Author's Note: OMG! It's been ages since I last updated this fic! I do sincerely apologize for that! The reason behind my lagging-behind with updating this one is because...well, because I couldn't think of what else to write after I posted chapter 7 many, many months ago. Hope you enjoy this next installment!

Disclaimer: Sadly enough HP doesn't belong to me...but the plot and other unknown characters are mine

Summary: Draco Malfoy turned a new leaf during his 7th year at Hogwarts. Now he works for the Ministry doing something for the good alongside his school days nemesis, Harry Potter. Enter Ginny Weasley, youngest sibling of Harry's best friend, as their new secretary. Hidden attraction surfaces and jealousy ensues.

Setting: 5 years after Hogwarts

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VIII. Working with Draco

Ginny worked alongside Draco in harmony for the rest of the week. Sure there were still those annoying owl posts from his numerous girlfriends and soon-to-be-exes which she often scanned and replied to. She was careful as she worded each and every letter precisely. Heck, she even made a damn template for herself just so she'd be sending the exact same one every damn time instead of having to write up another one.

Harry owled her Tuesday afternoon and told her that he'd be back in the office Monday morning. She can't wait to for him to return and she started grilling him with questions. She didn't even know that they had a thing for each other. All along she thought her friend was interested in another guy. Guess those two were pretty damn good at keeping their attraction to one another to themselves and not alerting the rest of the family!

She was about to leave work Friday afternoon when Draco poke his head out his office door and asked her to come see him before she leaves. Frowning, she nodded and went back to sorting her desk. Once she was satisfied at how neat and tidy it was, she walked in to Draco's office.

"You wanted to see me?" she poked her head inside and looked at her other boss whom she hadn't seen work his arse off this much since she started working for both him and Harry.

Draco looked up from the mountainous pile of paperwork on his desk and gave her a helpless look. He sure looked ruffled. God, she can't even remember a time when Draco Malfoy stayed in the office long enough to finish work. It was quitting time for most people and yet he was still here slaving away behind his desk.

Harry should take holidays more often, she chuckled to herself as she stepped inside Draco's office.

"Ginny, I know you've been putting a lot of overtime here lately, and you're being well compensated for that. But right now I'm in a bit of a lurch here. I have a deadline to meet by Monday at noon and I don't think I'd be able to make it unless you help me out. I know Potter will be back on Monday, but I don't think that git will be ready to start working so damn soon after spending...well, after spending all this time in Merlin knows where!" he complained and whined at the same time.

Ginny couldn't help herself from chuckling at the disgruntled look on Draco's face. She had to admit, in the six years that she attended Hogwarts with him, this was the first time she ever saw him this ruffled--and it was all because he had a deadline to meet! Or maybe it was because he doesn't know if he got Harry's project right or not? she wondered.

"So what you're asking me is if I can stay a while and help you get things organized?"

"In a way," he shrugged.

"In a way?" she raised an eyebrow, crossing her arms over her chest she gave her boss a pointed look and urged him to expand more on his answer.

"I don't wanna stay working here in the office so I was just wondering if maybe we could finish this off at your place say tomorrow morning around 9-ish?" he asked expectantly.

"What?" Ginny's eyes nearly bulged out at his suggestion. "You want to work at my place again? Whatever the heck for?"

"Because," he shrugged.

"Because?"

"Because it's nice and homey and...hell, Weasley, I'm sick of this place already!"

Ginny raised an eyebrow. Obviously she didn't like this idea of his at all. Sure the first time she let him bring work to her place simply because she couldn't kick him out and he looked mighty desperate that time to even seek her out on a Saturday as well!

"Why can't we just work at your place instead, hm?" she suggested. "Why do you want to work at my place?"

"Because I already told you, Weasley, it's homey," he pointed out.

"Homey?" she echoed.

"Yeah," he nodded.

"Malfoy, my flat is a small, dingy place to be at," she pointed out.

"So? At least it's better than my scraggly ol' place!"

"That I doubt."

Draco frowned. "What is it that you doubt?"

"Your place being unkempt," she replied.

"Well it is scraggly," he insisted.

"Your place scraggly?" she let out a mocking chuckle. "Please, Malfoy. You're a rich kid. Surely you have house elves to keep your place nice and clean."

"If I'm still living at the manor it will be," he snorted.

"You live on your own now?" she looked surprised. She never thought of Draco Malfoy moving out of his comfy mansion home where he had how many house elves at his beck-and-call.

"Yeah. How else do you think I can get some privacy if I still lived at home, hm?" he looked at her pointedly, an eyebrow raised and challenging her.

"You can have your ways of smuggling your lovers in the manor for all I know," she shrugged. "But anyway, if you want me to work overtime tomorrow we're not working at my place. Either we work here or we work at your place," she bargained.

"What's wrong with your place?"

"Nothing's wrong with my place," she shrugged.

"If nothing's wrong then why can't we work there?"

"Because I don't want to."

"That doesn't make sense!" he pushed back in his seat and scratched the back of his head. Apparently he was getting frustrated with both work and talking Ginny into working overtime at her place.

"Hey, you're the one who's asking me a favour here," she pointed out. "Tomorrow's my day off and I certainly don't want to spend it locked up at my place doing work."

"If you have plans for tomorrow, Weasley, just say it," he snarled.

"I don't have any set plans yet for tomorrow, Malfoy, but if ever I do I certainly wouldn't want to be stuck at home doing nothing!" she explained.

"You won't be stuck at home doing nothing, Weasley. We're going to be finishing up this damn project Potter left in my hands before he went traipsing to Merlin knows where!"

"That's work. And I never take my work home with me," she told him.

"And what about that last time I stopped by your place unannounced?"

"You dragged work to my place and I was pushed up against a sticky corner."

"So this time it's different because I'm asking you why as for the last time I just barged in unannounced?"

"Yeah," she nodded.

"Damn, then I should've done that then instead of doing it the nice guy way and ask first before showing up at your doorstep with a bunch of paper and folders in my arms," he said mockingly.

Ginny made a face at him. She knew what he was doing and she wasn't going to cave in. He can do whatever he want, but she won't budge.

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to be continued...

A/N: OMG!!! I'm finally done this chapter! Hurray for me! *does a happy dance* And as for the outcome...where do you guys think they'll end up working overtime? Ginny's place? Draco's place? Or the office? Hmm.....

A/N2: I know I know I mentioned that Ginny's eyes were green in the first chapter, but that's because I wasn't really sure what the colour of her eyes were, now that I have written a few D/G fics, I sure know what her eye colour is! *smiles* And btw, in the previous chapter that name that Draco called his ex-girlfriend...I wasn't making fun of anybody who is suffering from that disease. I think one reader was offended. I used that term for Draco to say to his ex as an insult because it will have a much better effect. I honestly didn't mean to insult anybody.

A/N3: and to all those who reviewed, you all know who you are. Normally I'm gonna thank each and every one of you one-by-one, but seeing as it is almost 1 in the morning and I have to get my scrawny arse to bed, I'm just gonna do a shout out to you all: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING PATIENT WITH ME!!!!