Ok, I know I haven't updated in a while, but you have to consider that I have to get into my "zone" before I write anything. And I haven't been in my zone for a while. But I am now, so now you have another chapter

IMPORTANT – I added a few more things to the last chapter because I decided to change a few details to make it all make sense. I highly recommend that you re-read the last chapter before you read this one.

Disclaimer – I don't own Harry Potter blah blah blah.

Now on with the story!

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Chapter9: Harry's side / Hogsmeade Part 2

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"What took you so long?" Draco asked her as she came whipping around the corner into the alley behind Honeydukes. Clearly he had been growing impatient.

 "Why did you miss me?" She asked. His cold look vanished, replaced by a smirk.

"Maybe." he replied. He wrapped his arms around her waist and enveloped her in a smoldering kiss. She placed her own arms around his neck and found herself asking for entrance into his mouth. He gladly granted it, and soon they were kissing each other like their lives depended on it, oblivious to everything around them. 

Which was a bad move on their part. Ron, Harry and Hermione stood just at the entrance to the alleyway.

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flashback to earlier that evening…by about 5 minutes

Harry walked into the three broomsticks with Ron and Hermione. The first thing he saw was Ginny. He looked at her and stared for a second. As soon as she looked at him he shot her a "for-your-eyes-only" glare. She glared back at him and went on talking with Tarah and Colin.

Harry ordered a butterbeer and sat in a secluded corner with Ron and Hermione. They started talking about Voldemort and the escape of Lucius Malfoy from Azkaban, and were plotting ways in which they could "save the world". Harry didn't pay any attention. He had made sure that he sat on the side of the table in which he had the vest view of Ginny.

He had meant it when he had said that he was not finished with her and that she would be his. For the last week, Harry had been somewhat avoiding Ron and Hermione in order to pursue…other interests. Keeping to the shadows as so she would never see him, memorizing her timetable, following her wherever she went and being proud in the fact that she was none the wiser, Ginny had become Harry's obsession. And he had known that something was wrong with him.

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flashback within a flashback (could I make it any more confusing? I think not) – The night before in the Great Hall

 Harry glanced down that table and saw Ginny playing with the food on her plate. Every now and then she would glance over to the Slytheryn table and start glaring at Parkinson. He saw when Draco would pass an innocent glance Ginny's way, and when she would do the same to him. He watched it all unfold before his eyes, a pain growing in the pit of his stomach and small flames seemed to form in his eyes.

Ron seemed to be trying to get his attention so Harry looked back over at him. He put on his cool, calm, and collected face again and nodded enthusiastically when Ron started talking about the Quiddich world cup. His mind however, was on another red head. But when he got the chance to look back again, she was gone.

He had to go find her, get her alone. He got up and left the Great Hall and heard voices just outside the doors. He stopped and pressed himself against the opposite wall. The first voice was distinctly male.

"Use your imagination." He said, "Meet me behind Honeydukes at around 5:00 tomorrow." Harry listened carefully.

"It's a date than." He'd recognize that voice anywhere.

Ginny.

Harry looked around the corner and found Draco and Ginny in each others embrace. They looked so happy and content to just stand there forever. Harry felt the bottom drop out of his stomach. He suddenly came to grips with the fact that Ginny might possibly love Draco, and he her, and Harry didn't like it. His face turned to one of hurt, then to one of the most extreme anger one could have ever seen. He backed away slowly and banged into one of the suits of amour, but was able to right it again before it completely fell. It was apparent however, that Draco and Ginny had heard him. He took off at a silent run, flying around corners, and keeping to the shadows until he made it outside.

He swung open the doors to the front of the school and kept running until he was in front of the lake. He collapsed onto his knees on the grass and held his head in his hands.

He had lost his chance with Ginny. He had waited too long and lost his chance. He had become cold hearted, and too Slytheryn like for his own good. "What have I done?" he thought. He remembered everything he had done for the last week and almost started to cry.

But he didn't. He looked around and noticed how calm and peaceful everything on and around the lake was. The sky was flawless and the squid stroked lazily just beneath the surface of the water. Normally this would calm a person down. But it filled Harry with an uncontrollable anger.

Why should the rest of the world be at peace when he had spent his entire life suffering? His parents were dead. He was constantly at a battle for his life. He had lost Sirius in his fifth year; the only person who even resembled family to Harry. He had taken advantage of countless girls in the school in order to have some kind of personal release. He had never achieved the inner peace he was longing for. And the one person he thought might have been able to give him that was in love with his worst enemy.

Draco.

Harry's thoughts drifted back to his fight with him. Ginny coming to Draco's defense. Ginny and Draco just now outside the great hall. Draco, Harry's worst enemy, had in his possession the one thing Harry wanted more than anything else in the world, and would never have.

