Chapter 17 - My Love My Valentine
As Draco and Ginny walked from the train to the horseless carriages Ginny gripped Draco's hand a little tighter and said in a whisper, "Draco, everyone is looking at us."
"Are they really?" Draco asked as he looked around, "Then lets give them something to talk about while they are at it." Draco took Ginny into his arms and kissed her long and hard.
"Break it up you two!" Harry said, "No one wants to see that."
"We're just showing people that we're a couple now," Ginny said, still flushed from the spontaneous kiss.
Draco shrugged his shoulders, "I just wanted a kiss."
The six of them grabbed a carriage and as they were riding towards the castle Ginny saw as girls and guys alike where starring at her and Draco and whispering.
About a half an hour later...
Ginny descended the stairs and saw Draco waiting for her at the bottom. Draco smiled up at her and held out his hand. She took it and said, "Draco, will you sit with me?"
"I will if you want me to."
Ginny smiled and kissed him quickly, "Come on, let's go."
As they walked hand-in-hand into the Great Hall everyone quieted down and looked up at them. They suddenly started whispering to one another. Ginny looked a little nervous. Draco noticed this and squeezed her hand tighter. This relaxed Ginny and the two walked over to the Gryffindor table. Draco took a seat next to Harry and Ginny sat beside Draco.
"Hey guys," Draco said to the guys and then he turned towards the two girls. "Ladies." They all smiled back.
No one dared to make a noise. Everyone turned to look at the professors, and then the professors turned to look at Dumbledore.
Dumbledore stood up and said, "Mr. Malfoy, I believe that you are sitting at the wrong table."
"Actually professor," Draco stated, "I am sitting right where I belong." He smiled and wrapped his arms around Ginny. "Do you mind, sir?"
Dumbledore smiled at the pair and said, "Not at all, my dear boy, not at all. In fact, I am very glad that this has happened and would like to encourage this idea."
Helena Creevy stood up. Her brothers, who sat near her, looked at her and said, "Where are you going?"
"To sit with my friend," she said. She looked a bit nervous but held her head up high and proud and walked over to the Slytherin table. Tom stood up and offered her the seat beside him; she accepted the seat.
Everyone looked around and shrugged their shoulders. Half of the students stood up to go sit with their friends at the different tables. Even a few students from the Slytherin table got up to sit with friends from a different house.
Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore smiled happily at one another. Dumbledore stood up and said, "Looks to me, Draco, that you have started a chain reaction."
"Well, at least it's a good one, sir."
"Quite true, my boy, quite true," Dumbledore tapped his wand on his podium to get everyone's attention, "Before we start our feast, I would like to tell you all something. In October we had four girls, no names will be mentioned, do an awful thing to one of our other students. They thought that they would not be caught, but they were. Their crime, having to deal with illegal drugs, has gotten them expelled from Hogwarts. My point to you students is, think twice before you do anything. Now enjoy your dinner." He clapped his hands and food appeared on the tables before them.
"I wonder who they are talking about," Ron asked.
Everyone else just shrugged their shoulders.
A few days later...
"No, Ginny! I am not going!" Draco said, putting his foot down.
"Yes you are!" Ginny told him.
"There is no way in hell that I am going!!"
"Why not?"
"Why not?" He started to get a little upset that she wasn't accepting that he didn't want to go see Hagrid with her and the others. "Let's think about this. Maybe because he HATES me!!"
"Oh Draco, he does not hate you!"
"Yes he does. Let me remind you, I was the one who told on him about his dragon, my father sent him to Azkaban, I am the reason why his favorite hippogriff was almost killed and is now in hiding, I said all those mean things about him being half a giant--do I need to go on with the rest of the list?"
"Please, Draco?" she said, putting her hands on his chest. "He'll like you now. You've grown up. You're no longer the same person that you were; you're different now."
"He won't bloody care, Ginny," Draco said, moving away from her. "I'm going to enter that house, and he's going to put his cross bow right at my head."
"No, he won't, Draco Clifford Malfoy," Ginny stamped her foot. Draco turned his head to glare at her. No one called him by his full name and got away with it. He walked up to her, staring into her eyes with his icy gray eyes. Ginny backed away from him until she felt the cold stone on her back. "Dra..." she could say no more as her words were cut off by his lips pressing against hers.
A little while later...
Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Lavender could not find Ginny or Draco anywhere, so they started off towards Hagrid's hut without them.
As soon as they were about to enter his house, they saw Ginny running towards them. She was a mess--her robes looked a little rumpled and her hair was all over the place.
"Ginny, where have you been?" Ron asked.
Ginny smiled evilly at her brother and asked, "Do you really want to know?"
Ron grunted and said, "No."
"Where's Draco?" Hermione asked.
"Not coming. Stupid prat."
Before another word could be said, the door opened up and Hagrid was standing there.
