Stay Close

Chapter Three

Summary: See Chapter One.

Disclaimer: See Chapter One.

Author's Note: Well, I finally have this all under control. Forget about apparating in this chapter all right? I just needed the Order to take more time then it would if they were apparating.

Previously: I ran face first into an invisible figure. I screamed and fell back. The cloak fell off and I saw Harry's glasses fall from his face. I cast the showing spell and picked up his cloak and his glasses and gave them to him.

On with the show!

"Harry! Harry! They're coming! They're right behind me! I heard them! Did you hear their war song?" He nodded and hugged me. All the sudden... I noticed something... "Harry?"

"Yeah." He whispered to me quietly.

"Where is everyone? All the teachers, all the students. Where are they?" His charming features hardened, and his emeralds went ablaze with a hidden emotion then went to a dead looking forest green to his soft emerald color very quickly.

"All the student's are gone. Dumbledore made HUGE portkeys and sent them all to Diagon Alley. Everyone fled to Dumbledore's when they all found out, which happened rather quickly, I have never run so much in my life. No one is here except the one's old enough and who know enough to fight. They are all in the Room of Requirements. Dumbledore sent them there. All the teachers are there. I found them all in their classes. I told them. Then, there was another explosion. In the North Tower. The whole tower came tumbling down. Teacher and all..." he said quietly. We stood silently for a moment, until we could feel the distant vibrations of the Death Eater's feet coming closer. He snapped back to reality and threw the cloak over the both of us. He grabbed my hand, for I had no real reason what we are doing, and we ran. We had to run toward the Death Eaters. 'Oh God. We are all going to die.'

We stopped not twenty feet in front of them. Lucious stopped and looked around the hall. He looked over in the opposite direction of us and said 'Stupefy!' The wall blew into pieces and we had to duck not to get hit. Not only if getting ourselves hurt would, well hurt us, but also they would be able to see that the rock hit 'nothing' and it would all be over for us. They went on with a wave of his hand and they marched on, singing their horrid song.

When they were gone from our sight we ran again. We stopped in front of the wall for the Room of Requirement and paced back and forth three times thinking 'We must find all the teachers and the Students willing to fight' and the door appeared. We quickly ran to the handle and swung the door open. All the eyes in the room turned to the door to find Harry and myself appearing before their very eyes from under the cloak.

All the professors let out a breath simultaneously and looked at us worriedly. We glared at them; to tell them we were fine. I looked over the room. No one from CMC (Care of Magical Creatures) was there. I held back a sob but said in a small wail, "Ron..." They all shook their heads sadly. Minerva looked like she was about to cry. Dumbledore's twinkle in his eye was no longer there.

"It seems the war is here." Dumbledore said sadly. All the students that stayed were hugging each other, with silent tears streaming down their faces. There weren't that many.

"Where... are all the Aurors? Where is the Order? Where's the good that our fighting? Where are we in all of this? Hopelessly outnumbered or stronger than ever? When are they coming" I choked out, looking around at all the faces in the room, asking the questions displayed on all of their faces. Harry wrapped his arms around me, and I fell back into his chest. He rested his chin on the top of my head.

"They aren't coming. They aren't coming. None can. We are hopelessly outnumbered. We are fighting for it, ourselves." He sighed, and buried his head into my hair.

"What... What do you mean they aren't coming?" I asked him in a quiet voice.

"The Death Eater's attacked the Ministry before coming here Ms. Granger." Professor Snape said gravely. There was no sneer or smirk in his voice, and yet there was no smile. "None are alive. And the Order?" He laughed a dead, hollow laugh. "They are flying here. And they can't fly fast enough to save us. They can only get here fast enough to see who was dead. We ARE ALL ALONE."

"No, no! We can't be alone! It wasn't supposed to end up like this! We were supposed to have everything light on our side! We were even supposed to have werewolves and giants on our side! We were supposed to be strong! We were... we were," My voice cracked and I slumped down again with Harry picking me up from behind and he sat me on his lap as he climbed into a soft chair while I cried into his chest.

"The day has come," Harry whispered to me, not that it was that comforting, and kissed the crown of my hair while rocking me back and forth. Everyone looked on sadly, while I know they wanted to cry too. All the girls were crying and all the boys had their arms wrapped around one calming them.

Except for one. Ginny Weasley stood alone, and proud. With her head held high. There were no tears streaking down her face, and she didn't need anyone to hold her. She knew what was coming. And by the look in her eyes, she didn't care. Her look of courage and might gave me strength. I stopped crying and climbed off Harry carefully. I walked over to her and embraced her. We stood their hugging not crying. We were smiling at each other. Knowing, today was the day it was all to be determined.

