Chapter 10

She did the one thing that Dumbledore said she should not do, but the only thing that would help her friends and family, and the rest of the world. The one thing that would risk her to lose her own life, and now she was on the floor, with all her power drained from her body.

"Ginny, Ginny," came Draco's voice, she felt two strong arms wrap around her and he kept talking to her. "Ginny wake up, please" by now every one was on their feet holding onto each other or to something that was near by to help them stabilize themselves.

"OH MY GOD!" Kay screamed and everyone turned to look at what she saw, there was Draco on the floor with a dying Ginny in his arms, he was rocking her back and forth and calling to her but he got no respond from her.

They all stumbled towards Draco and Ginny and stood there looking down at them. Ron was being quiet while holding Hermione in his arms, as she was crying her eyes out, Kay and Anna collapsed on the floor with Pansy, and Harry just stood there watching and hopping that she wasn't gone.

"Ginny, please open your beautiful eyes." Draco pleaded as a single tear ran down his cheek. "Ginny please, angel." he whispered this time.

Kay and Anna were speechless for the first time and Pansy was shocked, all of the girls were crying over Ginny's death.

The ring on Ginny's finger was starting to fade into a black as she started to slip away even more. Draco wasn't going to give up on the only other person her cared about besides his mother.

"Ginny you have to wake up!" he yelled.

"You stupid girl he told you not to do it, he told you, I hate you Ginny Weasley why did you do this!" Kay cried out and every ones heads turned to face her.

"What!" came a few voices questioning her.

"Ginny and you Harry were the only ones that could defeat Voldemort, you with you magical Wizarding powers, and Ginny...Ginny with her love. Voldemort only had hatred within him, no love what so ever was in him, and since Ginny had a part of him in her soul, she could fill that part with the love that she feels towards Family and Friends, but most important you Draco, and that would get rid of anyone with the Dark Mark and Voldemort…and Ginny, b-because she was ready to give her life for us." she finished sobbing. "And now Ginny is slowly dying."

"Slowly?" Harry asked with hope returning to his eyes..

"Yes, she can hear every word and she can feel us with her, she can even feel emotions of her own, and even ours and when we touch her," she pointed at Draco who was still holding Ginny's fragile body. "but she can't respond what so ever, its all up to her."

"What do you mean up to her?" Ron asked as he got a better grip on Hermione.

"She gets to decide if she wants to leave us or stay like that or come back to us." Kay had learned all of this from Dumbledore and was telling them all about it and trying to act brave by only letting a few tears slid down her cheeks every so often. "Dumbledore said that she would not—c-come back...since she feels like there is nothing here for her." she finished and finally broke down crying with Anna hugging her.

"Shhh..." Anna soothed her.

"Ginny you have to come back, please come back to me." Draco turned his full attention back to Ginny's limp body in his arms.

"Mr. Malfoy please pick Miss Weasley up and follow me back." Dumbledore said who had been standing there listening to the whole conversation. "The rest of you too, come on we can't waist any time." Dumbledore said softly.

They all got up, besides the three that were already standing, they followed Dumbledore to the fireplace and floo themselves back to Hogwarts.

As they arrived in the hospital wing Draco wouldn't let go off of Ginny because he feared that if he let go now that she would slip away even further, and that this was the last time he would be this close to her.

"Let her go you git!" Kay screamed at him, he put her gently down on to the bed, and looked at her, you could see her chest raising up and down if you where very close, but if you were far away you'd think she was dead.

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"Let her go you git!" she heard a familiar female voice: Kay, then she felt some one put her down on what felt like a bed, she could feel the person still close to her.

"Leave her alone, you caused her to do this, it's all you're fault that she doesn't want to come back!" Kay yelled at him.

"I didn't mean for any of this to happen." he said as he moved away from Ginny, she felt hatred coming from one person, guilt and worry from the other.

"Well it happened Malfoy now why don't you run along and go shag Miss Come and Get it!"

"Keep your voices down!" came the healer's voice.

"Sorry." the women rolled her eyes at them and then left the room. "What are you waiting for? GO! She doesn't need you she should have some one that truly cares about her not you!"

"Kay calm down." there was another person in the room and that person was Anna.

"How can I? What don't you people get, one of my best friends is lying in a hospital bed half fucking dead, and all you can tell me is to calm down, I'll calm down when Ginny makes an attempt in coming back." Kay screamed and then stormed out of the room.

Ginny listened to them talking and then she felt lonely, every one left the room, no one else there no one to help her out of this, just her and herself.

Two weeks passed by and Ginny didn't come back to them, she was still in bed at the hospital wing, lying in the same position they put her in. She heard people talking every so often but usually was left to herself. Draco didn't come back since that night when Kay freaked out on him. Kay, Anna and Pansy were there every day telling her what was going on here and just spending time with her, even if she wasn't really there.