"Hello you guys! Come on in! I have homemade rock cakes and some tea."
The five Gryffindors walked into his house and made themselves comfortable.
Hagrid gave them all a cup of steaming hot tea and a rock cake, "So tell me, what's new?"
Before anyone could say a word, there was a knock at the door.
Hagrid froze and looked around the room. "1...2...3...4...5," he counted the people who were there. Hagrid shrugged and continued talking, "So Harry, how goes the..." but he was cut off by another knock at the door. Hagrid stared at the door. "Who else would be here?"
Ginny smiled knowingly and ran to the door. She opened it and smiled wide. "Hi."
Draco walked into the hut with a smug look on his face.
When Hagrid saw who was in his hut, he grabbed his cross bow, which was always next to his seat, and aimed it at Draco's head.
"Whoa!" Harry and Ron both screamed and grabbed for the large man's arms. They helped none as they were basically hanging from his arms. Ginny stepped in front of Draco.
"What foul play is going on here?" Hagrid asked, not moving an inch.
"Hagrid, he's my boyfriend," Ginny told him.
"Boyfriend? This ferret boy is your boyfriend?" Draco glared at the man.
Draco pushed Ginny away from him and walked up to Hagrid. "Mr. Hagrid, I know that we had a shaky beginning."
"Very shaky, boy," Hagrid sneered at him.
"Fine, very shaky. And I know that a mere 'sorry' isn't going to do much of anything, but I am sorry for the way I behaved when I was younger. But I'm different now." He looked down at Ginny and smiled, "Thanks to Ginny that is. So, Mr. Hagrid, do you think that we can try to do this over again?"
Hagrid put down his crossbow, and the two boys dropped from his arms. "Fine. But hurt anyone here, and I will personally hurt you."
"Grab a number, Hagrid," Ron said from behind them.
Hagrid lightened up and said, "Well, grab a seat," and he went off to grab him a hot cup of tea.
Draco could hear either Ron or Harry making a noise like a whip, but he decided just to ignore it.
February 13th...
It was the day before Valentine's Day and the guys were hanging out with each other as their girlfriends were doing God knows what.
The three were walking down the hall, and they spotted a few Slytherins staring them down.
"What the bloody hell are you two looking at?" Ron yelled at the two Slytherin boys. "Never seen a Slytherin walk with Gryffindors before?" The two boys were about to open their mouths to say something rude when Ron said, "Get your arses out of here before we bloody knock you guys around!" The two boys looked at each other and ran away.
"Ron! That was a little uncalled for wasn't it?" Harry asked.
"Harry, it's just..."
"You're starting to like me," Draco said with a smile.
"You're out of your bloody mind, Malfoy. I'm just learning to live with you."
"Whatever you say, Weasley, whatever you say."
They followed Harry into the Gryffindor common room. Apparently Draco got the A-Okay to sit in the common room with his new friends.
They sat around the fire and Harry said, "So what do you guys have for the girls?"
"Nothing too special," Ron said, "Just roses, a box of chocolates, and then I'm taking her on a moon-lit broom ride."
"Good, idea," Harry said, "But too bad Hermione hates to fly. I did get her a pair of earrings. They are the same color as her birthstone."
"Good choice," Ron said and then starred at Draco.
"Don't give me that look, I've been cut off, I have no money."
"So, you're not giving anything to Ginny tomorrow?" Harry asked.
"My love," Draco said with a hint of playfulness in his tone.
Ron stood up quickly and said, "That better as hell not mean what I think it means."
Draco gave him a dumbfounded look, "Relax Weasley. I didn't mean it like that. Besides even if I was going to do that, do you think I'd tell you?" Harry put a reassuring hand on Ron's arm. "I'm making her dinner."
Suddenly Ron started to laugh, "You? Make dinner?"
"Fine, Dooby will be there for support. Just to make sure I don't give her food poisoning or something." Harry and Ron only laughed harder.
The next day...
"Draco,
Meet me on the 5th outside the room of requirement. You know where it is.
Angel."
Draco almost laughed as he could hear the malicious tone in Ginny's voice as she wrote "You know where it is." It wasn't his fault that he was never offered to be a part of "Dumbledore's Army."
Later that night…
Draco was waiting outside the Room of Requirement. He was pacing back and fourth, Ginny was late. He was about to leave and find her when he saw her running down the corridor towards him.
"Sorry, I'm late," she said trying to catch her breath. "Hermione was helping me with some last minute details."
"No problem," Draco said as he greeted her with a kiss. "I love you in that green dress."
"Thanks," Ginny said with a smile.
It was at that moment when the door appeared on the wall. "Well, we better get in there before the door closes again," Draco said and opened the door for her.
Ginny gasped, "Draco it's beautiful!" The room held dozens of candles placed strategically around the room. There was a chaise lounge located in front of a fire place, with a fire glowing brightly in it, and a blanket was set on the ground with picnic basket on top of it.
