A/N: I would like to thank all of my faithful readers. I love you all. I will try to get another chapter up by this weekend. Hopefully. Anyway, just to clarify, this is not a Draco/Hermione fic. I do read them, but I don't think I could write them yet. But ya never know. So, I hope you all like this chapter.
"Did you think that I wouldn't find you Autumn?" a tall man in black robes asked. His face was covered, and his voice was distorted, although, it still seemed familiar to Draco.
"Wh… what do you want?" Autumn asked once she relearned how to breathe. She was as white as she could get. You could see overwhelming amounts of fear in her eyes.
"Why, April of course. She has a big future ahead of her and we cannot have that ruined by having her attend this school. Of course I do need you along with Jake and Draco. You all are small parts of the big puzzle. Now come nice and quiet or else I will have to take drastic measures." The man walked closer to them.
Draco pulled out his wand and pointed it at the man. "Over my dead body." As he took attention off of Autumn, she wrote a quick note and sent it to the headmaster.
"Come now Draco, it is your destiny. You cannot change it," the man said as he gave Draco the oddest feeling that he knew him quite well.
The bedroom door opened and Jake walked out of the room to see the commotion. He quickly pulled out his wand as well while he had one pointing back at himself. "What the hell is going on out here?"
"You have just joined the party, Jacob. Now get April out of here and we can be on our way."
"I'm afraid I cannot allow that, Mr. Blackstream," the headmaster said in the portrait way. "You are not allowed in my school and I will ask you kindly to leave, or else we will have to do it by force." He stood aside to let the potion's master and the head of Gryffindor into the common room.
"You won't be needing them." The man ran toward the window and jumped out of it. When Autumn and Draco looked out of it, there was no trace of him.
"Jake, can you go check on April to make sure she is okay?" Dumbledore asked as he moved toward Autumn and Draco.
"That was very brave of you both to stand up to an evil wizard. I will award your house 50 points for each of you. Now try to get some rest," Dumbledore said and walked out of the portrait hole flanked by Snape and the Deputy Headmistress.
"So what were you saying before that big interruption?" Draco asked.
"The other person is her own father." Autumn looked down and started to cry again.
"But didn't you say that her dad was a muggle?" Draco asked confused and trying to comfort Autumn.
"Her mother thought he was a muggle. He is one of You-Know-Who's top men. She gets threatening letters from him every once in a while. She doesn't know what he looks like, so she cannot run away from him until it is too late. Now that he knows that we are here… We aren't safe anymore. He has connections everywhere, and they are much stronger in Europe. She did receive a letter once from him that said that she is to become the next dark wizard of the age. She is to be You-Know-Who's predecessor."
"So, all you know about her father is that he is very evil, left when she was 10, and is one of the Dark Lord's right hand men. I could help you more if…" Draco trailed off thinking of his own history. How when he was younger, his father was never around. He was pushed back into reality when he heard a door slam and Jake standing outside April's door.
"She kicked me out…" Jake said stunned still standing at the door.
"But is she okay?" Autumn asked.
"Yeah, she's okay, but she kicked me out…" he repeated.
"Yes, women are fickle things aren't they?" Draco said and was then slapped.
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April sat in her room thinking to herself. Her father had been in the common room just minutes ago. He had found where they were in a few short days. She heard him say something about needing all four of them in the plot scheme for it to work. She thought to herself, Plot scheme? What is he talking about? I bet it has something to do with being You-Know-Who's heir. It doesn't make sense though I'm female. How can I be an heir to the dark empire, and if I am, there isn't anything to inherent. Who says that I am going to accept my so-called 'destiny' and again I think 'why me' if I am just a mudblood?
Unless you aren't a mudblood… another voice in her head said.
And what would make you think that I'm not a mudblood. My mother is a squib and my father was a… April stopped that train of thought. How would my father know who the dark lord is unless he wasn't a muggle? That would mean that he is a wizard for him to be close to one of the most powerful wizards alive. He would also be a pureblood for him to be that close. That also means that he knew my mother's family and pretended to be a muggle to gain her trust. He knew that joining the two pureblood families would produce the next dark lord, even if it were female. April started to cry silently to herself. I didn't ask to be born by them. So, why the hell to they place this burden on me? April continued to cry as Jake ran into the room again to comfort her.
"It's okay. You don't have to be the dark lord's heir. You won't have to fulfill this burden," Jake said rocking her back and forth in his arms.
April looked up suddenly. She stared at Jake with her tear stricken eyes. "How did you know that I was the dark lord's heir? And how did you know that there is a burden on me?"
"You were talking to yourself. I heard you through the door. And your father is a wizard. The headmaster seemed to recognize him somewhat. We don't have any information on him just yet," Jake said not paying that much attention to April's distress.
