Authors Note YAY an update! I think that was pretty soon, seeing as though I'm alreadiny working on Chapter Eight. readers start jumping up and down...or not My beta is awesome, VirgoTheVirgin, and so are my reviewers! I wish I could send a hallmark e-card to you guys, but I don't think they make e-cards for reading...be nice if they did though.

Thankeses to...

Pawsey: heehee Yes, I did comment my self on this one, but, hey, I was bored, and it was Keyboarding.

illicit-666: Yeah, we all have our odd moments, me more then others. Most of the humor is because of my wonderful beta, who I always feel I most mention. Why? I dunno, I just do. I think the qoute goes: credit is to where credit's due. Or something like that.

Gloria Thomasina Anderson: Thank you! I will abandone my modesty for a second and say: I cannot believe how good some of my chapters turned out.

Charlotte Vickter: Thank you! I'd be lying if I said I never considered writing as a job (some of my friends have encouraged me to go for it), but you don't exactly get paid by the hour for it. It might be a side thin I do, but maybe I'll one day branch of from FF and write something of my own. But I'll prolly still be writing FF either way. Cuz I'm awesome that way.

ON WITH THE STORY!


Chapter Seven

"Okay you guys, I think we need to get some sleep. We can't stay up all night talking." Rebecca announced.

"Yes we can!" announced Ashley, erupting into a giggle fit.

"Shut up," she muttered. "It's not funny."

"Yes, it is!" Ashley laughed.

Rebecca rolled her eyes. Daina had told the other two about Draco walking her to the hut. Needless to say, it caused many jokes.

Ashley burst out singing, "Love shack! La la love shack!"

Rebecca felt her eyes widen as she grabbed the nearest object (a pillow, Ashley was relieved to see) and threw it at her. Daina had rolled off her bed, laughing, and was now peppering the floor with the tears of mirth that were falling out of her eyes. Iva was the calmest of the three; a thoughtful look glazed her eyes.

She sat on the edge of Daina's bed (each bedroom had two beds, each bed meant for one person. Rebecca and Daina shared the room they were in, while the other two had the room next door.), one leg crossed femininely over the other. "Becky's right you two. Let's all go to bed. I'm sure the jokes will be just as funny when we wake up tomorrow."

Rebecca glared at her. "Ha ha ha, so very funny."

Iva returned the comment with a small smile as she and Ashley got up. "Nighty night you two. And Daina, don't allow Mr. Malfoy in tonight, you never know-"

"OUT!" screeched Rebecca, as she threw another pillow at Ashley, only this one bounced off a closing door.

Daina, still laughing, changed into her blue sweats and blue and yellow jersey, and crashed onto her bed. Turning on her side, she looked at Rebecca, who was already ready for bed. She was wearing brown cotton pants, and a long sleeved baby blue shirt.

"So," she said. "Anything you want to tell me?"

Rebecca smiled. Daina could read her like an open book sometimes. "Actually, there is. But you can't tell anyone. Not Ashley, not Iva. No one."

"Okay, I swear on the powers of my magic and my powers to change into a dog, that I will never so long as I have my sanity, tell anyone what you are about to entrust me with."

She raised an eyebrow. "Gee Dai, bit much, don't you think?"

She shrugged. "You know what I mean. So spill."

And Rebecca did. About waking up in the hospital wing, Dumbledore giving her the talks in both there and his office. About Merlin and how she was going to be tutored. About how he had already sorted her, and the nice conversation she had with Draco. She said all of this in a hushed tone of voice, so that Iva and Ashley in the other room wouldn't hear. When she had finished, Daina nodded understandingly. "So that's why you haven't been so friendly with Iva. And why you've been acting so careful around her and Ashley."

Suddenly a knock on the wall came from the other side. "You two shut up in there! Reb, aren't you the one who told us to go to bed!?"

Daina rolled her eyes. "Okay, okay. We're going to bed."

The lights in the room turned off and Daina and Rebecca relaxed under the covers of their own beds.

A few hours passed and at midnight, Rebecca found that she still could not sleep. The thoughts whirling in her head wouldn't let her. Daina, however, was sleeping like a baby.

She tossed and turned, yet still couldn't sleep. Thoughts of Draco and Pansy swarmed through her head. She groaned silently, getting up from the bed. Tip-toeing noiselessly out the room and to the front door, she opened it a crack, then began changing.

She was hunched over, getting furrier and furrier. Her ears disappeared and repapered at the top of her head. She grew a snout and tail. Her clothes grew too big on her, and she shook out of them. She was a wolf.

Her pelt was a black hue, and her eyes were an emerald green, same as they were when she was a human. Her thoughts still swarmed around him, his face, his hair, and his eyes. She whimpered. Why won't they leave!?

Pawing the door open, she slipped out and somehow, miraculously, closed it shut behind her. Facing the Forbidden Forest, she ran.

She ran deep into the forest. Her powerful legs carried her past the quaint pond of which she only caught a glimpse, past the small, cheerful creek, past the fields and fields of green…

She ran like there was a cereal-obsessed serial killer chasing her because she was holding a box of Cheerios.

She ran from the Iva she no longer knew.

She ran from the Ashley that she could no longer trust.

She ran from the crazy professor with the whacked out eye.

She ran from the thoughts of Draco and Pansy together.

She ran from Merlin, hoping he wouldn't get into her head now.

She ran and ran and ran.

She ran hoping to get lost in the moment.

Hoping to stay this way forever.

Hoping, hoping, hoping.

She didn't know what she was hoping for.

Hoping for it all to go away.

Hoping for it all to be a dream.

And hoping that-

All of a sudden, as she was running through the outskirts of the forest, in another field, a figure rammed into her, knocking her into ground. Rebecca snarled as the figure pinned her to the forest floor. "Can I help you with something?" he snarled cruelly, snapping into her face.

His eyes were blue, blue blue.