A/N: I'm extremely sorry for it being so long in putting out these chapters. School started for me last week, and I haven't had a free moment to myself yet. So hopefully, I haven't lost any of my readers and/or reviewers to my long absence. In other news, I finally got a hold to the 5th book of HP. I haven't had much time to read a lot because of homework, but I have been able to read up to chapter 13. And it is very addicting lol so look to future references from OotP in case I choose to use some of that. To all my reviewers, thank you so much for taking the time out to write a word or two encouraging me to keep at this. As I've said before, it's nice to know that my work is appreciated and actually being read lol but anyway, without further ado, here is the 9th chapter of PatD

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Chapter 9

Phoenix Tears

The events from the night before remained vividly in Draco's mind as he made his way to the Great Hall. He didn't remember much of what happened, but he did remember the figure that had attacked him in the middle of the night and the memories that had consumed his brain. He was so engrossed in his own thoughts he failed to miss the blonde haired girl walking from around the corner. Suddenly he felt himself crash into something and a soft "oomph" came from the person beneath him.

"Sorry..."

"It's no problem, Draco. I wasn't watching where I was going either."

Draco looked to the person he'd fell on and smirked. Gracefully he pulled himself up before offering a hand down to Pansy Parkinson. He'd dated her off and on in third year and finally called it quits in his 4th year. Pansy agreed and they'd been friends ever since. He shared with her things he'd never discussed with anyone. He'd talked to her about how his father beat him and how he beat his mother, and she was always there with a smile or kind word to numb the pain. He considered her one of his best friends next to Blaise Zabini whom had been his friend since he was a young boy.

"What are you doing going this way anyway Pans?"

"Ugh, Transfiguration essay from that old bat McGonagall," she grimaced.

Draco smirked as he watched her head off towards the library. After she turned the corner, Draco resumed his walk to the Great Hall. Once inside he sent a subtle glance towards the Gryffindor table. He could see his little phoenix eating slowly as she pretended to listen to her brother and his stupid friends talk. He walked slowly over to his own table and sat down between Crabbe and Goyle. He proceeded to fill his plate with bacon, toast, and eggs and poured himself a goblet of pumpkin juice. As he started to eat, he looked once more towards the Gryffindor table, his eyes automatically searching out Ginny. She was still eating, but her head was hanging low, and her long red hair hid her face. He could see that her brother was still talking to her and Potty-head, and the mudblood were looking on. Then suddenly, she slammed her fist down on the table and stood up.

Draco was surprised to see that the powers she'd displayed so wonderfully that night in the tower did not come. Instead, she seemed calmer, more in control of her emotions. She said something to them, that had them all staring at her like she'd gone mental and then gracefully turned and stalked out of the Great Hall. Draco tried to catch her eyes as she passed by his table, but she seemed to be focused on something else. As she turned to go out of the doors, he saw her face streaked with tears. He cursed and hurriedly followed her out.

Ginny was not having a good morning. She'd woken up with a splitting headache, despite the good outcome of her night with Draco. After he'd left her at the Fat Lady's portrait, she couldn't help but touch her lips once more as if to prove that the kiss had actually happened. The smile she had never left her face even after she'd fallen asleep. But, she'd failed to notice, the bushy haired female that had followed her and Draco from when they were down at the lake with a frown on her face.

Now, Ginny was sitting at the Great Hall eating her breakfast thinking about the essay Snape had assigned the day before, when her brother, Harry, and Hermione stormed in the Great Hall. Ginny paid them no attention and kept eating her breakfast. She was surprised when she saw all three sit around her and immediately start talking. Once again, the Great Hall doors opened and she saw Draco walk in. Quickly, she brought her eyes back down to her food, but she felt his eyes on her and it brought a wonderful rushing sensation to her heart. She smiled a small smile as she continued eating her food. Apparently, her brother caught this smile, and it was then, when all hell broke loose.

"Ginny...we have to talk right now," he told her. Without taking her eyes off her food, she nodded her head and pretended to listen to what he had to say. He rambled on and on, but quickly got angry when he noticed she wasn't paying him any attention.

"Virginia Marie Weasley! You haven't been listening to anything I've said have you? Mione told us about what happened between you and that...DEATHEATER last night, and I WON'T have it! You hear me? What would mum say if she'd known you were snogging with that.... that FERRET! I forbid you to see him Ginny. You'll bring shame to the Weasley name! Have you no pride in your family at all?"

Through all of this, Ginny kept her head down and she was grateful that her hair hid her face from them. She could feel the change within her, but she willed it down. She wouldn't lose it right here, not in front of everyone. She was concentrating so hard, she didn't notice how hard she was gripping her fork until it snapped in two. She looked down at her hand as if seeing it for the first time. There was blood on it, from when the fork snapped and dug into her flesh. She looked up at her brother, and then looked to Harry then Hermione. Then quite suddenly, she brought her hand down hard on the table. So hard in fact, her goblet of pumpkin juice fell and spilled over on the floor.

