Chapter 6: Cold

I woke up 3 hours later, in the Hospital Wing, being able to sense everything. The first thing I realized was my throat burned. And I realized the pain was gone. I jumped up, gracefully and looked around. Sirius was in the bed next to mine. He, too, had just awoken.

"What's going on?" I asked, my voice like music.

"I don't know. Let's go find Dumbledore." he replies, music from his mouth too.

I walk, quite quickly, up to him and we run to Dumbledore's office. It took less time than usual, but we were to preoccupied to notice. "Lemon Drops." I mutter. The gargoyle jumps aside.

"Dumbledore? What happened?" Sirius asks.

"We heard Mia's scream, we went to see what was wrong, and found the two of you writhing in pain with Vampire bites in your necks. We levitated you inside and left you to change."

"But, doesn't the transformation take 3 days?" I ask.

"Yes, under normal circumstances. But, you both are magical, which decreases the transformation process to one night, and it was a full moon so it only took 3 hours. The full moon," he informed, already interpreting our unasked question, "is the power source for a vampire. When it is a full moon, they have the most control and the most strength. That's why the vampire could abstain from killing you. I'm not sure what possessed him or her to bite you in the first pla-"

"Him." I interrupted.

"Him to bite you in the first place, but that's not what matters. You will need blood to sustain your strength."

"Animal." Sirius declares. "I'm not killing people." I nod in agreement.

"Yes, preferably." Dumbledore says, then chuckles. "You will be given full permission to hunt anytime you want, even after curfew, in the forbidden forest. Just tell anyone who might find you to talk to me, or show them this note." He pulls out 2 notes and we put them in our pockets. "Also, you will no longer need sleep, so I will allow you to stay in your current dormitories.

"Any questions?"

"Yes, what else is new to us?" I inquire.

"Very good, I almost forgot. You will be fast, strong, have enhanced senses, and sparkle in the sunlight because your skin is basically diamonds. You are freezing cold and extremely pale. You don't have a heart beat because you don't have blood running through your veins. And you don't need to breathe. (A/N: Disclaimer: I love Twilight, so here's borrowing Stephenie Meyer's vampires.) There is a spell I found a while back to help protect you from discovery. You cast it upon yourself and it is basically an invisible shield. You can go in sunlight without having to worry, but I caution you to remember to cast the spell. It wears off every 4 hours."

He pulls out his wand and we follow suit. "Say Blokus Solarus and wave your wand like so." He waves his wand in a circular motion over his chest.

"Blokus Solarus." we obediently say and cast the charm.

"Very good. It also works on humans as sun block! Now, anything else?"

"I don't think so, at least not at the moment." I say and smile.

"Can we hunt now?" Sirius asks.

"Of course! I'll talk to you tomorrow, or later today," he corrects, looking at the clock, "about the students' arrival. Oh, no killing anyone, or biting anyone please."

"Yes sir." We reply and run out of his office, down the stairs, out the doors, and into the forest.

After we hunted for a few hours, and the sun was beginning to rise, I believe it was around 5 AM, we went back to our rooms. That brings us up to now. I told Siri, I love that nickname, that I wanted to write this down, for future reference, so we're sitting together in the common room of our dorms while I write and he reads. I think he is reading The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (A/N: My favorite book of all time, that's not in a series. Check it out! Awesome, if you don't mind a little, okay a lot, of swearing). I have wanted him to read that book for the past year and he's now finally just getting around to it. Ugh!

He's so adorable. I can't believe we've felt the same way for so long. Okay, this is not what I want to write about, but his black hair keeps falling into his greenish gray eyes... Sorry. Luckily, since we are magic, our eyes didn't turn a nasty shade of red! Anyway, I'll write more tonight before bed... oh, never mind, I don't sleep now. I'll write before midnight, that sounds good.

Mia