Marked Title:Marked Characters: Ginny Weasley Words: 227 Rating: PG Written for HiH Slytherin Prompts December 2008
Ginny clapped her hand to her mouth before the squeak could escape her lips. She stared in horror at the black horror on her hip. Scrubbing harder, she closed her eyes, feeling her skin turn red and raw from scrubbing.
Oh please oh please oh please.
She opened her eyes, vision blurring through the tears that welled up. All around the perfect image was red skin, some blood possibly welling up to wash down the drain with the water.
Sliding down against the tile, she brought her knees up, hugging them tightly to her chest as tears mixed with the shower water spilling down her face.
Sliding her leg down, she stared at the skull and snake that now adorned her pelvis. She'd survived the Chamber. She'd survived Tom. She simply hadn't survived intact. He'd marked her.
Marked.
Just as surely as if he'd branded her willingly, she was now marked the same as his Death Eaters, only in a far more intimate place. Was this his parting gift? Something to remember him by? As if she could ever forget him.
No, now not only would she always bear a reminder, why couldn't it be a scar like Harry? She had to bear the symbol of everything she hated.
The Dark Mark danced in the water rivulets, oblivious.