**Disclaimer** This story is based on some characters and ideas created and owned by JK Rowling. The other characters and story line is my own creation. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Here's the next installment. As requested I combined "chapters" and made it a little bit longer. I hope you're enjoying it. My long fic hopefully to come out before the end of the school year! Thanks to all who have reviewed! Thanks R/R!

Here you are…

Cici walked along the path toward the forbidden forest. I must a find a them. She saw a figure at the edge of the forest. She ran as fast as she could toward him. The unmistakable red hair was dirty and filled with sweat. Cici knelt by his side.

"Oh, a Ron! What happened to a you?!

The boy groaned slightly. "Cici, is that you? Where have you been? Why did you leave us like that? It's over though. I managed to escape somehow, but our friends…They're…they're gone, Cici."

Cici gasped. "No! Say it is not a true, a Ron! I did a not a mean to leave. I was a transported to another world, but I am a back a now. Come, let a me get a you to Madam Pomfrey."

"No, it's too late for that now. I'm glad you came back, though. Now at least I am able to see you one last time." He tried to put his hand up to touch her face, but it was too painful.

"Take care of yourself, Cici, and don't worry about me. Just remember that I will always love you."

Cici took his hand in hers and held it up to her face. "No, a Ron! Please do not a leave a me. I am a scared. I cannot be without a you."

She felt the life in his body slip away. "No, this cannot be a happening. I am a dreaming. When I awake I will be in my a bed at a Hogwarts with a Kirsten, Christiane, and a Hermione near to me. And a Ron and a Harry will be near a by in the other a dormitory. Wake up you stupid a girl." Tears fell down her cheeks as she buried her face in Ron's chest.

Cici could see everything fading away. Oh, thank a goodness, I was only dreaming. That was a horrible nightmare!

As the room came into focus, however, Cici saw that she was still in the hospital bed. Oh no, it was a not a dream. Where are my a friends? How do I a know that my a dream was not a true, and they are all a dead?

The boy that Cici had seen before was still in her room. "Hey, good news! The doctor said that you can go home whenever you're ready."

I do a not want to leave a here! What if a this is the only place I can a get back to my a friends and a Hogwarts!

"No, I cannot go yet. I feel too weak."

"Oh, well I should let you rest some more then." He got up to leave.

"No! I mean, will you please tell me who I am? I want to remember." Cici knew that she never would remember because this wasn't her body, but she wanted someone to talk to. Someone to talk to so she wouldn't be alone because that was how she felt.

"Well, I'm not sure I can tell you who you are, but I can certainly tell you about your life."

He began to touch her face again. Cici pulled back scared and embarrassed. "Sorry, you scared me. I am not used to this."

"You mean not used to me. It's okay. I understand. It's just that I've missed you so much. Like I said before, I thought I had lost you a second time."

When he saw that Cici showed a puzzled look on her face he continued. "The first time, you and I ran into some trouble, and we stopped seeing each other for awhile. But I was lucky that you contacted me again."

Cici found this boy to be very emotional, nothing like Ron who was extremely stubborn at times. He was sweet and caring like Ron though. Is he really a gone?

Tears began to trickle down her cheeks. He tried to wipe them away, but she couldn't allow him to do that. It only reminded her more of Ron and the fact that he was now gone.

Cici put her head in her hands and started to sob uncontrollably. "They're gone." She muttered, so no one could hear.

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Long after the lights were turned out in her room, Cici lay still, crying for her misfortune. After many hours, she slipped back into her nightmares.

Again, she was running toward the forest searching for her friends. Ron was stumbling nearby in severe pain.

"Oh a Ron! Let me a help a you!"

"Where were you, Cici? Why did you run off like that?" Ron laid down on the soft grass. "It's over now. Voldemort's gone, but we're done for. Everyone's dead. Harry, Kirsten, Christiane, and Hermione. I managed to get this far. I'm glad I got to see you one last time."

Ron lay still, blood still oozing from the gash in his side. Cici scooped him up into her arms and held him tight. "Oh, I love a you so a much, a Ron. I cannot a lose you a now. I am so a scared. I do not a know what is a going on. I am in another world in a someone else's a body. Please help a me!"

Cici cried till she was almost asleep, but then she heard a sound coming from the Forbidden Forest. Someone else was crying too. Perhaps a someone else has survived! She moved slowly through the thick trees, all the while listening for the crying she heard moments before. Fog was rolling into the forest. Cici could smell death waiting in the wings.

