Hey guys , I decided to put this chapter in as a suggestion from a reader, I'm not entirely happy with it though. Sorry I haven't updated in so long. Major writer blockage.

I'm having a tough time coming up with Draco's love interest. Any suggestions.


Reviewers:

Lorblak : Malfoy's smirk will be making an appearance in this chapter, I promise you. I'm not big on G/H , so have no fear Ginny is Draco's Girl.

GinevraXmalfoy: Good job , It's little red riding hood.

Memories of You : Thanks for the compliment, here's the update :)

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Dweeb: You didn't look hard enough;) I found them. Thanks about the poem. This chapter will be little red riding hood.

Onsetlife : I BEG TO DIFFER..... I am a huge Hp fan , the next book is CALLED Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Sorry to go a bit psycho. I spent way to much time on mugglenet and JK's website to be wrong. :) Thanks on your review of the story.

ERmonkey, burner of cookies: Lol , its little red riding hood.

BloodNDarkness : Course it is , all the poems I write are mine :) And you are right about Ridinghood

cf : Thanks for reading and taking the time to review , here it is.

Magicwand : How do you know she won't kiss him (Harry) ;) Ur right about Little R. RidingHood

dreamergurl : Thank you for your wonderful review. I always was partial to the little mermaid , I still know all the songs by heart :) Sadly , I have no plans to write one, in this story. I will probably be including some of the others you mentioned.

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Hpreader4l : Thanks on the poem and the story,

Purus.Flere. I am having a very hard time coming up with his love interest. I am afraid I made Draco a little TOO dense in that chapter.

Lina : I never really liked Harry much , too perfect, too modest , tooo,,,,,,, bland

Trio Wing : I scare you.... thanks , I think :)

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Lorblak : :) Awe , always nice to hear from you. I couldn't include your previous reviews in the last chapter, so you have two in this one.

Ash Night : It doesn't matter who she loves at the moment, only whom she loves in the end ;) You and Draco have a lot in common eh.

Liltrick89: Nah , that would be too easy . Besides , Ginny needs to get a bit jealous. you are correct on the fairytale.

Hidden-Tales4evea: Thanks for the encouragement.

Ch.10 Ridinghood

The mountains were one of the cleanest places in the world. Free from the dirtiness of humans and their wasteful ways, the mountain remained immaculate in everyway possible , except for one. Draco Malfoy's bright blond hair and Ginny's Weasley red hair contrasted greatly with the untouched atmosphere.

From the moment Ginny arrived she felt an immediate change . The air was thinner and purer than the Hogwarts library. It smelt fresh, unlike the dusty scent of old books. She looked around to be met with a sight for sore eyes. Everything was green and perfect. Conifers were dotting the landscape while an old rustic looking trail weaved itself pleasantly around the mountainside and on a rather small rock sat a little girl in a scarlet cape.

The dewy grass grazed her tiny legs, causing her to giggle in delight. She looked right into Ginny's eyes and smiled a slow gap-toothed smile. Draco having just got up himself looked up to see the same little girl with an infectious smile.

Ginny brushed herself off and went to kneel beside the little girl . "Hello." She said tentatively.

The girl bounced up rather quickly , showing off an abundant head of buttercup yellow curls. She gave a little giggle an a small curtsey. " Hello."

She then skipped over to Draco and tugged on his robe. " My name is L.R. RidingHood," She said with a slight lisp. " You can call me L.R."

She then gave a little giggle as though quite enamoured with Draco.

" What's your name?" She asked merrily.

Draco raised an eyebrow at the little girl and pried her fingers from his robe.

" Little chits should keep their dirty little paws to themselves." He replied maliciously. His disdain went quite unnoticed.

" You're funny. I don't have paws." She gave a little giggle and dragged him by his hand rather forcefully towards a little basket at the foot of the rock she had previously sat on.

Quite strong for a six year old . Though Draco.

L.R quickly opened the basket and fished out a little dolly that resembled herself greatly. She pushed Draco to the ground. Manhandled by a six year old. What would father say... I don't care.

She then proceeded to explain the intricacies of her dolly to Draco in great detail. Draco though it best to remain docile... for the moment. Ginny who was standing a bit off to the side was enjoying this moment. It was a welcome change to see a Malfoy listening, if not forcefully to a little child. Ginny hid a smile behind her hand.

