Chapter Five: Hot Dates

"Neville? Is that you?" asked Ginny excitedly as she ran across the street, not bothering to look for cars, and jumped into Neville's arms as he picked her up and spun her round.

"How you doing m' lady?" he asked giving Ginny a cheesy smile.

Ginny punched him playfully on the shoulders. To Ginny, Neville was the brother she wished she had.

"I'm doing well. And You?"

"Wonderful actually. Why didn't you tell me you were in town?" he asked sounding hurt but as Ginny put on a frown to indicate how sorry she was, Neville laughed and gave her another huge hug. "Don't worry, I forgive you. So how long are you staying?"

"Not for long I hope. I just need to do a bit of… unfinished business" she said frowning at her shoes.

"Oh well have fun. I got to get back to the factory. But I'll see you later I hope?" he added quickly as an afterthought.

"Looking forward to it."

"Ok, see ya later Gin!" he called rushing off in the opposite direction of which she was going so she headed off to get some money.

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Ginny looked around, utterly confused as she searched everywhere for an ATM. Ginny finally gave up as she went inside the Wells Fargo muggle bank to take out some cash for later on. Maybe she could bribe the little fart knocker named Draco with some money. Well he doesn't need it. He is filthy rich since his father did pass him on some cash after he died. But still, not a lot. Of course Lucius Malfoy gave him some of his 'small' fortune but since he married Ginny, his father practically disowned him. Draco wasn't allowed to go near his father or Lucius would put the cruciatus curse on him and kick him while Draco lay painfully on the ground, clutching his stomach from all the pain. Ginny had seen it once but ran away before she was seen. She remembered once Draco came home she asked if everything was okay and then asked him if it would be best if they got a divorce. Draco said no but she always knew that no matter what he said could not make it from being true that he really did want to get a divorce but just didn't want to admit it that Ginny was in fact right. She remembered that that was the night that she gave him a huge hug and they sat on the couch for the longest time in each others arms.

Ginny woke up from memory land as she walked up to the cash attendant and showed her her cash card and I.D. She looked up when she noticed that her banker wasn't giving her the I.D. and cash card back and was about to yell when she noticed the attendant smiling at her, eyebrows raised.

"Ginny? Ginny Weasley?"

"Yes?" Ginny said uncertainly.

"How've you been doing? I haven't seen you in a while," the attendant said handing her back the cash card and I.D.

Ginny looked at her confused at first but she started to remember something familiar about the face staring back at her. It was none other than Padma Patil, Ravenclaw's finest, smartest and not to mention, prettiest.

"Padma?" Ginny asked, still not believing her eyes.

"Yours truly."

"But, why are you working," Ginny looked around and lowered her voice; "here?" she carried on.

"Well my fiancé is a muggle so I have to work here, just till I feel safe about telling him about my abilities and stuff. Ya know?"

Ginny looked at her slyly and smiled. "So, you're getting married?" she asked.

Instead of answering, Padma gave her a sly smile also as she held out her ring for Ginny to examine.

Ginny nodded as she to held up her ring for Padma to admire as well. They giggled and chatted for a while longer seeing as the bank wasn't in the least busy and absolutely no one was there. Ginny finally ended the conversation as she told Padma she needed $40.00 out.

"Will that be out of your joint checking?" she asked typing at a few buttons on the computer and looking up to see Ginny's confused face. "Joint checking…" she said slower this time. "Isn't it true that you and Draco are still married?" she asked.

Ginny stopped frowning and started smiling a wicked grin. "Why yes, yes we are…"

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Draco came home that day, tired and exhausted. He had been flying his plane around England all day and was just now heading home. He landed the plane by the dock that he bought after Ginny left and parked it there. He got out and allowed his dog Bryant out of the plane. Once Bryant got out, he jumped right into the lake. Draco shook his head lightly and smiled.

"Come on Bryant!" he yelled making odd hand motions so Bryant would get the hint. Unfortunately, he didn't.

Draco trusted Bryant to come up to the door when he was done with his swim and he waved to his neighbor, Jackson before stepping in. He opened the screen door and stepped inside. He went to go hang his jacket on the coat hanger when he realized, there was no coat hanger. In fact, nothing was what it was when he left that morning.

"What the hell…" he said looking in the mirror on the closet door that wasn't there when he left. "Who th- Ginny! What the hell did you do to my house?" he said angrily as Ginny walked into the room, plates of food trailing behind her as she held her wand in her hand.

She moved her wand to the left, motioning the food to go onto the table and set her wand back into her jeans pocket and straightened out her green sweater. "Hi honeys, looking swell. How's the family?" she asked giving him a hug but he pushed her back.

"Ginny, what the hell did you do to my house?" he yelled furiously.

"I decided the place needed a little cheering up so I took some money out and redid the place. Oh and you were running out of groceries so I hope you don't mind lite beer. Less calories, you understand," she said understandingly, taking out napkins and setting them on the table.

