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The sound of her wailing babies brought Ginny's mind back enough to realize what had happened; the Dark magic she released scared her to death...... something she never thought she was capable of doing. She quickly shook her head of any guilt that may present itself and realized she didn't have time for that; she only had a moment to try and get her mind steady enough to get her babies somewhere safe. She suddenly realized the baby in her arms and a shiver ran down her spine and fear filled her eyes; she could never live with herself if she knew she had hurt one of her children.

She looked down at her daughter and stared into her crystal gray eyes; noticing how much she reminded her of Draco. Whenever she looked at her children, they made her feel stronger, but she knew they also seemed to stir up the evil within her. She glanced over to Draco's unconscious form for a moment and a frown spread across her face because she was scared to be alone with her children. She felt the entity trying to keep pulling her back so it could take over and every time she gained some kind of control over herself she tried to put the baby back in the bassinet. She managed to get as far as the armchair and quickly set the baby down there; she just wanted to get her out of her hands to further prolong any pain she might unwillingly cause her.

Her head was throbbing with unbearable pain; she just needed enough time to put distance between herself and her babies. She ran to Draco's side and shook him violently to wake up before she lost control again.

"DRACO! DRACO! PLEASE WAKE UP! PLEASE! YOU NEED TO WAKE UP! DRACO!" she screamed wildly; gently slapping his face.

He only lightly moved his head, but still remained almost completely out. She started to panic and she scrambled across the floor to the corner to try and get enough grip over herself to think of some kind of solution. Suddenly, her trembling lips and shaking body stopped and she stood up and a new kind of emotion filled her........ anger. She heard her poor babies crying for help, for someone to hold them and love them and this made her so angry that she couldn't be there for them.

"No more...... no more of this, I don't want to do this anymore." she whispered to herself; a taunting laugh ringing in her ears.

She closed her eyes to help steady her mind again, but she felt her body moving towards the kitchen drawer and before she knew it, she was holding a rather large kitchen knife in her hand. She tried to not panic because when she did this thing had more control over her. She couldn't help but think back to the morning she woke up from that horrid dream with this same knife in her bed and she let out a shaky breath and some unavoidable tears.

"I won't hurt them..... I won't...... please don't make me." she cried to herself as she walked closer towards Ember's cries.

She noticed Draco start to stir a bit more and she screamed to him. "DRACO! GET UP! PLEASE GET UP! DRACO!" she screamed at the top of her lungs as she stood before her wailing daughter.

Draco heard the screaming, but desperately tried to adjust his eyes to take in what was happening. He turned his head to see everyone else starting to come around, but they were all disoriented. He heard Ginny and suddenly everything came rushing back to him and he quickly sat up, but grabbed his head as a wave of pain hit him. He then saw Ginny standing over their child with a knife and he tried with everything in him to stand up, but he was finding it impossible as fear filled him. He saw her lift the knife in the air getting ready to plunge it down into the baby and his breath caught in his throat.

Ginny fought so hard to stop it; she screamed in her mind for this to stop as her daughter's cries ripped through her. She thought frantically of a way to sidetrack her mind so Draco could have enough time to stop her. She quickly brought her right hand up to her shoulder and felt for the scar she had from the arrow she was hit with. She remembered Hermione mentioning how the arrow never hit anything major which played a partial point in keeping her alive at that time. When she found it, she mentally made a note of it and watched as her left hand came down with the knife slicing through the air towards her baby girl.

"GINNY NO!" Draco screamed.

Ginny felt the knife collide with flesh and then a hot warm liquid spilled all over her hand and her eyes went wide in shock. She gasped for a breath and fell to her knees; tasting the blood in her mouth, then looked at the knife she plunged into her shoulder.

"GINNY!" Draco yelled, making his way over to her.

