Chapter 27: I could hear you screaming.

(Disclaimer in chapter 1!)

"Are you sure your Master isn't here?" Ginny asked him for the millionth time and Harry nodded impatiently. "Yes, I'm sure. The marauders map doesn't lie."

Ginny shrugged as she saw the boy working a muggle hair pin into the lock and trying to break it open. "Okay Gin, I've almost got it, so be ready to cast a good banishing charm on the door when I give you the signal….ready? Now!" There was a sudden click and a hurried bang that broke through the silence of the dungeons.

"Where did you learn to do that?" The girl asked as she entered the room.

"Tonks told me about how she stalked one of her suspects once; she had to find some evidence." Ginny nodded and continued to look around.

"Wow, his place looks normal." The girl commented as she saw the beautifully decorated room, filled with just enough to not clutter.

"Yeah…" Harry pouted and Ginny snorted. "Don't worry Harry, maybe he keeps the chains and whips in his bedroom."

Harry perked up and together they went on to explore Professor Snape's rooms.

"Bathroom." The red head declared and went in search of another door.

"I think I found his lab." Harry called out and Ginny frowned.

"That's the kitchen and living room, so where's the bedroom?" She turned on the spot and Harry shook his head.

"This is so not fair, the only chance I'll ever get to see if the man sleeps in a coffin and I can't even find his damn room."

"Don't worry Harry; I'm sure we'll have enough time." Ginny consoled him and just like that, they could hear footsteps walking down the hallway through the open door.

"Quick, shut the door." Harry whispered and Ginny hurried to obey, both kids running over to the study.

"Where do I put it?" Harry muttered before his eyes lit up when he saw the whiskey bottle standing on the side table.

He hurried over but right before he poured the bottle in, Ginny stopped him. "Don't you ever listen? Alcohol interferes with the whole process!"

"Then where…?" He trailed off as a deviant look appeared on his face. "His toothbrush!" He whispered and Ginny stared.

"But you won't be able to make it, he's coming this way."

"Then I'll have to hurry." Before Ginny had a chance to argue, Harry was out the door, racing towards the first room Ginny pointed out.

"Quickly Harry!" She moaned and soon enough the boy was back in the room with her.

Right as he shut the door, they heard the front door creaking as it opened.

"Now what do we do?" Ginny stared at him wide eyed and Harry looked around searching for a way out. His eyes landed on a statue of a snake and he absently answered Ginny. "We need an exit!"

Hearing Ginny's gasp, made Harry aware of the language he was using. Though, when one of the walls moved and revealed a hidden passageway he found himself not caring.

Both teens stared at one another before they raced to it.

"Close." Harry hissed, closing the door behind them as they started walking down the darken path.

-==-=-=-

"Man, that was close," Ginny whispered in the darkness of the dungeon pass, Harry's wand the only light.

"Yeah, good thing old Salazar had the whole castle connected. I just thought they were sewer pipes and stuff, but if the Basilisk got through, I guess I should have figured they'd be big enough for humans too. Oh, yuck, look, dry snake shit."

"What? Oh, eww."

They tried to walk around the big pile of droppings and came up to two flights of stairs, one up, the other down.

"Let's go up, it might get us closer to getting out of here."

They kept walking for what seemed like hours, climbing up stairs and turning corners, and still there was no sign of an exit to known Hogwarts territory. They got to a junction of four passages each as dark and chilly as the other, and they stood still, not knowing where to go next.

"Great. As if we wanted to get anymore lost," Ginny said, looking around her at the four hallways, "at this rate we'll never get out of here."

"At least we weren't caught," Harry said feebly, trying to lighten up the mood.

"Yeah, well now what? We don't serve detention while we're stuck here?" She said sarcastically.

"We just need to figure out were the hell we are. We went up about five or six flights of stairs, turned left a lot-"

"For Merlin's sake Harry, just take out the map, will you?"

"Oh, right," He said, taking out the map and opening it. He stared at it. "That can't be right…"

"What?"

"I can't find us anywhere. No, wait…" he turned the map a certain way. "Like this it looks like we're stuck in a wall behind the blackboard in Charms. But that can't be right either, since there's another classroom right next to it…"

"Huh. So that's where we are. Stuck in a wall."

"Come on."

He led her to the corridor in the middle, which goes straight ahead. They walked a while longer, with no real indication of change of location in the walls. They all looked the same, with their black stone and narrow passages.

"So…." Harry said as they kept walking along, "How are things with Luna, so far?"

"Like you really care." Ginny muttered, obviously not happy at being stuck in the middle of nowhere.

