Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.
A/N: I haven't updated in a while and I don't know if anyone will be interested in reading this. And um...I think I need a beta-reader. So...if anyone's interested...or if you don't think I do, let me know and uh...yea...
"So you had him paint you?" Colin asked as he and Ginny walked side by side around Hogsmeade.
"Yeah."
"And then he flooed his mum and she thinks you two are together?" Colin asked, an amused looking playing on his face.
"Yup, and now we're gonna make Harry look like shit."
Colin looked thoughtful. "So…Harry and Draco are cousins…"
"They are?" Blaise asked as he wrapped his arms around Colin's waist from behind.
Colin and Ginny jumped and they both halted looking at Blaise.
"How much did you hear Zambini?" Colin asked cautiously wriggling out of his hands.
Blaise forged a hurt look. "Potter's Drake's cousin. G.W." He winked at her.
Colin looked at Ginny an eyebrow raised in question. "Oh…and Blaise came and saw us."
Blaise chuckled. "They were about to get it on."
Colin looked at Ginny surprised, "No wonder you're wearing a Slytherin school shirt."
Ginny looked down at her shirt and on the front pocket was a large green S. "Shit." She reached into her pants and pulled out her wand and covered the S white.
Blaise laughed and looped his hand on Colin and Ginny's waist pulling them to Zonko's Joke shop. "I love hanging with you cute ickle-Gryffies." He said entering Zonko's.
"So…Draco…" Narcissa said sipping her tea. After Ginny had left, Draco had gotten dressed and flooed to the manor. He found Snape in the morning room reading the Daily Prophet and his mother knitting. Narcissa was ecstatic and immediately sat him down and gave him breakfast, despite his protest. She had been chattering about all the latest gossip she heard and then she stopped abruptly.
And for the last 5 minutes, it seemed like she was trying to bring up the incident this morning.
"Draco," Snape cut in, Draco looked up at him.
"Yes sir?" Draco asked, shifting in his seat.
"Please, call me Severus." He said looking up from his paper.
"Severus." Draco nodded.
"Your mother and I have something to tell you." He said seriously. Narcissa shot him a nervous look and she began to knit faster, not looking at what she was doing.
"Severus!" Narcissa hissed. "Draco, I…you…we're…"
"You're going to have a little sister." Severus finished.
A grin broke out on Draco's face. "Are you serious?"
Narcissa held up the small hat she was knitting, a small smile playing on her lips. "Mother!" He jumped to his feet and strode to her pulling her into a hug.
"I told you Narcissa," Snape said returning to the newspaper in his hand.
"How far along are you mum?" He asked holding her out at arms length.
"4 months." She said sheepishly.
Draco grinned, than frowned. "Eww! Mum! You and Severus…for 4 months?"
"Six actually." Snape muttered.
"Severus!" Both Malfoy's hissed.
He looked at them highly amused. "Like mother like son." He shook his head.
"Well this is great news. Who else knows?"
"Sirius, Mia (his wife), Blaise's mum, my side of the family, Severus' side of the family, and now you! Mia and I are pregnant at the same time. Our children are going to grow up together. Just like you and Blaise." She said wistfully.
"Wow…how great, wait until I tell Blaise, we have two little kids to mentor in our evil ways."
Narcissa looked horror stricken. "You aren't serious are you? You and Blaise were monsters when you were younger, always flooing off to somewhere. Playing with my wand. Tampering with the portraits."
Draco smirked. "I know."
"Also, dear…"Narcissa looked doubtful, "Severus and I are engaged." Narcissa held her left hand up for Draco to see the modest ring on her finger.
"Mum," He said awed. He looked at Severus whose ears were burning red. And back to his mother who had a little blush on her cheeks. "That's great." He embraced her once again and swung her in a circle.
"Draco!" She shrieked, giggling. "Put me down!"
Draco rested her on the floor. "Congratulations Severus, but I must warn you now, hurt her in any way, and I will kill you. I make no jokes about that. I would go to jail for my mother, so try anything she doesn't like, and it's me, you, and my wand."
