A/N: Hey yall. I'm sorry it's taken so long to get this out. I think I'm coming down with writer's block. I'm sorry! But, hey, I did get this chapter out. Thanks to all who reviewed. I hope that chapter on character explanations helped out.

Here's the story:

"Ginny!" Gwen yelled out, and Chris's and Ginny's heads snapped towards her. Ginny took Chris's hand and they began to walk towards Gwen.

"Oh no. Not now." Ginny mumbled, seeing Draco as she and Chris approached.

"What's wrong, luv?" He asked.

"Uhm.. Nothing. Nothing at all." She said, giving his hand a gentle squeeze as they continued toward the three.

"Hi! I'm Gwenny. Who are you?" Gwen asked as they came face to face.

"I'm Chris. I'm Gin's boyfriend." Gwenny looked at Ginny who looked completely confuddled. (don't you love it? It's a mix between confused and befuddled)

"So, where'd you come from?" Cade asked. "I mean, I wasn't aware that Ginny had a boyfriend."

"Well-" Chris started but was cut off by Ginny.

"We'll talk later. Right now, Chris and I have some things to sort out." Ginny said, glaring at Chris. "Privately." She added when Gwen opened her mouth to say something. The two walked off to Ginny's dorm room. Well, actually, it was more of Ginny running through the corridors, dragging Chris behind her.

She came upon the painting to the common room and, whispering the password quickly, entered it.

"Ginny? Can we not talk in here? It's kind of... Well, never mind."

"Sit." Ginny said, pointing at the couch, dragging a chair over and sitting across from him. Chris quickly did as told. "Start explaining." Draco discreetly entered the common room from his dorm room.

"Well, you know that on my last mission, I was discovered?" Ginny nodded. "Well, lets just say that the people I was with weren't so... understanding of what I was doing. The used so many curses on me, Gin. I can't even describe how much pain I was in. Afterwards, they just left me for dead. In a muggle city. I was found by a couple out on a late night date and taken to the hospital. A muggle hospital. I had so many broken bones, a concussion, I couldn't remember anything. I was kept in that muggle hospital until I got my memory back and all of my bones were healed."

"When did you finally get out?"

"Six months ago."

"S-Six months ago? And you never thought to try and contact me? Or anyone?"

"Ginny, You have to understand. Those people were tracking me. And if I tried to contact ANY of you, they would have come after you... Ginny, why are you so upset over this? I was protecting you!"

"Why am I so upset? Goddess Chris, let's go down the list! I loved you! You could have found SOME way to contact me without them knowing! Damn Chris. You weren't there when I needed you the most! How am I supposed to feel. You could have come back and gone to Dumbledore or someone and they would've helped you out."

"Gin, you don't understand-"

"No, you don't understand! You have NO idea what I've been going through this past year because you weren't around and now that you are, you haven't even bothered to ask!" Ginny yelled, close to tears.

"Wait.. What? What's going on? Gin, what happened?"

"What does it matter? You'll be gone in no time anyway. And you really don't even care." She stood and turned away from him.

"W-What are you talking, Ginny? What has gotten into you?" He reached out and grabbed her arm, turning her around to him, and was shocked to see tears in her eyes.

"It doesn't matter, Chris. It doesn't matter." She whispered, a lone tear sliding down her cheek.

"Oh, Gin." He whispered, pulling her into his arms. 'It must be bad if she's in tears over it. Ginny never cries around others.' Chris thought to himself, stroking Ginny's hair as she sobbed quietly into his chest. "Talk to me, baby. What happened?" He held her out an arms length away from him.

"It's nothing. J-Just go a-away, Chris. You've already done enough damage." She whispered, tears falling from her eyes.

"Ginny. Talk to me, damnit. How am supposed to help you when I don't know what's wrong? What do you want me to do?"

"You want to help? Ok, then how about answering my questions. Where have you been?"

"I can't tell you that."

"You used to tell me everything."

"Yeah Ginny. I used to tell you everything. As in past tense. I can't tell you what you want to know." He yelled.

Ginny left his embrace and backed away slowly. "Who are you? You're not Chris."

"Damnit Ginny! I am Chris. But I can't tell you what you want to know. It's dangerous!" He said, stepping towards her.

"Stay away from me!" She said.

"Ginny, let me explain."

"Explain? Fine. Explain where you've been!"

"Ginny! Listen! I can't tell you! It's too dangerous!" He growled at her, raising a hand as if to strike her.

"If it's so dangerous, then why are you here? And put that hand down. My mother taught me to never raise a hand to a lady, so unless you want a fight, you'd better back up," Draco drawled lazily, walking up and stepping in front of Ginny.

"What do you want?" Chris sneered at him, taking his hand down.

"Are you alright?" Draco turned around to face Ginny, placing his hands on her shoulders.

"I-I'm fine," She whispered. "I'm going somewhere. I don't know where.. But away from here. From him." She fled the room.

Draco turned around, only to be punched in the jaw. "What the bloody hell?" He yelled, holding his jaw.

"You son of a bitch. Stay out of me and Ginny's business." Chris glared.

"Hate to break it to you, but when you went to hit her, it became my business," Draco drawled lazily, wincing slightly at the pain he got from talking. 'Bastard broke my jaw.'

"Oh really? And what are you going to do about it? Run off and tell your daddy?" Chris mocked.

