Birthday Fun
Skipping through May pretty much…nothing is gonna happen seeing as how Dumbledore as Sabrina going into the bodies of random Death Eaters (she doesn't go into Bellatrix). So pretty much, Leah's life is pretty dull all through May so skipping to June for her birthday.
"So…what do you want for your birthday?" Blaise asked as he and Leah sat outside the school during a spare period. Leah was bent over writing a new song , all her hair falling over her left shoulder, blocking her face from view of anyone coming out of the school.
"Umm…I don't know. What do girls normally want for their seventeenth birthday?" Leah asked, sitting up straight and looking at Blaise.
"Different girls want different things." Blaise said. "Nothing you can think of?"
"Umm…" Leah said. She shrugged. "Nothing that comes to mind that you, or anyone for that matter, can actually give me."
"What's that?" Blaise asked.
"My family to be there." Leah said. "I have never had a whole family birthday. Either my father was in Azkaban or someone was dead. My mom's been there for all of them…and so has Ron and his family. Remus has been there and…I'm blabbering."
"Not really." Blaise said, moving closer to Leah. "It's fine to miss your family. My mom died when just before I came here back at the beginning."
"Really?" Leah asked. Blaise nodded. "And you managed to cope with it?"
"It was hard, don't get me wrong. It's still hard now…but it's not like it's a fresh wound." Blaise said. "It's healed up and everything. All there is left is the scar."
"Hmmm…" Leah said, thinking. There was a silence that lasted about a minute. "You could always get me some kind of jewelry."
"Ok then." Blaise said, smiling. "Should head to lunch." Leah nodded and put her things away and allowed Blaise to pull her to her feet. They walked into the school. "It's an all school Hogsmeade trip on your birthday."
"Yeah." Leah said. "But umm…The others have something planned for me already. I think something to do with a party at the club or something."
"So that's stopping me from coming?" Blaise asked. Leah thought about it and shook her head. Blaise gave her a quick kiss before going over to the Slytherin table. Leah went to the Gryffindor one and sat between Hermione and Ginny.
"Do you always have to do that?" Draco asked once Blaise sat down across from him.
"What?" Blaise asked.
"Kissing her all the time." Draco said, nodding his head backwards towards the Gryffindor table.
"Not always…but often enough." Blaise said. "There's also talking involved. Her friends have a party planned for her birthday at the club."
"Right…her birthday is the same day as the last Hogsmeade trip isn't it." Draco said. Blaise nodded and started eating. "Crashing the party?"
"Why should I? I'm her boyfriend." Blaise said. Draco stuffed food into his mouth to stop from saying something. At that moment Leah appeared next to Blaise and tapped him in the shoulder. "What's up?"
"Harry and Ron said they booked a room at the club where all the cake and gifts and junk are gonna be." Leah said. "They also said that as long as there's no kissing…they won't care so much if you come."
"Ok." Blaise said, smiling. "I can go an hour or two without kissing you. But you owe me."
"Yep." Leah said. "I'm adding it to the list." She glanced at Draco before go back over to Gryffindor table.
"She actually needs Potter and Weasley's permission for you to be at the party?" Draco asked.
"No…but she'd obviously rather make sure that everyone is fine with everyone else." Blaise said. Draco just shook his head. Again Leah appeared next to Blaise. Both guys gave her curious look.
"Forgot something." Leah said.
"What's that?" Blaise asked.
"It's at two o'clock." Leah said. "The others need time to shop. And also I won't be back until around that time."
"Where you going?" Blaise asked.
"Oh…didn't I tell you?" Leah asked. Blaise shook his head. "Man I suck at remembering shit to tell people." Blaise laughed slightly. "Anyways…my mom is taking me out for breakfast…her and the other Weasleys and a few other people I think. So I pretty much get to celebrate my birthday twice."
"Lucky you." Draco muttered. Both Blaise and Leah looked at him.
"Why's that?" Leah asked, leaning across the table.
"You get two birthdays…some people get none." Draco said.
"I can pretty much guarantee that you aren't talking about yourself." Leah said slowly. "Since when do you start caring about other people?"
"There's a lot about me you don't know." Draco said, standing up without even noticing it. He leaned across the table until there was only a foot between his face and Leah's.
"I know you better then you think…and more then I care to." Leah said.
