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"Good morning, Draco." Luna greeted from her spot in front of the fire when Malfoy made his way out of the hut. Malfoy grunted and grabbed the plate with his portion of food on it Luna held out to him. "Where's Potter? He wasn't in the hut when I woke up." Malfoy asked when he finished his small breakfast. "Harry decided to start doing his share of work so he could be done sooner." Luna replied. "I do that too. I don't have anything better to do." Malfoy said brushing off his hands and standing up. "Say, what's he doing?" He asked. "I believe he is gathering firewood." Luna replied picking up his plate and washing it off with some water from a cup. "I'll go start working a lid to the well then." Malfoy said. Luna nodded setting the plate down on top of the other empty plates.
A few minutes later Ginny came out of the hut rubbing her eyes and walked over Luna who handed her her plate of food. "Good morning, Ginny." Luna said.
"Morning, Luna. Sleep well?" Ginny said after she swallowed her bite of food.
"Yes, you?" Luna asked. Ginny nodded in reply.
"Have you seen Harry? Or Malfoy?" Ginny asked once she finished her meal.
Luna nodded and said, "Harry's getting firewood and Draco is making a lid to the well."
Ginny pulled a face and said, "This early? I hate mornings." Luna chuckled quietly and didn't say anything.
"So what do we got to do?" Ginny asked.
"We will be in need of food shortly but I think we can wait until tomorrow to gather food. The pond still needs to be cleaned up. There is a small muggle dueling area near here that needs repair but I don't know why we would need to repair it. Look around and find something to do, Ginny, it shouldn't be very hard." Luna replied.
Ginny sighed and looked around trying to figure out what she could do.
Something to cook food in? She was getting awfully tired of cold berries and roots. They had those potatoes so some something that could cook them? A pot and something to put in on. They had a pot so just something to put it on. But what? A rack, maybe. But how to build it some it wouldn't catch on fire. Hmm, let's see. Actually maybe they could just make a hole of sorts in the middle of the logs and set the pot in there right on top of the coals. But how would they get it? She could make and oven mitt of sorts. Or they could just take some of that old hole filled scraps of cloth they found and attach them to each other somehow. Hmm, that grass is pretty strong she could just string it through the holes and tie it together. Yeah maybe that will work. Ginny ran off to go try to do that.
If the position of the sun was anyway to tell it was nearing noon time on the island. As if by some silent agreement Ginny, Luna, Malfoy, and Harry all ended up at the stone porch by the time the sun was directly above their heads.
"Weasley. Potter. Lovegood." Malfoy said in way of greeting. "Hello, Ginny, Draco, Harry." Luna said cheerfully going into the middle hut to get the pot of food.
"Hey, Luna. Harry. Malfoy." Ginny said.
"Ginny, Luna, Malfoy." Harry said.
"Did you find a job to do, Ginny?" Luna asked as she came back outside with the pot of food.
"Yeah. I made a oven mitt earlier so we could get pots and things like that out of fire. So we can actually cook food. And then I gathered long grass and started braiding it to make curtains for the doors." Ginny replied pridefully.
Malfoy sneered at her and said, "You call that work? That's arts and crafts, Weasley. Unlike you, some of us where actually doing real work."
"And I suppose that you meant you? You wouldn't know real work if it slapped you in the face and then gave you a lap dance." Ginny replied with a sneer of her own.
"I did mean me. And you don't need to know someone to get a lap dance from her." Malfoy replied.
"I would call you a pig but that would be a insult to the pigs." Ginny replied spitefully.
"I think you are confusing me with you, Weasley." Malfoy replied with a smirk.
"So what are we going to do for the rest of the day? Work or Play?" Luna asked handing Harry his lunch that was seven small berries and three medium sized ones. She then handed Ginny and Malfoy the same lunch and then got her own lunch.
"I'm almost finished with the lid for the well so I will be working on that for a little while." Malfoy said with smirk directed towards Ginny taunting her about the fact he had gotten that last word in their argument.
"I'll be working on the curtains for the rest of the day." Ginny said glaring at Malfoy.
