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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 Seven: My Happy Ending
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
All of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
~*~
The following morning Draco woke up to the sound of his bedroom door opening. "Good morning Malfoy, how are you feeling?"
He put a hand over his forehead, "My brain hurts," he tried to think of what happened before he went to sleep, but the last thing he remembered was being in a room with two red heads.
"Well, I've got just the cure for that." She grabbed his hand a placed a vile in it, "sit up so you won't choke."
Draco used his other hand to sit up on his bed. He put the vile under his nose, "What the blazes is this?"
"Just drink it; it'll make your headache go away."
"Would you mind telling me what happened last night?" He titled his head back and downed the contents.
Ginny gasped, in mock shock, "You don't remember? How could you not remember the fantastic shagging session in the living room?"
Draco nearly choked on the potion, "What?"
Ginny laughed, "I'm only joking! All you did was confess your undying love for me, gosh Malfoy; I didn't know you were so bloody romantic."
Draco could still hear the laughter in her voice, "Weasley, has anyone ever told you that you're not funny? If not, I won't mind being the first."
Ginny took the vile from his hand, "Blaise tried flooing you this morning, but you were still asleep. He said something about having lunch at 2:30."
"What time is it?"
"1:30, I figured you needed more sleep."
"Yeah, well thanks. Where did he want me to meet him?"
"I'm not quite sure; your best bet would be to try his house."
Draco nodded, "Thanks, Ginny." He heard her leave, closing the door behind her. He got off his bed and took the normal four steps, then a turn to the left, and then about fifteen more steps to the bathroom.
~*~
"Tell me again, Blaise, why we are eating in a Muggle restaurant?"
Blaise sighed, "Food is food, Draco, you can't be picky all the time and get your way."
"Yes I can, I'm a Malfoy."
Blaise rolled his eyes, and as he was bringing them back down from the ceiling what he saw shocked him. He blinked a few times to double check that his eyes weren't deceiving him. In a booth on the other side of the room sat Michael Corner and a girl, who wasn't Ginny. Blaise squinted his blue eyes to see better, Lavender Brown? He thought, "Draco, do you see what I see?"
Draco arched an eyebrow, "Well that depends, do you see…nothing?"
Blaise turned his gaze back to Draco, "Sorry, mate, it's so easy to forget sometimes…"
"I'll take that as a good thing," Draco said. Had it not been Blaise who had said that, he probably wouldn't have been so calm, "What is it that you see?"
"Michael Corner!" Blaise exclaimed, looking back towards Michael and Lavender.
"And…?"
"He's not with Ginny, but Lavender Brown! The Gryff in our year."
"So?"
"Are you that dense?" Blaise sighed, "Obviously, the bloke is cheating on Ginny!"
Draco ignored the 'dense' comment, "Just because he's having lunch with another woman doesn't mean he's cheating on her. They could simply be out having lunch, like us."
"No…this doesn't look like lunch to me." He said, watching them laughing at one another, "He's just grabbed her hand!"
"How long?"
Blaise ticked off the seconds in his head, "Bugger, only four seconds."
"Not long enough to accuse him of cheating," Draco said, wondering if Blaise was just kidding or not.
"Wait…he's just kissed her hand!" Blaise informed him.
"It's nothing, just manners." Just then the plates were set on the table, "Can we please just eat our food and let them be?"
Blaise sighed, "Fine, no secret agent work for me. I was feeling like James Bond for a few minutes there."
"Who in Salazar's name is James Bond?"
Blaise's mouth dropped open, "You don't know who James Bond is? You know what, never mind, of course you don't know, Muggle movie. He's the best secret agent, ever."
Draco shook his head, "Sometimes I question your sanity."
They ate their lunch, Blaise constantly glancing at Michael and Lavender. "They're leaving, and their holding hands! Definitely not a lunch date, Malfoy!"
Draco placed his napkin on the table and took a drunk the rest of his water, "We can't say that he's cheating, we've got no solid proof. The only way to know for sure would be to follow them around and-"
"What a good idea!" Blaise fished around in his pocket for Muggle money, he left the correct amount on the table and grabbed Draco by the arm and dragged him out of the restaurant.
"Zabini, you idiot! I didn't mean it literally! We are not secret agents, okay? So let's find an alley so we can apparate back to your place."
"No, not until we find out the truth."
Draco pushed Blaise's hand off his arm, "Why the hell do you care, anyways? It's not like Ginny would believe us, and who would tell her? I sure won't."
Blaise kept an eye on Michael and Lavender as they walked down the street, "Why are you so bloody boring? This could be fun!"
"We're not eight years old anymore, Blaise."
"So? That still doesn't mean we can't have fun. If I can't get you to double date with me, this is the least you could do."
Draco sighed and considered what Blaise had said. "Alright but I haven't got all day."
Blaise grinned and put Draco's hand on his shoulder, "They went into a clothing store not too far from here, we can catch them in there."
