..:AN:Hello! I'm sorry this took so long! I have so many ideas for this fic and it all excites me but i've been so busy and writers block is my new torment..lucky me huh? NO MORE EXAMS! dancesHope you likes:..

Ginny smiled putting her hands behind her head after finishing telling Luna her deal she had just struck up with Malfoy.

"Well what do you think he's getting out of it?" Luna asked, they were both stretched out on the stairs for no particular reason snacking on sandwiches they had gotten in the Great Hall and instead of staying there for Lunch were lounging about the stairs to the astronomy tower.

"I have no clue. But I know he thinks I'm a total idiot and there's no particular reason he's doing this." Ginny laughed. "But hey whatever, 300 galleons to me, he can act as much as he wants but he's not fooling anyone." she said confidently taking a bite out of her lunch.

Luna nodded, she still had the large eyes that always twinkled but she had took Ginny's small hint to try a moisturizing treatment when she washed her hair to make it softer and shinier, changing its straw blonde colour into a flattering normal dirty blonde. She was wearing two sets of earrings, normal silver hoops and the infamous raddish ones she had now become quite fond of.

Ginny was much taller then the short Luna, at about five foot nine. She had the same satiny deep red hair as always, layered and to her shoulder blades. She had the average figure but was self conscience about her body like most girls but she didn't let her head dwell on that.

Her skin was light with the infamous Weasley freckles across her cheeks that were light and few. She had a small scar beside her eye from where she had been cut once during a fight with Charlie. Her chocolatey brown eyes were usually warm and she rather liked them.

"Well at least he isn't terribly ugly." Luna shrugged. Ginny smirked.

"No. I cant really say he is." she shrugged. "But if he thinks he's going to make a fool out of me he's got another thing coming." Ginny said with a smile and got to her feet as the ending bell for lunch rung out and they headed for Divination.

"So did you ask her to Hogsmeade or something yet?" Blaise asked snidely over his shoulder towards Draco during potions.

"Oh sod off Blaise let me handle this its on a damn need-to-know basis." Draco snapped quietly enough so Snape wouldn't hear. Blaise shook his head with a annoying laugh and went back to his potion.

Draco began to chop at his leeches much more harshly then he meant to, making a slimy, disgusting mess all over his desk.

"Damn Blaise." he thought hatefully. "Damn poker and damn Weasley!" he screamed inside his head. Why had he even agreed to this in the first place? Sure he had bitched about it and tried to get out of it but Blaise wouldn't hear any of it. He wished he could just end this now, maybe if he just snogged Weasley in front of everyone and made it look convincing he'd be off the hook. He started chopping harder turning the dead leeches into a mushed up black mass of slime as he knew it wouldn't be that easy, not when he was dared by another Slytherin.

"You're supposed to cut them Mr. Malfoy not mutilate them." Snape said coldly over his shoulder. "Dispose of these, clean up the mess, get yourself another dozen leeches and finish your potion in the remaining fifteen minutes of class." he said sharply striding off to look at Granger's potion with disgust even though it was perfect.

Draco grumbled picking up his chopping board and scraping the disgusting contents on top into the cauldron for waste that immediately ate the squishy substance. He then cursed Snape just for the hell of it.

He headed back to his seat, picking up a new jar of live leeches and began chopping them up more carefully trying not to think about the fact he'd have to endure Merlin knew how long in the library with Ginny Weasley in just over fifteen minutes.

When his potion finally turned the bright orange colour it was supposed to he put it in the vial with his name on the label and began cleaning up after he had placed it on Snape's desk. To his surprise Snape held him back.

"I need to talk to you Mr. Malfoy. Its rather important." he said quietly. Draco let out an aggravated breath and followed Snape into his office.

Snape's office was as depressing as ever. Sure, Draco was aware he wasn't evil but if this had to be his office Draco figured he was still pretty damn twisted. Snape settled at his desk, steepling his fingers in front of him. Draco watched him boredly and took up the seat across from the disgruntled looking professor.

"Now Mr. Malfoy I don't think I need to tell you what your father has planned for you after your graduation from Hogwarts." He said quietly, as though not wanting to be overheard. Draco nodded and leaned back in the chair, propping up his black leather shoes on the edge of the desk. He had a feeling this was going to be a long conversation.

"No Sir you really don't need to tell me." he said in a dull tone.

"The thing is I can not see you being to enthused about your fathers plans. Lucius has his ways of hearing things he is not meant to, even while we're in Hogwarts. So if you want to pursue this topic you will let me know through Dumbledore and we will schedule a more secretive meeting." he started. Draco shrugged and waited for him to go on.

"I have come up with a way that you do not have to join your father, but there will be consequences and it will be difficult. But if you accept you will not have to serve The Dark Lord." he finished.

Draco watched him for a while. He was a little shaken by the prospect since he himself wasn't even sure what he wanted. The room remained quiet for several minutes, the silence finally broken by the chiming of the odd clock in Snape's office.

"Damn I'm late." Draco sighed angrily getting to his feet. "Er..I'll get back to you Professor." he said as he backed up quickly out of the room and tore off to the library as the clock finished chiming four thirty.

