Disclaimer: I'm poor, so that should prove that I don't own Harry Potter.

A/N: I'm sorry it's taken me so long. My computer crashed, and I haven't had access to one for a prolonged time period in quite a while now where I can write. I have the next chapter ¾ done, so should have that up soon.

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Chapter 9: Orange Boxers

Ginny sat in the common room waiting impatiently for Ron. Every five minutes or so she would walk over to the window and scan the grounds for a flaming head of red hair, wanting desperately to smack it. After searching the grounds with her eyes, she would make her way back over to a different seat and plop down crossing her legs, huffing loudly, and then crossing her arms over her chest. Her foot was in constant motion as she fidgeted in her seat. After waiting for about an hour she heard the portrait swing open and whipped her head around to see if it was Ron.

"Hey, Ginny!" Hermione said pleasantly as she walked into the common room carrying an abnormally large pile of books in her arms. Ginny couldn't even see her face, or even the top of her head, for all the books she was carrying. Hermione peeked around the stack of books, "I expected that you'd be out enjoying the day with Draco. What are you doing in here?"

"I would be," Ginny said crossly, "but my git of a brother said he needed to talk to me in the common room, and now I've been waiting for him for over an hour! Do you know where he is?"

"No. I haven't seen him in about," Hermione said, then stopping to think, "well, I guess it's been about an hour and a half ago." The anger was visible in Ginny's face as she stood up to leave. "Do you want to go look—oh no!" Hermione screamed as all of her books crashed to the floor, the biggest of which fell directly onto her foot.

Ginny rushed over to her and helped her collect the books from the floor and to see if she was okay. Hermione was hopping around on one foot while awkwardly grasping the crushed one. Ginny scooped all of the books into a pile trying to conceal the laughter she could feel bubbling in the back of her throat. Finally, she couldn't hold it any longer and she burst out laughing hysterically, so much so that tears starting leaking out of the corners of her eyes.

"It's not funny!" Hermione cried indignantly. "I could have a broken toe or something, and you're just going to sit there and laugh at me?" As soon as she said that she tripped over the edge of the rug and landed on the floor beside Ginny. "Owwww!"

"Oh, Hermione, are you all right?" Ginny asked sincerely.

"This is so embarrassing!" Hermione buried her face in her hands and shook her head. "I'm glad it's only you here and not a room full of people."

"Well, let's get your books and go up to your room before anyone else shows up, okay?" Ginny stood up and pulled Hermione up in the process. They both grabbed an armful of books and turned toward the stairs. Once they got up to the room Hermione dropped her stack of books on the floor and threw herself across the bed, with Ginny following suit.

"I wonder where Ron might be?" Hermione asked quietly, more to herself than anyone in particular.

"Well, I don't know," Ginny said, and then pausing she nibbled on her lower lip, "But when I find out, he's going to regret standing me up like this. He better have a damn good excuse for not being her." Ginny grabbed a pillow, and shoving it over her face let out a loud scream. "It never fails, letting out a good scream always helps!" Both girls giggled at this and started in to an all out pillow fight. After about ten minutes of jumping on the bed and berating one another with pillows, they both crumpled on to the bed laughing loudly.

"This has definitely been a good distraction, and good release of anger," Ginny stated seriously. "I guess I'm going to go find Draco so we can at least spend the rest of the afternoon together. If you see Ron though, tell him I'm looking for him and to be prepared."

"Yes, ma'am," Hermione said solemnly while saluting with her right hand. Ginny smirked at her before tossing the pillow she was holding directly at her face. Hitting her square in the face, Hermione fell on her back onto the bed. Ginny laughed and ducked out the door as Hermione threw the pillow at her.

Stopping in front of the door to the Great Hall Ginny adjusted her clothes and then pushed through the door. She hoped that Draco was around somewhere, but wasn't keeping her fingers crossed. Lunch was about and hour and a half ago, but she figured he might be waiting for her. Sure enough, he was sitting over at the Slytherin table by himself. Ginny walked over and placed her hand on his shoulder as she sat down.

"Thanks for saving me something," Ginny said sarcastically to the empty plates on the table.

"Sorry, love, there wasn't much left when I got here," Draco replied shrugging his shoulders. "You can have what's left of mine if you want."

"It's alright, I'm not really hungry. I'm too angry at my brother to eat anyways."

