Professor?

Chapter 9

Once Draco was in his room he began to think about what Ginny said. It didn't make any sense. He and Ginny had been fine what happened to that? He was falling in love with her, no, he was in love with her. Did she really not feel the same? Was family and work that much more important to her? Draco didn't understand. He decided to go and take a walk around the lake to think some more.

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Once out there he didn't get to walk around a lot before he was interrupted. It was Ricky Rockchester.

"Professor?"

"Yes, Rockchester?" Draco responded. He didn't want to do this right now, but what choice did he have?

"Sir, I believe something is wrong with Professor Weasley." At this Draco perked up.

"Yes? What would that be?"

"In class she seemed kind of out of it, and she has been upset since Halloween. I don't know what's wrong but its something big. And sir, I have found a respect for Professor Weasley and if you hurt her I will be forced to do something drastic." Ricky looked very serious.

"I didn't do anything to her, I would never. I don't even know why I am telling you this."

"You're telling me because I can help you. We can't go to Dumbledore with this because we don't know what's wrong and we have no proof. But I can find out what is going on I have connections, I can have her watched and she won't know. I could-"

"Whoa, slow down. Let's give her a couple days, observe, learn, pay attention in class, and maybe even try to get a detention in class with her, keep her busy." Draco was serious; he knew what he was doing. He was a Slytherin after all.

"Alright sir, I will try, but sir, what if she gives me a detention that's not with her? What if its with Filtch again?" Draco thought about that for a minute.

"You have to have detention with her, if it's with anyone else I'll get you out of it."

"Ok sir, if you say so."

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It had been a week since Ginny had broken up with Draco; today was the day that Derrick wanted to go public. Oh boy did she need some kid to be in detention or something so she would have to get out of it. But she couldn't just put someone in detention for no reason. That wasn't fair.

Just then her seventh year Slytherin and Gryffindors' walked in. Ricky sat in the back, Ricky had been acting odd lately, always paying attention but almost looking for trouble.

"So Weasley-"

"That's Professor Weasley to you."

"Fine, so Professor Weasley, guess you really are a sissy huh?"

"Excuse me?"

"Your not with Malfoy anymore so I just thought you got scared. Were you scared your family might come after you or something? Afraid that Dumbledore would get mad if you both went out or something like that, typical Gryffindor, always obeying the rules. You never dare do you? You just dream of what might have been."

"Never, never ever speak to me like that ever again. My personal life is none of your business, and Gryfindors dare more then Slytherins all they do is watch out for their our necks. Detention tonight meet me here at eight o'clock. Now then, on with the lesson…"

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"Professor?"

"Yes?" Draco asked looking up, he saw Ricky Rockchester there. "What is it Rockchester?"

"I have detention tonight." He said it so proudly that Draco almost laughed. "Its with Professor Weasley. So your plan is working out so far. I wonder what she's hiding."

"Who says she's hiding anything?" Ricky looked at Draco like he was stupid. "What?"

"Of course she's hiding something what do you think she breaks up with people and becomes weird for no reason at all?"

"Right, you have a point." Ricky smirked.

"I can't wait until tonight." Ricky stated, excitedly.

"And I never thought that I would see someone so excited to get detention." This time Draco smirked.

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"Ginny! Ginny! Come down already I know your in here, do NOT make me come up there and get you!" it was Derrick he was waiting impatiently for her to come down so they could go on their date.

"Derrick, uh… please don't get mad but I can't go tonight…"

"What do you mean you can't go tonight?"

"I can't go because it's a Wednesday night I have to teach tomorrow and I have a detention to watch over tonight. I have a job and I have to do it properly or I will lose it." Ginny said, only she said it with so much sass that Derrick was angrier then he would have been. He smacked her. She grabbed her wounded face.

"Don't talk to me like I'm stupid. You will come tonight, have someone else do the detention, now go change."

"I can't Derrick, don't you understand? This is my job, this is what I do, I love my job, don't make me lose it to go on a date with you, we can have the date on Friday, it's my night off anyway." It's my night off because that would have been Draco and mines anniversary. Ginny thought.

Derrick didn't want to wait until Friday. He had already waited a week before being able to show the world that Ginny was his. He wasn't going to wait anymore.

"No. I won't wait. You WILL go with me tonight."

"I can't Derrick, I can't." Draco punched her in her stomach over and over for about a minute, after wards Ginny was on the ground gasping for breath and coughing up blood.

"Yes you can." He kicked her while she was lying on the floor.

"Ple… please… I rea… I really ca… I really can't." Ginny said still gasping for breath.

"Fine." Derrick said after kicking her twice more. "I expect you down here and ready by seven o'clock Friday night, no excuses because I will NOT take them." And with that Derrick left. He didn't even bother helping her.

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Ricky was waiting outside the potions room. Up the hall he saw Professor Malfoy and Professor Weasley coming from opposite directions. When Weasley, Ginny, saw Malfoy, Draco, her face-hardened.

"Malfoy I don't appreciate you discussing why I broke up with you with my students. I don't appreciate hearing what you discussed with my students in my classroom. If you have a problem then come talk to me, not through your students." She was mad, she was in pain, and she was taking it out on Draco because she had a reason even though she knew he probably had no idea what she was talking about and that anyone could have figured that the reasons Ricky used were the reason Ginny broke up with Draco. But she had to vent somewhere and she saw him first.

"What are you talking about?" He really did look bewildered.

"You know very well what I am talking about. It is the reason Ricky Rockchester is in detention with me tonight. Don't play dumb."

"I honestly don't know what you are talking about."

"Sure whatever. I have nothing left to say to you Malfoy." She had to get out of there before she started crying to Draco about what was going on and everything. Plus she had a detention to watch. The one problem was that she was a bit woozy.

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"Mr. Rockchester your detention will be preparing correctly two different healing potions for Madam Pomphry. You may begin."

"You know professor I didn't talk to Malfoy about your breakup."

"I kno-" and with that Ginny collapsed because of the pain and blood loss.

"PROFESSOR MALFOY, HURRY GET IN HERE!"

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I am sooooo sorry I haven't updated in forever! I have been on vacation and then my computer broke and then I didn't have a word processor and oh my goodness I'm so sorry. Please review!