Disclaimer: I own nothing you recognize. The quote from a Tale of Two Cities is obviously famous so you've probably heard it, I love that quote. I'm not sure if I did the punctuation right though. The quote will come up later though, so remember it, I warned you…oh and i don't own Legally Blonde or Legally Blonde 2 (obviously)
AN: I know I haven't updated in a while but I didn't know what to write and I've been really busy. I went to visit Andii and Nora at camp on Sunday – that was fun. And I'm going to dance camp this week with Laura and everyone. Thank you for your reviews – you guys are the greatest. I can't believe everyone likes it so much. My brother is in Holland – lol I've had almost a week with him gone – yay. Well actually it's not that great cuz see the thing is he hasn't called at all and he hasn't used his little "credit card" cuz my parents can monitor it. Me and my dad think my mom is starting to worry. I mean if you went half way across the world wouldn't you call your parents to let them know you got there? Exactly – you would. Oh by the way – I'm an American. So I apologize if I don't get all the accents or words or way of talking right. I've read so many stories though and everyone uses "bloody hell" all the time – Nora has a counselor who's from England and she says people don't say that a lot cuz it's very very rude. And for any of Hagrid words I'm not gonna be good at that. If you have any suggestions please tell me I'll think about using them – that's all for now…
Since I haven't updated in a while and just cuz I'm gonna start doing this…
Recap: There was a thunder storm…Hermione and Ginny got scared and ran to Harry and Ron, they fell asleep like that…Draco went flying and fell off his broom, his mom found him and the doctor came fixed everything except concussion (he has to heal that on his own and wake up), Narcissa is talking to him to try and make him wake up…that's about it
"move your body girl makes the fellas go the way you ride it girl makes the fellas go…" my lovely singing can be heard (at least I think those are the words)
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Chapter 5 – Last Day of Summer
All night Narcissa sat up talking to Draco and just praying that those grayish-bluish eyes of his would open and look up into hers. Eventually she fell asleep and slept soundly until the morning sun crept though the windows and seeped through her eyelids.
"Draco? Are you awake yet?" she asked softly just hoping he would be while she knew it wasn't likely. When he didn't respond she broke down and started to cry, she was so afraid that he would never wake up again.
Slinky hearing the sobs decided to bring Mistress Cissy some breakfast. She didn't really know what Mistress Cissy liked seeing as she only served Master Draco. Assuming mother was like son she made a plate of what Master Draco usually ate in the morning. Bacon, sausage, and an egg sandwich were what she made to take up to the depressed woman.
Entering the room Slinky saw Mistress Cissy with her arms around Master Draco crying, the tears were flowing down her face soaking both her and Draco.
"Mistress Cissy, Slinky has made you some breakfast. I made you what Master Draco always eats." She said slowly walking over to the bed and placing the tray next to Narcissa.
"Oh, Slinky, you shouldn'tve. I don't even know if I can eat anything right now." Narcissa replied while never taking her gaze from her son.
"But Mistress Cissy must eat. If you doesn't eat then when Master Draco wakes up and is all better Mistress Cissy will then be sick."
"You do have a point there I guess, okay I'll try to eat a little something." Narcissa picked up a strip of bacon and examined it. "What's this?"
"That's bacon, Mistress Cissy. And this is sausage, and then an egg sandwich, Master Draco's favorites." All that brought was another crying fit from Narcissa. "Don't cry Mistress Cissy, Slinky didn't mean to upset you. Slinky wants to see Master Draco get better too."
"Slinky I don't know what I'm going to do if he doesn't wake up. I can't live the rest of my life with just Lucius, it just wouldn't be worth living."
"Don't speak like that Mistress Cissy. Why do you question Master Draco's strength? He'll get better, I know he will."
"Thanks, and Slinky, do you think you could get me my favorite book so I can read it to Draco?"
"Slinky will help Mistress Cissy to do whatever it takes to get Master Draco better."
"Okay Slinky, it's a Tale of Two Cities. It's in my private library because it was written by a muggle author and Lucius wouldn't approve of it."
"Slinky will go get that for Mistress Cissy right away." She said before dashing out of the room. A couple of minutes later Slinky returned with a copy of the book in her hand. She handed it to Narcissa and then walked out of the room leaving the two alone.
Once Slinky was out of the room Narcissa opened the book and stared at the first page. "I hope you like this Draco, it's my favorite book."
Of course Draco made no reply so Narcissa decided she should just start reading it.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity. It was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness. It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. We had everything before us, we had nothing before us. We were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct to the other place – in short. The period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on being received. For good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only..."
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Mrs. Weasley had made breakfast for the whole family and so far only Fred, George and her husband were downstairs.
