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Summary: According to Ministry Laws a blind witch or wizard should never live alone. When Draco becomes blind because of an accident and a Nurse comes to live with him, will love blossom? Or will Chaos ensue?
Love Is Blind
Chapter Three: Surrender
Oh, you drive me crazy
Oh, you just bring me down
Look out your window
My sunshine's all around
All you've gotta do is just surrender
Ginny wrapped a towel around herself as she stepped out of the shower. She put her feet into her slippers and made her way to her wardrobe. She was surprised to see an extravagant dress of a deep blue color hanging on the door. There was also a note on the door which she took off and read.
Weasley,
Must attend ball. Be ready at 8:00, tonight.
-D.M
Ginny's mouth dropped open; she couldn't believe this man. She quickly got dressed and set out to find Draco.
"Excuse me," she said to a tiny house elf who was dusting the living room. The house elf slightly jumped and turned around, "Do you know where 'Master Malfoy' might be?"
The house elf nodded, "Master Malfoy is being out in the gardens."
"Thank you." She said before turning around and heading for the green house. She had stumbled upon it one day, looking for a bathroom on the first floor. Seeing that he wasn't in there she continued along a path that led out of the green house and into the backyard. She put her hand above her eyes to block out the sun as she looked left and right, searching for Draco.
"Is there something you're looking for, Weasley?" A voice said from behind her.
She let out a small scream and jumped around, "You have got to stop sneaking up on people!"
Draco ignored her, "What did you come out here for?"
"Besides the fact that there is absolutely nothing to do in that Manor, I came to talk to you about this." She took the letter out of her pocket and read it aloud.
"Is there a problem? Do you not comprehend what it says?"
"I comprehend what it says!" Ginny yelled, "I just can't believe that you have the audacity to ask me to accompany you to a ball! I have been working here for a month and you haven't spoken more than two sentences to me!"
Draco chucked, "But you work for me and you are to do as I say."
"Yes, I work for you." She agreed with that at least, "But I am your caretaker not some girl that you can use whenever you feel like it."
"One, Draco Malfoy does not have a caretaker. Two, it's a ball for my job and I need a date. Three, you get 300 extra galleons."
Ginny's jaw dropped in shock, "I will not be paid to go to a ball! I am no escort!"
"So you're going?"
Ginny sighed, oh how she wished he would take off the sunglasses so she could look into his eyes. "Yes…but what I don't understand is…if you're Draco Malfoy and you need a date to the ball…why can't you just get one of your whores to do it?"
Ginny could see Draco's jaw clench, "Be ready at eight." And with that he walked away and resumed what he was doing.
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With one last clip in her hair and a bit of lip gloss, Ginny was ready to go. She was surprised that the dress fit her, as well as it did. It wasn't exactly suffocating her, but it wasn't exactly hanging low.
"Weasley, it's time to go." She turned away from her mirror to see Draco standing in her door way, clad in a black robe, black dress pants, and of course, his black sunglasses.
Ginny nodded her head and made her way towards the door. As she started to walk in front of Draco, he grabbed her arm and pulled her back, "Listen, Weasley, I need to make a good impression tonight, and seeing as how you are my date, you do too. Tonight I don't want you behaving how…people of your standards behave. Tonight you are to behave as though you are on the Malfoy level, I'm sure that's something you've always dreamed of isn't it, Weasel?"
Ginny snatched her arm away from him, "How dare you speak to me that way!" Ginny poked him in the chest, "Malfoy you better get your act together. Just because I'm a Weasley doesn't give you the right to talk to treat me like I'm dirt."
She pushed him out of her way and continued down the hall, not looking back to see if he was alright.
She stopped walking in the living room, once she realized she had no clue where the ball was. She sighed and turned around, to find Draco standing right behind her.
"What in the bloody hell is your problem, Malfoy! That's the second time this day!"
Ginny stared carefully at his face and watched as a blonde eyebrow rose up from behind his sunglasses, "We've got to be at the Zabini Estate in five minutes, Weasley. You can apparate, can't you?"
Ginny rolled her eyes and sighed, "Of course I can."
"Hmm, we'll have to see about that." Draco stopped talking and Ginny wondered what he was doing. There was a loud *Crack* and he was gone.
"Thanks for the warning, arse." She closed her eyes and apparated to just outside of the Zabini Estate.
As soon as she had apparated her hand was grabbed and hooked into the crook of someone's arm. She looked up to see Draco, "Now remember, Malfoy status, okay?"
Ginny put on a false smile as the walked past a few old couples, but she was really squeezing Draco's arm, "I know, you don't have to remind me every ten minutes."
They entered the ball room and Ginny was shocked by the beauty of it all. The ceiling had a giant chandelier hanging in the center of the room, and a few smaller ones in other areas. There were tables set up with fancy foods she had never seen before, and glasses of wine that were all different colors. There were about twenty people walking around the room, holding trays out and offering them to the guests.
Ginny's thoughts were interrupted when someone walked in front of Draco, and Draco nearly crashed right into him, "Malfoy! Well, well, well. Never did I think Draco Malfoy would bring Ginny Weasley to a ball. Much less anywhere in public, really."
Ginny glared at the black haired wizard standing in front of Draco, "Zabini?" Draco questioned, "What's it been? Two years since you left?" Draco held a hand out for his friend to shake, but Blaise pulled him in for a hug.
"I'm gone for two years and all you can offer is a bloody hand shake!?" Blaise pulled back and looked at Draco's face, "What's with the sunglasses, mate? Surely the lights aren't that bright?"
