Chapter 25

        "Ron, brother, could we have your schedule?" Fred says.

"Why?" Ron asks.

"We want to pull a… prank… on Drake to teach him about who can and can't mess with our sister." George said.

"You aren't gonna hurt him are you?" Ron asks.

"No we won't hurt him just… shake him up a little." They both say.

"Oh. Alright. Here." Ron says handing them his schedule.

"Thanks brother." They say.

It has been almost a week since Ginny and Drake got together and their relationship has been mutually beneficial for the two of them. Ginny is becoming less shy and Drake is becoming less tight and he is quite a character, he told them all about his days at N.F.S.O.W.&W. The twins have been brooding in the corner of the common room ever since Ron gave them his schedule. The Amulet study has yet to be scratched as Falcore has been interrupted in every class before he can get into it. Hermione approached Drake soon after the twins started sticking to the corner with a warning to 'watch his back' but she couldn't elaborate only that she could 'sense' something bad in their mind and it related to Drake.

Drake was on his way to DADA one day when he was grabbed by the shoulders and pulled into an empty classroom. The door shut swiftly behind him.

"What the? Who's there?" Drake says then the room dimly lights up revealing the twins in the center of the room. "Oh, it's you two well I'll be leaving then." Drake heads to the door and one of the twins appears in front of him.

"We just want to talk to you about our sister." The twin says.

The twin, Fred, steps up and grabs Drake's right shoulder with his left hand. "We just wanted to let you know we don't approve of a crapweasel (A/N: If you don't watch "Friends" don't ask) like you going out with her." Fred then plants a hard uppercut into Drake's gut knocking the breath out of him.

Drake coughs and gasps getting shoved backwards into George who spins him around and then punches him in the jaw which pops out and Drake yelps.

"You can scream if you want we took the liberty of soundproofing the room." Fred says.

Drake snarls though he appears in pain and is still wheezing. {Help, Guys! Being…}

Drake has his head smacked hard into the wall then and black starts inking into the corners of his vision and he drops to the ground on his back. He feels them smack his head into the floor once and kick his nose snapping it. As consciousness leaves him he feels them kicking his ribs and kidneys and he hears them mutter some spell before the blackness consumes him.

"Falcore may we please be excused." Hermione says walking up with Harry and Ron following her.

"Why?" Falcore asks.

"Well… Can we step out into the corridor?" Hermione says.

Back to the time of the Ambush

"This is going to work great." Fred whispers to his twin.

"Yes it is." Says George. "Who goes first?"

"Me." Fred whispers back. "Shh. Here he comes."

Fred and his twin both reach out one hand to grab one of Drake's shoulders. Fred makes the door close and lock while George sets up the holograph/spotlight in the center of the room and goes to his place.

"What the? Who's there?" Drake says staring around and then the spotlight and holographs kick in. "Oh, it's you two. Well I'll be leaving then."

Fred steps in front of him when Drake turns to leave. Fred then grabs Drake's shoulder. "We just wanted to let you know we don't approve of a crapweasel like you going out with her." Fred then hits him hard with an uppercut to the gut which makes Drake grunt in pain and surprise, and his eyes go wide. Drake gasps for breath and starts wheezing.

Fred shoves Drake back into to his twin and nods. George spins Drake around and knocks his jaw out of place which makes Drake yelp.

"You can scream if you want we took the liberty of soundproofing the room." Fred says.

Drake gets a look of concentration and defiance and extreme pain on his face as George smacks his head into the wall which makes Drake looked dazed as he sinks onto the floor on his back staring up but out of it.

"Yeah let's smack his head into the floor." George says and does so then smiles.

Fred mirrors the smile then says, "Break his nose," before he kicks Drake's nose and hears it snap.

"Hey twin let's mess up his ribs." George says as they kick his ribs a few times. "Now his kidneys." And they attack those. "Got to make sure he doesn't remember us."

"Oh yeah. Ocultar Identidad." Fred says.

George smacks Drakes head into the ground twice more and then stamps on his chest once and Drake sputters.

"Hey George, that's a little much. ENOUGH! Lets just leave him for someone to find him." Fred says pulling out some rope.

Back in the corridor: Present time

"Well," Hermione says with her and Ron and Harry looking the opposite way of where Drake was captured. Falcore was facing where Drake was taken and his jaw dropped. "What is it Professor?"

Falcore points still shocked and the trio turns around and gets the same expression on their faces.

Drake is hanging there his hands and feet bound together behind his back and he is somehow hanging from the ceiling by rope. His head is hanging down and a rusty red stains his hair. His middle is drooping and his ribs look splintered.

"OH MY GOSH! SOMEBODY GET MADAM POMPHREY!!" Hermione screams.

