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Ginny aparated to the hilltop. From her vantage point she could see everything she didn't want to. In the small village below her havoc was reigning with a passion; everywhere she could see flashes of light, green and red, and she could hear screaming even from up here. She didn't think twice before she ran full tilt down the hill and into the fray.

What she saw as she skidded into the village was not the heroic and epic battle for life and death that she had been expecting. It was more a mass culling of the 'good side' by the death eaters. Everywhere she looked bodies were falling to the floor, Death Eaters were overpowering crowds of hopeless witches and wizards; yet she didn't stop. I'm coming for you Tom, you're going down!

"Ginny!" A terrible yell pierced the air in front of her and Ginny froze. There was Cho, why on earth she was here Ginny had no idea, but she was struggling, sobbing and screaming, in the clutches of a Death Eater.

"Come and get her then, the Dark Lord's little heroine." The hooded figure that had her leered and then spat on the floor. Ginny couldn't stop herself; she rushed forwards, pulling out of her cage of despair and lunging for the struggling couple.

"Ginny no!" Cho's desperate scream echoed off the buildings, "It's a trap. No! Ginny no!" But she was deaf to it all. No one hurt people in her name and got away with it. She pelted down the streets after the death eater and her friend, her friend that was carrying a very precious load in her womb right now; Ginny prayed silently that Cho and Harry's baby was ok.

She ground to halt as the man dragged Cho towards a group of prisoners- that group included Harry, Ron and Hermione- Ginny felt her heart fall away from her body. She saw Tom in the middle, calling to her, sickeningly,

"Ginny my precious, my little love, please come out Gin…come out and play." He laughed crazily, sending shivers down her spine. Adrenalin was pulsing through her veins rendering her brain useless, she knew she couldn't stay still much longer, she'd do something stupid, but if she moved then she'd have to confront Voldemort, and she had no guarantee that she'd come out of that alive. Then she made a break for it; her only hope.

-*-

"Argh!" Bellatrix cried out in surprise and fear as she went down. She had been stood unprotected and unaware, now she knelt, shaking a little, with Ginny's wand pointing at the side of her head.

"Now listen to me!" She yelled loudly, feeling like a mad woman and she didn't care. Tom span round, eyes wide with shock and almost horror. Ginny was distracted. "You care for her? You actually care? Your standards have dropped…she's not me Tom. I can't believe after all this time-" She let out a harsh laugh, jabbing Bella in the side of the head playfully and loving how Tom flinched. "So let's see you do what I say, or I will kill her." Now it was Voldemort's turn to laugh,

"Haven't you learnt yet…?" His voice sneered and Ginny panicked, knowing she was losing control of the situation fast.

"Crucio!" She screamed, hearing her own fear and panicking, but loving seeing Bella writhe under her wand, crying out in agony. Tom lunged forward then snatched himself back, real pain on his face too. "You're weak!" Her lungs burnt with the effort of everything she was doing, her voice scraping its way out her throat.

"Enough!" Tom seemed to pull himself up as he roared. Quicker than Ginny could think, certainly quicker than she could react, there was a jet of light heading right for her. Oh. Was all she could think, she even briefly wondered what spell he might have cast.

"No!" A strangled yell brought Ginny from her reverie, she looked around wildly for who had screamed; it was Narcissa Malfoy. And Ginny wasn't dead.

"What?" She whispered, looking down at herself, feeling her tears, in shaky disbelief. Then she knew why Mrs Malfoy had cried. "Lucious!"

Somehow, she didn't know how, Mr Malfoy's body was a crumpled heap in front of her sobbing self. He'd jumped in front of the spell for her.

"I don't…" Tom stuttered in disbelief and then let a cruel smile spread. "He was weak. He took a spell for you?" His eyes snapped to Ginny, narrowing his eyes to slit. "Why you, my pet?" She felt nauseous as he dared to call her that.

"You…know…why." She managed to force through gritted teeth, "It's what you would have done."

"Let me go!" Someone else broke free from the crowd in a flurry of blonde hair and threw herself on top of Mr Malfoy's body. "Lucious! My husband, my darling, my husband…" She sobbed raggedly. "You!" She spat, turning on Voldemort, who was too shocked by this defiance to even move. "You killed him!" Her voice was hoarse and slightly manic. Bella and Ginny watched horrified, momentarily ceasing their struggle to watch in terror as Narcissa launched herself towards the Dark Lord, wand outstretch, a curse half formed on her lips.

"No!" Ginny screamed desperately, no, no, NO! "Narcissa!" But it was already far too late.

"Anyone else?" Tom screamed, his thirst and excitement for the death showing on his face as he waved his wand round wildly. "How many more are you going to have die for you Ginny Weasley? Let them come, you know they can't stop me." He laughed, an out of control and terrifying laugh.

"What about her?" Ginny threw back, "Your poor taste in woman could die here, do you feel that Tom? Show me you feel." She wondered what she sounded like, she loved the power but her own words were scaring her. Were her and Tom so different, in their thirst for battle? She yanked Bella to her feet using a matt of her hair, jabbing her harder with the wand. "One little word Tom…just one simple curse, don't think I wouldn't- NO!" Her scream echoed all around the square they stood in and it tore her to hear it bouncing back to her eyes, "Please!" She let out a desperate, pleading yelp.

-*-

Draco stood strong even though he was clearly terrified, he allowed his eyes to meet Ginny's and shook his head once. Voldemort had him, wand-less and defenceless and Ginny knew that he would kill him in a second without reason or remorse- she'd never felt terror as true as this.

"Now who's weak?" He whisper carried louder and clearer than his scream, piercing sharper than a knife; definite.

"It's not weakness." Ginny forced out, letting go of Bella in her momentary panic and lunging forward.

"Not so fast!" Bella was on her feet and lethal once more. "Avad-" She flourished her wand threateningly and aimed it for Draco's heart. Ginny's own stopped, caught in his grey, haunting eyes for a brief millisecond. She ran faster than she'd ever run in her life. She heard several cries of 'NO!', one might even have come from her mouth, but what she noticed most was the green light, the eerie rushing and the slow realisation. It dawned on her just as her body came into line with the spell, she heard her own blood racing through her body for the last time and she knew that as the spell collided-

"-a Kedavra!"

She knew she was dead.

((WARNING: this is NOT the end))