Chapter 8
The sunshine worked its way into Virginia's eyes early in the morning. She groaned as she slowly sat up. She looked towards the clock that stated that the time was around 9:00. She smiled as she remembered her dream. It was her first good dream in a while. Those captivating blue-grey eyes and angelic blonde hair had made the rest of her night peaceful. She yawned as she got out of her bed and once again pulled on her robe. This time she tied it as she looked around her room as last night she hadn't really inspected it. The entire room was painted black. She had a cherry oak desk next to her door and next to that was a small table, perfect for her stereo equipment. Her bed stuck out of the next wall. Her bed was a cherry oak, four-poster queen-size. To the right of her bed was a door that held her closet. Across from her bed was a small vanity with a couple of drawers. On either side of the vanity was a door. The one on the right opened to the bathroom and the one opened up to her own personal library. The wall opposing to the door held a large window that had their dark cherry curtains open. She smiled at her room and decided to go wake everyone up and inspect what kind of room they had received. Although her plans were ruined as she exited her room. For downstairs everyone was seated except for three, herself, Cat and Draco. Virginia was going to have some fun. She walked into Cat's room and took her wand from her pocket. She twirled it and Cat's curtains opened. Cat groaned from the bed and Liberty looked up. Liberty walked towards Gin, got a couple pets then walked out the door.
"You know just because you want to get up, doesn't mean I do." Cat groaned.
"Everyone else is up. I thought you would like to join the party."
"Fine, I will be down soon."
"Ok, I am going to go wake up Draco."
"Have fun." Cat yawned.
"I will." Virginia smirked. She then walked down the stairs and up the boy's stairs. No one questioned her as they were all in the kitchen trying to find something to eat. Gin walked up to Draco's door and silently opened it. She crept up to his bed and grabbed the glass of water from the bedside table. Gin then dumped the water on the back of Draco's head. Before Gin could react she was pulled into the bed underneath Draco. She looked up and her breath caught. There Draco was head dripping wet and only in his boxers and all Gin could do was stare into his eyes. Those blue-grey eyes, the ones from her dream, they were the ones that had helped her sleep and wake up smiling for once. Gin was brought out of her thoughts as Draco shook his head and water went everything. She laughed as she was sprayed. Draco smiled down at her, and she smiled back still laughing.
"What are you laughing at you little rascal?" Draco spoke smiling. "You think you can laugh at me and get away with it. Well you were wrong and you shall have to be punished." Draco began to tickle Virginia constantly. She couldn't stop laughing and it was getting hard to breath.
"Stop... Draco stop... Please... I will do anything." Draco stopped; Virginia stopped laughing and looked up at him.
"Anything?" Draco asked as he wiggled his eyebrows. Virginia began to laugh once more and slapped him lightly.
"Pervert." She mumbled.
"Oh now you will pay." Draco shouted as he began to tickle her again.
"Anything... I will do anything."
"Really?"
"Within reason." Draco sat back and pondered.
"I will have to think about it, but until then you will be my prisoner."
"What?" Although Virginia's question was answered as Draco picked her up and threw over her shoulder. She shrieked and began to pound his back.
"Put me down you conceited prat." Draco continued to walk down the stairs as Virginia spoke.
"I would hush your mouth Weasley; you don't want your poor family to have to pay a ransom now do you."
"Dumbass, I don't rely on my stinking family. I have my own money."
"Really?" Draco asked as he walked into the kitchen. He then sat down at the counter with Cat and Emma.
"Hey guys, are you hungry? We have toast and cereal." Cat asked.
"Do not give him any food. "He doesn't deserve it. All he deserves is horse shit." Virginia hissed.
"What did he do?" Pansy asked as she stuck her head out of the fridge. Once she saw the scene she laughed. "Oh the tickling thing, good luck trying to get him to put you down. One time he did that to me and didn't put me down for an hour. Although that was when Snape asked him to kindly drop me."
"Dam it." Virginia snapped.
"Oh is Virginia sad no one is going to save her. Maybe someone should owl Potter." Draco laughed, while everyone quieted down.
