Sorry for the major delay, I have not really been in the mood for this anymore. However, I have been getting back in the groove of things so here ya go, chapter 29! Disclaim is the same, and I BETTER get some reivews from this!

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Thank you my reviewer who gave me the extra `omph' to put this up!

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"Come find me baby! I'm right under your nose and I'll give you a treat if you find me!"

Harry stared at awe in the sight around him. Magnificent green trees towered, shading a golden pathway that was lined with colorful flowers of all sorts. A sweet giggle was heard behind one of the trees made by the one person in the world Harry loved most.

Harry took several tentative steps forward to the source. Just before he reached the trunk of the tree, a figure slowly emerged out from behind and rounded the tree so it was right in front of Harry.

"You found me." Desiree said seductively. Harry drank in her aura like a parched man drinking water. Her hair was down and in the softest of waves, she had a soft, sexy, playful grin tugging on her features, and was clothed in a thin, white, almost see through white gown.

"I did find you; and I'll never let you go." Harry told her softly as he wrapped his arms around her small body and leaned down to kiss her full on the lips. When they parted their lips for a breath of air Desiree asked in a low voice.

"Do you love me?"

"Of course I do." Harry answered as he kissed her again.

"Would you do anything for me?"

"Yes." Another gentle kiss followed.

Then in a not so low and sexy tone. "Would you die you me?" Harry tried to look into her coffee brown eyes in confusion but realized that he was no longer holding Desiree, instead, he was holding Nadina who took his moment of surprise for her advantage. Nadina stabbed Harry deeply in the heart with a silver dagger encrusted with emeralds.

He cried out in despair and pain before he heard her ask mockingly "Does it hurt?"

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Harry jerked up out of his bed with sweat pouring down his face and his heart racing. He glanced around the room to find it deserted considering it was only eight o'clock on a Saturday morning but then remembered that it was Christmas Eve and the first day of the holidays.

Harry took a reassuring breath to calm himself down and got into the shower to cleanse his body of the sweat from the nightmare. When he emerged from the shower and had dressed he heard an odd humming noise that came from outside. He curiously crossed over to the window to find out what it was.

He glanced around the snow white wonderland that Hogwarts had become throughout the winter season. At first he could not find the source of the humming noise but then he saw a muggle ATV pulling a trailer filled with wood being pulled towards Hagrid's hut, driven by Desiree.

`What is she doing?' He thought to himself as he grabbed his cloak to go outside. `This is it. I'm going to pull her away for a moment and I'm going to tell her how I feel without anyone interrupting me again. I have to or I might lose the chance forever.'

When Harry reached the snowy outland of the school he thrust his hands deeper into his pockets to keep them warm, bent his head down against the light but biting wind, and walked to Hagrid's hut with a stride of determination.

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"This is the last load Hagrid, do you need anymore?" Desiree asked Hagrid as she helped him unload the chopped wood from the back of her transfigured trailer. "

"Tha's alrigh Dezree. This should be enough. Why don ya come in fer a cup o' tea or summit?" "That's all right Hag I gotta get back to the castle, I'm waiting on a letter."

"What are you guys doing?" Both Hagrid and Desiree turned around to find Harry standing in front of them with a slightly red nose and a smile on his face. "Uh, I was just helping Hagrid here with this wood and now I'm going back to the castle for a nice big cup of hot black coffee. Wanna come?" Harry was taken aback by her query.

He looked at her with questioning eyes from her camouflaged legs to her blue pullover covered torso, to her toboggan covered head. He wished she wasn't wearing a pair of silver Ray-Bans that obscured his view of her eyes so he could have some fathom of an idea of what she was thinking.

"Sure, you coming Hagrid?" "Nah, I have to get this here wood in ta hearth. But I migh join ya later." "Cool beans Hag. Come on Harry, I'll give ya a ride." With a slight pit of anxiety and fear in his stomach, Harry swung his legs over the machine behind Desiree and held on for dear life as she raced towards the castle at full speed.

