"They just left." Harry entered Slytherin common room with Ron and Ginny. Lydia and Stiles were sitting next to each other. Ginny sat down on the other sofa. Harry and Ron were in the big chairs.

"So what are we going to do now? I mean we can't just sit here in silence." Lydia spoke.

"We just have to wait, I guess." Ron began. "We could play some game."

"Seriously Ronald? Hermione might be in danger and you want to play a game?" Ginny shouted at him.

"I am... We all are worried about Hermione but there is nothing we can do from here, Gin. Might as well get our minds off of it." Harry declared.

"Hey guys." Luna entered the room.

"Hey, weren't you supposed to be up there?" Ginny asked.

"Yeah, but I came to see what you are doing." She smiled and sat next to Ginny.

"OK. So what are we playing?" Ron asked ignoring Ginny's glare at him.

"We could play some muggle game. I would like to try that." Luna spoke in her usual soft voice.

Considering that they already learned meaning of the world 'muggle', Stiles and Lydia got to thinking about games they could play.

"We can play 'Never have I ever'. Oh, wait we can't we need alcohol for that, it's boring without it." Lydia suggested.

"How about game of truth?" Stiles asked. Lydia seemed excited about it.

"Sure, why not? How do we play?" Ginny said accepting the fact that it's happening.

"We need a bottle and we spin it. The one who spins the bottle asks the question to the one on whom the bottle is pointing." Lydia explained.

Luna grabbed a bottle of water from her bag and used her wand to empty it. Ginny moved everything from the table.

"Who goes first?" Luna asked.

"Spin it. Whoever it lands on, that person asks first." Stiles answered.

Luna did so. When it stopped the bottle was pointing to Ron. He was overjoyed with this. He took the bottle in his hands and looked at every single one of them. He rolled the bottle and it landed on Stiles.

"Ok. Who would you rather snog, Katherine or Rebekah?" he asked.

"Who would I rather what?" Stiles looked confused.

"Snog."

"What does that mean?"

"It means kiss." Ginny explained.

"Ohh. Hmm not sure. I think Rebekah. She is really cool. But so is Katherine. God I don't know. Ok let it be... Rebekah." Stiles struggled with his answer. "My turn now."

Ron tossed him the bottle. Stiles twirled it. And it landed on Ginny.

"Hmm, Ginny, who would you rather snog?" he said it wrong and it made Ginny laugh, "I actually don't know whom to pick. Oh maybe between Kol and Blaise?"

"Seriously?" Lydia hit him in the ribs.

"What? Both of them are good looking guys."

"I swear, you think too much about other guy's looks."

"No I don't." he argued.

"Can we get back to the game please?" Ginny stopped them. "I guess I'll pick Kol."

"Wow, really?" Stiles grinned. "I thought she is going to pick Blaise." He told Lydia and tossed bottle to Ginny. She was about to spin it when Blaise entered the common room. They all looked at him.

"What happened? Did someone get hurt? Why are you here?" Harry jumped.

"Calm down, Potter. Everything is fine. I was just bored up there. And Caroline is really bossy." He just passed by him and sat next to Stiles. Harry exhaled loudly and sat back down.

"What are you doing?" Blaise asked.

"We're playing a game." Ginny answered sternly.

"What kind of game?"

"Game of truth."

Blaise leaned back and let them continue with their game. Bottle landed on Lydia who was asked to count her boyfriends. After that to Luna who was made to pick between Klaus and Kai. The game went on and on. After some time it became boring so they just talked about all kind of different stuff. Blaise left, but soon came back again.

"Why don't we all go to Great Hall?" Ron asked.

"Caroline couldn't stand if Lydia screamed." Stiles said.

"Well, I would actually want to try something if you don't mind, Lydia?" Blaise got up.

"What?"

"You said you can scream whenever you want, that your voice is a weapon?"

"Yes, that's right. Why?" she sounded a both scared and confused.

"I was wondering can your voice brake through my silencing spell. Would you mind trying?"

She glanced at Stiles. He nodded. Nothing bad could come out of it really.

"Sure, let's try that."

He walked over to her and put out his wand. Everybody looked at them. Harry thought it was a good idea to try this. They all waited for the outcome of it.

"Silentio." Blaise conjured his spell placing the wand in front Lydia's mouth. "Now scream, Lydia."

Everyone watched as her lips split open. At first they didn't hear anything. But few moments later they started to hear her scream. It sounded like it was coming from afar and it was getting closer. At its highest her voice managed to make every one of them cover their ears. She stopped screaming and Blaise removed the spell. He was amazed. So was everybody else.

"How was that compared to her usual scream?" he turned to Stiles.

"It was quieter. It's not a really big difference but it exists." Stiles explained.

"That was so bloody awesome." Ron exclaimed.

"No one was ever able to break through that spell." Harry looked at her in disbelief.

