A/N: Beware, if you're uncomfortable with rape scenes, please scroll down to the second portion of this chapter. Thank you very much.
Summary: What's up with Harry? Why are Hermione and Ginny disappearing all the time? Who is this enticing new Gryffindor? And just where in all hells is Ron? Reincarnation is a strange and dangerous thing that toys with the present in hopes that the present will somehow turn out like the past, but will the past repeat itself in this occurrence, or will the reincarnation of the great King Arthur fail to save the world as we know it from a foe greater than any seen in this word yet?
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
A/N2: If you have the soundtrack to the PoA movie, the beginning of this chapter would be the perfect time to listen to track 4 as you read. It fits perfectly!!!
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And We Thought it Was the End
Chapter 3
The Burdens of the Damned
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June 7, 1997
Ginny Weasley was in a living hell. She wasn't completely awake, but she wasn't really asleep either. She was stuck on a plane of existence that made her relive every horrible thing in her life.
She watched herself find Tom's diary in her belongings that first day of school.
She watched herself murder the chickens in Hagrid's yard. She watched their necks break with a blank face, she didn't flinch as the blood splattered her robes.
She watched the snake rear up behind a solidifying Tom Marvolo Riddle.
She watched as she fell down the stairs in the Department of Mysteries breaking her ankle.
She watched as her brother was attacked by the disgusting brain.
Then she felt the cool spring air as she relieved the most horrifying moment of them all.
Harry had told her to get some air to blow off steam after an argument with her boyfriend Colin Creevy. So she'd stormed out of the common room and had taken refuge in the gardens.
She sighed and ran a light finger over a white rose. If he'd only listen to me.. She thought fleetingly.
Suddenly it got very cold and she shivered with the change of air. She wrapped her arms tightly around her shoulders and shivered violently. Shivers ran up and down her spine as the leave of plants nearby rustled and flew along the ground.
The sound of twigs snapping drew her gaze to the other end of the garden. A figure stood there clothed completely in black from head to foot.
She hid behind a thick tree and peered at him from around the trunk. "Who is that?" She muttered softly.
"Virginia."
The voice was a his that sent a chilling tingle down her spine.
She felt herself being pulled from behind the tree and towards him and was powerless to stop it.
She watched as one extremely pale arm reached out of the confines of the robe to touch a pristine rose. It quickly turned black and withered under his touch.
She shivered violently. "What do you want with me?" She asked her voice trembling.
"Give her to me." He said. "Tell me where she is."
She shivered again. "Never."
"You have no choice."
There was a sharp crack and they were gone.
She looked round her new surroundings and saw that she was sprawled on the floor of a richly decorated study, but she didn't give it much thought. Her gaze shot towards a fireplace and the small pot on the mantle. She tried to stand up and run to it, but found that her legs would not obey her.
Someone chuckled evilly and she turned her gaze to the figure sitting on the edge of the desk. He had removed his robe and she looked at him in horror. "You!"
The condescending evil tone, the way he hissed her name, she should have known it was him. But he didn't match Harry's stories. His hair was just as dark and thick, and his skin just as pale and clear as his sixteen year old self, he only looked a bit older, maybe twenty at most.
"Yes, me. Did you really think you'd get away with tricking me Virginia? Did you really think that I wouldn't realize what had happened that night?"
She shook her head not in negation to his question, but in the negation to the reality of the situation.
"No one lies to me Virginia, I know all. I see all."
She shook her head again, but again he ignored her. He waked to the window and his deep blue eyes glittered in the moonlight.
"Whether you wish to or not, you will give me my heir, Virginia." He walked to her slowly and jerking her into a standing position, traced a cold finger down her cheek. "A Dark Queen for a Dark King."
"I am not evil." She spat.
"How we do like to lie to ourselves... Such a pity though...Now I'll just have to do this the hard way..."
She jumped as his hands locked around her waist and pulled her tight against his body. Spinning around and pinning her to the desk he said smoothly. "I'll give you one more chance to agree before I take you by force Virginia. Tell me where she is."
This time she spat on his cheek and growled, "No."
She shrieked as his hand came in contact with her cheek and her head turned sharply to the side. She was surprised that he hadn't broken her neck with the force.
She had known what was coming before her robe was torn away from her body, but never was she ready for the pain that spread form her center to the rest of her body. Never had she been ready for the pain that ripped through her veins at the mere touch of his hands to her bare skin.
He had her up against the desk and in the past five minutes, that heavy desk had been push back three feet with the force of his thrusts.
Suddenly a knock sounded at the door.
He stopped lazily and Ginny sobbed aloud hoping someone would come in and make him stop hurting her.
"Enter!" He barked, but he didn't pull himself away form her body.
Another robed figure entered the room, but he made no move to stop him from hurting her as he began once again. She whimpered out a sob as the new man started talking seemingly unaware of her presence in the room.
