Ginny knew that the person stood in front of her wasn't Harry but she also knew that he was in there so she would do whatever she could to fight her way to him. So taking breath she walked towards him, and she could see that he was getting more and more uncomfortable as she did so. She wondered what he saw when he looked at her, could he still feel their connection in the pit that he had fallen into. She had pulled him from the brink before but now he had fallen in and she didn't know if she could reach him again.
Taking a breath and pulling on all of her shifter strength she darted forwards hoping to shock him and allow her to reach him so she could touch his skin. Their connection always flared stronger when she was able to touch his skin and she knew this would be key to getting through to him. But mere centimetres from her goal a force gripped her knocking all the air from her lungs and locking her body as if she was held by a giant hand. She wanted to scream but she couldn't find the breath to do it.
She was however able to lock eyes on Harry and what she saw terrified her. His face was twisted in a mask of pure hatred, the darkness in him radiating so clearly it made her want to cry.
"Harry please I know you're in there," she called out but his face didn't change, if anything her words seemed to have angered him more.
More and more she wanted to scream, she could feel their connection burning in her mind, knew he was still at the end but she just couldn't seem to break through to him. She could understand if she couldn't feel him, understand if he was blocked to her but he wasn't. He was right there close enough for her to touch and she needed to so badly.
"Please Harry, please baby I need you so badly," she whispered knowing that he could hear her.
She watched as he frowned, as something of the Harry she knew passed behind his eyes but then it was gone swallowed by the darkness. He snarled then a noise so deep in his gut it reverberated out of his throat skittering along her skin and she could hear her death in that noise.
Closing her eyes she breathed out all of her tension, it wouldn't do her any good now. Instead she pulled on the thrum in the back of her mind, the power that had linked her and Harry from the beginning swamping herself in it.
She could feel the glow in her body spreading and smiled as the heat sunk into her skin the familiar love still there even if he could feel it at the moment. She knew that this would be her only protection against anything that he could throw at her, that this would be the thin layer against her death.
Harry could feel a tug in his mind, something whispering in the dark trying to calm him, trying to pull his power from him. He knew it was connected to the woman stood in front of him, so close now that he could flick his fingers out and touch her skin that glowed softly. He could feel the others hidden in amongst the buildings moving, some gathering and leaving, others planning their next attack. He could feel all of this, and yet he couldn't move until he had dealt with the problem in front of him. He knew that this woman was his largest threat, that the voice in the back of his mind whispering away was her, that she was trying to pull him away from his path.
The darkness roared at the thought of losing this battle, and he listened ignoring the pull of the tiny speck of light. He watched as a smile swept across her face, pure peacefulness enveloping her and it made him all the angrier. What right did she have to be peaceful in his presence?
He felt the power well in his body, and before even he could control it it was swamping him. He locked eyes on the woman as she opened hers, her brown eyes like liquid pools threatening to suck him under. He felt the rage swell and with an ear splitting scream he let his power loose. He didn't weave it into any spell; it was just a pure wave of power. He felt it hit her body and envelope her and for a moment nothing happened, for a mere second it simply surrounded and flowed around her and he felt the connection to her flare in his mind.
All at once he realised what he had done, realised that it was Ginny he was hurting, that this was his mate. The darkness inside him falter shook and then shattered and all that was left was Ginny. But it was too late the power that he had unleashed was more than even he could hold, more than he could call back. He tried desperately as he felt it begin to burn through her protection, and then Ginny was screaming a blood curdling sound that turned his blood cold.
Ginny felt Harry's power hit her and knew that there was nothing that she could do. She could feel the heat burning against her skin, feel it eating at everything she had thrown up to protect herself. But at the same time she felt something else, she felt her bond to Harry. As she stood in the middle of the whirlwind of his power she could feel him there, feel the man that she loved.
"Ginny," she heard his voice whisper through her mind and she smiled.
I'm here Harry, she through unsure if he could hear her. Before she could move though she felt the power break through her defences and tare through her body, she screamed as it tore through her body.
In the whirlwind of pain she felt Harry there moving in her mind, trying to reinforce her shields trying to save her. In that moment she didn't care about the pain anymore, she knew she had reached him. She knew she could let go knowing that she had broken through the darkness to him finally.
She let everything go, everything but Harry, clinging to the light in her mind that was him. She wanted to hold onto him forever, to take the love she felt for him anywhere that she was going, even as she felt her body being torn. She had a moment to think of her family, to think on how they would feel after this; she prayed that they wouldn't blame Harry too much. That they could see that this had been beyond even his control.
