HARRY & DRACO

They finished getting informed within the hour, Draco finally slumping back in the chair and Harry still pacing, where he had been for the past sixty minutes.

"Wow." Bill and Charlie looked at each other, and then Harry.

"You still up for it?" Harry nodded without looking up.

"I don't think you all should go." Charlie stood up, ready to fight if he needed to in order to keep Harry safe. Ginny was counting on this. "Hold on. I think four will be too conspicuous. Maybe just Draco and me." Harry looked out of the corner of his eye to see Bill nod to Charlie. Relief swarmed him. Harry had been contemplating this decision since Draco had started talking. They were the only two-possibly in the history of the school-who knew it this much. They knew it the best. It was something both of them had to do.

"Will you two be alright going alone?" Harry scoffed at the idea. He had been doing this for the past seven years. One more trip wouldn't matter.

"I will. What about you, Potter?" Harry nodded, though he didn't know why he needed to. It was obvious that he was going with or without Draco.

"Then let's go."

GINNY

Ginny threw a chip of rock at the wall. It hit the other stone with a definite clunk before falling lamely on the cement ground. Suddenly, the young girl found herself more annoyed than when she started.

More annoyed that there was nothing in this cell to take her anger off of her new 'life'. She chuckled without any emotion. Her life was now sitting in a cell and getting tortured. She would rather go back in her empty zombie-state and cry her eyes off. Being helpless and crying was better than being helpless and not able to cry about it.

"Gins, are you okay?" Ginny turned to look at Ron, who was peeking his head out of the small hole. His red hair was the only part of him that was noticeable, though his skin was getting paler from not being outdoors and from their recent torture session.

"Same as always. Why wouldn't I be?"

"Malfoy came in here. Said you were worse off than all of us." Of course, Draco. She knew she had woken up, but didn't think she would ever be able to close her eyes again.

"That little prat. He poisoned me?"

"Potioned you." Ron corrected. As if it matters.

"So what else did he say?" She asked, trying to take her mind off the hate raging inside of her. She didn't want to be given the release of sleep, not when half the members of the Order could be barging into the school right now to protect her.

She didn't want to yell out. She couldn't unless she wanted to be the cause of even more trouble. But the pain had been too much.

"Nothing else. Wrapped everyone up and gave us the potion. Then walked out." Ginny could see that he shrugged and rolled his eyes, even in complete darkness.

"Oh." Strange enough, she was disappointed that he hadn't stayed.

DRACO & HARRY

The two boys stepped into the darkness, hidden underneath the safety of the invisibility cloak. Harry felt at ease as he wandered through the halls of Hogwarts under his old cloak. It was familiar: déjà vu.

The only thing that worried him was what they would find down in the dungeons. Would Ginny still be alright, or would they be too late? Even if she wasn't, would she want to talk to him? Or would she blame him for leaving her, for putting her in such a deep pit of disaster?

"You nervous or something?" Harry turned to Draco, who was waiting for Harry to facebookwalking. He hadn't realized he had stopped.

"Why would I be?" He kept on walking, though his mind was changing as fast as his heart beat.

"Doubting if she'll like you anymore." Wow, he's good at that. thought Harry. He really hadn't given Draco enough credit.

"No." Harry said, both to himself and to Draco. "I trust her to choose whichever way's best." He doubted how he would handle himself if she did leave, but it was best for her. Whether or not he benefited from it didn't matter.

"And you'll be fine with--"

"Shhhhh." Harry pointed ahead of the two boys, to where a hooded figure was walking towards them.

"Rookwood!" Harry's stomach lurched as he saw the man walk by him, the man that killed his friend. Draco grasped Harry's arm, though his nails dug deeper and deeper into the flesh than he intended. That was the man who tortured Ginny all those times, who made her do things that even Draco thought was hideous, things that even the Slytherin Sex God thought was disgusting. He had to hold himself back as well as Harry.

After what felt like hours, Rookwood passed without even a backwards glance. Harry and Draco stalked down the hall, wanting to put as much space between them and Rookwood as possible in the few minutes. Without passing another person, Harry and Draco made it to the stairs leading down to the dungeon. Neither one wanted to go first.

"I guess we'd batter go." Draco felt his foot drop down one step, his other foot following it. Harry trailed behind him.

"Hey, what are we going to do once we're down there?" Draco unhelpfully shrugged his shoulders.

"I thought you had a plan."

"Winging it, alright." Harry didn't really care about a plan; he never used one, or needed it. Plans always seemed like such an inconvenience, and a waste of time.

Hey got to the end of the stairway, Draco stopping to reluctantly allow Harry to go first. They got to the end of the corridor, stopping one door before the solid wall.

"Here we go."

Harry stepped through the door first, glancing around the empty cell.

"Ginny?" His voice came out horse, and cracked twice in that one word, one name, one love.

A groaning came from the corner. Harry stepped farther into the cell, swinging open the door to allow more light in. He lit the end of his wand, swinging its light back and forth across the small room. It was empty.

"Well, Mr. Potter. Looking for this?" Harry spun around to see Ginny, suspended in the air and tied with ropes, struggling against their bind. And under her, stood…

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