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Chapter 4

"Stay Strong"

"Your hands are shaking cold,

Your hands are mine to hold.

Speak to me!

When all you gotta keep is strong,

Move along, move along like I know you do.

And even when your hope is gone,

Move along, move along, just to make it through.

Move Along"

-All American Rejects "Move Along"

Ginny bit the end of her quill. She had a little bit more time before she had to go patrol the halls for Prefect duty. She rolled her eyes at the thought. She hated doing that. Why couldn't they just trust us?

"Ginny don't you think you should be on your way?" Hermione asked, writing something on a piece of parchment

"Yeah, I guess," Ginny sighed. She put her quill down on the table. She hadn't got any work done.

"Bye Ginny, see you later," Harry called after her as she walked out.

"Bye," Ginny replied.

Why did it have to be her night to patrol the halls? She had so much homework. From the Quidditch practices and all the Prefect duties she had to do, she could barely get anything done. Plus, she kept thinking about Draco..

It had been only two days ago that Draco had cried in her arms. Everything seemed to be going so fast. He still made snide remarks towards her every now and then, but she would automatically say something smart back. It was like a game that they played with each other, who could get the last word in. Ginny loved it.

Draco didn't always say something smart to her though. Every now and then when he would catch her eye, he gave her little smiles, or sometimes if he passed her in the hall, he would "accidently" bump into her.

Ginny sighed as she walked down a corridor. She was getting near the kitchens. Who would have ever thought that Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy could ever have feeling for each other, that wasn't hate or disgust? It seemed so unlikely, so unreal.

Ginny heard a loud crash coming from the kitchens. She froze. Should she go near the noise? Or should she just go away and pretend it never happened? She has never caught anyone before when she was patrolling, and it just so happens that on the night she was by herself, she would hear something.

Suspense was killing Ginny, and she decided to go and see what it was. She stepped nearer and nearer to the kitchens, barely breathing. Who could it be? She took a step closer. Almost there..

Ginny jumped, taking in a short breath. Draco Malfoy was leaned up against the wall in the kitchen. Ginny sighed out deeply, recognizing that there was nothing to be afraid of.

"Are you stalking me or something? Or is it I'm just to sexy for you not to follow?" Draco smirked smiling as Ginny's face softened.

"I just thought I smelled a ferret walking around in the kitchens," Ginny said, as she pulled her face into one of those half smiles.

"Ow, that hurt," Draco pronounced dramatically, clutching his heart for affect.

"Very funny Draco, I can't breath I'm laughing so hard," Ginny said sarcastically while walking around the kitchen. "What were you doing in here anyway?"

"I had Prefect duty, like you. What, you can't tell me you've never come to the kitchens and ate while you were supposed to be patrolling the halls?" Draco laughed. Ginny had done it plenty of times. She wondered why she hadn't think about doing that tonight, since there was nothing else to do.

"No, I don't think I ever have." Ginny lied.

"Sure, you know your a lot like me. Sneaky, sly, demand to know everything, curious, bitchy. You even lie like us Slytherins." Draco sneered, watching the shocked look appear on Ginny's face.

"How dare you say that! I'm not anything like a Slytherin!" Ginny replied annoyed. She knew there were some qualities she acquired, that did remind her of Slytherin every now and then, but she had never really thought about it to much.

"I'm not saying that as a bad thing. I like it that your not all good like all those other Gryffindor girls," Draco smiled.

"I like it that your not as good as those Gryffindor guys either," Ginny announced as she got closer and closer to him. "All of them get so scared whenever I mess with them," Ginny said so close to Draco's face now she could feel his breath.

"I love to be messed with," Draco whispered as his lips touched Ginny's. Ginny felt a warm sensation swim throughout her body. It was like everything that had been bothering her lately just vanished away.

Draco pulled away from the kiss. "You don't know what you do to guys, Weasley." Draco smirked still looking into Ginny's glowing green eyes.

"What do I do, Malfoy? This?" She replied kissing him one last time. Draco pulled away.

"We should get back to patrolling," Draco looked as though it killed him to say that. Ginny could tell he wanted more, but she wanted to make him work for it.

"Oh, Mr. Malfoy wants to get back to following the rules, does he? Maybe he possesses some Gryffindor qualities himself?" Ginny spoke jokingly.

"Funny Weasel. Come on, I'll walk around with you." Draco smiled.

Draco and Ginny walked down the corridors together. They were silent for a while until Ginny spoke," So are you doing okay?" She was thinking about how Draco's mum had died just the other day. He seemed to be better now, though she knew he was still upset.

"I have to go to her funeral tomorrow ," Draco said as though reading Ginny's mind. "It's going to be hard staying so strong in front of all those Malfoys. None of them are going to cry or show any emotion what so ever. I don't want to seem weak in front of them."

"You want me to go with you?" Ginny asked.