"You fucking bastard." Virginia screamed. She dug her nails into is back. As he let her go she jumped away. He turned to speak to her, but she slammed her fist into his jaw. She then brought her foot up in a round kick and jerked it into his stomach. "Don't you ever say that name in front of me with the implement of him being my savior. I am my savior and only me." She walked to the door, and then turned around. "Do not come near me again unless you want me to kick farther south." She hissed before she retreated to her room.
"What was that about?" Draco asked as he wiped blood from his jaw.
"You didn't hear?" Blaise questioned.
"Of course he didn't hear." Pansy stated and smacked the back of Blaise's head. "That week his mother had to go to the hospital because of that, umm, I mean her back."
"What the hell happened? Somebody freaking tell me." Draco shouted.
"You care? I thought you guys hated each other." Cat smirked.
"Cat, not the time for your teasing. I need to hear what happened." Draco said.
"Well Virginia told me one day she was coming back from the library pretty late and she met up with Potter." Blaise said
"What the hell did that son of bitch do?" Draco hissed.
"He um advanced on Virginia." Blaise whispered. Draco stood up quickly throwing the stool back. "He didn't get anywhere, Draco. She pushed him off and ran. The story never reached the school, Virginia kept it secret."
"Then how did you all know?" Draco posed.
"Well that year, Virginia and I were the best of friends." Blaise stated.
"Blaise brought me in thinking she needed a girl to talk to." Pansy shrugged.
"She told us when she was in America." Emma spoke pointing to Cat, Spike, and herself.
"Matt?"
"I didn't know. I just knew she hated him because she never stayed within five feet of him, plus that whole incident on the train."
"I need to go talk to her."
"I wouldn't go near her until I'd say at least after the meeting with Dumbledore. You need to let her cool down. Let us talk to her first. She is probably reliving the entire thing again right now. Emma let's go." Cat spoke. Emma and Cat then headed to Virginia's room.
"I am going to go for a little walk. I will be back at noon." Draco stated as he walked out the door and portrait. He slipped out of the statue and headed down the hallway. There he is, Draco thought.
"Hey Potter. Draco shouted down the hallway. Harry Potter turned as did Ron Weasley who was standing beside him.
"What do you want, ferret?" Harry hissed.
"I want to talk to you." Harry and Ron stepped forward. "Alone."
"Yeah, like I am going to leave you alone with Harry." Ron snorted.
"What the great Potter needs a weasel to fights his battles." Draco smirked.
"No. I don't. Ron just go around the corner." Harry stated.
"Harry..." Ron whined.
"Go!" Harry yelled. Ron sadly walked around the corner.
"So what..." Before Harry could finish his sentence Draco had punched him in the eye and had him against the wall by his throat.
"I f I hear you tried to hurt Virginia again I will become your worst nightmare. I will become ten times the terror of Voldermont. You hear me?" Harry quivered. Draco applied more pressure. "I asked if you heard me." Harry nodded and Draco let him go. Harry ran off and Draco headed outside. He needed to cool down. He walked out to the lake and sat beneath a tree on a rock. It was one of his most favorite places. He closed his eyes and breathed as he leaned against the tree. He had fallen asleep from the peacefulness and had not awakened until his muggle watch beeped at 11:00.
Draco slowly walked back to the WC's common room. Outside of the statue he met up with Dumbledore. Together they entered the portrait. Everyone was already waiting in the couch area. Draco sat down next to Spike and Emma, and looked over at Virginia. She was in between Blaise and Cat. She showed no emotion and say stiff as Dumbledore cleared his throat.
"First thing I would like to go over is your schedules. Because of your high grades you will be attending Advanced 7th year classes."
"You mean we got promoted?" Virginia asked astonished. Dumbledore nodded. The four could hardly keep their joy under wraps. Promoting never really happened and was a great honor.
"You will attend those special classes at regular times. You will have your muggle classes after except for Fridays. Friday nights you will have off as well as Saturday. On Sunday you will take your Fighting, Weaponry, and War classes. Now to keep the classes that you have on the side secret you will attend them through this door." Dumbledore swished his wand and a door appeared to the right of the portrait. "Now I am sure you will need this too." Once again Dumbledore swished his wand. This time a door appeared to the left of the portrait. "An exercise room. It has a boxing ring, a pool, a track, and muggle weapons with a fighting room. Oh and there are weights and mats everywhere. I hope everything is to your liking." Everyone nodded astonished. Dumbledore grinned, "I will see you all later. Remember your classes start tomorrow." Dumbledore then left through the portrait.
