A pinprick of light shimmered in the corner of the dark place that Ginny was in as she found herself sat clumsily on the floor like a ragged doll. She watched the bright speck as it periodically wavered before disappearing somewhere and reappearing again as if by magic. Pfft. Magic. She was a fucking witch, what the hell was she thinking about, appearing like magic? She had just landed in the middle of dark nowhere and could feel dust encircle around her as the cool earth touched her hands. The cold started to get to her and she was soon freezing from head to toe. Where the fuck was she?

An hour after getting the note from Branni, she had decided to go meet him, even though her instincts told her FUCK NO. She just felt that something was off about the alleged happenings that Branni had apparently been involved in, yet she still had the chilling idea in her head that Branimir had the capability of potentially bringing her to her death in the blink of an eye. Did she honestly think that coming out to meet Branimir would solve her problems, let alone solve anything? She was only going to make things worse- which was what she had been doing all her life until this point. She might as well die now than be sorry later for ever being the only cause of trouble to everyone in her life.

A sudden noise crept up from behind her and she panicked, thinking that Branimir had been lying to her for a short moment. He wanted to fucking kill her. Calm down she told herself as she felt every bit of oxygen leave her. Calm down, Ginny. She made an effort to keep her breathing normal as she turned around to feel something, a hand, grab hers. She screamed.

"Shhhh." a voice softly soothed into her ear. "It's only me."

The light suddenly turned on and she found herself staring at Branimir's face, surprisingly dirty. His hair was ruffled and all over the place and he appeared to have not changed in a while as there were dirt and other bits all around his clothes. Suddenly, her heart stopped. Did this mean that he did kill them? Merlin, he wanted to kill her! Her thoughts were jumbled all over the place, she could hardly think. She was at such a state of confusion that she didn't realise she had jumped forward and brought Branimir into a tight embrace, her arms wrapped around his neck as if the world were about to end. She could feel his arms hesitantly wrap itself around her waist after a while, his hands slowly and gently feeling her before coming to a halt. She breathed in his earthy scent as she rested her head against his chest. Then all of a sudden, she screamed again.

He let go of her upon seeing her reaction, but gently, as to make sure she wasn't physically hurt by it. This made her feel guilty for some reason as she felt horrible for hurting his feelings. What was the point of holding onto him if she was just going to push him away later? He smiled weakly at her before just standing there before her as if bidding her time to run away from him if she wanted to. Fuck. What was she supposed to do? Fuck. She didn't know what to do.

She looked around the place she was at that appeared to be a cave, yet it looked like she was inside a tent since it looked way too neat, albeit the dust and dirt. Fuck, what the hell. Of course, Branimir was a wizard, he had a wand to help him sort out his living quarters. The shimmering light from earlier turned out to be some shiny necklace, hanging by the pole in the corner. She couldn't tell its exact features, but the main features told her enough as to what it was. Looking around some more, she couldn't find the exit anywhere which only made her more anxious about what Branimir's exact intentions were. He hadn't spoken a word of anything but four soothing words since her arrival here, nor greeted her in anyway as to make her feel better. How else was she supposed to feel like?

"Branimir, why did you want to see me?" she spoke, deciding to break the eery- Nope not eery but strange and awkward silence. "If you want to kill me now, go ahead."

He looked into her eyes carefully and still said nothing except somehow go deeper into her through her eyes. She could only hear him breathing in and out as he seemingly read her thoughts without even blinking an eye.

"Oh, Branimir," she said, whimpering his name out. She was beginning to feel scared. "Could you please say something? You're scaring me."

He just looked at me without any emotion in his face, making him more of an enigma than he already was. He took a cautious step towards her as if threatening her to leave him, even if it were to be against her wishes.

"Why aren't you running away?" He finally spoke.

Ginny let out a loud sigh of relief, even though his comment had sounded threatening. "Fuck you, you retarded asshole! You fucking scared me just now! I thought that you wanted to kill me or something- oh Branimir, I was so worried about you! You didn't kill them did you? Fuck, p-please tell me you didn't! What happened all this time? Are you hurt at all? Did you know you're fucking WANTED? What the hell are you doing out here- OH MERLIN!"

Then the moment came when she finally shut her mouth. Dot. Dot. Dot.

"If you wish to think that I killed them, I have nothing against you to think so." he told her after the pause left. "I just wanted to let you know that you will not me seeing me again."