Students pour out of the nearby class rooms and that begins a loud murmur as the Professors nearby, Andre, McGonagall, Flitwick, and Vector shove their way towards Falcore and the trio.

"What in the world…?" McGonagall says.

"GET HIM DOWN NOW!" A voice yells running up the stairs.

Poppy Pomphrey followed by Alexander and Rosalyn are shoving their way towards Drake.

"HE SAID TO GET HIM DOWN!" Falcore yells and the Professors make something cut the rope and Drake drops down into Falcore's arms and groans with pain still unconscious and his feet and hands still bound behind his back though Alexander quickly undoes them and the teachers and trio rush to the Hospital Wing.

As they are leaving the crowd Draco shouts "Looks like he got what he deserved."

"FIFTY POINTS FROM SLYTHERIN!" Alexander yells.

Hermione dismisses herself from the group and goes to find Ginny, though she knows Ginny is in the Common Room and goes there.

"Ginny?" Hermione calls.

Hermione hears a mumble from upstairs. "What?"

"I said go away." Ginny sniffles coming down the stairs.

"Oh Ginny." Hermione says running up and giving her a big hug.

"I heard he looks like he's dead. Is he?" Ginny asks.

"I don't think so."

{Hermione where did you go?} Comes Harry's voice in her head.

{I'm in the common room with Ginny stay in the Hospital wing.} Hermione thinks to the both of them.

"Hermione?" Ginny says.

"Huh?" Hermione says.

"Are you going to the Hospital Wing?" Ginny asks.

"Yes, are you?" Hermione replies.

"I guess so." Ginny says.

"OH! Wait a minute." Hermione presses a finger to her temple and pulls it back with a gold 'string' attached and touches it to Ginny's temple and it glows before disappearing. "Now you can communicate telepathically with me, Harry, Ron, or Drake."

"What the?" Ginny says surprised.

"Ask Drake when, not if, when, he wakes up. Maybe if you talk to him through the link that will reach him and wake him up. He seems to be in a coma." Hermione says. "Now let's go."

They arrive to find Drake with no shirt his ribs heavily bandaged though back in place and him connected to some legally bewitched muggle device to check his brain waves and heartbeat in the farthest corner of the infirmary. Harry and Ron are sitting beside the bed while Madam Pomphrey is in her office and the others have apparently left. His head is bandaged with no hair showing. And a rusty red splotch is on the back of the bandage. An IV (A/N: no its not a roman numeral) bag is hooked to him to help him get nutrients and liquids while he is unconscious, which Hermione explains to Ginny and the others who don't know.

Drake's eyes are moving rapidly like in a dream but his face is twitching like a nightmare.

"Oh Drake." Ginny starts to cry.

"There, there." Ron says letting his sister cry on his shoulder as the others, Harry and Hermione, hug the two of them.

{Drake, if you're somewhere in there then for all of us please try to wake up.} Ginny pleads and watches him half grin then twitch violently and then groan from pain in his ribs.

"NO! Stay away." Drake mumbles in his sleep and the heartbeat stars to accelerate.

It slows down again and he mumbles, "I'll never tell… Put it in the pocket inside his pocket inside his robe dummy… they'll find it trust me you… dummy… he'll talk in his sleep it's a…" Drake groans and falls silent.

They grab his robe and start to look for the pocket in a pocket and Drake starts up again. "No crapweasel… let's kick his ribs… break his nose… slam his head… ENOUGH!" His heartbeat gets erratic again and Pomphrey runs in.

"What the world happened?" Pomphrey yells muttering a quick spell which slows his heartbeat back down.

"I'll never tell… can't tell… tell… tell…" Drake mumbles in a sing-song tone. "Tie him to the ceiling… come on hurry up you… bye-bye crapweasel…"

Drake is walking around in some deep darkness, the things that are coming out of his mouth are echoing around him in the voice of his attackers. And also prominently "We don't approve…" then the sucker punch. Drake keeps seeing the attack reliving it over and over… "…wake up please…"

Was that Ginny? He couldn't be sure. "Stay away…"

Drake feels himself hanging in the air again.

"Pocket in a pocket inside robe hem… dummy… bye crapweasel…"

The rest of the day was uneventful. Everyone but Ginny went to lunch and then came back in case he woke up. Classes had been cancelled that day which would give them 3 days free of work since it was a Friday. Ginny volunteered to keep watch through the night and the others went up to get some sleep, after a protest from Ron which only got him dragged out by Harry and Hermione.

{Drake… Please wake up Drake…} Ginny thinks at Drake that night.

{Pocket… Pocket… Robe hem…} Drake thinks back to her unconsciously.

"Huh?" Ginny says. "Robe hem?" Ginny looks at Drake whose face is twitching in terror it seems.