Draco glanced in Ginny's direction, he gently unhooked her hand from his, "Is there a place we can go and talk?"
Blaise nodded, "In the Library…but you're just going to leave your date?"
Draco shrugged, "She'll be fine on her own." Without a glance back he and Blaise made their way to the farthest Library they could find in the Zabini Estate.
Ginny huffed, causing some of the hair she let hang loose to fly up, 'The nerve of that man!' She couldn't believe him! Her forces her to come to this ball, and when they get here, he ditches her!
Not wanting to stand on the dance floor by herself, she quickly made her way towards one of the tables that had food on it. She picked up a triangular sandwich that was so small. What was the basis of making a sandwich that small? It was just a waist of bread. She put it back down on the tray and looked at the cheese and crackers. Yellow cheese, orange cheese, and white cheese. Picky, picky, picky!
She picked up an orange piece of cheese and nibbled on it. "Yuck." She quickly tossed it behind her, momentarily forgetting that she was at a fancy ball. She turned around to see where it landed, and it was steadily sinking to the bottom of a Champagne glass.
She put the knuckle of her pointer finger in her mouth and bit down on it, a habit of hers when she knew she did something but was skeptical to do anything about it. She took her finger out her mouth and turned around, continuing down the table as though nothing had happened.
She spun around when she felt a light tap on her shoulder, "Sorry to bother you, but I couldn't help notice you standing here all by your lonesome. Would you care to dance?"
Ginny looked into the strangers crystal blue eyes with specks of green, "Erm…sure." Anything was better than standing alone and studying these odd foods.
She took his offered hand and he led her to the dance floor. He put his right hand on her waist and held her right hand in his left. They began to move across the dance floor, making conversation. She soon found at the she was dancing with Theodore Nott of Slytherin. Ginny chuckled at the expression on his face when she told him that she was Ginny Weasley.
"Well that goes to show, a lot can change about a person." The danced through a few more songs before Theodore asked if she wanted to go out onto the balcony. She gladly accepted since Draco wasn't anywhere in sight.
They stood out on the balcony together, looking far away at all the lights flashing in Muggle London. "What do you do for a living?"
"I'm a nurse."
"A nurse, really? Do you work at St. Mungo's?"
Ginny nervously bit her bottom lip, "Umm…it's kind of private." She knew that if she told anyone that she was Draco's Nurse to aide him in being blind.
"Secret Ministry Business, what are you a spy?" He joked.
Ginny laughed, "Something like that." She winked at him and laughed again.
Ginny found out that Theodore, Theo, was in town from Scotland. He had moved there after graduating from school. Turns out he was born there, but when he was eleven he and his parents moved to London so he could attend Hogwarts, and not have to travel far during the breaks to see them.
"Weasley?" Ginny turned around at the sound of her name. She saw Blaise standing by the door, "Draco wants to see you."
Theodore arched an eyebrow, "Draco? As in Draco Malfoy?"
Ginny nodded, "I came here with him tonight…I've got to go, maybe I'll see you later?"
Theodore smiled, "Yes, I'll try to find you again before I have to go."
"It's been nice talking to you, Theo." She lightly kissed him on the cheek before exiting the room with Blaise. "What does Draco want?"
Blaise shrugged, "Not really sure, he just asked me to find you."
"Oh…so what did you two talk about?"
"Nothing." Was his short reply, they re entered the ball room where people were still dancing and eating the fancy finger foods.
"Ah Weasley, there you are." Draco said coming up to she and Blaise. "Where have you been?"
"I was off talking to Theodore Nott."
There was no expression to read on his facial features, "Why would you do that?"
"I sure as hell wasn't going to stand around by myself after you left me."
"You're my date, tonight. Do you have any idea how that could make me look? My date going off with another man."
Ginny rolled her eyes, "You're too much to handle sometimes, Malfoy."
Draco smirked, "That I am." He took Ginny's hand and started to lead her to the dance floor, "If you'll excuse us Zabini, we've got to dance at least once."
Ginny put her arm around Draco's neck and he held her other hand in his own, "Have you enjoyed yourself tonight, Weasley?"
She nodded, "Besides the fact that my date left me. Though if he hadn't, I would have never met Mr. Nott."
"Ahh yes, Theodore Nott…haven't seen him since school. How is the bloody git?"
"From what I can tell, he's doing quite well, living in Scotland." Ginny told him, "Did you enjoy rejoicing with her friend?"
Again, she saw one of his blonde eyebrows rise from behind his sunglasses, "Malfoy's do not rejoice," He informed her, smirking.
And so the night continued. They danced with one another for quite a while, making small talk. Before they knew it they were apparating back to Malfoy Manor and Draco was walking Ginny to her door.
She opened the door and walked in a little. As she walked in Draco had leaned down to give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek, for what reason? He wasn't all too sure of that himself.
Ginny turned around to tell Draco that she had had a good night. Coincidently they did these two things at the same time and their lips met. Ginny moved back in shock first. However short of a kiss that was, it her lips were tingling.
She ran her fingers across her lips and smiled, "Erm…I better get going to bed." She turned around and walked into her room, letting out a small squeal of happiness when she closed the door.
Draco had stood at the door and heard her, 'Looks like you've still got it after all, Malfoy'. He smirked to himself before walking down the hall to his own room.
~*~ Thats So Raven ~*~
There's the next chapter, is this any longer? I hope so! And I hope you liked this ending! I had a little trouble with it, but thanks to my Beta for the help! I'll try having the next chapter out next week, or the week after that. Though I've already got about four pages or so written. Don't forget to review!
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