Give Her Time

Chapter 18 – Define Sexual Relations?


Ginny sat in the living room going over the past twenty four hours in her head. He\'d said I love you... More than that, she\'d hurt him when she didn\'t say it back. Though, in her defense, she was completely shell shocked that he\'d actually said those words to her... I love you. Such simple words. And now she was waiting for Draco to show up at his own house for a meeting with her that he was already half an hour late to.

Putting her drink on the table, Ginny started pacing. He loved her...

A slamming front door broke through her thoughts and suddenly a bubbly Harry and Draco where babbling about something. She wasn\'t even listening, because Remus loved her...

\"Harry, love? Can you go on to Ron’s? I\'ll be there after Ginny and talk about that thing, okay?\" Draco gave his beloved a pointed look.

\"Er, Sure thing,\" Harry replied giving the distracted redhead a quick hug and his husband a kiss. \"Later Gin!”

\"What is it Draco? Why couldn\'t Harry stay?\" Ginny asked the blond, who looked a bit worried.

\"Well,\" he said, looking at his shoes for a moment before meeting her eye again, \"I found out - some stuff.\"

Ginny\'s eyes narrowed. \"Have you been looking into my marriage contract?\"

\"Yes, and - well, it\'s not simple. It\'s tied to a trust. And the trust isn\'t pretty. Did you sign any papers when you got married?\"

\"Yes, I signed some papers that Neville told me were to form a joint account at Gringotts. I never read them, because the idea of reading all that Goblin jargon wasn\'t very appealing.\"

\"Well, it appears you signed something binding your marriage contract to a trust. The trust was Neville\'s; he couldn\'t touch it until his future wife signed off that they were marrying for love, not money.\"

\"What?\" Ginny replied, a confused expression on her face.

Draco paused and thought for a second. \"Neville got a trust from his parents. It was set up by his grandmother after their accident. The terms were actually pretty standard for a parental trust in the wizarding world. Do you know anything about wizarding trusts?

\"Nothing. They aren\'t exactly common in the Weasley family.\" Ginny replied slightly bitter.

\"They might be a slight more common from now on,\" Draco said. Before she could interrupt he said, \"Let me get it all out, and then I\'ll answer your questions, alright?\"

\"Alright.\"

\"Neville\'s trust is for a lot of money. And this is me saying a lot of money - follow me so far?\"

\"Yes,\" Ginny replied sarcastically.

\"The terms are that he didn\'t get a penny until he got married FOR LOVE. No marrying just to get the money - Not for either party. The rules were mostly set up for the woman he married, but in this case, it seems to bit ol’ Neville in the ass.\"

\"That bastard!\" Ginny raged, and then it hit her. \"How exactly did it bite him in the ass?\"

\"If either of the spouses is unfaithful to the marriage, that spouse looses all the money. If both are unfaithful, the trust is split. The point here is that Neville never married for love, and in fact cheated on you before he even knew of that term of the trust. He\'s been working out a way to getleasleast half the trust for almost two years now. That paper was his last ditch effort to try and legally get around the terms of the trust and take everything,” Draco took a deep breath, waiting for the questions to start.

Ginny eyes became hard and her face set. \"So Draco, you are going to tell me how can I fuck Neville over as much as he has me,” she said in a cold voice.

The smirk that washed over Draco face reminded her of their school days as he pushed a piece of paper over to her. \"Sign here my pretty. You’ll be starting a legal hearing to strip Neville os trs trust based on infidelity and voiding his right to contest a divorce based on fraud.\"

Ginny reached for the paper and after looking over it, signed it. \"How long will this take? I want this done and over with as soon as possible.\"

\"I expect you’ll hear from Neville within the hour. This will put the money in a holding account until it gets a hearing. And then you, my lovely, will be a very rich single woman.\"

\"The hearing could take up to a month, unless Neville settles sooner,\" added Draco as an afterthought.

Ginny laughed a cold, emotionless laugh. \"And here all I ever wanted to be was a loved woman.\"

\"I think you are, Ginny,\" Draco said quietly. Ginny\'s face paled when she thought about Remus\' words last night, I love you...

\"Would you be terribly offended if I said I didn\'t want to talk about it right now?\" Ginny asked.

\"Of course not,” Draco said, rolling up the signed document and placing it on their owls\' leg. He sent her off and turned to Ginny, \"It\'s none of my business how in love the two of you are. I just have to ask this, because it\'s going to come up at the hearing: Have you and Remus or any other person, male or female, ever had sex?\"

\"Umm, that depends on what the exact legal definition of sex is,\" Ginny blushed.

Draco quirked his head to one side and said, \"You know I want details... but the legal definition is a man\'s penis entering a woman through any orifice or a woman entering a man through any orifice.\"

\"A women entering a man...what exactly does that mean...\" Ginny trailed off, a perplexed expression on her face.

