Chapter Seven What have I done?
"SIRIUS! SIRIUS, PUT ME DOWN! LET ME GO YOU MADMAN! HELP! HELP ME!" I yelled. Sirius had decided it would be funny to carry me the common room at night bridal style. I did not find this funny at all. He wrapped me in a blanket and set me on their laps.
I glared.
They laughed. "Come on sis, you know we love to tease you!" Prongs said.
I scowled.
"Oh well, I guess we´ll just have to... TICKLE YOU!" Remus cried as they all tickled me and I squealed unable to stop them. They stopped after a while and conjured up some cookies to pacify me. I accepted.
I love cookies.
We talked for hours, just us four. We talked about the ball, James babbled about Lily, Remus babbled about Marlene and Sirius and I just babbled. At some point we fell asleep.
But, no matter how happy I was, the nightmares always came.
"Hello Daphne. Did you miss me?" "Leave them alone! They didn´t do anything to you! As princess I order you to wake them up and leave!" I cried pointing to the slumped bodies of my parents in the corner of our ball room. It had always been my favourite room; wall-to-wall mirrors and crystal chandeliers. "Hahaha! What an ignorant little girl. They are dead, nothing can save them now! The DeArbour line ends here! You couldn´t save them. You are weak! Look at them! Look at them!" he yelled. I looked as the bodies morphed into the bodies of James, Remus and... Sirius. "NO!" I cried my magic escaping, threatening to explode as I struggled to stay human. "NO! SIRIUS! SIRIUS!" "SIRIUS!" I yelled, thrashing in my sleep, sobbing. "Hey, hey. I´m here. I´m here. Wake up Padslette, wake up! James, Remus help I can´t wake her up! Daphne, Daphne! WAKE UP!" he yelled. I woke up and saw them. They were alive, it was just a dream. "Daph what did you dream about? You were screaming my name like crazy. Don´t lie to me, tell me what you saw!" he said but I couldn´t. So I just sobbed until I had no more tears. Artemis licked the remaining tears off my cheeks as I calmed down. "The dream I had, the one I always have is the night my parents died, the night that they were murdered. But instead of my parents I saw you, all of you laying there dead and I was too late to save you. This was the first time you´ve been in my dream. I don´t know why I only screamed Sirius` name. I assure you that I love you all equally. The dream has never that vivid. I couldn´t tell that it was a dream. I thought it was happening again. I thought you were...dead!" I broke out in fresh sobs. "Oh princess." Remus murmured as they engulfed me in a smothering hug. "What did you say?" I cried wrenching them off me, shocked. "What? Princess? That´s just a pet name. Don´t you like it?" James said worried. "I-no, no please don´t call me that. It- please." I whispered snuggling closer to them. "Tomorrow we are going to Dumbledore, if you like it or not." Sirius said. "Alright, after the ball I will see him." I consented knowing that I had no other choice. Tomorrow after the ball. Dear Merlin, what have I done.