**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 last installment. I hope everyone has enjoyed my little fic and maybe some more wonderful people will get to read and review! My long fic to come out soon. It will explain Cici's past as well as her friends lives! Also working on a James and Lily fic but I need more confirmation about their characters (aka OoTP) to be able to finish it. Thanks to all who have reviewed! R/R Please!
Here you are…
You're so beautiful, you know that? I love you. I love you even though you don't remember me. I'll always love you…
I'll always love you…
Those last words resounded in Cici's ears as if Ron were speaking them again. A tear fell down her cheek, which her "boyfriend" brushed away.
"Don't be sad. It will all come back to you soon. Come here, I'll show you something that might help you." He led her back to her room and pointed to the desk with the two strange boxes.
Cici panicked because she knew she had no idea what to do with it. As she was staring at the contraption attempting to figure out how it could possibly work, her "boyfriend" saw her confusion.
"Wow, you've really forgotten everything haven't you? You turn it on here." He pushed the button on the smaller box. "I guess you probably don't remember what you were working on before the accident."
A picture appeared on the bigger box. Cici covered her mouth to stifle a gasp. One of her friends, Harry Potter, was there plain as day with his owl, Hedwig. How did a he get on a there? How a does this a girl know a Harry?
The boy pressed a few buttons on a board and the picture changed to a new screen with words. "Here sit down and read this."
Cici sat down and began to read. Immediately, she looked up in alarm but didn't say anything. Within the first few pages, she realized that she was reading her life, the life of Cecilia Orechio. How did a she a know? Is it a possible that a she is a witch, a too? Maybe she is the a one who is responsible for a changing bodies with a me. Perhaps she was the a person that was a crying in the a forest.
She read on and on, page after page, laughing at the amusing times that had happened to her and her friends. The closer to the end she became, however, the more fearful she was to read anymore. Right before she reached the last scene with her and Ron running down the marble stairs to the entrance hall, Cici had to stop herself from reading. I cannot a read anymore. I cannot a know what a happens. I am a so confused. I do a not understand.
The tears began, and Cici looked away into the near distance where there were many trees just like the Forbidden Forest. It was like her own little world, the one she so very badly belonged in. Suddenly, she broke into hysterical crying. Cici held her head in her hands and tried not mutter anything out loud.
Her "boyfriend" took her in his arms. "It's okay. I understand. I know why you're upset. You're feeling the sorrow of your friends' deaths." Cici immediately stopped crying and stared at him.
"How did you know?"
"Well I would be upset if my best friends died…"
"No, how did you know that they died?"
"I was at the funeral, Sam. I saw them in the caskets."
Cici went white at the sound of her "name." She just couldn't accept being in this girl's body. She had her own life to live even if there was no one she loved to go back to.
"I cannot do this anymore. I cannot be…I already have…"
"I know this is hard, but you'll remember everything again, Sam. I…"
"Stop it! Stop! Do not call me that anymore! That is not who I am. And I…" Cici broke off as she saw that she was unnerving the boy who held her in his arms. She put her head on his shoulder and cried herself to sleep.
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Again, Cici found herself walking toward the Forbidden Forest. Something was certainly different. No one was around. Where is a Ron?
She heard a sound in the distance. Crying?
It was closer this time, and Cici could easily follow the sound. This a looks so familiar. Wait! It is a where my a friends and I were a fighting a Voldemort!
Instead of finding her friends, however, Cici saw another girl that looked almost like her. She did not notice Cici as she came into the clearing.
"Hello? Who are a you?"
The girl looked up startled. "My name is Sam. I am lost here in this forest. Can you help me?"
Cici suddenly became very angry. "You! You Muggle witch! You did a this to a me! You are the reason that I a have no a friends! You are the a reason I am a stuck in another world while a you are in a mine! Give it back to a me now!"
Sam stared at her, suddenly realizing exactly what was happening. She laughed a sad little laugh. "You are quite mistaken. I have no magical powers. However, I did create you, your life, and your world with words. You are not real, only in my imagination. I had all the control and somehow it slipped away. Somehow you became me, and now I am the one who is but a dream away."
"You are a telling me that a you do not a know how to change a places back with a me? This cannot a be!"
"Why can't it? I don't see why you're complaining. You have everything. My life, my family, my boyfriend, even."
"But I do a not belong in your a world. I belong with the one I a love. I must a know what a happens to a them. Do they a die like I have a seen in my a dreams?"
"No, not that I know of. I never finished because…" Sam stopped short, as if coming to another realization. She threw her head in her hands and began to sob.
"What? What is a wrong?" Cici moved closer to comfort her.
"I understand. I remember everything now. I hit my head in a car accident, right?" Cici nodded her head.
"I grieve for my friends, April and Jordan, who died in the car accident that I survived. I had to watch as their life slipped away. We were writing about your world together. April's character is Kirsten, and Jordan's is Christiane. That must be why you dream of your friends dying." She tried to hold herself together.
"And a maybe that is a why I am a here. I have become real to a you because I make you feel a closer to your a friends. But I cannot a help a you as much a you can a help a me. Finish your a story so I can a go back to my a world. Finish it in a memory of your a friends, so you can a move on. I a must understand a something first a though. I am a modeled after a you? I am a your a character? And your a boyfriend? Is he like a Ron?"
Sam smiled. "You should know the answer to that. You spent time with him. Isn't he like Ron? I did model Ron a little bit after him."
Cici sat thinking, analyzing this girl's story about her. "So those in reality stretch across into the a fantasy a world. So a now and forever, no matter where we a go, where we are or a who we are, Ron and a I, we will always a love each other, as a you and your a boyfriend. That is a nice to a know. Thank a you." Cici hugged her. "Make a sure you make a good ending for a me and my a friends." She winked.
Sam watched Cici go. She closed her eyes to stop the tears. She heard a voice in the distance calling her.
"Sam, are you okay? You have me really worried. Please wake up."
She opened her eyes and picked her head slowly up to look at him. She smiled as tears fell down both of her cheeks. "I'm going to miss them."
He wiped her tears away and took her into his arms. "It'll be all right. You'll be okay."
Sam sighed. "I know, I know." She kissed him, remembering Cici's words. Now and forever, no matter where we a go, where we are or a who we are…we will always love each other.
