*My dear Readers, thank you so much for your support and many reviews. This is the first time that I have ever thought of writing a note for all of you. Once again, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I'm so sorry if sometimes I tend to place the other characters in the dark or just completely forget about them. Or that I mention some characters but don't even use them. Basically, I just have them there so that I can add things to this fic.
By the way, if you do notice that there are some misspelled things, its because when I write I don't make a draft, I'm the type that doesn't do much planning. I think it would be much better that way. Sometimes I lose myself in my writing…but anyway! Please forgive me for all the awry things that have happened in this fic.
I sometimes reread the reviews to get encouragement. Would it be any consolation to you guys if I said that one Saturday I didn't write a chapter and then the next Saturday I wrote two to make up for it? It has happened…I guess two or three Saturdays ago.
I want to make this note long because I want to reach a six to seven page fic…hehe! I have a writing standard to meet.
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I'm afraid that this story is nearing its end. Yes, sadly I must end this fic because I have other things to do. But do not worry; I just might make another story revolving the "Harry Potter" series. I have other stories to work on that are not posted on the Net…it would be to tasking to type everything down and place them here…it would be so annoying if I had to change other parts of those stories…
Did I ever mention that I really had no intention to make this fic? My two friends sort of just started bringing Draco and Ginny fics to school and I got curious as to what they were reading. As it turned out, I decided to make a fic as well about these two characters. I wasn't really committed to writing this fic, but since I have always been into writing stories, I would feel really guilty if I didn't finish it. But later on, I started getting obsessed with my fic to the point that I really started myself to finish it before I graduate from High School…Yes, I'm in third year high school, isn't it amazing? Hehe.
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P.S. I'm afraid that there's something wrong with how I uploaded this document. The parts that are supposed to be italicized are not italicized so you'd have to figure out which is which. Most of the stuff that are supposed to be italicized are Apollo's words. I'll try to replace this one once fanfiction replies to plea of help.
P.S. Do you ever get this weird sensation when you're reading a fic? A feeling that's so heavy somewhere in your chest? I do! (^_^)
Evening Raine Star
Chapter 26
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Though you two are Soulmates, complications will arise just as he had mentioned. Yes, you are forever bound and will forever love each other even though walls are raised between you. Yes, you can enter this Realm as much times as you want all throughout time, but…there are some cases when one cannot be found.
It's not right for one to be missing. When Soulmates are brought here, it's always together. There is no need for both of you to be close together to get here, just by minds or when you think about each other deeply is when you will be brought here.
But then…
When one is missing, it means something is tormenting his or her soul. Usual, that torment is cause by nihilism or denial. I've seen many Soulmates go through this stage. If one is in denial, it's because of the disbelief. Denial and nihilism cannot be separated at most times.
And so, I've seen a pair with one missing, their part of the Realm a distortion.
But, they always manage to get back together; they manage to fix the problem. How to fix it depends on the Soulmates. Even till this life is over and they wait for their next life, they're still working on it, relentless in pursuing the dream.
I do not wish to tell you this, but I can already sense something malevolent and malicious heading your way.
He started at her, his heart beating wildly.
Denial…Disbelief…
Why would these things block them?
Oh gods…Callysta!
"No, Draco! No! Don't this to us! Don't do it!" she shrieked as sobs rocked her body. But it was too late. She saw the look on his face. She saw him hurtling away from her into the darkness, a pinpoint of light opening in the distance and closing.
He was gone.
Go! Go before it's too late. Go to him. Do not wait any further. Quickly, you must follow him! You must follow him!
And then, she was chasing him, the darkness sliding off her body as she entered the light.
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When they both came to,
Draco felt himself crash into his body, the pain in his face more vivid than ever, the heaviness in his chest more unbearable. He struggled to sit up but discover he couldn't because something or someone was on top of him. He stopped his moving and tried to see who or what was on him.
His eyes widened as he realized who was constraining his movement.
