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Running her hands down her face for what felt like the hundredth time Ashlee let out a sigh. She knew that a good nights sleep was what she needed, but it wasn't what was happening. Instead here she was thinking about how frustrating Dumbledore was and how much she wished she had taken care of Jennifer earlier. All of this could have been averted if she had just stood up to the girl all those years ago...

Walking out of the common room Ashlee headed towards the Defense Against the Dark Arts room for class. A small smile on her face as she thought about what had happened the night before. She had really kissed her? Jamie Hart had kissed her, Ashlee Myers? It really was quite surprising.

"Hey Myers! Come here!"

Turning around she saw Jennifer Hart standing there, a sneer obvious on her face. The two had never had much interaction so she had no idea what she could want.

"Y-yes Jennifer?"

Jennifer gave her a once over, disgust plain on her face. Gritting her teeth she said, "Stay away from my sister. She's not... like you. Understand?"

Ashlee was surprised, she had no idea that the Hart family was like that. Close minded that is. A million different thoughts came to her mind to argue for Jamie, but they all caught in her throat. "Yes. I will. Sorry." She never was the confrontational type. As much as she liked this girl she just couldn't.

Later that night Ashlee pulled Jamie aside and explained what had happened with Jennifer. Jamie was pissed, and it showed. The two argued quietly in the corner. After that they didn't talk for weeks.

Finally Jamie pulled Ashlee into an empty class room. "I can't do this. I can't stay away from you. I don't care what my sister says, I want you. Please just. We can keep it a secret. I don't care. I just-" And she kissed Ashlee, hard on the lips, pouring all the emotion into the kiss that she had been repressing for weeks.

"So we keep it a secret then?" Ashlee responded.

After those seven words everything became difficult. Sure the times together were more than worth it, and sure she was glad that they had managed to make it this far, but hiding it from Jennifer had taken work. Then when she had found out. Ashlee shuddered. Though she had never told Jamie her life had turned into a living hell after that. When she was finally in Azkaban everything got better. Jamie and her had been able to live normal, happy lives.

Now though it was all coming back to bite her in the ass. Along with those two Gryffindor girls. They shouldn't have to clean up the mess she created.

Sighing she got out of bed and went and made a cup of tea. As she was stirring it around absentmindedly while looking out the window above their sink Jamie walked in, wrapping her arms around her waist. "Are you okay love?" She asked kissing her on the neck.

Smiling the black haired girl leaned back into the embrace, "I'm fine honey. Just thinking."

"You wanna talk about it?" Jamie asked.

'Yes. More than anything.' Ashlee thought, but answered, "Its fine sweety. Thanks though. I love you." She turned around in the girls embrace giving her a short kiss. "Lets head back to bed."

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"Ready to head down?" Ginny asked, sticking her head around the bathroom door.

"Just a second. I'll meet you in to common room," Hermione said. Running the brush through her hair a few more times she looked at her reflection in the mirror. It really did amaze her that Ginny was willing to be with her. She wasn't all that pretty. She wouldn't argue with a good thing though.

Meeting the red head in the common room the two walked on in silence to the kitchens.

It seemed they where a bit early as the Myers' weren't there yet. "Are you scared?" Ginny whispered.

Taking the younger girls hand in hers Hermione pulled her into a hug. "Absolutely. More than I can tell you. But you know what?"

"What?"

Hermione pulled back, looking Ginny in the eye. "I know that we can do this. Because I love you and I know that we can do whatever we want. There's not a doubt in my mind about any of that. I'm not saying it's going to easy love. It will be doable though."

With that they heard someone clear their throat. Jumping apart with blushes evident on their faces they where met with the sight of Jamie, who had a small smile on her face. "Come on girls. Lets get to work."

Following the blonde through the door that had appeared in the wall they entered into a small, but cozy, sitting room. The fire was crackling happily and Ashlee was just setting down a tea set on a small table between the two love seats set in front of the fire.

After everyone had settled down on a couch, each couple sitting together, and everyone had a cup of tea in their hands Ashlee looked hard at each girl. After a few moments her eyes softened. "Well. It seems to me that you two know a bit more about whats going on than we do. Would you like to tell us why Dumbledore thinks you two are suppose to stop Jennifer?"

Sighing the two girls looked between each other before Hermione began the story. She told about the prophesy, about how Dumbledore had figured out that it was her and Ginny being mentioned in it. How he had made sure Ginny and herself had figured out their feelings for each other.

"Thank you Ms. Granger. Everything makes a lot more sense now. Hmmm. Now where to start..."

The four sat in silence for a few minutes as they all thought over the prophesy.

"Ummm. If I may. The place to start would be to see if any sort of magic is connecting Gin and I. If we can see that then-"

Jamie jumped up excited, "Then we can figure out what this power is and-"

Hermione jumped up, also excited, "And figure out how to use it so that-"

"So that we can defeat Jennifer!" Ashlee added, also jumping to her feet.

The three began discussing different ways to check magical connections. Meanwhile Ginny sat there feeling smaller by the second. The three intellectuals talking about it all as she sat there not contributing a thing.

"What do you think Gin?" Hermione asked.

"Huh. Oh. Yeah. Sounds good to me. Whatever you think is best."

Giggling slightly Hermione looked at the older couple and said "I guess we better get started then. Which one do you want to start with?"

Again the three began to discuss each way to check a connection arguing which was most likely to give a result before finally deciding to start simple and move up in complexity as necessary.

"Okay girls. Go stand in front of the fire and I'll preform the spell." Jamie said as Ashlee took a few steps back to make room.

Ginny braced herself for the spell as she stood side by side with Hermione. Then a warmness spread from the center of her chest out. She held her breath.

