"Rumor is Umbridge is loosing her shit," Daphne whispered beside me in the new divination room, which now had completely been turned into a forest scene. "God my ass is wet," we were both laying back on the mossy ground staring up at the stary scene Firenze was providing for us.
"Oh Professor Trelawney did Astrology with us!" Parvati's voice echoed through the room.
"Damn know it all," Daphne hissed.
"Human Nonsense!" Firenze interrupted her and all that could be heard was the "HA!" coming out of Daphne and I couldn't help but laugh as well. Class was more unusual then normal, which was saying something given to how class with Trelawney usually was.
"So if the smoking is blowing this way it means what?" I laughed along with Daphne as we listened to Firenze talk himself in circles.
"I think it means I'm totally gonna snog a centaur," she raised an eyebrow at him.
"I thought it meant war was coming," Malfoy sat down beside me Indian style and Zabini took a seat beside Daphne.
"It definitely doesn't show when assholes are coming," I snapped, refusing to make eye contact with the blond beside me.
His heavy arm wrapped around my shoulder and he leaned in close to my ear, "Don't be pissed Ace,"
"oh I'm not," I didn't push him arm off, just leaned in like he did to me, "I'm far beyond that,"
"Addison!" Hermione yelled behind us as we walked out of class. "Addison!" she yelled again before I turned towards her.
"Really?" Daph asked turning towards the Gryffindor.
"I'll catch up," I assured her and waited for Hermione to catch me. "Hey," I didn't bother to smile at her, I hadn't found myself smiling a lot lately.
"Harry talked to me," she was wringing her hands out of nervousness. "I never would of thought it was him," she added. After all the searching we had done together for a man named Tom, her knowing who he was now, somehow it didn't add up.
"You know everything," I accused, "I asked you what Tom Harry knew,"
"And you thought I knew it was...You know who!"
"Voldemort!" I hissed as a few first years walked past us, going a little faster as they heard the name, Harry's article in the Quibbler had gotten everyone worked up.
"Harry is having another class tonight, come!"
"Yeah, right," I shook my head starting to walk.
"You two are going to need each other more than ever now!" she said to my back. I quickly turned back.
"Knowing what he knows, he'll never trust me now," that much I was sure of, the daughter of his greatest enemy, the man that had killed his parents and tried to kill him?
"Knowing what you know, do you still trust him?" she questioned right back, turning towards the library leaving me standing alone in the hallway.
"Today we are focusing on the patronus spell specifically," Harry spoke to the group of students around him, the room I now knew could be anything Harry willed it to be looked exactly like the last. I didn't think he had noticed me in the back of the class, or he wasn't willing to put on a show in front of the room.
"Every great witch or wizard started out as no more than we are right now, student," I would give it to him, he knew how to hype up a crowd as he showed the spell one more time and a shadow of a stag came out of the end of his wand and floated around the room. "Everyone begin,"
I stayed in the back of the class as I tried to focus on anything other than the truth that had slapped me in the face a few days ago, and anger flooded my veins, and mutters of the spells were all around me but no patronus was produced.
"Think of your happiest thought, a good memory," Harry continued circling the room, encouraging everyone.
"What are you doing here?" The golden boy finally noticed me.
"I'm apart of this club," I reminded him.
"Okay then...Parker," he crossed his arms, "Lets see what you've got," this time he wasn't the reassuring teacher he had been last time, giving me pointers. This time I was something else completely to him. Little did he know that his advice from last time was running through my mind.
Anything that made me feel different from the rest.
I focused on the one thing in my mind that always stuck, the only memory I had that was never changing, every time I looked in the mirror I saw it in my head. I heard my name being called in my mind, I felt myself walk across the wooden floor, standing in front of the blue crystal, a crystal bluer than the sky and the ocean ,that I chose; it felt like it was the last time I had a choice in anything.
