Chapter 8: Needing Someone
When the party started to die down, Chanse carefully slipped out of the Ravenclaw Commons Room, in search of something. She walked down to the front stairs and stopped, 'Should I?' Chanse thought.
'Should you what?' Geno rang inside her head.
'Go to...wait, this is none of your business, Geno!'
'But I made it my business.'
'Well stop it then...connection out!' Chanse laughed in her head as she shut the connection with Geno, and began to think to herself, 'Should I go to the Gryffindor Tower?' Chanse pondered, 'It couldn't hurt.' Chanse shrugged as she started up the stairs that Oliver always went up, but she kept ending up back at the front stairs.
She finally sat down and thought how she could get to the Gryffindor house. "I've got it" Chanse shouted, 'GENO!' she yelled, in her head.
A few seconds later Chanse's little dark red owl came flying down and perched itself on her shoulder. 'Yes Chanse?'
'Hey Geno, can you go find the Gryffindor house, then lead me to it?'
'So you need me now, huh?' Geno snickered.
'Come on Geno...please?' Chanse pleaded.
'Oh, alright...just stop begging.'
'YEAH!' Chanse cheered in her head.
Geno took off and disappeared then would reappear then disappeared again and again.
About fifteen minutes later Geno returned, 'Did you find it, Geno?'
'Yes.' Geno took flight again and led Chanse up many different staircases. Finally Chanse reached the Gryffindor hallway. She walked down it to the end where a picture of a fat lady was hanging.
"Password?" The lady asked.
"Oh, I don't want to get into the house, I was just looking for Oliver Wood, is he in?"
"I don't know, only the ghost of the house, Sir Nicolas, knows who's here and who's not."
"Well, could you ask, Sir Nicolas, if Oliver Wood is in?"
"No I can not, I'm sorry."
"Oh....Ok. Thank you, Lady." Chanse nodded to the painting and walked over the wall a slid down it and sat down on the floor, next to the painting of the lady. A few moments later the painting opened and Chanse stood up, very quickly. "Hello? Is someone... Oh, Chanse, hello." Hermione said.
"Hey, Hermione, what's up?"
"Nothing, Just hanging out with my friends, you want to come in?"
"Well, not really."
"Oh come on I want you to meet my friends!"
"Oh, ok," Chanse smiled and nudged Hermione, "Thanks." Chanse walked into the Gryffindor house, and expected it to be full of Gryffindors, but instead it only had a couple of them, sitting around being quite. "Hermione, where's everyone?"
"Some of them are out practicing Quidditch; some are in their rooms, and the others, who knows!" Hermione laughed, "Here, over here, is where my friends and I are...wait why are you here?"
"Well, I came to tell you, Oliver, and Angelina that I'm the new Keeper for Ravenclaw Quidditch Team!"
"Congratulations!" Hermione gave Chanse and big hug.
"Thanks."
"Do you know where Angelina or Oliver is?"
"Nope I don't know where Angelina is, but Oliver came back here this afternoon and went up to his room and stayed up there for awhile then he came back down, and he looked really upset about something, so I tried to talk to him, but he just ignored me and walked out of the house. He's been gone for about four or five hours! I don't know where he is now, or what he's doing, or why he's upset. But Oliver will be back sometime tonight I'll find out then. But for now come meet my friends there over there." Hermione pointed to two boys, in a corner, playing chess.
"Chanse?!" Chanse turned around and at the top of the stairs Angelina was standing there with her hands on her hips.
"Angelina?!" Chanse squeaked.
Angelina ran down the stairs and towards Chanse. "Hey girl I was looking for you. Guess what!"
Hermione watched the two girls and walked back over to her corner where the two boys that she sat by in the Great Hall (the red-haired boy, and the other one).
"What?"
"Guess who, the new Keeper for Ravenclaw's Quidditch Team, is?"
"No way!"
"Yup!"
