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Who Opened the Dragon's Heart
Chapter 20
"So," Ginny asked, interrupting Draco's thoughts, "we still have to get 5 more items to complete our list."
"Which ones?" Draco asked from his seat on the bench. He and Ginny had just finished searching every shop for the items on their list and had sat on a bench to go over the result of their shopping excursion.
"We still need to get scarab beetles, fluxweed, armadillo bile, leech juice and porcupine quills," Ginny listed. "We would have been able to get the porcupine quills, but we didn't have enough money to buy them. Who would have thought that porcupine quills would be so expensive?"
"Snape has scarab beetles in his supply closet," Draco pointed out, "but he'll never let us use them. We're supposed to do this on our own."
"This sucks," Ginny muttered.
"Well, we could always use our next Hogsmeade trip to go to Diagon Ally," Draco suggested as a light snow began to fall. The little flakes of snow rested lightly in Ginny's auburn hair making her look heavenly. Draco rose from the bench. "Let's go get some hot chocolate at The Three Broomsticks," Draco invited extending his hand in front of Ginny. Ginny glanced up at him. "My treat," Draco smiled. Ginny's hand rose to join with his and Draco pulled her gracefully from her seat. "Most of the students have gone back to Hogwarts," Draco pointed out. "I doubt we'll be bothered. Besides, we're just two students taking a break together. No harm in that."
"Right," Ginny finally spoke as Draco led her to The Three Broomsticks. The two were happily greeted by the warmth that filled the tavern as they entered through the door. Draco headed towards Rosmerta.
"May we have a private room, Madame?" Draco asked after glancing around the pub. There were still a few stragglers, the ones Draco was most worried about was the three gathered in a booth in the corner.
"Well, certainly," the owner replied. Stepping out from behind the counter she led the two students to a small yet comfortable sitting room. "Can I get you something to drink?"
"Two hot chocolates," Draco replied after checking if that was ok with Ginny.
"All right," the witch answered as she left the quaint room.
"Why'd you ask for a private room?" Ginny asked after Rosmerta had left.
"Well one, because the Dream Team is sitting in a booth in there and would see the two of us eventually, which would not be pleasant," Draco explained. "And two, so that I could do this," he whispered as he brushed his lips against her soft ones. No matter how bad his day was Draco could always find solace in melding his lips with Ginny's. Kissing her made his life worth living. The soft innocence of her kisses made him feel like he was a new man and that the evil Slytherin in him had never existed. Soon he wanted more out of this kiss. Slowly Draco ran his tongue along Ginny's bottom lip, feeling Ginny shudder he was emboldened to do something more. Taking his time Draco took Ginny's lower lip between his and suckled on it gently. Feeling Ginny's body crumble he lowered her down into the booth next to them as he pulled his lips from hers. Draco searched Ginny's eyes and discovered the same feeling that was in his own. "Gin," Draco whispered.
"Draco," Ginny whispered back as she pulled Draco's head down to hers.
"Two hot chocolates!" Madame Rosmerta called out as she pushed through the door that separated the two from the rest of the world. The two teenagers pulled themselves together (a/n or should I say apart? Hehe) as Draco slid into the booth so that he sat across from Ginny. Draco glanced at Ginny as Rosmerta neared the two; Ginny was failing badly at trying to not appear disheveled. "Here you are," the witch spoke as she set the steaming mugs on the table. "'Course I'm sure you two are already warmed up," she added with a twinkle in her eye. Ginny's face flushed even more than before.
Ginny took a sip of hot chocolate as Rosmerta left the room. "This is real good," she spoke. "Thanks."
"Gin," Draco began but seemed unable to continue. He too took a sip of hot chocolate. "This is rather good." He agreed. Tell her, Draco urged himself. "Gin," Draco began again. This time Ginny interrupted him.
"Draco, we need to stop," she spoke. "You're going out with Pansy, and I keep trying to remind myself of that, but I seem to forget it so often, especially when you kiss me the way you do." Draco smirked. "And even though Parkinson is a slut, I can't bring myself to cause her boyfriend to cheat on her. No girl deserves that. I have never wanted to be "the other woman" in someone's relationship and I don't plan on starting."
"What if I told you I didn't care for Pansy one jolt?" Draco asked wanting her to understand his view of Pansy. "I'm only going out with her to appease Lucius. Her touch makes me sick. The idea of touching her makes me sick, but the idea of me touching you," Draco began to graze his fingers against the inside of Ginny's wrist, "is entirely pleasing." Draco looked in Ginny's eyes and saw a hint of desire. "You like me touching you, you can't deny that. I wasn't imagining your body weakening against mine while I kissed you." Embarrassment caused Ginny's face to flush as she remembered what had happened only a few moments before. "And it's not just desire that I feel for you, Gin," Draco explained. "I love listening to you talk about anything and everything, I love how you laugh freely and without restraint. I enjoy being with you," he finished.
