A/N
This chapter is based around Draco and Ginny only, and will only mention the others.

Chapter Four
Draco's Dare

Everyone was hustling back from Christmas holidays. How Draco wished he had gone home now, none of this would be happening right now. None of these feelings, none of it. All because he didn't want to listen to his dad drone on over the turkey about stupid ministry problems. Though he found it pointless in dwelling on what could have been, or what possibly, might have been. Its not like he could change it now anyway, he just had to ignore it. As much as he found it extremely difficult. He kept telling himself it couldn't be true. He couldn't be falling for the stinking hero. Though everytime he tried telling himself this, he felt a twang of guilt, as though he knew he was lying to himself but just wouldn't admit to it.

None of this mattered yet. He'd figure it out later. Right now, he had a dare to complete. And if he didn't finish it in this week, he was not a Malfoy. This week, this week he was going to get that red head. Whether she liked it, or loved it. He tried careful planning, but it didn't work, it only frustrated him. No, this kind of thing could not be planned. It had to seem as though it was her idea. But how? It seemed neigh on impossible that Ginny Weasly could even consider bedding Malfoy. Not that he relished this thought anymore than he did… He did not want to finish that sentence.

With term starting today, that meant obviously, lessons started too. Which gave him even less time to spend trying to woo her. Maybe this would be more of a challenge than he thought. Maybe it would be worth both his time and his efforts. Ginny Weasly, you don't know what sort of a time you are in for during this week.

As usual, the great hall was bustling full of life when he walked in. It was strange, seeing all four tables back and not just the one which had been home to the nine of them the past fortnight, though he was sure he would get used to it in time. He also knew, passing this note to Ginny would be more difficult than he thought, but as he began to walk, he caught her eye and walked over to her, carefully dropping the note into her lap without anyone noticing. Not so hard.

As he walked over to the Slytherin table and squeezed in between Pansy and Zabini he watched Ginny read the note that read:

G.W
Tonight,
Down by the lake,
Eleven O'Clock,
Don't be late now.
Love

D.M

He didn't know if she would respond to the note, or even if she would turn up, but for now, feeble as they may be, these were his best attempts at getting her where he wanted, well not so much wanted more to the point of needed, her.

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Later that day, during double potions to be precise, Ginny walked past Malfoy throwing back a note to him. Though, with Snape watching him, Draco couldn't just open up the note and read it. It would have to wait until later, until Snape wasn't watching. He was following the instructions on the board, eye of toad, stir anti-clockwise three times, leg of newt, stir clockwise eight times. The instructions said it should be a dark shade of purple by now, but Draco's was still a muddy brown, he didn't understand. He was usually good at potion-making. He knew he couldn't help it, his heart wasn't in it. Daring to look down at the note, it read,

D.W

I am not going to ask you why
You have chosen to ask me to meet you tonight.
I can not see why outside of lessons,
Even after what we all agreed to the other day,
You would want to speak to me.
But yes, I will be by the lake
At 11pm
G.W

Well the wheels were in motion, and as he lifted his blonde head up, he caught Ginny looking at him and smiled to her. A feat, that got most of the Slytherins, not to mention Gryffindors, who saw it confused, of course. None of them knew about what had happened over the course of the Christmas Holidays.

For the rest of that Potions lesson, his eyes kept drawing to the back of Harry's head. It was almost like Malfoy was transfixed by him. He tried to tell himself he was under a spell. One extreme to the other Draco, you like the guy. Admit it he found himself thinking before he could stop the thought No, I will not admit something that isn't true.

Obnoxious prat.

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Ginny Weasly sat through her History of Magic lesson trying to figure out why Malfoy wanted to see her at the lake, and why it had to be so late in the evening. She couldn't grasp the concept, she didn't understand, and it was becoming infuriating. During lunch, Ginny found herself in the library, trying to look up the properties of moonstone without much luck. She pondered over a big book of potion ingredients still not being able to make heard nor tale of anything the book had written in.

"Is everything okay Ginny?" came the voice of one Hermione Granger.

Ginny sighed. "Not really no" she told her, "Not only do I not understand the properties of Moonstone, I also cant figure out why Malfoy wants me to meet him tonight by lake" the words had escaped her before she had a chance of holding them back. Hermione sat down opposite her and pulled the book towards her,

"Well your not going to understand the properties of Moonstone if your looking at the Effects of Wolfsbane are you?" She said with a slight note of sarcasm in her voice. "Malfoy wants to meet you?"

"Oh," Ginny said, looking down at the book and pulling it back towards her, "Thank you Hermione" she smiled, trying to ignore the question her friend had asked.

