Listen, I am so so sorry I heven't updated. We have midyear exams and i'm screwing up so badly!
But I hope that this version is better than the last one :S
His hand trembled as his wand was directed at her. He was kidding himself. He couldn't kill her.
Ginny began to back away slowly. Any second, she felt that she would take out her own wand and… and… She shook away the thought.
Lucius had been standing with a smirk on his face as Draco pointed his wand at her. But he said nothing. He did nothing. He noticed his hand shake in fear and sadness. This made Lucius angry. "Well, what are you waiting for boy? Finish her! Let her soul be lost in this very room! If you really love her, I would give you her body, and you could decorate your room with her corpse." Nothing happened. Lucius was getting truly angry, so he stomped over to him, and when they were about a meter apart, Draco turned and pointed his wand at his father. That was a mistake. A big mistake.
Lucius shook his head. He easily snatched the wand away from his son and continued shaking his head. "I didn't know my son was that… that thick," he said with disgust. "You will be punished severely Draco. I trust you know that," he turned to Ginny, who began to run just looking at his eager-to-kill glare.
"As for you, foolish girl, you will be more than punished. You will be punished than killed!" he said with the oddest combination of a smirk and a frown.
Ginny stopped running, realizing that she can't run away forever. She bent her back and began to regain her energy. It was then she thought of the clever idea to get out her wand. She did so quietly. Lucius didn't realize this, and before he could blink, she had unarmed him with the 'Experiamus'.
Lucius acted fast and quickly bent to take the wand and as he was rising, she unarmed him again. He made a face and dived down again to take it, but Ginny kept unarming him. They stayed that way for about ten minutes, while Draco was just watching them as if they were a show. He finally decided to do something.
While the wand was on the floor, Draco grabbed it, and threw it out the window. He had not known what he had done. His punishment was going to be big.
His father glared at him gravely for a very long time. He then transferred his glare to Ginny. He began to walk closer to her. Ginny did not know what else to do. She used the Cruciatus.
Draco's eyes widened at her move. "Weasley! Stop!" he said as he approached his struggling father. She stopped.
Lucius lay on the floor, panting hard. "I cannot believe that a Weasley… did what she did," he said in between gasps of air. Then he smirked and began to laugh evilly. "Get ready for Azkaban!" He stood up. "Draco. You can do something else for me that will save you from punishment and death. While we are at the minister, I want you to blame that girl for using the Cruciatus curse. And leave the rest of the story out." He stood up and looked down on him. "Do we have a deal?"
He shook his head. (He said no.)
"Boy! She just tortured your father. Yet you still wouldn't report her! I thought that I was being kind in letting you have a chance."
He began to cry heavily. There was a waterfall coming out from his eyes as it pour down into his chest.
"A Malfoy never cries like this!" he slapped Draco against his pale, wet cheek.
Draco felt hate and disgust with his father. He didn't seem to care anymore whether Ginny uses the Cruciatus on him or not. He, for a second, wished that his father would die.
Ginny was absolutely terrified watching them. She was against a corner in the common room. She had her wand in her sweaty hand, but she had no idea what to do with it. She wants to kill Lucius. She wants to torture him. She wants him to suffer. She wants to fight him until his last breath. But she found nothing to do that Draco would want.
Lucius turned to Ginny. "You have turned my son into a coward. Even though I have no wand," he paused and walked a few strides closer to her, "Even though I have no wand, I have my staff." He raised it, getting ready to hit, but Draco stood in the way, and blocked Ginny and took the painful hit from his staff.
Ginny was worried and horrified. She held on to Draco, and hid behind his back.
"Please father, stop! Leave her alone. Let her go and punish me freely!" he cried and held her hand from behind.
Then Ginny had an idea. She gave him her wand and backed away. Draco understood. He knew that he has to do something or else someone would die.
He made sure he didn't make the same mistake as before and backed away a few strides and pointed the wand in his father's direction. "I'll kill you if you take a step nearer!" he said, gathering up all the courage he had. He couldn't believe he was saying this to his father.
Lucius gazed at his son with a deathly gleam in his eyes. The he smiled. "I don't believe you have the guts to."
