Nanci: You know the drill:
Damion: Silly banter
Mandy: comical introduction to the story
Nanci: We know each other (not really) enough though to skip all that stuff, right?
Damion: Not nearly enough.
Mandy: It's like they're complete strangers!
Nanci: Who are you and what are you doing in my computer?
Damion: The audacity of some people!
Mandy: It sickens me!
Nanci: Here's your chapter! Take it and go! :)
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Chapter Four!: Waking up, Songs and Hair Dye
"Harry, I need to get out of your mind now! Harry?" Harry said Draco whipped around to face the Gryfinndor. His face was still slightly slack-jawed but there was no mistaking the boy's voice.
"Potter? What're you talking about?" Draco said taking a step forward toward Harry.
"No, Draco this is Alexia! I need you to get through to Harry! We need to switch back."
"Um, okay. Give me second." Draco turned toward Alexia's body and called out. "Potter, you need to switch back with Alexia! So, I don't know, make yourself switchable!" Alexia's body slumped forward a little more and so did Harry's, both of them threatening to fall off their beds. He lunged forward and grabbed Alexia when she fell more. She sat bolt upright with a cry of pain.
"Draco! What're you doing?" She winced as Draco came nearer and then he backed off. She looked over at Harry and scrambled off her bed to catch him. She propped him up on the bed and he fell backwards. Draco rushed over.
"What's wrong with him? Is he dead?"
"Nothing, no, he's asleep. It's always exhausting to get a boat-load of memories back."
"Did he get all of them back or just some?" Draco asked as the two walked out of the room quietly.
"I tried to get a few key ones that would hopefully trigger some more. I did what I could but, hey, I'm not a miracle worker. Then if he still has trouble remembering some low-key things well he'll just have to be reminded of some things. Everything should go back to normal."
"Normal. Ah. I should be getting back to my room now." Draco turned and started to walk off.
"Hey, Draco let me walk you." Draco stopped and shrugged his shoulders, so Alexia walked up next to him and the two walked in silence for a bit. "What's wrong?"
"Hmm, oh, nothings wrong." He replied a little too quickly.
"You little liar. Now, tell me what's wrong." She stopped a stepped in front of him easily. He flinched away from her at the same time that she flinched away from him.
"That's what's wrong! You can't touch me without screaming out in pain! I don't want to hurt you, but I want to know why, I, don't, just! Aaahg!" Draco was flustered and his pale face was tinged red with frustration and his eyes where starting to well up with tears.
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Weak, pale light filtered through the window and hit Harry's eyes "Egh." He cringed away from it.
"Oh! Harry, you're alive!" He heard Ron shout, rather loudly, to his overly-sensitive ears. "Hermione said something might've gone wrong with the spell and you could be brain dead! So I've been sitting with you and-"
"Ron! Shut up! I can't hear myself think with you shouting so loudly!" He opened his already be-specaled eyes and glared at red-headed boy.
"Um, Harry, I wasn't shouting. Was I, 'Mione?" He said worriedly.
"No, you weren't. This is just the kind of side-effects that I told you about! You should not have used that spell!" Hermione said angrily. Harry sat up quickly and looked around the Gryfinndor boy's room. Alexia reclined in a chair with her feet on the end his bed looking bored as she examined her painted nail; green with a silver stripe in the middle of them. Hermione was pacing behind her and was fuming while Ron sat in the next bed over with a worried expression on his face.
"It'll wear off and if it doesn't then one lucky boy just got super-hearing." Alexia clicked her tounge and winked at Harry. He couldn't help but laugh and he realized that his hearing had gone back to normal.
"You guys. It's okay, I can hear normal now." Harry swung his legs over the side of his bed. "Seriously, I'm fine." He smiled weakly at them. "What time is it?"
"It's around midnight, Harry." Hermione's voice had soften considerably, she smiled and sat down next to Harry on his bed. "Do you remember anything? Anything at all?"
"Of course he has." Alexia said as her feet slipped off of his foot board and slammed to the ground, not taking her eyes off her nails. Hermione shot her a glare.
"I've remembered a lot of stuff! It's amazing, I feel so silly for acting the way I did. There are still somethings I can't quite grasp, but all in good time, I 'spose." He smiled a little and everyone did too. Harry glanced toward the doorway and saw someone he hadn't noticed before. Draco, he was smiling with the rest of them but it was a lot more bittersweet and subdued than the rest. "Draco, how are you?"
"I'm fine. I should really be going, though. It's getting late." He smiled a little more and turned to walk out the room.
