Chapter 12 - Three Times Hurt
Next morning, Ginny and Thomas woke up with the twins' excited screams and laughter. Apparently, they had already found out their birthday presents, that Molly had hidden in Ron's old bedroom.
"They are so funny…" Thomas laughed, as Ginny took him downstairs in her arms.
"Yes, they are, but a little too mischievous…" she smiled back, settling him on a chair for breakfast. "Good morning family!"
Ginny and her parents had breakfast, while the kids watched the twins open their presents, excitedly.
"Andrew and Anthony, those 3 presents in green wrapping paper are not yours…" Ginny warned, leaving the table to pick up said presents.
"Why? It's our birthday!" they complained at the same time, their identical faces pouting.
"Yes, and I gave you my present… But, I've bought something for my other babies, as well…" she replied, giving Jessica, Sean and Thomas their own presents. The three of them looked at Ginny with excitement and surprise in their little faces.
The three of them looked at each other and in silent agreement, they started trashing the wrapping paper, at the same time.
Sean was extremely happy with his Chudley Cannons pyjama, as he was following his father's taste in Quidditch. Jessica giggled happily when she saw the Never Ending Colouring Book, which would never run out of new images to colour. Thomas received a game of wizards' chess, in which the pieces were miniatures of the players from Chudley Cannons and the Falcons.
"Thank you Aunt Piggy!" Sean, Jessica and the twins yelled, running to her arms, kissing her cheeks and pulling on her hair, playfully.
Thomas remained seated, with a sad look on his face. Ginny told her nephews to go play with their toys, and walked back to Thomas' side.
"What is it, Thomas? You didn't like the present? I can go back to the store and buy something else…" she whispered, trying to understand his reaction.
"I do like it, very much! But…" he said, nervously, and then threw his arms around her neck, embracing her strongly. "I just felt sad that I couldn't run to your arms, like they did…"
"Soon you will, Thomas, soon you will run to my arms…" Ginny smiled, hugging the child back.
After a quick shower and a change of clothes, Ginny and Thomas went back to Malfoy Manor, hoping no one would tell Draco about their night out.
But they had no such luck.
Just as they flooed back to the main entrance, a very furious Draco appeared in front of them, his face pale with anger, his hands closed in fists by his side, and a look in his eyes that could have killed you.
"Oops…" she sighed, preparing herself for the fight they would be having in a few moments. "Before you start yelling on my face, let me take Thomas to his bedroom… He doesn't need to see this."
With a wave of his hand, Draco summoned a house-elf and ordered it to take Thomas. Having that taken care of, Draco walked furiously to his office, as a silent order for Ginny to follow him. So, she did.
As soon as she closed the door behind her, the shouting began.
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, TAKING HIM OUT OF THIS HOUSE, WITHOUT MY PERMISSION? I'm his legal guardian, and if anything happens with him, I'm to blame!" he yelled, his fists slamming the desk, making it shake with the strong impact.
"I…"
"Don't you even dare to say anything! How could you break my trust? I confide him to you, and this is what you do? Take him out, show him to the world! You have probably spread to the whole world that he's in my house!" he kept on yelling, not giving her time to explain her reasons.
"No, I…"
"I told you not to say anything… I come home, earlier than expected, and what do I find? The house-elves trembling in fear, because you took Thomas out and they didn't do anything to stop you!" he hissed, stopping his yelling for now.
Draco seemed to be getting calmer, so she sat in front of the desk and looked up to him, with a serene expression.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" he growled, watching her.
Ginny remained silent, and that made him even more furious.
"Answer me!" he ordered, menacingly, grabbing her by the arms and slamming her against a bookshelf, hurting her back and her head.
"You're hurting me…" she mumbled in pain.
Seeing her so weak and so frail in his arms, Draco felt his fury grow again. How could she be so pure, so innocent? How could she make him feel so powerless? This young woman was making him, Draco Malfoy, feel all fuzzy inside, and that's not a good thing… is it?
Feeling bad for having hurt her, but still wanting to hurt her more, to get that innocent look out of her face, Draco kissed her… Not a gentle, passionate kiss, no… A rough one! Urgent, full of hate, love, lust, repulse, every single feeling confusing him even more. He bit her lips in a rough way, and soon tasted copper. He had made her lip bleed.
Just as he was about to break the kiss, and slap himself for hurting her again, Draco felt her arms around his neck, urging his mouth even closer to hers, deepening the kiss. Obtaining such a response from her, Draco kissed her deeply, their tongues clashing in their own fight, the kiss going from furious to desperate, from bruising to passionate, from rough to gentle.
Ginny moaned in the back of her throat and Draco sighed contentedly. He held her waist tightly and Ginny locked her legs around his waist, never breaking the kiss, and rubbed her hips against his.
Draco groaned, and buried his fingers in her buttocks, rubbing their hips harder, making her feel his body reaction to their little rendezvous.
"Why do you make me feel like this?" he whispered against her throat, as he dropped butterfly kisses down the column of her neck.
"Like what?" she asked, her eyes fluttering closed on their own, enjoying the feel of his teeth biting her skin and then his tongue soothing the sensitive skin.
Her question made him realize he had said those words out loud.
`I shouldn't have said that… I really shouldn't have said that! Oh, we can't do this, we can't…' he thought, dropping her on the floor, on her butt. `I'd rather have her mad at me than looking at me with sad and confused eyes…'
And it was how he had intended… Although Ginny felt hurt with his attitude, her butt hurt even more and in a jump she was standing on her feet, looking at him with furious eyes.
"Tell me what happened and where did you take Thomas…" he requested, sitting behind his desk, trying to find a comfortable position on the chair. In his… condition it wasn't easy to be sit.
