Chapter 13: The Point of No Return
You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once a friend and father
Then my world was shattered
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
All that you dreamed I could...
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, The Phantom of the Opera-
GREAT scene... ahh it's awesome.
Past, the point of no return
No backward glances
Our games of make believe are at an end
Past, all thought of if or when
No use resisting
Abandon thought and let the dream descend!
- The Point of No Return - Phantom of the Opera
If you haven't seen the movie, you really really should.
Author's Note: To answer a reviewers question, the reason they're not in robes is because they're not in school so they don't have to be, I truly didn't think of the whole job thing, and she couldn't put a memory charm on herself because 1. she didn't know he was using her for her memories and 2. she's now... 'fading.' whatever that means. (Well you'll find out but...yeah.)
To everyone else: THANKS for all the reviews :) My favorites were the ones that went a lil somethin like this...: OMG! WHATS GONNA HAPPEN? OMG! WAIT! WHAT!
And i really love the person who said I should take R.L. Stein's job. :D That would be so frickin awesome. Except I'd probably kill the series by making it somewhat romantic, LOL. Anyway, I'm tired...and I'm always creative when I'm tired..so enjoy :D
PS: Right now on my start menu it says: INTERNET EXPLORER: 30. 30 frickin popups!
PPS: Bob the Viking, that is one of the nicest reviews I have read in a long time. YOU ROCK!
PPPS: LMAO yes, two songs from PotO. hehe! (Adds on to the second song) "Anywhere you go, let me go too! Christine, that's all I ask of -" DAAHHHHH... DAHDAHDAHDAHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! DOOOOOOOO! DOOODODOODODOOOOOO!
OKAY, DRUMROLL (da da da DAAAAAA) SPARK NOTES:
Family dies, all except father, who is very injured.
Gin leaves school, lives with father in hospital room.
Father dies, Ginny goes to Fudge, he tells her she'll be living with the Malfoys.
Cuts hair, goes 'goth.'
Trashes Lucius' room.
Sees that wall has another meaning
Draco&Gin work on wall together; in many different laungauges
Narcissa missing
Narcissa dies
PANCAKE FIGHT!
Go back to room
Hear 3 voices; Mira killed
Draco & Ginny sleep on streets, Ginny Sick, he mutters "what have you done to me?" (insert 'awww' here)
Kiss!
Go to the Burrow, she sees Bill
Look for key
Finds a letter from mother
Finds key
Go to the Manor
"Why am I surrounded by liquids?"
FIGHT!
Ginny leaves, finds that Freyja (her cat) is dead.
Buries Freyja in garden, gets stuck out in the rain
Draco lets her in
Ginny is scared of the thunder and lightening so she sleeps in Draco's room.
"Who said I cared?" (Ouch, burnt)
Ginny Very upset
and now, what we have recently:
Goes back, they kiss
Take a break from it all (they think) and go to Diagon Alley
They find that Harry was killed ()
Talks to Harry
Harry tells her that she has "2 days" (777 dayyyssss ... hahaNO.)
"I've started to forget the reason."
Wakes up after a very long sleep, tells Draco they have "2 days"
They go to the room and begin walking around, when Draco "dissapeers"
She hears the voices of her relatives, wonders whats up
She runs away and finds herself in the "chamber"
Sees Tom Riddle... RAWR
He informs her that this whole time she wasn't seeing her family, she was seeing him
She pretty much has kept him alive. If you didn't get it, let me explain:
She has been "imagining" being with her family when really it was Tom. The reason he has been kept alive is because every time one of them visited her, they talked in some way about their death (I missed you, I'll see you, You'll become like us, I'm going home, etc etc.) Since he was the one who killed them, she's technically remembering him, so she's been keeping him alive. GOOD JOB, GIN! (lol jk)
He "informs" her that Draco and Mira were on HIS side. WTF! NICE. REAL NICE.
"Forget the reason for a very long time."
THE END! Enjoy )
When I wake up, I'm in a sort of ... dark tunnel. The ceiling is very low, and I can't stand up; only sit. On the wall across from me, Draco seems to be lying on the floor in a ball, unconcious. I almost go over to him, but then think different of it. What if what Tom said was true? What if this whole time, he's been playing me? Plotting against me ... using me? I can feel my heart break.
I look around, trying to find a way out. There's no door... no window... no cracks... and my wand is gone. Hurray! Another awesome moment to become claustrophobic! Yahoo! Bring on the heart palpitations!
I hear Draco stir, and I slide backward, my back hitting the wall.
"Urg... what the... Ginny?" he asks, sounding disgruntled.
