I forgot to thank my reviewers in the last chapter. IronSpockMaster, Silentearscream, LauraFlowi and most definitely my Kanling. Without your reviews I don't know if I'd be writing it this fast :) To everyone else. Come on, write something to me! I like it... I'll write even faster?

This is becoming a little longer than I expected. No, that's not a bad thing. The characters are doing their own thing, so that leaves me on the roadside. So expect a few more chapter in the coming days.

Onto the next chapter.

Ginny started to calm herself down. It was hard work, and she didn't particularly want to. She knew if she managed it, she'd had to get herself up to the castle and to the hospital wing. She started to take sharp shallow breaths.

'It's all my fault. It's all my fault. It's all my fault.'

She cried out in pain. She felt like running away. If she did that, then she wouldn't have to worry about anything at all.

No. She couldn't do that. She hiccoughed a couple of times and sniffed. Looking around she rubbed her eyes. 'Oh god. I must look like a wreck.' Getting up she stretched, rolling her back and raising her arms above her head. 'I better go.'

Sighing with resignation and looking defeated she made the short trek up to the castle and seemingly to her, to her fate.

"Oh my god Ginny! Where have you been? Ron came back carry Hermione, saying that you were right behind him and you were no where to bee seen. We've been worried..."

"I know." Ginny cut her mother off. "Where's Hermione?"

Mrs. Weasley looked stunned. She had never before been spoken to like that from any of her children but she could tell the stress that her daughter was feeling at that moment so she decided against saying anything. Well, at least for the time being.

"Ron took her to the hospital wing. She's doing fine and is not alone, Ron is there with her."

"Thanks mum. I'm going to go see how she is."

"I know you want to make sure your friend is ok, but we know she's ok and you can't do anything for her. You shouldn't crowd her."

"I'm going," Ginny said in a way which bade no argument. "and I can do something for her. I can be there." she finished softly.

She hugged all her family and friends, told them all she was ok when she asked and let them know she was only going to the hospital wing when they asked where she was going when she started to walk away.

Ginny couldn't tell if she wanted to get there quickly or slowly. Therefore she started to do a stupid kind of walk where for a few steps she'd almost be running and the next few steps would be a slow crawl. Due to this, she got there in about the same amount a time it would have taken her going at normal pace.

Upon arriving at the hospital wing she came face to face with Ron.

"Oh, Ron."

"Ginny. What are you doing here?"

Ginny frowned. "What? I've come to see Hermione of course."

"Do you really think you can just waltz back in here after what you've done?"

"What.. What I've done?"

"Hermione's unconscious and you've had you're entire family back here worried about you."

"But... Mum said Hermione was ok."

"She will be ok, but she hasn't woken up yet. No thanks to you."

"N... N... No thanks to me?"

"Yeah Ginny. Hermione would be ok if it wasn't for you. She was going looking for you when she got hurt."

"Don't you dare Ron! I never asked her to come looking for me!"

"Yeah well she did! If you hadn't run off, she never would have had to."

The feeling to run away intensified. If it had of been anyone else standing in front of her she probably would have but Ron. RON. No, she wasn't going to bow down before him. Her took Hermione from her when she was perfectly fine to carry the girl herself. No, she wasn't going to run away because of him. Her stubborn streak had just kicked in, and right on time.

"Let me past Ron, I want to see her."

"No."

"Ron, move."

"No. I'm not letting you in."

"You have no choice Ron, let me through."

"She doesn't want to see you!"

All of Ginny's fears hit her at once, she almost relented and went away but somewhere deep inside her mind something clicked.

"I thought you said she's unconscious?"

"She is, so she won't know you're there anyway."

Ginny growled and said slowly and menacingly, "Get. Out. Of. My. Way. Ron. Don't make me ask you again, or I will hex you. You're not speaking for Hermione, so MOVE!" Ginny at this point was seething, and it took all her strength of will not to punch her brother in the face.

Ron looked as if he was about to say no again, but relented when he saw the look in her eye. "She's through that door, and right at the end." He growled.

Ginny stepped through the door and Ron went to follow. He stopped however by one look from Ginny and her wand pointed at him. Looking around she spotted the occupied bed and made her way over to it. Madam Pomfrey was there and turned towards Ginny at her approach.

"You were there when this happened? They couldn't tell me what happened to her except she was stunned."

"Um yeah," Ginny answered, she was looking at the unconscious Hermione and not really listening. "She was stunned. I tried the rennervate spell, but it didn't work."

While Madam Pomfrey takes her job very seriously and professionally and thus comes across as stern, this time she saw the look Ginny was giving Hermione so she tried to be a little less aggressive.

"Yes dear, I know that part. Is there anything else you can tell me?"

"Yeah, um, she was injured in Hogsmead trying to help me. I went down into the town when I heard the caterwauling charm going off..."

Madam Pomfrey cut her off. "Why would you do that silly girl?"

"I don't... I don't know. Anyway, I must have missed them and when I got into town they had already arrived at Hogwarts. Someone, I don't know who, told them that I had gone down to meet them. Hermione decided it was up to her to come get me. She found me hiding out in the shrieking shack but at the same time she found me, a whole bunch of Death Eaters found me as well. We were trying to get out when the shack started falling apart around us. She was hit by a falling beam. She still managed to apparate the two of us out of town but it took a lot out of her as she was already in a lot of pain, and she fainted upon arrival.

"We were in some woods somewhere, I don't know where, and apparently neither does Hermione. She told me she just wanted to get us out of there and wasn't really thinking too clearly about a destination." Ginny took a moment to marvel at the aptitude of her best friend. That she could apparate them without having a clear destination was amazing.

"I found a small cave, and built a fire. We stayed there the night. This morning I asked her if she could apparate us back here. She said she could, and she did." Ginny started crying again. "It's all my fault." She motioned to Hermione. "If I hadn't had gone into Hogsmead, if I hadn't had asked her to bring us back here this morning..."

"Miss. Weasley. Stop, please. Don't blame yourself, this isn't your fault. You never asked to have her hit with a stunning spell."

"But..."

"No buts. It isn't your fault. She will be ok, she just needs to heal herself before she wakes."

Ginny nodded, but she didn't really believe it herself.

"I'll leave you with her." Madam Pomfrey turned and walked back into her office.

Ginny found a chair by Hermione's bedside and sat down in it.

"Oh Hermione. I am so sorry. They tell me you're going to be ok. You better be, I'll never forgive myself if you're not." Ginny took hold of Hermione's hand. "I'll never forgive you if you leave me."

Ginny put her head down on the bed holding Hermione's hand as close to her as possible and started crying. "Please don't leave me Hermione." Ginny realised she's said that a lot to Hermione in the past two days but it was how she felt. "Don't leave me 'Mione."

Seeing that Hermione apparated them away from the final battle in the first place, this clearly moves away from canon, so I took author's priviledge, I just hope that Ginny's little story doesn't sound too stupid and out of place.