Title: As time Goes By
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original characters, settings, etc.
Chapter 1
As Candles Dim
Living is like being on fire. Passionately engulfing surroundings, emitting smoke and steam and dancing dangerously over and into whatever is in the way. Yet slowly, as all fires do, they burn out and dim and flicker and then
They die. And we die with them.
Our bodies smolder and take on so many burdens and pain and constriction that they wither away and turn to ash.
Ginny Weasley was tired. She was tired of Tom taunting and poisoning her mind with lies that she thought to be real. She was tired of the tirade her brothers and mother and father put up saying that everything was ok. She loved them sincerely and passionately and whole heartedly.
But, as it were, Ginny Weasley was tired. She was tired of fighting. Tired of everything.
And so at the age of 16 the fire was going out of Ginny Weasley, she was burning out. And as surely as a fire dims Ginny Weasley was dieing. Slowly but certainly.
Ginny Weasley was dieing and unless someone could give her incentive to live, for only she can keep herself alive, only she can keep the fire burning inside of her. Because living is her choice and if she wants to die she will, but if someone won't let her…
Well then, the fire that is Ginny Weasley will glow and strengthen and burn brightly and furiously until her body gives out. Even so, her choice to live would keep her burning for a much longer time than if she just gave up.
And in the coming school year somebody would make it very difficult for her to give up.