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The lyrics at the beginning are from 'The World You Love' By Jimmy Eat World

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Chapter Seven – The World You Love

I got a story it's almost finished
All I need is someone to tell it too
Maybe, that's you

Our time is borrowed and spent too freely
Every minute I have needs to be made up
But how?
I'm looking for a nice way to say
"I'm out."
I want out

I fall asleep with my friends around me
Only place I know, I feel safe
I'm gonna call this home

The open road is still miles away
Ain't nothing serious
We still have our fun
Oh we had it once

But windows open and close
That's just how it goes

Don't it feel like sunshine after all
The world we love forever, gone
We're only just as happy
As everyone else seems to be

I'm in love with the ordinary
I need a simple space
To rest my head
And everything gets clear
Well I'm a little ashamed for asking
But just a little helps
It gets me straight again
Helps me get over it

It might seem like a dream
But it's real to me

Don't it feel like sunshine after all
The world we love forever, gone
We're only just as happy
As everyone else seems to be

You should the canals are freezing
You should see me high
You should just be here
Be with me here
It doesn't seem there's hope for me
I let you down
But I wont give in now
Not for a million nows

A loud severely annoying voice woke Ginny the next morning and it took her a while to fight out of the pillows. She eventually landed in a disgruntled heap at the side of the bed where her sleep-blurred eyes took in a designer knee-high caramel coloured boot attached to an endless smooth brown leg emerging from the shortest suede tan coloured skirt imaginable. Her eyes drifting up Ginny found a smooth brown navel just visible beneath the long sleeved pale blue gypsy top revealing smooth brown shoulders and a positively frightening amount of cleavage.

Eventually her eyes met the cold baby blue ones in a heart shaped face and framed by masses of dyed blonde ringlets boring into hers. A cruel little mouth was set in a sneer as the girl stood before her glared down at Ginny with her slightly turned-up nose in the air.

"Draco?"

The voice was icy and Ginny instantly felt ashamed that she was so sweaty and red-faced next to this perfectly made-up princess who was now flicking her gaze at Draco who wasn't fully awake yet himself and was balancing precariously on the arm of the sofa in only his green silk boxers.

"Ginny, you know Mason."

Ginny scowled at the girl and climbed to her feet, shooting a look at Draco that clearly told him she wanted nothing to do with her.

"Unfortunately."

Mason shot her a black look which Ginny ignored as she headed into the bathroom to get changed. The door was still slightly open and she could hear exactly what the pair were saying to each other whether she wanted to or not.

"What's she doing here Draco?"

The whine in Mason's voice made Ginny cringe and she quickly used a brush on Draco's shelf to sort her hair out, scrubbing her teeth with a newly summoned toothbrush and washed sweat and yesterday's tears from her face. She found her clothes neatly folded to one side and she slipped them on, her black hoody slung over one arm with the clothes from the party as she headed out the door.

Coming face to face with a topless Mason straddling Draco Ginny stopped dead and rolled her eyes, grabbing her high-heeled boots and shrinking everything to fit in her pocket before marching out the door, ashamed to feel jealousy swelling inside her.

Draco caught her arm just as she reached the marble lobby but she shook him off;

"Leave me alone, just go back to your little prick-teaser and pretend like nothing happened."

"What exactly did happen, though?"

OK now that hurt. Ginny stared at him refusing to let him upset her as she watched his eyes bore into hers.

"Nothing."

Draco watched her turn and cross the lobby quickly, one spin of the golden revolving doors and she was gone.

"Mister Malfoy."

Recognizing the warning voice of the owner of his apartment block Draco turned to tell him to piss off he wasn't in the mood only to find the entire lobby staring at him.

"This is a respectable place; if you insist on baring yourself to the public please find somewhere downtown to do so."

Snapping his eyes down from the furious owner to see his muscular legs protruding from the bottom of his boxers Draco raised his eyes back up, threw his nose in the air and stalked off with as much dignity as he could manage.

((Flashback))

Darkness was blurring the edges of her vision as she stared up through the water swirling over her head. Her hair was clouded over her face, rippling with every tiny movement of the water around her.

The darkness was almost entirely around her now, only a pinprick of light left in each eye as she stared up at the pale blue ceiling above her, the long sleeves of her dress wavering about her; pulled up by the water.

Her lungs were burning now and she could feel the cool water seeping into them as she tried to breathe the substance in for lack of air. Finally her eyes became fully dark and her heartbeat pounding in her ears faded into nothing as an unearthly drowsiness took over her.

((End Flashback))

A blood curdling shriek reverberated from the white tiled walls as Ginny's head broke the surface of the water. The guards rushing in crossed themselves at the sight before them and gazed at her fearfully, not one of them inclined to touch her as her body convulsed wildly.

