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Chapter 10: Narcissa

When he reached his room he used his wand to unlock the door and kicked it open. Now he found yet another dilemma, where was he going to put her?

Deciding the best course of action was to give her the bed and take the couch; he placed her in the bed and carefully tucked her in before kicking off his black leather shoes and stripping off his black button down shirt. He let himself fall onto the couch and accioed a blanket before extinguishing the lights with a flick of his wand.

The next morning was going to be fun.

Ginny leisurely stretched her limbs out as she slowly began to wake up. For some reason her sheets just seemed softer than normal and her bed a bit more comfortable than it had been yesterday. She didn't want to move or open her eyes and especially she didn't want to go to work today.

Suddenly Ginny her a little grunt coming from across the room. She sat straight up and looked around.

She took a quick inventory of the room she was in: dark mahogany furniture, a deep green satin bedspread with black satin sheets, a large sitting room with black leather furniture, and one very blond individual scrunched onto the couch that was obviously several inches too small for him.

She relaxed. No wonder everything had seemed so much nicer than what she was used to, it wasn't hers. She must have fallen asleep in the sitting room last night waiting for Draco to finish… well whatever he was doing and somehow Draco had brought her up to his room, she really didn't even want to think about how.

Ginny slowly swung her legs over the edge of the bed. She slid off the high bed and tiptoed her way over to the large standing mirror in the corner. She looked over her appearance.

"Bloody hell." She muttered under her breath. "I look like shit!"

Her hair was sticking up at all angles, her makeup was smeared everywhere, and her shirt was over halfway unbuttoned which would have allowed anyone who cared to look a fantastic view of the pink lace bra she was wearing. She blushed a little bit at seeing this and found that she was very glad she awoke before Draco had. The bugger would have had a field day if he had seen her like this.

Well all this mess just wouldn't do. She whipped out her wand and fixed her appearance. Then with another quick flick she changed the color of her clothes with a quick glamour so she didn't have to appear at work in the same clothes two days in row.

With her appearance restored she decided it was best for her to sneak out of the room and just owl Draco later. One thing she clearly remembered about being with him was how unpleasant he could be when he first woke up in the morning and that was when he was in love with her, who knows what would happen now that he wasn't.

She slipped out the door and tiptoed down the stairs. She was nearly at the door and home free when she heard a soft melodious voice say from somewhere behind her, "Well what have we here?"

Ginny spun around already blushing bright red to face a tall beautiful woman with the same platinum blond hair and blue grey eyes as Draco. She was elegantly dressed in a champagne colored two piece women's suit that looked more like it should be on a runway somewhere exotic rather than in a boardroom. She was perfect. Ginny automatically knew that for the first time she was standing face to face with Narcissa Malfoy.

"Umm… well…" Ginny stuttered. She was completely caught off guard by a woman whom she had always feared as a child, though she wasn't exactly sure she knew why.

"Are you the fiancé or one of the whores?" she asked her voice positively wintery.

"The fiancé." Ginny responded hesitantly. She was unsure of which answer was going to bring the intimidating woman more displeasure.

"Oh," Narcissa said as her tone and overall demeanor immediately twisted around 180 degrees. "In that case I suppose I should introduce myself. I am Narcissa Malfoy, your future mother in law." She laughed softly in a clear bell like laugh as she offered her hand to Ginny.

"I know who you are Mrs. Malfoy. I'm Ginny Weasley."

"Oh please, call me Cissa. You are practically family and, according to my father in law, you are able to put my son in his place which is a feat in itself and therefore more than worthy of informality. You prefer Ginny to Ginevra?"

"Yes ma'am." She voice, she could tell, was shaking ever so slightly much to her annoyance. "Ginevra is far too fancy for my taste."

"Wow, do I intimidate you?" Narcissa asked the smaller woman bluntly. "You seem very nervous."

Ginny exhaled a breath she didn't know she had been holding. "Actually yes," she giggled. "You rather do.

Cissa laughed out loud. "Well at least you admit it. You'll soon see I'm really not all that scary, I promise. Would you like some breakfast before you dash off to work?"

