A/N: Hello! Sorry this took so long! I've had assignments coming out of my ears!
Quick note for this chapter: We are back during Ginny's 6th year! Draco's 7th. Sorry for any confusion!
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Disclaimer: Everything but Darien, Jessica and others you don't recognise belong to J.K. Rowling! I'm very disappointed I don't own Draco but I have his son so maybe I can convince him… author plots Mwahahaha…
The song used in this chapter is Broken sung by Seether and Amy Lee.
Broken
Chapter 3
I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph; I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain
'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel light when you're gone away
The worst is over now and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain
'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel light when you're gone away
HOGWARTS
Clouds hovered around the moon, casting shadows on the ground as the petite redhead walked towards the Quidditch pitch, broomstick slung over her shoulder as she carried the Quidditch box full of the quaffle, bludgers and snitch. She dropped the heavy box onto the ground, grabbed out the quaffle and throwing it into the air; she jumped on her broomstick, a Delson 1000, the newest broom on the market and soared into the dark sky.
Ginny grabbed her wand out of her robe pocket and charmed the quaffle so that it soared around like it normally would had it been thrown by another chaser.
After training like this for nearly an hour, Ginevra flew down to the ground, taking the charm off the quaffle as she went. Landing, Ginny placed the quaffle back in the box and her beautiful broomstick on the grass. Pulling of her Quidditch robe, Ginny revealed the black running shorts and white tank top beneath that showed most of her legs and if Ron had seen how much skin her tank top showed, he would most likely have fallen to the ground in a dead faint.
Turning, Ginny started jogging around the Quidditch pitch at a relatively fast pace. Whenever Ginny reached the straights between the posts, she sprinted to the other end, slowing down to jog round the posts and then sprinting back.
While running, Ginny failed to notice a person entering on the other side of the pitch and freeze upon seeing Ginny running around the pitch and suck in a startled breath of the chilly night air.
Ginny came running around the pitch but as she came nearer to the intruder, she started to slow down, finally realizing that she wasn't alone. Stopping completely right in front of the intruder, Ginny nodded her head in acknowledgement.
"Draco." Ginny said softly.
Draco started slightly and looked at the small red head in shock.
"W-What did you say?"
"I called you 'Draco'."
"Why?" Draco breathed out incredulously.
"Why not?" the red head replied impishly.
Draco just continued to stare at Ginny until he slowly began to shake himself out of his stupor realizing that Ginny was shifting uncomfortably in front of him. Realizing this, Draco tried to revert back to his normal self, that the rest of the world saw but looking back up into Ginny's eyes, Draco became aware that he could be no one but his true self around her.
Ginny watched the conflicting emotions cross her crush's face. Ginny gasped internally accepting for the first time that she had feelings for the Slytherin King. Might as well make the most of the time we have together she thought.
"Draco? Would you like to stay and train with me or would it be better for me to leave?"
Draco stumbled a bit but quickly answered.
"I would be more than happy to train with you, if you're sure you don't mind?"
Ginny smiled softly as she nodded.
"I'm absolutely positive that I don't mind if you train with me. I did, after all, invite you to."
Draco let a small smile appear on his handsome face and nodded while grabbing his broomstick. Ginny picked up her Delson 1000 and flew into the air, yelling to Draco to get on the broomstick.
"That's a nice broom you have there." Draco said.
"I know. You wouldn't believe how long I have been saving up for this. Only last month did I have enough money to finally buy it."
The two lapsed into silence for a while, just floating in the air. Ginny eventually turned to Draco.
"How about a race around the pitch? First to finish 7 laps wins."
"7? Why just 7 laps?"
"It's my favourite number. I do everything in sevens.
"Ok then. Three. Two. One. GO!"
Ginny and Draco were off and racing. Draco was in the lead for most of the race but during the last lap Ginny let the Delson go for all it was worth. Racing around the corner of the Quidditch pitch, Ginny crossed the finish line a broom in front of Draco.
"Yes! I won!"
"Well don't go and gloat. It was just a race."
"Well don't go and sulk," Ginny replied mimicking Draco.
Draco sighed.
"Come on. We had better head back in before we run into someone going back to our common rooms."
"Yeah. I guess your right."
The two of them walked back to Hogwarts across the darkened grounds. Stopping in the entrance hall, the two turned towards each other. There was silence for a few minutes as neither knew what to say, until Ginny spoke.
"Um… Draco? Can we do this again tomorrow night? Train I mean. Not race."
"Uh… Sure. Why not. I'll meet you here at 9pm. That ok with you?"
"Great. See you then," and with that Ginny turned and walked up the staircase.
Draco watched her leave and as soon as she left his field of vision he himself turned and walked down towards the dungeons.
A/N- Sorry this took so long people! Hope it was alright. I'll try to write the next chapter within the next few weeks. If it doesn't appear then someone might need to bash me over the head!
Please read and review. I love any comments and suggestions on how I could make it better or ideas for future chapters are most welcome!
Ilona