Sorry it took so long everyone, but here it is (it's kinda short, but I'll try and make the next one longer.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry potter blah blah blah.

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Chapter 5: Flashbacks and Confusion

Molly Weasley was sitting in her kitchen when Arthur burst through the door.

"Arthur? What are you doing home? It's not even 1:00 yet and you don't get off until 6."

"No time to explain now, just grab some of your things together, we're leaving."

"Wha… Arthur what's going on?" she demanded.

"I said I'll tell you later. Now hurry up" he said quickly ushering her upstairs so she could grab a suitcase.

"Aurthur?" she looked at him with questioning eyes. He was about to speak when a loud BANG came from downstairs.

"Molly," he said backing her up into the closet at the side of the hallway. "Stay here. Don't make a sound."

"But…"

"Promise me."

"Al…alright." While tears welled up in her eyes he began to close the door. "Aurthur,"

"Yes?" he paused although there was now distinct sounds of footsteps slowly making their way through the house.

"Be careful. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you." Her voice fading away as she spoke.

"I…" the footsteps were now coming up the stairs. Arthur quickly closed the door.

It was pitch black inside the closet, and all Mrs. Weasley could hear was the quick and hard beating of her own heart, and a muffled conversation coming just outside the door.

"Well well well. If it isn't the muggle loving Arthur Weasley." Said a deep and cold voice.

"Malfoy." came the calm voice of her husband. 'Malfoy?' she thought to herself. She leaned forward and looked through the key hole in the door. (A/N: yes there was a keyhole in the closet door, lol) Sure enough there, standing in the middle of her hallway was the tall dark and menacing figure of Lucius Malfoy. Her breath caught in her throat.

"Azkaban not treating you right?" Mr. Weasley asked, as he nonchalantly began to take out his wand, and unknowingly to Malfoy pointed it at the closet door behind him and whispered "Silencio."

"Well…let's just say that I had other plans."

"That so. Well, then again I always though Azkaban was too good for you." There was a loud crash as Lucius slammed Arthur against the closet door. Mrs. Weasley jumped backwards narrowly missing a stack of assorted lengths of pipes that Arthur had used while investigating what he called plumber-ing.

"You have no idea what it's like in there you filthy excuse for a wizard." Lucius spat. However he did let go of Arthur.

"You know, I was going to kill you myself." Lucius said gaining his composure. "But after that little display I think it would be too much of an honor for you to be killed by one of the greatest wizards in the history of the world, and personally I don't want to waste any more of my energy on you " Confusion swept over both Molly and Arthur. "I think it would have more of an effect if I were to let someone else kill you instead." Lucius said. Molly heard the shuffling of feet and tried to look through the keyhole again, but Arthur was standing right in front of it.

"Step up boy." Malfoy said. "Time to prove where exactly your loyalties lie."

"NOO." Screamed Molly, knowing what was coming. But her screams were lost amid the silencing charm her husband had put on the closet only moments before.

"Oh my god."

Were the last words Arthur ever spoke, when at that instant, the voice of a boy, who had to be in his mid teens, spoke the only set of words that no wizard ever wants to hear in his or her lifetime.

"Avada Kedavra."

Molly fainted.

Molly awoke with a start, as a single tear fell down her cheek. It was 3:00 in the morning and she had fallen asleep at the table in the kitchen of the burrow again.

"That dream," she said aloud to herself, "Why do I keep having that dream?" she silently began to cry again. It wasn't the first time she had 'relived' Aurthurs death in her subconscious. Aurthurs funeral had been last week and after much persistence to the fact that she was fine. Molly had convinced her Ron and Ginny to go back to school to get on with their studies. Bill and Charlie to go back to work, and Fred and George to go back to do whatever it was they did at that joke shop of theirs. It was also the third consecutive time she had randomly fallen asleep at the table.

"I have to stop doing this." she said sadly as she made her way up the stairs to her room.

(AN: ok I promise that was the last of the Aurthur/Molly moments. nor on with the story! lol)

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When Ginny had left Professor McGonagall's classroom, she just ran. She had no idea where she was going, and frankly didn't care. She just wanted to get as much distance between her and Malfoy as possible. She turned left and ran down a deserted hallway. Running by Peeves, pestering some first years who had been late for class, she took another left.

She kept running, and after many more twists and turns she fell to the floor of a hallway she didn't recognize. She curled herself up in a ball and cried. She seemed to be doing that a lot lately, and with good reason. Why did Draco have to act that way.

'And to think I almost thought he might have changed, even a little bit.'

'You knew from the beginning that you were just kidding yourself.'

"Still...'

'now what are you doing, you're supposed to like Harry remember.'

