O.O It's Friday the 13th. Is there one of those every year? Seriously that's scary…

I'm glad to say the chapter is up. I dunno how you'll like it. If or not you will. But have fun reading I hope. And go easy on me on the reviews. Please? Sorry for the long update also, with all that getting prepared for Boarding School it slipped my mind.

Disclaimer: One day I will look back on this, preferably at a time when I am rich and successful and say, "Poppycock, That I could have written Harry Potter." Maybe then I could by the rights to it from JK. O.O

Chapter 19:

Simply out of Pity

The sun hit her as bright as the delirious smile spread across her lips.

For the first time since Christmas she was happy. She didn't know why, but she was the happiest she had ever remembered being. And then she felt his chest rise beneath her with his breathing and memories flooded back to her. His tear, his kiss, his touch. Their love. A million memories formed in one night.

The warmth of the sun spread over her naked body with the warmth of the love she felt emanating from his presence. She reached over and touched his face. His grey eyes hidden by his closed lids, his straight, long nose, his milk white skin. His lips moved under the feel of her finger, twitching to a slight smile. Draco Malfoy was lost to a collage of dreams.

Dreams of memories and hopes. Dreams of her. Dreams of their passion, of her laughter. The happiest dreams he had ever experienced. So indulged was he that he was not stirred by her finger tracing the contours of his body. Or the feel of her lips on his.

But she didn't mind. Ginny felt that nothing could have been more perfect than him sleeping at her side.

Until she looked across of him and saw the figure of Hogwart's Castle. And she realised that they couldn't lay there in the Quidditch stands for eternity. They had to go back to school. They had to enter the castle. And then, when they did, she would be a Gryffindor and he would be a Slytherin. Her parents would be in the Order and he would be a death eater. Harry Potter would be her boyfriend …and he would not.

That was when she decided that she should leave. She wasn't afraid of Voldermort, or of him being a death eater. She was afraid of what would happened if she stayed. She was afraid that she would gain faith in him again, only to be disappointed. She was finally getting used to life without him, she didn't need any more complications. She didn't need to hate her life because she loved him.

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And walking through the halls she begged herself to forget. Forget about how trivial her want for Harry was compared with her want for him. Forget how soft and gentle he always was. Forget how sweet his kisses tasted. Forget the newly formed image she had created of him in her mind. A million forgets. And one remember. Remember who she was. Ginny Weasley. And that certainly did not entail being with Draco Malfoy. Or at least it never did before…

Her forgets and remembrances were got short when Harry stepped abruptly before her. She jumped.

"Where were you?" He asked sternly.

Eyes wide she didn't know what to answer. "Wh-what do you mean?"

"I mean where were you. I was asking for you in the common room this morning-"

"I got up early," She cut off.

"I was looking for you last night before bed too."

Her eyes shifted nervously, "I got up very early."

"Why?"

"Why what?" She found concentration in a nervous state extremely difficult.

Harry was not being sympathetic. He sighed, "Why were you up early?"

"Because I wasn't asleep."

"Ginny.."

"What?"

"Answer my question. What were you doing?"

"That's not what you asked, Harry." She called it changing the subject. She learned it from Fred and George.

"Stop changing the subject." Harry had learned to detect it.

"I'm not." She had learned to deny it.

"Then answer me."

"What was the question?"

"What were you doing?"

She paused. A long pause. She had drawn a blank.

"Ginny…"

Damn it… Damn it.. Think

He let out a gruff.

I'm thinking…

"The least you could do is answer."

"I'm thinking," She muttered.

"Thinking?"

That was it. "Yes.. Yes, I was thinking."

He was satisfied it seemed. Or at least he appeared so. A second later his eyes narrowed, "Thinking about what?"

"About…" Thinking about what? What was she thinking of? Of how much she loved Draco? Of how much he loved her? Of them? "Of us," she finished.

"Of us?"

"Yes, of us."

He smiled. A content smile. Content on having her take their relationship more seriously.

She smiled. A content smile also. Content on having narrowly escaped.

"What about us?"

About how I don't love you and I love Draco, she thought. "About how I don't love Draco and I love you," She said.

"You love me?"

She felt her windpipe constrict. "I love you," she finished. Breathing became increasingly difficult.

"I love you too, Gin."

And then she fell.

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Draco Malfoy awoke to the sound of birds chirping above his head. A lovely tune he found it… as unusual as that was for him. He followed it with a smile, as his eyes squinted with glee, and sparkled with an intoxication of bliss. And then he decided to go all out. Doing something he had never done before he sighed softly the name that could bring happiness into his life, "Ginny."

He received no answer.

He stretched lazily before sitting up and looking around him. There was no sign of Ginny. None except for a single article laying on the floor of the Quidditch Pitch. Her white lace bra. He picked it up, examining it fondly and feeling its texture beneath his fingers. He wondered where she could have gone. Pulling his pants up he placed it into his pockets and put on his shirt before making his way into the castle. He had a slight skip in his step. And a calm magical smile to match it. Because he couldn't wait until he found her and held her in his arms to tell her just how much he loved her, and to show her with a kiss.

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It had been forty-five minutes and still he hadn't located her. Desperate he decided to ask the nearest person who would know. And that person just happened to be Ron Weasley.

