Classes started up again and Felicity found herself being stared at in the hallways. It made her uncomfortable everyone looked at her as if they had known her their whole lives. They all knew who her father was and know she was dating the boy who lived. Felicity kind of missed when she would walk down the hall and never be seen.
The stares increased when she was alone that was the worst when she didn't have Harry or someone. They would just come up to her and tell her random things. Like, 'You look pretty today' or 'you know I always thought you and Harry were cute together.'
She was able to manage with distracting herself by piling homework, her friends, and Harry into her everyday life.
"Are you sure you can't just do this?" Hermione asked worried. The day before the second challenge for the tournament. Felicity really wasn't scared for Harry. She had faith that he would do just fine.
They were in the library Hermione was trying to help Harry think of something to do, Felicity was finishing her assignment multi-tasking with helping to find a solution to Harry's problem, Harry was flipping aimlessly through a book trying to find any answer while holding Felicity's hand under the table, and Ron was 'supervising' which meant turning down every idea Hermione, Felicity, and Harry came up with while making Hermione just angry enough where she would retort a reply but not enough to make her leave.
"I told you that won't last long enough." Ron confirmed again.
"Well what do you suppose we do foolhardy." Hermione spat. Ron opened his mouth to ask Felicity what it meant.
Not moving from her book she said simply, "Look it up."
"Felicity, Hermione could you come with me please?" Professor McGonagall approached them.
"Sure." Felicity signed her home work and kissed Harry on the cheek, "Don't let Ron cheat off me." She smiled before leaving.
Well I'd actually like to congratulate all four of you because you are the most important thing to the champions." McGonagall smiled.
Felicity smiled and looked at the other three girls there. Hermione was with Viktor, Cho was with Cedric, and Felicity didn't know who the little blonde girl was but she assumed that she was with Flur.
"Well now I need you to remain calm because I promise it will be over before you know it." The professor took her wand and put some kind of spell on them. All of a sudden Felicity felt faint as if she were sleeping beauty that was falling under the evil spell that would cause her to sleep for a hundred years.
What the hell are they going to do to us. Felicity thought before falling asleep next to the other four girls.
Felicity was transported to what she concluded was a dream. All she saw was a door and white light, in this dream she had no control over herself. She floated to the door almost reluctantly. She was blinded by white and blue light.
Her dream began with death, she blinked seeing Wormtail kill Cedric. She watched unmoved from her confused face. She watched catlike red eyes come out of a cauldron, and a gross blue green hand emerge from the cauldron as well. Her vision swirled changing until she saw a new sight another death. This time it was her father. She saw only herself fighting her aunt Bella. The only other creature in sight was those cat like red eyes and pale pasty green blue skin.
She was brought to a new place it was the astronomy tower. She saw Snape killing Dumbledore she watched only what seemed like still pictures of a terrified Draco. She was utterly confused none of this seemed real or made any form of sense.
When the picture swirled she saw her little brothers Jack and Eric in tears. Suddenly more death surrounded her. She saw the dead bodies of Fred Weasley, her Uncle Remus, Snape, her aunt Bella, and many more who she did not know.
Suddenly their sprits came out of their already dead bodies, all of those who had died in her mysterious dream.
"Let go Felicity. Let go and set us free." They said one by one before vanishing to a pitch blackness. Her father was the last of more than fifty others, "Let go Felicity. My strong daughter, let go of whatever tries to define you. Let go of what you can and let us go free." He said dramatically before disappearing just as the others before him.
Felicity looked down and she felt herself falling. She could tell it was perpetual but she wasn't afraid. She just wanted to bear through it. She looked up she just felt nothing. She was empty inside she found she had nothing more to give except her strength.
She was alone in the darkness. She was alone, and what made her angry was that it was an almost inviting feeling. She felt a heavy weight bring her down. She was given her ability to move again. "No" she heard herself speak up against her torment, "No I will not give in." She, through all the weight in her heart, through all the death, through this uselessness stood up to face the world. She stood in a white loose dress she felt the wind blow through her hair as she breathed heavily taking one step at a time with each step she lost some of the weight.
She would fall with every step but she stood against all odds she stood to face her fear, her hope, to face whatever came. Nothing would pull her down nothing was too much she plowed through the hard work. She was headed somewhere but where ever it was she was going to make it there. She wasn't finished with this sense of hope in her heart it reigned supreme over all the doubt and fear. It reigned supreme to hate, and most of all it was high above all the death.
She found each step harder to take with pain in her heart and body but she pressed on trying to find an end to this darkness she was stumbling towards. "There will be something more than this" she assured her heart that was trying to stay brave, "There is more to me than death and hate... and... and doubt and fear. There is more there has to be" Felicity went through a heavy transformation.
