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Chapter 14

"Let her go, Malfoy," George said as he stepped into the Three Broomsticks, his blue eyes menacing, lacking all signs of their usual laughter.

Draco turned to face George as Fred stepped in behind his brother, "Your sister and I have some unfinished business to discuss that does not concern you," he replied; gray eyes hard as steel, observant of the elder boys.

Fred, sensitive to Ginny's sense of independence, held his brother's shoulder and addressed Ginny.

"Do you want to talk to this git Gin?"

"I've said all that I have to say to ferret boy," Ginny spat as she pulled to break Draco's grasp.

"Well I haven't," Draco replied; baring his teeth and pulling Ginny's face closer to his.

"You son of a…" Ron started; charging into the Three Broomsticks; pushing past his elder brother's.

"Petrificus Totalus," Blaise called; leaving Ron immobile before he was aware of Blaise's presence.

As Ron fell to the ground, his body rigid, Harry attempted to shoulder past the twins. 

"Easy mate, they've got us covered" George stated holding him back. 

Harry, realizing that there was no way to reach Ginny with Draco and Blaise in their current positions, did the only thing he could think of.  "Malfoy, let her go!"

"Sod off Potter, this is none of your concern," Draco replied striding over to the fireplace with Ginny in tow.  Pulling some powder from a satchel inside of his robes and throwing it into the fire, he stepped inside with Ginny, stating clearly, though in a hushed tone, "Abdo Castellum."

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"No," Xavier started as he saw Blaise pull his wand to take aim at Ronald Weasley.  As the muscles in his legs tensed to rise and try to save the boy from the hex that Blaise was preparing, Pansy placed a firm hand on Xavier's shoulder and another much lighter one on his knee.

"Don't be a fool," she advised, whispering in his ear.  Pansy's interruption distracted Xavier just long enough to allow Blaise to cast the hex.

Xavier watched helplessly; Blaise's wand once again aimed at his chest and saw Draco disappear into the fireplace with Liane's best friend.  Although he was not great friends with the Weasley's, it was common knowledge that they were friends with Harry Potter, the only one capable of defeating the most evil wizard of their time, Voldemort. 

Xavier knew that the Weasley family had aided Harry throughout the years in every battle with the dark wizard, often times against Draco Malfoy's father, Lucius.  This was enough reason for any respected wizard to regret aiding the two young Weasley's.

With Draco and Ginny gone, Blaise had turned his back from where he had been standing guard over Xavier and Pansy, to cross the pub.  The young Hufflepuff Seeker rose slowly despite Pansy's attempts to pull him back down in his seat and strode towards Blaise, his dark brown curls hanging; obscuring the fury in his coal black eyes,. 

Blaise laughed in amusement as he crossed the room; his wand steadily aimed at Potter and the two remaining Weasley's.  Catching site of the reflection of Xavier in the mirror over the bar, the sides of Blaise's mouth turned up into a sneer.  Just as Xavier went to pull his wand, Blaise turned to attack. 

Before Blaise could say "Stupefy," Pansy had cast an Entrancing Enchantment upon Xavier. 

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Ginny rose after several moments had passed where Draco had simply sipped on his wine and watched her carefully. 

"Malfoy, you may feel as if my sole purpose is to answer your beck and call.  However; I have other matters to attend to.  I asked why you wanted to meet me," Ginny stated, indignation and frustration evident in her voice.

Draco observed Ginny carefully, whilst slowly draining his glass.  The candlelight in the room seemed to give her a fiery aura, resonant of the defensive stance she now held. 

Her arms crossed in front of her chest, weight shifted to the right and eyes narrowly focused on his; he recognized that the girl was readying herself for verbal warfare.

"Perhaps," Draco began with resignation, doubts flooding his mind as to whether he should concede his true purpose, "I wished the pleasure of your company," he finished plainly, allowing a small hint of sarcasm to color his voice.

Ginny's eyes narrowed further, her brows furrowing to seek out the truth in Malfoy's face.

"Malfoy, come off it, we both know that you would never lower yourself so far as to seek the company of a Weasley."

"Yet I have and you agreed," Draco replied, his tone neither warm nor combative, returning to stand before Ginny.

Thrusting her chin up to confront him, Ginny cried, "As if I had a choice in the matter!"

Draco and Ginny stood facing one another.  She tried to read the boy who so artfully masked his emotions.  Ginny found him positively infuriating, yet intoxicating.  As she inhaled, a mild woodsy scent clouded her anger.  She tried to hold on to her anger, while memories of their last encounter of this room began to flood her mind. 

Draco saw the flush building in Ginny's face; her chest rising and falling, more frequently the longer he held her gaze.  He hoped that a good portion of the emotion she felt right now was desire; yet, was well aware that the other portion was definitely anger. Surprisingly, it was her anger that was so appealing.  As his eyes bore into hers, and observed their fire, Draco felt a fire growing inside of him.

"I believe Weasley, that you have started something, I'm not ready to finish," Draco spoke huskily, grabbing Ginny's waist and pulling her in close.

Ginny's eyes opened wide in confusion which swiftly changed to panic as his mouth came down upon her.  Draco kissed Ginny with the passion of a lover that had been away for years.  As his tongue parted her lips, he inhaled deeply, the comforting scent of vanilla invading his senses. 

