(A/N MarauderRaven: Come on it's the Weasley twins, either they have a way to find out everything because face it they probably do, or it was just a threat to scare Draco. You know what I'm saying? Thanks for the yayness!)

Chapter 26: Confessions

"I always thought that kid was a prat." Draco told Ginny as they entered his room. "Are you okay?"

Draco looked over at Ginny she looked miserable.

"It's just, not accepting me dating you, I would expect from Slytherins, but the Gryffindors." Ginny replied.

"Hey!" Draco said hurt.

"You know what I mean, if we had dated last year, which probably would have never happened, they would not have accepted us." Ginny said truthfully. "It really bothers me that my house mates are not okay with this."

"They will get over it eventually. Especially once they find out what Dean did." Draco told her.

"No! I don't want anyone to know about that." Ginny replied sharply.

Draco looked at her confused. "Why not?"

"I just, I just don't." Ginny replied after a minute. "It just seems like somehow they would blame me."

"They wouldn't do that." Draco replied trying to comfort her.

"I would have agreed with you before today." Ginny said sitting on his couch.

"Listen I'm going to be right back, you stay here and read or something." Draco told her as he walked out of his room.

Draco walked along the hall until he was back in front of the Slytherin Common Room, after a minute he walked in.

"Crabbe, Goyle, Blaise, can I see you guys for a minute?" Draco asked walking into the room.

The three Slytherins got up, curious as to why Draco wanted to see them. Draco walked back out into the hall and waited for the three of them to join him.

"Listen, I need to ask you three to do me a favor." Draco said quietly looking around. "I need you guys to keep an eye on Virginia when I'm not around. Make sure she doesn't get hassled by anyone."

"Do we get to pound of them if they do?" Crabbe asked excitedly.

"Yeah sure, just not in front of Virginia." Draco replied. "Thanks."

The three of them walked back into the common room. Draco wasn't done with hie errands yet. He searched around the castle before he found Ron and Hermione making out in a corner.

Draco coughed loudly, and Ron looked up.

"Ron, I need to speak with you." Draco said trying to not notice where Ron's hands happened to be.

Draco turned around and walked a few feet down the hall and waited. Ron hurriedly got up and followed after him.

"Listen your house mates have found out about Virginia and me, and needless to say they aren't too happy." Draco said. "I asked a couple of my boys to watch out for her, in case anyone tries to bother her. But maybe you should get up there and see if you can change public opinion about me, If not for me than for you sisters sake."

Ron looked at him for a minute, contemplating what he would do, after a minuted he nodded his head. "Ok man, I'll do that. Thanks for looking out for my sister."

Ron walked over to Hermione and pulled her up. "Come on 'Mione, we have to go back up to Gryffindor tower." he said leading her down the hall.

Draco stood there for a minute, wondering what he was going to tell Ginny about where he had gone. After a moment he walked back down stairs and walked to stand in front of a picture of fruit, he reached up and tickled the pear and was inside the kitchen.

Dobby was instantly at Draco's side. "What can I get for you?" he asked in his squeaky voice.

"Do you think you could make me some sandwiches and such." Draco asked him.

Dobby was off before Draco had even finished his sentence. In a few minutes Dobby had come back with a large tray loaded with sandwiches and pies and pumpkin juice and left overs from the dinner they had just eaten a couple of hours ago.

"Thanks Dobby this looks great." Draco said taking the tray from him and carefully walking out of the kitchen with it.

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"Merlin, we just ate." Ginny said watching Draco walk into his room, carefully balancing the tray.

"This is so when we get hungry later we can just stay here." Draco said sitting the tray on his bedside table.

"Oh, that makes since." Ginny said moving to sit on the edge of Draco's bed and peering at the food on the tray. "It looks good."

"Yep." Draco agreed sitting beside her taking one of her hands into his. "Are you sure you don't want to tell at least Ron what Dean did?"

"Please, can me just forget about it." Ginny replied.

"Why don't you want anyone to know?" Draco asked her confused.

"It's just ever since my first year." Ginny started and then stopped. "I don't want to talk about it."

"Fine then, don't tell me." Draco said sulkily.

"Like you're one to talk." Ginny replied laying back on his bed her feet dangling off the side.

"What are you talking about?" Draco asked laying back beside her.

