Chapter 40
Draco was speechless, Pansy approached him hugging him tightly, kissing him, and crying. "I was so worried about you, I thought I'd lost you forever, I…I…"
"Pansy, don't we really need to talk."
"What? What's wrong?"
"Today has been a really hard day and I just can't…."
"Oh, yeah. I heard," Pansy said gleaming at him. "I'm really sorry about your Grandma. But, I'm here for you forever and always."
"Thanks, but no thanks." Draco said starting to walk away, but Pansy pulled Draco back.
"Excuse me!" Pansy yelled at him.
"I'm sorry, but you deserve more and I can't give you that attention. I've met someone else, but I hope we can still be friends."
"Bugger off," Pansy marched off.
"Well that went well," Draco said to no one in particular.
Susan was walking to the stool that held the Sorting Hat, no one recognized her of course because she was in her real appearance. Everyone was right, she did look identical to her mother, just as she was passing the Gryffindor Table an arm stopped her, it was Seamus Finnegan, her boyfriend. "Hey love, I've never seen you around here. You new?"
'Love?' Susan asked herself, "Well, um…sort of, but uh…"
"You got a boyfriend beautiful?"
"Don't you have a girlfriend?"
"No," Seamus replied blowing a kiss at her.
"Yes, yes you do! Susan Bones!"
"I'll leave her for you."
"That's okay, I had a boyfriend he just doesn't know we're broken up yet." Susan said marching off. Susan couldn't believe that Seamus would cheat on her like this and hit on another girl. Susan then walked up to the stool that held the Sorting Hat and met Professor McGonagall. Susan sat down and had the Sorting Hat placed upon her head, once again. "Well, well, well little Sadie Potter, nice to read your mind again. So the Wizarding World has found out your secret and I am to resort you? But, where to put you? Let's see now, you've got the brains for Ravenclaw, The loyalty for Hufflepuff again, The slyness of a Slytherin, and the bravery for Gryffindor. Your roots also tell me to sort you into your family's house." The Sorting Hat hissed in her ear. " You'd be with your brother and your aunt in Gryffindor, but your one true love won't be with you there."
"Love?" Susan was shocked.
"Yes, love it awaits you my dear. A very strong passionate love, a very secret love. You've loved this guy as long as you can remember my dear, don't fight it. I see this more in store for your so I'll put you in….GRYFFINDOR!" The entire Gryffindor table erupted, but Susan didn't join them yet. Susan joined Professor Dumbledore like she was instructed to do earlier that day.
"Very, well," Dumbledore said talking in front of all of the students. "A magnificent person for Gryffindor, but she wasn't always a Gryffindor," there were a lot of gasps and murmurs. "She was once a Hufflepuff so she could hide her true identity, to make sure Harry nor herself was in any danger. This new Gryffindor is none other than Sadie Susanna Potter, daughter of the late James and Lily Potter, twin to Harry Potter and niece of Adora Potter and Arabella Evans. Her family really never called her Sadie, but Susan. So I introduce to you Susan Potter."
Susan bowed, "Susan." Dumbledore caught her attention. "If you don't mind, for the last time in your life will you show us the little Hufflepuff we all knew and then you can go back to your real appearance so that the students can understand this?"
Susan nodded, and pointed her wand to her scar and it disappeared, she then reached into a pocked and put in her brown contact lens in. Last, she pointed her wand to her hair and it turned brown to reveal Susan Bones. Susan looked over to Seamus's stunned face and watched him slap himself, then to her best friend Hannah Abbott, who was beaming to see have seen her real-best friend for the first time seconds ago. Susan then pointed her wand at her scar once again and said "Reveal-o!" Then took her contacts out to reveal her brilliant green eyes, and lastly she pointed to her hair and said, "Reveal-o!" This showed her waist long auburn hair that made her look identical to the way her mother looked before she was murdered. Susan then made her way to the Gryffindor table, for the first time and sat between her Aunt Adora and twin brother Harry. The food appeared and she was the only one who ate in silence, but just because Susan was quite didn't know she wasn't thinking. Susan couldn't believe the guy that she had 'loved,' and had supposedly 'loved' her just did that. When dinner was over Susan made her way up to the Gryffindor common room, sat on one of the couches and stared into the fire. A few seconds, there was a hand upon her shoulder, she turned around to find the last person she wanted to see, Seamus.
