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Chapter Seven: The Family Secret

"Ginny… Ginny, dear… wake up now… Ginny…"

Ginny sighed. It sounded like her mother was calling her. She smiled up at him and kissed him softly on the lips murmuring his name. Then he began shaking her, gently but steadily grew rougher.

Her eyes flashed open to welcome her the harshness of reality. Her mother smiled at her softly and placed a tray of crumpets with sweet honey smeared over them richly, just the way she liked them to be.

"What time is it?" mumbled Ginny as she winced from a bruise on her ribs.

"Ten in the morning. Everyone is gone. It is just you and me," smiled her mother sitting down beside her, "I am so glad you are home safe and sound."

Ginny tried to smile, but found it in possible. Sure being away from Jim and his violating ways was wonderful, but she had no other reason to smile but that. Life held no happiness for her anymore. Not even returning to the job she loved made her want to spring up and start dancing the happy dance.

"I know," she finally replied holding a honey dripping crumpet in her hand, "Did Hermione and Harry go back to Hogwarts?"

Molly nodded and placed a gentle hand on Ginny's shoulder, "Ginny… I am not going to force you to tell me what happened… but when you are ready I will listen."

Ginny nodded, biting her lower lip.

"Minerva has given you two months off. And perhaps we can cook dinner together tonight. Ron, Hermione and Harry are coming tonight to see you."

"Okay," mumbled Ginny finally biting into her crumpet just so she didn't have to speak anymore.

Molly seemed to get Ginny's discreet point, smiled and left her daughter to sort out her thoughts. Once she was gone Ginny pushed the crumpets away, spitting out the chewed bit in her mouth. She changed into a clean set of robes that were loose and covering before pulling out her old journal. She sat down in her window seat and looked out at the field where she played Quidditch with her brothers. She turned away and collected a quill and a bottle of ink from her desk close to her window. She opened her journal and wrote in the date.

January 10th

I am home. I am happy about that but other then that I have nothing else to be happy for. Every time I try to think of something to be happy about my thoughts just constantly switch to what he did to me. I hate him so much for what he did to me. But then I think if my family hadn't of stuck me in that place I wouldn't have had that happen to me and I would still be me, with my dignity and self esteem. Because of that I have lost everything about me. My virginity is gone and I can never get it back, EVER.

How can you tell someone that? How can you explain to someone what you feel? It's just something I can put feelings too. I will never be whole again… When I was whole I knew who I was, Ginerva Molly Weasley. Yes I had issues, things I haven't dealt with. But I had my… my pride, self-esteem and dignity that kept me together. My issues made me stronger. That break down in Harry's office was me opening my wounds up for him to see, but instead I was chucked into some ASYLUM to get BETTER! Well that didn't work did it? No, here I am, broken! A puzzle missing pieces!

Ginny slammed her book shut and threw the bottle of ink at the wall as she broke down in tears. She ran over to her closed closet and grabbed her old broom. She ran back over to the window seat and pushed the window open before climbing onto her broom and flying out of it. The cold wind whipped at her cuts through her robes. Tears blurred her vision causing her too wipe them away as she flew to a distant field. She landed and dropped her broom before running over to an old tree she climbed when younger to escape her petty teenage issues. She climbed up it and settled herself on a thick, sturdy branch and let her tears flow. Crying was the only way she felt she could deal with her pain and she never cried much before. She was strong, but now she was weak in need of someone to give her, her much needed strength.

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"Hermione, hi!"

Hermione cringed a little and turned around to face Rebecca's smiling face. She smiled back and both continued walking to the Great Hall. Hermione didn't speak, she had a lot on her mind today, with Ginny having been raped, Ashlee possibly being a secret child, her classes and simply Ron.

"Is everything okay?" asked Rebecca, her face furrowed in concern.

"Huh? Oh yeah… sort of. I have a lot on my mind," replied Hermione stepping down a few steps with Rebecca, "Why?"

"I wanted to talk to you… about the kiss."

Hermione halted in her walked and turned to look at Rebecca, "Look… Beck… can it wait? My bestfriend has just been through hell and I have classes."

"No, no, I get it," said Rebecca backing away, "I freak you out and the kiss was too much."

"No!" cried Hermione in frustration, "I-I just don't know what I feel, okay? Please… just give me some space. I really have to help my friend."

Rebecca sighed, "How do I know you aren't just saying this to keep me busy for a while?"

Hermione ran a hand through her hair in frustration, "My friend has just been kidnapped, during which she was raped! Then I find out that, that same family may have a secret child no one knew about… plus I haven't told Ron about the kiss and you doing that has caused me to feel some strange things that I need to explain to myself first… does that sound like I am putting you off?"

Rebecca stood on the spot, her mouth open as Hermione walked off to the Great Hall. The blonde haired woman sighed and headed back to her office, feeling that just maybe she had a chance with Hermione if had gone to great lengths to explain the situation she was dealing with at that moment.

