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Chapter Ten-All The Things She Said
I keep asking myself, wondering how
I keep closing my eyes but I can't block you out
Wanna fly to a place where it's just you and me
Nobody else so we can be free
All the things she said
Running through my head
This is not enough
And I'm all mixed up, feeling cornered and rushed
They say it's my fault but I want her so much
Wanna fly her away where the sun and rain
Come in over my face, wash away all the shame
When they stop and stare don't worry me
Cause I'm feeling for her what she's feeling for me
I can try to pretend, I can try to forget
But it's driving me mad, going out of my head
t.A.T.u-All the Things She Said
Darkness surrounded her, her heart accelerated with the burst of adrenaline that flowed through her when she realized she was wearing the same sheer dress from when Tom spoke to her. "Soon you will be mine Ginevra, and your lover shall be dead," his whispers seemed to come from all around her, she couldn't pinpoint a location for the voice. At his last words a figure started to appear before her, she fell to her knees with widened eyes when she realized who it was.
His perfect blonde hair was matted to his head with blood and sweat, blood caked his high cheekbones, but upon seeing his open lifeless gray eyes, a blood-curdling scream erupted from her lips as she collapsed against his immobile chest.
"Ginny," she could barely hear the whisper above her sobs. "Ginny!" lifting her head up her brow furrowed in confusion, the voice sounded like Hermione's. "Ginny wake up!"
With a gasp her eyes snapped open, the darkness gave way to her regular dormitory, and instead of looking down at Draco's dead body she was looking up at Hermione's relieved face. "What happened to you Ginny?" tears streaming down her eyes, Ginny wrapped her arms around Hermione and hugged her tight.
"He's going to kill him 'Mione….when he rises, he's going to kill him so he can have me," Ginny sobbed into her friend's shirt. After a few seconds of stunned silence Hermione wrapped her arms around Ginny and held the 6th year tightly.
"We'll figure something out Ginny, don't worry, you're strong, stronger than you both think, he won't be able to rise again," Hermione said with a reassuring smile as she cupped the girl's head in her hands, while wiping away Ginny's tears with her thumbs.
"I hope you're right Hermione, I don't think I can bear the thought of losing him like how I lost Fred," Ginny sobbed, her body trembling with fear and sobs. Hermione's lips tightened with uncertainty, and she simply hugged her arms around Ginny and comfortingly stroked her hair, her silence was all the answer Ginny preferred, there was no hope that Tom wouldn't rise again, they could do nothing but sit by and wait.
"Hello love," he turned his gaze from the lake in front of him to the red head girl behind him. A smile crossed his lips as she walked into his open arms, "I missed you, it's been so long since I saw you, you're not cheating on me are you?" the blue sky above them turned dark with sudden storm clouds, the wind nearly knocked him over with its strength, he felt as if knives were sticking into his back, looking down into the face of Ginny, he watched as it became distorted, her brown eyes turned red and evil, fangs popped into her mouth, her skin turned a sickly yellow.
With a gasp of shock he tried to back away from the demonic figure but he realized that her nails grew into claws and they were sticking into his back. A cruel bone-chilling laugh emitted from her lips, and he watched as everything around him faded away.
"Still not it?" Blaise asked as Draco clutched his chest to still his racing heart, his lungs taking deep gusts of air.
Taking one last breath he stood up and shook his head at his friend, "No, but I think we're close, try mixing in some more Silene Capensis," Draco said as he studied a flask filled with a purple potion.
"You've been at it for 6 hours Draco, I think you need a break, we can pick up the research tomorrow after a good night's rest," Blaise suggested with a sigh, he could see dark bags appearing under Draco's eyes, his skin was paler than usual, and his hair was sticking out in different directions from being run through with his hands numerous times.
"We're so close Blaise, I can't give up now, this isn't just for Ginny, it's for all of us," Draco said as he mixed a couple of potions in his cauldron.
"The mark's becoming clearer isn't it?" a deafening silence filled the room
"Good night Blaise," Draco dismissed Blaise, with a sigh Blaise walked away and started off to the hallway that lead to his door.
"Show some good manners to your guest Draco boy," Blaise yelled back at him.. He ignored Blaise and kept his focus on the potions in front of him.
"What are you doing?" he nearly dropped a flask from shock when he heard the feminine voice behind him, he gently laid it onto the table and turned to see Ginny standing in the doorway with a look of curious confusion on her face.
"Ginny, what're you doing here!" Draco asked walking towards her, hoping that she wouldn't see his experiment.
"You weren't at the lake; you did say I have five more days of our agreement after all," Ginny said with a shrug of her shoulders as she settled into one of his armchairs, her chocolate eyes fixated on him instead of the numerous ingredients and potions behind him.
Sighing he ran his hand through his hair, "Can we push it for tomorrow? I'm not feeling up to it right now," Draco confessed as he looked at the clock on the fireplace, it was only a few minutes before midnight, no wonder he was so exhausted.
