The Girl All The Bad Guys Want by dracoscutie
Chapter 19
"Never Again" by Nickelback
Rating: PG-13
Hey all! Hope you didn't have to wait too long for this! Hopefully it was worth the wait because I really enjoyed writing this one! Please review and tell me what you think! Thanks for the reviews that have been previously given.
Enjoy!
ALSO, I APPOLOGIZE IF THIS SCENE IS TOO CONFUSING! THERE ARE THE LITTLE ~ THINGY'S AROUND THE SONG LINES AND THE REST IS NORMAL! IF THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT I HAVE ADDED I WILL BE SURE THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF IT, P.S. IF SOMEONE COULD PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO DO BOLDING AND ITALISIZING THAT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
I have changed a few of the words in the song to match the wizarding world and Ginny and Draco's position.
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~He's drunk again, it's time to fight
She must have done something wrong tonight~
Colin entered Ginny's private room to find her sleeping peacefully. But most unfortunately for her that wouldn't last long.
Colin grasped her by the arms and shook her awake.
The redhead's big brown orbs flickered open and then widened in distress.
"What do you want?" She questioned him dreadfully. She didn't know how he got in or what he was going to do but knowing Colin, it was something horrifying. And it was probably something that she did not want to happen.
"Oh, I think you know what I want!" Colin drawled. Ginny could smell the alcohol that laced his breath when he leaned in close to her.
Colin tightened his grip on her arms. He knew she was weak, too weak to fight back.
And so his revenge would start. He found that he couldn't refrain from harming her; after all, that's what he came to do. So he began to hit her hard and scratch her.
"Why are you doing this to me?" Ginny whimpered, trying with all her might to back away from the lethal looking man that was hurting her.
"You had the nerve to come to the hospital wing and tattle on me." He sneered, grabbing her fragile face in his hands. "I don't like tattle tales."
~The hospital becomes a boxing ring
It's time to run when you see him
Clenching his hands~
Colin finally stopped beating her and beckoned for Ginny to stand up. She refused him.
"Get up you little wench." He said, pulling her up forcefully by the shoulders.
Her legs were very wobbly and feeble, and she was having a hard time standing up on her them, it was just about like standing on toothpicks.
"I'm not a wench." She whispered defensively.
"You are whatever I saw you are." Colin glared menacingly. He turned to face the small redhead forebodingly. Colin wanted her to die; she was close to it anyways from what he had heard. Why not just quicken it up a bit?
Colin slapped her hard across her face making her stagger backwards quite a bit, and knocking her into the corner of the pale blue walls.
"Come on babe, fight back." He taunted before punching her in the jaw.
Ginny knew she couldn't fight back, the torture she had inflicted upon herself had made her so frail and weary. She knew she was dying, everyone would die one day and her day would most likely be today, but this wasn't how she wanted to go.
The brown-eyed girl decided to try to run away from his punishment. Her legs began to move, slowly at first but then they got quicker. However they were not quick enough to escape him.
~She's just a woman
Never Again~
Ginny did not understand why he was doing this to her. She was so defenseless against him and she had not gone to the hospital wing to spite him, she didn't even go on her own free will. She silently cursed Chloe and Ron and his friends for dragging her down here, she much rather would have liked to die warm and safe in her own bed, not taking blows from Colin.
The only other thing Ginny could think of, besides that she supposedly came to the hospital wing with malevolence toward him, that he would want revenge for is that she had not obliged to his wishes as well as he had hoped.
* * *
Draco ran the whole way to the hospital wing. He couldn't believe she was actually dying. After the way he had been treating her, even following his guess that she had not dumped him for the reasons given, he needed to see her one last time and set the record straight.
But as soon as he darted into the sinister hospital wing, he knew something was very wrong.
There was some big commotion coming from a small private room in the very back. It didn't take long for him to figure out that Colin was there and then he put two and two together.
~I hear her scream, from down the hall
Amazing she can even talk at all~
Draco heard Ginny scream loudly from her room.
He could only imagine what was going on in there. He didn't want that movie playing through his head.
Draco was nearly frozen in place, and unwillingly, a vivid picture began forming in his head. Was he trying to kill her?
* * *
Yes.
Ginny was so bloody that it was beginning to drip to the floor. She could scarcely open her mouth for the unbearable pain was overcoming her.
