Rule Five

Ginny tossed back her dark hair and waited patiently while the scanners read her. She was in the main control room, being scanned for outside influences and spells. Lucius was not going to find any spells that influenced her appearance, part of the reason she had pushed to be the one to come here.

Finally cleared, Ginny followed the comfortably clad young woman. Ginny was mildly surprised that she hadn't seen anything too extravagent. Even the uniforms were pretty mild compared to what she had been expecting. Mostly jeans, combat boots and comfortable looking shirts. All the men and women she had seen also wore simple pistols on their belts as well as more advanced weapons.

The young woman led her through a door to a large antechamber. There was a plethora of men and women all in slightly more jazzed up clothing, sitting at a large round table. Lucius sat there as well. As Ginny approached, she noticed that one of the persons was a young girl of about five. She looked curiously familiar and Ginny resolved to see what she could find out about the girl.

Lucius looked up with a small smile. "Gentlemen, Ladies, may I present our newest recruit, Adriana Riddle."

The group remained silent, merely taking in Ginny. She knew she probably looked intimidating. She was all in black, her sleeves pushed up to reveal her dragon mark. She studied the group, looking for a weak link, someone she could latch onto and pull information from, but her gaze kept getting distracted by the girl. She had whitish blonde hair like Lucius but there was a certain softness to her that had never been in Lucius.

Ginny took a seat offered her. A pile of papers were before her. She glanced through them briefly. One was a map of the area. Ginny studied it for a moment as Lucius droned on. She was aware that all eyes were on her. She sighed and incinerated it between her fingers.

Lucius stopped and looked at her.

"You don't really expect me to nee that, do you?" she drawled prettily. "Doubtless not a thing on that is true."

Lucius smiled at her and Ginny understood she had won something.

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Back in Blaise's apartment...

Luna pulled back from making out with Blaise.

"What was that?"

Blaise pushed himself up on his elbows and scanned the room. "That."

Luna picked up the sheet of paper from the desk. It was a map of Malfoy manor with labels over everything. In the bottom corner, in Ginny's neat scrawl,

Don't trust anything this says. Still, it should give you an idea of the lay of the land. Tell Draco I'm fine and I love him.

"Well that was fast," Blaise commented. "She's better than I hoped."

"That's Gin for you. She's always got to be the best."

"I have you, sweet heart, that's good enough for me."

"Should we tell Draco?"

"Not yet. He's got enough on his plate."

(A/N: Updatage! Yeah me!