A/N: yeah yeah usual crap, I only own people not recognisable from the books
The lyrics at the beginning are from 'Whose Gonna Stop the Rain?' by Anastacia
Introducing my new beta; kneh13 who has agreed to bore herself to death twice by reading the chapter through first before I post it on the website, woot! So hopefully no more mix up in names etc to confuse you all my dears
I promise their will be more Draco/Ginny action soon, very soon in fact, but I had to get this scene out of the way first
Anyway enjoy, took ages I know but whose gonna turn down a week in the sun? keep reviewing plz peeps xx
Chapter Eleven – Secrets Unveiled Part II
Each day another boy and girl Sets foot into this world One reaches out to touch the sky One never learns to fly Where is it written in the stone That any child should walk alone Out on their own
If no one tries to end this game Or find a way to ease this pain Tell me whose gonna stop the rain?
"Come again?"
The girl gave Draco a mocking look, her cold eyes scornful as she repeated herself and Ginny felt the bottom drop out of her stomach.
"What happened?"
The girl shrugged and dropped cautiously down so she was sat on the protruding rock ledge she had just been stood on, her eyes never leaving the two of them as they collapsed awkwardly onto the rocky floor.
"My father tried to change the prophecy. He tried to take my place against Kendra and it backfired, badly."
Ginny winced and Draco dropped a hand onto her ankle besides him, steadying her as she smiled weakly at him.
"I told you trying to change it would be a bad idea."
Draco hissed, gasping when Ginny elbowed his still sore ribs.
"Oh shut up."
Ginny quickly turned back to the girl who was watching the interaction curiously, almost longingly and Ginny felt a morbid curiosity take over her.
"What happened to your parents?"
Raw pain dripped into her eyes as the girl turned away from them, her face a mask of granite.
"They were both killed by Kendra."
Ginny's heart was leaping against her ribcage as Draco's grip tightened on her ankle, but otherwise he didn't falter at all despite the girl predicting their deaths right in front of them.
"Why is Hogwarts like this, though?"
The girl studied Ginny in silence for a minute, her piercing eyes so like Draco's watching her in that appraising way he did so often lately. She grabbed the end of her hair and twisted it around and up, securing it with bobble from around her wrist and brushing stray strands out of her eyes.
"In the battle."
Ginny and Draco looked at each other and sat up a little straighter as they listened, Ginny shivering slightly as a breeze ruffled her hair and chilled her bare skin. Draco lifted his arm from her ankle and wrapped it around her shoulders and she leaned in against him gratefully.
"After my mother was killed by Kendra to stop her fulfilling the prophecy, the descendants of the original Side of Good joined together against Kendra in a huge battle that lasted weeks. In the middle of it Hogwarts was destroyed, luckily most people were out at the time for break but whoever was left inside was killed instantly."
Tears clogged Ginny's eyes as she squeezed them shut in horror, Draco's grip on her arm tightening unbearably and his small silver ring, made of an incredibly rare metal only found in a small wizarding village across the world, embossed with a green snake coiling around a black wand glittered as he pushed his shaking hand through his hair.
'Is this what we were brought here to hear?'
Ginny's trembling voice rippled through his hand as her hand slipped into his, neither of them looking at the girl as she got to her feet and crept away without making a sound. Before Draco could answer the world tipped upside down once more and she was thrown into his arms.
Opening her eyes gingerly she found Draco smirking up at her and she blushed before scrambling to her feet and staring round at the Golden Trio and the other Four who were all gaping at them.
"Where in hell have you been?!"
Ron thundered his face practically purple with rage as Harry kept a tight hold on the back of his pyjama top just in case.
"Out."
Ginny replied numbly, wandering into the bathroom and summoning Butterbeers for them all as she went.
"Out!"
Ron repeated, a murderous scowl creasing his face as he glared from Ginny to Draco who was slouched over her bed looking way too at home for Ron's liking.
