A/N In chapter 4 the line that everyone seemed to enjoy the most was…

A/N In chapter 4 the line that everyone seemed to enjoy the most was…

"Well, maybe the reason you are so sick is because your body is naturally rejecting the sneer," he said sheepishly.

I cannot take credit for that wonderful line. It was totally Amy (w&m_law).

Isn't she a fabulous story consultant?

A/N2: Many, many, thanks once again go to Amy who put me on the path of this storyline and has helped me time and time again with it's direction. She is one of my all time favorite people.

Also thanks got to Strega Brava for the fast and wonderful beta's. To Bella who has made my day!!!

And finally to all of you great people that reviewed. The thanks section will be included next chapter as ff is acting up and I can't view the reviews at this time.

Then next chapter is done, I just have to correct it so look for it in the next few days. Now, on to the story…

Tempest's Fury

Chapter Five: Sorting Things Out

Over the last few weeks, some of the older children had noticed a tension running through the house. Kyleigh was so in tune with it, she started having nightmares about Lucius. She knew that he had something to do with the stress of the adults but didn't know what.

It was the week before the children were to go back to school that Ginny told the rest of the manor that she was expecting twins. Everyone was so excited but, for some reason, it left Kyleigh feeling uneasy. She kept it to herself and congratulated Ginny and Harry.

Two days before they boarded the Hogwarts Express, Kyleigh asked Draco if they could go to the glen and have a picnic, just the two of them. Kyleigh wanted to talk to Draco about something important. The glen was a private spot where the original manor had stood. Over the years, Draco and Kyleigh would use it when they wanted to be alone to read or think. It was their spot. When Draco and Kyleigh arrived, Draco unfolded a blanket, set down the picnic basket, and invited Kyleigh to sit.

"This is nice," he said happily. "We haven't done this in a long time."

"I know, I miss it so much. Sometimes at Hogwarts, Neona and I go to one of the secluded gardens if we want to talk or read or just get away from the guys," she replied distractedly.

Draco reached for her hand. "Kyleigh, is something bothering you?"

Expelling a deep breath, Kyleigh said flatly, "Lucius is in my dreams almost every night now. I know that he is up to something even if I have had no visions of him. He is close, Daddy. I can feel him. He is watching… waiting and it scares me."

Draco scowled. "What do you mean he is watching? Right now?" he asked, turning his head looking around, trying not to panic.

"No, Daddy. I haven't actually seen him, I feel his presence, his evil and I know he is waiting to hurt us and it frightens me so much. I would die if anything happened to anyone I loved," Kyleigh said quietly as a single tear ran down her face.

Draco pulled her into his arms, holding her like he always had when she was a small child. "Sweetness, I will do everything in my power to keep Lucius from you and everyone you love. We just need to keep our eyes open and stay alert. You have had no visions about him at all?" Draco asked tenderly as he stroked Kyleigh's hair.

"No Daddy," she said honestly, pulling away so she could look at him while they talked. "But I have been dreaming of him. I know that he has done something because the adults are rather tense. I noticed that you and Mum were not speaking for a few days. Are you two all right?" she asked, concern showing on her maturing face.

Chuckling, Draco affirmed, as he poured himself and Kyleigh some pumpkin juice. "Your mum and I are just fine. She was a little miffed at me for a few days until something was explained to her but now we are very happy and everything is just fine," he explained, wondering when his little girl had grown into such a insightful young woman.

"Kyleigh, is there something else you want to talk about?" he asked, watching her face closely.

As she looked at her hands that were folded in her lap, she blushed. "Boys."

Draco nearly choked on the juice he was drinking. He knew this was coming. Kyleigh was now sixteen and he knew it was inevitable that she become interested in the opposite sex.

"God, I am not ready for this!" he thought.

"Kyleigh," he started uncomfortably, "don't you think you would feel better talking to you mum about this?"

Kyleigh smiled as she watched him squirm. "I was hoping to talk to both of you," she said innocently, trying to hide her smirk.