Before he got to her; she threw her head back and this thick black smoke emerged from within her into the air. Draco swore he heard voices and screaming in the dark cloud that swirled wildly around the room roaring in anger before it completely busted into a bunch of dust particles and disintegrated altogether. Draco couldn't help but let out an emotional small laugh as he knew the curse had finally lifted and was gone. It was Ember's cries that brought his attention back to Ginny and he ran to her side; catching her body in his arms before she completely hit the floor.

"Ginny? Hey...... you're going to be alright, ok? Just look at me." He said with a tearful smile, trying to make it sound convincing.

She just stared at him and held onto his gaze; those beautiful gray eyes staring at her and begging for her to stay awake. She smiled back at him, although she knew he was trying to be brave for her, she could see right through him; something she learned to do over the past year. She saw Madame Pomfrey's head come into view over her and everything became silent as she watched different people come in and out of her view who kept saying things to her that just weren't registering. She felt so tired suddenly and somehow quite peaceful and was finding it near impossible to keep her eyes open any longer and slowly let them fall closed.

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She could have sworn she saw white all around her, but she then heard more of a ringing in her ears and then silence. She opened her eyes a tiny bit to see the blaring sun hitting her face; her mind went back to the morning of Draco's proposal when the sunlight reflected off her ring into her eyes. She let a smile come to her face and she finally realized how much better she was feeling, especially for stabbing herself in the shoulder. Knowing that this curse had finally lifted and her body and mind were her own again, made her feel so much better. Sure, she was in a lot of pain from her shoulder wound, but she was just so happy to be back to her old self....... well, at least she thought she was. She slowly let her eyes open further and took in her surroundings.

She realized she was in her own bedroom this time and an even wider smile spread across her face, especially when she saw the two cribs across the room. She then felt her smile fade and remembered that she wasn't even sure if she hurt anyone or not and she felt herself start to go into a panic and tried to sit up. She soon realized she was going to need help doing so and then felt someone's hands on her to help her.

"Morning Ginny, you look a lot better than yesterday." Hermione said with a bright smile, taking a seat on the bed.

"Herm...." she tried to speak, but her throat was so dry; she cleared her throat and took a sip of water that Hermione handed her."Thanks.... Hermione, did I-"

"No." she said with a small smile to Ginny. "Everyone is ok....... you're ok." she said, gently hugging Ginny to her.

Ginny nodded.

"That was smart thinking you did..... remembering about the arrow wound." Hermione said, taking a peek at Ginny's shoulder. "Madame Pomfrey is an amazing healer; you should have seen her in action.... just brilliant. You needed some blood replenishing potion and you were out for a little over a day but-"

"A day?" Ginny said surprised. "It seems like only moments ago." she whispered in a hoarse voice.

They sat there in silence for a few moments.

"How are YOU feeling Ginny?" Hermione said, looking at her friend who seemed to be getting teary eyed.

Ginny looked at her for a few moments before looking down at the ring on her finger. "Guilty.... violated, I don't know..... I mean I physically feel so much better, believe it or not, regardless of this wound. I feel in control and somewhat normal again.... but emotionally..... it was..." she trailed off.

After a moment of silence, Hermione looked back at her friend with a smile.

"Why don't I help you get showered and changed, maybe brush that mop of yours." she teased, taking a wad of Ginny's hair that was in a large knot.

Ginny gave a small laugh and then Hermione thought she was laughing harder, but soon realized she was crying and she took her friend in her arms and hugged her for a while as she sobbed.

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Ginny looked in the mirror and gave a small smile at her refreshing appearance and then looked down at the sling her arm hung in. She couldn't remember the last time she could look in the mirror and be somewhat pleased with how she looked, but after the horrid experience she had gone through she was perfectly content with the image staring back at her.

"Feel better?" Hermione asked, brushing the last section of Ginny's hair.

"Better than I have been..... thanks Hermione for helping me."

"Oh please, not a problem. Come on, you must be starving; I know how the appetite of a Weasley can be." she teased.

Ginny gave a small giggle and then followed Hermione downstairs to the kitchen. She got to the bottom step and was met with everyone's eyes on her.

