Author's Note: Alright, I know. I'm terrible. But the chapter is on time, thanks to Melissa. She practically wrote it for me. Okay, I wrote the last bit and the baseline of the chapter, but she had fun tweaking, so this one's for her! :P Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Ah, hell. Screw it! I want out of this idiot crap place in nowhere USA! I still live here! Still not mine! Ship me off to someplace better? Please? Likeâ Lodi? ::looks around hopefully::
Warning: If you do not like OOCness, bitchyness, Draco getting his bum whooped, or anything of the like, please, stop reading and head for the exit. Keep all negative comments to yourself, and don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
(Spiffy Break)
Luna blinked, "So you're telling me that you, the Slytherin Head Boy, and Draco Malfoy, are going to 'shape up' Gin, and you want my help?"
"Yeah, that's about right." Blaise nodded, a small smile of his in the corner of his mouth.
Luna shook her head no, her blonde hair swaying with it, "You're crazy."
Draco snorted, "This coming from the girl with the nickname 'Loony'."
The small, mismatched group had landed at one of the only secluded tables in the library, and now Luna and Ginny were seated on one side, while Blaise and Draco were seated on the other. Both Slytherin's had been surprised when Luna had dropped all pretences of her 'I left my brain somewhere else' look, and turned her Ravenclaw wit up full tune.
"Better a loony then a ferret." Luna muttered with an evil grin towards Draco.
Draco scowled at her, "Why you little-!"
"Children, please." Blaise said mockingly.
Ginny bit back a smile as Luna reached for her wand. She held it half-out under the table, pointing it at Draco's middle assets.
"What was that, Malfoy?" She asked, tilting her head to the side, a bemused little smile on her full pink lips.
"You heard me, Loony." Draco smirked at Luna mockingly.
Blaise, who had been quiet for the affair, watched Luna's arm slowly moving. He grasped Draco's upper arm and shook his head at his Slytherin friend.
"Not today Draco. Today, I think she is just as good as us. Better even. Really knows how to flick her wand." Blaise said with his lips quirking a bit.
Draco frowned; both Luna and Ginny snorted back laughter, and shook off Blaise's hand. "What the devil are you talking about?"
"Whatever, Malfoy. You get cursed, and it's not my fault. I warned you." Blaise rolled his eyes, slumping down into his chair relaxing.
"Right. Soâ shaping up Weasel." Draco said slowly, looking around him suspiciously.
Blaise eyed Ginny's form. "I don't know Draco, I think she's got a pretty nice shape already."
Ginny blushed, slumping down into her chair to hid her body. Draco eyed her a bit before he turned back to the smug Blaise. Ginny waited for the rude comments about her bodyâbut they never passed Draco's lips as he was too busy biting one.
"Shaping up Weasel's attitude, pervert," Draco said with a sigh after a few seconds of goggling Ginny, licking his lips and giving her another once-over.
"You say pervert like it's a bad thing," Blaise mocked.
"Maybe it is," Draco returned in an equally mocking tone.
"Maybe it isn't," Blaise said glaring at Draco now.
"Prove it." Draco said with a smirk.
"Oh, I will."
Luna bit back a giggle, earning glares from both of the seventh year Slytherin's, who had turned at the sound. Luna put a hand up to her mouth to hide the telltale smile.
"What's so funny?" They snapped together, before glaring at each other.
Ginny and Luna tried courageously not to laugh, and failed disgustingly. The girls let out whops of laughter, leaning on each other in their happiness, in spite of Draco and Blaise glaring at them. A disapproving 'Shush up, you!' from Madame Prince was issued their way as the girl's sound of laughter reached the uncompromising librarian.
"Bloody Gryffindors." Draco snarled, looking around to make sure no one saw him sitting with the two troublemakers.
"Ravenclaw." Luna managed to gasp out, calming her self down. She let out some soft chuckles and wiped the tears from her face, and began to fan herself with her hand.
Ginny took a deep calming breath and sat up straight, though she was unable to wipe the smile from her features. Draco continued to scowl at her in a condescending manner, as Blaise gave her a seductive smile. Her cheeks flushed with humor, she took another breath before finally getting back to the topic she wasn't sure she was ready to handle.
"What we need to do is make a list. I can't very well keep Ron, Harry, and Hermione out of my business like I am now, although Merlin knows I've tried. So, what do I need to change about meâwith you?"
(Spiffy Break)
Luna blinked owlishly down at the relatively long list in front of them.
"This isn't shaping Gin up!" She said after several moments of silence. "This is turning her into a Slytherin!"
Blaise frowned reading over the list. He muttered some of the words, a frown on his forehead as he went along. After a few seconds he looked up and shrugged.
