AN: I have recenty received a review that worried about the violence and abuse shown in this story. I have not meant to offend in any sense, however, I will now be posting abuse warnings at the top of the chapters that include anything that can be taken as abuse. This chapter is one of those that they were concerned about.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN GINERVA'S REVENGE
"WHAT?!" Screamed Ginny at Hermione.
"WHAT?!" Hermione screamed at Draco.
"You're 'friend from school' was Harry?"
"THAT'S the secret you were talking about?"
"Hermione, I'm talking to you, bitch! You'd better answer me, now." Ginny screamed over top of Draco's laughter.
"Ginny, I'm sorry." She tried to cross to embrace her friend but she was pushed roughly away. "Let me explain. We didn't ever tell you because it wasn't a big deal. It was before he was with you. Before he was even interested in you. It was nothing I swear."
Ginny stood staring at her for nearly a minute, the fury building in her eyes. Much to the surprise of everyone in the room, Ginny reached up and backhanded Hermione across the face. "Just so you're not confused, that wasn't for sleeping with Harry. That was for lying to me about it." She left the room and slammed the kitchen door. Ginny's slap still echoed off the stone kitchen walls.
"How could you do that, Draco? How do you know anyways? You're supposed to be helping her, not hurting her even more." Hermione wiped the blood off of her lip and spit even more out onto the floor.
Draco took one long swig of his beer and examined the remaining liquid in the bottle before answering. "She's not upset with me anymore now, is she? I can't have Ginny upset with me if she's going to trust me. As for how I knew. I didn't. I just knew that you weren't a virgin so I took a guess. Pretty good, huh? Now I've a bigger ally in her by turning you in. It will help the plan if she trusts me, which is what you were trying to discredit. I had to act before you ruined everything I was here for." He finished off his beer in one gulp and stood to leave the room. "You really fucked Potter? God Hermione, if you were desperate I could have lent you Pansy. Even she has more of a dick than Potter." He began to laugh as he left the room leaving Hermione alone.
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Ginny flung open the bedroom door and saw that Harry was awake and leaning up against the headboard. He looked confused for only a minute but looked directly into her eyes as he asked, "Ginny? You alright?"
"Harry." Her voice sounded much to formal for a fiance. "Do you know where you are?"
Harry looked around the bedroom before replying. "This is our bedroom right?"
"And you know what year this is?" She started to tap her foot lightly on the carpeted floor.
"Ginny, what are you on about? What's going on?" Harry stood as if to walk over to her but Ginny met him halfway across the room.
"Just wanted to make sure you knew what was going on when I gave you this." She grabbed him firmly by the shoulders and raised a knee directly into Harry's crotch, dropping him coughing to the floor. "When were you thinking about telling me about Hermione? The day after our wedding?"
Harry spit on the floor before looking up from his kneeling position. "What...(cough)...are you talking about?"
"Harry James Potter! Don't even fucking act stupid right now. You know what I'm talking about. You don't have to pretend anymore. Draco told me everything."
Harry sat stunned for several moments. He had no idea what she was even talking about, but he didn't dare tell her that. He felt his boys throbbing with every beat of his heart and panicked slightly when he could only find one. He grimaced in pain as he tried to stand up, but realized that it was impossible as he started to black out if he tried to move.
"Say something, damnit." Ginny loomed over him and he risked removing one of his hands from his nads to shield his head. "Is that why you rejected me the other night? I'm not as good as Hermione or something, is that it? Do you see her every time you kiss me? Answer me, Harry!"
Harry still wasn't sure exactly what she was talking about but couldn't risk staying silent any longer. "I'm sorry, Ginny. I never would have done it if I knew that it would hurt you."
Ginny took a few moments to think over his peace offering before deepening her scowl. "You don't even know what I'm mad at you for, do you? You're just trying to pull your nuts out of the fire." Harry cringed at the word 'nuts'. "So what this is telling me is that you don't find sex meaningful. Even worth remembering. Is that how you feel about ours? Do you even remember having sex with me? Am I just vagina number 602?"
"It was just friends." Harry said, realization dawning on him. "It was way before you were even in the picture. Back when I thought that I might still have a chance with Hermione."
"So I'm just your silver medal? Runner up to Hermione Granger, your woman of choice." Harry reached up with his free hand to rub the side of Ginny's leg but he was sharply kicked away. "Don't pleasure yourself to me." Ginny said, refrencing that one of his hands was still perma-glued to his groin.
"Oh God, I wish I could." Harry whimpered.
"You know, I can't believe that you lied to me."
"I never said I didn't. You knew I wasn't a virgin."
"Excuse me? Are you trying to justify your lies? Just don't talk. Listen. Is she who you'd rather be with? Is she the one that your holding out for? You're only dead because you can't really love me. I spent all night justifying everything that I put up with for you, and then bragged about you to Hermione only to find out that she already knew. When she told me that she knew you better than anyone I didn't think she meant literally. If you don't love me, all you had to do was say so, not send Draco to tell me. You can't even say you love me?"
"You told me not to talk..."
"Shut-up! I don't want to even see you right now." She turned to storm out of the room. "You know, I was scared for you last night. I was afraid I'd never get you back. Now I realize I never had you at all." She opened the door and backed out of the room as she pulled the door shut slowly in front of her.