"Hey Draco." Draco turned to see Cat addressing him. "You mind if we can go talk in my room for a bit?"
"Um...sure." Draco stated and followed Cat up into her room. She shut the door behind him and then jumped onto her bed.
"You aren't going to rape me are you Cat?"
"No you freak. I know how you prefer red-heads."
"I don't like..."
"Yes you do, so shut up. Well anyways she told me about this club she always went to and I want to go but I don't want to go dateless, so..."
"Why don't you ask Blaise, since he likes you and you like him?"
"No I don't like him. Plus I don't want a boyfriend. All I want is someone to dance with." Cat rushed out.
"Ok, calm down. I will go with you, but what about the others?"
"Well, um...I guess we should invite them to come along."
"Yeah, that would be good, let's tell them around dinner." Cat nodded. After a bit of silence they started to talk about one another. They talked about all their dislikes and likes. Mostly the two talked about music which Cat cared a lot about. Draco seemed to like it just as much as Cat. Cat then brought up dancing and turned on her very large stereo system on. She stood up and motioned for Draco. He shook his head.
"What can't you dance?"
"Of course I can dance but I don't really do it in public."
"Well misters, if you are going to be my date tonight in a club then you better get used to it."
"But there are a ton of people there that they don't notice me usually."
"Babe, you are going to be with me. I am the Queen of being noticed. You are going to be seen. Unless of course you gather all your courage and drag Virginia into a corner."
"I don't like Virginia. Where do you get that idea?"
"By the way you were staring at her on the train. You looked as if you wanted to devour her. You couldn't stop staring. Seriously I thought you were going to kiss her when she had you pinned."
"Ok I get it. I guess I do like her, but what about you and Blaise?"
"Maybe we should go tell the others about the club idea." Cat suggested walking to the door.
"Oh no missy, you are going to tell me since you haven't stopped bugging me about Virginia." Draco said as he grabbed Cat's shoulders and turned her to face him.
"Fine I like him you little twerp." Cat shouted into his face.
"What is so bad about that? He likes you and you like him, go out with him."
"Oh yeah the world is really that easy. If you can't seem to remember we are being trained to go into war, one which may take all of our lives. I am not going to hurt or be hurt." Cat shouted, tears streaming down her face. Draco awkwardly pulled Cat into a hug.
"Haven't you ever heard that saying that states that is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all?"
"Yeah."
"Then give love a chance."
"NO!" Cat yelled and jumped away from Draco. "I will die for this world but not if I am hurting someone in the process, especially Blaise." Cat then ran out of the room wiping the tears from her cheeks. Draco slowly followed as he neared the bottom he heard Cat telling them about the club idea. Everyone agreed that they should go after dinner. When Draco got to the bottom they all headed to the Great Hall. Draco's solemn face disappeared as he saw the Great Harry Potter with a very large black and blue eye. Cat walked over smiling at him.
"You just had to go after Potter. You do care for her. Um...I just came over here to apologize for going all psycho banshee on you earlier."
"It is ok, you care for Blaise, I can tell and you don't want to hurt him. Although I should tell you, you are hurting him by not even trying."
"You are sort of right, but what if we go out and start to really like each other then the war comes and we lose one another."
"It is chance you are going to have to take, but you need to stop listening to the what-ifs and start listening to your heart. What does your heart want?"
"Well I guess you are right but that means you have to talk to Gin and plus you just went all like psychiatrist adult on me there and it was just a bit unnerving."
"Sorry home-dog, I didn't mean to lose spice, yo." Cat laughed as Draco did some rapper impressions. They walked over to the Slytherin table and sat down with Blaise, Pansy, and Matt across from them.
"What were you guys doing by the door for so long?"
"Nothing Blaise, we were just talking about the club." Draco stated.
"Which one are we going to?" Pansy asked.
"I was thinking we go to Fiery Red, since Gin told me so much about it." Cat spoke.
"Yeah. I heard about that place. Didn't they like not have a name for like a month?" Matt questioned.
"Yeah, but me and Gin went there a couple of times and it rocked, so let's go." Blaise spoke.
"Ok." Everyone agreed.