"That's my cue to be going," Alexia said standing up and stretching "I'm his pass back." She offered as explanation. "See you, Harry. Hermione. Ron." She nodded to each of them in turn and followed the Slytherin out the door.
"Well, we should all be going to bed now." Hermione got up and left without saying goodbye. Ron muttered a feeble 'goodnight' and settled himself under the sheets of the bed he was on. Harry sat on the edge of his bed contemplating his next move.
'I should go to bed.' Harry thought his eyes straying over his sheets but he didn't feel tired. Harry got up from his bed and went to his trunk. He dug past his clothes and books until he found what he was looking for. It smooth and cold in his hands; his father's invisibility cloak. He smiled a devious smile.
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"So Draco, how'veyoubeen?" Alexia said doing a little spin next to him. Draco shrugged. "Use your words!" She teased and spun faster.
"Stop spinning, please and I'll tell you." Alexia stopped. "Harry is my problem. He always been my problem and you know that." Alexia sighed and began to spin again. "Stop."
"No." Alexia stumbled and Draco made no move to help her but Harry did. He stopped himself just in time though remembering that he was invisible. "You should really just tell him, you know."
"No." Draco said in the same tone that Alexia had replied in. She grinned at him and spun again.
'I wish they'd just say what they're talking about.' Harry almost sighed.
"Well, this is my stop." Draco said at the entrance to the dungeons. The two said goodnight and Alexia spun off in the direction of her room while Draco walked down the stairs.
Harry stood in the spot where they had parted ways trying to decide which one to follow when he heard a light voice singing "Do you believe in destiny?" He turned to where Alexia was spinning down the hall. She stopped and stared at Harry, smiled then winked. She went off spinning still singing the song. Harry stood frozen to the spot, then after a few minutes ran into the dungeons after Draco.
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Draco walked along the corridor running his hand along the wall letting it go numb. He sighed and heard Alexia singing above him "Do you believe in destiny?" He sighed again and began singing along.
"I close my eyes and dream that you are closer to me.
So follow me and you will see together we can touch the sky.
We're flying so high, high, higher."
Draco sighed again. How ironic that she just happens to choose that song to leave him with. He did some little Alexia-esc spins in the corridor as he sang the next lines-
"I feel the love tonight.
Until the morning sky,
the light inside my heart will last forever.
And in my dreams
I'll never let you go.
I know you need
to be with me.
With love it feels so good,
its only fantasy."
Draco spun faster but still, not trusting himself to try and spin down the halls like Alexia had, but now he realized why she did it. It was kind of a release. The words of the song came faster now and he was getting more and more glad Alexia had taught it to him.
"As time goes by,
I wonder why.
Will you be here with me someday?
I'm fading away.
I feel the love tonight.
Until the morn-"
"Mister Malfoy, what're you doing spinning around the halls in the middle of the night? Singing none-the-less." Draco stopped at the sound of the Professor Snape's sneering voice. Even though Snape was favored Slytherins at every chance he could, he still despised children and that extended, if not more so, to his own team because he would never dock points from them.
"I was going to the common room, Sir." Draco looked away from the potions master and seemed intent on studying the floor.
Snape sighed a hateful loathing sigh "Fine go." He stalked off past Draco toward the upper levels of the castle. Draco ran off to the common room.
"Blood-line." He muttered at the bare stretch of wall, but it didn't open. "Blood-line!" He said getting slightly annoyed. He heard footsteps coming toward him and thinking it was Snape again, he waited. Then a pair of arms appeared out of thin air and grabbed him, pulling him close to a chest. Draco felt a hood being slipped around his face so that it was pressed against another face, a hand wrapped around his mouth to keep him from screaming.
"Shhh." A soothing and familiar voice whispered in his ear. Draco could feel a heart beating rapidly, and unnervingly, in time with his and breath on the base of his neck. The footsteps got louder and rounded the corner revealing the Ravenclaw head-boy. He looked around suspiciously and muttered something that sounded vaguely like 'Peeves.' He walked on with a small scowl on his face. The arms released Draco and revealed Harry Potter. He smiled at Draco.
"You're welcome. Oh, and the password actully is 'True Blood-line'. See you!" Harry shrugged a little and disappeared. Draco stood there for several minutes staring at the spot where Harry had been.
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Harry stood with Draco outside the Slytherin common room. 'Why isn't he going in?' Harry thought hopeing that the head boy wouldn't come back. He realized that Draco was probably scared out of his wits. He shrugged off his cloak again earning a gasp from Draco. Harry sighed this was going to be a longer night than he intended.