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"Look!" hissed Ron as he dragged Hermione and Harry into his old room and thrusting them a white folded bit of parchment, "Read it!"

Hermione sat beside Harry and opened it up to read it. As they read their eyes widened and both mouths fell open in shock.

On this day, Molly and Arthur Weasley signify that Jane and Jeffery Cooper are the legal parents of the now adopted Ashlee Molly Weasley. This contract also signifies that if the twins Ashlee Molly and Ginerva Molly are to meet they shall be informed the full truth together in a private location the choosing of Molly and Arthur Weasley.

Signed

Weasley M. Weasley

J. Cooper J. Cooper

S. Silverstone

"Ashlee is a Weasley," said Harry out loud, "Not just any Weasley… Ginny's twin."

Ron nodded, "How can they hide this from us?"

"No," said Hermione, "The question is why did they give Ashlee away? They kept both Fred and George, didn't they?"

"True," said Harry nodding, "Where is Ginny?"

"Mum says she has been in her room all day," said Ron, "Should we tell her?"

"I don't know… she has been through a lot. I think it would be best not to tell her yet," said Hermione seriously, "But you should tell your parents you know about Ashlee."

Ron sighed, "But how do you tell them something like that?"

"Ron, we all saw Ashlee. We all saw how much she looked like Ginny, like a Weasley."

Ron just nodded and stood walking out of the room. Hermione and Harry swapped looks and followed. Molly saw them both as her own children and would probably figure out they knew.

"Wait!" cried Harry to Ron and Hermione as they passed Ginny's dor. They turned to look at him as he knocked on Ginny's door. They waited a few seconds but got no answer. Harry opened the door and walked in, preparing to wake Ginny up.

"She'd gone!" cried Hermione as she followed Harry in and saw no sign of Ginny. She saw the open window and ran over to it, "Her broom. Ron check her closet. She told she always stashed her broom in there so you boys couldn't ruin it."

Ron walked over to the closet and opened it up, "It's gone."

"You mean she is out there? It's freezing out there!"

Harry turned and left the room, running down the stairs. Hermione and Ron followed close behind. Harry pulled open the back door and ran out it with Hermione and Ron coming out behind him seconds later.

"GINNY!" yelled Harry, "GINNY!"

Molly came running out with her apron on and a tea towel in her hand, "What's going on?"

"Ginny's gone," said Ron, "Her broom isn't in her room."

"Oh dear! It's been hours since I checked on her!" cried Molly.

"Let's go find her," said Hermione running through the fresh snow with Harry and Ron following, "Ron, she is your sister. Where would she go?"

Ron looked around him at his surroundings, trying to remember where his sister would disappear too when they were younger. He walked over to the gate leading to the fields and walked out it and up the snow covered path.

"There!" yelled Ron pointing to a lone tree, "She always, always went there. It's Ginny's tree."

Harry started jogging over to it with Hermione and Ron following him at a slower pace.

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Ginny wrapped her arms around her tighter, ignoring Harry calling her name. Regardless of the freezing temperature she wanted to be alone. She closed her eyes, hoping that if she willed it, they would go away and just leave her be. But her will was not to happen.

"Ginny, get down here now!" yelled Harry in a serious tone, "Don't you realise how cold it is?"

Ginny sighed and ignored him. But she couldn't when she heard a snapping branch, she looked down below her angrily as Harry pulled himself up onto her branch.

"Ginny… how long have you been here?" he asked, his green eyes narrowed in worry and confusion.

"Not long enough, so just leave me alone," replied Ginny ignorantly.

"Ginny-"

"And why do you even care?" cried Ginny angrily, "Aren't you meant to be off getting counselling? Aren't you incapable of caring for others?"

Harry didn't reply to her hurtful and cold words. He just took in a deep breath, waiting for her to possibly continue. When she didn't he looked at her with a calm and collected expression, "Your mother has dinner cooking and we have something important for you to know."

"I'm not hungry and don't care about what you want to tell me," replied Ginny.

"GINNY GET DOWN HERE NOW!" yelled Ron from where he stood, "IF YOU DON'T COME DOWN WILLINGLY I WILL CUT THIS TREE DOWN!"

"And what? Kill what is left of me?" yelled back Ginny climbing down.

She stood in front of Ron and glared at him angrily, "I think you and everyone else have done enough damage to me. But hey, if you want to kill me, go right ahead. I'm not far off doing it myself!"

Ginny turned and ran back to the Burrow, ignoring her frozen broom lying on the ground. Harry jumped down and looked at Ginny running away in the distance. He looked back and Ron and gave him a brotherly pat on the arm.

"She's angry," said Harry, "Come on."

The trio walked back to the Burrow hoping Harry's words were true, that Ginny was merely angry and not contemplating killing herself.

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Ginny pushed past her mother and grabbed the staircase railing, only to be pulled backwards by George. Ginny screamed and kicked out in anger. George carried her to the sitting room where her other brothers were. Seconds later Harry, Hermione and Ron arrived, shocked to the core at what they were seeing. Ginny was being held down on the lounge between her father and Charlie.

