A/N: There is an almost quote in this chapter from my favourite movie " Victor Victoria." If you know it or can find it I will send you homemade cyber cookies J
Chapter 4: "What Do You Think Of Draco Malfoy?"
Awakened by the false dawn streaming through the window Ginny yawned, rolled over and promptly fell. A startled eep escaped her as she landed. Trying to figure out why she fell off her bed, she stood up and was stretching when a masculine chuckle intruded on her thoughts. Shrieking, she spun around to find none other then Draco Malfoy lounging on the couch laughing at her. Again.
"What in bloody hell are you doing in my room?" Ginny demanded.
Draco stretched along the couch while he uttered in a sleep husky voice that tingled along Ginny's spine, "actually, if you look around, you will see that we are not in your room, but are still where ever you dragged me last night to snog my brains out."
"Oh gods Draco. Be real, at least just for a moment won't you? You were the one to start each kiss that happened in this room. So if you would be so kind as to shelve your ego for the moment as it is completely out of proportion to the events thus far."
"My ego? My ego is completely justified in all situations and is not the topic at the moment. Finding out what the time is, should be of concern don't you think? I don't want to be late for Quidditch practice."
"It is 6 am. Possibly earlier."
"And how, pray tell, do you know this with out consulting a clock or watch?"
"I never sleep past six, no matter how much I may wish to." Ginny rummaged around in her school bag for a moment before she surfaced with an "aha, there it is. To be exact, it is 5:48 am."
"Oh hell. It's way too early. Wake me in time for breakfast." Closing his eyes, Draco settled back into the couch, fully intent upon going back to sleep.
"Ha. Have fun, but I am going to return to my dorm, hopefully before anyone but my roommates realise that I haven't yet returned from supper. Also, I prefer to shower and change clothes before appearing before the masses."
"Ah yes, I forgot, your family can't afford water so school is the only place that you can shower on a regular basis."
SMACK!
The sound echoed through the small room. Ginny stood before him, hand stinging, breathing harshly from the quick rise of anger, while a perfect red outline of her hand appeared on his cheek. "What the fuck was that for?" Draco was close to shouting, and he never shouted, well except for quidditch.
"Do not ever insult my family again. Nor shall you insult me."
"Well I can't just very well stop just because I've snogged you now can I? What would people think?"
"They will think that we are dating you dolt. You know, what they are supposed to think."
"Dating?" He almost squeaked in protest. "I never agreed to let people think that!"
"Well gee honey buns, do you really think that I can get the same reaction out of my brother and Harry if we are just snog buddies? Really think about it logically, I will get the better reaction and you will get the added benefit of adding to your ego by being the only slytherin to get a gryffindor."
"While that is true, it could also be potentially disastrous for my reputation. Then again, it would take a hell of a lot more then just dating a gryff to ruin me…Anyhow, now that that is settled, wake me for breakfast will you. And don't call me pet names, which was part of the arrangement. If you do, I will let it be known that you are still potty's little lap dog."
"I don't know if putting up with you is worth it. And wake yourself up, I'm leaving."
"What I don't get a goodbye kiss? Is that anyway to treat your pretend boyfriend? How are we supposed to act like a couple in public if we never act it in private?" Draco reached out and pulled Ginny to him by an arm and kissed her soundly before letting her go with a swat on the arse and a parting of, "Well see you at breakfast, I suggest you sit with me to help the illusion start," as he walked out the door.
Left behind in the room of requirement, Ginny shook herself out of the stupor that had settled on her at Draco's actions and headed back to her dorm. Thinking about how well things were turning out and hoping that Nikki had covered for her if necessary, she muttered the password to the fat lady and cautiously entered into the Gryffindor common room. Seeing that it was empty, she hurried across the room and up the stairs.
On entering the dorm she shared with the rest of the 6th years, she dropped her bag at the end of her bed and opened the curtains to find Nikki just where she thought she would, passed out on her bed. She bounced onto the bed scaring Nikki awake with laugh.
"Gods woman, you know better then to scare me like that." Grumped Nikki as she sat up and stretched. "By gods what time is it?"
"Just shy of six. How late did you wait up?" Ginny asked as she climbed up the bed to sit next to Nikki.
"Not too late, I believe I passed out sometime around two in the morning. So, what do you think of Draco Malfoy?"
"Draco Malfoy is an arrogant, opinionated, chauvinistic pain in the arse," Ginny huffed.
