AN: As of June 8th

Aha I have finally found a GOOD title for this story, I also figured out where I wanted it to move in the direction of hehe. So this story shall now be known AS. . .

Ginny Weasley and the Fear of the Dark Mark

(FORMALLY), Ginny Weasley and... Draco Malfoy

Holy crap! Okay this is really the best a fanfic of mine has ever started off. At least in means of my writing skill, and how quickly I was reviewed! I think half of the fun is just writing it, I absoloutely love Draco/Ginny, and Harry/Ginny fics. This fanfic, if you haven't been able to catch on is a bit of both. The best of both worlds one could say.

Disclaimer: I obviously, am not J.K. Rowling... Those books are all hers.

In the middle of the night, Ginny woke up. Something had startled her, suprisingly it wasn't a nightmare. Nightmares were a horrid thing. She'd been having them ever since she first got the Diary in her first year. At first they were just Tom Riddle continuosly trying to pry himself into her brain, him speaking to her. Now, in the aftermath of his control over her, they were far worse. She relived all of the horrid things she did about every other night. If one of her roommates were awake, they would often be terrified just from listening to Ginny. They heard her talking in her sleep, about all the horrible things "she" would do. Since the day Harry told her about how he felt for her, they had come less often. Now she only had the nightmares about once a month or so. They were a sign to her that she was feeling unhappy or insecure.

Ginny sat up in her bed, she searched the room with her eyes. She was sure something had woken her up. The feeling of the room was heavy, as if something was not right. Ginny jumped, she couldn't scream, because her mouth was being held shut.

"You're fine GInny. There's no reason to want to scream, it's me," a boy's voice said. His hand lowered from her mouth, but Ginny couldn't even see him. She didn't recognize the voice either.

"Who are you?" she whisper-screamed. She didn't want her roommates waking up.

He hushed her, then he said, "Ginny, it's only me, Draco. I've got an invisibility cloak on. Dumbledore gave it to me."

"Draco, you shouldn't be in here! We'll talk about this in the hallway, get out before you wake them up!" Ginny said.

She heard the rustling of his movement, and then the door opened and closed. 'Why the hell is he here? Especially at an hour like this?' Ginny thought to herself.

Quietly, she got out of her bed, and she put on a robe over her pajamas. Then she creeped from the classroom. Right there in front of her, Draco Malfoy was standing.

"Why in the hell are you in my dormitory in the middle of the night?" Ginny asked.

Draco was silent for a moment, he was thinking, 'If I knew why in the bloody hell I was here, I would tell you. If I knew why the hell I do half the things I've been doing, I'd tell you.'

"I... I'm not sure myself. I just kind of walked up and I was watching you sleep. Then you-" he said.

"Then I what! Then I heard you and I woke up? Then you realized you were in the bloody Gryffindor Tower, you're a Slytherin! If anyone saw you at all! Well, it would have the same affect as if I had told Harry you were protecting me!" Ginny yelled.

"You're telling me about keeping quiet? Ginny, you're likely to wake up half the damn school if you keep at it that loud," he said.

"Yes I was telling you to keep quiet. I don't need you causing more trouble for me than you already are! Don't you realize how much all of this has already done? I'm lying to Harry. I'm having to stay away from Harry. I hate all of this. It may be protecting me from Voldemort, but it surely isn't protecting my damned emotions," Ginny said.

"You really do like Harry don't you?" Draco asked.

Ginny then said, "Ever since the year before I came here, and I always will."

Then Draco suprised himself with his next thought, 'Well Harry will probobly get killed what will you do then? Would you go for someone else? Wait that's right, no one is even close enough to Harry's standards, especially a Slytherin.'

Draco dropped down to the floor. He sat with his knees bent in front of him, his head hanging between. "What in the bloody hell am I doing?" he whispered.

"Draco," Ginny said, "Draco, I'm sorry. I mean- I understand, I'm sorry for whining about myself."

"Ginny you know you aren't really that sorry. And you will never be able to fully understand. No matter how hard anyone tries, no one will ever be able to understand," he said.

"But would someone trying be nice?" she asked.

"I don't know, I really don't," he began, "Ginny don't fret over me, you should worry about Potter."

