..::AN: SOrry it took so long, my basement has a guest..a mouse..I love mice..but the domesticated ones. Therefore i get jumpy when i hear it in the wall by my computer, and i just have a mental block so this took a while. Hope you like!! OMG I HAVE 85 reviews!!THANK YOU ALL!::..
Ginny left the plant shop in Diagon Alley with large paper bags of flower seeds and plant
seeds early in the morning. She dodged the crowd of people that seemed to be grouped
around a cart that sat in the middle of the alleyway where people would by the Daily
Prophet and magazines.
"Hey look its her!" someone yelled. Ginny stopped and turned around to see the
crowd now looking at her with large smiles. Wondering if she had accidentally stolen
something or had a sign stuck to her back she looked at the cart. Large stacks of Vraleish
were standing in stacks at the sides, some still bound by thin cord.
Ginny could see a headline at the side in large letters "Have We Come Too Far
Too Fast For Our Own Good?" and a small but very classy looking picture of Ginny with
a serious and pensive look.
Ginny's eyes widened as she was surrounded by witches and wizards. Many
where older then her but there were quite a few of them the same age and they will all
giving her article compliments.
"I took the dare! Im not going to touch a Cyberparch for a month!" gushed one
witch who looked about twelve.
"Me too! I'm going to try to never touch a muggle pen again!" said the girls little
sister.
"I just gave some of my designer suits to charity and bought myself a new set of
robes! I'd forgotten how comfy they are!" Boomed a large man with a shiny, bald head.
"Er..uh..That's lovely! I'm glad you all liked the article!" Ginny stammered
shocked to be surrounded by the people now shouting and cheering about her article and
how it helped them realize that they weren't how they used to be.
Ginny waved and kept giving her thank you's as she tried to get out of the crowd,
it was sort of smelly in there and she felt constricted and sort of panicky. She usually
liked crowds, but not when they were all talking to her at once.
Once she turned the corner and out of the way of the readers she apparated back to
the manor quickly.
"Were they mobbing you?" a curious Tobey asked as Ginny shut the door to the
garden quietly, pocketing the key. Ginny pulled her thin robe closer around her and
picked up her bags. Feeling like she was going to fall over from the weight of the bags
she kept looking at the ground so not to loose her balance.
"No not really. I mean I was honored sure but so many people at one time rushing
at me. Besides I didn't even know they had put the magazine out so I was more shocked
then anything else." she shrugged as she followed the path to the stone steps. Tobey had
fallen silent and Ginny couldn't feel that cold shadow at her shoulder anymore. Ginny
looked up and over her shoulder to see Tobey gaping in an almost horrified way at the
wall of the garden.
Ginny blinked and followed his gaze to the stone wall that was covered in ivy,
Ginny's eyes widened as she saw the ivy was now a lush, living, green. Ginny seemed to
forget to breathe as she looked around the area, the stone walls were now all covered in
living green ivy. Her eyes darted to the archway.
No remains of the dead thorns, just the same lush green ivy shifting slightly in the
breeze. Ginny dropped her bags and ran through the archway and down the stone steps.
"Oh my.." she whispered taking in the now completely changed garden. The ivy
was alive here too, but not only that was alive. Ginny's chocolate brown eyes scanned
over the garden, sure they had worked their buttocks off but it had been no where near
what it looked like now.
The grass that had been brown and dry was now a cherry green. Soft and swaying
a little in the breeze with the ivy, the path was intact with grey and white stones, the
weeds that had been sticking out of the cracks now gone as were the cracks.
The statues had changed, their faces no longer twisted and maniacal but solemn
with noble faces. In the center of the pond, which was till empty but the rocks around the
edge were restored, stood a proud angel. Her wings curled a little around her as she
looked towards the heavens with open arms.
Ginny swallowed hard, wondering what had happened, if someone might have
done this.
"Did you do this Tobey?" she asked looking to the ghost who still had his mouth
in the shape of a shocked 'O'. He shook his head slowly. Ginny stepped into the garden,
the smell of lavender and fresh grass was in the air and tickled her nose lightly.
The pillars were now clean but with small bits of moss creeping up at the bottom,
with elegant carvings that swirled around the bases. Even the few stone benches were
completely restored and intact. The garden was barely recognizable.
"I wonder what happened.." she asked in a curious whisper her eyes still roaming
over everything. She slowly went back to get her bags of flowers, glancing over her
shoulder as she entered the archway, hoping it wouldn't vanish in its splendor when she
turned her back.
"Well we still have some work to do Miss Ginny." Tobey said, shaking his head
to snap out of his daze. Ginny nodded silently and took out some flower seeds and bulbs
and sat down to start planting.
