In the Mourning I can see the Sign
She walked through the hallway with a shattered look on her face. Sierra knew how late it was, she knew that she had no Invisibility Cloak, and she also knew that she'd probably get in trouble, of course. Her mind could only think of the Professors that walked around at night –and Filch's cat… But that thing loved her anyway, for some odd reason.
She decided to stop at a window and look out at the stars. There was a cold chill suddenly that made her shiver.
"So you're out again, I see, Miss Reddy?" Snape inquired.
Sierra "patchew"ed and started to walk away yet like he had to Quirrel, Snape stopped her.
"Think you're going to get away, do you? Five points from Gryffindor."
"In the dead of night, may I ask? Dear Sevvy, you have no idea what is coming to you, do ya?"
"You do not dare to call me Sevvy EVER again or I will deduct fifty points from Gryffindor!"
Sierra spit at his feet. "And I dare you to call me 'Miss Reddy' ever again and I will kick your ass," she snarled. "Do you mind, Severus, that I go on? I have a purpose tonight, you shall see."
"Do not call me Severus!"
"Shall I not? Oh I dare to call you Professor Snape. If I must, then I shall barf all over you!"
"Trying to talk English, you Mudblood?" he growled.
"YOU WILL NEVER CALL ME MUDBLOOD!" she screamed. Sierra stamped on his foot and ran as he howled in pain. "I hate you, Severus! And I know the only person who has ever called you Sevvy before –I KNOW HER PERSONALLY!" She had stopped, turned around, and Severus saw she'd started to cry. "And believe it or not, Severus, she lives inside of me! She… She told me to love you, to take care of you. And you? You do nothing more than hate me!
"She loves you still, Sevvy! And… even more to believe, I love you too."
He had already limped his way over. "A student cannot love a Professor."
"I care about you, Sevvy, I really do. I don't want you to pain anymore than you already have!" Sierra wiped her tears away and smirked. "But, ya leave me no choice!" And she kicked him in the groin. "G'day, Professor Snape!"
Sierra ran as Severus fell to the ground in tears.
"Oh my God that was fun!" she laughed, climbing her way up the stairs to the Gryffindor tower. She told the Fat Lady the password ("Pointy") and later crawled into bed, dreaming happily about talking to David.
Professor Snape glared around the Great Hall looking for Sierra. "Professor Dumbledore, I have taken fifty-five points away from Gryffindor for a culprit last night."
"A culprit from Gryffindor? You must be mistaken."
"Never. Sierra was sneaking around last night during the wee hours of the morning."
Dumbledore laughed. "She had good reason, Severus, therefore no points shall be taken."
He snarled. "That girl will have detention for a whole week!"
"She will not, Severus," Dumbledore glared. "She will not!"
Knowing that meant no, Severus sat down. Sierra walked in at that moment and Mike stared at her.
"You lying piece of shit!" he yelled.
Everyone was quiet, even the Head Table.
"Now I'm a piece of shit? Last night I was a MUDBLOOD and now I'm a lying piece of shit?" Everyone who was anyone could tell she was pissed. Before she knew it she pulled out her wand and yelled "Corendipio!" No one had any clue what kind of a curse it was but they soon found out as Mike screamed and his hair grew and grew and grew… until she yelled "Moricio!" and it stopped growing at his waist. "Don't call me ANYTHING, Michael!"
Mike jumped out of his seat but stopped when Harry, Ron, and Hermione rushed over to Sierra and sat her down at the table in front of a plate. He would have loved to have walked over and kill her but knew better as breakfast appeared.
Later that night Mike heard Sierra get up again. She started to walk to the door but he jumped down and got in her way. "Don't you dare go anywhere, Sierra."
"Leave me alone, Mike. She has business that she hasn't gotten done yet."
Mike blocked her every move until Sierra finally stepped right up in his face. He didn't move either, instead he looked straight into her eyes.
And in that very second, James was cornering Lily in the hallway late at night.
"Don't you understand how late it is, Lily Evans?"
"Leave me alone, James Potter," she spat.
