A/N: Hello! Thanks for all the support on this story, but sadly it will be coming to an end in the next few chapters. I know, shocking, you never thought it would end did you? I'm going to give you a hint to the ending chapters, they have something to do with "THE KNOWING"! so just make your little brains (no offense) remember back to those first few chapters. All will be well... maybe.

The Knowing

Chapter 31

"Don't leave." she whispered in a sleepy voice, kissing his neck.

"Mmm... I have to." he said and moved to hold her wrists, trying to pry them from the back of his neck.

Ginny sat up and straightened her dress, nodding in a very serious way, trying not to cry. Harry smiled a little and sat up next to her.

"Can't you save the world tomorrow?" she asked.

He laughed a little, nervously and stood up from the bed and walked out into the living room. Ginny followed him after she slipped her fuzzy blue robe on. Her bare feet felt cold against the tiled floor in the kitchen, where she found Harry, eating an apple. The way he stared at the wall and took huge bites made Ginny smile. If she didn't think about him leaving she could just sit for hours laughing at him.

She walked up to him and slid her hands up his stomach and broad chest to rest on his shoulders. He didn't look at her, he just kept chewing his apple. "Everything's going to be fine, isn't it?" she asked nervously.

Harry rolled his eyes a little and turned around so he was facing the cabinets, his forehead against the warm wood, Ginny resting her hands on his back. He sighed and tried not to collapse.

"I don't want to lie to you Ginny, don't make me."

"Tell me the truth then." she said simply, firmly.

He sighed again. "You know that I could die. There's a 75 percent chance that I'll die."

"Says who?" She asked, trying to sound strong but ending up sounding uncertain and shaken, which she was. Her hands fell down to his waist.

"Everyone... I know it... you know it." He sounded cynical and pessimistic.

"Don't." she whispered in a childlike, frightened voice. "Don't." her voice cracked and she slid down to the cold floor and lay her cheek against it, slowly curling up like a baby.

"This is why I didn't want to-" his voice scolded her.

"Shut-up." she cried her anger showing.

"I-"

"Just leave then! Die! Just give up!" She yelled and stood up facing him, her tear stained eyes looking into his.

Harry was a little shocked and upset by her words.

"I didn't think you were like this Harry. But now that I know I'm very dissapointed in you." she looked like her mother, standing with her hands on her hips, scolding. She turned around quickly walking away from him, she could feel the tears coming and she didn't want to start crying in front of him.

"Ginny!" he called after her, following her into her bedroom. The door was locked. Harry slammed his fist against it. "Ginny!"

She didn't answer and he kept banging on the door with his fist. "Don't make me break the door down!" he yelled.

Inside the room Ginny wiped her eyes and almost laughed. She couldn't really imagine Harry breaking down a door. It just wasn't something that she hadn't seen him do.

Suddenly she heard a loud bang and then a crash. She gasped and shoved the door open. Harry was lying on the ground in a heap. "Harry!"

He moaned and rolled over so he was looking at the ceiling. Ginny kneeled down next to him and put her hands gently on his cheeks. "What were you thinking Harry?" she nagged him.

"Don't hate me..." he whispered, sounding a bit drunken.

"Of course I don't hate you." she whispered with a little smile. "Why would you do that?"

His green eyes looked different, sad and scared. "I don't want to hurt you anymore."

Ginny just looked into his eyes, hoping that he would see what she really felt without her having to say. She wanted him to know that no matter how many times he had hurt her, or would hurt her that she would never stop loving him. Ever.

"I love you." he whispered like a forbidden lover.

"I love you Harry." she fingered his hair, not taking her eyes from his. "I don't want you to leave me." her voice quivered.

He looked away from her, unwilling to let her see his pain. Ginny put her hands to his cheeks and turned his head, so he was looking at her again. "I don't want you to die."

He looked away from her again but this time Ginny let him.

"But if you do, I'll still love you."

"Why can't you just love someone else... someone who could love you forever?" Harry pleaded, looking into her brown orbs of eyes.

"No one could love me forever I'd drive them absolutely mad." she teased him.

"I'm the only one then... who'll love you forever... If I die..."

She nodded, forgetting to correct him, tell him that he wasn't going to die, because really, she wasn't very sure.