Hermione cleared her throat. "Look who is up?" she said with a smile, giving Ginny a light rub on her back before taking a seat next to Ron at the table.

"Ginny dear, how are you feeling sweetheart?" Mrs. Weasley said, grabbing her daughter's face in her hands and planting a kiss on her forehead.

"Better," she said in a small voice.

She watched them all give her a small smile and then go about their eating. She knew some of them were wondering if she would suddenly try to slit one of their throats or do something unnerving.

"Where's Draco?" she asked.

Her Mother nodded towards the living room and Ginny slowly made her way over there where she saw Draco already meet her gaze as he came into view. He was just putting Scorpius down in his bassinet and then stopped to take her in. Ginny wasn't sure why, but she felt a bit awkward seeing him standing there looking at her. She saw a smile spread across his face and one naturally stretched across hers also and she walked closer to him until they were only a few feet apart.

"Uh.... hey." she said to him, her eyes finding it hard to look directly into his.

She saw him getting ready to embrace her and she took a step back suddenly; she felt a bit panicked at the thought of being so close to the ones she just spent the last few days envisioning herself murdering.

"Uh..." she thought of something to say and saw the look on his face turn to worry and watched him lift his eyebrow questioningly. "Uh, can we talk?"

"Yeah," he nodded after a moment. "Can you keep an eye on the-"

"Of course, dear, go on." Mrs. Weasley waved to Draco as he turned to ask her to keep an eye on the twins.

Draco led the way outside to the back porch where a beautiful sunny day met the both of them. They walked in silence for a few moments around the house before Ginny finally spoke.

"How come you aren't freaking out?"

"What do you mean?"

"Normally we would be hugging and snogging each other senseless and you haven't even questioned me about why I'm being so distant and-"

"Ginny." he stopped walking and turned to face her. "I may not know what you went through exactly, but I have somewhat of an idea, especially when it comes to unwillingly hurting the people I love. I know you must be feeling guilty and hesitant about being around Scorpius and Ember, but-"

"I'm scared....... what if this thing isn't gone and I suddenly do something horrible to one of them? I couldn't even live with myself if I ever did such a thing." she said looking away from him.

Draco took her hand and pulled her against his body; he didn't want to rush her, but he couldn't wait any longer to hold her in his arms. She relaxed against him and soon wrapped her free arm around him and let him hold her tightly in his arms. She felt so safe here..... just like this, like nothing could ever hurt her.

"I'm so happy your ok, I missed you Ginny." He said, hugging her tighter.

He didn't realize how much he missed Ginny until he had her in his arms. He felt like he could finally let his emotions out because Ginny was the only one he felt comfortable enough around to do so. As nervous as Ginny was about being so close to her loved ones right now; she instinctively brought his head down to cry on her shoulder. She hated seeing Draco cry because she knew he didn't do it very often so he must be feeling an overwhelming amount of emotion to be crying in the first place. After a few moments Draco finally broke the embrace and stared at her.

"Ginny?"

"Yes," she answered; her breathing growing more rapidly as she looked into his beautiful glistening eyes.

He went to speak, but instead they both slammed their lips against each other and hungrily kissed. The way Draco's fingers slid into her hair and how his thumb caressed her cheek as he kissed her made Ginny forget about any hesitation. She suddenly broke the kiss with a wince of pain from her shoulder.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, just still sore." she said with a light smile.

"Come on, let's get you back inside; you must be starving, you know....... with being a Weasley and all." he teased.

"Why does everybody keep saying that?" she giggled, letting him take her hand and lead her back towards the house.

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"Alright, we will be back shortly, are you guys sure you don't want to tag along?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"Yes, Mom, I'm not really up to going into town right now." Ginny said, drinking a pain reducing potion that Madame Pomfrey gave her.

"Alright, and Draco are you sure you don't want me to stay with the ba-"

"I'm sure, now go." Draco chuckled.

