Ginny Weasley: Secrets Revealed
By LilWorkingGirl
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Summary: Remus Lupin shows up on the doorstep of someone's house to bring them the good news that her real family is still alive. Who knows what will happen next. Aiming for this to be RL/GW may or may not end up that way though.
Reviewers: Thank you to all the reviewers of the previous chapter. Remusgrl01, Sarahgfan
The next morning, everyone woke up to the smell of Molly's cooking. Well almost everyone, Ginny was still asleep.
"Aw isn't that cute? Someone wake the dear for breakfast?" Molly called
Remus shook her shoulders slightly and was rewarded with a fist in the face.
"Who touched me? I'll kill ya you freak" Ginny sat up, swinging a silver blade around her as she did, her eyes turning amber again.
"Calm down Lizzy, it's just us. It's Remus and Sirius. Please calm down."
"Oh shit, I'm so sorry Remy." Ginny cried, touching his bruising face. "I didn't catch you with the knife did I? Or Sirius?"
Sirius's laboured breathing caught their attention. Ginny noticed her blade sticking out of his side.
"Oh no no no no, not again. No please not again." She cried as she reached for the knife with trembling hands. "Please Sirius just stay awake. Come on, that's it keep your eyes open." She placed her hands over the wound and it started to glow.
Sirius opened his eyes again and noticed that Ginny was crying and Remus had gone pale.
"Hey guys, what's with the long faces?" Ginny held up her bloodstained hands and pointed to his side. "Oh."
Suddenly Ginny leapt up, grabbed her broom and wand, and raced out the back door.
"Boys, what happened to waking up my daughter? I never said scared the living daylights out of her." Molly said storming into the room.
"Well Molly, it wasn't us who scared her." Remus said gesturing to the knife laying beside a bloodied Sirius.
"She stabbed you?"
"Um I think we startled her when we woke her up. I don't think she's been in a friendly place for a while, considering she was yelling about people touching her and how she would kill them." Sirius shrugged.
A long high pitched scream broke through the morning. Sirius and Remus looked at each other before racing outside.
Up on the roof of the house was Ginny, but the thing that was attacking her last night was almost visible now. A grayish figure, almost like a ghost, with long black claws was ripping her to shreds.
"I'll fly up and get her, see there's her broom." Remus said, and before anyone could tell him otherwise, he was on the roof of the house.
"Someone get Dumbledore." He yelled down before he went near Ginny.
"Lizzy, come on Lizzy girl. It's me Remy, please wake up. Don't die. Come on girl, you can fight this. Just think happy thoughts, think of your mother, think of your family. Come on Ginny." Remus cried as he reached out to touch her but the creature swiped at him, slashing his arm. Ginny noticed this and suddenly they were both surrounded by white light. When the light faded, the creature was gone, but Ginny wasn't breathing.
"Ginny? Ginny? Is she alright? Oh my baby." Molly cried.
"Bring her down Remus." Dumbledore said calmly.
Remus picked up her limp body and flew down with her, tears streaming down his face.
"Molly, I'm sorry, she isn't breathing. I didn't know what to do."
"Bring her inside dear boy. Put her on the couch."
Everyone trooped inside behind Remus and Ginny. Dumbledore pulled a pensive out of his cloak and sat it on the floor beside Ginny.
"Now Severus, I'm going to need your help here. We need to figure out what is happening to Miss Weasley. Can you use your Legimens to see what is going on inside her head?"
"I'll try" Severus said before kneeling down beside the red head and closing his eyes.
"Dumbledore, sir, the thing that attacked her, attacked her last night as well. It seems to have done this before. Sir, the thing, it's Ginny." Remus stammered.
All eyes looked to the were-wolf for an explanation.
"Uh, um, last night, around 1am, Ginny, Sirius and I went outside. Ginny obviously knew something was going to happen, because she practically ran outside. We heard her screaming, and when Sirius is Padfoot he can see the thing attacking her. It seems to be Ginny, but with brown eyes and claws. I don't know if that helps or not. I thought I would mention it."
"Very interesting. I have a theory. You know how when something goes bad and you blame yourself. You basically beat yourself up on the inside? Well in Ginny's case, because of her untamed magical strength, her conscious creates a second being to beat herself up on the outside as well. Something really terrible must have happened to cause this. Hopefully Severus can find out what it is. Other than that, we will have to wait until she wakes up and ask her. Now I suggest that everyone go back to their day, Ginevra will be fine. I promise."
Everyone but Remus, Sirius, Dumbledore and Severus moved. Sirius changed back into Padfoot and curled up next to Ginny, nudging her with his nose every once in a while. Remus just sat down and stared into the crackling fire.
About three hours later, Ginny woke up. Her body shuddered and she was gasping for breath. When she opened her eyes, Severus noticed that they faded from amber to grey.
"Remus?" she called faintly.
"I'm here, shhhhhh I'm here it's all going to be ok." Remus said, smiling and patting her hand.
"No, no it wont. She'll keep coming back. It's all my fault."
"What happened?"
"No."
"Tell me about it Lizzy, please."
"I can't, I'm sorry Remus, but I can't, I don't want to lose everyone again. If I tell, they'll come after me. Just like they came after me after Casey told me. Damn, why'd this have to happen now? Why?"
"Come on Lizzy, you can tell me." Remus said brushing some hair out of her eyes.
