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Special Thanks to: My big sis, for helpin' out. I Love Ya' Sis!!

Everything was a blur, Aidan felt Ron go stiff. His head snapped up to where Harry was, he saw the bludger. With lightening speed no one expected of him he snapped out his wand and his hand and threw two spells at once. One threw the bludger off into the wild blue sky, the other forming a glowing net underneath Harry who had swung violently to try and escape and had fallen off his broom.

He promptly collapsed into Neville's arms.

Though Neville didn't look it, he was much stronger than he had been when he was a first year and he held Aidan carefully.

"Aidan! Wake up!" cried Neville fearfully.

Aidan's eyelashes fluttered, and then he slowly opened his eyes.

"Is. Ok?" he could only speak in fragments.

"Yes, he's ok, and now you're going to rest." Before Aidan could try to speak or argue Neville picked him up and only with a slight show of strain carried him off to the hospital wing.

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Aidan's eyes were still closed three hours after his collapse.

"Why is this happening?" Neville queried aloud.

"Because he used up all his energy on two very powerful spells that most children his age can't even attempt." Came an icy, this whisper that seemed to be coming from everywhere. Neville's head swung up and looked behind him.

There was nothing.

Aidan heard the voice and his guts turned to a solid lump of cold wet clay that sunk the very lowest of his abdomen. He shivered under his blankets.

Oh no, please. Not again. He thought fearfully. The nightmare was starting all over again.

Daddy was checking up on his little boy again.

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Aidan started to shiver and soon it progressed to convulsions, Neville tried holding him down but he was thrashing so hard he could barely hold him down, the nurse came running over, whipped out her wand and used a paralysis spell on Aidan. Just before he went stiff he had started to whimper and cry.

What's wrong with you, love? What's thrown you into this fit? Neville couldn't help wondering. For now though, he had to be in his classes has if nothing had happened.

As if nothing had happened.

Yeah right, thought Neville sourly, I'm just supposed to pretend that the person I love is just fine when he's just practically in a coma and convulsing, sure I'll just pretend everything is normal. He couldn't help being sarcastic and cynical, it was how he got when he was upset.

Aidan got that way too when he was upset.

Neville's eyes misted slightly, he was more worried than he wanted to admit even to himself. But his teachers wouldn't have pity and he had to go to his classes or start to fail and possibly be expelled, and then he'd never seen Aidan again not even the next school year.

Life must go on, and no matter how depressed he felt he still had to ride along with it.

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Running, Aidan was running. His legs didn't want to though, they were on fire and felt heavy as lead at the same time. Visions of a snake- faced man chasing floating afte rhim effortlessly permeated his sight. Smells of death, decay, and old pussy and infected wounds filled his scent. He couldn't feel anything, his body had long gone numb from the pain that the sharp craggy rocks he ran over had caused to his feet. Only the sounds of tortured screaming filled his ears, screaming from the dying, and almost dead.

No, he can't be back. His mind raced, what had happened? How could he be back? He couldn't comprehend it, he thought that Harry had destroyed him.

Obviously, he'd thought wrong, and now it could be fatal. He heard a voice calling to him from the specter of doom that he had an unbreakable tie too, one of blood, flesh, and bone.

"Why do you run when you already know from the past that I'll catch you." Came the icy whisper, it made the question into a statement. A statement of impedeing doom. Go faster he urged his legs, and he did. From somewhere he pulled another well of energy and shot forward far ahead of the deathly specter with red eyes, slits for a nose, and a snake mouth and tongue to match.