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Here's chapter four everybody!
Midnight Visitors
Draco Malfoy stood in the shadows of the dungeon, Sophie glaring at him through the darkness.
"Yes, it's me," he said lazily, "Is that a problem?"
"Yes," snarled Sophie, "Did you come to fetch me or something?"
"Uh, yeah, that's why I'm here," he said as though it was obvious.
"How did you know I would be here anyway?" Sophie sneered.
"I was sitting two feet away when Snape came up to you, so it wasn't that hard to overhear," he fired back. "Come on, I'm taking you to the Slytherin Dormitory," continued Malfoy, walking in the direction of the dormitory.
When he didn't hear Sophie following him, he turned. She was still standing in the same spot, staring at him with fire in her eyes. Malfoy sighed and started walking towards her.
He was directly in front of her when she said fiercely, "I didn't ask for your help."
Malfoy's icy blue eyes bore into her darker ones, but Sophie did not blink. Her hatred for him was so intense, that she thought that if it took a physical form, it would burn him alive.
"Well apparently, it seems like you need my help," he whispered to her, "So either you follow me to the Dormitory and we never speak to each other again…or you can spend your first night at Hogwarts here, in the cold dungeon. Deal?" He smirked.
Dammit, thought Sophie, I hate blackmail.
She was silent a moment.
Then, in a voice that practically screamed her hatred for Malfoy said, "Deal."
"I see we've reached an agreement," he said smirking, "Follow me."
Sophie obliged.
Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit! Thought Sophie as she walked with Malfoy to the Slytherin Dormitory.
Of all the four Houses in this place, I just had to get planted in Slytherin! And of all the dirty, no good, rotten, spoiled kids in Slytherin, Draco Malfoy just had come get me. What the bloody hell is the world coming to?
In the time span of four minutes, they had reached the Slytherin Dormitory.
"Here we are, home sweet home," said Malfoy.
"Please. Like I would ever call this place 'home'," said Sophie with disgust in her voice.
"Well, like it or not, this is your home, from now until the end of the year. So, if I were you, I'd learn to like it," Malfoy said sternly.
"Whatever, just say the password," Sophie replied.
"Cheeky little girl, aren't you," said Malfoy, glancing at her. Sophie ignored him. Once Malfoy said the password, ("serpent's eye") Sophie rushed in and was taken aback by what she saw. Although it was only eight o'clock, there was no one in the Common Room; they were all in the dormitories.
The Slytherin Common Room was huge. Upon entering, there were two long ebony colored leather couches, with black and green pillows. To Sophie's left, there was a fireplace with dying embers, and under her feet a beige colored marble floor that expanded throughout the Common Room.
It looked kind of like Sophie's family room in her uncle's chateau, but filled with things that are much more suitable for Slytherins. (A/N: if you've seen "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"…just picture that, cause, I can't describe something like the Slytherin Common Room…it's just too great. Onward with the story!)
Sophie walked down the marble stairs to the couches. She reached out her hand and ran it over one of them. Then she turned her attention to the rest of the Common Room.
"So what do you think?" asked Malfoy. Sophie jumped. She had forgotten he was even there. She turned to face him and saw that he had moved from the top of the stairs and was now sitting at a desk near the fireplace, chair turned around with his elbows over the head, and legs on either side of it, his chin resting on his arms.
Little did she know that he had been watching her for quite some time before he spoke.
"It's beautiful," she said looking around again. A small smile crept across her face as silence passed between the two of them again. After ten minutes of complete and utter silence, Malfoy got bored and decided to go to bed. He got up, stretched, and started heading towards the Boys' Dormitory.
"Where are you going?" inquired Sophie.
"Bed," said Malfoy, continuing on his way without looking at her. He walked through a large marble archway and turned right, leaving Sophie alone.
"Pompous, little, self-absorbed, freak," said Sophie quietly after about a minute as she also walked through the archway and turned left.
The Girls' Dormitory was quiet for everyone was sound asleep, dreaming of the start of the new school year, so Sophie had to be extremely quiet as she made her way through the darkness. She found an empty bed, took off her clothes and put on her pajamas. She was very fond of her nightwear, a gigantic black t-shirt that seemed to swallow her in its vastness. (She wasn't very fond of the whole two-piece pajama thing.)
Once she was dressed, she climbed into bed and immediately fell asleep.
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In the middle of the night, Sophie was awakened by noises coming from the Common Room. Going against her better judgment, she decided to go investigate, again trying very carefully to not wake up her sleeping roommates. She slipped on her black fuzzy slippers and went to the Common room.
"Well, well, well, the half-ling's awake," came her greeting. Sophie sighed in relief: it was only her clan. Wait…what the hell are they doing here?
"Diana," said a voice Sophie recognized as Dimitri's. "What? We've been waiting forever wondering when the bloody hell she was going to wake up," she said.
"Yes, but is that any reason to call her a half-ling?" he asked her, his red eyes flashing. Diana flipped back her long raven colored hair.
"Yes," she said haughtily. "If you haven't noticed, Dimitri, she's not exactly one of us—"
"Yes she is, and don't you dare say otherwise! So what if she's only—" yelled Dimitri, making Diana cringe.
"Shut up, the both of you!" hissed Felix. "Merlin's beard, do you want to wake up the whole bloody castle?"
Silence.
"Where's Uncle?" asked Sophie. During her cousins' argument she had moved to the couch. She was surprised by how comfortable it was.
"Here I am, dear Sophie," said a voice from behind her. She turned. There was her uncle sitting on the couch opposite her, looking like he was rather enjoying himself.