"AHHHHH!" Angelina screamed, and the Gryffindor house turned and looked at her, and Chanse and her giggled, "Oh my God! That's awesome!" Angelina whispered, "Oh...I'm playing you tomorrow! That's going to be so much fun!"
"I know...I can't wait...But I should really get back to my room, so I was wondering if you knew where Oliver is?"
"I don't know, last I saw him he looked worried or upset about something, and said he was going for a walk or something. Didn't you come to talk to me?" She laughed
"Well, yeah but I only have a certain amount of time. It's dark out, I hope he comes back."
Angelina looked at Chanse like she was a fool, "He'll be back, I promise."
"Well, will you tell him to find my as soon as possible, but don't tell him why, ok?"
"Ok." Chanse gave Angelina one last hug and waved bye and walked over to Hermione, who was sitting with her friends in a corner.
"Hey girl, I'm leaving."
"Oh bye." Hermione stood up and gave Chanse a hug.
"Hey sorry, I didn't have a chance to meet you guys, but I really got to go, sorry another time.... Well, I guess real quick introduction won't kill me...I'm Chanse Jackson, who are you two?"
"I'm Ron Weasley." The little red-haired boy said. Chanse nodded to him and he nodded back.
"You're a Weasley boy? I should have known" Chanse laughed, "And who are you?"
"I'm Harry Potter." Harry stuck out his hand to shake Chanse's hand.
Chanse looked at Harry, who looked at her waiting for her to shake his hand, but instead she turned around and walked quickly out of the house. "Well that was strange." Harry stated; Ron nodded. Hermione looked at the door.
"Hermione you have chosen a weird friend!" Ron said, and when Hermione didn't respond he looked over at her and she was zoning out on the door, "Herm?"
"Something's wrong..." Hermione shook her head and looked down at the ground then looked back at the door, "...or something bothering her...But what?" She glanced at the door, and then looked over at Harry and Ron who were staring at her.
She smiled weakly and turned and watched their Chess game, and made one last glance at the door.
Chanse ran out of the Gryffindor house and stopped outside the entrance, "Want me to tell Oliver you came by?"
Chanse turned around and the fat lady who asked again, "Do you want me to tell Oliver you came by?" Chanse smiled and walked back to the picture.
"That would be great, thanks." The lady smiled at Chanse, and Chanse smiled back. Then she turned around and started to walk down the hallway, again.
Chanse walked down the hallway, down the stairs and then she got a small weird feeling in her stomach. She finally reached the front stairs again and the feeling got a little stronger. Chanse didn't know why but for some weird reason the feeling made her walk out into the courtyard.
Once she was about to enter the courtyard, she stopped and looked around then took one step out into the courtyard, and a strong breeze blew through. She stopped and closed her eyes, and took a deep breath in.
"Chanse." And wispy voice echoed through the courtyard. Chanse wanted to turn around and ran to the safety of her house, but instead she ran to the fountain in the middle of the courtyard. She stopped and looked around like she was looking for something...or someone.
After awhile of looking she got tired of looking for something that she wasn't even sure was there, so Chanse sat down on the fountain's edge. Chanse looked around the courtyard and then she thought she saw something or someone moving in the shadows. "Hello? Is someone there?" she yelled at the thing.
There was no responses it just kept moving all around Chanse, but it never left the shadows. "I see you. Who are you?" No response. Then suddenly the thing disappeared.
Chanse got a terrible feeling in her stomach like something bad was going to happen. She tossed her hair back and put it into a ponytail, so that in case she had to fight her hair wouldn't get in her way. Putting her hair in a ponytail made the coin necklace, her parents gave her, come untucked from her robe.
As soon as that happened, the thing in the shadows came back into the shadows, and it hissed, then it disappeared back into the deep shadows. Chanse started to get nervous, "Hello? Who's there? Come on this isn't funny!" she yelled.
"Chanse watch out!" Chanse looked around in the courtyard to see who said that but no one was there. She looked up and saw Oliver, flying above her on a broomstick.
"Oliver!" Chanse said happily, "I came to find you and..."
