Chapter 15: It pays to be rich!

In the past three weeks Draco had taken her out on some of the best dates of her life. They aren't always flashy but they're always thoughtful, Ginny reflected while carefully applying dark blue eyeliner. She remembered the very romantic picnic that nearly ended in disaster and smiled, I wonder where he's taking me tonight. He'd said nothing except, "Dress for a fun, wicked night on the town" and she was doing just that although she wondered why he was picking her up so early as it was barely three in the afternoon. She wore a navy mini skirt, a navy tank top topped by an old Wyrd Sisters t-shirt she'd cut the collar off of so that it was now square and very low. She'd also safety pinned it on the sides so that it now fit pretty tight. She was wearing tights she'd cut holes in and low healed, knee-high black boots because you never quite new with Draco and she didn't want to be caught running from bulls in heels, again.

There was a knock on the door and she ran to it and swung it open. Draco stood there wearing a black t-shirt and jeans. "You ready?"

"Almost, just give me a sec." She said and dashed off down the hall towards her room. She grabbed her wand stuck it in her boots and after applying her lipstick she stuck that in the other boot. She ran back to Draco who was leaning against the now closed door and gave him a quick kiss, "where are we going?"

"You'll see." He said and grabbed her around the waist and next thing she was apparating. When she opened her eyes she was standing in a very small metal room.

"Where are we?" She asked looking around curiously it was a pretty open space and seats had belts.

"My privet jet," Draco said walking towards a curtain on the other side of the room.

"A what?"

"An airplane."

"Oh. Why are we on an airplane?" She asked sinking into the comfortable seats.

"I'll tell you when I get back," and he disappeared behind the curtain.

A few minutes later he walked out and kneeled in front of her. "What are you doing?"

"Fastening your seatbelt." He said and after making sure she was secure he stood up.

"Why?" She asked slowly.

"Because we are about to take off," He said sitting down next to her and buckling his own seatbelt.

"Where are we going?" She asked.

"Athens."

"Why?"

"You'll see." He said simply and she heard and felt the motors start up.

"Oh Merlin!" Said underneath her breath as she looked out the window and saw the view beginning to slowly move away. She saw airplanes sitting not far away and wondered what the Muggles would think if she jumped out of this airplane.

"Are you afraid of flying?" Draco asked worriedly turning to face her.

"Of course not! I'm a witch, I play Quidditch!" She said and he looked relieved. "However, I do think I might be afraid of airplanes."

"Ginny, it's perfectly safe, nothing will happen."

"My father used to have a Ford Anglia." She said as she felt herself pushed into her seat, outside the ground was falling away.

"It's a very nice car," Draco said indulgently.

"You don't understand, he'd charmed it to fly."

"I seem to remember that your brother and Potty stole it and flew it to school."

"Yes, well, before that, my brothers used to steal it all the time and well, and one night they invited me." She said, "I was so excited and well, they thought it'd be funny and next thing I know we're falling, for fifty meters, I was so scared, I thought we'd all die." She turned and saw him looking at her with a strangely pleased look and she remembered she was talking to Draco Malfoy and quickly said, "no matter. I can see that this plane isn't going to fall. Why do you own an airplane?"

He looked confused for a moment and she saw him hesitate, he seemed as if he were debating something. "My Muggle friends couldn't keep up on their brooms." He said monotonously.

"Is everything all right Draco?"

Once again she saw him hesitate, "I brought a movie and there's dinner in the kitchen."

"There's a kitchen!" She exclaimed.

"Yeah, that couch folds out into a bed, also, but that's for longer flights. We'll only be here for about four hours." He said removing his seat buckle.

"What are you doing?" She asked alarmed.

"It's okay to take off the seat belts once we're in the air. The pilot will tell us if we have to buckle up again."

"Oh." She said her ears getting a little red.

A few minutes later he appeared, his wand holding two trays ahead of him and a remote in the other one.

The next few hours were spent quietly as they watched the movie and ate in silence. When they landed Ginny was grateful, although she thought that maybe filling the silence with alcohol might have been a bad choice as she was having trouble focusing on her footing. "Will you tell me where we're going, now?"

