A/N: don't own don't sue
The lyrics at the beginning are from 'Autumn's Monologue' by From Autumn to Ashes
A rather quick update for me but what can I say, I randomly got inspired hurrah. Not much further to go on this one so enjoy while you can. As always thank you for any reviews all of which are answered at the end
Chapter Eight – Autumn's Monologue
Oh why cant I be what you need
A new improved version of me
But I'm nothing so good
No I'm nothing
Just bones, a lonely ghost burning down songs
Of violence of love and of sorrow
I beg for just one more tomorrow
Where you hold me down fold me in
Deep deep deep in the heart of your sins I break in two over you
I break in two
And each piece of me dies
And only you can give the breath of life
But you don't see me, you don't
Here I'm in between darkness and light
Bleached and blinded by these nights
Where I'm tossing and tortured 'til dawn
By you, visions of you then you're gone
The shock lifts the red from my face
When I hear someone's taking my place
How could love be so thoughtless, so cruel
When all, all that I did was for you
I break in two over you
I break in two
And each piece of me dies
And only you can give the breath of life
But you don't see me you don't
I break in two over you
I break in two
And each piece of me dies
And only you can give the breath of life
But you don't see me you don't...
I break in two over you
I break in two over you, over you
I break in two
I would break in two for you
Now you see me
Now you don't
Now you need me
Now you don't
The dance had been going on for at least three hours when Ginny and her friends had arrived and it was now into the early hours of the morning with no sign of the revelry ceasing. Ginny had danced her feet off and drunk a lot more than her fair share when she finally staggered out of the crowd pulsating on the dance floor and fell into her seat next to Draco who was taking a time-out. She felt a slight twinge of guilt when she remember she had a ball to attend the next evening but she was having too much fun to care for long as she glanced at Draco.
His hair was dripping and dark silver with sweat and his white shirt was drenched and sticking to him with it as he took another gulp of his beer, watching her as she sat down and quickly downed the rest of her alcohol. Grinning at him she whipped up her long-sleeved red sweater to expose a black tank top studded to form the words; Remember My Name, You'll Be Screaming It Later, before she twisted her hair up in her hand into a knot and took a mouthful of Vanessa's cocktail on the table next to her. Getting to her feet she felt an icily hot hand burning into her arm and she turned back to look at Draco who raised an eyebrow at her, she rolled her eyes.
"I'm going to the Ladies, want to accompany me I'm not quite sure I can manage it on my own."
He smirked at her and she grinned before disappearing through the crowds towards the toilets at the side of the dance floor. Seeing the long snaking queue outside the Ladies toilets she stopped and huffed irritably. There was another set of toilets close by in the restricted section of the college and she made in instant decision, ducking back through the crowds and creeping around a pillar past the teachers who were guarding the doors and into the dark corridor beyond.
Turning a corner she had time to glimpse the toilets at the end of the corridor she was knocked sideways into a room next to her, a hand instantly gripping her arm as a few muttered words locked the door and placed a Silencing Charm on the room. Startled Ginny backed away and rubbed at her arm where her captor's nails had scratched her skin. Silence pressed against her ears from inside the room as shrieks and screams shattered the calm on the other side of the door.
Squinting she could just make out a blurred figure standing in front of the doorway and she froze, her muscles tensed just in case. Reaching out for her wand she let out a hiss of disappointment when she clearly saw it sat quite happily on the table next to her empty glass. In her moment of distraction her captor had a hand closed over her mouth and a painfully tight grip on her waist.
"I've told you before, Miss Marlow, you shouldn't have come back."
A thrill of fear ran through Ginny and she stood terrified, all her strength and bravery gone at the sound of a voice she had never heard yet felt as familiar as her own. She thought of running to her door but she was clamped too hard against him. When she felt his hand running down low against her navel her anger cut through her panic and she bit hard down on his finger forcing him to release his grip on her mouth as blood seeped between her lips almost choking her.
She struggled to escape but he still had a tight grasp on her waist as he cursed her under his breath for his bleeding fingers. Driving her elbow back as hard as she could at his ribs she threw back her head feeling it come into contact with something with a satisfying crunch. He ducked down away from her and she gave him a well-placed knee in the groin for the hell of it and finally he released her, she raced towards the door, kicking his hand away as he reached for her.