Ginny, caught by surprise, tried to remain stiff and unwelcoming, to Draco's advances.  Now overcome with desire, his grasp was too strong for Ginny to hope to break.  She placed her arms weakly on his chest; the force with which she tried to push him off unnoticed by Draco, as he tasted with fervor her lips.  Sensing Ginny's reserve as her lips did not yield to his, Draco murmured, "Relax Ginny," and relaxed his grasp on her waist; moving a hand to trail softly down her upper arm. 

Any reservations that she had felt, Ginny let go of once Draco had spoke her name.  Letting her hands fall from where they had been upon his chest, Ginny slipped her arms inside of Draco's robes, returning his kisses and pulling his body in closer to hers. 

As Draco's slid a hand up her back and reached the nape of her neck, the tickling sensation forced Ginny's head to fall back reflexively.  Smiling, Draco moved his head to her neck, "so we're ticklish?"

Ginny could only moan in response as Draco licked and nibbled on the sensitive flesh at her throat.  Allowing her arms to slide up his back and inside of his jumper, Ginny pulled Draco to her, throwing them off balance.

As Ginny and Draco fell to the sofa, Draco's caught himself, his hands landing on the back of the sofa on either side of Ginny's head.  Ginny took note of his smiling eyes, lacking their usual ire.  Her arms still inside of his robes and jumper, Ginny tried to pull him to her.

Lowering his head, until their forehead and noses were touching, a playful gleam in his eye, Draco asked, "Touching me not as repulsive as you once believed Weasley," before kissing her again.

Ginny opened her mouth, allowing Draco's tongue to swim next to her own, pulling him down next to her before swinging her body so that her knees straddled his lap, allowing her weight to fall so that she was sitting in his lap.  Sucking his bottom lip gently, before pulling away, a devious smile playing at her lips as she felt his aroused nature beneath her she replied, "And your desire to touch me *anywhere* appears to have changed," before standing to walk over to the buffet.

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Wow, that one was kind of difficult to get out.  I mean, I have a pretty good idea now of how the story is going to play out, but, but, I don't know the words just didn't want to come.  So, if it's not quite on, my apologies, but the longer I let things lie, the less likely they are to get done.

Two special thanks go out to AznDreamer802 and, wow, I don't know you're penname, but InsaneKiller2005 who chat me up on IM, and probably don't realize that they forced me to return to this story.

And now review responses:

AznDreamer802: I thank you everytime, this time shouldn't be any different!  Thanks girl!

Damien Frost: Bloody Brilliant to you as well, love your story, please update soon.  To those that haven't read, please check out Repercussions by Damien Frost, as I stated before, it's Bloody Brilliant :)

Lucianna: I'm glad you're enjoying the story so far, I know the chapters are rather short, I'm going to work on that, really, someone else stated that they would also like for them to be more descriptive.  I think if I could work more on 'painting the picture' the chapters will naturally grow.  But also, keep in mind, this is the first fic I've written.  The other problem I have is with the style in which the story is being written, I don't want to flash back and forth too many times in the same chapter.  So, all that is to say, your observation is duly noted, and I'm trying to take it into consideration as I continue!  Thanks for the feedback :)

Jewels03:  Glad that you like the way the story is going.  Hope that you enjoy the update

IndieRocker: I'm glad that you like the story.  Funny thing is I think the summary is kind of hmmmm, non descriptive, I think it might be changing, of course, I said the same about the title, but it's looking like it might not.  We'll see what happens!  Oh yeah, I tried to take into consideration your comment regarding the lack of description in my stories.  I'd love to see whether you thought it had improved, or if it was eh… about the same.  Thanks for the feedback, I'm working on it :)

Chikkalaura:  Love, a word that comes and goes, but few people really know, what it means, oops, slipping into gospel (Kirk Franklin and some choir, can't remember which), hopefully that's not too blasphemous.  Well Draco and Ginny certainly feel something, but who knows what it will take for them to realize what exactly it is!

Nichole Malfoy: Semi Cliff, well, yeah, I had to, I didn't know what to write next :) Actually no, it feels to me like every chapter is a semi cliff, considering it ends in either the past or the present, To me the cliffs keep the momentum of the story going.  I'm trying to entice ya'll to bear with me while I try and get this out.  I know I missed a day, but hey even the Good Lord took a day off.  So here's another one for you all, and I hope to update again tomorrow!

Salyeva:  I think the story is finally going to start picking up a little bit.  Draco has Ginny alone in the present, and they have come together, without taunting etc.  These two situations in my mind were the hardest to get to.  It will probably be downhill until we get into the *gasp* second part of the story (oh yeah, don't hold me to that, I reserve the right to declare writing was fun, but never again once this story is complete) Draco can't be nice to Ginny because well, I respect Rowling's story, and let's face it, the guys a prat, jerk, jack ass, whatever you wanna call it, that's Malfoy.  I'm not holding out for him to have a change of heart in canon, though I can't say I wouldn't mind seeing it happen.  Draco softens in this chapter because, he's a young man and something about Ginny got his nose open.  Ginny doesn't strike me as one to take verbal abuse as foreplay, so he's gotta play a little nice :)  Hopefully that answer is sufficient for you, and you accept my interpretation of Draco.

SarkLover:  Glad you enjoyed the chapter, glad you're here with us!  Looking forward to seeing more comments!

ForbiddenMaggiks:  Hey, real life sucks!  Glad that you came back to check up on the story, and while this chapter was a bit difficult for me, I think the story is coming along!  Thanks for the well wishes.

i-forgot-my-name: Wow, I was about to upload, thinking I'd hit the end of the reviews, and there you were!  Thanks so much for the encouragement.  I haven't abandoned the story, and plan to finish it!  I hope you enjoy the update