True Poison is Paper and Ink
Dark!Ginny Weasley
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Traitors Part I
Once you've been touched, darkness never really leaves you. And oh, how she'd been touched by the devil himself, his soul wrapped around hers, draining her very life force. She had been possessed by evil incarnate for nearly a year, and all the magic in the world could never erase the black spot that not marred her soul. Not that she wanted it gone.
Once you've tasted darkness, a craving for it developes. The power of it, the energy that propels you onwards as you commit sin after sin, as your smile as the blood runs. She missed the darkness that had taken her prisoner, that had given her her first tastes of true power.
Ginny Weasley missed Tom Riddle. It wasn't, of course, simply based on the fact that the boy she had met through the diary was frighteningly handsome or had a way with words that would put every poet to shame. She missed the power and the energy of his soul, the weightless feeling of not caring about what was going to happen to anybody.
It was sociopathic, psychopathic even. And yet, Ginny found herself uncaring about that fact as well. He was charismatic, he was the kind of person who made you crave their approval, the master of effortless manipulations. He had, by all rights, ruined her first year of Hogwarts, had scarred her for life. She should never ever want to have to interact with him again.
God, how she missed him. She couldn't tell anybody, of course. They'd all call her crazy and ship her off to St. Mungo's in a second. There was no way to reach him from St. Mungo's. Ginny wouldn't be trapped like she was. Ginny was stronger, could hold herself together as the desire to fuck everything, go to Him raged inside her, tearing her apart.
There was nothing stopping her from going, really. She knew they would go with her, well, really, she would go with them. They'd all lost their minds to the touch of darkness, the sweet caress of evil.
Power was addicting. She could see why politicians went corrupt, why people murdered and connived for the chance to be above someone else. Ginny knew that she was mentally off kilter a little bit, but Lord, Oh Lord, she loved every second of it. The frozen shell of her heart and the empty space where her conscious used to live.
She was more ambitious than people gave her credit for. Youngest, and only, daughter gave her the drive to upstage all six of her brothers in the future. She made a note in her mind to make sure she got to destroy the worst one before they did. She knew, of course, that He would give him as a prize to his protegees, that Ginny would never get her chance to show him just how powerless she really was.
Her mother had read Muggle Greek Myths to her as a child, and from 5 years old Ginevra Weasley was fixated on the story of Hades and Persephone.
He stole her, they said. Hades stole Persephone from her mother. But he hadn't, not really, had he? He saw her, fell in love with her, and offered her half his realm. He offered her power and freedom and everything she didn't have with Demeter. People think women are so naïve. Oh no, they see what they want and the world be damned in their quest to reach it.
Ginny Weasley fancied herself a Persephone. Trapped under the will of a mother, kept from freedom and the magic that made her heart race. Though, in reality, she knew they were the true Hades and Persephone, and she was nothing more than a knockoff. A knockoff, but one that would do anything to reach her goal and her god.
She knew, of course, that she was only a lackey to the real Hades and Persephone, that even if they claimed that their little sub-group was equal in power, she would never have the kind of power and control they wielded. She couldn't really bring herself to care, though. She was infinitely better than the rest, and very few could ever be as powerful as they were. After all, they were to rule if He could not. And Ginny knew they would rule with cold hearts and iron fists and Sweet Merlin, how she longed to stand with them when they took their thrones.
She thought about the Sorting Ceremony when she was eleven, a too-big wool hat hanging over her head, whispering Slytherin in her ear as she prayed as hard as she prayed as hard as she could for Gryffindor.
She remembered the table of red and gold clapping because Oh, look, the last Weasley. She remembered looking at the table of green and silver out of the corner of her eye, wondering what it would have been like to sit with them, to wear their colors.
Ginny had watched them almost obsessively, and the spirit of Tom Riddle hadn't helped her regret over her house, no, he only fueled it. Tales of the common room and the stewing pot of power that churned within the House. He told her of the Notts and the Malfoys and the Blacks and their power and their magic. She, between every story, ever line of written word, hated her weasel blood even more.
They were purebloods living like scum, struggling to make ends meet over 7 children. She would have been hated in Slytherin, child of blood traitors, but she would have been the one to bring glory to her family, to make the line Noble once more. It was left to her to make the Weasleys great, and she could not do it without Him, without them.
It was too late now, of course. She had wasted seven years of her life in a House she chose out of fear. She would never let fear control her again.
Ginevra Molly Weasley made her choice. She would not let her fear keep her from Him. They would surely take her with them, and if they didn't she was following them.
She would never be a prisoner to her own emotions for as long as she lived.
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