Eelie: (Edges away from the computer) Nikki…Nikki, you push her off the chair and I go for the car…
Nikki-chan: You don't have your driver's license, you gormless oik.
Eelie: How hard can it be to drive? I'll wing it, dammit.
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IssaLee: Right. Now that Eelie's literally knocked some sense into me
Eelie: It was a seizure! I swear, if I wasn't laughing too hard I'd explain it to you!
Nikki-chan: I find it hard to believe that you would have a seizure and smack her to the floor, incidentally pouring all your soda on her. You're gonna die.
Eelie: At least she's not crying…
IssaLee: I have the feeling no one really cares about these Author's notes, so on with the ficcie. I have business to attend to, meanwhile. (Drags Eelie away by the ear and hunts for Nordic axe.) And the Italian Boy was NOT a desperate ploy. Gwinni-Gwinn-Gwinn decided to step in, is all.
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issalee
Ginny decided that someday, she was going to take a poll and fond out when she ha changed enough to be noticed by so many guys. Heck, a few years ago no one would have even known she was anything but a Weasley. Now the world suddenly knew she was a girl.
But the curly-haired, wide-eyed Italian boy, she couldn't blame. His eyes flicked back to the boy who had said those few words.
"Sorry. But she's my girlfriend."
Ginny's did also, and she was suddenly speechless as the Italian boy held up his hands and stood. "Ah, sorry. She's a belladonna for sure, you've got to keep an eye on her!" And he wandered away from them, kicking up sand as he went. Ginny didn't notice him suddenly snap his head back. His eyes grew wide, and he sprinted off down the beach.
This left Ginny and Tessa to stare, open-mouthed, at a boy they had never seen before. (A/N: Hey, it was either this or Draco, and it can't be too predictable!) He had tousled hair that was an unnatural shade of black, so that it almost looked blue. He was wearing only a pair of light blue swim trunks.
But what drew Ginny towards him were his eyes. They were dark, and onyx-colored. A sudden thought hit her, and she squinted hard. "Gwinn?"
The boy smiled sheepishly. "Hey, Gin." He took her arm and Tessa's, leading them away from the water and back towards the willow. Neither protested, stunned as they were.
Ginny soon regained her sense, however, and quickly took her arm back. "Gwinn, what were you playing at? You never told me you could do—this, whatever it is!"
The Elemental shrugged. "That's because I didn't know I could. Godric and Helga just took mine and Gwendolyn's information, and plowed ahead in their relationship. You're much tougher. I was just—steaming a little and wishing I could do something when it happened."
Tessa giggled suddenly. "Oh—Aislinn said a few choice things about you," she explained. "But she wants to know if she can do it too." The white Elemental appeared on her own shoulder. Tessa took her and cradled her in her arms, like a babe.
Gwinn scowled. "I suppose, but it's hard to keep this form for more than a few minutes, so she'd better use it wisely." He tweaked Ginny's nose before shrinking rapidly. His neck elongated, and he grew his customary wings and fangs.
Gwinn fluttered up to Ginny's shoulder and nipped her ear. "I rather like being an Elemental, it means more fun for me. By the way, that boy wasn't a waizard."
"How would you know?" Ginny asked suspiciously. Gwinn grinned, revealing his sharp fangs. "Oh, but madame, I have many tricks up my--er, what, sleeve? I bet you your little boyfriend comes along in a moment or two."
"Yeah right." Ginny said. Gwinn shrugged, slapping her in the face with his wings at the same time. "Suit yourself. You know it'll happen."
Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Weasley, is that stuffed animal talking?"
Faster than she thought possible, Ginny grabbed the now smirking Gwinn from her shoulder, stuffed him in the crook of her arm and turned to face Draco with a brilliant smile. "Of course not! I'm just—practicing my ventriloquism!"