Why her?
~She cries to me, Go back to bed
I'm terrified that she'll wind up
Dead in his hands~
Draco began to walk towards her room. Maybe he could save her. If nothing else, he would at least try.
When he got to the gaping doorway of the small room he glimpsed her, his angel, practically beaten to a bloody pulp.
Ginny was startled as she looked up into Draco's silvery eyes, matching and even outdoing his fear for her.
"Go back to bed, Draco. I can do this." She said softly.
"No." Draco told her firmly. He was frightened for her life. She looked scared too, but she was a lot braver, or at least she was acting a lot braver, than he was.
Colin turned around, stunned to see the blonde-haired Slytherin boy, but spoke to him.
"Nice of you to join us Malfoy! Care to help me? It's a horrible chore but somebody has to do it and it'd go a lot faster if there were two somebody's." He asked.
Draco looked as if he were absolutely horrified at the atrocious thought.
"Oh come now Draco, you can't possibly tell me you never wanted to hurt her, or kill her. Even after she broke up with you so very ruthlessly, all for some other guy." Colin snickered.
"I would never hurt her. And I've never wanted to." Draco said.
"Draco, please just leave me here. I am dying anyway. Let me fight for it." Ginny pleaded. "Just know I always loved you." She said before nodding him out the door.
He knew he had to find someone to come and help. Someone who was capable of words, something that he was so obviously missing.
"I'll be back for you." He said before vanishing down the hallways.
Colin was not apprehensive; Ginny would no doubt be dead by the time Draco came back.
~She's just a woman
Never Again~
'She's just a small girl.' Draco thought to himself, racing through the corridors, trying to find somebody, anybody. It never ceased to amaze him how if you were sneaking around for the fun of it, everyone and their dog was out to get you but when you were looking for someone to help you, no one was around.
'My girl. So defenseless and weak.' He thought.
'I love her still and I hope that she is truthful in that she still loves me. The girl - no, the woman I love will not die.' He told himself, determined.
~Been there before, but not like this
Seen it before, but not like this~
The scene Draco had just witnessed brought back such bad memories of his childhood.
His poor mother.
~*Flashback*~
A six-year-old Draco was eating his eggs peacefully in the luxurious kitchen of the Malfoy Manor, accompanied by his favorite house elf, Bella.
Abruptly, he heard a noise from down the hall.
"Bella?" He asked between bites of egg.
"Yes, sir?" She asked him respectfully.
"What was that big noise?"
"Nothing to worry about young Master Draco." Bella answered hastily. Lucius told her to never allow Draco to see more than necessary or she would lose her job.
"Okay, Bella." Draco said trustfully. He always believed Bella; she had cared for him since he was a baby.
The young boy finished his breakfast and hopped off his chair to wash his hands.
He headed down the huge halls toward his favorite bathroom. He would only use that specific bathroom, he didn't know why but he liked that one best. He passed by an open door. He could hear a lot of noise coming from inside, so out of curiosity he peeked inside.
Lucius was beating his mother.
Why?
Draco loved his mother and his father and he thought they loved each other too.
"Daddy, why are you hurting Momma?" He asked quietly.
"What are you doing in here, son?' Lucius asked, harshly. "Leave immediately!"
Draco saw his mother's eyes were mixed with terror and relief and he ran back to Bella's loving arms.
Bella was fired later that day. Draco cried for days on end, missing Bella and remembering the pain in which he had seen his mother in.
~*End Flashback*~
Where was everybody when you needed them?
~Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad
She's just a woman
Never Again~
His father was never THIS inhumane to his mother. Colin was just being brutal. He wasn't out to wound or to teach a lesson, he was out to kill.
Draco realized that he had been chicken to leave for help, when he hadn't even tried to help her to start off with.
He had to go back to her, before it was too late.
~Just tell the nurse, you slipped and fell
It starts to sting as it starts to swell~
Colin was getting more and more contemptible. He couldn't understand why she was not dead yet; why was she being this difficult?
She should be lifeless by now. He slapped her once more, receiving a sharp yelp of pain that reverberated loudly across the whole hospital wing.
He could hear someone coming.
'Oh crap', he was not expecting Madame Pomfrey to come until he was completely finished. So he did the only thing sensible and hid in the closet at the back of the room. But not before healing her open wounds and mopping the blood up off the floor by magic.