Tobey and Ginny finished planting as night crept upon them. The garden was cast
into darkness and the air was starting to grow a little more crisp. The weather had been
warming up as the days crept closer to summer.
"We'll have to get some light in here if we're planning on putting the speed-grow
on." Tobey noted. Ginny nodded and began to whip out her wand when she heard quiet
giggles. Ginny turned around it sounded like it was right behind her. She spun around
again it sounded like a high pitched voice just giggled right beside her ear.
"Do you hear that Tobey?" she asked, getting a little paranoid. She pointed her
wand in front of her and was about to say 'lumos' when the garden began to twinkle with
little spherical gold lights.
"Light Fairies!" Tobey concluded happily. Ginny blinked as she watched the little
lights drift around slightly. She found a little gold light at her feet and bent down to look
at it. Inside of a shining patch of sparkling golden light, was a small little fairy with
sparkly gold clothes on. It seemed that their wings, which were a brilliant golden-yellow
were luminous and giving off the light that formed around them. The fairy looked up at
Ginny, a little startled and flew up into the air above her head.
"I think we got our light." Ginny smiled standing up. Together her and Tobey
began to pick up the spray bottles and mist the ground with 'Sprouts Speed Grow!
Guaranteed to bring plants to life in just over twenty four hours!'
Ginny was sitting at the white vanity running the brush through her hair when she
thought she heard someone breathing behind her. She looked at the window and at the
door but saw nothing, sighing she continued to pull the brush through her satiny locks.
"Ahem."
Ginny dropped the brush with a clattering sound and spun around on the seat. She
looked to the fireplace where Draco's head was floating while flames licked at his fire
images.
"Oh sorry I didn't notice you, sort of spaced out I guess." she confessed going to
kneel before the fireplace. Draco nodded quietly, even in his fire image Ginny could see
there were dark circles under his eyes, his eyes themselves were a colder grey then they
usually were as though strained and weary.
"Are you alright?" she asked, hoping she didn't look guilty about anything. If he
found out about her snooping and getting into the garden he'd probably have her kicked
out right now. She was going to tell him at the right time, and hope that she didn't get
fired.
"Fine." he lied, even though Ginny couldn't always read him too well she could
tell he was lying but she said nothing. "Just lack of sleep. These meetings last too long."
"Oh, so they're pretty bad huh?" She asked, leaning on one hand to her side. He
nodded, yawning little. Ginny watched how even his fire image's high cheekbones were
rather nicely defined. Ginny blinked at her own thought and shook her head.
"I read your article." he said, breaking into her thoughts.
"And?" she asked, trying not to sound to eager of her boss's approval.
"Not bad." he admitted, Ginny smiled a bit. A 'not bad' from Draco was probably
about all she would be getting so she let herself feel a little proud. "Course some people
wouldn't know good writing if it bit them on their asses." he shot coyly. Ginny snorted
quietly.
"Where as you write and the world gives you a standing ovation?" she asked
sarcastically. "Because your 'perfect at everything.'" she smirked.
"Im glad to see you finally admitted it." he gave a nod of approval. He turned a bit
and Ginny heard a woman's voice.
"Mr. Malfoy we're ready for you now." it said, it was a sugary and syrupy voice
but Draco nodded to whoever it was and turned back to Ginny.
"I have to go, I'll be back in three days." he said quickly, and with a 'pop' he
vanished leaving a normal low fire in his place.
Ginny got up slowly and sat down on her bed. "Who did that voice belong to?"
she wondered. The thought of him visiting one of his woman lovers that she had made up
in her imagination came back to her. She pictured a curvy and dark haired woman who
the mere sight of would cause longing desires and firey groins.
Ginny snorted a bit but then felt a little sickened. So what if he screwed fifteen
woman a night? Honestly why should she care? He wasn't her type and she wasn't even
interested in him...was she?
Ginny, who was sitting on the edge of her bed, let herself flunk down with her
arms out. "Would it be so strange if I was?" she asked herself. Thinking about this was
something she'd never thought would come across her mine.
He had that amazing physique, and something about his attitude just seemed to
amuse Ginny. Sure he wasn't that bad ass he used to be, but something about that fact
that still lingered inside was sort of sexy. Even though she knew why, and it wasn't really
that nice to think about what had happened to him, weren't the bad guys with a reason the
most appealing?
He was still distant sure, but Ginny understood why now. She understood him.
Did anybody else know what she knew? Is that why she felt close to him because she
know knew about him, as though she had his secret kept inside her?
"I cant be interested in Draco..I mean its Draco after all.." Ginny groaned quietly
as she buried her head in her cool pillow, her hair scattering around her. "So that's why I
was getting jealous.." she groaned again. She felt terrible, like she was betraying
something. She hadn't even mentioned who her boss was to anyone. How would Ron or
Harry or even Luna feel if they found out who she worked for? Who she was living with?