"I guess I'll just find something to do. I'll probably be exploring nearby or something." Harry said.
Luna nodded and said, "I think I will look at a flower I saw earlier. It looked very much like a Muttlebumble Iris."
Malfoy had to bite his tongue to stop himself from asking what on earth that was. He didn't really want a detailed explanation on what a flower that he was pretty didn't exist was. They ate their berries silently and then split ways for the next few hours. Ginny stayed at the huts to braid the grass into curtains. Luna went off somewhere behind the huts to look at that flower. Malfoy went off in the direction of the well. And Harry wandered off into the woods near the huts to look around.
As it got dark Ginny was about to finish the fifth strand of braided grass. She had broken two strands and one of the strand caught on fire when she got it too close to the fire. Ginny was tired, frustrated, she had been hungary for days, and her fingers hurt like heck. To sum it up, Ginny was not in a good mood and if anyone got on her nerves tonight they better run for their lives.
"Hey, Ginny." Harry greeted when he came into hearing range.
"Hi, Harry." Ginny replied snappishly.
"No need to snap at me. I come in peace." Harry said putting his hands up by his head.
"I'm really not in the mood, Harry." Ginny said.
"Fine, fine." Harry said sitting down on one of the big slightly rotten logs for the fire. They sat in silent for awhile, Harry playing with a loose thread on his shirt and Ginny braiding the grass.
"Why are you even doing that?" Harry asked breaking the silent.
"Doing what?" Ginny asked confused looking up from the grass.
"Braiding that grass. Why bother? It's not like it's going to help much at keeping out the cold." Harry said pointing at the braided grass.
"But it will help and we don't have anything else." Ginny said. "But you clearly don't like doing it and it wouldn't make that much of a difference." Harry said.
"I know. Harry, it will- Harry, I have to do some- I have to do something to help, Harry. I don't- I don't want to be some little girl that can't do anything for herself and has to rely on men to do- to do my dirty work. You and Malfoy don't like carrying wood but you do it anyway. There wasn't anything for me to do. I was useless. I can't be useless. I can't be helpless." Ginny said softly and with a sort of underlying pain in the last few sentences. Like she wanted to say something but couldn't or felt she couldn't.
Harry nodded slowly but she could tell he didn't really get it completely. "I know," Harry said softly, Ginny wanted to say no, he didn't no one did but she stopped herself and listened to what he was saying. "I felt helpless all last year. I knew Voldemort was doing something and I knew that the Order knew something about but no one would tell me anything. No one except Sirius and your mum stopped him before he could really tell me anything. I felt so helpless because all I could do was sit on my bum and try to snap at everyone. I was frustrated and angry and upset and Ron was pretty wrong about someone exploding from feeling so many emotions." "Exploding?" Ginny asked slowly sure she had heard that wrong. "Yeah, exploding. Hermione was trying to make us understand why Cho was crying when we kissed and listed off a whole lot of things Cho was probably feeling and Ron said that someone couldn't feel all that or they'd explode. I've been feeling a lot of conflicting emotions and I haven't exploded." Harry replied a bit like he was talking to himself and not Ginny.
"Like what?" Ginny asked softly.
"I'm angry at Ron because he never seems to know when to leave well enough alone or when to keep his mouth shut. But I'm also grateful he doesn't let me sit alone with my thoughts for long or sugar coats the truth so he doesn't hurt my feelings. I get annoyed and frustrated with Hermione because she is always pushing me to express my feelings but I'm also glad she cares enough to try and talk with me about Sirius or Cedric or whatever she thinks is bugging me. I keep wanting to kiss y- a girl I know but at the same time I think of her like a little sister. I hate Dumbledore for keeping the- something important a secret from me but I'm thankful that someone wanted to let me be a child for a little longer and I'm-starting to sound like a girl." Harry said aruptly stopping his rambling.
"What's wrong with sounding like a girl?" Ginny asked annoyed.
"Nothing, if you're a girl but I'm a guy not a girl." Harry said.
"I think it's great if a guy's willing to express his feelings." Ginny said.
