Broken

Ginny was taking a deep breath when the door to the cafe burst open. Green sparks flooded the room. Smoke filled the air and the customers began passing out. Ginny wondered what was going on and looked around with a bewildered expression on her face. As the smoke began to
reach her, Harry reached out and put his hand over her mouth.

"Don't breathe it in," he yelled. He pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and placed it over her nose and mouth. Harry grabbed his wand from the waistband of his trousers and created a defensive bubble around them, preventing them from breathing the air. Ginny's
eyes bugged out and she immediately opened her mouth to speak.

"Will? You're a wizard?"

Harry nodded and watched as Draco Malfoy entered the café. He was walking quickly and with a flick of his wand, made the air breathable again. Draco was searching the crowded café for
Harry. Harry watched as he pulled up the head of a man who was passed out. When he discovered it was not Harry, Draco simply dropped it. The head landed with a sickening thud on the table and Harry winced. Harry felt fear stab through his heart when he realized Draco was making his way over to their table.

"Well, well. What's this Virginia?" As Draco spoke, he was pulling out a large piece of parchment and scanning it. His eyes widened slightly and then he looked over at Harry. "Who's the fellow you have here?"

Ginny flicked her eyes at Harry. "Draco, this is Will. Will this is Draco."

Harry put his hand out to Draco, as if to shake it. Draco took it disdainfully and weakly gripped it. Harry noticed that the hands were ice cold.

"A pleasure, I'm sure." Draco pulled out a handkerchief of his own and wiped his hands. "Ginny, can I speak to you somewhere? Preferably alone?" Once again, Draco looked disdainfully at Harry.

Harry did not want Ginny to go anywhere alone with Draco. There was some reason why Draco had pulled this stunt and he was afraid for Ginny's life. He grabbed her hand and said, "Ginny don't."

Ginny's warm brown eyes swept over Harry's face. She seemed to be trying to figure out who he really was. He had the feeling he was being weighed and had been found wanting. "Why not?" she asked him softly.

Harry could not explain his suspicion of Draco without revealing whom he really was. He had wanted to tell her whom he was so badly just minutes earlier. Now it seemed an insurmountable task he wasn't up to. "Just don't go, Gin. I want you to stay here with me." He squeezed her hand.

Ginny looked at Harry appraisingly. "Why do you want me to stay?" she asked him quietly.

What could he say? 'Gin, you can't go anywhere with him. I'm afraid he'll hurt you?' "I'm afraid." Harry looked into her warm brown eyes and hoped that she would understand.

Both Ginny and Draco looked at Harry strangely. "Why should you be afraid of me?" questioned Draco. Suddenly Draco felt a light go on in his head. He had been looking for Potter all this time. What if Potter had changed his appearance? Suddenly he grabbed Ginny around the waist and positioned his wand across her throat. Ginny immediately began trying to wrestle away from him, but he held her tightly against him. The wand began choking Ginny's windpipe and she quickly began gasping for air. "What's his name, Weasley?"

Ginny elbowed Draco weakly in the stomach and choked out, "Fuck you."

Draco pulled the wand tighter against her throat and she gagged more. Harry immediately stood up and had wanted to fight Draco. However, a quick flick of Draco's wrist and he realized Draco would easily snap her neck. The game was over. Draco knew who he was. Ginny's eyes were bright with tears as she struggled for air. Her face was growing bright red, redder than her hair. Tears now sprang to Harry's eyes as he watched the woman he loved struggle for her life and he was powerless to help her.

"Be a good girl and tell me his name." Draco eased the wand some off of Ginny's windpipe and she began gulping in air.

"Will Black," she said hoarsely.

"Black, like Sirius Black? And Will, as in James William Potter? Weasley you dumb bitch, you've been had. This is Harry Potter in disguise." Draco began laughing and pulled the wand tighter again against her windpipe. She began to choke again. "Admit it, Will Black. You are Harry James Potter and I'll let her live."

Harry stepped forward. "Fine, I'm Harry Potter. Now let her go, Malfoy."

Satisfied, Draco eased the wand from her windpipe. He continued to hold it against her throat. Ginny gasped for air and began breathing heavily. "I don't believe you," she said through breaths.

"What don't you believe? That Will Black is Harry Potter. I admit he is better looking especially without that dead ugly scar." Draco held Ginny against him and smelled her hair. Ginny stopped wiggling and went still. "She smells wonderful, Harry. Like roses."

Harry stepped forward again and Draco pulled the wand against Ginny's throat again. Ginny looked fearfully at Will. "Any last words for red here, Potter?"

Harry looked mournfully at Ginny. "I love you. I am Harry." He pulled his wand from his trouser waistband and muttered an incantation to change his appearance back and then thrust his wand back into the waistband again. Ginny watched as Will's perfectly formed features slowly formed Harry's average looks. Blue eyes changed to a vibrant green. Brown hair darkened to black. There he was the man she had loved when he was a boy. Ginny's eyes looked at him accusingly. "Draco, let her go. This is between you and I."

"You and I? You think I'm going to let her go after all you put my family through? My father is nothing but a shell after spending four years in Azkaban!" Draco held the wand against Ginny's throat tighter as he spoke, causing her to gag and sag against his body. Tears were streaming down her cheeks. "I ought to kill Weasley in front of you and then kill you. What do you think, Gin?"

Harry hated that Draco addressed Ginny by her pet name. He looked into Ginny's eyes and saw the once vibrant brown, looking cloudy. She was slowly choking to death and it was going to be painful. He looked to see if she had anything to say to him. Ginny turned her eyes away from his and said, "Finish it, Draco."

The words, though spoken quietly, seemed as if they were yelled. They were so shocking. How could Ginny agree to die so easily? There was no trace of the girl who had fought so valiantly in the department of mysteries. Where was the Ginny he knew so well?

Seeing Harry's reaction to Ginny agreeing so readily to her own death, Draco shook his head. "No, that won't do. I think I ought to have some fun with you." He leaned his head over to her own and licked the side of her face. Ginny's stomach turned. Draco Malfoy was touching her and she wanted to vomit. Next he licked her neck and she quivered. Her knees were about to buckle because she felt so nauseous. "Check it, Potter. She seems to be enjoying herself." He squeezed her breasts and Ginny's legs finally gave way. Draco let her crumple to the ground.

Ginny was kneeling on the ground, dry heaving. She looked up at Draco. "You unimaginable bastard!" She croaked this with what was left of her voice. Her throat felt like it was on fire. "I don't care about your father or Harry. I won't let you kill me that easily. You can't break me."

Harry knelt down next to Ginny and put his arms around her. She shrugged off his arms and looked at him. Her eyes seemed to call him a liar and a betrayer. Reaching over, Ginny knelt in front of Harry and put her arms around him. She reached into the waistband of his pants. Harry's eyes closed at her sudden touch. It felt wonderful. Ginny was warm and alive. The rest of the world could go to hell as long as he and Ginny were alive and in it. He didn't notice
Ginny pull out his wand and quickly turn to Draco. She quickly reversed their positions so that Harry was in front of her. Using him as a shield, she shouted "Avada Kedavra!" Green light shot from his wand and Draco Malfoy crumpled to the floor.