Disclaimer: I already made one, so I'm not doing another. I already have to miserably dwell on the fact that I do not, in fact, own the rights to Harry Potter, but Joanne Rowling does.

A/N: Thank you to my reviewers. One of them was a guest, so I couldn't personally thank them. But, thank you Guest. (': Anyone else here obsessed with Beau Brooks? No? Pfft. There's not much else to say but enjoy!

Draco had to start dragging Ginny through the many large, echoing corridors of Hogwarts because her legs were eventually starting to fail, as was her consciousness.

Draco came to a classroom and placed Ginny inside, before locking the door behind him with a powerful locking charm. When he turned back around again he was met with Ginny's wide, fearful, hazel-brown eyes.

"M-Malfoy, please," Ginny stuttered. Draco only then realised she had a cut just above her right eyebrow. Probably got it when she fell as she was being tortured. "P-Please don't hurt m-me. I w-won't do anything bad any m-more."

Draco rolled his eyes, though he was secretly quite concerned for the girl and, much to Ginny's surprise, he stepped forward and lifted his wand, uttering a healing charm so the cut on Ginny's head disappeared.

He then proceeded to conjure up a First Aid kit. "How are you still awake when I had to practically drag you to this room?"

Ginny eyed Draco warily, before sighing deeply and accepting the bruise ointment he handed to her. "I was faking. Hoping you'd maybe go easier on me if I was already almost out. I didn't, however, expect this," Ginny gestured to Draco helping her. "To happen whatsoever."

Draco looked at Ginny for a moment. "That was smart." Ginny looked up at him, into his eyes. "And I can see your confusion. As to why I'm helping you. Well, pretty much everything that's happened to me this past year. Didn't Harry tell you?"

Ginny's eyes widened in surprise as Draco helped her smear the bruise ointment on her arms at Draco using Harry's first name, but quickly recovered. Now wasn't the time to be childish. "Tell me what? I mean, he explained to me about you not kill- about how Dumbledore passed away. And he told me you weren't really a bad guy."

Draco grimaced at the mention of Dumbledore's death. "There's that, but there's also more," When Draco paused to stare at Ginny, Ginny motioned for him to continue. So with a resigned sigh, Draco started. "I was brought up to believe that Muggle-borns, Half-Bloods and Blood-traitors were beneath that of my family, to 'proper' Pure-blooded people and families. I didn't know better. I was surrounded with all of that hatred and prejudice I thought it was normal. So I took that attitude with me to Hogwarts, where I made Harry, Hermione, your brother and mostly everyone else's lives a misery. It wasn't until I was sixteen that I finally realised how completely fucked that approach to life was. I was assigned a job from the You-Know-Who bastard himself, right before I was forced to get the Dark Mark, I might add.

"I was to find a way to get the Death Eaters into Hogwarts, and then kill Dumbledore. If I didn't, I'd be forced to watch my family die, and then I'd be killed. But I still couldn't do it. Ginny, I'm weak. I'm a coward. But don't care, because I don't regret not killing Dumbledore. But I regret becoming a Death Eater, even if I didn't want to be one in the first place, and I regret every bad thing I've ever thought or said to you and everyone I've been a complete arse to." Draco finished and once he did, he was so out of breath he laid down onto the floor and snapped his eyes shut, blocking out the world for a moment.

When he opened them again and sat up, Ginny was looking at him strangely. Then, the corners of her mouth twitched as she said, "Who are you and what have you done with Draco Malfoy?"

Draco couldn't help but laugh slightly, despite these awfully dark times. "I'm all him, I swear."

Ginny smiled. "That was a lot to take in. But I understand, and I'm sorry."

Draco's face grew solemn now. "Don't apologise," Ginny didn't say much else as she stared at the floor, so Draco said, "Are you feeling better?"

Ginny cocked her head to the side, contemplating. "I think so," Then she grinned. "But I reckon you should still carry me to my Common Room."

That time Draco really did laugh, loudly. "No way! It was just an effort dragging you here, let alone carry you!" Ginny pouted, batting her thick eye lashes at him. Draco gulped. "Uh, anyway, I'm not sure if you'll be able to go back to Gryffindor Tower. Or anywhere to do with Hogwarts."

Ginny's face screwed up in confusion. "What? Why?"

Draco sighed for what felt like the millionth time that day. "Well, Carrow told me to finish you off so badly you'd probably be a lunatic," Draco carefully refrained from mentioning the Longbottoms. "So you can't exactly go strutting round the Great Hall in the most sane manner."

"What in Merlin's soggy pants am I supposed to do, then?" Ginny snapped.

Draco stared at Ginny with an amused expression on his face, before asking, "Merlin's soggy pants?"

"Draco!"

"You called me Draco?"

"Stop changing the subject."

Draco frowned at Ginny and then said, "I don't know. Well," Draco went a bit red. "My Head Boy dorm.."

"Perfect!" Ginny beamed, and staggered to her feet.

Draco looked perplexed. "Wait, so you're just going to trust me? And you're not even annoyed one bit that you have to stay with me?"

Ginny looked at Draco once she had gotten her balance, and said, "Draco, if you wanted to hurt me you'd of done it by now. Besides, there's not much else I can do about Carrow wanting me barmy."

Ginny headed for the door, but was quickly pulled back again by Draco who was looking at her disbelievingly.

"What are you doing?" Draco hissed.

"I'm going to your dorm, where the bloody Hell do you think I'm going?" Ginny hissed back.

"Not only do you not know where it is, but you also can't get there without being seen."

Ginny rolled her eyes and said, "You're right."

Draco pulled out his wand and cast a Disillusionment Charm on Ginny, and then took her hand, making them both go beet red, and then opened the door, taking off down the corridor to where Draco's dorm was.

A/N: Please review and tell me what you think. (:

-Naomi