She could feel inside her a metamorphosis. Within her body she just became stronger with every fall with every thought of death or hate or doubt they gave her a reason to fight. She was fighting for a better life than this. Her heart seemed strong her spirit was brought out to its full potential.
She looked down at herself she was glowing. She looked up feeling relief in an instant seeing light again. She was a full person she had stood far superior to every soul that stood with her. Everyone who had died was around her but with this vision she was given a feeling of hope and fulfillment. She had reached the end she fell to the floor and cried once again unable to control her ability to move.
Felicity found herself gasping for breath as well as hearing another person breath heavily.
Why the Hell am I in water in the middle of February? she asked herself swimming over to the little girl who looked like she was unable to swim.
"It's okay you're going to be fine." Felicity said to the frantic girl.
" Aidez-moi s'il vous plaît que quelqu'un m'aide!" The girl shouted in french.
Felicity didn't understand what the girl had said but she grabbed the girl by the arm and pulled her kicking and screaming to where it looked like she was supposed to go. The girl saw Felicity wanted to help so she wrapped her arms around Felicity's neck. Felicity wasn't a great swimmer but she had enough experience to get the two of them over to safety. Felicity helped haul the girl out of the freezing cold water.
She was still fazed by her dream or whatever it was but she just shrugged it off. She was given a hand and was brought up to the platform. she was dripping wet and went met by the freezing cold air it wasn't a pleasant experience.
"Gabrielle Oh mon dieu, je suis tellement désolé, je ne peux pas croire ce qui s'est passé. Ce n'est pas grave," Fleur spoke to her sister.
Felicity kept her feet in the water waiting for Harry to surface.
"Thank you Felicity." she turned to see Fleur holding her sister tightly. "She can't swim. And I von't know vhat I vould have done. Thank you."
Felicity smiled but turned back to the lake, "Come with me please." she heard Madam Pomfrey leading the girls away. "Miss. Black you to."
"Wait." she said her eyes locked to where she had surfaced, "Come on, come on." She mumbled under her breath.
"Miss. Black."
"Look!" Someone shouted. Harry had surfaced.
"Oh thank god."Felicity said near tears. Harry swam over to them when he got on the platform Felicity had started to cry. He wiped away one of her tears
"It's alright." He soothed "I'm okay." he smiled at her.
She kissed him lightly. "Good because I would have had to kill you." she laughed.
"Miss. Black Mr. Potter come with me PLEASE." Madam Pomfrey yelled with the other six in line to leave. They went to her at a run because they were absolutely freezing. Even with their towels draped over them.
"Harry thank you so much for helping Gabrielle Thank you." Fleur kissed his cheek and rejoined her sister in the procession to the castle.
"Felicity."
"Yeah?"
"Are you alright... I mean from being underwater so long." Harry put his arm around her. She was a bit light headed but nothing she couldn't handle. But there was something about her dream that made her a bit jumpy. She was hoping it meant nothing so she convinced herself that nothing would happen.
"Yeah I'm fine a bit light headed but I'm fine. Are you okay?" She smiled.
"Yeah you know except for almost drowning and nearly having a heart attack seeing you helpless in the water. I've never really seen you that way."
"What floating under water?"
"No helpless." He held her closer which she thought might be a bad idea because they were both wet and freezing.
As they neared the castle they heard the champions talking to their loved ones but they also heard coughs and sneezes.
"Oh joy." Felicity said feeling a bit worse as well.
"Madam Pomfrey will have a field day with this one." Harry laughed also feeling worse.
"Well I knew this was a bad idea I knew it your all sick!" Madam Pomfrey complained. Felicity could hear her ears buzzing she didn't want to hear he complain so she chose to fall asleep. " You are all staying the night and if I have my way tomorrow as well. They think that just because you all are champions you're invincible but you are most certainly not. You all are still students which means you are just kids. Even though you are of age it doesn't matter you are students and what I say goes." Felicity was already fast asleep.
"Now you all get some rest." She stormed off in a tizzy. Everyone turned to the person they had saved.
"Felicity." Harry turned to her. She was as you know already fast in her dream world, "Felicity" he asked again reaching over to grab her hand. It was really warm from her fever in contrast to Harry's cold hands. She shook a little when he touched her hand.
"She's asleep Harry." Hermione looked over saying with a raspy voice.
"You sound horrible." Harry laughed before saying, "I just want to know if she's okay." He turned back to look at Felicity she was calm in her sleep.
"We know Harry but it's bet you leave her she'll recover faster." Viktor said seeing Hermione's discomfort in speaking.
"There right Harry just let her be." Cedric added in.
Harry looked at her and sighed he would have kissed her hand but he would have fallen out of his bed instead he let her hand go and fell asleep almost as soon as she had.
