Rosies and Posies: Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
A/N: I do acyually know the story behind the title- the black pleague and all, lol. I learned that this year in school. I forgot about it until i looked over and saw my My Chemical Romance stciker and it had ring sround the rosies. And the before we I put the story on me and Dee went heco crazy looking up all the nursery rhymes and singing them while we found out if they had a story behind them too, lol. Ne ways ifound out last night that all my info in the first chapter was right so i feel better about that and thank you to my 2 reviwers. Reviews keep me going and normally 2 isnt enough bu i already had the chapter written soI put it on anyways. wells enjoy and please review or like show some form of having read it, thanks
Chapter 2
-She had showered and finished some stupid assignment for history of magic. But she felt like she shouldn't have even done that. Like their was something else she had to do. But that wasn't right because she didn't have to do anything. Everyone had been at class when she got there so there wasn't anyone to question her and she had the showers all to herself.
She stepped into the hospital wing and looked around. Where the heck did he go? "Mrs. Weasley?" a male voice said from the corner of the room, "Can I help you?"
She whirled towards the noise, "Uh yea, is- where's Malfoy?"
Mister Adams smiled, "He went to lunch dear." Then he looked at her questionably. "I'm a bit surprised you aren't hungry. Did you even eat supper last night, or breakfast this morning?"
She laughed, "Now that I think about it I didn't even have lunch yesterday."
"I think maybe you should be off to eat too."
"Right, now that you mention it I'm suddenly hungry." And although her stomach had heard her talking, it growled. Mister Adams smiled as she walked out the door.
-She sat down still scanning the Slytherin table. There he was, sitting in between Blaise and Goyle, like usual- with Crab across from them. But unlike usual, Blaise and Goyle weren't joking around, but frowning. Obviously he had told them. "Wha'samatter Gin?" Ron asked next to her, mouth full. "Did one of em get to ya?"
"Kinda?"
"Which one? I'll kick their tooty?"
Ginny laughed, "No, they didn't hurt me."
"Well then what was it?" Harry asked looking up from his plate and swallowing.
"Never you all mind," she said shooting a glance at Hermione too. They all shrugged and went back to doing whatever they were doing before she walked in. She stared down the table at Neville who was looking at her waiting for an excuse. She mouth the words 'Hospital, tell you later'. What, she wasn't going to be able to keep this kind of thing completely to herself and Nev was the most trustworthy person on the- okay in the school. He nodded to her and they both went back to eating.
She grabbed a bit of everything and began shoveling it in her mouth she almost choked a few times. The trio was a little worried, you could tell, but they didn't say anything. She looked up from her food to chew, only tp see Malfoy looking at her with one eyebrow lifted. He thought she was as crazy as the trio did. Eh, owell, she kind of was.
"So did you guys see all thoughs healers walking in and out of the school last night. I wonder who's in there? I thought it was Blasie yesterday because I saw him fall down the last few flights of stairs yesterday- but he showed up at dinner. Then I figured it was Draco but there was a prefect meeting last night. And then I thought it might have been Crab or Goyle because they didn't come to supper. But now the whole dang house is there." Harry asked.
Ginny choked again and Ron patted her on the back worriedly as Hermione said, "Well, whoever they were, they weren't just any healers. Because they weren't wearing just the regular ol' Saint Mungos robes. They seemed to be from several different places."
Leave it to Hermione to figure something like that. Ginny decided to play dumb, "Well maybe it wasn't something that SM was ready to handle."
The trio laughed at Ginny's initial laziness, then Hermione smiled, "But she's probably right. It's not often that that happens, St. Mungos is the best wizarding hospital in the world, but if it were to it's got to be very serious."
Ginny looked away from their conversation to watch Malfoy and the three men walk away from the table and up the stairs. Ginny turned back to the table and gobbled up the last pieces of food, half listening to the conversation still going on next to her. Neville looked over at her and they motioned for each other to leave. As he came up to her and she stood she looked at them, "I thought it might have been Pansy." So what if she did get in trouble later, she had to try and throw them off.
They thought about while her and Neville made a break away.
