A/N :

Hey all!

It's been less than a month since I put the last chapter up, but already another one's going up! I'm so proud of myself!

This one is dedicated to Rhian really randomly. I don't own anything that you recognise from Harry Potter.

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Aurora woke up the next morning as Madam Pomfrey placed a tray with her breakfast on it next to her bed. It was quite late, she could tell, as the beautiful, cold winter sun streamed in through the south-facing windows. She glanced at the clock on the ceiling above her head to see that it said eleven o'clock.

"Already?" she mumbled to herself.

"Pardon?" Madam Pomfrey was on her way out of the room, but stopped when Aurora spoke.

"Nothing."

"Good. The headmaster has said that you may rest in your room until the last two lessons, which you may go to. I believe that they are double potions with Professor Snape, who will not work you too hard as you are still quite weak."

"But you said. . ."

"He thinks you should just do two lessons today to lower yourself back in slowly."

"Alright." Aurora did not want to face anyone yet, but she reluctantly gave in, as she knew that the matter was already decided for her. "When may I leave?" she asked.

"When you have eaten and when you are ready I shall check you over one last time to see that you can leave." Madam Pomfrey left then, and Aurora ate quickly, then changed into her clothes, which had been placed at the end of the bed. She got a potion from Madam Pomfrey to help stop her headaches, and then she was finally allowed to leave.

Walking down the empty corridors, with the box from her mother under her arm, she felt as free as a bird. After shunning off the idea to just fly out of one of the windows, she glanced at the letters that she held in her hand. The top one was from the figure that had slipped into her room yesterday. The writing identified who it was, if she had not already known, as it was tall and spindly. She would not open it yet. The Common Room was empty too. Aurora climbed the stairs to her room slowly as her head was already reeling, the walls beginning to spin, and it was throbbing painfully. She flopped, face down, onto her bed, only realising now that the reason her head was hurting so badly, and the reason she was ill at all, was the fact that Addie had left her.

"Deserted me more like," she muttered, burying her head even further into the pillow. She slept for nearly an hour before waking once more with a jolt. She rolled over and sat up slowly. Her head still throbbed slightly, but with none of the power that it had earlier.

She picked up the parcel from her mother, seeing that she still had four things left to open. The pouch containing the rose seeds she placed on her windowsill, before carefully unwrapping the next present. The small box was about three centimetres square, and the silk was smooth under her touch. It had a small silver pentacle on the top, and Aurora recognised it as the box that her mother usually kept her earrings in. She lifted the lid carefully, and it snapped open to reveal another seed. This one had started to grow, a small green shoot emerging from one end. Just by looking at it Aurora could tell that it was a willow seed, probably one from her Tree in the field full of flowers. The Tree had been christened 'Aurora's Tree' when she had been born, and Eldara had had one too, a birch at they other end of the field. Their Trees were places where they could sit and watch things far away, or talk to the birds that flocked there. They had each loved their Trees. Aurora did not know if Mara and Will had had Trees too, but she presumed that they had, as almost every sorcerer child had one somewhere, even if they themselves did not know about it. It was a way of introducing the children to nature so She could help them rule their lives wisely. Aurora placed the seed back into the box, as she had no idea where she was going to plant it.

Picking up the next parcel, she knew what it was straight away. The pouch was quite large and she could see bumps on its surface, and feel the power of the semi-precious and precious stones before she even opened it. She just glanced at the collection of stones, including amber, amethyst, lapis lazuli, tiger-eye and sapphire, before picking up the next parcel.

This one was rectangular in shape, and she could feel that somehow it was dangerous, and that her mother had wrapped it up quite carefully. She took off the lid almost gingerly, and then laughed. "A spoon?!" For that is what lay inside the box, a small teaspoon with a wooden handle and a metal spoon. She turned it over and over in her hand, before noticing a tiny catch where the metal joined the wood, which she flicked. The wood sprang off to reveal a long, pointed knife, which fitted into the wood perfectly. She tucked this into her boots, which were sitting by the bed, for later use.

The last one seemed the most precious, as it had a large number of charms on it to protect it from falling into dangerous hands. It was a box, and there was a fingerprint scanner on the lock, which she worked out her ring fitted perfectly into.  The lid snapped open, and Aurora could not believe her eyes.  In the box was money, and lots of it, including muggle English pounds and wizarding galleons, sickles and knuts.  On top of the money was a small note, once again from her mother:

I realised that this year you had to pay for all your school books, robes, cauldron etc, so here is some money to pay you back.  Also here is twelve months allowance, plus some extra.  All in all this totals approximately three thousands pounds [£3000].  I took the liberty of changing some of it into wizarding money for you.  I hope this is alright.

Under the first note there was a second, saying that Serena gave permission for aurora to visit Hogsmeade.

"At last!"  She had not given Amy's note in, as she believed that they would not accept it.  Then the realisation sank in.  "£3000?!"  She counted the money quickly.  There was £2500 in muggle money plus the rest in wizarding money.  "Wow," she breathed, unbelievingly.