They walked into the clothing store, and Blaise looked in every direction for them, he saw Michael closing the curtains to a changing room in the back of the store. He grinned and walked towards it as fast as he could, being sure not to leave Draco.
"What's happened?" Draco whispered when they stopped walking.
"He's in that changing room with Brown! We can wait until she walks out and then corner, Corner!" Blaise chuckled at his own dumb joke.
They waited a few minutes before they heard the curtain opening. Lavender walked out, buttoning up her blouse and Michael was about to follow, but Blaise pushed Draco into the room. Lavender shrieked and Blaise shushed her.
"Malfoy? What are you doing here?"
"I should be asking you the same thing."
Michael wasn't worried, Malfoy couldn't have seen anything, he was blind. "What do you want, then?"
"What are you doing here with Lavender Brown? Aren't you dating Ginny?"
"What's it to you? You don't care about Gin."
Draco reached his hand out and grabbed Michael by the collar of his shirt, "You'd better not be cheating on her, Corner. I swear if I ever hear about you prancing about with another girl, you won't' be able to eat solid food for a week."
Michael rolled his eyes, "Pfft, what can you do? You're blind, you can't even see!" He said, unaware that Blaise was standing just outside the curtains.
Draco's grip loosened on Michael's shirt and he took a step back. The curtain was pushed open and Blaise walked in, glaring at Michael, "But I can," he pulled back his fist and threw it forward as hard as he could.
"Bloody hell!" Michael shouted as his left eye started pounding.
"What the blazes is going on around here?" Lavender asked.
Blaise grabbed Draco's arm, "Fuck off, whore." Lavender gasped in shock as Blaise and Draco quickly exited the store.
Draco was furious. He couldn't believe Michael Corner had the nerve to say that to him. If he ever felt Michael in his presence, he would be more than happy to beat him to a bloody pulp.
"You alright, mate?" Blaise asked, looking at the Draco's face that was tinted with red.
"Yeah, let's just get out of here before I do something I won't regret." Blaise led them to an alley where they apparated back to Malfoy Manor.
"Are you going to tell her?" Blaise checked that Ginny wasn't anywhere around.
"How they hell would I bring up something like that? She's bound to find out sometime soon."
"You've got to tell her, before she gets herself hurt!"
"What do you care?"
"I don't know…just tell her!"
Draco sighed and felt around him for an armchair to sit in, "How? 'Hullo Ginny, nice weathering we're having. By the way, your boyfriends shagging Lavender Brown, would you like a cup of tea?'"
Blaise laughed, "No, not that way…"
"What're you two boys talking about?" Ginny asked, walking into the room carrying a basket of clean clothes.
"Erm…nothing, I was just leaving." Blaise smiled at Ginny before glaring at Draco and apparating home.
"That's one weird friend you've got there," Ginny said to Draco as she walked by him, towards the stairs.
"Ginny…" He started, "There's something I have to tell you…"
She turned around, "Yes?"
"Umm…well you see…thanks."
"For what?" she asked, confused.
"For sticking around here and helping me out, I'm surprised you lasted this long but...I'm glad you stayed."
Ginny smiled at him, "I'm glad I stayed, too." She turned around walked back up the stairs.
Draco put his head in his hands; he couldn't bring himself to do it. He couldn't tell her, it would hurt her. He knew she'd be even more hurt when she found out later. He sighed, Corner didn't deserve her. She was too good for him.
~*~
Ginny apparated to the Ministry of Magic. She hadn't heard from Michael in a couple of weeks and decided to check up on him. The last time she had hear from him, was when she saw Blaise and Draco in the living room. Speaking of Draco, he had been behaving quite oddly since that day. He kept conversations short, as though he were scared that he was going to say something he shouldn't. She shrugged it off each day, and left it alone.
She walked to the front desk, "Hullo, can you tell me where Michael Corner's office is?"
"He's on the third floor, second door to your right."
"Thank you," Ginny said, making her way to the staircase. She climbed up three flights of stairs and got off on the landing; she walked past one door and stopped in front of the second door.
She put her hand on the handle but a voice from inside the room stopped her< "Oh, Michael what happened to your face?"
Ginny gasped and put her other hand over her mouth. That voice sounded so familiar, she had heard it somewhere before, "Nothing, love, fell down a couple of stairs, that's all."
"Stairs?" The voice said again, "Do you need me to kiss it to make it all better?"
Ginny glared at the door, she remembered the owner of the voice. It was none other than Lavender Brown, 'That wench!'
"Yes, I think that would do it some good," she heard Michael responded.
'Why that good for nothing, two timing little scumbag! No one cheats on Ginny Weasley and gets away with it!' She thought as she gripped the door handle. Taking a deep breath she turned the handle and wrenched the door open.
The two heads jumped away from each other and looked at Ginny, "Gin…what are you doing here?" Michael asked, smiling.