The little chit was chattering on like a harpy. Draco thought it best that they start on their task ; delivering the child to her sire.

" And this is her dress, red. I love red, its a good colour. I like yellow too... like your hair. say , what is that bandage on your arm.." She then promptly tugged on the bandage and Draco let out a yell. She looked rather scared and shrank into a fetal position.

" You are the most insufferable little girl I have ever met. I should like to put a muzzle on you , but since I haven't got one, I suppose I could hold your bloody hideous doll captive to stop your...incessant prattling...." Draco said furiously. He made a grab for the doll, but quick as a flash Ginny got between them.

" You will do no such thing. You are acting like a savage... that is a little girl, not a beast." Ginny said , while puffing up to make herself look bigger.

" That is no little girl," He pointed towards the small quivering child. " that is .. a beast."

Ginny stepped in closer to Malfoy and grabbed a fistful of his robes in her hands, drawing him in so they were eyelevel.

" Apologise. Malfoy." Said Ginny

"No." He replied with a sneer. Ginny's face was becoming red. She didn't know why she was so stringent in defending this child, but in some ways she saw something in the little girl that reminded her of herself.

She let out a bellowing yell that caused birds to scatter from a large tree adjacent to their little clearing. " Apologise."

Malfoy leaned in closer " Why."

Ginny stopped , Malfoy's face was inches away from her own leaving her no choice but to look into his eyes. The were like pools of water under a cloudy sky . Slate grey. Unforgiving, stern. Drowning in them was simply not an option, but finding something other than harshness was. Ginny detected that something in his eyes. Something that made him more human , more vulnerable and more of a man his father would ever be.

" Why? because you would never hurt an innocent little girl."

" You are an innocent little girl and I hurt you." replied Draco with a smirk.

Ginny replied very seriously , pronouncing ever syllable slowly while maintaining eye contact. The little girl now forgotten.

" I'm not innocent, I haven't been for years," She then whispered in a very low voice. " I know you wouldn't Draco."

Still holding onto his robes. His hurt arm was paining him now due to Ginny's hold. So he reluctantly snatched his robes away from her, disappointed in some way by the loss of closeness with her.

With a sneer he replied. " Why do you presume to know me?"

" I don't . I just know your not your father." Ginny heard him mumble something that didn't quite reach her ears.

You're right.

Ginny was just about to ask him to repeat himself when he broke eye contact with her and swivelled around to the little girl huddled on the floor. The little girl hugged her dolly to her, scared she might be taken away.

" I'm sorry I tried to take your dolly from you, I only wanted one of my own." said Draco solemnly.

The little girl curled her small fingers around his neck and gave a giggle of delight. As did Draco , who had just received his first hug that he could remember.

" I forgive you. Are you taking me to my grandmothers house now?"

Ginny stepped in , " Yes , do you know the way?"

The little girl nodded her head and picked up her little basket and put her tiny hand in Draco's rather large one. She then walked over to Ginny and took her hand in her other one.

" It's just down that path." she replied merrily.

Ginny and Draco sneaked a peak at one another. They both smiled tentatively. The little girl was looking at them both with a toothy eyed grin and shook them out of their reverie.

"Let's go." she huffed indignantly.

Draco turned his head to Ginny and spoke. " Demanding isn't she?"

They all trotted along the path with L.R skipping merrily in between them . Her little basket thumping Draco's leg with every step. He didn't mind though . It is a strange thing how peoples perceptions of you can enforce change. Draco had never been see as anything but the evil incarnate of his father.

The Weasley had seen through his charade , and it had made him elated to know that he wasn't or didn't have to be exactly what his father moulded him into. It was rather nice to be different . A warm little hand was a feeling that made him feel ..the closest he had ever been to content. Something Lucius and Narcissa had never been capable of doing.

The sudden change towards the little girl was very unnerving to Ginny. She thought she could chance speaking to him without a stinging reply.

" I'm sorry I grabbed your robes and hurt your arm back there." said Ginny softly , while the little girl between them was skipping and singing a song.

" It's fine," He replied. Ginny could barely contain her shock. " It's a pity however..."he continued.

" It's a pity .. what ." Ginny said harshly.

