By: fiSh
Summary:
Lost in the ruins of the war she picks up the little pieces of her life and decides that she needs to take a different road and separate herself from her old life. Nobody knew where she went and everyone was mostly worried, after all she is only sixteen. Until one event makes her go home. (I honestly suck at summarizing but if I do find a good one I'll let you know…)
A/N:
I'm not trying to make anyone cry.. don't hold it against me if it is very dramatic.. let's just say there are times in ones life when it feels like one big soap opera.. so please forgive me.. :)
The Latin language is really interesting though I don't know anything about it.. I just got most of my phrases from a site Oh yeah please read and review and all my other stories are on hold because my computer crashed and I lost all my files so… yeah it's going to take awhile before I can remember the plot of my other stories. : )
Another thingy… yeah… I'm following canon.. sort of… it's a bit A.U. but it follows OotP… it's really vague.. I'll explain it later in the story… mwah
Disclaimer:
We all know that I do not own this Harry Potter since it all belongs to J.K Rowling (All Hail the Queen of Potterdom!) And if I did own Potter then I wouldn't be here writing would I?
Chapter One
Stercus Accidit
Pain.
It was the first thing she felt as it shot through her veins, enveloping her entire body. She tried to lift her head but felt it was to heavy for her body.
'Is this death?' She asked herself. 'Am I finally dead?'
She opened her eyes to see the once black sky turn gray as a bright light shot through the sky in a loud CRACK! Then a deafening silence followed by shouts of joy of those who were still alive. She knew they had won and she should be happy. She lay there thinking about the words Tom Riddle had said before he evaporated into thin air.
"Ginny no!" she heard Harry yell as she stepped in front of him. She held her palms up as she felt an entire new force take over her body, she felt herself being lifted from the ground as the wind blew fiercely against her.
Harry watched as her eyes turned blank and her red hair flying above her head like an evil looking halo. It was so eerie that he tried to look away then he heard her voice deep and shallow like when Professor Trelawney slips into her vision state.
"Coniunctis Viribus
Consummatum est
De profundis decrevi
Transmitto tu profundum!"
Bright blue light was emitted from her palms and hit Voldemort square on the chest, which sent him flying backwards, and sent her trance like body flying across the field into a wall which collapsed from the force.
"Ginny!" he heard several voices yell.
"She has done the decretum spell but it isn't completed!" Hermione yelled at Harry.
"The what?" he asked.
"Harry watch out!" Ron yelled as a bright red light flew over his head. Voldemort was still alive.
Ginny tried to grab her wand but her body was broken in several places.
'Thank God I still have my hands and legs.' Her right arm was hanging loosely from her shoulder and her legs weren't broken but painfully bruised. She looked around at the destroyed wall behind her and tried to stand up but fell forward into the dust sending her into a coughing fit.
"If it isn't the littlest Weasley." She heard a familiar voice calling out to her sending shivers up her spine. She looked up to face the young Voldemort standing before her.
"Tom…" she hissed.
"Oh come now Ginny after all we've been through you still treat me like a snake?" he murmured mockingly. This made Ginny sick.
"You're nothing but a body and a soul, a human, a mortal and a mudblood!" she yelled at him, well at least it felt like she yelled because her throat was dry and painful, "You couldn't even hurt a fly."
"Yes. I know." He whispered dangerously, "But words can always kill."
Ginny stood up and tried to balance herself.
"I must admit you win. That decretum spell was good, your side wins if they say the final lines. But let me tell you this little Ginny, once this war is over. You're as good as dead."
"Your words are poison!" she spat evilly.
"But it's true, when have I ever lied to you. My Ginny?" he asked murmuring her name, "You know Harry could never love you. Ron doesn't even know you're there. Hermione is a know it all mudblood and you are nothing! Nothing, I say. And you never will be!"
"That's not true!" she yelled, "they're my friends!"
"They used you! They don't care for you!" he laughed evilly, "Now you loose the only one who cared, ME!"
She felt the tears block her eyes as she watched Tom laugh over her. Then Harry's voice echoed through the vast dark sky.
"Factum Est!"