"W… Don't approve… I'll never be able to tell…" Drake mumbles as Ginny searches his robe hem for any pocket then a pocket in it if she finds one, and suddenly she does and removes a piece of parchment which says:

SAY YOUR NAME

Ginny does and a note appears:

DRAKE IS NO GOOD FOR YOU STAY AWAY OR MORE WILL HAPPEN

The note then turns into a moving illustration which shows what happened to Drake but not who are his assailants.

Ginny's eyes go wide in shock and then they tear up and she starts to cry silently muttering, "Go away" like the paper is now saying.

"Go away…" Drake hears still in the darkness.

{Ginny} Drake thinks unintentionally telepathic.

Why would she say that… echoes inside his mind not coming out of his mouth. Then the jaw punch is relived and he crumples down inside of his own mind more lost than before.

Ginny hears Drake's voice call her name inside her head and she calls back. {Drake? Drake? OH wake up!}

Ron walks in to find Ginny asleep the next morning and he sits beside her not waking her, but seeing that her eyes are red. And she is clutching a piece of parchment. He looks at Drake who is just laying there still though his eyes appear to be squeezed shut really tight.

"Drake… I know this might not even matter to you if anyone's home inside your head but you are breaking your promise…" Ron says silently with a catch in his voice and he clears his throat. "You're making Ginny sad and you promised you wouldn't. If you weren't so bad off I'd have to add to your injuries as my end of the bargain..."

"Breaking your promise… you're making Ginny sad…"

The line is echoing in Drakes head repeating and going over and over but it isn't clicking nothing is clicking anymore only echoes of moments he isn't remembering…

"Ginny? Sad?" echoes through his seemingly empty head making only half sense.

Ron thinks back on when he cornered Drake in the dorm and forced him to make a promise that he would never make Ginny sad or else Ron would kick his butt.

"I take it back Drake just wake up and it won't matter to me. Just wake up." Ron says before standing and leaving his eyes wet.

"You really should eat Ginny" Harry says coming in at lunch the next day.

"I can't eat I've got to stay here in case he wakes up." Ginny says weakly.

"GO EAT. I'll watch him." Harry says. "I promise you I'll get you if he wakes up."

"All right." Ginny says and leaves.

"Drake I know you're somewhere in that head of yours. Do you know what you're doing to Ginny? She's gonna starve herself Drake. PLEASE wake up at least for her sake if nobody else's." Harry says as he sits in the chair and finds the piece of parchment.

"Hmm? What's this piece of Parchment?" Harry wonders aloud.

"All they have to do is… say their name… dumb bro… he is crapwea…  easel… bye crap…" Drake mumbles unconsciously.

"Hmm. Harry Potter." Harry says and it just flashes colors and almost hits him with a glob of black ink.

Harry says "Go away" to the parchment and it stops flashing and Ginny walks in then and Harry leaves leaving the parchment where it was.

The next day classes started back but Ginny sat out until Hermione forced her to eat lunch.

"Drake… dang it… why didn't we answer your call quicker… why didn't we just leave instead of asking Falcore we might have caught who did it. Drake PLEASE wake up Drake." Hermione says then starts to cry and runs out as Ginny enters with a plate of food.

"George you don't think maybe we over did it a bit do you?" Fred asks in the dorm while everyone else is gone.

"No, no way. He had to learn. Had. To. Learn." George says.

"But I mean I think they really love each other apparently or at least Ginny does I mean have you seen her lately?" Fred says.

"Errr… No." George says with a pause.

"Exactly. If she isn't getting a plate of food she's in the infirmary with Drake. She looks sort of pale and has dark circles under her eyes. Maybe if our lesson wasn't learned we shouldn't go with plan B or C or D. He'd be dead by then if you cant tell from the results of this attack." Fred says.

"No he can't date our sister." George says.

"LAY OFF!" Fred says. "Goodness. Didn't you just want to make sure he'd be true to her? I'm sure his mind is tormenting him I did my research on this spell. If he wakes up and still loves her lay off or I'll turn us in."

"I can't believe what happened to Drake. Why aren't you doing more Albus?" Alexander demands.

"I can't punish someone I don't know did it." Albus says.

"Veritaserum…" Alexander starts.

"Will get me in trouble if used on anyone under 16 without their permission and even if they give it they could then pretend they were forced to take it." Albus says.

"Well ask the scumball known as Draco Malfoy if he agrees to let us use Veritaserum on him and make him sign a Consent letter and a Release Form to release you of liability." Alexander suggests.

Albus sighs deeply. "If I get his signature on the papers I will consider it but I will check to make sure that there is no loophole in either of them."

"Thank you head master." Alexander says.

 [I don't need this stress I have to take care of Rosalyn.] Alexander thinks as he leaves the office for his classroom.