"That would be wonderful. If I turned up early at the office for once in my life it might give my assistant a heart attack."

"Well you wouldn't want to do that would you?" she asked as she ushered the younger woman into the large dining room she had been in the one time she had attended a Malfoy family dinner.

"No she's been with me since I first started and as much as we hate each other I don't know what I would do without her." Ginny said as she took a seat in the chair that Cissa had indicated she should sit in.

"So what exactly do you do Ginny?" Narcissa said as she herself sat down.

As soon as she was seated food appeared before them. Fluffy eggs, bacon, French toast, everything was perfect. "Please help yourself."

"I am a mediwitch who specializes in misuses of potions at St. Mungo's." Ginny responded as she spooned some of the lovely eggs onto the plate that had appeared in front of her.

"Wow that is fascinating. I can see why Abraxas is so taken with you. Ever since he met you I have heard nothing but your various praises being sung by both my mother and father in law. You have made quite the impression on them."

Ginny flushed a light pink and smiled. She was never very good at accepting compliments and avoided this one by taking a bite of her eggs.

"Ah how cute. The little weasel is embarrassed." said a deep voice behind Ginny.

Oh good, Draco was awake. Ginny resisted the urge to fire back a rude comment of her own and instead simply ignored him as she heard him cross the room from behind her. When he finally emerged where she could see him it was all she could do to keep from staring and possibly even drooling.

Draco had woken up on the couch with a very stiff neck and in a very foul temper. He had expected to find Ginny still in his bed but instead it was empty and the little red head was gone. That annoyed him. He expected her to at least say goodbye before she disappeared

Reluctantly, he lifted his stiff body off the couch and stretched out all his long limbs. He contemplated getting dressed which would have made both his mother and his elf very happy but that would be far too easy so instead he decided to go downstairs to breakfast in just the wrinkled jeans he had worn both to work the day before and to sleep in without even bothering to put on a shirt.

Draco quickly made his way down the back stairs and entered directly into the kitchens. Snatching a chocolate croissant from the tray one of the house elves, he swiftly dodged the magical zap she tried to send at him and emerged from the kitchens into the dining room where he was met by a much unexpected sight.

Sitting there across from his mother, in his spot, was Ginny. She obviously had not escaped like he had thought but instead had crossed paths with Narcissa.

He watched and listened as his mother dealt out a very uncharacteristically generous compliment and the little weasel flushed that adorable shade of pink she always did when she was caught off guard and embarrassed. Well he couldn't possibly pass an opportunity like this now could he?

"Ah how cute, the little weasel is embarrassed." He smirked as he began to cross the room so that he was standing at the head of the table halfway between his mother and his… fiancé.

The parade of emotions that proceeded to go across Ginny's face was fascinating. In less than a minute she switched from embarrassment to fury to something that resembled shock and awe as Draco came into her full view.

At first this last emotion caught him off guard. It was then that he remembered that he had decided not to put on his shirt. Red was gawking at him. Unconsciously he puffed out his well toned chest a little bit more at the compliment that she was paying him through her reaction while he attempted to pretend not to notice her staring.

Instead he turned and nonchalantly walked over to the chair in which Narcissa was seated. He gave his mother a swift kiss on the cheek she had offered him and turned to sit in the chair normally occupied by his grandfather.

"Draco dear, wait, come back please." His mother said as he had straightened to go over to his own seat.

He obliged her and was thoroughly surprised when he received a sharp smack on the back of the head rather than the kiss on the cheek he had expected.

"Umm…ow." He said eloquently, much to his embarrassment.

"Well then stop being an arse. Apologize to Ginny."

"Excuse me?" There was no way he was going to do that. He would never live the smack down he was going to add to the embarrassment by actually apologizing.

"Now Draco Lucius Malfoy."

Bloody hell now she used his full name. "I'm sorry Weasley." He couldn't believe he was being put through this humiliation.

Ginny smirked at him. "It's fine Malfoy." She was loving this he could tell.

"Good. Now sit down and behave yourself."

"Yes Mum." Draco said dutifully as gave up on the head chair and took his bruised pride over to a seat next to Ginny and his normal chair.

"You stole my seat." He muttered to her.