"Boys where are Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"I don't know mum, we could go get them up if you want us to." Fred replied.
"Alright then, go on now, upstairs with the both of you." She stated ushering them out of the kitchen towards the stairs.
"We're going mum, it's not like it's our fault they're not awake yet." George said while grabbing a piece of toast to bring with him. Together him and Fred went up the stairs to find the rest of the Weasley family that was at the house, and their two guests.
"Do you think we should wake up Hermione and Ginny first or Harry and Ron?" Fred asked when they got to the top of the stairs and was looking down either side of the hallway.
"I think Harry and Ron would be a better choice, then we can have them wake up the girls." George replied while walking towards the other stairs leading up to the attic, Ron and Harry's room.
"You're probably right about that one, Harry and Ron it is." George said following Fred.
"So how do we wake them up?"
"Hmm...water? No too boring. Spiders? No that doesn't affect Harry. We could tell the Chudley Cannons are downstairs wanting to meet them."
"Is that Harry's favorite team though?"
"I'm not sure, okay um...how about we do a tickling spell on them?"
"Good enough. We'll do that then." They had reached the top of the stairs and opened the door.
"So you want Harry or Ron?" George asked his brother.
"Doesn't matter to me, how about you get Harry and I'll get Ron?"
"Alright, on the count of three. One...two...THREE." They cast the spells but they soon found out George's didn't exactly hit Harry, it hit Ginny instead. High pitched giggly rang throughout the room.
"What is going on?" Hermione asked groggily while sitting up. "Gin, Ron why are you laughing?"
"Hermione? Ginny?" Fred said slowly, looking back and forth between the two.
"Yes, it's us. We got scared during the storm last night and came up here. We must've fallen asleep."
"'Mione do you have your wand?" came Harry's voice from under the covers.
"Why?"
"So we can shut the two of them up."
"Oh, right. No, I don't have it." She then got up and made her way over to Fred. "But you wouldn't mind doing the counter curse for this now would you?"
"Umm...of...of course." Fred said stuttering. Hermione seemed to have that affect on more than one Weasley. He then said the counter curse and both Ginny and Ron stopped laughing.
"But Fred you just ruined all the fun." George exclaimed.
"I...uh...I..." was all Fred could say in response.
"Well seeing as you got us up, let's all go down to breakfast." Hermione said walking past the twins and out the door. She turned around and stared at them all. "Are you coming?"
"Yea, sure, coming." Ron said getting up out of his bed. Harry and Ginny followed suit and finally Fred and George followed them out the door and down the stairs. The group made their way into the kitchen and sat down around the table.
"There you all are. I was beginning to think you wouldn't get up for breakfast, so I sent the twins up." Mrs. Weasley exclaimed with her back turned trying to cook up some more food for all of the newcomers.
"Yea, they have such a nice way of waking us up." Ginny said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Now, now little sister, don't act all ungrateful." George said mocking a hurt expression. Then in a lower tone he continued, "Or we just might have to tell mum where we found you."
"You wouldn't." Ron shot back from his other side.
"Oh yes we would." Fred said entering himself in the conversation.
"Where did they find you and why is it such a secret? I would assume you were all in your beds." Mrs. Weasley asked, finally turning around with the rest of the food.
"Well...we found them..." George started before he was cut off.
"They found us working on something up in the attic." Hermione said.
"What was it dear?"
"It's a surprise." Ginny exclaimed, realizing where Hermione was going. "We're going to show you and dad and the twins later."
"Oh I just love surprises." Mr. Weasley said, finally putting down his paper and talking. "Is it a muggle invention, because muggles are just fascinating with their work?"
"Dad, like Ginny said it's a surprise." Ron muttered.
"Oh, right, guess I'll just have to wait and see then. So what are you kids up to before you go back to school tomorrow?"
"Can we play quidditch, mum? Please." Ron asked.
"I don't know..." she began to say.
"Molly, just let the kids have a little fun. No one will get hurt." Mr. Weasley but in.
"Oh all right, but be careful especially since Ginny and Hermione are playing."
"Well I'm just going to watch, Mrs. Weasley. I don't really like playing all that much." Hermione said.
"But 'Mione..." Ron whined. "Why won't you play with us? I promise you won't get hurt."
"Yea 'Mione, nothing's going to happen to you." Harry agreed.
"You guys know I just do like flying, I never have." She said. "And that's that so don't try and persuade me otherwise." She then glared at both of them and saw they were looking at her with the puppy dog face. "Harry! Ron! No, don't even try that. It's not going to work. I won't go flying, I just don't want to."
"But 'Mione." Ron moaned.
"No, now stop looking at me like that."
