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A/N: So sorry for the cliffie *cackles evilly*  Yes Yes, It's a miracle people! I'm updating in a week! This never happens, you should feel very privileged! Anyway, on to the next chapter….

Draco and Ginny both turned around to acknowledge the man behind them.

"Draco, I am so disappointed in you," Lucius sneered, "consorting with a Weasley of all people. You should be ashamed, degrading the Malfoy name in that manner."

"What are you talking about father? You wanted Weasley here, so I got her here, don't worry about how I did, you should just be happy that I completed the task."

"Fine, go see to the little brat in the other room, I don't think I can handle her whining any longer."

"What do you want me to do with her?"

"I don't care, just shut her up."

Draco smirked and walked into the other room. Ginny was in shock. What was going on? Had this all been a set-up? So Draco had never really been her friend…Ginny's blood began to boil. If he even laid a finger on Agatha, Ginny would blast him into the next century!

Lucius had his wand pointed at Ginny. "Hand over your wand child." He said all of this through gritted teeth, as if even speaking to her hurt his delicate psyche. Ginny slowly felt for her wand in her pocket, putting on her best scared, innocent, little girl face, which wasn't that hard since she was exactly feeling like a scared, innocent, little girl at the moment. Lucius had his wand lazily in one hand while his other was outstretched waiting for Ginny to hand over her wand.

Lucius seemed to not realize that Ginny was no longer the eleven-year-old girl from the Chamber of Secrets anymore. This could work to Ginny's advantage. Ginny slowly started to hand Lucius her wand in a timid manner when all of a sudden she shouted, "Expelliarmus!" in the loudest voice she could manage. Lucius went peeling across the floor and his wand landed in Ginny's hand neatly. "Stupefy!" she shouted just as Lucius was about to grab her ankle to pull her down with him. She looked at his unconscious body in relief. Now, where had Draco gone?

She was about to go so Agatha when she heard a knock on the door.

"Revilarse," she whispered as she pointed her wand at the door. She faintly saw the shadow of Harry, Ron, and Hermione flicker and then disappear once the spell wore away. Ginny made her way towards the door, opening it.

"You have no idea how glad I am to see you guys!" Ginny hugged them all, "I thought you weren't coming back for three days…"

"We wanted to surprise you!" Hermione said.

"What is this all about Gin?" Harry asked.

"I never even knew this was here." Ron finished.

"I didn't either." Ginny answered.

"Then how did you send me this note if you didn't know this was here? I got this a few hours ago, it was waiting for me in The Leaky Cauldron." He handed her a note.

Harry,

Will you meet me in the old Bradford House (the name on the gate) west of Madame McCarthy's bookshop? It's kind of important.

Ginny

"I didn't send this to you Harry."

"Gin, it's in your writing and everything." Ron said to her, looking confused.

"I've never seen this note before in my life, I most certainly didn't write it."

"Well then who did? And why are you here?"

Ginny told them the events leading up to discovery of Agatha.

"So Draco lured you here, but you stupefied Lucius, who wrote Harry the note. So all we have to do is collect Agatha and get out of here, and no one gets hurt or anything!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Well, let's go," Ginny said, anxious to see that Agatha was all right. "I still don't know how Lucius could have gotten Agatha from Caroline and Greg.

All four entered the next room. They started to untie the unconscious girl when an extremely loud "stupefy" was shouted behind them.

**

Ginny awoke with an extremely horrible headache. She looked at where she was…definitely not where she was when she was attacked.

"Hey there Gin, you're the last of us to wake up." Ron tried to give her an encouraging smile but failed miserable since it resembled more of a grimace.

"Where are we?" she asked groggily.

"I have no idea," Hermione admitted, for possibly the first and only time in her life.

"I see you've all woken up." Lucius silky voice echoed through the room, which appeared to be some sort of dungeon.

"It took you all long enough, it wasn't that powerful of a spell, although what can I expect from the likes of you?" his voice boomed through them all, they could feel it in the marrow of their bones. It appeared to be like speakers or the wizarding equivalent of them at least.

"Where's Agatha?" Ginny shouted at Lucius' voice.

"Well, at the moment your precious little brat is safe, but if she keeps being so annoying, I might have to find a way to dispose of her." His laugh was like nails being scraped across a blackboard.

"If you do anything to harm her--" Ginny was cut of by Lucius.

"Don't even bother filling out that threat Weasley, you can't touch me no matter what happens or what I do." Another soul-crushing laugh echoed through the dungeon.

They heard a click as the spell was broken. It appeared that Lucius had gotten bored with them.

Ginny started to feel for her wand.

"Don't even try Gin, all of our wands are gone."

Ginny sighed and crossed her legs on the floor. She felt something poke her. She felt in her pocket and pulled out a wand.

"Gin! You have your wand! How is that possible?" Hermione asked.

"This isn't mine," Ginny said, staring in awe at the wand.

"Who's is it?"

"It's Draco's."

"Why would he give you his wand? I thought he was helping his dad?"
"I knew he wouldn't hurt Agatha!" Ginny said jumping up with renewed vigor.