"Well, alright, George is upstairs resting, I think he has a touch of the flu so just ignore his dramatic pleas for catering to his every whim." Mrs. Weasley said as she walked out of the front door. "Be back shortly."

Ginny watched her Mother and the rest of them head out through the door and waved a quick goodbye before turning around to face Draco.

"So... now what?"

"Well, since these two are still sleeping, I'm going to go grab a quick shower." Draco said.

"Good thinking, well you better go on then." she giggled.

He gave her a quick kiss and then hurried up the stairs. Ginny walked over to the window and watched the dark clouds across the field slowly making their way towards town. She loved watching it rain and she automatically thought back to the horrible night Draco found her outside on the hood of Malini's car. She quickly shook her head free of those dark thoughts and then heard Scorpius starting to cry. She snapped her head over to the bassinet and felt fear; she just realized she was alone with her children for the first time since this curse had supposedly been gone. She ran to the bottom of the stairs and called out.

"DRACO?" But the shower was now running and she knew he didn't hear her.

She walked over to the bassinet again and stared down at the crying baby; her hands were shaking with fear. She tried to steady her breathing and shake her hands free of any nerves, but she was too scared. She quickly walked back over to the bottom of the steps again.

"DRACO? GEORGE?" she called up to them.

After getting no response she gave up on either of them coming down to save her from the insecure feelings of handling her babies and once again walked over to Scorpius. She took off her sling and then took another shaky breath before finally reaching down and gently stroked his cheek; a smile instantly came to her face. She then gently slid her hands under him and tested her strength to see if she could lift him and squinted her eyes a bit from some light pain, but then gently laid him in her good arm.

"Hello you." she smiled down at the tiny baby in her arm. "How could I be afraid to hold you?" she said to him in a playful voice. "You're just too cute not to hold." she said, gently tapping his tiny nose.

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Draco couldn't stop smiling; he was so happy that Ginny was free of this dark curse. He could barely enjoy the shower he was taking because he wanted to hurry up and get back to her. He kept thinking about what she said about this darkness not really being gone from her, but he saw with his own eyes it leave her body and disintegrate. He wasn't about to start questioning it all because of what she said, he knew what he saw; the curse was gone....... right? Now his mind kept going back to the fearful moment when he thought Ginny had killed their daughter; the sight of her bringing that knife up and the feeling that he had in his stomach that night was something he wouldn't soon forget. He then realized she was alone downstairs with both babies and he cursed to himself as his insecurities about the situation took over and he quickly turned the water off and jumped out of the shower. He threw on his jeans real quick still dripping wet and ran down the stairs to the living room so quickly that he almost slipped and fell on the last few steps.

Ginny snapped her head up to the abrupt sound of Draco running down the stairs. "Are you alright?" she asked, looking at him.

He stared at her with wide eyes and saw her feeding Scorpius a bottle; his eyes drifting closed into a peaceful sleep.

"Are you?" he asked her before he could stop himself; his breathing heavy and his heart racing.

"Yes, why wouldn't I-" Ginny stopped and took in his appearance, how he stood there with no shirt on and dripping water all over the floor, followed by his startling entrance. "Oh....I see." she said softly with a frown, looking down at the now sleeping baby in her arms.

"Ginny, I'm sorry it was stupid of me-"

"No, it's ok.... here, can you help me?" she said, gesturing for Draco to come place the baby back in his bassinet.

He gently put Scorpius down and then saw Ginny quickly get up from the couch and head to the stairs when he quickly caught her wrist in his hand.

"Ginny, wait."

"It's ok Draco, you don't have to explain......... I understand." she said in a small voice without looking at him.

He pulled her to his chest and hugged her. "I'm sorry, I just kept thinking about what you said outside earlier and just...... had to be sure you were ok."

"You don't have to apologize..... really. I'm going to go lay down for a bit, that potion I took made me a bit tired."

He gave her a small smile and nodded, watching her walk up to her bedroom.