"None of you have ever paid me any attention since I've been here. You've always ignored me, treated me as if I didn't exist. You didn't even ask me how I was doing or if I were okay after the Chamber of Secrets incident! And now... now that I've found someone who understands me, who cares for me, you want to barge into my life and tell me that I can't be with him. Well, I'll tell this to all of you. You don't own me, you've never cared for me, and all of you are full of shit! Draco understands me, and he doesn't treat me as if I'm a disgrace! And you know what? I love him. That's right. You heard me correctly. I love him, and nothing you do or say will ever change that fact!"

Ginny didn't even notice the tears that were falling silently down her face as she glared at the three. She gave them all a final look before storming out of the Great Hall. She was so deep in misery, she didn't even notice, the grey eyes that followed her out of the Great Hall.

Draco tried to catch up with Ginny, but when he'd come out of the Great Hall, she was nowhere in sight. He ran down to the library, but only saw Pansy and a few other students lingering in there. He went up to where they'd had that confrontation in the tower, but she was not there either. As he looked out of the small window, he saw a streak of red walking towards the lake. Hurriedly, he ran down the steps and back down to where the doors were leading out of Hogwart's. She was several feet in front of him and she seemed to be walking around aimlessly.

"Ginny!"

If she heard him, she gave no indication and kept walking towards the lake. He called her once more, but either she hadn't heard him or was ignoring him. Finally, he caught up with her, and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. His touch seemed to have snapped her out of the trance she was in, and she looked up at him. He sucked in his breath as he took her appearance in. Tears streaked her beautiful face; her nose was red, and her eyes puffy. But it was her eyes that sent an arrow piercing through his heart. There was such misery such heartbreak in them he'd automatically taken a step back without him even knowing it.

"Gin..."

She threw herself at him, sobbing quietly. He hugged her close to him, rubbing her back and whispered that it'd be okay and that he was hear. He kissed the top of her head and picked her up before walking over to a tree that hid them from the school. He sat down, with her on top of him and her tears soaked through his school shirt. After what seemed like hours, she stopped crying and laid her head down on his chest.

"What happened, Ginny?"

Through stammered words and fresh tears, she told Draco what had happened in the Great Hall. As she was telling him what happened, she noticed how his body became rigid, and a slight blue hue came around him. She also noticed that the air began to cool suddenly and dark clouds took place of the white ones that had been there earlier. When she finished telling him what had happened, she looked up at his face and gasped aloud. His normal, silvery grey eyes were no more. They were now a bluish black color and his hair, which he'd finally let grow out, now had alternating black and blue streaks in it.

"D-Draco?"

Tentatively, Ginny reached her hand out to his face and she brushed his cheek. She was relieved to see that once her hand touched his face, his eyes faded back into their normal grey color, his hair lost the blue and black streaks and the air warmed around them. He looked at her his eyebrows bunched in confusion and then he looked around him as if reassuring himself he were at Hogwarts. Gently, she brought his face back towards hers and kissed him softly. She moaned when he responded and opened her mouth without hesitation when his tongue pushed against her lips seeking entrance. Their tongues played a hide and seek game, before finally meeting together. Draco's hands softly traced patterns across her back before running them up and down her side.

She gasped as of his fingers idly traced the shape of her breast before cupping it in his hands. She tightened her fingers in his hair and straddled his hips. She was hardly aware of her fingers deftly undoing his shirt buttons and taking his tie off. Draco moaned as Ginny's cool hands traced along his collar bone and down towards his chest. He gently rolled her nipple between his thumb and forefinger and felt the nub of flesh harden. Ginny grinded her hips into Draco's and bit his neck. They continued their snogfest until Draco called a halt.

"Ginny, we have to stop before we both do something we're not ready for."

She pouted at him before nodding her head. She kissed him one last time before pushing herself off of him. Quickly, he redid his buttons on his shirt, and stuffed his tie in his pants pocket. Ginny fixed her hair, and buttoned up her shirt, which Draco had masterfully unbuttoned. She smiled at him, and then offered him a hand up, which he took gratefully.

"Draco? What happened to you back then? I mean, before we started to um..."

Draco smirked at her, and then let it drop. He didn't quite understand what had happened to him either. It was as if a force had taken over his body as Ginny related to him, what had happened earlier.

"I don't know Gin. It was strange. When you were telling me what happened with your brother earlier, I started to get upset. And then, you know the rest."

"We have to go to Dumbledore, Draco. Something is happening to the both of us. Something strange and eerie."

Draco nodded his head. He didn't particularly like Dumbledore, but the dreams and what happened to him earlier were just too strange to ignore. They each brushed themselves off and walked back to the castle hand in hand intent on getting to Dumbledore.

A/N: Wow...okay the kiss scene was definitely a bit more...intense than I originally planned it to be. But the more intense, the better I say lol this took me 3 days to write, mostly because of school and other things going on. But hopefully you all will enjoy it and I'll try and get the next chapter out at least by Monday or Tuesday. So, you know the drill people. Read, review, enjoy. Ciao