"Hermione, how can we get out of here?"

"Simple," Hermione took the wand from Ginny. There was a barred window over the door, big enough for Hermione, the smallest of the group, to fit through. Hermione transfigured the bars of steel into rubber. She sliced the rubber with a spell whispered from her mouth.

"Ron, help me up," she whispered. Ron came over, cupped his hand beneath Hermione's foot and pushed her through the now-cleared window.

"Alohamora" they heard Hermione whisper. The door unlocked with a click and Hermione pushed it open. Releasing her three friends from imprisonment.

"What do we do now?" Harry asked.

"I guess we should just walk until we get somewhere. We're not going to get anything accomplished just standing around," Ron answered.

"Ron's right, let's go," Hermione said and handed Ginny the wand.

"Why are you giving this back to me? You know more spells than I do."

"Draco put it in your pocket. Obviously he thought you were the best one to have possession of his wand."

They walked on in silence for several minutes, going up a numerous flights of stairs, knowing they wanted to get up to ground level since they were in the dungeons.

"Wait!" Everyone stopped at Ginny's outburst, a little frightened to go on. "This is all looking really familiar to me." Ginny gasped, "We're at Caroline's!"

"How is that possible, we were just at Diagon Alley?" Ron inquired.

"They probably apparated with us to the house." Hermione conjectured.

"If we go through this door, we'll end up in the sitting room," Ginny said. Hermione nodded her head in approval, so Ginny opened the door.

Lucius turned around when he heard the creak of the door. "What are you doing out of your cell?" He sneered at them, barely able to contain the disdain in his voice.

Ginny was about to reply when Harry fell. He just fell, right where he stood, just dropped to the ground for no apparent reason. Ginny, Hermione, and Ron rushed to his side and helped him up.

"Voldemort's in the room," Harry hissed into their ears, "I can feel him in my scar." Ginny looked at all the people in the room that they had just entered. Lucius, Caroline, Greg, Draco, Agatha, and the same large snake that had been circled around the chair Agatha had been tied to in Diagon Alley.

"Caroline!" Ginny said hoping that Caroline and Greg could save them all. She still didn't really know if it had been Draco to put the wand in her pocket. It could have been Caroline for all she knew.

"Go away little girl," Caroline hissed at her in a voice that Ginny had never heard before, a voice that reeked with irritancy and impatience. Ginny looked up at Caroline with eyes filled with sorrow. So Caroline wasn't who she thought she was. Ginny was about ready to cry with distress and frustration. No one was on the side she thought they were! She assumed Greg was on the same side as Caroline, but she didn't know since she had never really spoken much to him. It was worth a shot… "Greg…" she looked up at him.

"Hush, child." Greg said in a most violent manner.

There was no use. They were never going to get out of here alive. Four students against three adults, probably all trained in dark magic.

Lucius addressed the four teenagers, "It's a surprise that you are here, I didn't think you'd be able to escape but apparently you did. Oh well, it doesn't hurt things any. I was planning on killing you all anyway." Lucius raised his wand while the two other adults, and the snake watched without a raised eyebrow.

"No!" Ginny shouted.

"Be quiet child!" Lucius roared at the top of his lungs

Ginny felt for the wand in her pocket. Lucius' mouth was open, "Avad--" was all he could get out before Ginny shouted, "I AM NOT A CHILD!" in the loudest voice she had ever used. She hit him with the only thing she could think of at the moment….a tickling charm. Ginny mentally slapped herself. A tickling charm! What was she thinking! But it apparently worked since it shut him up before he could finish his spell. All of a sudden Caroline jumped up and yelled, "Stupefy!" at the writhing, laughing body of Lucius.

"I thought you were on his side!" Ginny exclaimed.

"It's a long, long story," Caroline said but was distracted by two men storming the room. It appeared to be Crabbe and Goyle senior. They came in with a blaze of glory, shouting hexes everywhere but the only one that actually hit someone was a rather weak stupefy that hit Ron, only making him tired instead of unconscious. Ginny looked frantically around for Draco but couldn't see him anywhere. Ron was now too tired to do anything, Greg, Caroline, and Ginny were trying to disarm Crabbe and Goyle, and Harry and Hermione were seeing if Agatha was alright when all of a sudden, the snake began to change. Ginny watched in complete and utter horror as the snake became…Voldemort.

(A/N: I thought about stopping here, but then I decided against it…you should thank me, it is rather late…*grin* so…where was I?)

Voldemort stood up, grinning madly. "Finally, it has come. No one expected it…but it has come." His voice sounded like nothing one should ever hear, something only out of a child's worst imagination.

Harry had a look of determination on his face. He took the wand from Ginny's hand and muttered a spell. Ginny noticed that his hand was shaking. She wanted to protest but knew she shouldn't. After Harry cast the spell Voldemort and him were enclosed in a yellow bubble that no one could penetrate.

Hermione let out a cry of frustration. She wanted to help Harry but just like Ginny, she knew she couldn't. He had to do this on his own, that's why he cast the bubble spell. No outside interference until one of them is dead… hopefully not Harry.

