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Chapter 10 – Confusion
The silence was deafening, he couldn't believe he had just blurted it out. Then again it was done, and all he had to do was wait for her reaction. Warily he started to edge back just in case she didn't want to be a Malfoy, but surely that could never happen. Looking at Blaise, he seemed shocked too, they were almost brothers and Draco had thought he would have agreed with the plan.
"What the hell are you playing at, Draco? Just stay the fuck away from her, you know she doesn't want you; she has bloody hated you for years. Leave the girl alone, why would she be a Malfoy, Ginevra is worthy of an untainted name not your slimy one with death-eater resounding through it." Blaise snarled at an uneasy Draco and circled him like a predator sizing up his prey. Draco equally insulted called upon his magic, as the black darts started to push through his skin, he was knocked over and looked up to see that Blaise had pounced. Struggling to throw Blaise off him, he felt Blaise punch him in the stomach, he was dealing blows from left to right and Draco started to cough and splutter as he felt his guts being pummelled into non-existence.
Enraged beyond sensibility Draco finally found his wand under his arm; grabbing it he shouted 'incessere'. Immediately both boys were flung into the air opposite each other and the furniture in the room were pushed by some force to the sides. They landed on their feet and the lines of a duelling arena appeared on the stone floor. Blaise sneered at Draco as he took out his wand, "scared Malfoy? Afraid that you were going to be beaten so had to call upon the rites of a duel, it's not a problem this way it'll be quicker." Neither of the boys remembered Ginevra who had been thrown into a sofa against the wall along with the rest of the furniture. She was staring vacantly at them not registering anything.
"Are you ready, Zabini?" Draco asked with an evil smile. Blaise gave a short nod and both raised their wands in a flash and began the duel.
"Incendio" screamed Draco as a flame of fire hurtled towards Blaise who ducked and returned it with a bat bogey hex he had seen Ginevra do in her fourth year. Laughing Draco flung it off him "ever heard of learning your lessons Blaise?" Not waiting for a reply he threw a dark curse at Blaise "sanguine". Blaise swore as scratches started to appear on his wrists and bleed freely, he didn't have time to heal them, turning on Draco with pain and rage wracking his entire body he focused all his hatred at Draco as he shouted "CRUCI-"
"Expelliamus!" Both Draco's and Blaise's wands flew out of their hands and into Ginevra's. Throwing the wands down she burst into tears and ran out of the suite. The duelling boundaries disappeared and the chamber returned to normal leaving Blaise and Draco staring at each other.
Looking up Draco said softly "an unforgivable Blaise?" Not meeting his eyes Blaise sent his magic through his blood to concentrate on the wounds at his wrists. "Yeah, well you deserved it, look what you've done, I thought we were like brothers Draco and you had to take the one thing I had that you didn't." Draco could hardly catch what he was saying as Blaise was practically whispering. Hearing the gist of it, confusion was etched on his face.
"Blaise, I'm not taking her away from her, you can have her, we both can! I'd never do that to you." Disgust filling his eyes, Blaise sneered as he replied.
"Both have her, how generous Malfoy, were you going to let Ginevra have a say in that before you decide that both of us can ravish her, or were we going to seduce her together in a comfortable threesome. God, you are so sick and twisted, a true Malfoy."
His mind filled with comprehension as Blaise's words struck him. Draco screamed at himself, how had his plan gone so wrong, if Blaise had thought that there was no doubt Ginevra thought it, how was he ever supposed to get her trust back?
Walking over to Blaise, he sat down on the sofa besides him and faced him. "Blaise, you're like my brother, believe me when I say I would never ever do anything like that to you. Please you have to understand I wanted Ginevra to be a Malfoy through the transferral of blood lines. She is completely eligible, it will help her when she gets out of here and strengthen the Malfoy name, however tainted you feel it is. I never thought that it wasn't good enough for her, but you obviously do and if that's so I'd like to know why you were my friend for so many years yet harboured so much hatred towards my name and blood." Draco ended bitterly with harsh words as he waited to hear Blaise's response. Those words had hurt him deeply and tried to believe that they weren't true.
Blaise just gazed at him in amazement and regret. Obviously that would be what Draco had wanted, how had he been so foolish? He knew Draco backwards. He shifted to the floor of the sofa and on one knee in front of Draco began a formal apology.