"CHANSE WATCH OUT!" Chanse looked puzzled and then turned and looked in front of her and she saw a small ugly creature running towards her and an unbelievably fast speed.
"Impediment Jinx!" Chanse yelled, at the thing, hoping that spell would slow it down, it did, but just a little, but it still could run fast. "OLIVER!" Chanse closed her eyes and screamed. She kicked her leg at the thing hoping she would hit it and or at least scare it away.
"ACCIO, CHANSE!" Oliver yelled.
Chanse waited a little bit and then realized the thing hadn't touched her so she slowly opened her eyes she saw that she was in the air!
She looked around her. "You ok Chanse? Did it touch you?" She looked behind her and Oliver was there, with his arm around her waist, Chanse looked at it, and then looked at Oliver. "Chanse?" Chanse nodded. "Good, cause I'd kill that thing if it even touched you!" Oliver's arm got tighter around Chanse's stomach.
Chanse turned her head and looked at Oliver in shock, "Well I would." Chanse turned forward and looked down at Oliver's arm. She smiled and felt very comfortable, and she then looked down at the creature that was wildly running around looking for Chanse.
"Well it didn't touch me; therefore you don't have to kill it. But it scared me so bad that I need to do something about it!" Chanse stared at the creature very angrily, and Oliver looked at Chanse all confused.
"GENO!" Chanse yelled,
'Yes Chanse?' Geno asked telepathically, while he started to fly to Chanse.
Chanse sent a telepathically message to Geno, 'Geno bring me my wand, quick!'
A few seconds later Chanse's little bird was right beside her with her wand in his beak, "Thank you."
Chanse took the wand and pointed it at the creature, which was running around trying to find out where Chanse had gone to, "Hey...up here!" the creature stopped running around and looked around. It looked up and saw Chanse.
It made a little grunting noise, and ran around in circles, underneath Chanse, "Yeah I'm up here, bitch! Petrificua Totalus," immediately the creature stopped running around and fell over. "Should I kill it?"
"Yes. Anything that tried to kill you, you should kill, because if you don't...I will." Oliver said.
"Incendio!" A huge lightning bolt of fire sprayed down on the creature, from Chanse's wand, and it killed it instantly.
Chanse looked at the dead creature, and squinted her eyes. She stared at the creature for awhile, but she stopped when Oliver's arm got tighter around her stomach. She quickly looked away from the creature and looked at Oliver's arm, she blushed and smiled.
Oliver landed his broom, and he and Chanse got off. Chanse walked over to the creature, "Wait...Chanse I'll check it out." Chanse rolled her eyes.
"Oliver," Chanse walked over to him and laid her hand on his shoulder, "You've done enough for me. Let me do this."
Chanse pulled Oliver back and walked over to the creature, which was burnt to a crisp. She looked down at it. Oliver walked over and placed his hand down on Chanse's shoulder, and Chanse jumped.
"Wow...a little jumpy aren't you?" Chanse stood up next to Oliver, looked at him, and smiled.
"Oliver you must be really fast on your broom, cause you picked me up really fast."
"No, I used an easy spell, to summon for you. You know Accio?"
"Oh yeah...I knew that" Chanse laughed. Then she looked back down at the creature, "What is that thing?"
"It was an erkling." Oliver and Chanse turned around, and Professor Snape was standing behind them. "You two are out late. You know that you're supposed to be in your houses in twenty minutes...don't you?" Chanse and Oliver nodded.
Snape turned around and started walking back to the front entrance. Chanse looked down at the creature, "Why was he after me?" Chanse looked up at Snape.
"Most erklings go after children to eat them...but it, seemed, to not be after you," Snape turned around and walked back to Chanse, "but after your coin, around your neck." Chanse looked down at her coin necklace, which was twirling around. She held it in her hands.
"You two should be getting back to your houses, because it's almost time for the houses to close." Oliver and Chanse nodded, "and if your even a second late to getting back to your house, I'll take points away from Gryffindor!" Chanse and Oliver looked at each other in a little fear, and then watch as Professor Snape turned and walked back to the front stairs.