"I think that how the boy protecting me is doing is just as important, or more, than how Harry is," she smiled, "Draco, while this deal with you protecting me is going on, how about we make a deal. So that you can get something out of this. I will try my hardest to understand what you are going through, and to get to know you somewhat better. That way you can at least get a friend out of this."

Draco didn't want help. He was stubborn, just like Harry Potter. Potter didn't want help in protecting Ginny, or defeating Voldemort; Malfoy didn't want help in defending himself, or in anything at all.

He didn't say another word to Ginny that night. The two enemies sat together in silence. Draco needed the silence. It showed him that she understood; Ginny understood that he needed someone to simply be there.

The next morning when Ginny woke up there was a letter sitting on her nightstand. Her name was written large and elaborately. As soon as she saw the letter, she grabbed it and opened it. It became apparent that it was from Dumbledore as she read.

"Ginny,

Today is the first day that the things we discussed will be put into affect. You will go to your normal classes, I've no doubt that your teachers are able to protect you. When your classes end, you won't be walking with Mr. Malfoy, but he will be somewhere around you, watching. This deal is really only used during after-class hours and on the weekends. After your classes end for the day, if you are not in Gryffindor common room, then you will be with Mr. Malfoy.

During the course of the day, and otherwise, you should treat Mr. Malfoy as you normally would. We need to keep his reputation as it is, therefore we can allow him to later work as a double-agent for us. Thank you very much, Ginny, all of this means a great deal to The Order.

Sincerely,

Headmaster Dumbledore"

All of the things in this were things she had heard before, just repetition. Since Dumbledore was being so repetitive, it made it quite obvious that he found all of this really important.

That day Ginny's classes began with the ever-faithful, Potions. She walked down to the dungeon with Collin Creevy. He was far less annoying than he had been in first year. No longer was he obsessed with Harry. Creevy had actually grown up and into a nice young man.

"Good morning, Ginny," Snape said as she entered the classroom.

"You too, Professor," she replied.

The class went by sluggishly. Ginny couldn't concentrate at all over those two hours. They were given a reading assignment of the next two chapters of their book. Snape dismissed them.

"Ginny, stay for a moment, please," he said.

"What is it, professor?" Ginny asked, approaching his desk.

"Don't worry it's nothing to do with your grades. You are a stupendous student, as far as Gryffindors may go," he smirked, "Ginny, this is nothing Dumbledore has said must happen. But I am informing you, for your best interests. Do not get involved with Malfoy. Not because he is a bad person, but because it puts all of us in a hard place. So please, Ginny just refrain from doing that. You are dismissed."

Ginny was surprised by how quickly all the professors in her school could rattle off commands and orders. It was ridiculous that they be so good at such a thing!

She was thankful though, that Snape had only had such a pointless thing to say. Who would really ever imagine a Weasley and a Malfoy getting together? In the first place their families would probobly kill them both. Draco was also nothing like the kind of person Ginny would want to be with. He was nothing like Harry had been.

"Ginny! Wait up a sec," Luna Lovegood was running down the hallway.

"Hey Luna, what's up?" Ginny questioned.

"Oh it's nothing really. I'm just wondering why in the hell you were late out of Snape's class!" she asked.

"He just wanted to talk to me about my grades," she smiled.

"What's wrong with your grades?"

"Nothing, that's it. He wanted to tell me I was, "The best student he'd seen in his classes since Draco Malfoy," Ginny lied. She really didn't want to explain to Luna everthing that was going on.

Luna sighed, "Alright. It's just quite scary when Snape holds a Gryffindor student late."

Both of the girls laughed. Snape had always hated every Gryffindor. Of course he did, what would you expect of Slytherin's house head? No one would ever believe that he was a member of The Order, unless they themselves were.

Ginny had joined The Order in her fifth year. She remembered the battle in the Ministry distinctly, it was her first and so she hoped- only battle. It had been a scarring experience for her, especially Sirius's death. Now she served her purpose with them making Potions, and doing scientific work. Though while the school year was going on none of them could help the effort. With the dreaded Professor Umbridge long gone the D.A. had much more easily held meetings.