Draco stared, as did Blaise, who was standing a little off to the side. Ginny's outfit was certainly—a inimitable choice of suit. She was still wearing the denim shorts over the bottom, but this if anything accentuated her looks. Blaise, in the meantime, was studying his girlfriend's legs with the look of starved man.
Ginny almost smirked. She waved a hand in front of the blonde's face. "Yoo-hoo, anyone in there, Malfoy?" He blinked, before resuming his arrogant posture. In this stance Ginny was forced to mentally admit that he looked very handsome indeed.
"Aislinn tells me to add that he has a six-pack too."
"A six pack?" Ginny said incredulously before blushing, but it was too late. Draco smirked. "Admiring the goods, Weasley?"
She stuck her chin up in the air. "As you were doing before, Malfoy. It's only fair." Neither of them noticed their best friends rolling their eyes and walking off, hand in hand.
Draco snorted. "Please, Weasley. Blaise and I merely noticed you two were in the presence of two boys, one of which walked off looking quite sad. Blaise was, of course, concerned about his girlfriend's well-being."
"Jealous, Malfoy?" Ginny said snidely,
He colored a little. "Of course not! I was just being a good friend—something you've probably never heard of!"
"Says the boy who has to Imperio people into being his friends!"
"I do not!"
"Do too!"
"Not!"
"Too!"
"Not!"
"Too!"
"Not!"
"Too!"
Draco rolled his eyes. "This is just getting ridiculous. Let's agree to disagree, so we can finish this argument." He looked around, and his eyes narrowed. "And so we can go find our traitorous friends."
He turned around, and Ginny opened her mouth to let out a clever retort when at that moment, Gwinn spoke up in a voice that sounded surprisingly feminine. "Ouch! Nice butt, hon."
The two people froze. Ginny's mouth malfunctioned, opening and closing like a fish. Draco turned, ever so slowly, and his eyes flashed dangerously.
"What did you say, Weasley?"
Ginny's elbow tightened around Gwinn's neck as she smiled meekly. "Er, nice butt hon?" Draco growled, before whirling around once more. Ginny breathed a sigh of relief and loosened her grip. This turned out to be a big mistake, as Gwinn wriggled free and cried:
"Back that behind up, it is fine!" Gwinn waved a tiny goodbye to Ginny before turning back into the bracelet and wrapping himself around her wrist. Ginny took a moment to register Draco turning back before she ran like the fury.
Blaise's hand tightened around Tessa's as they walked down the beach towards the water. "Erm—Tessa?" She smiled up at him.
"Yeah?"
He was obviously flustered by his next question. "Those two boys you were with earlier—Draco and I saw them and—you have those stuffed animals now—and—"
Tessa had to stop herself giggling, not only from his stuttering but because Aislinn kept saying something about how she needed a big, strong man, like a giant or something. She kept seeing Hagrid in her mind's eye.
"Blaise, the boy that walked away asked Ginny out, but she declined. And the other boys is—" she hesitated, but then plunged forward in her explanation. "A friend of hers. Don't worry, I know you're mine."
Blaise grinned impishly. "What? I'm yours? Seeing as that's probably the closest I'll ever get to you saying you love me, I'll take it." Tessa opened her mouth to reply, but a noise caught her ears.
"Do you hear—" something grabbed her arm and she was forced to move her feet to keep herself from falling. Tessa looked up at Ginny's face and shook her head.
"What have you done now!" she yelled. Ginny's eyes were blazing.
"It was the stupid Elemental did it! I wasn't saying anything, but Gwinn kept saying stuff about Malfoy's arse in a female's voice and Malfoy—" She didn't have to explain any further as Tessa burst out laughing. The two stumbled and collapsed, coincidentally, right next to their things.
"What stuff did Gwinn say?" Tessa asked, wiping tears from her eyes. Ginny mumbled that Elemental's words, ignoring her friend as she shimmied out of the shorts. She was going to tie a towel around herself, change, and get the hell out of there. (The bottom, by the way, also looked like shorts, in the same color and with the same fabric as the top). She was interrupted from her ranting when she heard a loud male voice cursing explicitly.