She felt her heart leap with sadness and pity at this. The very words he said made a strange sudden longing for him, the longing to hug him like earlier before and just make things all right as they held onto each other. She couldn't understand the feeling she had now. Her heart beat faster but it wasn't one that was exactly filled with love. It was rather a mixture of pitiful remorse... a funereal kind of feeling akin to that of the loss of a loved one that she could never see nor have again. Looking at him now, his pale look didn't help. She took in some air and suddenly didn't feel scared anymore even when he wasn't trying to defend himself, making it seem as if he had killed the three women, yet for some reason, Ginny wasn't scared anymore because she knew he didn't do so. It was going to be hard to explain why to anyone if anybody asked. She just knew he that he didn't kill them.

"Branimir," she said, trying to resist the urge to hug him. "I know you didn't kill them."

He stared at her without a response. He just smiled at her, a hapless smile.

"I don't want you to leave. Please don't go" she begged.

He sighed. "Ginny." he said, taking the step towards her that she craved so much. "I haff to go, I'm doing this for you."

At this, she saw red, she was furious with him.

"Doing this for me?" her voice raised at a very irked tone. "I'm begging you not to go and you're here telling me that you are going to! I've lost almost everyone that I have ever held dear to my life, my mother, my father, my brothers, my best friends- I don't want to lose another piece of my life!"

He chuckled, confusing her.

"You're making it sound like ve're breaking up." he told her.

She sighed.

"It does feel like we are in a way." she told him. "You're leaving me and Gary. Gary loves you, you know."

"For your sake." he added seriously. "I'll only say this vonce. I didn't kill them. Vut you know how Draco Malfoy is. Vonce he has his thoughts set on something, there is no changing his mind. It means that I am screved because he has many ties with the Ministry and I haff none. I haff to leave, Ginny, for you."

"Why? Can't you stay for me?" she pleaded, suddenly tearing up. "You have Eastern Europe by your side or something- you could always go there- Oh Merlin! I fucking hate you! I fucking love you!"

She couldn't believe she had ended her pleading with those words. Was that what was causing her all of the confusion? For a girl who had fallen in love so many times, she couldn't believe she hadn't noticed the feeling at all. She thought carefully whilst Branimir stared at her curiously and in awe. Looking carefully, she could see the hurt and angered look hidden behind the shroud of clouds that seemingly appeared to be in his eyes. What was he thinking about? Why was he angered by her comment? What the fuck had she been thinking about to even say those three words to him? Oh, Merlin. She was the core to all the troubles of mankind.

He sighed. "Ginny, I'm afraid your feelings for me cannot be reciprocated. It will only make things worse for us."

An hour later, they were still talking about the reasons why he should leave her and reasons why he should stay. He was convinced that he had to leave for her sake since he didn't want to fuck up Gary's life by being labeled as the man who killed women, descendant of murderers, if he were to be Gary's father. Apart from that, he added that he didn't want to be a burden to her because of her feelings for him, which sucked because he was really a fine looking man. She reasoned that he should stay because Gary nor she could live without him, which he retorted with the words that's just crazy. You haff liffed vithout me all you life. He then went on to tell her how she didn't love him and that she was in love with somebody else and that she was only saying things like that because she was confused and shit.

"Ginny, I haff got to go, it's for our ovn good." he told her. "Effen if Gary isn't my son, I vill still loff him as I do now, I promise. I'm leaving all of my money to you."

"Yeah? Do I look like I care about your fucking money! Do you even care about me?" she asked. "Do you even care about me!"

He gave her a glare.

"You do not loff me." he hissed. "You loff another."

She glared back at him.

"Stop telling me these lies! I know myself more than anybody else! Isn't me believing it wasn't you who killed those women enough for you to stay here with me? So why can't you?"

"Vell because..."

A couple of minutes later, she found his lips on hers. He told her that she would regret this since she was only wanting him being in the state of confusion she was in but she didn't listen since loving him was enough for her. She felt the happiest she had ever been being so close to him, every touch he made on her, every movement he made was just the definition of love in her terms. The next day when she woke up, she found herself naked and alone in a dimly lit and empty cave with a note lying next to her.

Don't come looking for me.
I'm sorry if you regret what we did.
Tell Gary I love him.

Shit. She thought.

It as then that she decided it was time to go back. There was nothing else she could do anyway.

"Merlin! Ginny! You're back!" Hermione screamed when she saw her. "YOU HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!"

Now the explaining didn't take very long. It was enduring Hermione's constant worrying that took forever. Ginny didn't blame her best friend for it. She had been an nuisance to Hermione anyway.

A/N

Sorry for the late update! I thought I had updated already then realised I hadn't uploaded this yet. Sorry! Reviews and flames both accepted.