Throwing open the window of the door she threw herself through it and collapsed outside on the floor, knowing she only had a few seconds at most she was on her feet in an instant and racing down the pitch black corridor towards the sounds of the confused shouts issuing from the hall where the dance was being held. She slammed hard into the wall as she tried to turn a corner too fast and she felt a hand on her shoulder as she spun around. His cold hands chilled her skin as he held her down, his breath burning her ear as he whispered harsh words at her, his knee wriggling between her legs to manoeuvre them apart. She swung her free arm to punch him as hard as she could, kicking him of her and scrambling on down the corridor.
Slipping she felt the cold floor beneath her body and she froze, listening to the footsteps echoing around her and she sat up quickly. She scrambled to her feet and paused, listening as running footsteps surrounded her. She spun in a full circle but it was too dark to see anything as she heard the noise again but this time a lot closer. Her head hurt where she had hit the wall and her right side ached where she had fallen. Taking a deep breath she calmed herself enough to picture where she was, there was a door to her left. Turning she caught sight of her tormentor with his legs astride right in front of the door leading to her freedom.
Running as quickly as she could she threw herself down on the floor just as he reached for her, she slid neatly through his legs. Turning over she stared dazedly at him for a moment before clambering to her feet and racing down the corridor towards the dance just in time to slam hard into someone. Beating at his chest with her fists as the lights flickered on she took a moment to take in his face and the halo of silver hair framing his handsome face as he held onto her despite her still frantically flailing arms. Finally realising it was him she froze before whipping around to look for her attacker. No one. Shivering she let Draco lead her back to where the rest of the party-goers were Apparating home.
Ginny was decidedly pissed off.
She had on her sexiest dress which was low cut at the front and the back with a huge split up the side and she still hadn't managed to make Draco pay her any proper attention. Sure every male in the room, from gawking thirteen year olds to leering eighty year olds, watching her every move but it irritated and upset her that even looking her most alluring and seductive she couldn't get that one person to notice her. If she hadn't seen the evidence in front of her right now she would have sworn he was gay.
But the busty amazing blonde that had whipped him away from her the second they had set foot in the room and had remained glued to him all evening was definitely not a man, much to her disappointment. Seeing the blonde move away from Draco and off in the direction of the Ladies Ginny estimated she had about five minutes while she queued to bollock her escort. Crossing the room she slid in next to him and glared at the side of his face she could see as he kept his gaze on the colourful kaleidoscope of the dance floor.
"I thought you were here to protect me from these perverted heads of society." She hissed into his ear as she forced a smile at a passing overweight man who was leering quite openly at her cleavage. "Not prance around with slappers wearing no knickers."
Lifting up the blonde's champagne glass she curled her lip distastefully at the fuchsia pink lipstick plastered around the rim before throwing back her head and draining the glass. When Draco didn't even bother to look at her never mind answer she narrowed her eyes at him and 'accidentally' stomped one of her three-inch high heeled shoes as hard as she could on his foot. Hissing in pain he turned and glowered at her and she gave him a sickly sweet smile and got to her feet as the blonde emerged from the crowd, her gaudy dress standing out against those swirling around her as she gracefully placed herself in the chair Ginny had just vacated. Draco glanced up as Ginny circled him and leant over to whisper in his ear on his other side;
"Fine. You wanna play the hard way then so be it; I invented this game."
Grabbing his full glass of champagne she knocked it back with one swallow and slammed it none-too-gently down on the table in front of him. Turning she whistled loudly at a group of boys their age who were huddled near the drinks table laughing and chattering loudly; smiling coyly she crooked her finger at the best looking one, beckoning him over. Whispering seductively into his ear the boy smirked at her and slowly coiled his hand around her waist, signalling a waiter and quickly giving him a request.
Perching on the edge of the table and raising her right leg, so the thigh-high split fell open to reveal her smooth lily-white legs, she quickly unwrapped the thin straps that wrapped around her legs to her knees. After removing bother shoes she dropped them onto the floor next to Draco who narrowed his eyes at her as the music ground to a halt instantly followed by the applauding crowd as the conductor amplified his voice with a flick of his wand.
"Now we have a great treat, a dance rarely played because of its complexities we have a couple willing to try their luck before you all."