"What about Pansy?" Ginny asked in a mere whisper.
"All Pansy wants from me right now is the typical boyfriend stuff," Draco explained. "Walk her to class, carry her damn books, and be there for her to latch onto. But I won't lie to you. Pretty soon she will be demanding more from me, but that's where you come in."
"Me?" Ginny asked, not understanding.
"I can't be around Pansy if our Potions assignment is taking up all of my time," Draco pointed out with an evil grin. "She doesn't need to know that the project isn't taking up all of the time that I'm gone, and I don't want her to know. I want to spend my time with you, not her."
"You're asking a lot of me, Draco," Ginny whispered. "You're basically asking me to be your secret girlfriend. How is that supposed to work?"
"Even if I wasn't going out with Pansy would we be able to be together?" Draco asked, at Ginny's silence he continued on. "You're saying that your brother Ron would be perfectly fine with you and me spending every waking moment together."
"No, he wouldn't," Ginny spoke, realizing the truth.
"Please, Ginny," Draco begged. "Be my specialus amor."
Ginny giggled. "What in the world does that mean?"
"My secret love," Draco replied slightly embarrassed.
"I don't know if I like the fact that you know Latin and I don't," Ginny pouted. "How am I supposed to know if you're insulting me or not?"
"You're just going to have to trust me you bellus rutilus caesaries," Draco smirked with an evil look in his eye. The two had finished the hot chocolate and the hour was growing late. He slid out of the booth and held out his hand to help Ginny out.
"What did you just call me?" Ginny demanded as she followed Draco to the door.
"I didn't call you anything," Draco replied innocently as he checked to see if the Trio had finally left the pub. Seeing that they had, Draco led Ginny to the front door.
"Tell me!" Ginny ordered as Draco flipped the coins for their drinks to Rosmerta, with a nice tip included of course.
"I don't believe I will, Virginia," Draco spoke back to the red head. "You're getting worked up over nothing, you know."
"I wouldn't be getting worked up at all if you told me!" Ginny screamed as they stepped into the wintry night. Since they had entered the pub the temperature had dropped drastically and snowflakes still fell from the sky.
"Are you cold?" Draco asked, concerned. Ginny shook her head even though she was shivering from the cold. "Stubborn red head," Draco scolded as he wrapped his arm around Ginny's waist to pull her closer. "Better?" Ginny nodded her head, enjoying the warmth of Draco's body. They both knew either of them could have performed a warming spell and they would be toasty warm without being near each other, but then they wouldn't have the excuse of being close to each other. Hogsmeade was practically deserted as most of the students had hurried back to the castle in search of warmth. Draco searched around to see if there was anyone near. Quickly he leaned down and brought his lips upon Ginny's, before she could respond eagerly to the kiss Draco brought a cold snowball upon her head.
"Draco Malfoy!" Ginny screamed as she chased after Draco. Unfortunately she was the unlucky one to carry the potion supplies and was unable to run as fast as the blonde haired boy running from her. Not wanting to let her prey get away she left the bag of supplies in the street and chased after Draco. Without the bulking bag holding her back she was able to catch up to him instantly. "It's a good thing running isn't required in Quidditch Malfoy, or else you'd never be able to play," Ginny said as she tackled Draco into the soft snow that blanketed the ground.
"Is that so, Weasley?" Draco asked as he stared into Ginny's laughing eyes.
"Yes, that is so!" Ginny screamed as Draco flipped the two so that Draco now lay on top of Ginny.
"That's very good to know," Draco replied. Quickly he brought his lips down upon Ginny's, enjoying the warmth of her eager lips. As he stroked his tongue against her lips she parted her mouth and gave Draco access to her delicious opening. She tasted of hot chocolate and heaven, Draco decided. Oh how enticing this little vixen of mine is, Draco spoke to himself. Not wanting this amazing kiss in the snow to end, Draco continued to show Ginny little tricks that he learned women liked. Never had a woman responded as eager as Ginny, with Pansy it had always been 'let's move on to other things'. Ginny was perfectly fine with kissing, and that was perfectly fine Draco. Eventually the two had to pull themselves apart, both breathing raggedly. "Where's the bag?" Draco asked between breaths.
"Back where I dropped it," Ginny answered trying to catch her breath.
"We should probably go get it," Draco decided.
