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Sunday

September 8th

"Does this mean it is working."

"I don't know."

"Why not?"

"I can only hope for the best."

"They are getting along though."

"I know. It looks like it is going to work."

"So we wait?"

"Yes."

Ginny woke up early and rolled out of bed. She had another dream. She added it to the parchment that she had added the other dreams. Then she got dressed and grabbed her art supplies. The twins had asked her to make fliers for them and she thought she had better hurry up and get that to them. Ginny made her way downstairs and out of the castle. She walked around the castle to a little stone picnic table. She spread her materials around her and started on the fliers.

After an hour she stopped and looked at them proudly. Across it in big letters read Weasley Wizard Wheezes that changed colors. Underneath it was a picture of a boy being handed a piece of candy and turning into a canary. Ginny rolled the paper up and rubber banded it together. Ginny threw they art supplies back in the bag and started back inside the castle.

Ginny started towards the Great Hall, hopefully it was still breakfast time. She entered and saw that it was mostly empty but that there was still food on the tables. Ginny started towards the Gryffindor table and sat down. She was off in her own thoughts when she heard someone walk up behind her. She turned around hoping that it wasn't Goyle.

"What's in the bag little Weasel?" Draco asked.

"I was working on the twin's flier" Ginny replied relieved that it was just Draco.

"Really. Did you finish it?" he asked her.

Ginny nodded as she pulled it out of the bag and handed it to him. "You can sit down if you want."

Draco grimaced at the seat in front of him. "I think I would rather stand. you never know where you Gryffindor's have been."

"Right." Ginny said turning back around to her breakfast.

Draco unrolled the flier and laughed. "This bloke looks like Potter."

"What?" Ginny asked. "No it doesn't."

"Yes, it does." Draco disagreed. "Look at it."

Ginny stood up and looked at the flier he was holding out to her. "You're right."

"Bloody brilliant." Draco said with a smirk. "Potter turning into a bird. That is quite the selling point."

"I didn't mean to." Ginny said quietly. "I was just drawing."

"Well you did." Draco replied.

"Did you need anything?" Ginny asked him taking the flier away.

"Just thought I would come over and say hello." Draco replied.

"I have to go." Ginny said suddenly picking her bag up. "Deliver this to the twins."

"Where have you been?" Blaise asked Draco walking up behind him. "I've been looking for you everywhere."

"I've had things to do." Draco replied as he picked at his lunch.

"All morning?" Blaise asked him skeptically. "Doesn't matter though. I have something to tell you."

"What?" Draco asked uninterested.

"I kissed him." Blaise said excitedly.

"Good for you." Draco replied dryly.

"What's wrong with you?" Blaise asked him.

"Nothing." Draco said looking up. "Why do you think something is wrong with me?"

"Because you are acting like a zombie." Blaise replied smiling.

"Have you ever seen me smile?" Draco asked.

"What?"

"Have you ever seen me smile?" Draco asked again.

"No." Blaise answered him confused. "Why?"

"Nothing." Draco replied getting up. "I have to go."

Draco got up. Ever since last night he had been trying to push Ginny out of his mind. He couldn't though. The things she had said just kept running through his head. It bothered him that it was so easy for him to be nice to her. Even for the bet he thought he would have to work at it. But, it just came naturally. He hadn't meant to tell her she looked nice. He kept telling himself that it was just for the bet, but, it was more. He had actually enjoyed himself with Ginny. He just didn't want to admit that to himself.

"Ron?" Blaise said as he walked up to him.

Ron didn't look at him but he stopped.

Blaise stood there looking at him for a minute. "About yesterday."

"Can we not talk about that?" Ron asked him. "I was drunk. I don't really remember it."

Blaise knew Ron was lying. "It's me isn't it?" Blaise asked him. "The guy you like."

A pained look came across Ron's face. "No." Ron turned to walk away.

"I won't tell anyone." Blaise said quietly. Ron stopped walking. "It can be our secret."

Blaise grabbed Ron's wrist and turned him around. Blaise pulled Ron towards him and kissed him hard on the mouth.. Ron didn't push him away. Instead he returned the kiss just as hard. Blaise ran his hands across Ron's chest as Ron pushed him against the wall.

"Tell me I'm the boy." Blaise whispered as he started to suck on Ron's earlobe.

Ron groaned as Blaise pulled him into a classroom.

"Tell me." Blaise said again quietly.

"You're the boy I like." Ron said as he went to capture Blaise's mouth with his own.

"That's what I thought." Blaise said as he started to unbutton Ron's trousers.

Ron caught his hand. "I've never done this before." he said quietly.

"Neither have I." Blaise smriked. "But there's a first time for everything." he said as he kneeled before Ron, pulling Ron's pants down with him.

