A/N: Okay, I really hate that I've had to release this chapter when it actually isn't the 'full' chapter. You'll notice that it is much shorter than the previous chapters but I just couldn't stand it anymore and I had to vent my frustrations. If you are the one of the few people who review than this does not apply to you.
Firstly, I know that there are people reading my stories. And don't get me wrong I love that people are reading and enjoying (hopefully) the story. What makes me angry is how even though I spend vast amount of my time writing this detailed story (trust me there is a lot of details and hints in this story that you probably don't notice) some readers can't even bother to submit a review. Even a one-liner would leave me happy for a week which usually encourages me to write even more chapters.
If you are confused by the system here at fan fiction, you can submit a little review even if you are not a registered member of the site and you don't even have to fill in the little boxes that ask for your name and email address, the site will just label you as an anonymous.
Of course this doesn't apply to those of you are registered members of the site, because you have no excuse…especially if you've added me to your favourite list. Why would you do that unless that you actually like my story…and if so why can't you spare 2seconds to leave a review e.g. 'That was a good chapter', 'That was terrible' etc etc…
I'm sorry for all those who do review and clearly this would not apply to you. I just wanted to let all the readers know how frustrated I am because although I love this story I have little motivation to continue if no one is interested enough to even review.
Bloody Hell People at this point I would even welcome flames! That's how desperate I am for some response.
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Okay, now that I've got that off my chest, here's the first half of what was actually "Chapter 21 Words".
Chapter 21 (Part 1) – The Words Unspoken
"I doubt he'll survive. Weasley's are not killers."
"Well, he will be by the end of the week," Jessica answered simply standing up straight, "Look what he did to Malfoy. By the way, would you mind?"
Jessica looked down at her torn robes and blood soaked clothes and guessed that her face didn't look much better.
Snape rolled his eyes at her taking a step away from the tree he was leaning on and handed her his wand.
"Are you sure about this?"
"Why? Don't trust me?"
Snape gave her a disbelieving look. How could she even ask him that?
"This just seems a bit much, and why only a week? You could have easily taken him into the forbidden forest weeks ago," he questioned watching as Jessica placed a scouring charm on her clothes.
Jessica returned the wand to Snape and used her powers to place a simple illusionment charm on her face before returning her attention back to Snape.
"I have my reasons," She answered cryptically, "All you need to worry about, is what we discussed."
"Don't worry, I'll handle it," Snape answered as they walked back to Hogwarts.
Ron lifted one of Hermione's hands and held it tenderly in his. He took a deep breathe before attempting to look up into her eyes.
"I really hate lying to you, you know that," Ron swallowed nervously when Hermione didn't speak, she only continued to look at him, "But I thought I had too, I guess I was trying to protect you from it all…from what it all meant," Ron released Hermione's hand and moved off the bed. He stood in front of her trying to gather his thoughts. Was he really prepared to tell her everything? Ron considered his options and decided to share everything except the necklace, it wasn't really going to affect her, in a negative way at least. Taking another deep breathe Ron straightened his shoulders and looked directly at Hermione.
"Okay, here it goes. You already know that I'm a True Seer, which is different to Seers because I possess all the abilities of all Seers before me. For instance, I have the ability interpret the stars and planets, the flight of birds and dreams, to read minds, and emotional projections. Firstly, dreams, for me the dreams have affected me the most, they were disturbingly realistic, to say the least. So one of the many things that Jessica…Professor Lavina," Ron corrected himself when Hermione began to frown, "that Professor Lavina has been teaching me is how to interpret and understand my dreams. I've even sketched some of the scenes from my dreams so that I can analyse them better."
Ron paused in his explanation to see Hermione conjure a parchment and quill, he gave her a questioning look and she just urged him to continue.
"Right, where was I?"
"Dreams," Hermione answered from behind the parchment.
