That wasn't too long between chapters was it? I'm quite impressed. I don't think this story should take forever, I've written most of all the chapters, it's just a matter of filling a few gaps. I'm not making any promises though; I tend to take forever with the simplest of stuff.
Anyway, enjoy, and review.
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Chapter Four
Adrian doesn't want me to go back to school. More to the point the council doesn't want me to go back to school.
I'm in London right now. I told my parents I was meeting Harry and Ron and we were going to stay in the Leaky Cauldron with his family so we could spend the last two weeks of the holidays together. It was only a half lie really. They're coming next week so for now I'm staying in a muggle hotel with Adrian down the hall.
There's so much more to slay in a city like this. There are more vampires, more nests; they even have demon bars in London, that's something they definitely don't have in the town where I live.
Slaying is in my blood. I am the slayer and I need to keep doing it, I need to keep doing it, but I don't know if I'm willing to give up school yet. I know that staying at Hogwarts brings about so many complications. Where would I slay? How would I train? What would Adrian do? These slayers life must always be kept a secret , so not only would I be hiding it from everyone at school, I would be hiding it from Ron and Harry, I could never tell my two best friends that I was the slayer.
Adrian has made his wishes and the council's wishes very clear. They want me to leave school and become a full time slayer, spending all my time training and slaying. I could be travelling; I'd get to slay worldwide, learning about foreign cultures and all sorts. It would be a very educational experience. I would also be doing good, fighting the forces of darkness and saving the world. I wouldn't be finishing at Hogwarts, but tutored privately, mostly by Adrian in ancient languages, geography, history, anything I need to know. I wouldn't be able to tell my friends where I was going or why though.
It sounds good but I don't know. It's just; school isn't just what I do. It's who I am. How can I accept that it suddenly means nothing? But that's the truth isn't it. School is nothing anymore. If I'm lucky enough to survive sixth and seventh year then what? Go to university and probably die before graduation? Even if, and this is a big if, but even if I survive university then my days would be severely numbered, I could try struggling with a job and slaying, I could keep trying to chase after this normal life, but I'd always be hiding something.
Suddenly trying to convince myself that school comes first is quite hard.
My destiny is to die young, to go out fighting, but not to be remembered. I'll die I'll be replaced; the world won't know the difference.
I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do in the future. I guess all that careers research was a waste of time. I thought about being an auror, it would have been exciting as well as doing some good in the world. Right now I'd settle for a boring desk job. Maybe I could write reports on cauldron bottoms and let my boss get my name wrong all the time or something boring like that.
I love being the slayer; I love the feeling I get when I'm outnumbered in a fight but still win with ease, when I'm fighting a vamp twice my size and we both know he'll be dust before dawn. It's just never sunk in that this is my life. I'm not going to grow up and have a career and a husband and a family. I probably won't even grow up.
That doesn't mean I'm ready to give up just yet though. If I leave school I'll just live and die the slayer. The nameless, faceless slayer, another one in a long line. Staying at school lets me be Hermione a little while longer, even if that has to be Hermione Granger, Vampire Slayer. I can be with my friends, continue to learn magic.
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This chapter was all Hermione's feelings and stuff so it was probably quite boring, but the next chapter is basically all narrative and we have one of my very bad fight scenes with blood and death and the whole works.