Rewritten chapters ... a new start for Time after Time
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"Ginny, are you ok?" Bill lifted his head and saw his little sister come into his kitchen.
Ginny didn't say anything, but she looked at him with big brown eyes. "Come here." Bill took his 12 year old sister into his lap. She buried her head in his chest: "It was all my fault…Bill…only my fault. The chamber…I…I attacked pupils…"
Ginny could not comprehend what she did and Bill didn't know what he should say to comfort her. If it would help her, he would go back to England in an instant, with the only purpose to kill Lucius Malfoy. "No, Ginny. That was not you!" he tried to sooth her.
"But… I… told the Basilisk to attack...and I almost killed Ron and Harry. He used me…" she sobbed into his chest. Ginny never cried, this was only the third time he saw her cry. The first time was, when she felt off a broom and broke her arm when she was 7. The second time, Ron had hidden her stuffed dragon, she was 5 years old. And now this, never, thought the oldest Weasley son, has seen her this desperate. So broken, not since the 3 weeks his family stayed here in Egypt, he never saw her smile or laugh. She refused to go into the pyramids. If he ever came across Malfoy he won't show any mercy.
"He hurt me… and I thought he was my friend." Ginny's sobs pulled him out of his thoughts.
"What did he do to you?" he asked, but he didn't know if he really want to hear the answer.
Ginny shook her head, this was something she would never be able to talk about. "It's ok. You don't have to. I'll get you in bed."
"Will you stay, Billie?" she asked quietly.
"As long as you want." he whispered, and tucked her in.
"Take care f, Ginny!" her Mum hugged her tightly. "Of course, mum." Ginny forced her self to smile. She followed Hermione, Ron and Harry into the train.
"I have to talk alone with you." Harry muttered. Ron turned around: "Go away, Ginny!"
Ginny was shocked, he promised her, that he would never leave her side again. She gulped: "How nice!" and with that she swaggered away.
"No... Please... no!" Ginny woke up, soaked in sweat. She looked around; she was in Hogwarts in her bed, not in the chamber. She tried to breathe calmly, like Bill showed her. But the pictures didn't disappear. She saw herself, how she attacked her friends, how she dipped her finger in their blood. "You don't have any friends. You have only me!" she heard him again. Her nightmare. Tom.
Gently she got out of her bed, crept the stairs down, to the boys-dormitories.
'Boys 5th Year' was written on the door.
"Fred?" she crawled into the bed of her big brother, he moved slowly.
"Ginny!" Fred wiped his face.
"I am so ashamed." she told him calmly. Fred opened his eyes wide, he could only make out her silhouette. She sat cross legged on his bed, her face set in a serious scowl.
Fred sat up: "What do you mean, Peanut?"
"He comes back, like last year.", her voice was small and scared. Appalled, Fred pulled her into a hug. He couldn't remember when he saw his little so devasted, Ginny was always the third twin, the little prankster not this scared and frightened girl. He could curse himself for it, that he doesn't get how bad she was doing last year. Maybe he could have prevented this, if he had spend time with her, like he had promised it to her.
"Fred, who're you talking to?" then he saw her. Ginny, how she try to disappear into Fred.
"What happened?"
"I am scared, George, scared that she doesn't get it."
"She will do, she is strong. And she has us and Ron, we will protect her!" he tried to calm his twin. "And where were we last year? The only time, when she really needed us, we weren't there, George!"
"Take me away, Fred." mumbled Ginny.
"What?" Fred lifted her chin.
"Out of here. Out of Hogwarts. Please!"
"But Ginny, where would you go?" George was dumbfounded.
"Anywhere. Anywhere, where he won't find me. Everywhere, where is no magic."
"Are you sure?" Fred looked at her.
"Yeah. I don't want any magic any longer!"
"Where is Ginny, actually?", Ron asked the next morning during breakfast.
"Packing.", Fred stood behind him. "If you would like to say good bye. You should go now. She is leaving in a couple of minutes."
"What? Why?" Hermione didn't understand, she thought Ginny was a friend.
"Isn't that obvious?" Fred shrugged. The trio got up and followed Fred to the Gryffindor tower. Ginny stood in the common room, and bid farewell to a friend.
"Do you have everything, Peanut?" George asked.
"Yes, I think so. I should go to the Entrance Hall." she smiled at him.
"Hey, would you really leave without saying goodbye to us?" Hermione looked at Ginny.
"To be honest, yes!" Ginny dropped her gaze. "Can we go?" she turned around to the twins. Ginny looked around as she did the trip from the common room to the entrance hall the last time, tried to soak every little ounce of magic and beauty that was held in this very castle.
"Miss Weasley!" someone shouted. Ginny turned around and saw her former Head of house Professor McGonagall.
"As your head of house and in the name of the whole Hogwarts faculty, I wish you only the best for your future. Take care of yourself!"
"Thank you very much, Professor!"
Ginny only then saw her two oldest brother behind Professor McGonagall, she flung herself into their arms. "Everything prepared?"
"Yes." Charlie hugged her and Bill took her trunks. "We bring you to Aunt Phoebe."
"Write me, Mione." she hugged her friend shortly.
"But…Ginny…"
"I am going to my Aunt, she lives in London. The twins have her address. Don't forget me. And here… I won't need it any more." Ginny pushed her wand in Hermiones hand.
"You will need it…"
"No, magic is history for me!" she said loudly. Ron and Harry looked horror-stricken.
"Bye Ron." she hugged him, and waved to Harry, then went with Charlie and Bill. She turned her back to Hogwarts and magic, and started her new life!
