A/N: This chapter is another Evanescence song called My Immortal. No, I'm not going to use the whole Evanescence CD but this was the only song I found that I thought fit. Um…any song or artist suggestions would be much appreciated!
Disclaimer: The song belongs to Evanescence and the characters to JKR.
My Immortal
Ginny struggled to pull on her jeans and grabbed her wand off the sink. Her bare feet made no sound as she made her way to the end of the hall. Everything was dark since it was now late, but she didn't dare light her wand. She may be acting foolish but she wasn't taking that chance. Once she reached the bottom of the stairs she saw a figure's silhouette as it crashed into the table.
"Stupefy!" she yelled pointing her wand at the outline. The body stopped moving and fell to the floor.
"Lumos," Ginny said making her way toward the body. Once she reached it, she gasped and muttered the counter curse. "Oh, I'm so sorry, Remus!"
"Its fine Ginny, but we've got to go!" he grabbed her wrist and pulled her put the door.
"Remus…what!"
"There's a death eater attack at Hogsmead. Rosemerta sent me a warning. They were having a meeting at Fred and Georges shop, one of the few left standing. They were discussing the re-building when they saw the dark mark being sent into the sky."
"Oh my God! You mean they'd dare?" Ginny asked. They were almost at the apperation spot.
"I think they are trying to make Draco Malfoy the new leader. Apperate to the Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes and have your wand out." Remus disappeared as Ginny pulled out her wand.
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Because your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
Ginny apperated to the store room of the shop, only to find it empty. She walked cautiously to the door leading to the actual shop and opened it very slowly. The shop was dissertated, yet through the large front window she saw chaos in the street.
Fred was dueling with Lestrange when Ginny yanked open the door and hit her with a curse. Fred stopped to breathe a minute, as the death eater fell to the ground and smiled at Ginny before running after another one.
She surveyed the scene from were she was standing. They were out numbered five to seven. But with Bellatrix down it was a little fairer. She ran to the group of dueling witches and wizards guided mainly by the glow of their curses and spells as the sun set.
As she joined the group on the Order's side, rapidly dodging spells, she realized something as she watched Lupin cast a hex. She ran to Lupin and started fighting beside him as she yelled, "Did you take your potion today!"
"Yea I remembered" grunt as he ducked a curse "right before I" another grunt "got you."
"Good but you're still gonna transform right?" she asked as she took down a death eater across from her.
"Yes, but hopefully we'll be done by then!" he yelled as he took down another.
Ginny fought with all her power and thought of Harry and her family whenever she felt tired. Once she saw three men try to run from the back of the group. She ran to follow them but as they turned the corner into an alley, Draco Malfoy jumped out in front of her making her stop and scream.
"It's a Weasel. Thought you might attend my first gathering." He said with a smirk. He twisted his wand in his fingers as he talked. "I'm taking over the Dark Lord's throne you see. He turned Harry Potter into a drone so now it's only fitting I kill the only women who would still marry him." He jumped into the dueling stance barely giving Ginny enough time to do the same.
"These bastards just don't know when to quit!" she muttered as she dodged the Cruciatus Curse.
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's too much that time cannot erase
The pair were firing spells left and right while trash talking each other's family and loved ones.
"You know, I was thinking that I should shag you right before I kill you. That way I could rub it in Potter's face before I kill him too." Draco said between spells.
"Harry doesn't know who I am to him." She said, firing a particularly nasty curse at him that grazed his shoulder.
Malfoy smirked. "He will when I kill him. I'm taking off that charm just so he remembers who killed him!"
Ginny stalled for a second when what Draco had said actually sank in. Unfortunately it was enough for her to get hit with the Cruciatus Curse. She started writhing on the ground screaming in pain as if she were on fire. It began to feel like hours as her voice came in spurts and her throat felt raw. Suddenly the spell broke and Ginny felt the after pain right away. She looked up to see Remus reaching out a hand. All she wanted was to lay there but she took his hand.
Once standing, she wiped the tears from her face and looked down at a paralyzed Draco Malfoy. Just for good measure she took his wand and stepped on his face, breaking his nose while saying "And that was for you worthless piece of shits ever thing you'd win."
They left Malfoy and ran back up to the hill. But as they ran, the moon began to show in the night sky. Remus, without a word, ran off into the Dark Forrest to transform. Ginny, scarred even thought he remembered his potion, kept running. She arrived at the hill to find ministry officials and aurors. They had twp unidentified death eaters and Lestrange in custody and were about to port key back to the Ministry of Magic. Ginny looked around and saw she and George were the only one's there from the original fight.
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
And you still have all of me
"George where is everyone?" The group of Aurors turned to look at her as her brother walked toward her.
"There were only five of us. Tonks and Fred got hit," Ginny started to cry and he added quickly, "but I'm sure their fine. Where's Lupin?"
"Tonight's a full moon," she said trying to fight her tears.
"I thought that was the case. Please don't cry, Ginny…these men need to hear what happened after you left the group."
George held her hand as she retold what happened after she left the battle. She told them the location of Malfoy and gave the two aurors who went to find him his wand. Once she finished the Ministry man nodded and told her to come see him at nine sharp tomorrow, handing her his card.