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Later that evening Kingsley had arrived to have dinner with them before getting ready to go over their next plan of action.Everyone soon started treating Ginny normal again once they realized she hadn't attempted to kill any of them yet, which then made her start to feel more secure about this curse being gone for good. She was about to make her way downstairs for the meeting and saw Harry coming down the hall. She hadn't spoken to Harry at all since she had kissed him a few days ago; she couldn't help the blush that came over her when he saw her looking at him. She was grateful when he smiled widely and started laughing.

"Well, three guesses of what you're thinking about." he teased her, grabbing her into a one armed hug.

"Sorry Harry, I hope Luna wasn't mad." she said, covering her face in embarrassment.

"It's Luna...... I don't think I've ever seen her mad. You know she completely understands."

"Well, still...... not one of my proudest moments."

"Are you saying kissing me wasn't at all satisfying?"

"No... I mean you're a great kisser and I.....you....um."

"Ginny, relax, I'm joking." he laughed.

"Jerk." she mumbled; lightly slapping his arm.

"I'll meet you downstairs." he chuckled.

She nodded and then saw Draco heading out from the bathroom to his bedroom.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"Oh, I need a new shirt, I think Ember purposely spits up only on this one....... I think she's marked it as the official spit up shirt." he said, walking into his bedroom and heading over to the dresser.

Ginny gave a small laugh and followed him into his room and sat on the bed watching him change his shirt. She suddenly thought about how she was locked inside this room with that thing that violated her in so many ways and she jumped up off of the bed.

"Are you alright?" he asked her, noticing her panicked appearance.

She looked at him with wide eyes and walked out into the hall and buried her face in her hands. She took a few deep breaths to calm herself down and then soon felt Draco wrap his arms around her.

"Hey, are you alright?"

"Yes, I'm sorry, its just.... all still so fresh in my mind..... your room gives me the creeps." she said, turning around and facing him.

"So I take it all further shag sessions will have to take place in your room?" he teased.

She slapped him hard on the chest. "You're such a jerk." she giggled.

"Yes, but I'm your jerk." he smirked, then pulled her in for a kiss. He then pulled away and looked at her. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be joking."

"No, it's ok, I can use a good laugh....... too bad you're failing horribly at doing so." she said with a grin.

"Oh, is that so?" he said, getting ready to grab her back to him, but she quickly squirmed away and made her way quickly downstairs to the meeting.

Ginny took a seat at the table next to Bill and then Draco sat beside her; him taking her hand under the table and gently squeezing it.

"Ah, Miss Weasley, I'm glad to see you are doing much better." Kingsley said happily.

"Thank you, Sir."

"Mr. Malfoy." Kingsley nodded, receiving the same in return from Draco. "Alright, so I'll just come out with it then. In the next day or so when Miss Weasley is feeling a bit better, I want a thorough practice session involving all three of you using your powers to their full potential...... understood?" he looked at Ginny, Draco and Harry.

They all nodded.

"But, Sir, won't that draw attention to this area even with the ward up?" Hermione asked.

"Yes indeed, which is what I'm counting on. You see, when Mr. Malfoy mentioned taking the wards down the other day, I thought that perhaps it is time to bring this thing to an end instead of constantly hiding. I thought I could take a more planned out approach, but it's becoming more dangerous out there. By the time they figure out where we are and I take the ward down........ we will be ready for them. So..... let's hear your thoughts on it." he said.

"What about the twins? I don't want them here when this all goes down." Ginny spoke up; cutting Draco off who was about to say the same thing.

"I will be sending Madame Pomfrey and Mrs. Weasley to stay with Fleur at a safe house."

Ginny looked to her Mother, who gave her a small loving smile and then she lightly nodded.

"Is everyone on board with this?" Kingsley addressed the room.

They all nodded.