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Time passed and Ginny was still trapped, until one day, she got tired of being trapped in her own body, not being able to sing, dance, talk to her friends, go shopping, and Kay's favorite 'boy watching'.

That day when Ginny opened her eyes no one was there to greet her, she was still fairly weak, but with all her power she forced herself to sit up, she sat for a few minutes just looking around with a big smile on her face.

"I've been sitting to long." she said to herself and slowly got up on her own two feet, she wasn't strong enough for that because she was about to land on the floor, when some one broke her fall.

"It's okay I got you." he said in the sweetest most loving voice.

"D-Harry, thank you," she said as he wrapped his arms around her to help her balance her weight.

"Ginny, You're Up! I thought you'd sleep for the rest of your life, god I'm glad you decided to wake up." he said smiling at her, Ginny just smiled at him and hugged him tighter; he was the first person to greet her when she woke up and she was grateful.

"I missed you too Harry." she finally said.

"I'm sure Ron wants to see you and the rest of 'em too." he smiled at her, "Here sit, I'll be right back okay."

With that said he ran out and Ginny was left alone, but not for to long, Harry came chasing back into her room at the infirmary with his invisibility cloak in his hands.

"Here we'll get under it and we'll go to the common room." Harry said as he put the cloak over himself with her at his side.

"How is everybody?" she questioned him.

"They will be great now that you're up." Harry said kissing her temple.

Ginny giggled but Harry covered her mouth with one of his hands so that the person that was passing by them in the hall wouldn't hear them, and that person was Draco Malfoy.

As Ginny walked by him her eyes where on him, and they wouldn't budge away from his frame, his eyes were blank as he walked by.

They finally made their way to the Gryffindor Tower in front of the fat lady. "Okay, Ginny you stay under the cloak do you think you can make it?" she nodded. "Okay just follow me." and with that he got out from under the cloak and said the passwords to the fat lady, and she swung open for him.

"Hey mate, why did you run out of here like that." Ron asked as he saw who entered the common room.

"Oh I just had to go get some one, would you mind meeting me up in our room with Kay, Anna, Pansy, and Hermione?" Harry asked as he walked passed Ron.

"Do I have to go look for them?" Ginny wanted to tell him to quit his wining and go and find them, but she couldn't, at least not yet.

"Of course you do!" Harry said as he walked by him, he made his way up the stairs slowly, not like the usual, the two at a time that he did so often. "You still here?" he whispered to Ginny.

"Yes." she answered and then took his hand, they walked down the hall and entered a room. Harry led her in slowly and gently worried that he might hurt her.

"Here sit on my bed." he said helping her onto the four-poster bed.

"Thanks."

"Don't mention it Ginny." he said smiling at her. "I have to tell you something."

"What is it?" she questioned as she settled down on the bed.

"I'm really sorry about what I did to you when we where going out and I really hope that we can be okay with each other. I missed you so much and I was always afraid that you would not come back to us." it looked like he was talking to himself since Ginny was still under the cloak.

"Harry are you in there?" came Hermione's voice from the other side of the door.

"Yes come in." he said cheery.

"What are you so happy about?" she questioned his odd behavior, ever since Ginny was declared half dead he was always feeling down, what changed his behavior?

"You'll see." he said smiling.

A few minutes later the rest of them joined them and where looking weirdly at Harry, he was usually all sad about Ginny still being in the hospital wing and no process was made.

"Okay mate what's up?" Harry chuckled at Ron's question.

"Not what, who," he said as he controlled himself, when he stopped laughing there was someone else laughing too, they looked around but didn't see anyone else there.

Harry reached over and pulled the cloak off of Ginny's head, there she was smiling at all of them still trying to stiffen some laughs but she couldn't help herself.

"Ginny!" Kay said as she jumped on the bed hugging her, Anna and Pansy followed her.

"Oh my god we thought you would never would wake up again!" Pansy commented.

"Why did it take you so long to decide to join us?" Anna asked smiling at her.

Ron and Hermione just stood there dumfound until Hermione realized it wasn't a dream it was real, Ginny was here in this room not sleeping but awake.

"Oh, Ginny we missed you." Hermione said as she sat next to the other girls and hugged Ginny.

"Hi guys!" Ginny said smiling at them. "Ron don't I get a hug?" Ginny said still giggling.

Ron walked over to her and picked her up off of the bed and swung her around the room happily. "Gin we missed you so much, why did you take so long to come back?"

Ginny ignored all the questions and just smile at them all. "I better get her to Dumbledore." Harry said breaking up the lovely feast of joy.

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Draco kept his distance from Ginny ever since Kay told him that Ginny didn't need him. Days passed and he hadn't seen Ginny, he couldn't bring himself to go see her. "Eck, Draco are you going to ask me to the Ball anytime soon?" Kit asked him as they walked down to Lunch.

