Unhinged

Chapter 7

Draco was breathing heavy, he was confused. He slowly walked around to face Ginny, he saw her hunched over on her knees and her flaming hair covering her face. She held her left hand up to her right shoulder. Harry and Hermione ran to her side.

"Ginny? Are you alright?" Hermione was trying to look her over.

Ginny slowly lifted her head to reveal her tear stained face and moved her hand to uncover her shoulder where a black arrow sat plunged into it. Hermione let out a loud gasp and Draco was kneeling down in front of her now.

"SON OF A BITCH WEASLEY, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? YOU NEVER SHOULD'VE TRIED TO PROTECT ME," he yelled, trying to hide the worry in his voice.

Ginny was trembling and wincing in pain; Hermione tried helping her stand. She tried to apparate to Hogsmeade, but she found she couldn't, there was something blocking her.

"I can't apparate out of here," she said sounding panicked.

"Shit, it's the wards that are up around the Manor, it's much like Hogwarts. You can't apparate in or out of it." Draco said, pacing back and forth trying to come up with an idea.

He ran to the front door and ripped it open. He ran outside and looked at the protective dome that closed them in. He was just now noticing the pain in his ankle from the fallen debris earlier. He didn't care though, he fought through it. He made an attempt to remove the ward. He shot every spell he could think of at it, but he was unsuccessful. He ran over to where the wards ended and tried to walk past it. He was immediately blasted backwards by the ward.

"FUCK" he yelled out in frustration and quickly made his way back inside the Manor. He ran back over to Ginny and the others and saw Hermione applying pressure to Ginny's wound. "Let's get her up to my room, I have some first aid stuff in my bathroom." he said quickly deciding not to share the fact that they were all trapped in here.

Hermione nodded and tried to have Ginny walk with her, but she was too weak. Harry attempted to have her lean on him, but he couldn't with his shoulder. Draco picked Ginny up in his arms and started carrying her upstairs. Harry did a levitating spell to bring Ron's unconscious body upstairs as well. Ginny's head laid against Draco's chest, she looked up at him and then she felt herself fading. Draco looked down at her and saw her eyes glaze over and her head fall to the side. She was coming in and out of consciousness. He kicked his door open and brought her over to a leather couch in his room and sat her down. Harry levitated Ron onto another nearby couch and ran over to Ginny.

"We need to pull the arrow out," Harry said frantically.

"No," Hermione said coming back over with a bunch of towels and bandages. "Listen to me Harry, go fill up a bowl of water for me, and Draco, I'm going to need your help," She said, her voice hard and focused.

"What do you mean "no" Granger?" Draco asked.

"This is dark magic, it's a black arrow and look at the tail on it," she said pointing to the end of the arrow. "It's a red and black tail, which means the head of the arrow is deadly. The head spikes out causing extreme damage to the enemy. If I pull it back out, it's going to be like pulling out an open umbrella. It will be less painful and less damaging if I push it the rest of the way through," she said with a frightened look on her face.

"Push it through? Have you lost your fuckin mind Granger, that will kill her?"

"No, it missed her lung and it's practically all the way through already. I just need to push it a bit more," she said her voice shaking.

Harry came back with the water and set it down next to Hermione. The whole scene seemed to be going by so fast. Hermione's heart was racing, Harry looked completely lost, and Draco had a look of shock on his face.