Warning for a beating.

Speed Drabble: "midnight, on the bridge. Come alone.", "You embarrassed me this evening." repress

January Event: Ginny Weasley/Viktor Krum - Hard

Chocolate Frog Card: (Silver) Morfin Gaunt: Prompts: Omen, Fate, Encounter, Cut

Gringotts:

(word) Sensitive [Sex and the City S1E1]

(word) Self-centred [Sex and the City S1E1]

(word) Bachelor [Sex and the City S1E1]

(occupation) Journalist [Sex and the City S1E1]

(word) Article [Sex and the City S1E1]

(object) Cocktail [Sex and the City S1E1]

"Midnight, on the bridge. Come alone."

That was what the note said that Ginny held in her hand. She took a sip of her cocktail, held it in her mouth for a moment before swallowing as she made her decision. She'd encounter him out on the small bridge in the garden at midnight where he'd say some words with anger, she'd play his game.

He'd lose.

"You embarrassed me this evening," he said as a greeting and she refused to look intimidated - because she wasn't. "We are supposed to be having a nice evening and you start acting the way you were."

"I'm a journalist, Viktor," she told him with an eye roll. "What would you have me do? Repress all my instincts every time I step out of the house with you?"

"Yes," he exclaimed and she laughed mockingly at him. "Why do you laugh at me?"

"Because, despite being in a relationship with me, you still act like a self-centred bachelor. You're so sensitive and after all these years of being in the limelight, you still get worked up over the mention of an article."

"I want you to cut it out."

"No," she countered. "Fate gave you to me and she also gave me this job. I'm not going to change." The way his face darkened at her words and the squawking of a crow were the bad omen of what was about to occur. She didn't heed their warning. The back of his hand connected with her face before she'd seen him move and she cried out in pain. He stared at her, eyes wide in shock for he couldn't believe what he'd done.

"Ginny, I-"

"No, Mister Krum. I think I've got what I came for."

She apparated away, leaving him alone on the bridge, at midnight.