"Lite beer?" Draco asked taking it out of the fridge and opening it. A frown was placed on his face as he looked at the cover. 'Miller Lite' how gay can you get? As he frowned a bit more, his frown was turned upside down. He looked at her evilly and said, "You can spend your money Gin, as long as it's not my money I'm ok with it."

Ginny returned his evil smile and Draco did not like where this was going. "Oh but honey? I thought you said we should think of it as 'our money'?" she asked innocently.

Draco dropped the beer as it spilt all over the new hard wood flooring. "What the hell did you do?" he asked but Ginny ignored the question.

"What do you think you're doing with all that money?" she asked but before he could answer she asked another question. "And what are you doing with all that muggle money anyway? And why are you using a muggle bank? And-"

"Ginny!" he yelled loudly, stopping her from going on asking more questions. "How much did you take out?" he asked furiously, giving her death glares.

Ginny ignored the glares and looked straight into his eyes and replied happily, "All of it," she giggled.

"Damnit Ginny! That is my money!" he said angrily as Bryant scratched at the door and barked but Draco and Ginny ignored him.

"Why do you have all that much?" Ginny asked angrily, returning his glares.

Bryant started barking louder.

"That's for me to know and you to never find out," Draco said. At times, he could be the biggest baby.

Bryant kept on barking louder and louder.

"You can be such a baby!" Ginny yelled angrily over Bryant's loud barking.

"Shut up Bryant!" yelled Draco, letting the dog in. Once Bryant got in, he jumped right on the couch, wet fur and all.

Ginny stared, completely dumbstruck. Draco looked back at her once he got Bryant off the couch.

"What happened to Pumpkin?" asked Ginny nervously.

Draco couldn't look Ginny straight in the eye after she said that so he walked away from her and went to go clean his desk off, picking up clippings and tossing them and filing books in his bookshelves. He did everything but look at Ginny.

"Draco, answer me!" she cried angrily. Ginny could do nothing to stop the tears.

Draco finally looked at her, sympathy shown in his eyes. "She died 3 years after you left."

Ginny looked at Draco and then at the floor.

"You weren't here," Draco added as an after thought.

There was silence in the room as Draco stared at Ginny and Ginny stared at the floor.

After a while of staring, Draco finally broke the silence. "Gin, what is the real reason you are here?" he asked quietly.

"Draco, quit being stubborn and sign the damn papers," Ginny said angrily, looking up from the floor and glaring at him. "It is kind of obvious that you don't want me here so why can't you just sign the papers?"

Draco didn't have an answer.

"Draco, it's time for us to move on. I want to move on, you should want to settle down again and eventually you'll want to move on too."

Draco stared at the floor.

"Don't do this, please," Ginny said, reaching out to pat his shoulder but Draco moved away quickly and moved around to the other side to open his desk drawer. He pulled out a silver pen and stared at it for awhile, twisting it and turning it over and over in his hand. He finally sighed and looked up at Ginny and gave her a smirk.

"Where's the papers?" he asked gently.

Ginny smiled at him and let out a long sigh of relief. She pulled the papers and stuff out of her purse as Draco sat on the newly remodeled couch. Leather couch…

Ginny set the papers down on the coffee table in front of Draco and sat down in the loveseat across the room and watched him read over the papers. She could see his eyes moving back and forth for a few minutes as he read from one side to the other. He looked like he had when he was at Hogwarts actually…

Ginny got up and looked around the room. She didn't touch the fireplace when she was remodeling the place cause she noticed that there was stuff on the mantle that she probably shouldn't touch like important valuables and pictures.

She picked up the one that was placed in the middle of the mantle and examined it. It was the one of her and Draco in Paris on their honeymoon. That was her favorite picture of her and Draco because you could see the Eiffel Tower behind them as it was all lit up at night. It was a spectacular sight. The best part was that it wasn't taken by a muggle camera either. It moved which made the picture all the better. It was of Ginny and Draco holding hands and every once in a while, Draco would look over at Ginny and swing their hands and then kiss the tips of her fingertips. Ginny couldn't believe he actually kept it.

She had to ask.

"Why did you keep it?" she asked suspiciously. Draco looked up confused.

"Keep what?" he asked.

Ginny looked at the papers, then at him, "The picture of us in Paris on our- honeymoon…" she said quietly. For some odd reason, it was had for Ginny to say 'our honeymoon'.

"Because that was the only picture we got of the Eiffel Tower," said Draco quickly and sounding very convincing. Well he convinced Ginny.

"Oh," she said back turning a bright red. That was kind of a stupid question. He didn't keep it because it was romantic; he kept it because it had the Eiffel Tower in it. Duh Gin!

Ginny got over herself and went over to the backside of the couch to read over Draco's shoulders. She noticed he didn't sign anything yet! "Um, you have to sign where it says 'husband's signature here'" said Ginny, hoping he got the hint.

He looked up at her and smirked. "I know honey."

She glared back at him.

He sighed and looked over the papers again and then put on a huge smile and looked at his wrist watch. "Ya know what?" he asked evilly.

Ginny looked at him nervously and replied "What?"

"I think I'll have my lawyer take a look at these first because right now I got myself a hot date!" he said happily.

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