"Okay, dreams, well they're unbelievably frustrating and so far there have been only a few things that I've been able to gather from them. For one, there's going to be a battle where I'll be injured. Second, that there will be a lot of people hurt or dead, I can't really say who they are exactly, the only person that I've seen clearly in my dreams," Ron looked up to see that Hermione had stopped writing and was looking at him, "The only person I've ever seen clearly has been…you."
Hermione stared at him in surprise but when she didn't speak Ron quickly continued, he didn't want to lose his nerve and not answer her question about 'Jupiter's Knot.'
"I didn't know what this meant at first, and when I asked Je-Professor Lavina about it she told me to research 'Cupid & Pyche'. That's when I asked you to help me to research for my essay."
Hermione nodded her head to show that she remembered and Ron continued.
"Well, it turns out Cupid was a God or something…"
"Wizard," Hermione interjected.
"What?" Ron stared at her in confusion.
"They weren't Gods, they were just Wizards and Witches that just enjoyed being praised by people, and if we're following ancient Greek mythology than I think his name was 'Eros'. I learnt it in muggle studies," Hermione added when Ron continued to stare at her.
"Why would you need to study about muggles," Ron shook his head and returned to his previous point, "I'll just except what you said is true, cause you're you. Okay so, Cupid or Eros, was a wizard that fell in love with a mortal, uh that would be a muggle I guess. And anyway they fell in love but…"
"Ron, I already know this."
Ron stopped when Hermione interrupted him. He chuckled at her words and nodded his head in understanding.
"Of course you would, so what don't you know?" Ron asked Hermione walking toward the bed where she sat.
"Well, I know about the story, I just don't know how that relates to us," Hermione pointed at the space between them, "And I've never heard of Jupiter's knot."
Ron ran his fingers through his hair in thought.
What he didn't realize that while he was thinking Hermione was gaping at his chest.
Hermione stepped off the bed and moved toward Ron.
Ron jumped back in surprise when he felt Hermione cool fingers on his chest.
"What are you doing!" Ron crossed his arms around his chest and blushed furiously.
"There's the strangest mark on your chest," Hermione pushed Ron's arms away to point at a spot right above his heart, "Here."
Hermione squinted her eyes and leaned closer to Ron's chest, placing her hands on his arms to steady herself as she examined the mark, about the size of a Galleon. Though the mark was faint, Hermione recognized it as the infinity symbol. She lifted her hand and passed her fingers over the mark.
"I think…it's glowing," Hermione gasped.
Ron looked down to see Hermione pointing to the scar that had appeared on his chest a few weeks before. When Hermione had touched it, a burning heat shot through his chest.
Ron grabbed Hermione's arms to stop her touching him, because when she had her hands on his chest he could not think coherently.
"It's the mark of Jupiter's Knot," Ron explained, "You should have one as well, on your…w-well in the same place as I have mine," Ron stuttered releasing Hermione's arms.
"This can't be real," Hermione mumbled to herself taking a few steps away from Ron and collapsing on the bed behind her.
"How are we supposed to keep an eye on Jessica if she's going to be in the Forbidden Forest with Ron?" Ginny whispered to Harry over the table. For the last hour they had been sitting at one of the desk in the Gryffindor Common Room, secretly devising their plan to monitor the moves of both Snape and Jessica.
Ginny picked up her quill and pretended to be writing in her book when some first years looked her way.
"I don't know," Harry sighed in exasperation. He definitely did not like the idea of Ron being alone in with Jessica.
"Maybe we could use a distress signal of some sort," Ginny suggested, "Like the coins we used for the DA meetings?"
"But, I don't think Ron would like that idea, he doesn't consider her a threat so why would he even bring it?" Harry countered even though the idea had merit, he considered the idea for a moment, "But if we could get him to contact us at regular intervals just to make sure everything is okay, than that might work."
"Right, we could just say that we're concerned for his safety, it is the Forbidden Forest after all," Ginny said eagerly.
"But we still don't know…"
"Harry!" Ginny said excitedly but lowered her voice again when she received suspicious looks from some students, "A diary."
"What?" Harry looked at his girlfriend in confusion, "What are you on about?"