Oliver watched Snape go inside, while Chanse walked over to the fountain and looked into it. Oliver turned around to say something to Chanse, but Chanse wasn't behind him. He saw her over by the fountain, and she looked worried. She was just standing there looking into the fountain with her hands rapped around her stomach.
Oliver walked up behind her, "Are you ok?" Chanse didn't say anything or even nod, she just looked down at her side and sighed. Oliver nodded his head and rapped his arms around her side, and laid his chin down on Chanse's shoulder. Chanse didn't do anything, she just stood there.
They stayed like that for about a minute or two, and then finally Oliver tried asking again, "Are you ok?" Chanse looked down at her side and nodded.
"Yeah." She whispered.
Oliver looked down into the fountain, and saw Chanse's face. It was filled with sadness. He turned Chanse around and looked into her, emerald green, eyes, and pulled her closer to him. He pulled her right up to his face, looked deep into her eyes and hugged her, "Chanse I'm here for you...no matter what."
Chanse slowly wrapped her arms around Oliver and squeezed him tightly. "I know," She whispered, "I know." She laid her down on his shoulder. She was holding back her tears, as much as she could, "Please, Oliver...never leave me." She said. Oliver nodded his head.
"Never." He whispered.
Then he pulled away from Chanse and cocked his head towards the front stairs, and Chanse nodded. They started walking, next to each other, and Oliver put his arm around her. They walk with their arms onto of each other's shoulder, until they got to the top of the front stairs.
"Thanks Oliver...for being there for me..." Chanse looked down at the ground, "...and saving my ass when I couldn't." She laughed.
"Chanse you know I support you. Right? I mean the whole thing today, and you wouldn't give me a chance to talk, and tell you that my gut said you could do it, but my...." Oliver stopped in the middle of his sentence and looked out into the courtyard.
"Oliver? Your what told you what?" Chanse asked. She stopped and thought about what she had said, "Yeah that's right...Your what told you what?" she repeated.
When the party started to die down, Chanse carefully slipped out of the Ravenclaw Commons Room, in search of something. She walked down to the front stairs and stopped, 'Should I?' Chanse thought.
'Should you what?' Geno rang inside her head.
'Go to...wait, this is none of your business, Geno!'
'But I made it my business.'
'Well stop it then...connection out!' Chanse laughed in her head as she shut the connection with Geno, and began to think to herself, 'Should I go to the Gryffindor Tower?' Chanse pondered, 'It couldn't hurt.' Chanse shrugged as she started up the stairs that Oliver always went up, but she kept ending up back at the front stairs.
She finally sat down and thought how she could get to the Gryffindor house. "I've got it" Chanse shouted, 'GENO!' she yelled, in her head.
A few seconds later Chanse's little dark red owl came flying down and perched itself on her shoulder. 'Yes Chanse?'
'Hey Geno, can you go find the Gryffindor house, then lead me to it?'
'So you need me now, huh?' Geno snickered.
'Come on Geno...please?' Chanse pleaded.
'Oh, alright...just stop begging.'
'YEAH!' Chanse cheered in her head.
Geno took off and disappeared then would reappear then disappeared again and again.
About fifteen minutes later Geno returned, 'Did you find it, Geno?'
'Yes.' Geno took flight again and led Chanse up many different staircases. Finally Chanse reached the Gryffindor hallway. She walked down it to the end where a picture of a fat lady was hanging.
"Password?" The lady asked.
"Oh, I don't want to get into the house, I was just looking for Oliver Wood, is he in?"
"I don't know, only the ghost of the house, Sir Nicolas, knows who's here and who's not."
"Well, could you ask, Sir Nicolas, if Oliver Wood is in?"
"No I can not, I'm sorry."
"Oh....Ok. Thank you, Lady." Chanse nodded to the painting and walked over the wall a slid down it and sat down on the floor, next to the painting of the lady. A few moments later the painting opened and Chanse stood up, very quickly. "Hello? Is someone... Oh, Chanse, hello." Hermione said.
