I made a mistake in the last chappie I think or the chappie before. Gabrielle's eyes are blue not hazel Blue! I forgot. Oops.
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Disclaimer: i repeat if i owned it i'd be in my swimming pool full of jell-o couting my money. not writing fanfiction. the song id Robbie williams. 'these dreams'
Also this Chappie isn't betaed, My beta hasn't been to school in a week due to filming.
Chapter 12.
Gabrielle's house was amazing. It was huge Ginny loved it there. Her cousins were there for the holiday so the house was lively and it seemed that it always was like this but what Ginny was most amazed with was Gabrielle's mother.
"Your mum is the Celestina Warbeck."
Gabrielle looked at Ginny's awestruck face as her mother left the room after greeting her new guests.
"Yes." she replied. "I'm sure I told you this." she said an airheaded expression crossing her face.
"No, no you didn't. How do you neglect to mention something like this?"
Gabrielle shrugged. "I forgot."
She led Ginny up a flight of large stairs, the boys had disappeared earlier something about looking at the new pitch. Gabrielle had then explained to Ginny that her father had, had their fourth quidditch pitch installed while she was away, why they need for she couldn't fathom but they had it and all males that entered the domain flocked to it so where was bad?
Gabrielle led Ginny to the east wing of the house.
"This my dear Ginny, is my Domain." Gabrielle announced opening the large double doors of the east wing. "Off limits if I'm not present or strict permission from me is not given," she continued to explain walking into the large hallway that was the east wing.
"Ok that," she pointed to a Door at the end of the hall. "Is my and Blaise's room."
"You share a room?"
"You really have to get over these subtle things Ginny, yes we share a room and yes my mother know can she do anything about it no." she continued down the hall. "This one is Draco's. . . just thought you'd like to know," She smirked and continued. "And this one, is yours." she opened a set off large wooden doors and entered Ginny's room.
Ginny gasped as she entered the expansive room. There was a set of white suite couches, dusted with a light pink colour. A set of large french windows with thin white sheer curtains that blew freely when the wind came in. Gabrielle walked straight to another room and stopped, she turned and looked at Ginny.
"This is just your common room Gin, the bed room is this way." She smiled and walked through the door. Ginny followed still in a slight awe as to all that was going on around her.
"This is your bedroom, the bathroom is through there, wardrobe over there, kitchenette-"
"Kitchenette?"
Gabrielle stopped. "Don't ask my mother is odd in more ways than one." She watched as Ginny walked around the room.
Ginny walked over to the wardrobe and opened it and gasped again. "Gabrielle there are clothes in here."
"Yeah those are yours."
"No they're not."
"Yes they are my mother loves shopping she buys for everyone."
"Really?"
"Yep."
"Then how do you know when she really likes you?"
"Oh you will." Gabrielle walked over to the door.
"How?" Ginny asked closing the closet.
Gabrielle smiled slyly. "Oh you'll know." With that Gabrielle left Ginny to sort herself out.
Gabrielle had a lot of cousins. Hundreds. Luckily only a percentage came for the holidays, as Gabrielle and her mother had their preferences in relatives and as a compromise only relatives that they both liked were invited.
Ginny made her way down to dinner with Gabrielle and Blaise. Gabrielle didn't trust the house to let her walk around freely. So she had to be accompanied everywhere by either Gabrielle, Blaise, Draco or one of Gabrielle's relatives.
"Blaise shut up and stop playing with it, mother didn't mean anything by it. Stop it you do not look like a radish."
Blaise kept on running his fingers through his hair. Gabrielle's colour charm had tinted his brown locks a dark red.
"Fine not a radish, a carrot." He mumbled.
Gabrielle stopped. "Look Blaise you look fine it just looks like there's a slight rinse in your hair, it's no big deal and besides Phillipa said she would reverse it tomorrow when she gets here."
Blaise dropped his hand from his head and continued to walk quietly down the Stairs.
"He can be such a baby." Gabrielle said now walking with Ginny as Blaise led the way.
They reached the chamber outside the dining room where everyone had convened before dinner. Draco was leaning against a far wall with a drink in his hand. It seemed to Ginny everyone had a drink except the little ones. Blaise moved off toward Draco and Gabrielle just shook her head running her hands through her own hair.
"Oh well his problem."
Gabrielle walked Ginny around the room getting her introduced to other members of her family. Ginny smiled and waved knowing full well she wouldn't be able to remember all those names. She simply followed Gabrielle in as the dining room doors opened. Gabrielle dragged Ginny to the head of the table where Adonis, her father, was seated. Her mother was next to him opposite Gabrielle. Blaise of course was seated next to Gabrielle, Draco next to him and Ginny next to him. (Convenient)
Adonis rose and the room was silent. He was a straight faced man with the same sharp aristocratic features draco and Blaise seemed to posses, he wore robes of deep midnight blue which matched his jet black-blue hair. Ginny could see the young boy in his features as a smile broke out across his face.
