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A/N: First off I want to thank my reviewers..I have FIVE so far. I know that's not a lot..but to me it's five people who read my story and liked it so much and cared enough to review.......and I appreciate it.
NIKKI NICK: MY FIRST REVIEWER...so YAY for you..lol. DOPHINGIRL79: Thank you for letting me know I was blocking all the anonymous reviewers..i had NOOOO idea I had them blocked. VOICEZWITHIN: Thank you. Although you being my sister I do see you everyday and talk to you everyday so I really don't need to tell you anything here. But thanks for reviewing.lol. NATBAG: Thank you very much for reviewing. I will try to update as much as possible. WEASLEY: Yea I know..I am making Draco to be VERY hated in this story.
Well I expect another review after your done reading this chapter ok? LOL..J/K. Well here it is..i hope you enjoy and let me know if you like ok?
KITCHEN
Ginny slowly went downstairs. She found the kitchen rather quickly and when she entered it Harry was sitting down sipping some coffee. She never understood why he liked to drink coffee; she hated it, preferred tea or hot cocoa.
"Hey, come one have a seat. I wasn't sure of what you were in the mood for, so Dobby prepared a little bit of everything, so enjoy." He said smiling, showing off the table full of food
"I can see." She said sitting down at the table, seeing it filled with eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, muffins and other things. "So Dobby works for you?" She asked, looking at Dobby who was still setting plates on the table.
"Yea. The day I went to speak to Dumbledore about my teaching there, I saw him. When he heard I had a house, he graciously offered to work for me so I hired him. I also hired Winky, you know she need Dobby around." He said jokingly.
"That's sweet of you."
They ate in silence for the rest of the time. Well, Harry ate, Ginny just drank half a glass of Juice and a slice of toast which took her a good 20 minutes to eat.
"Are you done eating, Ginny?" Harry asked
"Oh.yea. It was really good. Thank you." She said, not looking up from her plate. Harry could tell she was in her own world.
"Come on then, lets go into the Living Room and talk a little, we have a lot of catching up to do." Harry said getting up from his seat. Ginny followed. He hoped they could talk about things, and eventually and hopefully get into the subject of her bruises, although he had a pretty good idea.
They sat down on the sofa and got comfortable. They talked for a little about everything. Harry asked her about teaching, trying to get ideas for when he started. Her spirit was brighter as she spoke about teaching and "her" kids. They also spoke about the All-Star tour and Quidditch, and Harry told her how he had basically just had it with traveling and was sick of not seeing his friends. And how he wanted a home, something he had never had or could remember having. Finally after about an hour and half of talking, the question Harry was waiting to ask and Ginny was waiting to hear was said.
"Gin, can I ask you something?" He said, seriousness filling his voice. Ginny looked up at him, their eyes meeting. She nodded. "Look Ginny, I consider you one of my best friends. You mean the world to me, and you know that. I also still love you, very much and I always will, no matter what happens between us. You have been there for me through so much. You were there for me through some of the hardest times of my life and you were there for some of the best. Now it's my turn to be here for you. I want to know why you flooed into my house last night? Why you are all bruised up? And most importantly I want to know why you yelled out Malfoy's name last night when I tried to wake you. And if you don't want to talk about any of this right now.it can wait...I don't want to push you into telling me anything you aren't ready for ok?" He said, never once breaking eye contact with Ginny.
Ginny broke their eye contact and started to cry. Harry gently took her hand and held them.
"Ginny, if you don't want to talk...we don't have to." Ginny straightened up, wiped the tears from her eyes.
"No.Harry I want to tell you. I need to tell you. Ok Harry. I'll tell you everything, but you have to promise me that what I am going to tell you will stay in this room at least for now and you have to promise to control your temper. I know you are going to get mad at some of the things. And I also want you to know that whatever I did, I didn't do it to hurt anyone, especially you. Because Harry, I still love you...and you are the last person I would ever want to hurt. Ok?" She said, in just the same serious tone as Harry had used.
"I promise Ginny." Harry agreed.
"Good. Now what do you want to know?"
"Gin, I want to know what you are willing to tell me. I don't want to force you into telling me anything." Harry said.
