Author's note: 40 311 WORDS!...yay :)... Well I know my chapters have been getting a tad boring...maybe... I don't know if they actually are...hopefully they aren't...but ANYWAYS!... I have what I want in my head to happen, I just need to get there! And as it says in my summary, this will be a Draco/Ginny shipper so I need to establish their relationship, but I need to keep the flow of the story...well here you go, enjoy another chapter, hopefully this will satisfy...if I can, I might get to making this one ACTUALLY longer...might...possibly...but I'm leaving this weekend and I wont have time to write...at all...so maybe I will just make a few shorter chapters...but if I get on the computer later tonight, then this will definitely be a long chapter. Enjoy!
P.s. Sorry if it had taken so long for me to update, but I was gone last weekend, then the next day I left for our Quebec school trip for a week and next week I'm leaving to go to camp for another two weeks, so I will be pretty busy!
Chapter 17
After a good three hours of practice, Ginny, Harry and Ron made their way up to the common room. It had rained that night, so they were plastered with mud from the exercises Harry had created. They had limited the list of people down greatly, but they would have to wait for next practice to figure out the final players, but of course, Ginny and Ron had already proved themselves, so they were automatically on the team. As they made their got into the common room, they could only give a small wave of their hand and they went their separate ways to their beds.
Ginny peeled her soaking wet clothes off and changed into some more comfortable clothes and fell back onto her bed. She figured it would be another night of instant slumber, and seeing as how she felt like she couldn't move from the quidditch practice, that assumption made sense. But when she lay on her bed, she couldn't help but feel like she was forgetting something. It kept nagging at the back of her mind until she jumped out of her bed, didn't bother pulling anything over her spaghetti strap shirt and her loose pajama bottoms, as she ran out of the dorm, out of the common room and down to the fourth floor corridor by the old charms classroom.
She ran as fast as she could, knowing she was probably half an hour late, and Draco was usually an impatient person. She got there in a good five minutes, and was met with an empty hall. She looked around making sure he wasn't hiding in the shadows or something then realized he wasn't there and must have left because she was late.
She was about to turn away, but she could hear a distinct cat mew coming from the hall she was about to retreat to, then the also distinctive voice of the Hogwarts care-taker, "What do you hear my darling?" he asked to his cat, Mrs. Norris. Ginny would have usually snorted at his senility, but the fact that she was out of her bed in the middle of a dark deserted corridor late at night probably would be a hard one to explain herself out of!
She was about to rush into the abandoned Charms classroom, when a hand covered her mouth, and she was wrapped in a silky material. She would have panicked had she not heard the familiar voice of Draco tell her to be still, she would have also panicked when Filch walked right by them in a vain attempt to find the student out of bed, but her common knowledge told her they were behind an invisibility cloak.
Once they were absolutely certain that he had passed, they got out from under the protective cover of the cloak. Ginny smiled and whispered quietly, "I thought you had gone..."
"Actually, I just got here... I accidentally fell asleep..." he smirked.
"...Well done!...Actually, I just go here too...But enough of that, we have to start practicing or she will be pissed! Have any ideas in mind?"
"Actually yeah, there is this place that I found last year..." He said giving her a pointed stare.
She was silent for a moment and then figured out what he was hinting. "Oooh! The Room of Requirements!"
"Yes, it would be perfect, so let's get going." He said in a light whisper, still cautious of whether Filch was still around. Ginny nodded her head and they silently made their way to the hidden room.
As they were walking, Ginny rested her hand on his forearm, causing a small smile to break out on his face.
In a matter of minutes, they were there. They looked at the plain, solid stone wall, and both thought of exactly what they wanted, and waited for a moment. A door appeared in place of the wall, and they smiled, then opened it and walked in.
The room was lit by hundreds of candles, icicles were hanging from the ceiling, and there were strange wine glasses scattered around on ledges here and there, along with the candles. The ground appeared to be a thin layer of ice, but when walked on, it was completely solid and you couldn't slide on it.
"Spiffy." Ginny stated in awe of the room's beauty.
"...Yeah..." Draco whispered. After two or three moments, they regained their senses and closed the door behind them. They walked around and had a look at everything. Then figured out they had better get started.
Ginny found a spot on the floor to sit down with her legs crossed and place one of the candles right in front of her.
In the meantime, Draco did pretty much the same thing. He grabbed one of the glasses of water and placed it on an empty ledge. It was about eye level to him when he kneeled, which is exactly what he was doing.
Ginny stared at the small flame and tried to force it to grow smaller. But after five minutes nothing worked, the flame wouldn't even flicker. She finally became so frustrated she hit the ground with her fist.
As she did that, the flame on the candle exploded and shot out a billion little sparks. After the heat subsided, she looked at the candle, and it had been flashed boiled to nothing but a waxy stump.
Ginny looked over to Draco, and he was laughing so hard tears were forming in his eyes. Then just like Ginny, his glass froze and then disintegrated into tiny grains of ice. He was so surprised he fell backwards.
