Authors note: This chapter is going to explain some stuff incase you aren't really getting it :P...this is my fifth chapter and I still don't have any reviews...I hope that's not a sign! I'm not sure if this is going to be a long chapter or not...it will probably be long-ish :P

Chapter 5

Ginny suddenly stopped walking. "Colin? Can we eat in the kitchen today? I have just been having the worst day of my life and I don't feel like sharing it with the entire school." She explained.

"Of course Gin, especially after that potions class." He said with a knowing smile. One thing Ginny loved about Colin was that he would always smile. The walked all the way down to the painting with the bowl of fruit, and Colin tickled the pear. The door opened and he walked in first, Ginny followed right after, but as she stepped into the kitchen, she stepped on the hem of her robes and fell face first onto the floor. She couldn't take it anymore. Ginny was always the one to look on the bright side of things, the one who would laugh and smile even when everything looked hopeless. So when she sat down a cried, Colin knew she needed as much support as she could get. Instead of helping her up, Colin sat down beside her and put his arm around her shoulder.

"What's wrong Ginger?" He used her old nickname in hopes of making her smile.

"Life sucks." Was all she said, with her head buried in his shoulder. By now, they were being surrounded by house elves, so Colin told them to bring a box of tissues and some lemon tea, which was always Ginny's favorite.

"Aw, come on Gin, you haven't been happy at all today since you got that letter. Now are you going to tell me what it was or am I going to tickle it out of you?" He said with a sly smile.

"NO! You are not going to tickle me you fiend! I don't know how to tell you, I mean, you will find it so ludicrously funny, that you will laugh and call me naïve." The ending was muffled because she put her head back into his shoulder. "I'm just scared."

"Gin? If you think it's something serious, then I couldn't laugh! You are the smartest girl I know, and we have both been there for each other. You can trust me." By now the elves had brought the tissues and tea, so Ginny raised her head, sniffled a few times, wiped her eyes, then she blew her nose with the tissue. She took a sip of her tea, and then told Colin everything that has happened since a few nights ago. When she finished she looked up at him and he was quiet for a few minutes.

"Wow, Malfoy saved your life? And this "Goddess" person, you said you accepted? Did she even say what would happen to you? Ginny you know I trust you beyond belief, but are you sure you made the right choice?"

"No, I'm not, but I know she isn't evil, I can't tell you why I know, but I do. I trust her Colin. She said that Malfoy and I are the only ones that carry the blood magic that can control her gifts. And she said these gifts could decide the winning side to the war, I would give up my life to let our side win. And she's not asking me to die, she is asking me to, well I don't even know what she's asking, but I am going to do it!" She said looking straight into Colin's eyes. " And right now, I really need someone to understand that." Colin placed his hands on the sides of her face and kissed her forehead.

"I understand. I'm just worried. You might not like this, but I really believe we should talk to Dumbledore." All Ginny had to do was look into his pleading eyes to agree.

"Fine. But not right now. I don't think I'm ready for it just yet." They sat there for a moment longer before getting up and walking out into the hallway.

"Ginny, I have an idea! Let's go up to the astronomy tower and look at the stars! I know you love to do that! What do you say?" He suggested.

Ginny looked at him skeptically before saying, "By the time we get up there, it will be close to curfew, and I'm not in the mood to get into trouble." She looked over at Colin and he was giving her his sweetest puppy eyed face he could muster up. "I hate you, did you know that?" She said while punching him playfully in the arm. "You win, alright?" Then they continued up through the halls laughing, and in Ginny's case, giggling, all the way up to the tower door. Ginny opened the door slowly since she was actually tired from having to walk to the tallest tower in the school, and when she did, she noticed the room seemed to have a red glow to it. By the time her eyes adjusted to it, she looked down on the ground and saw a red, liquid trail, flowing towards the wall nearest to the balcony. Before Ginny realized what she was doing, she had her wand drawn and was running to the outside area. When she got there, she had to turn away for a moment before letting her stomach settle. There, lying at the edge of the balcony was Draco.