Ginny yawned and looked up from her doodles boredly. She hadn't intended on staying in the library but if Draco didn't show up soon it would seem this boring waiting had been for nothing. She smirked as a little hopeful thought popped into her mind.

"Maybe he wont show.." she said smiling to herself, her smile faded as Draco flopped into the chair across from her.

"Sorry I'm late..Snape kept me after potions class." he said sounding out of breath, there was tinge of red to his usually pale, high cheek-bones. Ginny narrowed her eyes and sighed setting her quill down.

"Alright then. Where do you want to go? I really don't intend on staying here." she said, Draco shrugged looking at her doodles. He tried to clear his head, if he was trying to be nice then he decided he had to start now.

He leaned forwards in his chair putting his hand on the scrap piece of parchment and turning it around and looking at it.

"These aren't bad." He said, trying to sound convincing. Ginny snorted a little and snatched it from him.

"My ass they aren't..what do you think that is?" she asked pointing to a small doodle in the corner of the page. Draco narrowed his eyes looking at the oblong-ish, horned cat looking creature and tried to think.

"A chicken?" he asked hopefully. He tried not to smirk when her face split into a smile.

"Nice try. It's supposed to be a cat." she said crinkling up the paper and standing up. She slung her one shoulder bag on and started to leave. Draco blinked and walked quickly and caught up to her.

"Where are you going?" he asked. She shrugged.

"Its spring, its gorgeous outside...can you put two and two together?" she asked raising an eyebrow.

"Four." he said sternly, to his surprise she laughed.

They walked basically in silence out of the castle, Ginny skidded a little abruptly when she noticed Draco wasn't walking with her anymore. She let out a breath of air and looked down the hallway. She couldn't see him anywhere, she sighed.

"Oh well." she thought. "If he doesn't want to come outside then I'm not going to let him ruin it for me. Probably gone off to snog one of his little Slytherin whores" she smirked, but that fell a little when she heard someone running and Draco shout her name as she was about to open the large doors to the grounds.

She turned around. "Where'd you go?" she asked. Quietly muttering. "Not that I care.."

He raised an eyebrow dangling a small notebook in front of her eyes. Ginny blinked at the small blue covered notebook that had her name in gold in on the front.

"Where'd you get that?" she asked attempting to snatch it out of his hands. Unfortunately she failed due to the fact he was much taller then she was and he was holding it was above her head. She glared. Charlie always used to do this to her when she was younger, but with cookies and she had loathed it even then. But for some reason it didn't irritate her as much as she thought it would.

"Give that back Malfoy" she said placing her hands impatiently on her hips.

"I think a 'Thank you Draco for listening to some random girl saying you dropped something, going back into the library to get this little thing and not even glancing at it. And then bringing it back to you at a quick sprint' is in order Weasley." he smirked. Ginny glared at his grey eyes.

"Your eyes are odd." she said. He blinked.

"What?" he said dropping his arms a little, Ginny smirked and grabbed her book while he was caught off guard and opened the doors. She hopped down the stairs cheerily.

"You heard me!" she finally answered putting the book back in her bag and shaking her head with a smile as she headed off towards the lake. Draco shook his head in confusion and followed after her.

"She's almost as odd as that blonde girl she hangs out with." he thought as he followed her down to the lake.

"Its too crowded." Ginny sighed. She loved sitting by the dark blue waters usually, sure she never even felt like sticking her feet in since Harry had told her of all the creatures that lived in there, and how deep it really was. But sometimes she'd stick her hand in, just because she knew it wasn't always safe.

There were many groups of people around the lake, and for the first time it seemed kinda small to her. Ginny pursed her lips a little aggravated, she had been looking forward to sitting by the now over crowded oak tree.

"Crowded? There's like maybe twenty people here." Draco said looking at her curiously.

"I like my space." she muttered. Draco looped his thumbs casually in his back pockets. He understood that. He did too. That's why he had an entire wing to the Malfoy Manor to himself, not to mention refused to share his 'dorm' with anyone. It was also why he ditched his 'mates' a lot. Now that she mentioned it, he was starting to get her a little bit more now. That's why she didn't hang out with like fifteen other girls like most females her age did. He didn't doubt she could have more friends if she wanted to, he made a mental note to ask her about that.

"That's the first thing I've heard you say I can relate to Weasley." he grabbed her elbow and began to lead her away from the lake.

"What are you doing?" she asked suspiciously as he began to lead her past the greenhouses.

"Weasley do you honestly think that's the only lake around here?" he sighed impatiently.

"How would I know?"she confessed following his footsteps carefully as they headed down a steep slope of rocks that headed behind the greenhouses. It was a rocky slope, full of rather dangerous looking jagged rocks covered in a slippery moss.

"Our curfew is in an hour you know that right?" Ginny pressed again, her arms raised a little for balance as she tried to pick a safe route along the rocks. Draco snorted a bit, it appeared he did this every day of his life and was picking his way down the slope casually with his hands in the pockets of his robe.

"Can I ask you a question?" he asked. Ginny nodded but as she did she lost her footing on a slippery rock. With quick reflex's Draco turned around and his arms shot out, catching her and setting her down on a safe rock.