Then Tom Riddle and Voldemort's scream filled the sky.
Ginny sat down on the dust as she watched Tom fade away like the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland.
"Remember my words little one." His smile disappeared with a sizzle and she fainted.
She opened her eyes as rain poured over her face. No one would come for her and yet her body screamed for help. She stood up slowly and walked into the castle her right arm dangling on her side. Limping as she made her way to Dumbledore's office, the eagle at the entrance had been broken so she was able to climb in without the password.
She needed to get out of there. She searched as her left hand carelessly fumbled over Dumbledore's stuff.
"Portkey!" she cried out, "Where is the portkey when you need one."
"In the bureau dear." A painting called out, "The black one behind the desk."
She tripped over a book as she made her way to the cabinet, which sent her falling on her face. She cried out in pain and crawled her way towards it. She hastily opened it and ran her fingers over the small pieces that were scattered in it.
"Which one is it!" she cried out exasperatedly.
"There is only one." The painting murmured as if trying to remember which one, "I can't seem to remember if it was a star the led to Estella's or a moon."
"Oh bugger it." She placed the palm of her left hand on the chair to hoist herself up. She grabbed the first thing that came to her mind, the star. She held it as firmly as she could in her hand and shut her eyes for the tug at he navel, "Please oh please!" she begged as tears started to fall from her face. Her eyes grew heavy with sleep as she felt herself being pulled into a dream.
Estella Charlsehall had finished making dinner when she heard a soft pop and a loud thud fall to the ground. She rushed out and saw a girl lying on the floor in dirty gray torn robes. Her long red hair in a tangled burnt mess and pale face with scratches and bruises.
"Oh my…" she brought a hand to her lips, "David! David! Come here quickly!"
Bright light flooded at the back of his lids making them flutter open. He turned to his left to see Ron sitting up and eating and Hermione on the farther left sleeping.
"Is it over?" he whispered, "Is it finally over?"
"I don't know mate," Ron said, "Maybe this is heaven." He laughed and Harry joined along.
Then a shuffle of feet and a cry had stopped them.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Weasley," Madame Pomfrey's voice was sad and sincere, "We couldn't find her body. I'm afraid this is all we found."
"Oh!" she cried, "her wand. My only daughter's gone!" then a deep sigh and a loud thud, she had fainted.
Ron sat up hearing his mother wail about his sister.
Ginny's dead.
Ginny the only girl of seven siblings is gone. Ron stood up abruptly and made his way to the people who were talking behind the curtain.
"Mr. Weasley," he heard Madame Pomfrey's stern voice call out, "You should be in bed."
"Forget the bloody bed!" he yelled, "Where is my sister!"
"Her body couldn't be found." Dumbledore's voice was soft.
"Well don't stop keep looking until you find her!" he snapped knocking a bed pan over which fell with a loud clatter to the ground making Hermione wake up.
"I'm afraid there's nothing we can do. Her wand was found burnt beneath the bodies of Mcgonagall, Finnegan, and Goyle. It seems that after the decretum spell the place where she landed there was already another scuffle between Finnegan, Mcgonagall and Goyle. The spell must have been aimed at Finnegan but blocked by Mcgonagall which set aflame a tree beside the wall and when Ginny knocked the wall over the dust must have made the fire increase (since it is a spell). Well, what I'm trying to say is that. Her body was burnt."
"My sister was burned to death." Ron cried out his voice shaking, "It's all my fault." He muttered falling to the floor his face buried in his hands.
"What's wrong?" Hermione asked rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"Gin.." Harry whispered tears forming around his eyes, "Ginny's dead."
"Oh no!" Hermione cried at an instant, "Oh Ginny…" she cried out and walked towards Harry enveloping him in a hug burying her face in his shoulder.
And for the first time in over seven years he sobbed. His shoulders shook as tears angrily made their way down his face.
His mother who had an arm around him as he buried his face in her shoulder helped Ron walk towards the hospital bed. He turned to see Harry and Hermione on Harry's bed crying for Ginny. He let go of Mrs. Weasley who watched him sit behind Hermione and cry on her shoulder.