"These are very comfortable. You're a luck girl, Sophie," he said bouncing on the couch. "So, how was your first day?" he asked her, after a couple minutes of non-stop bouncing.
"Terrible," she replied.
"How so?" Dimitri asked her, looking concerned. Sophie took a deep breath and told them everything that had happened.
"That Malfoy boy is right…you have to learn how to like Slytherin," said her uncle after Sophie had finished.
"How can you side with him, Uncle?" exclaimed Sophie getting up and throwing her arms in the air. She had hoped her uncle would side with her. "He's a jerk! There's no other way to explain it!"
"I agree with Sophie, Alucard," said Dimitri. He was sitting on the couch opposite Alucard.
"You would," said Diana under her breath.
"You know what, Diana—" Dimitri started but was cut off by Alucard.
"Enough," said Alucard holding up his hand to silence the two. "I am tired of you bickering all the time. Dimitri, Diana is your sister…you should not allow yourself to be caught up in her games. You are nineteen, she is thirteen…you should know better." Dimitri ran a hand through his short curly hair and sighed, but was silent.
"Luckily for you, we did not come here to discuss sibling rivalry," continued Alucard. "We are here to discuss Sophie," he said turning to his niece.
"Me?" said Sophie.
Alucard nodded. "We are here to warn you. The Red Moon is coming, Sophie. You must be prepared."
"You just told me not to look at the moon," said Sophie. She was getting confused. What did she need to prepare for?
"True, I did tell you not to look directly at the moon," said her uncle. "And don't," he added hastily.
"Then what do I need to prepare for?" asked Sophie.
"In the weeks before the Red Moon, one who is not a full vampire, like yourself, will develop cravings," said her uncle.
"You mean," Sophie said slowly.
"Yes…cravings for blood. But I take it during your trip here, you were already craving some?" said Alucard with a smile.
Sophie stared at her uncle. How did he know? Can my Uncle read minds?
At the look on Sophie's face, Alucard's smile broadened.
"It is not surprising. You are preparing yourself for the transformation, in which the first thing you will do when you become a full vampire, is search for blood," said her uncle.
Sophie gulped. She didn't like the sound of that. There were thousands of kids here, what if she sucked the blood out of one of them? Will she be able to live with that?
"During the coming days of the Red Moon, your cravings will become harder to control, my dear, Sophie," continued her uncle. "You need extreme will power to control them…especially in a place like Hogwarts, where the are children everywhere."
"There are adults too," said Sophie, but then she clamped her hands to her mouth in shock at what she just said. Her uncle laughed.
"Yes, there are adults, but children are the most vulnerable to vampire bites, Sophie," said Alucard. "That is why, I must ask you, however hard it may be…to not bite anyone—or anything rather—during the coming of the Red Moon. Do you understand?"
Sophie nodded.
"The last thing your mother needs to hear is that her daughter has just turned someone into a vampire that is now running amuck in the castle," said Felix with a grin. Sophie laughed.
"Oh, don't worry, I won't do anything like that," she said. "Good, because your mother will have a fit," laughed Felix. She and Felix doubled over with laughter. Finally, after a solid five minutes of laughing, Sophie regained herself and was finally able to ask the question that she's been dying to ask since her clan got here.
"Where's Mali?" she asked.
Felix stopped laughing abruptly, Diana and Dimitri looked away from Sophie's face, and when she glanced at her uncle, his expression was one of shame and anger.
"He is dead," he said.
"What? That's impossible. I just—" stated Sophie but was cut off by Dimitri.
"He is dead, Sophie, and there's nothing you can do to change that," he told her. Sophie was silent. Finally, she managed to say in a voice that was barely audible, "How?"
"Apparently, he fell head over heals for a maiden, and she with him. She asked him to bite her, and he did." Alucard sighed. "As it turned out, she was the daughter of a very wealthy family, who despised vampires, and immediately after they found out what their daughter was, they destroyed her.
Mali was so distraught, he confessed to his crime, and was also killed. Foolish boy. He didn't even think of the consequences, just went and did whatever he pleased. I'm not sorry that he's dead."
"Not one bit?" asked Sophie horrified.
"No," said Alucard. "He shamed us all."
Silence. Everyone seemed to agree with Alucard. It was only broken by a stifled sob from Diana. Dimitri put his arms protectively around her pulling her into an embrace, where she sobbed harder than ever.
"Diana and Mali were very close," said Felix. He had silently moved from the stairs to stand beside Sophie. "You would almost suspect that he and she were brother and sister, instead of her and Dimitri."
"Thanks, Felix," said Dimitri sarcastically. He shrugged. "Just telling it how it is, Dimitri," he said.
"I believe it is time for us to go. Sophie needs her rest…she has term tomorrow," said Alucard getting up from the couch. Diana and Dimitri followed him, along with Felix afterwards.
"Wait," said Sophie. They all turned. "How…" she hesitated. "Yes, Sophie?" asked Dimitri. She took a deep breath, "How did you…you know…get here?" she finally asked. Her uncle smiled. "When you are ready…you'll know," he said.
"Hang on, I have one more question," said Sophie, "When does the Red Moon arrive?"
"Two weeks," said Alucard, "Be ready." And they disappeared in a cloud of fog.
Where the bloody hell did that come from? Thought Sophie, oh wait…vampires can control the weather. Idiot!
Now completely exhausted, Sophie went to the Girls' Dormitory found her bed, snuggled deep in the covers and finally went into a deep sleep that she knew she deserved.
Well, there's chapter 4, I hope you all like it! I'm open to suggestions of any kind, and if there are spelling and/or grammar mistakes, I apologize. Sometimes I type too fast and don't catch them. Hope to see you in chapter 5!
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