Catching on to Ginny's plan as she took the hand the youth held out to her, Draco snapped his fingers at a passing waiter and harshly ordered a double whiskey.
Ginny allowed herself to be swept through the crowd and into the wide open space at the centre of the dance floor where the rest of the crowd had moved away to give them space. Ginny took up her position, one hand held by the youth who had loosened his tie and removed his jacket, and the other at her right side. Her legs were astride with her right foot pointed to the side slightly and her head facing right but lowered as the lights dimmed. The steady, sexy insistent beat began and a bright spotlight lit up the couple as Ginny snapped her head and body towards the youth, her right hand jumping to his shoulder and her lower body arching towards his as his hand jerked to her waist to sweep her across the dance floor. Pulsing red lights flickered around the dance floor as miniature white fairy-lights circled around them keeping exactly in time with their movements.
The dance was a lot longer than most and generally consisted of the pair gyrating against each other and other such seductive moves, and as Ginny dropped quickly to squat at the floor before slowly arching back up, her behind rubbing the entire length of his legs and crotch as she rose again. Spinning her around by the waist he dropped down until his nose was almost touching the silk at her navel and she threw her head and shoulders back, eyes closed as he rose to his full height again and pulled her back against him.
Spinning her out at arms length, their fingers still interlocked as he spun her back smoothly against him, her right leg hooking over his hip automatically and her dress falling almost entirely away from her thigh in the process. Dropping her down in a dip he swung her in a semi-circle as he lifted her, their faces were inches away from each other when she was brought back up, her ruffled locks had escaped their loose bun and tumbled over her shoulders and into her face as the pair rocked their lower bodies in opposite rhythm against each other.
Draco's eyes had been steadily getting narrower and narrower as the dance continued around the dance floor, their moves of the moment playing out mere metres from him as his grip got tighter on the empty whiskey glass clutched in his hand. As the music ended and the dancing pair's lips touched briefly his hand tightened reflexively on the glass and it shattered sending shards of glass flying in all directions and making nearly every female at the table shriek and duck.
A dozen waitresses surged forward towards him to clean up the mess Draco watched over their shoulders a the youth kissed Ginny's hand and made his way to the Men's Room, another youth taking his place almost instantly and whisking Ginny back into the crowds once more filling the floor to dance. Ignoring the tittering waitresses Draco grabbed the fresh glass one was offering and downed the triple whiskey without so much as a glance at what was in it.
"You know some people keep to the tradition that you should smash two more things to break the spell of bad luck."
Draco ignored the crone shoehorned into a rhinestone dress and plastered in so much makeup she'd sink like stone if she was dropped into a pool sitting across from him and snapped at a waitress to bring him another whiskey. The blonde had her arms crossed over her chest and a sullen expression on her face as she surveyed Draco's stony expression and the ever growing number of glasses before him as he watched Ginny's dancing progress through almost every young male at the ball.
"Well since Draco's heart just broke we only need one more thing."
The crone stared at her for a moment in confusion before turning back to loudly stick her oar into another conversation at the next table. Slamming down his once more empty glass Draco got to his feet and shoved his way in front of a youth about to take Ginny's hand. Allowing him to tug her back onto the dance floor Ginny cowered at the icy look on his face and the blankness in his eyes and just for a second she wondered if she'd gone too far. And then he opened his big fat mouth and anger replaced any apologies she might have been about to make.
"You made a complete spectacle of yourself."
Her face hardened even as his grip on her hand and waist tightened painfully as he caught sight of the slavering youths still watching her.
"Really."
She could smell the whiskey on his breath but she felt no fear that he might hurt her in his half-drunken state. Harshly spinning her back out and yanking her back against him so she slammed into his body almost knocking the breath out of her.
"You looked like a common tart out there and if I didn't know any better I'd swear you're going to act like one later with those uneducated morons over there."
He jerked his head at the youths and anger bubbled up inside her, she tried valiantly to wriggle free of his strong grip but his own anger gave him almost inhuman strength and he jerked her back against him.
"Fuck you!" She hissed into his ear before he spun her around again. "You were the one with your hand so far down that blonde's cheap dress anyone could have mistaken your fingers for her toes."
His face froze even more than when the dance began if that was possible and she flinched back in his embrace.