Who she...Ginny couldn't bring herself to think it. Not only had she fallen hard for her
boss, she had fallen for her childhood nemesis.
Draco got to his feet out of the leathery chair slowly. His conversation with Ginny
was shorter the he wished it would be but that was sort of his fault. He had been there
longer then she had thought, but he didn't say anything, he just stared at the back of her
sort of spaced out. He figured it was his lack of sleep. In the door stood a maid, leaning
against the frame with a seductive smirk on her face while twirling a scroll in one hand.
"I'm..I mean they are ready for you Master Draco." she purred. Draco snorted a
little at her brushing past the woman without a second glance. In his mind she was too
obvious, too dense and way too desperate for his liking. Any woman that tried to throw
herself at any man as much as she did had personal issues that they would have to work
out before they could get into any relationship.
Besides, she wasn't Draco's type. Draco smirked as he walked down the cold,
light hallway as he thought about his 'type.' A strong woman who knew what she wanted
in life, who didn't need a man to get there. But when made upset wouldn't mind being
taken into his strong arms and comforted. He didn't want someone who he could always
figure out, someone who kept him guessing would keep him amused and entertained
much longer then someone who was easy to understand and simple to kept happy.
Though it wasn't one of his favorite traits, Draco got had to admit he got bored
quickly. He liked woman who kept him guessing.
Draco raked a long hand through his hair, he was beginning to think he found that
person. Too bad she wasn't real. Since arriving in Ireland he had been having odd dreams
about a woman who lit his senses on fire. He let out a long breath of air. When this
woman in his dream said his name he felt so strange, like everything else didn't really
matter. And when she just touched him at all, or looked at him, he felt himself itching to
grab a hold of her and just capture her with powerful kisses. But the things that drove him
insane the most were her eyes and her hair. Warm eyes that seemed to show so much
compassion yet he loved the devious spark he could always see in them. She wasn't a bad
girl, but she wasn't a sinless angel either.
Draco sighed opening the door at the end of the hall, slipping inside he looked at
the person underneath the white blanket, these dreams were this persons' doing.
Ginny walked into Vraleish curiosity nagging at her from every angle. Luna had
sent her an owl that afternoon that made the wondering start. It was the last day before
Draco's return, and she was glad to get out of the manor in order to stop the urge to just
spend all her time in that garden working on it. She was very excited as well, due to the
fact the garden should be ready by the time he got home tomorrow morning.
Ginny sighed settling in one of the chairs in the lobby waiting for Luna
remembering the owl she had gotten this morning.
"Gin.
Everyone LOVED the article! As a prize your going to get see the best part of Vraleish.
Meet me at eleven in the lobby.
Luna"
Just as Ginny glanced at her watch Luna came into the lobby in a black pinstriped
skirt and light yellow collared shirt. There were small star clasps in her hair and she was
smiling widely.
"Hey what's going on?" Ginny asked, she was responded by a small squeal as
Luna grasped onto Ginny's wrist and began to drag her at almost a run down a corridor.
"We just got the new summer lines in!" she smiled shoving her through a door so
quickly Ginny couldn't read what the label even said. But as she entered her jaw dropped
as did her purse which landed on the floor.
"Pinch me." she managed to stammer. She was in a large room lined with shelves
and closets as well as tables in the center and a few drawers. But on the shelves, racks,
tables and inside the drawers were more famous and expensive designer clothes and
shoes then Ginny had seen in her life. On some of the tables sat tons of sparkling and
stylish jewelry, purses and accessories. Ginny felt like she had just entered her heaven.
"Like I said..freebies best part of the job.." Luna whispered in her ear with a
smirk. "You're the first one allowed to pick. Each member is allowed six shoes, four
outfits and three accessories. But Miranda said since your article made her cry...your
allowed thirteen shoes, eleven outfits and twenty accessories." she smiled.
Ginny looked to her with wide eyes and before she knew it she had kicked off her
heels and began to run around the room looking at all the things in her sizes.
Moving through a rack of a Wizarding clothing line that was the equivalent to the
muggles Versachi. Ginny looked at it carefully. Sure she was taking her own dare, she
had been wearing robes and locked away all her pens, notepads, magic CD player, and
she was proud of herself. But right now she felt that the she was doing something wrong.
She wasn't balancing out like she hoped getting rid of the technical stuff would
make her feel, but with a smile she realized this little freebie trip was just what she
needed. And as she pulled a dress that matched those white pumps she had boughten with
Luna in Granita Avenue she realized this was the dress she needed.