" It's a pity I'll have to burn my robes after you touched them. I do rather like the cut of these ones. Makes me look rather dashing." He said with the famous smirk on his face.

" Your insufferable." said Ginny

The little girl had now disentangled herself from their hands and was now chasing a butterfly towards a shady part of the path.

While Ginny and Malfoy were arguing a bit behind the little girl , an enchanted animal was observing the little girl. L.R had long since abandoned hunting the butterfly and had settled down in a small tuft of flowers alongside the trail.

A low silk voice came from inside the bushed. " What lovely flowers. Who are you picking them for?" A paw stepped out of the bushes followed by the large head of a wolf.

"I am going to see my grandmother, and am taking her a cake, some chicken and a pot of butter which my mother has sent to her."

"Does she live far away?" asked the Wolf.

"Oh, yes," replied L.R ; "it is yonder by the mill which you can see right below there, and it is the first house in the village."

"Well now," said the Wolf, "I think I shall go and see her too. I will go by this path, and you by that path, and we will see who gets there first."

The Wolf set off running with all his might towards shorter road, and the little girl continued on her way by the longer road.

The little girl thought nothing of the dangerousness of the wolf but ran towards Draco and Ginny, intent on beating the wolf to her grandmothers house.

As L.R approached Ginny and Draco's voice became steadily louder, but immediately quieted down when they heard the little girl come near.

" We need to hurry, I want to beat the wolf to grandmothers house." said L.R quickly.

Draco bent down and talked to her in a small voice. " I'm sure the wolf won't beat us , let's get going."

Ginny clearly still angry at Draco chose to walk a little ways behind him and L.R whose adoration for the git had grown tremendously. Walking down the path was a beautiful experience. It was dotted with the same yellow posies that L.R had clutched in her hand. Ginny was enjoying herself despite her sour company.

Smoke had begun to become visible in the distance, and as the three came closer , The begun to see a small brown house come into view. L.R jumped excitedly. She handed Ginny her little basket and made them hold hands. She then rushed happily towards the house.

Draco and Ginny both let go almost immediately. Imagine the germs of a Weasley.

Draco didn't want to admit that he would miss her , but looked down to Ginny's hand and saw a small basket in her grasp. He smirked.

" I'm feeling a bit peckish Weasley." Ginny silently agreed, but looked at him sternly.

" This doesn't belong to us."she replied

" Just a little chicken leg." She rolled her eyes,

Ginny reached in and pulled out a fried chicken drumstick an handed it to Draco who began tasting it. A scream stopped his eating . L.R

Malfoy sped towards the house at top speed, he grabbed an axe at the entrance to the house. Ginny was in his wake , not able to move as fast. Draco opened the door roughly and was met with tiny JR about to get her head bitten clean off by a large wolf. Draco swung at the wolf haphazardly but only managed to have distract it from J.R . The axe flew out of Draco's grasp and landed on the floor It started to go after Malfoy. Ginny who had arrived at the entrance picked up a large rock and aimed it at the wolf. Her aim true, it struck it on the head giving Draco precious seconds to retrieve his axe.

Without thinking he swiped at the wolf and slit his straight from navel to nose, exposing an old lady still fully clothed and very much alive . JR had retreated to the corner of the small abode and was shaking like a leaf. Ginny rushed over to comfort her.

Draco was busy extracting the old lady from the stomach of the wolf, but she seemed very indignant to accept help, so he let her be. JR had her shoulder nestled in the crook of Ginny's neck sobbing hysterically. Draco went over and put a hand on her shoulder. The little girl looked through a sheet of tears and threw herself at Draco planting a tiny kiss of his cheek and thrusting her small doll into his arms, then running off to go see her grandmother.

Both magical teenagers though it best to leave the two in peace. They walked out of the house and down a ways before they spoke.

" That was a very decent thing you did Draco." Ginny started

" Please forget it, do you have any idea what it would do to my reputation." Draco scowled.

Ginny smile " Improve it I expect." Draco smiled in spite of himself.

The purple fog, once again sensing the task was over took Draco and Ginny back to the Hogwarts library . However , both held a new level of respect for one another that had not been present before.

There are some things you can't share without ending up not hating each other, and saving a little girl from the clutches of a wolf was one of them.