Ginny was a little stunned for a moment, but then forced herself to smile.

"That was quick. But yeah you can ask me a question." She said starting back down the slope.

"What do you think is the worst that could happen if you came back after curfew?" he asked, there seemed to be a small pathway on the side of the rock mountain that Hogwarts sat atop. The steep slope at the back of the castle, behind the greenhouses eventually led out to the forbidden forest.

Draco lead her into a small opening in the face of the rock wall. It smelled revoltingly of mildew, and mold but Ginny started to breath mainly through her mouth as she followed the steadily darkening path.

Ginny pulled out her wand, illuminating the path a little better and shrugged.

"Do you want pessimistic Ginny to answer or care-free Ginny?"

"Pessimistic will do fine." he said.

"Well someone could notice we're gone, think you've kidnaped me or we're both dead and they'll send out hounds and beasts and things with search parties and once they find us they'll think we've lost our minds and get expelled?" she suggested. Draco snorted a bit shaking his head.

"I never thought I'd say this but Weasley, you think too much."

"Where are we going?" Ginny finally asked, thinking it was a very overdue question.

"Oh will you shut-" Draco paused. He was just about to be his snappy self again without even thinking. "Er...Will you just wait until we get there? It shouldn't be more then five minutes now." he corrected

They walked in silence the rest of the way. Ginny was smirking, his attitude was slipping and she was noticing. She was so much closer to getting her broom then she thought she would be on the first day. True, Draco hadn't been as big of a git as her brother and company had made him seem. But she wanted that broom badly and if he thought he was going to keep up this charade she wasn't going to be able to get it.

"Say something mean, just to piss him off." she told herself. She sighed angrily a few moments later, someday's she wished she could just be cruel for no reason, but it wasn't in her nature. Not even for someone like Malfoy.

Her thoughts were interrupted as she collided with what seemed like half a solid wall, even more so when Draco collided into her and they both fell through the rest of the opening that started about their middle and started rolling down a grassy slope.

Draco sat up and spat the grass out of his mouth. He had been planning on trying to reveal this all romantic like. Even if he became 'friends' with Ginny then maybe she could just pretend to be with him and then he'd be set. The bet would be over, course he'd have to give Ginny her money but he was still rich so that was fine by him.

"Can you get off my hand?" he heard Ginny ask impatiently, he looked beside him to see Ginny pinned against the lush grass wincing a little as her arm was under him. There was a large grass stain on her cheek and her legs that were probably a little more revealed then she would have wanted due to her knee length skirt riding up a bit.

Draco moved carefully off her arm, and smirked waiting for her to start yelling at him. She grumbled on cue and got to her knee's brushing the dirt and grass off of her. She looked through her bag to make sure nothing had fallen out and adjusted her ponytail.

"Smooth.." she mumbled angrily. Draco got to his feet and offered to help her up, which she accepted and looked about.

"Holy shit.." she whistled as she looked around. It was exactly like a smaller version of the lake, with the same oak and birch trees only more secluded. The rocks of the mountain curved around one half of the lake, cutting off the rest of her view of the water. And down the small slope lay the dark, yet not as foreboding Forbidden Forest.

"It's almost the exact same..but better in a way." she smiled setting her bag down and hopping down the small slope to the waters edge.

Draco shrugged. "It's the same lake, it goes underneath the castle and comes out again at the foot of the mountains. Not many people come here though." he said. Ginny nodded and sat down in the grass beside her bag, pulling out a piece of parchment to start her homework.

Draco stood there for a while, thinking to himself.

"Blaise really should have been more specific." he thought to himself. "I mean, sure I can be a semi-decent person at times but not to others. If I don't try and win her over with my 'personality' then I have to agree to be Pansy's boyfriend and I'll loose a hundred galleons." he looked at the top of Ginny's head as she pulled out a text book and started tearing through the pages looking for an answer to her question.

"Sure If I win I loose three hundred, but its for a better cause."he sighed miserably and sat in the grass, leaning back on his elbows lazily. Ginny looked at him cautiously.

"Something wrong?" she asked with a raised brow, biting her bottom lip as she turned back to her work. Draco shook his head and looked at the water boredly.

"There's ten minutes until curfew." he yawned. Ginny shrugged showing that she didn't mind.

"We can just say we got lost." she said closing her textbook and opening a smaller one. Draco reached into her bag and pulled out the blue notebook he had retrieved from the library earlier.

"So what is this thing anyway?" he asked, he held it up between two fingers and twirled it about a little. The gold lettering twinkled in the reddening light of the sky and reflected on his face.

Ginny's cheeks reddened a little and she attempted to snatch it away from him and failed again.

"Give it back." she said angrily pinching his arm tightly with her nails. Draco let out a rather girlish squeal and dropped the book that started sliding down the slope, gaining speed as it went. Ginny let out her squeal and pulled out her wand.

"Immobulus!" she yelled, her heart pounding wildly in her chest as she went and scooped up her unmoving book. When she got back she hit Draco across the head with it.

"Ow!" he yelled, his hand flying up to the back of his head. She glared as she sat back down.

"Moron.." she smirked putting it back in her bag and going back to her other work.

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