Aurora placed the money back in the box and slid the larger box under her bed.  She glanced at the clock on her wall to see that it said nearly quarter to two.  She got changed quickly, slung her bag over her shoulder, checked her room and locked it.  Walking down the stairs, she noticed several people in their rooms she recognised.  Some stopped and said hello, but she neither replied nor stopped, she just nodded and kept her fast pace. 

On reaching the potions classroom, she stopped suddenly.  She was the first there, so she sat on the floor and opened her bag to take out the letter.  She ripped it open and read it slowly, taking in every word.  She did not even notice when two shadows fell across her.

"Hello?" One of them said.  "Hello?  Aurora?  Anyone there?"  Two hands waved in front of her eyes.

"Hm?"  Aurora snapped her gaze from the letter and up to two sets of eyes: one bright green, the other dark brown.  She glanced up to the forehead of the person with green eyes, as if to confirm his identity.

"Are you alright, Aurora?" he asked.

"Not really," she answered.

"What… happened?" asked the other set of eyes, belonging to Hermione.  "I mean, I was there but…"

"I'm not really sure.  All I can remember is taking something from Mara's mind.  What… I don't know."

"Miss Polgana?"  Professor Snape was standing behind Hermione and Harry.  "Back at last."

"Yes sir."

"You have some work to catch up on."  He shooed Harry and Hermione to one side with his hands.  "If you stay after class I shall tell you about it."  Turning back to the class, he told them to go inside.

 Aurora tried to get up from the floor but she felt dizzy and her head was throbbing once more.  She rested her head on her chest and was about to give up when a pale hand took hers and pulled her to her feet.  She glanced into his eyes, cold and grey.

"Why were you being nice to the mudblood?"  he asked.

"I was being neither nice nor horrible.  I was simply being polite.  They asked me how I was, so I replied."

"But you talked to them!  Especially him.  You know how I feel about the whole lot of them."

"The I shall speak to no one but you and the teachers."

"Good." He kissed her on the cheek and still holding her hand, he led her into class, closely followed by his two cronies; Crabbe and Goyle.

They sat down next to each other and held hands under the table.  Snape was midway through talking, but did not stop or seem to care that they were late.  They talked in thoughts for most of the lesson, mindless chat whilst preparing some sort of useless potion they would never need again, one to make card.  Near the end of the lesson, once the potion and card had been made, Aurora felt things hitting her back.  She turned to see Pansy flicking pieces of newly made pink card at her back.  She gave Pansy a nasty and withering look and continued working.  When the lesson finally ended, she picked up the card and was about to throw it away when she noticed writing on it.  Three letters.  Ada.

"Ada?" she whispered, staring at the piece of paper in disbelief.  Her head was still reeling for the potion had not worked, and now her mind was reeling too.  A sudden and stronger pain ripped through her head.  This pain felt different from the ones she had experienced before, either through her visions or just general migraines.  It was a flashback.

She saw herself marching down to where Mara and Hermione were sitting and practically ripping the thoughts form her mind.  Then she saw the thoughts she had taken from Mara's mind, finally seeing herself blacking out before hitting her head, then being taken up to school, kicking and screaming, screaming "Ada!" like a mad person all the way.

"Ada?" she whispered once more.

"Miss Polgana?"  A clouded voice spoke to her from outside her flashback.  "Aurora?!" Another different voice.  "Ara?" A third.

She could feel herself falling and then being caught by more than one pair of hands.  What was happening to her?

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People who reviewed chapter 12 :

Sammy : Hey! I haven't heard from you in a while. I do that sometimes ~ write a word that's wrong. I don't have a beta though, so I check it myself and don't always pick it up! Keep reading!

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Rje : I think you've read this chapter [14] already, but n/m. I've changed some stuff though!

Addie : Safe man innit? Totally mint. God Addie, you iz so ring a ding ding!

Claire : Nearly at Christmas now. . . Well, I am in my rough copies . . .

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Glitzy : I dunno if everyone else knows who he is. But in Old Tongue, 'ada' means 'father'. There you go. Now you should know who he is.

People who reviewed chapter 13 :

Lupu : Are you talking about in the story? She doesn't like her because she thinks that Addie did something bad to something that she loved that she can't quite place her finger on. What we shall see later . . .

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Arwen-Georgie-Skye : It was a sort of filler, but it was written in haste. Glitzy said so. Of course I'll keep writing . . . eventually!

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Rje : You should have some idea where its going surely?

Glitzy : It was a bit of a filler, but as I said to Arwen, it was written in haste. Hope you enjoyed this one more. *Boogles slowly to Evanescence*

Doughnut : Addie is the Spirit of the Dark. She is like one of the two most important things in the Universe that were made when a star exploded when it shouldn't have. She [well it, as it is neither male nor female] needs a host to survive properly until the day of the Final Battle, in which one of the Spirits will be destroyed forever, and the other will prevail. That's a basic definition. I wasn't sure who you were at first, no!

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