Leid Und Elend - MalfoysChick

Your boat leaves the port of our city
You travel alone into the clear night
I wish for only five more minutes
My true yearning comes with you...

She was leaving him, because they knew their love would never be accepted. Sirius watched Ginny as she carefully packed her clothing into the trunk alongside her small library, and her shoes and her toothbrush, and sighed heavily. He would miss her. They had spent many nights in the bed he now lay upon, many long nights that kept the candle burning until the wee hours before dawn. He loved her for who she was, and did not care that she was half his age, or even more so.

I love your moon in my night
There is no day without your sun
You are but the star on my firmament
I am the stone and you are the cement...

Ginny Weasley was Sirius's calm ocean, his steady object in the whirlwind he knew as life. She had been there through everything, yet now she was leaving because she was afraid society wouldn't accept her as who she was- Sirius Black's lover. Her mother, they both knew, would scream bloody murder upon his head until the day it was severed from the rest of his body.

Divided sorrow is half the sorrow
My heart is your heart
Divided bliss is half the bliss
Your pain is my pain...

She did feel his pain, really. It was stronger for the one who was leaving, but to leave was necessary. Harry was beginning to suspect, Ron was as well, and Ginny was sure that Hermione knew about their relationship. But Sirius wasn't on the run anymore, and she couldn't just let everyone know. Because no one would understand.

Divided sorrow…

"Are you sure about this, Gin?" Sirius asked heavily for the third time. He didn't want to lose his doll, his love, the woman who equaled him in everyway, made him complete.

"Sirius, I have to," she pleaded with him. "I don't want to, but it's the right choice."

Your sorrow, my misery

A one sided statement, Sirius thought, knowing fully well that it was the right choice and he just didn't want to admit to it.

My sorrow, your misery

"I'll be miserable without you, love," Sirius told Ginny, standing up from the bed and walking over to where she stood with a pile of clothes in one arm and a clutter of parchment in the other, just watching him walk to her. Ginny didn't move, just watched him with a warm, loving look, seeing Sirius's light eyes turned dark with his agony.

My misery, your sorrow

"I wish it could be different, Siri," Ginny whispered, as he carefully took the items from her arms and tossed them into the trunk. He ran his hands up her arms, the calloused palms just barely skimming over her smooth skin.

Your misery, my sorrow

"I'm so sorry," Ginny cried out, throwing herself into his arms. Sirius caught her easily, took as step back from the force she expended in the short distance between their bodies; he buried his face in her hair near the nape of her neck, breathed in the smell of his doll, his love, his darling… his Ginny.

You are the key on the piano
Everything you'd want, I play for you
Your sweet wound's sweet juice
Makes me very drunk, even without schnapps.

Ginny pulled Sirius's face towards her own, placed her lips upon his and took with all her might the passion that they shared, and drained herself within his arms. She drained her soul, her love and her life into Sirius, made him believe the truth.

"I love you," she whispered huskily, her mouth still upon his.

"I love you more," Sirius replied, pulling away. "And no one else shall ever have my heart, Virginia."

And with that, she left, closing the trunk and walking out the door of Sirius Black's life forever. Painful. Heartbreaking. Necessary.

Dein leid, mein elend
Mein leid, dein elend
Mein elend, dein leid
Dein elend, mein leid.

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Star of Light.