With a shrug she stood up and walked closer to him, "What are you working on?" her question threw him off, he was expecting her to happily leave with some bloody remark about his functions. "What is so important that it's making you look like hell?"
Clearing his throat he turned away from her concern filled eyes and stared at the mess of his Veneon experiment. "Why should I tell you? Because as far as I'm concerned, you're nothing to me but a nice fuck to look forward to at the end of the day," it hurt him to even say those words, but it was better this way.
Her silence was the worst thing she could ever do to him, he eventually turned to her and her blank face was worse than tears, tears were predictable but he didn't know how to react to her indifference. "Fine then, I won't bug you anymore, I'll meet you at the lake tomorrow night if you want to fuck me again, let me know if you've found some other girl to fuck so I won't ever have to see your face again," she turned to walk out leaving him behind with his heart twisting in regret.
Tears burned in her eyes but she refused to let them fall. With anger and hurt lacing through her being she walked, and kept walking until she walked past the Hogwarts gates. Blinking back tears she apparated to London, walking out of the alley she entered the streets and kept walking, her focus entirely on her own thoughts and not on her surroundings.
After what felt like a few seconds, she looked up and saw that she walked to Grimmauld Place. Wiping away a stray tear Ginny walked to the door and rang the bell. It only took a couple of minutes before the door was opened by a confused looking Harry. "Ginny?"
"I know it's late and I'm sorry if I woke you up but I just needed to get out of school for a few hours, and my feet took me here," she said with a small smile.
Harry shook his head and moved aside to let her in, "No it's fine, I was still awake, come on in," once the door behind her was closed she threw her arms around his neck and buried her head into his chest as the tears spilled out of her eyes. After a couple of seconds she felt Harry wrap his arms around her, one hand caressing her back and he whispered comforting words into her hair.
"I don't know why I'm crying, it's stupid really," she said with a watery smile as she took a step back and wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Let's sit down and please explain to me why you're crying," Harry said motioning to the living room, it was still a work in progress but it looked less grim and dusty compared to her 4th year.
With a sigh she sat on the couch across from the armchair he settled into, "Please don't judge me Harry, I don't know what I'll do if you think badly of me," she begged, he nodded in agreement, a look of concern flashing over his features, "A few weeks ago the price of Veneon was upped to two galleons, I of course couldn't afford it anymore and I needed it badly, that's when this guy showed up and offered to pay for my daily fixes on 3 conditions, I had to let his house win Qudditch matches, I can't reveal the second one because I don't want you to know who it is, and I was to be his sex slave," Harry opened his mouth with a retort but she held up her hand, instantly silencing him, "No judging, remember?" he closed his mouth, his brows furrowing in frustration, he nodded to allow her to continue, "I broke the agreement about the Quidditch matches, he was furious of course, and that's when he threw in the sex slave agreement…I have no idea why Harry, but I'm starting to develop a pathetic crush on him, and the first time we had sex it was just a great fuck, but the second time…it didn't feel like a regular fucking, it felt like more, but when I went to him tonight he said some hurtful things and it completely threw me off,"
They sat in awkward silence for a couple of minutes as she wiped away a few more tears and stared at her hands in her lap, "I have no idea why you're telling me this, but if it's advice you want…I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that he's in Slytherian, am I right?" her silence and the stiffening of her body confirmed that he was right, "Maybe he actually likes you back but it freaks him out too much to have feelings for a Gryffindor."
She looked up at him with disbelief on her face, "I don't think he even knows how to feel for a girl as more than anything but a fuck," she said, leaning back into the loveseat, her arms crossing over her chest as anger appeared in her eyes.
"This is really awkward for me to ask my ex-girlfriend, but you said the second time felt like it was more than just a casual shag, how?"
Closing her eyes she thought back to that night, "We cuddled afterwards, but it didn't last long, I had to be stupid and ruin the mood," she rolled her eyes with a sad smile.
"Sounds to me like you shouldn't jump to the conclusion that he isn't as affected as you are," her eyes widened in surprise causing Harry to smile. "Well it's late, do you want to stay the night?"
Ginny shook her head, "No I better be heading back before I get caught, thanks a lot Harry, I don't know what'd I do without you," she said with a smile as they both stood up, she gave him a friendly hug before he showed her out.
Seeing how dark and empty the streets made her uncomfortable, but she didn't feel like burdening Harry any more than she already did so she walked into the direction of the alley that she first came through. If it wasn't so late maybe she would've seen them sooner, if she wasn't so tired maybe her reflexes would've acted faster, if she wasn't so focused on one Malfoy then maybe she would've realized that she was surrounded by Death Eaters, it wasn't until a blue-white light hit her-causing her to fall into the arms of a Death Eater immobile that she realized she was once again being kidnapped.
