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Hazardous Sanity

By Emerald Riddle on 4/05

Chapter Eleven: Cloaks Of False Realities

Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming,

Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights,

Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming,

The goddess of imaginary light

Imaginary by Evanescence

Ginny woke up to a stinging slap on her face.

"HOW-DARE-YOU!" Hermione was screaming in some kind of mix of fury and anguish. "HOW CAN YOU DO THAT, GINNY? HOW? YOU'RE BROTHER JUST DIED! VOLDEMORT! HOW COULD YOU?" Her yelling was a jumble of incoherent words and everyone in the dorm stared at her silently.

Hermione Granger losing her cool? No way could this be happening.

Yet, it continued until she screamed so loudly and so angrily that her wand hand let loose several sparks and her hair seemed to crackle with wild magic. Then she ran from the room, her vision blinded by tears.

Ginny stared at Parvati and Parvati stared at Ginny.

They were both completely naked from the waist up and the rest of their bodies were covered by bed sheets. The rest of the dorm looked over at them. After all the screaming the silence seemed to deafen them all. Quietly, Ginny got up and pulled a sheet around her. Then she took some of her clothes and went to the bath to get dressed.

Her head buzzed.

Why would Hermione care if she slept with Parvati? It wasn't any of her business who she slept with!

As she walked out of the seventh year girls' dorm, fully dressed, she could have sworn to see a look of contempt on Lavender's face. She quickly raced out of the tower.

This could not be happening.

Ginny ran and ran. Her chest ached and a stitch in her side became almost unbearable.

Almost.

Every footstep spoke to her; spoke to those around her.

Why-

Step.

does-

Step.

everything-

Step.

happen-

Step.

to-

Ginny's foot connected with something before it could reach the floor and she fell. Why was she always falling? Pansy took her leg from its place in the middle of the corridor and she sneered.

me?

An eerie voice echoed throughout the darkness. "I'm going to have to get rid of you, Lana. You are making too much trouble for me."

"Get rid of me? How?"

"Get rid of you and the young Weasley."

"What? You can't-"

Voldemort backhanded her into silence.

"I believe I can do whatever want. Granger goes first."

Lana stared silently out of Ginny's eyes as she fell.

Everything's falling apart, she thought as a solitary tear slid down her face.

Ginny picked herself up and looked blankly at Pansy. She felt no anger or resentment. She just felt tired.

"What do you want, Parkinson?" she asked wearily.

"I want revenge," she said. Then she pulled her wand out of her pocket and aimed it at Ginny's nose.

Both girls heard footsteps coming from behind Pansy, but neither turned around. Their eyes were focused primarily on each other. Pansy didn't say a word, she just held her wand.

"Go away Draco. This is none of your business," the pug nosed girl suddenly erupted.

Ginny wanted to ask her how she knew it was Malfoy, but her mouth remained closed.

"This is my business, Pansy. I'm a prefect, remember? You'll need to back off or I'll have to take points," Malfoy's voice said coolly.

Pansy did back off, but that didn't stop her from arguing. "This is worth much more than points, Draco, and you know it. You need to stop your little fantasies involving the weasel or you might just find yourself," she stepped closer to him, caressing his pale face, "in quite a predicament." Malfoy shoved her hand away in disgust, and she walked away, her hips swaying softly.

Malfoy turned to Ginny and sneered. "You better get going before I take points from Gryffindor as well."

"You don't own the halls, Malfoy! I can go anywhere I want. As you should know by now, I'm a prefect too!"

He stepped closer. He was so close his breath tickled her ear. "I would watch where I step, weasel. There are potholes everywhere. Some are right in your face and you don't even know it."

Ginevra rolled her eyes. "Get out my way, you ferrety moron."

He narrowed his eyes. "You'll pay for that."

As Ginny walked away she thought, I have nothing else to pay with, Malfoy.

Lana awoke to find herself real. Real. She was in Ginny's body again. She was in her bed and wearing her clothes.

Oh God, no.

She had to kill Hermione. She had no other choice. The power, the need for blood. Hermione Granger's blood in particular. She could have her before she killed her but-

No. No. No. I don't want to-I can't- I could never hurt my queen!

But she was up, her blade was out, and she was already on her way. The halls seemed to stretch out and close in at the same time. The need for blood and sex made her sweat in anticipation, but the thought of killing her beloved shattered her heart. Finally, she stood outside of the seventh years girls' dorm and held the knob in her hand.

Lana Gwen turned the knob...

She pushed open the door...

And she saw her.

Hermione laying on her bed, her hair splayed out and crowning her face, her face turned a deathly white by the moon shining into her window. Lana fell to her knees, suddenly feeling very old. The lust was stolen by the beauty. She didn't want to move; didn't want to touch her queen. She just wanted to stay and stare.

"What am I doing here?" Ginny asked herself as she sat cross legged on the floor.

She shivered. It was dark and cold and impossibly empty there. Not a voice, no reply for the exception of her own voice echoing back at her. Then suddenly-

Light. Bright, glaring light in front of her. She went to move her hands in front of her face, but they wouldn't move.

"What the-" she started angrily, but quickly shut her mouth.

The light in front of her showed images. Or an image.

It showed Hermione Granger laying on her bed, in a pool of blood her own blood.

Ginny screamed and screamed. "NO!" she sobbed out, wanting to run to her best friend, wanting to hold her one last time. But however hard she tried to move, she stayed frozen on the cold, dark floor.

Soon she became aware ofa dark chuckling behind her. "Who is it?" she asked, her heart beating wildly.

"Bad things are going to happen to you, Ginny."

"Wha-"

The darkness seemed to push into her brain, making it seem like it was going to implode. Dizziness was messing up her thoughts, but she still pushed for answers.

"'Ermione… No… why.."

The image on the screen changed. Ginny was being shoved into an Azkaban cell. It changed again. Her family were being turned away at Hermione's funeral. It changed a last time. It showed an image so horrific, so twisted and wrong, Ginny wanted to vomit on the floor. Harry Potter held a wand to her head, dark marks hovering literally everywhere behind him, a white mask in his hand and people fighting behind him. Blood and screams erupted suddenly, and the picture began to move.

"You ruined my life," the death eater Harry whispered, a tear escaping from his glinting, cat like eyes…

He motioned to the battle raging behind him. "It's your fault." Then he shook away his sleeve and showed her his dark mark.

"I-I don't understand," the other Ginny whispered shakily.

"You will," he whispered back.

Then he brought up his wand to his head.

"Avada-"

"No," the real Ginny moaned.

"Kedavra."

"No!" both Ginnys screamed.

A flash of bright green light enveloped the death eater Harry, and he slumped to the ground.

His eyes remained open, reflecting the chaos of death all around him.

A/N: As you can see from the above date I put up, I've began this back in April after I finished chapter ten. I just got around to finishing it up today. I'm happy with the way it turned out ;) Thanks for all the reviews, they push me to update sooner. I know this is sort of a cliffhanger, but that's the good thing about being an author. You can give other people the cliffhangers you regularly get. And, oh, aren't they fun :P Since school's ending I should definitely be updating more regularly. Again, as I have said with Shards of a Diamond, I will not be abandoning this fic. I may update late, but I will never ever abandon it. Besides... This story is almost complete :D waits for the angry cliffhanger reviewers Heee!