Taking a deep breath, Draco looked at his daughter and asked quietly, "What do you want to know about them? Has anyone made advances towards you?" he asked, furling his brow.

This made Kyleigh burst into a fit of giggles. "Oh Daddy, if you could see your face. No, no one has made any advances on me, although I think Jamie is kinda cute, but…" she confessed but then the light went from her eyes.

"But what?" Draco asked, noticing her sudden change and thinking, "Oh Gods, she thinks a boy is cute. If he touches her, he dies!"

"But what if Lucius found out that I have feelings for him and tried to hurt him? He would, you know. He tries to take everything from me. My whole life, he has tried to either hurt or take from me what I hold dear. Why does he hate me so much?" she asked sadly as she got up off the blanket and walked to one of the trees, picking at the bark absentmindedly.

Draco came up behind her, placing a tender hand on her shoulder as her tears began to fall.

"Kyleigh, I learned a long time ago that you can't give in to these feelings of fear. This is what Lucius wants. This is how he controls you. He only has power over you if you let him. Don't stop living your life because you are afraid that Lucius will take people away from you. If you pull away from your friends, in a sense he has done what you fear. And I believe the reason he hates you is because you are a threat to him. You are the one person on this earth that he has never been able to control and it eats at him," Draco said as he awkwardly patted her back.

Kyleigh turned and faced Draco with her eyes stilled brimming with tears. "I'm so scared. I try so hard to be strong and make you proud. I don't want Lucius to rule me, I really don't. But, if it protects you and Mum and all my friends, how can I stop? When I was little, I used to dream that Lucius would get me. Remember, Mum had the same dream," she said, holding her head high as her tears spilled once again. "The time is coming. He is coming for me and no one can stop it. My dreams never lie and I know that he… he…" but Kyleigh could no longer continue as a sob escaped her trembling lips.

Draco had no clue on how to comfort his daughter. When she was a small child, it had been easy, but now that she was a rapidly maturing young woman, he didn't know how to make her feel better. He needed Hermione to help with this one.

"I promise that I will do everything in my power to keep him from you. Trust me," pleaded Draco as he patted her back again.

Kyleigh laid her head down on her arm as it rested on the tree as Draco spoke quiet words of encouragement.

Finally, after a few minutes, Kyleigh straightened herself up and wiped her face. "Enough of this. I am sorry for acting like such a baby. We came out here to have a picnic and I have all but ruined it. Do you think we can salvage it and talk of something else like…"

"What kind of pranks we can play on Sirius, Remus and Severus this school term?" Draco added, smirking his old smirk.

"That would be great. Thanks, Daddy. I love you," she smiled as she sweetly kissed his cheek.

"I love you too, my sweetness," he replied, kissing her forehead.

~~*~~

As Kyleigh and Draco were in the glen, Ron went in search of Hermione, wanting to talk to her about what had happened.

He found her in the main library of the house looking for a book on ancient runes for Kyleigh.

"So," he said facetiously as he sauntered in, "you finally came to your senses and are looking for a spell to keep your husband's pants on when he is away from you."

"Oh, Ron, give it a rest. I thought that you had come to terms with all of this," Hermione said, as she continued to look for the book.

"I will never be comfortable with it, Hermione, but I will be civil to him. I just don't get it," he persisted, "how can you and Harry possible forgive and forget what he did?"

Hermione let out a large sigh and sat down heavily on the couch, patting it for Ron to sit next to her. "First, let me say that I happen to love my husband. Second, he wasn't the only one involved, Ron. I believe your sister was an active partner in the whole thing," Hermione replied matter-of-factly.

Ron turned red, starting with his ears, feeling embarrassed because he never thought of it like that. His sister was also included in the incident.

"You have to look at it this way. Lucius is the one that cast the spell and Draco and Ginny had absolutely no control over what was done to them. Harry and I have discussed it more than once. Besides, given the right situation and atmosphere, it would be very easy to fall into emotions that you don't mean to," Hermione added guiltily.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean? Don't tell me you have cheated on Draco?" he asked incredulously.

