Chapter 11-Mind Games

Hermione fell into Ginny's mind like she had just jumped out of a plane. She slammed into the floors of Ginny's mind face down and struggled to get back on her feet. Blackness was all she could see and there was a small beam of light coming down from the center of what appeared to be a padded room. Suddenly she couldn't move her arms and saw a straightjacket around her.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Hermione ceased struggling against the jacket when she heard the voice. She looked up and saw Ginny standing there, but only half of her was there. It was like she had been split evenly down the middle. She stepped close but how she didn't know. Ginny had only one leg, how was she walking, or did normal not apply here in her mind?

"I don't want you here." She continued as if nothing was amiss. Hermione struggled against the jacket and Ginny sighed. It vanished and she was free.

"I just want to help you." Hermione told her, trying not to be put off by her appearance. Ginny shook her head, or her half head and half smiled at her.

"I don't need your help. I'm better than ever!"

"Hermione?" She spun around and saw the other half of Ginny standing there, tears running down the half of her face.

"Don't listen to her!" The first half said and Hermione looked at each of them, trying to understand what she was seeing. Why was she split it half?

"Hermione, I need you to get me out of here. It's so scary and it never ends. I want to go home!" Hermione turned to the second half and reached out her hand. She knew it was a huge risk, but she couldn't not do something when Ginny was pleading for her to help. Ginny was about to give her hand but Hermione was jerked away but the first half. The grip was tight but not painful.

"You don't deserve help!" The first half said to the second. Ginny, the good half, gripped Hermione and pulled her away from the bad half.

The bad half suddenly disappeared and she was left along with Ginny, the good part of her at least.

"It's taking over in here, you know. Every second it comes closer and closer to taking over. I've tried everything to stop it, but it never stops. I hope it won't hurt you." Ginny told her, holding her hand.

"Don't worry about me. Let's try and help you, okay?" Ginny nodded and led her down a corridor that was filled with red walls. Ginny seemed on edge and Hermione suddenly realized why. The walls weren't just red they were walls of blood, dripping down from the ceiling above. The bodies her pinned with oversized needles and she could hear them moaning and groaning, trying to move.

"What is this?" Hermione hissed at Ginny but when she looked around her, Ginny was gone. Hermione felt the darkness closing it, trying to take her mind, but she broke out into a run and kept running until the red corridor was gone.

"Play time!" Hermione twisted around and saw the most revolting this she had ever seen in her life. She was a little girl, maybe four or five and was carrying a teddy bear. Only the bear had real eyes and fingers. The girl was missing both of her eyes; they were just hollow holes in her face, and the bottom half of her jaw was missing, muscles and veins hanging loose.

A scream stuck in her throat as she backed away.

"Hey! It's play time!" Hermione took off, absolutely terrified. She found Ginny at the end of a black corridor, thankfully free of dead bodies or tortured living ones. She was sitting on her knees laughing manically.

"Ginny?" Hermione called but she just kept on laughing. The little girl reappeared along with a man, rotted so much he crumbled where he stood and crawled his way to her feet.

"Be nice to my friends Hermione!" Ginny said, but Hermione realized that was her Ginny at all. There were many kinds of Ginny's in here floating around. How was she supposed to know which was the right one?

She felt something grab her ankle and it was the man crawling towards her. He was missing the top of his head and she could actually see his brain and the blood inside. She ripped away from him and fell right into the little girl.

"Are you ready to play?"

Hermione took off, hearing Ginny's laughter in her ears. "Ginny? Where are you?!" She called, at lost. She couldn't find the way out.

"Hermione."

"Oh thanks merlin you're here. We have to figure out how too-

"We can't. There is no way to save me. I'm becoming a monster and there is no stopping it. I need you to understand that. You don't know how much it means to me that you tried to help me."

"Ginny, I'm not giving up. There has to be something we can do." Hermione reassured her.

Ginny smiled sadly, a half smile. "You've done enough and I have one favor to ask."

The black room vanished and was replaced with a white room with a black box in the middle of it.

"This is where the dark magic is coming from. I want you to destroy it." Hermione looked at her curiously.

"This wont save you will it?"

Ginny shook her head, "But it's what I want. Hermione, please do this for me."

"But you'll die!"

"And I'll die happily. I don't want to be a monster that wants to hurt people Hermione. I can't be that."

"No, not you too. Please Ginny!" Hermione pleaded.

"Ron will be there waiting for me, I know it. I understand now that his death was his choice and his alone. Just like I'm doing now. Do it!"

Hermione pulled the half Ginny into an embrace and said, "I love you, Ginny. You are the closest thing to a sister that I ever had. I'll miss you so much." Hermione let her go and kissed her cheek, the only one she had in this half of her body.

"You were the same for me. I'll love you always. Now you'll have to jump out of here the moment you destroy the box because everything will jump out of it and roam free. But it will kill me as well. Too much dark magic at once will do that to a person. I want you to tell my family that I love them and I'll be waiting on the other side. Take care of them for me. Tell Harry that he was my one true love and I'll be watching him to make sure he has a happy fulfilling life. He better move on, you tell him that okay?"

Hermione nodded and focused on the black box hating what she was about to do. It exploded with a huge fire and she was thrown back in the walls. The moment she regained her footing she jumped out her mind before the fire could envelope her mind.

She sucked in a huge breath the moment her mind was back into her own. A sob came out on the exhale. Ginny's body was still, no movement. She looked around and saw Molly, Arthur, Severus, Bill, Charlie, George and Luna. She didn't see Harry.

"She didn't make it. She's gone. I'm so sorry, I tried." Hermione whimpered and struggled against the sobs that wanted to escape. Molly let out a wail and Arthur had to hold her up before she collapsed. Bill and Charlie embraced, holding each other. She saw Harry then in the background. The look on his face made her start to cry harder. She leaned down to kiss Ginny on the forehead, ignoring the painful sting that came with touching a body filled with dark magic. She moved pass the family and ran to Harry, though she wanted nothing more than to go to Severus. Harry started to cry into her shoulder and she held him up when he started to fall.

"She's gone." He moaned and Hermione stroked his hair, "I know Harry I know. I'm so sorry I couldn't save her." He cried harder Harry turned to go see Ginny, though she was long gone. Hermione stood there alone and tried to stop the tears.

"Everyone. Ginny wanted you all to know that she loved you and that Ron was waiting on the other side for her and she wasn't afraid. Harry she wanted you to know that you were her true love and she wished you a happy fulfilling life. She said you had better move on she would be waiting for everyone on the other side. She just…she loved you all.

Severus made his way over to her and they looked at each other for a moment and then embraced each other. A split second later they ripped apart, feeling a painful sting. Hermione looked at him with fear. She knew what that sting meant.

A/N: I don't know about you guys but I cried writing this. Let me know what you think, even if you didn't cry.