Ok, so last night I got seriously inspired; made a strawberry yogurt, cheerios, and raisin sandwich on a hot-dog bun; ate it; and came up with this beauty of a chapter...Hope you enjoy. ;-)
Also, I love how most of you guys caught the Pirates of the Caribbean quote I threw in there! I love that movie and for some reason Blaise just seems awfully Jack Sparrow-ish to me. :-D
So, for all of you who feel the same, I threw in a special scene at the end for you! Hope you enjoy!
Thanks to all of you who reviewed! You gave me some excellent ideas, which I will definitely be using in the next few chapters. Especially since most of you wanted wedding planning and a kidnapping! Coming soon!
So, this ones for you, wonderful reviewers!
After their exhausting yet fruitful Hogsmeade visit Draco and Ginny had said goodbye to Blaise and apparated back home to Malfoy Mansion.
Ginny was now laying sprawled out over the living room couch a checklist in her hands. Draco was sitting in an oversized chair his head in his hands, rubbing his temples.
"Do we really have to plan the entire wedding right now?" he asked exasperatedly, as a huge storm brewed outside.
"Yes," Ginny replied for the third time that evening, "Besides it's raining outside and we've got nothing better to do."
"Fine," Draco gave in, "What's first on the list?"
"Where to have the wedding," Ginny read off, "Do you want an inside or outside wedding?"
"Outside," Draco replied at the same time that Ginny said, "Inside."
"I'll rock, paper, scissors you for it," Ginny said, amusement evident in her eyes.
"Sounds fair," Draco replied.
"Best two out of three?" Ginny suggested.
"You're on," Draco responded, grinning.
"You're going down, Malfoy," Ginny said.
"Not likely, Weasley," Draco teased.
3 games later…
"Inside wedding it is," Ginny said laughing.
"I can't believe you won all three," Draco said bewildered.
"I guess I should have told you before that years playing with Fred and George have made me a Rock Paper Scissors expert," Ginny said, an amused guilty look on her face.
"Hustler," Draco replied.
Ginny just grinned and continued.
"So I guess we should have the wedding in the Hogwarts Great Hall," Ginny stated.
"Hogwarts!" Draco said, bewildered, "You want to have our wedding at Hogwarts!"
"Well it makes sense, doesn't it?" Ginny said, "Hogwarts will be closed soon for summer plus the Great Hall would be beautiful with a little rearranging."
"But still," Draco said, "Having our wedding in the dining-room of our old school? That doesn't seem in the least bit weird to you?"
"You're forgetting that the wizard who signs our legal marriage papers must also be the wizard who marries us," Ginny cut in, "That means Dumbledore."
"Great Hall it is," Draco said defeatedly.
"Knew you'd see it my way," Ginny said with a grin.
"Slytherin," Draco muttered under his breath.
"What was that?" Ginny asked, smiling sweetly.
"Oh nothing," Draco replied.
"That's what I thought," Ginny said returning to her list, "Now on to the guest list. Who in your family do you want to invite?"
"No-one," Draco replied honestly.
"Seriously though, you must at least have some friends you want to invite," Ginny added.
"Well there's Blaise," Draco started.
"And…" Ginny urged.
"And…That's about it," Draco replied.
"Well, You've got Blaise as your best man," Ginny stated, "But you still need some grooms."
"I was actually hoping to ask Fred and George to be the grooms, if it's alright with you," Draco said.
"Sounds perfect," Ginny said beaming.
"What about the rest of the wedding party?" Draco asked.
"Well, I was thinking about asking Luna, Hermione, and Katie Bell to be my bridesmaids," Ginny said, "And Bill and Fleur's little girl to be the flower girl."
"So this means that the entire Weasley clan will be invited?" Draco asked, only slightly horrified.
"All of us," Ginny said with a smirk, "You, Blaise, and entire roomful of Gryffindors and Weasleys."
"I really need more friends," Draco said with a moan.
Just then the sound of a doorbell was heard over the heavy pounding of rain.
"Who on earth would be at our door in this weather?" Draco asked confusedly.
Ginny got up to answer the door and almost screamed in panic as a dark, dripping-wet figure stood hunched over on her doorstep.
That is until a flash of lightening lit up the sky and Ginny glimpsed the very-wet, very-dejected looking face of one infamous Blaise Zabini.
"You're apparation port is broken," he said sadly as Draco came rushing over behind Ginny.
"Blaise! What are you doing here? Are you out of your mind?" Draco asked hurriedly as Ginny dragged Blaise inside and dried his clothes with a flick of her wand.
"Here, come sit beside the fireplace you poor dear," Ginny said, her motherly tendencies kicking in.
Blaise sat and stared gloomily at the fire as Draco lit it and Ginny conjured some hot cocoa.
"Now, what's going on?" Draco said, sitting down beside Blaise.
"Well, I mean," Blaise said, looking around as if he just realized where he was, "I'm sorry. I don't want to bother you guys. I'll just be going."
