Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and a couple of new characters.

Change is Good

Ginny sat in her room, trying not to hear the yelling that was her parents.

"She needs to know, Arthur! I am not just going to sit back and watch as my daughter goes through this. I cannot watch her suffer like this anymore. It's not fair to her." Her mother screamed.

"She's doing just fine not knowing…what would be the point in telling her when she's perfectly happy just the way she is. If she knew this she would absolutely lose everything she thought she had."

It was only 11:32 in the morning and they were already screaming. She got dressed in her black mini skirt, black spaghetti strap and long sleeve fishnet shirt. It was August so it was nice out. She could where what she wanted.

She grabbed her purse (black) which held her smokes, lighter, I-Pod and money. Then she walked downstairs and out the door, ignoring her parents constant yelling.

"Ginny, just where you think you're going?" yelled her father. "You're not going anywhere dressed like that. Go put some fucking clothes on…my daughter is not going to dress like a whore."

Ignoring her father's comments, she kept on walking. She walked to the park, which was about an hour's flight by broom. (A/n don't worry it's an all wizards and witches zone;) When she got there, she got out her smokes and lit one inhaling the ability to relax and think. She went and sat on her favorite swing.

She sat there wondering what her parents were talking about. She knew it was about her. They always seemed to argue about her lately. It was always the same argument to. What wouldn't her father tell her? She decided she would talk to her mother later.

She ran her fingers through her elbow length straight bright red hair. She missed her talks with her mother. Since last summer…

Last summer was the worst time ever for Ginny. She had lost her best friend.

Flashback

Vanessa Williams had been her best friend since first year. Her mother had sent the girls to the store for milk at about 11 at nigh when they were 15. They had decided to take a short cut through one of the back alleys. However, that turned out to be the worst idea of Vanessa's life.

When they were walking through, Ginny thought she felt someone following her.

"Vanessa, I don't like this let's just go around," she said as she stopped.

"Quit being a baby, Gin, we'll be f---"but she didn't get a chance to finish her sentence.

A man smelling strongly of Vodka had jumped out from behind a large dumpster, with an 8-inch blade clutched tightly in his hand. He grabbed Vanessa from behind and began barking orders at Ginny. Why did she have to leave her wand at home?

"Listen you little shits, you're going to listen to me and you're going to do everything I say, do you understand?" His eyes were blood shot and blood and dirt covered him. He had a cut above his eye and blood coming from his nose.

"Ok," said a very scared Ginny, complying to keep her friend safe. Knowing she could do nothing cut her deeply.

The man brought out a gun, pointed it at Ginny, and told her to walk. She began to walk ahead and into the back of one of the buildings where he told her to turn. He led the girls down into the basement a couple floors down. It was dark, cold and very uncomfortable. It looked like and old meat butchery. He sat them down, face to face, tied and gagged them.

The man brought out a camcorder and set it up facing the girls. He stood in front of them and turned the cam on.

"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, look what I found. It's your daughter." He pressed the gun to Ginny's head. "And this young girl really seems to want to go home." He cut open Vanessa face with the tip of the knife. "Do you want to go home girls?" He looked at the girls with a large smirk on his face. "Unless you want to see her die, I suggest you do as I say or you will get to see both of these girls get killed in videos I will be sending you. I want the money Arthur, and I want it now. If I don't get my money by Friday, these two girls will be killed. However, they will not be a waste of my time while I'm waiting. They will be put," He licked Tory's face. "..to very good use."

Ginny looked at him and spat in his face.

"You BITCH! I don't think you understand me, do you?" He put the gun to Vanessa's head and pulled the trigger making Ginny flinch and looked away from the bloody mess, tears streaming down her face. How could he just kill someone with out any mercy showing on his face? The man looked back at the camera.

"So you see Arthur, I would have no problem killing anybody to get my money. 3 million or else your daughter will not live past noon on Friday." He clicked off the camera, and looked at Ginny. "It's going to be a long ass 5 days, kid. And you're going to be my little slave."

The murderer mailed the tape to Ginny's father leaving her alone, not bothering to move Vanessa's body, still gagged and tied, from her chair. Ginny just sat and cried. She had let her friend get killed, and could do nothing about it.

She sat and thought for what felt like hours about how she could get out of this. She then heard a thump above her head. The man was back.

"Okay, my dear, it's going to be a long 5 days for you and me. I'm not going to untie you but I will take this off," he said removing the gag.

He then moved Vanessa's body to the dumpster he hid behind.

Vanessa's mother was getting worried. They were sent to the store 2 hours ago. It was one in the morning. She picked up the phone and called Vanessa's cell. She then heard a separate ringing coming from her daughter's room. The one day she leaves her cell phone home!

She had not slept at all and 2 days later on Tuesday, the mail came when she was on her 21st cup of coffee. She felt an envelope that was larger then most and opened it. There was a tape inside. She put the tape into the VCR and hit play.

She called Molly as soon as she saw the girls in the background.

"Molly! Thank god you are home, come to my house now! No, it's about the girls." She hung up waiting to see her neighbor. (A/n they live like 10 minute walk apart.). She heard a pound on the door. She ran to open it and let in a very concerned mother.

"What happened? Where's my little girl?" she cried frantically. Mrs. Williams led Molly into the living room and once again hit play.

Ginny's mother cried as soon as the video began, but when she saw Vanessa get shot, she ran for the phone to call her husband.

The man was gone out once again. It was Friday morning. Ginny looked around. He had finally let her out of her bonds, but kept her locked in the basement. She looked for anything, a window, door he did not see maybe. She had no luck. She sat back down in the chair and stared at the camera. She then jumped up and kicked it. It smashed into bits on the floor. She grabbed the knife he left on his desk. She then went and hid behind the door, waiting for the man to come in.

About 37 minutes later, Ginny heard the door close and footsteps coming down the stairs. She lied flat against the wall behind her and waited for him to unlock the door. She heard the lock click and the door creak open. She lunged on her captor and plunged the blade into his shoulder blade.

He screamed bloody murder, trying to get the bloody knife out of his shoulder. She ran out the door, which was still hanging open. On her way up the stairs, she ran into something hard and sturdy…a police officer!

"Mrs. Weasley, are you ok?" Ginny promptly fainted.

The man caught her and called his men down to look at what she had done. He then carried her up the many stairs towards the safety of her mother and father.

End Flashback

Ginny had been gone for a while and her mother was worried. She looked at her husband.

"Arthur, she's been gone a while, shouldn't we go look for her?" she looked at him, hopeful

He looked at her with a disgusted look on his face. "She'll be fine, she's 16, and she can handle herself." He just took another sip of his Fire Whisky. They do not know how wrong they were.