Tessa noticed the blonde Slytherin first, and the anger radiating from him. She turned to her friend in a panic. "Run for the beach! He'll never head there, he has hair gel to think of!"
Ginny didn't waste any time. In a moment, she was sprinting down the beach, kicking sand up behind her. Gabrielle Delacoeur attempted to wave her down, holding what seemed to be tickets, but Ginny had her life to think of! She cursed her long, waist length hair, which she was still getting used to as she ran closer and closer to the water.
Ron was standing by the water. In her haste, she pushed him in. He in turn, grabbed Hermione round the waist. In an attempt to save himself, maybe, but the fact of life was that they ended up snogging each other as they came up for air.
Ginny almost stopped until she saw Draco hesitating, then plunging into the water. She let out a moan and dove under.
"Ah, water. This I could live with. Poor Gwen would throw a fit, though."
Ginny held her breath as long as she could before popping up. Gray eyes looked down at her own ocher ones, and she decided now would have been a very good time for her to have had her wand.
Draco glared down at her, his sopping wet curls plastered against his face. Actually…without meaning to, Ginny raised a hand to finger one of the pale strands. Draco, in his shock, did nothing. Slowly, ever so slowly, Ginny tilted her face to meet his. And slowly, ever so slowly, she said,
"You have seaweed on your nose."
Draco blinked in a confuse fashion for the second time that day before he sighed and put a hand up to his temple. Ginny was certainly shocked at this change in disposition, and took his hand from his face. "What? What's up?"
Draco rolled his eyes, but he couldn't keep a smile off of his face. He grabbed Ginny around her waist, pulling her closer to him, and she let out a little gasp before he waded out to a precipice in the water. (You know, like it's shallow and then all of a sudden really, really deep?)
Ginny closed her eyes as she felt the water rushing over her head, and attempted to hold her breath. Was he going to drown her? She opened her eyes again, just as he waved his hand over her face and his. Suddenly, fresh air rushed through her mouth and nose. She peered at Draco, and noticed that his features were wide now, and had broadened. She laughed, and he scowled.
"Calm down, Weasley. A simple Bubblehead charm. Didn't you see it at the Tri-Wizard Tournament?" Ginny nodded, and reined in her chuckles.
"How did you do it without a wand?" She had to speak up a little, but her words were still deafened. "Isn't that really hard to do? I heard some guy botched it up in Cape Cod, in America when he was on vacation and he came back with a bloated head." She was babbling now, she realized, but it might have had something to do with the fact that Draco was still holding her round the waist.
He smirked. "Practice, Weasley, practice. Wandless magic can be honed. Besides, wands are merely conductors for the magic inside all of us. It won't be able to last as long as it would if I had a wand, and I won't be able to cast another one for quite a while. Haven't you been listening in Charms?" She stuck her tongue out at him, and he laughed before releasing his hold on her and taking her hand.
"Come on. We've got things to see." For the first time, Ginny looked around her, and gasped. The water was beautiful, and a clear blue-green. Fishes of every size and color swam by them. One that seemed particularly brave rammed itself against the side of her helmet, before swimming dazedly off. Draco chuckled at that.
They swam farther out to sea, exclaiming over the oceanic life they found. A small school of fishes that looked like furry Furby's swam by them. Draco plucked one up and fondled it gently. "Must be some illegal cross-breeding done here. Rather cute, actually."
At that exact moment, the Furby-Fish opened its mouth, exposing large, pointy teeth, and attempted to eat Draco's hand. Ginny was indecisive about whether she should stare and laugh or help for a while, before the Fish-Of-Doom caught sight of her and tried to wrestle its body out of Draco's grip. Then she took a rock and clocked it over the head.
"Did I kill it?" She asked, mortified as the fish floated gently upwards. Draco shook his head. "It looks stunned, but it'll be alright in a moment, I bet." As they swam off Ginny saw it shake itself, flip over and swim away.
