Well, after much work and worry, All Things Good has reached an end. I hope you enjoy the final chapter, and I will definitely be writing more fanfics in the future! It's a very short chapter, as you'll see. Ends a bit violently, just so you know. It's not pretty. At all. No one said that this story was going to have a happy ending - for everyone, anyway.
Everyone seemed happy
once they had returned to Hogwarts, but Ginny had had a terrible
holiday. She had felt sick the entire time, obsessed with Draco. She
knew that Harry was right, and Draco was evil.
Before she'd realized
what had happened, she walked straight into Luna.
"Sorry," she
said.
As she helped Luna get
her things together, she noticed that Luna had on a beautiful pair of
aquamarine mittens.
"Nice mittens,"
Ginny said, feeling a little jealous. Hey, she thought,
they're just mittens!
"Thank you!"
Luna beamed. "Harry gave them to me.
Okay, they're more
than mittens. Now I have a good reason to be jealous.
"So," Ginny
said, picking up her tattered copy of Magical Me. "How
was -"
"You're reading
that? Lockhart was such an odd teacher. I don't get what you don't
know about him, why'd you'd read that -"
"Because, since
you forgot," she said angrily, "I was possessed for that
whole year so I knew little about him."
"Oh, yeah!"
Luna said, as though Ginny was talking about an old friend she'd
forgotten about. You know, the one with the glasses, black hair,
green eyes, glasses? That one?
"So how was your
holiday in London?"
"The beginning was
a bit rough. Harry and I got into a big fight."
"Really?"
Ginny tried not to sound happy.
"Yes, but we made
up and had an excellent week. And - Ginny?"
Ginny had already
walked up and away. There was Draco. She had to talk to him.
She grabbed him roughly
by the arm and led him away from a crowd.
"I'm through with
you," she said loudly. "Done. Finished. You're evil and I
hate you."
"You didn't seem
to hate me much when I kissed you."
"But I hate you
now."
Ginny's eyes were mad
and deranged. Draco, however, seemed to be holding back murderous
anger - and he's doing a damn good job, Ginny thought. His
eyes were cloudy and looked like a foggy day.
"Fine with me,"
he said. "I'll hate you right back."
He grabbed Ginny, who
kicked him hard, but he still carried her off to an empty corridor.
"I hate you, too,"
snarled Draco. He slammed her - hard - into one of the stone walls.
Ginny screamed and punched him, but he refused to stop. He apparently
had built up a better tolerance for pain after his incident with
Hermione three years previously. Ginny felt warm blood rush down the
side of her head and trickle into her mouth. He pushed her once more,
and then grabbed her ankle and pulled her leg backwards, bending it
and breaking it. Once that was done, he shoved her foot up her nose.
Ginny screamed so
loudly that she thought her head would pop off as she bit his arm,
feeling the skin vibrate because of her sounds. He took her other
leg. She noticed how red the blood appeared on his white skin. He
broke that one, too. Picking her up like a doll, he threw her into
the wall and left her there.
About an hour and a
half later, two students found Ginny. Covered with blood and legs
abnormally twisted, they seemed afraid to pick her up.
"Please," she
whispered, "help me…"
Reluctantly the pair
carried Ginny to the hospital wing.
When Ginny awoke, she
was certain she had died. If she were alive, Harry would not be
sitting on her bed.
But he was.
"Feeling better?"
he asked.
She smiled. It was
worth it if he was here.
"That's excellent
to hear," said a different voice.
Ginny wanted to fall
asleep again. It was Luna. She never wanted to hear that voice again.
It was Luna's fault that this had happened…if it weren't for Luna,
Ginny and Harry would be together…
"I hate you,"
she said quietly.
"Excuse me?"
Luna said, concerned.
"I hate you,"
she said again, more loudly this time. "Because if it weren't
for you, I never would have done this. If it weren't for you, I'd be
happy. If you were dead on the floor, with a knife in your chest and
blood from your veins spurting out, I never would've had to go
through any of what I went through this year. So I would
appreciate it if you'd leave and never speak to me again."
"So - you hate me?
"Didn't I make
myself clear that I don't EVER WANT YOU TO SPEAK TO ME AGAIN?"
Ginny stood the best
she could with two crippled legs. "LEAVE ME ALONE. GET OUT OF MY
LIFE AND I DON'T EVER WANT TO SEE YOUR PRETTY HAIR AND YOUR CUTE
LITTLE MITTENS AGAIN."
Luna was blank. "Okay."
Once Luna was gone,
Harry seized Ginny's wrists and dug his fingernails deep into them.
"What're you
doing?" Ginny asked.
"Do you think I
can just let you get away with what you said?"
But Ginny was not going
to be abused again. She did her best to plunge her foot into Harry's
stomach. He fell over backwards and sped out of the hospital wing.
Ginny knew that she'd
never forget Draco Malfoy. But now, she realized she'd remember him
differently than what she originally thought of him as - as someone
she'd thought she'd loved. Unlike Harry and Luna, who knew what lay
ahead in their future together, Ginny didn't have a clue about how
what would happen with her life.
But whatever
happens, Ginny thought, I know I won't make the same mistake I
did this time.
Ginny knew that she'd
be able to live without Harry - and live a very happy life, too.
