A/N- Big news everyone! Yesterday I was editing my chapters and I lost all of them! I just rewrote this recently! So the updates might be a tad slower cuz I lost all the way up to chappie 32! And they were all long chapters! Thanks for your support everyone!

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All the bodies had been buried under Hogwarts grounds and in the back. Tombstones lined the grass making it less green and much graver. So many had been found dead.

Draco was looking at the tombstones.

Hermione Granger, Blaise Zabini, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnegan…

So many names that were so familiar. Some he didn't know. SO many Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws had died in the battle. Lots of Slytherins had survived, most of them Death Eaters. But now without their leader, they would surely surrender over to the light side or get caught and imprisoned.

"Malfoy!" cried a familiar voice. Draco looked around to come face to face with Ron.

"What?" he asked icily.

"It's Ginny! She's awake!" Ron cried. Ron ran out and Draco followed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~GINNY'S ROOM~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Ron!" she cried happily as she hugged her brother tightly, ignoring the pain in her stomach from the bruises.

Draco leaned on the wall and folded his arms across his chest. Ginny looked up and saw him.

Snape, Ron, Bill, Fred and George, Molly, and Dumbledore were all huddled around her little white bed. But she could still see Draco. His blond hair stuck out from the blinding white of the room. She smiled weakly and Draco smirked. She pushed herself up into a sitting position painfully. Draco knew she was trying to walk over to him, just to show him that she was strong. She turned around and pulled herself to her feet. Everyone cleared a way for her. Then Bill said he had to go to an important meeting and Fred and George had to go back to their shop. Snape and Dumbledore decided to leave the room. But Molly and Ron stayed.

Then she got up and took one step, but fell…

Right into Draco's arms. He raced over just in time to catch her. He gently placed her back in bed.

"Hey," she said meekly. Her voice was small and quivering, as if she was afraid to speak. Draco smiled back. Ginny was shocked. Had that been the first time he had smiled in years? At her?

"Did you tell her?" asked Draco. Ron shot him a glare.

"Tell me what?" Ginny asked.

"We didn't feel like worrying her," Ron said.

"What?" Ginny demanded.

"There was a battle a few hours ago Ginny, dear," her mother said.

"What happened? Did anyone get hurt?" Ginny asked frantically.

"We won," Draco said. Ginny raised an eyebrow.

"We? You mean the Dark Side?" Ginny asked.

"No, the light side," Draco corrected. Ginny smiled. Draco had fought with them, not against.

"So he's gone?" Ginny asked. Ron, Molly, and Draco nodded. Ginny let out a happy squeak.

"But many died," Ron said sadly and bit his lower lip thinking about his dearest Hermione. Ginny gave him a 'who' glance.

"Finnegan, Thomas, Granger-" Draco began.

"Hermione?" Ginny squeaked. Ron looked away at the door. "Ph my god, I', so sorry Ron," Ginny said as she hugged her tearful brother.

"It wasn't your fault," he said.

"Anyone else?" she dared asked.

"Potter," Draco replied. Ginny inhaled a sharp intake of air. She looked up at Draco, tears welling in her eyes. "He died to save Snape."

"How did the battle begin?" asked Ginny.

Draco and Ron told the battle from the newspaper articles to the very end of the battle.

"Ginny, I have something to ask you," Draco said. "Remember how you said you were out by the lake?"

Ginny nodded.

"When you first tried to remember where you were, did you draw a blank?" asked Draco.

Ginny nodded again.

"What are you getting at, Malfoy?" asked Ron bitterly.

"That night, the stone and prophecy were taken. And the only gender that could take the stone was a female. I have a feeling that she was under the Imperious Curse," Draco explained. Then Snape walked in.

"I must agree with his theory. Po-Harry told me of a dream he had and now I am sure it was of you and Pettigrew," Snape said.

"Then all of this was my fault," she said. Tears welled up in her eyes.

"No, it wasn't," Draco assured her.

"I think this is too much for one day," Molly stated. "But how did you get in this condition, dear?"

Ginny looked from Snape to Draco to Ron. Should she tell? She would have to tell sooner or later.

"Dad and Charlie beat me up, mum," Ginny said calmly. "Where are they?"

"They were seen at a Death Eater attack and they said they were guilty of killing innocent people, so they were sentenced to the Dementor's Kiss," Draco said.

Although they had beaten her up all her life, she still felt sorry for them.

"Arthur and Charlie did this to you?" Molly asked.

"Yeah," Ginny replied.

"Oh my poor baby! I'm so sorry! I should've paid more attention! Oh!" Molly hugged Ginny tightly.

"Mum, you're suffocating me!" Ginny cried. Molly let go slowly and reluctantly.

"I'm so sorry baby but I must get going. Ron, you need to get back to school. Oh my poor baby! My poor, poor, baby!' Molly wailed once more hugging her daughter and giving her lots of kisses before Apparating out of the ward.

"Bye Gin," Ron said and left the room, too.

"All of them died. Harry, Hermione, Dean, Seamus, Sirius, James, Lily," Ginny counted on her fingers.

"James, Lily, and Sirius had nothing to do with this. And none of it was your fault!" Draco repeated.

"But I couldn't even help!" Ginny wailed as the tears she had held so long made their way slowly down her pale cheeks. "I could've fought with them! I should've been more careful at night!"

Draco sat down next to her and embraced her. Ginny felt odd in Draco's arms. After all the years of being called a poor weasel she was now in his arms, crying on his shoulder, burying her face in his chest. Draco rubbed her back gently. Her sobs stopped slowly and she sat back up.

"I'm sorry I got your shirt all watery," she said taking a deep breath. She wiped away a tear that lingered on her cheek.

"Don't care," Draco replied.

"Since you're problem was ended when your father and brother died, you must go back to Hogwarts," Snape revealed.

"But, I don't want to," Ginny whined. Snap was appalled and so was Draco. "I mean, I've spent so much time with you and Draco and Colin, you guys are like family now. Snape, you took care of my problem and Draco you helped ease the pain that followed. Can't I just stay with you?" Ginny said. Snape had no clue what to stay.

"What about school? Don't you want to finish?" Draco asked.

"What month is it?" asked Ginny.

"May," Draco stated.

"That means there's only one more month of school! Please, can't I stay with you two?" Ginny pleaded.

"But why?" Snape asked, still dumbfounded as to why one of his students that despised him (or at least used to) would like to spend more time with him.

"Have you ever had something given to you that you didn't like but then only to spend more time with it and grow fond of it? I've spent so much time with you, that you aren't the horrible professor I once thought you were. I have nothing left to live for out there. Yeah I've got family but it won't be the same when I go back to live with them after all we've been though. Harry and Hermione have left and won't be coming back," she said as she felt her voice starting to crack. "Please?"

Draco and Snape looked at each other.

"If Albus allows it, then you may stay," Snape said finally.

"Yes! Thank you so much!" Ginny cried. She got up and hugged him tightly. Snape at first staggered back and then stood firmly. But he did not hug her back.


"Where's Colin?" Ginny asked.

"At Hogwarts," Snape informed.

"Can we go now?" asked Ginny.

Snape, Draco, and Ginny headed out of St. Mungo's and out into the real world.

Was Ginny ready for what fate was to bring after all the deaths and her coma?

Only time would tell.

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1. Daisie- She tore up the leaves because at the end of the poem it said if she wants to be with him she was supposed to tear up the mint leaves and sprinkle them on him when he was sad. Thanks for pointing out the mistake I made with Draco's name. I hope I fixed that up now.

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