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Gone, Chapter Thirteen
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The next week passed by very slowly. Lissa noticed that every time she saw Gabe he was either extremely out of it or
staring absently at Brad. That seemed very strange considering he had never displayed any interest in her best friend in the
slightest. Blaise seemed to have noticed Gabe's sudden attraction to the hyper one in the group and was always at her side,
never allowing her to be alone with Gabe for any longer then a few seconds. Life seemed to get more complex as every day
went by and she felt like she was being drawn farther and farther into a spider's web her brother had spun.
On Friday afternoon, the Seventh year Gryffindors and Slytherins were in Care of Magical Creatures and they were
restudying nifflers. Draco had paired up with Pansy and did not look very happy about it. He was poking the snuffling creature
with the tip of a long stick. Lissa had paired up with Gabe and for the better part of the class she had been screaming at him.
He had intentionally taken the gold lotus flower necklace from her room and had buried it. The niffler had dug it up, ruining
the chain and bending one of the delicate petals. Normally she would not have cared about her jewelry, but this certain
piece had been given to her by a 'secret admirer' the year before. That 'secret admirer' had turned out to be Draco. He had
told her that little snippet of information during the Christmas feast and that had only made her love the necklace more.
Even though the sharp shards of her broken heart jerked painfully every time she thought about anything that had to do
with Draco, she still wore the all the time. Gabe had taken it from her room the night before when she had gone to take a
shower. She had thought she had lost it.
"You insufferable bastard! How could you steal that out of my room! You know how much it means to me!"
"I thought it'd be funny Liss. Come on, how can you be so fond of a piece of jewelry you were given by someone who broke
your heart? That doesn't make any sense."
Lissa did not say that just because he broke her heart did not mean that she still did not feel a thing for him. She sighed quietly
and took the broken necklace of the grassy floor. Even if it was bent, she would still wear it. She waved her wand over the
shattered chain and then fastened it around her neck.
"Gabe, please, please, please, go shag a hippogriff so it will kill you and put us out of our misery."
He snorted and walked over to her. He wrapped an arm possessively around her waist and hugged her to his side.
"Sorry Liss, I didn't mean for it to get broken..."
She shrugged in his arms and wrapped her arms around his neck. Her sadness was hidden deep in her eyes, false joy shining on
the surface.
"It's okay, it was bound to have happened some time. I just wish you had asked me before you'd grabbed it. At least then I
wouldn't have a nervy spaz when I couldn't find it."
"I promise I'll ask you before I steal your things."
"Thank you..." Lissa's voice was strained as she shrugged out of his arms. For a brief moment her eyes went onto Draco's lone
form and a wave of deep grief swept over her. His eyes lifted from his niffler and saw her staring. He smiled slightly, the slightest
upturning of the corners of his lips. For the briefest of moments, she felt like she was in his arms again, and then reality intruded.
She quickly turned her face away, her hands clenching to his tight fists. Why did she do that? It only hurt her broken heart
even more... The familiar, cloying smell of someone's perfume attacked her senses, making her gag. Pansy came floating up
beside her, a smirk on her magically enhanced lips.
"Hello Roza, where's your boyfriend?"
"I suspect he's crawled into a hole and died. That's what any sensible person would do if they had you hovering around them
all the time, especially with that sordid stench following you like a cloud."
"My perfume does not stink! It is a designer smell and it is wonderful!"
"To a skunk's nose perhaps, but not to the rest of the population."
Pansy glowered angrily at her and raised her hand to hit Lissa, but an invisible force forced her hand to stay motionless in the
air. Lissa's eyes were black as a sudden gust of wind seemed to emerge from her body. Pansy found herself being pushed
backwards, closer and closer to the lake. Lissa stayed where she was, whispering softly, her voice carried on the winds she was
producing.
"Don't ever try to hit a Roza Parkinson; it'll only end up bad!"