"Why are you so happy?" Ginny asked Ron as she sat across from him a dinner.

"What?" Ron asked looking up, he had been off in his thoughts and hadn't hear her.

"Why are you so happy?" Ginny asked again.

"No reason." Ron replied glancing over at the Slytherin table. Ginny hid a knowing smile as she started to dish food onto her plate.

"So did you have fun at Hogsmeade yesterday?" Ginny asked him.

"It was fine." Ron replied. "Blaise and I went and had some drinks."

"That sounds fun." Ginny said eating her dinner.

"So, what did you do?" Ron asked her.

"I went to the art store in Hogsmeade." Ginny told him. "To get some stuff to make fliers for the joke shop."

"Is that all?" Ron inquired.

"Why?" Ginny asked him.

"I was just wondering." Ron replied as he looked back over to the Slytherin table.

Blaise and Draco were sitting together talking quietly to themselves.

"I don't want details." Draco groaned quietly. "I get it, you two shagged."

"But, we didn't, not really." Blaise replied.

"I don't care." Draco replied. "I don't want to hear it."

"Fine." Blaise replied grumpily. "So how is it going with Ginny?"

"Good." Draco replied. "I'm pretty sure I am going to win the bet." Draco smirked. "I have her right where I want her."

"You still don't like her do you?" Blaise asked looking up from his dinner.

"No, of course not." Draco replied. "Why do you keep asking me that?"

"Because you keep looking at her and you get this stupid look on your face."

"I don't have a look." Draco replied.

"You do." Blaise argued. "It's sort of a happy look mixed with disgust." Blaise laughed. "It's like you are disgusted that you might like her."

Draco got up grimacing. "I don't like her."

"But if you did, would it really be that bad?"

"Shut up." Draco yelled as he walked towards the entrance to the Great Hall.

Draco was sitting in the Slytherin common room talking to some of the kids. He looked around to see Crabbe and Goyle whispering in the corner. After a few minutes they both left the common room. Draco was just about to go after them when Crabbe came back.

"Where is Goyle?" Draco asked walking towards Crabbe.

"I don't know." Crabbe replied looking at the ground.

"I know that you are lying." Draco replied. "Where is he."

"He went to go get a book." Crabbe replied smirking.

Draco started out of the common room and towards the library. Goyle reading? That was an obvious lie.

Ginny had been studying in the library since the end of dinner. She had some potions homework to catch up with before tomorrows class. She also had to work on a History of Magic report on Grindewald. She was in the very back of the library so that she wouldn't be interrupted. Which turned out a little too well. Ginny looked at her watch to see that it was past curfew.

Ginny quietly packed up her books in case Madame Pince was still in the library and started to make her way out of the library. She was about to turn a corner when someone grabbed her arm.

"What?" Ginny asked as she was thrown into the wall dropping her books. .

"Hello." Goyle said holding her against the wall.

"Get off of me." Ginny said trying to reach her wand. She pulled it out but Goyle grabbed it and snapped it in two.

"Draco always thinks he's better than me." Goyle said aloud to himself. "I'll show him I can get the girl." Goyle was pushing Ginny against the wall. He kissed her roughly on the mouth as Ginny tried to fight him off. "Stop struggling." Goyle yelled at her.

Ginny was punching him but it didn't seem to phase him. Goyle tried to undo her shirt but gave up and tore the buttons off. Ginny screamed before Goyle shoved his hand over her mouth. He groped her as he ripped her skirt. Ginny bit his hand hard to get him to move it.

"Bitch." Goyle hissed as he withdrew his hand. Ginny was about to scream again when Goyle slapped her hard. Her head hit the stone wall and she blacked out.

Draco ran into the library to see it was totally deserted. He stood there for a minute thinking before he left. He stood in the hallway wondering which way to go when he heard a scream. Draco ran towards the sound. Then he saw it. Goyle had Ginny pressed up against the wall. He slapped her and Draco heard a crack as Ginny's head hit the wall.

Draco pulled out his wand and yelled the first spell he could think of. Draco stood there shocked when Goyle disappeared. He didn't know where he had sent him but he would be found soon enough.

Ginny slumped to the ground and Draco rushed over to her and kneeled down. He gently shook her to see if she would wake up. Ginny's eyes fluttered open and she pushed Draco away from her.

"It's okay." Draco said.

"Goyle, he tried to." Ginny stopped talking. She couldn't finish the sentence. Draco looked at her. Her shirt was opened and her skirt was torn. She was breathing hard and her face was flushed. She was shaking hard. "He tried to-" but once again she couldn't finish her sentence. Tears started to roll down her cheeks and she started to cry.