He didn't want to push her off of him, it would be too ungentlemanly, but he needed to get away now.
Get away
from what? What was he so eager to get away from?
Surely not her?
She isn't anything like Callysta…like Cally…
… I've seen many Soulmates go through this stage. If one is in denial, it's because of the disbelief….
"Ginny, please get off me,"
Icy words stung her as she stumbled off of him and on to the floor. She quickly got up to her knees and stared at Draco.
Why did he run away from her? Run away when he heard Apollo's message to them? Why did he have to remember Callysta?
… I've seen many Soulmates go through this stage. If one is in denial, it's because of the disbelief….
Why? It was too painful to think about.
Why would he be in disbelief about this?
She couldn't help it if she reminded him of Callysta…it was too awful to think about. But if they were Soulmates, the love that held them together would be timeless…nothing could alter it. So why was he doing this? She didn't understand.
Why should Draco be acting this way? It wasn't right.
Should she change her entire being just to suit his tastes? Just so that he wouldn't run away from her? Just so that he'd forget that wretched witch?
No.
If she changed herself then she wouldn't even exist.
What she was would be a lie as well.
She wouldn't be happy, but neither would he.
The price they had to pay for love…to be Soulmates.
It was strange. Besides Callysta, what more is there to cause disbelief? Was it some other traditional factor?
Maybe it was the fact that he was Slytherin and that she was Gryffindor.
Enemies, rivals and adversaries for life.
But they are out of Hogwarts now, so why should this tradition be continued?
It was an inane tradition!
How the hell was anyone supposed to get along if animosity was caused between people in the first place? It was like something that everyone had to get accustomed to and follow. Pointless.
A Slytherin and a Gryffindor. It was a norm that these two would have nothing to do with each other…let alone have a relationship.
"Why did you run away?"
He looked at his hands instead.
"Draco, is it because of her?"
He glared at her, his blue eyes flashing and turning a midnight blue. "Why does it always have to be centered on her? Why do I have to tell you everything? Why? Just because we're Soulmates?" He forced himself to stand up. He glowered at her. "Soulmates, hah! Is this some kind of joke? Why would anyone want to be Soulmates with you? What am I even doing here? What am I doing with you?" He shook his head before sneering elegantly at her. "It was a mistake deciding to pick you as a target, to think that I would find something interesting in you!"
Ginny's hand shook as she heard his words. She lowered her head and took a deep breath.
"I should have had you in my bed earlier and left you to your miserable self," Draco continued to sneer at her.
Ginny snapped her head back to glare at him defiantly and raised her hand to deliver a blow to his face, which stopped the onslaught of words. "So why didn't you do it? Why didn't you just shag me? Why didn't you just leave me? I heard your words. Everything that you confessed to me earlier. Everything that had ever happened, do you deny it?" her words were soft but charged with a force that seemed to radiate off her and race throughout the room.
Draco stared at her, lightly
touching his face where she had slapped him. It hurt. What could he say to her?
Would he deny it? Everything he said was true. He couldn't just take it back.
Why was this happening to him in the first place?
"Look,"
he said evenly to her. "I didn't ask for this to happen. I didn't ask for us to
be Soulmates, I never had any interest in you except for sexual reasons." He might as well say it now while everything
was already unraveling itself. "At first it was just for sexual gain, but then
it proved to be difficult getting what I wanted from you. I had to devise all
sorts of plans to get you alone. But as time passed and as we spent more time
together, something started changing. But these changes bring about two kinds
of forces. You know what they are, I just told you. You brought about the
happiness that I thought I lost, and at the same time you also caused the
resurfacing of those horrid memories.
"So what am I supposed to do when you constantly bring me pain? Do you think I could live with myself and what more of you hanging about me? I can't go on living like nothing ever happened and go back to pouncing on more girls like you…actually, not like you."
Ginny opened her mouth, feeling as if something was squeezing her chest, stopping her from speaking, but she had to. "Is all you ever think about yourself? What about the pain that you're inflicting upon me?"