"No, not exactly," Hermione whispered as she wrung her hands nervously.

"Then how… exactly?" Ron asked, looking shocked.

"Well, the night we found out that Ginny was… expecting, I was very angry and Harry came up to my room right after I burned the bed and we sat there talking and holding each otherandhekissedme," Hemrione finished quickly, her cheeks ablaze with shame.

Ron's eyebrows shot up as he looked at his best friend. "Excuse me? You burned the bed?" he asked as he burst out laughing. "and then you snogged Harry?"

"Oh God, Ron, it wasn't like that… and what are you laughing at? This isn't funny," she said in exasperation.

"Hermione, I am teasing you. You did nothing wrong. You were finding comfort from a friend and you kissed him. I don't think it is a big deal. Don't beat yourself up over it. Once you realized what was happening you stopped, right?" he asked as he patted her hand reassuringly. "You did stop, didn't you?"

"Oh course we did. We were horrified that we even kissed," she said, trying to squelch her guilt.

"See? There you go. It meant nothing and you didn't cheat on Draco. Okay? Feel better now that you have told someone?" he comforted.

"Yes, thank you. I appreciate your counsel," she smiled as she relaxed a bit.

"I just have one little question… The next time Draco fucks up are you gonna come and snog me?" he laughed hopefully with a mad glint in his eyes.

"RON!!" she exclaimed laughing, throwing a pillow at him.

~~*~~

Later, after dinner, Hermione was showing Kyleigh some of the books she had found that afternoon. As they sat there talking, Hermione noticed her daughter looked uncomfortable, like she wanted to talk about something.

"How was your afternoon with Daddy?" she inquired, looking up over her reading glasses at Kyleigh..

"We had a very… interesting afternoon," Kyleigh confided with a laugh.

"Really? How so? What did you and Daddy talk about?" Hermione asked, rapidly interested in what had amused her daughter so.

"We discussed…boys," Kyleigh said, trying not to laugh but it didn't work as a snigger escaped from her lips.

Hermione took off her glasses and looked at her daughter with the utmost of interest, finding this quite a fascinating topic of conversation. "And what did your Daddy say?"

Pursing her lips together, tears of laughter threatening to spill, Kyleigh slowly opened her mouth to speak. "He asked if I wouldn't feel better talking to you about it and if anyone had made advances towards me. Then, when I mentioned Jamie…" Kyleigh trailed off smiling mischievously.

Hermione got a mental picture of Draco squirming over this topic and gave a laugh. "Oh dear God, poor Draco! And what else did you discuss?"

"We talked about Lucius," said Kyleigh quietly as she noticed her mother tense up at just the mention of the man's name.

"Really?" Hermione asked, swallowing hard to rid her throat of the lump that had formed there.

"Daddy said that he won't let Lucius get us and that we just need to stay alert," Kyleigh said in a strained voice.

Seeing her daughter's distress at this topic of conversation, Hermione quickly changed the subject.

"Your Daddy is right about Lucius. Now, let's get back to Jamie and his advances," she said, completely interested in her husband's advice.

"Oh Mum, you should have seen his face when I told him I thought Jamie was cute," Kyleigh said, smiling broadly.

Hermione's hand flew to her mouth to try to contain the giggles that were trying to get out. This was a serious subject and she knew that it needed to be discussed, but right at that particular moment, Draco came into the room and Hermione and Kyleigh completely lost it.

Draco looked from one to the other and asked accusingly, squinting his eyes at his daughter, "What did you tell your mother?"

~~*~~

Three days later everyone was back at school and getting back into the routine. As September faded and October came, Kyleigh's dreams had become stronger. Her sleep was haunted every night by visions of Lucius. The dreams were coming with such ferocity that she was barely sleeping four hours a night. This didn't go unnoticed by Jamie.

It was deep in the night, a few days before Halloween, when Jamie, who was asleep in his bed, had one of the strangest dreams to ever interrupt his rest. He dreamed that Kyleigh was in trouble and he couldn't get to her. The harder he tried, the further away she got. He awoke with a start feeling something wasn't quite right. Pulling on his robe, Jamie went down to the Gryffindor common room to sit by the fire and do some thinking.

