Title: Luna Soleil
Author: Samantha Riddle aka Slytherish
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK 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 is captured by Death Eaters after an attack on the Ministry. What does Lord Voldemort want from her, and what does it have to do with that cold night in her first year at Hogwarts School? What happens when Ginny falls in love, and can't decide between her family and the one she loves so dearly?
Notes: A special thank you to my beta-reader, Samantha for reading and editing this story.
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Chapter Three: And the Sun Burns
When Ginny awoke, she kept her eyes closed tightly. She fought to remember what had happened... The man...had his wand out...stunned her.... Her eyes snapped open. She was laying on a cold, damp, dungeon like floor. Dark grey stone walls surrounded her, and she didn't even see a door. Trembling, she got to her feet groggily. She searched the stone around her, only to discover something she already knew. She was trapped.
She flew towards the wall, and hit it with her fist. Over and over again she did that, as she traveled the full length of the room. Now whimpering, Ginny looked around her enclosment. As she tried to calm herself down, she thought of what could have happened. That man must have kidnaped her- but she remembered screaming! Surely soon the Order would come for her.
She would have to wait.
And yet she couldn't. Being trapped caused her to feel restless and impatient. Her mind kept drifting to a locked away memory, something she never wanted to remember. She had been trapped once before... No, she couldn't let herself remember. She forced the voices out of her head, forced herself to think of the Order, her parents and brothers.
That's when it came to her, like a wayward summoning charm. Whoever kidnaped her was probably a Death Eater. So that meant that Lord Voldemort had done this to her again. Lord Voldemort...the one the Order was completely against. Also called Tom Riddle, his diary had enchanted her in her first year at Hogwarts. He would have killed her if it hadn't been for Harry.
*Flashback*
She was standing in the dungeon-like Chamber of Secrets, staring numbly at the enormous statue of Sazalar Slytherin. She was waiting for someone...search for someone...someone was supposed to be there. In her arms was the little diary that had caused so much suffering. With a look around, Ginny through it on the floor.
Her eyes widened as it began to glow. The green glow engulfed the little book and then floated up to her. She stumbled back, slipping on the wet floor and falling to the ground. Backing up, the glow followed her until a strange voice filled the air.
"Don't go Ginny..."
"Tom? Help me Tom!" Ginny cried out, struggling to get to her feet again.
"No, no...Ginny," The voice said as the glow began to engulf Ginny as well. "I'm not going to help you...your going to help me." Ginny screamed, but she couldn't move. It was like a full body bind had be put on her as the now smokey glow took her over.
Before everything around her went black she did finally see who she was writing to. A boy, hair as dark as Harry Potter's, eyes as teal as the ocean began to appear in front of her. He looked so handsome, so kind, until his horribly evil laugh filled the chamber.
*End Flashback*
Ginny curled up in the corner of the room, her eyes twinkling with tears. She could remember waking up after that, finding herself still in the Chamber of Secrets. Only the chamber had changed. An enormous snake lay dead inches from her, and the little diary destroyed. And then Harry...wonderful Harry Potter... Her innocent young crush had never realized just how much Ginny had loved him. So that dream, just like most dreams do, vanished. Harry Potter would never know that Ginny Weasley had been more then a fan at one point.
Would she meet the same fate here? Would someone come to rescue her again? Or would she be stuck here forever until her captor came back? Would he even come back? Ginny couldn't answer any of the questions floating in her brain. Bringing her knees up to her chest, Ginny wrapped her arms around them. Only time would tell.
Time seemed to take its time for Ginny, as the clocked ticked away and she remained in the stone room. She hadn't any idea what time it was, and made a wild guess that it had been three hours since she had woke up. Shivering from the cold that seemed to hover through the room, she wondered how long it took for someone to die from starvation.
It was then that Ginny heard it. A tapping, like a wand to stone bricks. She looked around the room quickly, daring to hope that help had arrived. The tapping stopped, and all Ginny could hear for a second was her thumping heart. There was then a sound that sounded a lot like bricks moving against each other. On the opposite side of the room, Ginny could see the stones moving up to show a large oak door.
It swung open and in came two Death Eaters, both in large black cloaks. Ginny backed up against the wall, only to find she was already as against it as she was going to get. She trembled, staring at the two and their glossy wands that were pointed right at her.
"I remember this one," One of the Death Eaters said. It was a woman, and Ginny remembered her voice. This was Bellatrix Lestrange, it had to be. She had wanted to torture Ginny at the end of last term in order to get Harry to give her the Prophecy. Her voice was cold and menacing.
The Death Eaters came closer, Bellatrix reached out pulled Ginny up by her hair. Ginny whimpered and allowed her to pull her to her feet. The other one grabbed Ginny's arms and pulled them behind her back, tying them together with some kind of rope.
"Now, don't try anything stupid girl and we won't have to hurt you," The other Death Eater, which Ginny didn't recognize snapped.
"Dammit, Rabastan can I play with her before we bring her?" Bellatrix asked sneering.
"No, the Dark Lord said to bring her immediately."
Ginny listened to their words carefully. Bellatrix was as evil and crazy as everyone had told her. The other one's name was vaguely familiar in Ginny's memory, but she find out how. So Lord Voldemort wanted to see her? Why? Ginny was afraid to find out. Would they use her to get Harry? To get the Order?
The two Death Eaters dragged her out of the room and into a dark hallway that had doors just like the one that had been the entrance to her room. She suspected that this was a dungeon, or at least somewhere where they kept their prisoners. Two other Death Eaters patrolled the hallway, and Bellatrix and Rabastan nodded to them as they passed.
They mounted some stairs, and Bellatrix pushed a door at the top open. Entering a decent looking hallway, they passed a dozen or so doors before walking into a main hallway. There was an enormous marble staircase, and marble flooring. Ginny noticed several other Death Eaters walking about doing their own business.