"Look, Draco, I have a invisibility cloak. That's why you couldn't see me coming and the head-boy couldn't see us when I grabbed you. Now, it's very late at night and we both have classes tomorrow, so go to bed." Harry said in a hushed tone. "Please." He added as an afterthought. Draco nodded and smiled with a kind of dazed look on his face.
"Wait, how did you know what the password is?" Draco said losing his smile and frowning at Harry with a look that was a gateway to anger.
"Um," Harry thought for a moment "I have no idea. It just kind of popped into my head. Look I have to go now. So, I'll see you." Harry smiled and was about to pull up his cloak but Draco stopped him.
"Wait." Draco grabbed Harry's hand and watched his expression carefully.
Harry's mouth quirked his mouth a little. "What?" Draco blushed slightly and looked down.
"Nothing." He dropped Harry's hand muttered "True blood-line." And he walked into the common room. He glanced over his shoulder "Night, Harry." The door shut behind him. Harry grinned under his cloak. He walked slowly back to the common room rubbing his hands together, not really sure whether he was trying to forget Draco's touch or remember it.
Harry walked into the boy's room and was met with a very flustered Ron. "We're have you been?" He cried. His face was almost as red as his hair.
Harry walked around the boy and put his cloak in his trunk. He turned and looked at him. "I've been out and around." He was about to jump in his bed but Ron stopped him.
"That's not good enough. I want to know were you where! I was scared out of my mind. I thought you'd forgotten again and wandered off and something terrible had happened. I-I didn't know-" Ron looked close to tears and was now staring sheepishly at the floor.
'Oh, Merlin's trousers. I should probably apologize.' He leaned forward and took his friend's shoulders and pushed his forehead against Ron's. "I'm sorry I was out so late." Ron looked into Harry's eyes and frowned a little "And I'm sorry I made you worry." Ron's frown lessend a tiny bit. "Now, it's very late at night and we both have classes tomorrow, so go to bed." Ron grinned now and put his hands on Harry's shoulders.
"Thanks, Harry. I, uh, you don't have to tell me where you were." Ron blush had been lost but it was back again. His hands slipped off Harry's shoulder and he went over to his bed "Night, Harry." Harry grinned as he climbed into his bed and he gently touched his shoulders as he fell asleep.
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Alexia made one last large spin toward her door. She walked into her office/bedroom collapsed into her bed. "I am definitely sleeping for a week!" she muttered into her pillow. Then someone knocked on her door. "If your head is not on fire or you do not have some other life-threatening situation please leave now before I put you in a life-threatening situation!"
They knocked again. "It's your funerael!" Alexia yelled as she pushed herself off the bed and walked over to the door. She opened the door. "Oh, hi Headmaster. How are you and why are you at my door at," she glanced at the clock on the wall "3 a.m. ?"
Dumbledore said nothing though, he just simply stepped aside revealing a pale, platinum blond man with grey eyes. Lucius walked forward a step. "What's going on here? Dumbledore?" Alexia glanced at the older man.
"I haven't a clue, Alexia. Lucius arrived at my door asking for his daughter. I suggested to him to come back a more decent time but he stressed that it had to be now." Dumbledore said with a small shrug.
"Well, Lucius, you will just have to make an appointment with me at a more decent time." Alexia shut the door and locked it. She turned around and leaned against it, her breathing was shallow and shaky. Alexia slowly slid down it and didn't move until she saw the sun coming up outside her window.
Alexia pushed herself up from the door then went, took a cold shower, got dressed in her usual attire and went down to breakfast. On her way down she spotted a familiar face "Hey, Harry! How are you?" Alexia said as she jogged up next to him. He smiled slightly.
"I didn't get a lot of sleep, but other than I'm really great." Now he was full out grinning.
Alexia laughed as she found a double meaning in his words. "Harry, you sly dog. Look, if you see Draco could you give this to him?" She held out a envolope to Harry. He took it from her.
"Sure, anything else you need? And I didn't mean it like that!"
Alexia smiled "No, Harry. I hope to see sometime in the future!" She waved and walked away from Harry toward the head table. She walked up to Dumbledore and talked to him in hushed tones, until more teachers and students began to walk in the door. She waved as she walked over to her seat at the end of the table.
Hagrid came in and began to talk to her. "So is it true?" He questioned as he sat down.
"Depends on what you're talking about." Alexia said simply not looking up from her eggs.
"'Bout everything, I 'spose. Harry and his memory and maybe the rumor 'bout ol' Lucius Malfoy coming down ter see ya'. I hear he's still here." Hagrid whispered leaning closer toward Alexia "Come on, 'Lexie you can tell me." Alexia grinned at the nickname.