"I think I could fall in love with him."
"I think I could too." Ginny said ruefully before getting up off that bed and gathered her things so that she could get ready for the day ahead, it promised to be interesting. "I'm going to sit with him at breakfast as per his unsubtle hint of 'I suggest you sit with me to help the illusion start.' Ugh he is a prat. I'll fill you in more after breakfast 'kay?"
"You better squidlet, especially since you left me at the mercy of your brother last night after supper. He was right livid for the rest of the evening." Nikki shuddered be fore climbing into her bed for another hour of sleep.
Draco was just starting on the supper that he had heaped onto his plate when his eyes were drawn to the doors of the great hall just in time to watch as the girl who would not leave his thoughts, even during quidditch practice, walk through the door. Unaware of what he was doing he was already half way to the door before he noticed. Thinking quickly he walked up behind Ginny and her friend, inserted himself between the two looping his arms around them before steering them both over to his usual spot at the slytherin table. "Well now ladies, seeing as how you…"
"Nikki, her name is Nikki." Ginny filled in for him.
"Right, well as I was saying, seeing as how you, Nikki, have monopolized Ginny since after breakfast, not even letting her attend my quidditch practise like a good girl, I will just have to keep both of you to make up for it."
"I told you this morning that I needed to study and get some homework done. You agreed that I should spend today doing it instead of watching you practise since I am on the gryffindor team. And besides which because I did spend the day with nikki doing work I am now free for the rest of the evening- except for potions homework. But seeing as how Snape favours you we decided that we should use you to our advantage. Now smile like a good boy and agree that it was a better idea then me sitting and getting nothing done all morning just to watch you fly around yelling at the idiot slytherins that make up your team. After all, you may now try to steal me away from Nikki.'
"Hey! You said you would never let anyone steal you away from me. This is wrong in so many ways. You do realise that don't you?" Nikki butted in while trying unsuccessfully to take Dracos arm from around her. "If you don't mind, I can walk under my own power and do not need any help steering either." Nikki finally got Draco's arm from around her but only because they had arrived at the table and were sitting.
Once seated, Draco proceeded to serve both girls before he himself started to eat. Throughout dinner he kept up a conversation on inconsequential subjects such as quidditch and school. Ginny, watching Nikki smother her second yawn, decided to excuse both of them so they could get their potion things and be able to finish up their homework with the benefit of Snapes favoured pupil.
"I'll send Nikki ahead to check things out and I will meet you at the library in about half an hour. If she doesn't join us after a while we will go to the room and finish studying there," Ginny told Draco as she pushed her plate away and got up to leave with Nikki.
"Right, see you there," Draco replied before he pulled Ginny down for a quick hard kiss that brought a blush to her cheeks. He sat for a moment longer watching the sway of her hips as she walked out. Noticing the glares and questioning glances being thrown his way, he smirked at the table as a whole and headed down his dorm to gather his things. Trusting to Crabbe and Goyle to sufficiently cow any who would follow and pester him, he didn't give the adverse attention any thought, instead he let his mind drift to it's favourite subject of late, Ginny.
She had surprised him by not only sitting with him at breakfast as per his request but having her friend there also. Upon seeing that her friend would be joining them he had thought to be doomed to a boring trivial girl conversation, but instead had been treated to a lively and heated debate about music. He could tell that it was a long running debate that would probably never be resolved between the two girls but it was entertaining to say the least. At the end of breakfast he managed to halt the debate long enough to agree that Ginny should not watch his practise and that she should get her schoolwork out of the way. At the time did not realise that it would keep her from him for the majority of the day. He was now looking forward to spending time with the chit even if her friend would be there.
"Well as long as you keep him away from subjects that you two disagree on, he isn't so bad. I still haven't seen this smile you talked about." Nikki chatted as she opened the door to their dorm.
"You don't say? Now why do I find that hard to believe is beyond me," retorted Ginny. "I mean it's not like he's been awake every time you saw him today or anything, considering I did tell you that I saw it while he was sleeping."
"Don't remind me. Oh the things I would have done to that boy if I had him at my mercy," cackling madly, Nikki grinned at her best friend before heading back out of their dorm.
"Please spare me the details of your twisted sexual fantasy, I do not want to know."
"Well that's a first. And it wasn't sexual."
"What's a first? And in your twisted mind everything is sexual."