Pomfrey charged in just as he shut the door to the closet to find Ginny collapsed on the floor.
"Ms. Weasley! What are you doing out of bed? And what happened to your face?" She asked.
Ginny touched her face to realize that Colin had forgotten a few wounds.
~She looks at you, she wants the truth
It's right out there in the waiting room
With those hands
Lookin' just as sweet as he can
Never Again~
"I was bored and I got up and slipped. I guess I got a little banged up." Ginny lied, she noticed herself getting weaker. It hurt to talk and to move. He couldn't pick herself up off the floor.
She was dying, slowly but surely. She had even told Draco to leave her to die. Now her fate was sealed.
"Well, let me help you up." Pomfrey said. "Don't get back out of bed for anything. We fear you have only hours to live as it is, you don't need to be speeding that up."
Ginny nodded and crept back into her bed with the nurse's help.
"Good night Ms. Weasley. Are you sure you just slipped and fell?" She asked suspiciously.
"Yeah."
"Very well then, your parents will be here first thing in the morning. Sleep well and I hope to see you tomorrow."
~Seen it before, but not like this
Been there before, but not like this~
Draco broke into a run, praying he got back in time.
He thought back to her bloody face, then he though of his mother's own face.
Two in the same.
~Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad
She's just a woman
Never Again~
Both were women who's significant others did not deserve.
Ginny had it worse than his mother, though. She was being beaten to death and Narcissa had mild beatings as punishment.
Draco urged his legs to go faster.
Finally he reached the hospital wing and he burst into Ginny's room only to find Colin trying to pull the redhead out of her bed onto the cold floor once more.
~Lover's a name you haven't earned yet
You're just a child with a temper~
"Let her go!" Draco demanded, shocking both Ginny and Colin.
"Why should I, Malfoy?" Colin asked. "She's my girlfriend and I can do whatever I please with her. Are you forgetting how she left you?"
"That's not what being a boyfriend is about. You don't love her and you don't even deserve to call yourself her lover. I know, now that she did not leave me on her own free will, someone made her do it. And that someone is standing right in front of me." Draco retorted.
"Oh! And I'm sure you do deserve to call yourself the man who loves her, right?" Colin rolled his eyes, ignoring the last comment of Draco's.
"At least when I was with her I really loved her." Draco shot back.
Colin was furious with himself for opening the door for Draco to just walk right through, so he hit Ginny once more, causing a loud snapping noise to come from her nose.
"Don't touch her again. You had better keep your temper under control Creevy or else." Draco said menacingly, clenching and unclenching his fists.
~Haven't you heard "Don't hit a lady"?
Kickin' your a** would be a pleasure~
Colin punched her again, spitefully.
"Or else what Ferretboy?" Colin asked, smirking excruciatingly.
"Didn't your mother ever tell you not to hit a lady? No wonder you had to bribe Ginny for her companionship. No manners whatsoever." Draco growled, his eyes flashing.
"Get up, Gin." Colin said icily, dragging her out of bed. She was nearly gone now. Colin needn't do too terribly much to her before she was completely gone. Her limp body fell to the floor in front of Colin.
Ginny remained motionless, unable to speak or move, so Colin kicked her and laughed.
"That's it." Draco said, rolling up his sleeves. He wasn't going to just stand by and watch the only girl he'd ever really loved die in front of his eyes.
~He's drunk again, it's time to fight
Same old s***, just on a different night~
As Draco walked forward he could smell the alcohol odor that seemed to be emanating from Colin's very being.
"Let's do it then." Colin said. "Then you can both be together in the end."
Draco threw the first punch, hitting Colin square in the nose. Colin tried to fight back and punched Draco in the mouth.
But it didn't phase Draco, not even for one moment, Ginny was slipping away and he knew he could get to her and he knew he could save her.
The tall Slytherin, breaking it, hit Colin in the jaw. Soon enough Draco had Colin on the ground, too busy nursing his wounds to pay any attention to Ginny.
It was now or never.
~He grabs his wand, he's had enough
Tonight they'll find out how f*****g
Tough is this man~
Draco's hand plunged into his robe pocket, extracting his wand.