"I just did, Ginny, not try and pin some fault on me." Harry said annoyed.
"You're the one that's accusing me of trying to pin something on you. I'm not the one in the wrong here." Ginny said hotly.
"While neither am I. I didn't do anything wrong and yet you're jumping all over me." Harry said standing up.
"I'm jumping all over you? You're the one that's accusing me of accusing you." Ginny half-yelled also standing up.
"You're the one the started it."
"You're the one that started going all she's being mean to me."
"She's being mean to me? It that the best you've got?"
"Is that the best you've got?"
"Best friend's little sister."
"Boy-Who-Lived"
"Is that supposed to be an insult?"
"You don't like it, do you?" Ginny said in such a way the said she already knew the answer.
They stood there, toe to toe, breathing heavily when Harry said, still with a bit a malic, "Your breath is horrible."
"My breath is horrible? Take a sniff of yours."
Suddenly their lips were on each other's. It's wasn't soft, sweet, soft, or even passionate. It was hard, slightly painful, and devoid of passion. It was a kiss.
And when they broke away, they didn't gaze into each other's eyes or look awkwardly at something over the other's shoulder or in Ginny's case to the side of his shoulder.
"I've wanted to do that for five years," Ginny said breaking the silence. "It wasn't like I thought it would be. I thought it would be either fireworks or like kissing my brother but it was like kissing Michael after we had a fight. Kinda nice but not really. Like kissing a angry friend."
"A angry friend? How many angry friends have you kissed?" Harry asked with a sightly amused grin.
"It was a metaphor. You're the only angry friend, I've kissed." Ginny said with a slight blush.
Harry chuckled causing Ginny to grin. They shared a smile and silently decided to just put the kiss in the back of their minds.
"Where's Malfoy and Luna?" Ginny asked looking around while rubbing her aching fingers.
"Dunno." Harry said shrugging.
"You think we should go look for them?" Ginny asked.
"Look for who?" Malfoy asked walking into the clearing.
"You and Luna." Harry replied.
"What makes you think I would need you looking for me?" Malfoy asked.
"It is getting dark I just thought we should just make sure you're okay." Ginny said defensively.
"I wouldn't want a little girl that couldn't even move when that wolf thing was running towards her to come looking for me if I was in trouble." Malfoy said with a mean sneer.
"Malfoy-" Harry started to angerly say but Ginny cut him off, "Little girl? I am not a little girl. And I just couldn't think. It was just running at me and I couldn't think. You're the one that cut off the thing's head."
"What does that have to with anything? It was for my safety." Malfoy said.
"For safety? What does cutting the head off a wolf like thing have to do with safety?" Ginny asked.
"Dropping a rock on its head does mean it's dead, I didn't want it coming back." Malfoy replied.
"And you couldn't just stab the thing? You had to cut off its head." Ginny said.
"And you did so much to help. At least I did something instead of just sitting there." Malfoy said harshly.
"What's going-" Luna started to ask but she was cut off.
"You're the big jerk who can't even get a decent friend." Ginny yelled at him getting in his face.
"At least I'm not some weak helpless stupid girl who can't even-"
"SHUT UP."
"WHY? So you can go on pretending you're a prefect goody-goody little girl."
"You're the biggest stupidest-"
"And you're the shortest weakest-"
"I HATE YOU." They both screamed at the same time. Ginny pushed Malfoy who stumbled a bit and then pushed Ginny right back. Ginny shoved him again. Malfoy grabbed her arms and pushed her backwards causing her to fall down. She tried to grab Malfoy but he let go of her arms and she fell back on her bum on the ground.
"Oi, that hurt. My poor bum." She said standing up and rubbing her bottom. Malfoy smirked at her and she glared back at her.
Harry cleared his throat loudly and said, "Let's go ahead and have dinner, okay?"
"I'll go get the food." Luna said serenely. Ginny scowled at Malfoy and Malfoy smirked at her but they both nodded and sat down. Luna came out with the food and sat down. She evenly divided some food into four portions and then give each person their portion. They ate quietly and afterwards went to bed without saying anything.
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