
Noah's followed immediately after and they heard the sound of the cushions and sheets moving as he rolled over.
'Whatever it is it can wait till the morning can't it?'
He whined before Blue joined in as well, unable to stay out of the centre of attention for long.
'Yeah some of us are trying to get our full six hours of beauty sleep over here.'
He shot angry thoughts to all four of them as they snorted with laughter before burrowing back under the quilts, his cursing thoughts filling all their heads.