He knew that as much as he wanted to use an unforgivable curse on the jerk, he couldn't. His goal was to help Ginny and he wanted to be with her after that, so he settled for the next best thing.
~Says the spell just as fast as he can
Never Again~
"Stupefy!" Draco yelled, stunning the mousy jerk.
Colin fell unconscious immediately, letting the blood from his body spill over the tiles. This left Draco free and excited.
Draco hurried to Ginny's limp body, knowing that she was almost gone.
~Seen it before, but not like this
Been there before, but not like this~
His time was short to save her.
He'd seen people die before but never did he wish to see his love die before him. She couldn't die such a painful, grueling, heinous death.
Draco didn't know what it was or where it came from but something told him that if he just picked her up and cradled her in his arms, then everything would be okay and she would make it.
~Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad~
Draco hoped his intuition was right as he picked her up and held her incredibly frail body in his arms almost as you would a baby.
At least she was breathing for now. As long as she was breathing, Draco would know he was doing something right.
He looked into her face. Instead of the lively, spunky face that he'd fallen in love with, her face was now gaunt and nearly lifeless.
But that didn't make him love her any less.
~She's just a woman
Never Again~
Virginia Weasley wasn't JUST a woman; she was the woman who had finally captured Draco's heart.
Looking at her excessively slim body, Draco almost cried at how dead it seemed.
But at least there was still a steady breathing pattern present. It assured and comforted Draco that she was still breathing; she could still make it.
Draco smiled at the thought of them making more memories together. He smiled at the thought of her laughing and teasing him again. Then he smiled at the thought of kissing her lips and telling her he was sorry. She would ask him why and he would tell her that he was sorry for believing that she would break a promise just like that and he was sorry for putting her through so much pain.
He still loved her and he knew she would make it through the night.
He wouldn't let her die.
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Well, that was my attempt at a halfway decent song chapter! No, this isn't the end; there will be more! But not unless you tell me what you think! Let me know that you exist and review!
Thanks for all the lovely reviews and thanks even for the few reviews that were critiquing me, I do need that from time to time. Oh yes and Laylana- Fairyweather, thank you especially for your review. I feel the same way about that chapter but it was more of a bridge to this chapter, which I do hope is better!
Chapter 19
"Never Again" by Nickelback
Rating: PG-13
Hey all! Hope you didn't have to wait too long for this! Hopefully it was worth the wait because I really enjoyed writing this one! Please review and tell me what you think! Thanks for the reviews that have been previously given.
Enjoy!
ALSO, I APPOLOGIZE IF THIS SCENE IS TOO CONFUSING! THERE ARE THE LITTLE ~ THINGY'S AROUND THE SONG LINES AND THE REST IS NORMAL! IF THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT I HAVE ADDED I WILL BE SURE THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF IT, P.S. IF SOMEONE COULD PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO DO BOLDING AND ITALISIZING THAT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
I have changed a few of the words in the song to match the wizarding world and Ginny and Draco's position.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~
~He's drunk again, it's time to fight
She must have done something wrong tonight~
Colin entered Ginny's private room to find her sleeping peacefully. But most unfortunately for her that wouldn't last long.
Colin grasped her by the arms and shook her awake.
The redhead's big brown orbs flickered open and then widened in distress.
"What do you want?" She questioned him dreadfully. She didn't know how he got in or what he was going to do but knowing Colin, it was something horrifying. And it was probably something that she did not want to happen.
"Oh, I think you know what I want!" Colin drawled. Ginny could smell the alcohol that laced his breath when he leaned in close to her.
Colin tightened his grip on her arms. He knew she was weak, too weak to fight back.
And so his revenge would start. He found that he couldn't refrain from harming her; after all, that's what he came to do. So he began to hit her hard and scratch her.
"Why are you doing this to me?" Ginny whimpered, trying with all her might to back away from the lethal looking man that was hurting her.
"You had the nerve to come to the hospital wing and tattle on me." He sneered, grabbing her fragile face in his hands. "I don't like tattle tales."
~The hospital becomes a boxing ring
It's time to run when you see him
Clenching his hands~
Colin finally stopped beating her and beckoned for Ginny to stand up. She refused him.
"Get up you little wench." He said, pulling her up forcefully by the shoulders.
Her legs were very wobbly and feeble, and she was having a hard time standing up on her them, it was just about like standing on toothpicks.