"Yeah, I guess soâis that a bad thing?" Blaise said, raising one brow and putting on a alluring smile.
"Yes!" Luna pushed the list away from her incredulously.
"Luna," Ginny interrupted softly looking at her friend worriedly, "If it gets Harry and his fan club to leave me alone, I'll do it. You'll still be my friend, won't you?"
Draco snorted, muttering something about 'Loonies'. Ginny glared and kicked him sharply under the table.
"Bloody HELL!" He yelled out startled.
"She's already cruel! Take that off the list, Blaise. It doesn't need to be there!" Draco said sarcastically with force, leaning over to rub his throbbing leg.
Ginny rolled her eyes and gave him an annoyed look before turning in her seat to face Luna, "Luna?"
Luna was staring hard at the list, "GinâEverything on that list is what makes you my friend and not another person. All of those things that you would have to be are just like every other person, you won't be... If... if you change, who are you going to be?"
"I'll be me. This isn't going to be permanent or anything"
"How do you know that, Gin?" Luna said passionately.
Blaise's brow furrowed. What the hell was this? Weasel wanted to change, they'd change her. Loony had agreed, so why was she going against it? There had to be something deeper going onâsomething between the Loon and Weasel; something that he needed to know.
Wait. Why did he need to know? He didn't!
Then why was there the undeniable urge to get to the bottom of this? He was, after all, a sly bastard. He could find out if he wanted to
Draco sighed and began to tap his fingers on the table top annoyed. Bloody Gryffindor, idiot creepy loony Ravenclaw! Wasting his bloody time.
(Spiffy Break)
"What the hell do you mean you're going to follow Loony?" Draco yelled disbelievingly in a hushed tone.
"Oh, don't give me that look." Blaise rolled his eyes, "We both know you were going to follow Weasel anyway."
Draco shifted uncomfortably. The two sixth years had just left the Library, and Draco had been going to follow the Weasel. Only to make sure she did what was agreed on, he told himself.
Luna had convinced Ginny to put more thought into changing herself, and the two had left the library to talk. Draco glared annoyed at their retreating forms, daring them to say no to his offerâ.Blaise's offerâthe Slytherin offer. Whatever. It didn't matter; the trouble was that they had decided to talk about it.
'Who do they think they are?' Draco thought to himself, moving after them. Blaise smirked behind his back and watched as Draco slinked out of the door way behind the rounded girls. Blaise let out a breath and picked up the list again.
"Hate Harry Potter." He chuckled. Maybe it was too much to ask.
"Date a Slytherin"
(Spiffy Break)
"Virginia Weasley! Where the hell have you been?" Ron yelled as Ginny came through the portrait hole.
She bit back a groan, pressing a hand to her throbbing forehead. Owâ This was not what she needed. "The library, Ronald, not that it's any of your business." She turned to pull the portrait shut, but there was something blocking it.
"Gin, you dropped this is the hall." Draco smiled in a cheekily besotted way, handing Ginny the book he'd 'borrowed' from her bag in the library.
Ginny glanced at Ron, whose face was rapidly turning a fetching shade of puce. Everyone in the room was gaping blankly at her.
She pasted an 'I'm so hopelessly in love' smile on her face and turned, facing Draco. Her expression immediately turned into a scowl, knowing only Draco could see the look upon her angry face.
"Thank you, Draco. I never would have found it on my own." She gritted out. Stupid Slytherin. This was only going to piss Ron off more.
"I'm sure you would have." Draco let a hopeless sigh escape him, "You're so resourcefulâ Sleep well tonight, my love."
Ginny blinked. Was he turning slightly green, or was it just her? Draco poked her rather sharply with the book, and she blinked again. "Oh, right. You too, darling."
"I'll see you tomorrow at the lake?" The Slytherin asked. Oh Merlin. Blaise was going to kill him
"N-." The book jabbed into her hand again, "I mean, of course."
"Oh good." Draco smiled cheekily again, and turned, "Good night, my only!" He called.
Ginny braced herself as the portrait hole shut. She turned slowly, her face smiling once again. "Good night, everyone!" She managed to chirp, and moved towards the girl's dormitories.
Ron gaped, "Ginny!"
Ginny turned, eyes wide and innocent, "Yes, Ron?"
"Whatâ Wha" Ron made a sound dangerously close to a whimper, and collapsed on the couch.
Ginny met Harry's eyes from across the room. He glared at her, and she smiled slowly back. His eyes narrowed, and she smirked. 'You deserve it.' She thought acidly, starting up the stairs. 'You deserve every bit of this.'
As she laid down in her bed that night she mentally checked off resourcefulness and Slytherin boyfriend from her list.