A/N: Just a warning, this is the shortest chapter. This story started out as just a long one shot, but I thought it worked better in vignettes. Thanks for the reviews and to my lovely beta JadePresley. :)
Just before Cedric Diggory's funeral, Draco kissed Ginny for the first time.
She was crying, and he was holding her in a small alcove near the Great Hall. Draco was simply too scared to cry. He knew that soon he would be returning to the Manor, and his mother had already warned him of the honored guest that would be staying with them. It was all he could really think about — living with the Dark Lord.
Severus had been teaching him occlumency, but keeping other people out of his thoughts still didn't mean he could control what weighed on his mind.
But when a surge of inspiration washed over him and he moved his hands to her shoulders, pulling her back enough that he could see her whole face, he kissed her and she tasted of salt and fire, and she consumed him.
He went on to kiss her a few more times before the Hogwarts Express dropped them off at King's Cross for the summer.
But he would never forget the first time that Ginny Weasley set his blood aflame with the searing force of her lips.
Ginny was staring down the end of Draco Malfoy's wand the first time she was forced to confront the reality that they were on opposite sides of the war.
He'd led his Inquisitorial Squad to the Room of Requirements where the DA was training. She could see the resignation in the way Draco's wand twitched slightly in his grasp. His father had forced him to join the toad's little group, of course, and she saw how much he wished he didn't have to be apart of the raid.
But, ultimately, he was.
It was then she realized this was the beginning of an unfair and tragic end to whatever relationship existed between them.
She knew in that moment that there would be many more moments when she would be on the wrong end of Draco's wand.
But she would never forget the first time, when her heart clogged her throat, and her blood ran cold at the sight of Draco poised to hex her — or worse.