Haunting Visions
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Disclaimer: I own Angelina Michaels, and anyone else whom you do not recognize from the Harry Potter movies and or books
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Chapter 7: Demons Sitting At My Side
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Ginny's mouth hung open in shock. Grabbing the box, which held the engagement ring. It had a platinum band, a 1.50 carat oval shaped diamond in the center and two 0.75 carat diamonds on the side in the shape of trillion. Her hands were shaky, so much so that she nearly dropped the box. (Made the ring at www. a diamond is forever .com - the spaces)
"The jeweler said that the total weight is three carats."
She tried saying something, her mouth moved, but no sound came from it.
"I love you Gin. So much. Please, make me the luckiest and happiest man on Earth and become my wife."
"Draco!" Ginny was in absolute shock, "Oh Gods! You think we're gonna die!"
"What?" His face fell.
"That's why you're proposing! Oh Gods, you're proposing!" She shouted.
"Yeah!" He said with a small chuckle, "And waiting for an answer."
Moments passed before the fluttery nervous feeling in her stomach was replaced by a happy, excited one.
"Gin…" He was getting worried now that she'd reject him.
"Yes!" She said softly, before stating louder and louder each time, "Yes! YES, YES!"
Draco smiled one of the most genuine smiles, reserved for her only, "I love you!" He said, lifting her up in his arms and swinging them around the room. They toppled over on to the bed and started laughing. He grabbed the box from her hand and grabbed her left one, "Virginia Anne Malfoy." He said while slipping the engagement ring on to her left ring finger.
"I like the sound of that." She whispered softly, before kissing her new fiancée.
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Ginny and Angelina sat in their favorite Chinese restaurant, China Delight, the next day. (AN: They're in Florida, they have the best triple delight and pork lo Mein)
"So, how are you today?" Ginny asked.
"Ok. You remember Chad? From the club. He keeps calling every friggen hour or so to ask if I'm ok. It's so damn annoying." Angelina said, pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Here're you drinks." Millicent put them down on the table.
"Thanks." The girls said in unison.
"Ready to order?"
"Bourbon chicken. No broccoli, pork fried rice, and chicken wings."
Ginny ordered next, "I'll have the same but with an egg roll."
"Ok." Millicent grabbed the menus from Ginny's left hand.
Angelina was taking a sip of her coke was she noticed the ring on Ginny's finger. Spitting out the coke onto the floor where Millicent had been standing, she blushed at the applause.
"If this keeps up, they're gonna have to give me a spit bucket or something." Angelina joked before grabbing Ginny's hand, "Holy shit! That thing is huge!"
"Three carats all together."
"God, I can't wait to see the actual Wedding ring!" Angelina smiled, "I will be invited right?"
Ginny picked up a noodle and threw it at her head, "Of course, dumbass. Speaking of which, we're doing an announcement tonight to our families, we were hoping Blaise and you would come."
"Of course chica!" Angelina looked aghast, "My bestest friend in the whole wide world gets engaged, and plans on announcing it to her, and her fiancée's, family, and she doesn't expect me, her un-related sister, to come?"
"I was hoping you'd more than come tonight. I was hoping you'd not only design my wedding, but be my Maid of Honor." Ginny was smiling.
"Of course!"
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After lunch, Angelina and Ginny were browsing through the CD's in a Muggle Music store.
"Oh! Are you in the D's?" Angelina asked Ginny.
"Yeah, why?"
"Can you browse for Gavin Degraw for me?" Angelina asked, "He's got awesome songs, I've been meaning to buy the album."
"Got any ideas for what music you want to play at the wedding?"
"Isn't that up to the coordinator and you and Draco?" Angelina asked.
"Yeah, and seeing as you're the coordinator, it's one third of you choice."
"What?! When you said design the wedding, you didn't just mean just the dresses did you?" Angelina asked.
"No, I mean the dresses, tuxedos, cake, floral arrangements, seating charts, food layout, music, dance floor, reception, wedding ceremony, everything and anything that goes into a wedding."
Angelina's mouth dropped open wide and she slowly grabbed the Gavin Degraw CD from Ginny's hand, "And how long exactly do I have to plan this?"
"Three weeks."
"WHAT?!" Angelina shouted, "You're shitting me right?"
"What is it with people and that expression! I just don't get it."
"C'mon Gin. Draco and yourself aren't getting married in three weeks are you?"
"I don't know… we want to do it as soon as possible. Before Lucius and Tomas strike."