"Maybe we should put that into Harry's bath." Mused Ginny. "Too bad for Luna if she wanted kids, though." She was surprised when Draco snorted in laughter. They floated about for a few more minutes, exclaiming over species' they had had never seen before and generally having fun before Draco stopped suddenly.
"Oh, crap. The charm only lasts an hour." He looked at her helplessly, and she started to question him before she felt something strangely like a plunger pulling at her head. She looked up. They were quite a ways from the surface, and the charm was coming off pretty quickly. She had no more time to think, before Draco had her around the waist again, and both of them starting kicking frantically.
With a small, barely audible pop! Ginny's Bubblehead disappeared. She wasn't expecting this, and thus sucked in quite a lot of water before Gwinn uttered a chiefly vehement oath in her head and told her to, "Stop flapping your mouth, you are NOT a fish you freaking idiot!" Ginny made a dazed mental note to hit him later.
Draco apparently hadn't noticed; his eyes were still fixed on the surface. Ginny felt herself getting more lethargic, and in a moment of pure panic (and stupidity) she started to beat as his chest and move away from him. Draco looked down just as his Bubblehead wore off, and immediately his eyes widened in horror.
Ginny couldn't feel much by this time, and gradually, her grip on him loosened. In a moment, though, air was being forced into her lungs, along with just the littlest bit of water. In a moment, though, she was breaking real air, and Draco removed his lips from hers. He treaded water for a while, his forehead resting on hers, before sighing.
"Ginny, you do that to me again and I may just kill you myself." She spit out a little bit of water, and after making sure she was still going to breath, Draco started pulling her to the precipice.
"You called me Ginny." She said, after a moment's deliberation. Draco looked back at her, something like fear flashing in his eyes before his gaze returned to ahead of them. "Yeah, so?"
She smiled, lacing her fingers with his as she propelled her legs to push them forward. He stiffened for a moment, before she squeezed his hand. "That's twice, you know, that you've basically saved me."
He smirked. "Maybe I should just tape you to me; save me a lot of trouble, you know?" She tilted her head so that it was entirely too close to his, and his breath hitched.
"Maybe I'd like that." And then they were on the crag, and she was standing up. Draco stood up with her, and as she attempted to ring out her soggy hair, his eyes passed over her in what was surely admiration.
"You've got spunk. I'll give you that, but that's about it." She stuck out her lower lip and pouted, but he shook his head. "Stop thinking you're the Queen of Everything, Weasley. It's not happening."
But suddenly he was on his back, staring up into those tawny eyes that were now flecked with gold, as though they had been tainted by his wealth. She was smirking, his Malfoy smirk, and he wasn't exactly happy about that. But he forgave her when she lowered her head to his, licking her lips in a delightfully devilish way.
"Now, if you won't give me anything, how about I do the pleasures?" He didn't even get to speak before she had covered his mouth with hers. She started out slowly, but he quickly caught on that she was teasing him and decided to turn the tables on her.
He reached up, tangling his hands in her fiery hair as he pressed her lips down harder, with crushing force. She gasped, giving him an entrance into her mouth. He couldn't think of anything, and for once in his life it wasn't gimmegimmegimme but takemetakemetakme.
Ginny's hands in his hair, Ginny's mouth against his, Ginny's breathe mingling with his, Ginny's hair against his own hands, Ginny, Ginny, and Ginny. It was all about Ginny, now.
Draco's hands in her hair, Draco's mouth against hers, Draco's breathe mingling with hers, Draco's hair against her own slim hands, Draco, Draco and Draco. It was all about Draco, now.
Draco flipped suddenly, so that it was he now, lying on top of her, but he spread his weight evenly so as not to crush her. He trailed kisses up and down her neck, around her jaw, her ears, her delicate, perfect fingers, before she was grasping his face in both hands and making sure his lips gave hers a fair turn.