"It's ok if you don't want to be involved with this...... I have asked so much of you guys already so I won't think any less of any of you if you want to back out." Kingsley continued. Nobody spoke and then he continued talking. "This is it guys, I could potentially be leading you all to your death....... do you all understand that?" Kingsley asked again, looking all around the table.

They all nodded once again.

Kingsley let out a long sigh and shook his head. "Well then..... practice will start in the next day or so. I will be here for the practices this time to ensure we are using every advantage we have against Lucius. Until then, may you all have a wonderful night and thank you Mr. and Mrs. Weasley for the lovely meal, once again, it was magnificent." He said walking into the fireplace and grabbing a handful of floo powder.

In a matter of moments he was engulfed in green flames and was gone.

"Wow, that guy is such a breath of fresh air; always so......... uplifting" George said, breaking the grim silence, then receiving a slap from Mrs. Weasley.

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"Alright, Goodnight dears, see you in the morning." Mrs. Weasley called to them as she went up to bed for the night.

It was a little after Midnight as Draco, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Luna sat around the living room in front of the glowing fire. It had been a while since they all just sat around together like this and each one of them seemed to be deep in thought. Ginny had just taken another potion to help with her pain and laid her head on Draco's lap as he played with a piece of her hair.

"Just think...... we could all be dead in a week." Ron suddenly spoke.

They all looked at him and it was Ginny, who started laughing. "Gosh, Ron, Kingsley's positive charm must be rubbing off on you." she giggled, getting a laugh out of the rest of them.

"He's right though, we could be." Luna said.

They all sat there in silence again and thought about it; this could very well be the last few days they would be alive.

"What would you miss the most about living?" Luna asked suddenly.

"Um, I'm gonna go with LIVING!" Ron snapped.

"Double chocolate fudge cake." Ginny mumbled.

"What?" Draco asked her.

"I'd miss my Mom's double chocolate fudge cake." she said.

They all laughed.

"You know what I'm gonna miss the most?" Draco said.

"Looking at yourself in the mirror?" Ron laughed.

"No...... this." Draco said, picking up a pillow and throwing it at Harry's face; knocking his glasses to the floor causing them to break.

They all erupted into a fit of laughter until Hermione calmed down enough to yet again perform a Repairo spell on them.

"Alright well, it's time to go upstairs and do the other thing I'd miss the most." Draco said, getting up and picking Ginny up in his arms.

"HEY THAT'S MY SISTER YOUR TALKING ABOUT LIKE THAT!" Ron shouted.

"Relax Weaslebee, I just meant sex." he laughed, carrying Ginny upstairs.

"But she only has one arm to use right now." Luna teased.

"That's all she's gonna need." Draco called down to them, causing Ginny to giggle in his arms and a wave of laughter from the rest of them.

Once upstairs, Draco quietly placed Ginny down on her bed and then closed the bedroom door and climbed into bed beside her.

"Goodnight." he said, placing a soft kiss on her lips.

"I thought we were having sex?" Ginny said through a big yawn.

"Believe me, I'd love to, but your tired from that potion and you need to rest..... come here." he said, stretching his arms out for her to cuddle up into.

"Then why did you tell Ron something else?" she laughed.

"Because like so many other things I'd miss in this life...... pissing off your brother is another one." he chuckled, causing Ginny to let out another giggle.

"I love you Draco."

"I love you more." he said, kissing the top of her head.

"If I wasn't so tired I would protest, but for now you win." she said, before finally dozing off into a deep sleep.

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It took Ginny the next two days and a lot of healing potions and charms to just about fully regain all strength and use of her arm again. As soon as she was well enough, she, Draco and Harry didn't waste anytime practicing, but things turned out to be more of a competition between them rather than teamwork. It started out small with Draco turning Harry's coffee into a solid block of ice one morning and then Harry making Draco have a rather frizzy hair day. Ginny messed with both of them and even went as far as turning Harry's hot chocolate into the hottest he had ever had; he still complained about his numb tongue. Then yesterday Harry made Ginny and Draco get a shock every time they would touch something which eventually got Harry's feet iced over and stuck to the floor in the hallway until it finally melted and he was able to break free.

