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Chapter 12: He's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack
Ginny slowly opened her eyes. She moved to sit up but thought better of it when she felt a slice of pain stab through her head. She whimpered in pain and closed her eyes, trying to even out her shallow breathing.
Once the pain had passed, she opened her eyes again and surveyed her surroundings. She was in some kind of dungeon. There were no doors or windows; just a torch lit on each of the four walls for light and there was a tiny grate on the roof letting a small amount of air in.
'How did I get here?' Ginny thought, utterly confused. The last thing she remembered was seeing Draco in the library and then…..then…nothing. She had no recollection of what had happened from that point on.
Suddenly the seriousness of the situation dawned on her. She was trapped. Trapped in a stone dungeon with no food or water, and a couple of tiny holes letting a scarce amount of oxygen in. With her vision clouded she got up with much effort and started pounding the cold stone walls. Would she starve? Or would the oxygen run out before she got the chance? There was no way out that she could see.
Ginny put her head in her hands and slid down one of the walls. Hot tears trickled down her cheeks and collected in her palms. There was only one person who could be responsible for this.
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"Ginny wake up, please. Please wake up," Draco pleaded as he sat in the chair beside her bed.
He had taken her straight to hospital wing when she had collapsed. That was five hours ago, and he had not yet left her side. Harry, Ron and Hermoine had arrived two hours earlier and were sitting around Ginny's bed with him in silence.
"Give it a rest will you, Malfoy?" Ron groaned.
Draco glared at him. "Sorry for caring about your sister so much."
"Look," Ron sighed, "I know you care about her. And I do too. I love her to death. She's my baby sister. But, you've been repeating that sentence every five minutes for the past two hours and it doesn't make a bloody difference. The only thing it's achieving is driving me mad!"
"Yeah, and I'm going to keep doing it until she wakes up Weasley so learn to deal with it," Draco spat back.
Hermoine, sensing danger, quickly changed the subject. "Where's Cho, Harry?"
"How should I know?" Harry mumbled, avoiding Hermoine's eyes.
"Well, she is your girlfriend."
"We broke up," he replied, suddenly becoming very interested in a loose thread on the sleeve of his robes.
"Oh, Harry. I'm sorry. What happened?" Hermoine asked sympathetically.
"It wasn't working," he replied simply and the room resumed its silence.
Draco looked down at the unconscious Ginny. Her read hair was strewn across her face so he reached out and smoothed it away.
"Ginny wake up, please. Please wake up," Draco pleaded once again.
"I'm going to get a drink. Anyone else want anything?" Ron asked glaring at Draco.
"No thanks, Ron," Hermoine replied giving him a smile.
He turned to Harry.
"Harry?"
Harry looked up at Ron and frowned. "Huh."
"Forget it," Ron muttered and stalked out of the hospital wing passing Blaise on the way out.
"Hey, is she alright?" Blaise asked timidly.
Draco looked up at the sound of Blaise's voice. "She will be," he whispered. 'Merlin, please let her be alright,' he pleaded silently.
"Listen Blaise, I can't really talk right now," Draco began to expain, "I have to stay here with Gin and –"
"Actually Draco, I was here to talk to Harry," she replied shooting a nervous glance in Harry's direction.
Draco's eyes widened in surprise. Harry? Since when has it been Harry? Blaise had only ever referred to him as Potter. His surprise died though when he saw the look of anxiety across Harry's face and smirked. No matter how he had changed he still enjoyed watching the boy who lived squirm, and he always would.
He watched as Harry followed Blaise out of the room and looked across at Hermoine.
She was looking at him intently. And he hated to admit it, but it was making him uncomfortable.
"What?" he asked.
"You really do love her don't you?" she asked him quietly.
"Woah, wait a minute Granger. I never said…….love? I don't love…….that's impossible……love……I can't……..will never……love?" he spluttered, his throat constricting and the words not coming out quite the way he had intended them to.
Draco sighed and looked across at Hermoine again.
"Yes. I love her."
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Ginny continued to sob into her hands. She was really in trouble.
"Virginia," a deep soothing voice whispered in her ear.
She snapped her head up and let out a startled yelp when she saw Tom Marvolo Riddle staring back at her, his face only inches from hers.
WOW. That was short. But never fear. I did intend to put another part on but I have to go to work ::sob:: so the next part will be put up fairly soon.
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