"Hey, Hermione, what's up?"
"Nothing, Just hanging out with my friends, you want to come in?"
"Well, not really."
"Oh come on I want you to meet my friends!"
"Oh, ok," Chanse smiled and nudged Hermione, "Thanks." Chanse walked into the Gryffindor house, and expected it to be full of Gryffindors, but instead it only had a couple of them, sitting around being quite. "Hermione, where's everyone?"
"Some of them are out practicing Quidditch; some are in their rooms, and the others, who knows!" Hermione laughed, "Here, over here, is where my friends and I are...wait why are you here?"
"Well, I came to tell you, Oliver, and Angelina that I'm the new Keeper for Ravenclaw Quidditch Team!"
"Congratulations!" Hermione gave Chanse and big hug.
"Thanks."
"Do you know where Angelina or Oliver is?"
"Nope I don't know where Angelina is, but Oliver came back here this afternoon and went up to his room and stayed up there for awhile then he came back down, and he looked really upset about something, so I tried to talk to him, but he just ignored me and walked out of the house. He's been gone for about four or five hours! I don't know where he is now, or what he's doing, or why he's upset. But Oliver will be back sometime tonight I'll find out then. But for now come meet my friends there over there." Hermione pointed to two boys, in a corner, playing chess.
"Chanse?!" Chanse turned around and at the top of the stairs Angelina was standing there with her hands on her hips.
"Angelina?!" Chanse squeaked.
Angelina ran down the stairs and towards Chanse. "Hey girl I was looking for you. Guess what!"
Hermione watched the two girls and walked back over to her corner where the two boys that she sat by in the Great Hall (the red-haired boy, and the other one).
"What?"
"Guess who, the new Keeper for Ravenclaw's Quidditch Team, is?"
"No way!"
"Yup!"
"AHHHHH!" Angelina screamed, and the Gryffindor house turned and looked at her, and Chanse and her giggled, "Oh my God! That's awesome!" Angelina whispered, "Oh...I'm playing you tomorrow! That's going to be so much fun!"
"I know...I can't wait...But I should really get back to my room, so I was wondering if you knew where Oliver is?"
"I don't know, last I saw him he looked worried or upset about something, and said he was going for a walk or something. Didn't you come to talk to me?" She laughed
"Well, yeah but I only have a certain amount of time. It's dark out, I hope he comes back."
Angelina looked at Chanse like she was a fool, "He'll be back, I promise."
"Well, will you tell him to find my as soon as possible, but don't tell him why, ok?"
"Ok." Chanse gave Angelina one last hug and waved bye and walked over to Hermione, who was sitting with her friends in a corner.
"Hey girl, I'm leaving."
"Oh bye." Hermione stood up and gave Chanse a hug.
"Hey sorry, I didn't have a chance to meet you guys, but I really got to go, sorry another time.... Well, I guess real quick introduction won't kill me...I'm Chanse Jackson, who are you two?"
"I'm Ron Weasley." The little red-haired boy said. Chanse nodded to him and he nodded back.
"You're a Weasley boy? I should have known" Chanse laughed, "And who are you?"
"I'm Harry Potter." Harry stuck out his hand to shake Chanse's hand.
Chanse looked at Harry, who looked at her waiting for her to shake his hand, but instead she turned around and walked quickly out of the house. "Well that was strange." Harry stated; Ron nodded. Hermione looked at the door.
"Hermione you have chosen a weird friend!" Ron said, and when Hermione didn't respond he looked over at her and she was zoning out on the door, "Herm?"
"Something's wrong..." Hermione shook her head and looked down at the ground then looked back at the door, "...or something bothering her...But what?" She glanced at the door, and then looked over at Harry and Ron who were staring at her.
She smiled weakly and turned and watched their Chess game, and made one last glance at the door.
Chanse ran out of the Gryffindor house and stopped outside the entrance, "Want me to tell Oliver you came by?"
