A/N: Another one that's good and yes I know this one took longer then usual and it'll probably been another week before I get chapter 10 up because I'm going on a vacation and I will write but I'll have to do it on a pad and paper because there are no computers where I'm going. So I'll just have to type it when I get back, so just be patient because it will get here. For now just Read this one and tell me what ya think. And thank you to you peeps who reviewed the last chapter.
It had been a week since Ginny had come home from her talk with Harry only to discover Draco was nowhere to be found. Draco had decided he wasn't going to wait for her and had gotten dressed and went back to the Manor. He had avoided going out on purpose, not positive if he wanted to see her and continue this charade.
He had kept himself locked in either his chambers or his study, never coming down for dinner, and barely eating.
He had searched his books, sent owls to people he knew, but he got nothing. There was no living person who had survived the curse without completing it (There wasn't many), which irritated him to no end.
He wasn't sure where to go from here.
As for Ginny she was going about her usual routine but to her surprise she checked out her window every morning hoping for an owl or anything to let her know of how he was doing. Apparently when he got mad he cut things out for periods of time.
Well a week was long enough, she decided one morning and instead of opening her shop, she grabbed her cloak and headed out the door.
A couple of hours later she was standing on the doorstep of the Manor with Luna Lovegood by her side. Ginny turned at her. "Thank you so much Luna, I wish I didn't have to take you away from work. If it weren't for you though I never would have found this place."
Luna didn't answer just stare at the building.
Ginny knocked on the door. "I hope someone answers." She mumbled.
The door cracked open just enough for the person on the inside to peak their head out. "What do you want?" They asked in a whispering voice.
"I would like to see Draco Malfoy please." Ginny said.
"He's in a meeting." The servant woman said and started to shut the door rudely.
"I don't care, I want to see him." Ginny pushed the door open and stepped into the foyer. "It's very important."
"Madam, he will be very mad if I let you in there. You must leave, come back tomorrow." The woman pleaded. "He hates to be disrupted."
She thought of the look on Draco's face when Harry had called. "Look, you're either going to take me there or I'll search this whole place looking for him and I don't think they want me to go through their stuff." She replied getting frustrated.
Luna just continued to glance around the room silent as can be.
Narcissa walked in when she heard the noise. "What's going on?" She questioned and smiled when she saw Ginny. "Hello dear."
Ginny smiled back. "I really want to see Draco."
Narcissa told the servant to find something to do because she would attend to this herself and focused on Ginny. "This way." She stated then with her dress flowing behind her, headed down the hall not even bothering to check if the two women were following.
"She said he was in a meeting." Luna finally spoke.
Narcissa waved it off. "He'll get over it, besides it's not that important." She said bitterly as she smiled to herself. As she approached his study she knocked gently on the door and waited for an answer.
"I'm busy, if it's not a life or death emergency go away and come back later." Draco's voice echoed loudly from the other side.
Ginny felt her nerves rack her system as she wondered why she had come here in the first place. Questions started to pass through her mind. What was she even going to say to him? Was he still mad at her? Would he even speak to her or would he just throw her out? What would her reaction be if he told her to stay away from him? Within seconds all of those and more came and went causing her to panic. She put one hand to her stomach and one to her head hoping to calm herself before she spoke to him.
Narcissa saw the raw emotion in her eyes and felt pity. The poor girl is a wreck, she thought. "Are you alright dear?" She asked.
Ginny looked up at her and nodded her head.
"Okay." She turned back to the door to face her son. "Draco open the door this instant." She bellowed in a powerful motherly tone. "There is someone here you need to talk to."
"What does she want?" They heard an angry person speak.
"Mother I have more important things to do then talk to..." He trailed off as soon as he opened the door and saw who was standing there. "Ginny." He whispered breathlessly his knees going weak. He leaned against the door causally but was actually using it for support.
"Can't you see we are in a meeting?" Pansy Parkinson growled walking up. "We were in a very important conversation." Her eyes narrowed into thin slits.
Narcissa looked at the woman with distaste. "Not anymore. You can continue it at a later date." She glared giving Pansy a look as if to dare her to say something to challenge her.