Blaise made to stand up and head for the door but Draco grabbed him and sat him back down.
"Blaise, don't be insane. You are going absolutely nowhere until you tell us exactly what is going on."
"Well," Blaise started, sadly, "You know how I'll be graduating from Hogwarts in a month or so?"
"Yes, go on," Ginny urged.
"Well, not only am I leaving Hogwarts, the only place that ever really felt like home, but my latest stepfather has convinced my mum to cut me off."
"That's terrible!" Ginny shouted.
"Now I have no money for an apartment or anything. I've got no place to go," Blaise said hanging his head dejectedly.
Draco immediately stood up and started to leave the room.
"Where are you going?" Ginny hissed angrily at him.
"To prepare a room," Draco said as if it were obvious, "You'll be staying here, of course."
"I couldn't impose on you two like that," Blaise said sadly, "I'll figure something else out."
"Nonsense," Ginny insisted, "You will stay with us for however long is necessary."
"Really?" Blaise said looking up, a glimmer of hope evident in his eyes.
"Of course, you're always welcome here," Ginny said earnestly.
"I just feel like such a bother," Blaise said depressedly.
"Hey, Blaise," Draco said suddenly, an idea forming in his mind, "I was hoping…"
"Yes?" Blaise asked.
"That you would agree to be my best man," Draco said, smiling.
A huge grin lit up Blaise's face.
"You mean in the wedding?" Blaise said jumping up.
"Yes…in the wedding Blaise," Draco clarified shaking his head and smiling.
"Brilliant! Of course!" Blaise shouted, grabbing Draco in a huge hug, every sad thought of his previous predicament vanished.
Ginny grinned as Draco mouthed over Blaise's shoulder to her, "I knew that would work."
"You two stay here and hang out seeing as I'm the only person that can apparate in and out of Malfoy Manor without the port," Draco said.
"Where are you going?" Ginny asked confusedly.
"Well I've got to go to the apparation headquarters to get the apparation port back working so Blaise can eventually get back to Hogwarts. The lightening from the storm must have short-circuited it," Draco explained.
"Alright," Ginny agreed, "But Blaise, in two weeks when you graduate you're coming straight back here, right?"
"Right," Blaise said grinning lopsidedly.
"Be good you two," Draco said, apparating with a pop.
"So what have you got to do around here?" Blaise asked Ginny excitedly.
"Not a clue," Ginny said.
"Well then, we'll just have to go digging through the secret closet I made for Draco years ago," Blaise said with a huge smile.
"Secret closet?" Ginny asked.
Blaise gave her a wink and with a flick of his wand and a silly incantation a closet appeared right next to Draco's big-screen television. Blaise opened the closet door and a slew of games and videos came toppling out.
"Jackpot!" Blaise shouted, spotting the Pirates of the Caribbean DVD among the mess.
"Pirates of the Caribbean?" Ginny said, "What's that?"
Blaise gasped and dramatically laid a hand over his forehead.
"Blasphemy!" he shouted, "You've never seen Pirates of the Caribbean?"
"Never," Ginny stated.
"Well, then we will just have to educate you on the finer things in life," Blaise said.
"Like Pirates of the Caribbean?" Ginny asked, laughing.
"There is nothing finer," Blaise declared adamantly, putting the DVD in.
2 hours later Draco returned home from the lines at the apparation headquarters.
"Good news, the ports back working and…..woah," Draco stopped, startled, "What's going on here?"
Blaise, dressed in full Captain Jack Sparrow garb with the dreadlocks and drunk stature and everything, was jumping up and down on the couch, waving his wand around as if it were a sword screaming, "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, savvy?"
Ginny, dressed like Elizabeth in a low cut corset dress, was doubled over in laughter shouting out the occasional, "Bloody pirates."
Draco's horror in the spectacle was only distracted by Ginny's beauty in that dress.
"You gave him licorice, didn't you?" Draco said accusingly to Ginny.
"Only a little, mate!" Blaise said jumping off the couch and conjuring a Will Sparrow costume onto Draco, complete with the feathered hat.
"I can't believe I'm doing this," Draco said, giving in to temptation and joining them.
All three started a rousing chorus of "Yo ho, Yo ho, a pirate's life for me!"
"And really bad eggs!" Blaise screamed at the top of his lungs.
See, Look how quick I can get a chapter out with just a little inspiration from you wonderful readers!
Hope you liked it! New Blaise twists and everything!
Well now I've got chapter time to kill between now and when Blaise graduates and moves in and exciting things start happening.
So, I was planning on having Ginny talk to Luna next chapter about the wedding...and Draco. :-) Luna's always an interesting character so that should be fun... Also perhaps a visit to the Weasley twins about wedding plans?
Any other ideas for the next chapter or two? I'm open to anything and I'm really only interested in writing what y'all are interested in reading so review and let me know!
Review!