A/N: Here is chapter three! Yes, I know it took me forever. But I'm starting a new Harry/Ginny story and the first chapter is almost done, hope you will all read that one. It has a different approach but I like it so far.
Enjoy chapter three!
Chapter 3: Naming Your Hero
"Harry!" Ginny screamed again as she cautiously walked across the mud looking for signs to see if Harry was alright.
She heard a low grunt coming down from the side of the cliff.
Frightened, she looked down and to her relief she saw Harry struggling to hold on to the side of the cliff, blood was running down his cheek, apparently he had cut it when he feel.
"Ginny, help," said Harry in such a strained voice she could barley understand what he had said.
"W-what shall I do? Merlin Harry please don't fall!" she demanded desperately as she glanced down at Harry for one last time.
She turned around to get a good glance at her surroundings hoping that she could find something that would allow her to help Harry up the cliff.
She spotted a branch by a near by tree and carefully walked over and picked it up.
"Harry? I'm coming just please hang on," said Ginny as she quickly grabbed the skinny branch and walked back to the edge of the cliff.
"Harry? Here grab on to this branch. I-I'll try and lift you up," stated Ginny as she hung the branch over the side of the cliff.
"Um…Ginny? There's no way that branch is going to hold me. Mind you, either," replied Harry while trying to keep his hands gripped to the side of the cliff.
"W-what shall I do Harry? Can't-can't you try and hoist yourself up?" wondered Ginny as she started shaking from fear. What if he falls? What if Harry dies? Mum would kill me, she thought to herself.
"Okay."
She saw Harry let go to the side of the cliff with one hand and placed it on the next grove up. She could see his hands shaking and he was breathing deeply, from fear and pain.
"Just calm down Harry. You're going to be okay."
Ginny watched as Harry gripped progressed up the side of the cliff, every now and then he would loose his grip on the side of the rock and slide down a little ways, but he so far had managed to save himself.
A few agonizing seconds later Harry had finally accomplished getting to the top of the cliff. The only problem was that Ginny had to make sure that she didn't slip herself or they both would be in trouble.
"Harry grab my hand and I'll help you up. You need to use your legs to help hoist yourself up. I-I'm not strong enough," informed Ginny as she held out her hand for Harry to grab.
"I won't drop you Harry. Just push up on the rock," stated Ginny as she grabbed Harry's hand trying to help him up. Just as they had almost gotten Harry to safe ground his leg slipped on some loose rock on the side of the cliff, causing Ginny to fall to hard on her knees, almost letting go of Harry's hand.
"Sorry," winced Harry, as he tightened his grip on her arm, pushing himself up onto the safe ground to safety.
Ginny glanced at Harry once she calmed herself down. Harry was now gripping his right leg, which seemed to be bleeding furiously; she assumed it was from when his leg had slipped on the side of the cliff.
"Are you okay, Harry?" asked Ginny, as she helped him crawl away from the cliff, his face contorted in pain.
"I-I just hurt my leg on the rocks," he stated, clearly not wanting to cause Ginny more problems.
"Let me see it," she stated, and she forcefully took Harry's hands off his leg which he had been putting pressure on, to stem the pain.
Ginny winced as she saw the cut. The side of the cliff must have cut at his skin and now his leg was bleeding. "Oh Merlin," exclaimed Ginny as she quickly tried to come up with and idea of how to stop the bleeding. She ripped part of her sweater off and used the cloth as a bandage; she tied it around Harry's leg in a tight knot hoping that would help the flow of blood.
Harry's breathing was coming in faster gulps and Ginny suspected it was from the pain in his leg, and the fear he had just been going through. She saw him lay down on the ground his hair getting coated in mud, as he closed his eyes.
Deciding that they should get to safer ground, she tried to coax Harry awake.
"Harry? Don't go to sleep yet. Please, let's just go somewhere safer first," she pleaded as she crawled over to him.
"Mmm,"he replied as he starting to sit up, his eyes still closed as he did so.
Harry then lifted his hand to his cheek, feeling something wet on his face. He looked back at his hand to see blood.
"Do you think I'm going to get another scar?" he asked, sounding worried, glancing at the blood on his hand.
The way he had asked the question made Ginny's heart break. He sounded so innocent, making tears well up in her eyes, but she forcefully pushed them back. She was not going to let Harry see her act like a little cry baby.