Ginny did nothing but give him a sweet smile before returning her attention to her eggs.

"Draco?" his mother asked.

"Mmm?" he responded with his mouth full of the stolen croissant.

"Why aren't you wearing any clothes?"

"I was comfy. I decided I didn't want to." He gave his mother a child like smile, the impish one that said oops you caught me. "Where's father?"

"He decided yesterday that he wanted to take a holiday in America. He should be back within a few weeks."

"Oh ok."

The whole exchange was very weird for Ginny. She had never seen this side of Draco. She had seen the loving boyfriend a bit and was all too familiar with the normal stuck up prat but the misbehaving child was a completely foreign Draco that Ginny was rather enjoying.

The meal then continued on with Narcissa asking Ginny a series of questions about herself in an obvious effort to get to know her soon to be daughter in law. By the end of the meal Ginny had happily decided that she and Cissa would get along just splendidly, much to her relief

Just as she was about to get up and head to work Narcissa asked one final question that forced Ginny to hang back.

"So when do you think you'll be moving in dear?"

"Oh." The question caught Ginny off guard. "We haven't actually discussed it." She turned to Draco who had been mostly silent throughout the meal. "What do you think?"

"Well I suppose it's really up to Grandfather but since the world will be finding out today I expect anytime you are ready will be just fine. It's not as if it will be astonishing news anymore."

"We also really need to set an official date for the wedding, preferably sometime soon. Cissa do you think you could help me quickly plan a simple wedding?"

Narcissa's face immediately lit up at the suggestion. "Of course! Salvia and I would both be delighted to help. Party planning is something that Malfoy women excel at! Why don't you come by this weekend and the three of us can get most of the basics laid out?"

"That would be perfect. Would you mind if I brought my flatmate as well? She is going to be my maid of honor and loves this sort of thing."

"Oh of course you should bring her. I expect we will be seeing quite a bit of her over the next year. We might as well get to know her now."

With all the plans for the weekend decided, Ginny reluctantly stood up from her chair and bid the others goodbye.

Narcissa then pointed her toward that apperating room and Ginny apperated to the main lobby of St. Mungo's. She was still early and she was in no hurry to reach her beloved assistant so arriving in the main lobby rather than her office seemed like a better choice. Or so she thought.

What Ginny didn't expect was the flood of people who tried to approach her: nurses, healers and patients alike all were holding a copy of the Daily Prophet with a large picture of Draco and herself on the front page. Despite Draco's earlier statement, she had still completely forgotten that Colin had run the story in this morning's prophet.

"Healer Weasley! Is it true?"

"Way to go Gin!"

"Nice catch Healer!"

"Wow you really are that beautiful! No wonder Malfoy finally decided to settle down,"

She was bombarded by comments and well wishers all the way to the elevator which she gratefully escaped into. Once she reached her floor she dashed straight into her office without speaking to anyone.

Flopping down in her chair, she took a deep breath and tried to prepare herself for what was going to be a very long day. Blond fucking ferret brought all this bullshit he put on her and he doesn't even have to worry about being hounded all day. He can just sit there in his bloody manor and relax as the new spreads while she has to attempt to get work done.

There was an abrupt rap on her office door.

"Come in Mrs. Coe."

Her assistant swiftly opened the door and closed it behind her. She eyed Ginny and said in a very haughty tone. "How nice of you to show up in a timely fashion for once."

Ginny was taken aback at her assistant's tone. "I'm sorry. Have I done something to offend you?"

"Not at all why would you think that?"

"Honestly because you are being rather rude to me this morning."

"Oh and you don't think that not telling your assistant of nearly three years that you were seriously involved with someone and got engaged isn't rude?"

Oh now she understood. "Oh Mrs. Coe, I am so sorry!"

"You should be." She sniffed. "I cannot believe I had to find out from the paper."

"You are right I should have told you." Ginny said her voice truly apologetic as she began to lie through her teeth. "It's just that I had become so accustomed to keeping it completely secret. I didn't even tell my family that I was seeing him again until this past weekend when we announced our engagement to them. Please don't be upset with me. Draco and I didn't tell anyone. We couldn't risk our secret getting out. No one knew, truly. All of our friends will be finding out this morning in the Prophet along with everyone else."