"Why won't he wake up?" Ginny asks Madam Pomphrey that Wednesday.

"I don't know now go to class Dumbledore told me you have to go back to classes but you can stay here at nights." Madam Pomphrey says.

"Oh ok." Ginny says.

Ron walks in a minute after Ginny is gone. "Mr. Weasley get to class." Madam Pomphrey says.

"I got to get my quill." Ron says.

"Ok. Hurry up." Madam Pomphrey says.

Ron gets his quill from the dresser beside Drake's bed and sees the parchment which has 'SAY YOUR NAME' on it.

"Ron Weasley." Ron says.

'MY, MY. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT SNOOPY SNOOP' The parchment writes before screaming loud and flashing bright blinding colors though Ron sees 'GO AWAY' in black.

"GO AWAY!" Ron screams and runs out.

The next day Hermione comes in to bring Ginny supper but finds her asleep and sets it on the dresser seeing the parchment. She picks it up and sees 'SAY YOUR NAME'.

"Hermione Granger." She says.

'KNOW-IT-ALLS AREN'T ALLOWED TO LOOK AT THIS PARCHMENT.' It writes out before spitting something at Hermione's eyes but she avoids it and says "Go away" sort of loud and runs out.

"Huh? Who?" Ginny says sitting up and seeing the food starts to eat. "Drake please wake up. Tomorrow it will have been a week." Ginny sighs and just finishes eating before she falls asleep.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron have detention the next night for accidentally setting off a Filibuster's Wet Start No Heat fireworks in Transfiguration causing the room to fill with stars. They report to the Great Hall and Harry is sent to clean the Trophy Room while Ron and Hermione have to clean the Great Hall, but they can use magic.

Ginny is sitting by Drake when he starts to convulse and his pulse becomes erratic. "Madam Pomphrey!!" Ginny shrieks and the nurse runs out to Drake.

Drake had been walking in the darkness since yesterday and finally sees a light he heads towards it into a nightmare.

{Guys he is waking up I think!} Ginny yells over the telepathic link.

{Sorry. We're in detention. We'll be there soon.} They all say back.

Drake walks back into the beating nightmare but everyone is there, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, all of them are just watching Ginny looks to be laughing. Drakes eyes are wide seeing that as the fist connects with his gut she seems to laugh more while the others are saying 'Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.'

Ginny starts in the chant later too when he falls down and can see their heads floating around grinning wickedly still chanting wake up. As he starts to they all yell 'GO AWAY!' laughing and he shoots up screaming a horrific, loud scream.

Ginny is sitting there as he shoots up yelling the horrible yell of one wounded mentally beyond repair.

He stops and breathes for a  minute then turns and sees her staring at him fighting a grin and he screams and recoils away from her shouting "YOU" which makes her blanch, shrink back and look mortified.

The trio runs in then and looks very confused at the scene. Ginny pale, shrunk down in her seat, and a look on her face which explains why Drake is scooted far away from Ginny on the bed and shaking staring forward then at them for an instant then forward again.

"What the?" Ron says breaking the tense silence.

Drake clears his throat and says hoarsely "I broke my promise, Ron. You can beat the shit out of me now if you want." Drake hangs his head still not looking at them.

"Drake you nullified the promise." Ron smiles. "You woke up."

"Huh?" Drakes says confused looking over at Ron who is smiling and semi-teary eyed.

"I told you while you were out of it 'Wake up and it won't matter'." Ron explains.

"Oh… I deserve it though…" Drake says staring at the pale, shaking with silent sobs Ginny. "I definitely deserve it." Drake goes back to staring at his lap.

"Why?" Ron says.

"Ginny." Drake whispers and no one would have caught it if the room wasn't so silent. Drake turns his back to them still hanging his bandaged head down.

Ginny looks up at the back of his head in shock and mortified still. She stands up. "What about me?"

"I'm scum… worse than that… I'm… crapweasel… no better than the ferret boy." Drake says still quiet.

"Who did this to you?" Harry asks.

"I don't remember." Drake says blankly like he does know but can't say.

Drake pulls the IV out of his hand though he grimaces. He then unhooks the monitor. "I don't need those anymore."

Drake has the stony look from after his story back again maybe even more so.

Drake turns to face them and Hermione runs up and hugs him.

"OW! Ribs!" Drake yells.

"Sorry." Hermione says and lets go blushing.

"Well we'll leave you two alone." They say and leave.

"Oh, Drake." Ginny says and goes to hug him but he moves out of the way and Ginny looks crestfallen.

"No, no we can't do that anymore… Please I don't want this again. No… No more." Drake says utterly terrified shaking and white.

Ginny gets up sobbing and runs out, Drake looks like what he's been acting like, a major heel. He also looks deflated and he lays back and cries silently then sobbing and curses whoever attacked him.