Happily Ever After

This is going to be a two chapter fic. If I feel devinely motivated, it might go on. We'll see.

Chapter One

Princes Don't...

Ginny shoved the book away in disgust. "Bloody arrogant prick." She muttered. "I can't go ten minutes with out thinking of him. Ugh! pisses me off. Supposed to be over him, Gin. Just because he doesn't play by the rules doesn't mean you have to."

"What rules are those?"

Ginny looked up. There was no one. She looked around. This half of the library was deserted except for the blond head of Draco Malfoy a table away.

"Great, now I'm back talking myself."

There was a chuckle and Malfoy came over. "No. But I am curious."

He sat down. Ginny debated telling him off, then decided not to. He had never been civil to her, but at least he never singled her out for irritating.

She sighed. "The Hero Rules."

A slight smile, that may have been the trick of the light, touched his face. "I take it Potter isn't doing his part."

Ginny rolled her eyes. "That's an understatement. Harry is being a dick head. No, wait, he's being your average teenage male super hero."

"There's such a thing as an average teen super hero?"

Ginny shot an annoyed glance up at Draco. "You know what I mean."

"So what is he doing that isn't up to the rules?"

Ginny sighed. "Ok, how many hero-rescues-damsel-in-distress books have you read?"

Draco shrugged. "About five or six. Why?"

"Ok." She leaned forward, eyes narrowed dangerously. "Every one has a pattern, no? Handsome knight comes galloping in to save a beautiful damsel in distress."

"I noticed you didn't include intellegent in your description of this knight."

"Yeah, well, we all know who I'm talking about so I wouldn't want to mis lead anyone. Any way, What happens next? The girl's hand is pledged to this idiotic Romeo and the girl has no say. Now usually this chick isn't too well endowed in the intellegence bit anyway, so there's really nothing to worry about."

"I'm feeling a but."

"Right you are. But, this knight in question doesn't want his prize. Don't ask me why. Maybe she was too smart for him. maybe she wasn't pretty enough. So he broke the rules. Knights are supposed to go for the first girl they save. Only he didn't. Instead he waited around for the prettiest, stupidest, richest broad he could save."

"Well, I know you fail on two parts, but isn't one out of three not bad?"

Ginny looked up at him through her bangs. "I can never tell when you're being serious."

He smirked. "One of my endearing qualities."

Ginny rolled her eyes. "Right."

"I take it Lavender is this rich dumb broad."

"No, she's just a step. Just like I was."

He tugged a strand of her cerise hair. "But this step is much prettier."