The only real reason she could tell it was him, was by the streaks of platinum blond hair, poking through the red of his blood. From what she could tell he was lying in a pool of his own blood, which was coming from the welts in each of his wrists. She didn't even notice Colin standing beside her. Soon Ginny's mind was in action, and she hurried over to the body in hopes of finding a pulse. As soon as she found one, she muttered the healing spells to seal the wounds back together. Before she could even tell Colin to run and get help, he was already halfway gone, he turned and gave her a small nod of understanding, before he was off again. She turned back to the body and started thinking of anything she could do that might help.

She cautiously knelt down beside him, her robes soaking through with blood, and she checked his pulse once again. It was barely there, let alone in a beat. She quickly said a prayer for Colin, before picking up Draco's head and cradling it on her lap.

"Malfoy? Come on, I may hate you, a lot, but well, you can't be as unfeeling as I think. I mean, only people with feelings would want to, uh, do this to themselves. What could have drove you this far?" She said as a small tear rolled down her cheek and landing on his. Then a voice so pained and quiet, that she thought she was imagining it, spoke one word before going back into total unconsciousness.

"Lucius." And that was all.

She sat there for a few minutes longer, holding his head to her chest, before she heard the unmistakable sound of someone running up the hard, stone steps. She looked to see who had finally come to her aid, when she saw the on person she would never have thought could make her so happy in her entire life. Severus Snape. He glided over in that manner in only which he could do, then he knelt down on the other side of Draco's body. He didn't even so much as glance at Ginny before taking bottles out of the small case he was carrying. Ginny sat there too stunned to move, and merely watched what he was taking out of his bag. Blood replenishing potion, a pepper-up potion and a pain relief potion. When Ginny saw all the things she finally spoke up.

"You cant give him a pepper-up potion! He is unconscious! That could kill him couldn't it?" She asked. He didn't even look up, but merely continued to pour the potions down his throat.

"His body is drained of blood, yes he is unconscious, if I give him a pepper-up potion, his heart will beat faster, therefore he will receive a greater amount of blood, yes that would normally kill a healthy person because the body can only sustain so much while it is defenseless." He said while finally looking up at her.

Then seconds later, Colin ran through the door, huffing and puffing.

"He moves fast when he's in a hurry." He said while gesturing towards Snape. Snape merely smirked.

"I will take him to the hospital wing, now you two, you will go back to your dormitories and you will speak of this to no one. Is that clear?" He said with a voice implying that if this news got around school, they would face a punishment far worse than house points and cleaning desks. The nodded mutely as the watched there normally cool and calculated professor bend down and lift their cool and calculated peer off the ground. Both students were shocked by this, but no nearly as much as they were when they saw a tear slide down the ,normally menacing, face of their teacher. As soon as he started for the stairs, they both followed quickly after. When they looked back to see if they should do anything about the blood everywhere, they realized he had already solved that with a quick and simple banishing charm.

When they finally split up to go to their common room, they gave each other a look that meant they wouldn't talk about it to each other until the time was right. But when they walked in, the heard the loud voice of Ron, talking.

"That heartless bastard! No wonder the Slytherins love him so much, he and them are one in the same. Cold, unfeeling and great, big, gits the lot of them!" Colin knew who he was talking about, and knowing Ginny, her Weasley temper was ready to burst.

"Ginny..." He whispered warningly. She looked at him and then through her hands up in the air.

"You owe me big time." She whispered into his ear. Then her face went blank as a slate. She walked over to the group of three and plunked herself down on the sofa. "What's up Ron's butt this time?" She asked.

"Well, he is on his daily "I hate Snape and all people in Slytherin" rant." Harry said with a smirk. Ron glared at them all and continued his "rant".

"He took 78 points from Gryffindor, and then set all us Gryffindors extra homework!" He yelled.

