..::AN: LMAO u guys thought i wanted 187 MORE reviews?!?! LMAO heck NO!! i just wanted some to get me up to 187, i was at 175 so thats only 12 reviews..lmao im not THAT greedy!!! Hmm u guys are loosing faith in me..you gotta think about something. GInny just did something pretty good to get back together with Draco..so would he become just like he was that quickly to make her feel like he wasn't gratefull? common ppl gimmie some credit lol!::..

A few weeks later Ginny found herself on the doorstep to the Burrow, nervously

smoothing out wrinkles in her outfit. She had spent the night at her parents house, which

was now full of family and friends. Harry and Cho were now back, Bill and Fleur were

getting help from everyone on seating arrangements for their wedding, and Charlie, Fred,

George, Percy, Hermione, and Luna including her parents were all inside.

Ginny had come outside once she saw the clock hit three thirty, Draco had a

meeting to go to and he said he was coming at about quarter to four. But Ginny knew

Draco was early a lot of the time and came outside to wait.

She was nervous, scratch that, extremely nervous. Everyone now knew who

Ginny was seeing, and to put it lightly they weren't exactly jumping for joy at her pick.

Ginny was confident Draco would win them over but she knew it wasn't going to be as

easy as a 'hello' and a box of chocolates.

As Draco appeared in front of her she smiled of relief and hugged him lightly. He

dressed down, like she told him too, in a pair of dark pants and buttoned up pale blue

shirt. Ginny herself was just wearing a pair of indigo jeans and another one of the

'Weasley Wizard Wheezes' cartoon shirts she loved.

"You look adorable." Draco smirked. Ginny let out a nervous breath and smiled

again.

"Thanks? You too." she said, she ran a hand through her hair and crossed her

arms looking at the things in Draco's arms. He held a lovely bouquet of red roses in one

arm, and an expensive bottle of her fathers favorite Firewhisky.

"Relax." Draco said, he sounded a little less cool and calm then usual but Ginny

nodded taking a hold of his hand tightly as he arranged his gifts in one arm, then led him

inside.

Ginny's mother, had automatically hugged Draco, welcoming him to her home

and accepted the flowers and transfigured a vase to put them in. Her father had shaken

Draco's hand and accepted the whisky thankfully and clapped Draco on the shoulder.

"Two down, too many more to go." Ginny thought forcing herself to smile like she

wasn't nervous.

George and Fred were standing at the far side of the room giving Draco assessing

looks that Ginny didn't like. Charlie, didn't know Draco so he just gave a small nod

which Draco returned, but Bill on the other hand came and shook his hand, obviously

Fleur had told him about their business deal.

"You've done quite well for yourself." Bill said, Draco smirked and nodded.

"Glad you think so." he replied. Ginny smiled letting go of his hand slowly to go

over to Hermione and Luna.

Hermione looked around Ginny at Draco, Ginny felt a little relieved with

Hermione smiled.

"He's doing pretty well so far, relax." Hermione comforted. Luna nodded,

playing with her wedding ring for no particular reason.

"Why couldn't Neville make it today?" Ginny asked, remembering she had also

invited Luna's husband. Luna woke out of her state of being zoned out and looked a little

angry.

"He got called in at two this morning to work." Luna said a little quickly, Ginny

and Hermione looked at each other before nodding. They were beginning to think Luna

didn't like the 'on-owl' part of Neville's job.
Ginny couldn't believe it! Draco had gotten along with everyone so far, even him

and Harry were acting like they could semi stand each other. Ginny wished they didn't

have to go but Ginny had to be at work early tomorrow for a staff meeting and Draco had

another meeting to go to at the crack of dawn.

Ginny sighed feeling extremely full as she pushed away her empty plate that had

the few crumbs of her mothers velvety chocolate cake left. She took a sip of her tea and

looked at her side where Draco was seated. He smirked down to her since he was quite a

bit taller then she was and took another sip of his coffee.

Ginny leaned over to him. "You did amazing." she whispered.

"I did?" he asked, he sounded a little unsure if he had 'won' anyone over yet.

"Absolutely! I'm beyond being surprised." Ginny confessed, Draco glared a little

at her.

