"Setting Right What Once Went Wrong" Series fan fiction copyright 2010 by Slinkyrabbit
Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. All other OC mentioned characters or to be introduced later are of my own creation.
Prologue
July 2010
3:00 A.M. Los Angeles, CA
A dark blue sedan speeds down the deserted streets of Los Angeles. The below freezing temperature has frosted over the windows. The two occupants of the vehicle seem oblivious of each other.
'Paige… hey Paige snap out of it, were home'
From the passengers seat a bundle of jackets and blankets shift as the young woman wakes from her thoughts.
'Hum… on sorry Sarah, what were you saying?'
Placing her hand on Paige's shoulder, she catches her attention and finally sees the tears in her friend's eyes threatening to fall.
'The movie really got to you didn't it?'
Unable to hold them back any longer tears begin to streak down Paige's face.
Embracing her friend, and genteelly rubbing her back trying to sooth her 'Paige I don't understand you knew what was going to happened, you read the book.'
' I'm sorry… I'm sorry … its just seeing it happen on the screen seem to make it that much more real to me, like I was really watching him die in front of me over and over again and there was nothing I could do to stop it.'
' Paige I…'
'No I know its stupid I mean he's not even a real person he just a character from JK Rowling's book.'
' O I thought it was Alan Rickman that you had the crush on not Snape'
' Yuck are you crazy of course not Alan Rickman is to old for me, I mean their was that one movie Robin hood he was in, really really cute but… hey that's beside the point and don't you dare laugh at me Sarah or I'll tell the whole world about your Prince Caspian obsession'
'Ok…ok you got me but at least I got you to relax a little'
'Yeah I know thanks, I'll be all right now. Let just go in and get to bed before we both freeze to death'
' To bad we don't know any warming charms'
'Sarah'
'Yeah?'
'Shut up'
'Good night, Paige'
But Paige couldn't sleep that night instead she was wide awake rereading his final moments, as if by doing so she could provide him some comfort before the darkness over took him. And then final she'd had enough she threw the book across the room slamming it into the wall, the rage and sorrow finally over taking her.
'Why did you have to die, weren't you punished enough, its not fair you risked everything for those ungrateful people and still you were despised and cast out. I know the world isn't prefect, but your not part of it, your world is suppose to be different not a reflection of reality I mean god then what's the point of reading fantasy to escape the harshness of everyday life if its just going to be worse in the book instead. Dam it I can't take it any more this isn't fair, and I don't care if my world isn't fair yours should be or what's the freaking point to all this. I understand that sometime good people die and there nothing you can do about, but I just can't see that for you. Something deep in my very soul tells me that even in death you won't find the peace that you so truly deserve.'
Drain and defeated she collapsed on her bed weeping, curling up and grasping her pillow for dear life. The promise of sleep was slowly taking hold.
'There's nothing I can do is there…'
Daylight gradually trickled into the small bedroom; the warmth that reaches across her body pleasantly awoke Paige to the fact that it was now the weekend and any minute now Sarah would burst into her room to get her up and dressed for what she would call girl time.
'3…2…1'
Paige ducked under her comforter as if it would provide some sort of protection from the impending doom that she had come to expect from "Early Morning Perky Sarah" her door swung up revealing a fully done up Sarah
'GOOD MORNING PAIGE!'
She gracefully walked across the room to Paige on her bed and roughly yanked the covers away.
'Their you are, time to get up and go shopping'
Paige played vampire (hissed and dove under the covers) her grumbled voice was heard from under the covers.
'Not on your life, I am not leaving this bed today and their nothing you can do or say to get me to do otherwise'
'I'll let you drive the GT-R'
Sarah reached out her hand and dangled a set of keys, before letting them fall. Paige was up and dressed before the keys even hit the bed.
Two in the afternoon and Paige was just about at her breaking point. If she had to listen to Sarah say one more time how good Paige would look in "Pink" or that she needed "Less jeans, or pants and more skirt in her wardrobe" She was going to kill her beloved friend. Lucky for her Sarah had seen a shoe sale and taken off like a skill hunter off for the kill. She figured she'd have at most an hour of peace before the torture continued, so it would be better to make the best of it. She quickly remember that her favorite little coffee house was on the second floor of the particular mall across from the balcony terraces from there she'd have a good view of the shoe store and Sarah would be able to find her easily
'Then again maybe that's a bad idea' laughing that off to herself.
Upon arriving upstairs at the coffee house she ordered her usual tea drink and selected a nice spot near the edge of the balcony, leaning back against the railing she let the calming sounds of the large mall fountain below lure her mind and relax her body. Soon while sitting they're relishing in her surrounding and enjoying her drink she felt the tension that had been building all afternoon subside. Relaxed and happy she began casually looking around, she could see downstairs into the shoe store and notice the Sarah seem to be complete preoccupied in the sale that she had most likely forgotten about Paige.
'All the better for me, might as well get a little reading done' she said to no one in particular
She retrieved her e-book from her side bag and powered it up. When the screen came on, it indicated that there was a previous file still running. Curious she decided to view the file, thinking back she couldn't remember the last time she had used her e-book and so had no idea what could be running on it. So absorbed at this, she didn't notice the fight that had broken out between several teenage boys or that Sarah had left the shoe store and was now heading her way.
In one moment Paige was resting comfortably against the balcony railing and in the next she was flying over it still holding the e-book and watching as her world went upside down as she plummet head first into the fountain below