Lissa raised her arms up so her fingers were pointing to the sky like she was praising the Mother. Pansy's feet were ripped from
the earth and she rose into the air. Lissa pointed her hands at the lake and the girl floated lazily until she was suspended
above the middle of the lake. A nasty smirked crossed Lissa's face and she dropped her hands to her sides. The winds keeping
Pansy's body in the air disappeared just as fast as they had been created and she fell into the deepest part of the frigid lake.
When her body touched the water she let out a high pitched scream that alerted the rest of the class. Hagrid looked up from
the niffler he was attending to and saw a student floundering in the lake. He looked immediately at Lissa. She was petting her
niffler. She looked up at him and smiled innocently.
"Professor, she walked right into the lake and jumped in...I told her not to, but she didn't listen. I hope the giant squid doesn't
get her..." Hagrid's eyes widened and he started running towards the school.
Lissa bit her tongue hard to keep herself from laughing as she watched a long tentacle creep out of the water towards Pansy.
The girl let out a high pitched scream when the tentacle touched her and immediately tried to swim towards the shore. The
giant squid extended its tentacle farther, but sadly it did not get its meal. McGonagall came at a dead run from the school
and started sending stunning spells at the squid. She soon after levitated Pansy out of the lake and Lissa turned away. She let
her guffaws of laughter come when she had her back facing the water, holding her niffler particularly tightly to her chest.
Gabe was laughing along with her and Bradley was making a noise much akin to a dying monkey being slowly farted upon
until the noxious gasses killed it. Blaise was holding his girlfriend up, trying to control his own laughing by chewing on his bottom
lip.
After class, Blaise and Gabe went up to castle for dinner, leaving Brad and Lissa alone for a moment.
"I need to ask you a question."
"What's your question? I'll answer it if I can."
"Why is Blaise being so bloody protective? I can't go anywhere without him or you with a five foot radius. At first I thought it
was sweet, but now it's just annoying. Why?"
Lissa bit her bottom lip as she internally debated whether she should tell the truth. She took a deep breath and forced a smile
onto her face.
"Well...Have you noticed Gabe staring at you lately?"
"A little, he seems to be looking a lot. He always seems to be staring off into space though."
"Well, Blaise thinks he likes you and is going to try and make a move on you."
"What? That is the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time. I would never leave Blaise for Gabe! That'd be like incest!"
"Incest? Brad, that's a big word for you...Do you even know what it means?"
Brad's brow furrowed as she nodded slowly. "Yep, it means gettin' down with a close family member."
"Good job! Now please tell me why it'd be incest if you and Gabe got together."
"Well, I think of Gabe as a brother, kind of, and it'd be very yucky and incesty if anything happened between us."
Lissa shook her head slowly at her friend, clapping a hand to her forehead. Brad was an idiot, though the idea that Gabe was
her brother was sweet, in a demented, twisted way. She grabbed Brad's hand and led her up to the castle. She did not
notice a pair of eyes identical to her own watching them with keen interest.
The next morning Lissa got down to the Great Hall late for breakfast and she sat down next to Blaise. He was looking
around, like a rabbit that had sensed a fox. She looked at him for a moment before shaking her head slowly. She served herself
several sausages and started eating. About halfway through her meal she realized something. Brad and Gabe were no
where to be seen. She tapped Blaise on the shoulder, her brow furrowed.
"Blaise, where's Brad and Gabe?"
"Huh? You mean you don't know where they are? I thought Brad spent the night in your room because she never got back
to the common room."
"What? Did you see Gabe get back?"
"No, I didn't. What if they ran off together? What if she left me for him? What if..."
Lissa did not hear anything else he said. Her brother and one of her best friends were gone and had not been seen since the
night before. The fork and knife in her hands clattered to her plate as she stood shakily up.
"Blaise, something's happened to them..."
"What? How do you know that?"
"Don't question me. Something very, very, very bad is about to happen." She got to her feet and ran out of the Great Hall. In
the short time she had been in there and known that something bad was happening, peals of thunder had started to crash
softly, like from very far away. Dumbledore watched her go and quickly followed. Draco's silver eyes followed the girl he loved
and he followed her as well.