"And that's new? Come on Ron, give it a rest, he isn't that bad. I mean honestly." She said looking around as the entire common room went dead silent. Some people even dropped the things they were holding. "Oh quit being so melodramatic! You people are even worse than Slytherin! Look at yourselves! Don't look at me you dolts! Have you even given one of them a single chance! They at least have good reasons to be closed off and secretive, but you know what? I bet they never take anyone down in their house or exclude and ignore members of their house! At the start of the year when Professor McGonagall told us all that our houses would be like our family for our remaining years at Hogwarts, I have yet to see that family in this house! I bet they truly stick up for each other, the whole of Slytherin is like one person, you attack one you attack them all. Now look at yourselves, if someone insulted me, would every single one stand up for me and protect me? No you wouldn't." Ginny once again looked around at the crowd of people as they all stood staring at her mouths wide open. She was probably a shocked as the next person there, but she would not let it show. She realized how much of that statement had actually been from her heart. And now she could only see the blood draining from the cuts on his wrists and the pained look on the face of Malfoy being cradled in her arms. She stood up and left the room in a dignified manner. She knew that her being around would be rather uncomfortable and even a little unwanted by most people in there, so she figured she would just get some rest. She was about to slip into bed, when she heard a knock at the door. She walked over slowly, not really wanting to face any of the girls in her dorm. But when she opened the door, she was pleasantly shocked to see a smiling Colin standing there.

"You cant get up here!" Stated a bewildered Ginny.

"Unless I am invited. I asked one of the girls to take me up." He said still smiling like a madman.

"Well then, make yourself at home!" She said while moving aside to let him in. She went and sat down on her bed, while he chose a seat on the bed across form her.

"I don't think she will mind. Do you?" He asked while pointing to the bed he was currently sitting on.

"Nah, so why did you want to come up here?" She asked.

"Isn't seeing you enough? No? Well it was getting a little heated down there thanks to you. But man, to see you pull that off without so much as a raised voice or even a twitch in the eyes, I mean, that was a thing of pure beauty Gin! I mean, after you left some first year stood up and openly agreed with you that you were right, than one of his friends disagreed with him, then Hermione told everyone that they should be getting to bed, then everyone started talking about it, agreeing or disagreeing...I am sorry to say though, that the majority vote is against you. But well, you have my vote Hun." Then all of sudden a loud voice was heard from the common room.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS! I WANT WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE TO STEP FOREWARD THIS INSTANT!" Yelled the unmistakable voice of the Gryffindor house head. Professor McGonagall.

"There's my queue." Said Ginny as she headed out the door and down the stairs, followed quickly by Colin. When the two of them got into the common room, the noticed how disordered it was, and they even noticed two girls being held back from one another.

"Professor, I think I am the guilty one here." Came Ginny's voice as she tried to make it through the crowd.

The teacher looked at her skeptically before questioning her.

"What drove you to start such a reckless behavior?"

"She was showing us what assholes we really are!" Yelled the voice of the small Denis Creevy. The look on Colin's face couldn't have become any more proud at that moment. Then everyone started murmuring again.

"QUIET! Mr. Creevy, I will not tolerate such language! Now I will hear the explanation from Miss Weasley and only Miss Weasley. Now start explaining before I deduct house points!" Her lips tightened and her eyes narrowed.

"Well you see, one of the students were talking poorly about the Slytherins in general and calling them emotionless, and I told them off and said that we are just as cruel as them and probably even less understanding, and how they at least have a reason and some other stuff, but it was just going along with the flow, and then I left." She said looking her straight in the eyes. She had left out some things, but she figured you couldn't lie if you didn't say anything at all. And right now she was thinking about how lucky her brother was that she wasn't really pissed off.

"Well, is there anyone who would like to disagree with this statement? No? Well then Miss Weasley, Mr. Creevy would you come to me please?" When she looked at the two Creevys trying to figure out which one of them should go, she clarified it for them. "Colin!" He quickly recovered from his confusion with his brother, then followed them both out of the common room.

