"Ginny–" Draco started to say as she barged into the room, but she covered his mouth too quickly. "Just listen, Hermione told me that some of the teachers know about the spell and they know you were a part of it too. I went to Snape straight away and he doesn't want you to get caught so he said for us to pack a bag and get out," Ginny said frustrated, "don't ask questions right now I'll tell you everything else once we leave. Do you have any money?"
"Well I'd have to go to the bank," he said confused.
"Well I don't so I guess were going to have to wing it tell we can get to Diagon Alley..."
"And how in the hell are we going to do that?"
"I have a tent, my dad borrowed it from a guy in his office in my third year and hasn't returned it."
"Do you have it with you?"
"Yeah Snape summoned it."
"We can't tell people where were going?"
"No but we have to tell them were leaving so get packed and leave a little for whoever it is that you talk to and we can owl our parents later."
Ginny left and Draco was in to much of a shock to move for a moment. He started packing his bag with clothes and some snacks and his broom. Then he jot down a note saying not to look for him to Crabbe and Goyle. Ginny rushed to her dormitory and rapidly packed a bag then began writing her letters. She wrote one to Hermione, Ron, and Harry explaining herself and not to worry; especially telling harry not to find her or look for her and not try and be heroic.
Draco found Ginny and together they walked back to the dungeons to find professor Snape. Snape wasn't very helpful, Draco thought, and all he did was give them directions and some more food. Slightly disappointed in Snape's advice, they walked out of the castle together and headed towards Hogsmeade. "Where are we going to go? Hey I have an idea lets go ask the owner of the hog's head for a free hotel? I'm sure he'd say yes," Draco said sarcastically. "Don't be a smart ass and help me find out where I'm going," she said angrily. They had just entered Hogsmeade and Draco had just remembered something. "We could use my broom you know, we'd probably get around faster," Draco said trying to make himself sound a little smarter. He didn't though because Ginny smacked him right upside the back of his head and said, "why didn't you say that before? Are you a complete idiot? Get the bloody broom out." Draco kind of liked it when she was mad and once he found the broom he had shrunken, he performed an enlargement charm on it and mounted the broom. Ginny mounted it behind him and then said, "ok we will stop in about a hour so we can eat and go to the bathroom and then we won't stop again until we are too tired to keep going, then we will set up tent, eat, go to bed, wake up, eat, go to the bathroom, then get back on the broom until lunch time. Got it?" Draco nodded and they took off into the blue sky.
The air was chilly and Ginny used Draco as a shield from the wind. Even though they were running away for a completely unromantic reason, she felt she was on an adventure and she couldn't help but be excited. Draco thought he might be frozen to the broomstick and he wasn't used to flying for such a long time. The only since of comfort he felt was Ginny's arms wrapped around his waist and her head resting on his back. Draco had never been more confused in his life, they were going to diagon alley to get money and after that they could stay in hotels but where were they going to go? Snape told Ginny they couldn't stay in one place for too long and that they couldn't stay with any family. Draco never thought that this would be that big of deal but he could understand. If people knew that he was connected to the dark arts people would know his father used the dark arts, if people knew his father knew the dark arts then they would lose respect and Voldemort wouldn't trust their family anymore. He knew he had messed up but there was no turning back now; he had his broom and he would have money and not to mention he had a girl wrapped around him who needed him.
After about a hour of flying, they landed outside of a small muggle town called Frankfort. They didn't go into the town but they stayed near it in case of emergency. They both had to go to the bathroom in the woods, then they sat down and sorted through their food.
"This is weird, were going to be living like this for a while," Draco said before biting into a sandwich.
"Yeah but its not so bad," Ginny said looking up at Draco and smiling, then biting into a chocolate frog.
"What time is it?" Draco said after laughing so they could make a schedule.
"Right now its 12:07 and we should probably leave at about 12:20 then we will keep going to about 9 and if you get tired let me know and I'll fly," Ginny said hopefully. "You can't fly my broom," Draco said laughing and shaking his head. "Why not? You don't trust me?" she said giving him the eye in a joking way. "I trust you just fine but that's my broom," Draco said as if his broom was the love of his life. "Boys are so weird its just a broom," Ginny said mumbling to herself although she wanted Draco to hear her say it.
They took off again and headed towards London. The whole time there never spoke a word and after 2 hours of flying, Ginny fell asleep. Draco knew she was asleep because he could feel her chest rising and falling against his back, but he decided not to wake her. The darker it got, the colder it became and pretty soon Draco could barely feel his arms.
He began his decent and he told Ginny to wake up. Ginny opened her eyes and felt the sudden coldness of the air. "Draco why are you landing its eight o'clock?" Ginny asked still half asleep. "Well one I think my arms might fall off and two I can't see a damn thing," he said kind of jealous that she had been sleeping for hours.
They landed in a field and Ginny immediately started setting up the tent with magic so she did it right. Draco started a small fire with his wand and he started getting feeling in his arms again. Once Ginny got the tent up, she told Draco to put out the fire and come inside and so he did. The tent of course looked like a small house on the inside and Draco couldn't be surprised. Once they got all of their stuff and set it down, Ginny started to make dinner on the stove. Ginny was simply making macaroni and cheese and both of them were very quiet. Draco asked Ginny if she wanted any help and for some reason Ginny refused. Soon, dinner was ready and they both sat down at the table and ate it. "Why are you being so quiet?" Draco asked the question that was haunting his mind. "Why are you being so quiet?" Ginny asked him in return. "I don't like speaking unless I have been spoken to, I don't know now will you answer?" He said annoyed. "Well I don't like speaking unless I have something to say and I have a lot of thoughts right now," she said whining a little. "Look we'll be fine, sooner or later the whole thing will blow over and this is my last year anyways," he said. Ginny stood up and said, "That's it exactly this isn't my last year! I have no idea how my parents are going to respond to this my brother is going to go crazy and so is Harry once we have money, where are we going to go? This isn't a little vacation, we are on the run and we have to be careful or we will be caught. Your not saying anything your not helping at all I have had to do everything except fly!" Draco was taken aback by her abruption. "Look I know your upset and I am feeling the same way but yelling at me is not going to help at all. If we leave the country, we won't be found and I'm sure my father doesn't mind covering the expenses. We are going to be just fine and we both need to just sleep right now cause we are tired and bitchy," Draco said calmly and smoothly. Ginny threw the dishes into the sink went into one of the bedrooms shut the door and locked it.
Draco did not expect this. 'Damn what a tease, fucks me one night then can't even share a bed the next, guess it really was just a deal' Draco thought to himself. Draco went into the bedroom opposite of Ginny's and fell asleep the second his head hit the pillow. Ginny however was not asleep, she was in her room holding back the tears. 'Guess he was just in it for the deal' Ginny kept thinking and that on top of all of this running. Ginny set an alarm and eventually fell asleep.
"Draco get up," Ginny said, crouching down by him and nudging his shoulder. Ginny had to admit he was a little cute when he was asleep and he also didn't have a shirt on making him irresistible. Finally, Draco sat up and rubbed his eyes and when he opened them, Ginny was all bundled up in a big jacket and some big pants. He couldn't help but laugh and once he started he couldn't stop. "Its really not that funny...would you please get up and get dressed?" she said laughing at herself also. Draco stood up and Ginny noticed how much taller he is than her. And right when this thought occurred, Draco swooped down and kissed Ginny on the cheek.
