Disclaimer; I don't own Harry Potter or any of his friends or enemies or the people he barely knows or Severus Snape sadly. I only own the copies of the books.

"What have you been doing lately, Ginny?" A much older Draco Malfoy asked a much older Ginny Weasley. The older Ginny sighed and said, "The usual. Trying to keep my kids from setting the house on fire, making sure my husband remembers to eat a full meal at least once a day, pacifying my mother, same old same old." The older Malfoy chuckled. "Good day, mate." A older Harry Potter said with a wide grin and a fake sounding british accent. "What's with accent, Potter?" Older Malfoy asked. "You know I just got back from business in America, yes? Well, some of them thought it was fun to use a very bad british accent around me. I did it right back to them one day when I got feed up with it and everyone including me thought that was pretty funny." Older Harry replied. "Ah, of course. Why didn't you just use a badly faked american accent?" Older Ginny asked. Older Harry shrugged and said, "I didn't think of it. How's things been going here in good old England?" Older Malfoy made a face at older Harry's grammar but didn't say anything. "Same old same old." Older Ginny replied. "There was a interesting case at work a few days ago. Someone enchanted a muggle flame thrower to go off when ever someone says pie. Other than that nothing much new." Malfoy said as if it was run of the mill. "Pie? A flame thrower that goes off when someone says pie?" Harry asked. Malfoy nodded and Ginny said, "You know, the there is such a thing as a flame thrower means that some muggle somewhere once said 'I want to set that man over there on fire but I'm too far away." "I do wonder how long you have been waiting to use that one." A much older Luna said as she came into view startling the others. "Ginny, Ginny, Ginny wake up."

Ginny rubbed her eyes when she was pulled out of her dream. "Freaky." She said softly. "What'd you say?" Harry asked. The normal sixteen year old Harry. "Nothing, Harry." She replied. "Well, come on then." He said leading the way out of the cave and down to the fire where Luna and Malfoy were sitting. Normal Malfoy and Luna. Ginny wasn't sure way she was so relieved about that, her dream was a dream after all. "Morning." She mumbled as she sat down next to Luna. Malfoy mumbled something in reply but Ginny wasn't sure what and Luna gave her a somewhat cheerful, "Good morning, Ginny." Harry grabbed the pot with the food in it and said, "We need to gather some more food." He picked out two roots for each of them, handed them out, and then sat down next to Ginny. "Hear that, Weasley and Lovegood? You need to go gather us food." Malfoy said after he had shallow his first bite. "Why us? We've done it the last few times. You've been getting off easy for the past few days." Ginny replied before Harry or Luna could cut her off. "Me? I have been hauling wood and fixing wells and that's easy? You've just been cleaning huts and picking food. You go do the women's work and I'll do the men's." Malfoy replied hotly. "Women's work? We aren't in the middle ages. Women can do men's work just as well as any man." Ginny quickly replied standing up. "Oh? You can carry heavy logs and lift stones? I recall you needing help lifting something yesterday. If you can't lift whatever rotten piece of furniture in that hut then you most surtenly can't do men's work. Women should stick to their places in life and not try and take over the men's." Malfoy replied standing up. Ginny walked around the fire and pushed Malfoy backwards. "You're a stuck-up bigot biassed git who will never mount to anything in life because you're some use to living off daddy's money." Ginny said poking Malfoy in the chest with each insult. "And you're a silly little weak girl who will never amount thing because she insults and puts down anyone doesn't agree with her." Malfoy said slowly taking several steps forwards until Ginny was about to fall in the lake. "Well, you will never have any real friends or anyone that will ever like excepted your mummy." Ginny said taking a step forwards. Malfoy pushed Ginny's shoulders knocking her backwards and into the lake. She flailed her arms and latched onto Malfoy pulling him in with her. Harry and Luna crept forwards until they were looking down at the spot Malfoy and Ginny had fallen into. Ginny broken the surface sputtering and a minute later Malfoy came up also sputtering. "YOU LOUSY GOOD FOR NOTHING- " "YOU WORTHLESS UGLY-" Suddenly Ginny lunged at Malfoy knocking into him and sending both of them back underwater. They kept on wrestling with each other in the water breaking the surface every now and again to get air. After a minute or two of this, Harry turned to Luna and asked, "Why don't we got collect food? Maybe they'll be done when we're back." "I'll go get the pot." Luna replied.

"Where have you two been?" Ginny asked as soon as she saw Harry and Luna. Harry held up the two coconuts in his hands and simply said, "Food." Ginny and Malfoy were sitting as close as possible to the fire still slightly wet. "Oh." Ginny replied. "If you wish to change, we can always go up to Carpe Diem and you can wear the clothes we found there." Luna suggested putting down the now full pot of food. "Oh, I can't believe I didn't think of that." Ginny said. Harry suddenly had a large grin on his face and looked like he was trying to hold back laughter and not having complete success. "It there any reason as to why you're looking like you're about to pee your pants, Potter?" Malfoy drawled out looking pretty condesinin for someone with wet hair and no shirt. "Yes, there is Malfoy." Harry replied. When he didn't explain farther, Ginny asked impatiently, "Are you going to tell us?" "I just thought that sometimes you act more like a blonde than the reals blondes." Harry said still sporting a wide grin. Ginny glared daggers at him but apparently decide she had been in enough fights for that day. "Are we going to go to Carpe Diem or not?" Malfoy asked impatiently after a long pause. "Yes, let's" Luna said. So the four teens walkedturged up the path they were making to Carpe Diem.

