ALWAYS (Hinny)

Chapter 31 : Running For Your Life

There stood 9 men. They were all wearing black.

"Shit. " I heard Ron sigh.

We stood there, not saying anything.
Then they started shooting spells from everywhere.

"RUN!" Hermione mouthed to Harry and I.

I exchanged a look with Harry and before I knew it we were running. Hermione always knew what she was doing. If she tells you to run, you run.

So that's what we did. We ran. We ran as fast as we could. We ran, shooting spells at the men who were running after us. I don't know how many they were, but I knew I had to fight. We were approaching a forest. It was dark, as it was nearly twilight, and I couldn't see very clearly. Harry took my hand as he shot a spell at a tree, making it explode, and we jump straight ahead, as the tree fell behind us, giving us a few seconds on our enemies.

It was a good thing that I was sporty.

I was scared, but I didnt get the time to think about anything. I was just following my instinct, and Harry's. We heard a shout behing us. A killing curse. We turned around and dodged it just in time.

Harry let out a frustrated sigh, and took my hand in his. I nearly fell a couple of times, but in that moment, I wasn't gonna let myself fall. No. I had to go on. Even though I was starting to loose my breath, even though my heart was racing, even though I didn't feel my legs anymore.

"Don't stop!" I heard Harry shouting, as I was subconsciously running slower. I could feel his panic for me. The sound of his voice made me feel stronger. My love for him gave me the strength to go on.

"I'm not gonna stop Harry." I said, in a determined voice.

We then heard footsteps from behind us.

They were shouting. They weren't going to let go easily. I looked behind me a few times, to check.

And the last time I checked, I saw them.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!!" I heard one of them scream. The green light caught me by surprise.

"WATCH OUT!!" I yelled at Harry, as I pushed him and fell with him in the bushes. He cried in pain, and I guessed that he had been hurt by the rock I hit less harder than he did, second later. Our fall finally stopped when we reached a sort of path. I had blood on my hand. And it wasn't mine. My heart nearly stopped, but I choked in relief when I felt Harry trying to get up.

Harry shot a spell at them from where we were, meaning at least 20 meters under them, and a short guy fell to the ground. I did the same, bringing down another one. They soon decided to join us down there, and began to run toward us, so we ran too.

Harry soon shot two others down, and I brought one into a tree. There were only two left behind us.

And that's the moment I chose to hit a rock and fall onto a tree with a surprised and scared scream, bringing Harry with me. I nearly got lost in his eyes as he bumped hard into me, but was brought back to reality when a green spell nearly hit us. We both bent down, grabbing the other by reflex.

"Fight now Potter!" Said a tall man.

The other was waiting, wand in hand.

"Fine." Harry said. "Expelliarmus!" He said. And the other was so surprised by the sudden "nice" spell, that he didn't dodge it and his wand escaped his grasp. I took that opportunity to stupefy him.
The other was fighting against Harry. They were both really good.

"Reducto!" I yelled and the spell hit the ground, and we ran away to save our lives. I grabbed Harry's hand and we hide behind a huge rock. I was taken by surprise when I felt Harry's lips on mine, but instantly grabbed his head and pulled him closer. We broke apart quickly and smiled.

"Come on." Harry said. We walked and just as we stepped away from our hiding place, the man in dark shot a spell at us. We didn't get the time to respond, I thought for the tiniest moment that we were done, but just as the thought occurred to me, a golden shield appeared around Harry and I. The killing curse hit the shield and rebounded hitting the man whose name was still unknown, making him fall to the ground.

The shield finally bent down, and I realised we were now safe. Holy shit. I heard.

You can say that. I replied in my mind.

We just stood there for a moment, taking in what had just happened.

"How are you?" I asked.

"What?"

"You were... bleeding."

"Oh. Er..." he tried to push away his jacket to show me the bruise. I nearly screamed when I realised his shirt was ripped at the chest. I shoved away the ripped part of shirt, to see a bleeding cut, from the bottom of his chest to his stomach.

"When did you get that?" I asked in horror.

"He shot some kind of spell at me, but it got worse when I crashed into some rock."

"Okay.. okay.." I said, trying to calm myself down. "Don't worry, mum will fix it."

"Yeah, she always does." He agreed. "What about you?" He asked, worry in his emerald eyes.

"Oh, I'm fine."

He seemed relieved.

"What about Ron and Hermione?" Harry suddenly asked.

"Don't worry, they can only be okay." I assured.

"We have to get back to the Burrow."

"And what if there are others?"

"We'll see."

He said, and we started to walk carefully through the woods.

"Harry?" I asked.

"Yeah?"

"Why did we run?"

"Because Hermione told us to." He replied simply.

"Yeah, but I mean, why us, and not them ?"

Harry thought for a while.

"I'm starting to think... what if we were abnormal?" He said. "I mean, look, we glow, we can't be apart, we can read each other's thoughts...that's not really usual, is it?"

"What if Hermione knows, but doesn't want to tell us? And what if they came for us?" I suddenly thought.

"Of course Hermione knows. She always knows everything." he sighed.

"Well, at least, we're both safe. Together." I said, and it made him smile.

"Yeah, together." he agreed, and took my hand.

"Let's go home. I hope Ron and Hermione will be there." I said.

"I hope so too."

"Don't worry, Harry."

So, we walked quietly, hand in hand, to the Burrow, our home. Because even though I'm in love with him, Harry is family. He is my friend, my brother, and my soulmate. No matter what happens, he's the one.

***

When we finally could see the Burrow, we sighed. Harry stopped. I stopped too.

"Don't worry, they are fine, and I'm sure they are in here."

"Yeah but-"

"There's no but. They are fine. Now let's join them inside." I ordered, trying to convince myself that they were, indeed, inside.

He sighed, but finally walked again, and soon our thoughts were interrupted.

"Harry!! Ginny!!"

Wow already 31 chapters... I can't believe it😂