Mrs. Coe deflated slightly. "It's alright healer. I'm sorry I was so rude, I just thought after the last few years together…" she trailed off. "So when is the wedding?"

"I'm not sure yet. Draco and I are hoping to set the date this weekend. We want to do it fairly soon though, no sense in waiting. Just keep the weekends of the next month or so free and keep an eye out for the invitation in the post."

Mrs. Coe beamed at Ginny after the promise of an invitation. "I will do that. Alright well I best be off to get your morning organized!" with that the older woman turned on her heal and exited the office.

Ginny sank down farther in her chair and took a deep breath. Gods this engagement was causing everyone in her world to go absolutely nutters.

By the time 6:00 rolled around Ginny was more than ready to apperate back to her flat and drink heavily.

When she emerged from the foyer and had set down all the reports that she had brought home to work on she noticed that Hallie had beat her to it.

"Hey!" her best friend called out as she spotted Ginny. "Here you go." She brought Ginny one of the giant wine glasses that they reserved for really, really long days that required large amount of alcohol to be consumed at once.

"Wow Hal, long day?"

She had to wait for a response as Hallie stuck out a finger to signal her to hold on and took a generous sip from her wine glass. "Oh you have no idea. How about for the future Mrs. Malfoy?"

"I don't wanna talk about it yet. You get to go first."

"We got a new curse breaker and I'm going to kill him already, only problem is he is basically my new partner so I am stuck with him."

"Partner? You all don't have partners."

"We do now! There were several incidents in other god forsaken parts of the world where people have died now the entire company has been issued partners to provide for better security. My response to this was no shit there have been incidents, we break CURSES! Monroe didn't appreciate that."

"Most bosses don't like their agents to mouth off. Speaking of which though, Mrs. Coe went crazy on me today and threw a hissy fit about not knowing about my suto-relationship with Draco before the announcement in the paper."

"Weird."

"Yeah tell me about it. So who is this new partner?"

"This stuck up prat named Theodore Nott."

"Wow really? Nott?" Ginny giggled.

"What?" Hallie asked still fuming.

"He's a Slytherin from Draco's year. He associated with the Slytherin Prince and his faithful sidekicks in earlier years but wasn't friends with Blaise and Draco till probably his fifth year, right around the time the Slytherin clique began to loosen up a bit. He was a bit weedy looking to begin with but by the time he became friends with them he began to grow into his features and I haven't seen him in a few years but back then…damn."

"Well nothing has changed. He is absolutely beautiful but a holy terror to work with. He started questioning my methods today, imagine, questioning me. I almost 'accidently' ended up dumping one of the curses back on him."

Ginny had to giggle. Easy going Hallie had obviously met her match in Theodore Nott.

"Ok, I'm done with this topic. I wanna hear about last night and I wanna hear more of the Draco/Ginny saga."

Ginny snorted. "It's not a saga."

"You're right. Maybe it's more of an epic."

"Ha ha you're not cute. Ok yesterday, the short version…"

"Do I ever get anything else?"

"Shut up! So we had dinner with Colin and Andrew and we approved the article which I am sure you saw at some point today." She paused to allow Hallie time to respond.

"Yes ma'am I did. You two looked so cute together in that picture. If I didn't know you liked to pretend to loathe each other I would have thought you were actually in love." She gave Ginny a cheeky grin for emphasis.

"I don't like you. Anyways, it was late by the time they left but I stayed anyway to just talk to Draco. He was being strangely nice so I decided to take advantage of it. After a bit he got an owl that he said he had to take care of, whatever that means, and he went in the other room. I decided to just wait for him to come back and while I was I fell asleep on the couch. Somehow this morning I woke up in his bed…"

"What?!?! Where was he?" Hallie interrupted practically shrieking.

"Calm down! He was squished on the couch."

"Aww, you said in his bed and I got excited!" She said a bit crestfallen.

