A/N Here's chapter 5 as promised with some more Harry and Ginny action. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Yeah yeah…you guys know the routine….

Well I got all the way here, I might as well go inside.

Harry took a deep breath, picked up the end of his trunk and empty birdcage, and thought hard about Number 12 Grimmauld Place. When the building materialized, he walked up to the front door, took another deep breath and knocked.

When the door opened he was immediately pulled into the screeching arms of Mrs. Weasley. Her screams soon brought every other resident and guest of the house running into the foyer. They thought there was an attack or something from all the screaming that was going on.

As soon as they saw Harry, however Mrs. Weasley wasn't the only one yelling.

"What are you doing here?"

"How did you get here?"

"I thought you weren't going to come this summer?"

"Why are you so skinny?"

"Harry!"

"Did you finally snap and hex your cousin?"

Everybody was talking so loud and fast that Harry couldn't tell who was saying what, although he had a sneaking suspicion that that last comment came from one of the twins.

"Whoa… I'll answer all of your questions in a minute. But can I put my stuff upstairs first?" He looked around and noticed that a particular red head was missing. "Where's Ginny?"

"She's up in her room dear. Are you hungry? Well of course you are, you look famished. Ron go put Harry's things up in your room while I get Harry something to eat."

"No, it's okay," he interjected hastily, "I'll bring my stuff upstairs. But I would love a sandwich when I come down."

He lugged his trunk up the stairs and dropped it off in the room he always shared with Ron before he went to go find Ginny. He wanted her to know he was there, since she was the reason he was.

He opened the door to her room without knocking hoping to surprise her. But instead, he was greeted by a sight that surprised him.

"What happened to you?" he gasped as he tried to catch his breath. He laughing so hard he was seriously worried that he might wet himself.

"Would you stop laughing at me and get me down from here!" She demanded as her face turned an even brighter shade of scarlet as the blush from her embarrassment of being found like this, mixed with all the blood that had been rushing to her head from dangling upside down for the past ten minutes. "I'm getting a headache from being upside down so long."

"Why didn't you just take your pants off?" he asked practically as he worked to get her jeans untangled from the nail she was hooked on without ripping them.

"I… I, umm," she stuttered as she tried to come up with an answer. "I didn't even think of that," she admitted. "I blame them concussion I must have gotten when my head slammed into the floor!" she exclaimed defensively. "And did I mention this is all your fault!" she accused without any real venom behind her claim.

"And how is this my fault?" he asked with a laugh. He just couldn't help chuckling, the image she presented was just too amusing with one leg sticking straight in the air, the other dangling out the window. Her hair was splayed wildly over the floor with her face turning progressively redder then her hair.

"I'm glad you find this so hilarious," she grunted looking back up at Harry. He saw the irritated expression on her face, but could tell be the look in her eyes that deep down she to found her current predicament amusing.

She fell into a heap on the floor when Harry finally managed to dislodge her leg. She laid there for a moment until Harry grabbed her hands to help her up.

"I was going to make a break for it. I couldn't stand staring at these walls for another minute. I was half way out the window when a huge commotion, which I am assuming was you, startled me. I almost fell out the window, so to keep myself from plummeting head first to my death, I grabbed the sides to catch myself, but I over compensated, launching myself backwards. My pants got caught on that blasted nail and you saw what happened…" she finished trailing off.

"Oh, I see…" Harry said smiling, the image of Ginny hanging upside down burned into his memory. "But why were you going out the window in the first place?"

"Oh that… I'm kinda of grounded…" she explained, a chagrined look on her face. "Let's just say that I wasn't exactly as stealthy as I should have been when I came home the other night. I think this kind of thing is becoming a pattern." She said gesturing to the window. "And Mum wasn't exactly pleased, especially since I refused to say were I was or who I was with. So I haven't left the room since and I can't until I tell her."