"You expect me to tell you why I feel the way I do yet you won't tell me what made you change your whole attitude towards muggles.." Ginny said rolling on her side and propping her head up with her hand.

"You really want to know?" Draco asked her seriously.

Ginny nodded her head. "Yes I do."

"Fine then, I'll tell you." Draco replied closing his eyes thinking.

"When Voldermort first got his powers back nothing really changed, well except my dad was gone a lot more. Which was actually a blessing. It wasn't until this past year he started to involve me. He would wake me up at night and make me go with him on various assignments. Most of the assignments were torturing wizards or muggles for information. My father just loved the illegal curses. Most of the time I wouldn't watch while he hurt them. Hurting a muggle, it's like kicking a pregnant dog they can't really defend themselves. Then one night in the middle of summer he said it was my turn. Time to prove my loyalty to the Dark Lord. I couldn't do it, I couldn't just hurt someone for no reason. It was a young witch, he wanted me to torture her, she supposedly knew where some ancient artifact that Voldermort wanted was being kept. My father was standing there yelling at me, but I couldn't do it. My father had to to it instead, I just stood there and watched. Later he dragged me home and beat me." Draco said this last bit his voice cracking.

"This happened for the rest of the summer, he would tell me to torture someone and I wouldn't so he would beat me. A couple of times he nearly killed me, there were a couple of times I wished he would. But no matter how wrong I thought he was, I never tried to help his victims out. I just stood there and watched. I might not have tortured them, but I was just as bad." Draco finished, not opening his eyes.

"You aren't your father." Ginny said quietly, reaching over to brush some of his hair out of his face.

"How do you know?" Draco asked his eyes shut tightly.

"Because the choices we make determine who we are." Ginny replied.

"And I chose to just stand there and not do anything." Draco replied.

"And you chose to not hurt someone for your own benefit." Ginny said ignoring what he had just said.

"I didn't help them either." Draco argued.

"You couldn't have been able to do anything." Ginny argued back. "Draco you have chosen not to get a Dark Mark, you have chosen not to join the Death Eaters, of course you aren't your father."

Draco opened his eyes. "You make it sound like it is so easy-"

"Why can't it be?" Ginny asked interrupting him.

"Because it just can't." Draco replied sighing closing his eyes again.

Ginny rolled onto over so that she was laying on Draco's chest, kicking her feet back in forth in the air. Her face was right in front of him, her nose almost toughing his nose and she waited for him to open his eyes. Draco was shocked by the fact that Ginny had just rolled over on top of him, even though it was only the top of her laying on him. He knew she was waiting for him to open his eyes but he didn't want her to see him upset so he kept them closed. He could feel her face inches from his face. They both laid there, neither one of them speaking waiting for the other to cave. Her breathing was soft and normal where his was harsh and ragged.

Draco had his eyes closed tightly but that didn't stop Ginny from seeing the tears. Ginny reached up and wiped away his tears and then she leaned down and kissed him.

"Draco, I love you, and you love me. Therefore you will never be your father." Ginny told him. "You know what love is, that is something your father could never learn."

Ginny kissed Draco again, and waited again for him to open his eyes. After a couple of minutes Draco's own breathing started to soften and he opened his eyes.

"You're beautiful." Draco told her.

"Thanks for telling me." Ginny told him, kissing him.

"You sure know how to cheer a guy up." Draco said smiling.

"I do what I can." Ginny replied rolling off of him. "Want to see what I brought?"

"Sure." Draco said sitting up.

GInny grabbed her bag and pulled it onto the bed. She rummaged around in the bag before pulling out a game that was way to big to fit in the bag.

"Shrinking charm?" Draco asked picking up her bad.

"Yeah, mom though it would be easier to put shrinking charms on them then to have a bunch of different bags." Ginny replied.

"What game is this?" Draco asked her looking at the game.

"It's called The Game of Life. It's a muggle game." Ginny told him. "My dad loves muggle things."

"Yeah I know." Draco replied pulling the board out of the box. "How do you play."

Ginny told him the rules as she set up the board. Soon Ginny was kicking his ass, she had the biggest salary and the best house, the most life cards, and she reached the finish line first. While she waited for Draco to spin his way to the finish she started counting her money.

"How much?" Ginny asked when Draco had finished counting his money.