"Hi," Seamus said sitting down beside her.
"Hey," Susan said as rude as she could.
"Look," Seamus began. "I'm so sorry for earlier, it's just you look so amazing. I've never seen someone look so hot!" Not exactly the most sincere response that Susan had heard and reading his mind really wasn't helping her. It really quite made her sick about the little red outfit that he was thinking of her in with a red boa.
"Yeah, and what if I was Susan Bones and Susan Potter was someone else with my looks? You'd have been hitting on someone else."
"But, I didn't. Come on, love."
"Love?" Susan looked at Seamus as if he'd lost his mind. "Didn't I tell I broke up with my boyfriend?"
"Uh, yeah. But, you were joking right?"
"No, I told you. I'm breaking up with you…as of now," Susan stood up and went up to the Girls' dormitory.
All of the fifth year girls that were present looked as Susan as she entered.
"Susan," Lavender Brown said spitefully.
"Look, Lavender if you are in love with Seamus, go get him. I broke up with him."
"What?" Lavender obviously didn't expect this. "Why?"
"He hit on someone who wasn't me."
"Oh, then I guess I can't claim that you are cheating on him."
"What?" Susan was totally lost, "What are you talking about!"
"There was an owl here for you, it dropped a letter on your bed."
Susan nodded and went to take a bath and change clothes. When Susan got back to her room that she shared with the other girls she crawled into her new four-poster bed and shut the draperies. Susan carefully opened the letter to have an unfamiliar handwriting addressing her:
Dearest Susan,
You are such an amazingly beautiful girl, on both the inside and out. I noticed that when you were Susan Bones, and now also that you are Susan Potter. It would be such an privilege just to have you as a friend, let alone more. You'd never accept me as more, but I know one thing is for sure. You need to leave that git, Finnegan. So I will admire you from a far until death.
With lots and love,
Your mysterious one….
There was no name on it, Susan fell into a vision of a dream ten minutes later.
In a small chapel in Las Vegas…
"I now pronounce you husband and wife, you may kiss your bride." The groom did so to make the only three witnesses laugh.
"Nicely done, Moony." Sirius Black said patting his last remaining friend from his days in Hogwarts. "You and Narcissa finally tied the knot." Narcissa and Arabella giggled and Narcissa was an actual blushing bride.
"So when's the honeymoon?" Sirius said winking at Remus.
"After mum's funeral," Narcissa said, which made her smile fade. "Which her funeral will be in two days, just a small service family and close friends only. Draco and Adora will Floo to the church and walk to the burial plot, she wanted it done all there."
"No, correction." Adora Potter said joining them all in the chapel that Narcissa and Remus had just tied the knot in. "Remus and you will start your honeymoon tonight in a suite at The Leaky Cauldron, Arabella and Sirius told me I can stay in Susan's room."
"But…"
"No, butts about it. It's already decided, I'll be fine. I promise." They all nodded and walked to the fireplace to Floo home, but what they didn't see was Lucius Malfoy hiding behind a plant.
"Leaky Cauldron, huh? Another Werewolf, we won't have to worry about, and Cissa will be mine once again," Lucius cackled and apparated away.
Slytherin boys' fifth year dormitories…
Draco Malfoy had three of his four draperies closed around his four-poster bed, because the fourth was to an open window that he loved looking out of. For once, however he wasn't looking out of it, but had his head in his hands. Crabbe opened up his curtains to disturb him, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, just leave me alone," Draco hissed.
"I heard you broke up with Pansy."
"Correct," his anger was starting to rise.
"Why?"
"Because, I don't like her anymore!"