"Listen to me Remus, I can't. That's what I've been trying to tell you. I honestly can't tell you what happened, if I do, you die. Everyone dies. It's as simple as that. I don't want to be the cause of anyone else's death. Enough have died already."
"Fine then. Be like that, jeeze Lizzy, we are only trying to help. We care about you, it kills us to see you being ripped to shreds every night and know that we can't do anything to stop it."
"Look Remus," the red head said, standing from the couch, "You don't have to worry about me being ripped to shreds anymore. She won't come back for a while. I can handle this. I've lived with it for years, for different reasons, but she always comes back. Now if you don't mind, I'm hungry and I can smell my mother's cooking." Ginny said, and stormed into the kitchen.
"Good going, Moony. Royally piss off the girl that can blow up the house with a flick of her hand." Sirius growled and followed Ginny.
"Well at least I have some good news. I caught flickers of what happened. Something to do with a young lady called Casey, it seems." Severus drawled as he stalked off to find Dumbledore.
"Well it seems like you've really done it this time doesn't it?" Moony said to himself, sitting down sadly.
"Hey Ginny, what was with the whole being ripped to shreds thing out there?" Charlie laughed, "Seems like you would be suited to my line of work sis."
Ginny just glared at him, her eyes flashing amber, but not returning to their original grey. She shook herself and walked outside.
"What? What did I say?" Charlie said looking around the room.
"Remus and Ginny just had a really big fight about her not telling him what happened. I think we should lay off asking her for a while." Sirius said calmly before going back into the lounge room to see Remus.
"Hey Moony, cheer up, at least we don't have to worry for a little while." Sirius said shoving his friend off the chair.
Moony just looked up at the man who pushed him, his eyes shining with unshed tears.
"Shit, you really care about this kid don't you? Look man, I know you went through bad stuff with your family when you were a kid, and I know you've been trailing her for years now. But she needs to work through this herself."
"Her foster family abandoned her when she was ten, Sirius, she was just a kid and they left her there by herself, telling her they would be back in a few days. They never came back. That Casey girl she mentioned. That was her only friend, and they found her raped and bashed to death in an alley when Ginny was thirteen. She needs someone there, but she's never had anyone."
Sirius just stared at his friend, knowing that something had to be done.
"You know what mate? I reckon she's feeling very smothered here. What with all these people she's never known before in her life. She trusts you, that is why she's always next to you when anyone else is in the room. Look mate, she needs to take a break from this. Molly wont like it, but we've got to do something. Maybe when she's away from here and feeling a little safer, she'll talk. I'm going to talk to Dumbledore." Sirius stood up and left his friend laying on the floor.
Sirius raced up the stairs, taking them two at a time, heading for the room that Dumbledore used as his office. Of course it had to be Sirius's mother's old room, but that didn't matter now.
"Sir, Remus and I figured out how to help Ginny." He burst into the room, only to find that Severus was already in there, in a deep discussion with Dumbledore.
"Can't you see, Black, that Professor Dumbledore and I are having a discussion?" Severus sneered.
"Yes, Snape, I can see that. But I think you'll find that if you want to find the whole story behind Ginny's problem, you'll have to listen to me."
"Go ahead Sirius, I'm listening," Dumbledore sighed, tired of the battle between these two.
"Well you see sir, Remus and I were thinking that since she has been on her own since she was ten, that if she was put somewhere where there were less people, she might feel more comfortable and then open up a little more. And seeing as she seems to trust Remus a great deal, we thought that maybe if she spent a week at Remus's place, that she might relax a little." Sirius rushed out, all in one breath.
"I see, and I'm assuming that you would accompany them there?"
"Yes sir, we can't have her dying of the depression of Moony now can we?" Sirius laughed.
"Very well, but I will be flooing everyday to see how she is holding up and to see if you have anymore information."
"Thank-you sir, cya grimy-git." Sirius said as he raced out of the room to let everyone know.
"HEY MOONY, START PACKING." Sirius yelled down the hallway.
"Where's Remus going Padfoot?" Ginny asked from the end of the hallway.
"Well Lizzy-girl, you, me and Moony are going on a little holiday for a week. Just to get you away from the amount of people here so you can have real fun. You know like staying up all night and eating nothing but chocolate and ice-cream. And doing all sorts of crazy things without having people yell at you. Sounds fun doesn't it?"
"But wont Mum and Dad mind? I mean they only just got me back." Ginny sighed, looking torn.
"Look you don't have to if you don't want to. It's ok, we just thought you might have been feeling a little overwhelmed with everyone here."
"Thank you Padfoot," the young girl said hugging the shaggy man. "You're right, I could use a little space. So what should I pack?"
"I dunno, whatever I guess." Sirius shrugged, smiling, as he put his hands into his pockets and strolled back downstairs.
Ginny turned around smiling and grabbed her already packed trunk.
"So where are we going?" Ginny asked dropping her trunk on the lounge room floor.
Sirius winked at her as he stepped into the fireplace. "Lupin Lodge"
Ginny looked at Remus and smiled. This was going to be fun. She stepped into the fire and followed Sirius. Remus was last through and as he disappeared there was a smile on his face.
Thank you for reading, now please review :P I hope you enjoyed the lastest installment of this story. Sorry it took so long to update.
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