Chapter 5: One Day At A Time

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The next few days passed in a blur. Emily and Uriel got along famously, they were like two peas in a pod, and Ginny had never felt closer to another girl in her life, not even Hermione. Uriel had almost as much fun exploring Malfoy Manor as Emily did. She hadn't spent an extended period of time in the Manor since she was five so she wanted to know all about it now. Meanwhile Draco spent most of his days at work, but was always home for dinner with the three women in his life. The Malfoy heir had never been happier, he was getting the quality time he craved with his sister who helping him more than she ever had, and things with Ginny and Emily were going better than he could have imagined under the circumstances. Then one night after Emily was asleep Ginny was watching Draco and Uriel play Wizard Chess in the library of the manor. The three of them could hardly stop laughing, the siblings were so evenly matched; they both were down to the same four pieces and they kept putting each other in check.

"Draco," Uri laughed, watching her king move out of check for what felt like the millionth time. "I think we need to call this a stalemate, neither one of us are going to win."

Draco was covering his hand with his mouth trying to hide his laughter at his sister's expense. "Uriel, what kind of Malfoy are you? We never say die, we never surrender."

Ginny snorted. "Draco, I am not even going to begin to tell you how full of shit you are."

With those words the three burst into laughter all over again, they kept laughing even when Patches popped in the room.

"Master Draco, Mister Blaise is here to see you."

Draco, Ginny and Uriel all finally got control of themselves.

"Send him in Patch, I've been waiting to hear from him."

The house elf disappeared after nodding to his master.

"Should Uri and I leave Draco?" Ginny asked starting to rise to her feet.

"No," Draco took her hands and sat back down with her. "You should be here for this. Blaise is a lawyer and he wants to help you get free of Potter. I have already told him all about your situation."

"Draco, I didn't want anyone knowing about my situation, your sister is one one thing, but Blaise Zabini, he and I weren't exactly friends at Hogwarts."

"I know Gin, and I'm sorry, but Blaise is a professional, no one will ever hear a word about you from him, he knows how to keep a secret. I only want to help you, and if you don't get away from Potter now, you may never be able to."

"Draco, I don't know if-"

"Please Gin," Uriel cut her off. "Think of Emily as well as yourself. Blaise is a genius when it comes to all things legal, let him take care of this."

"Aw Uriel, you think I'm a genius? I'm touched, here I thought you didn't like me." Blaise made his entrance loosening his tie.

"Did I say genius, I must have misspoke. Now your ego is going to be inflated for weeks."

Blaise crouched down next to her. "Well there is something else of mine you could inflate, but not in front of your brother or Ms. Weasley."

Ginny looked at Draco who was clearly amused by all of this, she had no idea weather or not to take it seriously.

"Blaise, what is this obsession you have with older women?" Uriel stared him down.

"Not all older women Uri, just you."

Draco finally took pity on Ginny's confused face. "They have a love, hate relationship. Blaise is the only other person who knows that Uriel is my sister."

"And if you aren't careful Zabini the number will go back down to one."

Ginny leaned over to Draco. "And now I see the Malfoy in her coming out full force."

"Come on Uri, just admit that you have feelings for me and all of this can be over." Blaise hovered dangerously close to Uri's face.

"Oh Blaise," she began, a lilt in her voice. "I do need to tell you something."

She paused for dramatic effect. "If you don't back away from me, the special "wand" between your legs is going to go missing in a very painful way."

For a moment no one moved.

Finally Blaise's laughter broke the silence. "You win this time Uri."

"Thank you," she held out her hand, which Blaise proceeded to kiss. "Now down to business if you please."

"Well, we know that Potter is desperate." Draco began. "The way he acted at St. Mongo's was enough to show that."

"I still can't believe he came and tried to force you to tell him if I was at the hospital or not." Ginny shook her head.

"Have have you been doing Ms. Weasley?" Blaise asked her. "Have you been okay? Are your injuries healing alright?"

Ginny gave the three people around her a small smile. "I'm taking it one day at a time, which I think is all I can do. I wish I could bounce back like Emily does but I'm not five, I know that I'm dreaming."

"Well unfortunately Ms. Weasley, Potter doesn't seem too broken up about you being missing, according to my sources he is only worried that you will go to the Ministry and tell them what he has been doing to you."

"Please call me Ginny, and why do you say he doesn't seem broken up?"

Blaise all of a sudden looked nervous. "My associates who have been tailing him have seen Potter in the company of several different women on several different occasions."

"Oh for Christ sake, I've only been gone about two weeks!" Ginny buried her head in her hands.

Draco forced her to look at him. "Gin, this has nothing to do with you. Potter is touched in the head. I don't know how a man could go two hours not knowing where you are, let alone two weeks, and I don't know why, with you standing in front of him, any man would even glance at another women."

Ginny threw her arms around him, making a mental note to tell him how wonderful he was when they were finally alone.

