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Chapter 9: Family Trust
When Ron finally came around he heard voices yelling.
"And please, Harry Potter" shouted a strangely familiar female voice, "just why exactly you will not let me see my brother!"
"Um..well...you see..." the voice he recognized to be Harry's stumbled. Ron opened his eyes slowly as he recognized the female to be Ginny and everything came back to him in a flash. The reason behind why he had fainted. Ron felt himself go pale again but forced himself to sit up slightly.
Both heads swivelled towards him and Ron detected concern in both of their faces. He stared at Ginny hard and saw the bags under her eyes. His gaze dropped to her arms which were well covered. Without warning he stretched out and grabbed an arm forcing the sleeve up as Ginny struggled against his iron clasped grip.
"Oh my God." Breathed Ron softly as he traced the pale white lines which ran parallel to one another along her arm. He reached out to touch one but Ginny drew a breath in sharply before yanking her arm away. He jerked his gaze upwards to meet hers and saw her eyes fill up with tears as she gave a giant sob before she turned on her heel and fled.
For minutes Ron stared at the door through which Ginny had fled before Harry brought him back to reality.
"Was that... I mean is she..." Harry struggled to put in to words what he thought he had just seen.
"I don't know...I mean why would she..." Ron said, his gaze still on the door. "How could we not know? How could she hide this?" he continued his voice rising with each question. Ron did not know exactly how he felt but his mixed emotions slowly disappeared and were replaced with anger.
"What reason does she have to do something like that? Does she not realize how much this hurts those who care about her? How can she be so selfish?" Ron roared with fury.
Harry just stood there numb. To say he was slightly confused would be an understatement. He had always seen Ginny as a sweet girl who was carefree and happy. Never had he imagined there to be another side to the cheerful girl who he had met on platform 9 ¾ when he first came to Hogwarts. He vaguely saw Ron rise out of bed out of the corner of his eye and he quickly snapped out of his trance.
"Where are you going?" Harry asked even though he was pretty sure he already knew the answer.
"To find Ginny." Ron replied already half way to the door.
"No!" Shouted Harry as he ran to get in front of his friend. "Ron think about this. You need to play this carefully. If you go to her now you'll only get mad and then she won't trust you, she won't confide in you. Leave it till tomorrow" Harry placed both his hands on Ron's chest to stop his friend's forward momentum and looked in to his eyes willing him to understand.
It was at that moment that Madame Pomphrey came bustling in to the room and Harry sighed with relief knowing that she wouldn't let Ron out without a full examination.
"Mr. Weasley get back in to that bed at once." She bellowed. Ron was still staring at the door and finally he looked at Harry as though trying to understand what he had just said. Harry took one of his arms and led him towards a bed stopping only to whisper to Madame Pomphrey to give Ron a potion for dreamless sleep. Madame Pomphrey nodded understandingly and set about preparing the goblets. Not another word was said as Ron took the potion and drifted off in to a much needed sleep.
Ginny wasn't sure where she was running to. All she knew was that she was running and she would keep on running so that nobody could catch her. She ran to her dorm and grabbed her blades before running back out, through the enterance hall and out to the lake. She kept on running until she found a little cave-like spot near the lake where she could hide from prying eyes. Having wormed her way through she sat and took in deep breaths waiting for her heartbeat to slow down and her breathing rate to come back to normal. Then she cut. She cut deeper than ever before and watched as the substance which kept her living flowed out of her. She felt herself relax as she watched more and more seep out through the many wounds. She cut until she had no space left and then she cut over those cuts which were still healing. Slowly she started to lose consciousness and she welcomed it, the same way at that moment she would welcome death.
Draco had been in his room when he felt the first cut she made. The spell he'd used made him feel the cut which she had made and he gasped at the deepness of it. No blood of his would spill but that did not mean he could not feel the pain. Draco grabbed his arm as a second, deeper cut was made. He stood up quickly knowing he needed to find her. The spell he had used bound her to him and although he could not tell exactly where she was he sensed she was somewhere near the lake. Without hesitation he rose from his bed where he had been reclining and made for entrance hall.
By the time he got to the lake he had been running. The amount of cuts she had made and the deepness of them worried him. As he got to the lake he felt her presence but there was no sight of her. He knew she wouldn't cut in the open and would look for somewhere small and out of sight. He spotted the cave-like hole and ran to it.
He stopped at the entrance taking in the sight of Ginny. She was lying, barely conscious, surrounded by a pool of red blood. Her face was pale and her arms barely recognizable. Without a word, Draco entered the hole and picked her up. He made his way back to his room knowing that taking her to Madame Pomphrey would only lead to more questions that he was sure she would be unwilling to answer. Luckily he met no one on the way and was soon in his room. Gently he lay her down on to the bed and began to clean her wounds and treat them. When he had finished he gazed at her for a while memorizing her every feature right down to each freckle. He kissed her forehead lightly before drawing a chair up to his bed and sitting on it preparing himself for the long wait until she woke.
A/N well that's another one down. This chapter was really hard to write so I'm sorry if it's really bad obviously I wouldn't know as I can't judge my own writing. Anyway next chappy should be up sometime soon. Thankyou to all my wonderful reviewers!!!!!!!!!! And remember reviewing is good for the soul. Okay, maybe not but review anyway.