\"Oh plenty of ways!\" Draco said, warming up to his topic. \"Him performing oral sex on you, your bits and pieces go in his mouth, hence entering him. Or you could use your fingers in his arse, your tongue even. In fact, you could strap on a dildo and-\"

\"ALRIGHT!\" Ginny nearly shouted. \"I get the picture. That was way too much information Draco; I\'m sorry I asked,\" she said shaking her head. \"No, my \'bits and pieces\' never entered him, nor did his enter me.\"

\"Then you\'re free and clear. And rich. So, I\'ll see you next weekend, right? For dinner?\"

\"Sure, I\'ll be here,\" Ginny replied. \"Now I\'ll leave so you can go recoup Harry. I\'m sure the separation has been hard on you.\"

\"Yeah... hard...,\" Draco said with a distracted look in his eye. Ginny left before she heard anymore. Sometimes those two were so sex crazed it was n scn scary.


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Walking up to the castle, Ginny was met with a scene few people in living memory could claim to have seen. Albus Dumbledore was walking back and forth in front of the gates with an ice bag over one of his twinkling eyes.

\"Ms. Weasley! A moment of your time if you don\'t mind!\" the old man bellowed. This was not good.

\"Professor Dumbledore, are you alright? What happened?\" replied a panicked Ginny. \"Here, let me heal that for you.\" Ginny took out her wand and muttered an anti-inflammatory and anti-bruise spell.

\"Thank you Ma\'am. And now if you please, an explanation!\"

\"An explanation about what Professor. I\'m not sure I know what you are talking about.\" Ginny replied, mind-boggled that someone had given Albus Dumbledore a black eye, and he thought she had something to do with it.

\"Your... husband ran out of Professor Sprout’s assistances room wearing a tea towel and assaulted me claiming I screwed him out of his money by telling you about it - whatever it is. I demand an explanation young lady!\" The old man was not smiling. He was not offering a lemon drop and his eyes were cold steel blue. He was a very angry wizard. And an angry wizard was a dangerous wizard.

\"He ran out of Sprouts assistants’ room?\" Ginny muttered, until it finally hit her. \"That bastard, he was here screwing her too! The owl must have interrupted them, what a pity.\" Ginny chuckled evilly, but quieted as she noticed Albus still glaring at her. \"Sir, I can explain. I just filed for a divorce from Neville because of his infidelity. I’m also going after his entire trust fund because he\'s been cheating on me.\"

Dumbledore seemed to calm down a bit at this news, \"Well, see that he knows if he ever sets foot on Hogwarts again, I will hex him until he glows green. Understand Ms. Weasley?\"

\"Yes sir, it will be my pleasure to tell him,\" she replied, secretly hoping that Neville was stupid enough to try and come back.

\"See that you do!\" he replied before stomping back into the castle. She\'d never seen him angry before, and the fact that it was at her soon to be ex-husband was just too funny.


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A tall man with brown hair and eyes sat watching the parade of woman Draco called on to prove Ginny\'s case of infidelity with barely a trace of emotion crossing his wrinkled face. Each one recounted a story very similar to the last, including pick up lines. It seemed Neville wasn\'t very creative.

\"The plaintive rests,\" Draco said after interviewing the twenty sixth woman. Ginny\'s ego was well and truly crushed at this point. The last woman hadn\'t even been pretty by slutty standards.

\"Mr. Longbottom, Do you have any witnesses you would like to call?\" the acting judge asked.

\"The defense would like to call Remus Lupin to the stand.\" Neville said with a leering sneer directed towards Ginny.

Remus swallowed and took the stand. \"Do you promise to drink the Veritaserum and tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?\" asked the court person.

\"Yes,\" Remus said quietly, taking the pro offered glass and drinking the liquid down. This was going to be awful. He was going to be asked about kisses and touch Ginny. This whole room was going to know about how she got off in front of him...

\"So Remus, have you screwed my wife?\" Neville asked, his face turning into one of content glee. The mediator cleared his throat and glared at Neville in warning.

\"No, I have never screwed Ginny,\" Remus answered truthfully. This might not be as bad he he\'d first thought.

\"What?\" Neville exclaimed, his face becoming panicked. \"Have you preformed oral sex on her? Has she preformed it on you?\"

\"No, I have never preformed oral sex on Ms. Weasley, nor has she preformed oral sex on me. She has she ever placed my penis in orifice of her body,\" he replied. It wasn’t a lie. His penis had never touched her. \"She is too committed to her marriage vows to do something so base with a man other than her husband,\" Remus added for good measure.