"They could strike right now Gin. Are you gonna grab Draco and drag him off to a chapel right now to get married?"
"No! Of course not…"
"Gin, I'm just saying, give it at least three months. That way there, you can set up who will run the restaurant while you're gone, and Draco can find someone to take care of his finances…"
"Gone? Gone where?"
"The honeymoon." Angelina answered as if it were the most obvious thing.
"Oh, right, the honeymoon."
"Yeah, that takes at least a month of ahead booking to make sure that there isn't any double bookings."
"How do you know all this already about weddings?"
"My mothers' brother, Uncle Jimmy, has been married thirteen times since I was four. I was a flower girl, and or junior brides maid at each wedding."
"Isn't it the brides' choice to appoint flower girl and junior brides maid? Wouldn't she have picked someone from her family?"
"None of the brides' family supported them marrying my Uncle."
"Why?"
"You obviously haven't met Uncle Jimmy." Angelina answered with a chuckle. Angelina paid for the CD's and left the store with Ginny.
"What's wrong with you're Uncle?"
"He's a pig." Angelina answered frankly.
"Watch out!" A bicycle bell sounded and Ginny found herself on the ground.
"Son of a…" Ginny saw a few kids around, "Witch." She hated saying that expression.
"Are you okay? I'm sooooo sorry! I lost control." The bike boy and Angelina helped Ginny to her feet.
"I'm fine. Just a few scratches." Ginny answered, looking at the huge gash on her forearm.
"C'mon Gin. Let's get you to the hospital." Angelina said.
"I'll come." The bike boy offered, clearly feeling bad.
"NO!" Angelina answered, "She's fine. You can keep going." Angelina led Ginny away and into a nearby alley, "Are you okay sweetie?"
"Yeah. Just heal me already."
Angelina nodded and pulled out her wand. Muttering the healing spell quickly, she watched Ginny's arm glow, missing the fact that so did her eyes.
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"Gin?" Angelina asked. They had left the music store an hour before and were now walking along a dock.
"I have a bad feeling."
"About?"
"This." Ginny motioned towards the water. She shivered and looked up. The day had clouded over and was now cool and eerie.
"You don't look so good. Maybe we should've Apparated to Saint Mungo's and had you healed properly."
Ginny gasped and fainted.
"Ginny?" Angelina asked alarmed, catching Ginny before she hit her head. Collapsing under the weight of the older girl, she sank to the ground, "Ginny? Gin! Wake up! Please!"
It was a few minutes before Ginny's eyes shot open and she gasped, "Run!" She said urgently, standing and grabbing her purse.
"What?!" Angelina asked surprised, she too stood and grabbed her messenger bag purse.
"They're coming. I had a dream!"
"That's great!" Angelina said, but then grew pale, "Oh gods. C'mon!" She grabbed Ginny's hand and they started running.
They were only a few feet when they both were forced to stop by a pale, white haired man stepping in front of them. Ginny gasped, and looked behind her. A man with brown hair and pale blue eyes stood there, blocking them.
"Oh gods." Angelina said, panic rising quickly.
"Not quiet."
"What do you want Lucius?" Ginny asked with faux calm.
His hand smacked her across the face; "You don't call me by my first name, filth."
"Don't touch her!" Angelina snapped.
"Take a swim." Tomas Zabini told her, grabbing Angelina quickly and throwing her into the water. He kept his hands on her shoulders and held her under.
"NO!" Ginny screamed.
"Ah, ah, ah." Lucius said, grabbing Ginny by the hair.
Ginny struggled and let out a strangled cry when Angelina stopped splashing. Tomas stood up and performed a drying spell on himself.
"You fool!" Lucius snarled, "How could you use your wand! Auror's will be here any minute! Oof!"
Ginny had kneed Lucius in the groin, "Never mess with a Weasley." She told him as he backed off.
"We don't have time for this!" Tomas said as he Apparated. Lucius following as the first signs of Auror's forming.
"Angie!" Ginny remembered her friend.
"Ma'am! Are you okay?" An Auror asked.
"Help me!" She shouted, trying to pull Angelina from the water. Her lips were already bluing and her skin pale.
An Auror grabbed Angelina's other arm and they pulled her from the water. "She's not breathing." The Auror announced.
"What's going on?"
"Mister Michaels!" Ginny shouted in surprise.
"Ginny? Are you alright?"
"Yes…"
"Ginny, what's wrong?"
"We need to get her to Saint Mungo's." The Auror announced, as he stood.
"Did they get away?" Nymphadora Tonks asked.