"Sure, we're going to a concert." He said and pulled her close and she threw her arms around him and sniffed. He had a particular cologne that she'd never smelt anywhere else and she had six brothers and twice as many boyfriends. Suddenly she felt the odd apparating sensation and heard screams, tons of them. She pulled back from Draco to see him looking more like his normal self for the first time all evening. She looked around and saw hundreds, no thousands of people sitting about her in what looked like a large outdoor theatre. They were standing at the edge of the orchestra and saw in front of them a drum set and not much else. He guided her unto her seat and sat down beside her. She was looking around in awe at the rocks and up at the velvety night sky. She'd never really gone anywhere and here she was in Athens about to see a band.

"What band are we watching?"

"Dionysius and the Maenads," Draco said blithely.

"What? You're joking!"

"Nope."

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" She yelled, threw her arms around him and kissed him deeply. "They're my favourite!"

"I noticed you had all of their music cards."

"Oh! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She said kissing him between every one.

The concert was amazing! Ginny had enjoyed every second of it and when they were back on the plane she was still a little high off of the performance and she threw herself at Draco in gratefulness. A few minutes later, Draco pushed her back and unto a seat, "I've got to tell the pilot we're here."

He retuned to find her already strapped in and sat down next to her, buckled up and started kissing her again.

Ginny and Draco had somehow ended up on the couch and Draco was being very attentive to Ginny's breasts. His touch sent shivers through her whole body igniting every nerve in her body making her skin super sensitive and she felt herself warm up. She felt his hands fumble with the zipper of her skirt and she wished he'd hurry up and get it off! It had a weird hook and she knew he'd never get it and she desperately moved her hand to the back of the skirt when she realized that this was it, the moment. For every decision there was a moment when either you stopped or you went the distance and she had to make that choice now.

You've slept with men on the first date; this is what the tenth, eleventh? Help him!

No, you are seducing him, not dating him!

She removed his hands from her back and pushed him back. He lifted his head from her neck and looked at her confused; she shook her head. His lowered his hands to his lap then slowly shook his head questioningly.

"Sorry," she whispered.

"No, it's fine." He said and sat up.

"We can go back to making out." She said consolingly.

"No, we can't. I- I have to go to the bathroom." He said standing up and pulling on his shirt and Ginny began to put her tank top back on.

Draco saw Ginny sitting on the couch fully dressed, he sighed and sat down next to her, "I've got another movie."

"Nah, that's fine. I wanted to talk." She said.

He put his arm around her, "Really?" and pulled her close, "About what?"

"I don't know," she said, "you never talk about work."

"That's because it's not fun." He said.

"Oh."

"I don't really do anything, except make sure every one else is doing their job. It's stressful is what it is."

"I never heard of Malfoy Enterprises before." She confessed.

"Well, it used to be called Malfoy's Maleficent Merchandise and we haven't had a store for centuries."

"Why?"

"The Ministry made it illegal for any Malfoy to open a store because as you can tell by the name we sold Dark Arts objects, books and other miscellaneous items. Fortunately for us we can still manufacture and sell goods."

"So, you still sell Dark Arts stuff?" She asked trying to sound nonchalant and failing miserably.

"No." He said uncomfortably. "Even back then we made other things. We invented several Dark Detectors and that's pretty much what we sell now. We also have a lot of Divinatory and Astronomy objects."

"You sell crystal balls and Tarot Cards?" She asked teasingly.

"Yes," he rolled his grey eyes.

"Could you see my future?" She asked with a slight bounce.

"I don't need that stuff." He said stoically.

"No?"

"No."

"So?"

He picked up her hand and stroked it with a finger, "a tall blonde god," she snorted, "will kiss you."

She laughed until his lips covered hers, he really does have The Gift

A/N: Sat, May 7th, 2004 –Music cards are little metal cards with holes in it that you can slip into your Wireless and it'll play a song. In my head it sort of works like those piano things were the piano plays the song by itself because of where the hole is, except because they are wizards, there's magic involved and well the quality is much better! Unfortunately each card only plays one song, which is okay because wizards don't put out albums like muggles do; they do it one song at a time. They were in the Lykavittos Theater on the Lykavittos Hill, never been there but I've seen pictures, alright, a picture.