A/N: So, last Instance. I don't know about you guys, but I've run accross some stories were the two protagonists get together because a Weird Magical/Mental Connection suddenly and mysteriously springs between the two. Things like being able to communicate telepathically(sp?) and switching bodies. That's what I wanted to go for in Instance #6 (I hope that clears it up, notavailible. Thanks for leaving a review, by the way. And Saaraneth, too ). I knew it could be confusing... this one shouldn't be, though. It's one of my favorites, I think.

Before I go on: a plug. I wrote a D/G essay last Sunday upon discovering a certain site didn't have one (don't think I'm going to submit it to said site, though). There's a link in my profile (pokes you)

Right.

Rabid D/G-er: Instance #7 - The List
based on the "Talons and Tea Leaves" chapter, PoA

There was no one in the hospital wing.

Therefore, he didn't have to put up all the act about being in agony. It was getting rather tiresome.

Draco Malfoy put his left arm behind his head as he contemplated what he could do. His right arm was now injured... ah, the possibilities...

"Oh I knew it!" a voice shouted accross the room. Draco turned his head lazily to see who it was - not that he needed to see the owner of the voice to recognize it. He knew that voice.

Ginny Weasley.

She stormed up to the bed he was lying on. She looked angry. "I knew it was all an act, Malfoy!"

"Yeah, yeah," he drawled. "And you came to make sure, I imagine?"

"No."

"Came here to hang out, then? I don't find place much fun, myself..." Ginny blushed a bit. Draco sneered.™

"I just - I just came here because of an assignment for Herbology, that's all," Ginny burst out.

Draco's sneer went to level 2. "I see. Professor Sprout and Professor Snape have taken to giving assignments about Healing a lot lately, from what I hear."

Draco's sneer went all the way to level 3 when he saw Ginny's reaction: blushing, opening and closing her mouth repeatedly, mild shaking, gesticulating with her hands nervously. The works.

As Draco reached over to the nighttable beside his bed, he put on a face of mock-concern - "I can't open the ink bottle, not with my poor arm injured. Will you open it for me?"

Smiling, Ginny opened the ink bottle, inked a quill that lay on the table, and handed it to Draco. She had tried to do this as kindly as she could, but when she saw what Draco did next, all Good Feelings for him went away:

He scribbled her name on the bottom of a lenghty list.

Ginny made an outraged, untillegible sound and proceded to storm out of the hospital wing promptly.

Draco smirked.

He looked over his List: So far, ten Slytherin, five Ravenclaw, five Hufflepuff, and even two Gryffindor girls had come to see him. There had been this Ravenclaw boy who looked rather dubious too, but Draco didn't want to add him.

Ah, the perks of being badly injured...

Absent-mindedly, Draco put an asterik next to Ginny Weasley's name. She stood out because... Because she's a Weasley, of course.

I think.

No, really...