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𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 scream as death eaters arrived at the tent. Chaos was everywhere. Something so beautiful had turned into something to terrifying very quickly. Marina could hear Molly and Arthur shouting her and her siblings names.

"Ginny!" Marina shouted looking for her sister, then found Fred and George. Marina interlocked her hand with her brothers as Fleur ran up to them with Ginny and Bill next to her.

"Fred and George! Marina!" Fleur cried as she held their hands.

And suddenly, Marina had arrived in a kitchen that smelt like the salty ocean. The kitchen was beige and white.

"Where the hell are we?" Marina breathed looking around the quiet calm cottage.

"Shell Cottage. Me and Fleur's home now." Bill answered.

In an instant, Arthur, Dianne, Ginny, and Molly appeared in the kitchen.

"Marina! Boys!" Molly cried as she pulled her children into a hug, tears in her eyes. "I thought you had been taken!"

"Di!" Fred shrieked after Molly released him from the hug, and kissed Dianne. "You okay love?"

"I'm alright Fredrick." Dianne whispered as Fred kissed her again.

"Smitten Freddie," George mumbled rolling his eyes playfully.

"Where's Charlie gone Dad?" Marina asked after she hugged her father.

"Gone to the Order meeting. They're discussing a plan." Arthur replied.

"Well I guess we're not going back to the Burrow for a bit." George blurted as Fred continued to worry over Dianne.

"Hogwarts starts in a few days anyway. We can go to Leaky Cauldron or something?" Marina suggested.

"No!" protested Fleur. "This iz silly! You stay can all 'ere! Right Bill?"

"Course, no way in hell I'm letting anyone go back home." Bill agreed.

"Ginny and Marina can share zee guest bedroom, so can Dianne since there is two beds in zee room. Molly and Arthur are sleeping in zee their bedroom we 'ave for them, and zee twins can sleep in Gabrielle's room." Fleur explained as everyone went up to their room for bed.

Marina changed into her comfy purple tank top and pant pants as she got into her shared bed with her little sister.

"Gin, are you alright? You have been a bit quiet since we got here." Marina asked turning to her sister's side.

"I'm fine." Ginny croaked very quietly.

Marina gave her sister a light hug, then turned around for some rest. How she wondered where the hell was Ron right now.

A few hours later, around midnight, Marina woke up to check if Dianne and Ginny were still in the room. Dianne, who had fell asleep making a flower crown, was sleeping in her twin sized bed. Marina then looked over to her side to see Ginny's side of the bed gone. Empty. Unfilled.

Maybe Ginny had gone to get some water or sleep with Mum, Marina thought.

Where in the bloody hell was Ginevra Molly Weasley?

Marina walked down the cottage wooden stairs, without making a squeak, to see no one in the kitchen or the living room area. She then opened the glass-pane front door and walked around the sandy warm beach in her bare feet. Hearing the ocean tides rise and sink. Not feeling any fear watching the ocean at midnight. Where she could possibly be drifted away in the pure moonlight. Maybe that's what Marina wanted. To wash away and come back to Shell Cottage when this war ended, or if it ever did anyway.

Marina stopped in her bare tracks, there Ginny was. Sitting on the shoreline hiding her face in her knees, with the water washing over her mid-legs.

"Ginny? What the bloody hell do you think you are doing?" Marina snapped as Ginny removed her face from her knees.

Ginny was looking almost green. She was sobbing and choking like Marina had never seen her cry before. Ginny was sweating, hyperventilating, and shaking. Marina could only conclude that her younger sister was having a panic attack like Ginny had never had before.

And the only conclusion that Marina came to was that, she couldn't do anything to help.

The only thing that was helpful was to just be in Ginny's presence was what Marina had learned over the past few years of Ginny's attacks. If she brought her parents for help, it would just stress out Ginny even more.

"You feeling better?" Marina whispered half an hour later after Ginny had calmed down a bit and was sipping on some gillywater.

"Yeah come on, let's go inside. I'm hungry as shit." Ginny insisted.

The two went then into the kitchen and snacked on some butter-beer ice cream.

"Did you have an attack cause of what happened at the wedding?" Marina questioned. "You don't have to tell me I'd you don't want to —"

"Well partially," Ginny answered. "I also just got an owl from Dean a while ago. Here. Read it."

Marina opened the parchment read over the letter that had ink splatters all over;

Hey Gin,

I miss you. How are you? How was your brother's wedding? Seamus apparated to my house and was going on about it. He's like a bloody old woman honestly. Anyways, I have been meaning to tell you something for the past week. And it's not going to be easy so I'm just going to say it. I'm can't come back to Hogwarts. All the Muggle-borns at Hogwarts are going to be killed and tortured. So I have to go into hiding, and so do the others. They won't find us. Sorry I'm writing so messy by the way. We don't have any tables or anything hard to write on in the place I'm hiding. Also a goblin named Bogrod spilled ink all over the letter, so  that explains the splatters. Also, don't come looking for me. I mean it. Your going to get yourself killed if you do. And I'm not going to lie to Ginny, honestly, I'm not sure if I'll see you again. The people that are helping the Muggle borns hide are specious there may be a rat within us. If I don't see you again, I just want to let you know I love you Ginny Weasley. Maybe if we do see each other, one day, just maybe we can sneak out and play another quidditch match on the pitch at Hogwarts like old times.

- Dean

"That was some sad deep shit." Marina simply stated after reading the letter. "Its like that Muggle play Dad cried when he was reading it, Romeo and Juliet. Are you going to write back?"

"Yeah I'll write back. But I can't go around moping over him at Hogwarts. He'd want me to do what's right." Ginny added. "Dean would've wanted me to fight."

"But how? How are we going to fight back?" Marina wondered. "Hogwarts is probably really different now days."

"I dunno. But we'll figure out something eventually won't we? We always do." Ginny sighed putting their bowls away.

"We are baddies for life after all." Marina stated.

"Since day one." Ginny laughed.