Author's note: I'm sorry I haven't posted for a while, I have been writing a lot of other fics in the past months or so, and well I finally got another review, so I'm starting up again with this one! Special thanks to all those who reviewed my little author's note of a chapter, because you really got me back into writing!
Chapter 13
She woke up, trying to label the feeling of unease in her mind. After the replay of her day yesterday, she couldn't help but let her jaw drop a little. The first thing that came to mind, was that she needed to tell Draco, but he was nowhere to be seen yesterday, and she didn't know if she would find him today. She got out of her bed, silently made to her trunk and changed, not wanting to wake her dorm mates. By now, breakfast was probably just starting. But no one really ever got up this early to eat on a school day...let alone any day. She grabbed her sandals, and made her way out of the dorm, and the common room. She made large detours through halls, incase she might meet him, because she had a feeling that he might be up now, because she just couldn't imagine him sleeping in, let alone him sleeping at all, even though she knew he had to. She smiled as she imagined him sleeping in, and groaning as someone came to wake him up. She didn't have any luck. She got many suspicious looks from teacher though, but she didn't care. She decided to finally risk it, and got down to the lower halls of the school which were of course the dominion of Slytherin.
She couldn't help but shiver as she made her way down to the lower levels of the school. She crossed her arms over her chest, pulling her thin cloak closer in a feeble attempt at gaining warmth.
As soon as she was about to give up hope at finding him, she turned the corner and caught a slight glimpse at the hem of a bottle green robe, and platinum blonde hair vanishing behind a door. She smiled as she found her mark.
She pulled her cloak even closer, and sped her steps up. She reached the door just as it clicked shut. She opened it cautiously and was surprised to see the room was pitch dark, but she continued in anyways. Just as she was about to whisper his name, she heard the sound of something being waved through the air, then a lumos spell was cast centimeters away from her neck.
"Virginia!" Said the unusually pale Draco face.
"Well yeah! Who did you think it was? Voldemort?" Draco lowered his wand and muttered knox, then looked around shiftily. She regretted saying that.
He grabbed her shoulders and pulled her farther into the darkened room. "What are you doing here?"
"Looking for you! What else?" She said cautiously. "What's going on? Why are you acting so jumpy?" She said putting her hand on his still on her shoulder, arm.
"I've been contacted." This short simple phrase spread a fear through Ginny's heart.
"...By who...?"
"I don't know! That's just it!" He exclaimed, slowly losing his composure.
"...Well...What did they say?" She asked, her reason for coming long forgotten.
"They told me that they knew, and that the Greaters knew, and knew more than we knew. They told me to watch my back, and watch who I trust, for they are betrayers." He said dropping his arms from her shoulders then said quite loudly "LUMOS!" and pointed his wand right into Ginny's eyes. She slapped his wand away, and reflectively ducked.
"What the hell are you doing!" She yelled at him.
"Testing." was all he said.
"Well, are you satisfied with your results?" She said in a disgruntled tone and straightened herself.
"Yes."
"Guh, okay. Now could you repeat what you said about this mystery letter please?" Her voice now more serious. He repeated it word per word, leaving out his little "test".
"What did they mean "we knew"?" She asked skeptically.
"Meaning you and me." He sighed.
"How?"
"I don't know. I would figure that if we find out who the betrayer is, we might find the answer. But I'm not sure if the betrayer is one you trust, or one I trust. Because frankly I only trust three people, you, Snape and my mother, and I have not told Snape of you, nor my mother. It is only you and I that know this power, because none of the others would be able to identify it even if they saw it. The only other person I know who could know would be –
-Colin" Ginny stated. "But it couldn't be him, I know it couldn't." She said firmly. Leaving no room for argument.
"I'm not accusing, but it would be good if you were to keep a tab on him. Now, we must go our separate ways for now, because we can't let any one know, and the rest of the Slytherins should be awake by now." He said, leading her to the door.
"Wait!" Ginny said rather loudly. "I can't believe I forgot! Something's wrong with Snape, he's in Dumbledore's office and apparently he has a month to live if the potion isn't brewed properly but since he's the only potions master they need some of the students he likes to make it!"
"..." Draco couldn't help but look utterly confused. "...Slower please?"
"Snape has been seriously injured and if he doesn't get the antidote in one month, he will die!"
"SHIT! This is worse than I thought! Okay, I have things to look into, we have to split up, make sure you act like you still hate me, I will do the same. Not much though because I would feel bad. So I don't know when we will be able to talk in private anymore. But try to think of something, and I will do the same. If you want to talk, go to the owlery and use my owl. You can remember her I assume?" When he got the nod from Ginny, he opened the door and looked out, once he saw the hall was empty, he walked out and turned left without another word.
Ginny watched him leave a little stunned, but turned right and made her way to the Great Hall for an early breakfast.
Author's note: I finally finished! Yay for me! Lol, I hope you guys liked this chapter, I know it's short, but well I'm currently working on like all of my other stories at once, and that takes mad skill :P I will hopefully have another one up by the end of this week latest, so pretty please review!