Lissa ran as fast as she could across the grounds, her eyes on the school gate. She had to get to Gabe and Brad, she
would never forgive herself if they died and she could have saved them. Her head was hurting fiercely and she felt like
someone was trying to tug her insides out of her body with a blunt hook. She had to get off the school grounds; something
deep within her was driving her out. As her hand touched the gate, Draco grabbed her bicep. She turned her head to look
at him, and he barely recognized the girl who looked back at him. There were no whites in her eyes anymore, just pure
blackness. Her hair was flying around her head like a demented halo and her tanned skin was paper white. She had the gate
open and she threw herself out, dragging him with her. The moment she was out of the school her body disappeared with the
customary pop of apparition. Her rush of sudden magic wrapped around Draco and he was jerked along to wherever she
was going...
Lissa's knees slammed into the ground, tearing the skin away. In a moment she was up, her wand drawn and ready.
Draco hit the ground beside her, groaning quietly. They were in a large, stone room that was extremely cold. Green slime was
on the walls, merging with the floor and spreading. On the far side of the room there was a large chair that resembled a
throne. There were two doors on each side of it and she felt the need to go to the right one. She looked behind her at Draco,
her voice coming out in a hiss.
"Go in the left door. Kill anyone you see who is not Gabe or Brad. I have a feeling this is Voldemort's fortress."
She ran towards the door and jerked it open. A terrifying laugh came from inside and she took a deep breath. She was not
afraid of dying; it had never seemed like something she should fear. With a final look at Draco, she entered the room, the door
slamming ominously behind her. He slowly got to his feet and took his own wand out of his robes. He knew this was Voldemort's
strong hold; he had come here before with his father. He also knew that he did not want to be a deatheater. That was
something that terrified him more then Voldemort and ultimately his father. He jogged resolutely towards the door, Gryffindor
bravery pumping through his Slytherin blood.
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Hello one and all! We're almost to the end! Thank you all SO much for reviewing, it really keeps me going! Keep reviewing my pretties!
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Your Lord and Master,
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*other info* Almost there!
drop-depp- gorgeous: *grins and rubs chin* mehbe...
Honey Mocha Citrus: I'd applaud, though yeah, she would kill us...
Gothic-twif: yeah well no shite...
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Gone, Chapter Thirteen
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The next week passed by very slowly. Lissa noticed that every time she saw Gabe he was either extremely out of it or
staring absently at Brad. That seemed very strange considering he had never displayed any interest in her best friend in the
slightest. Blaise seemed to have noticed Gabe's sudden attraction to the hyper one in the group and was always at her side,
never allowing her to be alone with Gabe for any longer then a few seconds. Life seemed to get more complex as every day
went by and she felt like she was being drawn farther and farther into a spider's web her brother had spun.
On Friday afternoon, the Seventh year Gryffindors and Slytherins were in Care of Magical Creatures and they were
restudying nifflers. Draco had paired up with Pansy and did not look very happy about it. He was poking the snuffling creature
with the tip of a long stick. Lissa had paired up with Gabe and for the better part of the class she had been screaming at him.
He had intentionally taken the gold lotus flower necklace from her room and had buried it. The niffler had dug it up, ruining
the chain and bending one of the delicate petals. Normally she would not have cared about her jewelry, but this certain
piece had been given to her by a 'secret admirer' the year before. That 'secret admirer' had turned out to be Draco. He had
told her that little snippet of information during the Christmas feast and that had only made her love the necklace more.
Even though the sharp shards of her broken heart jerked painfully every time she thought about anything that had to do
with Draco, she still wore the all the time. Gabe had taken it from her room the night before when she had gone to take a
shower. She had thought she had lost it.
"You insufferable bastard! How could you steal that out of my room! You know how much it means to me!"
"I thought it'd be funny Liss. Come on, how can you be so fond of a piece of jewelry you were given by someone who broke
your heart? That doesn't make any sense."
Lissa did not say that just because he broke her heart did not mean that she still did not feel a thing for him. She sighed quietly
and took the broken necklace of the grassy floor. Even if it was bent, she would still wear it. She waved her wand over the
shattered chain and then fastened it around her neck.