"Well, looks like this won't help them." Blaise stated with his eyebrows raised.

They were all still staring at Lydia when Caroline rushed in.

"We need you to get up to the Great Hall. Someone is inside the castle, but we don't know where exactly so we need to be all at one place. We'll be stronger like that." She talked really fast and the second she finished she left and went back up. They looked at each other.

"We need to go there." Harry said.

"Are you mental? She will crush her skull." Ron turned to him.

"Potter is right. We can do the same as here with Lydia if she screams." Bliase took Harry's side.

"I don't think it will help." Lydia joined.

"We don't have any other option. She managed to take down an original vampire, Katherine Pierce and Hermione and Draco, who are by the way two of the best from our generation. We need to go." Blaise argued.

"Hate to say it, but we can't stay here. It's a bigger risk to stay then to go." Stiles added.

"Fine. We are going then." Ginny said and walked towards the door. Blaise followed right behind. "Guys, we've survived worst. Move!" Ginny yelled at them since they didn't move. Luna then came and so did Harry and Ron. Lydia took Stiles's hand and they all walked out.

It was quiet around them. They walked fast and the only thing you could hear were their steps and breaths. Corridors were dark and the only light came from the moon. Soon enough they were in front of the Great Hall. Harry walked in first. After him came everyone else. They found Caroline sitting in one corner near McGonagall's bed. She was awake but weak. Deaton was sitting on the chair next to the bed.

"Caroline, concentrate. Do you still hear it?" Deaton asked.

"No. It stopped when I came back from the dungeons." Caroline replied. She was really upset.

"Here we can try this." Harry approached them getting out some kind of paper. He unfolded it. It was empty. He took out his wand ad tapped it on the paper. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Suddenly a map started drawing itself on the paper. Blaise was surprised since he didn't know Harry was in possession of such a thing.

"So we are here," Harry was pointing at the group of names written on the map. "And here is a person named-" He was stopped by the horror that suddenly happened in front of his eyes. A redhead woman just broke Caroline's neck. Blonde girl just fell on the ground. Wizards took out their wands but same were swept out of their arms when a woman with a long black hair entered the Great Hall and started chanting. Man was standing behind Deaton now and redhead took so much joy in getting her hands on McGonagall's shoulders. When their witch finished her chanting, wizards were trapped inside a chalk circle that drawn itself. She then disappeared. Lydia and Stiles were standing aside since there was nothing they could do. He had his hands around her shoulders while some tears drop from her face.

"Well, well." Redhead, Aurora, started. "You won't try to fight us?" she was addressing Stiles and Lydia. They didn't answer. "No mighty hybrid to save you all? And great Harry Potter useless without his wand? Aren't you just pathetic?" she mocked them.

"Come now, darling, calm down." Man spoke. "You know you did us a great favor, professor Deaton. You gathered them together so we didn't have to look for some of them."

"I guess we were lucky that they thought we were after girl's parents. It did made sense." Aurora added.

"What do you want?" Harry shouted.

"A lot thing, actually. But you don't need to know really." Aurora answered rather calmly. "And how about you?" she lowered her head next to McGonagall's. "You did serve your purpose, I guess. And we did promise them a murder."

McGonagall looked at her students. She didn't speak. She just looked at them. Aurora had her hands on both sides of her head, ready to snap it.

"No!" Ginny yelled as she tried to run towards her but couldn't walk out of the circle.

"Scared that I am going to break her neck?" She said removing her hands from old witch's head. McGonagall blinked fast few times and then just kept looking at her students.

"Miss Weasley, please remain calm. It will hurt you like running into a wall if you do that again." She spoke softly.

"But professor,-" Ginny cried.

"Not another word. Stay calm." She tried to be stern but she still sounded gentle.

"Stay silent and don't move." Aurora ripped of McGonagall's Verbena necklace. "Now as for you two, take a seat at the table." They obeyed her, making her believe they didn't use Verbena even though they did.

Ginny's tears went dry and she was now standing quietly just like everybody else. Dark-haired man knocked out Deaton at some point and came closer to the wizard group.

"Now, where is your cute friend?" Aurora asked Harry getting only few inches away from his face.

He didn't say anything. He just stared at her. She smiled and then rushed towards Lydia grabbing her hair and pulling her up to her feet.

"Stay." She told to Stiles when he tried to get up. He listened after Lydia motioned him to do so. Aurora dragged her in front of Harry and made her fangs visible.

"Where is your cute friend?" she asked him again placing her teeth on Lydia's neck.

Harry's face was full of worries. He didn't know what to do. He wanted to say something, anything, but she started again. "Niklaus brought her with him, didn't he? Oh my God, you actually made your defense strategy. I'm guessing the missing ones are at her house watching over her parents." She laughed.

"Right now, we are actually here." A deep male voice talked from the entrance.

"Oh, love, I've been waiting for you. Greetings, Niklaus."