Draco gulped. "Try me."
Lucius took a big step closer to him. Draco's hand was trembling. He couldn't do it. He couldn't kill his father just like that.
His father took another step, and Draco fathered up some courage and muttered, "Stupefy!"
It was direct hit and it sent his father flying to the other side of the room.
"Weasley! I'll hold him off. Get Dumbeldore!" Ginny nodded and ran off as quickly as she could.
"Draco, what on Earth are you doing?" he asked in shock, as Ginny fled out the door.
"Saving myself. For once," he said, and tears were running down his pale cheek.
So, whenever Lucius comes any step closer to him, he used the spell and his father fell back. It was very hard for Draco to do such a thing. But he managed, until finally, Ginny showed up with Filch and Dumbeldore.
"Lucius Malfoy!" said Dumbeldore as he stood n front of Draco and took out his wand. "I should have known that you torture your child," he said, almost scolding himself.
Lucius stood there speechless with a blank expression. It stayed that way for a while, until, from the Slytherin fireplace came the minister.
The minister looked around for a while. He was surprised to see Ginny. Then he looked at Lucius and took him to Azkaban.
Dumbeldore looked at Ginny and smiled approvingly, as if he was trying to tell her well done. "Keep him company Ms. Weasley," he signaled to the openly sobbing Draco.
Then he left them together with a lantern.
They stood without moving for a long period of time. By then, Draco had stopped crying and sat on one of the chairs in the common room.
Finally Ginny spoke. "Did you want this to happen?"
He looked her. Ginny saw that his face was red and chubby when he was crying. His eyes were not gray, like were normally, but blue. "I expected it. I am not sure if I wanted if though."
"I'm really sorry," she said. Then she paused. "I think I should leave you alone," she went back to the Gryffindor common room.
There, she lied on the floor, too tried to even get up on the sofa.
When she woke up the next day, she found herself sleeping in her own bed. She looked at her clock and gasped. It was noon. She was late for Potions. Snape was going to kill her. Literally.
She quickly put on her uniform. She ignored that she smelled like dead fish and expired cheese and that her hair was living jungle. She ignored that her face was dirt and that she didn't brush her teeth. She just ran with every with every piece of energy she had left until she made it to potions.
On her way she wondered: Why didn't any of her friends wake her? How did she end up in her bed? What had happened to Draco?
Ginny burst inside the classroom. Snape stopped speaking and shot at her a glare. "Sit down Ms. Weasley," was all he said.
Some gasped at his comment. He didn't yell at her. He didn't take off any points. Ginny looked at him questioningly. She thought she was in a dream. Everything in her life was becoming so messed up.
After class, she managed to ask her friends why they didn't wake her.
"Dumbeldore told Snape you would be late," answered Hermione. "He also excused Malfoy. Would you mind explaining?"
"Did Malfoy come to class?" she asked, ignoring the question.
"No."
"Then I have to go," said Ginny and she ran towards the Slytherin portrait, said the password and entered. Hermione ran behind her asking her what was going on and why she was in the Slytherin common room and how she knew the password.
"Hermione, I'll explain later, now I would appreciate it if you stopped following me," she looked around the Common Room. The few Slytherins in the Common Room looked at them in shock. Hermione felt weird to be in the middle of the Slytherin Common Room, so she headed out of the portrait, while Ginny looked for Draco. She found him in his bed staring at the ceiling.
"Hey," said Ginny while she was at the door.
"Are you going to make a habit of coming here?" he asked. Then he smiled at her.
That smile brought so much warmth to her and she smiled back. "I see you're happy."
He nodded and stood up. "I'm OK, Ginny. Just need some time to think," he walked towards her.
Ginny wished that she'd taken a shower. She felt so dirty and so… so unworthy to be in the same room with him.
When he was close enough, she realized he smelled awful too.
"Thank you," he said.
The next thing that had happened was unexpected. Her lips were on his and they were kissing like they've done it for many years. When they broke apart, Ginny stared into his eyes.
"You're welcome," she answered. She then turned and left the room.
Ginny had left something else for him to think about.
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