All Ginny wants is to get the upper hand just once with drool-worthy hunk of man candy and callous playboy Draco Malfoy before he moves on to his next careless conquest. So how did this simple plan lead to time travel, nefarious plots involving the most infamous whorehouse in the wizarding world, and the teenaged Draco’s achingly sweet, chocolate-flavored kisses? Even Draco Malfoy was innocent once, as Ginny learns all too well…Category: Long and Completed
Chapter ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN Quote of the Day:
THE LAST CHAPTER
The minutes ticked by, long enough for Ginny to know that against all reason, all common sense, she still wanted impossible things from him. But she would leave. Even after today, even when her body ached from him and for him, when she could feel that he had begun to shape her to him, she would turn around and leave him. I will, I will, she thought.
“You don’t understand,” said Draco.
“Oh?” Ginny said stiffly. “At least he hadn’t touched her, she thought. She would not be able to find the strength to pull herself away from him, and she knew it.
So I've been reading the *ahem* clean version of this on FF.NET for a year and waiting sometimes months between updates. Imagine my delight when I found this much more salacious version with 50 more chapters, but only to discover a character death warning!!! Now I know how it ends, because G&D can't possibly live with one another; I hate spoilers!!!! Unless it's Astoria, or Harry, yeah!!!
Author's Response: Thanks! And yes, I'm sorry about the ff.net version being so behind... I'm actually making up for it now by posting all the chapters to date and censoring them for that site as I go (throws dirty, dirty chapters in the washing machine. Some of the really-earning-the-NC-17-rating ones are coming up, too...) PLEASE don't worry about the character death warning. It does NOT refer to Draco or Ginny. (I wish there was a way to include a "Non-D/G Character Death Warning" tag, because that can really give the wrong impression... I think Boogum has that on one of her long fics too, and it refers to Ron.) So don't be afraid! (Not of that, anyway... ;)
WHAT?!!!!!!! She closed her "safety" Loophole?!!!!!!!! Unless you differentiate "making love" a la Booth / Brennan...or Astoria dies first...Oh I could just wring your neck ;)!!!!!
Author's Response: (runs)
Oh, come on. You KNOW there's a way around this. ;) It's very sneaky and tricksy, and I've had it planned for a long time. You'll see...
......there are no words....except that, much like Ginny, I knew it and yet I didn't.
Author's Response: Thanks! :) I was hoping that the Lucius/Astoria/plotting reveal would get that kind of reaction, because that's just what I'd been working towards.
So, that's how you'll do it, fulfill both her vows simultaneously. She won't sleep with him before Astoria. She is Astoria. Also is there a reason you keep switching names between Prudence Temperata, which sounds like temptation, temper, and temporal, and Prudence Johnson?
Author's Response: I can't confirm or deny anything! ;) But PLEASE believe me... when Ginny finally attains what she's been waiting for so long, she won't have to compromise in any way. There is a reason for Prudence's many names, too. More soon!
Ahem, Ginny needs a good dose of that mirror too you know.
Author's Response: Yes, she does. Without giving anything away, I would say that her self-discovery is more gradual than that. It wouldn't work for her in the same way because she isn't really in the same kind of blatant, selfish denial that Draco has been. But it wouldn't have worked for him before, either. This was the first time he'd ever truly understood just how destructive it was to obsess about her "purifying" him, and the first time he'd seen how uncaring his obsession actually was. While that realization certainly won't change him all at once, the seed has been planted. Of course, there are still a lot of other problems out there... ;)
No, you claimed that everybody's obvious prediction when the transformation first happened was wrong. You cannot go back on that now; it's too easy.
Author's Response: This review suddenly appeared as if by magic when I was answering the others! That'll happen sometimes. Anyway, it's getting answered right away. :) Oh, NOTHING is easy right now in DDD, and many things are not what they seem. But it will all be revealed very, very soon, and the way that the intricate puzzle pieces all fit into place will finally become clear. We'll certainly see the answer to the question of the two vows in the next chapter.
The war drags on and on, and Ginny and Draco are trapped in a never-ending cycle of passion, betrayal, revenge, and reunion on opposite sides of the battle… until a terrifying chance comes along to change it all.Category: Long and Completed
CHAPTER FIVE quote of the day:
THE LAST CHAPTER
“Oh, no,” moans Ginny.
“Wait a minute,” says Draco. “That’s Lovegood, and she can see us. That means…” His eyes grow cold. “You’re no hallucination, are you?”
“What else do you think I’ve been trying to tell you for the past half hour?” hisses Ginny.
Let me guess: "Everything will be alright"!!!!!!
Author's Response: Well, actually, the roof caves in on them in Chapter 5... it's a very short chapter, and then...
J/K, of course. ;) I guess everybody will have to read on and see how it turns out... ;)
The Very End.Category: Completed Short Stories
Epilogue Quote of the Day:
He struggled to prop himself up on an elbow. “Lovegood—Luna-- do you remember being… I really don't have the least idea how to explain this… somewhere else?”
“Somewhere that looked like King’s Cross Station?” asked Luna.
“Yes!” Draco tried to sit up all the way and failed, flopping back down onto the bed.
A thoughtful look came over her face. “I think that I do, but I don’t believe that anyone else does. Maybe it’s better that way.”
“Probably. Look, uh… where’s Ginny?”
“She’s not ready to see you just yet,” said Luna. ”Here’s a napkin.”
“I don’t care about a napkin! Where’s Ginny?”
Is this part of the DDD Aniseverse or parallel with similar elements?
Author's Response: I would say that it's a parallel with similar elements. TD!Draco and DDD!Draco both barely escaped losing everything to the Wizengamot after the war, but this Draco reacted differently, largely because both his mother and father died within two months of it happening (and he didn't have a number of things in his background that DDD!Draco does, such as the Marie Tessier disaster and his entanglement with Astoria.) BTW, *Shadow of a Dangerous Dilemma*, the shortandcomplete!DDD version, will be starting fairly soon. ;)