Chapter 13 Girl of Snakes

Lucius Malfoy looked amused at the site of Ginny, who seemed to be covered in snakes with the candlelight flickering over her jewelry, making them seem alive, slythering over her.

She looked deliciously evil, wonderfully dark, alluringly beautiful.

He liked the way her mind worked, she seemed to be very ambitious and very intelligent.

A pity the girl was a Weasley, a great pity indeed.

Maybe he could fix that error somehow.....

He smirked as he studied the girl sitting next to his son across from him.

She kept stealing glances at Draco as if she was measuring an opponent....

Yes, this girl would provide fair sport for his son; she would not bend to his every whim, would keep him on his toes.

He looked at Narcissa, sitting beside him, remembered how she had proposed marriage to him....

Fearless, challenging, a true opponent.....

She had a lot in common with this girl.

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Narcissa looked at the girl, a girl who had more in common with her then she would ever know.

A girl who had more to loose then Narcissa ever had.....

Her face impassive she watched her son reach out and squeeze the girl's hand, the girl's eyes lighting up as she looked at Draco.

Her son's pale eyes saw everything she noticed, but his eyes did not shine as he watched the girl.....

No, he looked more like a predator.

A predator ready to strike.... and hit.

The girl thought she could gain control, thought she knew where she was heading.....

But Narcissa knew better, this girl was not heading for green meadows, no, she was heading for a spiderweb she could not see, she would not see untill she was so stuck in it she could not remove herself from it any longer.

Stuck, stuck with a large spider looming over her....

Feeling her husband's eyes on her, she suppressed a shudder.

How could she ever have believed she could control Lucius Malfoy?

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Ginny felt Narcissa's gaze on her, measuring her.

She looked at the silent, impassive face before her, a woman who had everything, yet seemed to show nothing.

No life, no feeling.....

She seemed to be nothing but an empty shell, yet her eyes did not seem to miss anything.

Like most things in this house, Narcissa Malfoy seemed to be but a facade hiding something much bigger, much complexer.

It was impossible to define what the woman was thinking, what she was feeling, if she was even feeling at all.....

If she was even truly alive.

Draco's hand was caressing hers, drawing her attention to him and she smiled.

He looked like a pale half-god come from the heavens to bewitch her with his attentions, to lure her into his web of artful seduction.

And he had succeeded, he had lured her to him, trapped her by his side.

Yet he had not trapped her mind, her thoughts were still her own.

Unbeknownst to her, Narcissa was thinking the very same thing across from her, only she drew much less comfort from the thought.

No, for Narcissa was stuck in the web of the spider and was full well realizing it. She knew she was stuck, knew she was not her own person any longer.

Life in a golden cage had seemed appealing from the outside, but now she was on the inside, it's contents seemed hollow, the riches seemed to dim before her eyes and the beauty around her had faded with the years.

Years that had passed by her slowly, while emotions pressed in around her, forcing her to see....

Lucius was hers, hers to hold, hers to love.

Yet his heart was elsewhere, could not be touched.

Had he ever truly had a heart at all?

He had given his life to Voldemort and left her here in the cage time and time again waiting for his return to her.

She had grown tired of shedding tears, had grown tired of pining over what she could not have....

A house filled with love.

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Draco silently watched his mother observe Virginia.

He saw the shimmer behind her eyelids, looking suspiciously like unshed tears.

He watched, yet he felt nothing.

Nothing at all, but still a connection was made; he knew what it had felt like to be left behind, to be forgotten.

For Narcissa had not been the only one left behind....

He looked at Virginia, her bright eyes on him as he had once observed his mother looking at his father, once, when he was still very young.

He knew his mother loved his father, loved him like nothing else in the world.

And she adored her son, loved him as well.

She had gambled to procure the love of Lucius for herself.

She had gambled and lost....

She would see herself in Virginia, as she had once been.

He knew deep inside that his father had once loved his mother, but somehow the tenderness and love had fled through a window no one had known was left open, until it was altogether gone.

But it had been too late, too late to change anything, too late for her.....

Too late to salvage any of the emotions his father had once possessed, just as it had been too late to save his own.

It was too late to save Virginia too, she had gone in too deep and now she was his.

He had never before let go of a possession willingly, nor would he start to now.

No..... she was his.

His to caress, his to touch..... his to play with as he saw fit.

She would be with him until the end.

The end of his interest in her, the end of their time together.

Whenever that would be.....

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Narcissa saw the flicker in her son's eyes, knew his intentions....

Knew there was nothing she could do to stop him.

She could only hope this girl would be luckier then she....

That she would have all she dreamed of....

And that the dream would not turn out to be as empty as her own heart was now....

Because having the dream within your grasp only to loose it...

It was far worse then to never be able to touch the dream at all.

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Lucius saw the tears in his wife's eyes, knew he had caused them....

Knew he would never be able to make her see....

She had fallen in love with whom she thought he was.

And he had done nothing about her assumptions....

Because he could not, would not let her go.

She had made him touch life, even love and he had warmed himself with her fire.

She was his link to a world of emotions he had not been able to touch before.

He looked at the red-head, snakes at her wrist and throat, a laugh bubbling from her lips.....

Saw his son's eyes flicker.....

Obviously, the boy was not immune to her threat, to her fire.

He would have to speak with him....

Soon.

Before someone else did.

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Behind a tapestry on the wall, someone was watching the four people.

Virginia and Draco, Narcissa and Lucius.

And she hated what she saw; a prelude of what was to come.

She would do anything in her might to save this girl from ruin, to have her listen to reason....

But she could not just walk up to her; the girl would never listen, would not want to hear.

How had such a sensible girl fallen in so deep?

How could she have forgotten to trow away the key to her heart?

Men like the Malfoy's were not for playing with....

Their lure was far too dangerous.

The girl should grab her money and go, make a run for it in the night....

The night she had been so eager to join.

Before they would realize how easy it was to make her binding permanent, to have her tied down for ever....

A girl of snakes, constricted untill she knew no more of the outside world.

A girl of snakes, bound forever to it's touch, it's caress, it's embrace....

The embrace of a snake in the darkness.

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End of Chapter 13; Will Ginny realize what is going on, will she catch on to the sceming going on around her? Find out next time.....

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I want to thank SatansFlower, Serenade of the Sea, Chas (aka Aricos) and my anonymous beta-reader who wishes to remain anonymous and therefor shall be anonymous for beta-reading!

I also wanna thank Aricos for helping me with some of the poems :)

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