Call to Destiny

Warriorlily

Story Summary:
The summer before her sixth year at Hogwarts, Ginny Weasley is invited to a convention in San Francisco. However, the convention turns out to be more than she thought. What does Draco Malfoy have to do with it? Or an ancient group of warriors, for that matter. AU.

Chapter 08

Chapter Summary:
The summer before her fifth year at Hogwarts, Ginny Weasley is invited to a convention in San Francisco. However, the convention turns out to be more than she thought. Much more. What does Draco Malfoy have to do with it? Or an ancient group of warriors, for that matter. Could this, finally, be Ginny's chance to prove herself?
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06/29/2005
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Girls Night In

Chapter 8

Still week four.

Ginny stretched languidly on the loveseat, flipping through the channels on the TV. Finally, she was alone. After all the hype and craziness of the day before, and the bustle of that morning, Ginny had had no chance to be by herself.

She was still pretty shaken up by yesterday's events, but slightly more collected than she had been that morning.

After a very odd evening with Draco, the two had showed up for classes/training as usual the next day. Everyone congratulated Ginny on how well she had fought and how she was definitely going to get a top rank. That had made Ginny feel a little bit better, but the thing that really made her happy was that instead of pretending Ginny hadn't run out of the gym in a panic, instead of pretending they weren't curious, like all the people back home would have done, the Warriors-to-be questioned her.

Why? Her friends had asked. What had happened? Why did she run?

Just as Ginny had finished explaining that the demon had played with her mind, the Wildcat had come in.

"Sit down everyone, and listen up," Kiara had said. "Since I know how exhausted you all must feel after yesterday, today is going to be a free day. Just lounge about, regain your strength and get some sleep. You'll need it for tomorrow."

A murmur went through the ten.

Kiara smiled. "We'll be doing a bit of real demon hunting. After seeing each one of you fight yesterday, I have to say that you're ready. You have almost become the Warriors. So go, have fun."

They had all filed out of the room, most making plans for a day out on the town. Ginny, however, had made a beeline for her room.

Now she'd been lying on the couch watching TV for several hours, only getting up to eat occasionally. Draco was, well, she didn't know where Draco was. She hadn't seen him since that morning, and it was now...Ginny craned her neck to see the clock that was practically behind her. Who in their right mind would hang a clock on a wall which the person would not be facing? Ah, it was now almost four o'clock.

Suddenly the door opened and Sage burst in. She was wearing a pair of black very ripped up sweatpants and light blue concert shirt. Her hair fell lose around her and her make up was red today. Black eyeliner, red eyeshadow and blue mascara.

"Hey Ginger!"

Ginny sat up. "A, never call me that again for as long as you live, and B, why are you here?"

"To cheer you up, of course," came a new voice. Ginny's eyes widened when she saw who it was.

"Juliana?"

"No, it's the Easter bunny," Juliana said setting down a couple of bags on the coffee table. Her long dark hair was put up in a pony tail and she was wearing a red baby tee with a black rose on it and a pair of black gym shorts. She sat down on the chair beside Ginny and smiled. She was wearing a red lip gloss and her eyes were rimmed with a bit of black eyeliner.

"Remote. Pillow. Move. Sit," Sage ordered.

"What?" Ginny asked confused. She was still shocked from their sudden arrival.

"Your remote and your pillow need to move so I can sit," Sage explained.

Ginny blinked. "Oh, right."

She moved the offending items, still staring like a deer caught in headlights.

Juliana shook her head. "I told you we should have warned her, Sage. I think we put her into a permanent state of shock."

"Nonsense," Sage said waving her hand dismissivly. She turned to Ginny. "The others will be here in a few minutes."

Ginny turned to look at her, eyes wide. "Others?"

"Yeah, Maria and Alexis," Juliana explained.

"I hate to sound stupid," Ginny said. "But, why?"

Juliana beamed at this. "We've decided that we deserve a girl's night in. A little sleepover with ice cream, makeovers and all the trimmings. A little spoiling never hurt anybody."

"But what about Mal-" Ginny was cut off mid sentence by Sage throwing a pillow at her head.

"What was that for?" the redhead asked shrilly.

"You need to call Draco by his first name," Sage ordered.

Ginny opened her mouth then shut it, then opened it again. "I can't."

"Of course you can!" came a new voice from the doorway. Maria and Alexis entered the room, both carrying sleeping bags. Ginny hadn't really talked to them before, preferring to stick with just Sage, but she had met them.