"Sorry to disappoint." Ginny laughed at her friend's reaction. "After I fixed my appearance I snuck out and ended up running into Narcissa Malfoy, Draco's mother. We had an almost pleasant breakfast with the exception of her son and his normal smarmy self then I went to work. Tada. Oh, and we are going over there this weekend to get the majority of the wedding plans nailed down."

"Yay! That's fun."

"I thought you would like that." Ginny laughed.

"Awesome. Ok so now that I'm up to date on the Draco/Ginny drama version 2.0 I think you should tell me some more of the original." She beamed at Ginny.

"Why?"

"Because it would help me forget my horrible day."

"Yeah, I'm sure. I think you're just nosy."

"That too. First though I need more wine!" she dashed into the kitchen and came back carrying the large bottle of wine she had opened. "God bless the European drinking age." She said as she refilled both their glasses.

"Ok so we were at the first date right?"

"Yep it had just ended and he had just bought you your favorite necklace which you have been avoiding since he has come back into your life."

"Thank you." Ginny said sarcastically. "Ok so after that first date in Hogsmeade…"

A week after the amazing date in Hogsmeade with Draco Ginny sat at the long Gryffindor table during her free period right before lunch. She was working on finishing up the last few inches of the two feet of parchment that was due the next day for professor Snape on the uses of belladonna. Despite being a Gryffindor to her core she had always enjoyed Potions as it was one of the few classes that Ginny took that provided any sort of real challenge to her intellect.

Just as she was about to put the finishing touches on the essay and magically seal the ink a beautiful eagle owl soared in through the hole in the roof and circled the great hall landing right next to Ginny. He stuck out his leg and hooted at her.

Ginny was shocked by the appearance of the owl. Who would send her mail? She almost never got mail of any sort except the occasional package from her mum.

She untied the letter and gave the owl an apologetic little pat. "I'm sorry I don't have anything for you."

The owl merely hooted in response and softly nipped her arm.

Ginny unrolled the letter and quickly read the note that was elegantly scripted across the page.

The Presence of

Miss Ginevra Weasley

is Requested for a Romantic Dinner

with

Master Draco Malfoy

on the Evening of February14th, 1997

In the Room of Requirement

At 7:30

RSVP is requested

Ginny's eyes lit up as she read the note. When she finished she didn't know whether to jump for joy or to laugh out loud. She was absolutely delighted because of the possibility of another date with her amazing new boyfriend but at the same time the pomp and circumstance with which he was trying to arrange the date was just too funny. He was obviously a Malfoy to the core.

While she was still giggling over the letter she heard the sound of other students emerging from class and heading toward the great hall to eat.

She quickly whipped out a clean sheet of parchment and wrote in the most elegant script possible with her hurry.

Master Malfoy

It would be my pleasure to join you sir. What, pray tell, is the correct attire for the evening and will I be requiring a cover for the evening in the form of a friend?

Yours truly,

Ginny Weasley

She quickly sealed the letter and pressed her lips to the parchment leaving an almost perfect kiss on the page. She folded the letter and quickly tied it to the owl's leg just as the door burst open and her classmates filed in.

A Valentine's Day date with Draco tomorrow night, she could barely wait.

"Looney!" Ginny said breathlessly as she caught up to her friend after dinner.

"I don't know what it is but I probably don't want to after the last time you came up to me like this."

"I need you to help me pick out a dress for tomorrow."

"Oh is that all? Ok." Luna giggled.

"Wait, do you already know about what's going on?"

"Mhm, Blaise and I helped him plan it all out. You're going to love it."

Ginny squealed in a gesture that was very much out of character. "Well I guess that answers that question. Ok so what should I wear?"

"Um bring all your dresses down to my room in about half an hour and between my stuff and yours we will pull something fabulous together for both of us. If I have to eat with Zabini I at least want to make him drool a little bit." She smirked in a very Slytherin-esque way at her evil plan.

"Ok I'll be there in a bit." And with that the little redhead dashed off almost as quickly as she had appeared.

Almost exactly half an hour later Ginny stood in front of the Ravenclaw portrait prepared to answer the riddle that was required to gain entrance to the house. She had been in the Ravenclaw common room many times before and was always able to answer the riddle without the aid of one of the actual house members and this time was no different.