Ginny burst in to a fit of giggles then stood up to help him to his feet. But just as she was held out a hand to pull him up, she quickly brought it back and placed it on her head, she began to wobble slowly on the spot and then she fell to her knees.
Draco stopped laughing, and crawled beside her. "Gin, you alright?" He asked, concerned.
"Yeah, yeah...Just felt a little light headed. It passed, I'm alright." She said, standing up.
"If you say so..." Draco answered, then stood up as well. They both found their respective spots and began practicing.
By the end of an hour, they both had practically perfected the simple task of freezing water or melting it/ lighting a candle or blowing it out with their minds.
"Let's call it a night!" Draco suggested, while standing up and stretching.
"Okay, but I'm not tired." Ginny exclaimed.
"Well I am."
"Oh poor baby. We're going for a walk."
"We'll get caught..."
"Well you have an invisibility cloak, stupid."
"You are lucky that people like you, you know that?" he said, giving up arguing.
"What can I say? People love me! Now let's go, I want a breath of fresh air!"
Draco groaned in protest, but Ginny was having none of that. She grabbed his arm and pulled him to the door of the R.o.R. As they stepped out into the empty hall, Draco threw the cloak over the two of them.
Ginny kept extra close to him, fearing that the cloak would not cover the two of them. They didn't say a word until they got outside.
"Isn't this fun!" Ginny said loudly in his ear, causing him to jump back in shock.
"Holy shit! Don't DO that!" he said, trying vainly to regain his composure. Ginny laughed outright in his face, but just kept walking, now that they didn't need the cloak. She was humming a light tune, while smiling brightly. She skipped around Draco as he walked, but stopped and linked arms with him. "Ship with me!" She said merrily.
"Us Malfoys don't skip!" he said in a mock arrogant tone, causing Ginny to giggle like mad.
"And you Malfoys certainly wouldn't prance around with unruly hair would you?" She said, leaving him no time to answer, and she reached up and messed his hair up, then bolted for her life. Draco followed her, and caught up quickly, being the athlete he was.
"You are going to pay for that!" he informed, then messed up her hair twice as badly. In a matter of minutes, they were on the ground play fighting like seven year olds, causing a lot of noise. It wasn't long before Ginny had Draco pinned on his back, with her arms holing his above his head, while she sat on his chest.
"I win." she whispered in his ear.
They stayed like that for a few moments, Ginny seemed hypnotized by Draco's eyes in the moonlight, and he was entranced by her against the starlight. Their faces seemed to inch closer, and closer. They were about two inches apart, when Ginny's face grew into a bright smile. As they almost touched lips, a square of lights turned on, not more than fifty yards from them. They had completely forgotten about Hagrid's hut. The door opened, and they could see him looking around. They didn't even pause to think, let alone remember they had an invisibility cloak with them, they just ran. They could hear Hagrid bellow out, having spotted them, but they kept running to the castle, and once they got to the door, they stopped to catch their breath.
Ginny was leaning on Draco for support, because she was in tears from silent laughter. She took in a few deep breaths of air to calm herself. But burst out into loud laughter at her attempt.
"Having fun are you?" Draco asked, noticing the now distant lights having been turned off. Ginny finally contained herself, then looked at Draco in disbelief.
"How can you not be laughing? I'm practically pissing myself laughing!" she informed.
"Come on, we should get back inside, and get to our dorms." he said a little coldly.
His tone sobered Ginny into a quiet mode. She felt a little sad and guilty now. "Right..." she said, then let him drape the cloak back over them. They walked in what was an uncomfortable silence to Ginny, until they reached the place where they had to go a separate way.
Draco took off the cloak and handed it to Ginny. "Here, use this to get back to your house." he said with a strange look in his eyes, at least it looked strange in the minimal lighting.
"But don't you need it?" she asked.
"No, my common room is much closer, you need it more." he replied.
"...Okay..." she said hesitantly.
Draco grabbed her hand lightly and gave her a reassuring squeeze. "See you tomorrow. Goodnight." he smiled.
She returned his smile and walked down the hall, concealing herself in the cloak. Draco waited until he couldn't hear the light tapping of her shoes on stone, then he turned and kicked the wall angrily. He then fell back and slid down the opposite wall until he was sitting. His legs were slightly apart, but his knees were pulled up to close to his chest. He had his elbows rested on his knees, and his head was resting in the palms of his hands.
"I almost kissed her!" he said quietly to himself. He spent a good half hour sitting there, contemplating his feelings for Ginny. Even before he had, he knew the answer, but he couldn't think it, let alone say it. But he knew. He felt for her more than he had anyone in his life, other than his mother, but those were different kinds of feelings... He decided he would just stop thinking about it, and make his way through the Slytherin entrance disguised a wall, and go sleep in his bed. It was tow in the morning, meaning he had five and a half hours of sleep until another day of classes.
TBC
Author's note: I hope you liked it! Took me a while because I just started a new story called "LoveCan'tAlwaysPrevail", so I have been busy with that, but this chapter is relatively longer than some of them. Next one should be up in the next day or so. Not much else to say, so please review!