"What were you doing out with him?"
Ron snarled, pointing rudely at Draco who scowled back, wondering if one day Ron would drop dead from a heart attack from all this overprotective nonsense.
"What? You mean besides the wild passionate animal sex on a table-top?"
Ron's Butterbeer hit the floor with a loud crash as Draco smirked into his own bottle and the entire room turned to stare at Ginny with open mouths.
"I'm kidding."
A collective sigh filled the room as Ginny took a sip of her drink and flicked through her timetable and bag checking she had the right books for the morning.
"I'm kidding; the table wouldn't support us so we tried out the floor instead."
Laughter rang out through the room after Ginny's departing back and Harry slapped a choking Ron between the shoulder blades.
"She's just joking, Ron."
Noah sidled out of the room after Ginny and caught up with her in the Common Room, she was gazing into the fire with staring eyes and her legs were tucked underneath her. She was twisting a lock of hair around her fingers which she only did when she was deep in thought about something not particularly nice.
"Are you alright?"
She nodded without looking at him and he sat on the edge of her chair and wrapped an arm around her, pulling her against him as tears stole down her deathly pale cheeks.
She told him everything that had happened after Draco and herself had left and he didn't speak at all until she had finished, his eyes were trained on her and she knew what was coming; it was no use he knew her too well.
"That's not what you're upset about, well it is but there's something else as well."
Ginny nodded once more and turned to look up at him with pleading eyes, confusion darkening them.
"I'm falling for Draco."
Noah sighed and turned to stare into the fire, he'd known it was coming since that first kiss and he wasn't at all surprised.
"What are you going to do about it?"
Ginny shrugged helplessly and looked down at the floor, her emotions battling within her and causing a blinding heading to pulse behind her eyes.
"Not much I can do."
Ginny stiffened as Hermione plopped herself down into a seat opposite them and grinned sunnily at the two of them.
"Malfoy and that Juno girl seem to be getting on awfully well."
Anger bubbled up inside Ginny and met the searing jealousy going the other way.
"Whatever, I'm going to bed."
She bent down and kissed Noah on the cheek as she got to her feet and stalked off, Hermione staring after her in shocked silence before turning questioningly to Noah.
"What on Earth is wrong with her?"
Noah quickly got to his feet and glared down at her coldly, his head filled with the despairing look in his best friend's eyes as she had kissed him goodnight and he directed his anger, not entirely unfairly, at Hermione.
"You know, you may be the smartest witch of our time, but you don't know fuck all when it comes to your friends."
Leaving a stunned Hermione gaping after him he marched off with his fists clenched at his sides.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Juno jumped when she heard footsteps on the stairs and she turned slightly away from the window.
"Oh its you."
Noah raised an eyebrow at her as she turned back to look out of the window away from him before wandering over to her and dropping down onto the window seat opposite her. He jumped when he felt a strange drumming in his stomach as her bare arm brushed against his and from her sharp intake of breath he was guessing she had felt it too.
"So, you and Blue?"
She shrugged and kept her gaze fixedly on the distant rolling hills and the tiny pinpricks of light from the fireflies fluttering around in the woods.
"Meaning?"
He kept his gaze on her, watching her as she refused to look at him, his heart leaping against his ribs at every tiny contact they were forced to make on the small window seat.
"Think you're Mates?"
She shook her head making her long hair arc around her and brush against his cheek. He looked at her curiously; well aware that this was the first time he had ever seen her with her defences down and a little unnerved at the drastic change from the bitch he was used to dealing with to the vulnerable girl she was now.
"Why?"
This time she turned to look at him and his heart froze in his chest when her eyes met his, a fire burning in his stomach and his groin and his breathing quickened.
"We've been sleeping together for years, just as a release basically. If we feel the need to we do."
Noah raised an eyebrow, prompting her to continue as she paused, turning back to the window for a second.
"Go on."
