Title Lune Soleil
Author: Samantha Riddle aka Slytherish
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by J.K. Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. Oh, and it has some Order of the Phoenix Spoilers.
Summary: Ginny Weasley has always been stereotyped as the youngest, innocent Weasley. No one in her family seems to understand her, and she secretly wishes for her chance to show them the truth. When she's captured by Death Eaters, her new backbone is put to the test. Why does Lord Voldemort want her? What does it have to do with her first year at Hogwarts?
Meanwhile Draco Malfoy is asked to gain Ginny's trust and watch her in between her 'lessons' with Lord Voldemort. When he's not frustrating himself with thoughts of Ginny, who is the only girl who manages to make him speechless, Draco is worried about his now broken family. Determined to make sure his mother is happy, Draco must turn against his father.
But what happens when a love forms between them, and suddenly the most important issue at hand is how can they stay together forever? Will Draco break away from Voldemort? Will Ginny turn on her family?
Notes: Another chapter. I don't like this one. *pouts* Anyway, I have decided there will be 20 chapters to this fic and a sequel! I've got the end seven chapters planned out. Happy Reading.
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Chapter Thirteen: And The Sun Falls Again
Once Lucius was out of sight, Draco kicked the metal bars of the cell with so much force the sound echoed throughout the dungeons. He threw himself at the door banging against it and shaking it. Although Ginny was behind him, she knew how upset he was.
"Damnit, no!" Draco begged almost silently as he banged his forehead against one of the bars. Ginny hesitated and then stepped forward, letting her hand fall on his shoulder.
"Draco..." She began soothingly.
"I'll kill him!" Draco yelled savagely, spinning around and startling Ginny. There were tears in his eyes: tears, hatred and much more then anger. "I'll kill him with my bloody bare hands!" Ginny winced, backing away from him. He spun back around and violently kicked the door again, throwing himself with a strangled yell against the door as if to open it.
Ginny watched in slight horror as Draco lost it. He continued to do anything to the door in order to get it to open with no luck. It wasn't until he was shaking it uncontrollably did he suddenly stop, his head hung and his body shaking with sobs Ginny knew he was fighting to restrain. He sank to his knees in front of the door, his back still to her.
On normal circumstances Ginny would have left him alone because this wasn't something he would want anyone to witness. But Ginny knew that Lucius would kill, if he hadn't already, Narcissa and maybe even Snape. Together, Draco and Ginny would have a chance against Lucius and maybe could get out of here in one piece. First though, Ginny had to get Draco to realize this.
This was their chance: their single chance to be free from Lord Voldemort and his world. Ginny wanted Draco to join her and return to the Order- she knew this world wasn't for him at all. Maybe it would be hard getting the others to trust him, but she did... she trusted him and more. She loved him. That was something she had understood during their second kiss and something that had been a shock.
Kneeling down next to him, Ginny gently lifted his head to face hers. His face was dry, it was obvious that he had kept the tears in with those body wrenching sobs. His eyes were burning in his head, he looked almost dangerous. She pushed all that aside, and gave him a very soothing look.
"We may not be able to save Narcissa, but Draco, we can save ourselves. We can get out of here and get to the Order and in turn save thousands. Together we can overpower Lucius. Snape's a spy- he's working for Dumbledore."
She couldn't believe the words had come out of her mouth. She had just given Snape away to the son of a madman, and yet she knew he wouldn't tell anyone. His eyes fell from her face and Ginny did the only thing she could think of: she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
"Please," She whispered, "If you love me, help me."
Draco raised one of his hands and touched her cheek. Briefly his eyes softened, and a small smile appeared on his lips. Then it all hardened again. He nodded slowly, getting to his feet and giving the cell door another sharp kick. Ginny stood up as well smirking.
"Malfoy, are you dense?" She teased.
"Yes actually, but its all muscle." Draco shot back.
"Idiot, why are you kicking at it? You have your wand!"
Embarrassed, Draco looked away and as if contemplating what he was going to say, he pulled out his wand. "I know, I was just.... letting out anger."
"And wasting time," Ginny added. She leaned over and took the wand from him pointing it at the door. "Alohomora!" It sprang open instantly. Draco glared at her as a response to this, and Ginny smiled widely. "After you Mr. Malfoy."
"You are such a...." Draco shook his head and trailed off, and then snapped back into reality and the task at hand.
Ginny watched him closely, knowing that any second he was going to understand fully that he had his chance to stop his father. Draco bounded towards the door now, and Ginny caught his arm. He snatched it free roughly.
"Draco don't do anything stupid. I know your upset but don't destroy this chance and get yourself killed by not planning out what we are going to do."
"Is is, or already killed my mother Weasley!" Draco snapped angrily.
"I know," Ginny replied gently, "But we can't just run at him. We only have one wand, and currently I'm holding it."