"Oh," Crabbe sat there for a moment to think which looked very hard for him. "Would you mind if I asked her out?"
"Go ahead," Crabbe smiled and ran off to leave Draco just the way he wanted to be alone. Draco pondered in his own thoughts. His grandma's death, her upcoming funeral, he'd gotten an owl from Adora telling him that Remus and his mum had eloped and started their honeymoon tonight, and the worst thing was for some odd reason Draco couldn't get that new Potter girl out of his head!
But, once again someone interrupted his thoughts. This time a redhead he didn't expect to be outside of his window, for a matter of fact he didn't even know that she knew about it. Draco opened it up and let her crawl inside to where they both were sitting on his bed and hissed, "What are you doing out side of my window!"
"I wanted to see you."
"Why?"
"I missed you."
"Why would you miss me?"
"Boy, I've got you on my mind twenty four, seven, three hundred sixty five."
"Does your father know you're here?" Draco asked knowing the answer, but she didn't answer him. "Well, did you tell…." But Draco never finished that sentence as Autumn Lewis leaned in and kissed him. All of Draco's thought of Susan Potter had left him, as he began to remember how much he had cared for Autumn and how many years it had been that he'd felt like this.
In Susan's vision…
There was Susan in a Victorian style dress that matched her eyes perfectly, Susan's hair was in ringlets and half was pulled up. As Susan was walking through the hallways of a familiar Hogwarts, but it was very funny. It looked as if the school was brand new. There was a man that had some similar features to her brother, Harry.
"Cassie, I thought I told you to go back to the common room?" The man asked her.
"Cassie? I'm not Cassie. My name is Sadie Susanna Potter," the man laughed at her. "What's so funny about my name?"
"Cassie, dear, you've been talking about her all day. I know how important she's going to be to our future grandchildren and the entire future Wizarding World. But, can we quit talking bout her and start planning our wedding. Now let me see that gorgeous ring that I bought you." He took Susan's left hand in his right to see no ring on her hand. "Cassie, I don't understand I thought you wanted to marry me?"
Susan looked at this man as if he'd really fell off of his rocker, "For the last time I'm not this Cassie you speak of."
He looked deep into her eyes, "So your not." He put her hand down, "My Cassie has beautiful blue eyes, and you have brilliant green. So, who are you and why do you look so remarkably resembling to my Cassie?"
"Godric?" Came a hurt voice from behind Susan. "Why are you with this girl, who is she?" Susan turned around to come face to face with a redhead that looked similar to Susan in ways. Their cheekbones, height, hair color, and smile. "Susan," the girl said smiling. "You look identical to your mother, Lily."
"LILY! You mean…the Lily?" Godric gasped.
"Godric, I swear you act as if out own daughter-in-law is a goddess from the future. Yes, Lily…Lily is her mother…this is Susan."
"Okay, why am I here?" Susan popped up asking, "And who are you?"
The girl giggled at Susan, "I am Cassandra, Cassie for short. This is Godric Gryffindor, we are to be married in three months, after I graduate. We are your very great-grandparents."
"Oh, Adora told me about you two."
"Yes, Adora." Cassie sighed. "Please be there for her, she's really going to need it. With her mother's death, and then Narcissa's and Remus's."
"What are you talking about? Narcissa and Remus are alive, well, and kicking. As a matter of fact they got married tonight and they're starting their honeymoon tonight, they'll just be leaving to finish it after Larissa's funeral."
"Oh, dear." Cassie gasped looking at Godric who now also had the look of terror in his eyes as did Cassie.
At the suite at The Leaky Cauldron….
"I said move out of my way, Cissa!" Lucius Malfoy roared at his ex-wife.
"Never!" Narcissa shouted, "Don't you dare call me Cissa!"
"Get away from that wolf, you are my wife!"
"I am not!" Narcissa yelled at the top of her lungs, "I'm your ex-wife! We divorced, it was final months ago! I am now and forever Remus's wife!"
