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Chapter 2. Auror Malfoy
"Malfoy? What are you doing in my house?", said Ginny angrily.
"Well Weaslette, it's not as though I like being here. And did you call this a house?"
Draco looked around sceptically.
Ginny, who was still held by Draco, didn't like it at all that he was being so disdainful about her house.
"Will you let me go!", said Ginny angrily.
"You're acting as if I like holding you. Now I'm going to have to burn my clothes and this happens to be one of my favourite outfits."
"Why do you have to burn your clothes?", asked Ginny.
"Because Weaslette, you just touched them", was Draco's calm answer.
"What?", said Ginny, not quite believing what she had just heard.
"What are you actually doing here Ferretboy, if you hate it so much?", asked Ginny, who had had enough of Malfoy's insults.
"Well I was sent here by my employer. As you might know, I'm an auror and I was told that someone here needed my help. Of course, if I had known that it was you needing help I would never have taken the assignment."
"Well, I don't need your help", said Ginny angrily.
"Good, then I'll be leaving", said Malfoy and he walked out of the door.
Sighing Ginny flopped down on the couch. She'd already had such a horrible day at her job and as if that wasn't enough, she'd also found Malfoy in her home. She should have asked him how he managed to get in, but with a dad as a deatheater it probably hadn't been that difficult. Everybody had been surprised when Malfoy chose Harry's side. And although Harry and Malfoy had never become friends, he did help him to defeat Voldemort and now he was working for the ministry as an auror.
Ginny was sitting deep in her thoughts when she suddenly heard the phone ring. Although she still found it a strange thing, Hermione had insisted that she get a phone so she could call when something was wrong. She answered the phone but didn't hear anything.
"Hello? Hermione, is this you?"
"Did you receive my flowers?"
Ginny jumped when she heard that voice. It belonged to her stalker.
"You know what, I will just drop by to see how they are standing", and before Ginny could say anything in return her stalker had hung up.
Ginny began to get frightened. She now wished she had been a bit nicer to Malfoy so she didn't have to be alone at that moment. Of course, Malfoy was a bastard, but he probably wouldn't harm her, something she couldn't say of her stalker.
Quickly she grabbed her wand so she would be armed when her stalker came. She had just done this when she heard someone knocking on her door. She screamed in terror and decided to hide herself in the bedroom. The knocking went on for a while before suddenly stopping. For a moment Ginny thought that her stalker had given up and had left, until she heard some noises by her lock and heard the door opening. She could hear her heart beating in her throat and she tried to hide herself even more behind the bedroom door. She only hoped that he wouldn't go looking for her in the bedroom. This wasn't the case however and she heard footsteps coming her way. She strengthened her grip on her wand and stood ready to hex the first person that entered. The door opened and she did a spell which made her assailant fall to the floor. Slowly she walked towards him.
"Oh my god."
Quickly she ran to the person who was now lying still on the floor. There by her bedroom door lay Draco Malfoy. She had hit him well. She put him in her bed and said various spells which made him awaken.
"Where am I?", asked Draco while he looked around very confused.
"You're in my bedroom", answered Ginny.
"Huh, how did I end up in here?"
"Well, you came into my house and I attacked you. Why did you come back?"
"Ow, I remember now. I came back because I forgot my cloak. When I knocked I heard you scream. I kept on knocking but you didn't open the door, so I decided to do it myself. I heard noises coming out of one of the rooms, so I opened the door and .. The rest I don't know anymore."
"That was when I attacked you", said Ginny.
"But why didn't you open the door? And why did you attack me?", asked Draco curiously.
Ginny decided to tell him everything. She found that he deserved an explanation after the way she had attacked him.
"I have a stalker. This morning when I arrived at my work flowers had been delivered with a frightening card and when you left he called me up and said that he was coming to see how the flowers were standing. That's why I was frightened when I heard someone knocking on the door and that's why I didn't open the door."
"He called you up?", asked Draco confused.
"Yes, with a telephone", explained Ginny, "that's a muggle device which you can use to talk to another person, when the other isn't around."
"I don't know, but the stalker you are talking about doesn't seem so bad to me. So he sends you flowers and he calls you. Yes, that's really terrible", said Draco sarcastically.
"That's easy for you to say. You don't have a stalker", said Ginny.
"Is that why you needed an auror?"
"Well, that wasn't my idea, but Ron insisted that there had to be someone here watching over me."
"Ah, your overly concerned brother. Well, if you ask my opinion you don't need an auror."
He rubbed a sore spot on his body. Ginny saw this and smiled a bit. Draco saw Ginny smiling and raised an eyebrow.
"That's your own fault, you know", said Ginny while she pointed at the spot he was rubbing at. "If you hadn't come into my flat like you did, that wouldn't have happened."
"I wouldn't have done that, if you had opened the door", said Draco angrily. "I think I'll just leave again."
He stood up, grabbed his cloak and walked to the door.
"No, wait!", shouted Ginny.
Draco stopped and turned around.
"Could you please stay with me tonight in case my stalker comes?"
"You sure have guts Weaslette. First you attack me and than you ask if I want to protect you?"
"Please", Ginny asked with pleading eyes.
"What will you do for me if I help you?", asked Draco.
"What?", asked Ginny confused.
"I asked what you will do for me if I help you Weaslette."
At that moment, they heard someone knocking on the door.
"Well Weaslette?"
"Everything", said Ginny, who was beginning to become afraid.
"Good", said Draco with a smug smile.
He walked to the door and opened it. Before him stood a man who obviously hadn't expected Draco to open the door.
"Hello, I'm here for Ginny."
"I'm sorry, but she isn't here", said Draco calmly.
"Oh, but I'm very sure she is home. I'm her nephew from France you know, and I would like to speak with her."
Ginny heard the conversation going on from an adjoining room. She didn't have a nephew from France, but Malfoy didn't know that. The man he was talking to must be her stalker. She could only hope that Malfoy wouldn't fall for the lies that her stalker was telling him.
"From France? Tu habites où? "
" Oui ", answered the man.
" A beautiful country, France. I'm sorry but she really isn't here. I think you'd better leave", and with that said, Draco closed the door and walked back to Ginny.
"How did you know that he wasn't really my nephew from France?", asked Ginny curiously.
"Well, when I asked him in French where he lived, he answered with yes. That was when I thought something was wrong. I mean, when you are from France and you can't speak French something's got to be wrong."
"Do you speak French then?", asked Ginny surprised.
"Of course", answered Draco. "I have been to France several times. Unlike yours, Weaslette, my family had the money to go on a holiday."
"And what a great family it was, with a dad as a deatheather. No, that really sounds like a loving family to me."
As soon as the words left her mouth Ginny knew she had gone too far, but she couldn't care less at that moment. After all those years of school in which she'd had to listen to the insults to her family, Ginny had had enough of it. She saw Malfoy's face become even paler than usual.
"I'm nothing like my father", and with those words he walked out of the door.
Ginny decided to go to bed early that night. A lot had happened that day and she was kind of tired. She quickly changed and was just about to get into her bed when she heard someone knocking on her door. Quickly she put on her night gown and walked to the door to open it. She felt much safer after Malfoy had turned away her stalker. She opened the door and as soon as she saw who was standing there, she wished she hadn't done it.
"Good evening Ginny, I knew you were home."