Hey, I'm already back! Aren't you proud??? Okay, so here's the new chapter, it's not that long, but at least you've got something to read, right? Okay, actually, I just had to stop it where it ended, because what happens afterwards has to be in the next chapter.

Alexian-goddess: Hey I already updated again!!!

Calm Serene: Believe it or not, just the day you reviewed my father put one of these shelves for small figures on the wall next to my PC, so there is a lot of space for the SoS charas. :D Ah, and of course, my favourite: QUESTION TIME!!! ( I always imagine a small bell when I write this, maybe I should go and see these doctors with the sofa...)

1. 206. At least, that's what a nature and technique quiz for children said. :p

2. hm,... difficult question. He loved her, but then, something happened, and he stopped thinking about her (or tried), but he will see her soon (next chapter - chapter8)... how about you ask this again a few chapters later

3. nope.

4.I will "answer" this with the last words of Goethe: "More light". (just read this chapter)

5. look at 4.

6. They will in the future, because Draco isn't going to leave his family alone again. ( and I also plan to bring in Damon and Tory again)

7. She became one of my favourite charas. (you should read my old Newsies-ffs.) I just LOVE it when there's something dramatic happening and in the end everything is turning out good!

8.You want to know the truth??? I don't know myself. runs away and hides. Waits some time than answers from behind some VERY safe wall But I don't really think any of the mentioned would really fit. Okay, I played with the thought of Flint but...no. To be true, I just needed someone who could take her to the hospital, and a Slytherin seemed the most logical, but I think I have already decided who it will be. You will find out in ch. 8. and what I have planned for him, I have to say, I think I really love him in my story!!! As soon as you know who it is you have to make me a figurine of him too.

9. Would I EVER kill of anyone???

10. It's okay, but I can't wait for the next one. I like to answer, or not answer, questions

TriGemini: I know, that this is a big problem, which already caused Secrets of the past to end after only a few chapters. I want to bring in too much at once. But I'm trying to make it more obviously. Ah, yes, the mysterious Slytherin. Just read number 8 above, I hope this will explain it a bit. And I like the sentence you took from the chapter, about the prejudice.

Chapter 7

I can't see anymore

Don't trust my eyes anymore

Can barely believe

Feelings have turned

I'm way to lazy to give up

It would be to early anyway

Because there's always a way

Der Weg (The Way) – Herbert Grönemeyer (translated by...me! I just had to use this song in this story. Right now, it's my favourite song. H. Grönemeyer wrote it for his dead wife, and the rest of the song wouldn't fit in anywhere in the story, but the beginning fits in with this chapter (or at least I hope so))

"Fee, stop looking around all the time." Her brother told her while they were playing together with Aishleen and Sean. But Felicitas just couldn't help herself. The uneasiness she had been feeling all day just wouldn't go away. It became even worse now. Part of her told her it was stupid to be afraid. They were playing behind Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. The street behind the shops was only used by the shop owners, so there was really no reason to be afraid. But another, bigger part of her still screamed 'danger'.

Her heart started racing even more. Sweat was forming all over her body. Felicitas shivered violently. 'It is coming. Run. Go to your mother' screamed her head. But her feet wouldn't move.

Sean, who was closest to her, came to her and put his hand on her arm.

"Nat's right. You look like there's some banshee after..." His eyes widened in fear when the air behind Felicitas suddenly glowed. All kinds of colours mixed themselves in the air. And it came closer. It moved directly towards Felicitas. Sean tried to pull the girl away, but before he could make one step away from the lights it had reached Felicitas.

Felicitas saw the fear in Sean's eyes. She could hear her brother and Aishleen scream their names. But she couldn't move. She couldn't even turn around to see what was behind her. She just felt that it was something evil. And it touched her.

It felt like ice on his skin. That was Sean's last thought before he saw the lights directly in front of him, on his right, on his left side. The lights were all around him. He was still holding Felicitas' arm. Then, everything was black.

CHANGE OF SCENE

Katerina, Hermione and Fred looked at each other when they heard the screams from behind the shop. They ran out the backdoor, thinking that one of the children had fallen and hurt himself.

But when they reached the street they saw only Nathaniel and Aishleen sitting there on the ground and looking at...

...nothing.

Hermione kneed down next to Nathaniel and took his face in her hands. She moved his head gently around, so he was looking into her eyes.

"Nat, what happened? Why did you scream? And... where are Fee and Sean?" she asked him slowly, making sure he understood every word.

Nathaniel shook his head slowly, his small mind not really understanding what he had just seen. His sister and his best friend had just disappeared. He looked into the warm eyes of his mother when he heard a noise next to him. He turned his head and saw Aishleen crying against her father's shoulder, her left hand clutching her right arm while she did so.

"Nat?" he looked back into his mother's eyes.