The sunshine worked its way into Virginia's eyes early in the morning. She groaned as she slowly sat up. She looked towards the clock that stated that the time was around 9:00. She smiled as she remembered her dream. It was her first good dream in a while. Those captivating blue-grey eyes and angelic blonde hair had made the rest of her night peaceful. She yawned as she got out of her bed and once again pulled on her robe. This time she tied it as she looked around her room as last night she hadn't really inspected it. The entire room was painted black. She had a cherry oak desk next to her door and next to that was a small table, perfect for her stereo equipment. Her bed stuck out of the next wall. Her bed was a cherry oak, four-poster queen-size. To the right of her bed was a door that held her closet. Across from her bed was a small vanity with a couple of drawers. On either side of the vanity was a door. The one on the right opened to the bathroom and the one opened up to her own personal library. The wall opposing to the door held a large window that had their dark cherry curtains open. She smiled at her room and decided to go wake everyone up and inspect what kind of room they had received. Although her plans were ruined as she exited her room. For downstairs everyone was seated except for three, herself, Cat and Draco. Virginia was going to have some fun. She walked into Cat's room and took her wand from her pocket. She twirled it and Cat's curtains opened. Cat groaned from the bed and Liberty looked up. Liberty walked towards Gin, got a couple pets then walked out the door.
"You know just because you want to get up, doesn't mean I do." Cat groaned.
"Everyone else is up. I thought you would like to join the party."
"Fine, I will be down soon."
"Ok, I am going to go wake up Draco."
"Have fun." Cat yawned.
"I will." Virginia smirked. She then walked down the stairs and up the boy's stairs. No one questioned her as they were all in the kitchen trying to find something to eat. Gin walked up to Draco's door and silently opened it. She crept up to his bed and grabbed the glass of water from the bedside table. Gin then dumped the water on the back of Draco's head. Before Gin could react she was pulled into the bed underneath Draco. She looked up and her breath caught. There Draco was head dripping wet and only in his boxers and all Gin could do was stare into his eyes. Those blue-grey eyes, the ones from her dream, they were the ones that had helped her sleep and wake up smiling for once. Gin was brought out of her thoughts as Draco shook his head and water went everything. She laughed as she was sprayed. Draco smiled down at her, and she smiled back still laughing.
"What are you laughing at you little rascal?" Draco spoke smiling. "You think you can laugh at me and get away with it. Well you were wrong and you shall have to be punished." Draco began to tickle Virginia constantly. She couldn't stop laughing and it was getting hard to breath.
"Stop... Draco stop... Please... I will do anything." Draco stopped; Virginia stopped laughing and looked up at him.
"Anything?" Draco asked as he wiggled his eyebrows. Virginia began to laugh once more and slapped him lightly.
"Pervert." She mumbled.
"Oh now you will pay." Draco shouted as he began to tickle her again.
"Anything... I will do anything."
"Really?"
"Within reason." Draco sat back and pondered.
"I will have to think about it, but until then you will be my prisoner."
"What?" Although Virginia's question was answered as Draco picked her up and threw over her shoulder. She shrieked and began to pound his back.
"Put me down you conceited prat." Draco continued to walk down the stairs as Virginia spoke.
"I would hush your mouth Weasley; you don't want your poor family to have to pay a ransom now do you."
"Dumbass, I don't rely on my stinking family. I have my own money."
"Really?" Draco asked as he walked into the kitchen. He then sat down at the counter with Cat and Emma.
"Hey guys, are you hungry? We have toast and cereal." Cat asked.
"Do not give him any food. "He doesn't deserve it. All he deserves is horse shit." Virginia hissed.
"What did he do?" Pansy asked as she stuck her head out of the fridge. Once she saw the scene she laughed. "Oh the tickling thing, good luck trying to get him to put you down. One time he did that to me and didn't put me down for an hour. Although that was when Snape asked him to kindly drop me."
"Dam it." Virginia snapped.
"Oh is Virginia sad no one is going to save her. Maybe someone should owl Potter." Draco laughed, while everyone quieted down.