"We probably should," Ginny agreed. Draco made a mistake in taking another look at Ginny. She looked so delectable laying there in the snow with her auburn hair sprawled out around her head; slowly he lowered his lips to hers and gave her a chaste kiss, quite an opposite from the last one he had given her. Draco pulled away and then helped Ginny stand up. Together they look to see where Ginny had dropped the bag. Ginny finally spotted it. "There," she pointed to a bag that had been placed on the ground rather hurriedly. Together they walked to retrieve the bag and then headed for the path that would lead them back to Hogwarts. They wandered down the path at a rather slow pace, enjoying the closeness of each other and the perfection of the evening's surroundings. To each of their dismay the castle appeared all too soon at the end of the path. Draco held open the door for Ginny as she passed through the massive doors. Here in the entrance hall they would each go their own ways.
She looks so angelic, Draco thought to himself as he gazed at Ginny. Slowly the snowflakes were melting from her hair, much to Draco's chagrin. "I'll go report to Snape our results of today's trip," Draco finally spoke. Ginny handed the bag of supplies to Draco. "Well, I'll leave out some things," he added evilly causing Ginny's face to flush to a royal red. "I'll see you around, Gin," Draco whispered as he brushed his lips across Ginny's. "You better go; your brother will be worried about you." Ginny nodded and turned to head for the Gryffindor tower. Draco watched Ginny leave until she turned a corner; he then headed down to speak with his Head of House.
While he was in the dungeons he dropped off the supplies they had bought this afternoon. Before heading for his chamber he stopped to report to Snape and tell him that he and Ginny would use the next Hogsmeade trip to visit Diagon Ally. Snape said he would arrange a Port Key with the Headmaster and dismissed Draco.
As Draco proceeded to get ready for bed he thought of what a success today had been, and he wasn't thinking of how many supplies they had bought for the project.
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"I can not believe that just happened," Ginny whispered to herself as she left Draco's side. "That…did not happen. Did it?" Overcome by shock Ginny traveled to her Common room rather slowly. Eventually she did make it to her home away from home.
"Where the hell have you been?" Ron screamed at Ginny when she finally entered through the portrait hole.
"I, uh. I.." Ginny stammered.
"Well?" Ron interrupted her. "Answer me, Virginia!"
"I was in Hogsmeade, Ron," Ginny finally got out, still baffled by all that had happened.
"Do you know that you were the last person back from Hogsmeade?" Ron asked.
"Well, no I didn't," Ginny spoke.
"Tell me," Ron demanded. "What the bloody hell were you and Malfoy doing that took so damn long?"
Incensed by Ron's lack of trust a look of fury filled Ginny's face, her amber eyes glowing. "You want the truth?" Ginny asked. "You want to know all the dirty little things that Draco and I did?" Ginny demanded.
"You called him Draco!" Ron blurted out.
"Yeah, you're damn right I did, Ron!" Ginny screamed back. Push him over the edge, Gin, she thought to herself. Put him in his place. He has no reason to be this controlling. Say it! "Do you know why I called him Draco?" She asked, and then continued, not letting Ron answer. "It's normal to be on a first name basis with the person you're having sex with!" With that she ran up the stairs to the girls' dormitories, grinning all the way to her bedchamber. Before she entered her room she waited for the kicker.
"VIRGINIA JACQUELINE WEASLEY!!" Ron bellowed. "GET YOUR BLOODY ARSE DOWN HERE NOW!!!" Fully satisfied with Ron's reaction Ginny entered her bedroom and collapsed onto her bed laughing.
"That felt great!" Ginny chortled. Hearing her door open she looked to see who had entered her room. "Hey Hermione," Ginny greeted the Head Girl.
"Ginny, please go down there and calm Ron down!" Hermione begged. "He's raving mad! Just go down there and tell him you were just lying. That you said that to get back at him! Which is the truth, right? You're not having sex with Malfoy?" The look in Hermione's face was that of pure pleading.
Ginny laughed, "Of course I'm not having sex with Malfoy. I just wanted to piss that arse of a brother off." Hermione breathed of a sigh of relief. "And why should I go down there and calm him down?"
"Because," Hermione answered.
"That's not much of a reason, Mione," Ginny pointed out.
"Gin, if you don't go down there and fix everything the whole school will hear about this," Hermione spoke. "The gossip chains are already going at it," Hermione added referring to Lavender and Parvati.
"Oh, all right," Ginny contested. "But only because I don't want everyone thinking that I actually had sex with Malfoy." Ginny shuddered all though her thoughts were the exact opposite. "Yuck, dear God how awful!"
Hermione giggled, and then asked, "Why did you call Malfoy Draco?"
"Malfoy and I agreed that it didn't help the project if we were always insulting each other, so I call him Draco and he calls me Ginny," she answered.
"You got Malfoy to call you Ginny?" Hermione asked in shock.
"Yeah, but don't tell anyone."
