The next morning, Prue transported everyone's bags to the station, and hugged them all goodbye. One they were at the abandoned train station, Asia and Angel dissaperated everyone to outside the other train station that had platform 9 ¾. They caught the train just in time, and rode quietly back to their beloved school, well, not to quietly.
Halfway there, Asia fell asleep. Her lack of sleep because of her nightmare was getting to her. If she didn't have the entire dream, she just replayed the part where they were taking her away and Harry just watched. She had fallen asleep with her head on the window. Harry and Ron were across from her playing wizard chess the best they could on the shaking train, and Hermione was petting Crookshanks next to her. Angel was at her feet, enjoying the peaceful ride.
Asia's Dream
Asia was running down a long dark hallway. She was being chased by hundreds of snakes screaming 'Join us!'. When she went to turn the corner, they all disappeared. Asia let out a breath, but was then holding it again when she saw a snarling Houndune. Angel snapped at her, tearing her robes and drawing blood. Fire was being jet streamed out of her nostrils. Asia backed away slowly into the open, and she made to run off, but the snakes came back. They wrapped around her ankles and winded their way up her waist and started to pull her down with them. She screamed out, feeling as if she was drowning. She fought the snakes back, but every time she would swing at them, another would grab her even tighter. Someone was coming…she looked up and saw that it was Harry.
"Harry, help me!" she yelled desperately. Harry mearly looked at her and watched her sink with hatred in his eyes, before turning his back and walking away.
"Asia, ASIA!" someone was screaming. Asia awoke with a start. Hermione was looking concerned, and Ron looked scared. Harry looked really worried and came closer. He was holding her wrist.
"Asia, tell me what happened." Harry said concerned but serious. Asia looked at him, but then suddenly ot a feeling of deep loathing. Acting on her emotions, she snatched her wrist from his grasp and stormed out of the compartment. The door of the compartment burst open before she even touched it, making the glass shatter. Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other completely shocked.
Earlier Harry's POV
Asia had fallen asleep, and Hermione was petting the animals. Ron and I were playing wizard chess, and stopped when I lost my 3rd game in a row. As we just relaxed and chatted some, Asia started to look disturbed in her sleep. I ignored it, thinking that the window was just cold, since her head was against it, but then she started to thrash around. I began to get scared, and then she screamed. Went over to her and grabbed her wrist, and then she woke up. She looked at me after I asked her if she was okay, and then suddenly her eyes were filled with hurt and loathing. Wondering what I did, I was going to ask her when she ripped her hand from me and stormed out, shattering to glass on the way, so naturally, I went after her…
End POV
Asia was on her way to the bathroom, shoving past other people, when someone caught her wrist. She whipped around and saw Harry, the exact person she wanted to get away from. So in a dangerous tone, she warned, "Let me go."
"No way Asia, what was that back there, what's wrong?" he asked, voice full of concern.
"If I were in danger, would you help me?" she asked suddenly, her voice and face emotionless. Harry was stunned, so he sort of stumbled with his answer.
"Of-Ofcorse." Asia heard hesitation, and she didn't like it.
"Just back off Harry, I mean it." she said coldly.
"Asia, what did I do?" Harry asked. Ofcorse this didn't help Asia's mood, so she walked away, straight into the girls bathroom.
Harry's POV
I walked back to the compartment to be bombarded with questioning looks. I simply shrugged, since it was the truth. I really didn't know. Asia's attitude towards me…it was so cold. How? Why? It's not fair…but what was with that question? Did she have doubt in me? Does she think that I wouldn't help her if she was in danger?
Hermione noticed my thinking, and quietly spoke.
"Harry, what did she say?" she asked timidly.
"She asked me…that if she were in danger, would I help her?"
"So, you think that she's in some kind of danger?" Ron said for the first time since Harry got back.
"Well…yesterday morning, I did see her downstairs with Raven. They were whispering about something…and Asia was crying." Hermione said.
"So she is in danger then?" Harry said more as a statement than a question.
"Wouldn't she have told us if she were?"
"I want to say yes, but now I'm not sure…" Harry admitted.
"Go ask her." Ron suggested
"She's like a ticking bomb right now…I mean, her eyes were black when she looked at me. I can't believe she would, or even could be that way."
"Angel, why don't you go find Asia and make sure she's okay?" Hermione suggested. Angel nodded and got up, her tail flicking behind her.
Only when the train had stopped is when Asia had came back. She levitated her bags off of the rack with an expression of utmost calm on her face. She left the train with Angel on her heels and road in a carriage with Ginny Wesley, Lavender Brown, and Patil. When they got into the Entrance Hall, Asia sat by Hermione, across from Harry and Ron. All throughout dinner, Harry tried to talk to Asia. Not wanting to anger her, he patiently waited for her to join into the conversation so he could respond, but she said nothing all dinner. That night, she said nothing to him either. Harry just couldn't understand why she was angry with him. What did he do? She wouldn't tell him either.
The next morning, classes began as usual. But one thing wasn't right; Asia had gone from cold to some sort of depressed. During meals, she barley ate, and she looked sort of pale. Ron and Hermione were also starting to get extremely worried about Asia welfare. Hermione told Ron and Harry about how he would talk to no one in the girl's dormitory anymore. She just sat on her bed with the curtain to her bed pulled closed. Hermione told how she took a peak at Asia one night, and she had a pained expression on her face. Her eyes were no longer filled of life, but emptiness, and if you looked hard enough, you could see through her barriers that she had up, and see pain right in the depths of her soul. So, at lunch time, Harry excused himself from the table and raced up to he owlrey. He went into his bag and pulled out a piece of parchment and a quill, and wrote:
Dear Raven,
I know that you don't know me much, but it's Harry. Look, I really need your help. Asia has been acting really funny lately. She had some kind of nightmare on the train back, and she told me to back off and not to talk to her. She hasn't been eating and seems really depressed lately. She seems to have a very strange aura around her too...like it's holding way too much unleashed power. We're getting really worried about her since she hasn't talked to any of us and we were wondering if you could help us out? Thanks!