"I'm so sorry Ginny, I didn't mean to get you in trouble…" he apologized, genuinely sorry.

"Harry, it's fine… I got myself in to trouble, not you. Besides you can make it up to me by not telling anyone what kind of state I was in when you found me, or that I was going to escape again, deal?"

"Deal," he smiled at her. "Well your mum is downstairs making me a late lunch and since they're going to find out now anyways will you join me? That is, if your hungry."

"I'm famished."

"Well then Grace," he opened the door with a grand sweeping gesture, a devilish smile on his face. "Shall we go."

Ginny glared, sighed, then laughed as she walked through the door he was holding open for her.

They laughed the whole way downstairs and whenever they thought they had themselves under control, one of them would start up again, infecting the other.

They were both laughing when Ginny opened the kitchen door. But as soon as she hit the threshold, she abruptly stopped talking and walking, causing Harry to smack right into her back.

"Why did you…" he didn't need to finish his question when he saw very clearly why she had stopped.

Over Ginny's shoulder he spotted what looked to be half of the Order members, including Lupin, Tonks, Shacklebolts, Moody, and the twins, as well as Ron, Hermione, and of course Mrs. Weasley.

"Ummm, are we interrupting something?" inquired Harry.

Everyone was silent for a moment.

"Maybe I'll just wait for tomorrow to become ungrounded, ya know start off the day fresh." Ginny turned around to leave but Harry stayed her with a hand on her wrist.

"No. Aren't you hungry?" he asked, the question laden with meaning.

Ginny looked at Harry who hoped that she saw in his face the real reason he wanted her to stay. He knew he was up for an interrogation and he really needed the moral support right now.

She gave Harry a slight nod and turned to face the crowd. "So what's for lunch?" she asked casually walking towards the table. Fred and George parted giving Ginny room to walk. Harry followed in Ginny's wake and sat down at the table next to her. Both of them were hungry despite the heavy vibe in the room, and eagerly took the sandwiches Mrs. Weasley offered.

Harry concentrated on his sandwich trying to ignore the fact that everyone was staring at them not saying anything. He could feel Ginny shifting uncomfortably next to him and he figured that she felt the same way. After finishing his third sandwich he couldn't take the tension anymore. They were all just sitting there watching him eat as if they some kind of animal on display at theLondonzoo.

"Are you guys really this unhappy to see me or are you going to say hello?" he asked chuckling nervously.

Hermione was the first to speak. "Harry it's not that we are unhappy to see you, because we are glad you're here. It's just a surprise is all. We thought that you had decided to stay at the Dursley's all summer. I think that we all have so any questions that we don't know where to start."

He sighed, this was the moment he was not looking forward to, "Well ask away. I guess you guys deserve an explanation. I'll answer as many as I can."

He slid his chair back from the table and folded his hands on his lap. He was surprised, but grateful when Ginny inconspicuously reached over and squeezed his wrist reassuringly. He looked at Ginny, who gave him a small smile before taking her hand back.

"Harry, how did you get here?" Ron asked the first question.

"I took a taxi."

"Where did you get the muggle money to pay for it?" Tonks asked.

"I went to Gringotts yesterday after I decided to leave the Dursley's."

"You went to Diagon Alley by yourself, then came here by yourself. You could have been captured or killed and we wouldn't have known. You could have been followed here today for all we know!" Moody yelled at Harry.

"Nobody knew I was going yesterday so they wouldn't have been ready for me. And that's also why I took muggle transportation. The cab driver had no idea who I was or where I was going, I was just another passenger. One with a very large empty birdcage which he thought was odd, but that's it. And don't worry I knew before I came that nothing was going to happen."

"Why are you here? Not that we mind, it's like Hermione said, it's just we weren't expecting you," Fred questioned.

"Because it's better then the Dursley's," Harry shrugged. "I don't know who was happier this morning when I told them I was leaving and never coming back."

