I Want You To Need Me

Disclaimer: I Want You To Need Me is copyright 1999 by Celine Dion, Diane Warren and Sony Entertainment. Harry Potter, characters, names and related indicia are trademarks of Warner Brothers, J.K. Rowling and Scholastic.

A/N: Originally, these five chapters were three separate stories. One day I started looking at them, and realized they fit together, like pieces of a puzzle, so I started reading through them and glancing at different passages and realized that they were pieces of a puzzle, they fit together perfectly, and while the ending isn't exactly what I would normally write, it is very unique. If you've read, I Want You To Need Me, Victim of the Game and The Dance, refer to either chapter four or five, whichever one you haven't read yet, or if you like, read the whole thing over again. However, if you've already read the first three chapters in a different place, you might feel all right just going straight to chapter four or five and reading those. If you notice anything that contradicts, please let me know, and I'll edit it. Thanks for reading, and thanks for sticking with me.

Virginia Weasley walked down the lone corridor, her books held close to her chest and her bag slung at her side. She didn't have another class for the next hour, so she had no idea where exactly she was going. Her eyes were cast down towards the marble floor, her hair hanging haphazardly in her face. Every once in a while she would raise her brown eyes to make sure she was not about to run into anyone.

Deep down, she knew exactly where she was going. As she hit the corridor she was looking for, she quickly slipped into a shadow in the wall, beside a suit of armor. Fred and George had caught her torturing herself once and had teased her until she started crying. When the tears had come, Fred and George had stopped and realized how painful it really was for her to stand here. A door swung open a little farther down the corridor and Ginny automatically took a step back.

He was there, standing between Ron and Hermione as they left their charms class on their way to whichever place they went to now. Ginny had come across this opportunity by accident earlier in her fourth year. She had been on her way to the library during her free time and had gotten lost. When she found herself right outside the charms room, the so called "dream team" coming out of the classroom, she had slipped into a hiding place to make sure Ron wouldn't see her and make fun of her. But then she had seen him, and since then, she came back every once in a while just to look at him. They were in the sixth year now and she in her fifth. She watched Harry, not because she really wanted to anymore, but because she needed to. She needed to know he was safe.

She had once heard Ron mention something about Snape saying that he felt responsible for saving Harry's life once in third year because Harry's father had saved his life. Ginny had this same responsibility now that Harry had saved her life three years before. As Harry passed by and the corridor finally cleared out Ginny sunk to the floor and laid her head down on her knees.

I wanna be the face you see when you close your eyes
I wanna be the touch you need every single night

Ginny knew about his dreams. She knew they were horrible and they very rarely had good endings. Just once, she wanted to be the thing he dreamt about. She knew that if she could enter his dreams she would keep him safe, fight off the demons that he seemed to be destined to deal with though out his whole life. She also knew it was more than that. She had spent her life hearing fairy tales about life, about how he saved the whole world just by surviving, and then, that very same boy, whom she had been taught to worship for saving everyone's life the first time, felt that her single insignificant existence was worth saving the second time around.

I wanna be your fantasy
And be your reality
And everything between

Ginny stood up, brushed off her skirt and straightened her robes. She used the shiny suit of armor to wipe the smudges and tears off her face. Today was the last day she would come here, she promised herself. She would never torture herself like this again. Ginny trekked slowly down the hallway and almost let out a gasp of surprise when she saw the three of them standing alone in the adjoining hallway talking. She quickly hid around the corner. Likely they were planning a new adventure. All she wanted now was to be part of it. Suddenly she heard Ron's angry voice rise above both Hermione and Harry.

"Harry, you can't go alone. We won't let you!"

Harry said something that Ginny didn't hear. She edged closer, using the shadows as a cover so that she could hear what was going on. She heard Ron protest again.

"I'm sorry Ron, but this is something I have to do by myself," Harry said. "I can't keep putting the people I care about in danger just because I was stupid enough to piss off Voldemort."

"Harry," Hermione shuddered, "Please don't say that name aloud, you know it gives us the shivers."

"Cowards," Harry muttered. "You can't quake in fear every time I say that name. The more we fear him the more we give him power. The only reason he hasn't ever taken over Hogwarts is because we feel so safe here and everyone is so sure that he could never do it. Doesn't it make you the least bit uncomfortable to know that there are Death Eaters all over this school, that no one walking alone down these halls is safe!"

Ginny shivered, it wasn't something she had known, but all the same, she wasn't really afraid. She believed what Harry had said. The only thing that gave Tom Riddle power had been her fear of him.

I want you to need me
Like the air you breathe
I want you to feel me
In everything
I want you to see me
In your every dream

Hermione and Ron started arguing with Harry and the boy who lived seemed to be getting more and more adamant. Finally, Ron and Hermione stalked off, leaving Harry by himself. Harry shook his head and looked down. Ginny was the only one that saw the lone tear fall from his eye as they disappeared towards the Great Hall.

Harry turned around and started down a corridor Ginny did not recognize.