He knew that he liked Kyleigh a lot and that those feelings were of more than the best friend variety but he was a little nervous about making any advances on her. For one, he wasn't sure how she would react. They had been best fiends since before they started at Hogwarts and, secondly, because he had noticed a few times over the summer that, whenever he looked at Kyleigh when Draco was in the room, Draco had given him that 'don't you dare touch my daughter look.

Deep in thought, Jamie didn't realize that there was already someone in the common room when he came down. As he approached the sofa in front of the fire, he noticed a cascade of the most luxurious chocolate brown hair as it fell over the front of the sofa onto the floor. Only one person had hair like that… Kyleigh. As he drew closer, he heard small frantic whispers coming from her as she lay sleeping. He saw what looked like her fighting someone in her sleep.

"Is she having a vision? Do I wake her or let it finish?" he thought to himself, not knowing what to do.

The answer to that came almost immediately. Kyleigh sat bolt upright on the sofa and burst into tears, covering her face with her hands, rocking back and forth. When Jamie stepped closer, Kyleigh's head shot up with a look of extreme fear plastered on her face.

"Jamie," she sobbed, sitting there looking so absolutely pathetic, "help me."

"Kyleigh," he whispered soothingly as he sat down on the sofa next to her and wrapped his arms around her. He thought that this would feel awkward but it felt more right than anything he had ever done in his entire life. Jamie sat there holding her for quite a while. Finally, when she pulled away she looked at him with such sadness it nearly broke his heart.

"Kyleigh, what happened? Was it a dream or a vision?" he asked as he absentmindedly took her hand in his.

"It was a dream. Lucius was after me again," she said as she laid her head on his shoulder, clutching his hand and cried again.

Kyleigh and Jamie sat there, watching the fire, not saying anything for over an hour. Finally, Kyleigh broke the silence saying, "I'm sorry, I really am. I should be used to these dreams by now, it's just… I…" she said as tears threatened again.

Jamie turned on the sofa and gently took her face in his hands. "Kyleigh, I am always here for you. I promise," he whispered tenderly as he looked into her caramel colored eyes.

Without knowing who moved first, suddenly the gap between them had closed as Jamie's lips softly touched Kyleigh's in their first kiss. Kyleigh trembled as they pulled apart. Suddenly, Kyleigh jumped to her feet, shaking fingers touching her still tingling lips. "No," she whispered frantically. "No."

"Kyleigh, what's wrong?" Jamie asked, frightened that he had done something wrong.

"We can't have feelings for each other," she exclaimed in a panic, tears welling in her eyes again.

"Why?" he asked, looking shocked and feeling sick to his stomach.

"Because, if Lucius finds out how much I care for you," she sobbed, "he will come after you too…and I can't let him do that. I would die if he hurt you," she continued as her breath came in short rasps.

Jamie took a step toward her, hand raised to touch her face but she backed away.

"Please, Jamie, I can't," gave one final sob and ran from the room leaving Jamie standing there, heartbroken.

The first Saturday of November came along with the traditional first Quidditch match of the year. An excited Neona sat cheering alongside her father, Remus, Sirius and Charlie Weasley. The match was very exciting and ended with Charlie's sixteen-year-old son, Thaddeus or Tad for short, catching the golden snitch, clinching another Gryffindor victory. Neona excused herself from the men to go and congratulate her housemates. By the time she was able to get to the field, they had already made their way into the locker room. Neona wanted to talk to Tad about something important. Being that he was already inside, she sent Kyleigh's brother Martin in to tell Tad that she needed to talk to him for a moment.

Too cold to wait outside, Neona stood in the warm tunnel that led to the locker room, waiting for Tad to come out. As Tad emerged, Neona's breath caught in her throat. "God, I just love Tad in his Quidditch robes," she thought. As he stepped closer to kiss her hello, Neona stepped back.

"Oh no you don't," she scolded. "You're all sweaty!"