"Well Luna you better get to his class yourself, and I have… Divination," Ginny groaned. Trelawny was still as insane as ever, telling Harry he would die.

"Oi, enjoy yourself up there," Luna said, "Hopefully Snape-y Wape doesn't keep me to tell me as precious as wittle Draco."

The two laughed again as they both headed in opposite directions. When Ginny turned around she caught a glimpse of Draco leaning against a pillar in the middle of the hallway. He saw that she was heading to her class and began walking in that direction himself to see that she made it there.

'It's so odd, almost uncomfortable to see him everywhere I go. If only Harry were allowed to do this himself. Right now I don't think he even wants to talk to me though. After talking to him yesterday I haven't seen him since. I really do miss seeing him. Thank goodness we have Quidditch later. I'm so worried he's going to not want to be together at all anymore. That isn't what I want. I want to stay with him. It's just so incredibly hard, with all the Professors and Dumbledore telling me not to and what not.'

Ginny was so deep in thought she hadn't even realized she was at the top of the stairs leading to Professor Trelawny's classroom. She took her seat next to Collin Creevy yet again. No one would ever have to worry about being late to her class. In the first place she took long enough to get ready to begin class. Nor would she even notice if anyone walked in late.

"What did Snape have to say?" Creevy whispered as Trelawny spoke about today's constellation alignment.

"Just told me my grades are good," she smiled.

He nodded and Trelawny continued about the constellations.

"- But class today's star alignment is really not that wonderful! Not even a planet we can see! So today we will be using the Crystal balls to do something completely new to you. We will be looking into the past. . ." She emphasized the word past. Trelawny was so nutty it drove Ginny insane. Not only that, but she just never shut up about how Harry was going to "die" or have great "harm" come to him.

Ginny just coasted through the class that day, attempting not to fall asleep. She found looking into the past boring. 'What is done is done, and we can't do anything about it, so why do we care to look at it,' was one thought she had.

When the class was finally over all Ginny could say was, "Thank goodness."

Creevy laughed at her when she said this, "Look on the bright side, every time we go to that class it's one less class of hers we have to go to."

"Of course that is a good thing. But you know what else is?" she asked, "It's time for lunch!" Creevy again laughed at her sense of wit. They walked down the corridor to the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall.

During the entire course of lunch Ginny could feel a pair of eyes staring at her from the Slytherin table. The feeling of Draco watching her annoyed her to the point that she excused herself. When Hermione asked why she was leaving so early, she used the reason of a headache.

Ginny quickly walked out of the Hall and towards the lawn. She could still sense Draco, now he was following her. In her head she knew he was just watching her for good purposes, but it was beginning to drive her insane. Draco was always around, near her in the hallway, and last night when he actually came into her dormitory.

The only person who was on the lawns at the moment was actually Luna. She was absorbed in another quirkey book. Ginny kept walking on through the lawn. When she reached the lake she sat down on its edge. Malfoy followed her.

"Are you alright?" he asked as he stood behind her.

"No," she whispered.

"What is it?" he asked.

"You," Ginny whispered again.

Draco sat down next to her. Then he questioned, "What did I do? What can I do?"

Ginny sighed, "Nothing. It's all me."

"I know there must be something I can do, and how is it all you?" Draco was puzzled.

"It's just so hard to deal with everything that's happening. I can always feel you watching me and I'm not used to it," she began, "I don't really like having to do all of this. I know that I need to though. I want you to be accepted into The Order too, so I want to do this for you. It's just like I'm doing this against Harry at the same time."

Draco put an arm around Ginny's slender figure. Then she fell into him. "I know it's hard. It's hard for me too, trust me. We've got to do this though. For your sake, you don't need to worry about me at all," he whispered.

"Thank you, again," she said.

The two were forced to get up and go their separate ways. If they didn't then the students that would soon appear on the lawn would all be suspicious of their actions.

Ginny walked up to her dormitory to complete some homework during her study period. She just couldn't get her mind off of the fact that Harry was so disappointed with her. Every bit of her knew this would be a very long year.

That's the end of that chapter. Hope you liked it! (The ending was a bit rushed, sigh.) Oh well! Please Review. Many thanks.