"Oo a fiesty one! What shall I do now? Hurt you? Or even worse, kill you?" he asked coldly.
Lily mocked his every word. "James you're nothing but a lying piece of shit."
"Me a lying piece of shit? Well you seem to be the one that told me that-…"
Before James could say any more, Lily had punched him in the stomach. "You're no good, James. Almost just like your little friend Sirius! I'm telling you, and for your own sake, that one day if you don't change now, you'll be on Voldemort's side!"
He gasped. "Hush! Don't say that name!"
"Vol-de-mort! Voldemort!" Lily sang. "The evilest wizard of them all and James Potter's gonna joi-."
James stuck his hand over her mouth. "Shut up!"
She bit him and he pulled his hand back. "I've got business with Dumbledore and for three straight nights I've had to put it off because of interruptions! First Filch, then Sevvy, and now you!"
James glanced at her from behind his unruly hair. "Sevvy?"
"Severus you moron! And if you didn't know I'm going out with him then it surprises me. That tells me you've really been off in your little world with those other three."
He seemed taken back. Lily Evans was dating Severus Snape? What the hell? No way! It was impossible. And yet at the same time he remembered all those times she helped him in class when he messed up and how she was always talking with him –but she was a Gryffindor and he a Slytherin! How could a Gryffindor and a Slytherin be dating?! Had they snogged yet? James couldn't even think of the possibilities.
"Yes, James, I am with Sevvy. And he has kissed me. If you dare to go after him, I will hurt you! You remember earlier with the Hair Growing spell? You're lucky I stopped otherwise it wouldn't matter if you ever cut your hair or not; you'd look like Dumbledore in a matter of seconds every time!" Lily laughed.
"You seem to think it's funny."
"It was, actually. The look on your face! You looked like you were going to kill me. I was waiting for it too."
"You think I've already learned that curse! What is it… Avada Kada-."
Lily stomped on his foot. "James Potter I have no time for your childish antics. I'm most certainly going back to bed before I get detention, or worse, expelled!"
James rolled his eyes and grabbed Lily before she walked off, quickly wrapping his Invisibility Cloak around her. "I'll walk you there."
And when he took her hand, Sierra and Mike stood up from sitting on the ground.
"What the hell just happened?"
Harry looked at his map in disbelief. What had he just seen on there? Two blue dots in a hallway that read Lily Evans and James Potter?! Was he going mad?!
"Ron! Ron get up!"
But when he looked back down at the map he saw Sierra and Mike were up. Yet just a second ago they hadn't been sneaking out of the portrait hole and they hadn't been walking down the stairs. Harry didn't even think twice again about waking Ron up, he just grabbed the Cloak and ran with the map.
He ran all the way down and out the portrait, stopping short in front of Sierra. He looked down at the map and noticed she was Lily. Wait a minute… Sierra? Lily? And Mike…
Harry shook the paper a bit and Sierra and Mike both looked straight at him.
"Harry…" Sierra shook her head. "Whoa, what's goin on here? How'd we get down here, Mike?"
He shrugged. "Don't ask me, you're the one that said you were thirsty."
"I did not!"
"Did too!"
"DIDN'T!"
"DID!"
Harry glared at both of them after taking off the cloak. "Shut up! Before McGonagall comes up and asks what's going on!"
They did but kept glaring at each other –okay so Sierra had to look around Harry to look at Mike because she was so short.
Suddenly there was a scream from inside the Gryffindor tower. Then they started hearing screaming from all around.
"Quick before one of the professors see us!"
They ran back inside and to the common room where everyone was gathering.
"What's going on?!"
Hermione and Ron ran over to Harry, Sierra, and Mike.
"The… D-dark sign! Over the school!!!" Ron managed.
Hermione looked stricken so Sierra helped her to a chair. Then she ran to the window and looked out. "My God would you look at the size of that thing?"
Mike walked over and noticed that everyone else was backing away from the window. His instincts told him to get away but he wouldn't. He saw Sierra battling her inner feeling also and sighed. "He's coming, isn't he?"
"Or he's here. Ready, waiting."