Draco looked at the room in confusion. The room was set up for a seduction play and at that moment he wondered if the room knew something that he didn't.
"Draco," he heard Ginny talking to him, "did you--"
"Ginny, I wish I could take credit for this, but it is the room of requirement," he said as he shut the door behind him, "It creates the room for you," Draco saw her blush slightly and wondered if she caught onto the room's meaning too. "I did, however, prepare us a delightful dinner."
"You made me dinner?" Ginny asked.
"Why do you look so shocked? Don't you think I am capable of making a dinner?"
"Draco, you're not even capable of making a snowman correctly!" She said with a giggle.
Draco laughed along with her as he remembered trying to help Penny with her snowman. He made all three body parts the same size. "All right, so you caught me, Dobby supervised to make sure I was doing all right," Ginny still gave him a skeptical look, "All right! So he let me stir a few things around," Draco mumbled out.
Ginny only laughed, stood on her toes, and gave him a quick kiss. "I'm sure it's great," she said.
Draco took her by the hand and lead her to the blanket.
They ate their dinner, which consisted of Chicken Parmesan with a side of wine linguini with Alfredo sauce, in silence; stealing little glances at one another.
As they finished their last bites the dishes disappeared. "Time for dessert," Draco said.
"Not yet," Ginny said.
"Why not?"
"I really need to kiss you right now."
"Can't argue with --" before he could finish his sentence Ginny was on top of him, kissing him. Draco liked the fire inside his girl. He hadn't seen her act this way since the day she accosted him in her bathroom during Christmas. When he felt her delicate fingers already going for the buttons on his shirt, he pulled away. "Ginny we…"
"Draco, I want tonight to be the night."
"Ginny, there isn't even a bed."
"Stop trying to be so traditional," she said getting annoyed. "There's a chaise right over there," she said as she started to nibble on his ear.
"You… you want me to… to… Ginny, stop it!" he said pushing her away again, "I can't talk while you're doing that."
"Well, good," she said with a devious smile.
"Ginny --"
"Draco," Ginny cut him off, "I want to be with you. In fact," she said her cheeks turning a light crimson color, "I was hoping that the room of requirement would set something like this up. I always imagined my first time to be with you, in front of a fireplace, like this.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure. I love you. Are you sure?"
"You don't have to ask me twice?" Draco said with a smile. He stood up, pulled her to her feet, and picked her up. He walked them over to the chaise, laid her gently upon it, and kissed her gently.
A while later…
"Mmm," Ginny purred against Dracos bare chest as he covered them in his black cloak. "Does it always feel that good?"
"No," Draco said as he wrapped his arms tightly around her. "It's never felt that good, that right." Ginny raised her head and smiled up at him, "I love you."
"I love you, too." She leaned up a little further, kissed him on the mouth and asked, "Can we do it again?"
Draco playfully rolled his eyes and said, "If we must, we must."
A few hours later…
Ginny and Draco finally got up to leaving the room of requirement and headed towards the Gryffindor tower.
"Ginny Weasley!" they heard Ron call from a distance.
"Draco, you look nervous," Ginny said with a smile.
"You'd look nervous too if you were looking at the pointy end of a wand."
"Been there, done that," Ginny said hinting at the innuendo,
"Not the time, Gin," Draco said.
"Where the hell have you two been?" Ron asked. "Do you know what time it is?"
"It's just slightly after midnight," Ginny answered his question.
"Slightly after midnight?" Ron said angrily.
"Ron, calm down," Harry said, trying to calm his friend down.
"It's after two in the bloody morning!" Ron screamed.
"Ron, you're going to draw attention to us." Ginny said.
"I don't care!" Ron looked at Draco, "Where have you had her and why are you're clothes such a mess?"
"I took your advice," Draco said with a smile, "I took her for a broom ride."
"Is this true?" Ron asked Ginny.
"Of course it is. Draco took me for a ride on his broom," Ginny almost gasped at her double meaning, "but then," she added quickly, "we had to warm up, so we headed to Gryffindor Tower, but the room of requirement opened to us, so we went there. We got warm by the fire, Dobby brought us some dessert, and we spent the night talking."
"Why don't I believe you?" Ron asked.
"You don't have to," Ginny said.
Ron let out a sigh and said, "Fine," both Draco and Ginny starred at Ron in disbelief. Was he really going to let this go? "But I'll escort her back to the common room."
Draco nodded, turned to Ginny, and said, "Good night, Angel." He kissed her lightly and then produced a rose.
Ginny took the flower, brought it to her nose, and smelt it. "Thanks for a wonderful evening."
"The pleasure was all mine," Draco said with a smile and walked away.
Ginny turned to walk back to her tower with Harry and Ron. "I don't want to know."
"Good, because I'm not going to tell you."
To be Continued…