Ginny lifted her hand to Harry's pale face and wiped the blood away, trying to see the severity of the cut. "No-no I-I don't think you'll get an-another scar…Harry," she responded.
Harry averted his emerald eyes to gaze into Ginny's brown ones. It took Harry a few times to be able to produce a coherent sentence. He seemed to lose all thought while looking into Ginny's eyes. "I-I-I'm glad," he stated.
Ginny felt a smile creep across her face at Harry's words and they leaned closer to each other, both at a lost for words.
Ginny could feel Harry's warm breath against her skin. She knew this was wrong. But she couldn't seem to stop herself.
Their lips touched and Ginny felt Harry's soft, cold lips brush her own, she went to go put her arm around Harry's head to deepen the kiss but Harry pulled back away from her and mumbled an apology, clearing thinking that she was going to hate him.
Ginny cleared her throat, trying to compose herself. "It's okay Harry, really."
She saw Harry try to stand up, still blushing and nervous. He limped over to a tree far away from the cliff and bent his head down to look at the ground, clearly not wanting to face Ginny.
Ginny walked over to Harry and sat next to him. They sat in silence for awhile, before Ginny got the courage to say something to him.
"Harry. I'm not mad at you," she reassured him.
He seemed to let go a breath that he seemed to have been holding and lifted his head up and smiled. "Good."
Ginny nodded her head and smiled back. "How's your leg?" she asked.
"It's gone kind of numb. Thanks for looking at it though," said Harry, as he leaned his head against the trunk of the tree, as exashution suddenly swept through his body.
"No problem," she replied as she leaned her head on the trunk too.
Soon they both were asleep. No care in the world, just as long as they were with each other.
I………………I
Harry woke up shivering. It was now dark out and with no sun to warm him, he was getting increasingly cold.
He glanced at Ginny to see she was fast asleep with a smile on her face.
The coldness only added more problems to Harry though, it seemed to aggravate his cold more and he began coughing again. He tried to keep them quiet but he still woke Ginny up.
"Sorry for-" Harry had to stop to cough again, "waking you up," he finished as he glanced at her.
"It's okay Harry. I was in a bad position anyways. Good thing you woke me up before too long or I would have been in a bad mood waking up with my neck hurting," she reassured him.
Harry nodded his head. "I wish we had some water. I'm really thirsty," he added.
Ginny glanced at him sympathetically. "Me too, but your cold is going to make your thirst even worse," she stated.
Harry nodded as he glanced at Ginny again, before asking her a question. "Ginny? Um...I was just wondering. You know, I mean you don-"
"Harry spit it out already," she laughed.
"Wh-what is your worst fear?"
"Mine?" she asked stunned. This was the last question she thought Harry was going to ask her.
"Yeah. You don't have to tell me. I-I was just you know wondering," he replied, clearly embarrassed.
"Oh, well um...I-I'll tell you," she responded quietly as she looked him into the eyes.
Harry nodded his head allowing her to continue.
"You just can't make fun of me," she stated. "Ever since I was little Harry I've always thought of you as my hero. Stupid I know, I mean I had only read about you in books. But once I went to Hogwarts and I started to get to know you, I learned that you weren't just the 'Boy-who-lived' you were Harry. Just Harry. So what I'm trying to say is my-my worst fear is losing you. My hero."
"Oh," whispered Harry completely shocked, "But Ginny, I'm truly just an annoyance-a bother, Ginny, really. You should find another hero. A Hero who can actually do something to help the world. I haven't done anything, well, yes, I killed Voldemort when I was little but-but Ginny I was only one. It was all pure luck," he demanded seriously.
"Harry, listen to me. I've read about you. But what's ever in those books is nothing. Whoever wrote them they don't know you and I do," she replied as she placed her hand on his cheek. "You're my Hero Harry no matter how many people you save, or what you accomplish. You'll always be my Hero," she stated, while gazing into his emerald eyes, trying to show him that she was telling him the truth.
Harry smiled. "Well I-I guess it's your choice. But I still don't think I-I'm a H-hero. I mean-" Ginny placed her index finger softly on Harry's lips to make him stop rambling.
"I don't care what you have to say Harry. I've made up my mind. But whatever you do, please-just don't die. I don't know how I could survive- I don't think I would-could," replied Ginny close to tears.