"Ok.then I'm going to tell you everything. I'll start from the beginning. You remember when we broke up? How I told you I was with Draco?" Harry nodded. "Well I'm sure you know he's a Deatheater. Harry right before the bad part of the war (the end of the war was the worst), Draco came to me and threatened me. He threatened me, made me break up with you and I didn't agree he would hurt my family. See they (Voldemort and his followers) figured that if you were heartbroken over me that would make you vulnerable, that you would be so devastated that Voldemort would be able to defeat you. Draco told me if I didn't break up with you, he would hurt my family Harry, and I couldn't let him do that." By now Ginny had tears pouring from her eyes, Harry was holding her hands, tears forming in his eyes. "He knew what he was doing too; because he didn't threaten me with Ron, Fred or George..he threatened me with the kids. He said he would go and kill each one of my nephews and nieces, and Draco is so sick and twisted he would have done it with no remorse what so ever." Ginny stopped and took a deep breathe. Harry was speechless; he didn't know what to say about what he had just heard.
"Ginny...why didn't you tell anyone? I mean..we could have helped you..I COULD have helped you." Harry said rambling.
"No I couldn't, because he would have hurt someone if I so much as said a word about it. Harry.I knew you would defeat Voldemort; I knew it in my heart. I never had a doubt in you. I knew I had hurt you when I broke up with you, I felt the same pain you did being apart from you. And then Harry you defeated Voldemort. Draco was furious...I mean HE was SUPPOSE to kill YOU. I thought that Voldemort being defeated I would be free.but no..that didn't happen. Draco said that now he was going to make you pay for killing Voldemort and make me pay as well. And he knew how to get me where it hurt. He forbade me to see my family at all. I couldn't OWL them, I couldn't see them, nor could they come and visit me. That's why I never visit them, except Fred and George who I started to visit recently because their store is so close to my school and I would eat one of their Polyjuice Cakes and change into someone else." Ginny finished, crying as hard as ever. Harry didn't know what to do, except pull her in for a hug and let her cry it out. She stayed there, crying into Harry's shoulder for 10 minutes.
"Harry I'm so sorry.I never meant for any of this." She said in a muffled voice, into Harry neck where she had her face buried.
"Shhh..no. Don't apologize, this is not your fault sweetie" Harry repeated, as he rubbed Ginny's back trying to calm her down. After a few minutes, Ginny had stopped crying. She sat upright in her seat, wiping her tears away with the sleeve of her jumper.
"You ok?" Harry asked.
"Yea.I feel a lot better having FINALLY told all that to someone. It's been such a burden carrying that secret this past year." She said, sounding a little more like the regular Ginny.
"Do you want to continue?" Harry asked slowly.
"Yes, I do." She said, nodding her head up and down. She got a little more comfortable in the sofa.
"Do you want to tell me about the bruises?" He asked, touching her bruised check lightly. She put her hand over it, giving a sad smile.
"Oh yea. Those.you know it's funny. I have always been able to defend myself, having grown up with 6 older brothers. I mean, you learn a thing or two about defending yourself. But somehow, none of that worked against Draco. He never really hit me or anything until recently. I mean he had before.let's say If he heard he saw me somewhere, he'd smack me but that's as far as it went. It was never anything too drastic." She said, with her hand still touching her bruised face.
"HE HIT YOU?" Harry said, enraged with anger getting up from the sofa, his fists clenched. He had suspected it had been him who had given her the bruises, but hearing it coming from her made it real.
"Sit down Harry. Yes he did." She said, putting her hand on his shoulder, turning him to face her.
"Ginny, I want to know what happened last night that made you come to my house. I want to know why last night you screamed out draco's name when I tried waking you up." He needed to know, he couldn't wait anymore. They sat down again.
"Ok." She took a deep breathe in. "Remember when we bumped into each other yesterday morning?" She asked, he nodded in response. "Well when I went home right after that and a few hours later he showed up really mad. He started to yell at me." She paused for a second, "At first I didn't know what he was talking about. And he smacked me, really hard. He pushed me against the wall, and told me that he had had it with me. That I was going to pay for everything." Ginny stopped, and took in a few deep breathes. Her eyes were watering, and she was trembling a little. "Harry, he..he threw me on the bed, still beating me. And I tried; I tried so hard to get him off of me. I kicked and I screamed..but nothing..he.kept going..he managed to somehow take my clothes off.and." She didn't get to finish what she was saying, Harry had cut her off.