"What am I doing? What are you doing?"
"Well I…um…I was in a business meeting."
"Business meeting my arse! A business meeting doesn't require your client," she looked at Lavender, "to snog you!"
"Ginny, this is all a big misunderstanding."
"Misunderstanding? You know what, Michael, I don't even know why went out with you a second time." She shook her head, "Now, I remember why I broke up with you the first time! You're nothing but a big baby and a coward! In my fourth year I stopped Ron from hexing you, but now, if either of my brothers see you walking across their path, I'll give them my permission to do as they please!" She smirked at the scared look on his face.
"Really, Ginny will that be necessary?" He said, walking towards her, "Can't we talk this out somewhere? It really is a misunderstanding…I care about you, Gin."
Ginny looked at him, how could he lie to her to her face like this? But then again, he had been doing it all along. She brought her hand to her mouth and pretended to sneeze, "Oh, sorry, I'm allergic to Bullshit!" She shook her head and pushed him away from her as hard as she could, "I hope I'm blessed with the privilege to never see your lying face again."
She glared at Lavender before turning around a stomping out the room, being sure to slam the door on her way out. How could he do that to her? She let him waltz back into her life only for him to hurt her. She cleared her head of all these thoughts and closed her eyes. Sighing, she apparated back to Malfoy Manor.
~*~
Draco lay on a sofa in a dark room on the second floor of the manor. He had just closed his eyes when he heard a *pop*.
"Ginny?"
He heard a soft sniffle, "Yes, it's me."
He stood up from the sofa and walked towards her, "Are you alright?"
Ginny looked up at him, he always seemed to know exactly where she was, "I'll be fine."
"What happened?" Draco asked, though he already guessed it had something to do with Michael Corner.
At first Ginny wasn't going to tell him, but she had no one else to tell, so she figured, why not? "It's Michael, I bloody walked in on him and Lavender Brown snogging!" She sniffled again.
"Ginny, I'm sorry."
"There's no reason for you to be sorry, Draco."
"I should have told you the day Blaise and I found out…"
"You knew about this?"
He nodded, "I'm sorry, I didn't have the heart to tell you."
"It's fine…I don't know why I'm letting him get to me anyway." She sighed and took a step closer to Draco, "If there was anything I felt for him I was forcing myself to. I was so tired of being the only in the family not married or dating someone. Having my mom continuously ask me when she could count on another son-in-law."
Draco lifted his hand to stroke Ginny's cheek, "Are you sure you're alright?"
She moved her face closer to his, their noses touching, "Yes." She closed her eyes and titled her head the side, their lips meeting. She parted her lips, and his tongue entered her mouth like it owned the place. She moaned and wrapped her arms around his neck.
Draco pressed Ginny's body against his and without thinking correctly, lifted a hand to unbutton her blouse. Ginny didn't show any sign of wanting him to stop, so he didn't. He finished unbuttoning the blouse and tried pulling it off her shoulder. She let her arms fall down from his neck and she opened her eyes to look at him as he pulled off her blouse.
Slowly raising her hand she took off his sunglasses and his eyes looked directly into hers for a split second. He closed his eyes and looked away, "We shouldn't be doing this. You've just broken up with Michael, and aren't thinking straight."
"Yes, I am, Draco. The night of your birthday you asked me if I would have continued kissing you if I wasn't going out with Michael. And now I'm not…" She grabbed his hand and led him out of the room.
"Where are you taking me?"
"To your room, a more comfortable place, don't you think?"
"Are you sure about this?" He asked as Ginny opened the door to his room.
"Yes," she said as she led him toward his bed, "Unless of course…you don't want to…"
"No! I want too it's just…" he fell silent and looked down at his bare feet.
"Just what?"
"Bloody hell, Gin, I can't see what I'm doing."
"It's okay," she said, kissing him lightly on the neck. She lay down on the bed, and helped Draco climb on top of her. She brought his head down to hers and whispered in his ear, "Let me lead you."
It's nice to know that you were there
Thanks for acting like you cared
And making me feel like I was the only one
It's nice to know we had it all
Thanks for watching as I fall
And letting me know we were done
My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne
~!@*Thats So Raven*@!~
Updated fast, didn't I?
Well, I hope you liked this chapter! Draco and Ginny finally got together! Though who knows what tomorrow will bring for the crazy pair! I must disclaim the, "allergic to bullshit" part. Came from the movie, "I, Robot". I think Blaise is just a cutie in this chapter; he's a fun person to write, because he's never mentioned after book one…and we know nothing about him. So that's always fun! Yay! Well again, I hope you liked this chapter, and don't forget to review! Amazing, as I put the changes into this chapter, My Happy Ending came on the radio! (at 11:13 at night) Special thanks to Virginia!
And when you review, if you could pick a number 1-5, that would be helpful! (Don't call me strange, tis' for a reason! You shall see in the next chapter!)
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