Chapter Twenty-one
Ginny stirred on the cold ground. Where was she?
Then the memories started to return. Draco had saved her, that stupid git. What if he had gotten himself killed or hurt?
He was dim and thick, but God, she loved him.
Sighing she let herself bask in memories of being crushed against his chest while he carried her out of the bathroom. Her body was being raked with pain, but she felt as if she was watching from above. It hurt, but it was almost smothered. The pain was absorbed by her body, but not her mind.
Then Ginny realized what she was doing. She was slipping into a state of denial. It was working. She was not panicking about the strange place she was in, or that she could not move her arms or legs.
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Draco sat beside Ginny, and continued to flip through the stupid book. It kept stopping on a page about Deatheaters. Draco did not want to read the stupid page. He knew too much about them to last him a lifetime. His mother often told him that after his father had joined the Deatheaters he had turned cold and cruel, the way he was now.
Draco knew that it had murdered his mother, broken her. Her husband joining the side of darkness had taken away all hopes and values she had ever held dear. The marriage lost its meaning. Draco's father could not feel love again. He had let it triumph over him. Now he was immune to any good emotions. His heart only harbored hate.
Draco tried not to think of it too much. The past summer Lucious had tried to beat Draco into joining the darkness. Draco could not do it! It would kill his mother. It would kill him! His father had been so brutal. He acted as if Draco was a house elf rather then a son.
Sighing, Draco banished his thoughts and looked at the book in front of him. He read the page despite himself and sprang up.
He knew how to save Ginny!
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Ginny finally felt the return of the use of her legs. She had been on the floor for well over an hour and her joints were killing her.
She slowly stood and examined the room. It was just a stone cell. She walked to the far corner. On a podium was a basin of water.
She glanced at it out of the corner of her eye, but stopped dead in her tracks at the image in the liquid. Slowly she moved closer and stood above the basin looking down. With all her being she wished that what she saw was not true. It could not be the truth. It simply could not be the truth. Tears slid down her cheeks and dropped into the basin. The image became sharper and more focused. Ginny wanted to look away but her eyes were held transfixed by the image. She knew in her heart that the image before her was reality.
Her heart sunken with grief she stood watching as her life became undone at the seams.
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Draco bowed before Voldemort, his new master.
On his arm a new mark burned into his skin.
He was doing the right thing, really he was!
Then why did he feel so much guilt? He had done it to save Ginny. There was no other way to free her from the grip of the curse. He had accepted the mark that could contemn him to death, and he did it for her.
But the feeling in the pit of his stomach told him that she would not appreciate the gesture.
She would rather die then have him join the dark side.
But he really was not joining! He was doing it to save her. Surely she would understand! She had to understand. If she didn't then what would become of their relationship? Would she hate him forever if she found out? Could he hide it from her?
No, he could not hide it. He may be Slytherin, but even Slytherins had morals, even if they were basic. Even Slytherins would not lie about something like this.
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Ginny paced the room, troubled by what she had last witnessed in the basin. How could he do that? After he had received the mark Ginny watched in horror as Voldemort removed his hood. A terrible face, blemished by hatred and evil, looked upon Draco's untouched face. He smirked.
But afterwards when Draco had returned to Hogwarts he looked haunted by something.
Could he be regretting what he had done?
Ginny doubted it. If anything, Draco was one of the smartest people she knew. Well, she used to think that.
Why would he join the dark side? What had obliged him to do it? His father perhaps? Ginny had thought that Draco would be better then that.
Not once in the time they spent together did Draco mention his father to Ginny. But then again why would he? Maybe he had been planning on joining the dark side since before he met her. Maybe her presence in his life did not effect his decision in the least. But Ginny had thought that he cared for her.
Once she had even thought he loved her.
But if he did then why did he join the other Deatheaters who were set on hurting the people closest to Ginny.
Finally Ginny shook herself from her thoughts. She retreated to a corner as far away from the basin as possible. Sitting on the floor she let her tears stream freely. She had been hurt and made a fool. But that was not the cause of her tears. She cried because she did not understand.
Somewhere in her pathetic heart she still believed that Draco loved her despite what he had just done to disprove her thoughts.
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A/N I am really sorry for the delay and the shortness of this Chapter. I really don't have an excuse. :[ But I am going to beg for your forgiveness and hope that none of you will flame me for the horrible chapter! I feel like such a crappy writer! :[ Do I dare to even call myself a writer? :/ I love my story and I would never think of discontinuing it, but I feel like the way I am describing things does not do the plot justice! Don't worry, I am not thinking of discontinuing this story, I just feel a little down. :[
-Lady Megan
P.S I wrote a couple of poems and posted them on fanfiction, if anyone reviews on them it would be much appreciated.
P.P.S I am sorry that this chapter is so horrible, :[ It has a big effect in the outcome of Ginny being under the curse and Ginny and Draco's relationship.
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