"These pants are itchy. And big. And so is this shirt. I can't wait till my dress is dry." Ginny complained after she came out of the hut she had changed in. "I thought you hated dresses." Harry said. " I do. But these pants and this shirt are worse." Ginny replied. "There are other pants and shirts you could wear, Ginny." Harry said. "These are the only ones that fit well enough that they wouldn't fall off." Ginny muttered in reply. "That's because you are a shrimp. You're shorter than the first years." Malfoy said as he came out of the hut he had changed in. "I am not. Right, Harry? Right, Luna?" Ginny cried in outrage. She turned to Harry and expectedly. "Yeah, you're at least as tall as the second years and most of the third years." Harry replied nervously. "Perhaps you were bit by a shohestly bug." Luna pondered. "What on earth is a shohestly bug?" Malfoy asked ludriously. "A very small bug that's bit curses the person bitten to be short and to have a fondness for bunnies." Luna explained. "Bunnies?" Malfoy asked out of disbelief. "I don't like bunnies, Luna" Ginny said. "Oh, well I guess that's not it then." Luna said with a small amount of disappointment. "Yeah, anyway. You are a shrimp, Weasley." Malfoy said bringing the conversation back to Ginny's height or lack of height. "No, I'm not." Ginny asked. "Look, Potter's probably the shortest guy in our year," "Hey." "And you only come up to his chin. There for you are short." "I'm not short." Both Ginny and Harry yelled at him. "Yes, you too are." Malfoy replied calmly. "So I'm on the short side, I can't be the shortest in our year." Harry argued. "I said probably." Malfoy replied. Harry frowned but didn't say anything. "Well, I'm not the short." Ginny said confidently. Harry coughed then and it sounded a lot like, "Yes, you are." Malfoy smirked and said, "Face it, Weasley. You are short. Accept, move on." Ginny hrumphed but apparently decide she had argued enough for today. "While we are, perhaps we can do some work?" Luna suggested. Harry shrugged his shoulders, Ginny nodded, and Malfoy just ahuh-ed. "I'll go back to cleaning the left hut. Harry, could you get some grass or something to fix the roof of the middle hut?" Ginny asked. When Harry nodded bemused she continued, "Luna you could finish cleaning the right hut like you were doing yesterday. And Malfoy-" Malfoy cut her off before she could finish. "I'll finish fixing the well." And with that he walked off to, presumedly, do that.

The three teens work through lunch and by the time it started getting dark they felt proud of all work they had done. They also felt tired and hungary and sore and they really felt like just collapsing but they felt proud of a very hard day's work. They walked back to their fire and collapsed by it. "I hurt all over." Ginny moaned face down into the dirt. Malfoy pulled a face at her, wether it was because she was laying face down in dirt or her herself nobody knew. "Here's food." Luna said passing pot of food around. Ginny didn't budge but Malfoy and Harry looked at it like it was the most wonderful they had seen in all their lives. Harry didn't even bother putting it on a plate, he just shoved it in his mouth. Malfoy paced himself a bit better but it still wouldn't be fit for dinner at Hogwarts. Ginny pushed herself up enough that she get some food and put it in her mouth but then she laid back down on the dirt. If Malfoy wasn't so busy eating he probably would have made so degrading remark about it. Soon though they had eaten and now they reliazed they would have to drag themselves up to the cave. "I'm sleeping here." Ginny announced now laying on her back. "You will be even more sore tomorrow." Luna warned her. 'Don't care. Not moving." Ginny mumbled obviously already mostly asleep. Luna shrugged and pushed herself up to a standing position. "Are you coming? Draco? Harry?" She asked. Malfoy nodded and got up. "I am not sleeping on dirt." He told them, as if they had any doubt. Harry groaned and got up too. "I think I can make." He said. "Are you sure you want to sleep out here, Ginny?" Harry asked. Ginny mumbled something that sounded like a agreement. Harry shrugged and he, Malfoy, and Luna headed up to the cave after they had made sure the embers in the fire would stay warm. Leaving Ginny outside to sleep by the fire pit.

Ginny was sleepy. She could feel sleep approaching but the cold ground loneliness kept it away. For some reason she felt lonely sleeping out here away from Harry and Luna… and even Malfoy. She was use to hearing their even breathes an someone's snoring. Just as she felt ready to give in and stumble her way up to the cave, she heard a growl. She was suddenly wide awake and she snapped up into a sitting position trying to see where the growl came from. "Harry? Luna? Malfoy? Someone?" She asked fearfully. She couldn't see hardly anything in the dark. The moon wasn't up and the stars didn't give that much light. Ginny tried to bite back a whimper and failed. Another growl. She whipped her head in the direction it came from and could barely make out the form of a large dog or maybe a wolf. The figure slinked forward and Ginny tried to scream but her mouth wouldn't open. Come on, Weasley. You've faced Death Eaters, Percy in one of his moods, and wrestled with Draco Malfoy. You can face this. Ginny's heart and mind agreed with her thoughts but her body apparently didn't. She still couldn't open her mouth to scream and she couldn't get up. She always thought it was crazy when people said things like frozen in fear but now she knew. The wolf-dog thing was still moving close to her and she couldn't scream or run or anything else other than stare at it. It growled again and started running at her and she finally found her voice and she screamed.

A/N; Sorry for the long wait. My only excuse is that I kept forgetting to upload the chapter.