Severus quirked an eyebrow as he lowed the newspaper, "Boy, you would be dead by the time you raised you wand." He said non-chantingly. "And I have no urge to harm your mother in anyway. I assure you, she will be treated like a queen, as will your sister."
Draco nodded and turned back to his mum, who was about ready to burst with pride. "So…Draco," She said, once again gripping his arms as if preventing him from running.
"About you and Ginevra…"
"Mum…" Draco whined.
"I want to know how you met." Narcissa said, leading him to a sofa.
Draco shot a pleading look to Snape to find that he had his paper folded and he was looking at Draco interestingly. "Well, Gin and I have been together for about a year."
"A year?" Narcissa and Snape asked. Narcissa in surprise and Snape in disbelieve.
"Yes we-"
"Why didn't you tell me?" Narcissa asked, hurt in her eyes.
Draco hated lying to his mum, but he couldn't just tell her the truth. "Well, dad was around, and I feared he would torture me, or worse, kill her. So I kept her a secret. I'm sorry mother."
She waved her hand at him signaling that he she had indeed gotten over the fact he with held information from her. "Carry on," she said summoning her cup of tea.
"We met at a Slytherin party. She kind of saved me from utter embarrassment and we talked and about six months later we made our relationship official."
"You didn't have sex yet did you?" Narcissa asked tensely.
"Mum! No, we're waiting until the time is right." Draco blushed and looked away; he hoped his mother didn't take his blush as a yes.
"Good." She muttered, "So are you inviting her for the holiday break?"
"No."
Narcissa looked at Draco sternly, "Are you inviting her for the holiday break?"
"Yes." He muttered grudgingly.
"Marvelous! I get to see the infamous Ginny Weasley! And hopefully her family would come by for Christmas! That would be wonderful. I've always wanted a large family, now I get to make Christmas a fully more enjoyable occasion!" Narcissa started to babble on counting down the months left until she played host to her lovely new nephew and her future 'Daughter-in-law'.
Snape and Draco cast wary looks at each other. 3 months 1 week and 8 days. 'The joy in planning!' They both thought sarcastically.
"Ginny!" She swung around to find Hermoine behind her. They had long ago returned from Hogsmeade, as soon as they arrived, Colin went off with Blaise to 'borrow his Transfiguration book,' and she just to the common room to finish off some homework.
It was now after 9 and she was heading down to dinner. "Gin," Hermoine paused and looked at her, something looked different. She could quite put her finger on it, but she was positive. "Look Gin, about what you saw,"
"No need to explain Herm." Ginny said coolly continuing on her trek to the Great Hall.
"Please don't be upset Ginny!" Hermoine pleaded scurrying after her.
"I'm not." Ginny replied.
"Ginny!"
"Hermoine!" Ginny said rounding on her, "Calm down! It's no skin off my back; I was shocked to say the least. I just didn't think Harry was still unfaithful."
"So, you're not mad?" Hermoine asked hopefully.
"Nope." Ginny turned once again and started walking to the Great Hall.
"Great, Harry said he wants the two of you to work out your problems."
Ginny stiffened slightly, but not enough for Hermoine to notice. "Goodie!" Ginny mumbled ducking her head low as a scowl was plastered on her face. 'He'll get what's coming.' Ginny thought bitterly.
"Ginny," she and Colin looked up from the heated chest game they were having. "I mean, Ms. Weasley."
Ginny laughed and went back to playing the game. "Knight to E-5."
"Ms. Weasley forgive me, please, I'm sorry. I stopped. Hermoine and I were a once in a lifetime thing. I've stopped, please Gin." Harry dropped to his knees and took her hand. "Gin, please, let's make it work. I swear, I'll do my part."
"Ok." Ginny said glancing at him than back to the board.
"You're serious?" He asked, relieve flooding his eyes.
"Yea."
"Queen to E-5." Colin said smugly. "Check."