"You fucking bastard." Virginia screamed. She dug her nails into is back. As he let her go she jumped away. He turned to speak to her, but she slammed her fist into his jaw. She then brought her foot up in a round kick and jerked it into his stomach. "Don't you ever say that name in front of me with the implement of him being my savior. I am my savior and only me." She walked to the door, and then turned around. "Do not come near me again unless you want me to kick farther south." She hissed before she retreated to her room.
"What was that about?" Draco asked as he wiped blood from his jaw.
"You didn't hear?" Blaise questioned.
"Of course he didn't hear." Pansy stated and smacked the back of Blaise's head. "That week his mother had to go to the hospital because of that, umm, I mean her back."
"What the hell happened? Somebody freaking tell me." Draco shouted.
"You care? I thought you guys hated each other." Cat smirked.
"Cat, not the time for your teasing. I need to hear what happened." Draco said.
"Well Virginia told me one day she was coming back from the library pretty late and she met up with Potter." Blaise said
"What the hell did that son of bitch do?" Draco hissed.
"He um advanced on Virginia." Blaise whispered. Draco stood up quickly throwing the stool back. "He didn't get anywhere, Draco. She pushed him off and ran. The story never reached the school, Virginia kept it secret."
"Then how did you all know?" Draco posed.
"Well that year, Virginia and I were the best of friends." Blaise stated.
"Blaise brought me in thinking she needed a girl to talk to." Pansy shrugged.
"She told us when she was in America." Emma spoke pointing to Cat, Spike, and herself.
"Matt?"
"I didn't know. I just knew she hated him because she never stayed within five feet of him, plus that whole incident on the train."
"I need to go talk to her."
"I wouldn't go near her until I'd say at least after the meeting with Dumbledore. You need to let her cool down. Let us talk to her first. She is probably reliving the entire thing again right now. Emma let's go." Cat spoke. Emma and Cat then headed to Virginia's room.
"I am going to go for a little walk. I will be back at noon." Draco stated as he walked out the door and portrait. He slipped out of the statue and headed down the hallway. There he is, Draco thought.
"Hey Potter. Draco shouted down the hallway. Harry Potter turned as did Ron Weasley who was standing beside him.
"What do you want, ferret?" Harry hissed.
"I want to talk to you." Harry and Ron stepped forward. "Alone."
"Yeah, like I am going to leave you alone with Harry." Ron snorted.
"What the great Potter needs a weasel to fights his battles." Draco smirked.
"No. I don't. Ron just go around the corner." Harry stated.
"Harry..." Ron whined.
"Go!" Harry yelled. Ron sadly walked around the corner.
"So what..." Before Harry could finish his sentence Draco had punched him in the eye and had him against the wall by his throat.
"I f I hear you tried to hurt Virginia again I will become your worst nightmare. I will become ten times the terror of Voldermont. You hear me?" Harry quivered. Draco applied more pressure. "I asked if you heard me." Harry nodded and Draco let him go. Harry ran off and Draco headed outside. He needed to cool down. He walked out to the lake and sat beneath a tree on a rock. It was one of his most favorite places. He closed his eyes and breathed as he leaned against the tree. He had fallen asleep from the peacefulness and had not awakened until his muggle watch beeped at 11:00.
Draco slowly walked back to the WC's common room. Outside of the statue he met up with Dumbledore. Together they entered the portrait. Everyone was already waiting in the couch area. Draco sat down next to Spike and Emma, and looked over at Virginia. She was in between Blaise and Cat. She showed no emotion and say stiff as Dumbledore cleared his throat.
"First thing I would like to go over is your schedules. Because of your high grades you will be attending Advanced 7th year classes."
"You mean we got promoted?" Virginia asked astonished. Dumbledore nodded. The four could hardly keep their joy under wraps. Promoting never really happened and was a great honor.
"You will attend those special classes at regular times. You will have your muggle classes after except for Fridays. Friday nights you will have off as well as Saturday. On Sunday you will take your Fighting, Weaponry, and War classes. Now to keep the classes that you have on the side secret you will attend them through this door." Dumbledore swished his wand and a door appeared to the right of the portrait. "Now I am sure you will need this too." Once again Dumbledore swished his wand. This time a door appeared to the left of the portrait. "An exercise room. It has a boxing ring, a pool, a track, and muggle weapons with a fighting room. Oh and there are weights and mats everywhere. I hope everything is to your liking." Everyone nodded astonished. Dumbledore grinned, "I will see you all later. Remember your classes start tomorrow." Dumbledore then left through the portrait.