"I talked to Professor Snape a few minutes ago." She said with a knowing look. "And I want you to know that you are thanked in many ways. Young Mr. Malfoy would not have made it if it weren't for you. But as you both know, because I'm sure Severus, I'm sorry, Professor Snape has talked to you, I do not want to hear one word of this, if anyone finds out, I am afraid your punishment will be severe. Ad as I can see you are very curious as to his well being, and it would do you good to know, that you indeed did save his life, and he will make a recovery all in good time. I am rather impressed by what you said in the common room tonight, it wont go unnoticed by many of the staff. And you might have a rough week ahead, news spreads quickly in this school. And since you have been through a bit today, I think I will award you 25 points for attempting to promote house unity. Now get to bed, the both of you." She said with a little smile, than walked off to get some sleep of her own.

"Well that was, let's say, unexpected." Said Colin. "let's go inside now, I'm freezing my arse off!"

They both walked into a surprisingly empty common room, the only occupants were Harry, Hermione and Ron. Ginny tried to get by them as quickly as possible, but was cut off by the sound of her brother's voice.

"How could you do that to me Gin? You don't know how disappointed I am." He said, in a voice that made it sound as if Ginny had been the one to kill their grandfather. Colin could sense Ginny's annoyance, but this time he only backed away a little, Ginny tended to make large arm gestures when she was angry, and he didn't want to be hit.

"Disappointed Ron? Did I disappoint you? I'm sorry your Royal Highness I completely forgot myself!" She said while bowing down, dramatically low. "How could I have done such a thing in your presence? I guess now, I will have to go on a strict diet of bread and water because I am deeply ashamed of myself. I don't think I can go on!" She heard Colin laughing silently behind her and that gave her even more confidence. "Ronald, I don't give a flying turd about your "honor", I don't care if you are disappointed! Any thing I said to you, to this whole house, was true! If you cant see that, than you should be disappointed in yourself my old friend. Because I stand by every syllable I uttered and for now on, there is nothing you can do. I could go bloody well shag some Slytherin, and if you have something to say about it, you will be sorry. I am taking the reins in my life, and I'm going to do what I damn well feel like. Stay out of my way, and out of my life."

"You know what Ginny? You couldn't take over your life if you wanted to! You have always been dependant on someone! Ever since that diary and Tom Riddle, he messed with your mind!" He yelled back at her. Harry and Hermione looked as if he had just told them that Voldemort was his lover. But what they did not expect was laughter coming from the opposition.

"Hey Colin! HA! Did you hear what he said! I mean, blaming Voldemort on his insecurity! Wow, you just sank to a new low my brother! Now, you better hope you were kidding." Ginny looked at him with as much loathing as she could muster up, and then suddenly every torch, candle and even the fire went out, the only light left in the room was coming from Ginny herself. Her normally chocolate brown eyes, looked like burning red embers. As soon as it started it was over. Ginny looked around a little confused. "What the fuck did you do?" She said.

"We didn't do anything Gin." Said a cautious Hermione.

"Pfft! Well I'm going to go to sleep now. Night Col."

"Night Gin." he said with a little wave. Then he went to bed himself.

"How could you say that?" Asked a not too happy Harry Potter. "She was 11 years old and we practically ignored her! How could you throw that back in her face?"

"I-I didn't mean to! I swear! It just slipped out of my mouth before I could even stop it! But didn't you two see what happened with the lights and her eyes! That isn't normal, they were ON FIRE!"

"Ron, we all saw it, and I don't have an explanation for what happened, and if you don't apologies, well, we may never find out, and she needs sometime to cool down, then you better go give a SINCERE apology or else your going to have to start actually DOING homework! Now I am tired and we have probably a long week ahead of us. So goodnight." Hermione said, then walked up to her room and went to sleep.

"I'm not taking your side on this one, you're going to have to apologies and you better make it soon because if Hermione wont let you copy off her homework, than she probably wont let me either!" He said with a smile then went off to bed. Ron sat looking into the fire for a few more minutes, before calling it a night.

That night, Ginny had a strange dream.