She pulled her brother away from the now dwindling group and spoke. "Please send me an owl when you find out anything about Tonks or Fred. I can't bare to go to the hospital now. I'm going to the Burrow to get needed sleep." George nodded and pulled Ginny into a tight hug. He let her go and waved before she apperated to her room at the Burrow.
It was late and everything was still when Ginny arrived. She cast a silencing charm on her door and lay down on her bed to cry. She cried as if she had never cried before. As she cried, her thoughts turned to Harry and what she learned that could help him get his memory back. Her thoughts turned to dreams and soon she was asleep.
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
But now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my most pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me
Ginny woke at five in the morning to a tapping on her window. She went to get up but winced in pain and sat down for a moment. The pain hadn't gone yet and she silently cursed Draco into the next millennium as she moved slowly to the window.
She opened the window and in flew an owl with a scroll of parchment on its leg. Once Ginny had the parchment in her hand and closed the window after the departing owl, she opened the note with shaky hands.
Ginny
Tonks broke a few bones because of the fall and has a nasty cut on her stomach. They want to keep her for awhile. Fred has quite a few bruises and cuts but no broken bones. He's only going to be here a day or two. Come when you can,
Love George
Ginny changed her clothes and cast a cleaning charm on her hair before flooing to St. Mungo's. She walked up to the receptionist desk and asked for Fred's room. The nurse said they were all next to Harry's room and Ginny appreciated how close they kept them all. First she entered the room down the hall from Harry to find Ron and Charlie.
Ginny went to each of her brothers and hugged them gently. "Hey Gin," they mumbled half hugging her back. She sat in the middle of both beds and looked at Ron first.
"How are you holding up?"
"I'm better than the rest. I'm being released tomorrow. Everything's been healed but I'm tired. I'd probably have to sleep for two days just to have the energy to go to the bathroom." Ginny smiled at this comment, Ron hadn't changed a bit.
"That's great, Ron! I'll be here tomorrow so I'll take you home and then you can sleep all you want." Ron smiled at her and she turned to Charlie. "What about you?"
"I'm being released tomorrow too. The only thing I have to do is take a scar deducing potion for this until this time next week." Ginny got up and talked over to the other side of his bed to examine the arm he motioned to. She turned it slightly and saw a green and purple line from his shoulder to his forearm. She looked at Charlie with a sad smile before kissing him on the check and giving him another hug. She had a tear trailing down her face as she did the same to Ron.
"Don't cry Ginny. We're fine…everything's fine." Ron whispered in her hair. She looked Ron in the eye, wanting to tell him how much of a lie is last statement was, but instead gave him a watery smile.
"I've got to go see Bill and Fred. I'll try to come back." She left them with a smile and tears.
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's too much that tie cannot erase
Ginny tried to regain her composer before entering Fred and Bill's room. But once she walked in she lost it again. Fred was lying propped up in his bed covered in bandages and Bill had lots of potions on the table next to his bed. Ginny walked over and looked down at Fred.
"Hey Fred. How bad does it hurt?" she asked softly. He moaned and Ginny hugged him like she did the others. "I'm so sorry."
She tore her gaze away from the twin and walked over to Bill. "How are you holding up?"
"I've had better days," he smiled a weak smile.
"So what's with the potions?" she asked taking his hand.
"To help the pain. I was hit with the Cruciatus Curse and it did a little damage to my spine. I'll be in here a little longer."
"Anything I can do?"
"No, just don't forget I'm here. And take care of mum."
Ginny kissed his cheek. "Of course…I could never forget you." She slowly released his hand and slipped out the door.
She walked into the next room, not caring about her tears. Hermione looked normal, but as she got closer she realized she was very pale. The redhead immediately feared her friend to be dead but then saw her to be sleeping.
"She had a close call with the dementors." Tonks said from the bed across the room.
"Is she ok?"
"Yea, a few more pieces of chocolate and she'll be fine."
"What about you?" Ginny asked making her way to Tonks.
"I'll be out by the end of the month hopefully," though she said this with doubt in her voice.
"What happened?"
"I got a huge gash across my stomach. It won't heal but kept oozing orange stuff. They got the oozing to stop and are trying to close it. My bones got healed a few hours ago."
"I'm so sorry I ran off…" Ginny started.
"Don't. You got Malfoy and that's more than the rest of us can say."
"Yea…"she said, obviously not wanting that credit. "Well, I'm going to see if Harry's awake yet. Everyone else seems to be." She just couldn't take getting praise when she didn't deserve it.
"Ok, please come back with any news you get." She requested and closed her eyes.
Ginny agreed silently as she left the room. She opened the final door and peered in cautiously. Harry was sleeping peacefully so Ginny sat beside him without ever making a noise. Eventually, she started sobbing again and found she needed him more than ever.
Who was she kidding? She couldn't do this alone. She needed him more now and hated Draco and everyone else for what they did to him. Ginny held his hand and continued sobbing remembering to tell Shannon about the new information she received.
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of those years
And you still have all of me
