mmmmkay. here we go.
Nothing compares to the quiet walk back up all the staircases to Gryfindor tower. Nothing except sleeping and falling asleep and falling onto your soft, plush bed that's waiting for you in the tower.
But other than that, the walk isn't all that bad.
Ginny took this walk at the end of a long day at the end of a long week. She had spent an hour and a half helping some of the Ravenclaws in her year with thier weekend homework assignment for Charms. It had always confused her how some people just didn't get things, no matter how many times you explained it to them.
She finally made it to the portrait hole, said the password, and entered the Gryfindor common room. She hadn't had a thought about stopping and loitering. She walked straight past Hermione (head bent over a book), Ron and Harry (smiling at her and greeting her as if they shared some joke with her), and went right up to the dormitories.
She didn't even bother with curtains. She flopped onto her bed and went straight to sleep.
And then she was awake.
Life sucks.
It was already late enough for her dorm-mates to all be in thier own beds and snoozing peacefully. She sat up, still on top of her covers like she was when she laid down.
She slowly trudged out of the dormitories and back into the common room. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were all still down there, but unfortunately, they were all asleep. Harry was leaning sideways in his armchair by the quickly diminishing fire, Ron was sitting straight up and had his head tilted back and his mouth open, and Hermione was laying on the floor in front of the chair she had been sitting in, obviously having fallen out of it, and was hugging her book.
Ginny carefully avoided Hermione and left the common room.
The seventh floor corridor was barren. Not a noise was to be heard, not a soul to be seen. When Ginny couldn't sleep, she would often wander the quiet halls of the castle. Sometimes she would run into a ghost or a friend, but other than that, the moonlit hallways were mostly empty and calming inthier own special way.
She remembered a book she had seen on the bookshelves that lined the first floor corridor. She thought maybe she should go get it and have something to do beside aimlessly walk the halls.
She got onto the staircase and ran down all the stairs to the first floor. This and the thought of running all the way back up made her very tired, and she almost just turned around, but instead she decided she might as well get the book she had come all this way to get.
While walking along the corridor, she thought she was hearing a voice. It was a soft singing, like someone thought they were alone and was singing under thier breath. Probably a ghost. A minute later she had found the book. She took it off it's shelf and looked at the front and back covers.
"Good morning, Weasel."
Ginny dropped the book.
"You scared the crap out of me, Malfoy.", she said
He smiled. "Sincerest apologies. What brings you to The Corridor of the Wierd and Nameless Statue?", he asked.
"I'm getting a book I saw earlier," she said, bending down to pick it up."Should I even ask what you're doing alone in this dark and scary castle in the dead of night? Have you come to suck my blood?"
"No, and unfortunately, no. I have a perfectly legitimate reason for being here."
"And what is that?"
"None of your buisiness."
"Well. Good night, then." she said, pushing past him and heading toward the staircase.
"Are you sure you'll be alright without me to protect you in this dark and scary castle in the middle of the night?"
"Actually, I feel safer without you, because who knows if you'll--"
"If I'll what?"
Ginny stood with her mouth half-open. "What?", she said.
"What what?" Malfoy asked.
"What? What what what?"
"Are you trying to piss me off?"
"Fuck you, piss-ass." Ginny turned and walked out onto the staircase.
Malfoy followed. "Piss-ass? I'm a piss-ass?"
Ginny set her book on the railing and put her hands on her forehead, which was throbbing.
"Yes, Piss-ass" she said. She reached to get her book and knocked it over the railing.
They both peered over and stared at it.
"Oops." said Ginny. She hopped over the railing.
Malfoy's jaw dropped. What. The. Hell?
THUD.
Ginny landed on the ground floor. Malfoy was racing down the stairs. Her ankle hurt like hell. Malfoy ran up to her and looked at it.
"It's sprained." he said "Why the hell did you jump over the railing?"
"Um. Dunno?"
"We should take you to Madam Pomfrey."
They wondered how they were going to get up to the fourth floor.
Malfoy sighed. "Get on my back."
With much difficulty, Ginny managed to heave herself onto him and he started walking up the stairs.
"You're heavy.", said he.
"Thanks piss-ass", said she.
She was just so tired...Mlafoy's back was so warm and smelled so sweet...
She nodded of on his back.
Ginny awoke on something warm and moving. She leaned back and jerked into awareness when there was nothing behind her. She flailed out and grabbed the person whose back she was on's throat.
"Ack.", said Malfoy,"You're strangling me."
She was suddenly aware of his hands around her thighs.
"OHMYGAWD", she yelled, pushing herself off him."MALFOY WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"
"Ummm, we're going to Madam Pomfrey. You might not want to stand on that ankle."
The second he said it, she did it, and fell to the floor in excruciating pain.
"Told you so."
"How-the-what-the-hell-is-what-were-you-and-my-legs-were-and-i-was--"
"Shuttup. We're almost there."
He pulled her up and held her arm as she limped dow the corridor to the hospital wing.
Once there, Malfoy explained to Madam Pomfrey that Ginny had missed a step on the stairs and he was pretty sure her ankle was sprained, if not broken. She sent him on and told Ginny to eat some chocolate and drink some disgusting liquid that she gave her.
A sprained ankle is nothing to the school nurse of Hogwarts, and by the time the castle and its occupants woke up, she could walk again.
unfortunately for you, i have decided that there will not be an Explaining Chapter so you get to formulate your own wierd ideas and everything is suddenly twice as fun. so there. and don't forget to review.