A/N: To gorloxianfang, holdy dragon dung indeed! Thank you for your review, it really made me laught. To Frozen789, thank you for appreciating my work, I can't tell you how much your comments mean to me!
Hermione had no idea what had hit her. One second she was slowly reaching out to touch that eerie ball of light floating above Syrine's chest, and then a second later she found herself inside a forest which felt quite familiar to her. She didn't think that she was in a dream because she could feel everything surrounding her, the light breeze which gently caressed her cheek and the rawness of the earth she stepped on.
Hermione then looked at her body and was surprised to see that she had become so small. She looked at her hands and it actually looked short and pudgy like that of a child's. Hermione chuckled, that was the proof that she was actually dreaming again. The difference now was that she was no longer like a spectator; she concluded that she was in the body of one of the twins instead.
"Mione!" someone called out, "Mione, where are you?!"
Hermione's small body acted on its own and started running away from the person who was calling her. She realized that she was now like a passenger, waiting for the dream to unfold slowly. She tried to remember where she heard the voice of the person calling her, she wasn't quite sure but she thought that it sounded a lot like the voice of Iris when she heard her speak during her very first dream which involved the fire.
"I can hear you running Mione!" Iris desperately called. "Don't leave me!"
Hermione heard herself giggling, but she hadn't spoken a word. She just kept running and running.
"It's not funny anymore, Mione! I don't want to play hide and seek anymore." Hermione heard Iris complain. It was clear that the other girl was starting to get scared because her voice shook as she spoke.
Hermione wanted to stop and run back to where Iris was; but the Hermione in the dream kept running as if she was enjoying making Iris scared.
"I told you that I didn't want to play! There are wild animals out here! We could really get hurt!" Iris shouted, it was obvious that the little girl was starting to get a bit desperate.
Hermione was getting a bit annoyed because the owner of the actual body still didn't stop. She ran a few meters more before she saw a rock formation near a cliff; she crawled into one of its small holes and decided to hide there.
Iris was still calling out to Hermione. The voice sounded like it was more worried than scared. Iris ran around the area, desperately searching for any signs of her sister.
Unbeknownst to Hermione, a small lizard was living in the same hole that she hid in. It was angry that its territory was being invaded by a foolish little bushy haired girl, it decided to bite Hermione's leg which caused her to scream.
Iris, upon hearing her sister's scream ran towards the place where she hid in. "I'm coming Mione!"
Hermione scampered out of the hole; upset that the lizard didn't want her inside. She sat on the ground and waited for her sister to get arrive. She heard Iris' frantic footsteps as she ran to her. She wasn't able to see Iris yet because the area was surrounded by tall grass. It easily towered over them. Iris was already quite near, the steps were getting louder. Hermione could tell that she was only a few feet away when she heard the ground crumble followed by a terrified shriek.
Hermione quickly stood up, her heart hammering inside her chest because she remembered that she was in a place which was so close to a cliff. She went to the edge and her heart almost gave out when she saw that her twin was lying unconscious, bloody and broken at the bottom of the cliff.
At that moment, Hermione let out the loudest scream she had ever heard in her entire life.
#HP#
Hermione was still screaming as her vision disappeared; once she was able to see again, she found herself standing outside a door located in a lengthy hallway decorated with elegant markings on the wall and a few scenic paintings. It was now completely silent; she wondered at once what ever happened to Iris when she fell over the cliff.
The body of the little Hermione Granger in the dream was fidgeting outside the door she was standing in front of. The older Hermione had an idea on who was it that was inside the room.
"Why aren't you going in, Mione?" she heard Iris call from the inside.
The older Hermione felt instantly relieved when she found out that Iris was okay. She slowly pushed open the door and went in shyly. She could see that Iris was lying on her huge bed because she was still injured. There was a large bandage wrapped around her tiny head, and both her left arm and left leg was in a cast.
"Don't pout ,Mione. I'm okay." Iris reassured her.
"But-"
Iris smiled lovingly towards her sister, "It's not your fault. I wasn't being careful. Come here." She beckoned Hermione to come lie beside her on the bed. Hermione slowly walked towards Iris and climbed on the bed with her.
"I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have hid from you, Iris." Hermione heard herself apologize.
Iris replied with a smile, "Shush. No more apologies, I'm really glad that nothing happened to you. I thought you were being attacked by a wild animal when you screamed."
"But I was! The lizard bit me!" Hermione protested.
Iris burst out laughing despite the obvious pain she felt, "Poor lizard."
"Hey!" and Hermione laughed as well.
After a few more seconds of laughter, the twins looked at each other lovingly and smiled.
"I want to make it up to you." Hermione said.
"There's actually no need." Iris muttered, and then smiled mischievously, "but if you insist, you can give me your share of the dessert for the rest of your life."
"Is that all?" Hermione asked, grinning.
"One more thing." Iris whispered.
"What is it?"
"Don't ever leave me again."
The twins looked at each other again and Hermione could feel the deepness of the bond that they shared with each other. It was nothing like she ever felt before.
"I won't ever leave you, I promise."
Hermione gently placed her hand over the side of her sister's face; just over the mole on her right cheek, the only part of her body that distinguished her from Hermione.
#HP#
When Hermione woke up, she felt as if she was almost at a breakthrough with regards to finding out what was really her relationship with Syrine Lestrange. She felt that the dreams she kept having weren't really just dreams but bits and pieces of a life that she lived a long time ago. She knew now that she needed to learn more about the magical Granger family before she could conclude anything else.
"Oh good, you're awake." Madam Pomfrey said as she passed by her bed.
"How long was I out?" Hermione asked.
"The whole night up till noon, dear. Mr. Potter woke up just a few minutes after you were both knocked out." answered the resident healer. "I told him to go back to the tower once he was alert enough."
Madam Pomfrey looked at Hermione suspiciously, "Is there a problem, Madam?" the Gryffindor asked.
"You and Mr. Potter will both serve detention once I'm sure you're okay. Your head of house wanted me to tell you that once you woke up." Madam Pomfrey informed her.
Hermione nodded, she knew that getting caught out after curfew would lead to trouble but she still felt that it was worth the punishment. She was a little closer to finding answers to the mystery surrounding her the moment she set foot into Hogwarts.
"There's lunch for you at the bedside table. You can go after you eat." Madam Pomfrey instructed. "Do you have any more questions, dear?"
"Is Sy- I mean, is Ms. Lestrange awake now?"
The elderly matron smiled and nodded, she said nothing more and finally left. Hermione felt her stomach rumble; she looked at her lunch and saw that she had a serving of pudding included in it. She got off her bed and took the pudding; she went to where Syrine's bed was.
Syrine still looked a little pale. When she saw Hermione approach her, there was a vulnerable look in her eye but she quickly masked it up with an indifferent expression on her face.
"Don't bother me, Granger." Syrine said.
Hermione placed the pudding on Syrine's bedside table.
"Are you trying to poison me now? Is that it?"
Hermione shook her head, "You can have my share of dessert. I promised you that, didn't I?"
