Revised 22nd July 2004
Tuomas has a sexy hat. That is all I have to say.
Lost in your dark eyes
I have seen your shadow world
Moments of madness
Slowly drowning in your love
I promise you nothing
But this earthly misery
Would you share it with me?
High, much higher than moon
Flies away the angel of love
Deep, much deeper and true
Is the sea of emotions we share
The poem so beautiful
Can turn into nightmare before we know
The secret bound of our blood oath
Keeps us together until the dawn . . .
Draco told Aurora to dress formally for dinner that night, but she did not have any of her formal clothes with her, so she conjured up a dress out of nowhere. It was long and, quite surprisingly, black, with a corset-like top and long, wide sleeves. She added a pair of big black boots with metal heels and various accessories, like a choker and studded bracelets, to the outfit just to make her stand out from the crowd even more, though she knew she would anyway. She changed her hair back to normal before adding red undertones to give a sort of Ozzy Osbourne effect.
Earlier she had also been told by Draco the basic rules of the house, which included no setting the house elves free [not that Aurora would or even know how to], no going near to his parent's rooms [Aurora would never do that] and be polite to all of the guests. She would have found the last one easier if it had not been the fact that the Lestrange's were staying in the Manor for the foreseeable future. Bellatrix Lestrange had seemed to take an instant disliking to Aurora, and she did not know why. Lucius Malfoy did not seem to like her much either, but she knew that was more to do with her father than with herself. But Bellatrix . . . Aurora had no idea why her hatred ran so deep, and why she let it show so obviously.
There was a knock on the door as Aurora was finishing applying her eyeliner. "Come in!" she called, and she heard the door open. Sticking her head around the bathroom door, she saw Draco standing there, wearing dark blue robes to match the blue on some of her corset. "Hey," she smiled. "I'll be out on one second."
Draco started to walk around, inspecting what she had done to 'improve' the room. "Who's this?" he asked as she came out of the bathroom.
"What? On the poster?"
"Yes," he answered.
"Nightwish."
"Are they one of those random bands you force me to listen to?"
"Yes. But I don't force you to listen."
"So do you find any one of these men on here remotely attractive?"
"Yes actually I do."
"Which-"
"The one on the left hand side. Long-ish hair, red bits in it, small beard."
"Him?!"
"Yup."
"But he's . . ."
"Like Will? I know. His name is Tuomas. I also like the blond one without the beard. He's pretty cool and he has a cool name - Emppu. Have you ever been to a concert?"
"A what?"
"I'm guessing no. I'll see if I can get some tickets and we can go to see them."
She sighed, and then turned to face him for the first time properly. "How do I look?" she asked.
"Bloody amazing," he replied, a look of amazement on his face. It was the first time she had heard him remotely swear out loud. "And absolutely perfect. They'll love you."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that."
"Just keep quiet about your father, smile and look vaguely regal. That colour really brings out your eyes."
"That could be the eyeliner."
Draco laughed. "It could be. Don't you have your father's eyes?"
"Supposedly, but as I have never seen him I wouldn't know."
Aurora tried to look her best as she entered the large dining room arm-in-arm with Draco, but she knew that she was probably failing miserably. As the youngest they were the last to enter the room, and Aurora knew that the whole 'youngest last' thing was probably only done so everyone could look at her. In some ways she loved being the centre of attention, but in other ways she hated being it almost all of the time, as was usually the case it seemed in her life.
There were about eighty guests for dinner, all of them older than Aurora and Draco. They were sat nearly at the end of the long table, and just her luck, Aurora was sitting next to Bellatrix Lestrange. The one consolation to this was that Draco was sitting opposite her, and kept giving her small reassuring smiles.
To say that she was sat next to someone who hated her for no apparent reason, the whole affair of the numerous course meal went extremely well. She made polite conversation with the witch sitting to her other side, and avoided talking to Bellatrix whenever possible. Bellatrix, she noticed, was being remarkably restraint, and seemed to want to tell or ask Aurora something, but could never quite get around to saying it, and kept making nervous glances across the table to her husband. She could feel Draco gently probing her mind as if he were looking for something, but what she could not place and she did not want to disturb him.
Eventually the dinner seemed to have finished, and everyone rose. She started to walk towards Draco, but he widened his eyes at her slightly.
No! he said in her head. You've got to go with the other women. Follow my aunt.
You're bloody joking right?
No.
This is all so old-fashioned.
She kissed him quickly, and then followed Bellatrix as she had been mean to. What she did not see was Draco wiping his mouth after they had kissed, a small smile on his face.
She slipped to the back of the group, where she would not be noticed. Suddenly she turned back, then translocated up to her room, hoping she would not be missed for a while.
Once in her mind, she tried to turn on her CD player, one that she had taken from home when she had gone back there. It did not work, as she had thought it would not. "Tyalie!" she commanded at it, and after a few seconds it spluttered into life. Aurora strode out onto her balcony. Outside it was already pitch black, being a December night at half past ten. She turned the music up a few notches so it blasted out of her room and into the darkness.
This is me for forever
One of the lost ones
The one without a name
Without a honest heart as compass
This is me for forever
One without a name
These lines the last endeavour
To find the missing lifeline
Oh how I wish for soothing rain
All I wish is to dream again
My loving heart lost in the dark
For hope I'd give my everything . . .
They had not yet noticed that she had disappeared. The men were in a drawing room on the second floor, and the women were still making their way towards somewhere on the fourth floor, the floor above Aurora's. She made sure that they did not notice her absence yet.
My flower withered between
The pages two and three
The once and forever bloom
Gone with my sins
Walk the dark path
Sleep with angels
Call the past for help
Touch me with your love
And reveal to me my true name
Oh how I wish for soothing rain
All I wish is to dream again
My longing heart lost in the dark
For hope I'd give my everything . . .