"GET AWAY FROM THE WINDOW, YOU TWO!" McGonagall pulled them by their night-clothes back from the window. "You two… You must stay away from there!"
Sierra raised an eyebrow. "Why? Is that thing gonna come down and attack us?"
She looked horrendously at Sierra and walked away briskly.
"I think she knows, James."
Mike nodded in return to Sierra's accusation.
Then Sierra looked like she had an idea. "My God Mike I know! I know what's going on!"
"Huh?"
"We're the reincarnations of Lily and James!"
"Say… what?"
"And Voldemort? Abby! That's the only reason she was put in Slytherin!"
Mike stared at Sierra and then at the window. "You think Abby did that?"
"Voldemort lives inside of her now. Oh my God! I've gotta find her!"
Sierra ran into their room and grabbed her cape, throwing it on and heading for the portrait.
"Where are you going?" Mike called.
Sierra looked back quickly and replied, "To see Dumbledore! And to find Abby!"
She disappeared from the portrait and ran straight into Sirius.
"Sierra? Where are you going?" he snapped, obviously pissed that he'd been waken.
"I've gotta find Dumbledore." When Sirius looked at her grimly she added, "I know, Sirius! You know, about Mike and me! You've all known all along, haven't you? And you've never told us!"
"Albus must not know, Sierra. It's too risky. He's too old and he'll get into too much trouble. The Ministry? Never. Come, we'll get all the professors rounded up."
"Sirius, it's Abby! Voldemort is in Abby!"
He looked down at Sierra and then turned, starting to run towards the Slytherin tower. She ran just as fast as he did.
"You say it's Abby?" Sierra nodded. "I knew there was something wrong… But she can't be held responsible for him being inside her…"
"No… Sirius if Abby finds out we know… I mean, Voldemort! If Voldemort finds out we know then we're in trouble!"
"But what I want to find out is exactly how he got through here. It's all guarded up… And Dumbledore has so many… This is insane. It can't be!"
She looked up at him. "It's happening though. So it's true, whatever's going on."
Sirius nodded as they reached the tower. He spoke the password and they went in. Professor Snape was already yelling at them, pleading them to tell him if anyone they knew had done it. But there were no answers and Abby was as silent as a doorknob. And also standing feet away from everyone else.
"SNAPE SHUT UP!" Sierra yelled. "I need to speak to Abby, I need to talk to her!"
He spun around quickly, his cape brushing hers. "Ah, you again. Get away, girl! And how did you get in here?"
Sirius stepped out from the shadows. "She has a right to speak to Abby. She must."
Severus looked at Abby and then at Sierra. "Fine. But hurry up!"
They ran over, grabbed Abby, and pulled her through the portrait. The whole time she had a grin on her face.
"You did it."
"So I did."
"Abby you've got to fight him! Please! For Mike and me, for Lily and James! For Harry!"
She laughed and suddenly disappeared.
"No! Quick we've gotta get back to Harry!"
Snape stepped out from the portrait. "Why you lying…"
"No Sevvy she disapperated! It's Voldemort! He's inside of her!" Sierra had started to cry. "She's my best friend… No it's just not possible!"
"Is this true, Sirius?"
"Very. Severus we've got to do something."
McGonagall walked up from behind the three of them. "Michael has just told me that Voldemort is inside of Abigail –is this the truth?"
Sierra was on the ground and Sirius beside her, calming her.
"It's all too true," Snape nodded. "And we already knew about Sierra and Mike. That's why the sign was created –to scare us all. He's after them and he knows how to get them."
And by then it was too late. Abby didn't show up for the next couple of days. When she did she had no recollection at all of what had happened –she was torn up and beaten down. Sierra stayed with her for a few hours and noticed that she was the same old Abby.
"We've got nothing to worry about now," she happily told Sirius when he asked her the next day after class.
Disclaimer: Anything you read in here that's in the Harry Potter books is © of JK Rowling. I only own the animal's names and myself. Abby and Mike own themselves. At least… I hope they do… ::laughs evilly:: And as for you people? Hehe! I love your reviews!!! :p