"Same goes here." Draco said. "I know stuff about you that no one else does." People all along the Slytherin table and the table next to there's was looking at them. Neither Draco nor Leah cared. "For instance…" His eyes fell to Leah's wrist. "I doubt anyone else knows. Now what would your friends and…" His eyes fell on Blaise for a moment before catching Leah's eyes. "Your boyfriend think if they knew about that?" Leah pushed herself away from the table, her eyes hard and cold. She turned and left the great hall with many eyes following her.
"What was that all about?" Blaise asked. Draco, however, wasn't done so he went after Leah. "Hey! Where you going!" Blaise was too confused to follow.
Harry, Ron and Hermione weren't sure what had happened. The boys started to rise but Hermione and Ginny stopped them.
"Leave her alone. She can handle Malfoy." Hermione said.
"But…" Harry said.
"Harry…it's not like he's going to hurt her." Hermione said. Harry gave her a look but Hermione just turned her attention to her food.
"Oh no you don't!" Draco said, running up the marble staircase and grabbing Leah's arm.
"Let go!" Leah said, whipping around and glaring at Draco.
"Why the fuck should I?" Draco asked.
"Because I can hurt you…just like I hurt your father!" Leah said.
"You've seen him?" Draco asked.
"Forget about it." Leah said, yanking her arm out of his grasp. She got ten paces before Draco grabbed her again. He pulled her into an empty classroom before Leah broke out of his hold again and moved away from him.
"What the hell are you doing?" Draco said.
"Umm…trying to live a semi-normal life and…" Leah said.
"Not with Blaise you idiot!" Draco said. "I mean with…well…everything."
"Ok…you're gonna hafta be way more specific because I can't read your fucking mind." Leah said.
"Are you trying to dig yourself into an early grave?" Draco asked. Leah stared at him. "You know what I mean. It's not hard to miss…but I suppose your friends can because their all wrapped up in each other." Leah tried to get past Draco and to the door but he pushed her away from it. "You're going to stay and listen."
"Move." Leah said.
"No." Draco said, putting himself squarely in front of the door.
"Move…now!" Leah said through clenched teeth.
"Not until you listen." Draco said. Leah tried getting around him again but he just pushed her against a wall, holding her arms at her sides. "Do I have to bloody well jinx you just to get you to listen." Leah just glared at him. "You really are trying to dig yourself in aren't you?"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Leah asked, lifting her eyes from Draco's shoulder to his face.
"You know what I'm talking about." Draco said.
"No really…I don't." Leah said, shaking her head. "The only thing I can think of is the eating thing but since everyone knows about it, their all forcing me to."
"Well…Potter is actually be smart for once." Draco said.
"What are you talking about?" Leah asked.
"You really have no clue what I'm talking about do you." Draco said.
"No…I don't have a bloody clue." Leah said.
"So you don't know." Draco said, looking confused.
"Know what?" Leah asked, looking just as confused and frustrated. She crossed her arms.
"That…" Draco said. How could he tell her without possibly putting her in more danger? If she didn't know…would telling her be a good thing or a bad thing? And why did he care so much? He really should get his head checked out.
"There you are." Blaise said, coming into the room. Leah thought she'd never been happier to see him. "What's going on?"
"Nothing." Leah said, moving away from Draco and grabbing Blaise's hand. "Come on…I need to get to class." Blaise only nodded and they set off together. They didn't talk for a minute.
"What was that about?" Blaise asked, looking at Leah who now had her arms crossed loosely over her stomach, looking like she might be sick.
"Huh?" Leah asked, looking up at him. There were times where she really hated being shorter then the Slytherins.
"I asked what that thing between you and Draco was about." Blaise said.
"Oh…umm…I couldn't tell you." Leah said. "Mainly because I don't know myself. Something about digging myself into an early grave or some shit like that."
"Want me to ask him?" Blaise asked.
"No." Leah said, a little too quickly. "Don't bother. I don't care what he thinks." Blaise only nodded, but he made a mental note to talk to Draco later. They got to the muggle studies room and, for once, Leah didn't kiss Blaise. All she did was say that she'd see him in Potions.
"Hey…you ok?" Hermione asked, looking at Leah as she sat down in her seat. Leah just stared at the desk, trying to figure out what Draco had said. What did he know that she didn't that could possibly result in her dying? Leah shook her head and concentrated on the class.
By the time her birthday came, Leah wasn't sure if she was extremely tired from lack of sleep or happy because she was finally of age and could use magic out of the school. Either way, when she met Sabrina and Remus at nine in the morning on Saturday, she forced herself to look cheerful so that they wouldn't worry.