She finally turned back to Blaise. "Alright Blaise, help set me free. I don't want to be Ginny Potter anymore. My husband has beaten me, and cheated on me for the last time."

"Ginny, would you be willing to get up in front of a jury and say all this?"

She nodded.

"It's no good," Uriel cut into everyone's high hopes. "You all know as well as I that Harry Fucking Potter is a God, a muse, a hero to end all hero's. You could put his own daughter on the stand and his peers would still let him walk."

Draco ran a hand through his hair. "Damnit she's right, not about Emily, we need to leave her out of this, but about the fact that Potter will always be this squeaky clean golden boy."

"What we need is a confession." Blaise said thoughtfully.

"Unfortunately Blaise, that is never going to happen." Ginny sighed in frustration.

The room was silent for a few moments, everyone trying to think of how to solve the problem.

"Wait," Uriel finally spoke. "Why can't we get a confession out of him?"

"What?" Draco and Ginny asked at the same time.

"Just hear me out," Uri spoke, standing in front of her brother, Ginny and Blaise. "So we know that Harry Potter has taken to the company of women who aren't his wife, well why don't we use that to our advantage. Gin, if you showed up and started asking Harry questions, a giant red flag goes up, and that is double for Draco or Blaise. But what if a mysterious blonde haired women named Allegra Van Alan showed an interest in Harry Potter?"

"Uriel, no," Draco stood up.

"Draco come on, think about it, no one knows who I am. If I showed up in a bar and happened to catch his interest it could all work. We have some drinks, I flirt a little, we order more drinks and then our server happens to let their hand slip over Potter's glass. A little Veritiserum, some manipulation, the right questions, a pensive and he will not just fall from grace he'll plummet straight to hell. Blaise what do you think?"

The lawyer just sat thinking for a moment or two. "Well you would somehow have to tell him that you were going to give him Veritiserum or the pensive couldn't be used as evidence. Also we would need someone else nearby, one memory in a pensive may not be enough."

"Then I'll be close by," Draco stepped in. "That way I can hear his confession and be there if anything happens."

"Draco, I love the overprotective brother card you're playing right now, but I'm a big tough girl, I was a curse breaker during the war and everything."

All of a sudden Draco felt extremely mushy. "I know, but Uri, I almost lost you once and I don't ever want that to happen again."

Uriel kissed her brother on the cheek. "I promise it won't, after all, the three of you have told me that Potter wasn't exactly the best student, I'm sure I have mastered spells he hasn't imagined in his dizziest daydreams."

"This is true," Ginny said. "He made his way through Hogwarts just like Ron did, on Hermione's coattails."

"There is one thing I am worried about," Uriel spoke again. "I won't do this if it will make you uncomfortable Gin."

The redhead smiled. "Uriel, don't be silly. Your taking this huge risk, putting yourself at his mercy and all if this is for me. I couldn't ask for a better friend."

Uriel smiled and hugged the younger women.

"Well," Blaise said standing. "I will start setting everything up. I don't want any of this to happen for at least another few weeks, I need to do papers, get some judges on my side, and set other things up. I'll let you all know if anything else turns up. Now Ms. Malfoy, would you be so kind as to show me to the door?"

Uriel looked at him skeptically. "I will as long as you keep your hands to yourself Mr. Zabini."

Uri bid her brother and her friend goodnight and escorted Blaise out of the room. Finally for the first time in what felt like forever the two were alone together.

Draco pulled Ginny to him.

"Draco, I can't thank you enough for everything. You've brought my daughter and me into your home, introduced us to your wonderful sister who I think I will be friends with for the rest of my life and now you are doing all in your power to help me escape my horrible marriage, I will never be able to repay you."

Draco tried to contain all that he had to tell her, he knew that it was too soon to be telling her about feelings he had kept quite since his seventh year.

"Just having you back in my life is payment enough Gin." He smiled down at her.

Ginny felt her heart melt and very slowly she stood on her toes and brought her lips up to Draco's. The kiss only lasted a few seconds and was very chaste, but it was exactly what both of them needed. Ginny needed to be shown that after years of abuse that someone could have the ability to love her, and Draco needed to be shown that there was hope.

After their brief kiss they both settled back onto the couch wrapped in each other's arms where a few minutes passed before sleep claimed them both. That was the way Uriel found them when she came back to the library to say a last goodnight before returning to her room. The older women smiled a knowing smile and conjured a blanket over the couple before exiting the room.

"Patch!" she called to her brother's house elf. "Set Emily's ward alarm to sound in my room, and when she wakes up tell me so I can go to her. Also when Draco and Ginny wake up tell them that I have taken Emily for the day and they can have some time to themselves."

The house elf bowed to her and disappeared to follow his orders.

Uri smiled again to herself. "God knows that they both could use a healthy dose of love."

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