Harry climbed up from the couch and stood in front of us all. He looked heroic and gallant. "The day has come. We will triumph, or we will fall. No matter what, stay true to our cause." We all smiled at him. There couldn't be more than one hundred and fifty of us. And out there, waiting for us, could be more than a thousand.

"We will fight, until we can no longer. We will fight, until none our left alive. We will fight, to the death."

We all turned when we heard a distant thud and crash of stone falling, and breaking. Harry came over to me and hugged me. I don't know what I felt, but I kissed him. Sparks flew over our heads, in a way in my mind anyway. When we broke apart, I knew we would be all right. I knew we could get through this one. "Harry."

He had a goofy smile playing on his face, but snapped out of it when I called his name. "Yeah."

"Please, stay close to me. Stay with me." He nodded and kissed me again. Another thud sounded. All the students shivered with fear, yet Harry; Ginny and I shivered with anticipation. We had done this before. We were ready.

"So... I have an idea. How about, while we are waiting, to keep our spirits up. We sing?" I asked meekly. Snape looked at me like I was crazy. In fact, most of the teachers did. The students looked shocked at the idea while Harry, Ginny and Dumbledore looked amused.

Dumbledore's eyes twinkled with mirth. "Excellent idea Ms. Granger. So, what should we sing?" I turned red, but I thought for a few moments.

"Well, I was watching a muggle movie over the summer. It was called 'Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron '. Don't laugh at me Harry!" I snapped at him, when I heard a low chuckle on my left shoulder, and hot breath sweeping through my hair. "I don't know if any of you have seen it... but I heard a very good song on there. It was called... 'You Can't Take Me'. Well... I wish I could show you guys how the song went." I trailed off.

"Nonsense! I have a muggle CD player it works here. And as you know, if you think hard enough, anything can show up in the R.o.R!" We laughed at what Dumbledore said. I focused on a small CD that would play that song. As soon as I started thinking it, it showed up. I squealed happily, and then coughed when I realized everyone was looking at me. I grinned sheepishly and put the CD inside the CD player. The music started playing... and I started singing.

'Got to fight another fight - I gotta run another night
Get it out - check it out
I'm on my way and I don't feel right
I gotta get me back - I can't be beat and that's a fact
It's okay - I'll find a way
You ain't gonna take me down no way
Don't judge a thing until you know what's inside it
Don't push me - I'll fight it
Never gonna give in - never gonna give it up no
If you can't catch a wave then you're never gonna ride
You can't come uninvited
Never gonna give in - never gonna give up no
You can't take me I'm free
Why did it all go wrong? - I want to know what's going on
and what's this holding me?
I'm not where I supposed to be
I gotta fight another fight
I gotta fight will all my might
I'm getting out, so check it out
Ya, you're in my way
So you better watch out'

By the end of the song, we were all a little happier. And the song started over again. Soon, everyone was singing the song. It was only silenced when half the wall tried to explode. You could see some dust and rocks come tumbling in toward us. An echoing laugh was heard. We all whipped out our wands and prepared to fight.

"Harry..."

"What,"

"If you die, I'll never forget you. I won't go on. I lost so much all ready. If I lose you, I'll just be a ghost of what I was. A hollow and empty shell. Don't leave me." I choked out. I bit back a sob. He grabbed me around the waist and pulled me to him.

"You won't ever become a hollow shell. Because I'll always be there for you. You can count on it." We kissed for one last time. Then I pulled Ginny in and we all had a weird group hug. When we let go, we stood, waiting.

The door blasted in and apart. A large portion was coming straight toward the three of us. I threw Harry and Ginny out of the way. It hit me in the stomach and threw me across the room. I thought hard and I landed on some pillows. Then I muttered a healing spell on my stomach, which was just gushing blood. The pain was excruciating. But I stood up, seeing hundreds of Death Eaters pouring in. I pointed to the first one I saw and said, "Avada Kedavra!" I knew that it wouldn't do any good to stun, so kill is much easier. 'To Hell with the Ministry! They didn't believe us then, so who cares if I do an unforgivable? I DON'T! I'll get you bitch ass Death Eaters!' I screamed in my head.

When I finally realized I just killed someone, I was shocked. But then I saw a girl in seventh year fall, from the killing curse, and I knew that they were doing the same thing I was. I shrugged and picked up his wand. "I'm gonna go to confession when this is all over." I screamed Avada Kedavra again and another Death Eater had fallen, another wand picked up.

Our War had finally begun.

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Author's Note: Some author's write Ginny as three things over all: Weak, Jealous, and Strong. But it seems that no one writes her as strong as she really is anymore. Yeah I know, I even made her a jealous girl, but it just really fit with my story. But this one, I made her stronger than Hermione even feels. And Hermione is a very strong girl in my opinion. Yeah, just had to say that.

I'm kind of sad, this is second to last chapter. This the first actually story I've finished on here. Gawd, I need to start writing another small one.

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