CHAPTER 10!
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CHAPTER TEN –
Harry awoke to the piercing sunlight coming through the window and stabbing his eyes. He groaned and turned over; sunlight was a cruel first thing in the morning.
He felt his glasses somewhere off to the side of his head and was immensely relieved that he hadn't crushed them during the night.
As his eyes adjusted to the brightness of the room and the shadows were chased from his head, he was more than a little surprised to realize he was face to face to a certain Slytherin blonde, looked like it was tie for now. Neither one of them had given in and got off the bed.
Harry frowned and considered kicking him or shoving him onto the floor… but stopped.
There was something about the way the sunlight touched his face that made him look… serene…
Before Harry realized what he was doing, he brushed some white-blonde tendrils out of Draco's face. It looked as though the other boy was dreaming of something peaceful.
There was a beauty in the usually vicious Slytherin that Harry had obviously never noticed before, he wondered if Draco had veela blood…
In the middle of his musings he was disturbed by a single statement.
"And just what the hell do you think you're doing?"
Harry started and scooted away from the other boy, a light blush creeping across his features.
"Nothing!" He lied.
Draco sat up, "I knew you were desperate but taking advantage of a sleeping person—"
"Don't flatter yourself, Malfoy! You were clearly dreaming."
Draco frowned and then got up off the bed. "Whatever Potter, I'm taking a shower and don't you dare peep on me!"
"AS IF!" Harry cried.
Draco smirked and made his way into the bathroom. "I'd advise you to take a shower as well, you smell." He said and shut the door.
Harry just glared at the closed door, how the hell had he ever, even for a moment, think HE was attractive?
On the other side of the door, Draco was quite certain he'd read that certain thought wrong.
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Spade stared out into the ever-darkening sky… everyday, their plan got more and more complex; sometimes they had to switch things around just to ensure they wouldn't have to abandon it.
Those other dimension travelers weren't supposed to have gotten this far! Spade drifted back to the memory of when she'd first met Draco in his family's library and convinced him to get Harry Potter to help him.
That had been the first step.
But Star was supposed to stop them! They were supposed to be broken by now!
The inner council was getting weak…
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"This is by far the STUPIDEST THING YOU'VE ATTEMPTED SO FAR!!" Sapphire was in a fit of hysterics; Lupis' engagement announcement was a very, very bad idea. You couldn't just MARRY someone from another dimension! It was unheard of!
Lupis watched her with calculating amber eyes; patience was a virtue after all.
"Are you quite finished?" Lupis asked. Sapphire was tugging at her hair.
Sapphire flashed, dangerous eyes at him.
"You can not do this, as your advisor and trusted servant I must insist." Sapphire hissed. She could not allow this to happen, it would ruin everything!
Remellus admired his 'ring of power' on his left hand, waiting for Sapphire to cool down. He had no intention of taking Sapphire's words seriously.
Sapphire realized he was paying her no heed and grew angry.
"Remellus!!"
The king looked up at her, "Yes?" He said.
Sapphire seethed and she bit her lip to keep from a violent outburst.
"You can't decide something so quickly…" She said, she had to find a way to slow this process. "You must wait at least another week—"
"But why? Can you not see that this is meant to be?"
"Your majesty… you need to wait until the--- uh… stars are in the right alignment…"
Remellus narrowed his eyes. "Is this true?"
"Yes!! I mean… yes, you can ask Diamond if you want, but I really don't think you should bother more than need be."
Remellus seemed disappointed but naïve as he was, nodded.
"Fine," He said standing up. "One week and then you will plan my wedding, understood?"
Sapphire bit her lip again. This king was such a pansy.
"Yes your majesty."
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Ron and Hermione sat on the edge of Remus' bed. They were helping him pack, or more, just watching him pack and not really helping.
"I thought for sure they'd send Moody." Hermione commented.
Remus gave a thoughtful 'hm' and seemed to be immensely preoccupied.
"Well I do have… er… 'Experience' in this kind of situation." Remus replied and left the room for a moment, when he returned with something in a package and put in a bag as well.
"Experience?" Hermione asked. "What do you mean?"
[A/N: something from another story ^_~] "Oh, just something that happened in the past." Remus muttered and shrunk his bag so it fit in his pocket.
"Are you going right away?" Ron asked, the three of them stood up to leave.
"Yes, if at all possible." Remus said as they made their way outside.
"What are you planning to do when you get there?" Hermione asked, she'd been wondering that for a while now.
Remus stopped, a thoughtful expression on his face and then turned to Hermione and smiled, "You know," He said. "I'm not sure…"
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"Oh for Merlin's sake! Give it here!" Draco grabbed the compass out of Harry's hand.
"Hey!" Harry cried but Draco was better off with it, it wouldn't stop spinning for Harry.
The compass stopped, pointed towards the northeast. "What?" Draco frowned, that couldn't be right…
Well like they had a choice, they may have not been psychic or anything close, but even they could sense that something was about to happen and with 'the other side' sending someone to come and help them, they couldn't afford to be slowed down.
They went towards the northeast.
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"Where are they?" Sapphire asked, coming up behind Spade.
"They're going towards the third medallion… the snake medallion…"
Sapphire was quiet. "What are you going to do?"
Spade smirked, "Stop them of course."
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Diamond knew that it would be impossible to try and stop their plan, she knew just how idiotic and irresponsible it was and they were most likely going to fail… not to mention endanger innocent lives and maybe even dimensions, but what could she do?
She may have had a bad history, but she was hardly a serial killer, what ever the others were expecting her to do, they were sadly mistaken.
They were heading towards the Snake Medallion… bad things would happen at that domain.
Bad things would be in store for them in Spade Silver's neck of the woods.
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Remus had listened to far too much instructions and information than he really cared to know. He really had no intension of writing what happened down in a journal someone gave him. No, he only wanted to go in there, get Draco, Harry, and Sirius out and hopefully things would be back to normal… more or less…
But he knew, that that would be far from what in reality would happen.
As he said goodbye to all the people crowded around the veil, he took a deep breath and stepped through…
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Wow! Chapter 10 already! I promise 11 will be posted sooner than this one was, just because it's already more or less written.
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