The Quiet Commonroom

[Ginny Weasly]

"Shh...." Ginny whispered, she took a step back and smiled, softly, and weakly at him.

"Understandable. Wherever you want."

[Xaver]

"I don't care where," he said honestly.
His pulse was finally slowing to an actual calm. He tried to smile. He failed trying to make it appear on his lips, but it was there in his eyes.

[Ginny Weasly]

"Well, I can't sleep anyway, you can lay down on the bed, okay?" She said, running a hand through his hair softly. She took his wrist and pulled him in so she could shut the door.

[Xaver]

Xaver allowed himself to be led inside, her touch reassuring. He nodded.
"Okay," he agreed quietly.
He leaned foreword, and met her lips, slowly, gently kissing her.

[Ginny Weasly]

Ginny replied to his kiss with one of her own, then stepped back. She placed a hand on his arm, motioning toward the bed. She smiled and kissed him once more before going back to where she had been before, by the wall.

[Xaver]

Xaver nodded, the touch of her, the feel of her lips on his still present on his own. He went to her assigned bed, as she went and leaned against one of the walls. He slowly crawled onto it, each movement agonizing, though he didn't show it. Instead of laying down, though, he shifted some of the pillows so they were mainly on his left side, leaning his back up against the wall, crossing his legs beneath him, as he sat, his eyes watching Ginny for a long moment.
At his back, the wall was ice cold against his bare flesh. He shivered once at first contact, then fell still, slouching foreword, thehard, athletic muscles contracting, sore and bruised. There were bruises all over his exposed chest and back and arms, actually, darkening and or yellowing, one, a particularly large one, over his left collar bone, was already a dark purple, black shade. Over that bruise, and occasionally still marked on his body, still healing, deep scratches were printed. The candle light brought all the uncommon colors out on his lean body.

"Why did come?" he asked softly. "You didn't have to.."

[Ginny Weasly]

"Yes I did. I loved Kyllie as well." She said, looking up. She slid down the wall, sitting now, but still in view.

"And I didn't want you to go through this alone."

[Xaver]

Xaver was moving before he thought about it. He slowly threw his legs over the side of the bed, walked toward her, and sat next to her, against the wall, bringing his knees up and placing his elbows on them. He looked over at her, and before he knew it, the oldest question known to mind was on his mouth.
"Why?" he asked quietly. "Why do you care so much?"

[Ginny Weasly]

"Why?" Ginny looked at him incredulously. She blinked a few times, then shook her head slowly.

"Had you asked me that a month or so ago, I wouldn't have known why. Now I can say easily that I love you, that's why I care."

[Xaver]

Xaver leaned over, and tenderly kissed her, capturing her lips for a moment, before  slowly pulling away again. He watched her eyes, his own expressing emotions he had never felt before.
"I love you too," he said softly. " My love. My Aphrodite."
He leaned more comfortable against the wall, though still watching her.
"Thank you for being here. I don't know what I would have done."

[Ginny Weasly]

She wacthed him for a moment, then blinked.
"You should go to sleep." She murmmered.

[Xaver]

"You, too," he said softly, his words slurred slightly as he faught a weary yawn.
He knew he should move to find somewhere to lay out and sleep, but he was comfortable next to her. He always was. He just didn't want to leave his place. He didn't ever wat to leave his spot, right next to her. He didn't ever want to move.

[Ginny Weasly]

Ginny laid her head against the wall, closing her eyes.
"I'm going to." She said, still under the impression he planned on sleeping in the bed.

[Xaver]

Xaver nodded, but he still didn't get up. He shifted, so he was sitting closer, next to her, side against side. He leaned over and kissed her temple, before resting his head against the wall, and closing his eyes, drifting off before he could stop it.

[Ginny Weasly]

Ginny cracked her eyes open and smiled, slightly. She shook her head a shifted so she was kneeling beside him. She pulled out her wand and whispered the spell for levitating under her breath so she could levitate him off the floor.