Chapter Seven

I was stranded in the combat zone...

Ginny was reading her book quietly. She liked it. It was a good book. It was called God's Concubine by Sara Douglass. She had read the prequel a week before and enjoyed it imensely and rushed out with Hermione the other day to buy the second book in this series. She was almost finished, cheering silently as William resisted Swanne's efforts to seduce him. If Swanne took him to bed, William would die. She fervently hoped he held out til he met Caela. They were so meant to be. Even if he was the worst for her.

Ginny wanted silence and peace to finish the six hundred page book. Unfortunately her preferences for silence were not to be honored today.

Ron tore into the room. He had just gotten off detention. He was in a foul mood, made worse by Ginny's insistant reading of some Muggle book. He wasn't a Muggle hater, but Ginny spent too much time in books. Rather like Hermione. Only Ginny's books were purely fictitional. No good lessons to be learned there.

"Ginny?"

She didn't look up. "What, Ron?"

"William!" Swanne said, more powerfully this time...

"We need to talk!"

"In a minute, brother dearest."

"Thank God," she said, "that your pretty wife isn't about to interrupt us this time!"

"Ginny!"

"Fine, I'm listening." Ginny replied, not taking her eyes from her book.

Matilda walked into the room...

Ginny silently cheered for William's wife as the woman told off Swanne. She glanced at her brother over the edge of the book as she finished the chapter and started on the next.

"Did you really want something? Or do you plan to stare all day?"

"Why didn't you tell me you had detention with Blaise Zabini?"

"I did. You just weren't paying proper attention. I thought there was something wrong when you only objected three times."

Ron flushed.

I thought furiously. This was...

"You forgot to mention that you straddled him."

Ginny glanced up again. Damn. Zabini was trying this way? He must be desparate.

Was Caela the reason William was so nervous?

"It's not really important."

William had not let go of Caela's hands.

"NOT IMPORTANT?" Ron roared.

... loved him more than ever...

"No." Ginny affirmed, trying to block him out somewhat.

I had mooned over William like some virgin girl...

"Ginny, certain parts of your anatomy were indirect contact with his!"

... as the idea that William loved me...

"The same could be said about shaking his hand. Or should I avoid that unholy act as well?"

"Silvius is Asterion!"

Ginny's breath caught in her throat, though she had long suspected.

"Ginny, you know what I mean!"

"Not Gods' Concubine at all." Asterion said. "But mine."

"Ron, relax. I was on his chest. And about three layers of clothing separated anything."

Caela could not move but she stared at William.

"Ginny, you're missing the point here."

Please, she begged him with her eyes.

"Not really."

Then, before the Minotaur could move, William lowered his head, kissed Caela as feircely as he could and, as she grabbed at him, sa-

Ron ripped the book from Ginny's hands and threw it across the room. An unearthly hush fell on the gathered crowd. No body messed with Ginny's books. Ron seemed to sense the danger, for he swung back to Ginny. Ginny's hazel eyes were dark with an emotion Ron would rather not touch at. She rose from her chair and took him by the shirt. "Listen, dear brother. I have let you play a role in my life for the simple reason that our mother would be devastated if I happened to kill you. But you need to stop meddling in my life. Think of this as a tip for a longer and healthier life. Back off."

Ginny shoved him away. She stalked over and retreived her book. Then left for some quiet.

(A/N: Ugh! soo long since I last updated. I need to work on it. I'll try to have another fic updated before the end of the week.

Also, God's Concubine is a real book and the lines here are from it. It is a fantastic book that every one should read.