Chapter 1: Among the Dementor's Snow
Harry wakes up on September 1st incapable of moving due to the strong arm cradling him to his master's chest. "Alu, it's time to wake up! I have to go to school!"
Crimson pools open slowly, and an eyebrow raises. "You don't have to go."
"Yes, I do."
"No, you don't. You want to, but you don't have to."
Harry sighs. "Please let me up."
"Alright."
Alucard moves off of him before sitting up, messy black hair falling over his shoulder. Harry sits up too and crawls forward to hug the vampire. "I love you, Alu."
"I love you too, Matryoshka."
The train station is as loud and crowded as it was the years prior, but this time, only Alucard's coming to see Harry off. "You sure you'll be alright?"
"Positive."
"Good." The No-Life King turns his head away, reluctant to say goodbye to his wizardling but also reluctant to admit that he wants him to stay.
"Alu?"
"Huh?" The whispered question of his nickname makes Alucard turn back.
"Can I have a kiss before I go?"
"Yes." Harry leans up on his tip-toes but still can't reach, so his master leans down just slightly and presses his lips against the boy's. "There. Happy?"
"Very!" Small arms wraps around a red trenchcoated chest in a hug. "Bye bye!"
"Goodbye, Matryoshka."
Harry and Luna smile at one another as the blonde comes in the compartment, smiling brightly. "Hiya!"
"Hiya!" she crows back. "Did you have a good summer!"
"Yeah! Did you?"
"Of course! I went hunting for Crumple-Horned Snorkacks with my father." Her face falls. "We didn't find any."
"That's okay!" Harry cries, digging in his pocket for the candy Walter once again got him. "Here." He tosses her a chocolate bar. "This should cheer you up!"
"Thanks!"
"Welcome!"
She takes her seat across from him and giggles softly. "So, I saw you kiss Alucard out there!"
"You did?"
"Uh huh. How long has that been going on?"
"The begining of summer..." Harry smiles, love and adoration in his eyes. "He says that he loves me."
"Is he telling the truth?"
The wizardling's eyes narrow, and a frown turns down his lips. "He would never lie to me!"
"I'm just making sure," she says. "You are my friend, and he isn't the kindest man from what I understand."
"What do you mean?"
She smiles darkly. "He is Dracula, right?"
"How did you know?" Surprise flickers to life on the child's face. "How could you possible know who Alu really is?"
"It's not that hard to know. It's actually very obvious. The power and ability that he has could only belong to someone such as he." The blonde tucks her legs up under herself as she continues. "He's going to turn you, isn't he?"
"I don't know..." Despair rings in Matryoshka's voice. "I want him too."
"Then he will." Luna's eyes grow soft and sorrowful. "Then you won't be my friend anymore."
"That's not true!" Harry's Avada Kedavra green pools grow equally sad. "I will always be your friend."
"But I will age and die, and you won't."
"Not if you become a vampire too!"
"Me? Become a vampire?" She giggles. "I'd love to be!"
"Then when I'm turned into one, I'll turn you if you aren't already one!"
"Promise?"
"Promise."
Luna's asleep later when the still awake Harry notices the frost creeping along the windows. He's drawn to the cold, wonder building up inside of him at the magificence and strangeness of a frost in the begining of September when the world is still hot from August. "That's odd..." Suddenly, the train slams on it's breaks, making Luna fall off of the other bench with a horrifyingly loud thud. "Are you okay?"
"Fine," she murmurs, sitting up slowly. "My head hurts though."
Harry giggles. "That's because you fell on the floor 'cause the train stopped."
"Why'd it stop?" she asks.
"I don'no."
"You're a big help."
"I know!" The lights begin to flicker and terrified screams ring out in the corridor, but the two children pay it no mind, the dark having been a friend since they were small. Until a skeletal hand pulls back the door and peeks inside. "Hello!"
The dementor rears back with confusion.
₰The hell?₰ it says.
§Hiya! I'm Harry, and this is Luna.§
₰Um, hello...₰
§What's your name?§
₰Death of Innocence...₰
§Am I weirding you out?§
₰Yes.₰
§Oh, sorry!§
₰Why are you not scared?₰
§Because you're nice, duh. If you weren't nice, I'd call my master Alucard, and he'd rip you into pieces.§
₰Uh huh... I'm going to go now...₰
§Okay! Have a nice day!§
It's speeds out, almost as if in fear, making Luna cackle. "Did you have to scare the dementor away?"
"I didn't mean to..."
"Maybe we can make friends with it later."
"Yeah!" Matryoshka cries out, thoroughly cheered up. "Let's make friends with a dementor!"
"Come on, Harry! Death of Innocence has to be out here somewhere!"
"I'm coming, Luna! Hold your horses!"
The two not-so-normal children are running to the Forbidden Forest to see the dementors despite the entire school being told not to bother them. "There they are!" Luna cries, pointing towards the cloaked figures.
At the sound of her voice, they turn around. ₰Human children?₰
₰What are they doing here?₰
₰Dumbledore promised that they'd leave us alone!₰
₰Their names are Harry and Luna. I met them on the train here. Harry understands us.₰
₰He understands us?₰
§Yes, I do.§ Harry takes a seat on a rock and motions for Luna to join him. §We were wondering if you'd be our friend, Death of Innocence.§
₰Friend?₰ the decidedly male dementor seems to smile before pulling down his hood and exposing white hair and skin with haunting blue eyes, a fairly human appearance. ₰Alright.₰
