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Harry stared over Silvi's shoulder, trying to locate Draco and Ginny in the crowd. At the end of the song he extracted himself from the twining girl and went to search for Ginny.
When he had walked in several large circles around the room, he realized that they were gone. Draco, gone...Ginny gone... The thought took a few moments to sink fully into his mind.
Cursing himself for his idiocy, Harry ran out the heavy doors and through the halls.
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They wound through many caverns, though undistinguishable paths that Ginny could not even begin to remember. In one of the dark underground rooms, Draco pushed Ginny down and neatly tied her to an old bench. "Well, i'll be back once your little Potter boy notices something is missing," he told her evilly.
Walking out the door, he turned back on his heel. A worrisome glint in his eye sent chills through Ginny's neck, exposed to the moist cold air. Coming closer, he slowly unbound her hair and let it flow loosely around her face. "Course," he added, "It would be a shame just to waste this time, wouldn't it?"
She froze as his hand winded its way through her mass of hair and around her neck. The sensation disgusted her. Twisting, she tried to evade his caress but was too tightly trapped between his body and the stone bench. While he laughed, she somehow got one high heeled foot loose.
WIth a swift movement, Ginny kicked him in the groin. Doubling over, the boy's dark eyes flashed angrily at her. "Damn girl!" he growled before slapping her hard on the cheek.
Pain flared as her skin warmed where he had hit her. Draco scowled. "Feisty. Well, all right." Grabbing more twine, he pinned her effectively and tied her feet also to the bench. Standing menacingly over the girl, tightly bound, he grinned showing too many teeth. "Now, where were we?"
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Harry ran desperately through the halls, searching for any sight of red hair and pale gown. As he ripped out from Griffindor, he tripped on a single white high-heeled shoe. In Ginny's size.
"Ginny!" he yelled, his voice echoing in the empty ward. "Where are you?"
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