"My Lord, a notice has been put out for her disappearance. They have a search party going now, but we are hidden here, no one will ever find her until it is too late." He leered around his master at Virginis and she again felt the creaping tingle u her spine.
She knew then that she wouldn't get out of that god-forsaken castle alive.
"That is good." He said slamming into her harder. "How does it feel to know that you're here and that no matter how hard they try, they will never find you...?"
Another sob escaped her throat and she tried to beat against his chest with her fists, but again she found that couldn't move a muscle to her will. Her feet dangled at least a foot above the ground and she was still impaled on him so she couldn't move anyway.
"Think hard about your actions over the next few weeks Virginia. I will not kill you yet, for you still have a secret to tell me. But remember, that when I finally kill you, it will be more painful than anything you have ever felt."
He slammed her into the desk one final time with such force that she heard bones break over her pained scream.
Ginny Weasley woke screaming and clutching her head so tightly that her knuckles had turned white and blood trickled from nail cuts on her face. The pain in her waist had spread through the rest of her body and she couldn't take it. She moved her hands away from her face and loked at her nails, the sight of the blood made her scream louder. Her hands went to her knees clutching and turning white again.
"Her eyes were still shut tight, so when she felt strong hands push her back into a bed she fought against them.
"Leave me alone! I don't want you here! I won't tell you! Just kill me all ready!" She screamed fighting against the hands. She reached up and clawed at the face above hers trying to tear his eyes out. He'd pay for what he did to her. "Let me alone!"
"Virginia! Virginia! Stop this right now!"
She tried opening her eyes to see, but when she did, she only met a continued darkness. Was she blind? Well at least she didn't have to see his ugly face again.
It was a man's voice she knew that much.
"Who are you?" She asked shakily. "Where is Tom?"
"Tom is gone, he won't be coming back to hurt you anymore."
Tears fell from her sightless eyes and she buried her head in the man's shoulder. Surely he must be a good man if he had protected her from Tom, surely he might help her now.
She raised her head from his shoulder quickly. "Dumbledore, I have to find Dumbledore!" She gasped urgently. "He needs to know-"
"You can't see Dumbledore Virginia."
She froze, maybe this man wasn't so trustworthy after all.
"DUMBLEDORE! I need to see Dumbledore!" She screamed loudly. "LET ME GO!" For the man's hands were once again at her shoulders pushing her back into the bed.
"Virginia! Calm down!"
"Dumbledore!"
"Here, give her this!" She heard a new voice over her screams, a woman's voice. "It'll put her to sleep."
"No!" Ginny tried to knock the phial from his hands as he pressed it to her lips, but cool hands held her wrists pinned to the bed and she was forced to swallow the icy liquid. She felt her movements slow and her eyes slide shut as her mind went blissfully blank.
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Remus Lupin and a woman with long raven hair and pale, pale skin stood tensed next to Ginny Weasley's hospital bed watching as she fell into a deep sleep.
"Poor girl." The woman muttered. "What he must have out her through this time around . . ."
Remus only shook his head sadly and sat heavily in the chair next to the bed. "What'll we do now?"
The woman seemed not to hear him as she said, "She still has the Gift. You can practically touch her aura." Remus nodded as the woman hovered both hands just above Ginny's stomach. "The child has it too."
He shrugged. "So does Britt."
The woman sighed. "Yes, she does, but that is not her destiny." Her hands continued to probe Ginny's pristine aura. "Isn't it strange? Her aura is almost completely white . . ."
Remus allowed a small smile to slip past his lips despite the moment. "She's a very strong girl." Then he sighed dropping his face into his hands. "What are we going to do with the three of them? You know she's not going to want to get rid of the child, just like with Brit."
The woman nodded. "I know, but we will help her, just like we've done for the past five years."
"Yes, yes we will." Not for the first time in his life, Remus Lupin looked up at his wife in awe of her large heart.
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Ginny woke again sometime later to a dark hospital room. She could see now, that she was sure of. But as she tried stretching her legs under the blanket, she found that she could not and began to cry.
He must have broken something when he hurt me all those times . . . She thought mournfully. Now I won't even be able to walk . . .
Tears slid down the sides of her face and leaked into her ears, but she made no move to brush them away.
The curtain shielding her bed from the rest of the infirmary opened and in walked Remus Lupin and his wife, Aya.
Aya took one look at the crying girl and pulled her into a sitting position. "It's all right love, you cry it out now, you'll feel better when you're done."
Ginny allowed herself to be held and sobbed harder as every single painful moment of the past month came crashing down on her. After a while she stopped crying and she started talking, low and fast so that Remus and Aya both had to lean in and listen hard to catch everything.
"He wanted to know where Brit was, and I wouldn't tell him, so he raped me again, and again, and again, and so many times after that that I lost count. I think he broke my pelvic bone on the desk in his study because I can't move my legs." She sighed again and Aya leaned her back onto her pillows.