\"That can\'t be true!\" Neville looked in the grip of a panic attack. \"Your Honor, there must be something wrong with the Veritaserum. He can\'t be telling the truth. They\'ve been constantly with each other for the past few months. They must have been screwing each other! I demand a new batch of Veritaserum be brewed.\"

\"Calm down Mr. Longbottom. We have another batch in reserve, which you may test yourself,\" the judge in the matter replied. A new vile was brought out, and Neville tested it by trying to say he\'d been a faithful husband. When he couldn\'t say it, the second dose was given to Remus.

\"Now everyone will know the truth.\" Neville sneered. \"Did you have sex, or perform any act that could be considered as sex with Ginny?\"

\"Mr. Longbottom, I have never had sex, oral or other wise with your wife,\" Remus said in a smooth voice.

\"Have you kissed her? Have you ever seen her naked?\" Neville asked desperately, searching for something that would enable him to keep his trust fund. \"Have you ever touched her sexually?\"

\"I have kissed her. It caused her great distress,\" which was true. The first time he\'d kissed her it had caused her distress. He continued, \"And I watched her undress once, I am embarrassed to say,\" Remus said. He was gravely embarrassed to say in front of all these people that he\'d had the pleasure of seeing her strip. Of course, the facial expressions he was giving said he was just plain embarrassed at being caught.

\"As for touching your wife in a sexual way, every time I touch her shoulder or her arm, I\'m doing it in a sexual way, weather she thinks it\'s sexual or not,\" the werewolf dissembled.

Neville was sputtering in rage at this point, sure he was going to loose his trust fund. \"Was she an ice bitch with you too? Is that why she never let you get in her pants?\" Neville bit out.

\"Mr. Longbottom! I have heard enough. I find for the plaintive, Mrs. Longbottom. The entirety of the trust is transferred to her, and her petition to divorce is hereby granted on the grounds of fraud in failure to disclose marital terms adequately and subsequent infidelity,\" the judge said. With a brief signature, the band on Ginny\'s finger dissolved and she was once again a free woman.


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Okay…I know. A month is *way* too long between updates =( Though I shall endeavor to updated MUCH quicker. Promise.

And now for my show of Appreciation….

Louise – Thanks, and I’ll try !
GrrArrg - *sighs* I didn’t deserve the song as it turns out. Though smuts comeths your way soon. Ginny’s Single!
Morwen – Just wait until you see what happens to Neville without his trust fund ;)
Jenni – Thank you *blushes*
Everqueen – I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as the last two =-) I’m polishing the next one as we speak
Fervesco – Well… he’s better now, and she’s single – life should get VERY exciting very soon!
Rilla – I feel the same way about your stories *grins bigly* I tried to get my husband to play truth or dare… but he just suggested we skip that part and get to the good stuff ;)
Alia – I know… utterly slutty mood when I wrote that huh? *grins* IM me girl!
Estrilda – It is a little known fact that I am rather nasty. It’s a curse I know – but it compelles me to leave cliffhangers that are just Evil… *sighs deeply* I’m getting treatment ;)
Jkrazed – Sorry – it was too long between updates – I know =(
Tradilien – A puddle of Goo? That was what I was aiming for!
Lynn – Thank ya’! I’ll try and post more very soon too!
Louise - *blushes* No food or sleep? Just keep writing? It occurs to me I should read my reviews to poke my muse in the butt… *hugs*
Buttercup – Where did I come up with it? Honestly, I think about sex enti too too much *grins* It’s a blessing and a curse ;)
~Dracaena~ - I love fangirling =-) And thank you for your kind words. They do inspire me more than you can know.
Lizzie – How are your lists going lately? I hope you had a restful holiday and *HUGS*
Peeves - *raspberry back* Thanks – I love being on people’s favorite list! And I hope this chapter was enjoyable. I know it didn’t have any smut, but it was very much a needed chapter.
Mary – hehehe. Smut comeths – soon
Stacey – You are the single most loyal reviewer in the world. Did you know that? *grins* I hope you had a good holiday =)
Siriusnremus - *sobs* I didn’t update for SO long… *sobs* Sorry. I’ll do better
Xander – You just tickle me to no end =) *snuggles and wet willies*
GrrArrg - *smooches*
Jessy – I’m sorry the update took so long. I hope you enjoyed this trip through the legal system ;)
Seraphina – Here’s to soft fruit and Hard men – May they never become hard fruit and soft men!
Asha - *hangs head in shame* I updated. *kicks pebble aimlessly* Sorry….
JC – See Above *sniffle*
Morwen – See Above and I’m sorry!!!!!



Author’s Note. I’m sorry for not updating in a while. It sucks of me, I know. Though I can tell you that after writing all those awesome review replies I am moved by my muse to snuggle up in bed with my laptop and click away far into the night!