Pansy immediately shut her mouth and stood behind Draco sending Ginny a piercing glare.
"I believe you ought to be going." Narcissa said raising an eyebrow at Pansy.
"Yes I think so." She glared angrily at Ginny one last time then showed herself out the door.
Narcissa without speaking walked away making sure Pansy left.
"Draco..." Ginny broke off uncertain of how to begin.
"It's been a long time." Luna circled around Draco's form checking him out. "You're too tall." She muttered then grabbed Draco by his shirt dragging him down to her height only to run her fingers through his hair.
He pushed her away. "What are you doing?" He barked then started to straighten out his hair.
Luna unaffected by his attitude wrapped her arms around him embracing him in a hug then turned to Ginny and did the same. "I must get back." She began to glide down the hall then halted and waved goodbye. "I'll see you later Ginny. Goodbye Dragon." With that said she was gone.
Draco frowned as he stared down the hall at the corner where she had disappeared. "Are all of your friends crazy?" He asked brushing himself off like he was now dirty because she had come into contact with him.
"I don't know." Ginny muttered then bit her lip as her eyes filled up.
Draco sighed and feeling guilty took a step towards her. "Ginny please don't do that." He pleaded.
She rubbed them away quickly drying them up. "Don't touch me." She warned.
He backed up. "Well what do you want?" He asked with a trace of anger. His eyes and face became suddenly detached as he marched back into his study to take a seat.
Ginny followed and watched him curiously. "How do you do that?" She wondered out loud as he sat down behind his desk.
"Do what?" He growled.
"What you're doing now." She answered as if it explained everything. "How do you go from being concerned one moment and then be cold and mean the next?" She strolled behind the desk to stand by him, not wanting to make him feel like he had the upper hand by sitting behind it.
"Well it's rather easy when you're still mad at your girlfriend." He answered and studied her. When he saw a flash of pain cross her face he controlled the urge to hold her, he felt horrible knowing he had caused it.
"You're still angry then?" She asked. "Don't you forget things it's been a whole bloody week!" She cried exasperatedly.
"Actually I always hold grudges, it must be a Slytherin thing." He said easily and thought of Pansy.
"Get over it." She replied icily and tossing pride aside softly mumbled, "I missed you."
Draco suppressed a smiled and put a hand to his ear over exaggeratingly. "What was that I'm not sure I heard you. Say it again."
She sighed. "I know you heard me." She complained and placed her hands on her hips. "I said, you bloody prat, that I missed you."
He dragged her toward him. "I don't believe you." He said slyly and grinned up at her.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and was about to kiss him but pulled away at the last moment. "Did you expect me to just fall into your arms?" She asked angrily raising her voice. "Because I am not, I'm mad at you too. Do you know how worried I was when I found out you were gone?" She started to pace. "You didn't even have the decency to leave me a note." She glared at him.
He huffed feeling like a four-year old child who didn't get what they wanted. "Well you kind of did leave me in a bad mood going off with Potter all of a sudden when we were having a good round."
"You didn't even send me an owl." She ranted pointed at him mad. "I waited a week and I bet you knew I didn't know where Malfoy Manor was. I had to find someone who did so I picked up Luna from the Quibbler-"
He interrupted before she could go on. "Wait a moment, how does Looney know where I live?" He inquired looking puzzled.
Ginny paused in deep thought. "Now that I think about it, I'm not sure. I had just remembered her mentioning something about it so I asked her if she would take me." She passed it off and continued pacing. "And as for me going off with Harry, if it makes you happy I only talked to him for about fifteen minutes then I left because I didn't like the way the conversation was going."
"Actually that does make me happy but it doesn't justify the fact that you were the one who left me first." He spat back standing up out of his chair unable to sit any longer, just watching her pace made him restless.
"Well obviously you're going to be childish about me going to talk to Harry so I'm done." Ginny headed for the door only to find her arm caught on Draco's hand. "Let go." She hissed.
"What do you think you're done with?" He asked dangerously making her back up to the bookshelf.