"I'm not a wench." She whispered defensively.
"You are whatever I saw you are." Colin glared menacingly. He turned to face the small redhead forebodingly. Colin wanted her to die; she was close to it anyways from what he had heard. Why not just quicken it up a bit?
Colin slapped her hard across her face making her stagger backwards quite a bit, and knocking her into the corner of the pale blue walls.
"Come on babe, fight back." He taunted before punching her in the jaw.
Ginny knew she couldn't fight back, the torture she had inflicted upon herself had made her so frail and weary. She knew she was dying, everyone would die one day and her day would most likely be today, but this wasn't how she wanted to go.
The brown-eyed girl decided to try to run away from his punishment. Her legs began to move, slowly at first but then they got quicker. However they were not quick enough to escape him.
~She's just a woman
Never Again~
Ginny did not understand why he was doing this to her. She was so defenseless against him and she had not gone to the hospital wing to spite him, she didn't even go on her own free will. She silently cursed Chloe and Ron and his friends for dragging her down here, she much rather would have liked to die warm and safe in her own bed, not taking blows from Colin.
The only other thing Ginny could think of, besides that she supposedly came to the hospital wing with malevolence toward him, that he would want revenge for is that she had not obliged to his wishes as well as he had hoped.
* * *
Draco ran the whole way to the hospital wing. He couldn't believe she was actually dying. After the way he had been treating her, even following his guess that she had not dumped him for the reasons given, he needed to see her one last time and set the record straight.
But as soon as he darted into the sinister hospital wing, he knew something was very wrong.
There was some big commotion coming from a small private room in the very back. It didn't take long for him to figure out that Colin was there and then he put two and two together.
~I hear her scream, from down the hall
Amazing she can even talk at all~
Draco heard Ginny scream loudly from her room.
He could only imagine what was going on in there. He didn't want that movie playing through his head.
Draco was nearly frozen in place, and unwillingly, a vivid picture began forming in his head. Was he trying to kill her?
* * *
Yes.
Ginny was so bloody that it was beginning to drip to the floor. She could scarcely open her mouth for the unbearable pain was overcoming her.
Why her?
~She cries to me, Go back to bed
I'm terrified that she'll wind up
Dead in his hands~
Draco began to walk towards her room. Maybe he could save her. If nothing else, he would at least try.
When he got to the gaping doorway of the small room he glimpsed her, his angel, practically beaten to a bloody pulp.
Ginny was startled as she looked up into Draco's silvery eyes, matching and even outdoing his fear for her.
"Go back to bed, Draco. I can do this." She said softly.
"No." Draco told her firmly. He was frightened for her life. She looked scared too, but she was a lot braver, or at least she was acting a lot braver, than he was.
Colin turned around, stunned to see the blonde-haired Slytherin boy, but spoke to him.
"Nice of you to join us Malfoy! Care to help me? It's a horrible chore but somebody has to do it and it'd go a lot faster if there were two somebody's." He asked.
Draco looked as if he were absolutely horrified at the atrocious thought.
"Oh come now Draco, you can't possibly tell me you never wanted to hurt her, or kill her. Even after she broke up with you so very ruthlessly, all for some other guy." Colin snickered.
"I would never hurt her. And I've never wanted to." Draco said.
"Draco, please just leave me here. I am dying anyway. Let me fight for it." Ginny pleaded. "Just know I always loved you." She said before nodding him out the door.
He knew he had to find someone to come and help. Someone who was capable of words, something that he was so obviously missing.
"I'll be back for you." He said before vanishing down the hallways.
Colin was not apprehensive; Ginny would no doubt be dead by the time Draco came back.
~She's just a woman
Never Again~
'She's just a small girl.' Draco thought to himself, racing through the corridors, trying to find somebody, anybody. It never ceased to amaze him how if you were sneaking around for the fun of it, everyone and their dog was out to get you but when you were looking for someone to help you, no one was around.
'My girl. So defenseless and weak.' He thought.
'I love her still and I hope that she is truthful in that she still loves me. The girl - no, the woman I love will not die.' He told himself, determined.
~Been there before, but not like this
Seen it before, but not like this~
The scene Draco had just witnessed brought back such bad memories of his childhood.
His poor mother.
