So, I'm starting to get back in to my Harry Potter obsession, and with that my Alice obsession. This basically means that I'm going to try and write more and update faster as ideas are flowing in to my brain! Yeey :D

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Alice2Epic – Thank you for the review! Is Alice going to die? I don't know actually – maybe she'll find a way, maybe she won't. And she's not telling anyone because I think she's a bit ashamed of it.

And guys – I still want to know. A happy ending or a not so happy, but still super great ending? Tell me what you think! :)

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Chapter 36

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Draco came out of nowhere, only to bend down and kiss Alice on the lips before disappearing in the crowd again. It was something he'd been doing lately, just popping up to give her a kiss before going to the next class.

"Oh", sighed Daphne with a smile. "I wish someone would just pop up to give me a kiss as well." Alice smiled, a bit embarrassed actually. She didn't mind everyone knowing but she was still very private and liked to keep her business to herself.

"I've been waiting for you to get together all year and now that you are it's just so much better then I imagined", said Daphne with a silly smile on her lips. "I've never seen you so happy, Alice. I haven't seen Draco this happy either."

"Maybe someone would give you a kiss if you allowed them", Alice suggested with a smirk.

"Ha-ha, very funny", said Daphne a bit dampened. And then all of the sudden Draco stood before them again, with Blaise at his side, bending down to kiss Alice once more on the lips. Alice didn't mind, the opposite actually. It gave her a warm feeling in the chest every time he appeared and a tingle in her stomach every time he kissed her. But this time he didn't run off to the next class as usual, as he had only minutes earlier. Instead he put an arm around Alice's shoulders and started walking down the corridor with them. Alice looked over at Blaise; he looked at her with a soft smile before returning his gaze to Daphne.

"We realised we had a free period before lunch", Blaise said and for a moment, it looked as he was considering taking Daphne's hand. "Let's enjoy the weather, shall we?" He did have a point; the weather was rather lovely as they were reaching the middle of June. Draco held Alice back to create a distance between them and Blaise and Daphne.

"School's going to end soon and we'll have to go home", he said in a whisper so that only Alice could hear. "I don't want to go home; I don't want to leave this." Alice knew what he meant, she knew what he was talking of. "I'm scared, Alice." Alice stopped and turned towards him, putting her hands around his face.

"We'll get through this, together", Alice ensured him calmly. "He cannot take away what we have."

"He could kill us." Draco's voice shivered.

"Then we will join the afterlife together. I will always be at your side." Draco smiled for a second. Alice took his hand and started walking after their friends again. They found them by the three at the lake.

"We're taking a bath, the water is so warm. Join us guys!" Daphne said as she stripped in to her underwear.

"No thank you, I'm fine", said Alice in amusement as Daphne and Blaise ran towards the water. Draco pulled Alice down before him, leaning against the three in the sun. Alice pulled of her shoes, feeling the soft grass between her toes.

"I live the summer, how you never need to wear shoes. How the sun warms your body and the birds fly around in the skies." Alice took of her sweater and pulled the dress up to let a bit more of her legs in the sunlight.

"Are you not warm? I can help you roll up your sleeves", Alice said and unbuttoned the sleeve on his right arm. As she got to the left arm however Draco reacted quickly by pulling it away.

"Not that one", he said in a haste and buttoned it up again.

"Why not?" Alice asked and looked at him in surprise. He looked around and then pulled the sleeve up to his elbow.

"Because of this", he said and showed her the dark mark, burn upon his flesh. Alice took hold of his arm and pulled it closer to her.

"What is this?" She asked. Draco pulled down the sleeve again and buttoned it.

"Your father gave it to me, when he made me a Death Eater", Draco said.

"Does it hurt?" He shook his head.

"Not anymore." He pulled Alice closer so that she would lean back against his chest again. Clearly he didn't want to talk too much about it.

"I love summer rains", Alice continued. Draco pulled her hair to one side and kissed her gently in the neck. "I love how it feels when you kiss me."

"I love the summer too", he said and twirled his fingers in between hers. "I met you in the summer", he said in a whisper. "I fell in love with you during the summer", he paused for a moment. "It will be in the summer that I first say how much..." Daphne interrupted him as she came running towards them, completely soaked with the cold water dripping around her.

"Can I have a hug?" She asked with a devilish smile. "C'mon Alice!" She said when neither of them responded. Daphne bent down and pretty much lied down on top of Alice to make her as wet as possible.

"Oh god, that is cold", said Alice and tried to flee. Somehow it ended with Daphne, carrying Alice down towards the water.

"No! NO!" Alice yelled as they came closer to the shoreline. "Don't, please don't!" she cried out just as Daphne jumped down in the water, with Alice.

"I told you the water was great", Daphne laughed as they got to the surface again.

