A/N: Here's the second chapter as promised thanks to Trutonks for her help and thank you so much to all those who reviewed the first chapter!
Over the next few weeks they must have passed each other hundreds of times. Ginny wouldn't talk to him when he confronted her, and ever since their last meeting she had avoided all the empty class room they used when they meet in.
Draco couldn't sleep. He'd toss and turn every night, falling asleep for only an hour or two each night before he gave up and jumped out of bed to finish the homework he had neglected the night before. He would fall asleep in class all the time, losing house points along the way. Professor Snape, who had taken him into his office countless times, would read him the riot act. Only Ginny and a few of his close friends noticed though, and only she and his best friend Blaise Zambini knew why.
She hated doing this to him. She knew he cared deeply about her, but
he'd never said he loved her.
She needed to hear it. She needed to know it wasn't just her looks, it wasn't just lust. She knew he went to their meeting place every night, even though she had neglected to show up. She knew he'd sit there in the dark silent room thinking and wishing things would just go right for once. She even knew that he wanted to get over her, but couldn't. Just the other day Blaise had confronted her in the hallway and told her so, but she couldn't be with someone that just liked her for her body.
She didn't want to be the pretty red-haired Gryffindor to him, just like she didn't want to be known as one of the Weasleys, or the girl that had a crush on Harry Potter, or her personal favorite, that pathetic little girl that Harry Potter rescued from the Chamber of Secrets.
She just wanted to be Ginny, or Gin, and without him saying anything she had no idea if he even liked her for who she was.
She didn't want to be with someone that didn't love her like she loved him.
On the other side of the castle, Draco sighed running his fingers through his hair, now drenched with sweat from the
vigorous workout he'd just put himself through. He headed to the locker room and took a shower quickly. Not
bothering to show up to dinner, he went and sat in 'their' room. The room they had first really talked in, a
little more than a year before. She had talked out of turn in Snape's class and gotten a detention. Since Professor
Snape couldn't make it, Draco, had overseen her detention. It
used to be filled with extra supplies that Ginny had had to organize.
Draco smiled slightly as he remembered how that detention had ended with Ginny on top of a pile of old books and him standing in front of her snogging her brains out. The smile slid off his face as he remembered why he was all alone in their room now. If only Ginny would understand, he'd never been shown love when he was a child, he didn't know how to show it now.
Draco continued to come to their room every night. He had been sitting on a small stool in the room when an eagle owl soared in. Draco looked up immediately and identified it as his father's. He frowned and held out his arm wondering what his awful father wanted him to do now.
Draco,
I have spoken to the Dark Lord and he expects you to become a Death Eater at the end of this month. I
expect you home for the winter holidays this year to prepare. If you don't
come, I'm sure I could find some way to persuade you.
Lucius
Draco sighed and shook his head, knowing that he would indeed have to go. If not, then Lucius, as he had taken to
calling him now, would hurt his mother. He said that he had to be there for the winter holidays -- they were leaving
tomorrow. He thought of Ginny and sighed. 'We'll never be together,' he thought. His eyes coming down to
rest on the floor as salty tears dripped off of his cheeks. He got up quickly and left just narrowly missing
a confused Ginny Weasley, who had just enough time to hide behind a statue before he walked passed her towards the
Slytherin common room.
The next day, Draco was packed and ready to go. All he had to do was talk to Ginny. He wasn't afraid anymore. He had nothing to lose.
He found her in the hallway walking towards the library with Granger, Potter, and her brother. It didn't seem right to call him Weasley anymore when his younger sister was a Weasley as well.
She tried to walk passed him but he grabbed her arm. Potter and her brother turned ready to defend her but she held them off signaling that she could handle herself.
She tore her arm away from his grasp. And started walking down the stairs, he grabbed her again, not letting go. Harry and Ron started, she again stopped them.
"I need to talk to you," he said softly, "please."
She stopped at the 'please,' seeming to consider it before asking them to go ahead with out her. When they were alone, Draco sighed and let all his emotional barriers drop, "I'm leaving and I probably won't be coming back," he said quietly then checking around to make sure no one was around he continued, "Lucius wants me to become a Death Eater and if I don't he'll hurt my mother. I have to go, Gin. I'll miss you. I just didn't want to leave without telling you that I care about you."
He looked up to see her eyes into her chocolate brown eyes and smiled a grim sort of smile then kissed her quickly on
the lips. He pulled away quickly and walked swiftly towards the doors leading out to the Hogwarts Grounds.
He heard her call out to him and run after him, but by then he had stepped out
into the grounds and had run to the gate. Pulling it open quickly, he grabbed his wand, and taking one last look at his
love running towards him, he then apparated into Malfoy Manor.
He turned around to see his father with five or six death eaters behind him and only had time to stupefy one before they were upon him, stupefying him in turn and quickly dragging his limp body into to the dungeons.
Draco woke up hours later with a groan fingering the large bump on his head that had most likely formed when he was dragged down into the dungeon. He looked over to see his father in the corner watching him with his soul-less eyes. Lucius was dressed in his death eater robes and Draco immediately scooted back away from the imposing figure.
"You shouldn't have betrayed me," his father said, finally pushing away from the wall to walk towards him.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Draco said proudly. If he was going down he wasn't going to beg for mercy. He knew he would receive none anyway.
"Oh, I do believe you do know, Draco." said Lucius, coming to a stop before him, "And both you and that muggle loving whore are going to pay for your mistake."
Draco's eyes widened. "Don't you dare hurt Ginny," he said in a harsh voice, but Lucius could hear the fear in it and he smiled.
"I don't believe you're in any position to stop me," he said raising his wand and training it on Draco's still form, "Crucio!"
Draco's body convulsed from the pain as he screamed. Lucius just laughed.
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