"If I'm causing you pain as well, we might as well just get out of each other's lives!" he shouted at her.
"Fine! We could do that but we'd be branded as quitters! We'd be living lies! Don't tell me that you want nothing to do with me, because I know what lies between us. We're bound, we can't help it nor can we change it." Ginny raised her voice a notch.
Draco grew quiet. Quitters living lies. No, he didn't want to live another lie. Nor did he want to be branded as a quitter. As for what they had, yes, he couldn't change it. But was it so bad?
"I know that I have caused you so much pain, what do you want me to do? Disappear? I can die right now if that's what you want. But we're Soulmates and there is no need for physical contact in this sense. You heard what Apollo said,"
Suddenly, it was if little electric blots started charging the air. As if the Apollo was listening to them.
Ginny shivered and touched her arm to discover a little bolt running across her arm. She let the bolt climb unto her finger and wrap itself around it. It became an amber color, darker on the outside and blazing in the inside.
Draco also had a bolt with him, but his was round, a core, burning in his hand.
She reached out her bolt to him, to wind around his.
They both gasped as the core and thread formed a round lantern, the thread lengthening and thickening to incase the blue core. It gave off a blinding light, which caused them to shield their eyes. By the time they opened them, there was not one big lantern but two smaller ones with a shimmering crystal loop threaded on the bauble. Each of it flew to their respective owners and fitted themselves around their necks to rest against their chest.
Suddenly, a raging wind swept inside the room and a light shone mercilessly across their faces.
I can see where this is leading. I have worked hard to see both of you through this, both of you proving to be the most difficult Soulmates in the Realm. I can't see you both destroying yourselves. Besides that, what you're doing now, I fear that it may damage the Realm, I can't have that happening. These Core Lanterns will keep you in touch whether you enter the Realm or not, because I sensed that neither of you would want to go the Realm. These Core Lanterns will keep you bonded no matter what. There is no use in taking them off.
The only way this matter can be resolved is when the enemy strikes, then all will be cleared.
The enemy's hold on you is one of the darkness.
While your Soulmate here keeps a hold on you in the light.
You are in between light and dark.
Choose wisely.
The wind died and the light disappeared.
The two looked at each other, panting for breath and grasping the Core Lanterns that the God had condemned them to wear. Whether they entered the Realm or not, these Core Lanterns would grant them access to each other's beings. They would know what the other was feeling and where they were. Only a minor of thoughts could be read.
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Harry sensed something was wrong.
Valerie was gone, she didn't leave a note. He couldn't track her either.
He sensed something ominous was nearby, just waiting for its time to strike.
But when?
Who was the target of its anger? When was it going to happen? Where was it going to take place?
He hated this.
Because he was an Auror, he had to know. Why was it that when Valerie disappeared he had to get this feeling. Was this evil connected with her somehow?
Surely not Valerie?
He left a note to his Supervisors and headed out in search for whatever was causing this.
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She watched amongst the shadows as Draco Malfoy left the premises. She could've captured him now but there was another thing on her mind. She watched him disappear around the corner before she turned back to look at the house. This target was more important than the capture of Draco.
Ginny Weasley had to pay.
She was making her life and plan more difficult by pulling Draco into the light.
It was her plan to keep Draco in the dark. He had the potential in him, he had the power to rise and rule all and lead the Deatheaters into the world and vanquish all light.
But Ginny Weasley, the little flame of Hope was leading him into the light.
What she needed to do was put out her light and draw Draco back into the dark.
She wouldn't dare ruin her plans! No one will stop her from attaining what she set out to do! No one!
Draco was hers alone and no one was allowed to take part in her joy and power!
Yes, even if Draco was their overlord and master, she would be his slave, his lowly slave. She would love him and so would the others. She would love him as before. Never mind that he wouldn't love her anymore as he did before. All the matters was that the darkness would prevail!