"Of course I don't, like I want to hear about a pair of dykes eating each others pussy."

"And guys blowing each other's cocks is any better?"

"Well if it's two unbelievingly hot guys, it sounds great to me."

"Then eating pussy is what I do."

They were quiet for a few moments.

"Are you any good at it?"

"Harry! How dare you suggest otherwise!" Ginny feigned offense and Harry giggled.

"So are you good at sucking cock?" Ginny asked right back and Harry nodded with a smirk.

"Course I am, wouldn't have survived this long in the business otherwise."

Ginny nodded thoughtfully. "I guess. I wonder if there are any porn stars that are bad at sucking cock but look so good on screen that it doesn't matter."

"None that I've met."

"What if Master Snape is a lousy cocksucker?"

"Nah, I don't care. I'm more than willing to suck his cock, epically since he'll fuck me into the mattress after, and as long as he's good at that, I have no problems."

He walked on and waited for Ginny's comeback. And waited. And waited.

"Oh come on, Gin. It wasn't even that crude to offend your delicate sensibilities. You heard worse things than that." Yet the girl still remained quiet. "Gin? Ginny?"

He turned around but all he saw were the black walls of the tunnel surrounding him. He went back a few steps; perhaps she stopped for a breather?

"Ginny? Gi- Fuck!" Harry exclaimed when he leaned on one of the walls and almost fell. His eyes widened when he saw a hole in the crumbling wall, big enough that a human could fall in.

Big enough that Ginny could have fallen in.

"Shit. Why is it always me?"

-==

Ginny screamed in terror when she fell down the damn tunnel. Though, as she flew down the slide, her screams slowly turned to those of pure joy and happiness.

This is so much fun! She couldn't help but think as she turned sharply to the left.

The tunnel began to whirl taking the redhead with it and suddenly, it turned directly ninety degrees down.

"Fuuuuuuuck!"

It hurt. Her ass fucking hurt.

This must be how Harry feels half the time.

She landed two fucking inches from the bed. Why couldn't she have landed on the fucking bed?

Harry must be contagious, she couldn't help but think. Only he could have such bad luck.

"Um, who are you?" A small voice piped out and startled her.

On the bed were a bunch of scared Ravenclaw boys, first years by the look of it.

"Do not be afraid! I come in peace!!" She placed both her hands in front of her before she let them fall as she mused out-loud. "Well sometimes I come screaming, but only in falling circumstances."

They just kept staring at her in fear.

"Er, boo?"

"Ahhhhhhh!" all four kids raced out of the room as fast as they can, leaving the new visitor behind them.

"And I thought Ravenclaws are sensible creatures."

-=.-=-

"Have you seen Luna?" Ginny asked some girl once she walked down the stairs.

"What are you doing here? You're a Gryffindor." The girl pointed out and Ginny rolled her eyes. "No. Really? I had no idea. So have you seen her?"

The girl shrugged. "Loony's always missing." She said before going back to her book.

Ginny glared at the girl before jumping when a voice suddenly spoke behind her.

"Hello Ginevra."

The girl held her chest as she turned around to her missing lover. "Luna! Don't do that!"

"Do what?" the pale haired girl asked while twirling a lock of hair. "Did you have fun sliding down?"

Ginny frowned. "How did you know about that?"

Luna smiled dreamily. "I could hear you screaming." Ginny blushed. "I don't think anyone else heard it though, the FlyBugs were buzzing around and distracting them."

Ginny stared for a moment before deciding she didn't want to know.

Or maybe she did.

Harry's curiosity was probably contagious too.

"What are FlyBugs?"

"I would have thought you knew already Ginny, after all they came from the same direction you did."

Ginny paused. "You mean the bunch of screaming first years?"

Luna nodded happily. "Of course. The FlyBugs like to posses children because their mind is more chaotic."

"Right." Ginny looked around the common room. "Wanna help me look for Harry? He's stuck in a wall."

"Good thing it's not a closet or he would have had to come out." Luna spoke seriously and Ginny giggled.

=-=-.=-=-=-==-=-

Unfortunately it wasn't until dinner that Ginny finally found the missing hero. Not that she looked very hard. She knew he would pop out soon enough.

And she was right.

Not that it stopped her from getting angry when she saw him eating dinner at the Hufflepuff table looking like he didn't have a care in the world.

"Potter!" she snapped once she and Luna came near him. "We've been looking everywhere for you!"

"Really?" Harry looked surprised. "Why would you do that? I didn't look very hard for you."

Ginny frowned and took a seat at the table. "Why? What if I got stuck somewhere and I was slowly dieing and then when you finally remembered me, you would have found a rotting corpse?"