As Cici went on the fog became thicker and so did the smell. Her foot hit something soft, and she couldn't keep her balance. She fell over something cold and moist. She leaned down closer to the ground to get a better look. Cici gasped. She came across two figures lying on the ground. It was her best friends, Kirsten and Christiane. They had known each other since they had barely been able to walk and talk. Now I have a lost you a too. Cici hugged them both and held them in her arms. She couldn't fight back her tears anymore, so again she cried until she fell asleep. She did not hear the crying she had heard before this time, however.

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When Cici awoke it was very bright despite the fact that she was in the Forbidden Forest. Or was she there? The bright, pale yellow walls of the hospital room came into focus. Oh goodness! Just let a me a die already! I am being a tortured. I do a not want to be a here. I want to a die like my a friends a did. Brave and determined. Why a did this a happen?

Her "boyfriend" was there again sitting in a chair beside her bed. "Oh good, you're awake. We don't want to rush you but the doctor said it's time for you to go home. They really don't like to keep patients in here longer than they have to and your vital signs checked out all right. What do you think about coming home?"

Cici became very tense. Home? I cannot a go a home with a strange a people. It is becoming clear that I will a not a be able to a get a back to a Hogwarts in this a place. I am afraid, but I a must go with a them and find some a clue how to a get a home.

"I think I am ready." She smiled slightly even though she had no heart to smile. He left her alone to dress and returned to help her back to her home. Her house was white with black shudders and two stories tall. A dog met her at the gate. It was much like her dog at home in Italy whom she had nicknamed Concetta after her stepmother.

Cici climbed the stairs and walked into a bedroom with pale blue walls and many stuffed animals. There were also contraptions that she had never seen before, obviously Muggle devices. What if I a have to a use a them? What a will I a do?

She heard footsteps behind her and turned to see the boy who helped her from the hospital. He picked up something from the dresser and pushed a button. One of the Muggle devices came alive and started to play soothing music.

"Here, this should help you sleep peacefully. Come on, get into bed. You still need your rest." He helped her into bed and gave her a soft kiss on the forehead. Cici didn't flinch like she normally did. Everything was becoming more natural for her, but she was no closer to accepting this lifestyle. She knew she must find a way to get back to Hogwarts and her wizarding world soon before it was too late.

Cici thought the music that she fell asleep to must have been somewhat magical because she didn't have any nightmares. Her dreams were filled with simple memories of her friends spending time together in different places all over Europe. How would she ever be able to get to England without making anyone suspicious?

When Cici awoke, she was alone with so many new and intriguing objects to examine. There was the box that played music. She didn't dare fool with that. Several Muggle books were on the shelf below. On what seemed like a desk there were two more boxes that looked so foreign to Cici.

Even though it seemed very early in the morning, Cici decided that she would explore her new home. As she came to the end of the hall, she came upon an open bedroom. She peered in to see if anyone occupied the room. Her "boyfriend" was sleeping soundly on a twin bed with some sort of air-blowing contraption next to his head on a night table. Cici walked toward him and kneeled at the edge of the bed. It seemed he was dreaming.

"Don't leave me. I have to see you one last time."

Cici almost gasped out loud. "Ron?" She could feel the room fading away and the dream sequence taking over, but everything seemed different this time.

She whispered, "Is that a you? Please do not a leave a me this a time. I am a so a scared!"

"Cici, why did you leave me? I really needed you. I love you Cici. Now and forever, no matter where I am or where I go, I'll always love you."

"I will always a love a you, too, a Ron." He was slipping from her grasp. "No, a Ron! Please do not a leave a me again. I love a you! Do not a go!" Tears fell down her cheeks.

It took a few moments for Cici to realize she was still in the Muggle world, not dreaming, and a few more minutes to realize that someone was holding her tight, crying as well.

Her "boyfriend" let go and began wiping his own tears away. "I was having a nightmare that I had lost you again. Sorry for grabbing you like that. I didn't realize you were actually there until I awoke."

Cici felt so sorry for him. She wished she could bring back his real love and that she could go back to Ron. But for all she knew he and her friends were dead. I have to a tell a him. Maybe he can a help me somehow.

"I do not know what to say. I mean I want to tell you…I mean I am still so confused, still do not understand a lot. I do not know…" Her lip trembled. I do not a know how to a tell a him.

"You're so beautiful, you know that?" He pushed strands of her hair behind her ear. "I love you. I love you even though you don't remember me. I'll always love you."