Disclaimer: However much I might wish I did, unfortunately I do not own any of these characters… They all belong to JKR.

Chapter 1 - Reflection

It was pitch black outside

when she woke up screaming.

As tears cascaded down her face

she realised

it had already happened.

Ginny's heart sank into icy depths as it hit her again and again that he was gone. As were many others. She thought of all the faces that would fade into her memory when her eyed did not see them.

With just two words

Riddle had destroyed

Her life,

Her heart,

Her future.

She knew that sleep would not claim her again to rescue her out of reality past or present. She tiptoed down the hallway, the light of a candle lighting her way as the misty paths of her mind cleared.

She entered the attic,

the place where she dwelled

on what could have been.

She placed herself in front of the mirror

with those now-familiar reflected letters.

As she looked in the glass she only saw

herself with a boy

with untidy black hair nearly covering a scar,

the scar that had shaped her life.

She gave up trying to stem the tears.