"Um, ok," Hermione replied. "Come on, we better go. Ron by now has probably strangled a few first years. Harry was trying to calm him down, but you know Ron.." Hermione started to head back down to the common room with Ginny behind her.
"Virginia!" Ron screamed as he saw Ginny coming down the girls' steps. "What the hell do you think you're getting at? Having sex! With Malfoy!"
"Ron, calm down!" Ginny spoke has she approached her furious red headed brother. "I have never ever had sex with Malfoy."
"But, you said…"Ron stammered out.
"I was just trying to piss you off," Ginny replied. "That's what you get for trying to control my life and act like my father."
"So you're not having sex with Malfoy?" Ron asked. Ginny shook her head. "Oh thank God!" He gave Ginny a quick hug. "DO YOU HEAR THAT EVERYBODY?" Ron screamed so that all the Gryffindors heard. "GINNY DIDN'T HAVE SEX WITH MALFOY!"
"Oh, really Ron," Gin muttered as she rolled her eyes. Ginny walked over to the fireplace and stripped off her robe, exposing her body to the warmth of the fire. "Hey Colin," Ginny spoke to her blonde haired buddy sitting by the fire.
"Hey Gin," Colin greeted as he pulled Ginny down to sit on the floor next to him. "How was the rest of your Hogsmeade trip?"
"Cold," Gin answered. "But we got some supplies for the project."
"That's good," Colin replied.
"Yeah, and whenever the next Hogsmeade trip is we'll be going to Diagon Ally instead," Ginny informed him.
"Damn," Colin muttered, "I was hoping you and I could spend the day together at the next trip."
"I'm sorry Colin," Ginny replied trying to comfort her friend. "But the sooner we get the supplies the sooner we finish this project."
"Yeah, I know."
A comfortable silence settled between the two and together they gazed into the fire. Ginny yawned as sleep overcame her. None of the Gryffindors left in the room felt like bothering the pair of 6th years sleeping so peaceful together, the girl resting her head on the boy's shoulder.
Unheard by all except for the two he was speaking to a voice spoke as he watched the pair sleep, "You know, I bet Colin wouldn't make to bad of a brother-in-law."
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Ginny readied herself on Monday morning in a rush. The day before had gone by smoothly. Luckily no one except for the Gryffindors heard Ginny's claim of having had sex with Draco Malfoy. Unfortunately tales were hurriedly whispered around the school about how she and Colin had slept together in front of the fireplace. Everywhere Ginny went she overheard little comments about how cute she and Colin had looked and that no one wanted to disturb the cute couple. The other downside of the day had been that Ginny hadn't seen Draco at all and Ginny hoped he didn't hear the story about her and Colin, she knew Draco would not understand at all. Hurriedly Ginny went to owlery before she headed off to the Great Hall for breakfast.
Ginny headed for her seat at the Gryffindor table and ate breakfast while waiting for a tiny little owl to swoop down at the Slytherin table. Ginny took a break in her eating as she watched Draco read the note that he held in his hands. Ginny watched him as he searched the Gryffindor table for her face as he finally found what he was looking for Ginny gave him a rather cocky smile. Do it, she mouthed to him, daring him with her eyes. Ginny watched as he battled with himself on whether he should do it. Slowly Draco's tall frame rose from the Slytherin table and he headed for the Staff Table. Ginny held her breath as he approached Dumbledore. It was rare for a student to walk up to the staff table and this caused many students to stare as Draco drew closer and closer to his destination. Ginny could see Draco's lips moving as he stood in front of Dumbledore, she had no idea what he said but Dumbledore smiled when he finished and leaned forward in his seat. "Do it," Ginny whispered. Almost as if Draco heard Ginny's urging he brought his lips upon the hairy cheek of Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A few moments passed as the rest of the school realized what Draco Malfoy had just done, as it began to sink in the school erupted in laughter and talking. Calmly Draco left the Staff Table and headed back for his seat at the Slytherin table. Immensely please with the result of Draco's forfeit Ginny resumed eating her breakfast, which now tasted better than ever.
A/N: HA HA HA! A new chapter, and really really short too. But I figured you guys were getting way too spoiled. :) Which is also why I'm not posting this chapter until Monday, today being Thursday. Muah hehehe. Now I know you guys don't like short chapters but although this chapter was 5 pages shorter than the last one it's only 1000 words less, so stop complaining. Not to mention you guys got two kiss scenes in this small chapter! Speaking of that, did you enjoy them? Not icky, were they? Yay, for being buddies with Colin, wasn't that sleeping in front of the fire scene so cute? :) At first I had written it completely different, and then I had considered a snogging scene in front of the fire but I decided to not do that. Maybe in the future. :)
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