"Happy birthday!" Both of them said as soon as Leah was close to them.
"Hey guys. Thanks." Leah said. They left Hogwarts all together. They went to Headquarters, after making sure Leah was fine with spending so much time there. The Weasleys (minus Ron and Ginny) were there…even Charlie. Tonks, Moody and Kingsley were there. Dung showed up about twenty minutes later with a big tub of chocolate ice cream. Leah actually wound up not having to force herself to have fun…she really did have fun. Especially when the gift from the Weasleys (more specifically from Molly) was a black knee length skirt that was obviously NOT made by Molly. Turns out that Sabrina managed to talk Molly into not making Leah any clothes.
Entertainment mainly involved watching Molly shout at Dung for some reason as usual, Tonks changing her appearance, Leah singing a few songs, Charlie talking about the dragons, Leah yelling at Grandma Black for twenty minutes, Sabrina doing some kind of magical light show, Leah singing some more, and then there was talk about random things, involving Ron dating Hermione and Ginny dating Harry.
"Chill Molls." Sabrina said. "They're teenagers. And you can't honestly say you haven't noticed anything. I've been awake for a few months and even I've noticed."
"Yeah. It was so totally obvious that Harry and Ginny would start something." Leah said.
"So why did you date him?" Sabrina asked.
"Something to pass the time." Leah said, shrugging. "Speaking of time…I gotta get back for the party."
"Ok…I'll take ya back. Dumbledore has stuff for me to do again." Sabrina said. Leah thanked everyone for the gifts and hugged them all, except Dung.
The first person she saw when she got into the club was, of course, Blaise. Then Hermione showed up and took them to the room where the party was going on. All together there was Leah, Blaise, Hermione, Ginny, Ron, Harry, Ernie, Hannah, Justin, Luna, Neville, Lavender, Parvatti, Dean and Seamus. Only five people weren't from Gryffindor, but each one of them Leah knew and was pretty friendly with.
"So how was the 'family' party?" Blaise asked once Leah had opened the presents from the others.
"It was actually pretty fun." Leah said. "Charlie, Ron's older brother, talked about the different dragons he's worked with in Romania."
"Sounds like fun." Blaise said.
"It was." Leah said. "Ok…so where's my present?" Blaise laughed and handed Leah a box. She gave him a look before opening it to find a silver ring with a blue stone. "Oooh…pretty." Leah slid it into her right middle finger. "That all?"
"Nope." Blaise said. Leah looked back in the box and saw a rose charm. Leah smiled and got Blaise to help her attach it to her bracelet. "Wasn't sure what you would like better…the rose or the butterfly. So I got the rose."
"That's good. Never really was much for butterflies." Leah said. She shook her arm so that the charms on her bracelet jingled.
"Hey!" Hermione said, running over. Leah tilted her head in curiosity. "Come on Le. Let's dance."
"I think I have some kind of influence on you." Leah said, smiling and going with Hermione onto the dance floor. Hermione was wearing red leather pants (that she had 'borrowed' from Leah), a black tank top and her own black leather boots. Leah had on black leather pants, a red tank top and her black boots. Her hair was down in waves where as Hermione's was in a braid. Both girls lifted their hands over their heads and moved to the music. Leah looked around at the people watching them. In the last two months or so, Hermione had changed so much from the bookworm that she was. Leah had practically turned her into…well…a brunette version of herself. Although the only tattoo Hermione had was the heart on her wrist and she didn't act as wild and careless as Leah, but she certainly did pick up a lot of moves and attitude from her.
"Hey." Blaise said, spotting and walking over to Draco, who was sitting at the bar, seemingly bored.
"Hey." Draco said, looking up. "How's the party?"
"Well…" Blaise said, looking over at the dance floor. Draco looked over as well and saw a crowd. Between the people, he was able to see Leah and Hermione dancing freely. Since when did Granger have moves? Must have learned them from Leah…there really was no doubt about that.
"So what you gonna do over the summer?" Draco asked. "That comes in like, two weeks."
"Yeah. Thinking I'm gonna just lazy around, find out a way to get some time alone with Leah." Blaise said, running his hand through his hair. It was growing and he hadn't gotten time to get it cut so it was becoming a bit shaggy. Leah had said that she liked it that way so Blaise really didn't care about getting it cut.
"Wonder when it's gonna happen." Draco said, sipping his drink.