Oh, God, she thought. Where ever he's going, he's going there now. Ginny thought twice about it before she followed him. She would never forgive herself if something happened to him. After all, wasn't it Harry himself who was just saying how no one was safe by themselves in these corridors.

The way that I taste you, feel you, breathe you, need you
I want you to need me, need me
Like I need you
I wanna be the eyes that look deep into your soul
I wanna be the world to you I just want it all

Ginny tip toed behind him. She would follow him, but she dared not let him know she was there. All he would do is send her back and make her swear to tell no one. He would have denied it, but she could almost taste his fear, but he hid it from his friends for their own safety. She could feel him quake in anxiety, after all, if he couldn't defeat the man who had killed his parents, it was quite possible that no one could. She could breathe him in, look into his eyes and see all of his doubts, and only wish that would ever see his soul. He would never know how much she needed him every day of her life. And the only thing she really wanted was for once, for him to need her, the same way she needed him.

I wanna be your deepest kiss
The answer to your every wish
And all you ever need
I want you to need me
Like the air you breathe
I want you to feel me
In everything
I want you to see me
In your every dream
The way that I taste you, feel you, breathe you, need you
I want you to need me, need me

That was when she saw the door that he was entering. He cast a simple unlocking spell and entered slowly. Ginny followed just before they door closed. That was when she saw the group of people standing at the far end of the room. Harry had known they would be here and yet he had just barged straight in. Then she noticed something else. They hadn't even realized that Harry and Ginny were there. Ginny hid herself as well as possible before anyone would notice that she was there at all. Harry did the same, still not realizing that Ginny was there at all. Then the group at the rear of the room broke apart and started to leave. Just as they reached the door, Ginny saw Harry cast a complicated locking charm on the door. The lead of the party tried the handle and stared at it in confusion. Before Ginny completely realized what she was doing, she cast a befuddling charm on him. He blinked his eyes quickly and then turned around and walked back to the corner to stare at the floor. The other four started scanning the room in suspicion. She saw Harry cast two more hexes. Stupefy and Expellimarus. One of the four was laid out in the floor, the other searching valiantly for his wand. Not finding it, he took the unconscious wizard's wand as the three remaining wizards backed up to form an outward-facing circle in the center of the room. Harry managed to cast another stupefy before he was spotted. The two remaining wizards went straight for him. Ginny pressed herself into her corner, trying not to close her eyes.

'Coz I need you more than you could know
And I need you to never never let me go
And I need to be deep inside your heart

Harry cast a stupefy on one and Expellimarus on the other. The disarming spell was blocked, but one of the remaining two was knocked out cold. The man raised his wand to Harry and grinned. Harry would never have time to cast another spell.

"Crucio!" The man yelled. Ginny never knew why she did it, but she barreled out of the shadows and in front of Harry right then, taking the spell instead of him. She collapsed into the floor screaming.

"Ginny!" Harry yelled.

I just want to be everywhere you are
I wanna be the face you see when you close your eyes
I wanna be the touch you need every single night
I wanna be your fantasy
And be your reality
And everything between...

"Harry," Ginny breathed. Harry glared at the death eater. He raised his wand and threw it in the floor and went straight at the man with his bear hands. The man was knocked in the floor and Harry grabbed a hold of the man's wand at the first chance he got.

I want you to need me
Like the air you breathe
I want you to feel me
In everything

Ginny rolled over on the floor to watch Harry. He was beating the man senseless and didn't show any signs of stopping any time soon.

"Harry," Ginny pleaded.

Harry dropped his fists and threw the wand as soon as he heard Ginny's voice. The man slumped onto the floor, unconscious when Harry let go of him. Harry rushed over to Ginny.

"Are you all right?" he asked.

"Fine, but I hurt."

"I know," he said. "We'll take care of it. Ginny… you probably just saved my life. How can I thank you."

"You don't have to thank me, Harry. You saved my life, too."

Harry carefully picked Ginny up in his arms and walked out the door, placing the locking charm back on the door after he left. It was then that Dumbledore, Hermione and Ron rounded the corner.

"Five," Harry said. "Ginny helped me. I'm taking her to Pomphrey." No one bothered to stop Harry as he carried Ginny to the Hospital Wing.

"Wait," Ginny said, just before they entered. "I have to tell you, Harry." Ginny gasped as Harry stopped and leaned against the wall.

"What Ginny?"

I want you to see me
In your every dream
'Coz baby I taste you, feel you, breathe you, need you

"I'm not going to reveal any secret, Harry." Ginny shut her eyes for a second.

"Ginny, you need to see Pomphrey, before this gets any worse." Ginny shook her head.

"I have to tell you first. Harry, I need you." Ginny shut her eyes again and waited for Harry to reply. She was expected him to laugh, to ignore her, or to rationalize with her, but she never expected what he actually said.

"Ginny, I never could tell you, just for fear of losing you to something, but I think I need you too."

Harry cradled Ginny in his arms as he entered the hospital wing to have her checked on. Nothing else was said, but nothing else was needed.

I want you to need me, need me
Like I need you