"My lord and brother, it is with the deepest regret that I said those thoughtless and untruthful words. Nothing can justify them; all I can do is beg your pardon as it was in the heat of the moment." Valiantly continuing his humble plea Blaise laid his heart open and all his emotion flooded to his face for Draco to see. "I fully expect you to want to revoke all familiarities with me, though it would be like a part of me had died. I support your idea of the transferral of blood lines but only on the account that one day she might be changed yet again to a Zabini!" With that Blaise grinned as he felt all the tension in Draco leave. Peeking up he saw Draco reaching forward to tug him up, they both stood and fell into a brotherly hug as both were overcome with emotion. Blaise knew Draco had appreciated the old language and style. They both did when in serious situations. He couldn't wait to start teaching Ginevra; she had already picked it up quite quickly.
Frowning, both Draco and Blaise looked at each other and ran out his chambers and towards the common room.
Where do you think she's gone Draco, come on you've been close to her she trusts you.
Not anymore Blaise, and I wonder why? Why didn't I keep my bloody mouth shut up? Come on Pansy or Millicent must have seen her, dammit someone must have.
Calm down Draco we'll find her she can't have gone far.
The common room was empty and the fire had died out. Draco muttered "Lumos" the end of his wand lit up, and Blaise did the same. They scoured the room but Ginevra was not lurking anywhere. "Blaise, she's somewhere in the school, we have to split up, she has to be back here before sunrise, otherwise we'll blamed and she'll go back to Gryffindor" Draco whispered worriedly.
Climbing out the portrait, Salazar laughed evilly, "If you're looking for the girl Malfoy she went ages ago, crying like there was no tomorrow! However, you better find her fast, a pureblood should not be treated like that, do you hear Malfoy and Zabini, mudbloods and muggles are for that. Go and find her, I shall wait up for you." Salazar looked down condescendingly down on his two favourites, they bowed accordingly before striding down the passage that lead to the Main Entrance and the rest of the school.
Merlin, does he ever shut up! You would think we'd have killed her, go and find her, what the hell did he think we were doing, going for a midnight stroll!
Breathe Draco, did that not just show you something. He's seen you treat other Slytherin girls as slut, you just use them and toss them aside and he doesn't care, yet an ex-Gryffindor and a Weasley runs out in tears and he's admonishing us. Ginevra is important.
Ok we'll discuss this later, you go to the room of requirements and the astronomy tower, I'll check out the corridor around Gryffindor and any other place, just keep talking to me.
Yeah, whatever Draco you always avoid reality.
As Blaise nearly broke into a run up the flight of stairs before they changed, Draco wandered down the corridor wondering where the hell she was. Lost in thought, he felt a cold affinity of air pass straight through him. Spinning around his wand and held it high so as to shine the light the most he could in the dark corridor. An evil cackle could be heard, Draco growled.
"Peeves, show yourself, get out of here now otherwise I'll swear you'll no longer be a ghost."
Peeves cackled delightfully, "Aw is the ickle dragon threatening me, you're the one who's out after hours sneaking around, oooh who shall I tell!"
"Peeves ever heard of the other realm, where you're supposed to have passed on to? That's where you will be if you don't shut up and annoy someone else, I bet Potter is out and about, he's so much more interesting than me..." sneered Draco as he saw Peeves glide down the corridor in the opposite direction.
As he passed the girl's bathroom he heard the broken sound of a girl weeping. Muttering to himself about girls and their bathrooms he knew it would be Ginevra. Peeking around the door he spied a mop of red hair hanging over the sink where the entrance of the Chamber of Secrets was.
Her shoulders were shaking violently. Silently tip-toeing in Draco shut the door slowly so as to not make a noise. As he was about to kneel before Ginevra and pull her into his arms, someone interfered with his thought.
Draco have you found her yet, she's no where on my end.
Yeah Blaise, I have I just haven't confronted her yet or talked to her she's still crying.
Ok, once you have got her bring her to the room of requirements, Slytherin is too far and we can't get caught, I'll be waiting for you.
Concentrating on the task ahead of him, Draco was about to put his hand on her shoulder when he was interrupted yet again.
"Oooh there's a boy in my bathroom! I bet you haven't come to see me, no-one ever wants to see me, and they just think oh its moaning Myrtle, let's just use her bathroom and ignore her. That's what you're doing you didn't even see me, you just want that girl. You know she's been in here for ages, and over that sink too I thought she was going to open that tunnel again, but she hasn't yet!" Moaning Myrtle soared above the toilet cubicles and carried on wailing, but Draco ignored her and saw that Ginevra was looking right through him as if he didn't exist.