"Why's that?" Draco asked.

What's what?"

"Why are you mad at your brother?" he replied.

"He left me sitting in the common room for over an hour," Ginny said, her voice getting louder with each word.

Draco placed his hand over hers in hopes that she might calm down a bit. "Ginny, calm down, I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation as to why he left you waiting," he said calmly, while his brain reeled with thoughts trying to figure out what he was going to tell her about Ron and Harry. He was actually quite surprised that no one had rushed into the Great Hall screaming about them being outside naked. This could be bad, Draco thought. Well, it could be bad, but damn if that wasn't funny. It'll be worth it, no matter what, just for the memory of the priceless expressions on both of their faces!

Just as Ginny was opening her mouth to start ranting on about her brother, Parker and Dru came through the doors. Draco released a breath of relief unknowingly as they two walked up to the table.

"Oh, well, I see we've missed the food," Parker said dejectedly. "I've worked up quite an appetite, if I must say so myself." Dru looked over at him, her cheeks turning a slight shade of pink, and punched him hard in the arm. "What was that for?"

"Oh, nothing at all," Dru said innocently, "I thought there was bug on your arm."

"A bug?" Parker asked inquisitively. "There's no –"He was stopped abruptly as Dru stepped down on his foot hard with the heel of her shoe. Parker yowled painfully and yanked his foot up quickly, only to ram his knee firmly into the underside of the table. Trying desperately to grab his foot and knee at the same time he tipped over sideways and fell into the floor with a thud.

Draco couldn't keep himself from laughing at how dense Parker could be at times. Parker definitely deserved exactly what he was getting. Ginny was stifling a giggle next to him as Dru ignored the crumpled boy on the floor.

"That should teach you to keep things to yourself from now on," Dru said to him through a laugh.

"It's not like they don't know what exactly we are doing when we're off by ourselves," Parker said loudly, "I mean, its Draco's room for gods' sake!"

"I know, but we are at the dinner table..." Dru said quietly. There really wasn't any reason for her to be embarrassed, because Parker was right, Draco and Ginny knew exactly what was going on. Dru was just starting to feel like there was nothing that they kept to themselves, ever. Dru was starting to feel pretty strongly about Parker and wasn't sure exactly where he stood on things with them.

"Sorry, Parker, I didn't mean to step on your foot so hard." She leaned over and offered her hand to him to help him up off of the floor. He took it and instead of standing up, pulled her off of the chair and into his lap. Dru let out a yelp of surprise, but giggled immediately after settling into his lap.

"No prob," Parker said, gently nuzzling her neck. She slapped his arm playfully and tried to pull herself up from his lap only to find that he had his arms securely wrapped around her waist.

"You two really need to get your own room," Draco said smugly, giving Parker a smirk. "Now, if you don't mind, I think Ginny and I are going to take a little walk." Draco pushed his chair back and moved to pull Ginny's chair out for her. She stood up as well and gave him a rather quizzical look. Draco grabbed her hand and moved towards the door.

"See you two later," Ginny said as she gave Dru a little wave.

Draco quickly led Ginny to the dungeons and to the entrance to his room. He said the password, not bothering to hide it from her this time, and pushed the door open roughly.

"What is wrong with you?" Ginny asked him as he pulled her into the room. Before she could get an answer from him, he had turned to face her leaving no room between the two of them, and backed her slowly to the wall behind her. He placed his hands on either side of her face and pressed his lips firmly to hers. Ginny struggled momentarily, but only long enough for her body to give way to the lust that was rippling through her body at his touch. Draco traced the outline of her lower lip with the tip of his tongue before gently pulling it into his mouth. He then quickly covered her entire mouth with his own lips as his tongue danced along the seam of her lips; he twisted one hand firmly into her loose hair and kept the other firmly intact around her waist.

Ginny finally made to pull away so that she could catch her breath. It never failed that at the slightest touch from Draco she lost all control. There was something in him that overtook all of her senses and left her dizzy and breathless. It was enjoyable, but scary at the same time. "What was that all about? I hope you didn't get any ideas from Parker?" Ginny said playfully.

"No, no ideas from Parker," Draco said trying to sound insulted. "I just couldn't sit there beside you, I had to touch you. And you know, as well as I do that if I touch you at all then there's no stopping." Draco ran his hand along her neck and up into her hair, massaging the nape of her neck with his fingers. Ginny leaned back into the wall and took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Draco took this as a good sign and moved in to attack her neck.

