A/N: Hi this is my first HP fanfic so tell me what you think… This chapter is dedicated to Lilo for beta'ing it and pushing me to write the best I can... XD

He gazed at her with such intent that she knew the fragile silence had to be broken or her world might come to an end. The silence was so different from their comfortable pauses; it held an air of importance and was intensified by Harry's gaze.

"Harry, what's wrong?" Ginny asked. His lips began to form a word but he stopped midway, and went back to gazing at her. Then he blinked once and lowered his head.

His dark hair concealed his face as if he had drawn black curtains to hide what he felt at that moment. Ginny began to worry; she had never seen him in such a state before. She repeated her question once more in hope that he would enlighten her. Fortunately, this time, he felt he had to answer or else he would be too reluctant to bring the subject up again.

She leaned in to hold his hand to reassure him, he seemed to be having second thoughts about telling her what this was all about. He had seeked Ginny out with the excuse that he had something to tell her; alone.

The fire flickered in the Gryffindor Common Room, impatiently awaiting the news Harry had to tell. The seventh and sixth year students held each other for what seemed like all eternity but what was, in reality, a few minutes. To her it had appeared like she had continued on looking into Harry's green eyes for hours and hours; drowning in their depth and intensity, suffocating with the grimness they held.

"Ginny, this morning one of Fudge's men pulled me out of class saying that the ministry demanded my presence for urgent matters; I honestly have no idea how Snape bought that," Harry started. She had wondered where he was all this morning, and had had some ideas, but thought against sharing them when he came back frustrated. In an effort to uncomplicate the issue, or at least not add to its complexity, seeing as it was starting to look more important than she had thought it before, Ginny kept quiet and waited patiently for Harry to continue.

Ginny inhaled deeply, the haze of the whole matter at hand had begun to lessen and the image became clearer to her as to what this was all about. She felt as though she was witnessing an unveiling of a great master piece. As it had been a dusty day and it was just starting to rain. She began to understand what this was all leading to.

"Ginny he wanted to see me because he suspected that Dumbledore and I had uncovered something; I know that he doesn't even suspect anything about the Horcruxes but I can't even risk having him suspect anything. I have to leave to end this," Harry said. Ginny knew this would happen eventually but she didn't think it would happen so soon. Harry, seeing that Ginny wasn't going to say anything, began to speak again. "Ginny, I know this is hard. Imagine how hard it is for me. It's only for a month."

Bravely fighting back her tears, she began to say, "Harry, you don't know how much I'm going to miss you…" Ginny knew how hard it was for Harry to express his inner concerns, however subtly to someone, and that added to her anxiety.. He always felt as though he had to keep up the hero façade however much he hated it.

Harry put his hands into his pockets and brought out an oddly shaped paper ball that was tied with string. Ginny looked at him curiously; he just smiled. He began untying it and slowly the layers thinned until two rings were uncovered. "Harry is that what I think it is?!" Ginny exclaimed happily. She had seen it on Lavender, and read about it in one of Rita Skeeter's articles, she fell upon it by accident and read it having nothing better to do. And although she had always thought them to be sappy, she found the promise rings sweet when Harry was the one giving them to her.

Harry blushed, "Well yeah, it's a promise ring. I was going to give them to you later but I figured I could pick them up on my way back from Fudge". He took hold of her hand and gently slipped on the ring; it fit perfectly.

It glistened from the fire that now glowed brightly, clearly relieved knowing what Harry had say. "Ginny, this ring is a promise that I will always keep you safe. Do you see those stones? Well supposedly, whenever I'm thinking of you they'll gleam and glitter just like your eyes do when you're scheming with Fred and George." Harry winked as Ginny laughed at his comparison.

To Ginny it just seemed so perfect and sweet of Harry to think of giving her a promise ring let alone actually giving one to her. But then again she never really thought Harry and her would get together either.

Ginny leaned in to kiss him. Then Harry mysteriously explained the last special thing about the two rings, "You see those runes on the sides of the ring? Be sure to let Hermione crack the code for you…"

"But wouldn't it be just be easier if you told me what they say?" Ginny asked . Harry just smiled and pulled Ginny closer to him figuring that Harry had probably forgotten what was written and she graciously saved him the embarrassment and anyways Hermione would most gladly translate the runes for her. After several calm minutes Ginny thought of a question she had wanted to ask before Harry brought out the promise rings . "Harry what exactly did you mean by 'putting an end to this'?"

"I don't think I should tell you". Harry replied. Ginny pouted and Harry continued, "Well this is against my better judgment… I think I've located the third Horcrux. Don't try to look like you don't know what they are; I know you know. "

Ginny laughed tensely, but carefully didn't reveal her sources to him, "Are Ron and Hermione going with you?".

"No… not this time, they're going to stay here; it's too dangerous."

Ginny didn't think she could fight back her tears any longer. "If it's so dangerous why are you going? You can ask McGonagall to send some of the Order members to do it."

"Ginny you and I both know that I can't do that… I have to do this myself; Dumbledore trusted me."

Ginny knowing that it was no use arguing over if she should go or not at the moment and decided that she'd talk to him about it later after she conjured some convincing arguments to prove her point.

Ginny nodded almost dejectedly, and with that they both cuddled up and eventually fell asleep wondering if they would ever have such a moment of calmness, where all the troubles of the outside world stopped at the borders of their world. A world where only Ginny and Harry existed; a world solely theirs.

When they woke up the next morning, by Hermione, they received a suspicious look from her. Pretended not to see her they ignored her while rushing to get back to their dorms.

During breakfast Ginny leaned in next to Harry and asked him when he was going to leave while Hermione read the Daily Prophet and Ron was gobbling down a batch of pancakes. They majority of the Gryffindor house had still not arrived to breakfast probably due to an experiment of Fred and George's for Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes that would be hitting the markets fairly soon given the results; a powdery substance that is to be mixed with any drink that supposedly puts the person who drinks it into "the wizard world version of the muggles virtual dimensions".

"I guess at about quarter to twelve, but I do feel guilty not telling McGonagall about it. I'll just tell Hermione and Ron and let them break the news to her. God help me they're going to turn the world upside down when they know." Harry dreaded the chime of eleven.

A/N: This is a rewritten version of the original chapter… hopefully it's improved… please review… XD