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Deeper Than You Know

Chapter Two

Danica was hard at work on her Potions essay (The Consequences of Mixing Illegal Ingredients into Potions). She had almost finished when Madam Pince came to tell her snottily that the library was to close and Danica would have to leave.

So Danica walked out of the library and started walking up flights of stairs. When she finally reached the fifth floor, she turned right down the corridor until she came to the portrait of entrance into her common room.

The portrait was of a starry, deep blue night in a forest by mountains with snowy tips. Lying on a blanket were a woman and her wolf. The woman was a Native American lady who looked to be in her twenties. She was naturally beautiful, and her name was Katiri. Katiri's wolf was pure white with gold eyes.

After greeting Katiri and supplying the password (Demon's Delight), Danica stepped into the common room. She walked over to one of the squishy black chairs, and dropped into it. She slowly laid her head on the back of her chair and closed her eyes. Minutes passed before Danica finally reopened her eyes. She looked at the deep red walls and the black carpeting. Her eyes then moved over to the silver steel table in the corner of the room with the cushioned silver steel chairs around it. She forced herself out of the comfortable chair she was in now and walked over to the table. She sat down in a chair and pulled out her Arithmancy homework. It wasn't due for another week, but Danica liked to stay on top of things. After thirty minutes of non-stop working, Danica could feel her eyes start to droop. She quietly packed up her stuff and went to her room where she went straight to bed.


As Danica fell asleep, her dreams came alive. No, not dreams. Her nightmares. Her memories.

Flashback

It was just this past summer. The weather was beautiful. Sunny and cool. A perfect day for being outside. Danica was swinging in the park when she saw a boy staring at her. He had black hair that was just long enough to fall into his eyes. He had the most intense blue eyes she had ever seen. His skin was pale, but he had a muscular, lean body. He stood five feet eleven inches tall. He wore a black silk shirt and dark blue jeans with black sneakers. He was gorgeous.

'Hey there,' he said to Danica.

'Hey,' she replied.

'I'm Kevan Riley,' he said holding out his hand. Danica shook his hand while giving her own name.

End Flashback

Danica continued to dream of how her and Kevan had become to be best friends. The next few memories were of her and Kevan becoming closer. The day she accepted his date. The day they became a couple. The day they shopped in London. The movies they cuddled during. The walks through the park. But the next memory was one of pure tragedy and sorrow. Her worst memory of all time.

Flashback

Kevan and Danica had gone out to Danica's favorite restaurant for their three-month anniversary. Kevan had told the taxi to drop them off in the park where Danica and Kevan took all their walks. The couple got on the path that would slowly wind around to Danica's neighborhood. As they got closer to the houses, Danica sensed something was wrong.

As Danica and Kevan neared her house, the smoke blinded their sight. When the two got directly in front of her house, they were immediately bombarded by heat. The second floor of Danica's house was on fire.

Before Kevan could stop her, Danica was running through the house, searching frantically for her family. She found Matt and Melissa on the floor in the kitchen with their eyes wide open. She stood in shock and couldn't move. Kevan pushed past her to check for pulses on the twins, but found none.

Danica already had tears streaming down her face. She heard yelling from the back yard. When she ran out, she was automatically hit by someone in a black cloak with a mask on. The stranger made a move to advance on her, but was attacked by Kevan.

Danica stood up and saw a dozen more masked figures, some fighting, some already dead. Her parents had been putting up a brave fight. Danica's father caught her eye.

'Dani girl, remember what we taught you. GO NOW!'

By that time Danica had turned towards the house one last time and ran to the kitchen. She heard one masked man yell to find the girl. She grabbed some floo powder, threw it into the fireplace, and stepped in. She took one last glance out the window, and saw her parents and Kevan surrounded by the hooded group before green lights hit them all.

As the three bodies fell, Danica shouted 'Hogwarts.'

The flames engulfed her as she flew through the floo network.

Danica fell onto the floor of her destination and wept herself to sleep.

End Flashback


'What in the hell is that noise?' Draco awoke to whimpers and crying. He walked out of his room, walked across the small hallway, to the two rooms of Hermione and Danica. He cautiously put his ear to Hermione's door, but the sound was not coming from her room. He did the same to Danica's door, and the whimpers got louder.

Draco slowly and quietly opened the door to Danica's room. He walked over to the sleeping girl and shook her lightly. When she didn't wake, Draco shook her a little harder. Danica woke with a scream. Her fiery eyes found Draco's own intense eyes and they stared at one another.

For the second time since Danica had started Hogwarts, Draco noticed how mesmerizing Danica's eyes were. They were so dark, deep brown that they looked black. Her eyes were the most stunning Draco had ever seen.

Draco snapped out of his thoughts and shook his head.

"Could you try to keep it down some? Most of us are trying to sleep, but all that noise coming from you is making it a little hard." It sounded harsher than he'd meant.

"Sorry," Danica muttered. She lied down on her back and watched Draco leave her room before she attempted to go back to sleep.

Draco slowly made his way to his bedroom, and got back in bed. His thoughts lingered on Danica. Her remembered that first night he saw her at the feast in the Great Hall the first night the students had spent at Hogwarts. Dumbledore had introduced her and asked her to stand up. She had done so, and everyone had looked. Draco's heart had stopped when he laid his eyes on her. She was gorgeous. She had layered dark brown hair with caramel highlights. Her eyes were brown, very dark brown. She had a great body, but wasn't too busty, just perfectly sized. Her skin was slightly tan. The only thing missing was a smile. She looked sad, angry, and perplexed.

The main thought on Draco's mind, however, was what had made Danica cry like that. Had she had a nightmare, or was she reliving the past?

The blond boy looked out his window and saw that the sun had not yet come out. Turning onto his side, Draco closed his eyes and fell asleep trying to figure out a certain female by the name of Danica Atwaters.

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