'I guess.' she thought, remembering when he had kissed her at the party and how wrong it felt. She shook her head.

"I just don't know anything anymore." she said to the darkness of the hallway.

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Draco meandered aimlessly down the hallway thinking to himself.

'Why did I have to go and say something like that?'

'Because you seem to think you have a reputation to uphold that's why'

'But did you see the way she looked at me? She'll never forgive me.'

'Why do you care?'

'I…don't know"

He stopped in the middle of the hall.

"Great. Now I'm having conversations with myself." he said aloud throwing his arms up in the air in frustration (AN: *insiders* sound familiar "freckled raven". minus the frustration part. lmao). He continued walking and suddenly heard the faint sound of crying. He began to make his way towards it when he distinctively heard Ginny's voice.

"I just don't know anything anymore." she said between sobs.

He stopped.

'Great, of all the places I could have wandered to it had to be here, with her.'

'well now's your chance to apologize.'

'so now you're encouraging this?'

'meh'

'I'm not going to apologize. A Malfoy never apologizes.'

'have it your way. but you know you will end up apologizing sooner or later. Might as well do it sooner.'

'But'

'just go'

'great now I'm arguing with myself.'

He cautiously approached the trembling figure. He didn't want to scare her, after all his jaw still hurt from that punch she gave him earlier.

She heard him before she saw him. He slowly came up to her from behind and she hugged her knees a little closer to her chest.

"What do you want now?" she asked him, trying to keep her voice from cracking.

He looked down at her and had a sudden urge to comfort her in some way. He quickly shook it off, it was bad enough that he was going to apologize.

"I…um…" he was at a loss for words. He hoped she hadn't noticed, but it was more obvious that he thought. She slowly turned her head and looked up at him. He shifted his weight and ran his hand through his hair trying to come up with the right words.

'Damn does he look hot right now.'

'STOP IT. Have you forgotten what he did not even 5 minutes ago! he's an inconsiderate bastard incapable of human interaction.' she giggled inwardly at the thought.

"I realize that with your loss, my behavior was in fact unacceptable. However I think that you overreacted and that both of these wrongs should therefore cancel each other out and now we're square." He finally said.

"Excuse me!" she almost yelled, getting to her feet. "Don't you go trying to blame this on me! If you were TRYING to apologize well you just failed miserably. Now get away from me NOW before I punch you again." She pushed her way by him and started off down the hallway again.

'Shit! Shit! Way to go and make it worse. DO SOMETHING MORON!' his head yelled at him as she walked down the corridor.

"Ginny wait." he called after her. At hearing her name she stopped dead in her tracks. He had just called her by her first name. She didn't turn around, but she could hear him gracefully coming up and standing in front of her.

"I'm…" he started.

"Yes." she encouraged.

"I'm sorry." He said, sticking his hands in his pockets and looking down at the floor. That by far had to be the hardest most degrading thing he had ever done in his life.

"There now that wasn't so hard now was it?" she said, still glaring at him, but it was…well…a softer glare. He looked her in the eyes.

"If you tell anyone that I apologized to you, you'll know the true meaning of pain." he threatened. Ginny laughed. Draco stared back at her blankly.

"Apology accepted." she said. She looked up at him and smiled. She could have sworn that she saw a hint of a smile cross his face, but just as quickly as it had come, it was gone. They started walking down the hallway again.

'damn she looks hot right now.'  Draco thought to himself. Just then an idea flashed into his head

"What happened any way? To your dad I mean." he asked, he knew he was stepping out on a limb, but he had a plan in mind and needed the right opportunity. This would give him that opportunity.

Ginny stopped walking just stared blankly at him. She couldn't believe that he would be so bold as to ask her that.

"Look, just because you apologized doesn't mean that I'm just going to open up to you," She almost yelled, turning to face him, "and it doesn't mean that I like you. AT ALL. so why don't you just back off and leave me alone. I accepted your apology so-" She didn't get to finish her sentence as Draco grabbed her arm, closed the space between them and crashed his lips against hers. What ever she had been expecting, it definitely wasn't this. Before she even had time to react he pulled away from the kiss. Looking her in the eyes he smirked/smiled and continued on his way down the corridor. Leaving behind a very confused Ginny, who just stared after him, to shocked to really say or do anything, other than touch her lips where Draco Malfoy had just kissed her.

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Ok maybe that was moving it a little too fast, but w/e. It's kinda sad but I haven't updated in so long that I had to re read my own fic to remember what I had put there. Sorry it took so long, it'll probably take a while for the next chapter, cause I have no idea where to go from here. Ne ways. Thanks to all my reviewers!!!

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