Author's note: Chapter twenty five... That's pretty awesome man... I can't wait fir this chapter, because it's going to be a good one, I've planned it out and everything... I actually thought of an ending while I was lying awake in my bed at like 4ish... So the ending will be pretty thrilling! HA! I won't tell you! Yeah, I'm still perky from lack of sleep... The same perkiness you got to read about in the last author's note... But yeah, I'll just let you read the story...
Chapter Twenty-Five
After Ginny's mother had finally let go of her only daughter, she was given a much gentler hug from her father.
She received a ruffling of her hair from both her oldest brothers, Bill and Charlie. She was then was once again hugged by Percy. All of them were so happy to see Ginny awake, that none of them really noticed how she barely smiled, couldn't move and that her throat was still on fire and she couldn't speak. The exception of Percy, he noticed, and he gave her questioning glances when no one else was looking.
She knew that if Madam Pomfrey hadn't kicked the lot of them out and told them to go see Dumbledore; he would have managed to ask her questions that she didn't want to think about.
Madam Pomfrey told Ginny that she had yelled her throat raw, and it had actually damaged some of the tissue on the inside of it, meaning she couldn't eat anything, or even drink, so she would be injected daily. She gave Ginny another injection for sleeping, and walked away.
Ginny didn't want to sleep though, so she fought the potion for a good ten minutes. She felt normal, then she felt extremely drowsy, but once she pushed passed that part, she was fine. She looked over at her vase, and spotted two new roses to the collection.
She looked around, and lay back onto her pillow. She looked to the ceiling and she drew back into her thoughts, letting her eyes glaze over. Her thoughts were brought to a little black book in her first year of school, and what appeared to be a very nice boy, offering his friendship. But he had betrayed her, and attempted to steal her life.
"Virginia?" came the voice of Severus Snape. She looked over to him, and tried smiling, but not even that worked. He walked over to her bed. "How are you feeling?" Ginny turned to him and mouthed 'terrible' to him, and he looked guilty. "Look, I have to apologize... It's my fault for..." Whatever he was going to say evaporated along with the room she was in. Now she was kneeling on the ground on a dark, damp stone floor. She looked up and was met with the disfigured face of the future Tom Riddle.
"What a pleassssure it is to have you here. I have been waiting a long time for thisss!" he hissed with glee, then reached out and grabbed what Ginny assumed was her own forearm, but when she heard the very familiar voice cry out in agony, she knew Draco was in grave danger.
Soon the dark dungeon vanished and was replaced by the white hospital ward in Hogwarts. Ginny didn't have a moment to lose before her left forearm was searing in a white hot pain. She clenched it and arched her back off the bed in pain. The agony moved up her arm, and was moving up to her shoulder. She didn't know how she had done it, because Madam Pomfrey said it was impossible... But she let out the most ear splitting scream anyone around had ever heard. It was so loud that it even drowned out the Potion Professor's, who was lying on the ground holding his left forearm tightly enough to cause his nails to turn white. Madam Pomfrey ran in, and had already called Dumbledore for professional assistance. She ran over to Ginny and touched her arm to try and stopped her from falling off the bed side, and Ginny screamed louder when their skin came in contact. To her, another person's touch felt like fire. Madam Pomfrey didn't know this, so she tried again to calm Ginny down, and she swung her hands at her, actually managing to claw the nurse, and draw a bit of blood.
By now the pain had spread to her neck and chest, so she was thrashing around full bodied, arms and legs flailing along with her high pitched screams, mixed in with Severus' who was now on the ground clutching a visible dark mark which was now bleeding heavily onto the floor. Madam Pomfrey almost fainted with a sense of loss, but Albus appeared through the floo, and instead of figuring out what was going on, he sent a patrificus totalus jinx at Ginny who was now using her right hand to scratch at her left arm.
The jinx did absolutely nothing to the girl, if not caused her more pain, because she thrashed about so greatly, she fell off the side of the bed. Poppy left Ginny in the hands of Dumbledore, and she rushed over to Severus and attended to the bleeding tattoo in his arm, and the pool of blood that had formed underneath it. She tried to heal the wound, and it worked for about a second, then they reopened and spurted blood once more. So instead of using magic, she ran to her cupboard and pulled out a long length of gauze. She grabbed his arm from him and wrapped it as tightly as she could, several times around. That seemed to stem the flow of blood, but he was still in a terrible amount of pain, she started panicking for real, because she couldn't think, she was so lost in the both of their screams, she actually had tears form in her own eyes. Next thing she did, was the only sensible thing she could think of.
She grabbed a metal food tray, and hit him hard over the head, causing him to go unconscious straight away.