"Your avoiding"

"Avoiding what?"

"My question"

"Which one"

"Why does Malfoy want to meet you?"

"I don't know, that's kinda the point" she told her truthfully, "It just doesn't make sense, no not the Moonstone thing" she said as Hermione went to tell her, "The Malfoy thing, I just don't understand it"

"He's a guy, they have this annoying tendency not to make any sense. You'll do better trying not to figure it out"

Trying to cram out the million reasons she did not have in her mind with a single push and instead focus on her homework, she closed her eyes and breathed in deeply. It was true, he was a guy. And it was like law that they weren't allowed to make sense. Though, this in itself made no sense. Do they have fun in confusing us? They must do!

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Eleven O'Clock couldn't come any faster for Draco as he made his way down to the lake. He was determined to at least get her to kiss him tonight. Telling himself, one step is better than no step. Though he knew, if he didn't get this done within this term, he knew he would have lost the dare. Yes, he knew nothing lay at stake for him to lose, but his pride was too large for him not to at least try, he would prefer to fail but try, than to not try and get nowhere. Besides, his reputation for being the charmer was most certainly what kept him who he was. Nothing would make him sway.

Five past, she still hadn't shown and was beginning to give up waiting. Rubbing his head he sighed, so much for tonight. He turned to walk back, but as he did he noticed the red hair of the Weasly girl coming towards the lake, he couldn't help but smile. He had doubted she would even come, but it seemed as though she stood hold of her side of the bargain. No, this wasn't a bargain, he requested her presence, she obliged, nothing more.

"Yeah im late I know" she said with a smile, "but it is only by five minutes. So don't think I did it intentionally"

"Why would I think that?" he asked in a soft voice, making Ginny quiver. He smiled at her reaction. This couldn't be too tough if his voice made her do that.

"Well, if im not mistaken, you are Draco Malfoy I wouldn't put anything past you"

"Those words hurt like a piece of string on my foot" Though he saw Ginny's confused look, "Sarcasm my dear"

"Oh" She stammered, "So, why did you bring me here?"

"I didn't bring you anywhere, you came here of your own will, I merely invited you to join me" Draco was not going to be truthful with her. He wasn't going to tell her it was because he wanted to seduce her. "I guess I wanted to get to know you better"

"Oh right… Why?"

"Because you have more depths than every ocean in this world, and I think it will be rather fun for me to get to know you"

The two spoke for little over an hour, Draco often receiving sly remarks of the Gryffindor, and obviously giving them back, he had made the comparison that they were both pretty much alike. Both had short tempers, both had pure families, both were witty and cunning in their own different ways, and both, at one point, hated eachother. He, for obvious reasons, left out the attachment to one Harry Potter. He was sure him telling her that would instantly defeat the whole purpose for them being out here. After all, he had brought her here for one reason, put the wheels in motion for the seduction.

She looked at him through her brown eyes, as he returned the gaze through his icy blue ones. If he could stop thinking about Harry for one second, he may realise how pretty Ginny was. But no, nothing could satisfy his hunger, not like Harry could.

"What?" he asked softly

"Why don't you tell me the real reason you brought me out here tonight?"

"I have done"

"Liar"

"Im not lying" he put on a false pout.

"Oh, yes you are. You're a bad liar Malfoy. You didn't bring me out here to chat, look at the stars or draw comparisons to. You brought me out here for one reason, to seduce me"

Malfoy looked as though he had been punched in the face. So, she knew. But how? Though he wasn't going to ask her that.

"Isnt it that very dare, that got you talking to us in the first place?" She asked. "I don't mind you know"

"Ginny... I…" Malfoy shut his mouth and looked out over the lake, "Its not that I don't like you, I do. As a person. You're more complex than a maze inside a beehive that's for sure. Though you're interesting." He looked into her face, and he could see she didn't mind, she was smiling, "but yes, I brought you out here tonight to try and seduce you. For the dare, yes. It was Parkinson's idea. She gave the dare to me and Blaise. Obviously Blaise with Hermione"

"Malfoy, you should have told me"

"Why?"

"Because I'd have made it easier for you"

Leaning over, she kissed him, before whispering into his ear, "Lets fulfil that dare of yours, shall we?"

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A/N
Chapter Five coming up soon, I promise.

-S3v3rusIsMin3-

So good, I'd have hated those to be bored into your mind.
Harry and Draco wont admit their feelings for each yet because of how long they have been enemies for, and because they are scared of it, and what it will do to their reputations.
Draco more fears than Harry because Draco has more to lose than Harry does.