Just as she gave herself over to the pain though something changed, the heat stopped being so painful and started to leave a tingling in her skin, like the trail Harry left on her skin when he tickled his fingers over her bare flesh. A part of her told her this was what dying felt like, but another whispered of the possibility that she could make through this.
Harry realised with horror what was happening, that his power was going to tare Ginny apart any second. Instantly he moved towards her, placing his hands against her face, but she didn't feel him. He could tell she didn't know he was there, so he pushed into her mind pushing his own protection around her. This left him wide open to his own power but he didn't care, he would let it kill him if it saved her from death.
He slipped into her mind using their pathway and found her consciousness hiding in there. Instantly he swamped her in love begging for forgiveness. How could he have hurt the one person he had ever loved so much. He wanted death just for the thought of hurting her. But he fought on so that he could make sure she was safe.
Pulling on the well of power inside of him he cast the strongest protection spells he knew and felt as her body relaxed against his the power no longer attacking her. But now it needed something else to attack and he happily accepted the power as it sunk into his skin, no longer a part of him but a separate evil entity. He felt the white hot heat of the power lance through his skin but he bit back on the pain pushing into the void as he had before. But this time he separated himself from the void, it was just a thing that he could feed the things he didn't need into. Instead he swamped himself in Ginny.
I love you, she whispered through his mind and he knew that she had never given up on him. As the power started to tare at his skin he couldn't help the scream that ripped from his throat, and with that scream Ginny opened her eyes. She frowned for a moment as her minded cleared and she tried to gather what was going on, but then everything came flooding back to her.
"Harry?" she whispered as he collapsed to his knees unable to stand anymore.
Instantly she was there her hands on his face as he had held her a moment ago.
"What's happening?" she whispered her throat feeling raw.
He panted trying to catch his breath so he could reply but it wasn't easy. The power he had unleashed was pushing its way to his heart, and as he pressed his hands against his chest they came away covered in blood.
Ginny gasped as she saw the blood on his hands, her own hands flying to cover the wound. She pressed her fingers against his slick shirt waiting for his skin to knit back together as it had before, but seconds ticked by and nothing was happening. She pulled on her own power pushing it into his skin as she had before; she felt her cat rubbing against the inside of her body trying desperately to reach her mate because she knew there was something terrible wrong.
"I couldn't let it harm you," he finally managed to whisper; "I'm so sorry Ginny I don't know what happened. I felt you the pure fear that you sent through our bond and something snapped inside me."
He gasped then and crumpled forwards; she caught him and helped lower him to the floor sobbing as she watched pain ripple through his face.
"I couldn't let the darkness take you," he whispered his green eyes sparkling as he looked up at her.
"Heal yourself!" she begged but he simply shook his head.
She pressed her hands against his chest harder but it didn't help, the blood carried on spilling around her fingertips.
"Harry!" she screamed unable to hold back her panic now.
He coughed and blood spilled from around his lip, "it's alright Breeze, please don't cry," he reached up and stroked his fingertips over her cheek catching a tear as it spilled over her cheek.
She couldn't hold the panic back anymore she started freely crying and leant over to press her forehead against his as he had done to her so many times before.
"I love you," he whispered barely audible but she caught it.
She lifted her head just in time to see his green eyes glaze over and before she could do anything there was a flash of searing white light.
Ginny fell forwards screaming as white hot power flashed over her skin, and then it was gone. She looked up blinking as her fingers sunk into the grass she had been kneeling on. She frantically started looking around, but she couldn't see Harry anywhere where he had been lying a moment before was a pool of blood but that was it. There was no other sign that Harry had ever actually been there.
For a moment she wanted to laugh, sure that he had done something to heal himself, but the she realised something was missing. It took her a few seconds to realise that the bond she had grown to rely on so much just to breathe wasn't there anymore. She searched out with her power but she couldn't find it or any trace of Harry. He was just simply gone.
It was with this realisation that Ginny screamed out, all of her pain taking over her body, and then she collapsed glad when the darkness stole all thought.
A/N hope you all enjoyed this chapter and a quick thankyou to everyone who review taking me over 200 reviews! fantastic let see how many this one gets bet ya'll hate me right now dont ya haha (laughs evily) well you'll just have to wait and see what happens next! i do so love a good cliff hanger!