"I thought you had to go every year?" George asked. "Isn't that what someone said?" he asked looking to his twin for confirmation who just shrugged.

"I don't really see the point of going next year is all." Harry replied enigmatically.

"Why are you here Harry?" Lupin asked again.

"I'm pretty sure I already answered that one."

"No, I mean what changed your mind?" Lupin pressed. "Like Hermione said, we thought that you were going to stay at the Dursley's all summer."

Harry hesitated for a minute, giving a significant glance to Ginny, "I had a visit from a friend a couple days ago who showed me the error of my ways."

Everyone turned to look at Ginny, now knowing where she had been. Which really only confirmed what they all had assumed. No one spoke and Harry thought they were done.

Everyone was a little startled when Hermione spoke again. "Why did you want to stay away from us all summer?" her voiced was twinged with hurt.

Harry looked down at his hands which were still clasped in his lap. He didn't mean to hurt her feelings, it wasn't anything that they had done.

"Umm…" he looked up at Ginny. He knew that she had kept her promise and not told anyone what he had confessed to her. She nodded at him and smiled reassuringly. "It was nothing personal against you guys, I promise you that…" he could sense Ginny holding her breath next to him, wondering how he was going to answer, "But umm…. I don't think I'm quite ready to answer that just yet."

He knew that nobody was satisfied with that answer, but he was done answering questions for now. "If you guys don't mind I think I'll go unpack and maybe take a nap." With that Harry stood to leave, everyone getting out of his way to give him a clear path to the door.

As he was leaving the room everyone else made to get back to whatever they were doing before he had arrived.

"I think I'm going to go outside and get some air." Harry heard Ginny get up to leave.

As he reached the hall he frowned at Mrs. Weasley's reply, "I don't think so missy…we have to have a chat."

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Harry was awoken by a tapping. At first he thought it was Hedwig with the mail and he was shuffling over to the window to open it before he remembered that he wasn't even at the Dursley's anymore. He was disoriented for a minute as his head unfogged and he realized the tapping was coming from the door, not the window.

The door opened slowly. "Hey it's me. Are you awake Harry?" Ginny popped her head through the crack in the door.

"Oh, hey Ginny. I just woke up."

She stepped into the room and closed the door quietly behind her. "Dinner is going to be ready soon and I just wanted to give you a heads up. I think it's going to be a crowd tonight but Mum warned them not to push you to talk about stuff unless you volunteer it."

"Okay, thanks." He remembered Mrs. Weasley's comment to her after lunch, "What did your mum want to talk to you about?"

She chuckled, "Oh…. She just wanted to let me know that she was still mad at me for running off all by myself without telling any one and how I could have been killed or kidnapped et cetera, et cetera, and if I ever pull another stunt like that again she will personally make sure nobody will ever find my body. I'm also never to show the kind of attitude I displayed by refusing to tell her where I was again, but… if I was able to convince you to come home, then she was glad I did."

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, "So you're not in trouble anymore?"

She giggled, "No Harry, I can come out of my room now." She turned to leave, "But I'm glad you showed up today because I don't know how much longer I could have lasted."

"Wait… Ginny?" She turned, one hand still on the door knob. "Thanks for everything, it really means a lot to me."

"Don't mention it Harry, it was nothing-"

"No Ginny, it was everything."

She smiled, "See you downstairs for dinner?"

"Yeah."

A/N Did you guys enjoy that one? I hope you did…. I'm having a little bit of trouble with chapter 6, I have already written it twice and I still hate it so it might be a little bit of a longer wait….but if you need a fix check out my other story Just Married….Kinda. I wrote 3 chapters in one afternoon for that one so those updates should go quick while I'm working out the kinks in this story. Oh and for you Ron/Hermione shippers the next chapter is for you…..Love Always

I also wanted to take the time and really thank all of you reviewers….the good and constructive feedback you guys have been giving me really inspires me to write faster…so thanks again…..

REVISED 4/18/12