Firefly
Based on the song by Breaking Benjamin.

WARNING: do not read if you have not read all 6 harry potter books.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own harry potter.

Chapter One Take Me Away
Draco impatiently tapped his fingers against the desk. He was finally in his last year at Hogwarts and now, as each day drew closer to the final war, he hated each moment that he couldn't practice his own magic. He was head boy, no one had doubted that the honor would go to him. He made perfect marks in all his classes, just like the head girl. He watched her with Harry and Ron from a distance and saw them laughing. They were happy and he wasn't. He watched as they pushed Ginny away from their iron triangle. He wasn't even sure that they knew what they were doing to her. He saw her, crying in the shadows, begging for him to notice her. He saw her stand there beside Harry and act like nothing was wrong. Like she never cried all those tears. Only Draco knew the truth of what was hidden inside this young woman. Only he knew the true power that was etched across her surface. And he just continued to watch, saying nothing but knowing everything.
She was the reason he was in this classroom tonight. She was failing her Charms class and Professor Flitwick had kindly asked him to tutor her. Secretly he still wondered why he had been chosen but it was his duty to help other students, whether or not he wanted to. He had been waiting for around ten minutes for her to show up. He knew her though, and knew that she would always be late.
"I'm sorry," Ginny panted as she ran into the classroom, as if on cue. She was drastically out of breath and sweat lined the top of her forehead. Draco looked at her for a brief second as the true beauty of this girl shined through. A beauty that Harry would never see.
"What do you need help on?" Draco asked as he dismissed the thoughts that were racing across his mind.
"The Eluis Charm," Ginny replied as she took out her Charms textbook. "I think I'm doing everything right, although I still can't do it." Draco watched as the firelight danced across her fiery hair.
"Remember," Draco began. "This charm doesn't follow the normal flick and wick pattern that most charms do. It has its own wand work. You wave it twice clockwise. This creates the vortex that will be used as the small tornado. Then you flick your wand sharply to release the power that you've created. Now try it."
Ginny slowly held up her wand and followed the same motions that Draco had just described. "Eluvious!" She cried as she finished the charm. A small vortex of wind appeared where she had pointed the wand. She watched in amazement as the tornado pulled the fire out of the fireplace and created a vortex of fire. It blazed for a few minutes, in all its glory but then it disappeared, leaving the classroom dark.
Draco waved his wand and instantly the embers in the fireplace jumped to life. "Good." Was all Draco said. He looked at Ginny in a way he never had before. He was amazed at the little confidence that she had in herself. It strangely reminded him of himself.
"What?" Ginny asked.
"Why do you put up with them?" Draco asked. He hadn't meant to let these words escape his lips but now it seemed stupid to hold them back.
"With who?" Ginny asked, confused.
"Harry, Ron, and Hermione."
"They're my friends," Ginny replied heatedly. "Why would I leave them?"
"They treat you like you don't matter," Draco snapped.
"And you treat me better?"
Draco paused for a second. "You don't know how much we're alike. We both strive for those we love to love us back. We're both tempted by darkness but that's not where our true loyalties lie." Draco watched as a shocked look spread across Ginny's face. "Oh you can't honesty think that I'll follow my father when the time comes to pick sides. He's caused me to much pain. I don't want to be with him."
"I didn't know," Ginny said softly. "How can you not want to be with your family."
"Family causes you pain," Draco replied. "They expect you to be just like them but no one wants to. They want to break free and fly away from all the crap that they go through each day."
"I understand that," Ginny said. "But they do truly love you."
"Does love mean leaving out your baby sister so you don't have to share your best friends?" Draco asked calmly. "Does it mean expelling your sister out of being a Prefect so your parents can see how great your brother is?"
"But I deserved it," Ginny said. Tears were lacing each word she said. "I was caught on the school grounds after curfew because I wanted to save Harry."
"But Harry really wasn't in trouble then," Draco replied. "And who do you think alerted Dumbledore what you were up to."
"Ron wouldn't do that," Ginny said fiercely although she didn't even believe it herself.
"We're both born to lose," Draco said softly. He pushed Ginny's scarlet hair out of her face. "We can't win while we're in the lives that we are now. We have to separate ourselves from everything that we're used to in order to get what we want. I've made up my mind. I've leaving this school tonight and running away. I don't want to be in the center of this war. I want to be far away from it. Please Ginny, come with me."

Author's Notes
…Well I SHOULD be going homework but instead I AM updating… Okay it's a new story because I'm currently stuck on the other one… sorry… hopefully I'll get another chapter of it up soon… well hope you liked it so far!