Her blood-red hair was thankfully draped over her breasts as rivulets of water seeped over her naked body sat up in the pure white bath. Those watching were confused at first; sure her hair had grown until it filled the bath before they finally realized she was bleeding from her wrists and two huge gashes diagonally across her shoulder blades.

All that was heard as Ginny looked up at them with burning red eyes was a shriek and a thud as the nurse fainted in the doorway.

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Voices were penetrating the dark red mist swirling around her brain and Ginny struggled to sit up.

"...wonder she's still alive..."

"...if you'd waited a minute longer the blood loss alone would have killed her..."

Ginny's groan brought the numerous Healer's attention to her and her eyes took a torturously long time to flicker open, revealing mercifully normal eyes to the room that included the immediate Weasley clan plus extras and a few friends of the family with Draco thrown in for good measure.

"What happened?"

Her voice was hoarse as her dry throat complained at the forced words split from her parched mouth.

"You've been discovered to be suffering from Regalo."

Ginny gaped at the Healer stood over her with a clipboard in his hand as he whipped his wand over her body, noted the colour it changed to and what it meant before nodding at her family and sweeping out of the room. ((Italian for 'Gift'))

"OK, forgive the stupid question but what the hell is Regalo?"

Ginny didn't even look at the great Harry Potter as he asked this, she was busy taking in the sight of her family around her. She hadn't seen them properly for months, ever since That Night actually; oh they hadn't ignored her per se, just been too wary to spend long in the hospital talking to her.

St Mungo's, however, was evidently the type of hospital they felt more at home in as they lounged about around her bed. The latest Mrs Weasley, heavily pregnant with twins, of course was the first to reply to Harry's question as she fought to control two twin boys with shocks of fiery red bangs, freckles upon freckles and huge hazel eyes.

"Have you heard of Stigmata?"

Harry nodded looking thoroughly confused as his best friend grabbed hold of his sons and handed them to the uncle's they took most after; one to George and one to Fred.

"Isn't that where a really religious person suffers the injuries of the crucifixion of something?"

Hermione nodded eagerly after smiling gratefully at her husband who was stood behind her chair chatting to Charlie about the results of his latest Quidditch match.

"Basically yes, but in Regalo the victim suffers the injuries of Cosimia, the last angel to fall to Earth."

Harry nodded and fell silent once more as Ginny half listened to the numerous conversations flowing around her. Her mother still had hold of her hand and was running her fingertip over her palm as she spoke to her father in a low voice worriedly shooting glances at Ginny.

"Did she slit her wrists?"

Ginny's temper flared and she turned on Bill's latest girlfriend; a model for a magazine with more breast implants than brain cells who was sulking because she wasn't centre of attention.

"I am here you know, sitting exactly here and no I didn't you moron. If you tied your fake-ass dyed hair out of the way you might be able to hear properly. Mind you I suppose you don't know what happened to Cosimia anyway, you hardly look the type to take a class in the Greek myths."

Under any other circumstances Molly would have reproved her daughter for her attack on the blonde but Molly didn't actually like her eldest son's new girlfriend either so she settled for shaking her head at Ginny and tightening her grip on her hand a little.

"Cosimia was found to have been meeting up with a mortal man for sex." Hermione blushed before continuing. "And in disgust the God's, quite unfairly, slit her wrists as a warning and ordered her to leave Mount Olympus."

Ginny shuddered and huddled deeper into her quilts, her fingertip edging over to the bandages on her wrists and prodding them experimentally. They didn't hurt her at all but they did start to bleed again the second she touched it. She tried to shuffle but a sharp pain seared across her back and she remembered the last part of Cosimia's story; upon falling from Mount Olympus her wings burst into flame and slowly withered, scattering blood and golden feathers upon the earth below.

Sure enough when she was given a pair of mirrors to manoeuvre to she could see her back, there were two bandages on each diagonally across her shoulder blade where the wings would have been.

"Are you feeling better, dear?"

Ginny nodded at her mother but hinted that she would like to sleep. Her mother took the hint and herded the family out of the door, kissing her daughter's forehead and eyeing Draco when he refused to leave.

"What did you see, Gin?"

The shortening of her nickname shocked Ginny and she jumped, looking up at him with startled eyes before lowering them to her hands twisted into the bed sheets.

"I saw..." Her voice grew coarse with tears and still Draco pushed, knowing it would be better to say it now rather than later.

"I saw Farren on That Night."

Draco immediately understood what she meant and pulled her into his arms, gently avoiding her tender back and soothing the images of her friend's death out of her mind with kind caressing words.

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