AN: I know chapters are shorter lately, and I don't really know when they're going to be longer. It's just that schools coming up and I want to update as much as I can in the next to days cause mom's on my tail about grades and I don't know when I'll be able to type once school starts. Prolly whenever my insomnia kicks in, so don't worry I'll still write but it just wont be as much as I have been. Well as soon as I post this I'm gonna start writting 13 so I should have it up either later tonight or tomorrow sometime!Enjoy please and review!

Rosies and Posies: Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down

Chapter 12

She wore the only dress she owned, which just happened to be black. She'd only ever been to one funeral before, but this one was way different. For one thing there was way more people. She didn't recognize a single one, and she did see every person there because she sat next to Draco in his wheelchair as people waited in line to pay their respects to the family. The weird thing was even though she didn't see a single person she knew, it felt like the entire wizarding world had come.

All she knew was that no matter how many people loved her, she did not want that many people at her funeral. Just family and friends. And she would never want the service to be as long as this one was. It was like two hours long, not counting the line thing. It was all really boring. Then there was a few different port keys that were supposed to take them back to the Malfoy manor where there was a private cemetery.

Ginny and Draco couldn't do this on the count of Draco wasn't strong enough to use the port key, but Ginny promised she'd go out there with him sometime before they left. "But not tonight okay. Because you need sleep, and I want to go to sleep too." She smiled.

She had never slept so good in her life. Normally it took her awhile to fall asleep because she would start thinking about things she felt guilty about and then it would move into things she regretted and finally she was swallowing loads of spiders. She would fall asleep with spiders walking down her throat, not literally but that's what it felt like.

But last night, last night she'd fallen asleep the second her head hit the pillow. And she didn't wake up once, even though she was told the next morning that there was a really big storm. She did wake up though with a huge crick in her neck from sleeping on Draco's arm all night. She decided she wouldn't do that tonight.

"Did you have any nightmares last night?" she asked as she pushed him towards the road to call a cab-Adams on their heels.

"No, actually, I had a really weird dream though. Adams and mom were making out and I wheeled in on them. And the second I walked in you walked out of the closet screaming 'No, no, don't you want a bologna sandwich'." Adams and Ginny laughed.

Both teenagers were still kind of mad about the whole Ginny not being aloud thing, but it was quite nice to hear him laugh. For Ginny it was the first time she had ever seen or heard it.

It was as they were entering his room again that she noticed they hadn't talked the whole way there, both caught in their own thoughts. She looked over and asked, "Is your head feeling better? You don't seem in as much pain today."

"I think the fever broke last night." He said pulling off his pants and grabbing his pj's from the floor. She only glanced before she turned around and pretended to dig in her bag for hers. He laughed and she turned around to see him walking slowly towards her. She stared him in the eyes for a second, but after blushing decided it would be less embarassing to look down. He wrapped his arms around her and crossed his fingers behind her. She put her hands around his neck and asked, "What?"

He smiled brighter. "Your beautiful."

"I know that." She said blushing. He laughed. And they locked eyes before she said quietly, "You are too."

He smiled again and let grabbed her hands from his neck, keeping one and dragging her to the bed. For a second she started to think about how mad her mom would be if she knew she was sleeping in a bed with a guy, and she couldn't help but think about what he had on his mind.

But he let go as soon as they got to the bed and walked to the other side, shutting off the lights on the way. She heard him crawling under and did the same. She scooted as close to him as she could. She put her left arm over him this time and his right hand came up to hold hers. "Love you, good night." He said quietly.

"Night… Love you too." She said. Well guess she was a little off. She should have known he wasn't predictable. His mind was unreadable. She got expressions and emotions down, but when it came to how he thought, she hoped she could figure it out.

Another restful night, waking up next to Draco. He was already awake and staring at her when she woke up. "I'm ready to go." He said.

She yawned and said, "Already?"

"More then ready. I say we get a house elf to pack you up, go stop by the cemetery and get the heck out of here."

"Did you have a nightmare last night?"

"No, why?"

"Trying to figure out why you wanna leave so bad." She said stretching.

"I'm feeling a lot better today and I just want to get to school and maybe get some make-up work done maybe go for a ride, I don't know but I wanna get outa here." He said standing up and stretching too. She couldn't stop herself from looking this time and he noticed. He turned around and shook his butt at her, "Doo doo doo." He sang.

She laughed. "You are feeling better then!" She stood up and walked to the bathroom, "Okay I'll be right out."

