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What Happened Last Time:

"Hey, does anyone know where Ginny is? I haven't seen her all day."

The bed clothes were upset, her closet door had a large hole through it, apparently from a fist. Shattered glass sprinkled around the floor from the broken window crunched underfoot. Besides the cold air shrieking in through between ripped curtains, the room seemed cold and empty. There was an aura of pain or sorrow or solitude or something not quite any of those things but everything and more.

Come and Find her.
Come to Me.
Feel her pain
Submit to Power

Chapter 4: Painful Realizations

"Good Wormtail, very good. You're sure someone set off the message? I wouldn't want my little prisoner to go to waste." Voldemort chuckled as he tickled the chin of the small girl chained to the floor next to him. Ginny's whimpers echoed Wormtail's.

"Why are you doing this?" She whispered, frightened yet demanding.

"To lure Potter of course, why else? Especially since you're everybody's favorite little bitch, I might be able to kill off the whole heroic trio. Wouldn't Dumbledore just love that?"

"What if Dumbeldore shows up instead? He killed Grindewald, he can kill you! He wouldn't let Harry come for me, the trap is so obvious!" Ginny voice raised as she gained confidence. Too much cheekiness resulted in snake poison dripped into shallow cuts, but knowing she was right was enough incentive to talk back to the Evil Lord

"Tsk, tsk tsk. Little girl thinks she knows how to plot. How sweet." His voice dripped with venom and sarcasm. "You're right, everybody knows it's a trap. But Potter will think he can outwit me. He'll come, he'll sneak away from Dumbledore because he can't help but save people his way. And Dumbledore can't kill me. It has been prophesied that I will kill Harry Potter and my taint will spread across the world. Now hush, or you'll have another visit from Nagani."

Ginny shivered involuntarily and Voldemort cackled. As he turned back to talk plots with Wormtail, Ginny sent a silent prayer out the high window. Save me Harry.

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Pain. Shooting, agonizing pain. Light. Bright light, more pain.

Draco slowly opened his eyes, squinting against the harsh white light in the Infirmary. Madam Pomfrey bustled around in the background, making beds, arranging medicine bottles, checking on patients. Draco listened to the clinking and rustling and was comforted by the pure tediousness of it all, the simplicity. He tried to sit up and collapsed back down, groaning in pain as his muscles seized up. Pomfrey made her way to Draco and expressed her annoyance at his pitiful attempts with a 'tsk.'

"Lie down! You've been through a great ordeal and need to rest. Pushing yourself to hard to fast will just make you sick again!" Her eyes pierced into his as she lectured, looking for dilation, her hand pressed to his forehead.

"Wha- what happened?"

"You got yourself electrocuted, that's what happened. You're just lucky you aren't brain dead, that much of a shock should have left more of an effect." Pomfrey continued looking for signs of illness, she also fluffed his pillows, handed him a goblet of steaming liquid, and placed a small plate of biscuits and cheese on the side table by his cot.

Does this woman never stop moving? He contemplated silently to himself. 'Lucky you aren't brain dead'? What did I do to myself? Draco sipped the steaming drink and Pomfrey bustled away to see to another patient. As soon as Pomfrey turned a corner out of sight, a fluffy head poked around the curtains surrounding his bed.

"Thank God you're ok Draco!" Hermione exclaimed to a confused Draco.

"My god Granger! Stop yelling in my face, I'm fragile! And why do you care?" He inquired suspiciously.

"I just though you would be in a lot worse shape, physically and emotionally, after what happened."

"But what happened?!"

"You don't remember? Oh, no. Then you don't know...."

"Don't know what?!?!?!"

"Voldemort kidnapped Ginny and almost killed you."

Draco faltered as the news hit him and memories came rushing back. Broken window, blood, lightning. His mind reeled with the onslaught and he promptly fainted.

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"I'm going after her! I can't let that slimy, evil, creep keep her! He'll kill her!" Harry had been yelling incoherently and irrationally for the past half hour. His arguments were fruitless however. Hermione had him partially paralyzed and tied to a chair to prevent him from attempting any of his plans. Draco had since regained consciousness and been released from the infirmary. He was trying to help Hermione talk sense into Harry and having about as much luck.

"Harry! It's a trap! He won't kill her because he needs her alive to lure you to him. He wants you to come to him without Dumbledore! He want's to kill you, not her!"

"No! She can't be his prisoner, I have to save her! I can't stay here! Don't you understand? I have to save her. I can't leave her! I can't leave her! I love her! I have to go! Let me go!!!! I HAVE TO GO!!!!!!!"

At this Harry burst through the enchanted ropes holding him and overcame Hermione's masterful charming. He lurched toward the door, shaking off the remnants of the paralyzation.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Hermione shouted at the retreating figure, stopping him dead and crashing him to the floor. "Draco, help me get him back into the chair. I'm really sorry Harry but we're doing this for you're own good."

Harry's eyes rolled wildly in their sockets as he fought against the enchantment. Draco and Hermione dragged him back to the chair and retied the ropes, adding more rope, a few chains, and a pair of handcuffs.

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Harry had been tied to the chair for the past 5 hours. It was dark out, almost everyone was asleep except for two people talking quietly in the Gryffindor common room. Hermione had fallen asleep on the couch, leaving Draco and an only half paralyzed Harry alone in awkward silence. Draco was the first to speak.

"You really love her don't you?"

"Yeah, I do."

"Enough to risk your life for her?"

"Enough to give my life to save hers."

"You're a good person Harry. Better than I'll ever be."

"You're not as bad as you think you are. You wanted to search the castle to find her even after you broke up with her. I know you still care at least a little for her. I only wish you could see how important is for me to save her."

"But I do see, I do understand. And I didn't break up with her for the reasons you think I did. Maybe I am cold-hearted, but I didn't want to hurt her. I stopped myself from loving her so I wouldn't hurt her. And now she's being hurt and I feel helpless." Draco paused for a moment, unsure of how to continue.

"Did you know I'm already destined to become a Death Eater on my 17th birthday? I couldn't put her through that. That's why I know you can't just rush in to save her like you usually do. Voldemort is ready this time. You can bet he's already thought up every course of action you would possibly take and has made sure he'll be the one you meet at the end of every option, not Ginny."

"You know, you're right. For once you're actually right. I was so caught up in saving her I didn't think. Voldemort is smarter than I give him credit for. My luck was bound to run out...eventually. I just...I didn't think that...that the day would come, so soon." Harry's head dropped in defeat, silent tears running down his cheeks. Draco looked on the dejected lover and his cheeks burned in anger.

"You coward! Are you just going to leave Ginny in his hands because you don't think you're lucky? My god you Gryffindors are so stupid I'm disgusted! Look at me dipshit!!! I said Voldemort has thought of every action you might take. I never mentioned him thinking of everything."

"What are you suggesting?" Harry asked, hopeful through his pain.

"We go together. We think it through, make a plan, and go get Ginny together."

"Why are helping me like this?"

"Because I love her too."

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A/N: Sorry for the wait! Hopefully this cleared up some confusion from last time, or it created more. Either way, tell me what you think! Thanx to all who reviewed, keep it up. I'll try to update again soon. Luv ya all! Thalia05