The raven haired woman poured her a glass of water and the icy liquid felt soothing as it sloshed down her throat.
"Thank you." She handed her friend back the glass and folded her hands in her lap. For a long time no one said anything, they just sat there in silence as silent tears slid down Ginny's cheeks. Suddenly Ginny lifted her face to Aya's and said, "I'm pregnant aren't I?
Aya, who knew she couldn't lie to her merely nodded.
"I knew it. He didn't use any contraceptive means and I didn't have my wand with me and . . . oh hell . . . Britt is not going to like this."
"She's old enough to understand isn't she?" Remus asked looking at his wife.
"No, no she's not. She's only five and extremely proud. She's going to see it as someone taking her place." Ginny mumbled. "How is she by the way?"
Aya smiled for the first time in two months. "She's great. She knocked out her two front teeth running into the landing banister though."
Ginny nodded. "She'll be as clumsy as I am." She said mournfully. "Thank you again for taking care of her. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't."
"We love having her at the house, makes everything a lot more cheery." Aya said. "And she loves The Lord of the Rings when I read it to her."
Ginny only nodded, not feeling up to talking anymore.
What seemed like hours later, two more people entered the secluded area.
"It's nice to have you back with us Miss. Weasley." Said Madame Pomfrey. "I'll just need to examine you and then I'll be on my way."
The examination was done in ten minutes and Poppy sat on the edge of Ginny's bed and looked her in the eye. "I expect you already know of your pregnancy?"
Ginny only nodded not trusting her voice to say anything.
"Will you be wanting to keep the child or would you like me to-"
"We've been over this before. I'll be keeping her." Ginny said with her head raised. "No matter the circumstances of the conception, it's not the child's fault, it would be unjust to deprive her of a life." She ran a hand over her face wearily. "Besides by now she probably had a heart beating and little fingers and things...no, I couldn't kill her."
"Her . . . Miss Weasley?"
"Yes, she's a girl."
"How would you know this?"
"I just do . . ." Ginny said allowing her eyes to slide closed.
"All right then, that finishes that portion of the exam. One more thing though Miss Weasley."
Ginny dragged her eyes open and stared at the nurse. "Yes?"
"In your attack, your hip and pelvic bones were fractured in five places. Your recuperation will be long and painful, but in the end, you will be back to normal. Until then, do not get up out of this bed unless any of the four adults here now are present to assist you."
"Yes Madame Pomfrey." Ginny's eyes closed again, and she groaned when Dumbledore spoke up.
"Virginia, though I know you are tired, there are still some things that you need to hear."
"I'm listening." She said without opening her eyes.
"Very well then." She felt him softly pat her knee and reached down to grasp his hand. "First off, please accept my most sincere apologies that you were not safe in Hogwarts' very own gardens."
"It's all right Albus. I knew he'd come for me sooner or later... It was just a matter of waiting for the opportune moment. It came, it happened, and there's nothing we can do to change that."
"That is no excuse. The wards around the school have been multiplied tenfold since your capture and will multiply anther tenfold come the start of the school year I daresay."
She only nodded and let his hand slide from her grasp.
"Secondly, I'd assume you'd stay the summer here so I have made preparations for you to finish your fifth year, and complete your sixth here at Hogwarts. Should you be a success, you will be raised one grade level and join the seventh years in the fall."
Her eyes snapped open and she stared hard at him. "Do you mean it?"
He nodded and she took pains not to try and throw her arms around his neck for fear of throwing something out of place I her hips. So she settled for verbal thanks. "Thank you Albus, you have no idea . . ."
"Hush child. It's the least I could do." He smiled and his eyes twinkled. "Also, there is a surprise for you when you wake up again, but you must get some sleep."
"Well, isn't that a nice way to get someone to relax and go to sleep? 'I have a surprise for you, but I want you to go to sleep first', you need to work on that Albus." Ginny said with a small timid smile.
He chuckled, stood and gave her a gentle hug, then swept from the room.
Soon Remus stood too, kissing Aya's cheek, then hugging Ginny. But Aya herself pulled out a book and began to read.
Feeling Ginny's gaze, she looked up with a questioning glance. "I thought you were supposed to be sleeping?" The older woman asked with a kind smile.
Ginny only sighed. "I know you want to talk to me about something, I can feel it. What what's going on?"
"It can wait. There is time yet young one, sleep."
Ginny sighed again and didn't resist as Aya helped her lay back down. Soon she was lost in the oblivion that was her dreams.
Her last coherent thought was: I wonder what Albus has for me?
Then she didn't wake up for a long time . . .
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A/N: Well? What do you think? Would someone please get up the energy and tell me what they think of my story? I only have two reviews and they're from the same person! And that doesn't even count because I see this person every day! So please, ease my aching heart and review!
For further reference will someone PLEASE tell me what in the hell "WIKTT" is because I am dying to know! I see it everywhere and I can't make sense of it...
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