"Welcome Friends and family. I thank you for leaving your humble homes across the globe to be with us this holiday. As you all know we are celebrating many things this yule. First off we will be celebrating the birth of a young man who has been like a son to me, Mr. Draco Malfoy." There was a short applause in which dipped his head in acceptance. "Unfortunately Draco's parents couldn't be here to celebrate with us. They unfortunately have been called away on business. Then we will have our usual Christmas eve to Christmas day extravaganza, which my eccentric wife insist we keep every year." he smiled and there was a short roll of laughter where Celestina hit him playfully on his arm. "An thirdly, on new years eve we will be celebrating the finalization of my daughter's engagement to her betrothed who has also been like a son to me, Blaise Zabini." There was a rousing applause in which Gabrielle hid her face behind her hand. "But until then we will just have to enjoy each others company." with that ending note he sat down and the house elves brought in the food.
Plates were piled high with several different foods from several different countries. Ginny noticed that the table was seemingly split into different sections for the different countries and foods. Ginny decided it was easier to stick to what she knew.
The meal was marvelous Ginny was seated opposite Gabrielle's favourite cousin. She knew this because Gabrielle had introduced her as Faline favourite cousin. She was an inch or so taller than Ginny with hair that was the most amazing shade of violet you wouldn't believe that it was her actual hair colour. Her eyes were a subtle shade of cerulean they were almost gray like Draco's. She had tan skin due to her schooling in the Greek islands though she was from England and so far she was one of Gabrielle's nicest relatives.
Near to the end of the meal it was apparent that the adults had a nice buzz going on and had let there guard down suitably the house elves had cleared away the plates and the remnants of the dessert and had also cleared off the littlest children who had been falling asleep at the table. By this time the seating had been rearranged and all the adults sat in deep conversation at the head of the table while the teenagers had migrated to the opposite end.
Blaise had gotten over his hair and was finally joining in the conversation.
"So your trying to tell me that you think Manchester is going to beat Liverpool in the finals?" he was saying to Gabrielle's cousin Ennis.
"Of course Liverpool is weakening" Ennis replied in a thick Irish accent.
Gabrielle walked over to them leaning over Blaise. Whispering something into his ear, he smiled and whispered back. She walked back over to Ginny with a smile on her face.
"Gin, I'm going to go now. Can you make it back or should I ask a house elf to se to you when your ready?"
Ginny shrugged. "The house elf I guess."
Gabrielle smiled. "Ok, love you diva." With that she got up and walked over to Blaise who was waiting for her at the door. They left.
The night died down and everyone was slowly dispersing and making there way to bed. Ginny was being to feel a slight fatigue. She got up excusing herself from the remaining inhabitants of the dining room and made her way outside she was greeted almost immediately by a house elf. Just as the elf was about to lead her away a voice from behind her stopped them.
"It's ok I'll show her back."
Ginny turned around and saw Draco standing in the shadows of the hall. She smiled.
"I thought you went to bed already?"
"No, I just wanted to get out of there."
She nodded. The house elf shifted it's weight nervously from one foot to the other. Ginny looked at it. "It's ok you can go."
The elf nodded and disappeared around the corner. Draco leaned off of the wall approaching Ginny slowly.
"Come here. I want to show you something."
Ginny obliged and followed across the hall to a small door. He opened it with ease and stepped to the side for Ginny to enter. He came in after her and led her up a flight of stairs located within the small room. They were small roughly carved steps that Ginny could tell had hardly been used. She followed him quietly up the stairs until the reached another door. Draco opened it and they went in.
The fire place lit up when they entered casting an orange glow over the room. There were many different types of instruments on the walls as well as a grand piano in the corner by the large stained glass windows. A sitting area was off to one side of the piano that sat on a raised stage. Ginny looked around in a slight awe.
"It's the music room," Draco's voice came from next to her. "Gabrielle's mother had it put in for her when she was younger, we practically grew up in here."
"You can play all these?"
"She can, Blaise and I stuck with Guitar and piano." He began to walk over to the piano in the corner.
"Do your parents know you can play?"
"The piano? Yes. The guitar? No. They don't think it's a very respectable instrument for an upstanding pureblood such as myself to learn."
She followed him. "Why not?"
He shrugged as he sat down in front of the large black instrument. "Because they're mad. . . all parents are."
Ginny came closer to him. He moved over on the stool indicating she should sit next to him. She willingly obliged taking the seat.
"Can you play?" he asked.
She nodded. Her grandfather had taught her when she was smaller. He opened the piano and indicated she was to play something. She rested her finger on the keys but then slid them off.
"No."
He looked at her. She turned to face him. "I've played for you already. Now it's your turn."