"Oh, NOW he wants ME to talk! I thought you snogged me just to shut my big fat mouth!" she replied, sarcastically. "Well, now YOU listen, Draco Malfoy… I arrived here yesterday morning and remembered my nephews were having a birthday party. As you and I know perfectly well, Thomas as no friends, and I thought he would have fun in the party. As soon as I asked the house elf were you were, I was told you were out for 2 days. Having no one else to ask permission to, I took Thomas to the Burrow, he had a whole lot of fun with my 4 nephews and they all ended up falling asleep after a fun afternoon. That's why I didn't bring him last night!"
"But you…"
"SHUT UP!" she growled, making him shut his mouth in surprise. "I didn't tell anyone who he is, because I don't know either. And I didn't tell anyone that Thomas is in your house. They don't even know who's my boss!"
"Still, you took him out without my consent…" he said, calmly. It seemed like the wonderful snogging session and the truth had calmed his fiery personality.
`And he's a darn good kisser too… I was almost fainting of pleasure a few moments ago!' she thought, touching her swollen lips, wincing when she felt the bruise he had made on her lower lip.
"Yes, I know I did…" she sighed, tiredly.
"I'm warning you, Ginny, you disobey to me one more time, and you're out of here…" he said, turning with his back on her, to stare out the window.
Nodding her head in understanding, Ginny prepared to leave the office, throwing a sad look at the bookshelf where she had been pressed against a few moments before. Just as she opened the door, Draco called her again.
"In order to keep our relation strictly professional, I'll have to ask you to forget about what happened in here…" he said, his voice cold, although his hidden face showed sadness.
A tear ran down her face, but she said a cold `Yes' and left the office, running all the way to Thomas' bedroom, where she stayed the whole day, playing chess with the boy.
After so long dreaming about how would Draco's kisses be like, Ginny had the chance to snog him senseless, and enjoyed it so much, that she wanted an encore. But his reaction was so… detached, so cold… What had he meant with the way she made him feel? Did he feel lust for her? Hate? Attraction? WHAT?
All those doubts about his true feelings were making her sad, but at least she had Thomas to make her smile, and the investigation about his parents to make her strong. She would not stay still until she found the whole truth about them.
After Thomas fell asleep for the night, Ginny gathered her things and walked to the Manor's doors, hoping she wouldn't have to face Draco on her way out.
Well, no such luck… There he was at the door, welcoming someone she couldn't see, but the voice was definitely feminine.
"Hello Draco, dear… I've missed you these last few months!" a woman's voice said in a seductive tone, that made Ginny want to puke.
"Hello, Chantal, what a nice surprise to see you in England!" Draco truly sounded surprised, but his cheery tone made Ginny jealous. He sounded like he truly cared for that Chantal woman. Who was she to him?
`Oh, just look… I'm acting like a jealous wife!' she groaned inwardly, walking again towards the entrance, stopping just by Draco's side.
There, she could now see the woman. Chantal was an extremely gorgeous woman with straight long blond hair, full lips, a perfect make up on her doll-like face, a top-model body, covered in a black mini-dress that left nothing to he imagination. She was a killer woman, that was for sure, and apparently, she had Draco Malfoy as her prey, not that he seemed to mind, no. For he was staring at her whole body with a pleased look.
"Mr. Malfoy, I'm leaving… Good night." Ginny mumbled, stepping out the house and into the warm summer night.
"Who's this creature, Draco?" Chantal asked, in a disgusted voice, as she looked at Ginny.
"Oh, that's just the cooker, that's all… Come in, let's have a glass of wine." Draco said, pulling Chantal inside the house and closing the door without even looking at Ginny.
Now she was truly hurt, for the third time that day, and always because of him.
First he dropped her on the floor, and she hurt her butt, then she was hurt because he dropped her after they shared a very steamy moment, and now, because he called her a cooker, and was about to spend the night with a wonderful witch.
Yes, call it jealousy if you like, but she was hurt.
Ginny did wear nice clothes, and she did have a nice body, but she wasn't all that much when compared with Chantal. Her red hair was too red, her name too Weasley and her temper too fiery. Of course Draco would never be attracted to her when he had Chantal at his disposal…
Wiping a few tears from her cheeks, Ginny Apparated home and tried to forget what had happened that day, by keeping her mind busy making cookies with her mother.
`Tomorrow, I'm going to find out everything… I have to!' she thought, making plans for the next day.
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Time for answers:
No, I've never read Secret Garden, nor did I see the film, if it exists.
I just got the idea to do something with a handicapped child, and this is the result of that idea. But now I'm interested in that story. Maybe one day I'll read it…
Why does Thomas look so much like Draco?
Well, Pansy, as we all know, has (or had, in my story, because now she's dead) blond hair and blue eyes. Her skin was pale, as it usually his in British kids. Neville had brown eyes, Thomas' eyes are just like his father's, and he had a sweet face and personality.
So, adding all of this up, Thomas has his mother's blond hair (just like Draco), his skin is fair and soft (his mother again) and his eyes are brown (like his father's).
Ginny believed him to be Draco's son because of the skin colour and hair colour.
On the next chapters, we'll find out more about Pansy and Neville, and why they had a small child.
And we'll find out how did Luna know, all along…
So, stay tuned, for more.
Oh, by the way, Portugal lost to Greece (2-1), and I was so sad…
But, yesterday we played against Russia and we won (2-0)!! YAY!
Right now, England his playing Switzerland in Coimbra, and I hope they win.
Lots and lots of love, thank you for the wonderful reviews.
Carina