"When what's gonna happen?" Blaise asked, sitting down.
"When her mom's gonna die." Draco said. Blaise stared at him. "You gotta think man. First her grandma dies at the beginning of the year….then at the end of the year her father dies…then her grandpa dies at the beginning of this year…if there's any kind of pattern…her mom is gonna die…and soon."
"Shit." Blaise said. He looked between Leah on the dance floor still, to Draco. "Are you sure?"
"Who knows." Draco said, shrugging.
"You really think it's going to happen?" Blaise asked.
"Maybe." Draco said. "Maybe not."
'What's going on?" Leah asked, walking over slowly. Both guys shrugged which only increased Leah's curiosity.
After another hour or so, the party was over and Leah had disappeared somewhere…so did Blaise.
"She won't like it Albus." Sabrina said, looking at Dumbledore. "I mean…its Leah. How do you think she's going to react, knowing that?"
"That's why she's not supposed to know." Dumbledore said.
'Then what do I tell her?" Sabrina asked, leaning forward. "I can't tell her some huge lie."
"Just tell her you have to help Madam Maxime." Dumbledore said. "Which technically is true."
"Leah won't accept it." Sabrina said. Twirling the gem she had used around in her hand.
"She might not worry." Dumbledore said.
"Why's that?" Sabrina asked.
"Hasn't she told you?" Dumbledore asked. Sabrina shrugged and shook her head. "She is, apparently, dating someone."
"Who?" Sabrina asked, frowning.
"Blaise Zambini of Slytherin." Dumbledore said.
"WHAT!" Sabrina asked, standing up. "How?"
"Oh it is very simple." Dumbledore said. "He simply asked her to dance with him at the valentine's party and she accepted. I believe she had more fun with him then with the other seven boys."
"You know that's not what I meant." Sabrina said.
"Do not worry." Dumbledore said. "His parents aren't Death Eaters. His mother is dead and his father has been missing for the last fourteen years. He lives with his grandparents and they refuse to get involved. I'm afraid to say that sooner or later Voldemort will have them killed."
"She's dating someone." Sabrina said, sitting down. "Which means she lied."
"Excuse me?" Dumbledore asked.
"She lied." Sabrina said. "We asked her if she was dating someone and she said no."
"She may not consider it dating." Dumbledore said. "She does not seem to be the type for commitment." Sabrina shook her head. "She may just consider it a fun way to pass her time before the time comes to defeat Voldemort."
"Yep…that would be Leah alright." Sabrina said, relaxing. "Like her father. Wasn't one for commitment."
"Yet he was with you and only you for years before marrying you." Dumbledore said. "So it is possible that Leah will find someone."
"Here? I sorta doubt it." Sabrina said.
"You never know." Dumbledore said. In all honesty, he knew exactly what was going on and who Leah was more then likely going to wind up with. "I have a question for you."
"Shoot." Sabrina said.
"Is there any one person that you would hate Leah getting with?" Dumbledore asked.
"Umm…" Sabrina said. "There are a few of them. Like most guys in Slytherin. A kid of a Death Eater is so not going out with my daughter. Oh." Sabrina looked at Dumbledore. "That Draco Malfoy kid. Definitely a 'no' to him."
"I see." Dumbledore said. That wasn't a surprise. Sabrina would definitely disapprove of Draco…at least at first.
"Well…" Sabrina said. "I better get going." She stood up. "Can you tell Leah for me?"
"Of course." Dumbledore said. Sabrina hugged him. She wasn't sure if she would be able to come back after this mission. It was pretty much a death one but Dumbledore would get what he needed before the death thing kicked in.
"Oh…give her this if I don't come back." Sabrina said, handing over a small box. Dumbledore nodded.
Leah winced and her hand shot up to her head. Blaise looked over at her. They were sitting next to each other by the lake.
"You ok?" Blaise asked.
"Uh…Yeah." Leah said, slowly dropping her head. "Just a quick little head ache." She was lying but luckily Blaise didn't notice. Head aches were bad in Leah's case. They normally meant something bad was happening to someone she was close to. Oh god! That meant that something bad was or was going to happen to Sabrina! Leah hoped that nothing bad would happen. She even prayed that nothing bad happened. Leah knew that wouldn't make any difference, but it made her feel better…at least for now.
Here's this chapter. Look at what I managed to do! I did a whole chapter for just one day…well…most of the chapter anyways.