"Seventy five thousand." Draco replied. "What about you?"

"Two hundred and fifty thousand." Ginny said holding up all her money.

"I don't like playing games with you, I never win." Draco said putting the board back in the box.

"You had the wrong color car." Ginny replied. "No one who plays with the orange car wins."

"Now you tell me." Draco replied.

"Hey I wanted to win." Ginny said smiling.

"Do you have any other games?" Draco asked her.

"I have playing cards. I don't suppose you know how to play Rummy?" Ginny asked him.

"No but I'm sure you can teach me." Draco replied as Ginny pulled out her cards.

Ginny and Draco were in the middle of their fourth round of Rummy when Fred, George and Ron walked in.

"Ok seriously how do you get my password?" Draco asked exasperated.

"We know everything." Fred replied.

"We just came back from Gryffindor tower." George said.

"Yeah, it wasn't too fun." Ron replied.

"They aren't just mad at you." George said.

"They are mad at all of us." Fred continued.

"Including Hermione and Harry." Ron said.

"I'm sorry you guys have to deal with them too." Ginny said. "Wanna play cards?"

"Sure." Fred said as the three of them piled on Draco's bed.

"What are we playing?" Ron asked.

"Runny." Ginny replied. "Don't worry though, Draco is really bad at this game."

"Hey! I'm getting better." Draco said defensively.

"Yeah, okay." Ginny replied sarcastically as she dealt out five hands. "Where are Hermione and Harry?"

"Well we haven't seen Harry since he left us for Samantha." Fred said.

"Though we can guess he is some where dark." George said smiling.

"Hermione had homework." Ron added.

"Therefore we came to see you two." Fred continued.

"By the way we are very glad to see you two dressed."

"And playing cards."

"Because if we found you two doing anything else."

"Well these cards would be in a whole other place."

"And you wouldn't have liked it." Fred and George told Draco.

"No problem guys." Draco said nervously.

"Good." They replied together, smiling their evil twin smile.

"You two can be really scary." Draco told them. "And not in a I will kick the crap out of you way."

"Thanks." Fred told him.

"We try." George continued.

"Guys focus on the game, Ron and I are beating both or you." Ginny told them.

"Ginny hush, the more they talk the more we win." Ron said to her, poking her in the side.

"Fine we will focus on the game." George said glumly.

"But I thought you wanted us to get along." Fred replied.

"And when we do you won't let us talk anymore." George added.

"I'm trying to save my boy friend from the likes of you two." Ginny said smirking at them.

"We were being nice." Fred said defending them.

"Yeah I'm sure." Ginny replied.

"We were, he had just complimented us."

"We were thanking him."

"Well I'm afraid I just beat you." Ginny said discarding her last card.

"We haven't counted up the cards yet." Ron said, he had as nearly cards in front of him as Ginny did.

Ginny and Ron counted up their cards, the rest of them didn't have any cards to count.

"85." Ron said smiling.

"100." Ginny said smirking.

"Ok well we can go now." Fred said getting up.

"After all we made sure they were behaving." George agreed.

"You're right, let's go." Ron said also getting up.

"I can't believe you guys!" Ginny said playfully punching Ron in the arm.

"Hey it was their idea." Ron said rubbing his arm where Ginny punched him.

"I couldn't reach them." Ginny replied. "You know I love you."

"Bye." Draco said laughing as they walked out of his room.

"I can't believe them." Ginny said shaking her hand.

"I can." Draco replied. "What would you expect? You're their baby sister."

"You're right. I am worth all the trouble." Ginny replied. "Do you still want to play cards?"

"Not really." Draco replied. "Are you hungry, it's like 8."

Ginny looked over at the tray of food Draco had gotten earlier. "I could eat."

"Good." Draco said picking up the tray and setting it on the bed.

Ginny and Draco ate in silence for a couple of minutes.

"So are you going to tell me about what happened your first year?" Draco asked Ginny.

"I'm shocked you don't already know." Ginny said. "After all your father was involved."

"What are you talking about?" Draco asked setting the tray of food on his bedside table.

"Are you sure you want to hear it, it's not a happy story." Ginny asked him.

"Yeah." Draco replied.

"Ok, well let me change into pajamas first." Ginny replied sighing. "Could I borrow some, I forgot to grab some."