"I'll try Ginny, I really will. For you, I'll try but I can't make any promises."
Ginny paused for a while." That's good enough for me," said Ginny, as she leaned up against him, getting more comfortable and she fell asleep moments after, still completely exhausted.
Harry continued to stare at Ginny's sleeping form. Even when she was sleeping she looked beautiful to him. Ever since he had come to the Burrow he had been constantly starting at Ginny-he found out he couldn't help it. He always had to make sure he knew exactly where she was. He sat their contemplating his problem and before he fell asleep it had crossed his mind that he may be falling in love with her and to his surprise he didn't care.
And for once, in a very long time he fell asleep with a smile on his face, his head leaning against Ginny's shoulder.
I………………I
"The rain has stopped!" called Mrs. Weasley happily, even though it was ten at night. Her abrupt shouting had caused the pieces of game of chess Ron was playing to scattered different directions in fright.
Ron and Hermione who were still in the living room looked up at Mrs.Weasley and Mr. Weasley who had been sleeping came rushing down the stairs, afraid something had happened.
"What? What's wrong?" asked Mr. Weasley frantically, as he looked around his house for signs of danger.
Mrs. Weasley's face lit up at the question. "Dear, it has stopped raining. Now we can go find the poor dears, and when we get back I'll make their favourite food," she sighed happily.
Mr. Weasley looked at her like she was crazy. He walked over to her to make sure she was okay, the disappearance of Harry and Ginny had really affected her. But, deep down Arthur wasn't surprised.
Arthur sighed to himself. They might as well go looking for Harry and Ginny now. Who knew how much danger they were in and he really didn't want Mrs. Weasley berating him all night, he thought to himself.
"Okay, we'll go now. But be careful the woods are probably still really muddy," he informed, as he grabbed his wand and he, Mrs. Weasley, Ron and Hermione walked outside.
Hermione wrapped her arms around her chest, the air was quite chilly from the rain and it made her more concerned hoping Harry and Ginny were all right. They must be freezing.
Hermione heard Ron calling her and ran to catch up with him. "Come on Hermione, mum's going ballistic she's already inside the forest. We don't want her getting lost too," he said as he wrapped his arms around Hermione to help warm her up. Hermione smiled up at him, glad to have his warmth.
They walked for close to a half hour, slipping occasionally on some spots of mud.
"What's that noise?" Ron asked suddenly. Everyone turned to look at Ron and strained to hear what he had heard.
The noise came again and made everyone jump up.
"That sounds like someone screaming," whispered Hermione as she grabbed Ron's hand.
Mr. and Mrs. Weasley held their wands up to emit more light, and all four walked closer to what they hoped, were Harry and Ginny.
They all gasped at what they saw. They had indeed found Harry and Ginny, but they hoped they could save them before it was too late.
I…………………I
Ginny woke with a start, her eyes darting left and right in the darkness, looking for the source of noise that had woken her up.
She glance down to her left to see Harry still sound asleep, his head resting on her shoulder.
Hearing the noise again she jumped up to a standing position, causing Harry's head to fall onto the dirty forest ground, luckily he still stayed asleep.
Ginny walked a short distance to where she had heard the noise, "Oh Merlin," Ginny whispered when she caught site of what was making the noise, running back towards Harry, glad that the mud had dried up.
"Harry! Harry wake up!" called Ginny frantically, as she shook Harry.
Harry cracked his eyes half-way open, his bright emerald green eyes staring at her, confused.
"W-Where am I?" wondered Harry.
"Don't you remember?" questioned Ginny, while kneeing next to him.
"Umm….kind of, my head really hurts," replied Harry as he started to sit up, gripping his head tightly, trying to alleviate the pain.
"We're lost in the forest behind the Burrow, remember?" stated Ginny, while she felt Harry's head for fever.
"Oh yeah now I do," Harry answered as he leaned his head against the tree trunk, behind him.
"Harry we need to get out of here. There are wolves back there," pointed Ginny, behind her.
Harry's eyes grew wide and he tried to stand up, but his injured leg gave way and he fell back against the tree trunk.
"Harry! You need to be careful. Wolves have very good hearing, they could hear you."
"Why are there wolves back here anyways? Seems like a strange place to find wolves," wondered Harry as he grabbed Ginny's arm, trying to keep steady.