"Well, I hope you don't think I'm that easy!" Ginny said in mock offense.

"Of course not," Draco said between placing kisses along her neckline. "I," he kissed her collarbone, "know," he kissed behind her ear, "that," he teasingly licked her earlobe, "you are quite difficult," he whispered into her ear. The variations of his kissing and his warm breath tickling her skin were almost too much for her. Ginny let out a low sigh as she leaned into his chest. What resolve she had, if she had any at all, was now gone. It was impossible to resist him once he started, and she was pretty sure that he had figured that out by now. She wrapped her arms around his neck and slowly brought her gaze to meet his.

"Mr. Malfoy, I think I might be offended," she said sarcastically. She didn't give him a chance to carry on the banter they had become so used to, but instead returned to him the passionate kisses he had just graced her with. She could feel his heart begin to beat faster beneath his shirt and the heat from his body emanating from him. She pulled herself in closer to his body until there was no space between them.

Ginny moved her hands to his shoulders and slowly ran them down to his chest. Placing both her hands firmly on his chest she pushed him just hard enough to break them apart and give her a chance to move to the side. As she walked away from him she seductively swayed her hips, flipped her hair over her should, and turned to him beckoning him to follow her. As she walked slowly across the common area of the room, she unbuttoned her shirt. When she got to the last button, she slid it slightly off of her shoulders, then finally letting it trail from her fingers. She let the shirt drop to the floor before she moved on to work with the clasp of her bra. She quickly undid the clasp in the front and mimicked her earlier movements with the shirt. She heard Draco give a little splutter behind her as she let the bra drop to the floor. She didn't even need to turn around to ensure that he was following her.

She stepped into Draco's room and pulled her wand out. She dimmed the lights and lit the fireplace as she walked over to the bed. Once she got to the bed she tossed her wand onto the table beside it and quickly pulled her shoes and socks off. She watched Draco as he approached her unbuttoning his own shirt and stepping out of his shoes. Ginny leaned back against the edge of the bed and placed her hands on either side of her to support herself. Draco walked up to her, and with no pause in his stride, he roughly kissed her as he grasped her hips and pushed her up onto the bed. Ginny let a little squeal at the quick movement, but quickly regained, or rather lost, her senses to what was going on. Draco was standing in front of her, never breaking physical contact between them, pulling his shirt from his arms and then removing his belt.

As Ginny watched him fumble with the buckle of his belt, she reached down to help. She placed her hands gently on top of his to still them. Ginny took her time unfastening the belt, teasing him while her fingertips danced along the edge of his trousers causing him to jerk occasionally from the slight touches. Teasing him even more she slowly pulled the belt through the loops on his trousers, only doing so to cause him to stare at her and wait. Draco had finally had enough teasing and grabbed the belt and whipped it out of the remaining loops and tossing it across the room. Ginny laughed at the look on his face when the window across the room shattered from the impact of his belt buckle.

Draco took this opportunity to plunge into her neck fervently kissing and licking all of the spots he knew she couldn't resist. Mid laugh Ginny threw her head back and let a deep groan escape from her throat. With her verbal approval, Draco lavished even more attention on the sensitive areas on her neck. Ginny wrapped her arms around his shoulders and leaned her head to the side inviting him to investigate the rest of her neck.

After covering every square inch of her neck, Draco made his way to her mouth. He pressed his lips firmly over Ginny's passionately crushing their lips together. Ginny returned the kiss with more passion than Draco thought anyone could muster up. Draco's hands roamed over her slim waist and delicate shoulders. He moved his hands to her breasts and gently massaged them. Draco could feel her body tense slightly at his touch as her kisses grew even more feverish. Ginny was running her fingers firmly down his back, and with each stroke her touch less gentle and more firm, eventually running her nails roughly down his back. The intense sensations of pleasure and pain were enough to make Draco want to scream.

He pulled away from her mouth and dropped to her left nipple, gently nibbling on the sensitive bud. Ginny arched her back causing her breast to thrust forward into Draco's face. Draco took this as a sign that she enjoyed a little pain with her pleasure too. He pulled the bud between his teeth and ran his tongue roughly over the tip of it, while he rolled the other nipple between his fingertips. He squeezed the nipple firmly in cadence with his mouth crushing her other nipple. Ginny's body began to quiver with each nip he took.