"Damn," Ginny muttered.
"So, Gin, what are you doing tonight?"
"Castle to H-4. Check-mate."
"What?" Colin looked over the board and realized, he was in deed in Checkmate. "Damn it. Best 2 out of 3."
She laughed and looked at Harry. "Sorry Harry, I'm going out tonight."
"Out?" He asked confused. "Out where? There's no party tonight. And your friends have a lot of homework to do."
"I can only wonder how you know that. I know, but I do have plans besides hanging out with Gryffindors."
Harry frowned, "Tomorrow evening?"
"I might just be busy." She tapped her wand on the chessboard. "Speaking of which! Colin darling, what time is it?"
"It's 11:30. Shit." Both he and Ginny stood.
"Gotta go Harry." They said in unison as both ran up the stairs of their separate dorms.
"Harry?" Hermoine whispered as she approached.
"She's ok Herm, she's going out tonight."
"Where!" She asked surprised, Ginny was never a party girl, so Hermoine was surprised she was going out.
"I don't know" Harry grounded out.
Thirty minutes later Ginny and Colin came out of their dorms both dressed up. Colin wore baggy jeans and a black t-shirt. His hair was sticking up at odd angles. Ginny was wearing a skirt that barely qualified as a skirt. A fitted black shirt with bold letters saying, 'Everything's bigger in France.' Her hair was in a bun on top of her head, with some tendrils escaping onto her neck and face.
"Ginny," Ron said standing up, "Where are you going? And dressed like that!"
"Colin and I are going out." She said striding past Ron's angry eyes. Harry's lustful eyes and Hermoine's shocked eyes.
"Where?"
"Out." With that, she swept out the common room without another word.
"Where are you guys going?" Ginny asked on the walk down to the dungeons.
"I dunno. I think we might just stay in."
"Oh, ok. Well…be safe." Ginny said, a sly look on her face.
Colin laughed, "I should say the same for you."
"No need to worry Col. Its just a business deal."
Colin chuckled, "Blaise and I had many a business deal."
"Ugh, that's because you and Blaise are bloody fiends."
Colin laughed then kissed her cheek, "I'm off!" He turned left and she continued on her path to Draco's room.
"You again?" Tara screeched as she saw Ginny approaching. "Bloody hell! What on earth are you and him doing?"
The knight chuckled, "Isn't it obvious?" He said in a heavy Russian accent.
"Of course, but I just want to know."
"Dark Arts Covenant." Tara swung open singing a very in-appropriate song.
"Draco!" She called looking around.
"You're late." He said from in his bathroom.
Ginny rolled her eyes and walked to his bed. "Do you ever jump on your bed?"
"That was a completely random question." He said.
"Do you?" She snapped.
"No, why on earth would I do that?"
"To have fun."
"A bed is used to sleep in."
"So? A lot of people use beds for other…reasons that are fun."
"But jumping is not one of them." Draco replied coming out of the bathroom in nothing but his black silk boxers.
"Don't be a spoil sport." She muttered, a blush creeping up on her neck. Kicking off her shoes she jumped on his bed.
"Get down." He commanded.
"No!" She shouted bouncing up and down.
"Ginevra, stop jumping immediately."
"No." She said childishly.
Draco sighed and watched her legs. Suddenly he pulled her down and had her on her back. "Thank you."
She crossed her arms over her chest and pouted stubbornly. "You're not welcome."
"I have good news and I have bad news." He said walking to one of his drawers.
"Bad news first." She said looking into the dark abyss of his canopy bed.
"My mum has invited you to spend Christmas holiday, and she would like your family to be there on Christmas and Old Years Day."
"And the good news?"
"The paintings dry and ready to be shipped to Potter."
"Sweet." Ginny said, sitting up.
"So, what was the purpose of you coming here tonight?"
"To get away from everyone."
"Uh huh." Draco said as he went to his mantle.
"I want to be free. I want to have fun without Ron breathing down my neck."
Draco smirked. "Fun? What kind of fun?"