Today so far, thankfully no such tricks had been played as the seriousness of what was coming up in the next few days started to kick in further. Ginny sat on the back porch steps with Draco just messing around with him freezing her balls of fire over light conversation.

"It's going to be so hard to say goodbye to Ember and Scorpius when the time comes; not knowing if either of us will ever see them again." Ginny said in a small voice as a light swirl of fire twisted above her palm.

"Yeah, it sure is." Draco sighed, swishing his finger lazily through the small string of fire, making it freeze all the way to the bottom.

Ginny tossed it to the side where the rest of the other ones they made started melting.

"As horrid and nerve wracking as it will be, a part of me is anxious to get this over with already..... I'm so done with living in fear." Ginny went on to say as she sent out a small wave of flames that formed a small circle around her.

"Me too, I can't wait to kill him." Draco said angrily, making the wave of fire around Ginny ice over quickly without much effort. "Here." he mumbled, this time he formed the ball of ice for Ginny to melt.

She gave a sigh and placed her chin in the palm of her hand where her arm rested on her lap and brought a single finger up to get ready to melt the ice when it suddenly exploded into a bunch of tiny bits.

"HARRY!" both she and Draco yelled out as Harry walked past them and out into the middle of the field.

"Look alive guys, its time for practice." he said.

"What a royal prat." Draco mumbled causing a giggle from Ginny.

"Alright, come on you two, up, up." came McGonagall's voice, as she walked past them, followed by Kingsley and the others.

"Great, looks like the show is about to begin...... like we're some sort of freak show." Draco snarled, getting up from the porch to join Harry and Ginny on the field.

"Wipe that sneer off your face Mr. Malfoy or I'll do it for you." McGonagall said sternly.

Draco looked at her with a sneer still, but then turned it into an eye roll and then a frown. He looked at Ginny, who was biting her lip from laughing and he gave her a small half smile.

"Mr. Malfoy, why don't you start us off." Kingsley said, gesturing for him to step into the middle of the field.

"Alright." he said casually and took his place a few feet away from Ginny and Harry.

"No showing off." Ginny teased.

Draco smirked at her. "Me? I would never." he said sarcastically.

Suddenly, two huge walls of ice erupted from the ground; one on the side of Harry and another on the side of Ginny and they slowly started pushing closer together with both of them between the walls. Immediately Harry and Ginny looked at each other and made a run for it to get to the end of the long icy wall before it crushed them. The wall was closing in on them making it tighter and tighter for them to run side by side and Ginny grabbed Harry's outstretched hand as they barreled towards the opening. Harry pulled Ginny to run in front of him as the space decreased more and more and he then released an explosive spark right behind Ginny feet that sent her flying forward safely outside of the walls.

Ginny quickly regained herself and turned around to see Harry was just about to be crushed when she placed her hands on the grass and let her fiery powers cover both sides of the wall. She watched as the walls started moving slower onto Harry, as he was now having to almost run sideways to get the rest of the way out. He rubbed up against the flames and quickly threw himself to safety onto the grass while patting the sleeve of his shirt off that caught fire. They both laid back onto the grass, breathing heavily and then Harry turned to Ginny.

"You almost set me on fire," he said through breaths.

"Would you have rather been crushed?" she smiled at him, as she tried to regain control of her breathing.

Draco's face soon came into view and stood over them with a triumphant smirk.

"You almost killed us," Harry stated.

"That's what you both get for snogging each other." he teased, quickly jumping out of the way of a fireball Ginny threw at him.

"JERK!" she yelled.

"That was bloody brilliant." said Ron, running over to them.

"Yeah, says the guy who was safely sitting on the porch." Harry mumbled to Ginny, making them both snicker.

Draco held his hand out to Ginny to help her get up and then Harry held out his hand for Draco to help him up, but Draco ignored it.

"What a git"Harry mumbled.

