Chapter 13: Bring Me To Life
The trio apparated into darkness, although that wasn't their only problem, "Argh," Ron said, "There's water in here."
"Of course there is!" Hermione told her boyfriend, "honestly Ron, how dim can you be? It is an underwater cave you know." She pulled her wand out of her pocket and said, "Lumos." Harry and Ron followed suit.
"Come on," Harry said, and led them farther into the cave. The farther they went, the water level dropped, but there was no sign of Ginny Potter.
"Um, is it just me, or is the water level actually rising?" Ron asked after noticing that the water was no longer receding.
"Oh crap," Hermione said, stopping and turning to look at Ron. "What time is it?"
"Around midnight, why?" Ron said.
"High tide," Harry whispered. "Guys, we need to find her and get out quick, before the entire cave is filled with water." He started running, or going as swift as he could through knee high water.
It didn't take them long to get to the end of the cave. Harry turned around in the now waist high water and said in a desperate voice, "she's not here."
"She has to be, Harry, the crystal never lies," Hermione told him. Then a terrible thought occurred to her. "Check under the water," she simply stated and dived under.
After several seconds of unsuccessful searching, she returned to the surface for air. She was about to dive down when she spotted Ron surfacing.
"Hermione, Harry! Help me, I've got her!" he yelled. Harry surfaced at once and Hermione wadded over. Ron pulled Ginny's extremely pale head above the water; she was unconscious, naked and awfully bruised.
"Here, cover her with this," Hermione pulled off her long coat and handed it to Ron; with Harry's help, he wrapped his sister's body in it.
"Is she going to be alright?" Harry asked, as Hermione took Ginny from Ron's arms.
"Not if we can't get her to a hospital," Hermione replied, "she's not breathing, and I can't tell if she even has a pulse. Come on, we need to get out of here and to the hospital."
"The wizard one, where you work?" Ron asked, Hermione nodded and they apparated.
"I need some help here!" Hermione yelled out to the medi-witches and Healers that were working that night in the emergency rooms of the hospital. She ran over to an empty hospital bed, lying in the hallway and laid Ginny on it.
"What happened?" A young male Healer asked as he rushed over from the desk. They started rolling the bed into a room; Harry and Ron followed
"We're not sure," Hermione replied, "we found her like this. She's not breathing, there's probably a lot of water in her lungs, we found her underwater. She was severely beaten."
"Also looks like she was sexually assaulted," the Healer added, he was grabbing tubes putting them down Ginny's throat to suck out any water that was in her lungs.
Hermione stopped attaching the heart monitor, and looked at Ginny; there were severe marks on her thighs and pelvic region of her stomach, which would definitely mean that she had been raped.
Harry, who until now had been in shock, burst out at the Healer's words, "she was what??!!!" He moved toward them.
The Healer looked at Harry and said, "Please sir, stand back we need to work,"
Hermione, who had just about finished with the heart monitor, turned to Ron and said, "Ron, take Harry someplace where he can calm down."
"But Hermione is Ginny going to be alright?" Ron asked.
She flipped a few switches on the machine and it turned on. Hermione stared at the monitor for a few seconds before franticly grabbing another saying, "We need to shock her, now! Her heart's not working properly." The Healer grabbed the machine from Hermione and put it on Ginny's chest. He pressed a button and her body jumped.
"What are you doing to her?" Harry said, franticly.
Hermione turned around and grabbed him, "Please Harry! Calm down, we need to work quickly if we're going to save her. Now Ron, please take him and remove yourselves from the room." Ron looked scared, but did as he was told.
"Come on Harry," Ron dragged his shocked best friend out of the hospital room and into the waiting room. He let him go once he was settled into a chair.
Harry sat with his head in his hands "Oh gosh, Ron, I don't know what to do, I feel so helpless."
"Don't worry about it, I feel the same way." Ron sighed, "Would you like anything from the vending machine?"
"No, I'm too worried to eat right now." Ron got up and went over to the machine in the corner of the room and a bag of chips for himself and a chocolate bar for Harry. He threw the bar into Harry's lap and flung himself into the chair beside him.
"If it helps, I could tell you that Hermione turned me down tonight," Ron said.
"I know, she told me, just before you arrived at the house."
"I wonder why."
"I don't know, maybe you should talk to her about it."
"I want to, but I'm afraid of the answer."
"Well, it can't be that bad, can it?" Harry said, all this time he avoided eye contact with Ron; he just simply stared at the floor.
"No, I guess not." Silence filled the room; they were the only ones in there at this time of night.
"Do you think Ginny's going to be alright?" Harry asked, finally meeting Ron's eyes.
Ron shook his head, "I don't know, Harry, she looked pretty bad."
"I swear, the moment I get my hands on the asshole that did this to her, I'm going to kill him!" Ron just nodded and stared at the floor. "Do you think she knows who did it?" He couldn't answer because at that moment; the door to the hospital room where Ginny was burst open.
Hermione came out first, followed by the Healer and the bed, with Ginny's still unconscious body, on it. They pushed it toward an elevator in the hallway.
Harry and Ron jumped up and followed them. "Where are you taking her?" Harry asked.
"Emergency surgery," the Healer replied.
"Is it serious?" Ron asked; Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Of course it is!" she said, while the elevator opened and they ran down the hallway.
"You two need to stay here," the Healer said, opening a set of doors. He and Hermione rolled Ginny down the rest of the hallway and into surgery.
A/N: Well, now that it is the Holidays, I have more time on my hands. So we'll say an update every or everyother day? Just so you know, I do plan on finishing this over the Holidays.