I have figured out how the teachers in my school think!!! They figure that since we've just spent the past few weeks busting our asses trying to study for all the test they gave us that they can bombard us with new material that absolutely no relevance to what we studied for their own sick pleasure!! I've had more homework these past few weeks than I've had all year. And the work has had nothing to do with anything I studied!!! So all that I learned is not being put to use but is being shoved out of my brain so I have to study twice as much, twice as hard next year!!! ARRRR!!!! I hate my teachers!!!!!

OH OH OH!!! Indoor Nationals are set for March 16!!!!!! Manhattan Uni here I come!!!!!!

Thank you Andrea!!!!! I did read your story!! And you MUST get the next chapter out NOW!!!!! I can't wait for more!! You don't suck at all!!

Aww.. You're too kind!! I think it's getting too angsty…

Hehehe.. I'll be sure to pass the howler on to Alton.. He's a little tied up right now… littereally… He got into a fight with Das… Well you know why.. *winks* That was a very amusing day!! If he does break them apart I will make sure that Feytaloney brings them back together. And if not, please don't hurt him. Das has been picking on him mercilessly.

Yes!! Send J over!! Alton needs an ally! (Duo, Feytaloney, Shido and I tend to try and not pick sides….)

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Safety, Zil, and Xandria!!!!

Umm.. Actually no one really cared.. They Slytherins know better than to get involved in a fight between Draco and another kid and any fight that Gena is in. So they are doubly afraid of being involved in a fight between the two of them. Feared respect is what I call it!!

She isn't a werewolf. She's a half wolf. There is a difference. Werewolves turn into wolves during the full moon. Halfwolves are half human and half wolf every day of every year. They are basically wolves with human bodies. So it's a human with a greater senses that follows an ingrown instinct and a superior intellect.
I'll have to see if Gena would like to meet you. We'll talk Xan.

Oh Zil!! Inborn magic is a magic that you are born with the ability to use. You don't need a wand or anything else but your own body to use it. It gets stronger as you grow and you only have to learn how to control the power to use it. The more control the greater the strength. All half wolves have inborn magic as well as some other magical creatures. Wizards, Witches, and Muggles don't have any inborn magic. ^_~

Time will tell more about Blaise. Nearly every character I introduce has a part to play in this Hogwarts Soap Opera!!!

Oh thank you!! I liked the rose thing very much so I worked hard on trying to make it fit with the story. I worked for a long time to try in fit it in when Ron came back to the common room. I worked on just one paragraph for a half hour just to get it to feel right. I'm glad you enjoyed my efforts.

Thank you Xan!

Thank you Cait!!

Thank you Zil!!!

Thank you forever blue!!! Aww.. You are too sweet!! I don't think I update quickly at all… Oh don't apologize!! It was no big deal!! At least you commented before this chapter came out!

Thanks!

Eyes of the Angel by Aloh Dark!! Who is being very good about this updating this thing...

Chapter 9: Dreamers

Gena walked into the Slytherin Common room determined to get some sleep. When she entered and saw all the angry faces she knew sleep would elude her on this night.

"Gena dear. Come and sit by the fire."

"Pansy dear. I would sit by the fire if there wasn't such a foul stench coming from it. Oh wait, that's you." Gena sneered as she continued to walk to the dorms.

"I think that's your own putrid stench your nose detects."

"I have the smell of royalty. It flows through my blood, collects in my skin and fills every pore in my body. All I can smell of me is the stench of the royals that rule the earth."

"Royalty? You wolves think you're royalty?" Pansy gave a sharp laugh. "Only mud is clogging those precious pores of yours, Your Majesty." Gena turned with a look of bored annoyance.
"You need to bow when you say that. Wither it is sarcastically said or reverently. You must bow to royalty." Gena smirked at the ever growing anger in Pansy's face.

Pansy shook with anger. "Why are you doing this?! Do you get some sick sadistic pleasure out of tormenting people?"

Gena's eyes went hard and her voice soft. "All my life it's been kill or be killed. And I'm glad. Thankful for it. But in all my years I have never seen a more blood thirsty, ruthless group than the people in this room." She looked everyone in the eye at turn. "I know that at a mere word from the Man of the Mark, you'd kill each other and people in the other houses. I know that as soon as your out in the world you'll be doing to same to people you meet on the streets." She turned to Pansy who shivered and took a step back at the dead look in Gena's eyes. "All the years of pain I've gone through have been worth it. Because I know that I have the skills to out last, out wit, and out stand every last one of you." She turned on heal and left. All the dignity of generations of her family holding her chin up and her back straight. The door closed behind her with a healthy thud.

Ron lay in bed wide awake. He knew he'd been laying like that for hours. Or it could have only been minutes. It felt like an eternity to him.