"Well if you lot are going to play I suggest you go now." Mrs. Weasley said ushering them outside. She turned to Hermione and said in a whisper, "Don't worry dear, I never played quidditch either."
"Thanks Mrs. Weasley." She responded.
"Now Hermione, what have I told you about calling me that?"
"Sorry, I forgot. It's just so weird to be calling you Molly."
"Well, run along now. They're starting to play already." Hermione then walked quickly out into the field and sat down under a tree to watch the game going on above her.
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Narcissa had been reading to Draco almost all day and she had almost gotten to the end of the book. Slinky had brought her lunch earlier and she had eaten a few bites. Draco had still not woken up and she grew more and more worried.
Finally she finished the book and shut it just as Slinky came back with dinner.
"Has Mistress Cissy finished reading to Master Draco?" Slinky asked while setting the tray down.
"Yes Slinky, I just finished it." Narcissa replied then got a look at all the food the house elf had prepared. "Slinky I can't eat that much."
"But Mistress Cissy hasn't eaten much all day." Slinky insisted.
"Well yes but I'm just not hungry."
"Just try to eat a little bit Mistress Cissy, you're going to get sick if you don't." Slinky said and then left the room.
"I guess I can try some of it, it does look good." Narcissa muttered to herself.
"Yea it does, do you mind if I have some?" a voice came from next to her. Narcissa quickly turned toward the origin and saw Draco sitting up and looking at her.
"Oh my gosh, you woke up!" Narcissa exclaimed while dropping her plate and wrapping him in an embrace.
"Of course I did mum, did you ever think I wouldn't?" Draco asked but as soon as he looked at her he knew the answer. She had thought he was going to die. "Well pass some of that food over here, I'm starving."
"Draco, Ant said you should take it easy for a while." Narcissa said coming back to her senses.
"That doesn't mean I can't eat."
"Well yes, but..."
"Mum, I'll be fine, don't worry so much." He hugged her before taking a plate and fixing himself dinner.
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"'Mione!" Ron exclaimed, flying down to hover just above her. "Why won't you come up?"
"Ron, don't start again. You know I hate flying." She exclaimed sighing.
"But 'Mione, you can fly with me if you want." Ron said shyly.
"It doesn't matter, that won't help." She snapped back.
"Okay." He said then flew away, obviously hurt. A few minutes later Ginny flew down and claimed the spot where Ron was.
"What happened?" she asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Ron came down here to talk to you and then when he came back up he was all depressed."
"Oh, that. Well he asked me to go flying again. I said no obviously and he proposed I go with him so I would feel better. I told him that wouldn't help and he got all upset."
"Well we all know Ron can take things the wrong way. I'll talk to him for you."
"Thanks, Gin. Now go fly, have fun before we go back to school."
"You sure you don't wanna come?"
"Giiiin..." Hermione moaned.
"Just kidding." Ginny responded then flew away leaving Hermione to her thoughts again.
They were outside the rest of the day until Mrs. Weasley called them in for dinner, she had brought lunch out to them earlier.
The dinner talk was normal, talk about school, quidditch, work, and whatever. Mr. Weasley remembered that there had been no surprise. Hermione covered up and asked if they wanted to watch a movie. Of course Mr. Weasley was pleased, he would get to see a muggle TV. Hermione charmed a TV and a movie to watch. They ended up watching Legally Blonde then the second one, Legally Blonde 2 : Red, White and Blonde, until it was finally time to go to bed. All of them who were returning to Hogwarts decided to pack their things, well everything they didn't need in the morning. After packing they eventually fell asleep.
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Draco and Narcissa enjoyed their dinner and their conversation. Narcissa then left Draco alone so he could pack his things for school but not before her making him promise he wouldn't lift anything heavy or use too much magic already.
He spent the rest of the night packing and then read his Hogwarts letter again. There was nothing about if he has made Head Boy. Last year he was the Slytherin prefect and this year everyone expected Potter to become Head Boy but Draco couldn't help hoping it would be him instead of Potter. But the letter didn't say who had been chosen so he figured it was probably Potter and then drifted off into a deep slumber.
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AN: sorry that this chapter was soo boring but i needed to get through the last day before they go back to school. it'll get interesting - i promise. but i'm going to overnight volleyball camp on monday and then the next week i'm going to cape cod so obviously it will be a little difficult updating. i'll try to write another chapter this weekend and maybe another in the time between my little "mini vacations" but i apologize if i dont.
and please review. i love hearing anything. i just feel like no one's reading my story and that's why it took me so long to update well that and the fact i've been busy, i had dance camp this week and everything and yea...well thanks goes out to SnOgFeSt and x LoLa 214 x for reviewing. now please please please just click the little purple button and review i dont even care if its like a sentence or less than that...