Ginny's condition became worse, as she started coughing up blood from her throat, and her tears had turned to mostly blood, she was still clawing at her arm, breaking the flesh, causing it to bleed, all the while kicking at Dumbledore to make sure he didn't get any closer and becoming impervious to any magic.
Poppy Pomfrey was losing her mind at the sight of it all, and ran up to Virginia, and gave her the same medication she had given Severus. The room went silent, as the second patient fell into a quiet form of 'sleep'.
Albus turned to the nurse and saw her drenched in sweat, and shaking terribly, still clutching the metal tray. He led her to a chair and placed the tray on a distant table. He then picked Ginny up off the floor, and placed her back on the bed, then did the same for Severus.
"That was a bit excessive..." Albus noted with the slightest hint of humor. He went to sit down beside her on another chair, but his eye caught sight of the inside of Virginia's forearm, hanging over the side of the bed, the place she had been scratching, and he noticed something. He retrieved a wet cloth, and wiped the blood away.
Ginny had carved a rough sketch of the dark mark into her arm, using only her nails. He healed it with his wand and was more than ever thankful that it healed with no problems, and the only thing left was faint red lines from what she had done.
He frowned, and sat down beside his only nurse on staff. "Her immune system won't last much longer if this keeps up..." he stated.
"Her mental stability wont last much longer if this keeps up." they sat in thick silence, and Albus got up to leave, when Severus started to come to.
He started moving around, and groaning, then after a moment, he sat bolt up. Then his face crumpled in pain, and he fell back onto his pillow clutching his head. "Bloody Hell!" he yelled, and Poppy laughed nervously.
Albus walked over to him hurriedly. "Severus, does your mark still hurt?" he asked concerned.
He looked back up at Albus like he was a moron. "It hurts like a bitch!" then he proceeded to mumble something about 'Getting hit with a tray.'
"What happened?" Poppy asked uneasily.
"Well I was about to come talk to Virginia, and her face went entirely blank, I walked a little closer and her brown eyes lost heir colour and they turned completely gray, much like Draco's. She sat like that for about two minutes, then her eyes snapped back to their original colour, and the mark began burning, more so than it ever has. I could hear her own screams of pain as I fell to the ground, but I couldn't do anything. I'm fairly certain she was envisioning what was happening to Draco, she was in his body, seeing everything from his eyes." he concluded. And they turned to look at Ginny.
It was Albus who noticed her lips moving, and heard her rasping/mumbling something. As he walked closer to make out what she was 'saying.' She was murmuring Draco's name.
She was turning her head back in forth, an act of someone who wanted the images in front of them to desperately go away. She squeezed her eyes closed even tighter, then sat straight up and screamed Draco's name piercingly snapping her eyes open. Everyone looked at her with major shock, especially when they saw her eyes flash silver.
She started gasping for air, and then coughed up some more blood as she leaned over the side of her bed, account of having screamed the tissue out of her throat.
Poppy rushed quickly to her cabinet, and pulled out another needle while Dumbledore rushed to the girl's side, and attempted to comfort her and Severus watched helplessly from the side. Poppy ran back over after drawing up a pain relief potion mixed with a calming draught, then she jabbed her patient in the arm, pressed the miniature plunger and pulled it back out. She then placed a silencing charm on Ginny, because that enabled her to use her throat to make anymore noise. The girl's breathing then subsided and she sat back up in the bed, wiping a drip of blood from her mouth, and looking around indifferently.
"What did you see Virginia?" the Headmaster asked, and Ginny opened her mouth but expectedly, nothing came out. She did however close her eyes again, and not open them until he spoke again. "You can write it down, you don't have to speak." Ginny looked at him, letting all her sorrow and guilt flow into her eyes. "It's alright... Don't worry." he said kindly.
Apparently it wasn't the right thing to say. Her eyes changed from sorrow to rage and she opened her mouth and started, from what was easily understood, yelling at him. Tears seemed to pour out of her face, but her lips kept moving and her face was turning red. Soon she was using her arms which were up in the air, moving about in equal anger and she continued like that completely ignoring the fact that not one sound was being heard from her.
The three other occupants of the room looked at her fearfully, all of them completely glad that they couldn't hear her, especially Albus. He didn't think he could take hearing what she was saying, most of all because he knew it was mainly directed at him.
Her lips finally stopped moving, but her mouth remained open slightly, and she was panting from lack of breath during her breakout. She continued to glare daggers at him, and he had the courtesy to lower his gaze.
Poppy hadn't a clue what to do, but she knew this girl needed sleep... A lot of sleep. She walked over to her with a needle full of sleeping potion, and as she made to put it in her arm, Ginny slapped it away, and it feel to the ground and shattered on the stone floor. She jumped out of the bed, and her lips started moving again, but only Severus noticed form that angle, and what he could tell from their lack of movement, she was muttering.