It was amidst this that a small, tiny crab scuttled towards the two, clacking its pincers fearfully. These two monsters had destroyed its tiny little crabby village, and it wanted revenge! With deadly silence (It's underwater, it's not going to make a thumping noise) it scurried to the two.
Draco ended up biting his tongue (and Ginny's, almost) when the crab got to him. With a small, un-Malfoy-ish yelp, he jumped up and clutched at his foot, which the crab was hanging off of. Ginny took a moment to remember where, who, and what she was before absorbing the full hilariousity of the situation and laughing.
Draco glared at her, all previous romantic feelings forgotten for the moment. "That's not funny, Weasley, this HURTS!" Still grinning insanely, Ginny crawled over, dragged him down and plucked the crab from his foot, and settled it in the water.
"Cute thing," she cogitated, and looked up to the steely gray eyes. Before the full awkwardness of the situation could set in, however, Gabrielle came splashing towards them, Christophe in tow. She was still clutching the tickets, but inside of a waterproof clear case.
"Ginny! I 'ave been looking for you everywhere! Tessa said you were busy, and she was acting v. secretive!" The redhead smiled.
"What've you got for me, Gabrielle?" The Beauxbatons student kneeled next to her, showing her the tickets with great joy.
"Madame Maxine 'as decided that you of 'Ogwarts are allowed to watch a match in the World Cup league, France versus Japan! Our courtyard doubles as the stadium, so we usually see most of the games!"
Ginny's eyes shone with delight. "Excellent! I take it that it's tomorrow?" Gabrielle nodded tomorrow, but her boyfriend clarified.
"Tomorrow at exactly two. You can sit on the side that supports Japan, or the one that supports France. Which side will you two be supporting?"
"Japan."
Ginny and Draco glanced at each other in surprise, but Gabrielle didn't seem to notice. "Ah, zat eez ok! Tessa, Luna, Hermione, Blaise and 'is sister seem to be the only others rooting for Japan, though, so I fear you will not be so lucky."
"Are you kidding?" Ginny straightened up. "Japan's the quickest team around, and their Chasers are crazy! They've got a new Seeker, granted, but I heard she's awesome! Their keeper almost never misses a goal, and their Beaters have never missed the Bludger yet! Japan is sure to win."
"Besides, they beat Australia 360 to nil." Draco put in. "They did the same to Bulgaria, 180 to 10, and England lost 450-120. France lost their first match against them, didn't they? It was a horrible defeat, 670 to 20."
Gabrielle looked put out. "Yes, but we 'ave been training, so we are sure to beat zem zis time! Besides," she added sourly. "Zey are in zair 'ome stadium, zey cannot lose."
"We'll see about that." Ginny smiled good-naturedly. "Come on, let's go back to the beach!" she addressed Draco, who looked at her with mild astonishment, before taking her outstretched hand and pulling himself up with her.
"Normally, when you say you don't like a guy, you don't end up lying on top of him while he snogs you senseless. And enjoying every minute of it, too."
Ginny rapped the bracelet sharply with her knuckles and gave Gwinn a mental retort. 'He was lying on top of me!'
"For the second half of the session."
'You are a bad, bad dragon.'
She could feel the bracelet loosen. "That was uncalled for! Now I'm going to be depressed, some thanks I get from saving you from that boy!"
'Fine, fine, you're a good little matchmaker.' She smiled slightly as she reached the sandy beach and waved up to Tessa. 'Besides, I wasn't enjoying every minute of it. It was more like…every second…'
A little bit of fluff for you all. And all Quidditch moves and such in the next chapter, along with names, is the result of spending exactly six hours and forty-three minutes playing Harry Potter Quidditch world cup with Nikki-chan, who, consequently, is going to Virginia. She'll be so far! And Eelie is leaving sometime later this week for the rest of August. She's going to upstate New York, but honestly, Americans are daft. They restrict the oddest things; like the last season of Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon, for chrissake! Ah, well. Enjoy!