Crabbe and Goyle were finally stupefied by Caroline and Greg. The room was in complete silence as everyone awaited to see who would come out of the bubble alive.

Ginny turned around, hearing a noise. She was greeted with the sight of Lucius, very much conscious, his wand raised, with a look of pure glee on his face. Ginny was too scared to even scream, she had no protection, no wand, she felt naked. As if from nowhere, a wand came souring towards her. She caught it in her hand and stupefied Lucius before he even knew what was going on. Really, she was a little disappointed. She had always thought that Lucius was smarter than that.

Ginny smile as Draco walked towards her. "Why didn't you just stupefy him?" Ginny asked.

"Your wand backfired on me once before, remember?"

Ginny grinned at the memory.

"I didn't want to take the chance…" Draco trailed off, thinking of how horrible it would be if she had died.

Ginny put her small hand on top of Draco's big one. "No one's dead." 'Yet' she thought in her mind, reminding herself of Harry's current position.

"I'm guessing Potter's in there with…" Draco trailed off once again.

"Yes." Ginny felt her chest tighten. She didn't know what she would do if anything happened to Harry.

After fifteen minutes that felt like fifteen hours of waiting, Harry came stumbling out, worse for the wear, but alive, which is all anyone asked for. Everyone let out a collective sigh of relief.

**

"How's Agatha doing?" Ginny asked Caroline as she looked at the form of the sleeping child.

"As good as can be expected. She's a little traumatized but that will pass with time."

"How did Lucius get her?" Ginny asked the question that had been bothering her all day.

"This may sound…irresponsible to you, but I let him take her."

"You what?!" Ginny said in alarm.

"They wanted her to lure you to them to lure Harry to them. I had to do it. You have to know that she was never in serious harm, I would've killed Lucius if they had done anything to her. You must know that Ginny."

"But she could've been hurt! Or even worse, killed!"

"But she wasn't. I'm not proud of what I did, but it had to be done. I mean, aren't you glad that you can live in peace now?"

"Yes, but not at the price of a child's life!"

"I'm sorry you feel that way, but everything worked out for the best, even if you don't agree with me."

"So did they ask you if they could take her?"

"Yes, I've been a spy of sorts. Everyone thought that we were on You-Know-Who's side since my daughter's married to the Malfoy's and they thought that Draco was on You-Know-Who's side since he's Lucius' son. They asked us if they could use you and Agatha as bait. I made them promise not to harm either of you…I'm so sorry Ginny, but I had to."

Ginny grimaced, realizing how lucky they had been that everything turned out the way it did. Now Voldemort was dead, Lucius, Crabbe, and Goyle were back in Azkaban.

"How did Lucius, Crabbe, and Goyle get out of Azkaban?" Ginny's thought process had brought up another question.

"You-Know-Who helped them escape. The Ministry won't disclose all of the details though, so know one knows how they got out.

"Well, at least my sixth year can be lived in peace."

"Yes, see dear, all you have to do is look on the bright side."

**

Ginny hadn't seen Draco since that eventful day, four days ago. Now she was on the Hogwart's Express, thinking about him dreamily. Everything was crazy now. Well, not as crazy as it had been before, but still really crazy. The Ministry was trying to round up all of the Death Eaters and put them away in Azkaban. They were also trying to convince the people that Voldemort was indeed really gone. After that eventful day, as she know referred to it as, she had gone back to the Burrow, been smothered by her mother, patted on the back by her dad, and teased by Hermione about kissing Draco, (Hermione was still the only one who knew about that). Her brothers were all jealous of her and Ron, they wanted to be there to witness the defeat of the dark lord! Ginny heard a lot of whining about that. All in all the past few days were just a blur. All Ginny could think about was Draco.

Ginny sighed and left the compartment of the train, determined to find Draco. After several minutes of searching compartments and saying hello to old friends, she finally found him.

"Draco," Ginny said, trying to find something to say.

"You were great back there." Draco said to her. Both of them knew 'back there' was referring to a few days ago.

"Thanks, but I was nothing compared to you. Did you ever get your wand back?"

"Actually, it got broken when Potter took it into battle." Draco gave a half-smile.

"Oh, sorry about that, it was the only wand around."

"Don't be sorry, I'm glad my wand got to see the actual defeat of the dark lord, even if I didn't."

"So um…what's going to happen?" Ginny took a step out onto a ledge. She never, ever, talked about her feelings for a guy, ever since she'd been teased to death when she fancied Harry, but she knew she had to know how Draco felt. She couldn't keep guessing. He meant too much to her.

"Going to happen with what?"

"With us…"

Draco was at a loss for words. He would ruin her reputation. The spotless Ginny Weasley and the almost death-eater Draco Malfoy. He couldn't do that to her. "I guess we'll go on like we always have."

"Oh," Ginny's eyes fell. Her emotions went back and forth between sorrow and anger. She couldn't decide which one she felt. "I better go, we're almost at Hogwarts." Ginny practically ran from the compartment.

"What have I done?" Draco asked himself.

A/N: So what'd you think? Review! There will probably be one or two more chapters. I'm so excited, this fic is almost over!