"Gabe, please, please, please, go shag a hippogriff so it will kill you and put us out of our misery."
He snorted and walked over to her. He wrapped an arm possessively around her waist and hugged her to his side.
"Sorry Liss, I didn't mean for it to get broken..."
She shrugged in his arms and wrapped her arms around his neck. Her sadness was hidden deep in her eyes, false joy shining on
the surface.
"It's okay, it was bound to have happened some time. I just wish you had asked me before you'd grabbed it. At least then I
wouldn't have a nervy spaz when I couldn't find it."
"I promise I'll ask you before I steal your things."
"Thank you..." Lissa's voice was strained as she shrugged out of his arms. For a brief moment her eyes went onto Draco's lone
form and a wave of deep grief swept over her. His eyes lifted from his niffler and saw her staring. He smiled slightly, the slightest
upturning of the corners of his lips. For the briefest of moments, she felt like she was in his arms again, and then reality intruded.
She quickly turned her face away, her hands clenching to his tight fists. Why did she do that? It only hurt her broken heart
even more... The familiar, cloying smell of someone's perfume attacked her senses, making her gag. Pansy came floating up
beside her, a smirk on her magically enhanced lips.
"Hello Roza, where's your boyfriend?"
"I suspect he's crawled into a hole and died. That's what any sensible person would do if they had you hovering around them
all the time, especially with that sordid stench following you like a cloud."
"My perfume does not stink! It is a designer smell and it is wonderful!"
"To a skunk's nose perhaps, but not to the rest of the population."
Pansy glowered angrily at her and raised her hand to hit Lissa, but an invisible force forced her hand to stay motionless in the
air. Lissa's eyes were black as a sudden gust of wind seemed to emerge from her body. Pansy found herself being pushed
backwards, closer and closer to the lake. Lissa stayed where she was, whispering softly, her voice carried on the winds she was
producing.
"Don't ever try to hit a Roza Parkinson; it'll only end up bad!"
Lissa raised her arms up so her fingers were pointing to the sky like she was praising the Mother. Pansy's feet were ripped from
the earth and she rose into the air. Lissa pointed her hands at the lake and the girl floated lazily until she was suspended
above the middle of the lake. A nasty smirked crossed Lissa's face and she dropped her hands to her sides. The winds keeping
Pansy's body in the air disappeared just as fast as they had been created and she fell into the deepest part of the frigid lake.
When her body touched the water she let out a high pitched scream that alerted the rest of the class. Hagrid looked up from
the niffler he was attending to and saw a student floundering in the lake. He looked immediately at Lissa. She was petting her
niffler. She looked up at him and smiled innocently.
"Professor, she walked right into the lake and jumped in...I told her not to, but she didn't listen. I hope the giant squid doesn't
get her..." Hagrid's eyes widened and he started running towards the school.
Lissa bit her tongue hard to keep herself from laughing as she watched a long tentacle creep out of the water towards Pansy.
The girl let out a high pitched scream when the tentacle touched her and immediately tried to swim towards the shore. The
giant squid extended its tentacle farther, but sadly it did not get its meal. McGonagall came at a dead run from the school
and started sending stunning spells at the squid. She soon after levitated Pansy out of the lake and Lissa turned away. She let
her guffaws of laughter come when she had her back facing the water, holding her niffler particularly tightly to her chest.
Gabe was laughing along with her and Bradley was making a noise much akin to a dying monkey being slowly farted upon
until the noxious gasses killed it. Blaise was holding his girlfriend up, trying to control his own laughing by chewing on his bottom
lip.
After class, Blaise and Gabe went up to castle for dinner, leaving Brad and Lissa alone for a moment.
"I need to ask you a question."
"What's your question? I'll answer it if I can."
"Why is Blaise being so bloody protective? I can't go anywhere without him or you with a five foot radius. At first I thought it
was sweet, but now it's just annoying. Why?"
Lissa bit her bottom lip as she internally debated whether she should tell the truth. She took a deep breath and forced a smile
onto her face.
"Well...Have you noticed Gabe staring at you lately?"