Ginny wrapped his arm around her neck and hoisted him up, allowing him to lean against her, using his good leg for support.
They slowly made their way down a narrow path between the trees, hoping not to alert the wolves that they were there.
"Can we stop?" questioned Harry a few minutes later, his eyes shut tight from the pain in his head and leg.
"Harry we have to get away from the wolves. Then we can, okay?"
Harry was getting harder and harder to drag through the forest, the further they went, the more Harry's leg kept giving way, causing him to lean more into Ginny, which was making her almost collapse herself.
Unfortunately Harry's leg gave way again causing Ginny to trip on a rock, making her let go of Harry, making him fall to the ground landing right on his injured leg.
"Ow, it hurts," cried Harry, holding onto his leg for dear life.
"I'm so sorry Harry. Here, let me look at it," said Ginny as she knelt in front of Harry and slowly took off the cloth they had used as a bandage.
Ginny gasped at the cut, it was clearly getting infected it was red and bruises could be seen around the cut and it was still bleeding occasionally, which would explain the reason it was hurting so badly and why Harry had a fever.
"W-what's wrong?" asked Harry, scared.
"I-It's just um…getting infected, Harry. We really need to get back to the Burrow. It's just going to get worse."
Harry eyes grew wide with fear, the brilliant emerald green turning to a cold gray, "Will it be all right?"
"I don't know," replied Ginny truthfully, while wrapping the cloth around Harry's leg again, making sure it was secure.
Harry started coughing a few seconds later, the pain and fever bringing his cold back full force.
'Harry, please. The wolves will hear you," reprimanded Ginny, while standing up.
Harry stopped coughing right away and looked towards the direction the wolves were residing at, his eyes then met bright red ones.
"Too late," he whispered.
"What? Oh no," exclaimed Ginny looking towards the direction Harry was, her eyes meeting the same bright red ones.
Hoisting Harry up, they both started to run as fast as they could with Harry's injured leg.
"Come on Harry!"
"I'm trying," he cried in a strained voice.
Ginny slowed down and whipped her head behind her, checking to see if the wolf was still there or not.
"It's following us!" cried Ginny.
Harry turned his head around to look where the wolf was, this movement causing him to lose his concentration on walking making him trip on a branch on the forest floor.
Hearing this, the wolf awoke from its trance and started running after them.
"Harry! Come on get up! You're too heavy for me," stated Ginny as she keep darting her head behind her watching the wolf gain speed towards them.
Using all the strength he had, Harry hoisted himself up and grabbed on to Ginny's hand, both running, the pain in his leg gone from his mind.
They both ran through the trees faster than they ever thought possible. Hiding behind e they hoped they would be able to confuse the wolf, but it was no luck the wolf knew exactly where they had ran to.
The wolf stopped in front of them. Harry and Ginny both leaned flat against the tree, having no where to go.
Growling and baring its teeth the wolf moved towards Ginny who close her eyes, awaiting the worse.
Harry bravely stepped in front of Ginny, protecting her.
"Harry, stop! Get away from it," she yelled, opening her eyes.
"NO! I will not let it harm you Ginny. You've helped me so much already. It's my fault we're here anyways. It's the last thing I could do," demanded Harry.
The wolf jumped on Harry its paws resting on his chest and tearing at his shirt. Ginny saw blood start to form on Harry's shirt from the cuts the wolf had just given him.
"Harry?" screamed Ginny from behind him once the wolf was a couple feet away from them.
"MOVE!" screamed Harry as they both each ran opposite directions before the wolf could gain speed and run at them again.
The wolf ran after Harry who was stuck on the ground, the pain in his leg back full force, not allowing him to stand up.
"Harry watch out," roared Ginny, who was next to the tree.
Before Harry could move he saw the wolf running after him and he knew he was going to die.
Closing his eyes Harry awaited the heavy load to land on him and tear him to pieces but instead he heard someone scream, "STUPEFY!" and he saw the wolf fall right next to him listless.
I………………I
By the way, if any of these scenes seem unrealistic to you. Please forgive me, I had a really hard time writing this chapter and hope you still enjoyed it!
Well, I hope you liked it. There is only one more chapter to go!
Again, sorry this chapter took me so long.
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Scales: Twins? Well, they were in the first chapter. But I like Harry/Ginny. Maybe you should write a fic with the twins in it? Dan is great!!!
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