He took a deep breath and straightened up, she had a point. He placed his fingers on the ivory keys and started playing the first thing that came to his head.
She lies on the bed
With her hands in her head
And she screams
He gets a kick out of losing the plot so it seems
He makes you all laugh so she's the one
Doing harm
But how can you fight when she's not
The one under his arm
These dreams have let you down
Take it don't break it just turn it aroundThese dreams won't let you down
You never stopped loving his misfortunate
Lazy ways
All the memories that you should've had
Are a cabaret haze
There's just a hole where you know he
Should've been
There's no one worse off than you
When you can't describe what you've seen
These dreams have let you down
Take it don't break it just it turn around
These dreams won't let you down
Where do you go when you're all alone
In your bed
Do you cry in your sleep cos it's
Better unsaid
Have you forgotten your past because
That's how it seems
Is it too hard to think so you edit
Your dreams
And play them back again and again
These dreams have let you down
Take it don't break it just turn it around
These dreams won't let you down
You've got tomorrow tomorrow
You've got tomorrow tomorrow
You've got tomorrow tomorrow
You've got tomorrow tomorrow
You've got tomorrow tomorrow
You've got tomorrow tomorrow
You've got tomorrow tomorrow
You've got tomorrow tomorrow
Ginny watched him end the song and slid his fingers off the keys. As he looked down at the keyboard his hair fell in front of his face.
"That's about your parents isn't it?"
He nodded. "First try, well done." He hadn't looked up yet.
She reached over and moved his hair out of his face. He looked at her out of the corner of his eye. He didn't move as she leaned closer to him but he did react when her lips touched his. He kissed her back.
Draco ran his hand along her cheek holding her head the other slid around her waist. Ginny's hands were around his neck holding him close to her. He licked her lips and her mouth opened in response. The kiss grew very deep, very quickly. Ginny found herself on one of the couches with Draco on top of her. Her hands inside his shirt running over his smooth muscles. Both their robes lay forgotten on the floor. She pushed him gently.
"Draco stop." he leaned up and looked at her.
"Um we really should be getting back."
He nodded and got off of her allowing her to get up. She picked up her robes and handed him his. He took them and got up. They walked to the door but when Ginny reached for the knob Draco rested his hand on the door preventing her from opening it.
He leaned back down giving her another kiss.
"I do like you, you know?" With that he let go of the door and led her back to her room in the east wing.
Ginny said goodnight and closed the door. She walked into the expansive room Gabrielle had given her. Pulling off her outer layer of clothing she threw herself on the bed. Falling asleep with a smile playing across her lips.
Draco crossed the hall to his own room closing the door behind him. Finally, he was getting something in his life he actually wanted. He pulled off his robes and threw them down. He made his way to his bathroom pulling off his shirt on the way. He dropped it on the floor and entered the room. Draco made his way over to the mirror. He looked at himself in the reflective glass and sighed. Now all I need to figure out is how my father's going to screw this one up. He shook his head pulling off his remaining clothing he stepped into the shower.
(I think we can all spend a couple of minutes with the image of Draco in the shower)
The next day Ginny and Gabrielle were in one of the many sitting rooms with her cousins when the door opened. A house elf scooted in to announce the arrival of two more of Gabrielle's cousins. Phillipa and Phineas Vennor.
Most of the cousins got up to go and greet the new arrivals. When Gabrielle got upto follow Ginny drug her back.
"1) why didn't you tell me Phineas would be here? And b) why didn't you tell me he was your cousin?" Ginny hissed.
Gabrielle blinked. "I didn't?"
Ginny shook her head.
"I really should start writing things down." Gabrielle sighed and looked at her friend. "I'm sorry Gin. I didn't mean to make things awkward for you."
Ginny let out a breath. "No it's ok. I'll handle it."
With that they left the room. Gabrielle led Ginny to the entrance hall where the bulk of the family had gathered. Gabrielle made her way through the crowd still holding on to Ginny. When she reached the new arrivals she embraced each of then. Letting go off Ginny's hand she began to lead Phillipa towards Blaise who had just entered with Draco.
Ginny felt someone watching her as the crowd dispersed. She turned to see Phineas behind her. He smiled at her and approached her. She smiled back lightly as he came closer.
"Hello Phineas," she said politely. He was getting awfully close.
Phineas smiled. "Ginny, you look, if it's possible, more beautiful than the last time I saw you." he took her hand and kissed it.
Ginny smiled nervously "thank you." Gabrielle walked back in calling them both for lunch.
Oh damn there is more but I just really wanted to get this up. Clue?
Stuff happens between the following Chappies:
G/D
G/P
GB/BZ
hhhmm anything else. Nope nothing I want to tell you. also my back hurts as well as most of my joints. i need to move from the Comp but i dolove y'all. and you will get another Chappie.
