AN: I'm so sorry that the last chapter took so long to get out, I hope this one doesn't take as long, and if it does, I hope its longer than chapter 19.

Thanks for all the reviews. I sort of want to just write the chapter so I'm only going to reply to the ones with questions in them.

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Aly – Thanks for all the reviews. My hand is all better now!

Celtrasa- Yeah, I hope that it lasts a while between us. I've liked him for four years afterall.

Starlett13 – Thankyou for that big review that you left me. I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in the world like I thought that I was.

Mary – Thanks so much, you really made my day with that review, I agree with you totally.

Thanks to the rest of you as well.

CHAPTER 20

A few days later Ginny was fine and was back to attending classes. She had decided not to use a glamour charm on herself. If someone had a problem with her self injury then that was their problem, not hers.

She sat through her potions class and just watched Snape. She had a new respect for the older man who had helped save her life. She wanted to thank him, but she wasn't sure if it would be appropriate to do it.

At the end of the day Ginny didn't even go to see Draco, she walked right into Snape's Potion Lab.

"Professor, I-"she said as she came in.

"Its alright Miss. Weasley. I wanted to help really."

"I just wanted to thank you. If it weren't for you I'd be dead right now."

"My pleasure," he said, turning back to his marking. Ginny smiled and left the room. The older man would never change.

Hermione walked down the hall again. She was looking for Ginny everywhere, she knew that she had already been down this hall at least twice. Where on earth was Ginny? Hermione was finally going to confront Ginny on what she did.

Hermione was so lost in her thoughts that she almost missed the flash of read going around the corner in front of her. She started to walk faster.

"Ginny!" she called, "Wait!"

Ginny stopped and turned around.

"Hey, Hermione, what's wrong?"

"Um, can we talk?"

"Yeah, sure, whats up?"

"Um, can we go somewhere more private?"

"Uh, yeah sure, lets go to the Astronomy Tower," Ginny said.

The two girls walked up to the Tower. Ginny pushed open the large door and walked into the room. Ginny went and sat on the floor on the opposite side of the room where she had sat the night before. Hermione sat beside her.

"I know."

"You know what Hermione?"

"I know that you cut yourself."

"Oh, How did you find out?"

"I found a book in your room and I..I read your journal."

Ginny was angry, but only for a moment, she knew that Hermione was only concerned.

"Well, yeah, I do cut myself. Or rather I did"

"You did? As in, don't anymore?"

"Yeah, I almost died last night because of it. I'm not ready to die, I know that now. I always thought that my cutting was the safest thing that I did. Now I know that its not, it's the most dangerous. I always thought that cutting was my way of controlling things. But now I know that I can't control it. Things can get carried away, and then I have no way of stopping them. Right now, I know that cutting is not going to do me any good anymore. I don't need to do it now. And I certainly don't need this."

Ginny walked across the tower to where her knife sat. She looked at it for a moment before picking it up. It felt so familiar in her hands. She lifted it and drew one last cut across the palm of her hand, she wanted a scar to remember this day by. She heard Hermione gasp behind her. Ginny raised her wand to the knife and said the spell that would banish her knife forever.

Ginny sighed with relief. She was so glad that it was all over. She knew that what she had said to Hermione was true, she didn't need to cut anymore. It was something that was definitely behind her.

Hermione crossed the room with tears in her eyes. She pulled Ginny into a hug. She had never been so proud of someone in her life.

"Come on," she said, "Let's go tell Draco."

Hannah walked into the Ministry of Magic. She had thought long and hard about what she was about to do. She knew it was the right thing to do. Lucius Malfoy should not be allowed to get away with the things that he did, she would not be a part of it.

She knew that what she was doing had the potential of getting her killed by Lucius' followers, but she didn't care. She was sick and tired of what she was doing for him, and it had to stop. It was time to put Lucius where he belonged.

"Yes, Minister, thank you for having me today. I really need to tell you some things about Lucius Malfoy"

Draco sat in his dorm. Ginny had just told him that she never wanted to cut again. He was so proud of her. He hoped that she would stay strong with her new found opinion about cutting. He hoped that he could be as strong as her, and keep himself alive for as long as possible. Well, he'd just have to live life one day at a time

AN: well, yes, that's the end of the story. I'm sad to see it end, but I'm also glad that its over. I've been in a bit of a writer's block for the past 5 months or so (which is why there was no update all summer, sorry about that).

Thank you so much to everyone that ever reviewed this story, or encouraged my writing. Without all of your encouragement and faith I never would have made it through the last 5 and a half months without cutting myself (I can't believe its been so long!). Its amazing. Thank you all so much. I hope you check out my other story.

Oh, and yeah, I know it seems like I just threw Ashlyn into the story, which I sort of did. But the truth is, I'm writing another story about her right now (shh, it's a secret) its sort of a prequel to this story. I'm not sure if it will ever get posted or not. If it does, it probably won't be for a while. I want to write a few chapters of it first before I post it and right now it only has one unfinished chapter.

So yeah, hopefully none of you are too sad to see this story come to an end. It ended happily right? No one died! Anyway, yeah. I hope that all of you are doing well. I hope that those of you who cut can find the strength to eventually quit. I hope the those of you who have quit cutting or are trying to quit can have the strength to stay without it. I hope that those of you who have friends who cut can help them to stop as well. And, for those of you who don't cut, please, never start. It's the biggest mistake that I ever made in my life and you don't need it too.

2008 edit - ok, so it's really over this time. The story is fully edited and is (hopefully) free of typos and inconsistencies. I love this story, it will always be close to my heart.

Kind of funny...I said at the beginning of this story that I hope my relationship with Tyler lasts...Well it certainly has. We're still together, 4 years later, are very much in love and are planning on moving out together later this year.

If anyone wants to send me an email please don't hesitate. Send me a private message on or send it to flying (without the spaces).