Very interesting. So now we know why Voldemort wants Ginny. I'm assuming since Hermione married Ron three years ago that Ginny and Draco are much older than I originally thought them. How old are they exactly?

This one part confused me: Ginny stood in the kitchen for a moment berating herself. Oh my God, Ginny. Were you or were you not just thinking that he was going to torture and rape you? Maybe you really are a whore. Harry was right all along. No wonder he never married you. He knows you are a pathetic little whore!

I don't understand why Ginny is calling herself a whore when she apparently thought he was going to torture and rape her. It seems a very twisted logic, and makes me wonder what has happened to her before that for her to even think such a thing.

I'll admit, I do find your Draco very 'nice', and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, there are moments where he seems to not really have anything of his old personality. Does that make sense? I also found the switching between 'thoughts' a bit choppy and confusing again -- especially that part where Draco brushes against her.

Author's Response: Thanks for the review, even the criticism. Well, I just looked back over it and realized that the italics didn't transfer for the thoughts in this chapter. I will be going back over this. Sorry. As for her reaction, she was inhaling his scent when he came up behind her and that was directly after she had been thinking about him raping, etc. Maybe this was not clear enough that she was feeling an attraction to him. That's what I was going for. She keeps finding herself attracted to him and wanting him to be someone that it would be okay for her to be attracted to, but she believes she shouldn't. And Harry pretty much treated her like a whore for years, and that has affected her. So Draco is nice. I know and I was not intending him to be such a nice guy, but I think that in this vaccuum they are living in, he can let his guard down with her unlike anyone else. Or I just can't seem to write him that way. I still am struggling with this part of his personality, and I hope that at some point in the fic (when they leave?) we will get to see a bit more of the snarky Draco. Thanks again for the review. I really do appreciate the constructive criticism.