Chapter Fourteen – Sudden Deaths

'What are you doing Draco?' Letting his eyes close he felt his body slowly come back from the sleep that use to cloud his body. 'Why are you making such a fuss about this girl? She is your enemy!'

Pushing himself up into a leaning position, Draco slide his legs off the side, letting his waist, torso, and upper body follow. Now standing, he wondered what to do. He had had a purpose for standing up instead of crawling back under the covers and falling into another fitful sleep, yet he couldn't let himself.

'Ginny. I have to prove my love for Ginny to her!' Smiling for remembering why he was up, Draco made his way to his father's library. As he walked a list of potions ran through his head, all better then the next. Draco was prepared to show Ginny his love by enchanting her into loving him too. If he could convince her that they were meant to be, then she would love him when he removed her from under the spell. He finally decided upon the Entrancing Enchantment charm.

Flipping through the pages of Easy Romance he watched for the potion he needed.

"Cheering charm, no. Bounty of buttercups, no thanks. Bosumtics, never heard of that before. Ah, Entrancing Enchantment. This potion guarantees to make the drinker fall in love and remained in love as long as they are given the potion twice a month. Ingredients:

3 bat droppings

1 welsh dragon scale

6 pinches of mermaid hair

1 drop of oxen blood."

Draco thought hard about the items he needed to start the potion and concentrated until all four items magically appeared on the table in front of him. Smiling he scooped them up and meandered down to one of the many potion rooms in the dungeons. Carefully reading the directions he stirred the pot.

Place in oxen blood and bat droppings. Stir seventeen times counterclockwise and then twice clockwise. Next place 3 pinches of mermaid hair into potion and then let simmer three hours.

Going off to find Ginny he magically had the ingredients finish off the work by themselves. Before that night was over Draco would be wrapping his arms around his mate who would return his affections. He couldn't wait.

So as the time went of Draco became restless and found himself back inside the dungeons just watching the clock tick, tock, tick, tock until it was 7:47. At that moment the potion was removed from the flames and poured neatly into a bottle. Gathering the bottle and placing it inside his jacket's front pocket, Draco went back to his room to wait for Ginny.

As usual she came back into his room exhausted and filthy. Not acknowledging him, she went to the showers and turned on the water. Soon steam escaped from under the door and Draco sensed she was done. Having already placed the potion inside of her water bottle, Draco watched as she came out and headed strait for it.

He watched as she took a sip. Sensing something wasn't right Ginny looked at him and asked, "What are you doing?" He just smiled and let her keep drinking, pretending to be minding his own business. When she sat the bottle down Draco decided to test his luck and see if the potion had started to take effect yet.

"Ginny, I want to ask you a serious question, one that you must answer truthfully."

Ginny tilted her head in confusion but said nothing; therefore Draco decided she was agreeing. "I want to know if you love me." He chuckled as her eyes opened wide and she blinked rapidly. Trying to look away Ginny muttered, "But this has nothing to do with work. You shouldn't be asking me questions like that."

"Please, just answer the question."

"I love you Draco. I really do, but I shouldn't." Ginny moved away from her master and stuttered, "I can't love you, it is wrong, but I do. I don't know why!"

"Why don't you show me what you are thinking right now? What do you wish you could do with me?"

Blushing Ginny walked towards Draco and pushed him onto the chair he was thankfully standing near. Straddling his legs she made her way into his lap. Smiling sexily at him she moved her lips towards his and captured them in a hard, demanding, passionate kiss. A fire swelled in Draco's body as she swayed her hips across his groin. Loving what she was doing he slipped his hot tongue into her mouth and pulled her body tightly up against his. Her hands had found their way inside his pants and were rubbing against his erection, causing his body to shudder in want. He then felt his member shrink rapidly in size and panicked. He stood up and looked around to see what had caused the problem. He then noticed Ginny holding a wand with a smile plastered to her face.

"Don't think you can place a spell on me Malfoy. I may be a slave but I still can smell a potion when one is on or in my possessions. Now if you want your friend back to its normal small size you will have to beg."

Swinging her wand back and forth like a pendulum, Draco tried to think what spell she had used. Not being able to think of one he looked at her with anger etched on his face. Laughing she teased, "You don't know what spell I used, do you? Dis-engorgio, you know the shrinking spell, not that their was much to shrink on you but…"

"I will let you know that I have a lot to shrink thank you vary much, but I cant…I, how?"

"That is for me to know and you to wonder. Now let me out of this place, you hear me. I want out of this castle, I want to be with my family and away form you. Now if you wish to be back to normal I suggest…"

Ginny never finished because the door smashed open by Voldemort. He stood in the hallway and glared at the two of them. His red eyes were darker then normal and his breath smelled of alcohol. He had Ginny fly across the room and into his arms without his wand. Placing his hand around her thin neck he said, "Where are they hiding?"

Struggling for air Ginny tried to free herself form his grip. Draco too began to take in deep breaths but Voldemort seemed not to notice. "Where are they you bitch? Tell me God damn you!" Voldemort then pulled out a knife and sliced down Ginny's check, from her scalp to her jawbone. Draco screamed in pain as he too was cut and started to bleed.

Voldemort then took the knife and held it up to her neck and yelled, "Where?" Before she could answer he slit her neck and dropped her to the floor where she laid, crying in pain. And then she died. Voldemort looked to Draco in a drunken blur to see that he too was dead, his injuries identical to the ones the girl had sustained. Feeling their power leave their bodies and enter his Voldemort left the scene and went back to his rooms, wanting for someone else to find the corps of the two mates.

It was Narcissa who found them and knew right away that as Ginny was dieing, Draco was too for the bond of mates, even before sexual intercourse was so strong that as one hurts so does the other. The two mates had been destined to struggle through their relationship but this was too much for her. Finding her husband they called in the funeral home and had an immediate funeral for the two veelas who were savagely killed.

If only they hadn't been killed that night, Ginny and Draco would have defeated the Dark Lord through their ultimate love. If only they had tried to fight off the Dark Lord harder. If only Voldemort hadn't been drunk and enraged. If only Ginny had escaped from the castle before.

If only.