A/N: Sorry if it took so long for me to update. I've been busy with dance rehearsals the whole month. Rehearsals were cancelled today so right now, I present you all with the succeeding chapter. Much thanks goes to all those who reviewed!

Chapter 10

"I won't let you! Let him live the life he chooses"! said a female voice

"No Cho! They'll only kill you"

"I don't care" she said in reply "you deserve a better life. A life not with these wretched people"

"Ah. So we're wretched people now so you claim", said another female voice

Then a bright green light flashed and the next thing she saw was a blonde man lying lifeless on the ground.

With a loud thud on the bedside drawer came a loud "ouch" from Cho. She had fallen off her bed and lay still on the floor in slight pain.

"Bloody, that hurt like hell", she exclaimed as she started to feel around her head, searching for a possible bump. Eventually she came across a big lump inches above her nape. Once she touched it, it felt wet. There was blood.

"Holy shit", she cursed

"I must've fallen hard and hit my head on the sharp edge", she thought to herself.

"Stupid table!" she muttered as she stood up slowly. It took Cho almost forever to get up from her former position. As she slowly moved herself upwards, pain started to shoot up her nerves.

"Oh dear!" she said. "Strange", she then thought. It felt as if she had been petrified or placed in a body bind. Then she remembered what she had seen before she woke up.

"DRACO!", she called out for him, afraid of what might have happened to him.

She hurriedly stood up, not caring of the pain was starting to drive her crazy. She had to make sure Draco was doing all right. The green light could only come from one unforgivable curse. She had seen that light many times and she was sure of what it really was. It was that spell. And in the state Cho was in the night before, she wasn't so sure if everything had really happened or if she was dreaming all along.

Cho walked quickly to Draco's bedroom only to find the room sparkling clean and the bed all made up.

"Merlin. It can't be" Cho said.

Tears had started to fill up her eyes. Draco was gone.

Cho tried to recall the vision she had witnessed. Draco was lifeless on a pavement.

"so it's impossible for him to have been killed in my place"

"This whole damn city is cemented. Damn it! He could be anywhere!"

Cho's heart started to race. Panic took the best of her and Draco's possible condition filled her thoughts.

As she rushed out to the living room, there was still no sign of Draco. She checked the kitchen which happened to be empty. The chairs were disaligned, the dishes were left unwashed and there was a plate of unfinished macaroni on the table but no note from Draco at all.

Cho thought that someone might have dragged him out her place and took him to a park perhaps or another one of those dark, isolated alley were those heartless slaves of the dead Dark Lord could get away with their killing. She knew she had to prepare herself for the worse even if it kills her and breaks her heart.

Fear was not the only thing taking over Cho. The slight pain she had been feeling earlier was getting worse. She knew she had to fight the pain. She had to do it for Draco's sake. She had to find him and take him back where he belongs and that would be with her in that humble apartment in the more quiet area of New York.

"Draco, please still be alive. I cannot afford to lose you. I cannot afford to lose a person I love..yet again."

Then she walked to the door. As she held unto the door knob, an unbearable pain came over her. Cho felt as if she was being sucked into a hole. She gave out a loud scream then everything became black

Unknown to Cho, Draco was alive. He hasn't been attacked or hurt in any way. In fact, he was still trying his luck in the city, looking for a decent occupation he can earn a considerable amount of money from.

He was going around in circles already and good luck didn't seem to be going around with him that day. There weren't many job openings in the city. If ever there were, they would be technology-related.

"I don't even know how to operate a computer. Let alone open one! Poor stupid muggles for not being capable of magic. Thank goodness I am not one of them. Pity I have to act like one of them" Draco told himself with a snicker.

Incapable of muggle tasks or not, Draco still gathered as many application forms as he could. After an hour or so, he grew tired of walking around. His feet throbbed with pain so he sat down at the next bench he saw.

"I need a break and might as well go through these stupid forms"

Disappointment was all Draco felt as each form required a diploma attached to it and a college and or high school background was needed for education.

Draco started to whisper to himself.

"College? High School? What in the world? I've only gone to one Wizarding School and it was a horrible experience all by itself. These muggles have to through so many schools before starting out with a job. But Cho was able to get a job. She must've studied college. I don't want to go to any fucking school anymore just to get hired. I'm not risking it."

Just then, chills started to run up Draco's spine and it gave Draco the strangest feeling ever. But then again it was already getting cold.

"Probably just the weather. Or is it. I think I have to get home soon"

Draco started walking just then, the Don't Walk light flashed red as he approached the pedestrian lane.

He tapped his foot on the cemented floor impatiently. Waiting for the signal to walk again. "What is wrong with this city. First, they have no jobs for me and second, these stupid flashing lights!" As he said this, Draco noticed that someone had looked at him. It was a blonde-haired girl and when Draco caught her eye, he gave her a mean, cold look. A look he hadn't done since his last encounter with Potter.

"What are you looking at, you bimbo?"

The girl only stared. Then she looked down

"Hey, I'm talking to you! What's your problem? Why can't you look at me straight in the eye? Scared!"

Then the girl just walked away.

"Pathetic" Draco said with a snicker. It had been a while since he last acted in his cold demented ways and it somehow felt good. As the Walk sign flashed, he started to walk once again. Although he felt quite disturbed because the girl he had thrown a fit at seemed all to familiar. He tried to dismiss this thought and went on home.

Somewhere along the red light district of the city, the same young woman rushed up the steep steps of the rusty stairs of an old worn-down building. She came bursting through the only door in the 8th floor.

"I found him! I finally found him! He's alive! He's here in New York City!" The girl shrieked in an annoying tone and giggled so perkily after doing so.

"Where exactly?" asked a man. "You better not be shitting me again this time. You clearly know that not every blonde-haired guy you see here is Draco. May I just remind you that we are in America. The place is infested with blonde heads"

"Excuse me. But I am not lying. Since when did I lie to you?"

"You always have, you know", the man replied.

"Shut up for once and let me explain.! Look, I know it's him. I am a hundred percent sure. When I heard a voice speak, I looked at who it was right away because the voice sounded so familiar and when I turned to my side, I saw him and apparently he had seen me, too. I tell you, those captivating gray eyes still remain so cold. The way he gazed at me was so much like Draco's", the girl said in a more serious and melancholy tone inside.

"I've been wanting to see him for so long because I miss him so. I am still head over heels in love with him and I happen to still know things about him. So don't call me a liar. Don't you dare", she continued

"If he was Draco, the love of your life", the man said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, "why did he not recognize you then?"

"Do you happen to be blind? Stupid? Or both? There's no way he'd be able to recognize me with my blonde hair. I've changed throughout the years. I've matured and my features have become different, in case you did not notice. With the hat I'm wearing, I doubt that he had a clear glimpse of my face", she spat at him

"Very well then, I believe you", the man finally affirmed.

"By the way, I believe he is looking for a job here in the city and I do think that it would be the perfect opportunity to get him back to our side" she said

"I know what you're thinking. Very well, Pansy. Bring out your wand. We'll do some killing tonight"