"Hey Draco." Draco turned to see Cat addressing him. "You mind if we can go talk in my room for a bit?"
"Um...sure." Draco stated and followed Cat up into her room. She shut the door behind him and then jumped onto her bed.
"You aren't going to rape me are you Cat?"
"No you freak. I know how you prefer red-heads."
"I don't like..."
"Yes you do, so shut up. Well anyways she told me about this club she always went to and I want to go but I don't want to go dateless, so..."
"Why don't you ask Blaise, since he likes you and you like him?"
"No I don't like him. Plus I don't want a boyfriend. All I want is someone to dance with." Cat rushed out.
"Ok, calm down. I will go with you, but what about the others?"
"Well, um...I guess we should invite them to come along."
"Yeah, that would be good, let's tell them around dinner." Cat nodded. After a bit of silence they started to talk about one another. They talked about all their dislikes and likes. Mostly the two talked about music which Cat cared a lot about. Draco seemed to like it just as much as Cat. Cat then brought up dancing and turned on her very large stereo system on. She stood up and motioned for Draco. He shook his head.
"What can't you dance?"
"Of course I can dance but I don't really do it in public."
"Well misters, if you are going to be my date tonight in a club then you better get used to it."
"But there are a ton of people there that they don't notice me usually."
"Babe, you are going to be with me. I am the Queen of being noticed. You are going to be seen. Unless of course you gather all your courage and drag Virginia into a corner."
"I don't like Virginia. Where do you get that idea?"
"By the way you were staring at her on the train. You looked as if you wanted to devour her. You couldn't stop staring. Seriously I thought you were going to kiss her when she had you pinned."
"Ok I get it. I guess I do like her, but what about you and Blaise?"
"Maybe we should go tell the others about the club idea." Cat suggested walking to the door.
"Oh no missy, you are going to tell me since you haven't stopped bugging me about Virginia." Draco said as he grabbed Cat's shoulders and turned her to face him.
"Fine I like him you little twerp." Cat shouted into his face.
"What is so bad about that? He likes you and you like him, go out with him."
"Oh yeah the world is really that easy. If you can't seem to remember we are being trained to go into war, one which may take all of our lives. I am not going to hurt or be hurt." Cat shouted, tears streaming down her face. Draco awkwardly pulled Cat into a hug.
"Haven't you ever heard that saying that states that is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all?"
"Yeah."
"Then give love a chance."
"NO!" Cat yelled and jumped away from Draco. "I will die for this world but not if I am hurting someone in the process, especially Blaise." Cat then ran out of the room wiping the tears from her cheeks. Draco slowly followed as he neared the bottom he heard Cat telling them about the club idea. Everyone agreed that they should go after dinner. When Draco got to the bottom they all headed to the Great Hall. Draco's solemn face disappeared as he saw the Great Harry Potter with a very large black and blue eye. Cat walked over smiling at him.
"You just had to go after Potter. You do care for her. Um...I just came over here to apologize for going all psycho banshee on you earlier."
"It is ok, you care for Blaise, I can tell and you don't want to hurt him. Although I should tell you, you are hurting him by not even trying."
"You are sort of right, but what if we go out and start to really like each other then the war comes and we lose one another."
"It is chance you are going to have to take, but you need to stop listening to the what-ifs and start listening to your heart. What does your heart want?"
"Well I guess you are right but that means you have to talk to Gin and plus you just went all like psychiatrist adult on me there and it was just a bit unnerving."
"Sorry home-dog, I didn't mean to lose spice, yo." Cat laughed as Draco did some rapper impressions. They walked over to the Slytherin table and sat down with Blaise, Pansy, and Matt across from them.
"What were you guys doing by the door for so long?"
"Nothing Blaise, we were just talking about the club." Draco stated.
"Which one are we going to?" Pansy asked.
"I was thinking we go to Fiery Red, since Gin told me so much about it." Cat spoke.
"Yeah. I heard about that place. Didn't they like not have a name for like a month?" Matt questioned.
"Yeah, but me and Gin went there a couple of times and it rocked, so let's go." Blaise spoke.
"Ok." Everyone agreed.