"Yeah," I reply...mainly because it's the only thing I can say.
"What happened?"
Where do I begin? I can't exactly say:
"Okay, so, you and I were getting kinda close - I was starting to really like you. You were helping me go through the Death Eater Guy's house when all of a sudden someone took my wand and, like, you dissapeered. Then, Tom Riddle informed me that you have been on his side this whole frickin' time, and that he's been living through me. Thanks alot, Draco!"
So, what I say instead is: "You were betraying me."
He's quiet, and I can't see very well in the darkly lit tunnel. "What the fuck are you talking about?" he questions, after what seems like a year.
"Tom Riddle - remember him? - told me. He told me I kept him alive through my memories. That I haven't been seeing my dead family... I've been seeing him."
"Crap," he whispers.
"Oh, wait, there's more!" I laugh darkly. "You know what else? Mira wasn't an order girl! She was a death eater! And you know what else? You didn't really like me, you've been helping Tom this whole time! Thanks!"
He's quiet again.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me," he growls.
"No. I'm not."
"You believe TOM FUCKING RIDDLE over me?"
"No. Yeah. I don't know anymore! Draco... would you even tell me?" I wonder. Would he? Would I?
He doesn't say anything, so I laugh. "See! You wouldn't."
"Would you!" he asks.
I decide to lie, maybe he'll feel guilty if I do. "Yeah. I would."
"No you wouldn't," he laughs. "You're lying. You wouldn't; you and I both know this. Before you came, we were enemies. Slytherin and Gryffindor. Good and bad. You think you'd tell me you were staying with me to kill me? No. You'd let me suffer, and you'd enjoy every minute of it."
I feel a tear form behind my eyes, even though I agree with him. "And then what happened?"
Really, what did happen? One day we're enemies, another day we're...making out in his kitchen and having pancake fights?
"I have no idea," he answers honestly. "One day... it just happened."
"What happened?"
"I found out I had a heart."
Funny, as soon as he said that, I felt my own heart break. I feel like I've been betrayed, and he didn't even say he did anything. "Did you really betray me? Were you involved with this?" He says nothing...again. "Tell me the truth. Please."
He takes a deep breath. "I knew you were coming."
"Yeah, because Fudge told you -"
"No. Not because of Fudge." He takes another deep breath. "There's a prophecy... about us."
What the hell?
"What? What? There's a ...? With us? A...?" I trail off, not making any sense.
He rubs his eyes. "Ever notice that painting in the hallway- where I found you and Mira- looks alot like us? The blonde and the redhead, sitting by the ocean or whatever?"
"Yeah, but I didn't actually think..."
He continues. "When I was born, my parents were strong Death Eaters. When Voldemort's power was taken from him because of the Golden Boy, they were weak. Powerless little twats who were following after a weak man. They needed help. So mother and father signed a deal - a contract, if you must. And doing this altered everything, according to Dumbledore, that is."
I. Am. So. Con. Fused. "...What?"
He sighs. "Okay, so...they signed a contract that when I grew up, I would be a Death Eater, also. They dealt with all the technicalities, like if I married a non-Death Eater or a muggleborn. You know all this, it was written on the bedroom wall." He takes a deep breath. "Doing that changed a lot of things. It made my parents learn about the prophecy between you and me. Dumbledore was informed of the contract from Snape - tattletale - and he met with my parents... they went to the Department of Mysteries, just like what happened with Sirius, and found our prophecy."
"...And it says?"
He sounds like he's reading off a script, "The youngest Malfoy shall live with an opposite of poorer blood, a Weasley whose power (your family) has ended, leaving her the only one left. The power Weasley thought she was recieving from other people through techniques impossible to the daily mind will prove her loneliness. The Dark Lord will find his way into the mind of one of the two, poisioning their thoughts with memories. In the end, there will only be..."
He's silent, so I finish for him. "One, right? One of us is going to die here?"
He finally speaks up. "So... are you going to prove this prophecy wrong with me, or are you going to let one of us die?"
WE CAN STOP IT?
"We can stop it?" I ask, shocked.
"Of course we can. It's called fighting back."
I'm almost excited, until I start thinking... "But how are we going to fight back if we can't even get out of this...thing we're in?"
He smirks, closes his eyes, and suddenly a hole that we can just fit through appears. "It's called wandless magic," he replies, crawling to the hole. "Ready?"
I nod, beginning to crawl out until he puts an arm in front of me and says, "Are you ready to pass the point of no return?"
I nod again, slower this time. All I can hope is that we can prove this prophecy wrong, and that we can leave as two...
Author's Note: I know that wasn't very good, but please review.