Chanse turned around and the fat lady who asked again, "Do you want me to tell Oliver you came by?" Chanse smiled and walked back to the picture.
"That would be great, thanks." The lady smiled at Chanse, and Chanse smiled back. Then she turned around and started to walk down the hallway, again.
Chanse walked down the hallway, down the stairs and then she got a small weird feeling in her stomach. She finally reached the front stairs again and the feeling got a little stronger. Chanse didn't know why but for some weird reason the feeling made her walk out into the courtyard.
Once she was about to enter the courtyard, she stopped and looked around then took one step out into the courtyard, and a strong breeze blew through. She stopped and closed her eyes, and took a deep breath in.
"Chanse." And wispy voice echoed through the courtyard. Chanse wanted to turn around and ran to the safety of her house, but instead she ran to the fountain in the middle of the courtyard. She stopped and looked around like she was looking for something...or someone.
After awhile of looking she got tired of looking for something that she wasn't even sure was there, so Chanse sat down on the fountain's edge. Chanse looked around the courtyard and then she thought she saw something or someone moving in the shadows. "Hello? Is someone there?" she yelled at the thing.
There was no responses it just kept moving all around Chanse, but it never left the shadows. "I see you. Who are you?" No response. Then suddenly the thing disappeared.
Chanse got a terrible feeling in her stomach like something bad was going to happen. She tossed her hair back and put it into a ponytail, so that in case she had to fight her hair wouldn't get in her way. Putting her hair in a ponytail made the coin necklace, her parents gave her, come untucked from her robe.
As soon as that happened, the thing in the shadows came back into the shadows, and it hissed, then it disappeared back into the deep shadows. Chanse started to get nervous, "Hello? Who's there? Come on this isn't funny!" she yelled.
"Chanse watch out!" Chanse looked around in the courtyard to see who said that but no one was there. She looked up and saw Oliver, flying above her on a broomstick.
"Oliver!" Chanse said happily, "I came to find you and..."
"CHANSE WATCH OUT!" Chanse looked puzzled and then turned and looked in front of her and she saw a small ugly creature running towards her and an unbelievably fast speed.
"Impediment Jinx!" Chanse yelled, at the thing, hoping that spell would slow it down, it did, but just a little, but it still could run fast. "OLIVER!" Chanse closed her eyes and screamed. She kicked her leg at the thing hoping she would hit it and or at least scare it away.
"ACCIO, CHANSE!" Oliver yelled.
Chanse waited a little bit and then realized the thing hadn't touched her so she slowly opened her eyes she saw that she was in the air!
She looked around her. "You ok Chanse? Did it touch you?" She looked behind her and Oliver was there, with his arm around her waist, Chanse looked at it, and then looked at Oliver. "Chanse?" Chanse nodded. "Good, cause I'd kill that thing if it even touched you!" Oliver's arm got tighter around Chanse's stomach.
Chanse turned her head and looked at Oliver in shock, "Well I would." Chanse turned forward and looked down at Oliver's arm. She smiled and felt very comfortable, and she then looked down at the creature that was wildly running around looking for Chanse.
"Well it didn't touch me; therefore you don't have to kill it. But it scared me so bad that I need to do something about it!" Chanse stared at the creature very angrily, and Oliver looked at Chanse all confused.
"GENO!" Chanse yelled,
'Yes Chanse?' Geno asked telepathically, while he started to fly to Chanse.
Chanse sent a telepathically message to Geno, 'Geno bring me my wand, quick!'
A few seconds later Chanse's little bird was right beside her with her wand in his beak, "Thank you."
Chanse took the wand and pointed it at the creature, which was running around trying to find out where Chanse had gone to, "Hey...up here!" the creature stopped running around and looked around. It looked up and saw Chanse.
It made a little grunting noise, and ran around in circles, underneath Chanse, "Yeah I'm up here, bitch! Petrificua Totalus," immediately the creature stopped running around and fell over. "Should I kill it?"
"Yes. Anything that tried to kill you, you should kill, because if you don't...I will." Oliver said.