Now partly why Felicity wanted to fall asleep was to see if she would have the dream again. As much as it scared her it intrigued her more. She really needed to figure out what it meant even if it was nothing.
She just wanted to know if it was anything that significant. Sadly she found herself waking up a three in the morning in a cold sweat... and four... and four thirty. She wasn't able to sleep for longer than half an hour at a time. She sighed heavily she felt back to her normal self but when she sat up and tried to walk around she was almost wrestled down by Madam Pomfrey.
"What do you think you are doing?" She said the moment Felicity had stood up. She know wouldn't be able to tell if she was light headed from standing or from Madam Pomfrey's shrill cry that more than likely woke up everyone else. "Get back into bed right now!" Felicity did as she was told because now her legs felt weak and she could hardly stand.
"Good morning to you too." She mumbled under her breath getting under her covers Madam Pomfrey went back to her office and no one else moved for a bit.
"Good morning Felicity." Harry reached over and grabbed her hand.
"Your hands are freezing. How?" She laughed. She seemed the most cured of all the other people.
"I don't know." He smiled, "Glad to see you conscious"
"Glad to be conscious." Felicity said truthfully "Ugh it's only six thirty seven?"
"Yeah it's pretty rough." Harry said.
"The worst part is you just want to run a mile. But my legs are like jello." She laughed.
"No not really." Harry said.
" well I feel energized I just want to do something." Felicity said. "But I can't because she's in a pissy mood."
"she's always like that."
"That's my point. So how are you?"
"Well sore but otherwise fine."
"That's good to hear. I got a letter from my foster home yesterday." Felicity's face fell.
"What happened?" Harry looked concerned.
"Aden, one of my brothers, his parents are going to court to regain custody of him. They're... horrible I've met them on a few other occasions when they've tried to get to know him. His mother's a mess his father is weak... They kicked him out of their house. He can't-"
"It's okay." Harry put his hand on her face., "It will be okay Felicity." She had started to cry a bit. "Everything will work out in the end."
"But what if they gain custody? They can't take care of him." Felicity said let her tears fall.
"If they are incompetent to care for him the judge will see through it. It's alright Felicity." He wiped away one of her tears.
"I love him they can't"
"I know." He grabbed her hand. she stopped crying and just let him hold her hand. She was really scared for Aden she knew how horrible those people were to him.
Later on that day she was allowed to leave but only with Cedric who had it better off than the rest of them.
"Well that was quite the adventure." Cedric said finally catching up with her.
"Yeah." Felicity said half smiling he was making her feel sick again they were all alone in this stretch of hallway.
"I've never formally introduced myself. Cedric Diggory."
"Felicity Black-" Felicity gasped as she touched his hand she saw something. She saw the same stills from her dream. She watched him die. Slowly he fell to the ground his death was caused by those same red eyes and pale skin. It was a quick vision but just enough.
She awoke in his arms.
"Oh my god!" She said in shock.
"Are you okay?" He looked at her worried in his eyes all she saw was the fear from her dream. She looked up, "Do you need to go back to Madam Pomfrey."
All Felicity could do was stare at him "I have to go." Felicity said getting out of his arms and nearly running away. Her eyes continued to widen her heart was spiraling out of control. She ran the whole way to the common room. It was practically empty except Ron and Ginny.
She would have kept running but she tripped over something she was gasping for breath when she hit the floor. She curled up into a ball and started to cry.
"Felicity what happened?" Ginny went to her screaming friend. Felicity clasped her hand over her mouth she was still breathing heavily.
"Felicity calm down." Ron went over. "Get her some water." She was entirely in hysterics. Ron picked her up cradling her in his arms, bringing her to the sofa.
"I'm...ah... my GOD!" She could only make out a few words followed by a bunch of gibberish.
"Felicity calm down." Ron laid her on the couch.
"Here" Ginny handed Ron a glass of water. Ron looked at it then at Felicity. He threw the water on her face.
Felicity gasped in shock.
"Felicity what's wrong?" Ron asked grabbing her shoulders.
At a loss for words Felicity informed them about her brother. It was enough of the truth but she thought she might not get off so easy explaining to Cedric after all going limp in his arms made it a lot harder to say it was her brother.
"Aw Felicity." Ginny hugged her stroking her hair. "It'll be okay."Felicity was crying still softer quieter with less intensity. That vision left her with one question. Did this mean that the rest of her dream would come true as well?
"Hey guys Madam Pomfrey-" Harry and Hermione joined the stiff atmosphere. "Felicity."
"Harry I got a court date. It's during Easter break. They've asked me to come and fight for him to stay with us and..." Felicity began to cry again. Harry walked to the couch put his arm around her and put her on his lap. He lightly rubbed her back soothing her, "It's okay Felicity. It's alright"
Just to let you know the whole court date thing that's real she had actually found that out two days before just to let you know.