Ginny looked at Draco with a half smile and a dramatic look of shock. "You're being mean, go help him up."

"No, no, that's quite alright." Harry drawled, getting to his feet and wiping the dirt off his clothes. "I'll remember this the next time your dangling off a cliff."

Draco grabbed at his heart in a dramatic attempt to show how hurtful Harry's words were. "Ouch, hurtful words Potter, hurtful words." he said, slapping Harry on the back a little harder than Harry would have liked.

"ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT! Great work all of you. Let's do a few more scenarios and then we will call it a day." McGonagall said.

The three of them looked at each other and gave a sigh before heading back to the middle of the field.

"Who would like to start us off this time?" McGonagall asked.

"Oh, please........ allow me?" Harry said with a smirk and looked straight at Draco.

"I'm about to get my ass handed to me, aren't I?" Draco mumbled to Ginny.

"Yep." she giggled.

"Great." he said sarcastically, watching Harry gather up a ball of electricity that had Draco's name all over it.

Harry threw it right at Draco, who turned and started running away from it, but the force of it made him fly forward and hit the ground hard. He let out a growl of pain and winced at the soreness that ran through his body and saw Ginny run over to him. She saw a slight smile across his face and knew he was ok.

"Note to self, don't piss off Potter." he said through clenched teeth.

She was laughing at him. "Oh, please, you'd give him the same treatment, I mean you did just almost try to crush him to death."

"Good point." he said, getting up and then faced Harry, who was ready with another hand full of electrical energy.

Ginny just stepped aside; it was apparent Harry and Draco would be dueling this one out together. She knew it was in good fun since they both kept cracking jokes and insults to each other with smug smirks and an occasional laugh. Draco was just about to throw a shard of ice at Harry when Ginny saw him fall to his knees. She thought he was just weak from practice, but soon realized something was wrong and saw Harry getting ready to hit Draco with another wave of electricity. She quickly ran as fast as she could in front of Draco; skidding to a stop right before the electrical shock hit them and a fiery shield surrounded her and Draco. She instinctively pushed the jolt of electric back towards Harry that hit him so hard he flew backwards and landed on his back.

She quickly turned back to Draco and kneeled down in front of him and grabbed his face in her hands.

"Draco, what's wrong? Is it an attack?" She asked him frantically.

He stiffly nodded and dug his fingers into the ground as the pain pierced through his body.

"It's ok, I'm going to use the Hauriendum charm." she said, quickly pulling out her wand.

"NO!" he said, swiping it away from her grasp and throwing it aside.

She gave him a stern look and then Harry and the others were beside her.

"What's wrong?" Ron asked.

"He's having an attack." Ginny said quickly, reaching over to pick her wand back up.

"An attack? He hasn't had one of those is a while....... who hasn't used the spell on him yet?" Ron looked around at them all.

"I haven't." Ginny said hastily pointing her wand at Draco and grabbing his arm. "HAURIEN-"

She stopped suddenly when she saw his whole body completely covering with ice until he was almost nothing more than some ice sculpture.

"What is he doing?" Harry asked.

Ginny watched him become completely covered from head to toe until he couldn't move anymore. "He's doing this so nobody can use the Hauriendum spell on him." She said furiously, getting to her feet.

They all stood there for a few moments just looking at the now still form of Draco hunched over in pain; completely frozen. Ginny was angry with Draco, she was perfectly capable of performing the spell on him and could handle the pain that went along with it. Her soon to be husband was going through this awful torture, and the only way she knew how to help him he wouldn't let her do. She waited another minute or so to make sure the attack had passed and then gently waved her hands over him until he was completely drenched in melted ice water. He collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily and in a sort of daze. Madame Pomfrey was over him in a moment with a potion that she dumped down his throat.

"Draco? Hey..... Draco?" He heard Ginny call to him, gently tapping his face as his eyes closed; taking in a rather angry Ginny that he knew he would be facing once he woke up.

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