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Almost Bate

It was Friday morning and all Angelina could think about was how she was going to defeat Voldemort and Cole. She sat with the Book of Light at her desk in McGonagall's Transfiguration class and paged through it while the other students did independent work. She looked at the pictures and upon getting to the last page she found a familiar face standing over her. She gasped and raised her hand.

"Yes Ms. Potter?" McGonagall asked in her stern voice.

Angelina stuffed the Book of Light under her sweater and asked, "May I go to the bathroom?"

"Fine, but take your books with you," McGonagall said, "the bell might ring when you are in there." Angelina grabbed her books and nearly ran out of the room. She speed walked down the hall and bumped into Mark, causing her books to fall everywhere.

Mark bent down and grabbed her books for her and walked with her in the opposite way he was going.

"Do you have any classes with Kale?" Angelina asked.

"Yes, I have the next two classes with him," Mark answered as Mark dropped off her books in the common room and she followed Mark to his next class which he was now late for. Mark ran into the classroom and sat down while Angelina stood outside and scoped the room for Kale. She caught his eye gaze, but as he got up to run she threw an energy ball at him. He had flown into the wall behind the teacher and landed underneath the chalkboard. She ran up to him and shoved the Book of Light in his face.

"Ms. Potter, what exactly do you think you're doing?" Professor Vector asked.

"IS THIS YOU?" Angelina asked pointing to the picture of Lucifer.

"Angelina, stop!" Mark said trying to pull her away, but she pushed him back and kept grilling Kale.

"ARE YOU THE DEVIL?" Angelina asked as the entire class stared at Kale as he made an uncomfortable face.

"Get her off of me!" Kale said trying to get Angelina off of him.

"I KNOW YOU ARE LUCIFER," Angelina said as she showed the picture to Kale again. "Admit it. Admit that I caught you even before you could hurt anyone."

As Angelina kept staring into Kale's eyes, she noticed that they had turned a blood red. "You haven't caught me yet. I will kill you and your boyfriend."

Angelina grabbed him around the neck and said, "You won't win!"

Kale grabbed hers and threw her off of him. "I already have." Angelina stared at him for a moment and then realized that what she saw while at her mother's grave was only partly true.

"You sent the orders for my family to be killed," Angelina said tears flowing from her eyes.

"Took you long enough," Kale said smiling, but before Angelina could throw a fireball, Kale had shimmered out.

"DAMN IT!" Angelina said as she sat up and just sat there looking at the other students in defeat.

Everyday Angelina scryed for Kale, but nothing seemed to come up. She gathered he was either in the underworld or he purposely took himself off her radar to gather an army or something like that. A week had passed and flyers had gone up around the school about a winter dance that was in two weeks. In every class Angelina got the same flyer and after every class that flyer went into the trash; she had too much on her plate to go to a dance. She had to find Kale before he hurt anyone, but how was she going to do that when she could not find him. On a late afternoon when storm clouds hovered over Hogwarts, Angelina went outside and strolled over to the Black Lake and sat there staring into the murky water, thinking of the doom that was about to come. As she stared into the lake, rain started to fall and soon the drizzle turned to a down pour, but even then Angelina did not move. The wind started to blow and the chill arrived, but still Angelina just sat there and started into the Black Lake.

Suddenly someone called her name. She stood up and saw that Mark was standing by the front doors of the castle looking for her, but even before she could call out his name a large tentacle had wrapped around her waist and pulled her into the lake. Mark ran over and looked into the water and saw Angelina's face in panic. He moved back a few feet, ran, and dove into the cold lake to find Angelina, but the lake was enourmous, how was he going to find her? Then he heard a noise through the water, a sound of panic. Thinking to be Angelina, he followed the vibrations and found her with the Giant Squid ready to enter his cave and he knew once she entered that cave she was dead.

He took out his wand, muttered a Bubble-Charm and went in to save her.

"Expelliarmus!" Mark said as the light his the Squid and tore the tentacle off his body. Mark grabbed Angelina around the waist and started to swim to the surface. Half way there, Mark had noticed that Angelina was not moving. She was not breathing either. Now in panic, Mark swam faster than he had ever swam before, but not until the Giant Squid came back and grabbed his foot and pulled him back down.

He tried to kick the Squid off, but it was too strong. He held Angelina's hand and let her magic flow from her to him and he blasted the Squid into a pile of scraps. He seemed surprised, but he swam back to the surface and placed Angelina on the earth. He climbed out and felt her pulse; no pulse. He bent down and gave her CPR until she coughed up water and rolled over to let the water drain from her mouth. Mark grabbed her shoulder and turned her around to face him.

"Thank you," she said still coughing.

"You're welcome," Mark said helping her to her feet. "Why were you out here all by yourself?"

"I just had to think for awhile," Angelina said as thunder started to sound off.

"Well I think your thinking is done," Mark said putting Angelina's right arm over his shoulder. "Let's get you inside so we both can dry off."

"Can I tell you something?" Angelina asked as they were walking to the door.

"Anything," Mark said.

"You are the sweetest guy I have ever met," she said as he blushed a little. "I mean you could have died in there."

"I know that," Mark said as they made it inside. "But I couldn't let a girl that I like just die."

Angelina was stunned. "You like me?"

Mark thought that his signals were obvious, but he replied with, "Yes I do."

There was now awkward silence between them so they just smiled and went their seperate ways. Angelina knew that he liked her, she just wanted him to admit to it, but did she like him the same way?