"He raped you didn't he." Harry stated more then he asked. Ginny looked at Harry and simply nodded, tears blurring her vision. Next thing she knew, Harry had his arms wrapped around her, hugging her, crying along with her.
They sat like that, hugging each other rocking back and forth for an hour. Harry kept whispering calming words in her ear, trying to comfort her. Knowing that NOTHING he said would take the pain that she had been through, it was the only thing he could do, and in trying to calm her he was trying to calm himself as well. After the last tear was shed, Harry spoke again.
"Ginny? Do you plan on doing anything about this?"
"Like what? Tell the Ministry?" Ginny questioned.
"Yea." Harry said like it was the most obvious thing.
"No. I can't. I know that if I do anything.he'll come after me or someone else and I can't risk him hurting someone. Harry, think about it. It will be HIS word against MINE. Everyone thinks that I broke up with you to be with him. No one would believe me, and I know he'd go and hurt someone. I don't want that to happen. And I don't' want to go through all the baggage that will come with trying to send him to Azkaban when it will do nothing, because even though Voldemort is gone, he's still a Malfoy and people still fear that name no matter what." Ginny said. Harry stared at her as if she was nuts. I mean she did have a point, it was her word against Malfoys...but he wanted him to pay for what he did.
"Ok even though I don't agree with that. I believe you SHOULD tell someone. But I'll back you with whatever you say and decide to do Ginny." Harry agreed, knowing it was her choice and hers alone.
The rest of the day, Ginny spent it in bed. After their talk, Ginny wasn't feeling so good, so Harry sent her off to bed and told her to rest. They didn't talk anymore about what happened. The next week went by rather quickly. Harry tried to avoid going out, unless it was important because he didn't want to leave Ginny alone. He only went out twice, once to go get all her clothes and some of her things from her flat, and another time to go buy Ginny a bed, to put into the room next to his, which was now her room. He couldn't sleep on the floor for another night.
A/N: Soooooooooo??? Whaddaya think? Well go ahead and review and let me know..lol.
A/N: First off I want to thank my reviewers..I have FIVE so far. I know that's not a lot..but to me it's five people who read my story and liked it so much and cared enough to review.......and I appreciate it.
NIKKI NICK: MY FIRST REVIEWER...so YAY for you..lol. DOPHINGIRL79: Thank you for letting me know I was blocking all the anonymous reviewers..i had NOOOO idea I had them blocked. VOICEZWITHIN: Thank you. Although you being my sister I do see you everyday and talk to you everyday so I really don't need to tell you anything here. But thanks for reviewing.lol. NATBAG: Thank you very much for reviewing. I will try to update as much as possible. WEASLEY: Yea I know..I am making Draco to be VERY hated in this story.
Well I expect another review after your done reading this chapter ok? LOL..J/K. Well here it is..i hope you enjoy and let me know if you like ok?
KITCHEN
Ginny slowly went downstairs. She found the kitchen rather quickly and when she entered it Harry was sitting down sipping some coffee. She never understood why he liked to drink coffee; she hated it, preferred tea or hot cocoa.
"Hey, come one have a seat. I wasn't sure of what you were in the mood for, so Dobby prepared a little bit of everything, so enjoy." He said smiling, showing off the table full of food
"I can see." She said sitting down at the table, seeing it filled with eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, muffins and other things. "So Dobby works for you?" She asked, looking at Dobby who was still setting plates on the table.
"Yea. The day I went to speak to Dumbledore about my teaching there, I saw him. When he heard I had a house, he graciously offered to work for me so I hired him. I also hired Winky, you know she need Dobby around." He said jokingly.
"That's sweet of you."
They ate in silence for the rest of the time. Well, Harry ate, Ginny just drank half a glass of Juice and a slice of toast which took her a good 20 minutes to eat.
"Are you done eating, Ginny?" Harry asked
"Oh.yea. It was really good. Thank you." She said, not looking up from her plate. Harry could tell she was in her own world.
"Come on then, lets go into the Living Room and talk a little, we have a lot of catching up to do." Harry said getting up from his seat. Ginny followed. He hoped they could talk about things, and eventually and hopefully get into the subject of her bruises, although he had a pretty good idea.