"I could give Ron and Hermione a diary each and they could use it to talk -- well write to each other. That way we could make sure that everything is okay."
"I didn't know you could do that?" Harry questioned, though he was beginning to warm to the idea, "How did you come up with that anyway?"
Ginny's face fell when Harry spoke.
"It's the same concept as Tom Riddle's diary."
"Gin, I'm sorry," Harry reached over and squeezed her hand which was on the table.
Ginny shook her head and smiled at him, "It's okay, let's just think about Ron."
"Right, so um, where would we get these diaries from? We don't have time to buy them."
"I already have them," Ginny explained excitedly, "I was going to give them to Hermione before school finishes, so we could talk to each other over the holidays. Leave it to me I'll explain our plan to Hermione."
"Do you think that wise?" Harry questioned in an uncertain voice.
"Well, it's not like that she's a fan of Jessica anyway, I'm sure she'll agree to it," Ginny reassured Harry, "By the way, are they still up there?" Ginny asked nodding her head to the boy's dormitory.
"Last I checked the door was imperturbed, I couldn't even get in."
"What happened before anyway?" Ginny leaned forward and whispered.
Harry simply shook his head at her in reply.
Neither of them had talked to Ron or Hermione since they were ordered back to the common room by Snape, so they had no clue as to why Ron had almost choked Malfoy to death. Though it was a reasonable guess to suppose that Malfoy had insulted Hermione in some way they hadn't been at the scene long enough to know the full details.
"Did you feel the heat too?" Ginny asked Harry.
"Yeah, like that time in the Great Hall," Harry frowned before continuing, "Do you think he'll be expelled?"
"I don't know. But if he is than, that'll mean that Jessica will probably take him somewhere far away to train him."
Ginny and Harry shared a panicked look. They definitely did not want that to happen.
"Well?" Ron asked buttoning up his shirt when he saw Hermione step out of the bathroom.
"There's only a faint mark, it wasn't glowing like yours though."
"But you saw it? There was a mark there?" Ron urged when Hermione refused to answer him.
Hermione sat back down on Ron's bed and straightened her skirt.
"Yes," she answered not looking up at him.
"You believe me don't you?" Ron took a seat on the opposite bed to look at Hermione.
Hermione shrugged her shoulders before answering him.
"It's just not possible. Past lives? It's just ridiculous."
"I'm pretty sure that before you got your Hogwarts letter you also thought that magic, and people who can read minds was pretty ridiculous as well," Ron spoke softly, trying to hide the sadness he felt when Hermione refused to look at him.
Hermione sat silently considering Ron's words.
"That's different," She tried to argue, finally lifting her eyes to Ron's, "And even it were true what difference does it make?"
"What difference!" Ron repeated in disbelief, "It makes every difference. It explains why I can't block your thoughts as easily as everyone else and why I attacked Malfoy even though I don't remember doing it and…"
"What do you mean you don't remember?" Hermione questioned seriously.
"I only remember him insulting you and than…I don't know, but I guess it was like something inside me snapped and than after that I saw Malfoy lying on the ground."
"Ron! Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Hermione gasped when a thought occurred to her, "Was it like when we were kissing last night?"
"Similar," Ron answered, "But I remember that I was kissing you, but this time, it's just a complete blank."
"Your eyes," Hermione suddenly recalled, "They were completely black. Do you think we were right last night when we said that we were possessed? This is bad."
"Why is this bad?" Ron asked unable to understand how Hermione could jump from one thought to another in a heartbeat.
"If we can't control this than what if we don't just cause someone to lose consciousness but…what if we kill someone," Hermione explained her face stricken with fear.
"Why are you saying 'we', even if you were possessed, you don't have any powers like I do so you wouldn't be able to hurt anyone."
"How do you know that? The information on 'Psyche' is pretty obscure, who's to say that she doesn't have any powers?" Hermione retorted.
"Well, I'm pretty sure that Jessica will help me control my powers when I train with her, but I don't know, maybe you, Harry and Ginny can do some research while I'm gone."
"What do you mean? Where are you going?"
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