She sighed and turned back to him, once again feeling that diving sensation sweeping over her as he shifted slightly and his hand brushed her ankle.
"Well it's always been the same, and when you sleep with your Mate you seal the fact that you're together forever and it's a lot more… shall we say explosive."
Noah followed her gaze out of the window, aware she was watching him as he did so but not feeling the need to mention it.
"So what about Draco and Ginny, they hadn't slept together and they still got the physical pain part when you jumped on him."
Juno glared at him before sighing and nodding, once more fixing her gaze on the view.
"Well its different for them isn't it? They have this prophecy thing to fulfil so they don't have a choice about being Mates, for the rest of us, until we sleep with our Mate we can avoid it."
Noah blushed as she stared at him from under her sooty lashes mockingly, his eyes drifting to her lips as she ran a tongue over them to moisten them. He gulped and shifted nervously as a cool breeze sent her scent drifting over him, filling his head and making rational thoughts leave his head instantly.
"Well if you and Blue aren't Mates but Draco and Ginny are, then that means…"
Her gaze didn't shift as he tailed off, his cheeks flushing even darker as she stretched, hollowing her stomach just under his chest and leaning into him.
"Only one way to find out."
Her whisper tickled his ear as she leaned forwards, her hair sweeping over him and forming a curtain that shielded them from the room as she touched her lips to his. Sparks shot from the contact and his eyes flickered shut at the sensations tumbling around inside him.
She fell into his lap and his arm circled her legs, pulling them over his as his other hand raked through her long veil of hair. Her hands circled his shoulders, her long nails digging into his back as his hand crept up her smooth brown leg, pinching and massaging its way up her skirt.
"Come on."
She said hoarsely, climbing up and dragging him out of the room and down the corridor, fortunately not meeting anyone as they stopped every few paces to continue their heavy making out. By the time they reached her room their breathing was heavily laboured and they were both trembling in anticipation, Juno's hand slipping on the door handle with sweat as she finally banged it open.
Slamming the door and darting back into his embrace, Noah moved slightly so they both tumbled onto the bed and she laughed, pulling him on top of her, wriggling underneath him as their lips connected again.
"Am I squashing you?" He asked, leaning up so he could see her face.
"Not enough." She mumbled into his mouth, her hands expertly stripping his shirt and running over his already sweating body.
Spinning them over so she was on top of him she reached over and plucked a jar of scented body oil from her top drawer and gazed down at him seductively.
"Kinky."
Laughing he once again rolled her over and stripped her clothes, dropping them unceremoniously onto the floor, quickly followed by his jeans and boxers. He tipped some of the oil into his hands set about rubbing it into every inch of her creamy white skin, purposely avoiding the most intimate part of the massage until much later when Juno was already on the brink from his caresses.
Grinning up at him she flipped him over, kissing his lips once more before rubbing her body into his, the oil spreading all over his body until they were sliding around all over the place because of it.
Eventually she straddled him and he felt the electric sparks every touch between them had produced double to lightening bolts, their oiled skin seeming to crackle with electricity as they moved together.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
"Well."
Juno looked up from where she was laying, her eyes meeting his as he stroked her back softly, their breathing levelling out slowly.
"Well." She repeated mockingly, she herself was shocked by the intensity of what they had just shared and it had shook Noah to the core since he didn't have much experience in that department anyway.
"Was that just exceptionally good or do you think we're Mates?"
She raised an eyebrow at him and nodded, laying her head back on his sweaty chest and staring out of the window at the moon drifting lazily past.
"Well if that doesn't mean we're Mates, I can't wait to see what happens when I do find my Mate."
He rolled his eyes looked down at her as she closed her eyes, the moonlight turning her skin to polished ivory and her hair to silver. Her face was softened in the light and his heart seemed to swell, if someone had told him that by the end of the day he would have slept with Juno Raven he would have given them a slap and told them not to make stupid jokes, now it seemed to just be the right thing, the most natural thing in the world.
