Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any other character in the books.
Chapter Five: The game Begins
Molly Weasley was desperate. Her little girl had disappeared and there was still no sign of Ginny. Some people said that no one survived this long in the hands of Death Eaters but Molly knew Ginny was alive. The Weasley's Clock that stood at the living room was never wrong and though Ginny was at Mortal Peril she was not dead, there was still hope.
Arthur was sitting by his wife in the office of the new Order of the Phoenix Headquarters. They were waiting for the other Weasleys who still lived in England, Harry, Hermione, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Severus Snape and Minerva MacGonagall.
The Weasley boys arrived early and Hermione arrived a few minutes after. The other didn't took long either except for Harry.
"I'm sorry I'm late!" Harry said when he came in. He was miserable. He looked as if he hadn't slept for week, what was probably true. Since Ginny was kidnapped that Harry had done everything he could to find her. He had abandoned everything he was doing for Ginny.
"It's ok Harry! But now we can start the meting and I ask the people who are too weak to stay here to leave now or hold themselves until the end of the reunion." Remus Lupin said looking at Molly who had started crying uncontrollably in the last reunion they had about where Ginny was.
Molly said nothing but did not leave the room.
"Ok! Now, we haven't found out much about the place Ginny is hidding. We believe it to be out of the country but we're not sure. Death Eaters didn't say anything, they didn't ask anything for Ginny like they did so many times when they wanted information or something like that so we are much has we were last month. In other words, we have no idea where Ginny is or what they want from her, we still have hope they don't know who she is..." Snape informed.
"They know!" Harry interrupted looking through the window." I said nothing, the Ministry asked me to keep a secret but they found a note with Cho Changs corpse. It said: 'Look close Potter. The first girlfriend, the first death. The second girlfriend...I guess you're not that stupid to figure out what is going to happen to Virginia Weasley.' "
"How could you hide this from us? We are her family, we deserved to know! Did you knew about this?" George asked Ron. Ron blushed and looked at his feet.
"Oh my God, You knew! You both knew and said nothing!"
"Like Harry said, it was a secret from the Ministry, only the Unspeakables and Harry knew!" Ron said in such a low voice that, if the room wasn't so silent, no one would have heard.
"We tried to discover who wrote it, we answered a few Death Eaters that were recently caught but none of them seemed to know, some of them were even tortured and interrogated with Verisaterum. Who ever has Ginny has her well hidden."
"I can't be sure, but I have been thinking and this new information fits my theory!" Snape spoke looking deep into Harry's eyes. It seemed like he wanted to get inside Harry's mind but after years of practice Harry had finally managed to learn Occlumency.
"Let us know...!" Tonks said.
"Many Death Eaters have many reasons to hate Harry Potter, he is a threat to all they believe, to all they desire, Potter is the menace to their Lord! But there is one, that, besides all this, has a past with Potter, a past that begins in Hogwarts, in their first year, in their first night! Potter denied his friendship to chose his family's enemy's friendship. And in all their years there they were enemies, they could not stand each other. One was a Slytherin, the other a Gryffindor, one was a pureblood, the other a half-blood, one was a hero, the other considered a villain. They had school fights through many school years but the event in their sixth year made a scar in the boy's pride that never got off."
"Malfoy!" Ron and Harry said at the same time.
"Malfoy couldn't do that! He has not the courage, he was a coward who couldn't even stand for himself, he had to have his fellow Slytherins covering his back!" George said not believing the Ferret Boy would ever be capable of even trying to make an unforgivable curse without his father by his side.
"You would all be surprised! Draco is no longer the boy he used to be in Hogwarts, he found a way out of the shadows, or a way inside them. I once believed Draco was one of the few Slytherins I could save from the Dark side but that was before his sixth year. Draco became the strongest, the smartest and the cruelest Death Eater I have known. You all knew Lucius Malfoy, you all know Belatrix Lestrange, Draco is more evil than those two together and multiplied by a hundred! And Potter is the one person he hates more than anything in this world. He may hate Muggles, Mubloods and Bloodtraitors but Potter is his number one target!"
No one spoke. They looked at each other in silence for several minutes. The silence was broken when an owl entered the room by the chimney. The gray bird stopped in front of Harry, dropped a letter in his hands and left. Harry opened the letter that was addressed to him.