"Well I accidently called Potter scarhead. But he just laughed it off " Draco

shrugged, Ginny nodded and looked around the table. Ron was still giving Draco pretty

dirty looks, but she hadn't been expecting anything different. Draco hadn't really tried too

hard to talk friendly-like to Harry or Ron, but they were at least civil, which was a start.

They left after Ginny had said goodbye to everyone and given out hugs, and

apparated to the manor would Ginny would have a quick drink and head back to her

apartment for a needed sleep.
Ginny wrung her hands nervously as she waited for Draco to get back, how the

hell would she tell him. Her meeting was over and it had gone wonderfully smooth, until

she had gotten her assignment. Sure it was an awesome assignment, and she basically got

a free vacation, but Draco probably, well the chances were higher the probably would not

like the finer print on this assignment.

Draco walked in, looking a little tired and went over to the crystal bottle of

whisky and poured himself a bit.

"Hard meeting?" she asked, her voice cracked a little but luckily he didn't notice.

He nodded and collapsed in one of the large armchairs rubbing his temples, Ginny sat on

the arm of the chair and rubbed his shoulders a bit trying to relax him. If he was pissed

off now, she was terrified to see what he'd be like in a few minutes.

"Everyone's getting testy for some reason, they all want a raise." Draco moaned.

"How big of a raise?" Ginny asked a little confused, surely a few galleons

wouldn't make a difference for such a huge firm? She allowed herself a small sip of

Draco's drink.

"A thirty galleon raise I believe was the average..." he grumbled. Ginny spluttered

a little.

"What?! How much are you paying them now?" she asked, wondering if the

employees felt they were being cheated. Draco sighed angrily.

"Fifty galleons per hour plus health insurance and vacation pay. Much more then

any company like us. They aren't amazing at what they do, I'm not going to lie..but their

fucking greedy little buggers" he shrugged, Ginny looked down at him feeling sorry for

Draco, she really didn't want to tell him about her assignment but what choice did she

have?

"What about you how'd your meeting go?" he asked quietly. Ginny searched for

the right words.

"It..erm...well..uh..it went..good I suppose." she stammered standing up and

suddenly becoming fascinated with the fire. Draco raised an eyebrow and looked at the

side of her face curiously, was she nervous or was she confused?

"Well?" he pressed on. Ginny took a deep breath and said something he couldn't

understand.

It sounded like

"Eemgavingtrueallafreweinecosayawneinfallsnailiffiditcheammandfiontvantfewtofumnif

me..."

Draco laughed and stood up, putting one arm on the mantlepiece and setting his

glass down.

"What was that?" he asked. Ginny ran her tongue over her lips nervously.

"I have to do another expose.." she started.

"On?"

"A team.." she said, trying to dodge the specific subject. Draco narrowed his

eyes, the one thing he could get about her was that she wasn't that good of a liar. He on

the other hand had gotten through life up till graduation doing nothing but lying and was

an expert on the craft.

"What kind of team?"

"Er..a Quidditch team." she confessed. Draco blinked, what was so terrible about

that?

"Well that's good our female Quidditch teams need more coverage, I mean

hopefully you'll get either the Irish team or the British one." he shrugged. Ginny looked a

little edgy, she ran a hand through her satiny hair, which Draco looked at for a while, then

averted his eyes back to her face.

"Its not a female Quidditch team..its an all male Quidditch team and its not

Ireland or Britain's.." she said quietly. Draco's eyes widened.

He knew what the male Quidditch teams were like. Most of them were rowdy,

horny and dishonest idiots who failed because they were too busy playing Quidditch

every waking hour. Sure there were a few alright blokes like that Wood guy from

Gryffindor and Victor Krum, but mostly every other player were the same.

Ginny would have to spend quite a bit of time with them, do interviews during

practices, after games, during games, maybe even in the locker rooms..

"No way no way no way!!" he thought firmly to himself. "There's no way she's

going to be that close to that many guys with groins longing for relief from being on a

broomstick for several hours! Even if she denied most of those guys don't take no for an

answer."

But then he remembered something else she had said.

"What team is it? Where do you have to go?" he asked coldly. Ginny looked a

little startled by his tone but she sighed it off.

