Chapter Four-Just can't get away
Ginny quickly pushed Malfoy off of her and wiped her hands over her mouth.
"You idiot, what do you think your doing?" Ginny spat.
"I might ask you the same thing Weasley," Draco answered, "do you know what time it is?"
Ginny suddenly realized where she was. Her eyes drew in Draco standing in front of her, and she looked down at what she was wearing- pink pajamas.
'What? Why am I dressed like this?' she thought shivering slightly. "What time is it then Malfoy?"
"Almost three, though I wonder what your doing out of bed?" Draco lashed back.
He smirked and began to run his eyes over Ginny's form. He could see her navel peeking out from under her shirt. Ginny traced where his eyes led and began to tug it down as far as it would go.
"I-I-I don't know," she stammered, "I was hoping maybe you could tell me."
Draco looked at Ginny with an 'I don't believe it' expression and smirked.
"You mean to tell me that you don't know why you're out of bed? I assume maybe you were trying to meet Potter somewhere for a late night snog, got lost and fell asleep."
Ginny stared at Malfoy with an incredulous expression. "What makes you think……just tell me where I am and I'll be out of your way."
Malfoy gleamed wickedly at her. "What do I get in return?"
Ginny gulped hard and shuffled her feet along the floor. She rubbed her hands together and then asked, "Well what do you want?"
Draco looked like he pondered the thought carefully and then finally said, "A kiss."
Ginny's heart hammered deep in her chest. This was everything she was hoping for, but she didn't know how to even begin. Finally she leaned towards Draco, closed her eyes and laid a chaste kiss on his lips. Draco stared at Ginny's face. She looked everywhere but at him.
"You call that a kiss Weasley? I could kiss my grandmother with your mouth."
And with that, he pulled Ginny tight against him and kissed her. Ginny struggled against Draco but his strong arms held her to him. Ginny felt his soft lips caressing hers and his tongue lightly scraped against her tight mouth, begging for entry.
Ginny had never been kissed this way before. She wondered whether she should stop now and find her way back to Gryffindor tower. But pure lust started to pour through her body just as Draco's hand reached between them and began to massage her breast. Ginny moaned with pleasure and opened her mouth to him. Draco's tongue swooped inside her hot mouth and began to drink her in. Ginny melted further into his arms and let him continue his perusal of her.
Ginny's mind was full of nothing as they stood together at the end of the dark corridor. The only thing in her mind was that Draco shouldn't stop. She began to feel a sense of pleasure between her thighs and moaned even more. Draco's hand drifted beneath her shirt and began massaging her nipples. She could feel his hardness on her thigh and she responded by thrusting her hips forward in an erotic way, causing him to groan. Draco immediately stopped kissing her and stared at Ginny's face. Her eyes were closed, lips red and swollen like she was thoroughly kissed. Her breath came out in short pants and her hands were trapped on either side of her against the wall.
She opened her eyes when she realized he had stopped and looked into his silver eyes.
"Not here….." he murmured under his breath and turned to walk away. Ginny stood poised against the wall and watched him disappear down the hallway and then around to the left.
She pulled her shirt down and then followed in the same direction. She realized she was only one floor below Gryffindor tower and began to laugh.
"One floor," she said aloud to herself and retreated back to the common room.
A feeling tugged at the back of her mind. 'Was I sleepwalking, and why?' she thought as she climbed through the portrait hole and back up to her dorm to sleep.
"He did what!" Daveigh said to Ginny. They were in potions with the Ravenclaws working on the 'draft of peace'. Ginny told Daveigh what happened to her the night before.
"Yeah he wouldn't tell me where I was so I finally just kissed him. And it became more, shall we say, physical." Ginny blushed and added a bit of hellebore to the potion and stirred it three times clockwise. It turned a deep blue which was as it should be at this point.
Luna Lovegood, who was at the next table, was working with Travis Goodman in Ravenclaw. Their potion had turned black.
"Luna, are you paying attention?" asked Travis.
Luna had a dreamy expression on her face and was staring out the window. Ginny and Daveigh turned to look at their friend and giggled. Travis scowled at the two girls and then looked at the board where the instructions were written. Snape was making his rounds and when he got to Ginny and Daveigh, he glanced into their cauldron. Nodding at them, he traveled on sneaking up on Luna and Travis.
"Ms. Lovegood, would be so kind as to pay attention when your potion is brewing. Let's see what we have today." Snape looked into Travis and Luna's cauldron. His face took on a sneer and with one flash, the potion was gone.
Travis gulped and stared into their empty cauldron.
"I want an essay from the both of you next class on what went wrong. I am also taking ten points from Ravenclaw." With that he walked off. Travis let out the breath he'd been holding the whole time. Luna was still staring out of the window and began to hum under her breath. Travis gave up trying to get her attention and instead turned to his open potions book.
"Luna strikes again," Daveigh said quietly and scooped up a small amount to turn in to Snape, "if it had been us, I bet Snape would have given us both detentions to go along with the essay, not to mention taking away more poins."
Ginny nodded in agreement and began to clean up their area.