"I was making a show." He seethed through his teeth. "Her father worked with my father, I was getting information."
Ginny saw the logic in his words but her anger refused to abate and there was still the matter of the things he had said to her. Revolving on the spot with him she glared him poisonously in the eye.
"Maybe so but there was no need for the things you said."
His anger overrode his sense and his mouth took over before his brain could engage, at least that's what he told himself repeatedly in the ten minutes after he spoke;
"Well if you hadn't acted like a whore, I wouldn't have had reason to call one."
There was a loud resounding crack as her hand made contact with his face leaving a stinging red mark across his pale cheek and complete silence throughout the room as she wrenched free of his grasp and raced out of the room, not even bothering to stop and grab her shoes and shawl on her way out. The occupants of the halls were rather disturbed to see a beautiful red-head in a blood-red dress racing past them bare-foot with tears streaking makeup down her face as she tore through the building and emerged into the pouring rain of the night.
She was much too upset to Apparate properly, she would end up in Cleveland, so she dashed out into the traffic and hurriedly hailed a passing cab, which mercifully screeched to a halt. Gibbering out the name of the school she sat back against the seat and hugged her knees to her chest, shivering madly as her soaked hair spilled over her deathly pale face and dripped water in a steady puddle on the seat. Normally the driver would have had something to say about it but the girl looked so stricken he could only assume someone must have died so he left her be.
Draco had followed Ginny out into the rain and stood now letting the cold water turn his shirt see-through as it plastered his hair to his head. He watched her get into the taxi and he breathed a sigh of relief before Apparating back to the school to wait at the door for her. As he had predicted the driver became rather less understanding when he realised the girl didn't have any money to cover the rather extensive bill and it was only when Draco emerged from the darkness of the porch and plied him with twice the amount he needed did his manners return and he apologised to Ginny for his behaviour and her loss.
Draco took Ginny by the arm and led her in through the doors and out of the driving rain, pulling her through the empty corridors he shoved her into her room and locked the door behind them. Once they were in she jerked away from him and collapsed into a chair sobbing.
"Leave me alone!" She moaned burying her face in her hands.
It had hit her in the cab on the way home how bad her behaviour had been and she was too embarrassed to face anyone now least of all Draco sodding Malfoy.
"Stop being pathetic." He snapped. She groaned and her sobs doubled.
"You said it yourself I looked and acted like a damn whore. I feel so stupid."
His face softened and he knelt down before her, his hands on her elbows and his chest pressed against her knees.
"I'm sorry I said those things. You didn't deserve that, I should have told you what I was doing."
Struck by the sincerity in his voice she stopped crying and looked up at him through the tangles of her hair, swiping at her face she streaked black mascara over her freckled cheeks making her look down-right adorable. She had never looked more alluring and he felt heat stirring in his loins as his gaze fixed on her huge tear-filled eyes gazing back almost fearfully at him.
"You didn't have to tell me what you were doing; I'm not your keeper. And even if you did just want her for sex, it's none of my business."
His grip tightened on her elbows and his anger resurfaced almost instantly at the hint of spite in her voice.
"No, you're right it isn't."
Her eyes darkened and she got quickly to her feet, knocking him onto his backside on the floor as she stepped over him to stand in the middle of her room.
"Indeed. Now if you please you're ruining my carpet by dripping on it." Stretching out her arm she pointed at the door. "Please leave."
Getting slowly to his feet he took a step towards her so quickly she found herself taking one back.
"What if I don't want to?"
She narrowed her eyes at him and lowered her arm and crossed to the door, unlocking it and pulling open before turning back to him.
"I don't think it really matters what you want."
Crossing the room to stand before her he gently closed the door and turned the key in the lock once more, lowering his face towards hers until his lips were almost touching her ear.
"And what happens if what I want is the same as what you want?"
Her breathing was rapidly increasing and she hurriedly stepped around him to giver herself room to breathe and collect her thoughts as he watched her, his face entirely serious.
"How the hell would you know what I want?"
Her anger was rising again at his assumption and she hated the fact that he could work her up so easily with the slightest amount of effort.
"Because I can see it in your eyes when you look at me, you can't hide from me and you know it; that's what scares you."
Ignoring the tingling of her body at his words glowered at him.