That shut Draco up, but his glares intensified. Ignoring him, Ginny started out of the cell and down the dungeon hallway, Draco behind her. As she reached for the handle of the door leading back up into the Manor, the door swung open. Draco grabbed her arm and pulled her back protectively as Severus Snape appeared. Blushing, Ginny wiggled free of Draco and looked up at him.
"Professor!" She breathed.
"Miss. Weasley I am under strict orders to bring you home alive so if you would pay attention to what I'm about to tell you." Snape said harshly, "You are to run as fast as you can out of this house and into the forest that's too the right of this Manor. Your father and Remus Lupin are waiting. Do not turn back no matter what you hear. Understood?"
Ginny paused, and then nodded a sudden adrenaline rush pulsing through her. She was going to go home! They had come for her after all. Nodding breathlessly, she felt Draco beside her and her excitement faded.
"What about Draco?"
Snape looked at Draco, his expression as unreadable as ever. "Mr. Malfoy is his own man. I'm sure he can take care of himself."
Ginny's mouth opened slightly and she turned to face Draco. Draco's eyes were burning again. "Where are they?" He asked Snape quietly.
"Her body is in her bedroom," A bit of emotion flickered past Snape's face. "He's in his chamber."
Draco made a step forward but Snape stopped him. Their eyes locked and it seemed they were talking in some other way... a way Ginny didn't understand. She looked between them, and then Snape turned and left, with a simple, "Now Weasley."
Draco began to follow Snape, but turned in another direction and left as well, leaving Ginny horribly alone in the doorway. She paused, wanting so much to go find her father but she couldn't leave Draco here.... she couldn't. She hurried after him.
"Draco wait!" She called out. He turned quickly.
"Your supposed to be leaving," He said glaring, "Ginny get out of here while you still can!"
"Oh please Draco come with me!" She begged, her eyes filling with tears. "If you kill Lucius, Voldemort will have your head. He already will if I leave! I can't leave you to that fate."
"Thats not your decision. Your going to go find your father, and your going now." Draco told her this so firmly, that Ginny felt angry.
"Don't tell me what to do!"
"Ginny please!" Draco looked desperate, "I can't loose you to this side too."
A single tear gently escaped her eye and traveled down her face. He reached over and wiped it away. She moved her hands up and grabbed his hand gently. Draco had no choice but to move towards her, and in a quick moment he gently kissed her.
"Don't cry for me Ginny. I don't deserve you, and I don't want you here now. Go, please."
"I can't leave you here," Ginny whispered.
"Yes you can." Draco replied. He smiled suddenly and took his wand back from her. "I forgot you had it. Go, I promise I'll catch up when I finish what I have to do."
Ginny's eyes widened and she threw herself at him, hugging him tightly. "Thank you Draco. Thank you."
Even as she hugged him she knew that his words were very hollow. It was a way for him to get her to leave. Chances were if he killed Lucius, Voldemort would be here on him in a moment. He always knew when his Death Eaters were killed. Draco would not make the night.
"Do you promise?" She asked.
"I promise I'll see you again." Draco responded, "Now please go." He gently pushed her away and disappeared down a now bright hallway.
The sun had come up, Ginny realized. It was morning. She turned away from where Draco had disappeared and darted down a different hallway. Her thoughts were staggered as she stopped at the end of the hallway and looked out across the empty entrance hall.
The most important thing she had to do was get to her father, and she wanted to so much. But now she had new feelings, feelings that she couldn't get rid of... feelings of Draco. Leaving him was hurting her so much, and she wanted more then anything to go back and be with him. Yet as she had learned when her father had almost died during the year before, there were some things worth dying for...
Lucius Malfoy wasn't one of them. She was.
She was the heir of Slytherin, something that Voldemort would and could use against Harry. Draco knew that if Voldemort had Ginny then it would make his destruction of the world easier. Dying to keep her in the right hands was a noble act. He'd kill his father and be killed by Voldemort in return. It wasn't fair.
She started to walk into the light of the entrance hall, noticing how really dark and unwelcoming Malfoy Manor had become. Slowly, she walked as she looked around carefully for signs of movement. When she found none, she walked faster. Looking behind her, she opened the door into the foyer.
Only to be grabbed roughly by hands of a Death Eater. There had been one problem in Snape's plan. No one had expected Bellatrix to turn up for another go with Lucius.
"Where do you think your going?" Bellatrix demanded, "Trying to get away?"
Ginny's eyes widened in horror. She couldn't get away from Bellatrix; she didn't have a wand. So she did the only thing she could think of in hopes that Snape or Draco could hear her. She screamed before everything around her went dark.
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Draco leaned against the wall outside his father's chamber, breathing deeply. He kept moving his wand between his two hands looking at it closely. Twice he almost dropped it and blew it cover, three times he came close to tears at the vision of his mother's body. He had lasted only a few minutes looking at her lifeless form before anger took him over and he arrived where he know was, ready to murder his other parent... and become an orphan in the process.