Draco took advantage of the fact that she had on a skirt and slid his hand up the inside of her thigh, gently teasing the sensitive flesh causing her to squirm even more. Ginny placed her hand firmly on his shoulders and pushed him back to where he was eye level with her. She slowly stood from the bed and reached behind her unzipping the skirt and letting it fall to the ground. Draco stood back, slightly shocked to see that she was not wearing any knickers. All that time he wasted while she wasn't even wearing any knickers. She probably doesn't even know how hot that is, Draco thought to himself.

Seeing that Draco had gone into some sort of shocked state Ginny took a step forward and undid his trousers letting them fall to the floor. Ginny laughed to herself when she saw that he wasn't wearing anything under his trousers. Ginny took a step back and pulled herself onto the bed to where she was sitting on the edge. Draco took the few steps that separated him from her and dropped down onto both knees directly in front of her. He slowly massaged his way from her ankles to her knees, and then up to her thighs. He followed each hand with a kiss tantalizing the already sensitive skin.

Draco paused as he teased her thighs with light kisses feeling her body beginning to quiver in anticipation. He decided to cease with the teasing and kissed his way to the sensitive area between her thighs. He worked his tongue in circular patterns causing Ginny to arch her hips in retaliation. When he knew she could take it no longer he gave a last deep lap savoring her.

He kissed his way up her body finally reaching her mouth in a crushing kiss. Ginny responded with as much intensity as he was administering. Wrapped in each others arms they fell back onto the bed, their hands roaming to all the sensitive places on the others body. Ginny captured his hands and rolled him onto his back as she straddled his hips. She could see lust clouding his eyes as she teased him mercilessly with her body.

"Witch," Draco growled, "do you know what you do to me?" Ginny smirked, a smirk that made Draco proud, and lowered onto his length. Draco grasped her hips and rolled her onto her back; leaning to one side on his elbow he pushed her hair behind her ear as he leaned down to kiss the sensitive area below her ear. He began a rhythm as he kissed a wet trail down her neck to her nipple, causing Ginny to pant. Just as he could feel her begin to tighten around him, he heard an unwelcome noise behind him: the door creaking open.

"Mr. Malfoy!" a woman's voice said rather shrilly. "What do you think you are doing?"

Draco grabbed the sheet and threw it over them, hoping that no one had seen who he was with. The last thing he wanted to do was get Ginny in trouble for being in his room. When he had turned around he saw that it was McGonagall and Snape, and that there were two boys behind them, but he wasn't sure who they were yet.

"If you wouldn't mind stepping out into the common room, I'll join you in a moment," Draco growled at the group.

"Ginny!" someone screamed from behind McGonagall. "What in the bloody hell did you do to my sister, Malfoy?"

Draco groaned inwardly, it was Ron and Harry; there was no question about that now. He knew they would go to McGonagall, but he thought it would take them a lot longer to come up with a story full of lies to back them than this. Draco looked up and saw that McGonagall and Snape were furiously trying to hold Ron and Harry back but looked like they were not going to be able to hold them for long. In the struggle, Snape was able to retrieve his wand and cast a temporary paralyzing spell on Harry and Ron that would allow them to move them out to the common room and let Draco and Ginny get dressed. McGonagall levitated the boys out into the common room, leaving Snape standing in the doorway.

"Draco," Snape said in a low voice, "I suppose you will have a good explanation for what we are here for? And, Miss Weasley, you might find this interesting, so I think you should join us as well."

Ginny poked her head out from underneath the sheet, her face ten shades darker than her hair. "Yes, Professor Snape," she responded quietly. With that, Snape turned in a billow of cloaks and shut the door firmly behind him. Ginny buried her face in Draco's shoulder and he could feel hot tears falling onto his bare skin.

"Ginny, love, don't worry. It's not that big of a deal," Draco said in his best soothing voice. "At least they didn't see your naked bum, now did them?" He gave a little laugh and was able to get a little giggle from her with that comment.

"I guess you're right. At least McGonagall didn't see my naked bum."

Draco leaned over and gave her a quick kiss on the lips before reaching for his wand and casting a locking charm on the door and a silencing charm on the room.