Hermione shifted so that she had one arm around Ron an arm around Harry as they both buried their faces in her shoulder and she in theirs.
They sat there crying in the infirmary of Hogwarts, the war was over, it was their last year and they should be happy. But the source of the happiness was gone.
Ginny lay down flat on her stomach, she knew she was sick. It was only six in the morning and she was already awake.
'Usually Ron and I would sleep in until mum would yell her head off for us to come down.' She thought sadly, 'Not that it matters, it's been over a year and no one has come to look for me. It's not even on the BLOODY daily prophet.'
She felt something rising up her stomach and rushed to the bathroom. Leaning over the toilet as she held her hair back. After letting out what forced its way up she leaned back on the cold hard wall.
"What's wrong with me!" she cried out.
"Ginny dear?" Estella's voice came from the door, "Are you alright?"
"Yes," Ginny called out weakly, "I think." She hoisted herself up and washed her face in the sink. Drying her face gently she looked in the mirror. There was a bruise in the middle of her cheek, it was dark blue and looked very painful.
She walked out to see Estella sitting on her bed.
"Oh Ginny dear what happened to your face?" Estella asked placing her hands on her lips.
"Oh nothing Estella," Ginny mumbled suddenly very ashamed, "Jake and I we got into a fight. Well it's over now." She sighed.
Estella and David have been so wonderful for the past eighteen months, they even spent her birthday with her. Maybe it's because she somehow reminded them of their daughter Molly who was 26, fought in the war and died. But no matter, they have been very kind treating her like she was their own flesh and blood.
"Jake hits you?" Estella asked softly, "He hit you only once or many times before?"
Ginny looked down at the floor suddenly interested in her toes.
"Oh my god." Estella stood up and wrapped her, "My poor child." She whispered and kissed Ginny on the forehead, "Why didn't you tell us he was hitting you? Is that why you have been so sick the past few days?"
Ginny whimpered at her touch and grasped the sides of Estella's dress. She buried her face in her shoulder and inhaled the vanilla scent the smelled like her grandmothers.
"I don't know." Ginny whispered, "He scares me and I black out."
"Maybe we should take you to see a doctor, you know." Estella said softly, "It is not so far from here. He's the one who fixed you up from when…" she trailed off not sure if she should finish.
"I'd really like to eat." She whispered.
"Yes, come along." Estella said as she walked towards the door, "Maybe you should dress into your day clothes and then after breakfast we could head to Dr. Gudiccelli."
"Okay." She nodded, "Estella?"
"Yes Ginny?"
"Thank you."
It was normal summer day at the Burrow Molly was doing some gardening while Arthur, the new minister, was at the Ministry. Bill was in Egypt still working, Charlie still with his dragons, Percy had apologized after Ginny's death and married Penelope, the twins' shop is going strong and has already branched out in different areas across Europe like Italy, Bulgaria, and France. Ron was currently working as superior advisor to the minister (not because the minister was his dad). Harry had joined the Chuddley Canons with Oliver as the team Captain along with Alicia Spinnet and Angelina Johnson. Hermione was busy as she was head of misuse of muggle artifacts and Information on Muggle Artifacts.
Ginny would have just finished schooling in Hogwarts if it weren't for the tragic war eighteen months ago. The Weasley clock had been rebuilt as well as the whole house because it was destroyed during the war. Harry, Hermione, the Ministry and the twins generously pitched in to rebuild the house. The clock now had ten people on it, Molly, Arthur, Bill, Charlie, Percy, the twins, Ron, Harry, and Hermione and in the middle there was a large picture of Ginny with the words "Always in our Hearts" embossed in silver.
Molly was busily cleaning the steps when she stopped on the floor where Ginny's room used to be. She put her rag down and walked into Ginny's room, her blue bed still lay there in front of the window; all her dolls and books were still intact. She looked at one of the family pictures when she was a baby and sat on the bed and started to cry.
It wasn't that Molly wasn't grateful that her whole family was alive and safe. She was a mother and no parent should have to bury his or her child. Ginny was never properly buried but they held a burial anyway and her name was carved on her favorite tree outside the burrow and in Hogwarts on the wall where she had crashed a small marble plaque had been put up in memory of her.