"Los Angeles..I leave tomorrow afternoon" she said crossing her arms, looking

down at the floor. There was a long pause in the dark room, a tedious and uncomfortable

pause. The only sound the crackling of the fire and the ticking of the clock.

Draco thought grimly to himself, he knew what the last bit of her rambled

sentence had sounded exactly like a drunk person saying "And I don't want you to come

with me." But why wouldn't she? Wouldn't they have an amazing time in L.A. when she

wasn't working? They could stay in expensive hotels and go swimming in the ocean, go

to Hollywood and go on tours, dine with celebrities.

He sighed and raised her chin, she looked extremely worried.

"Well?" she asked, obviously dying to know what he thought. Draco pulled her

roughly into her arms and kissed her deeply. When she snaked her arms around his neck

and jumped into his arms, wrapping her legs around his waist they both apparated to his

room.
Ginny stood at one of the windows in Draco's room in a pale blue satin and lace

slip, holding the thick curtain open lightly. She looked out over the ground sadly, she had

no idea what was going on.

She knew how jealous Draco could be, but did their love making just now mean

that he was alright with it and he just wanted to spend the last night with her for a while

intimately? Or was it something else?

He knew she didn't want him to come because of the distraction he would cause

didn't he? She couldn't see how he couldn't know that. Not only would they probably be

up all night in L.A. in fancy hotels doing..well a lot of not sleeping, but what would he do

while she was working on her expose?

She didn't want to have to think about him waiting for her at some hotel all day,

or how he'd react if she couldn't make it to dinner with him or something. He got that

didn't he? She looked at Draco who was sitting at the far side of the bed, his naked back

to her.

How mad was he really? She wondered, surely he understood her reasons didn't

he? As though reading her mind she heard him say.

"I don't want you to go to L.A." he said quietly, yet firmly, as though it was an

order.

"I know you don't." she said quietly back, her voice rather toneless.

"Then don't go." he replied, still keeping his back to her.

"I have to, its not like I want to Draco. It's an assignment." she said.

"Then why don't you want me to come with you?" he shot coldly, Ginny looked

away as he slipped into his pants and stood up. She swallowed hard, feeling a lump rising

in her throat.

"Because I don't need any distractions. I'm only going to be gone two weeks and

I'll apparate to visit whenever I can." she said quietly, watching him walk over to where

his shirt lay on the floor and put it back on. There was another silence, that lasted even

longer then the first one.

"You know what Quidditch players are like don't you?" he asked coldly, as

though she was naive and rather thickheaded. Ginny's eyes narrowed picking up on his

tone.

"Course I do, I've been to the Quidditch cup many times." she shot back, since

when was he Mr Overprotective? She knew deep down inside of her that romantic

essence he had would go away a little soon, but she didn't expect this soon.

Not that he wasn't naturally romantic, he just never really had to be before and she

knew that. So they both knew that soon their perfect fairytale relationship wouldn't have

so many roses and nights spent together, but that never made her think that they still

wouldn't be together, or happy together.

Ginny always knew that men had a way of not being what woman wanted them to

be, Draco, as perfect as he seemed, was no exception. Sure they'd still have amazing

times together and laugh and be happy, but his romantic essence that sometimes brought

her to tears would fade away but come back in a little while. It wasn't a big deal at all to

Ginny, she could go without seeing the dozen roses on her office desk that she had gotten

a few weeks ago. Especially if she knew Draco and her were just going to sit in the

garden that evening together.

She never expected him to change this much when his sort of guilt-induced from

their fight romantic spirit began to dwindle even just a little.

"So you just don't want me with you in Los Angeles?" he asked. Sure he had

work, but he could take time off. He didn't think she'd want them to be apart so soon.

Ginny sighed looking over the dark room, it was still night outside and she was

exhausted.

"That's not it..its just..cant we talk about this when I get back?" she asked, Draco

heard how tired she was, but he couldn't bring himself to feel too sorry for her when he

was thinking she wasn't even the least bit bothered about being away from him for two

weeks.

"Fine. I have work to do." he said coldly, and with that he left the room leaving

Ginny feeling helpless and angry in his cold room.
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