"Expecto Patronum," I didn't need to yell it, I just felt it! I moved my wand in the same way that Harry had and a blue smoke came out of the end of my wand. It took it a moment before the smoke began to take shape in the sky above Harry.
"Of course, a snake,"
"It isn't just a snake," Hermione said standing there watching the figure as well, "It's a Horned Serpent," it moved the parameter of the room before going back into the end of my wand.
"Well done Addi," Luna's airy voice was the only sound in the room.
"Thank you Luna," I didn't look at her as I stared Harry down.
"Everyone get back to work," Harry ordered looking me head to toe before drawing his attention back to the room.
Most of the people in the room had now produced a patronus by the end of the class and Harry looked more than pleased with himself as they said goodbye to him at the end of the lesson.
"I'm impressed," Harry crossed his arms when he noticed I was the only person left in the room. "I didn't think death eaters could produce a patronus,"
"Don't call me that!" I snapped, "Look, I get it! You don't like me, and you don't trust me! But we are going to need each other! So get over it!" I tried to keep my cool, getting pissed off a the boy who lived would solve nothing.
"And why exactly would I need your help?"
"Because," I put my backpack over my shoulder, "We both want the same thing, Voldemort dead,"
"Get up," Daph was standing over my bed when I opened my eyes, the only light around us was from the tip of her wand that she was holding.
"No," I murmured, turning over to go back to sleep.
"Party time!" she ripped my blankets off my body casting her lumos to fill the whole room. "Hurry!"
The party out in the woods was once again at full swing when we arrived. We quickly made our way over to the same group of girls Daphne seemed to always find after we got some drinks.
"There you girls are!" Alice Flint was clearly a few drinks in as we accioed a few chairs over, the quiet girl looked like she was holding court around the fire we were at.
"Damn what a little fire whiskey won't do to you," Daphne laughed along with the other girls before we threw our drinks back.
"Care to dance?" Flint put a hand over my shoulder a few hours into the party, after I had more than my share of liquor.
"Sure," in that moment it didn't matter who I was or who I though I was, I was having fun with my friends at a party in the woods. No thoughts of Tom Riddle or my future that firmly put all its weight on my shoulders the moment I had put two and two together. Tonight we were just kids in the woods breaking a few laws and celebrating for no reason. Marcus and I had been dancing to the techno music long enough that a sheen of sweat covered us both before a slower song began and a strong hand wrapped around my hip pulling me away from him.
"You look amazing out there Ace," Malfoy left his hand on my hip and he began moving us to the music.
"Thanks," I smiled at him, not allowing my anger at him push me out of my fog.
"What? No fighting?" he smirked reaching up and pushing some hair out of my face.
"Just shut up Malfoy,"
"I can do that," he leaned in connecting our lips once again.
Then-
"You can't keep running," Narcissa Malfoy scolded me from the firm couch in her sitting room. "This is where you belong," she assured me, bring her tea cup to her mouth. "With him,"
"I belong in a hospital," I argued with the woman in front of me. "I belong healing people,"
"You are healing people!"
"His followers don't count!" I had spent many late nights helping heal up the men in the black cloaks and masks that would follow Tom until the end of days.
"Are we not people now?" she questioned reaching down and rubbing her slightly rounded stomach, she was only a few months along but she was already showing, a Malfoy heir must be seen she had informed me earlier in the month.
"That isn't what I mean,"
"A few months ago you were so sure of us, of your place beside him!" she stared at me over the top of the find china, "What has changed?"
"Nothing has changed," I stood as Tom's beautiful face filled the doorway behind her, his bright blue eyes haunting right to my soul.
As blue as the sky and ocean but I couldn't hide the feeling of dread I felt in my stomach where his heir was currently growing, unbeknownst by anyone else.
AN: I got a private messages asking if the Time line for Annabel (THEN) jumps around or is in a time line! And it definitely jumps around we will go back and forward in time but it should be pretty easy to keep up with!
Let me know what you think!