"Little hard on the little fuck, weren't you?" Came a familiar drawl.
"You know Draco that eavesdropping is beneath even scum like you." She turned to face him and tried to push through his broad stance. "Get out of my way, Draco."
"I'd hate to see you waste your energy walking down the stairs when you realize that you'll be walking right back up to apologize in less than a minute."
"Apologize?! For what?"
"Why do woman think that they are above the law? That they can do no wrong? Are you forgetting that you've wronged him in the same way as he's wronged you? That there's a little jiz in your past that doesn't carry Potter DNA?"
"Draco, why do you have to be so perverted? Besides thats...different." Ginny was stopped by the glare coming from the steel grey eyes.
"You should turn around, go back in that bedroom, and tell Harry about us. About how not once, or twice, you enjoyed a real orgasm at another mans hands. Make sure to drop my name, Draco Malfoy, several times and why don't you moan it a bit like you used to do for me." He laughed at the feeble punch that Ginny layed into his arm. "Waste your effort on Harry's dick? Wouldn't be the first time you did that, now would it? As much as I love the fact that you may now be available for a reenactment in the kitchen, I just can't let you hate Harry when he didn't even do anything wrong. Don't think I've gone soft," He said at the curious look in Ginny's eyes. "It's just that...well...I want you to be happy and for some reason that I'll never understand, Harry makes you happy. Now go reattach his penis and tell him what you came home to tell him in the first place." Draco gave Ginny a reassuring pat on the arm and turned her around to face the closed door. "Oh," He said from the top of the stairs as he retreated, "then go down to the basement and apologize to Hermione. It's not her fault that she was curious. I'm sure every girl at Hogwarts was curious about Harry's sexuality. I knew a few guys that were."
Ginny stared at the door for several moments before making her decision. She wasn't going to apologize. He deserved everything she said and besides, apologizing would be admitting that she had done something wrong. Maybe it would do him some good to know that she was upset with him. He might realize that she's not just going to always wait around for him. She did feel OK with talking to Hermione, however, she only wanted to hear her explanation so she turned sharply to walk down the stairs towards the kitchen.
Ginny flung open the door and took Hermione completely off guard."Ginny. I didn't know you'd be...I thought you might..." She stumbled into a chair as badly as she stumbled over her words.
"This is not a truce, this is not an apology, this is a chance for you to give your side of the story." Ginny sat across from Hermione at the table and waved her hand in a flippant way. "Go."
"I'm not gonna say that what we did was wrong, Ginny. It was years before you and we had no way of knowing that one day you would be in the picture. Or that we'd even still be friends at this point. At that point, no one knew if we'd even be alive for the next year. You can understand all of that, right?"
"I understand English, Hermione. What I don't understand is how you could have been friends with me all this time, knowing that I had feelings for Harry before even he did, and not ever told me. I've heard what you did, I've heard how you did it. You both seem to think that you had good enough reasons for why you did it. Now I wanna know why you hid it from me."
"What was the point of telling you? It wasn't like there was old flames kindling or that we were still doing anything when you two got together. It would just cause you unnecessary pain, something I am not about giving you, and might have even kept you from being with Harry. It wasn't an accident, it wasn't something that I'm not proud of, I can't tell you that. I can't tell you that it didn't mean something to me either. Harry will always be my friend and I will always love him as such. I'm glad that I could share such a special moment in my life with him because we had always shared so much, but I will say that I'm sorry that it took away from you. I never meant to hurt anyone by it. And I'm sorry you had to find out this way, not that I hid it. I would have taken it to my grave to make sure that you never had to feel betrayed." Hermione looked over at her friend, her eyes swimming with forming tears and smiled hopefully.
"I just would have expected more of a true friend is all. You had very noble intentions, miss Granger, but you seem to have failed in your objective. Don't you think that it would have hurt less to hear these things back at school, before Harry and I were engaged? Before I had suffered this long next to his side to only feel betrayed by him now. I never told you this, but I've always been very jealous of you, Hermione. It all came so easy to you. Harry adored you and you didn't even have to try. You spent year after year by his side and I would have killed to be you. Now I find that you even got Harry's first time. He'll always have a place for you in his thoughts and now I have to wonder if he sees you when he closes his eyes. If he's comparing me to you like I always feared he would do. That's what I hate most about this. Not that you did it, not that you lied. Now in my mind I have to live up to you or risk losing him. I couldn't compete with you in school, what makes you think I can win now?"
Hermione sat stunned at this revelation, her jaw dropped in disbelief. "You were..jealous? Of me?" She stuttered as she watched her friend walk to the door. "Ginny..." she uttered as the door was swung open. "Harry loves you..." Ginny closed the door behind her. "You've already won."
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Chapter 18 Teaser
Draco watched from the corner of the staircase until Ginny entered into the kitchen before making his way back up the stairs. Now was as good a time as any to put his plan into action as Ron would be alone for at least half an hour while the girls worked things out. When he reached the door to the room the Weasley's shared he took a deep breath before flinging it roughly open. He flung the door shut and pinned his back against the door and stared at Ron's shocked look, biting his lip to keep from laughing.