She was quite surprised to find out that Draco had, for the first time it seemed, gone with the men to partake in their talk. Crabbe and Goyle were there too, but Aurora knew that they were too thick to understand what was going on in between all of the idle chat. Random words slotted into sentences, a code of sorts only the true followers of the Dark Lord, his closest circle, could understand. Lucius Malfoy had taught Draco to recognise the code, and Aurora had taken it from Draco's mind when she had arrived at the Manor and found that he knew it. He did not know that she had done this of course; she had done it in secret, quickly and quietly.
Oh how I wish for soothing rain
Oh how I wish to dream again
Once and for all
And all for once
Nemo my name forevermore
Nemo sailing home
Nemo letting go . . .
Aurora was singing too loudly to gear them knocking at her door. She had been concentrating too hard on Draco and the men's 'secret' conversations to notice that the women had disappeared and were now trying to get past the spirit in her door. The spirit, however, would not let them past without a password and a key.
Oh how I wish for soothing rain
Oh how I wish to dream again
Once and for all
And all for once
Nemo my name forevermore . . .
# Nemo - Nightwish #
The track faded, and Aurora could finally hear the women, prominently Bellatrix, arguing with her door. Laughing quietly to herself, she changed the CD to something louder than Nightwish, which was extremely difficult. Bellatrix's voice just got louder, so to combat it Aurora turned up her music even louder. After about ten minutes, Bellatrix gave up and stalked away. When she and the other women had gone, Aurora slipped out of her room, meaning to follow them. She did not get very far as she lost them in the many corridors, so decided to turn back to her room.
In fact she should have kept following the women, for they were not going to sit alone and make small talk. They were, in truth, going to meet up with the men. They had known all along that she would try and outsmart them, and the whole argue-with-the-door affair had just been for show. They had cast a spell on her to make her believe certain things were happening when they were not, and make her forget other things had happened. Addie was not there to help her though, so she was caught unawares.
Pulling her favourite book out of her case, she walked out onto the balcony, dragging a chair and her duvet with her. The music was still loud, but she turned it down to make it quiet background music rather than thrash-metal. A glance at the sky reminded her that the moon was full tonight, and she quickly blessed the God and Goddess before settling down in the chair, pulling her duvet over her knees. It was also one lunar month to her birthday, she remembered. The sky was cloudless, and the stars were bright. Aurora did not believe in Heaven, being a pagan she believed in reincarnation, but she believed that each of the stars in the sky was a Soul who had had all of its time on Earth, so could not be resurrected and became a star. She knew that this was probably not true of course, but it comforted her to think that maybe Eldara was up there somewhere smiling down on her.
It had started to snow again, and Aurora shivered slightly, pulling the duvet even further around her to cover her abdomen and shoulders as well, glad of its warmth. She continued to gaze at the stars silently for about another ten minutes until she fell asleep, exhausted from her day. Her book fell to the floor, forgotten.
About an hour later a shadow fell over Aurora. She was still fast asleep however and was completely oblivious to what was happening around her. Soon two more shadows joined it, all of them speaking in hushed tones as to not wake the sleeping girl in front of them, who was breathing heavily, showing she was in a deep sleep. The first figure drew out its wand and cast a spell on the girl, forcing her into the deepest sleep possible, a near-coma state of rest. The biggest shadow, a large rounded one with about the same brute strength as a horse, picked up the girl and slung her roughly over its shoulder as if she were nothing but a rag doll. The shadows disappeared into the night, leaving nothing but the chair, which had been knocked over, and the duvet, crumpled on the floor. The book was now tattered from being roughly stepped on, and the wind picked up its pages and blew them out into the snowy night, where they too disappeared.
A/N :
Yes he does [continued from A/N at top]. Nightwish are the best band ever. I love them. #does Tuomas / Emppu impression with Addie# WHOO!
Anyways . . .
Left it a bit cliffhangery didn't I? Next chapter's a good-un if I do say so myself. Full of random crap but great . . . But mucho pages long, about 11 sides A4 size 12 Georgia.
Dedication : Couldn't be bothered to do one at the top. Dammit. Many people have asked me . . . Darly, methinks did. HELLO DARLY! Erm . . . Cat [Star Wars Girl], Addie, anyone else????? Oooh – Tarja, Marco [not from BB], Emppu, Tuomas and Jukka [not so sexy in the flesh but a great drummer]
I own no Nightwish lyrics. Mr T. Holopainen owns them. Or whoever.
Reviewers :
GlitzyDancingShoes : Do you really like it? I thought no one did as I only got 3 reviews . . . but PP's not as popular as HP, so I should have expected it I suppose.
DLSnapeKurama18 : Right . . . You scare me sometimes, you really do. Are you talking about some sort of Anime character or something? #sighs# I never understand some people.
Dazzie : I'll tell you when everyone else knows hun. Might be a while yet though. Keep reading even if you are confudzled.
Cat : HELLO! Keep reading and reviewing mate! Any idea when the next SW film is out?
Addie : It's not my fault you didn't review chapter 18. Wow Tuomas wow. #swoons# I WANT HIS HAT! So close he was life-sized . . .
Claire – No porn sex Claire, that's really not me. Draco is a bit of a prick, but is manipulated slightly by people. # HINT! # But yes, Will is sexy. And not at all based on Tuomas #coughs#
Arwen-Georgie-Skye : Eugh Kate Bosworth eugh. Godric eh? We shall see. Have you heard of Nightwish?
Having just realised that links don't show up on this, you can see a pic of Tuomas by clicking on my homepage thing on my profile. Thank you.
# End of hope, end of love, end of time, the rest is . . . silence #