"Ginevra, listen to me, Blaise and I have sorted it out. We weren't supposed to duel it was all a mistake." Softly whispering to her Draco leaned forwards and stroked her cheek. Ginevra flinched and pushed him aside. Draco was shocked as he stared into her eyes. There was no anger left in her face, she looked as if there was nothing left for her, nothing just a blank stare.
"A mistake, hurting me was a mistake Draco?" Ginevra whispered back as she refused to stare into her face. Before he could deny that statement she continued.
"Why? Why did I let myself get close to you, I knew it would happen, yet I let myself be persuaded." In a deadly whisper she stared straight into Draco's eyes. "You are exactly like him, I loved him and he hurt me but he promised me that he would never leave me, and he did. Now you want me with you but you're going to leave me too, why me Draco?" Wracked with tears coming down her face and her whispering fractured by hoarse breaths as she tried to contain herself, Draco nearly killed himself for causing her all this pain, but curiosity won him over.
Keeping his distance so as not to touch her, "Who hurt you Ginevra, who left you?" he heard her calming down and the sobs ceased to continue. Sensing that he was close to the truth he continued insistently. "Ginevra, please tell me, who hurt you?"
Taking a deep breath, her lips started to move, he leant in to hear her say "Tom" faintly. Puzzled he thought of who it could be, he couldn't remember any relevant Tom's in either of their years. Ginevra could feel his confusion, she relaxed at least he didn't know about him, he was unaware of exactly what had happened to her.
"Tom Riddle, Draco." Turning to see his reaction, she saw him flinch at the thought her loving Voldemort. The he held his arms out and she fell into them.
Its ok Blaise, she's safe now, we'll be coming soon.
"Hush Ginevra, no-one's leaving you ok? It was a mistake on Blaise's part; I want you to be my sister, so you can be by my side forever, ok? You know that means I can never leave you, we'll have the same blood lines Ginevra." Rocking her back and forth, he tensed as he waited for her answer.
"A sister, Draco? I'm already a sister, and you can't take that away from me. I need my family, but I need you and Blaise too. Can we leave it that Draco?" Ginevra silently prayed hoping that he wouldn't be offended. A sister? She couldn't be a sister to him; she had completely different feelings towards him, almost like Tom...
Suddenly she was lifted up into his arms, and he walked out and up the stairs towards the room of requirement. "Blaise is waiting for us, we can talk or sleep or whatever you feel like, Slytherin is too far away little one and if we get caught you'll be sent back to Gryffindor and we don't want that to happen do we?" Giggling childishly while shaking her head, Draco felt her release her tension as she snuggled up to him. Merlin, this girl showed a different side every hour!
Kicking open the door, she slid to her feet, unfortunately sliding down Draco's body, he groaned to himself, she had to make life difficult.
Ginevra had seen Blaise lying on a large green bed spread out; letting out a scream of delight she ran towards the bed and jumped on him. He grabbed her revelling in her new attitude, kissing her senseless, he rolled on top of her and continued his passionate onslaught. Distracted for just a second he looked up at Draco who was staring at them not in disgust but with a different expression, grinned and said "Draco, the room realised we needed two so its split, the door to yours is just to the right of you." Then he turned all his attentions back to Ginevra.
As Draco entered his room, he flung himself into his bed which funnily enough was larger than Blaise's, obviously the room thought he required it, he wondered why.
Replaying the night's events, he sighed to himself, today had been eventful. Trying to get to sleep he found himself thinking about Ginevra's words. How close had she got with Tom. She said she loved him, Merlin, his father had really screwed up his chances.
As he started to drift off, he heard a scream from next door. Swearing, Draco clutched his wand and before he could get out of bed, his door slammed against the wall. A figure ran in half-naked with red hair flying behind her fell into his arms, and started to shake. Gently covering her with his sheet, he lay her down on his bed and she slept warpped in his arms.
Blaise, what the hell happened, what did you do to her, I swear I will kill you. Why didn't you follow her, you just left her?
Shut up Draco, has she said anything? NO, so don't assume. We were just on the bed and well, she just started to scream and then ran – I figured that she wouldn't want me to run after her...
Bloody hell, you tried to sleep with her didn't you, she's just been traumatises for Merlin's sake.
Yeah well she seemed pretty fine when she came in, just shut up and look after her ok; I'll talk to her in the morning.
Muttering about hormones, he looked over at Ginevra and noticed that all her fear had vanished. Pulling her closer he realised how close Tom had got.
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