They sat down on the sofa and got comfortable. They talked for a little about everything. Harry asked her about teaching, trying to get ideas for when he started. Her spirit was brighter as she spoke about teaching and "her" kids. They also spoke about the All-Star tour and Quidditch, and Harry told her how he had basically just had it with traveling and was sick of not seeing his friends. And how he wanted a home, something he had never had or could remember having. Finally after about an hour and half of talking, the question Harry was waiting to ask and Ginny was waiting to hear was said.
"Gin, can I ask you something?" He said, seriousness filling his voice. Ginny looked up at him, their eyes meeting. She nodded. "Look Ginny, I consider you one of my best friends. You mean the world to me, and you know that. I also still love you, very much and I always will, no matter what happens between us. You have been there for me through so much. You were there for me through some of the hardest times of my life and you were there for some of the best. Now it's my turn to be here for you. I want to know why you flooed into my house last night? Why you are all bruised up? And most importantly I want to know why you yelled out Malfoy's name last night when I tried to wake you. And if you don't want to talk about any of this right now.it can wait...I don't want to push you into telling me anything you aren't ready for ok?" He said, never once breaking eye contact with Ginny.
Ginny broke their eye contact and started to cry. Harry gently took her hand and held them.
"Ginny, if you don't want to talk...we don't have to." Ginny straightened up, wiped the tears from her eyes.
"No.Harry I want to tell you. I need to tell you. Ok Harry. I'll tell you everything, but you have to promise me that what I am going to tell you will stay in this room at least for now and you have to promise to control your temper. I know you are going to get mad at some of the things. And I also want you to know that whatever I did, I didn't do it to hurt anyone, especially you. Because Harry, I still love you...and you are the last person I would ever want to hurt. Ok?" She said, in just the same serious tone as Harry had used.
"I promise Ginny." Harry agreed.
"Good. Now what do you want to know?"
"Gin, I want to know what you are willing to tell me. I don't want to force you into telling me anything." Harry said.
"Ok.then I'm going to tell you everything. I'll start from the beginning. You remember when we broke up? How I told you I was with Draco?" Harry nodded. "Well I'm sure you know he's a Deatheater. Harry right before the bad part of the war (the end of the war was the worst), Draco came to me and threatened me. He threatened me, made me break up with you and I didn't agree he would hurt my family. See they (Voldemort and his followers) figured that if you were heartbroken over me that would make you vulnerable, that you would be so devastated that Voldemort would be able to defeat you. Draco told me if I didn't break up with you, he would hurt my family Harry, and I couldn't let him do that." By now Ginny had tears pouring from her eyes, Harry was holding her hands, tears forming in his eyes. "He knew what he was doing too; because he didn't threaten me with Ron, Fred or George..he threatened me with the kids. He said he would go and kill each one of my nephews and nieces, and Draco is so sick and twisted he would have done it with no remorse what so ever." Ginny stopped and took a deep breathe. Harry was speechless; he didn't know what to say about what he had just heard.
"Ginny...why didn't you tell anyone? I mean..we could have helped you..I COULD have helped you." Harry said rambling.
"No I couldn't, because he would have hurt someone if I so much as said a word about it. Harry.I knew you would defeat Voldemort; I knew it in my heart. I never had a doubt in you. I knew I had hurt you when I broke up with you, I felt the same pain you did being apart from you. And then Harry you defeated Voldemort. Draco was furious...I mean HE was SUPPOSE to kill YOU. I thought that Voldemort being defeated I would be free.but no..that didn't happen. Draco said that now he was going to make you pay for killing Voldemort and make me pay as well. And he knew how to get me where it hurt. He forbade me to see my family at all. I couldn't OWL them, I couldn't see them, nor could they come and visit me. That's why I never visit them, except Fred and George who I started to visit recently because their store is so close to my school and I would eat one of their Polyjuice Cakes and change into someone else." Ginny finished, crying as hard as ever. Harry didn't know what to do, except pull her in for a hug and let her cry it out. She stayed there, crying into Harry's shoulder for 10 minutes.
"Harry I'm so sorry.I never meant for any of this." She said in a muffled voice, into Harry neck where she had her face buried.