"Miss Weasley, what're you doing here?" Remus Lupin asked.
"Angie?" Jason saw his daughter's body for the first time.
"Why don't you just heal her?!" Ginny screamed.
"We did." The Auror said grimly.
"It usually takes at least five minutes to track a fugitive's wand. He did something to her, while she was under, didn't he?" Ginny asked.
"Unfortunately."
A strangled cry escaped the distraught fathers' mouth.
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"Ginny?"
Ginny looked up in the waiting room of Saint Mungo's, "Draco!" She cried, getting up and hugging him.
"Are you okay?" He asked, hugging her tightly.
"I am, Angelina isn't. Tomas nearly drowned her. She isn't waking up." Tears slipped down her face.
"Where's Blaise?" Draco asked as he went paler.
"I left him a message."
"Ginny? Dear, are you alright?" Ginny's mother ran up and attacked her in a hug. Ginny looked over her mothers shoulder and saw her family, Fred, George, Bill, Ron, Luna, Nathan, Alicia, Katie, Fleur, Fred and Alicia's twins Jake and Jenny, George and Katie's twin sons Harper and Joey, and her father. Then her non-blood family, Harry and Hermione, and their five-month-old daughter Lillian.
"I'm fine mom."
"Auntie otay?" Nathan asked from Ron's arms.
"I'm fine Nate-Nate. It's Auntie Angie I'm worried about." Ginny told him after kissing his cheek.
Blaise burst into the waiting room and immediately spotted the red heads.
"Where is she?" He asked.
Draco pulled Blaise away from the little kids.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Blaise asked immediately.
"Angelina nearly drowned."
"What?" Blaise looked disbelieving. "No. She's an awesome swimmer."
"Tomas held her under the water."
"Is she okay?"
"She isn't waking up."
Ginny watched the interaction between her fiancée and her best friends' boyfriend. She winced when Blaise turned around and shoved his fist in the wall behind him.
"Gin? What that on your hand?" Ron asked, noticing the engagement ring.
"Not now Ron."
"But…"
Luna elbowed her husband in the gut, "Shut up." She told him from the corner of her mouth.
Ginny slowly walked over to Blaise and placed her right hand on his shoulder. His right hand, which he'd repeatedly been slamming into the wall, ceased in movement. She just looked at him, not saying anything. A few tears fell from his eyes and he turned into Ginny and hugged her.
"I can't lose her." He told Ginny.
"We won't." Ginny told him, holding on to Blaise.
"Where is he?" A young woman shouted.
"Christina, calm down." Jason Michaels said to his daughter around the corner from the Weasley's, Potter's, Draco, and Blaise.
"No! It's his fault my sister is in there unconscious." Christina raved, coming into view, Jason, Landon, and James coming into view as well.
Blaise looked up and sniffled, causing Christina to spot him.
"You!" She shouted, running forward.
Ginny stepped off to Blaise's side as Christina ran towards them. When Christina got there, she started fruitlessly punching Blaise in the chest. Ginny reached out to restrain the girl, but she simply got shrugged off. Blaise looked at Ginny telling her it was ok and to back off, then wrapped his arms around Christina and tried to calm her down.
Jason came forward and grabbed his slowly calming daughter from his daughters' boyfriends arms, "Honey, she's gonna be ok."
"No! She's lying in there dying because of him."
Silence passed over everyone. Five minutes later, through the awkward silence, a door screeched open, and a doctor stepped through.
"Angelina Michaels?"
"Us." Everyone waiting for news stood.
"Well, Miss Michaels's certainly popular." He smiled.
"What the hell is wrong with her?" Blaise asked, wanting, like everyone else, to get straight to the point.
"We aren't quite sure. We've performed several healing spells, but she won't wake up."
"She won't…" Blaise stated, "He placed a powerful Dark Arts spell on her. The same thing he placed on me five years ago."
"How can it be lifted?"
"I don't know. The only person who knows that is at large."
Ginny's head snapped up, "Correction. Five people know how too. One is at large, four are at Hogwarts."
"Who?" Christina asked.
"Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, and Madam Pomfrey." Ginny smiled.
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Ok, I know this was Angie centered, but the next chapter will be certainly Draco/Ginny centered. Alright, so the root canal's been postponed AGAIN to next Wednesday. Tomorrow/today Mom and I are gonna watch the Bourne Identity and tomorrow we're gonna go see the sequel! ::jumps up and down:: I have the eighth chapter done and then that's it, then there's a whole long expanse of writers block.
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