"A little, he seems to be looking a lot. He always seems to be staring off into space though."
"Well, Blaise thinks he likes you and is going to try and make a move on you."
"What? That is the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time. I would never leave Blaise for Gabe! That'd be like incest!"
"Incest? Brad, that's a big word for you...Do you even know what it means?"
Brad's brow furrowed as she nodded slowly. "Yep, it means gettin' down with a close family member."
"Good job! Now please tell me why it'd be incest if you and Gabe got together."
"Well, I think of Gabe as a brother, kind of, and it'd be very yucky and incesty if anything happened between us."
Lissa shook her head slowly at her friend, clapping a hand to her forehead. Brad was an idiot, though the idea that Gabe was
her brother was sweet, in a demented, twisted way. She grabbed Brad's hand and led her up to the castle. She did not
notice a pair of eyes identical to her own watching them with keen interest.
The next morning Lissa got down to the Great Hall late for breakfast and she sat down next to Blaise. He was looking
around, like a rabbit that had sensed a fox. She looked at him for a moment before shaking her head slowly. She served herself
several sausages and started eating. About halfway through her meal she realized something. Brad and Gabe were no
where to be seen. She tapped Blaise on the shoulder, her brow furrowed.
"Blaise, where's Brad and Gabe?"
"Huh? You mean you don't know where they are? I thought Brad spent the night in your room because she never got back
to the common room."
"What? Did you see Gabe get back?"
"No, I didn't. What if they ran off together? What if she left me for him? What if..."
Lissa did not hear anything else he said. Her brother and one of her best friends were gone and had not been seen since the
night before. The fork and knife in her hands clattered to her plate as she stood shakily up.
"Blaise, something's happened to them..."
"What? How do you know that?"
"Don't question me. Something very, very, very bad is about to happen." She got to her feet and ran out of the Great Hall. In
the short time she had been in there and known that something bad was happening, peals of thunder had started to crash
softly, like from very far away. Dumbledore watched her go and quickly followed. Draco's silver eyes followed the girl he loved
and he followed her as well.
Lissa ran as fast as she could across the grounds, her eyes on the school gate. She had to get to Gabe and Brad, she
would never forgive herself if they died and she could have saved them. Her head was hurting fiercely and she felt like
someone was trying to tug her insides out of her body with a blunt hook. She had to get off the school grounds; something
deep within her was driving her out. As her hand touched the gate, Draco grabbed her bicep. She turned her head to look
at him, and he barely recognized the girl who looked back at him. There were no whites in her eyes anymore, just pure
blackness. Her hair was flying around her head like a demented halo and her tanned skin was paper white. She had the gate
open and she threw herself out, dragging him with her. The moment she was out of the school her body disappeared with the
customary pop of apparition. Her rush of sudden magic wrapped around Draco and he was jerked along to wherever she
was going...
Lissa's knees slammed into the ground, tearing the skin away. In a moment she was up, her wand drawn and ready.
Draco hit the ground beside her, groaning quietly. They were in a large, stone room that was extremely cold. Green slime was
on the walls, merging with the floor and spreading. On the far side of the room there was a large chair that resembled a
throne. There were two doors on each side of it and she felt the need to go to the right one. She looked behind her at Draco,
her voice coming out in a hiss.
"Go in the left door. Kill anyone you see who is not Gabe or Brad. I have a feeling this is Voldemort's fortress."
She ran towards the door and jerked it open. A terrifying laugh came from inside and she took a deep breath. She was not
afraid of dying; it had never seemed like something she should fear. With a final look at Draco, she entered the room, the door
slamming ominously behind her. He slowly got to his feet and took his own wand out of his robes. He knew this was Voldemort's
strong hold; he had come here before with his father. He also knew that he did not want to be a deatheater. That was
something that terrified him more then Voldemort and ultimately his father. He jogged resolutely towards the door, Gryffindor
bravery pumping through his Slytherin blood.
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Hello one and all! We're almost to the end! Thank you all SO much for reviewing, it really keeps me going! Keep reviewing my pretties!
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Your Lord and Master,
Foamy the Squirrel