-Harry Potter
Harry folded up the letter and spotted Storm. He summoned the large gray owl and tied the letter to his foot.
"This letter is to Raven, okay?" The owl hooted in response and took off. When he came back down from the Owlrey, Ron and Hermione were standing at the hospital wing.
"Why are you guys here?" he asked, not really wanting to know the answer.
"Asia…she's fainted…" Hermione answered. Harry's heart dropped. He didn't even respond as he burst inside the Hospital wing. Looking around frantically, he saw McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Madam Pomfrey surrounding one bed. He ran over to them to see Asia lying there lifeless and pale on a bed. Her shield was up faintly, but enough to keep out any student.
"What happened?" he asked, not caring who answered.
"She was found in the girls bathroom. She's still alive." Madam Promfrey answered him.
'Asia, why would you do this?' he thought. Was it something he did? She wouldn't talk to him!
"Harry, is there something that you know? Something that has been troubling her lately?" Dumbledore asked calmly.
"Something has…but she won't tell me. She hasn't talked to me for about a week. She won't eat and Hermione said she looks painful when she sleeps. Angel has noticed it to…" Harry was afraid to say anything more. The things that he was saying were horrible to bare. He knew they were true somewhere in his mind, but the impact hadn't hit him yet.
Madam Promfrey gave Asia a potion to replenish her from her food loss. Even though it would keep her living, it wouldn't completely restore all of her strength. She also stated that Asia shouldn't use her powers while she was still recovering, or else it would blow her energy. Her shield had dropped by this time. She was obviously to tired to keep it up.
Harry stayed by her bedside while she was in the Hospital Wing. He tried talking to her, but she sort of tuned him out. During visiting hours, Ron and Hermione would stop by. Ron brought Harry his homework while Hermione caught him up on the schoolwork.
The third night Asia was in the hospital wing, still haven't yet to awaken, Harry fell asleep with his hand on her forehead, checking if her fever had went down. His hand started to tingle like the first time that he met her. He ignored it and just let sleep take him…just for a few minutes he thought.
Harry was running down a hallway. He heard hissing and rattling as if someone was churning a bucket full of beads. He went towards the sound, curious, and came upon the sight of someone standing there watching someone else sink into a pit of what looked like vines, or snakes. He ran forward and tried to help, but by the time he got there, the person was gone.
'Why didn't you help her?' Harry yelled at the person.
'No, why didn't you help her? Your supposed to protect her Harry…for shame. If you can't take care of her, then I will…" The person talking, or rather hissing at him, was him. Harry stood there looking at himself.
'Your not real.' he said more to himself.
'But I am…I'm you…and we watched her be destroyed forever…tainted. You were supposed to protect her Harry…from all the bad in the world, remember? You promised your parents that you would when you met her. You told them…they are disappointed in you Harry. How could you just let her go?'
'Your lying! You let her go…You're the reason why she hates me..You're the reason why she's in the hospital wing!'
'Hospital? Harry…don't you get it? I am you. You did this…' Harry slowly backed away from the boy who claims to be him. But the boy only came closer, stepping out of the shadows. Harry noticed that the boy did not have green eyes…but red.
Harry was snapped out of the dream by a smack on the arm. Asia had awoken and did not look happy with the fact that his hand was on her head. Madam Promfrey had almost burst out of her office and sent Harry away. She checked Asia over, who was constantly saying that she was fine, but Madam Promfrey insisted. When she left, Harry was free to take his seat by her again. She insisted that Asia stay in the Hospital for another day or 2, and Asia argued that she hated hospitals.
"I know why your angry at me…I saw why" he said after a pause, and after Madam Promfrey left.
"Really?" she said with a hint of sarcasm
"That wasn't me Asia, I swear. It was someone else that's trying to toy with your head!"
"He sure did look like you"
"It was a dream Asia. I can't believe that you believe a dream over me"
"You know that my dreams are more than just dreams. Besides, that's not the first dream that I had when you've turned your back on me"
"I would never turn my back on you Asia-"
"Oh yes, your right, my mistake, you WATCHED ME BE TAKEN AWAY, AND DID NOTHING TO STOP IT!" Asia yelled. This surprised Harry.
"Asia, I swear someone is screwing with you… I would never do something like that." Harry could have sworn he seen her eyes flash an extremely bright color.
"Your scared, aren't you?" he said, recalling that her eyes only turn bright to high emotions, and she wasn't excited.
"What are you rubbing it in? Yes, okay, yes I am scared. But not for that reason. I get the feeling that something bad is going to happen."
"I'm sorry"
"Forget about it" Harry got up to leave, but Asia held him back.
"Wait" she said almost in a tone of plead "don't go…I'm sorry. For some reason, I hate you when I wake up, and in my dreams…but when I look at you now, I can't stay mad." her eyes were now sad aquamarine. He kissed her on her forehead.
"I won't be long. I'm just going to talk to Ron. We're supposed to be at Quidditch today."
"Oh…Katie's going to kill me" she chuckled. Harry's heart warmed at seeing her smile again.
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