"Draco Malfoy what have you done with Ginny!" feeling Hermione Granger push his chest caused him to mentally wake up. He stared at her like an idiot with his mouth hanging open and his brow furrowed in confusion.
"What?" it took a while for her words to register, did he hurt her that bad?
"She never came back to the tower and I've searched everywhere, she's not here, where is she?" frustrated, Hermione pointed her wand at him, he normally would've been afraid but the only thing running through his mind was that Ginny was missing.
"I think I know what happened to her, and if I'm right then it's too late for her, for all of us."
A groan emitted from her lips as she tried to lift her head which felt like it was a hundred pounds heavier. With heavy eyelids she struggled to open her eyes, at first her vision was blurry, but after a few blinks she saw that she was tied to a table, on another table was the boy from when she was kidnapped, and in a circle around them stood a group of black-hooded death eaters, their voices chanting a language she didn't understand but was familiar from the last time.
"And with the death of this muggle, our lord shall once again rise and purify our world," the death eater said, her eyes widened as she watched the knife stab into the boy's heart.
His body jerked with the force of the knife cutting through skin and muscles, but otherwise he lay limp. Her breaths shortened as the death eater's gaze fell on her, she struggled against her bonds as he stepped around the table of the dead boy and walked towards her, "With the blood of his horcrux," he swiped the knife on her arm causing blood to slowly spill out, he carried the blood filled knife to a steaming cauldron, he then shook the knife so that droplets of blood fell from the knife and into the cauldron.
Cup in hand, he scooped some of the liquid out of the cauldron just as a death eater forced her mouth open allowing the liquid to enter her mouth, she choked on it and tried to spit it out but the death eaters brutally shut her mouth causing her teeth to knock into each other and the liquid to slide down her throat when she gasped in pain. She felt like flames were in her veins, she screamed against the pain, her body felt as if it was being ripped apart with knives of flames and ice. She struggled against her bonds as she kept screaming at the top of her lungs, she just wanted the pain to end. As her world faded to black, a memory of Draco's smirking face appeared in her mind's eye, with a tear slipping out of her closed eyelids she whispered two last words before she blacked out, "I'm sorry."
The news about Ginny came to him through whispered rumors. Upon hearing that she was in the medical wing here in Hogwarts his heart sped up with relief and worry about Ginny's condition, so after his Charms class he rushed over to the medical wing where he was stopped by Madam Pomfrey, "I'm sorry Mr. Malfoy but Miss Weasley is not in any condition to see anyone," she said blocking the doorway.
Throwing all Malfoy charm out the door he lowered his brows in anger and frustration, "I need to see her, and if I have to hex you to get past you, so be it," he held up his wand to make his point clear. With the widening of her eyes he knew he won, she reluctantly stepped aside and he quickly rushed over to the bed that held Ginny's unconscious body.
His heart wrenched at her pale face, he felt relieved that she was still alive and that she came back, but he mostly felt guilty because if he never said those hurtful things to her then she would've never wandered London alone at night. He reflexively brushed a strand of her hair behind her ear which caused her to stir.
Chocolate eyes looked up at him and they immediately filled with sadness, hurt, and anger upon seeing him, "What're you doing here?" her voice was raspy and she could do no more than whisper.
"What happened?" she seemed annoyed at how he dodged her question but she sat up and gestured for him to take a seat on a nearby chair.
"I got caught by death eaters again, but this time they managed to bring him back, Tom Riddle is alive and he has his own body," his heart dropped at her words but he refused to let his worry show.
"How'd you manage to come back?" she turned her head away from him and stared out of the window opposite him.
"He commanded that I be bought back so that I could warn you, he said he liked the idea of a chase for you and it would make killing you more satisfying to him," he balked at her words.
"Why does he want to kill me?" he couldn't understand why Tom Riddle would single him out instead of his father or Harry Potter.
She shrugged, "How should I know?" his brows furrowed in frustration.
"Do you want to know what you do when you lie?" she turned to face him, confusion on her face. "You twirl a strand of your hair in your left hand and at the same time you tuck your hair behind your ear with your right hand, now tell me the truth Ginny," he demanded.
"Has it ever occurred to you that I'm keeping the truth from you for a good reason?" she snapped, balling her hands into fists.
He gave her his infamous smirk, "Yes, but since it's me he's singling out I want to know why he wants me dead," she turned away from him once again.
"I want you to know that after I say this I will hate you and nothing or no one would ever change that," she warned him, she turned back to him, her eyes searching for any hint of him backing out, but he expertly kept his face emotionless. She sighed in frustration, "He wants you dead because he wants me and to him you're an obstacle because I was falling in love with you."
A/N: Not as long as the last one but I felt this was a good cliffhanger and I couldn't think of a way to keep the chapter going lol. Review please! :D Make my long hours at work more bearable by cheering me up please!