"Not wanting to know the details is a first for you, and not everything is sex in my mind…just most of it." Nikki grinned again as she parted from Ginny to head to the room of requirement.
Ginny took her time as she meandered through the corridors on her way to the library. Having never before considered the remote possibility of having to get along with Draco, she had been amazed when he had jumped right into her and Nikki's age old music debate. Even better was when Nikki was forced to concede a point to him-a small point-but a point none the less. Thinking that getting along with Draco as well as she has been would help greatly in her endeavour to catch Harry's attention. Then again, if the golden trio were immersed in their own plots and schemes then it would take nothing short of an atomic blast to catch the attention of any of them.
Walking into the library Ginny sat down next to Draco leaning over to give him a quick kiss on the cheek by way of greeting. Rolling her eyes at his grunt of acknowledgement, she got up to look in the stacks for a book that would help her in finishing the horrific essay that had been assigned by Snape. Only Snape could assign a 2-foot parchment on the properties of verbena hastata in a calming draughts. Finding the book she was looking for she turned around and ran smack into Draco's chest.
"Oh! You need to learn to shuffle your feet or something. You are going to end up giving me a heart attack. Come on I need to pump you for information on this herb and calming draughts." She tried to step around him and head back to the table where their things were located but had to stop when he hooked his arms around her waist and pulled her deeper into the stacks.
"If you are going to pump me for information then I think I should be getting something in return. If this information you are going to be extracting from my brain will be of help to you and your friend Nikki then I believe I should be getting even greater reimbursement for my time and effort." turning around so Ginnys back was against the wall at the end of the row, he leaned into her and dropped his head to claim her mouth.
Ginny surrendered to the kiss and let her hands roam as they would. Tracing the contours of his back through the materials of his clothes, she was surprised at the hard ridges of muscle that were there for her to explore. A low moan escaped her as Draco moved his mouth from hers to trace the line of her jaw and trail wet open mouth kisses down her throat to the open collar of her shirt. Soon losing awareness of where she was, Ginny didn't even start when she felt the firm weight of Draco's hand settle over her breast, kneading through the fabric of her jumper. She was so lost in the sensation of his mouth and hand on her; she didn't notice the brush of cool air on her back until she felt his other hand warm on the skin of her side.
"Draco wait. We need to stop."
"I don't see why. You're enjoying yourself, I'm enjoying myself, no one is bothering us, so why should we stop?" Tilting his head down intent on stealing another kiss, he was surprised when her hand came up and she pressed gentle fingers to his lips to stop him.
"That is all very true, but we are in the library and at any moment someone may come back here. Besides I have gotten absolutely no information from you yet so you do not need any more reimbursement as of yet." Ginny tried to pull her fingers away from Draco's lips but he caught her hand and held it between them studying her fingers as if he had never seen them before.
"True, but I honestly do not care if someone comes back here, and if someone did wouldn't that help you along with your plan? A rumour spreading like wildfire about the youngest Weasley caught in a compromising position with me." A dark look entered his eyes but was gone so quickly Ginny could not say for sure that she had seen it there at all. Before she could say anything he put her fingers to his mouth and bit down with a light but sharp pressure, eliciting a startled gasp from her.
"Well as nicely as this may demonstrate hate and love, you two really need to find a better place then the back of the library stacks to try and undress each other. Although if an audience is what you want I would be more then willing to charge admission for you."
Ginny almost shrieked before she recognised the voice of her best friend. Pushing Draco away from her she stayed behind him as she righted her jumper and tried to smooth her hair. She stepped out from behind him and glared at Nikki.
"You should be thanking me not glaring at me, what if it had been Madame Pince that found you? Anyway I have news. We should go somewhere else and the room is in use by the golden trio," turning, Nikki lead the way back to the main part of the library and waited while they gathered their things from the table they had shared for a brief moment. Exiting the library, Nikki turned to Draco with a lifted eyebrow before asking, "Doesn't the head boy get a private room?"
"Yes, I have a room to myself. There is only one comfortable chair but Ginny may share the bed with me." Smirking at the blush that leapt into Ginnys cheeks, he turned and lead the way out of the library and through the passages toward his private room.
A/N: I am sorry to any who have been waiting on this but I moved and my service provider took two weeks to come out and run the cables for my new house. I will make up for the lag in updates as much as I can.
As always thank you to my reviewers; Barefoot Bohemian, Velfin, moonpixie, Rose, xxMALOxx. I would not continue trying with out you.