The lyrics at the beginning are from 'Whose Gonna Stop the Rain?' by Anastacia
Introducing my new beta; kneh13 who has agreed to bore herself to death twice by reading the chapter through first before I post it on the website, woot! So hopefully no more mix up in names etc to confuse you all my dears
I promise their will be more Draco/Ginny action soon, very soon in fact, but I had to get this scene out of the way first
Anyway enjoy, took ages I know but whose gonna turn down a week in the sun? keep reviewing plz peeps xx
Chapter Eleven – Secrets Unveiled Part II
Each day another boy and girl Sets foot into this world One reaches out to touch the sky One never learns to fly Where is it written in the stone That any child should walk alone Out on their own
If no one tries to end this game Or find a way to ease this pain Tell me whose gonna stop the rain?
"Come again?"
The girl gave Draco a mocking look, her cold eyes scornful as she repeated herself and Ginny felt the bottom drop out of her stomach.
"What happened?"
The girl shrugged and dropped cautiously down so she was sat on the protruding rock ledge she had just been stood on, her eyes never leaving the two of them as they collapsed awkwardly onto the rocky floor.
"My father tried to change the prophecy. He tried to take my place against Kendra and it backfired, badly."
Ginny winced and Draco dropped a hand onto her ankle besides him, steadying her as she smiled weakly at him.
"I told you trying to change it would be a bad idea."
Draco hissed, gasping when Ginny elbowed his still sore ribs.
"Oh shut up."
Ginny quickly turned back to the girl who was watching the interaction curiously, almost longingly and Ginny felt a morbid curiosity take over her.
"What happened to your parents?"
Raw pain dripped into her eyes as the girl turned away from them, her face a mask of granite.
"They were both killed by Kendra."
Ginny's heart was leaping against her ribcage as Draco's grip tightened on her ankle, but otherwise he didn't falter at all despite the girl predicting their deaths right in front of them.
"Why is Hogwarts like this, though?"
The girl studied Ginny in silence for a minute, her piercing eyes so like Draco's watching her in that appraising way he did so often lately. She grabbed the end of her hair and twisted it around and up, securing it with bobble from around her wrist and brushing stray strands out of her eyes.
"In the battle."
Ginny and Draco looked at each other and sat up a little straighter as they listened, Ginny shivering slightly as a breeze ruffled her hair and chilled her bare skin. Draco lifted his arm from her ankle and wrapped it around her shoulders and she leaned in against him gratefully.
"After my mother was killed by Kendra to stop her fulfilling the prophecy, the descendants of the original Side of Good joined together against Kendra in a huge battle that lasted weeks. In the middle of it Hogwarts was destroyed, luckily most people were out at the time for break but whoever was left inside was killed instantly."
Tears clogged Ginny's eyes as she squeezed them shut in horror, Draco's grip on her arm tightening unbearably and his small silver ring, made of an incredibly rare metal only found in a small wizarding village across the world, embossed with a green snake coiling around a black wand glittered as he pushed his shaking hand through his hair.
'Is this what we were brought here to hear?'
Ginny's trembling voice rippled through his hand as her hand slipped into his, neither of them looking at the girl as she got to her feet and crept away without making a sound. Before Draco could answer the world tipped upside down once more and she was thrown into his arms.
Opening her eyes gingerly she found Draco smirking up at her and she blushed before scrambling to her feet and staring round at the Golden Trio and the other Four who were all gaping at them.
"Where in hell have you been?!"
Ron thundered his face practically purple with rage as Harry kept a tight hold on the back of his pyjama top just in case.
"Out."
Ginny replied numbly, wandering into the bathroom and summoning Butterbeers for them all as she went.
"Out!"
Ron repeated, a murderous scowl creasing his face as he glared from Ginny to Draco who was slouched over her bed looking way too at home for Ron's liking.
"What were you doing out with him?"