He was also remembering about his promise to Ginny about seeing her again and maybe even joining the Order. He doubted that they would really want a Malfoy, even if he had got rid of Lucius for them and loved Ginny. Nevertheless his promise would stand.... if of course he did beat Lucius and Voldemort didn't kill him before he had the chance to run to safety.
Taking a deep breath, Draco stepped away from the wall and walked towards the door slowly and quietly. No noises came from inside his father's chamber, giving Draco the impression that Lucius was probably drinking away, or sleeping. That would be an advantage to him, Draco thought, but he wanted to make sure Lucius saw him before he killed him. He would prove that he was stronger then his father.
He poked his head in the doorway cautiously and caught wind of his father sleeping in a chair by the fireplace. He watch clutching a bottle of brandy, and snoring lightly. Draco felt a smirk flash across his face. This was going to be like taking candy from a baby. Draco stepped into the room, his wand at the ready.
Lucius didn't move at all, he just continued to sleep. It was amazing how he had no remorse or tears for the wife he had just killed. He had apparently just sat down, took a drink and passed out as if he had a long day at work. The man had no heart, and Draco had no wish to be like him. But if he didn't make him pay... it would be as if his mother died in vain.
Draco moved very slowly so he was standing in front of Lucius. Wand raised, he could have finished Lucius off just then but he wanted to wake his father up first. Cautiously, Draco prepared for a struggle.
"Father?" He asked his voice raised dangerously, "Wake up."
Lucius snorted in his sleep, so Draco forcedly kicked him in the leg. Lucius's eyes snapped open angrily as he looked around to see who had woken him. His eyes landed on Draco and an evil smile replaced his anger.
"Ah, Draco..." But Lucius did not get the chance to finish. Draco was not going to let him win this time.
"Expelliarmus!" Lucius's wand, which had been loosely in the man's pocket, sprang into Draco's outstretched hand. In a quick moment, Draco snapped it in two and tossed it into the nearby fireplace.
The startled man looked up at his son, and the dangerous, infuriated look in eyes that matched his own and knew that he was in trouble. Fear and panic appeared in his own, something that made Draco's heart sing.
"Hello father," Draco greeted, his voice shaking with fury.
"D.. Draco..." Lucius croaked out, and very suddenly took a drink from his brandy, "Can I help you with something?"
"Yes you can. You can hold still."
"Wh...?" Lucius never finished.
For the first time ever, Draco wanted to kill. He wanted him to die and die with pain. Avada Kedavra would not be enough for Lucius, and neither would a thousand Cruciatus curses. Draco would have to settle for something that would Lucius a clean end no matter how much Draco wanted to take a sword and put it through his heart.
"Avada Kedavra!"
There was a rushing sound and a blinding green light from the end of his wand. When he could see, Draco saw his father slumped over in his chair. It was over.... he was gone.
Perhaps Draco had expected to feel happy and pleased with himself, but he didn't. He felt empty as if all his emotions were suddenly dry. He wanted nothing more but to take a drink from the brandy still clutched in the dead man's hand.
His hand shaking, Draco pocketed his wand and turned from the chair. Severus Snape was standing in the doorway, his eyes narrowed carefully. Draco looked up at him, unknowing what he would say or think and he found he didn't really care. However Snape didn't say anything about it.
"Come, it'll be moments before Voldemort can get here." Draco did not hesitate to follow Snape from the room. "We'll go the back way, just in case anyone comes in through the front." Snape turned a corner sharply and Draco fell behind. As he ran to catch up, a thought popped into his head.
"What about my mother?"
"Both their bodies will be taken care of. I'll see to it," Snape replied shortly.
"Don't put them together," Draco told him, "She deserves better then that." Snape didn't answer, but he did hold the door open for Draco. He slipped out into the early morning and glanced up at the sky. It was still a bit dark, but he knew it was going to be a beautiful day.
Looking back out towards the forest they were walking towards, Draco could make out shadows in the distance. Why would Weasley and Lupin wait for them of all people once they already had Ginny safe and sound? He was about to ask Snape, when Severus suddenly turned around. Draco looked over his shoulder as well.
A Dark Mark was now looming over Malfoy Manor. Draco frowned and looked up at Snape who shook his head. "There is another Death Eater there. We have to leave quickly." Snape took off quickly towards the forest where Draco noticed Weasley and Lupin were already gone.
"How am I going to...."
"Apparition Mr. Malfoy," Snape said smoothly. Draco didn't understand and frowned.
"But I can't, I'm not seventeen."
"Keep your hand on the edge of my robes and you'll Apparate with me," Snape told him irately. Draco obeyed, feeling slightly uncomfortable.
The only bit of comfort was knowing he'd see Ginny soon.