"Incendio!" A huge lightning bolt of fire sprayed down on the creature, from Chanse's wand, and it killed it instantly.
Chanse looked at the dead creature, and squinted her eyes. She stared at the creature for awhile, but she stopped when Oliver's arm got tighter around her stomach. She quickly looked away from the creature and looked at Oliver's arm, she blushed and smiled.
Oliver landed his broom, and he and Chanse got off. Chanse walked over to the creature, "Wait...Chanse I'll check it out." Chanse rolled her eyes.
"Oliver," Chanse walked over to him and laid her hand on his shoulder, "You've done enough for me. Let me do this."
Chanse pulled Oliver back and walked over to the creature, which was burnt to a crisp. She looked down at it. Oliver walked over and placed his hand down on Chanse's shoulder, and Chanse jumped.
"Wow...a little jumpy aren't you?" Chanse stood up next to Oliver, looked at him, and smiled.
"Oliver you must be really fast on your broom, cause you picked me up really fast."
"No, I used an easy spell, to summon for you. You know Accio?"
"Oh yeah...I knew that" Chanse laughed. Then she looked back down at the creature, "What is that thing?"
"It was an erkling." Oliver and Chanse turned around, and Professor Snape was standing behind them. "You two are out late. You know that you're supposed to be in your houses in twenty minutes...don't you?" Chanse and Oliver nodded.
Snape turned around and started walking back to the front entrance. Chanse looked down at the creature, "Why was he after me?" Chanse looked up at Snape.
"Most erklings go after children to eat them...but it, seemed, to not be after you," Snape turned around and walked back to Chanse, "but after your coin, around your neck." Chanse looked down at her coin necklace, which was twirling around. She held it in her hands.
"You two should be getting back to your houses, because it's almost time for the houses to close." Oliver and Chanse nodded, "and if your even a second late to getting back to your house, I'll take points away from Gryffindor!" Chanse and Oliver looked at each other in a little fear, and then watch as Professor Snape turned and walked back to the front stairs.
Oliver watched Snape go inside, while Chanse walked over to the fountain and looked into it. Oliver turned around to say something to Chanse, but Chanse wasn't behind him. He saw her over by the fountain, and she looked worried. She was just standing there looking into the fountain with her hands rapped around her stomach.
Oliver walked up behind her, "Are you ok?" Chanse didn't say anything or even nod, she just looked down at her side and sighed. Oliver nodded his head and rapped his arms around her side, and laid his chin down on Chanse's shoulder. Chanse didn't do anything, she just stood there.
They stayed like that for about a minute or two, and then finally Oliver tried asking again, "Are you ok?" Chanse looked down at her side and nodded.
"Yeah." She whispered.
Oliver looked down into the fountain, and saw Chanse's face. It was filled with sadness. He turned Chanse around and looked into her, emerald green, eyes, and pulled her closer to him. He pulled her right up to his face, looked deep into her eyes and hugged her, "Chanse I'm here for you...no matter what."
Chanse slowly wrapped her arms around Oliver and squeezed him tightly. "I know," She whispered, "I know." She laid her down on his shoulder. She was holding back her tears, as much as she could, "Please, Oliver...never leave me." She said. Oliver nodded his head.
"Never." He whispered.
Then he pulled away from Chanse and cocked his head towards the front stairs, and Chanse nodded. They started walking, next to each other, and Oliver put his arm around her. They walk with their arms onto of each other's shoulder, until they got to the top of the front stairs.
"Thanks Oliver...for being there for me..." Chanse looked down at the ground, "...and saving my ass when I couldn't." She laughed.
"Chanse you know I support you. Right? I mean the whole thing today, and you wouldn't give me a chance to talk, and tell you that my gut said you could do it, but my...." Oliver stopped in the middle of his sentence and looked out into the courtyard.
"Oliver? Your what told you what?" Chanse asked. She stopped and thought about what she had said, "Yeah that's right...Your what told you what?" she repeated.