Ron snarled, pointing rudely at Draco who scowled back, wondering if one day Ron would drop dead from a heart attack from all this overprotective nonsense.
"What? You mean besides the wild passionate animal sex on a table-top?"
Ron's Butterbeer hit the floor with a loud crash as Draco smirked into his own bottle and the entire room turned to stare at Ginny with open mouths.
"I'm kidding."
A collective sigh filled the room as Ginny took a sip of her drink and flicked through her timetable and bag checking she had the right books for the morning.
"I'm kidding; the table wouldn't support us so we tried out the floor instead."
Laughter rang out through the room after Ginny's departing back and Harry slapped a choking Ron between the shoulder blades.
"She's just joking, Ron."
Noah sidled out of the room after Ginny and caught up with her in the Common Room, she was gazing into the fire with staring eyes and her legs were tucked underneath her. She was twisting a lock of hair around her fingers which she only did when she was deep in thought about something not particularly nice.
"Are you alright?"
She nodded without looking at him and he sat on the edge of her chair and wrapped an arm around her, pulling her against him as tears stole down her deathly pale cheeks.
She told him everything that had happened after Draco and herself had left and he didn't speak at all until she had finished, his eyes were trained on her and she knew what was coming; it was no use he knew her too well.
"That's not what you're upset about, well it is but there's something else as well."
Ginny nodded once more and turned to look up at him with pleading eyes, confusion darkening them.
"I'm falling for Draco."
Noah sighed and turned to stare into the fire, he'd known it was coming since that first kiss and he wasn't at all surprised.
"What are you going to do about it?"
Ginny shrugged helplessly and looked down at the floor, her emotions battling within her and causing a blinding heading to pulse behind her eyes.
"Not much I can do."
Ginny stiffened as Hermione plopped herself down into a seat opposite them and grinned sunnily at the two of them.
"Malfoy and that Juno girl seem to be getting on awfully well."
Anger bubbled up inside Ginny and met the searing jealousy going the other way.
"Whatever, I'm going to bed."
She bent down and kissed Noah on the cheek as she got to her feet and stalked off, Hermione staring after her in shocked silence before turning questioningly to Noah.
"What on Earth is wrong with her?"
Noah quickly got to his feet and glared down at her coldly, his head filled with the despairing look in his best friend's eyes as she had kissed him goodnight and he directed his anger, not entirely unfairly, at Hermione.
"You know, you may be the smartest witch of our time, but you don't know fuck all when it comes to your friends."
Leaving a stunned Hermione gaping after him he marched off with his fists clenched at his sides.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Juno jumped when she heard footsteps on the stairs and she turned slightly away from the window.
"Oh its you."
Noah raised an eyebrow at her as she turned back to look out of the window away from him before wandering over to her and dropping down onto the window seat opposite her. He jumped when he felt a strange drumming in his stomach as her bare arm brushed against his and from her sharp intake of breath he was guessing she had felt it too.
"So, you and Blue?"
She shrugged and kept her gaze fixedly on the distant rolling hills and the tiny pinpricks of light from the fireflies fluttering around in the woods.
"Meaning?"
He kept his gaze on her, watching her as she refused to look at him, his heart leaping against his ribs at every tiny contact they were forced to make on the small window seat.
"Think you're Mates?"
She shook her head making her long hair arc around her and brush against his cheek. He looked at her curiously; well aware that this was the first time he had ever seen her with her defences down and a little unnerved at the drastic change from the bitch he was used to dealing with to the vulnerable girl she was now.
"Why?"
This time she turned to look at him and his heart froze in his chest when her eyes met his, a fire burning in his stomach and his groin and his breathing quickened.
"We've been sleeping together for years, just as a release basically. If we feel the need to we do."
Noah raised an eyebrow, prompting her to continue as she paused, turning back to the window for a second.
"Go on."