Both girls were extraordinarily beautiful. Maria was Spanish and looked very exotic. She had a dancer's thin and tall body, caramel colored eyes and light brown curly hair. Today she was wearing a pair of short white cloth shorts and a blue spaghetti strap top, while her hair was left to cascade down her back.

Alexis was your all American girl. She had bright blue eyes framed by the longest lashes you had ever seen. Her hair was almost as light blond as Draco's and was always just as perfectly straight. She was wearing a pair of dark blue sweatpants with a tight white baby tee, and her hair was pulled back into her trademark braid.

Well, Ginny thought. At least I'm not over-dressed. She looked down at her own black and red sweatpants and white spaghetti strap shirt.

"Yeah," Alexis agreed. "Just say it,"

Ginny shook her head, on the defensive. "I can't."

"You can," Sage said. "But you won't."

Juliana shot Sage a glare. "Why can't you, Ginny?"

Ginny looked at them all. "Because I can't!"

"Come on," Maria urged. "Just say it, Dr-aaaa-co."

Ginny shook her head stubbornly.

Sage got a tub of cookie dough ice cream out of the bags Juliana had brought. Cookie dough, Ginny's favorite.

"Say it or the ice cream gets it!"

Ginny's eyes widened. "No!"

"Yeah, no need to get violent," Alexis added, looking slightly hurt.

"Please say it," Juliana pleaded. "Say it and we can begin the sleepover."

Ginny felt four pairs of eyes boring into her. Not a very pleasant feeling, and they did not seem to be giving up. She gave a defeated sigh. "Fine."

"Yes!" Alexis exclaimed.

Ginny took a big breath. Really, why was this so hard? And why did it feel like such an important thing? Oh just say it and get it over with, she chided herself. She closed her eyes.

"Draco."

There were four shouts of joy. Ginny opened her eyes to find the other Warrior girls jumping around and high-fiving each other.

"The lot of you are crazy," she decided.

Maria gave her a look. "Oh please, you're the one who wouldn't say the guy's name!"

Ginny shot her a look back. "Seriously though, why all this?"

Alexis shrugged and bit into a cookie. "We thought you needed to be cheered up,"

"You got all of this for me?" Ginny asked incredulously.

Juliana smiled at her. "What are friends for?"

Friends. The thought echoed in Ginny's mind. She had never really thought of the Warrior girls, besides Sage, as being her friends. But, she guessed they would have to be. From what the Wildcat had said, they'd be with each other till death.

"Till death do us part," Ginny muttered. She shook her head, as if to get rid of the morbid thought, and joined the party.

~

It was now eleven o'clock at night and the girls were assembled in the living room in their respective sleeping bags.

They had done the eating bit of a sleepover, the make up bit, again the eating bit, and now they were half way through the talking bit.

"Say," Ginny asked suddenly. "I forgot to ask, but how did you get Ma- Draco to, not, well, be here?"

Maria grinned wickedly. "I told him of our plans to invade and told him he was welcome to stay, but he said he'd rather stick something sharp in his ear than stay here. He's camping out at David's. I think all the guys are."

Ginny shook her head. "Why am I not surprised?"

The others laughed.

"Ooh!" Sage suddenly exclaimed.

"What?" Alexis asked.

"I have just had an idea that is the most brilliant of brilliant, the most marvelous of marvelous, the mos-"

"Tell us already!" Juliana urged.

Sage grinned. "I propose that we invite the guys over her for a game of Truth or Dare."

Four pairs of eyes lit up. Alexis jumped up and grabbed the phone. The other girls exchanged glances and tried to hide their laughter.

"Hey David! We were just wondering if you guys want to come over for a bit, we've got some left over pizza and stuff. Mmhmm.....right.....that's fine.....cool, so we'll see you in a bit. Bye!"

She put down the receiver and punched the air. "Oh, this is gonna be fun!"

"You didn't tell them about the Truth or Dare," Juliana pointed out.

Alexis raised a perfectly done blond eyebrow. "Are you kidding me? Guys run and hide when they hear the words 'Truth or Dare.'"

At that moment the doorbell rang, and Maria ran up and opened the door.

"Hey guys!"

The five Warrior guys came into the room. Maria quickly closed and locked the door behind them, grinning wickedly at the other girls.

Ginny had only then noticed how good looking all of the guys were. All in all, she would have had to say they were the five best looking guys she had ever seen. They were all very athletically built and their faces ranged from Draco's almost beautiful fallen-angel face, to Ryan's ruggedly handsome one.