Outside of the classroom, Luna walked as if she weren't looking where she was going. Daveigh and Ginny were talking and walked close behind her. Suddenly all three girls ran into each other. Luna dropped her books and looked into a pair of silver eyes.
"Oh, hi Draco, hi Geoff," she said staring at her cousin. Geoff had the same striking blue eyes and pale hair as Luna, but he possessed an air about him which just meant trouble.
"Luna," he answered, "and who do we have behind you." Daveigh and Ginny looked at each other. Ginny had jumped slightly at the sound of Draco's name.
"Oh just a couple of friends, Gryffindors' Ginny Weasley and Daveigh Porter." Luna pointed behind her, "well if you'll excuse me, I must get to the library and research Golden Snidget's. Daddy is letting me write a short biography on them and I must find out where they can be found." And with that Luna traveled on, wand perched on her ear.
"Golden whats-its?" Draco looked at Geoff.
"She's my cousin, what do you expect."
"Well she's a weirdo. Just like you Weasley. Tell your brother I'll take him on anytime, anyplace. He can even bring Potty and the mudblood," Draco spat out and walked away.
Geoff stood there staring at Daveigh who was trying to ignore him. After a minute, he shrugged his shoulders and scampered off.
"After last night, I thought maybe he'd be nicer. But I guess he's just the same spoiled mean imbecile he's always been," Daveigh said to Ginny as they made their way up the stairs leading to the main floor. Ginny kept her expression blank.
"And what was with his friend? I swear he ever looks at me again like Malfoy does with you; I'll have to curse him. I don't care if he is Luna's cousin."
With that Daveigh made her way up the marble staircase.
Later that night Ginny visited the small room from her dreams again. She still didn't know what it all meant. She was finally able to wake herself up after a while and stared in front of her. Adjusting her sleepy eyes through the darkness, she heard five snores clearly. Ginny had taken to putting gauze around the hand which still contained the imprint of the key. Earlier that evening at dinner, Ron asked her how she hurt herself. Ginny lied and said she got splashed with a potion which created a rash. Daveigh gave her a funny look but didn't corner her until the common room.
flashback
"Ginny, why did you lie to Ron and tell him you hurt your hand?" Daveigh asked sitting down in an armchair. "You've been acting sort of funny, especially after what happened last night with Malfoy. What are you hiding from me?"
Ginny sighed and finally said - "Ok I'll tell you but you have to promise not to say anything to those three."
She glanced over-- Hermione as usual was deep into a book, Ron and Harry were playing an intense game of wizard chess.
"Remember the other day in history of magic when you woke me up."
"Yeah I was so mad that you missed such an important lesson. You know Gin-"
"Okay, let's not get on about that. As I was saying, when I fell back asleep, I had a weird dream…."
Ginny spent the next few minutes retelling the events of her dream.
"-and last night, I think I was having the dream again when Draco found me. I think I was sleep walking Dava. It didn't even feel like I was really in my body, the whole time I felt I was somewhere else."
Daveigh sat with a frown on her face. After several moments, Ginny continued on.
"What gets me is that Draco didn't say a thing about what happened. I mean, didn't he find it odd that I was in front of a door, lying on the ground!" Ginny sighed and continued on, "and there's something else."
Ginny began to unwind the gauze she had wrapped around her hand.
"Now this is something that is very odd. It appeared after the first time I had the dream, and I tried everything to get it off. But it won't go away. Actually, it looks stronger after what happened last night."
She turned her hand over and showed it to Daveigh. Daveigh's serious expression was wiped off her face after looking at Ginny's hand.
"That is the oddest thing I've ever seen……..I mean, how?" Daveigh got up and began to pace back and forth. Her brain looked like it was working a thousand miles a minute, but her face still looked surprised. Ginny stared at her friend…..she was at it again.
"Daveigh, don't overreact. I mean it doesn't hurt. And could you stop that, you're making me sick with your pacing."
Daveigh stopped and looked at Ginny. "Ginny, do you realize what this means?"
She sat back down and leaned in towards Ginny.
"Ginny, I think the old woman in your dream is trying to communicate somehow with you. But what I don't understand is why, if she was able to get the key and escape, why are you suddenly following her footsteps and going back?"
"I'm not sure….."
Ginny sat in her own little world as Daveigh continued to ponder the situation.
"We'll worry about it tomorrow Ginny. I bet there's something in the library about communicating with spirits, or something of that sort. I bet its simple and logical."
Daveigh gave her friend a wan smile and began pulling out her study materials. Ginny sat still pondering the situation, 'I doubt it,' she thought. Nagging her in the back of her mind was how Draco would perceive the situation.
end flashback
"That's it," Ginny said aloud to herself.
"What's it," Daveigh sleepily murmured in the bed next to Ginny.
"Nothing, go back to sleep," Ginny said.
Daveigh resumed her snoring and turned over on her side.
Ginny remained sitting up in her bed. 'I know what I have to do. I just need to pull Draco aside tomorrow and simply ask him what happened when I was lying on the ground.'
Ginny reassured herself that it was the right thing to do and slowly fell asleep, the whole time her heart beat fast with anticipation.