Bring Me Down
prologue

Samantha Potter sat in her living room on the couch with her arms wrapped her knees with her face hidden so no one could see her wheep. She had another quarrel with Teddy Lupin. For some reason it always made her cry, you would think she would be used to it by now. She and Teddy never got along, and she never knew why. They could never be friends, or rather they never tried.

Sam looked up, her eyes all red and puffy. Her hair glowed from the fire as she stared into it. Her hair was inherited from her mother and father; it was black with a red tint. It wasn't a very common color. And her eyes were emerald green like her father's but around her pupil was a ring of chocolate brown like her mother's. She rubbed her eyes to try to wipe away the tears, wipe away the sadness. But it seemed as though she was always sad, and she wished she knew the cause of it, or rather why it was always caused.

It was summer now, and she would soon be getting her Hogwarts letter for her supply list for the items she would need for her sixth year. She heard footsteps coming down from the stairway and turned her head quickly so whoever was coming couldn't see her puffy eyes. She sniffled without realizing it, and somebody sat beside her. "Sam?"

"Go away Teddy." she said with another sniffle, "I don't feel like talking to you right now." she closed her eyes and turned her head towards the fire without opening them, and scooted more over to the side of the couch where Teddy wasn't.

"Sam, I'm really sorry." He said with his eyes looking at his hands, as he twisted her hands nervously.

"Teddy your always sorry!" she exclaimed looking at him now, her eyes still red and puffy, but right now she didn't care. "Your always sorry for something you did! And you know what, you never mean it, cause your going to do it again, just because you have a guilty conscious doesn't mean your sorry!" she yelled loudly now practically standing up.

Teddy's temper kicked up, "It's always something I do is it!?" he exclaimed not really asking, "Your just perfect aren't you? You never do anything wrong, and you never say your sorry because you don't feel you need to, its always the other person who has to be sorry isn't it?" he asked in the same tone, practically standing up as well.

"Now I never said that! Your putting words in my mouth Teddy Lupin and you know it!" she yelled, feeling a fresh coat of tears forming in her eyes, but she blinked them back. The last thing she needed right now was to be crying, she really didn't need that right now. "But if I do recall your the one who's always saying your sorry! Your the one who brings me down, and your the one who..who.." she wasn't going to finish the sentence out loud, but she finished in her mine, who always makes me cry when I shouldn't care, but I do.

"Who what? Who's a git right? Who never does anything right, and makes everybody miserable!" He exclaimed angrily. He didn't let her finish because he stomped back up stairs, leaving her on the couch.

As soon as he left, Sam started breaking down in a whole new shed of tears. Why did this always happen to her? How come he always got to her? Why did she even care, she shouldn't, but there are some things in life that are worth caring for, even if they do break your heart sometimes. But she didn't realize it yet. She just knew that she didn't want to cry anymore, but she also wondered why he always brought her down.

Teddy Lupin slammed his door and stomped over to his bed. He didn't know why he bothered coming to the Potters anymore. Well actually he did, his father was off on a teacher's convention or something about Hogwarts, and his mother was an auror, doing auror things. He put his hands in his shaggy sand colored hair.

Why does this always happen? he asked himself, ever time me and Sam end up arguing, and I'm the one who usually starts it. He didn't want to quarrel with her, but he just made her so angry sometimes, well his temper was actually rather short...he got that from his mum. Nymphadora Tonk, a metamorphigus. He didn't inherit that from her though, no he inherited his hair from his dad, Remus Lupin. He was rather smart too, he inherited that from both of his parents, and he had gray eyes. This was rather weird because his dad had blue and his mum hazel.

He rubbed his eyes wondering what was happening, why him and Sam were always fighting. It always made him so upset, and so confused. Everything was so confusing, but it wasn't when they were little, before they grew up. He remembered him and Sam used to be the best of friends, seeing their birthday was on the same day. This was rather odd actually. Teddy was two minutes older than Sam, you could say they were twins, even though they look nothing alike and have different families.

They fought worse than an old married couple, even though they have had that expression used on them from time to time. He remembered when nothing mattered when they were little, they could have fun, not worrying about their image or their grades, anything. They would have snowball fights, ride on their brooms together, and play a muggle game called tag, which Sam's dad had taught them.

And all of this fun was actually thanks to Sam's dad, Harry Potter. He fought and killed Lord Voldemort. Nobody was ever too scared to speak his name ever again. But everybody that knew Harry, that actually knew Harry, never called him that, because he wasn't a lord and that wasn't his name. They called him by his real name, his muggle name. Tom.

When they were little though, they never had a care in the world, but now everything changed. It actually started second year. In first year, seeing as they were in the same year, same house and had no friends really, they were best friends. And it wasn't from the lack of family, no siry, the Weasly family was as big as ever, and Sam had an older sister and an older brother that went there. And this year her little sister, Lily, was going to Hogwarts.

But in their second year everything changed. They got new friends, new interests, and they grew apart, and it seemed all they did was argue. They actually had a lot in common, but they always ended up arguing, and neither knew why, and neither liked it.

Teddy let out a frustrated sigh as he thought of the memories, when Sam had that smile on his face, you never saw it anymore though, she smiled with her friends yet, and a genuine smile, but it seemed different. But he was also thinking of the words she had said to him that caught his attention, and made him feel really guilty, she was yelling at him yes, a lot of words that should have caught his attention, and they did. But one sentence really did,

"You're the one who brings me down"

Teddy didn't want to do that anymore, because he was bringing himself down along with it.

But now the question was, were they going to be brought down anymore?