Harry's eyes glazed over and he was filled with a hatred he had never in his life experienced before. Air started to swirl around him making his hair stand on end and fire was burning in his eyes. Electricity started to spurt in jolts from the tips of his hair and from his finger tips. He had always been told he was a powerful wizard, but no one ever realized how powerful he was. Inflicted with this strong emotion, this hatred, magic like no other began to course through his veins and out his fingers. He needed a release. Clouds, dark and menacing began to form over the grounds of Hogwarts. Harry held his hands above his head and let out all his emotions. Tears fell for Sirius and his parents, he screamed in frustration over Ginny, he just let it all out. Huge jolts of electricity jumped from his fingers into the sky above him and it started to rain. The wind began to howl and thunder clapped with every jolt Harry sent from his fingers. Lightning struck the forbidden forest and it burst into flame. Harry blew and the fire was out just as fast as it had started. He fell to the ground and everything stopped. He had nothing left to give. He was empty.

end flashback within a flashback

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Now he sat in the three broomsticks with Ron and Hermione, still watching Ginny. He saw her get up and leave, and he followed; taking Ron and Hermione with him as he went.

end overall flashback

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"GINNY!!!" Ron shouted. Ginny broke away from Draco. "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Ron stood at the start of the alley and stared openmouthed at the couple. Draco still had his arm around Ginny's waist protectively, and Ron's face was a color to rival his hair.

Ginny just stared at him. "Um…" she couldn't think of anything to say. Not that she had the chance to, because the next thing she knew Ron had somewhat made it over to them in record time and was hurling curses at Draco.

"Ron stop!!!" she screamed at him, she got between Ron and Draco. Ron just stared at her.

"Ginny move! God knows what kind of mind spell he's got on you." Ron looked behind Ginny at Draco, who stood there not giving away any sign of emotion.

"I chose to be with him Ron!" she yelled back at him.

"Ginny you don't know what you're doing! He's…he's…Draco Malfoy! OUR DAD IS DEAD BECAUSE OF HIS FATHER!" He yelled. Ginny's eyes welled up with tears, but she would not let them fall in front of her brother.

"YOU HAVE NO PROOF OF THAT RONALD WEASLEY!" she screamed at him. She walked towards him and he backed up as she did so, "HE'S NOTHING LIKE HIS FATHER DO YOU HEAR ME! AND I SWEAR TO GOD THAT IF YOU HARM ONE SINGLE HAIR ON HIS HEAD THAT SO HELP ME, YOU WILL WISH YOU HAD NEVER BEEN BORN!" Ron had been backed up against the wall by now and stared wide eyes at his sister. She stood there gasping for breath and her face slowly changing back to its original color. She still glowered at Ron, but when he regained his composure she was met by an equally furious glare.

"You have no idea what you're saying!" he yelled. "He's a god damned Slytheryn Ginny! Have you forgotten the last five years of your life? Have you forgotten the last 15 years of your life even? His family and ours will never mix! He's a rich snobby bastard who will just use you to get to Harry!" he yelled pointing at Draco.

SMACK!!

Ginny slapped him flat across the face. Ron almost fell over from the force of the blow but stood his ground. It only took him 5 seconds to recover.

"You will have nothing to do with him Ginny Weasley and that's final." he stood firm and glowered at her.

"You have no right what to tell her what to do!" Draco said finally coming into the argument. "She's 16 for fuck's sake, and she is perfectly capable of making her own decisions!"

"You stay out of this and shut up Malfoy, you've caused enough trouble already." Ron said.

"If she wants to be with me than she is bloody well going to be with me because I want to be with her. But of course you don't care about what Ginny wants do you? That much is obvious," he stared at Ron in the eye. Although Ron was taller that Draco, Draco was not in the least bit intimidated. That was when the fighting started again.

No one really knew who threw the first punch, but pretty soon the two of them were both rolling around on the ground fighting with as much ferocity, if not more, than the fight that had occurred between Draco and Harry. Amid Hermione's cries of "STOP IT BOTH OF YOU!" and the joint effort between her and Ginny to try to pull them apart, Ginny had given up and fled back to the castle.

Harry saw this, and without anyone noticing him, he silently followed her.

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And that's the end of that chapter. lol. Sry about the cliffy, don't you luv me smiles innocently and tries to avoid rotten tomatoes and lettuce. Hope the chapter wasn't too confusing. If it was…well there's not really much I can do about it cause I'm too tired to have any rational form of thinking right now.

Yes, it is once again late and I am once again tired, and I must once again retire to the warmth of my bed and sleep. I like to sleep. But I seem to only get into my "zone" when it's late. I think I already said that in that last chapter…but that's too bad, I'm saying it again.

I've come to the conclusion that I shall go on strike and refuse to update until I reach at least 55 reviews. So you know what you have to do…

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