-They walked down to the lake and put their feet in. "I told them you were in the library last night, and then you overslept this morning." He said throwing his sock at into the middle of the lake and watching it get sucked under by something that lived under the water.
"That explains why they didn't think it was me in the hospital wing."
"What?" he asked worriedly, "Are you okay?" he asked catching the sock that was thrown back it him by whatever it was that decided it wasn't food.
"Yes, yeah, Nev I'm fine. Well I gotta tell you something." She said and filled him on everything that had happened last night, not missing a single thing as far as she could remember. Neville was a really easy person because he always waited until she was done to ask questions, and this time he didn't even seem to have any. He just stared out at the lake. She did the same, wondering if maybe she shouldn't have told him.
"So- so he's going to be okay, right?"
"I think so, I never really thought about that. I wonder if the potion can go wrong?" she said suddenly getting worried and standing up.
Neville grabbed her hand and pulled her back down, "Sweety, it's fine." That's all he had to say and she was perfectly fine again. That was so like him, he was always so nice. Sometimes she wished they hadn't broken up because she could see herself being with a guy like him. She laid her on his shoulder and felt comfort washing over her again. After a few minuets he said quietly, "I think you should get back up there like you promised."
Ginny looked up at him wondering what he was talking about and then realized that she had told Malfoy she'd be back after a shower. "Crappy," she said jumping up and kissing him on the cheek, "Thanks, Neville. I'll see you at dinner."
He watched her run away and then turned back to stare at the lake.
-She pushed open the door and yawned before she noticed that she wasn't the only student in the room. All three men that had left with Malfoy were there. She heard Blaise say, "So Crabe and Goyle waited in the room last night. But you didn't come." Then Malfoy noticed her and all three turned around.
"What are you doing here Weasley?" Goyle asked.
Malfoy looked like he didn't want to have to explain it so she lied for him, "What are you doing here? I'm Ppmpy's student helper. And I do believe that you all shouldn't be crowding the one side of the bed like that. Spread out, spread out." She said walking up and showing them evenly around the bed. Then she went back to her bed and slowly began to make it, without magic. Pompy must have been pretty busy if she couldn't even tidy up the bed.
They all, including Malfoy, looked at her odd, and then they went back to their conversation. "But.. we were worried ya know?" she heard Blaise say. Ginny figured Malfoy probably wouldn't appreciate it if she listened to she walked off and into one of the closets.
She was sitting on the floor playing itsy bitsy spider, when there was a small tap on the door and it opened. Malfoy appeared, he smirked and said, "You can come out now."
She stood up and, hitting her head on the self, sat back down. Rubbing her head again she crawled out of the small room.
Malfoy, opening the door the rest of the way for her, said. "Jesus Christ, do you ever not hurt yourself."
When she was sure there was no shelves she stood again, stuck her and said, "Stupid selves." Before she stuck her tongue out at them and walked away. Malfoy laughed and shut the door.
"So, did you tell him?" he asked sitting on his bed feet off the side facing hers, starring her sheets down.
"No, I didn't tell them. I knew you didn't want them to know. And well I know you don't know me that well, but I would never do anything like that and-"
"Weasley, I wasn't talking about them. There's no way you would have been able to tell them with all the food you shoved in to your mouth. And for future reference, if you don't do that you have less of a chance to choke." Ginny giggled and blushed a little. "I was talking about Longbottom."
"Huh?" she said not going to deny it but wondering how he knew.
"I saw you two out the window when I walked in." he said motion at the window, which had a pretty nice view of the lake, and Neville still sitting in front of it.
She smiled, "Yea I told him. But you don't have to worry about him-"
"-Because he doesn't have any friends to tell, yea I know."
"No. That's not why, it's because he's my best friend. And I have way to much crap on him for him to say anything. Besides that, he's the most trustworthy person in our school. If I cant trust him, then I can't trust anyone." She said sitting across from him on her bed.
He smirked, "Are you two going out then, Weasy?" he asked calling her name she had never heard before.
"No," she said flustered, "We broke up a while ago."
"Then why were you so cuddly?"