"Yeah, sure." Draco said going to his dresser and pulling some out. "You forgot?"

"Well, yeah, I didn't say it wasn't on purpose." Ginny said smirking and taking the pajamas from Draco.

"If I looked as cute in someone else pajamas, as you do in mine, I'd forget my pajamas too." Draco yelled through the door as he changed into his own pajamas.

"I thought cute was bad." Ginny said as she walked out of the bathroom.

"Cute is bad if you are calling a guy cute, but calling a girl cute is allowed." Draco explained blowing out his candles and climbing onto his bed.

"Oh silly me." Ginny said sarcastically as she climbed under Draco's covers.

They took a couple of seconds to get comfortable. Ginny was laying on her back her hands resting on her stomach. Draco was laying beside her on her side. His head right beside hers, his hand across her body his hand playing with her hair.

"Rummy was fun today." Ginny said.

"Ginny, you're suppose to be telling me about your first year." Draco reminded her.

"I know." Ginny said glumly.

"Well at the beginning of my first year I was unpacking my books. I found a little journal it was totally empty. I started writing in it, telling it my thoughts and that sort of thing. Then it started writing back, I didn't know what to think. On one hand I was told to keep my eyes open for weird stuff, not to trust enchanted things I knew nothing about. On the other hand I was lonely and having someone to talk to made me feel better. His name was Tom Riddle."

Draco gasped in shock. "Isn't that."

"Yeah." Ginny said interrupting him. "Slowly though he started to control me, I was the one who wrote about the chamber of secret being opened, and I was the one who sent the Basilisk out. It was me, because of me my best friend got paralyzed, Hermione got paralyzed. The worst is, even after I figured out what I was doing I didn't stop. I couldn't stop, I couldn't get through the day without opening up my journal. Then one day I got sick of it and threw it in the toilet. I thought it would be okay, that I had gotten rid of it. Until I saw Harry with it. I ransacked his room to get it back. When I got it back I just kept opening it up. I don't think I had much say in the matter. I felt horrible. I felt like he was invading my every thought, I couldn't get away. It was like I was being stalked, except there was no escape. Even after the whole ordeal was over I felt bad. I felt like he was still in me, like I was tainted. I felt like people could see that he had possessed me. I felt like there wasn't anything I could do to clean my soul. He had invaded me and I was tainted. I felt like no one would ever love me because of him. I nearly got Harry killed. Harry the boy who I had admired since Ron became friends with him, and because of me he almost died. Because of me Hermione could have died, Collin could have died. Even with all that I couldn't get over the face that he had invaded my soul."

Ginny stopped there. She didn't know whether to continue or not.

"Harry found me in the Chamber by then Tom had gained form, used my soul to help him. Luckily Harry was able to beat Tom, just barely though. I wasn't awake, almost dead. Later Harry told me that it was your father that slipped me the diary that day in Flourish and Blott's."

Ginny stopped talking and shivered. Draco had stopped playing with her hair, instead his hand was resting on the side of her head, his thumb stroking her cheek.

"Sometimes I still feel like he is a part of me." Ginny said finishing up her story.

"My father gave you the book." Draco said stunned.

"Yeah." Ginny replied. She rolled on to her side so that she was facing him. Her face was right beside his.

"You're safe now." Draco told her.

"I know." Ginny said smiling at him. "I feel safe with you. I never told anyone the whole story before."

Draco kissed her. He loved the fact that she felt safe with him.

"You're beautiful." He told her, his fingers laced through her hair.

"I know you told me that already." Ginny replied.

"Well I mean it." Draco told her before kissing her again.

"You're beautiful too." Ginny told him.

"Beautiful is alot like cute." Draco told Ginny.

"No it isn't, beautiful is about a lot more than just looks, its personality and soul and all that good stuff." Ginny argued. "And you sir are beautiful."

"Well since you feel so passionate about it, I will be beautiful." Draco replied kissing her again. Ginny moved closer to him, kissing him back.

They separated, Draco was twirling her hair around his fingers.

"We should get to sleep." Ginny said yawning.

"Goodnight." Draco told Ginny as she closed her eyes.

"I love you." Ginny replied quietly already almost fast asleep. She was exhausted from all the drama she had had to deal with.

"I love you too." Draco whispered, Ginny already asleep.

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