"Nothing." Jamie said with a sigh. "Okay. I've got one more spell that might work before we may have to look towards the potions."

Again Ginny braced herself. This time she saw her hands glow for a brief second before again, "Nothing. Ash, you always where better at potions than I was, want to get to work on that?"

"Of course dear. I'll just go give good old professor Snape a visit then," Ashlee said with a smirk.

"Why don't you girls come back in a few hours. It will take a bit of time to brew."

"Alright Mrs. Myers. How about we meet up again around 3 O'clock this afternoon?" Hermione said.

"Sounds good to me. And please call me Ashlee Ms. Granger."

"Alright Ashlee. Then please call me Hermione."

Half an hour later found the younger girls walking along the edge of the lake. "Hermione? What do you think this connection is? I mean... I don't know."

Hermione took her hand. They walked on in silence as the brunette thought over the question. "Gin. I don't know. I mean... It most likely is going to be some sort of old magic. A type of magic that can only be tapped into with a strong emotional connection. An emotional connection that I would guess has to be based in love. Other than that. I just don't know. Sorry."

Stopping the younger girl pulled away, sitting down on a rock. Curling into herself she looked out into the waves. Whispering she asked, "Why us? Haven't we both done enough?"

Seeing her girlfriend hurting so much Hermione felt a small piece of her heart break. She vowed to do what she could to keep it from happening ever again. Kneeling down in front of the red head she lifted her face to look the girl in the eye. "I know it feels that way. Remember what I said earlier though. We can do anything, together. Come on, we got this!"

That was exactly what the younger girl needed to hear as she cracked a small smile. "Damn right we do. I mean come on how could two gorgeous girls like us not defeat this bitch."

"Ginny! Language!" Hermione said playfully. The two where both laughing. It escalated till they where laying side by side, tears in their eyes. "Ginny. I love you."

"I love you too Hermione."

Meanwhile Ashlee was knocking on Snape's office door. "Yes? Ah Ashlee Myers. What brings you here?" The greasy haired dungeon master asked, giving her a cold once over, a sneer on his face.

Staring back with just as much coldness in her eyes Ashlee handed him a slip of paper with a few ingredients on it. "I need these right away Severus. Its urgent. If you must ask Dumbledore just how urgent."

Looking down the list small creased formed over his nose as he frowned. "Why Ashlee these seem to be the ingredients for a connection potion. Surely you don't think that a pair of your house elves are connected?"

Rolling her eyes Ashlee responded with, "Of course not. Its two students if you must know. Like I said you can ask Dumbledore about the urgency of this. Now please, can you get me those ingredients or not?"

"Two... students? And you think your qualified enough to brew this potion? How about I just get it to you."

Sighing in frustration she shook her head, "No Severus. If you recall I had higher grades than you all 7 years of Hogwarts and scored higher in both our OWLS and NEWTS. In fact I turned down the job you have right now. So. They way I see it I'm more qualified than you are. Now please get me the ingredients so I can get to work, like I said its urgent." The coldness dripped from her voice, her eyes where hard. It was obvious that she meant business.

"Fine. Give me a moment."

The professor swept back into his office. He returned 5 minutes later with a small basket containing all the ingredients. "Here you go. I'm going to need the basket back." With that he shut the door in her face.

Mumbling to herself about how butt hurt the professor was she made her way back to her rooms to brew the potion.

3 O'clock came and found the four sitting back in front of the fire.

"Okay girls. I'm going to be frank with you. This potion is disgusting, but you need to drink it. We'll wait and see what color you both glow and that should answer our first question. Ready?"

Nodding their heads the girls grabbed the cups in front of them. Clinking them together the girls downed the substance, both looking a little green around the edges as they gagged the substance down.

Setting the cups down they both looked at each other expectantly, waiting for a color to appear. After a few moments a glow started to emanate from both of them, rapidly changing colors. First blue then a deep red then yellow and orange and lilac before finally settling on a very deep crimson. Then the color faded as Hermione looked over to Ashlee and Jamie with wide eyes. "D-does this mean what I think it means?"

Ashlee and Jamie looked at each other with obvious amazement. "I-I don't know." Jamie responded.

Ashlee jumped up and began to pace before going over to a book shelf on the left side of the fireplace looking over the titles of all the books, pulling a few out. Setting them down on the table she began to flip through the pages, looking for the page the potion was on. Jamie and Hermione looked on their breath held and Ginny sat there feeling even more confused than before.

Jumping out of her seat frustrated Ginny exclaimed, "Would someone please tell me whats going on?"

"Ginny calm dow-"

"No Hermione. Don't tell me to calm down! I've been sitting here listen to you guys talk about potions and spells and connections, and I was fine with that. But to hold this back from me? No. That's going to far."

Jumping to her own feet Hermione responded in a quiet voice, "Ginny please. Just sit down. When Ashlee finds the page the potion is on all our questions will be answered. Just be a little patient."

Ginny knew she was over reacting, but it hurt that she was just being left to sit in the dark during all this. They obviously knew something she didn't. "Just tell me what you know Hermione. Please."

Hermione sighed. "Its just that... crimson is a color that means power... and love. Its like I explained to you earlier. This power is most likely some old magic that has to be tapped with love. I just didn't realize how powerful it was going to be."

"Here it is. Okay the color crimson means that the pair is connected by line of magic know as Ponea Amantes. Its an old magic that only attracts to a pair of lovers who have been to hell and back for each other. This connection can only be taped into when they share a kiss under extreme circumstances. It is unknown what will happen to the pair after this or even what type of power will be released from them. This is extremely dangerous and not recommended."