Chapter 6 - Through the Darkness

Draco caught up with Ginny, pulling her back to him by her sleeve, and their lips locked once again. Ginny felt guilty for everything she had done, and thought she should only think about what she had ruined. But as Draco kissed her, she felt all her troubles fade away, all the years she spent at home - that she had admitted Ron's love for Hermione, that she had hurt her only real friends at Hogwarts.

She messed up. She shouldn't have done it. And her she was - with Draco. The one person her friends hated the most.

It was her choice - either them or Draco. And it was obvious who she had to pick.

She backed away from Draco, "We can't do this," tears streamed down her face as she choked the words out.

She ran, and she ran until she was up to the Gryffindor common room. It was empty. No one was there. No one but her. Ginny sat on the couch, as she sobbed loudly. She shouldn't have done what she had done. She had ruined her friendships - betrayed her friends, and most of all - she had disappointed and she was sure she also hurt her brother.

Why did I do this?! she asked herself, I screwed up everything in my life in less than thirty minutes. I don't believe I did this.



Harry escaped Hermione's grasp, and backed away from her.

"We can't do this, Hermione."

Hermione silently walked out of his room, slamming the door behind her, and saw Ginny on the couch.

Hermione walked slowly down the stairs, and walked toward Ginny.

"Why'd you say that?" she said softly.

"Say what?"

"Say that Ron loved me." Hermione asked.

"Because he does, Hermione. It's obvious."

"Oh." Hermione said, walking up to the girls dorms. She had nothing else to say.



Ron sat down at the table in the lunch room. He had his face in his hands, covering his red cheeks.

He heard someone walk in and looked up. It was Ginny.

"Ron, look-"

"Ginny, I don't want to speak to you now." he said sternly.

"I didn't mean-"

"You didn't mean to but you did, Ginny, you did."

Ginny sat beside her brother. He had been crying just like her.

"I'm sorry, Ron. I didn't think. I shouldn't have said what I said and I am so sorry for it," tears started to form in Ginny's eyes again, "I love you."

Ron looked up at her, his face red.

"Just leave. Just leave, Ginny." he said.

She walked out of the room away from him. She couldn't do anything else then what she had just done.



Draco fell asleep, his eyes red and his body sticky with water, all he could think about was Ginny, and was thinking about it so much he had forgotten about the dreams and the ring. He was so sidetracked the last few days he had forgotten everything, until the dream had started over again. Ever since he saw Ginny on the quidditch field and he passed out, they came back. And he wondered why.

He ran. He ran as fast as possible down the corridor, turning right and saying, "Arculus Soulitus!", and running down to get her.

He got to the door and opened it, walking into a dark room.



Ginny put her hand in her robes pocket, walking to the Gryffindor room, she felt something inside her pocket and picked it out.

It was the green ring she had taken from Draco the night on the quidditch field.

It glowed brightly in her face. She needed to find out what it was.



"Hello?" Draco's voice echoed as he entered the dark empty room. It was cold, and the fact he couldn't see anything annoyed him. He saw a bright glowing item on the floor. He picked it up. It was a ring, this one not green, but clear. Crystal Clear.

He remembered seeing it before. He had seen it on his dad's night table once.

"What is this?" Draco asked to himself, confused.

He saw something coming towards him through the darkness.

Observation
This chapter is what I call 'the first aftermath' of the fic. It's like, basically, what results from Chapter 5. It shows what happens and how Ginny is now being treated... and it also goes into Draco's dreams pretty quick, a pace where you're not sure whether it's a dream or reality. It also showed what Ginny did with the ring - and that she still had it. I'm guessing after Chapter 3 most carelessly tossed the ring aside from their minds... I would've. But it wasn't so quickly lost to the darkness lol.