A/N: don't own anyone or anything; they're all J.K Rowling's faithful pets
The lyrics at the beginning are from 'Unreachable' by Ashlee Simpson
Well you find out who Ginny had an affair with in this one and I hope I managed to shock at least a couple of you. I know it's sickeningly short but I'm still working flat out on my own story. Thanks for all the reviews, as always they are answered at the end and I hope you enjoy it :D
Chapter Five – Unreachable
You had me crawlin so bad
Had me heels over head
You got me easy, you got me easy
Tangled up in my head
Quit trying to hold and to help me
Cuz we're already beautiful
So don't make me cry
Cuz this love don't feel so right
You can't push a river
You can't make me fall
But you can make me unreachable
I may be sweet, but I'm still on the vine
You couldn't wait, no you had to take your bite
You had me crawlin so bad
Had me heels over head
You had me easy, you had me easy
Too late to go back
To realize what we had
We were already beautiful
So don't make me cry
Cuz this love don't feel so right
You can't push a river
You can't make me fall
But you can make me unreachable
Sometimes love is addiction
Sometimes it hurts like hell
And sometimes you just cannot get enough
You can't make me love you,
Any more than I do
But you can make me unreachable
Her world was falling down around her as she watched him smirk at her from across the room. She shrank back against the wall, her face blending into the pale green coloured wall all besides her hair that fell in lank tresses down her back already soaked with sweat.
"It's been a long time."
Her hands were shaking and clenching at her sides, the palms coated in sweat as her body trembled and convulsed of its own accord.
"How have you been, Lily?"
The sound of his old nickname for her sounded vile and dirty to her ears as memories of that name whispered in her ear in their most intense moments filled her head and she paled. Amazement at the fact he was asking her such a question battling with fear and furious anger at his daring; how could he swagger in here and ruin the fragile existence she called a life after all that had happened and still treat her as though nothing had happened?
She still couldn't bring herself to speak until he moved closer, crossing the room in two long strides and she gave a squeak of terror and dragged herself across the wall away from him, her hair streaking out along he wall giving him a flashing memory of a real smear of blood staining darker white walls in the past.
He followed her until she backed into the corner and slumped down onto the floor, her knees drawn up to her face and her hair falling over her face so her eyes were just about visible as he squatted down before her.
"Such a shame, you had such promise, Lily." He sighed. "I evidently overestimated you; you're not as strong as I thought you were."
His words pierced her heart like arrows and inside she bristled at the insult, cursing herself mentally when she still couldn't bring herself to speak. Her choice of refusing to meet his eyes, however, was taken out of her hands when he grabbed her chin gently but firmly and yanked her head up so their eyes locked.
She shuddered as murder swam in those pools of black and the memories of her friends' mutilated bodies sprang to her mind, drowning her eyes in tears. She hardly even noticed his finger stroking her cheek until his other hand snaked between her legs and gently rested on her inner thigh which caused her to whimper.
A smirk, a brief kiss on her forehead, a squeeze of his hand and a swish of his cloak later he was gone and she was left in a trembling, quivering huddle on the floor. Remembering his hands touching her both before That Night and after she was disgusted to find herself still violently attracted to the heartless bastard and she gave a tremendous shudder, rolled to the side and she threw up until she could barely breathe, tears flowing down her face and streaking thick black lines down her cheeks.
((Draco's POV))
What in hell was he doing here?!
Draco nearly fell over when he saw the man walking down the corridor towards him, his long black cloak billowing out behind him and the satisfied smirk on his face turning Draco cold, especially when he heard the mumbled words he managed to catch as he passed him.
"Break her... very soon, Lord... she is weak... she still wants me..."
Wondering what in the name of Hades he was talking about since Voldemort had been dead for over a year now he listened to the fading sound of the footsteps. Once the sound of expensive boots had finished clicking down the hallway Draco shot out of the dark corner he had hidden himself in and darted around the corner towards the visiting rooms.
It didn't come as a total shock when he found Ginny slumped in the corner in a puddle of her own vomit flecked with blood, her shoulders heaving with silent sobs and he wasted no time in taking her in his arms and rocking her gently backwards and forwards.
Performing a quick Concealing Charm he lifted her sleeping form into his arms and headed towards his car as quickly as he could, the puzzle partly piecing together in his head as he walked, the last person he would have expected. He sighed. So if that was her lover, then was it he who had killed those girls and raped Ginny? Pushing questions firmly to the back of his mind he wrapped Ginny carefully in a newly summoned blanket and settled her still slumbering in the back seat.
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A kaleidoscope of colours shifted through the frame of her lowered lashes and she groaned, stretching like a cat and keeping her eyes shut for a blissful few seconds before a hot steaming mug of coffee was waved under her nose and it twitched of its own accord.
Slowly opening one bleary eye she came face to face with a smirking Draco Malfoy through a haze of steam and she sat up slowly. Accepting the mug she took in her surroundings dully as she drank.
The huge room was his entire house; in the very far right corner was a small kitchenette with mostly stainless steel and metallic blue surfaces, in the left was his lounge in simple black and cream. A furry snow-white Italian carpet covered the entire floor and his furniture was all black leather with a few scattered white fluffy cushions and black striped rugs, not a single speck of colour all over the place.
"So."
Looking back up at him she found him staring coldly back at her and she flinched, well aware he knew her secret; well one of them at least.
"It just happened, its not like I planned it or anything."
Draco twitched slightly as thousands of terrifying images crashed over one another in his mind.
"My father, my own father... the man who nearly succeeded in stealing your soul in your first year..."
Ginny didn't need him to tell her, she was constantly ashamed of her sordid affair but strangely she didn't regret it either. Sure she had scrubbed every inch of her body raw with boiling water for hours every day until she had been admitted to St Mungo's for serious burns and she had eventually gone to the Hospital to live.
"I thought you of all people would understand."
He ignored her implication of his engagement to Mason and he knew he didn't mean what he said even as the harsh words tripped off his tongue.
"Understand it?!" He laughed bitterly. "How can I understand how someone so seemingly innocent and sincere could fuck a man like my father? You're nothing more than a whore... just another of his whores who go back to him again and again because they get addicted to him and his sadistic games. You're not the woman I thought you were, you're still just a little girl desperate to get somewhere, even if you have to go through Satan's bed itself."
Tears glittered in Ginny's eyes as his cruel words bit into her heart and she stared at him as he paused, his breathing heavy and his eyes glittering darkly against the two crimson spots in the centre of his cheeks.
Ginny's face hardened and she threw back the rich silver and green covers of his bed, banging the mug down on the mahogany bedside table and wriggling into her abandoned jeans. Clipping her studded belt together she got to her feet and slammed them into her converse haphazardly.
"Is there a torture chamber around here somewhere?"
Stunned by her question he shrugged warily and enquired as to why she'd need one.
"Because I was planning on hanging myself upside down by my ankles from the ceiling as a punishment for believing you might actually have a shred of morality left in you."
Staring after her as she stormed across the room, grabbing his discarded jacket on her way past, he was desperate to call out to her to bring her back but she was already gone. The door slamming broke through his trance-like state and shook the entire room with its force. Well he knew one thing for sure, even if the rest made no sense whatsoever;
His father had definitely lost his mind for real this time, and he seemed determined to bring Ginny along with him for the ride.
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