"Not for long, you'll be a widow!" Malfoy cackled.
Lucius Malfoy pointed his wand at Remus Lupin, "Avada Kedavra!" Narcissa jumped in front of Remus and seconds later her body fell lifeless to the floor.
"You bastard!" Remus roared starting to choke Lucius. "Die, you mongrel!"
"You first wolfie!" Lucius stabbed Remus in the heart with a silver sword and then Lucius disapparated.
In Susan's vision…
"What do you mean, 'oh, dear'?" Susan asked terrified.
"Lucius tries to kill Remus so that he'll have Narcissa back, but she jumps in front of Remus and takes the curse, The Killing One…Avada Kedavra. Then after she dies Lucius stabs Remus in the heart with a silver sword." Cassie said sadly.
"Oh, no!" Susan cried falling to her knees.
Susan awoke to a crazy mad man shaking her to awake. "WHAT!"
"Adora found Remus and Narcissa dead in the suite." Harry said as white as a ghost.
"Oh, no!" Susan started crying, again. "We've got to find Adora!"
"I agree. Dumbledore said we can Floo from his office to Arabella's house, come on."
Susan got out of her four-poster to put her robe around her yellow tank-shirt and gray pajama pants. As they got to Dumbledore's office, Harry Flooed first. Just as soon as Susan was about to, she felt someone enter the room. Susan turned around to come face to face with Draco Malfoy.
"Draco? You surprised me." Susan said clutching her chest.
"Thought I wouldn't show up, did you?" Draco asked her, his voice very icy. "Thought I was a cold hearted being that didn't care about my own mother and my step-father? Well, once again a Potter is wrong."
"No, I knew you'd come."
"Liar."
"Draco, your scaring me."
"Do you know what you hold over me? I'm with Autumn and your driving me crazy?"
"Autumn? I thought you were with Pansy?"
"Yes, Autumn. I dumped Pansy today. Autumn is everything my father always wanted me with a Slytherin, let alone an heir to Slytherin, and a girl that's as evil as I am."
"As evil as your father wants you to be you mean," Susan said trying to help him.
"No, as evil as I am, and you your not helping me any!"
"Me? Why me!"
Draco leaned in and kissed Susan, and she pushed him away. "What are you doing?"
"I know you felt that," Draco said starting to breath heavily.
"Felt what!"
"This," Draco pulled Susan close and kissed her again. Susan felt her whole body numb and felt fire in her skin, it was the best feeling she'd ever had for the second time, but she pulled back again and slapped him. "What was that for?" Draco asked her hurt.
"You know I can't see you, even if I wanted to. A Potter with a Malfoy! Draco, we're only joking ourselves. Larissa and Anthony tired and look their both dead now. Your father would disown you, and probably get both of us killed," tears began to leak out of her eyes. "The tabloids would eat it up, they chew it up and spit it out at us. We'll be the laughing matter of our world, outcasts. Your destined to serve Voldemort and I'm destined to destroy him or die trying. You're supposed to marry Autumn Lewis, Voldemort and Lucius arraigned the marriage years ago, I know it and so do you. So go to her, she loves you as does her father, for once make your father proud. I could never love you the way she does."
"Autumn only loves me for the Malfoy fortune."
"I'm sorry to hear that, Draco. I must go know, as should you. You'd have never said all of this to Susan Bones, you only feel this because of my beauty."
"Your wrong. I've always felt this for you, whether it be Susan Bones or Susan Potter. Both are beautiful not only on the outside, but also on the inside. You take my breath away," Draco pulled her close to him as if he was about to kiss her again.
"Draco, we have to stop this," Draco pulled Susan closer they were about to kiss when she shoved him away again, this time she was crying. "I said stop so, please STOP!" Susan began to walk away from him to approach the fireplace.
"But, I love you." Draco said with all of his heart and soul.
"I know you do," Susan said in the softest whisper that took his breath away. Susan stepped into the fireplace and Flooed to Arabella's.
"Why does she always leave me speechless?"