She didn't want to explain it, because then she'd have to admit that she had gotten worried about him, and had to be comforted. "Uh, I was cold."
"Its 87 degrees out." He said holding up that eyebrow again.
"Right, I meant he was…" she was totally lost. "Agrrs, I cant make up things like this you know. Yer supposed to just go with my first lie."
She couldn't tell if it was a smirk or a frown, which was weird because there nothing alike. "Well then tell the truth."
"Are you gonna be okay?" she asked remembering the question she had been worrying about.
"What?"
"Are you?"
"Well, I hope so…" he trailed off looking startled.
"So then the potion… Keemoe, it doesn't always work?"
"It will."
"But it doesn't… always, I mean?"
"I guess not." He said throwing his legs onto the bed and sitting with his back against it, and staring at the ceiling.
She looked at the ceiling too, trying to grasp this. It didn't make sense. He was only seventeen. Way to young to die, but then that seemed to be the way it was a lot lately since the dark lord came back. "I'm sorry, but that was why. So I just asked."
He looked over at her, "What, what was huh?"
She giggled, "You wanted to know what we cuddling for. I got a little… worried and he was trying to calm me down."
He was doing it again looking at her like she was a freak. She screeched this time. He jumped and instantly screamed, "What the hell was that?" staring her down again.
"Stop looking at me like that okay?" she said taking her eyes away from the ceiling to look into his grey eyes again. She shivered.
"What," he whispered still looking into her eyes.
"You, have cool eyes." She said smiling.
He looked away quickly, "Uh yea, thanks, you too."
Pomfrey, having that weird teacherkinesis, came in that exact minuet, saying. "Well, we start tomorrow." She sure wasn't smiling, but she was talking a little to cheerfully. She looked over at Ginny when she passed the bed, "You ready?"
"Uh, for what?"
"The chemo?"
"What are you talking about, I'm not taking it remember. I think you should get some sleep."" She said standing up and putting her arm around the mediwitch.
"No Weasley, I know very well who you are. I was asking if you were ready to help me and Mister Adams out."
"Huh?" both Ginny and Malfoy asked.
"Nathaniel has decided that he want's to keep it here at school, well actually Draco, I think that was you." He nodded. "Well anyway. He says that he wants me and my student healer to help him out."
"Student healer." Draco asked, "I thought you were just kidding about that.
"I was." Ginny said she said looking from one to the other.
"Well I already told him that so that he wouldn't kick her out yesterday. And that means that now I have a healer helper. So you're going to have to play to him, like this is your dream in life, Gin."
"No Problem there." She said excitedly.
"Hmm?" Pompy asked shooing Draco under his covers.
"Well it is my dream. But I don't get good enough grades in Arithmancy."
"Yes well, you'll be seeing stuff here that you wont learn in anything but enriched Arthmancy. I guess this isn't going to be something that I would want you starting off with but…" she trailed off and switched her attention to Draco you was now looking at them both guiltily. "I hope you ate a lot, it's going to be your last meal for a good deal of time that you don't chuck back up."
"Weasley ate enough for both of us." He joked getting undressed under the covers. Then seeing Pompy's face he mumbled, "Yes."
"Get as much sleep before super as you can, Draco. Ginny will be here to eat with you when you wake up." She said as he chugged down a small vial. Both students looked at her wondering what she meant, but then Draco shrugged it off and closed his eyes. Pomfrey motioned for Ginny to follow her into her office.
The older lady closed the door and turned to her, "Alright, you should go to your room and do whatever you need to, but be back here by five thirty. You two will be eating in here. And I'm sorry but, you are going to have to stay pretty late tonight, I have a lot to explain to both of you. But I'll make sure you get into your own bed tonight."
She stopped talking and Ginny knew that meant that she was supposed to leave now, "Umm, Ill be back then." She promised, but Pompy seemed to be off in her own world of paper work and health.
She shut the door to the office behind her and walked to the door, just as she was about to shut that door she heard Malfoy whisper, "Tomorrow, Weasley, tomorrow hell starts."
Right, that was really comforting.
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