(A/N – Thank you so much to all the supportive readers out there. I have noticed that it's the people who write anonymously who tell me to update constantly, and it's the authors who talk about my writing. I especially wanted to thank Lady Of Magic for her support.
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Fred had engaged Ginny in an extremely long game of chess. After the game was over (Ginny won) they made her play exploding snap for half an hour. By the time she finally escaped, it was about 10 minutes until dinner. She took off for the stairs at top speed.
"Took you long enough," Draco said sarcastically. He was stretched out on the bed, once again wearing only his boxers, his abs on full display.
"Hey sexy," Ginny said, wiggling her eyebrows.
"Yeah, that's right," he said cockily. He climbed off the bed and kissed her deeply. She couldn't stifle the moan that escaped her as he ran his hand under her shirt and up and down her spine.
"I don't want to go down for dinner," she pouted.
"Then don't," he whispered seductively.
She backed up a little. "But I need my energy," she wiggled her eyebrows again, stepping up to him and sliding her fingers under the waistband of his boxers.
Harry's eyes widened as Ginny came into the dining hall. She looked as if she had just run a marathon, her robe was slightly twisted and she had a rosy glow about her. She was breathing heavily as she sat down at the table across from Harry.
He raised his eyebrows questioningly at her, and she blushed pink. Harry gave her a worried look and went back to his food.
After they were done dinner, Harry took her by her arm and dragged her out the door, through the entrance hall, and outside to the front entrance.
"Where is he?" he asked quickly. Ginny looked at the ground and refused to answer. "Did you have sex with him?" After a minute, Harry realized that Ginny was giggling.
"This is so weird," she said.
"What…why?"
"The famous Harry Potter is questioning me about my sex life."
Harry rolled his eyes, but then a look of realization crossed his face. "So you did…"
Ginny looked at the ground and nodded slightly.
Harry reached out and pushed her chin up, making her look him in the eye. "Ginny, you could get sick… you could get pregnant! What are you thinking?" she tried to look at the ground but his hand pushed her face up again.
"Don't touch her," came a voice from behind him.
"Oh shit," said Ginny. Harry turned around, and Draco was standing behind him. "Draco…don't"
"What?" said Harry angrily.
"Are you stupid, Potter? Do not touch my girlfriend."
"I wasn't…" Harry glared. "Im quite content with my own girlfriend, thank you very much. You think I was touching her…like that?"
"Your girlfriend? Are you dating the mudblood?"
Pure fury erupted in Harry's eyes. His wand was pointed at the blonde boy's chest before you saw his hand move. "Take it back!"
"Harry!" Ginny yelled loudly. She practically pounced on him, trying to pull his wand out of his hand. When she finally succeeded, Harry's face went bright red in anger. He closed his eyes and tried to breath, knowing that if he worked himself up any more he would loose control of his magic. Unfortunately, it was useless. The torch brackets on the walls around the door exploded into flames. Harry quickly jumped up and ran for it. He couldn't risk harming Ginny when he had no control over his magic.
Harry ran as fast as he could for the river. When he reached it, he pushed his face under the water to try and cool himself down. After a few moments, he pulled his head out of the water and collapsed backwards onto the rocky bank. Breathing heavily, he lied there for several minutes, concentrating on staying calm.
Ginny was still sitting on the ground, breathing hard, with Harry's wand in her hands. She looked up at Draco, a furious expression on her face. "That was a really stupid thing to say," she said, trying to remain calm.
Draco kicked the stone wall beside him, hard. "He shouldn't have touched you."
"Draco, Harry is not interested in me. He's like a brother to me!"
"It looked like he was hurting you…" Draco trailed off.
"I can take care of myself."
"I know…I'm sorry." You could see clearly in his eyes how hard it had been for him to say those words.
Ginny looked a little less angry. "Tell Harry that."
"What? No! He attacked me, not the other way around."
"You taunted him. How would you like it if someone made some nasty comment about me?"
"But that's exactly why I did it! He was hurting you!"
"Well…he'll apologize to you."
"Bullshit. Why would he do that?"
"Because he lost control and tried to hurt you. He knows he did something wrong so he will apologize. I know him better than you do."
Draco stood there in silence for a few moments, unable to come up with something to say. "I can't"
Just then, someone came through the entrance way doors. "Ginny?" It was Ron. He glared at Draco. "Get the hell away from my sister."
"Ron…"
"Fuck off, Weasley."
"Draco!" Ginny slapped him across the face. "What in Merlin's name is wrong with you today?"
"What?" yelled Ron, clearly confused and getting angrier by the second. "What do you mean 'today'? You've been near him more than once today?"
Draco's eyes widened in pure disbelief. "Gryffindors…"
"Wait a second…" said Ron. "Did you just call him by his first name?"
Ginny screamed in fury and disbelief, and took off for the river too.
"Great job, Weasley," said Draco smugly.
Ron turned to him and took a swing at him, but Draco ducked it and pinned Ron's arm behind his back. "I'm not going to fight you Weasley. What's with Gryffindors and attacking me today…" Draco pulled his wand from his pocket and pointed it at Ron's back. "Petrificus provisoire," Draco chanted. Ron went stiff as a board and fell to the ground. "Don't worry Weasley, it only lasts about two minutes. Just wanted to get away without having to seriously injure you." Draco pocketed his wand and took off for the river.