"Weasley," he called stopping in front of the red head.

"Shove off Malfoy."

"In a minute."

"How about right now?"

"Don't you ever give it a rest?"

"Ha. You'd like that wouldn't you?"

"About now I'd say yes, I would like that very much."

"Anything you like, Ferret, is wrong, dirty, immoral, and evil. Therefore I do the opposite."

"Where is she?"

"She? She who?"

"Ginny, where is she?"

"Out of your reach."

"And where would that be?"

"Somewhere safe."

"Look, you red faced, poverty stricken carrot-"

"I don't want to hear it Malfoy. You've caused her enough harm as it is. She's happy now, why don't you let it go. Take you and your trouble somewhere else. She hates you. No, she loathes you. Almost more than I do if that's possible. So I don't see the use in you asking. She wants nothing to do with you. I want nothing to do with you. Why don't you just leave it alone and get someone new…"

But Draco wasn't listening. He had noticed the Patil sisters, and he decided to move from one lost cause, to another more promising one.

"Padma. Parvati."

"Draco," they said in union. And noticing Ron's incessant speech behind them they looked at him unsurely.

"It's Weasley," he said as if that explained it all.

It did.

"So… did you hear?" He brought up in an innocent tone.

"Hear what?" They were immediately intrigued.

"About Weasley."

"Ron? Oh you mean about him and Hermione…"

His eyebrows perked up at the rumour, "Weasley and Granger? I'd be sorry for those children. Imagine her hair in red." He shuddered.

"It's all false anyway."

"Lucky for them. God is merciful." He was getting sidetracked. A bad habit. He could never resist poking fun at Potter and his friends.

"No, I mean about the other Weasley, Ginny."

"Oh… yeah, I was right there when it happened."

"When what happened?"

"When she told Harry she loved him."

"She did what?!"

"She did," Padma piped in.

"What?! When?!"

"Just now."

"Today?"

"Today," Parvati added.

"And he said he loved her too."

"Yes, yes he did." It had become a conversation between the twins.

"It was so cute!"

"Up until she fainted…"

"She fainted?!" Draco included himself once more.

"Yes! Right after he told her."

"Well.. Where is she now?"

"Infirmary. Harry took her there."

And he was gone in a flash. To the infirmary. Though he wasn't sure he would like what he would find there.

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His desperate run turned into a tired jog as he entered the Hogwart's Infirmary. Madame Pomfrey stood near the door attending to a third year who's magical toothbrush had malfunctioned, leaving him two very shattered teeth.

"Mr Malfoy if you need attending kindly wait on your usual bed, I will be with you in a moment."

"No, Pom- Madame," he forced the courtesy out, "I am here to see a patient."

"You? Visiting a patient?"

"Yes."

"Which one?"

"Weasley. Ginny Weasley."

"Mr Malfoy I have no time for your jokes and pranks this morning. Dumbledore himself will be in for his check up a little later. I have to get all-"

"Pomfrey, I am not joking."

"Madame, if you please. And in that case, no. I don't trust you around my patients. Certainly not this one."

"Let him in," Came a flat and tired voice from the rear.

"Ms Weasley you don't have to give in to Mr Malfoys requests. I am here to protect you and I must say-"

"Please Madame," she begged.

"Please Madame," Draco repeated doing his best to look needy. From the looks on the nurse's face he failed miserably.

"Very well. But if anything happens to her, Draco, I will have your-"

"I know, my head," he finished.

"No, why would I want that dreadful demonic thing? I meant, I will have your bank account."

"In that case, nothing shall happen to her."

"I am positive it shan't."

And at that the nurse left the room, leaving the two with an uncomfortable silence between them. Draco chose to break it.

"So…" Though not skilfully.

She suppressed her giggle at his awkwardness, "So…"

"Why are you here?"

"Fainted."

"At what?"

She took a sip of the pumpkin juice left by her bed, "Er… I don't really know."

"Okay," he put his hands in his pockets. "So…"

"So…" she mimicked nervously.

"Have you told Potter?"

"Told him what?" she asked.

"About last night."

'What about it?"

"Ginny…"

"We had sex."

"We made love."

"It's the same thing."

"It's not with you."

"What do you want me to do? Do you think I can just ruin my life because we 'made love'?"

"It meant something to you."

"It didn't."

"You were a virgin."

She sighed, "Draco, look. I didn't mean it. You were sad, and depressed. I didn't know what else to do."

His breathing deepened as his anger grew. "What?"

"I wanted to make you feel better. That's it. I don't want you to get confused about it," she lied.

"That's it then. That's what you are? Some whore who gives herself to anyone who's in need?"

"It wasn't like that!" She yelled her face red with anger and embarrassment.

"Then what was it like then? You thought I was needy, pathetic? I became your good deed of the week?!"

"Draco," the sound was barely audible as she tried to hold back her tears, unsuccessfully.

"Don't bother," he seethed. "Thanks for your services," He said throwing her bra and a bag of coins onto her lap, "They weren't needed."

He left her bent and sobbing, like how he was the night before. But Draco Malfoy did not do favours out of pity.

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Thanks to all the reviewers:

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