"Hello Virginia, Daughter of Earth." Said the beautiful voice of Clywynn. "You have experienced your gifts for the first time. Do not look so lost. The candles and the fire. That was you. You now have the gifts of controlling any type of fire, whether it be a burning forest, of the tiny flame of a candle, you can control temperature, but unfortunately you can only make rooms hotter or reducing them to their original temperature, you can not make a room any cooler than it already is. And last but certainly not least, you can heal any burn whether it be from a burning forest, or it be the tip of a finger on the tiny flame of a candle. Do you get what I am saying? Good. In time your gifts will advance and become more complex, and in time you will be able to heal everything and anything. You could reduce the temperature by controlling the heat in the air. But we wont get into that. You will want to control your emotions also, that is when your power peaks and that wouldn't be good at all in the presence of and entire school. You will want to practice with candles or other small flames. Now, I believe that you have a potions class to attend."

Ginny woke with a start, then looked at her timetable and realized she did indeed have a potions class. She got showered, fixed her hair, put on her clothes and grabbed all her necessary books of her table. She hurried down stairs then waited for Colin, when she waited for 10 minutes, she just left like he had down many times to her in previous years.

Ginny knew people from every house would eventually find out about what happened, but she didn't think it would spread that quickly. When she walked into the Great hall, she heard her name whispered so many times from different places at different tables, some people smiling, some people glaring, some turning away from her and some simply not caring. She sat down at the end of her table and looked it up and down to see if she could spot Colin, but instead ended up sitting with his little brother. When she chose the spot beside him, he lit up like light bulb. Ginny always had speculations on whether he had a crush on her, and now she new she had been right. With the looks and whispers she was getting, she ate her food as quickly as she could and left without even trying to find Colin. She looked at her time table again, and saw that this class was going to be with the Slytherins, she couldn't tell whether to be happy or anxious. So she walked into Snape's class and waited for the rest of them to arrive. Upon seeing her as they walked in, many of them gave an almost smile to her, so she figured she was safe for now. When Snape came in he acted as if nothing had happened last night and that was the way she liked it. She did notice however, that he would say that she brewed her potion too fast, or not long enough, or forgot this, instead of his usual "cant you do anything right?", "only a fool would put that in first!"...so on...But funnily enough, he actually seemed to be a little harsher on the other Gryffindors.

Ginny dreaded going to her next class, it was with Ravenclaw, and none of them were too fond Harry, Hermione or Ron, but she couldn't ell if that was in her favor or not. When she got to Divinations, she realized that the Ravenclaws were actually neutral in the whole ordeal, but they leaned a little more towards her side. The other thing she remembered from this class, was that damned black crystal. She seemed almost to fear coming back there.

Today they were doing tea leaves. She sighed, then waited for the people to get their cups then she could get hers. She sat down and poured in the water with the leaves. She drank the cup and then looked in the bottom at what shapes the mushy leaves resembled. When she looked in, she almost wanted to cry. Where the leaves should have been, was a tiny, electric blue flame. It seems Professor Trelawney still remembered their last class together, and was still a little hesitant to come over, but when she finally did, she looked into the cup and fainted. Everyone quickly rushed over to her and started to try and waken her. Ginny quickly slide by them all, and made her way out of the class room, and took the long trek up to Dumbledore's office. She wanted answers right now and she was going to get them. That was her very last thought before she blacked out halfway up the stairs. She fell the last half, possibly breaking several bones and was now bleeding by a gash in her side. The only sound to be heard, was the paintings frantically running about different canvases trying to find someone to help this poor helpless girl.

Authors note: I don't know what's going on with fanfiction, but it wont let me read any stories or post any new chapters! So I tried to at least make this on a tiny bit longer! And I really thank Ginny-and-Draco-fan for my first review on this story :P...Even though I only have one review...I'm still happy...and I put at the start of this chapter that you would be learning more about ...stuff...BUT I LIED...I didn't mean to though...the stuff I had before was so boring...I mean, the went to Dumbledore and he told them everything...and that would have been the end...so I just hit my backspace button a bunch of times and tada ... Funny though...because at the start I thought this was going to be a short chapter...but it my longest one yet...and to my readers(if I even have any), I only have a skeleton for where this story is going...everything else is just made up on the spot :P...well PLEASE REVIEW BECAUSE YOU ARE NICE PEOPLE!