Draco sat down and pulled her towards him. He pulled her shirt closed and muttered a repairing charm to fix the buttons. She leaned against him as she cried and Draco held her. He knew she would stop crying eventually. His mother always did. He could hear his mother crying through the walls and he would sit and listen and wait for her to stop. It was when she stopped he knew it was okay to go talk to her.

Draco ran his fingers through Ginny's curls, trying to smooth her hair some. He couldn't help but notice how soft and red it was.

"Draco." Ginny said softly.

"What?"

"What's going on." Ginny asked him.

"What are you talking about?" Draco asked her.

"He mentioned you." Ginny said pulling away from Draco and looking at him accusingly. "What's going on?"

Ginny tried to get up but quickly sunk back down to the ground her hand flew to the back of her head and she groaned quietly. "Bloody hell." She pulled her hand away to see a little bit of blood.

"You're bleeding." Draco said stupidly. "Let me see that."

Draco pulled her towards him once again and carefully looked at her head. "Damn."

"What?" Ginny asked.

"Nothing." Draco replied. "You just have a little gash in your head. Is your head killing you."

"Yes." Ginny relied wincing. "It does, a lot."

"Come on." Draco said getting up and helping her up. "I have a potion for headaches in my room."

"You didn't answer my question." Ginny replied leaning against him.

"What?" Draco asked not paying attention.

"What the hell is going on?" Ginny asked. "Don't tell me any crap to do with Harry either. First you ask me to Hogsmeade, then you get my detention again then Goyle tries to hurt me." Ginny stopped walking. "What is going on?"

"Nothing is going on." Draco replied pulling her down the corridor.

"Damn it." Ginny said pulling out of his grasp and falling against the wall. "Stop lying."

"Come on." Draco said grabbing her arm. "We have to get you fixed up."

"No." Ginny replied. "I want to know what is going on." She looked at him like she was going to cry again.

"Nothing is going on." Draco replied. "I don't know why Goyle tried to rape you." Ginny winced at that word but she let him pull her along the hall. "He was jealous, I suppose."

"Great." Ginny said sarcastically. "What about asking me to Hogsmeade." Ginny replied. "Why?"

"I told you. I like having what Potter can't."

"You don't have me." Ginny replied coldly.

"Looks like I have you at the moment."

"Great, you have me when I can't bother to walk without fainting." Ginny replied sarcastically. "I'm sure Harry would be jealous."

"He would." Draco smirked. "We all know how he likes to be the hero boy."

"Too bad he's better at it than you." Ginny replied glaring at Draco.

"How is that?" Draco asked.

"He wouldn't be forcing me to walk." Ginny replied.

Draco swept her into his arms and off the her feet. "Is that better."

"Put me down." Ginny replied indignantly.

"Can't have Potter besting me." Draco replied as he carried her down a flight of stairs.

Ginny didn't reply instead she just leaned into him. She was too tired to argue, too weak to make a fuss.

Draco walked down the corridor and down another flight of stairs before arriving in front of his door. "It's a good thing you are so light otherwise we might not have made it." Draco said as he walked into his room. Ginny didn't answer him and he looked down at her and realized she had fallen asleep. Draco gently sat her down on his bed and went to the bathroom to get a wash cloth.

"Wake up." Draco said shaking her gently. Ginny rolled away from him sighing."Ginny wake up." Draco said shaking her again. Draco shook her again to get her to wake up. Ginny finally rolled towards him opening her eyes. "You fell asleep."

"One tends to do that when they get a head abrasion." Ginny replied gently sitting up.

"Come here." Draco said as he sat on the bed. "Let me clean up your head."

"I'm fine." Ginny replied crossly.

"I'm not going to play hero again." Draco replied. "You are not a good damsel in distress."

"I'm not in distress."

"You're bleeding."

Ginny glared at him as she turned her back to him to let him see her head.

"Not too bad." Draco said as he started to gently get the blood out of her hair. "Just a little cut."

"It feels worse than a little cut." Ginny replied grumpily.

Draco pulled his wand out and whispered a healing spell. "The cut is fixed." Draco replied. "You won't even have a bruise."

"What about this headache?" Ginny asked as she turned back around.

"You are a demanding little weasel." Draco said getting up and walking back into his bathroom. He came back in with a little blue bottle.

Ginny looked at it suspiciously as she took it from him.

"Don't worry I'm not trying to poison you." Draco replied watching her as she cautiously drank the potion from the bottle.

"Can't be too sure about that." Ginny replied. "You are a Slytherin and a Malfoy."

Draco glared at her. "Guess what, I'm all you have at the moment."

"What did I say to offend you Malfoy?" Ginny asked him smirking. "After all usually you would just say something about Malfoy pride."

"I don't poison people."

"I was just kidding." Ginny replied.

"It wasn't funny."

"Who says I was trying to be?" Ginny asked him.

"You know you could show some gratitude towards me."