"Fine! Do you want to go to the Ball with me?" he asked rolling his eyes, just as he finished asking her that he saw Ginny in front of him, his eyes shot wide open and his jaw dropped to the floor.

"Okay." Kit said, but Draco wasn't paying any attention to her, all his attention was in front of him to the red head beauty that stood there.

"Come on Gin." Kay said pulling Ginny away from Draco, Ginny steady herself with Kay's support and they walked away slowly.

"Look at that cripple." Kit said and Draco's attention was back on her.

"WHAT!"

"Look at her, she's so weak and can't walk on her own, unless she likes Garrison touching her like that." Kit said smirking at him.

"Leave her alone." he hissed at her.

"Whatever." Kit rolled her eyes at him and walked away. "See you tonight." she smiled and continued to walk.

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"I was thinking we could go and buy a dress for tonight." Kay said as they walked away from Draco and Kit.

"I don't – "

"Don't you dare finish that sentence, you're going and that's that!" Kay said stubbornly.

"Fine" Ginny said as she got the strength to walk on her own now.

She had been awake for a week now and no one knew but her closest friends, she didn't leave the hospital wing, until today.

"Let's go down to Hogsmeade." Kay said as they walked down to the great hall.

"Hey Anne, want to join us, we are going shopping?" Kay asked as they came closer to the Slytherin table.

"No I can't. I have detention with Snape." she said slumping down in her chair.

Just then Kit came in though the door and a few seconds later came Draco. "Oh look it's the cripple," Kit said as she walked over to Ginny.

Ginny rolled her eyes at her and ignored her. "What? Cat got your tongue Weasley?" Kit repeated. "Why Weasley are you scared of me?" Kit commented.

Ginny turned to her and looked into her blue eyes. "You know Solvernno, I wasn't scared of Voldemort so why should I be scared of a piece of dirt?" the dinning hall went into fits of laughter and by Kits face she didn't like it at all. "Cat got your tongue Solvernno?" Ginny sneered at her and walked past her and Draco and out the door, Kay followed as she clutched her stomach from laughter.

"That was great!" she said smiling at Ginny.

"Hey Gin, I mean Ginny can I talk to you?" Harry cut Kay off and Ginny just nodded.

"What's up?" she asked looking into his cat green eyes.

"I was wondering if you-you wanted to go to the dance with me?" he said smiling at her.

Ginny noticed a flash of blond from the corner of her eye and she felt gray eyes on her. "I'd love too, but I have to go buy a dress." She smiled at Harry and leaned up on her tip-toes and kissed Harry on the cheek. "See you later."

"Yea, later" Harry said as he walked into the dinning hall.

Kay and Ginny made their way down the streets of Hogsmeade, and were stopped ever so often for people to congratulate Ginny and thank her for defeating Voldemort.

When they finally made it to their destination Ginny spotted the dress she knew was just waiting for her, there on a hook was a sky blue dress, it was long and covered her legs, there were no sleeves, and on her chest there were a few sparkles, she walked over to it and took it off the hook.

"How may I help you?" came a friendly voice from behind her.

"I'd like to try this on." Ginny said holding the dress out.

"Oh my, your Ginny Weasley!"

"Y-yes?"

"I read all about you, by all means come here I'll show you nicer one and you can just have it, as a thank you from me." she said smiling at Ginny.

"No I want this one." Ginny replied politely.

"If you say so, here is the change room." she pointed to a door.

"Thanks." Ginny said as she entered the door, after a minute or so she had the dress on, it wasn't loose nor tight it was perfect, it just hugged every curve on her body but it didn't make her look slutty.

"Come on Gin are you done?" Kay said impatiently.

"Yes," Ginny said as she stepped out of the change room.

"Oh my, Whoa, Boy!" Kay said looking Ginny up and down. "You look so beautiful, all the boy will be ripping their hearts out for you." Kay said smiling at her.

"Thanks what about yours?" she asked looking at Kay who was still wearing the same cloths from this morning when she came to visit Ginny.

"Oh I have one." she said simply.

"But I thought you said you needed to buy one too?"

"I said that to get you out of there and if I told you I had a dress you would have made up and excuse for not me coming with you and you would have snuck up to the Astronomy tower and not gone." Kay said smiling at her friend "Hurry and change we needed to get back."

In less then five minutes Ginny was out of the change room and walking over to the clerk with the dress in her hands. "How much is it?" she asked smiling at the woman that had come and helped her earlier.

"This dress is a thank you, form me, so don't worry about the cost, and here are the matching accessories to the dress." she said pulling three boxes, the biggest one had the shoes in it, and the smaller once had a necklace and earrings in it.

"Oh thank you so much!"

"Don't thank me, I thank you." the woman packed her things up and then Kay and Ginny made their way back to the school.