Refusing to be intimidated she stabbed him in the chest. "What do you think I'm done with?" She stabbed him again. "If this is the way you're going to be when we get into an argument then you can keep it. I want a man that isn't going to run away from me and can act like an adult when I have to go talk to my friends."
"You didn't have to talk to him, you wanted to talk to him." Draco shot back feeling that familiar rise of jealousy at the mention of her being with Harry again. "There is a difference Ginny."
"You're absolutely right, I wanted to talk to him. Unlike you I want my friends and family to know why I choose to do the things I do. That's why I went to talk to Harry and now that I have explained something I didn't have to explain in the first place at least I tried." She yanked her arm from his grasp. "Now if you'll excuse me you are wasting my time."
She started for the door once again.
Draco observed as she began to walk out. His first thought was, let her go screw it you don't need her. His second thought was absorbing what he had researched with there being no counter to the curse. The final thought was all the sleepless nights once again that week since he had left and the part where he had in truth missed her.
"Damn it." He muttered under his breath and sprinted to the door. "Ginny wait." He shouted down the corridor.
"Forget it." She said back without even concerning herself with turning around.
He growled. "Fine." He flipped open a side drawer that was attached to one of the portraits in the hall. Taking out a remote control he pushed a purple button and Ginny heard a locking sound as the house completely shut down.
"What was that?" She asked finally turning to face him.
"I don't know." Draco shrugged innocently.
"You liar, you did something." She accused and continued on her way to the door. When she reached it she tugged, but it remained closed not moving at all.
He had stayed where he was not following her, knowing she would be back. He pursed his lips together to stop him from laughing when he heard her frustrated cry as she once again tried the door this time with her wand.
Her footfalls echoed through the hall as she marched angrily to him. "Open the door." She requested through clenched teeth.
He snorted. "Not on your life. I say when we're 'done' and as far as I'm concerned we're not even close." He closed the distance between them and grabbed the back of her hair, pulled her lips to his in a bruising kiss.
She gasped and tried to break free but she found the more she struggled the more harder he yanked her hair. Using her fingers she pinched his ear and twisted it.
He jumped back and cried out in pain. "Ouch woman."
She rolled her eyes. "Now let me out." She demanded.
"No." He answered and began to caress his wounded ear.
"You're such a baby." Getting impatient she started to tap her foot. "I mean it let me out or it won't be only your ear hurting." She threatened.
Draco backed away. "No." He said again more confident now that she was out of kicking range and he could see her attack if she chose to.
She took her wand out from inside pocket. "Open the blasted door." She yelled. She was feeling closed in and she didn't like it, especially not with him at the moment.
"No." He replied once again and took out his own wand and pointed it at her.
Ginny took a step toward him. "You wouldn't hex a girl." She said a little uncertainly.
Draco smirked. "Try me, I've hexed Pansy many times before. All you have to do is push the right way and having a wand pointed at me is one of them."
She threw her hands up in the air. "This is stupid." She gestured down to their wands. "Look at us fighting like some idiotic second year Hogwarts students." She sighed and looked at the ground defeated and lowered her wand. "Will you please just open the door? I want to go home now."
It was Draco's turn to sigh and losing his temper, he kicked the wall. "Bloody hell. I forgot. Damn him."
She glanced at him confused. "What's wrong?"
"I can't open the door for seventy-two hours. It's got magic on it that way. My father did it because he was paranoid. Oh well." Completely relaxed again he began to walk down the corridor.
"What do you mean oh well." She followed on his heel. "You better find a way to open that door."
He stopped and peered down at her. "Why? It's not like I have any place to be." He yawned. "I'm tired, I'm going to go take a nap." Without waiting for her he continued to stalk down the corridor.
Catching up with him she tugged the back of his shirt. "Well I have to open my shop it's not like I can just have it closed for three whole days without an explanation people will not be happy." She grabbed his mid-section and spun him around to face her.
"Not my problem now is it?" He sneered at her and walked into his chambers slamming the door shut behind him.
"Just you watch I'll find a way out of here." Ginny mumbled and went to investigate the possibilities.