"Why?" Ginny asked. "If it weren't for you Goyle wouldn't have felt like he had to prove something."

"He would have done that with or without me pursuing you." Draco glared. "You should just be happy I gave a damn."

"Which brings me back to that question I keep asking you. What is with this recent fascination with me?" Ginny asked. "Have I changed? Because I am still the same girl who has been going to this school for six years."

"Maybe I changed." Draco replied.

Ginny laughed bitterly. "Yeah, sure. You are just as mean as you have always been."

"If I were mean I wouldn't have helped you."

"So you did one good deed." Ginny replied. "Everyone has their moment. You're still mean to everyone else."

"Well, maybe you're better than everyone else." Draco replied. "Maybe I just think you are better than the rest of them."

"Why?" Ginny asked him getting frustrated. "Why am I different? Why won't you just tell me why?" Ginny looked at him with confusion and pain across her face.

"Because, you." Draco replied but not going on.

"Because I'm what?" Ginny asked him.

"Because you're fun to argue with. And you drew me something real."

"I didn't know it was you." Ginny replied. "Maybe I thought it was Dean who found my book, or Michael."

"Maybe you did." Draco replied. "But who were you hoping found your book?"

"You think I was hoping you found my book?" Ginny asked with a little laugh.

"I already told you little weasel, if you are going to lie you need to make eye contact." Draco smirked at her. "It's more believable that way."

Ginny looked away from him.

"Why can't you just admit you like me?" Draco asked her smirking.

"Why can't you?" Ginny asked looking at him.

"I don't."

"Yes you do." Ginny replied. "Every thing you do screams you like me."

"Sure." Draco replied sarcastically.

"Look someone in the eyes when you are lying to them." Ginny mocked him. She smiled. "So did you tell dearest daddy that you fell for a Weasley, scum of the wizard world?"

"My father and I don't talk." Draco glared. "Actually he talks and I ignore him."

"Why don't you two talk."

"Because he is a bastard."

"Why do you think that?" Ginny asked him.

"Everyone knows what my father is."

"Everyone thinks you want to be like him."

"They are all idiots than."

"I suppose they are." Ginny replied smiling gently. "Tell me why you don't like him."

"Because he is." Draco stopped thinking. "He is..."

"What?"

"He's horrible." Draco replied finally. "He always hurt my mother. I would wake up and hear her sobbing."

"I'm sorry." Ginny said quietly.

"She was just there to give him a son. After I was born he started cheating on her." Draco closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "He wouldn't touch her, except for when he would force himself on her."

Draco felt Ginny put her hand on his.

"I couldn't ever help her." he continued. "I would wait till she was done crying and I would go in there and help her get rid of the cuts and the bruises on her face. That bastard insisted that she looked like the perfect wife, even after he would make her bleed." Draco laughed bitterly. "He thought he could control me if he beat me." Draco looked up at Ginny. "Guess what, it didn't work. I could so easily be a Death Eater. If I liked my father and we got along who knows what kind of person I would be now."

Draco could feel Ginny's hand tighten over his.

"Of course my father forgets the biggest characteristic of a Slytherin, look out for yourself first. And he wonders why I won't worship the Dark Lord."

"Why won't you."

"Because my father does." Draco replied. "I don't want to be him."

"It isn't just that." Ginny told him.

"Than what is it?" Draco asked her. "Because I truly think that if I got along with my father."

"You care about your mother." Ginny interrupted him. "You care about someone."

"So?"

"So, how can you be a death eater, when you love your mother?" GInny looked down at her hand that was on top of Draco's. She gently held it. "You can't be someone who hates everyone if you care about the well being of one person." She looked up at him. "And you appear to care for more than one person."

"Who?" Draco asked her skeptically.

"You care about your mother, Blaise, and me." Ginny told him. She whispered the last part.

"You don't want me to care about you." Draco replied. "I'm not a nice person, I don't like your family, or your friends."

"I know." Ginny said quietly. "But I don't have any real friends and my family is hard to like at times."

"People I care for get hurt." Draco told her.

"People I care about don't see me." Ginny replied. "You see me."

"I didn't want to."

"Then you shouldn't have looked." Ginny said as she took her hand away.

"But, I did." Draco said taking her hand. "Damn it."

"What?" Ginny asked him.

"You have to get to your room. It's past curfew." Draco said getting up and pulling her out of his room.

"What?" Ginny asked him again, confused.

Draco didn't answer her as he pulled her down the hall. Ginny let him pull her for a few minutes before she pulled herself out of his grasp.

"What just happened?"

"Temporary insanity." Draco replied. "Hurry up. I don't want to get caught."

"Fine." Ginny replied glaring at him. "I can get there myself. Don't bother." Ginny walked away from him quickly.

Draco stood there cursing himself. What just happened?