A Friendly Exchange (5/14 Valentine fics, updating A Different View) (H/D, PG-13)

[sesheta66]

Title: A Friendly Exchange (5/14 Valentine fics, updating A Different View)
Author: sesheta_66
Rating: PG-13 (language)
Word Count: 505
Pairing/Characters: Ginny, Dean, (Harry/Draco)
Challenges: For awdt's two weeks of Valentine quickies, prompt #5 - "More than a feeling."
Summary: Quidditch and conversation work to smooth things over.
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. They belong to JK Rowling and her publishers. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

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Dean found Ginny at the Quidditch pitch.

He grabbed a school broomstick and was soon up in the air alongside Ginny. "Alright if I join you?"

"Why don't you go hang out with your new best friend, Malfoy?" she retorted.

"Ginny, he's not my best friend, nor is he anyone else's."

"He's Harry's."

"You have a point there," he conceded. "Besides Harry, I mean."

"Well, you all seemed pretty chummy with him back there."

"We were just trying to be fair."

Ginny gave him a scathing look and flew off in the opposite direction. Having learned from his mistakes when he and Ginny had dated before, rather than pressing her to talk now, he flew back down to the shed and retrieved a Quaffle.

"Oi, Gin!" he called and showed her the ball. With a nod of her head, she agreed. They spent the next quarter hour flying and throwing the ball, and the following half hour taking turns as Keeper while the other attempted to score, before they called it a day, Ginny having pummelled Dean seventeen to three.

"You alright to talk now?" he asked as they returned the ball and broomsticks to the shed.

"Talk, or listen?"

"A bit of both," he said, grinning.

"Alright. Talk, but I can't promise to agree with you about Malfoy."

"Fair enough. First off, Seamus was way out of line, and I told him as much. I don't see what you did as all that different from what everyone was doing before Harry and Malfoy … well …"

"Dean, I'm not a jealous shrew. I'm pissed off, but I'll get over that. It's just … well, it's Malfoy. I mean, what the fuck?"

Dean laughed at that. "Yeah, we were all wondering the same thing."

"It's more than a feeling I have about Malfoy. His father tried to kill me, and nearly succeeded, if you recall. The rest of you might be willing to forgive and forget, but I think it's asking a bit much to expect me to do the same."

"No one expects you to forgive and forget, Gin."

"Harry does."

"Well, Harry's a prat, isn't he?" Ginny's responding smile warmed Dean inside. "Just because he's taken to the guy doesn’t mean everyone else has to."

"But you have too, and so has everyone else. Because Golden Boy said to."

Dean laughed. "You sounded just like Malfoy when you said that."

Ginny narrowed her eyes dangerously, but a twitch of her lip told Dean that she hadn't lost her sense of humour. "I may have to hex you for that comment, Thomas!" She took out her wand and began to play with it. "I will, however, let it go, just this once. But compare me to that Death Eater again, and --"

"Gin ... he's not a Death Eater any more," Dean said. "And I doubt he ever really was, despite the Dark Mark."

Ginny looked like she was digesting his words. "Even so, it doesn't mean I have to like him."

"No, it doesn't."


Part 6 - A Valentine Getaway

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Comments

[accioscar.livejournal.com]

OK, you were successful in making me feel sorry for Ginny. Well done.

But it's OK, I'll forgive you - as long as me and Alaana get to see some hot H/D hotel action! ;D

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

You don't need to feel sorry for Ginny. After all, she was wrong. But to have her friends who were doing the same thing mere weeks ago turn on her also wasn't very nice.

Hee! Hot H/D hotel action, hmm?