~*Flashback*~
A six-year-old Draco was eating his eggs peacefully in the luxurious kitchen of the Malfoy Manor, accompanied by his favorite house elf, Bella.
Abruptly, he heard a noise from down the hall.
"Bella?" He asked between bites of egg.
"Yes, sir?" She asked him respectfully.
"What was that big noise?"
"Nothing to worry about young Master Draco." Bella answered hastily. Lucius told her to never allow Draco to see more than necessary or she would lose her job.
"Okay, Bella." Draco said trustfully. He always believed Bella; she had cared for him since he was a baby.
The young boy finished his breakfast and hopped off his chair to wash his hands.
He headed down the huge halls toward his favorite bathroom. He would only use that specific bathroom, he didn't know why but he liked that one best. He passed by an open door. He could hear a lot of noise coming from inside, so out of curiosity he peeked inside.
Lucius was beating his mother.
Why?
Draco loved his mother and his father and he thought they loved each other too.
"Daddy, why are you hurting Momma?" He asked quietly.
"What are you doing in here, son?' Lucius asked, harshly. "Leave immediately!"
Draco saw his mother's eyes were mixed with terror and relief and he ran back to Bella's loving arms.
Bella was fired later that day. Draco cried for days on end, missing Bella and remembering the pain in which he had seen his mother in.
~*End Flashback*~
Where was everybody when you needed them?
~Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad
She's just a woman
Never Again~
His father was never THIS inhumane to his mother. Colin was just being brutal. He wasn't out to wound or to teach a lesson, he was out to kill.
Draco realized that he had been chicken to leave for help, when he hadn't even tried to help her to start off with.
He had to go back to her, before it was too late.
~Just tell the nurse, you slipped and fell
It starts to sting as it starts to swell~
Colin was getting more and more contemptible. He couldn't understand why she was not dead yet; why was she being this difficult?
She should be lifeless by now. He slapped her once more, receiving a sharp yelp of pain that reverberated loudly across the whole hospital wing.
He could hear someone coming.
'Oh crap', he was not expecting Madame Pomfrey to come until he was completely finished. So he did the only thing sensible and hid in the closet at the back of the room. But not before healing her open wounds and mopping the blood up off the floor by magic.
Pomfrey charged in just as he shut the door to the closet to find Ginny collapsed on the floor.
"Ms. Weasley! What are you doing out of bed? And what happened to your face?" She asked.
Ginny touched her face to realize that Colin had forgotten a few wounds.
~She looks at you, she wants the truth
It's right out there in the waiting room
With those hands
Lookin' just as sweet as he can
Never Again~
"I was bored and I got up and slipped. I guess I got a little banged up." Ginny lied, she noticed herself getting weaker. It hurt to talk and to move. He couldn't pick herself up off the floor.
She was dying, slowly but surely. She had even told Draco to leave her to die. Now her fate was sealed.
"Well, let me help you up." Pomfrey said. "Don't get back out of bed for anything. We fear you have only hours to live as it is, you don't need to be speeding that up."
Ginny nodded and crept back into her bed with the nurse's help.
"Good night Ms. Weasley. Are you sure you just slipped and fell?" She asked suspiciously.
"Yeah."
"Very well then, your parents will be here first thing in the morning. Sleep well and I hope to see you tomorrow."
~Seen it before, but not like this
Been there before, but not like this~
Draco broke into a run, praying he got back in time.
He thought back to her bloody face, then he though of his mother's own face.
Two in the same.
~Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad
She's just a woman
Never Again~
Both were women who's significant others did not deserve.
Ginny had it worse than his mother, though. She was being beaten to death and Narcissa had mild beatings as punishment.
Draco urged his legs to go faster.
Finally he reached the hospital wing and he burst into Ginny's room only to find Colin trying to pull the redhead out of her bed onto the cold floor once more.
~Lover's a name you haven't earned yet
You're just a child with a temper~
"Let her go!" Draco demanded, shocking both Ginny and Colin.
"Why should I, Malfoy?" Colin asked. "She's my girlfriend and I can do whatever I please with her. Are you forgetting how she left you?"
"That's not what being a boyfriend is about. You don't love her and you don't even deserve to call yourself her lover. I know, now that she did not leave me on her own free will, someone made her do it. And that someone is standing right in front of me." Draco retorted.