She sighed and turned back to him, once again feeling that diving sensation sweeping over her as he shifted slightly and his hand brushed her ankle.
"Well it's always been the same, and when you sleep with your Mate you seal the fact that you're together forever and it's a lot more… shall we say explosive."
Noah followed her gaze out of the window, aware she was watching him as he did so but not feeling the need to mention it.
"So what about Draco and Ginny, they hadn't slept together and they still got the physical pain part when you jumped on him."
Juno glared at him before sighing and nodding, once more fixing her gaze on the view.
"Well its different for them isn't it? They have this prophecy thing to fulfil so they don't have a choice about being Mates, for the rest of us, until we sleep with our Mate we can avoid it."
Noah blushed as she stared at him from under her sooty lashes mockingly, his eyes drifting to her lips as she ran a tongue over them to moisten them. He gulped and shifted nervously as a cool breeze sent her scent drifting over him, filling his head and making rational thoughts leave his head instantly.
"Well if you and Blue aren't Mates but Draco and Ginny are, then that means…"
Her gaze didn't shift as he tailed off, his cheeks flushing even darker as she stretched, hollowing her stomach just under his chest and leaning into him.
"Only one way to find out."
Her whisper tickled his ear as she leaned forwards, her hair sweeping over him and forming a curtain that shielded them from the room as she touched her lips to his. Sparks shot from the contact and his eyes flickered shut at the sensations tumbling around inside him.
She fell into his lap and his arm circled her legs, pulling them over his as his other hand raked through her long veil of hair. Her hands circled his shoulders, her long nails digging into his back as his hand crept up her smooth brown leg, pinching and massaging its way up her skirt.
"Come on."
She said hoarsely, climbing up and dragging him out of the room and down the corridor, fortunately not meeting anyone as they stopped every few paces to continue their heavy making out. By the time they reached her room their breathing was heavily laboured and they were both trembling in anticipation, Juno's hand slipping on the door handle with sweat as she finally banged it open.
Slamming the door and darting back into his embrace, Noah moved slightly so they both tumbled onto the bed and she laughed, pulling him on top of her, wriggling underneath him as their lips connected again.
"Am I squashing you?" He asked, leaning up so he could see her face.
"Not enough." She mumbled into his mouth, her hands expertly stripping his shirt and running over his already sweating body.
Spinning them over so she was on top of him she reached over and plucked a jar of scented body oil from her top drawer and gazed down at him seductively.
"Kinky."
Laughing he once again rolled her over and stripped her clothes, dropping them unceremoniously onto the floor, quickly followed by his jeans and boxers. He tipped some of the oil into his hands set about rubbing it into every inch of her creamy white skin, purposely avoiding the most intimate part of the massage until much later when Juno was already on the brink from his caresses.
Grinning up at him she flipped him over, kissing his lips once more before rubbing her body into his, the oil spreading all over his body until they were sliding around all over the place because of it.
Eventually she straddled him and he felt the electric sparks every touch between them had produced double to lightening bolts, their oiled skin seeming to crackle with electricity as they moved together.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
"Well."
Juno looked up from where she was laying, her eyes meeting his as he stroked her back softly, their breathing levelling out slowly.
"Well." She repeated mockingly, she herself was shocked by the intensity of what they had just shared and it had shook Noah to the core since he didn't have much experience in that department anyway.
"Was that just exceptionally good or do you think we're Mates?"
She raised an eyebrow at him and nodded, laying her head back on his sweaty chest and staring out of the window at the moon drifting lazily past.
"Well if that doesn't mean we're Mates, I can't wait to see what happens when I do find my Mate."
He rolled his eyes looked down at her as she closed her eyes, the moonlight turning her skin to polished ivory and her hair to silver. Her face was softened in the light and his heart seemed to swell, if someone had told him that by the end of the day he would have slept with Juno Raven he would have given them a slap and told them not to make stupid jokes, now it seemed to just be the right thing, the most natural thing in the world.