Draco caught Ginny looking at him, and shot her a grin. Ginny gulped. I did not just think that Draco's good looking, she thought. Well, I mean, he is but- no! Ginny stop!

"Where's the food?" Roby asked, looking around. He had a square face with very strong jaw line and dark, almost chocolate colored hair that was always gelled.

"Food's in the kitchen," Sage said.

As they began to move towards the kitchen, Alexis jumped up and blocked their way.

"Not so fast. Food later, first how about a game of Truth or Dare?" she smiled at them.

Five identical looks of horror greeted this statement. Ginny, Maria, Juliana and Sage burst out laughing.

Ryan's eyes began to flit to the exits. All of which were blocked by the girls.

"Do we have to?" David asked meekly.

Sage grinned evilly. "Oh, you have to."

After much complaining everyone had settled down and had either a look of amusement or pain on their face, depending on what gender you were. They had seated themselves in a circle, boy-girl-boy-girl, on Alexis' orders. It was Maria, Nick, Sage, David, Alexis, Roby, Ginny, Draco, Juliana and Ryan.

"You first, Nick," Alexis beamed. Nick looked like someone was asking him to eat a live cockroach.

"Truth or dare?"

And so the game began.

After a few revealing truths, ridiculous dares, such as drinking out of a toilet bowl like a dog, and many looks of horror, came Draco's turn.

"Draco," Sage said, something twinkling in her eyes. "Truth or dare?"

Draco seemed to think on it a moment, then spoke.

"Dare."

A decidedly evil grin made its way onto Sage's face. "I dare you, to kiss Ginny. And not a kiss you give your grams either. A full on, what do you English people call it? Oh, right. Snog."

Ginny's jaw dropped and her eyes opened to the size of saucers. She blinked.

"What are you looking at me for? Do it!"

Ginny turned to Draco and gave him an apologetic look. He just grinned at her, oddly quiet. They turned around to face each other, and Draco lowered his mouth onto hers.

Now, Ginny had been kissed before. She'd snogged more than a few boys, Michael Corner and Dean Thomas included. This, however, this was something much different. Unlike Michael and Dean, who had fumbled quite a bit, Draco knew what he was doing. Not only that, but Ginny got the proper sensations one is supposed get when being kissed. Weak knees (even though she wasn't standing up), the world seeming to not exist, time slowing down, the whole to do. Just as soon as it had began it was over.

Draco pulled away, and Ginny opened her eyes, slightly dazed. She realized that the girls were shouting and the guys were catcalling. She turned away, a blush creeping onto her cheeks.

What the hell was that? She thought. She couldn't be falling for Draco, she just couldn't. They had to work together, for Merlin's sake. Imagine if they had gotten together, then broke up. That would be sufficiently awkward. Ginny was brought out of her reverie by Maria speaking to her.

"Ginny, truth or dare?"

Deciding to be on the safe side, Ginny said truth.

"What was the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to you concerning a guy?"

Ginny snorted. This was easy enough. "In my first year, on Valentine's day-"

Draco coughed trying to keep his laughter in.

"Shut up!" Ginny ordered, then continued. "In my first year on Valentine's day, I sent Harry a singing valentine."

The others burst into laughter. Draco was howling at the memory. Even Ginny had to chuckle.

"You sent Harry Potter a singing valentine?" Juliana asked through her laughter.

"I was young and stupid," the redhead protested.

"Oh, definitely stupid," Draco agreed.

Ginny threw a pillow at him, and it caught him right in the throat. Truth or dare soon evolved into a very vicious pillow fight.

At about two in the morning, Juliana decided it was time to kick the guys out. After sending them away with pizza and left over ice cream, the girls got into their sleeping bags.

"So," Alexis began, looking at Ginny. "How was it?"

"How was what?"

"Kissing Draco!" Sage exclaimed.

Ginny shrugged. "It was a dare! What do you expect?"

"He likes you," Juliana sang.

"Listen," Ginny demanded. "We are purely platonic friends."

Four very dubious looks greeted this statement.

"Platonic," Sage drawled. "Yeah, right."

"Good night!" Ginny said, covering her head with a blanket.

Honestly! She and Draco were just friends. That's the only thing they could be.


Author notes: Well, I hope you liked it. I'm going away on a loooong trip on June 27th, and I won't be back till mid August, so no updates till then. But I promise, when I do update, the chapter will be superb!!!! Please leave me a nice long review, I'll be very happy.