"Don't you dare think you can pull that crap on me, I'm not one of your easy lays like that blonde."
Rage darkened his eyes and he took two swift steps, slamming her back against the wall and pinning her there with his body, his hands on either side of her head. Before either of them knew what was happening he was kissing her with such ferocity her passion instantly ignited setting fire to his until lust was racing all over her body like liquid fire in her blood warming every inch of her and making her cling to him desperately.
His hands burned through the thin soaking material of her dress as they roamed her back, resting just at the top of her backside as he applied enough pressure there to make her arch her pelvis up against his rapidly hardening length. Their lips were melded together as she dug her nails into his back through his shirt, feeling his muscles working under the sodden material beneath her fingers. Neither of them seemed to feel the need for oxygen as Draco hands moved over her bum and around the sides to stroke her thighs through the silk moulded to her skin. Caught in a sudden onslaught of lust she thrust her hips at him until he groaned, his hands shifting to roughly push her dress to aside by the split on the right side.
Her hands fumbled on his wet zipper until she eventually managed to force it down and free him. He swelled even further in her hand as he finally broke their lips apart to moan into her shoulder as he dropped his forehead down against her neck. Caressing him she gasped for breath, her head thrown back against the wall as his hands slipped over the silk of her knickers as he impatiently tried to work them down her trembling thighs.
Afraid to speak in case she broke the spell of desire she willed him to just break them, she could barely control her hunger for him and her caresses gradually grew more insistent as the silk refused him access to what he craved. Growling he ripped at the elastic, snapping it and forcing a groan of longing out of Ginny at the low guttural moan in his throat when he finally pressed his fingers against her.
Their lips met once more as they both moved their hands to clutch at each other, Ginny to cling to Draco's muscular shoulders and he to grip her backside as he lifted her up against the wall. Securely wrapping her legs firmly around him her warmth pressed against him tantalisingly until he could stand it no more and he drove into her as hard as he could. Tearing her mouth away from his Ginny bit her lip to keep from crying out in ecstasy as her nails dug into his flesh through the shirt and the delicious mix of pain in his back and pleasure at his front made Draco groan ever louder.
Their frenzied pairing didn't last long. Both had already been halfway there before he had even entered her and it didn't take long before both had peaked, Draco slumping down onto the floor still inside her and with Ginny cradled in his lap. Exhausted Ginny let her head fall back against the wall, her shoulders slumped against its bracing strength she was already have asleep when she felt Draco move from under her. Withdrawing from inside her he gently set her down on the floor and set about trying to sort his car-wreck of an outfit.
Unable to think of anything to say Ginny watched him standing awkwardly before her and she wondered bitterly if this happened often between Draco and Crystianna when they were drunk. Biting her swollen lip she stared fixedly at the floor, missing the almost imploring look he sent her when he was ready. Hovering in the middle of the room Ginny didn't think to realise that Draco Malfoy never hovered, he would have left or decided to stay but he would never show weakness by remaining undecided. But her still champagne-filled brain wasn't working properly and right now she was concentrating all her efforts on not letting her tears spill over again to notice his plight.
He seemed to come to a decision that included both leaving and comforting her, he bent down and kissed her tenderly on the forehead, both cheeks, the tip of her freckled nose and ever so lightly her trembling lips before he quickly left the room, as though by taking his time or looking back he'd never get the courage to go through the door and leave her.
Shaking as much from his display of tender affection towards her as by what had just happened between she got rather unsteadily to her feet and slipped her ruined knickers off along with her dress and strapless bra. Crossing the room she threw them onto the merrily crackling fire as she passed and collapsed into her bed, the cool sheets calming her. She felt briefly dirty by not having a shower but she wanted to keep the feel and smell of him on her for as long as possible even if only while she slept.
Chantal J – not seen the film but I'll take it as a compliment so thanks D
Calla-ForEvEa – thanks and here's your next one
Nickel – you'll get to see what Crystianna thinks very soon, in the next chapter in fact I hope you like this one while you wait
JuzElizabeth – I hurried just for you, well for all my readers actually but hey who's listing names, I hope you like it
im no muggle – exams are the education's board of punishing us for hating their schools and colleges damn them. Ah well its over now. He probably was shocked and maybe they started their friendship hating each other who knows? I'll let my readers interpret that bit for themselves