"Oh yeah, a Weasley is just going to barge into a Malfoy's funeral. I'm not sure you would come out alive." Draco laughed.

"I could wear Harry's invisibility cloak. It would be easy to get it from him." Ginny pleaded. She wanted to be there with Malfoy when his mother was buried.

"I don't want to put you in danger like that," Draco sighed. He wanted her to go so bad, but if anything happened to her he would feel guilty. Since when did he care about a Weasley getting hurt anyway? "Since I met Ginny," Draco answered himself.

"You said it yourself, I'm sneaky like a Slytherin. I wouldn't get caught." Ginny spoke confidently.

"No, I'm not going to let you do that." Draco stated.

"But Drac-"

"No! And that's my final answer."

"Fine," Ginny said, defeated. "Did he really think that was going to stop her?"

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Ginny lay awake in bed. She had just got back from patrol duty. Draco had walked her back to the entrance to the Gryffindor common room, and kissed her goodnight. Ginny didn't think there was anything that she could possibly want more than one of Draco's kisses. She was going to that funeral. She had to be there with him.

Ginny snuck down the dormitory's stairs. No one was in the common room. If she could just get Harry's invisibility cloak...

Her feet tapped as she walked up the stairs to the boy's dormitory. The door creaked open as she pushed it. Harry was laying in his four-poster bed, asleep. Ginny crept up to him, barely breathing. She bent down slowly, reaching under Harry's bed, where she knew he kept the cloak. All she could hear was the sound of Harry's breath.

"What are you doing?" a voice suddenly broke the silence. Harry was looking straight into Ginny's face.

"Ginny! What are you doing in the boy's dormitory?" Ron's voice exploded from the bed beside Harry.

"That's what I was just asking," Harry explained, starting to sound like her brother.

"If you two would let me explain," Ginny whispered loudly. "I needed your invisibility cloak, Harry."

"Why didn't you just ask?" Harry wondered.

"Because I didn't want to wake you up. I just remembered that I had left my book in Professor Snape's classroom and I needed it so I could finish my essay tomorrow." Ginny lied.

Harry sighed. "Just take it, but don't get caught! Give it back to me tomorrow okay?" Harry couldn't say no to Ginny. He didn't want her to be mad at him. He liked her after all...

"Alright," Ginny smiled. Draco was right, she was a good liar.

Ginny ran back down the steps of the boy's dormitory with a huge grin on her face. "I wonder what Draco is going to say when I show up at his mother's funeral tomorrow?" Ginny thought.

Harry silently fell back to sleep, with thoughts of Ginny swirling through his head.

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"Ginny, do you have my invisibility cloak?" Harry asked at breakfast the next morning.

"Yes, I left it in my dormitory. I'll give it to you later today, I have to go to Snape's class next and I don't want to be late. He hates me enough already." Ginny lied.

"Alright," Harry gave in. This girl was a mess, but yet he still loved her.

Draco sat watching Ginny eat her breakfast. Today was going to be an awful today. After lunch, he had to go to his mother's funeral during his free period, and he wasn't sure if he could take it. He needed someone to be there with him, so that he could stay strong. He wished so badly that Ginny could go...

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All during Ginny's morning classes she couldn't think about anything but what she was going to do after lunch. She didn't have a class directly after lunch, since it was her study time. So that meant that she wouldn't have to lie to her teachers about missing class.

Lunch seemed to come and go so fast, and before Ginny knew it, it was time to go. She went to the girl's bathroom before leaving to slip on the invisibility cloak. She walked out just in time to see Draco exiting the Great Hall. She followed closely behind him, her feet barely touching the marble ground. Draco pushed open the big front doors of Hogwarts, stepping out onto the lawn.

"He said to meet him in Hogsmeade, so we could apparate out together." Draco thought to himself. He couldn't apparate yet, so he would have to hold on to his father while he apparated to go with him. They were having the funeral at the Malfoy's mansion, in the back lawn. Draco slowly started to make his way to Hogsmeade.

Ginny followed him into Hogsmeade, wondering how he was going to get to his mum's funeral. She just realized she didn't even know where they were having it! Maybe she shouldn't do this...

Losing her train of thought suddenly made her trip on a stone in front of her. She winced in pain as the tip of her toe started throbbing.

Draco heard a crack and turned around. It sounded like footsteps. His eyes narrowed as he scanned the lawn behind him. He didn't see anyone. "Maybe it was just your imagination," he thought to himself. He heard a small whimper come from some where behind him. His eyes fell onto the direction in which it came.

"Ginny, take off the cloak now," Draco sighed, finally figuring out who it had to be.

Ginny slowly lifted the cloak off of her head.

"Go back right now, you can't come!" Draco exploded. He could see the hurt in Ginny's eyes as he said it.

"Well, I'm already this far, and if you think I'm just going to let you keep going on without me then you must be out of your mind." Ginny explained, confidence filling every word.