"So, do you want to finish what we started?" he asked her seductively.

"Are you fucking insane?" she yelled.

"What? You don't want to finish?"

"My brother is right outside that door. I don't care what kind of spell is on the room, the thought of him being that close completely grosses me out. Anything that I was feeling previously vanished out the door the moment I heard his voice."

"Right, I guess that makes sense. Well, we'll just have to give it another go later," Draco replied as he sucked on her earlobe. Ginny pushed him away and gathered the sheet around her as she slid to the edge of the bed. She looked back at him just in time to catch him trying to suppress his signature smirk. He shrugged his shoulders and gave a little laugh. She jumped off the bed and scurried around the room gathering up her clothes as she headed toward the bathroom.

"You better wipe that look off your face, Draco Malfoy," Ginny said seriously, shocked at how much she sounded like her own mother. "And you better damn well do it before we go out to the common room." She huffed into the bathroom and slammed the door behind her, the entire wall shaking violently at the force.

Draco laughed to himself as he jumped off the bed and began to get dressed. It was Ginny's passion, whether it was anger or happiness, laughter or sadness, whatever emotion that she was feeling, she felt it with a passion that was practically palpable. Draco had been taught since an early age to keep all emotions subdued, to keep others always guessing as to what your intentions were. He had become rather adept at this skill, and had found it very difficult to train himself otherwise. The more time he spent with Ginny, the easier it became for him actually act how he felt. He owed this to Ginny, the person who made him actually feel. He was finally becoming he person his parents had desperately tried to keep him from becoming.

They had seen from an early age that Draco was a very caring person. He was always out rescuing hurt animals in the woods and trying to save them. This was the first warning sign to them that they needed to instill the importance of being unreadable and the importance of preserving yourself. He had always obliged to their teaching because they were his parents, but once he was old enough to start making some decisions on his own and had money of his own, he had pulled away from his parents to create some independence. When he had to spend time with them during the summers, he would revert to their expected ways to appease them, but as soon as he was out of their sight he was able to actually act like a human again.

Ginny walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a fluffy green towel with her hair piled on top of her head. Draco hadn't even considered taking a shower, but now wished he had had the same thought so that he could have joined her for a little wet fun. Looking at her wrapped in the short towel, it was almost enough to send him right back over the edge. He stood up and slowly stalked his way over to where she was facing the mirror and drying her hair with the towel. He wrapped his arms around her waist and placed a kiss at the nape of her neck.

"Draco," Ginny sighed exasperatedly. "I'm trying to make myself a little more presentable for our Heads of House and my extremely overprotective older brother!"

"I know. I wasn't trying to start anything," he said quietly. "I just wanted to tell you something."

"What's that?" she asked.

"Thank you," he said sincerely.

"For what?" she asked, seeming rather confused.

"Well, this isn't going to sound very Malfoy like but, thank you for being you. I think I'm finally beginning to understand what true friendship means and what a real relationship of any kind should be like." Draco looked into the mirror where their gazes meet. He could see the surprise in Ginny's eyes at hearing such honest words come out of his mouth. She turned her head and placed a soft kiss on his mouth.

"Okay, enough of this stuff," Draco said gruffly. "We better get out there before your brother spontaneously combusts." Ginny laughed at his comment knowing that he was trying to move past the conversation they had just had. He ran his hands through his hair and headed into the bathroom. She heard him turn the sink on and splash water onto his face. She quickly pulled her clothes on and performed a drying spell on her hair to remove the last bit of wetness. She could feel a knot forming in the pit of her stomach at the thought of facing her brother after he had just seen a naked Malfoy ass hovering over his naked baby sister. She knew that this conversation would not be nearly as pleasant as the one she had just had.

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A/N: Because I've taken so freaking long to update (my computer crashed and I had to start over on this chapter as well as wait to get a new computer to use), I'm going to leave this one hanging right here. I've got quite a bit more written, but this was the best place to leave this chapter for now otherwise it could go on for days! I should have the next chapter up by the end of the week.

Now the bedroom section has been cut slightly to accommodate for an R rating. The "real" version will be up on my site at www. Platypigarden. Com in the fanworks section.

Also, sorry if there are some misplaced words, or the wrong word. I don't have a beta, and I haven't had a chance to beta it myself yet.

Ok, so please review. It'll make me update more quickly, I swear!