I'd like to give big thanks to Ronnie for the help in the last review. I'd never noticed that as it doesn't seem to come up in a spell check so I'll do my best to put in more punctuation from now on!

She grabbed his arm a little more firmly and then bent down and touched the umbrella…

They both felt a pulling sensation and wind in their faces. Ginny made sure to hold on to Draco's arm tightly and soon enough they arrived at their destination. They were in a small dark room, Ginny propped Draco against a wall and lit a couple of lamps. He glanced round as far as he could see by peering sideways. The room looked old and not well decorated, but someone had obviously made an effort to make the room a little more welcoming. There was a small desk in one corner and in another section a patterned screen had been set up in front of a small bed.

"I'm sorry about this…" said Ginny, not looking very sorry at all "I couldn't take the risk of anyone coming in and hexing you before waiting for an explanation."

Ginny took the Death Eaters wand from Draco's pocket. She then cast a featherweight charm on Draco and moved him over to the small bed and pulled the screen round to cover him.

"Stay here... not that you have much choice. I'm going to see if I can get you a healer."

Draco tried to move but couldn't manage to do so much as wiggle a finger. His eyes followed Ginny across the room to a set of shelves covered with ornaments. Ginny picked up one that looked like some kind of spiky green plant and held it tightly in her hand. Great, thought Draco, I'm stuck here and all she wants to do is play with some bloody toys. He looked a little closer, seeing as he had nothing better to do. There were all sorts of decorations there; In just that quick glance Draco had seen several meaningless shapes and a multitude of animals; a horse, a howling wolf, a couple of different birds, even a dragon.

Ginny sighed. "Where is she?" she muttered "oh, who to try… who won't go nuts before I can explain?" She put the plant back and looked thoughtfully at the shelves.

"Hah, you'll do. Actually this might work well." She grabbed a small metal cat which looked like it was just about to pounce and again held it tightly in her hand.

A few moments later and footsteps could be heard, and then a door opened.

"Ginny, you're safe. B-but you're covered in blood, are you ok? Have you been hurt?" came a familiar voice. Draco couldn't quite place it.

"I'm fine, it's not my blood. I wasn't sure if you'd be here, I tried Pomfry but there was no answer."

"I know; she's had to go to the other site. She'll be back tomorrow. You're lucky to catch me actually, I only popped back to drop off some more information and update everyone on what we've found so far."

"Well it's good to see you Hermione."

Draco groaned; he finally recognised the voice. The mudblood, just great. Maybe the Weasel wants to torture me too. He gave up on trying to break the spell and focused back in on the conversation.

"How's Harry?" Ginny asked.

"He's ok Ginny; Well - as good as can be expected. He's… very driven you could say. He only has the one thing on his mind now and he's determined to succeed. At any cost."

"Oh." said Ginny quietly. "Anyway, that's not why I called you. I found someone being attacked earlier and brought them back here. I kind of need your help."

"So that's why there's all the blood. Ginny, you know you're the next best healer after Pomfry. Why you must have patched up almost as many people as her, why do you need my help?"

"Erm, this one's a bit different Mi… You aren't going to like this one bit and neither will anyone else... But, well you know how I have this compulsion to help strays and waifs; anyway I saved erm, someone. Then they kind of saved me back and they needed healing so, well…" Ginny babbled a little.

"Gin, you're making no sense. What do you need me to do?" Hermione asked, thoroughly perplexed.

"It's easier if you just come and see." Ginny said "But promise not to shout or freak out. Promise?"

"Well I guess... Ok I promise. I don't know what's got you like this Ginny but you know I don't 'freak out' as you put it."

Draco heard footsteps coming over and then saw Ginny's face looking worried as she folded back the screen.

To Hermione's credit she didn't scream, shout or 'freak out'. However she pressed her lips together so tightly that they went white.After taking a few deep breaths she asked in a slightly high pitched voice.

"Ginny, I think you have some explaining to do. Now I do trust you but please tell me what possible explanation you could have for bringing this person here?"

"He was being tortured Mi... By a Death Eater, from what I can tell because he didn't kill Du... Well you know what Harry saw; you know the whole story. Probably better than I do... So I saved him, and then we were attacked and he saved me, well he said it was to save himself but we've always known he was an arrogant prat so he would say that. I need you to help me explain this to everyone."

I'm here; don't talk about me as if I'm not right in front of you thought Draco. This is humiliating; I don't know why I agreed to go with her… Yes I do know; nothing better to do, no where safe to go. As much as he hated to admit it; it was kind of nice to have someone honestly want to help him out, even if it was someone he hated. Three weeks locked away in a tower has sent me mad, he thought. I'd always have thought I'd rather be left to die than accept help from a Weasel. Even if she is a slight improvement on the males of her family.

"Well Ginny, he's the last person I expected to be here and I'm far from happy about this but I'll help you talk to everyone. We can't turn him out now. But no one's going to like it much. You're just lucky Ron and Harry aren't going to be here for a while…"

Ginny looked sad "Yeah, really lucky." She sighed "Look, thanks Hermione, I knew I could count on you. And, well I'll face the consequences if anything goes wrong."

"Ginny, if he causes any trouble I'm sure it would be disastrous and I think the guilt would be more than enough for you to dwell on. But I'm sure we can fool proof the situation with a few spells and other precautions. Look, you clean him up while I break the news to that lot downstairs. Don't let him get near your wand" With a small smile for Ginny and a single thoughtful glance at Malfoy she left the room.

Ginny moved closer to Draco with a slight look of apprehension. "Ok Malfoy, I'm going to take the spell off now. Behave yourself or I'll hit you with another Bat-Bogey Hex!"