"Why don't you take a bath or something and just meet me in the dinning room when you're done?"

"Sounds good, are you sure you aren't just trying to ditch me?"

He smiled, "How'd you guess, no actually I was trying to tell you, you stank, but whatever."

She smiled and slammed the door on him

People stared as they walked in the great oak doors together, as they walked up the stairs together, as Draco helped pull Ginny out of the trick stair, as they walked behind the corner-together.

The second they did they grabbed for each others hands. "I'm just gonna drop you off, I have choir practice in a few minuets cause I have a solo to sing tomorrow at dinner, crap, and then I have to get up to the dorms and try to find Harry to apologize. He's gonna fricken kick me off the team.

"I was only gonna grab my bag and head down to the dungeons for some potions make up." He said opening the door.

"Yea well, I don't care how well you feel, don't you dare stay down there long."

"Oh shut up," he laughed.

She stopped and he turned to look at her. "Seriously," she said.

He walked up to her and kissed her forehead, "Okay."

The conductor was mad at first but once she sang her part perfectly, he calmed down. As the other people sang their solos to the chub conductor, she couldn't help but wonder what Draco's voice sounded like.

He was waiting for her when class ended. She pretended she didn't see him and walked right past him. She looked back to see him looking at her confused. She laughed and skipped over to him. "Hey you were supposed to chase after me." She said sticking out her lip like she cared.

"Yeah well for a second there I almost thought you went blind, I started freaking out."

She laughed and poked him lightly, knowing not to hurt him. "I could have just not seen you, you know?"

"Not possible."

She laughed again, "What are you doing here, thought I told you-?"

"-Not to stay down stairs, I didn't." he smiled pulling her into a sideways hug together.

She hesitated before saying, "Why are you so cuddly suddenly?"

"I always have been." He said as they tumbled back up the stairs. "Now I just get to show people we're together, because I'm aloud out of bed."

"Well as long as you don't care about your friends." She said stopping and, once he did, jumped and kissed him on the cheek. He grabbed her before she fell down.

They both laughed and Draco said, "What's the deal with stairs and you. When you sitting on them your just fine, but then you stand up and your immense clumsiness kicks in."

"Hey what happened to graceful butterfly?"

"It goes away when you're off the pitch."

"Nu-uh. I'm always prettyful."

"I didn't say you weren't." she blushed as they reached the door and he opened it saying, "You're even more beautiful off field." He said.

They both looked away from each other to see Pompy and Adams sitting across the isle from each other on separate beds. Pompey was crying and Adams face looked red. Pompey was looking at the ground and Adams was staring at the top of her head.

"What's going on?" Draco asked pulling Ginny behind him.

Pompey's head twitched but she didn't lift up her head. Instead her hands flew to her eyes and she tried to wipe her tears. Adams looked up at them and just stared at them. Ginny let go of Draco and ran to comfort Pompey. With her arm around Pompey she asked the room, as Draco had, "What's going on?"

Adam's cocked his head. "I don't know? She hasn't stopped since I got here. I found her like this. She-she keeps pushing me away." He said staring back at the top of her head.

Draco sat on the other side of his healer and looked at Ginny who stared at him and nodded for him to take Adams elsewhere."

"Nate," Pompey burst into more tears and both students' heads flew in her direction. Looking more worried Draco said again, "Why don't we go… somewhere, I have something to uh, tell you?"

The man nodded and looked at Pompey until he was at the door. As soon as it was closed Pompey burst out in tears screaming, "He doesn't think I know. But I do, I can't believe he wouldn't tell me."

"What? What's going on?"

"You know, I would have done the same, for any of my students, but Draco is like his son. He doesn't know I know. And I don't know how to tell him or what to do. What should I do Gin?"

"Pompey, I don't know wha-"

"But I know you can help me, you help Draco, and you helped Alec, and Luna, and I heard about Myrtle."

"What are you talking about, I haven't helped anyone. And I want to help you but I don't know what's going on." She said standing up and kneeling in front of Ginny.

"You don't know either, then that means Draco doesn't either. That stupid foolish good-for-everything thoughtful mothers child!" Pompey ranted throwing her hands all over the room.

"Pompey…Pompey SIT!" Ginny said as her elder started to pace.

Pomfrey looked at Ginny and frowned. "You wanna know what that man did? What he had to do, what I could never do?"

"I- I don't really know anymore?" Ginny said falling on the bed and staring at the floor.

"He's going to prison Gin. They're taking him the second Malfoy get's better. And he- he didn't even do anything wrong."

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