If You Leave Me Now- Chapter 5- Death

~Damonna's Notes:  Okay!  Serious part!  YAY!  See?  I told you I had a plot lying around here somewhere!  And here it is!  Hope you like Chapter 5! I should stop putting exclamation points after every sentence!~

*Audia*

I stood frozen in the corner, wondering very much what I should do. I'm not a brave person, but I have read a lot of books. I knew what I should do. I should go in there and help Damonna. But, like I said, I'm not brave. I couldn't get my legs to work.

"Leave Damonna alone, you bastard!" I shouted. No, actually, I didn't. I moved my mouth up and down like a fish, but no sound came out. It felt like only my eyes worked, and they moved rapidly back and forth with the flying sparks shooting from the wands. I stared for a few more spells, promising myself at the next spell I would attack Riddle, when suddenly Damonna collapsed.

It was really scary, but exactly like it happens in books. Her eyes rolled back in her head, her eyelids closed, and she crumped to the ground, her knees bending first, and then the rest of her body following. It was then my legs decided that they could work, and I was at Damonna's side faster then I knew I could go.

"Damonna?" I asked, but nothing happened. I even remembering slapping her face a couple times, lightly, of course, but still, it didn't matter. I saw several pairs of hands reach down for Damonna, like mine were, but I slapped them away.

"Don't," I said, and my voice was shrill and whining. What had happened? Damonna's face suddenly wrinkled into a smile, but she remained unconscious. What to do. I felt my mind racing through the books I had read, and finally it stopped. Hospital. Hospital Wing I corrected myself, and trained my wand on Damonna. "Wingardium Leviosa," I said softly, and pretended I didn't sound like a two-year-old with my whiny voice.

"I don't think you should be doing that," Professor Riddle said calmly, his body in the doorframe. "You aren't supposed to move an unconscious person, you could disturb something. Put her back down," his voice coaxed, and I felt my wand lowering her body to the floor.

"That's right," he smiled, and our eyes remained locked. "You should leave her right there. Here, Audia, come to me." He extended his arms to me in an embrace, and I felt myself move forward. There was nothing more I wanted than to be wrapped in his strong arms, to feel his heart against my chest, to feel safe and –

I stumbled, my body kicking something in front of me. Curse it, I thought, and looked down to see what I had hit. A body. Damonna's body. It all came back to me then, and I let out a furious breath. I whispered the levitating spell again, and watched as Damonna's body rose into the air. I began to walk forward with it, but stopped when she became perpendicular with another body. Riddle's.

"Put her down, Audia," Riddle hissed, and I struggled not to look at his eyes. Beautiful eyes they were, and they were very tempting. I felt my eyes raising, crawling up his chest, his neck, his lips…

"Shouldn't she go to the hospital wing, Professor?" A voice interrupted my crawl, and I gave a light gasp. I turned to see the speaker, and saw it was the boy Damonna had been paired up with. "The hospital wing," he repeated, as if the Professor were dumb.

I glanced at Riddle again, and caught myself a moment too late. But I didn't feel hypmotized (sp?) this time, because he was glaring at someone else. "No," he said, and I saw his eyes flash. He was working his magic on this boy, too.

"Are you sure, Professor?" another girl spoke up, and Riddle glanced at her too. Surely he couldn't take them both on…could he? His eyes flashed again, and he stared at the girl for a moment. I saw her jaw drop, and quiver a moment. He was getting her too.

Suddenly, a crash near the back of the room made us jump. A small fire had started, and Damonna's partner stood there, looking guilty. "Sorry," he whimpered as Riddle advanced on him, "It was an accident. Go!" He mouthed this last part to me, and that was all it took. I was out the door and down the hall before I knew what I had just done. It hit me, and I stopped dead in the hall. I was breaking rules. I should go back, I don't want detention. I took a step in the direction I had just come from, and heard a loud voice shake down the hall.

"Miss Riley, just what are you doing out of class? And why are you… oh… " I whirled around, and saw Professor McGonagall striding toward me. She had seen Damonna, and her face grew pale. "Right," she said, and her face had gone back to normal. "Take her to the hospital wing at once. What class were you in?"

I swallowed, and pointed down the hall. "Defence Against the – " But she was already gone. I turned down the hall, and headed toward the Hospital Wing.

*Sirius*

I glanced around for a moment, realizing that McGonagall had left. This was my chance.

I was heading for the door before I knew it. The only thing that stopped me was a hand grabbing at my robe as I passed. Prong's hand.

"Hey," he said while adjusting the glasses on his face. "Where you going?"

"To find Damonna." I glanced at the door and at James.

He let go of my robe and smiled. "Alright, but I hope this doesn't mean you're leaving us for a girl." Moony nodded to this.

"Never." I shrugged. "Hey, Marauders for life, okay?"

They smiled and nodded.

But I was already out the door.

A flash of red was all I saw next. But I knew what it was. Audia. She was running down the hallway.

"Audia!"

She froze. Turning slowly, all I could see was fear in her eyes. And then she smiled weakly. "Sirius! I thought you were…somebody else…"

I ran to catch up with her.

And then I noticed the other girl.

Damonna, hovering above the ground. I felt my breath catch in my throat. She wasn't moving, or breathing for all I could tell. Maybe I had seen her ghost. I shook my head. "Is she…"

"Dead? I hope not." Her expression collapsed, and she grabbed and my rode. "Sirius…it was horrible…" She buried her face in my chest.

"She'll be fine," I said gently, lifting her chin up so I could look into her eyes.

She was crying.

"Let's get her to the hospital wing, okay?"

She wiped her eyes and nodded, breaking into a run again.

We reached the wing in record time, I'm sure. We got Damonna to a bed, and Pomphrey sent us out. We didn't have to wait long.

She came back and looked at us, her face stricken with grief. "I'm sorry…" Was all she could choke out.

Auida leaned near me, and, for the second time that day, cried into my robes.