A/N: Welcome! This piece has been a marathon effort for me. Life gets in the way, as you Fanfiction authors will know.
Warning:it is un-Beta-ed and has been subject to the whim of my muse,so please,please,please let me know if I have done something outlandishly stupid (like put a random character's name where I mean another one entirely).
PS: I own nada. And if I did, I would not be an archaeologist on ridiculously low wages and my lover would not be getting shot at on another continent.
Whilst beyond the once-hallowed walls of Hogwarts a bloody war storms on, unknown to most, an equally bloody guerrilla battle rages within the school. In this disguised torture house, a silent conflict is being fought by the valiant of Dumbledore's Army. The students are locked inside, unable to leave and unable to get word out of the atrocities being enacted upon them.
It is in this climate that Ginny Weasley and Neville Longbottom, the core of the mighty Dumbledore's Army leadership, are caught. Their fates are entwined in the hands of one Draco Malfoy, Death Eater. To Ginny he offers an ultimatum. At his hands, she expects nothing but agony and humiliation.
What she uncovers is a secret buried deep in the fabric of all she holds dear, one that might just change the course of the Seconding Wizarding War forever.
But can a loyal lioness, the lover of a hero, a caged Phoenix, really trust a serpent, branded of her sworn enemy, a collared wolf?