'Tonight. Eleven o'clock, Knockturn Alley. Alone.' Harry closed the letter, and his mind was suddenly invaded by images of Ginny screaming and covered in blood. It was unbearable. The screams, the twisting, the blood. She was being tortured. Harry called for her, he tried to reach her but he couldn't walk. He heard Snape saying something but it seamed like he was so far away. And like it had all started it ended. In the next minute he was back in the office but he was no longer standing, he was lying in the floor with cold sweat over him.
"The letter had an old Dark Spell! You should be more careful Potter, it could have driven you crazy!" Snape said with arrogance.
"Ginny... I saw her...she was screaming..." he said breathlessly. " He wants to see me alone!"
"Was it Malfoy?" Hermione asked.
"I'm not sure, there was a shadow there but I could not see who it was."
Many Miles Away
Ginny looked at the ceiling. She was lying on the floor. Her mind was empty, her body was numb, her faith was fading, her heartbeat was weaker and weaker with each minute. She could be crying but her tears run out, she would be screaming if the voice inside her didn't screamed louder, she could be torturing herself with memories but she was too weak to even think.
She had tried to kill the pain but what she got was the pain to grow. She was starting to feel like a corpse forced to live. Her past seemed so far away, her present was a torture and her future a dream.
"It hurt didn't it?" she heard the voice of Draco Malfoy saying."I saw you Weasley, I have seen what you saw! I was inside your mind and I was inside this dungeon, but you didn't see me, you saw what your mind told you to see, you were so... focused in your pain I could have opened a door and you couldn't see it. You closed your eyes to the outside and got lost inside you! And now you gave up looking for a way out! Where is your bravery now? Where is your Gryffindor pride?" he laughed. " So Gryffindors are weak after all, Gryffindors quit too!"
"What do you want Malfoy? You wanted me to taste a bit of what you have tasted? I had my part already! You wanted me to go insane, I'm am insane! But guess what? I don't care! I'm numb, I feel nothing! I breath but I can't feel my lungs moving, my heart beats but it's like he stopped! You can do anything you want with me because I don't care. I don't even know if you're real! All I know it's that death is the only thing that can prove I am alive! I just want to end this sickening silence that surrounds me and that got inside me and tear me apart! I don't care if you torture me, if you fucking rape me, if you kill me! I DON'T CARE!" she said with her eyes closed. Her voice was weak, and she was shaking.
Draco smirked. She had reached the point he wanted her to reach. She had reached the edge and had fallen. She was falling in a dark hole and she had lost the hope someone would be able to catch her. It was time to wake up the faith in her.
"What about Potter? Do you care?
Ginny opened her eyes and looked at Draco. He saw a sparkle of hope being born in her eyes.
"Harry? It's been so many time since I've heard of him..." she said more to herself than to him.
"Yes Weasley, Harry Potter! You would like to see him, wouldn't you?"
"I may be weak but I'm not stupid yet! You wouldn't let me see Harry!"
"Oh that's where you're wrong. You will see Harry and he will see you!"
"What are you playing at Malfoy?" Ginny said in a weak and tired voice.
"I'm not playing yet Weasley!"
He walked until he was right in front of her. She got up and tried to get away but behind her was a wall. He looked deep inside her eyes. For the first time he really saw her. He had been looking into her mind for the past two month, he had been searching in her soul but all he could see was the darkness that filled her. Now he saw her complete, he saw the darkness but deep down her there were still dreams and faith. After all she had been through she still had pureness, she still believed it would get better. That only made Draco's hatred for her and all Harry Potter loved grow up. He hated those stupid feelings like faith and he hated pureness, it was nothing but foolish fairytales.
He grabbed her hair and threw her against the wall. Ginny screamed when she felt Draco's fingers pushing her but not letting her hair go so that he pulled out some of her hair. Her face hit the wall and she tasted the blood coming from her nose that had broken.
"Petrificus Totalus!" Draco whispered holding his wand in the hand he had free. Ginny fell to the floor.
"The game is just about to start!"
Draco smiled and apparated in a round room taking the unconscious Ginny with him. The room had only one door, there were three chairs in the room. Two were in the middle of the room, the other was by the wall in the darkest place. Only two candles lighten the room.
'Let the games begin!' Draco thought.
N/A:Ok, my grammar sucks, I already know that and I'm trying really hard to get better so please give some hints of how to improve my wryting (I already use a spellchecker and a grammarcheker). Thank you!