A/N: I hope you like it and had a beautiful Christmas. Here's another chapter. Enjoy :)

Chapter 35: Feels like home

A spine chilling female laughter echoed through what seemed like a big round room, then a cold voice emerged from the shadows where a mane of black messy hair seemed to cover a woman.

"She'll be like him, and you know it. You can't stop destiny. And when he'll be back, what's his will be by his side. And all of you will be tortured for standing up to him."

"Tell me how to stop it Bella. Tell me who was with you. I can't understand why someone so gifted like you went so wrong." A terrifying burst of laughter started from somewhere in the curly hair. She was shaking like a mentally ill person. It scared me.

"Old man, so sad that you can't understand. Someday he'll rule and I'll be by his side. The Potter girl can't stop anyone. Give up. We won."Dumbledore sighted defeated.

"Take her away. Lock her back." Everything became blurred again as the woman was taken away, laughing maniacally and in the shadowed room, it was easy to focus on her words

"We'll be back..."

A faint light entered through my eyelids, bringing me back to reality. Blasted dream. What was it all about? Another secret about me? Or the same? But my thinking was interrupted when I realized the pain in my body. My head and arms hurt as well as my back. Weird. I didn't remember falling or getting hit.

I opened my eyes and painfully moved my head.

Ginny was laying on a bed next to my left, and Draco on the left, both awake. Between my and Ginny's bed were Harry, Ron and Hermione and Draco was reading a letter.

"Look, she woke up!" Hermione pointed at me.

"Hey guys, are you all ok ?"

"Yeah, the teachers got me and Hermione unpretrified . But Ginny still needs some days to be ok, and a rock fell over Harry, but the twins are alright.They went back to the common room and I was left with Draco and Ginny in an awkward silence.

"Drake, it's ok, she knows since last Christmas."

His face lit up as they turned to me and he jumped off his bed to hug me.

"I'm sorry..."

"Sorry for what? I dragged you there."

"If it wasn't for me fighting with your brother, we would've got out of there faster and unharmed."

"Ginny, are you ok ?" she was pale, but other than that, she seemed ok.

"I- I'm ok. I just- is he gone?" she asked flinching.

"It's ok, he's gone. At least for now", I said to myself.

Days passed and every time my brother tried to ask me about Draco, I would brush him off. On the other hand, Ginny grew closer and closer to my soulmate, until they were good friends. There we were, two days before Christmas break, just me, Ginny and Draco sitting on cushions in my tower.

"Soo...tell her" Gin said excitedly

"Tell me what?"

"Well, my mother sent me a letter. Father isn't home for the holidays. He's going to an yearly reunion with childhood friends in America. And since she hasn't seen you in...a while, she asked if you would like to come at us over the holiday break."

"Oh, I'd like to come. But...are you sure your farther isn't going to be there until we're back at Hogwarts?"

"Absolutely sure. " he said smiling.

So there I was, on the Hogwarts express, the same compartment with my friends, aside from Draco, not all of them knowing where I was going. As we arrived in London, Dobby was waiting for us. Draco told me his mother freed him as soon as his father lived, but he wanted to meet her again before leaving. We Apparated at the grandiose Malfoy manor.

It was a huge building with beige walls with black accents. Very well groomed gardens surrounded the manor and white peacocks were walking free. Hands sweating, we walked towards the house and entered.

"It's going to be okay. She already likes you."

A tall white haired woman stood at the base of the stairs, waiting for us with a serious look on her face. But as soon as we closed the door behind us, she smiled largely and ran to hug me.

"Oh, Selene, I haven't seen you in years. I missed you so much. I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise."

"Mom, you're choking her! And can I get a hug too?"

And that's how Dobby found us all when dinner was ready: the three of us in a group hug, sitting on the cold floor of the entering hall. If someone was to hear that a kid of the Potters and two Malfoys were friends, they would never believe it.

But for me... it felt like home with my mother's old friend.

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