Chapter 26

Draco opened the door and the two of them stepped in. Draco hadn't been in this room before, but Ginny had. It was the room with a giant basin, with (according to Hermione) contained brains.

"Eeew...what are those?"

"Brains" Ginny replied at Draco's question.

Quickly the two of them left the room and back they were.

Ginny turned to Draco.

"Okay Draco, I have never seen this library when I was here, but you did. We can't just go picking out random doors, hoping we get the right one, because the one with the weird seefishy was scary enough! So concentrate and use the memories you have to find that door. What door do we need?"

As soon as the words came out of Ginny's mouth, a door at the other side of the room began to glow. Both of them stared at it.

"D'you reckon we should take that door?"

"Don't know...do you remember the door to the library glowing?"

"No, but d'you have any better idea's, Miss Granger?"

"This Miss Granger happens to be your girlfriend and is gonna withhold every snogging session in the near future if you keep calling me that" Ginny snapped stomping her way to the door. Draco followed silently.

Ginny touched the door and it swung open by itself. Both of them felt some kind of force, pulling them into the room. They were sort of 'sucked' in.

Ginny felt really weird. She could feel no ground, supporting her feet. Her eyes were opened, but she could only see white. No doors, no walls...no Draco.

"Draco?" she called out

...no answer.

"Anybody?" She yelled now, starting to panic, now that Draco didn't answer.

She felt a hard gush of wind and her head was thrown backwards. Her vision became black and she could hear a voice.

"Back in memories, back in memories" It sounded strange and Ginny didn't like the words as she had no idea what that meant.

As she opened her eyes, she could feel ground against her back. Her mind registered that she was indeed on a floor. Looking around to where she was, Ginny sucked in her breath.

She was in a large room. The floor was dirty and she could hear water dripping somewhere. To her right was the great statue of Salazar Slytherin. It was because of this statue that Ginny knew where she was; The Chamber of Secrets. Then she heard another voice...one she never thought she would hear again.

"I see that you are awake little Ginny" Ginny whipped around and came face to face with Tom Riddle.

He looked right at her. Ginny didn't understand that. When she recognized this room as the Chamber of Secrets, she had thought she had gone back into her memories. Usually when you looked back at memories (like when you use a pensive) nobody would know that you were there. So...how could it be that Tom was looking right at her...saying the same words he had said when she was eleven.

Ginny was dumbfounded...and scared as hell!

"I hope the journey wasn't too unpleasant" he said with fake concern, but it was spoiled by the malicious look in his eyes. He came advancing.

"D-don't...come any closer" Ginny said shakily. All her confidence was gone and instead there was the eleven-year-old Ginny Weasley...trapped by the younger version of Tom Riddle. She could not control her own body...it was moving on its own, doing and saying exactly the same things she did and said when she was eleven.

But not only had her body acted like all those years back...her emotions also. She felt petrified. The only thing she could do was look into those blue eyes with terror at not knowing what he was going to do.

"Ah...poor little Ginny, no need to be scared...You need to be alive for when Potter arrives. After Potter dies...then be scared" He cackled at the look of horror in Ginny's eyes.

"I'm bait?" Ginny said timidly.

"Yes...you are...the reason Potter will come here and die...you're the reason he'll die"

Ginny's fear changed to anger. She could not let this happen. She lunged at Tom. Every fibber in her body was screaming with anger.

"You will not harm anyone you monster!" Ginny screamed. Tom easily defended himself at Ginny's uncoordinated attack and pushed her away. Ginny fell to the ground and cried out. Her ankle had gotten quite a blow and Ginny thought she had sprained it. Tom raised his wand at her and she knew what was coming next…

"Crucio!"

Pain shot threw her, and every single place imaginably hurt (and a few more). She twitched on the ground. But as soon as it came it was gone.

All was black and the only thing she could hear was her own rapid breath. Her chest heaved fast

"Draco?" she called out softly. But...as expected no answer came back.

Then the same voice came again.

"Back in memories, back in memories"

She opened her eyes again and the scenery had changed. She was now in The Maze. She recognized it as one of the first times she entered it. She saw a corner and light came from it. She knew she did not want to round that corner. The Ginny from the future knew what was behind it. But no matter what she did she rounded the corner anyway.

A familiar sight came to eyes and she saw the creature before her; a Mongro. A vile creature and flames covered his body; protecting him from various spells and a weapon also. Its eyes flew and grew when the Mongro set his eyes on Ginny. It spewed fire at her and Ginny immediately flung up the most powerful shield she knew and started running away. The fire was detained, but came through eventually. It hit Ginny in different places, but the shield had weakened the fire greatly.

Ginny closed her eyes, tears prickling from them as she felt the burns. She remembered the pain, the fear, but also...what would come next.

Ginny had fallen to the ground and was unable to get up. Rolling over until she was on her back, she saw the Mongro coming. It hovered over her and Ginny's fear increased. It brought his hand (or rather claw) down on her neck and tried to choke her, while the flames were also hurting her.

Ginny felt the claw against her skin. Her inability to breath caused her to panic. The flames hurt immensely. She knew that the Death Eaters would come and save her, because Voldemort didn't want her to die...only to suffer in order to make her stronger.

Indeed the Death Eaters pulled the creature away, but not before Ginny's vision blacked out again.

The blackness came again and Ginny welcomed the rest. Tears were still prickling from her face. She could still feel the claw against her skin, the heat and the pain and fear that came with all the memories.

The voice came again.

"Back in memories, back in memories"

"No!" Ginny yelled. "Back in present, back in present"

Whoosh! Ginny felt she was flying through air and she fell to the ground heavily.

"Ginny!" She heard Draco's voice, but Ginny still didn't move. She lay on the ground, keeping her eyes close. Strong arms pulled her into sitting position and she felt her head resting against a chest.

"Ginny, are you okay?" Draco's concerned voice reached her ears.

Slowly she opened her eyes and saw the grey eyes of Draco Malfoy staring back at her. Looking around she saw that she was back in the room with the many doors.

The first thing that came out of Ginny was:

"W...What was that?"

"I…don't know..." Draco answered. "I got sucked in and relived certain...memories that weren't so...pleasant" Draco's voice sounded far away...as if he was thinking of those memories. When he spoke again, his voice was steadier and with more confidence.

"But the good news is that I also relived the memory where I entered the library and I know now where it is!"


A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update! Please review and let me know if you like this chapter :D