"I think I just died for a moment", said Alice and stroked the water out of her face. "Oh wipe that smirk of your face", she said to Draco, who was standing at the shoreline – all dry – with a smile on his lips.

"Where's Blaise?" He asked and looked out over the water.

"You didn't really think she was the only one getting wet?" said Blaise from behind him just before he pulled Draco in the water, just like Alice had been pulled only a minute before. They all started laughing, plashing water at one another. Perhaps this is how it was to be a normal teenager, though Alice as she watched her friends having fun. In that moment, everything felt so carefree, so simple.

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Alice walked to the big door on the fifth floor. It was absolutely silent, perhaps because of the late hour.

"Lemon Soap", she said and the lock clicked open. The room as much bigger that she'd thought it to be. To her left were stalls with toilets and to her right a large tub that was filled o the brink with bubbles and water. Alice closed the door slowly behind her.

"Who's there?" Draco stood turned towards her in the tub, reaching for his clothes and his wand. "Bloody hell, Alice!" He said as he saw her and quickly sank down in the water again, sheltering his body from her gaze. Alice pulled off her shoes and socks and walked over to the brink and sat down, with her feet in the water.

"You know I'm naked, right?" he said, looking away from her and making sure the bubbles cowered most of his body.

"I know. I just wanted you to myself for a moment", she said and swooped around with her legs in the water. He turned towards her, went over and leaned his arms on her legs. Alice stroked his cheek and smiled. "How are you doing?" He shrugged his shoulders and looked down. Alice put her hands on his shoulders; they were as bony as ever.

"What?" He asked as she started squeezing his arms and shoulders. Alice made him stand. It wasn't hard to count his ribs.

"Do you even have time to eat?" she asked and gently touched his naked body. "Love, you're fading away..."

"I'm not fading away", he defended himself. "It's just been a bit..."

"You don't have to explain yourself", Alice said and looked him in the eyes. She pulled him even closer and put her arms around his neck.

"Things will change, won't they?" he asked and put his arms around her as well.

"Yes", she breathed out. He leaned his forehead on hers. "But we won't, just like I said." He pulled her in to a kiss that lasted in passion and desire. "What were you about to say? Earlier today before Daphne interrupted you?"

"Oh, it was nothing", he said and looked down, only to lean his head and arms at her thighs again. Alice felt something pull inside of her. Something as pushing around to take space, it was as if something tried to posses her. Pushing her own consciousness away.

"Are you alright? You don't look well", Draco asked. Alice body went slack and Draco had to hold her up so she wouldn't fall backwards. Her eyes opened again and they immediately went to Draco. As she started to speak, her voice had changed its tone and came from deeper in the throat, giving it a rust touch.

"Do you really have time for this?" Draco backed off and his eyes widened. "Spending one on one time with my daughter when there are more pressing concerns?" Draco didn't know what to say, was this one of his really bad nightmares?

"If you fail, not only your life will be at stake, but those who you call family as well." Draco started shaking, this was one thing too many for him to handle.

"What do you want from me? I am trying as hard as I can", he said between his shaking teeth.

"See it done, and your life shall be spared." Then Alice's body fell backwards again, all slack and unconscious. She sat up.

"I'm sorry. He kept pushing trough and I couldn't hold it back..."

"You don't have to explain, Alice", said Draco and moved back to his position in front of her. "I love you", he said all of the sudden.

"What?" Alice said with the beginning of a smile on her lips.

"I love you", he said again and she bent down and kissed him. Draco pulled her closer to him and down in the water. Alice yelped out in surprise before they laughed.

"My clothes are getting wet", she said and clung on to him. He kissed her, smiled and pulled the dress over her head. Alice sank down in the water, standing on her own and looked up at him. "I love you too", she said. They kissed and Alice let her hands run over his naked body as they pressed themselves against each other.

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"I have a question, if you don't mind, sir?" Alice said. Professor Dumbledore looked over his glasses and smiled.

"Ask away", he said calmly.

"Well, the other night when I was in the bath wi..." she paused, did she really have to tell him that part? "By myself... I felt strange and then it was like my body was possessed."

"Someone was taking over?" He asked to clarify what she was telling.

"Not really someone, sir, it was like another part of me that pushed trough." They sat under silence for a moment. "I'm not mad."

"No, I don't think you are", professor Dumbledore said and leaned forward in the chair. "What happened when you where possessed? What did it say?"

"He threatened Draco to his life, along with his family's."

"Because he is with you?" Alice straightened up and looked at him curiously, how could this old man know of her love life? "Oh, Alice, I knew from the beginning you two had eyes for each other. And rumours like that tend to travel rather quickly in his school." He smiled, even laughed a bit and Alice felt the mood lighten up again.

"Can you help him?" asked Alice. "Can you save him from this?"