As she made her way through the common room around all the various study groups she returned the greetings of those she knew as she made her way to the hallway that led down to the girls' dormitories. She walked down the hall and once she reached the fifth year dorm she let herself in.

"Hey Looney." She greeted her friend.

"Hey, ok here is everything I have what did you bring?"Gesturing to the dresses she had laid out across her blue and bronze bedspread.

Ginny lifted the small load of clothing out of her pocket and performed the spell to enlarge them back to their original size. She spread them out in the room that remained between Luna's bed and her trunk.

"Ok let's do this."

An hour and a half later both women had picked out their outfits for the following evening. It had taken numerous tries and some clothing construction spells to get the dresses to the finished product but I the end it had been entirely worth it. They would both look absolutely fabulous and the boys wouldn't know what to do with themselves.

Draco had spent the whole week between his first and second official date with Ginny setting up the ultimate romantic night. Since his first official visit to the Room of Requirement with Ginny he had spent a significant amount of time in the enchanted space trying to make sure that everything for their Valentine's Day date would be perfect.

He had spent many hours with Blaise, Luna and even a little help from Dobby to plan out everything that they would need: the setting, the furniture, the menu. Draco wanted everything to be perfect. He didn't really understand why but ensuring that this night would be magical had become his main priority.

By the time he received her confirmation on Saturday afternoon he was so nervous he could barely stand it. It was a weird feeling for a Malfoy, nervousness.

As he slipped on his nicest pair of dark blue jeans and soft black cotton t-shirt that fit his toned torso very well on Sunday night he feared he might actually throw up.

"Come on mate!" he scolded himself in front of the mirror in the room he shared with Blaise. "Get it together! This is just a girl. She may be the most amazing girl you have ever met but she is still just a girl."

"Talking to yourself now? Wow, you really have lost it Drae." Blaise snickered as he emerged from the shadows of their door way. He was wearing jeans as well and a deep blue button down shirt that any girl would have said brought out his bright blue eyes but Draco would never even consider saying.

"Shut it." The pale blond man growled.

"Bloody hell, chill out, everything is going to go fine."

"Yeah I hope so. Come on lets go get everything set up."

With that the two Slytherin men left the safety of their dungeons and went to meet the two women who both would admit were their complete opposites but weren't quite ready to admit were their perfect matches.

Ginny and Luna pulled off the invisibility cloak and knocked on the door to the Room of Requirement that was already there and waiting for them. Blaise opened it and ushered the two girls in.

As they stepped inside the room they found that they were in a beautiful outdoor garden completely lit by a combination of little twinkling lights and sporadic candles scattered everywhere. The effect was that the entire space had a magical glow. It was as if Hogwarts had completely disappeared. The entire area was seemingly endless and filled with perfectly manicured hedges of rose bushes in every color fully in bloom so that the whole room smelled absolutely divine. In the middle of the space were two white gazebos each with multi-colored cushions lining the floor and a small circular table in the center of each.

"Welcome ladies to Zabini's Love Bistro." Blaise flashed them an impish grin as he helped not only Ginny but amazingly Luna as well out of her cloak.

It took him a moment to regain his normal charm as surveyed both the women before him and was struck momentarily dumb.

Ginny was wearing a forest green square neck dress with a fitted bodice and a flowing skirt that reached down to the middle of her calves. Between her and Luna they managed to tame Ginny's wild, vibrant curls and force them to fall in soft curling waves down her back.

Luna's look was very different from Ginny's but still managed to emphasize her best features. Her dress was a light blue paisley halter dress that flowed down to just above knees. Her hair was normally allowed to flow down in the crazy wavy mass had been swept up into an elegant bun on top of her head with just a few wavy tendrils framing her face.

"Wow… you both look amazing." He said in an awestruck tone although his gaze obviously lingered on Luna who was having a hard time suppressing a smirk.

Just then Draco emerged from somewhere over to the side of one of the gazebos. As soon as he saw Ginny his face broke into a massive grin. He headed in a beeline straight for her and immediately pulled her in for a hug. He placed a soft kiss on her forehead. Then without saying a word he took her hand and pulled her over to the gazebo that was slightly off to the left leaving the other pair standing there.