"Oh! And I'm sure you do deserve to call yourself the man who loves her, right?" Colin rolled his eyes, ignoring the last comment of Draco's.
"At least when I was with her I really loved her." Draco shot back.
Colin was furious with himself for opening the door for Draco to just walk right through, so he hit Ginny once more, causing a loud snapping noise to come from her nose.
"Don't touch her again. You had better keep your temper under control Creevy or else." Draco said menacingly, clenching and unclenching his fists.
~Haven't you heard "Don't hit a lady"?
Kickin' your a** would be a pleasure~
Colin punched her again, spitefully.
"Or else what Ferretboy?" Colin asked, smirking excruciatingly.
"Didn't your mother ever tell you not to hit a lady? No wonder you had to bribe Ginny for her companionship. No manners whatsoever." Draco growled, his eyes flashing.
"Get up, Gin." Colin said icily, dragging her out of bed. She was nearly gone now. Colin needn't do too terribly much to her before she was completely gone. Her limp body fell to the floor in front of Colin.
Ginny remained motionless, unable to speak or move, so Colin kicked her and laughed.
"That's it." Draco said, rolling up his sleeves. He wasn't going to just stand by and watch the only girl he'd ever really loved die in front of his eyes.
~He's drunk again, it's time to fight
Same old s***, just on a different night~
As Draco walked forward he could smell the alcohol odor that seemed to be emanating from Colin's very being.
"Let's do it then." Colin said. "Then you can both be together in the end."
Draco threw the first punch, hitting Colin square in the nose. Colin tried to fight back and punched Draco in the mouth.
But it didn't phase Draco, not even for one moment, Ginny was slipping away and he knew he could get to her and he knew he could save her.
The tall Slytherin, breaking it, hit Colin in the jaw. Soon enough Draco had Colin on the ground, too busy nursing his wounds to pay any attention to Ginny.
It was now or never.
~He grabs his wand, he's had enough
Tonight they'll find out how f*****g
Tough is this man~
Draco's hand plunged into his robe pocket, extracting his wand.
He knew that as much as he wanted to use an unforgivable curse on the jerk, he couldn't. His goal was to help Ginny and he wanted to be with her after that, so he settled for the next best thing.
~Says the spell just as fast as he can
Never Again~
"Stupefy!" Draco yelled, stunning the mousy jerk.
Colin fell unconscious immediately, letting the blood from his body spill over the tiles. This left Draco free and excited.
Draco hurried to Ginny's limp body, knowing that she was almost gone.
~Seen it before, but not like this
Been there before, but not like this~
His time was short to save her.
He'd seen people die before but never did he wish to see his love die before him. She couldn't die such a painful, grueling, heinous death.
Draco didn't know what it was or where it came from but something told him that if he just picked her up and cradled her in his arms, then everything would be okay and she would make it.
~Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad~
Draco hoped his intuition was right as he picked her up and held her incredibly frail body in his arms almost as you would a baby.
At least she was breathing for now. As long as she was breathing, Draco would know he was doing something right.
He looked into her face. Instead of the lively, spunky face that he'd fallen in love with, her face was now gaunt and nearly lifeless.
But that didn't make him love her any less.
~She's just a woman
Never Again~
Virginia Weasley wasn't JUST a woman; she was the woman who had finally captured Draco's heart.
Looking at her excessively slim body, Draco almost cried at how dead it seemed.
But at least there was still a steady breathing pattern present. It assured and comforted Draco that she was still breathing; she could still make it.
Draco smiled at the thought of them making more memories together. He smiled at the thought of her laughing and teasing him again. Then he smiled at the thought of kissing her lips and telling her he was sorry. She would ask him why and he would tell her that he was sorry for believing that she would break a promise just like that and he was sorry for putting her through so much pain.
He still loved her and he knew she would make it through the night.
He wouldn't let her die.
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Well, that was my attempt at a halfway decent song chapter! No, this isn't the end; there will be more! But not unless you tell me what you think! Let me know that you exist and review!
Thanks for all the lovely reviews and thanks even for the few reviews that were critiquing me, I do need that from time to time. Oh yes and Laylana- Fairyweather, thank you especially for your review. I feel the same way about that chapter but it was more of a bridge to this chapter, which I do hope is better!