Draco had said he'd come back and meet him. So that meant only two things. One, Draco had lied to him and didn't plan on coming back at all. Or two, something or someone had purposely prevented Draco from coming to meet him. Unfortunately the first had the most evidence to make it true.

Did Draco purposely not meet him? If that's the case, why did he leave a flower? Did Draco leave the flower or did someone else? Why would Draco have someone else put a flower there? Who would he have do it?

These questions ran through Ron's head, leading no where and getting no answers. He'd have to ask Draco himself the next time he saw him.

Ron ran the conversation they had been having after Demetrie came along. He was trying to figure out if Draco had said anything to indicate that he wouldn't be back. But he didn't. He made all indications that he would be back as soon as he could.

Ron thought back even farther. He remembered the what Draco had been saying about his sister and a whole batch of new questions arose.

Draco said that Ashleigh was too much like her mother, shouldn't he have said 'our mother'? Unless they had different mothers. But that would mean his father had had an affair. Would Lucius even keep a child that wasn't legitimate? If he did, that could mean that Draco has other siblings too?

Ron had the feeling that there was a lot more to one Draco Malfoy than he could ever know. He set a resolution to find out all that he could from the enigma of an angel.

Ron's brow creased. It's been two years since Ashleigh died. Ron thought back to when Draco had started to insult him mercilessly. Last year Draco had been cruel to the point of violence towards everyone. Could it be that that was just Draco's way of dealing with the pain? Then why did he change this year? His insulting went from the violent height of the year before to way below how it had been in the years proceeding that. Was that another way Draco was showing his sorrow?

Ever since he and Draco started to see each other, Draco has been back to his normal self in public. Insulting, biting, sarcastic. Ron wondered if anyone else noticed the extreme differences in Draco's attitude the past two years.

Ron's thoughts traveled to the night he and Draco had first over come their hatred. Draco had been crying. His body had been convulsing in agony. Draco had told Ron that he'd been crying over him. But was that the truth? Had Draco actually been crying over his sister? Or had it been a mixture of both?

'Draco...' A breathy voice said. 'Draco... Baby Brother.. Please wake up.'

"Ashleigh?" He said warily. Everything was a soft white. No one was around. No body to hold a voice. But there it was. The same soft voice of his sister sounding through the light.

'Who else would it be silly?' Draco smiled at the teasing voice. There was no doubt in his mind or heart. This was his sister. ' I'm gone not even for two years and you forget about me! Too busy with that boyfriend of yours to remember you beloved big sister. You're a shitty brother!*'

"Ash, I could never forget you. I love you so much. I miss soo much!" Draco could feel his eyes tearing up.

'Oh Baby Brother! Don't cry over me! I don't anymore tears spilled on my account. I always told you that no one should cry over the death of a loved one, but rejoiced because they knew them while they lived.'

"You always were spouting weird sayings. How could I forget?"

'They aren't weird! They're very good advice! Now you're taking me off the topic. See what you have done?'

Draco had the feeling she was referring to something outside the question. "What do you mean?"

'You've made a royal mess of things Draco Malfoy!'

"What have I done?"

'For one thing you're letting others dictate what you do in your life! You promised me at my funeral that you wouldn't let anyone, not ANYONE, control your life from them on! And what do you do? You keep to that until you get a boyfriend! I'm so ashamed to call you family!'

"What do you mean by that? By seeing him I'm breaking Fathers rules!"

'Then tell the bastard then you're GAY!!'

"But then he'll kill me! And he'll kill Ron!!"

'Damn it Draco! You're not giving enough credit to the ass! Not a single creature in any world has the power to destroy love!'

"But what if he comes after Ron and Ron has to break up with me?"

Draco heard Ashleigh say some very unlady like words about him. 'For the love Christ! Do you have such little faith in Ron's love? Do you have so much doubt of his loyalty? If you keep this up, you'll kill him more surely than anyone else! He keeps giving you his heart over and over again and is getting next to nothing in return! Soon all that's going to be left of his soul is the pain of loving you and getting nothing back! So suck it up and tell him you love him! He's not going to be around forever!'

"But if I tell him I love him and Father finds out, he'll kill Ron!"

' Are you deaf as well as dumb?! What have I been saying!! Nothing can ever sever the bond between you and except for yourselves! The only way to live is to act on your emotions, that way you have nothing to regret later on!'

"Another one of your quotes?" Draco ask trying to lighten his sisters mood.

'No. I got it from Heero in Gundam Wing. But the point is that you're the one telling Ron not to think of the 'what if's' and that's all your doing! You're being such a hypocrit!'

"No I'm not! I may not always do what my heart tells me but I always do what I think is best!"

'Tell me Baby Brother, do you love Ron?'

"I do."

'With your whole heart?'

"Yes."

'Does he love you?'

"Yes."

'Then what are you so afraid of?'

"That one day he'll see me for my true self and stop loving me." Draco could feel himself being embraced even though nothing in the whiteness changed.