"There...there was a light...then they were...gone." He stuttered, still not really understanding what had happened.

Hermione looked disbelieving from her son to the street, searching for any sign of her daughter. But there was nothing.

CHANGE OF SCENE

Alicia was sitting opposite George and staring at her plate. She was trying to listen to what her husband was telling her, but her mind wandered off to her latest patient. She knew that her colleagues at the hospital were taking good care of Angelina, but still she would rather sit at her bed and make sure, that her friend was alright.

George sighed and shook his head. He knew that something was wrong with Alicia, but he couldn't imagine what it was. He had seen immediately that something was bothering her when he had reached St Mungo's, but Alicia had assured him, that she was alright.

"I have an affair with Snape and I'm going to leave you for him." He said. His eyebrows raised while he was waiting for a reaction. But Alicia just nodded and let a 'mhm' from her mouth, just like she had the whole time before.

George took her hands in his and waited until she looked him in the eyes.

"...what?" Alicia asked him confused.

"You haven't listened to a word I've said, have you? Come on Ally, tell me what's bothering you." George encouraged her softly.

Alicia swallowed and looked out of the window. She had tried before. She had often tried to talk to him about Angelina, but he didn't want to hear anything about her. She had to try another way this time.

"It's a patient of me. She was brought in this morning. Her husband beat her up pretty bad. She almost died. There was blood everywhere, and not only on the outside..." Alicia swallowed again as she remembered the moments when she had feared she wouldn't be able to rescue her friend.

George looked concerned at his wife, seeing the tears that threatened to fall.

"She has been raped, beaten up and then he had left her to die. He had intended to kill her." she bit her lip and looked back into George's eyes.

"I... She needs a place to stay when she can leave the hospital. She can't go back there! I thought that maybe... we..." George looked at her, his eyebrows knitted in thought.

"Why do I have the feeling that you're talking about someone I don't want to hear about?"

"George, I don't really care what you think about this. Right now, all I care about is to get my best friend back into life. If he gets his hands on her ever again he's going to kill her! She has no one else to go to!"

"No! Don't even think about it! She won't stay with us! How do you expect me to look Fred in his eyes again if SHE's staying with us?!"

"Oh, but you can look at yourself again if you're letting her die???" Alicia shrieked at him and arose from her seat.

"She's alive, right? So it's not as though I'm killing her!" His voice getting louder with each word as he, too, arose.

Tears were running freely down Alicia's cheeks by now. She shook her head slowly.

"I can't just leave her, George. I can't. She has been my best friend as long as I can remember. Every time I had to mend her wounds in the past years it hurt me so bad I thought I would die along with her. She's barely half the person she used to be. She's broken. And I wouldn't survive to loose her to death. To think that I failed a friend. I know that there is more to her marriage than we know. She would have NEVER married such a guy. NEVER! You know this as well as I do. Her parents have repudiated her. I sent an owl to her parents when she first came to the hospital. Her father wrote back that he hasn't got a daughter. She's alone, George. And I won't leave her. I can't let her die! She would do the same thing for me. Can't you understand this?"

George sighed and cursed himself silently. Of course he could understand her. But Angelina had hurt Fred. That was the main thought in his mind. She has hurt my twin.

But he couldn't watch Alicia cry like that. He went to her and took her in his arms, letting her cry against his chest. Everyone in the small restaurant was staring at them but he didn't care. He just continued to hold his crying wife in his arms.

CHANGE OF SCENE

Draco rushed through the halls of St Mungo's searching for his wife, Alexander Evergreen following close behind him. Just one more corner than they could see them. Hermione and Katerina were sitting in two chairs, Nathaniel on Hermione's lap. Fred was walking up and down nervously.

Katerina Evergreen spotted her husband and ran to him. Alexander held his wife in his arms and looking over her head asking at the other three adults.

Draco kneed down before Hermione and put his hands on her knees.

"What happened?"

CHANGE OF SCENE

Felicitas felt something hard, cold and slightly wet underneath her. She opened her eyes lazily and tried to see in the darkness. She sat up slowly when she felt that there was somebody else with her.

"Fee? Are you awake?" Felicitas sighed when she heard Sean's voice from her right side and turned around.

"Yes... Sean, where...where are we?" She tried to search him with her hand, but she couldn't find him in the darkness.

"I don't know." He crawled closer to where her voice came from.

"Fee? Where are you?" he reached his hand out and finally it hit against something.

"Sean? This was you, right? Here aren't any mice or something like this, right?" Felicitas asked him worriedly when she felt something against her knee.

Sean took her hand slowly in his and squeezed it reassuringly.

"Do you think we'll get out of here?" Felicitas asked him, already afraid of the answer.

"Of course. Don't be afraid. Everything will be alright. I promise."