"Okay, I'll tell you the whole story. Yes, Harry did get about 99% of his memories back, I can't be sure he got exactly one-hundred but it's better than nothing. Yes, Lucius Malfoy did come all the wa-" Alexia's mouth fell open and her eyes became wide staring across the great hall.
"What is it?" Said Hagrid as he followed her gaze. "Oh." He murmured as he saw Lucius Malfoy himself walking into the doorway with a smug look on his, trailing him was a down-trodden Draco. He spotted Alexia and began walking toward her, his expression never faltering. Draco walked off to his table his head hung slightly low. "Be strong, Lexie." Hagrid murmured leaning away remembering Buckbeak's trial three years ago and the way Lucius had shot down any chance of him getting off.
Alexia had closed her mouth and stood up as he got closer and everyone realized that the hall had gotten considerably quieter. Someone coughed and a few people laughed nervously. "So, Alexia, is this a more decent time for you?" Lucius said as he got within range of her. Alexia stood and smiled sweetly.
"Yes, in fact this is a perfect time for me. Why you sit down with us and have breakfast?" Lucius' smile wavered for a split second before he walked around the table to take a seat next to her as the hall burst with noise again.
"Take mine," Hagrid said, standing up abruptly "I was leavin' anyway." He walked away from the two. Alexia sat again and Lucius followed suit. She concentrated on her plate of eggs and Lucius's plate stayed empty.
"I would appreciate it if you steered clear of my son." Lucius said as he crossed his legs and leaned back in the chair.
"..."
"Not only for you're own personal health but also for Draco's mental health. How do think he would react if he found out he had a long-lost sister?" Lucius said very calmly as he fiddled with a fork on the table in front of him.
"Don't worry after today you'll never see me again. You and your family will never have to worry about me." Alexia stood from her chair and was about to walk away but Lucius stopped her.
"You say that like it's a bad thing." He sneered. Alexia turned around and smacked him across the face, leaving a red mark where she hit him. She breathed heavily for a few seconds before realizing that every pair of eyes was on her. Alexia stood up straight and walked out. In the hall she broke, she shook and her body ached. As if on cue four people walked out; Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco.
"Harry," Draco said, tears blossoming in his eyes "hug her for me." Harry did so without question, Hermione and Ron hugged her too.
"Harry, hug Draco for me, please?" Alexia said shakily. Harry broke away from her and, a little more hesitantly, hugged Draco. Hermione and Ron broke away from Alexia also. "Thanks guys, I needed that." She took a deep breath. "I'm leaving to day. So there shouldn't be a problem with that ever happening again." She sighed when she realized what she had just let slip.
"Oh." They all said at once. Alexia rubbed her hands through her hair one of her finger ribbons getting stuck in it. She pulled it loose and looked down at her hands. They were covered in brown, Alexia shook it off and ran her hands through again, thick globs of dye coming off with it.
"What?" Hermione said. She reached up also and ran a hand through, her hand coming off brown. "Alexia what is this?"
"It's dye, but it shouldn't be coming off like this. It just doesn't." She shook off more and kept running her hands through her hair when Draco noticed something.
"'Lexie, is your hair getting longer?" Her hair was now was down to the bottom of her neck and blond. She grabbed it and frowned.
"It? What?" Alexia's breathing became harder. "Oh God!" She whipped her head around looking up and down the hall. "Someone's casting a spell on me. I have to go back to my office." She ran down the hall with all four trailing after them. She turned around and looked at them. "What are you doing? Go to class!"
"But you're more important!" Draco cried.
"No, I can figure this out on my own! Go to class! Now!" She ran off down the hall. Ron, Hermione and Harry went to History of Magic and Draco walked down to Potions.
Nanci: Well, that was just gorgeous.
Mandy: You sound like Dame'!
Damion: Hey!
Nanci: Sorry, I forgot you were in the room.
Damion: I need to start wearing flasing signs that say 'Damion is here!'. Don't I?
Mandy: It would be a wise choice.
Nanci: I think I was suposed to say something about... something.
Mandy: Does it have anything to do with the story?
Damion: That would make something like sense.
Nanci: YES! It did! And it went a little like this: The song that Alexia and Draco were singing is Destiny by Nightcore and in no way do I own it. And it's kind of techno/pop-ish. It's a good song, I like it.
Damion: I like it too. :) I think of Donny when it plays.
Mandy: Wow, that's sweet.
Nanci: Yeah, soooo.... Please review. And I tottally want to thank all the people who reviewed I would list you but I'm being lazy right now so, yeah.
Mandy: Holy Hotdogs Batman! It's 2:59 a.m.!
Damion: YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!eleven!!!11