AN: Wow. It's been awhile but I'm back. Hope this is still as good as the other 15 chapters. 3
Chapter 16: Not So Sweet Dreams
Ginny woke up early the next morning and tiptoed out of Draco's room. She didn't even want to think what her mother would say if she found out. Giving one last retreating glance at Draco who was still soundly asleep, she smiled. Some how just seeing the serenity in his face made her believe that everything was going to be alright, it had to be. She couldn't bear to lose him- if that happened she didn't know what she would do. Quietly she slipped back into her room and back under the warmth of her blankets. She was just about to drift back to sleep when a loud noise jerked her back into reality. It sounded like somebody snoring- but Hermione didn't snore. Looking over to where Hermione sleeping she spotted a huge bulky mass underneath the covers.
Ginny sighed and dragged her sleepy form over to the bed and tapped on the mysterious lump. "Oh come on mum- five more minutes!" It mumbled.
"You better be glad I'm not mum. Come on Ronald get your arse up before mum or dad finds you in here and you get a nice talking to." Ginny said tugging at the covers.
Ron rubbed his eyes. "Bloody hell woman! Let me get some clothes on." He grumbled.
"Well they shouldn't be off in the first place. Now hurry up I want to go back to sleep. Something that's utterly impossible with the obnoxious snoring you do." Ginny complained tapping her foot impatiently on the wooden floorboards.
"Alright, alright I'm going," he said gathering up his stray clothes off the floor while still half wrapped up in a blanket. "Do you mind?"
"Sorry," Ginny said with a blush and turned around.
"Happy?" Ron yawned as he walked towards the door.
"Yes, goodbye." She replied shoving him the rest of the way through the door and locking it behind him.
"Finally…" she said flopping down on the bed. With in seconds she was fast asleep.
Fire. Screaming. Chaos. Everything was a blur. Ginny ran around unaware of her surroundings. She didn't even know where she was. In some sort of field. There where bodies everywhere some moaning others completely lifeless. There familiar feature registered in her brain for a moment and sent shivers up her spine. It didn't seem to hit her though- she was only looking for one face in particular. "Draco!" She shouted over and over again her voice growing hoarse. Duels where still raging on between Death Eaters and members of the Order. She barely dodged a hex that was hurled straight at her and landed hard against the ground. She slowly lifted herself up and tried to regain her breath. Then she saw him exchanging jinxes and curses with a wizard much older than himself. Some much alike they looked it was almost undeniable that they were father and son.
"You won't win this time!" Draco growled viciously hurling another curse.
The older man just laughed. "You know what I find ironic about that?" Lucious said with contempt seething in his eyes. "Every time you say that I have won."
Ginny eyes widened in horror as she saw another Death Eater sneaking up on Draco from behind. "DRACO BEHIND YOU!" she shouted. Draco quickly turned just in time to doge another curse, but Lucious didn't miss a beat. He raised his wand at Draco's back. "Aveda Kedavra!" He shouted as a green light erupted from his wand. Ginny's heart dropped into the pit of her stomach as Draco's limp body hit the earth with an eerie thud. Tears flooding from her eyes she sent every curse she could think of hurling towards Lucious Malfoy. One of the curses managed to hit him and he flew backwards into the air. She ran over and found him unconscious. She was so tempted to finish the job, but she couldn't- she wasn't a murder like him. Binding him with an intricately woven spell she left him and swallowed a lump that was rising in her throat. Draco's body was just lying there, so peaceful- just like he was sleeping, except Ginny knew he wasn't going to wake up. Kneeling beside him the grief that bottled up inside of her was almost unbearable. Oh how she longed to die, just to lie there with him on the burned and singed grass. She rested her head on his chest and quivered uncontrollably when she realized that there was no heartbeat. "Draco…" she whispered as the tears kept falling.
The fighting died down slowly until suddenly everything was quiet and the only thing that could be heard was the constant chirping of crickets. The air reeked of death under the clear starry night sky. Ginny couldn't leave Draco she felt someone tugging at her arm but she wouldn't even look up. "Ginny come on- GINNY WAKE UP!"
Ginny shot up out bed still crying, Hermione threw her arms around the weeping girl and stroked her hairy gently. "Shhh, it's alright. It was just a dream Gin." Ginny buried her head on Hermione shoulder.
"I know- its just seemed so real!" she sobbed. "I thought I'd lost him forever- I can't- I just…"
"It's alright. Just try not to think about it." Hermione said soothingly.
"But how can't I? What if something does happened to Draco. I don't know what I would do…" Ginny sniffled, wiping her eyes on her sleeve.
"You just can't think like that. We just have to be hopeful. Without hope we've already lost. Now come on- lets go down to breakfast. If we wait to long the boys will have long clean up before we even get down to the kitchen," Hermione smiled and pulled Ginny into a hug. "Everything going to be just fine."
Ginny smiled but still couldn't shake the image of Draco's lifeless face from her memory. Hermione was right, everything was going just fine, that is at least she hoped it would be.