"Just leave me alone!" sobbed Ginny looking at her robes.

"Ginny you need to tell us what happened," said Molly calmly, "We need to help you."

"Help me?" cried Ginny looking at her mother with hatred, "Haven't you all helped me enough? Because of all of you, I was RAPED! TWICE, NEARLY THREE TIMES! YOUR SO CALLED HELP WINDED ME UP TAKEN TO SOME FREAKS PLACE!"

Everyone looked at Ginny in a stunned and shameful silence. Ginny yanked her body free from her human restraints and ran for the doorway, but Harry grabbed her and pulled her into a hug. Ginny tried to fight his hold, but became too weak and cried into his chest, letting him hold her until she calmed down.

Molly stood and left the sitting room in tears, with her husband following to comfort his wife.

"I'm going," said Charlie standing up angrily, "I am going to kill that fucking arsehole!"

"Charlie, man. Don't," said Ron.

"That bastard raped my little sister!" cried Bill joining Charlie, "You expect us to sit here and let him get away with it?"

"He won't," said Hermione standing beside Ron, "Ginny can have him charged with kidnapping and rape. If she wants to. She has been through a lot already, pushing charges will make her have to see him face to face in court and tell a lot of people what has happened to her."

"Well she will be," added Fred forcefully, "Ginny won't let him get away with it… she's a Weasley."

"Harry," whispered Ginny, "Tell them I can't. Not yet…"

"Are you insane?" cried Ron joining in with his brothers, looking at Ginny, "You have to bring him down now! While everything is fresh in your mind."

"Ron!" cried Hermione before Ginny untangled herself from Harry's arms and looked at her brother in disbelief.

"How can I forget something like that?" hissed Ginny, "At this moment I can still feel his… his horrible hands… on my body… him… kissing me, biting me… pinching my skin! I want to face him when I am strong… not some weak woman."

Her brother's remained silent and Ginny left the room to hide in her bedroom. They all knew, none of them would bother her for a while at least.

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Molly and Arthur walked back into the sitting room having listened to Ginny fighting in her defence. None of the Weasley boys pestered their parents to make Ginny charge Jim. They sat down not seeing Ron pull a form out of his pocket and take in a deep breath. Harry and Hermione quickly took a seat in front of the fire. Ron walked over to his father and opened the form and hand it to his father.

"I know about Ashlee," said Ron calmly, "So does Harry and Hermione. I know she is Ginny's twin sister."

"Oh," gasped Molly a hand flying to her mouth as Arthur sucked in deep breath and nodded.

"Ashlee who?" asked Fred confused, "Since when has Ginny had a twin?"

"Those were the hardest times ever," said Arthur with a sad expression, "When Ginny was born she also had a twin sister… Ashlee Molly Weasley. We wanted to keep both of them, but with the money that was coming on we could only support one more child. So together, your mother and I made a heart breaking choice and put one of the twins up for adoption."

"But how could you chose?" asked Bill, "That would be like deciding which one of Fred and George behaved best."

"Oi!" cried Fred and George.

Molly smiled at her twin sons and sighed, "We didn't. The Ministry found a proper and caring family. We let them choose which one of the two… and they chose Ashlee. It wasn't easy, having to give up one baby. I wanted to keep both but we couldn't. But the Cooper family kept us in touch with everything and they knew it would be best for Ashlee to go to the French magic school, even Albus knew this. I have one picture of her from her first birthday through to her recent twentieth."

"Ashlee Cooper… the Midi chick!" cried Charlie, "I never really noticed because I don't really like her music."

"No one does," said Arthur, "Except your mother and I… we would. She is our daughter."

"When I saw her last night I knew something was up," said Ron, "She sounds and looks so much like Ginny. Speaking of which when are we going to tell her?"

"Not until she can handle it," said Molly firmly, "I want you all to be hush about it. I will contact the Coopers and inform them of the news. We all need to be supportive of Ginny and I will find a good counsellor."

"We have to go," said Harry, "I just want to say goodbye to Ginny first."

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Ginny pulled on her long winter nightgown and brushed her hair. As she pulled her blankets back a knock came from her door.

"It's Harry."

"Come in," sighed Ginny sitting on her bed.

Harry walked in and smiled at Ginny before sitting beside her, "Hermione and I are about to head back to Hogwarts. I came to say bye."

Ginny nodded, "Okay."

"And to tell you that I'm always here for you. I know you don't love me, but I still love you."

"I lied Harry… I told myself and you I didn't love you because I wanted to save myself from being hurt again. I do love you."

Harry smiled, "Ron told me that was your excuse. But you need to get better first."

"I know… and so do you."

Harry nodded and gave Ginny a hug and kiss on the cheek before leaving.

A/N: Well there you go, romance, angst, drama all packed into one chapter! Well review!

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