In time maybe he would grow to love her, but not before punishing her or carrying out his revenge. She'd allow him his vengeance. Yes, it would be sweet yet painful.
All those years as a Deatheater would pay off.
She feared that Draco wouldn't come easy, but now that she saw that there was conflict between these two, maybe things would be a little easier. She had thought that Draco would fight her, that's why she trained relentlessly and ruthlessly every moment she could get as a Deatheater. She had no doubt that Draco was still as skilled and deadly with a wand, but she wasn't going to take any chances.
She remembered the duel the had. He had won without inflicting pain on her.
He was clever.
The shadows started to disappear.
She took her cue to move in and execute her plan.
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Ginny lay on the carpeted floor staring at the ceiling.
She had been crying, proof of that was the drying tears on her face and the marks they had left streaming across her pale cheeks.
She was empty, devoid and desolate.
It seemed nothing matter.
She fingered the Core Lantern on her chest. It was glowing dimly.
She could see in the back of her head Draco walking away from her, his feelings were a mess and she couldn't pick them out. She couldn't decipher his thoughts but she could hear them.
This was pure agony.
She wondered if Draco was experiencing that same thing?
Was he feeling how she was feeling? Seeing her lying like a corpse as he walked furiously across the pavement? Hearing deadly silence in her thoughts?
All because of the Soulmate Principle.
What had brought them together in the first place?
Surely that it wasn't coincidence that Draco had bumped into her in Diagon Alley after so many years.
Apollo did say that Soulmates are bound forever. Regardless if their earthly lives are over they'd still be stuck no matter what.
But what if they don't like each other anymore? What if the love doesn't exist between them? What if they can't stand each other or bear to be near one another? What kind of relationship is that?
Dear girl, you are forgetting the most important thing.
She clutched the Core Lantern, knowing that the god was talking to her through this gift.
Yes, what did I forget Apollo?
The reason why Soulmates exist is because the love they share us unlike any other love other lovers share on earth or in Reality's sense. Even if you say that you don't love him anymore, it wouldn't matter because no matter how much you deny it, there would be that little endless flicker inside you that would be drawn to him. You will always be connected.
You cannot fall out of love nor can you be separated forever.
One cannot exist without the other.
If one is gone, the other will cease to exist…though I've never seen this happen before. The only time when one is permanently gone is when it is out of my hands. I cannot tell you how this happens it will only add more burden to your soul.
Remember my dear, even if you try to forget him, he would always be there. The harder you try to forget, the faster and stronger he clings on to you. It would be futile to.
Soulmates are forever, lasting throughout time. It is the only thing constant besides Death and Life.
Consider yourself lucky to have found your Soulmate, not all people have found their own and not all will have one. People who have Soulmates are special from all others…
Ginny didn't understand. Special how? By the pain?
You think too lowly of the whole Soulmate Principles and Laws. Soulmates are special because of the love they share. When your earthly lives are over, over in a way that you would never be reborn, you would still continue to live in the Soulmate Realm. Other just die and fade away. But the love between your souls will keep you alive.
It's better than just disappearing.
She knew he was done talking to her. She felt slightly renewed. She knew what she had to do. She couldn't give up. Not now just when she had gotten so far. She'd have to push through. There's no turning back for her, the only way she can go was forward.
Forward to find true happiness.
Her eyes widened as she saw a looming shadow appear on the ceiling.
What the!
She felt arms grab her from behind and a cloth was put over her mouth and nose.
Oh no! She knew this potion all too well from Professor Snape's class: Draught of the Living Death.
She could feel her eyes closing heavily as she heard the Professor's voice teach them about the potion
…Draught of the Living Death causes someone to fall into a deep sleep….If you have read your manuals then your tiny brains would know that you need asphodel in an infusion of wormwood to brew this potion…
Ginny yawned and heard other voices surround her. The faces before her were all a blur. Then she heard a familiar female voice. It was so familiar, where has she heard it before? But at the moment she was too tired to care. She just wanted to sleep…
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