She started for the door, but Albus stood up to stop her. She turned around and pointed at him, her lips moving quickly, and her gaze accusing. Then she moved her lips slowly and clearly, mouthing out every syllable with precision. 'Don't. You. Dare.' Then she left without another glance.
She heard voices down the hallway, and they were coming right after her. She made a quick choice, and she hide strategically behind a suit of armor. When the group of people passed, she saw eight red heads walk by, and Ginny recognized her whole family, walking up to meet their daughter, but would only be meeting an empty bed, with blotches of blood hear and there, that Albus and Poppy had carelessly forgotten to clean up.
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Ginny wasn't really thinking. Her mind seemed to have shut out any thoughts she had, and she just let her feet guide her. They took her all they way to the Great Hall, and her hands opened the doors. A few people looked over at her from their lunches, and they began nudging their friends to look as well. Almost the entire Great Hall was staring at her in dumbfound.
It was her appearance that was the most striking. Her hair was still matted with dirt, and it was completely mussed all over her head, in every direction. Her shirt had been changed to a thin white hospital substitution, which revealed her black bra quite clearly underneath. Not to mention she had large spot of blood on it, from her hand, her eyes, and her throat. Her pants were the same ones from the other day, and they were caked with mud and like the shirt, had blood on them, but far less noticeable than the shirt.
Her face, like everything else, had blood smeared on it, dirt, and tears that left two streaks of clean flesh in their wake. Her hands, still covered in blood were shaking, and her feet were bare. In fact, her whole body was shaking, especially her knees. Her flesh had a sickly pale look to it, and the only thing alive looking one her, was her piercing eyes, which were glaring at everyone, daringly. Everyone had their eyes glued to her as she stood there, and she could see them bulge out of their heads as she went and sat at the Slytherin's table.
No one considered talking to her, all of them too afraid of her dark gaze, made even darker by the purple bags under her eyes. She turned around as she heard someone from another table whisper to her. She saw a little girl, no more than second year looked at her terrified, then turn back to her own table quickly. Ginny narrowed her eyes even more, and she heard someone else whisper.
Ginny, as furious as SHE was, she got up abruptly, and stepped up on the bench to her table, and stepped up again onto the table.
Once again, she started yelling, her fists clenched at her side. Everyone looked at her in fear, but she continued moving her mouth quickly and far more angrily than she had with Dumbledore. She went at it for a minute, before someone at the Slytherin table figured it out.
They pointed their wand at her, and removed the silencing charm. The hall was met with her screams. "... SO WHY FUCKING BOTHER? I'M PROBABLY GOING TO DIE ANYWAYS!" She sucked in a breath of pain, and shock. She clutched her throat and fell to one knee. Before anyone did anything, she threw up a mouthful of blood on her neighbor's plate, and she jumped off the table, and ran with excruciating pain from the Great Hall. As soon as she cleared the door, she collapsed in pain. Pain from her recently healed leg, pain from her throat, pain from hr left arm, pain in her stomach from swallowing a good amount of blood today, pain from just soreness in her entire body, and by far, the most pain, her own mental pain.
She lay on the ground staring at the ceiling, letting her tears flow as she panted from exhaustion and that created more pain in her throat so she closed her mouth to stop any sobs or cries of pain, to worsen her condition. She tried breathing through her nose, but she became too lightheaded and breathed through her mouth, as painful as it may have been.
It wasn't long before she was found, and it wasn't long before she was transported back to the infirmary, and it was even shorter for them to get her on a bed, and have restraints placed on her arms, legs, hip, chest, and thighs. She was furious about these, and when Madame Pomfrey tried putting on her head, she bit her hand deeply, and Dumbledore let it go. The family stayed with her, all of them teary eyed, but she wasn't seeing them, even with her eyes open, she wasn't seeing them, or anything except a Grey. Blank. Wall.
TBC
Author's note: YAY! I hope you liked my feeble attempt at being dramatic there at the ending... And I hope you realize Ginny has kind of gone a bit crazy... And when she was speaking with the silencing jinx on, I couldn't think of anything powerful enough to say for her, so I'm just going to let your imaginations run free... She's being restrained from her escaping, and her being slightly violent... So it's for her safety...and others... And to answer dracoissexy's question... The notes she get are the same everyday... all they say is "I'm sorry. I'll be back for you."... I will explain this ALL in the next chapter... I actually was going to do it in this chapter, but I didn't update yesterday, and the mood for this chapter, is a bit more angry than the next one...which will be more angsty... And, it's already a fair length... A bit shorter than the last few, but it's enough... Well, I hope you liked it, so please review!
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