"Well madam I guess that it's just the two of us now as our friends are otherwise engaged." Blaise said having regained his normal dashing self. He offered Luna his arm which she hesitantly accepted. He led her over to the other gazebo and graciously served her the dinner they had all decided on.

Amazingly they remained civil and pleasant throughout the entire meal. Blaise was charming and Luna was adorable. They both ended the evening feeling as if maybe they had misjudged the other individual.

Over on the other side things did not go as smoothly despite the best laid plans of Draco.

The evening began well. They made it through the first without a hitch just laughing and enjoying the other's company with a stolen kiss or two thrown in. Unfortunately, with the serving of dessert Draco accidentally spilled some of the chocolate sauce that he was trying to carefully drizzle on the chocolate silk pie all down Ginny's front. Mortified by his action Draco attempted to stand to find a napkin or his wand or something but in the process of rising from his reclining position he stepped on Ginny's hand, much to his absolute horror.

Eventually, a laughing Ginny, who had cleaned herself up with a quick spell, grabbed a hold of Draco's jeans and pulling him back down onto the cushions. He was so embarrassed and wanted nothing more than to just simply disappear but what happened next completely caught him off guard.

Ginny pushed him back so that he was lying down and then proceeded to climb on top of him, situating herself so that she was straddling his lap. She leaned down and pushed one long searing kiss to his lips that he gratefully allowed her to deepen.

After a few minutes of heated snogging she broke the kiss with a brilliant smile across her face. "Thank you."

"For what?" he scoffed. "For spilling how chocolate sauce all over you or attempting to maim you?" He was so embarrassed he refused to meet her eyes. Despite how hard he had tried he had still failed.

She placed her hand on the side of his face and forced him to look at her. "For putting this amazing night together, for caring enough to put this much effort into something for me. No one has ever done anything like this for me. It was absolutely perfect." She kissed him again to emphasize what she had said.

After they broke the kiss they just laid there for another hour or so just talking and enjoying the company of the other.

As they reluctantly got up to leave Draco brought up his mistake once again, "So you sure you are ok?"

"Oh Draco!" Ginny said in exasperation. She turned and faced him, grabbing his face between her hands. "This was perfect, you are beyond perfect and don't worry about me. I'm not easily broken."

"I just don't get it." Hallie said, she was more than a little tipsy as between the two of them they had almost entirely finished the bottle of wine.

"What is there to get?" Ginny giggled right back.

"Let's see, there are several things actually, why haven't you shagged him yet and how could you possibly let him go?"

Ginny gave her friend a playful smack on the thigh. "If you keep asking me the same damn questions I am not going to tell you anymore of this story."

"Yes you will because you love me and I will bug you till you do. So get over yourself and finish the damn wine." Hallie laughed.

Ginny smirked at her friend and downed the last few swallows of her current glass and held it out to be refilled. "You are right about you being annoying."

Now it was Hallie's turn to take a playful swing at her best friend.

The next morning Ginny awoke with a miserable headache.

Two girls and one huge bottle of wine equals a very bad decision. She crawled out of bed and stepped over the remains of her currently broken alarm clock trying in vain to feel her way down the hall without actually opening her eyes or attempting to heave up whatever was the contents of her stomach.

Finally she reached the kitchen and located a much needed hangover remedy. Damn it all, only one left. Well it wouldn't be fair to drink the whole thing and leave Hallie to suffer. She uncorked the vial and drank only half of the fowl tasting liquid. After a moment the headache ebbed but did not fully subside and the nausea was no longer over bearing.

She re-corked the vial and made her way back down the hall to Hallie's room. Her flatmate did not have to go into work until late on Thursdays and so Ginny simply left the half full vial on her nightstand before heading back to her room to get ready for work herself.

As she shut her door behind her she leaned back against the solid piece of wood and took a deep breath. It was going to be another very long day. She wanted nothing more than for this week to be over so that she could get on with planning her wedding. Bloody hell that still sounded weird.

Yeah I know its super long and it took a super long time. I'm really sorry!!!!!

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