"Shhh..no. Don't apologize, this is not your fault sweetie" Harry repeated, as he rubbed Ginny's back trying to calm her down. After a few minutes, Ginny had stopped crying. She sat upright in her seat, wiping her tears away with the sleeve of her jumper.
"You ok?" Harry asked.
"Yea.I feel a lot better having FINALLY told all that to someone. It's been such a burden carrying that secret this past year." She said, sounding a little more like the regular Ginny.
"Do you want to continue?" Harry asked slowly.
"Yes, I do." She said, nodding her head up and down. She got a little more comfortable in the sofa.
"Do you want to tell me about the bruises?" He asked, touching her bruised check lightly. She put her hand over it, giving a sad smile.
"Oh yea. Those.you know it's funny. I have always been able to defend myself, having grown up with 6 older brothers. I mean, you learn a thing or two about defending yourself. But somehow, none of that worked against Draco. He never really hit me or anything until recently. I mean he had before.let's say If he heard he saw me somewhere, he'd smack me but that's as far as it went. It was never anything too drastic." She said, with her hand still touching her bruised face.
"HE HIT YOU?" Harry said, enraged with anger getting up from the sofa, his fists clenched. He had suspected it had been him who had given her the bruises, but hearing it coming from her made it real.
"Sit down Harry. Yes he did." She said, putting her hand on his shoulder, turning him to face her.
"Ginny, I want to know what happened last night that made you come to my house. I want to know why last night you screamed out draco's name when I tried waking you up." He needed to know, he couldn't wait anymore. They sat down again.
"Ok." She took a deep breathe in. "Remember when we bumped into each other yesterday morning?" She asked, he nodded in response. "Well when I went home right after that and a few hours later he showed up really mad. He started to yell at me." She paused for a second, "At first I didn't know what he was talking about. And he smacked me, really hard. He pushed me against the wall, and told me that he had had it with me. That I was going to pay for everything." Ginny stopped, and took in a few deep breathes. Her eyes were watering, and she was trembling a little. "Harry, he..he threw me on the bed, still beating me. And I tried; I tried so hard to get him off of me. I kicked and I screamed..but nothing..he.kept going..he managed to somehow take my clothes off.and." She didn't get to finish what she was saying, Harry had cut her off.
"He raped you didn't he." Harry stated more then he asked. Ginny looked at Harry and simply nodded, tears blurring her vision. Next thing she knew, Harry had his arms wrapped around her, hugging her, crying along with her.
They sat like that, hugging each other rocking back and forth for an hour. Harry kept whispering calming words in her ear, trying to comfort her. Knowing that NOTHING he said would take the pain that she had been through, it was the only thing he could do, and in trying to calm her he was trying to calm himself as well. After the last tear was shed, Harry spoke again.
"Ginny? Do you plan on doing anything about this?"
"Like what? Tell the Ministry?" Ginny questioned.
"Yea." Harry said like it was the most obvious thing.
"No. I can't. I know that if I do anything.he'll come after me or someone else and I can't risk him hurting someone. Harry, think about it. It will be HIS word against MINE. Everyone thinks that I broke up with you to be with him. No one would believe me, and I know he'd go and hurt someone. I don't want that to happen. And I don't' want to go through all the baggage that will come with trying to send him to Azkaban when it will do nothing, because even though Voldemort is gone, he's still a Malfoy and people still fear that name no matter what." Ginny said. Harry stared at her as if she was nuts. I mean she did have a point, it was her word against Malfoys...but he wanted him to pay for what he did.
"Ok even though I don't agree with that. I believe you SHOULD tell someone. But I'll back you with whatever you say and decide to do Ginny." Harry agreed, knowing it was her choice and hers alone.
The rest of the day, Ginny spent it in bed. After their talk, Ginny wasn't feeling so good, so Harry sent her off to bed and told her to rest. They didn't talk anymore about what happened. The next week went by rather quickly. Harry tried to avoid going out, unless it was important because he didn't want to leave Ginny alone. He only went out twice, once to go get all her clothes and some of her things from her flat, and another time to go buy Ginny a bed, to put into the room next to his, which was now her room. He couldn't sleep on the floor for another night.
A/N: Soooooooooo??? Whaddaya think? Well go ahead and review and let me know..lol.