'The day he sees you for who you truly are is the day he realizes just how much more he loves than he could ever express. This I guarantee!'

"Are you sure? You've been wrong before."

'Draco, I love you more than I could ever say. You are my beloved Baby Brother! You are the one that went out of his way to make sure that I was happy when I was dieing. You have always been there for me, as I have for you. You put the saying that I lived by one my grave even though Father had punished you for asking about it. You are one of the most caring and loving person I know. Sure you can be a real ass but that only makes you sweeter.'

"I'm not nice at all!"

'Just shut up and hear me out. I am the only person that you allowed yourself to care deeply for. I'm the only person that you've allowed to see your vulnerable side. I know you better than you know yourself. And I know that letting Ron into your heart will be the greatest thing you can ever do, for someone else and for yourself. So please Baby Brother, Draco, let Ron into your heart. Please promise me you will. Please promise.'

"I promise you, I will let Ron into my heart. I will tell him I love him."

'Thank you. Thank you Baby Brother.' Draco could feel her smiling at him. 'Hey! Now that that's settled, do you remember the time.....'

Draco awoke slowly. He felt more rested now than he had ever felt in his life. He searched his mind for a time he'd ever felt such peace. There was one, the night he'd woken up in Ron's arms the night they had made love. He smiled at the memory and snuggled deeper into his bed, trying to go back to sleep to prolong the feeling of complete relaxation.

Draco's eyes widened at the sudden sound of harsh crying filling the room. He looked around and saw nothing he recognized. Even the bed he slept in felt different. Draco was at first confused, then panicky. Where was he? Why was he there? What happened? He thought. The last brought about by the sudden agony through out his body. What was going on?

As sudden as the pain came, it left. Leaving Draco feeling numb and even more confused in its wake. He looked down at the bed. There was a little blond boy next to him. He was the source of the noise. What Draco saw on this boy made him feel sick.

He was covered in cuts, bruises and stitches. His arms, legs, chest were all covered with the black and blue colors, angry looking cuts, and small precise sewing.

Draco had a vague recollection of seeing himself in the same position as the boy next to him.

He heard voices in the hall and paused to listen.

"How did this happen?" It was a female. It wasn't his mother but it wasn't a servant. He could recognize who the feminine voice belonged to.

"Get out of my house Lucia! Before you do anymore harm to my son!" That was his mothers voice. He could recognize that scornful tone any day. It was the one she used on a servant that hadn't done something exactly to her liking.

"Your son!! YOUR SON!! Draco is-" The voice now known to belong to Lucia screamed in rage.

"Shut up before I make you. The boy needs his rest." Lucius. His father commanded breaking into the furious woman's yells. "Lucia, you are henceforth stripped of your titles and can never set foot near the boy again."

"You can't do that to me! He's my s-"

"He no longer is! I never want to hear about you again! You nearly got my son killed!! Guards escort her off the property." The sound of walking was heard drawing closer to the people outside the door.

"Get your hands off me! I can see myself out!" Draco could just imagine this blond haired woman with sparkling blue eyes walking away with her head held high. Her pride showing even though her cloths looked like those worn by common witches.

"Thank God that Bitch is out of our hair." He heard is mother say a few minutes later. "Tell me, how did this happen again?"

"She had taken Draco to the market. He meet this boy that had dropped an apple. Draco had reached down to get it. He was knocked over before he could get the apple and was pushed into the street. A horse and buggy nearly ran him over. It stopped just it time but unfortunately it knocked over a crate that fell on Draco."

"My poor child!" He heard his mother say with concern in her voice. "We must make sure that nothing like this ever happens again."

"Oh it will."

"What are the names of the people involved?"

Draco heard his father list some names and what they had to do with the accident. Then he heard something that made him feel even more sick than before.

"And the boy that had dropped the apple, he's a Weasley. Ronald Weasley." He said with pure hate.

Draco's vision started to go black. He could feel himself losing consciousness. His head spun with the latest revelation. The reason his father had taught Draco to hate Weasley's so venomously was because he'd nearly died helping one. And now, unbeknownst to his father, he was again risking his life for Ron Weasley.

~~Until This Is Carried On ~~

* Alas!! Another Angel Sanctuary quote! I only changed the 'Little sister' to 'Big sister'. Other wise the line is the same....

Awwww... we get a dream sequence were Draco is yelled at by his sister and then is tormented by a memory of the past. And before that we had some Ron angst. A lots a angst in the story... Damn.. I started writing this hoping to make it a fluff... All well.. Alton is happy with this.

Hope y'all enjoyed this!!!

Oh.. Did I spell Lucius right?? I don't think I did.. Oh and keeping in the tradition of using Italian names, that's why I choose Lucia. Italian for Lucy. Also happens to be my Saint Name from Confirmation.