"Mum?" a soft voice called out, "Mum we're here!" it was Ron. Soon footsteps climbed up the steps and walked into Ginny's room, "Oh mum." Ron whispered. He went over to his mother's side and let her bury her face in his shoulder.
"My only daughter." She cried out, "I lost her."
"Mum," Ron sighed, "I know, we're all sad and we all miss her." He whispered looking up at Hermione and Harry. Hermione smiled softly at his feeble attempt to make his mother calm down. Hermione stepped forward and knelt in front of Mrs. Weasley placing a calm hand in hers.
"Ginny," Hermione whispered, "She wouldn't want you to waste away crying for her everyday. She'd want you to be happy after all that is what she died for. She died to make us happy and we aren't doing much if we keep mourning for her. She'd like it very much if we were happy. Besides she's in a better place now."
Molly nodded like a lost child and Harry's heart broke for her. Molly the usually strong, independent, jolly, motherly woman sat there her face buried in her hands looking vulnerable and sad.
Harry stepped behind Hermione and sat on the other side of Molly and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"We all miss her and she knows that we all love her." Harry smiled sadly.
Molly nodded quietly and took a deep breath.
"Thank you dears," Molly said drying her eyes daintily with her sleeve, "Why are you all here?"
"We decided to spend the afternoon here," Ron smiled, "Just like old times."
Ginny lay down on the bed she'd been lying on for the last eighteen months and cried. Estella and her had just come from Dr. Gudicelli's and for Ginny it was the longest and most tiring check up she had ever been to.
"You're pregnant." Was all he said and he had smiled down at her the same way Dumbledore smiled at her when she had found out about the Decretum spell and that she could be the only one to perform it.
She rolled on her side and rubbed her eyes. It was just that one time and if Ginny knew that he would start hitting her she wouldn't have done it. She buried her face in her pillow and cried even harder. She wished her mother were there to stroke her back and whisper the song that she used to sing to lull Ginny to sleep.
"Daddy's little girl paints the world with her magic wand, daddy's little child breathes new life to the morning time for me…"
She cried herself to sleep that night knowing that she would wake up yet again and have the case of morning sickness.
Just as she was about to drift off to sleep she felt the bed shift it's weight behind her. Ginny rolled to look up at Estella who stared down lovingly at her. Ginny couldn't control herself the need of a mother took over her and she laid her head on Estella's lap. Estella was shocked at Ginny's movement but smiled and began to stroke her long red tresses.
"I see the moon and the moon sees me," Estella's voice whispered in the night as she lulled Ginny to sleep, "The moon sees the somebody I long to see. God bless the moon and Godbless me, God bless the somebody I long to see." She sang those words over and over while Ginny shut her tired eyes and watched as her life played a movie behind her eyes.
Sources:
The Title of the story is of course Latin… and it says… "Though the Heavens Fall." Hehehe
"Stercus Accidit" – Latin meaning "shit happens"…
2."Coniunctis Viribus
Consummatum est
De profundis decrevi Transmitto tu profundum!"I put it together it means… "With united powers it is completed up from the depths of misert I send you to the depths of the abyss."
3. "Your words are poison!"- Lord Of the Rings "The Two Towers" the scene with Wormtongue and Eowyn when her cousin died…
4. "Factum Est!" – Latin meaning, "It is done" I used this phrase to put the decretum spell to work Decretum is also Latin meaning, "Decree"
5. "Daddy's little girl paints the world with her magic wand, daddy's little child breathes new life to the morning time for me…" – song from Uptown Girls.. one of my favorite movies and songs..
6. "I see the moon and the moon sees me, the moon sees the somebody I long to see. God bless the moon and Godbless me, God bless the somebody I long to see."- my mom used to sing this to me when I was a kid and me and my sis would sing when we'd go for a road trip with my family… hehehehe
A/N: WHATCHA think? I think it's sad. Very angsty. I'm not so sure if it's good but I like it… : ) please read and review…. Chapter 2 is already written if only you could review… I'm hopping I get a lot of reviews… hehehehe and I'm praying… nyehehehehe
fiSh