Chapter 13

There was a restless malice in the Forest, one that alarmed the animals, sent them scurrying into their burrows to shiver and roll their eyes with mindless fear.

Ginny felt it, a darkness like a night with no stars, but with tremendous power. She felt tendrils of dark mist obscure her vision of parts of the forest, blinding her to all goings on.

She sighed and turned to the library, dark mist with a feeling of terror...not much to go on.

It was a stormy, overcast day quickly fading into night. A solitary man stared out into the coming darkness from the Quidditch stands.

Dusk, he thought and watched the light gray and purple hues fade into dark blue then black.

He had received his summons to the Dark Lord and his choice lay before him. To pledge himself to a dying shell of a wizard, flee, or ignore it. He frowned, it was one of Those decisions, one that you knew would decide your life forever.

He shook his arm out of his sleeve and gazed at his pale fore arm, imagining how the Dark Mark would look engraved upon it.

A movement caught his eye and as he watched a lithe form slid from between the trees of the Forbidden Forest.

He smiled to himself, who would he catch out at night? Somehow taking away house points always made him feel better...

He slid off the stands and ran down the steps and out onto the grass.

"You there! Stop it this instant!" He yelled and swung his arm.

With inhuman speed it ran up to him and landed on his chest. He felt wind rush over his head as something leaped at the space where he had been.

"What the fuck?!" He yelled and squirmed out from the thing and sprang to his feet.

His hand went to his wand and fired a spell at the thing.

"Stupify! Lumos!" His wand tip lit up the area and he was able to see the it.

One of the large spiders of the forest lay stunned at his feet, hairy, ugly and with long insincors dripping with poison.

He shook himself and squared his shoulders.

"Addva Kadav..."

"NO!"

For the second time that day he felt himself being plowed into the ground by an unseen force.

It...she as he felt it, held her right hand on his wrist, pinning it to the ground, and her left hand on his mouth to stop him from finishing his spell. She was straddling him with a knee dangerously close to his unmentionables and her other knee on his leg.

"Don't you dare Malfoy!"

He winced as she shifted her weight to the knee on his leg and looked the female Weasley in the eye.

"Weasley! Kindly get off of me!" He used his left hand to shove her roughly to the side and she fell off.

"What do you think you are doing?!" She screeched in his ear.

"Killing a dangerous animal!"

"No you won't!"

"I sure as hell will!"

"I won't let you!"

"Like you can stop me?"

"I sure can!"

"Bull!"

"I can!"

He looked her in the eye and snorted. "Right. Prove it."

She glared at him and then moved the knee between his ever so slightly to remind him she very well could.

They sat like statues, locked into a staring contest.

There was a rustling behind Malfoy and as the turned...

A sharp pain shattered through Ginny's being and her world faded into a small pinprick and then dissappeared all together.

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