"I wasn't talking aloud. Ask Autumn and Draco if they heard anything. Please?" April asked quickly.
Jake got up and walked to the door and called for Autumn and Draco to come to the room. After they were both standing there, Jake asked, "Did either of you also hear April talking aloud to herself in here?"
Draco and Autumn looked at each other questionably, then Autumn looked at April. Do you think he heard your thoughts? I know I can hear them when we are in the same room, but I didn't hear anything…
April stared back. If he can then he can hear my part of the conversation. Let's test this.
What do you want me to ask you? Autumn asked in her mind. Well, let's see if you can get a shock out of this. Draco and I almost hit home last night.
WHAT? You decided to tell me that you and Draco almost slept together last night! What the hell is wrong with you? April asked silently shock apparent on her face.
"Dude, why didn't you tell me you almost did it with Autumn last night?" Jake asked Draco.
This confirms our suspicion. Autumn said.
"How the hell… I mean, what are you talking about?" Draco said trying to be slick about it.
"April just said it. Didn't you hear?" Jake said again.
Jake, look at me, April commanded. Jake turned toward her. Can you see that I am not moving my lips? Draco can't hear any of this because I am talking to you through my mind. Once you figure out how, you can talk back to me as well.
Jake stood there staring at April. He was shocked. That is one of the powers that the dark lord is rumored to possess. He took an involuntary step back. April had a look of hurt on her face when she saw that he was afraid of her. Autumn ushered Draco out of the room to answer all the questions that were surfacing. April got up from where she was and sat down on the bed. Reluctantly, Jake sat down on the bed as well. He was afraid to sit too close however, and April took notice to that as well.
"So, how long have you been able to do that?" Jake said finally.
"I learned how to master it at my old school. The only other person that I could talk to like that was Autumn. She can hear most people's thoughts, while I can only speak and hear someone speak back to me. You are the first person that could hear me besides Autumn that didn't know it," April said.
"Okay, so your old school taught you how to do this?" Jake asked confused.
"They helped me deal with it. I was born with it. I just thought I was crazy for the longest time," April said and shrugged.
"Did you tell your mother about it?" Jake asked feeling a bit more comfortable towards April and moved slightly closer on the bed.
"I did. She told me I was crazy, so I thought I was crazy," April said without filling in her voice.
"Whose mother would do that?" Jake asked himself under his breath. Unfortunately, April heard him and started to cry silently.
"Whose mother? Whose mother?! My mother did. That's whose mother would. Mine would." April cried harder.
"I was talking to myself. I didn't know you would hear me. I'm sorry. Please don't cry," Jake said trying to comfort April.
"Now that I know that you can hear my thoughts, I can hear yours. Please don't try to think about any of that. Also, stop thinking about sex. You aren't getting any soon." April got up and walked out of the room leaving Jake to hear her angry thoughts, but not able to return them. It's not like I knew that I could hear her thoughts before. What the hell? Jake thought to himself.
He heard April's voice clear as day. I know that you didn't know before but that doesn't mean that you can ignore it. We need to get someone to train you or else you could go insane. We don't know the extent of your powers yet. You now know that whatever you can think, I can hear, Autumn might start listening in as well, so I would watch out. Try not to do anything, ya know, stupid. April said the last sentence with a somewhat pirate accent from a movie she had seen. He then heard April thinking about him naked and that put a smile on his face. He decided to give her some space and went to the box with wires that she kept in their room. He turned it on and went to check the mailbox that was in the electronic box. He clicked on one of the messages from Chad.
Dear April and Autumn,
Hey chicas, what's going on? I haven't heard from either of you in a while. I'm a bit surprised that I haven't heard something earlier. I guess you guys were having fun without the gang for once. Did you find anyone over there for you April? Autumn, you know that I am always here if you want someone. I'll owl you next week after things get calmed down over here. We had an attack on the capital again. The wizards in the Middle East want to kill our president so we can 'collapse' and they can 'take us over.' I mean how stupid can they get. We have a wizard for a president right now. There isn't anything that they can kill him with that won't look muggle. The Suddam guy is back and making more 'nuclear bombs.' Stupid muggles. Anyways, I just wanted to catch up with you both to see how you are doing. April, you have a cousin that goes here now. He just transferred. I'm guessing in case you come back. Your family will be able to find you sooner or later. We all know it. Whatever your family wants to do with you is not good. Don't trust anyone there that you don't know. They will most likely hurt you sooner or later. I regret that I did. Anyway, take care.
Oh, I also heard that you are going to school with Harry Potter. Make sure his ego doesn't fill the school up. You know what I mean.
Love always and forever,
Chad
Jake finished reading the letter. He then turned off the computer and walked out of the room.