As they pushed her up the marble stairs, she saw something out of the corner of her eye. Leaning against the stairs, wrapped up in one of those black cloaks, but unlike all the other Death Eater's his hood was down, was Draco Malfoy looking extremely board. He caught Ginny's eye as she was pulled away. Draco Malfoy, a Death Eater, Ginny wondered. He was certainly horribly mean, stuck up and bossy, not to mention arrogant but he wasn't plainly evil. Or was he? After all, his father was a Death Eater.
She didn't have time to dwell on Hogwarts Students however, as they had reached the top of the stairs and were going down another dark hallway. After that hallway, another set of stairs and another hallway, they stopped at the very end door. Bellatrix knocked three times, and Rabastan opened it. Together they practically though Ginny in.
It was a circular room, dark, with no window's so Ginny could barely make out anything that was on the walls. She did however feel the eyes of over a dozen Death Eater's on her. After looking around a bit she realized they stood along the wall staring. Bellatrix and Rabastan moved Ginny into the room, not stopping until they had pushed her to her knee's in front of an enormous chair that stood at the back of the room.
They knelt in front of the chair's themselves, murmuring softly. Ginny wasn't paying attention to what they were saying, only to whom they were saying it to. Trembling, she looked up at the man who was sitting in the chair.
Wearing dark cloaks like all the Death Eaters, thin looking, pale, and eyes red and pitiless- slits, like cat eyes. His right hand was fingering a wand, his left, gently petting a snake. Ginny looked up at him and felt faint. He was very different then Tom Riddle.
Ginny hardly noticed that Bellatrix and Rabastan had left her sides and vanished back into the dark wall of surrounding Death Eaters. She couldn't tare her eyes away from Voldemort's horrible gaze. His eyes seemed to be boring into her, as if searching for the story behind her.
"Miss. Weasley..." Voldemort said very quietly, "Why...its been four years hasn't it Ginny?" He paused and then continued. "Four years since we last had the pleasure of writing." Ginny didn't dare say a word. "Ah, well- we must get to know each other again, for I need your innocent little heart once more." His lips curled into a sadistic, evil smile. The Death Eaters laughed around them.
"I'll..I'll...never...h-help you." Ginny whispered before she could stop herself. She wasn't going to let him get complete control over her yet. Not again- not without a fight. The Death Eaters' laugh grew. Voldemort seemed amused.
"Ginny, how can you say that? You don't even know what is at stake yet." He said softly. Ginny trembled. What was he going to use against her? "I know that you feel...misunderstood. They say of course, that you are the little innocent Ginny Weasley. I know, for a fact, that you are not. I know that Potter was very wrong not to notice you. I know Ginny. I always know."
Ginny looked up at him fearfully. He knew everything that was going on in her head! It was no wonder why everyone was worried Harry would be possessed by him last year. Voldemort was a lot more dangerous then she had originally thought- and originally she had thought him to be very, very dangerous.
"Yes... I offer you a proposition Miss. Weasley," Voldemort continued, "A chance to show all that you are not what they think you are. You of course, are not as weak as many children your age... powerful are you not? You have great potential...very great indeed..." He paused and then went on . "Say you'll do what I say, and I will help you achieve that potential. You will be able to anything, and in the process show them all who you really are. And of course, to top it off- I will not touch your Mud-Blood loving Order family."
Ginny stared up at him. This was stupid, why on Earth would she even think about helping him? And yet...and yet he was promising that he wouldn't hurt her family. He would help her get their respect as well. That was all she wanted wasn't it? A happy family that respected her as a person and not the innocent, littlest girl.
No! He was lying, he had to be! Why should he help her? What did she have that he wanted? He would never not kill someone in the Order- never! She was playing into his hands and she would end up like she did last time- he thought she was innocent and young too! She'd show them all.
"You lying bastard," She hissed. "You think I'm soft too. I'm not going to fall for that trick you low life demon." The Death Eaters murmured quietly. Voldemort raised a hand to silence them.
"So your stronger then I thought Ginny," He continued, "Very good. You have grown up since we last met. Smart of you not to fall for that. Your parents will get what's coming to them in the end. You will obey me wether or not you agree to it. I've come to far to back down to a fourteen year old."
"Harry will beat you in the end you oversized snake!" The Death Eaters laughed.
"I doubt that," Voldemort coldly replied. "And I'm beginning to get sick of you. Bella if you would please...teach our little friend here that children should be seen and not heard..." The Death Eater's continued to laugh as Bellatrix moved forward her wand outstretched.
"Gladly," Bellatrix said darkly, "Crucio!"
Ginny had never felt anything like it. It was intense pain that was so horrible she felt like every inch of her body was on fire. She screamed, her cries echoing through the now silent room. Tears began to flow as she lay on the ground screaming, and twitching unnaturally. And then it was over- as soon as it had started.
Ginny lay there breathing deeply, shaking and sobbing.
"Let that be a warning to you Miss. Weasley," Voldemort's voice told her. "Next time we meet, you best remember that. Take her to her room Bella."
Ginny felt herself being pulled up again, and shoved roughly out of the room. She held her eyes closed tightly, her body still stinging. She felt them go down a hallway, and down a stairs, and then another hallway before they stopped. A door was opened and Ginny's arms were freed. Bellatrix threw her inside and shut the door.
Ginny opened her eyes. She wasn't in the stone room from earlier. Now she was in a nice room, with a bed, windows, bathroom, closet and desk. Why was she getting something like this? Wasn't she the prisoner? She wondered and at the same time didn't care. Crawling over to the bed she collapsed, and that was when the tears came, for she knew that Order was not coming.