Harry raised an eyebrow and shrugged. "The map said you showed up in Ravenclaw." He took a bite. "Plus the basilisk is dead and you don't write in a diary anymore. I knew you'd be fine."

"And how did you get here so fast? I fell before you did."

Harry shrugged again. "Ended up in Hufflepuff. I met Hannah in the common room, and she invited me for lunch."

"Harry? It's dinner time."

He nodded. "I know. But we talked a lot when we were there so she decided to change her invite."

"Oh." Ginny shook her head. "So did you hit anything on the way?"

Hannah answered before Harry had the chance. "He fell from the ceiling, which scared the hell out of me, and hit the book case so hard the shelves broke and the books fell all over him. Lucky I was the only one there, he would have gotten a stern talking to for coming in like that."

Ginny winced but Harry just grinned. "I didn't break anything." Ginny rolled her eyes. "I knew you were contagious."

"Whatever you say, Ginny. Anyway, Hannah, as I was saying, before I was oh so rudely interrupted- um, what was I saying again?"

"Something about, uh," Hannah blushed slightly.

"-Oh, right, exactly. Go and ask him out. You two are perfect for one another."

"What? Who?"

"Neville. Duh. Go ask him! It'll be fun!"

Hannah stared at him. "But I thought we were talking about- you know…" She blushed some more.

"Sex!" Harry exclaimed and everybody looked at him.

"Harry…" Hannah muttered and lowered her head to avoid the staring.

"No, really, go and ask him out! You'll fall in love and finally have some! Go!" He started pushing her off her seat.

"But-"

"Go!"

She left, looking really nervous and slightly confused.

"Do you think she's gonna ask for sex when she sees him?" Ginny said, sitting beside him.

"Probably, I confused her way to much for her not to."

They were proven right when a sudden shriek of "WHAT!!" echoed around the Gryffindor table.

"NO! I, I just," The girl looked down at the floor and said something quietly.

"OH! Um," Neville was beat red. "Sure, Hannah, I'll go with you… As long as you don't mix your words ever again."

She smiled, still blushing as deep as he. "Sure."

Harry and Ginny were sitting in the common room, staring at the ceiling.

"I wonder where our secret hatch is. We could totally hang a disco ball from there or something,"

"You mean, after we stick it up there with a sticking charm?"

"Oh, right. Well, it'll make a great water slide, if we had a pool."

"You mean, after we drown the whole common room?"

"Why do you have to shoot down my ideas all the time?"

"I'm not shooting them down, I'm crossing them out!"

They sat like that for a while longer.

"Ginny, I'm feeling kinda weird… What's going on?"

"Your brain is committing suicide?"

"Very funny. No, I feel like… something's about to happen. Something big. Anticipation, that's it. Is that normal?"

"Since when anything that happens to you is normal?"

"No, wait, I…"

The tingling sensation traveled to a new, more interesting place.

"Never mind, I'll just go to bed. I have a feeling… my love will visit me tonight. G'night!"

He vanished upstairs.

"Oh… The potion!" Ginny understood. She giggled. "Good night indeed!"

Tbc.

A/n: Wow! That took a long time to finish. But we did it!!!!! Yay us!!!!!!

Rock_Junkie and DikiCat don't know when they'll update next because Rock_Junkie holds the computer hostage and she's joining up in less then a week! Time flies so fast… (Sob).

Tell her good luck, she's going to be a foreign affairs people thingy. Which is cool.

DikiCat pouts.

Rock_Junkie: What is it, dear?

DikiCat: I really wanted Hannah to talk like I said. You know, with tons of exclamation marks?

Rock_Junkie: No! I forbid it! It's bad enough you made kitty-eyes at me so I'll put it back in the keyboard but that's just pushing it!

DikiCat huffs: Can I tell them the joke you told me?

Rock_Junkie nods.

DikiCat: Cool. See? That's how you perk up in the middle of a boring work day-

Knock knock.

Who's there?

You know.

You know, who?

Exactly! Avada Kedavra!

Funny, huh? I laughed myself silly.

Oh! You know what we just noticed? The entire chapter is staring Ginny and Harry. Strange but rest assured it might not happen again.

Rock_Junkie: Might not? You do realize that's not a real promise, right?

DikiCat: Well, it's not like we control it, it's the fanfics gods!

Rock_Junkie: Yeah, see what I have to deal with? But I can't help but love her!!!

Yay!!!!! I got away with using the exclamation mark!!!!!!!!! I love you too!!!!!!!

R&R.

Oh, and HAPPY HOLYDAYS!!!!!!