"Well. I can remedy that," he laughed. Despite the cold and dampness of the early November air, he swiftly pulled his robes over his head, leaving him shirtless. Suppressing a gasp, Neona grabbed his hand and pulled him to the side.

"Aren't you cold?" she asked, looking appreciatively up and down at his well-muscled body.

"Not when I am around you," he answered mischievously as he stepped closer to her. "Besides, the tunnel is kept quite warm," he smiled, stepping closer still.

Neona was losing her wits with him this close with his lack of attire.

"What did you want to talk to me about?" he asked, lowering his face closer to hers.

"uuhh…oh yeah," she gave a little smile, "Kyleigh and I are going to the west garden, you know the one that is enchanted to be summertime all year long. She is feeling really bad. Something happened between her and Jamie and she wants to talk about it so I told her we could go there. You don't mind if I miss part of the Gryffindor celebration, do you? We won't be long I don't think. And besides, you don't pay attention to me after a victory anyway," Neona pouted prettily at him.

Tad reached up and gently touched her face. "No, I don't mind, even though we just won the first Quidditch match of your seventh year at Hogwarts," he whined playfully, tucking a strand of her hair behind her ear. "Kyleigh has been worrying me too these last few days. Go be the good friend you are and then we can celebrate later… alone," he said hopefully.

Liking the sound of that, Neona purred, "Oh I would definitely like that, as long as my Dad doesn't find out. I don't think he would like the extra curricular activity his daughter has chosen."

"What? We haven't gone too far… yet," he said with promise.

This comment made Neona's knees feel like pudding, as she looked longingly in his eyes.

"I'd better go. Kyleigh is going to be waiting for me. I'll see you in a little while," she said as she kissed him on the cheek.

As she started to leave, Tad pulled her to him, both of her hands trapped in his. Next thing she knew his hands intertwined with hers, and she was pinned to the wall as he lowered his mouth gently to hers. The kiss was strong with emotion. The deeper the kiss became, the more he pressed against her, molding himself and her to the wall causing her to moan with pleasure as his body touched her in an intimate way.

Did they hear the sound of a throat being cleared?

"Excuse me, Neona?" came the resounding voice of none other that her father, Remus Lupin.

Neona turned bright red. Busted!! As Tad let her go, Remus took a step closer to his daughter.

"Neona, please leave. We will discuss this later with your mother," he said to his daughter as she stepped away from Tad.

"Yes sir," was her reply as she did what he asked.

"Now, Mr. Weasley. You will get dressed and meet me in my classroom. We have something we need to discuss. I will collect your father and meet you there in 15 minutes," Remus said, as Sirius tightly held on the back of Remus' robes to keep him from thrashing the boy.

"Yes sir," said Tad as he turned to walk back in the locker room to change.

"Don't worry son, I will be referee so Remus doesn't completely disembowel you," explained Sirius, watching the horror cross Tad's face.

Once he was out of sight, Remus slapped at Sirius' hands to make him let go of his robes, looking at him with malice.

"Well, I couldn't very well let you kill the boy. I don't think Charlie would have like that," Sirius sniggered, turning his friend towards the opening of the tunnel. "Let's go get Charlie."

~~*~~

Kyleigh and Neona met up in the entrance hall and walked slowly to the west garden. They had found this beautiful spot four years prior when Kyeigh was in her second year. They often came there to talk, read or just get away from the hustle and bustle of the school. Today, they were going to have girl talk. Kyleigh needed to talk to someone with an unbiased opinion about what she should do about Jamie.

As they sat talking, Kyleigh started feeling something strange. Her breathing became laboured and she started to panic.

"Kyleigh," Neona said fretfully, "what's wrong?"

"Oh No… no," she gasped, "Run! Oh, Neona, run! He's here. RUN!!" she screamed as she grabbed Neona's hand and started running to get out of the garden and back to the safety of the castle.

"Who?" Neona cried, terror gripping her body as Kyleigh ran.

Suddenly, their path was blocked.

"Going somewhere?" came the mocking drawl of none other that Lucius Malfoy.