Draco didn't know what to do. He had to go to this funeral, and she probably would be better off with him helping her, then just her trying to figure out what to do on her own.

"Fine," he said defeated,"but listen to everything I say. I'm meeting my father in Hogsmeade. You must be quiet at all times. I'm going to grab on to him so we can apparate, and when I do, grab on to my arm too, so you'll go with us. When we get there just follow me. My father will be apparating us home too."

"Alright I got it,"Ginny said triumphantly.

Ginny put the cloak back on and followed Draco as he walked nearer to the Hogs Head, a pub in Hogsmeade. He seemed so quiet, so sad.

"Remember what I said," Draco whispered to Ginny as they walked in the door.

Draco's father, Lucious, was sitting at a table.

"Finally, you took forever," his father hissed.

"Sorry father, It took a while to get here," Draco replied sternly.

Ginny stood a good distance away from them both, to make sure Lucious couldn't hear her breathing.

"We're going to apprate from here. Grab on to my arm," Draco's father ordered. Ginny ran over to Draco, trying not to make any noise and grabbed on to his arm. As she did so, Draco grabbed on to his fathers.

There was a loud snap and Ginny was zooming threw the air. She could slowly see the Malfoy mansion come into view. Draco's skin felt so warm as she held on to him. All she wanted to do right now was look into Draco's eyes.

Suddenly she felt the ground at her feet. They were standing in the back lawn of the Malfoy mansion. The house was humongous. It was, at least, five stories high. It was beautifully decorated from the outside. It was so beautiful, including the nicely cut and trimmed back yard, with fountains scattered here and there. She forgot where she was for a while and then remembered to make no noise, and to stay near Draco and his father, who were now, a ways ahead of her. She ran to catch back up with them. They came to a place in the back yard with a casket in the middle and a hole dug beside it. Some chairs were lined up in front of the casket. Draco and Lucious made there way towards the chairs. Draco chose a chair on the end of the line, so Ginny could sit on the ground beside him.

Ginny looked around at the Malfoys that were already there. They all had blonde hair, and the same cold eyes. All their faces were rock hard, even the women. The Blacks were a little different, all with black hair, but they still carried the cold stare. No one seemed to be crying, smiling, or anything. Their faces were so emotionless. No one was hugging or supporting each other, just sitting in their seats, staring at the coffin. Draco seemed to take no notice in any of this, being so used to it. His face looked like the rest of theirs, cold with no emotion. Ginny thought of the other side of Draco that she loved, the side that gave him a small sparkle in his eyes, a more softened face...

Lucious Malfoy suddenly stepped in front of the casket. He started talking about Narcissa, Draco's mother, but he didn't seem to care about her death. Not one tear fell from his dark, almost black, eyes.

Ginny moved closer to Draco, still covered by the invisibility cloak.

Suddenly she felt a cold hand wrap its fingers around hers. She looked at Draco. His hand was in hers, near the back of his seat so no one would notice his now invisible hand. A gleam was appearing in Draco's eye. Ginny gripped his hand harder and his face slowly became softer. The gleam disappeared, and he sat staring, his face blank, at the coffin exceeding farther and farther into the ground. Draco's fathers wand got lower and lower as he pointed it at the coffin. Ginny leaned her head in closer to Draco's ear.

"It's okay, stay strong," she whispered in his ear.

Draco held back his tears, and gulped. He wanted to sob onto Ginny Weasley's shoulder again. He wanted to hold her in his arms. He wanted to leave this cold, heartless place.

Draco gripped Ginny's hand tighter, until she felt like it was going to fall off. Lucious Malfoy walked over to Draco.

"It's time to go," he snapped, his face still emotionless.

Ginny let go of Draco's hand and grabbed onto his shoulder, as they were whisked off once more.

Before Ginny knew it, she was back at the Hog's Head.

"Hurry back before your late," Lucious spit at Draco, before apprating away.

Draco stormed out of the Hog's Head. Ginny ripped off the invisibility cloak and followed him. Rain was now pouring from dark clouds above them. She caught sight of Draco and ran up to him and grabbed his hand. Tears were starting to fall from Draco's eyes again.

"He doesn't even care," Draco growled looking away from Ginny and still walking. Ginny held her grip on his hand.

Draco gulped. He wasn't going to cry. He wasn't...

A tear trickled down his face and landed onto his hand. He looked up into Ginny's eyes. Her red hair hung in her face as the rain fell, and her eyes sparkled and shined. Draco's blonde hair was matted down to his head. The tears that fell from his eyes blended in with the rain.

"I care," Ginny whispered into Draco's ear as she kissed his forehead. "I'm here for you Draco."

Draco gripped Ginny's hand harder and looked into her eyes. Those beautiful green eyes...

A/N: I don't know about this chapter.. Tell me what you think!