A/N : wow it took a really long time for me to get this chapter out! Sorry about that peoples, I'll try not to take solong with thenext chapter. Well, heres another chapterof The Inevitable, read, enjoy, and last, but not least, Review! thankyou, to all those who have reviewed and read my fanfic!

Ch. 6

Ginny leaned against the portrait of the fat lady, breathing hard. Then she looked up at Jernia, and the both began to laugh.

"I can't believe-"Jernia began as Ginny started saying something at the same time.

"That was-"

"You looked-"

"Hehehe, hahaha-"Ginny finally stopped trying to talk, and fell to the floor chortling.

Jernia looked at the state her friend was in and giggled also, until they both doubled over laughing.

After they settled down, their eyes watering, Jernia spoke.

"That was fun!" Ginny snickered at the comment, before holding her stomach in pain, because she had laughed so hard.

"Well if you think that was fun, you're gonna have more stuff coming your way." She got up off the floor and walked fully into the common room, which was empty, for it was just after curfew. Jernia got up also and followed as Ginny looked around at her temporary home. She then watched Jernia walk around the common room, checking everything out. "This my friend is the Gryffindor common room, the place all Gryffindors go to hang out with friends, play chess, and last and definitely least appreciated, to do home work." Ginny commented, in an announcer's voice. Jernia just smiled and walked back over to where Ginny had planted herself, on one of the plush maroon and gold couches.

"So, where do we sleep?" She asked tentatively. Ginny looked at her, confusedly, as though the answer was the most obvious thing on the planet.

"Out here silly!" Ginny exclaimed, sweeping her arms, as if to gesture to the common room. Jernia looked at herlike shewas crazy.

"Um, are you serious-"She began as Ginny let out a guffaw, no longer being able to hold back. Jernia glared at her. "So where do we really sleep?" She asked incredulously.

Ginny just smiled at her, and got up, leading her over to the stair case, that was off to their left. And walked up it with Jernia, saying, "You'll be sharing a room with me, because no one else is sharing my room at the moment. SO, here we are our home for the rest of this year." Ginny concluded, as they came to a landing and walked over to the first door on the right. There was a piece of paper stuck to it, that had both Jernia's and Ginny's names on it. And Ginny pushed it open. "The guys can't come up here, so it is perfectly private. If they do try to get up here, the stairs turn into a slide, making them fallback down.You can also lock the door, but I would only suggest doing that when the girls are having a sleep over in one of the rooms, they get pretty riled up." Ginny kept rambling on and on, as her and Jernia walked in.

Ginny pointed to a bed against the back wall and said, "Over there is your bed, and as you can see, your stuff is alreadyput away." Jernia glanced at Ginny questioningly, and Ginny explained further. "Dumbledore has employed house elves," seeing a look of indignation on her face, she added quickly, "he pays them, and they help willingly."

Jernia relaxed visibly and walked over to her bed that had a comforter decorated with the Gryffindor coat of arms, and sat down. "Wow, your school is amazing!" She muttered. Ginny looked up from getting her pajamas and listened. "My old school was never this fascinating, or fun." Jernia paused; her eyes were filled with pain, as she recalled her school, friends, and most importantly her family. A muffled sob came from her as she covered her face with her hands.

Ginny ran over to her, and hugged her tightly, lending as much comfort as she could to the broken sobbing girl in front of her. She knew how it felt to lose family, but didn't yet know how it felt to lose almost everything that she loved, and hoped she would never have to. The two girls sat on the bed, until Jernia's sobs wound down, and Ginny let her go.

"Are you gonna be okay?" She asked her friend, who nodded. Ginny grabbed the girls pajamas, and handed them to her. "You really should get some sleep, classes start tomorrow, so you'll need to be awake and fresh." Jernia only nodded again and changed, before sliding into her bed and falling asleep almost immediately.

Ginny never really took her own advice, so she lay in her bed staring at the bare ceiling thinking, how could Jernia still be living even though something so terrible happened to her. She stayed up for a little over an hour, until exhaustion from the first day of school took over, and she drifted into more, fitful dreams, just like every other night.

Deep under the castle, in the dungeons, a Slytherin lay awake, contemplating.


Draco could here the snores coming from the bed next to his, in which Blaise, his friend, if you could believe it, slept noisily. He looked over at him and rolled his eyes, as Blaise snorted loudly before murmuring something. Draco had always teased him for snoring and talking in his sleep, and every time the boy would deny that he ever did such a thing.

Draco rolled over and looked at the wall covered in green tapestries, to fit the Slytherin house. And thought of being a prefect, and how irritated he was when he was given prefect duties this evening. He also thought of when he caught Weaslette and her new tag along friend, out after curfew. He had almost caught up to them, and taken points, but they slipped into their common room just before he got there.

Why did the she Weasel always tend to show up, and cause him trouble, Draco thought.Thenhis mind wandered to the train ride that morning, and how he had caught Weaslette in a weak moment. He smirked, remembering the look on her face, as she was dragged away by the mudblood, infamous Potter, and the red haired oaf of a brother she has. He soon drifted off to sleep, thinking of how he could torture the Trio, and their little tag along this year.

Everyone slept until the first light of dawn peaked through the windows of the dorm room towers, and the early birds started to rise.

A/N: And there it is, hopefully I'll get the next chapter up in a day or two. Four day weekends rock! toodloo, review! suggestions welcome.