Two weeks went by so fast Angelina had no idea where it had gone and it was the day of the big dance and the only person who was not going was Angelina and maybe a fewother students whom she did not know.

"Hey, can I talk to you?" Mark asked when they were having lunch.

"Sure I'm listening," Angelina said drinking her pumpkin juice.

"I was asked to the dance," Mark said as Angelina turned and looked at him with curiosity.

"Who asked you?" she asked.

"Alkina," Mark said pointing to the girl two tables over eating lunch.

"Alkina Mitchell? Kale's sister asked you to the dance?" Angelina asked in total shock.

"Yea is that alright?" Mark asked as Angelina looked into his eyes.

"Uh yea it's fine," Angelina said having a plan in her head. "Really, it's fine to go with her. We're not dating so I'm not remotely jealous. I have to go I will see you later." She left the table and Mark who was utterly confused, but he did not bother getting in the way of her thoughts. Later that night, Angelina was in her room helping Lanikai get ready fot the dance.

"If she's going to be there, why aren't you going?" Lanikai asked as Angelina fastened a necklace around her neck.

"Because if I'm there then I can't catch Alkina in the act," Angelina told her. "If they go off together I can follow them and make sure that Alkina doesn't try something, especially if she's helping out her brother."

"Why would she help her brother in killing you?" Lanikai asked as Angelina went into the bathroom and Lanikai looked through the Book of Shadows.

"If I know Alkina which I do," Angelina said from the bathroom, "she'll lure Mark to her brother so her brother can get to me.

"Ok, I am now uttetrly confused," Lanikai said as Angelina came out of the bathroom.

"Don't worry about it," Angelina said fixing a loose hair on Lanikai's head, "go to the dance with Jared and have fun."

"You're not getting dressed?" Lanikai asked.

"If I have to fight, I am not ruining another dress," Angelina said smiling and pushing Lanikai out the door. "Have fun. Don't worry about anything."

Lanikai walked out of the room and Angelina nearly leaped on the Book of Shadows for a spell, but the only spell she found was to attract a succubus and she needed to vanquish one. She also looked through the Book of Light and found nothing about succubi, so she fixed her hair and walked out of the room.

The Great Hall was packed with students and the music was blaring; there were curtains draped over the large windows, there were floating candles above everyone's heads to bring light into the hall, there were small round tables that replaced the four large house tables that were usually there and five couples occupied each table. Angelina was very underdressed, but she was not there to dance, she was there to watch Alkina and Mark, but how could she find them in the hoard of students on the dance floor, and then she spotted them sitting down eating dinner with three other couples.

"Why aren't you dressed?" Beth Cashmiri asked. Beth and Angelina had not been friends for that long and Angelina really did not consider Beth a close friend, but Angelina trusted Beth to a point.

"Because I'm spying on someone," Angelina said as Beth chuckled.

"Who are you looking for?" Beth asked.

"None of your business," Angelina snapped. "I'm sorry, I just want to do this by myself."

"Fine," Beth said walking away obviously offended. Suddenly Angelina saw Alkina take Mark into another part of the room and that was when she ran through the crowd and followed Alkina. She ran into a room where she was tangled in vines, plants had tried to eat her, and mandrakes tried to pop her eardrums, but she found another door and opened it to find Kale holding Mark up by his neck and trying to kill him. Angelina took out a potion, threw it at Alkina and they all watched as she burned in front of their eyes and screamed bloody murder. Kale let go of Mark who fell to the ground and coughed, trying to put air back into his lungs.

"Have you been down here the whole time?" Mark asked still coughing.

"Let's worry about getting out first," Angelina said as she stood up and faced Kale.

"Is this a death wish?" Kale asked firing a fireball at her shoulder. While holding her shoulder, Angelina thought of an idea.

"What's mine is yours, what's yours is mine. Let our powers cross the line I offer up this gift to share switch our powers through the air," Angelina said. White orbs foated through the air and both of them stumbled backwards when they received each others powers.

"Are you insane?" Mark asked standing up. "You could get yourself killed!"

"I know what I am doing," Angelina said as she faced Kale again.

"You are a stupid girl," Kale said as Angelina threw a fireball and knocked him backwards.

"From whence they came, return them now. Vanish the words, vanquish his powers," Angelina said as his powers were disspelled from his body and he was left mortal. "It sucks being mortal doesn't it."

Mark took out a knife and threw it into Kale's back before he even had a chance to run away.

"Let the object of objection become but a dream as I cause this scene to be unseen," Angelina said as Kale's body disappeared.

Mark looked at Angelina and gave her a huge hug. "Thank you. I've saved your life and you've saved mine. Are we even now?"

Angelina laughed. "Yes we are even."

"Wait, what about your powers?" Mark asked as Angelina turned towards a wall.

"When you find your passage blocked, all you have to do is knock," Angelina said as they walked in and when they stepped out, they were in Angelina's dorm room. Angelina went over to the Book of Shadows and opened it to the first page. "Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hide in the night. The oldest of gods are invoked here, the great work of magic is sought. In this night and in this hour, I call upon the ancient powers. Bring Angelina's powers to her, I want the power. Give me the power." White orbs came through the ceiling and went into Angelina's body.

"Now I have my powers and Kale's powers," Angelina said as Mark looked worried.

"Won't that be overload?" Mark asked.

"If it hasn't affected me now I guess that it won't," Angelina said smiling at Mark. "What's the worst that could happen?"