Before Chris could blink, Draco had pulled his wand from his pocket and aimed it at him. "Don't tempt me, Anderson... On second thought, who needs magic? Kicking your ass the muggle would will be much more satisfying." Draco smirked before he lunged at Chris....

Later that day, Ginny and Gwen were walking the Hogwarts grounds with nothing better to do.

"So, any ideas?" Gwen asked her friend, carefully staying away from the subject of guys. She'd already heard all about the episode with Chris earlier and had just gotten her friend happy again.

"Not really. Why don't we go visit your mum? Hey, maybe she'll give us a pass to Hogsmead or something!" Ginny said, looking at the other girl.

"Yeah, ok." Gwen agreed and the two made their way to the dungeons. "Mom? Are you in here mom?"

"Oh! Just a minute Guinevere!" They heard faintly from the back room. Moments later, Juliet Adams appeared.

"Hey mom."

"Hi Professor."

"Hello Ginny, Guinevere. What can I do for you?"

"Well, we were bored, and-"

"We were wondering-though we'll completely understand-"

"If you say no, but-"

We figured it was worth a try anyways, so-"

"Would you write us a pass to go to Hogsmead?" They said at the same time.

"Well, I guess I could. What's with the impromptu trip?" Juliet asked as she quickly wrote out the passes.

"Girls Day Out. No men. At all. We want to get away."

"Gwen, speaking of men.. Well, I wanted to ask you.. If it's alright if I started dating."

"Sure mom. It's fine with me. You know better than to ask my permission."

"Yes, well, you're my daughter and I want you to be okay with it."

"It's fine, but mom.."

"Yes?"

"No fucking Snape!" Gwen said.

"Oops. Too late." Gwen and Ginny choked, and grimaced.

"Oh Goddess. The mental images.. Bad thoughts! Bad thoughts!" Gwen mumbled, hitting her head to "force" the "bad thoughts" out as the two walked out of the classroom.

They headed toward Ginny's dorm when Cade came running around the corner, crashing into them.

"Hi. What's going on? Where's the fire?"

"Ginny... Draco... Chris... Fight... Hospital Wing." Chris panted out.

"Oh Goddess. What have they done now?!" Ginny yelled to herself, running off in the direction of the hospital wing.

"Malfoy! Are you alright? Chris didn't hurt you too badly did you?" Ginny rushed into the Hospital Wing ad to the bed Draco was sitting on.

"Him? Hurt me? I think it's him you should be worried about, Weasley."

"What did you do to him?"

"Not much. Just made him a lot less pretty."

"Why?" Ginny blurted out.

"Because I can."

"Apparently. What's your deal, Malfoy?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Why do you have to fight with everybody? Why can't you just ignore it?"

"Excuse me, Weasley?"

"You didn't have to start a fight with him. Why can't you just grow up and turn the other way, for once?"

"You know, Weasley, for once, I didn't start it. He hit me first. But if this is how you'll act, then next time, I won't stop him from hitting you." Ginny paled at his last comment. She had forced herself to forget about that.

"Oh Goddess. I'm sorry, Malfoy. I wasn't thinking about that." She apologized and touched his shoulder, but he jerked away.

"Leave, Weasley. Just leave." Ginny, shocked, turned and left the Hospital Wing slowly.

Come lunchtime, Draco and Chris had still not been let out of the Hospital Wing as far as Ginny knew. But it was quite a shock to walk into the Great Hall to see Chris sitting next to Ron at the Gryffindor table.

'What the hell?' She thought to herself, slowly making her way toward the table. Chris spotted her and stood up, walking her way.

"So, you actually showed up. We need to talk."

"So, you're out of the Hospital Wing. That's good. Now I can kick your ass without feeling bad that you're injured. How could you start a fight with Draco?" Ginny said harshly, looking at Chris.

"Oh. I see now. So you're his little bitch. You were mine first, and we never broke up, so that makes it you two timing me. I'll teach you a lesson, bitch." Chris growled at her, lifting his hand.

"Didn't you learn a lesson earlier? Stay away from her." Draco said, calmly walking up and pushing Ginny behind him.

"Yeah. Go ahead. Protect your little whore." Chris growled, swinging his fist, only to have it caught by Draco's hand.

"I thought you would've learned about that, too. I guess I was wrong." Draco said, releasing Chris' fist. Chris threw his other fist at Draco and hit him right in the jaw. 'Fucker! There goes my jaw, again!'

Draco curled his hand into a fist and promptly landed a punch right into Chris' nose, the force from it causing Chris to fall. While he was occupied with trying to get up, Draco took out his wand and painfully muttered "stupify".

"Are you ok?" Ginny asked Draco softly.

Draco pointed at his jaw. Ginny quickly muttered a healing charm and it was back to normal. "Mobilicorpus" Draco muttered. "I'm taking him back to the Hospital Wing." Draco said, casting a last look at Ginny, then walking out of the Great Hall, Chris' stiff figure floating behind him.

A/N: Well, that's it. I know, it's not very long, but it's the best I could do. I'm sorry. I know alot of yall will have questions. Leave them in a review. I really don't feel like explaining at the moment, because quite frankly, I feel like shit. So, I'll post again soon, I hope. Maybe my muse will come back and inspiration will fill me again. Someone at least sic the plot bunnies on me. They always help...

Please review! Bye.

Kymm