He ignored the stinging wind as he tried to figure out what he was going to say to her when they got to the castle. `I just hope she doesn't laugh in my face or worse; beat me up.' Desiree stopped the vehicle in the middle of the opening hall before she transfigured it back to it's toy car size and slipped it in her pocket.

"Let's eat!" She said in a cheerful voice that was not her normal tone and led Harry into the Great Hall. Several of the decorations from the night before were still adorning the premises and Desiree's bullet hole still held its presence on the floor.

"That was some action last night huh?" She asked him as they sat down at the empty Gryffindor table. They were the only two in the entire house who didn't go home for the holidays. "Yeah, it was. The way you just dived between those roots was amazing." "Yeah." Desiree answered as she turned her eyes away from Harry to focus on the wood grains of the table.

"Look, Dez. Dez. Desiree please look at me." Harry begged as Desiree stared at the table for several seconds more before she lifted her head to meet Harry's eyes with her own. "I'm sorry."

"You have nothing to be sorry for." She answered back softly as she continued to look into his eyes. "It was me." She continued. "I let my other half control what I was doing and she knows that you have a temper and she wanted to push your buttons to make me suffer. I'm sorry for whatever I said to you and I want you to know that I didn't mean any of it because I can't even remember what it was. The only reason I kept on after it was because I don't like crawling back to anybody or anything; but for you I'm willing to make an exception." She said with pleading eyes and both her hands softly cradling one of his.

"God Dez, I don't.." Once again Harry was interrupted by something but this time it was by an owl instead of a human.

"What's that?" He asked indicating the letter and trying to not get irritated. "Just a letter from dad saying that he'll be here early tomorrow morning. Now, what were you saying?" "Just that I don't blame you for anything and I want to be with you no matter what due to the fact that I love you." Harry swore he saw tears beginning to cling to her long black eyelashes as she said in a voice full of shaky emotion. "I love you too."

The rest of the day for the new found couple was spent cuddling and enjoying the others presence more due to the lack of it beforehand. When the twilight finally began to fall of the magical school grounds, sweet love was made within the Gryffindor tower and a newer and stronger bond was created, daring an outsider to try and break it.

Early the next morning, Desiree laid awake in Harry's bed watching him sleep with peacefulness of a babe. She gently traced the dark bags that garnished his handsome face with her finger accompanied by a heavy heart knowing they were caused by her. She then tenderly brushed her lips over his as to not disturb him in his serene slumber.

One year ago Desiree Black never would have thought someone as cold hearted as she would care about somebody so strongly and have them care in return. She nestled her head on his bare chest to go to sleep herself when she heard an all too familiar snigger.

Desiree jerked herself up in shock and surprise. She knew that she had not heard that sound in almost two years. Rachel. `That's impossible.' She thought to herself. `She's dead.'

She decieded that it was just her imagination working on overtime and settled herself back into bed when she heard a faint vioce cry. "D! Get your lazy ass up girl!" Once agian, Desiree snatched her body upwards to find a pearly white figure of her late friend Rachel in her fifteen year old form.

"Rach?" Desiree sqeauked uncertianly. "Yeah girl in the flesh, well spirit. Now get your skanky ho ass out of that bed, I have something to show you that you need to see. Don't wake him up! Since when did we need a guy to do anything?" The ghost snapped as Desiree raised her arm to wake Harry.

"What are you gonna show me?" Desiree asked as she pulled on her ripped jeans from this afternoon and Harry's shirt. "Something you need to see, that's all I can really tell you."

When she reached the door, Desiree turned around to get one more glance of Harry and to look at the time on the clock. `It's four in the morning, Harry should realize that I'm gone in about thrity minutes and dad will be here at five so if anything goes wrong, they'll find me.' She thought as she walked out the door to follow her deceased friend.

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"Rach, how much further?" Desiree asked as she was ushered deeper into the forbidden forest with the only light coming from the tip of Desiree's wand. "We're here." Rachel said in a gleeful voice.

Desiree took in the her environment. It was an open clearing surrounded by thick trees, and that was it. She listened as closely as she could until a high pitched screaming was heard coming form her lips and a pain beyond any other rippled within her body.

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