Out of the Blue

"She survived the night Remus, I think she's out of the woods," Severus told Remus.

"You think she's out of the woods, you think? You don't know?" Remus Lupin snarled.

A remarkable change had been wrought in both men in the past twelve hours. It was almost as if they had exchanged personalities. Both had different reasons for this change however. While Remus's could be attributed to stress, Severus's was for an entirely different reason, personal reasons.

Severus didn't say anything for a moment, then, "Did you know she had diabetes?"

The question startled Remus out of his temporary fury. "What? I don't believe it, no she would have told me. I'm her godfather for goodness sakes!" He would not believe it unless Julia told him herself. Remus just prayed that, that could happen.

"Julia, Julia. Come to us Julia we need you. We love you Julia. Please come back to us."

Julia was trying to do as the spherical voices asked, but she was speeding away from them. She tried to run toward them but the harder she tried the farther away from themshe got.

"Julia, come back".

"I cant," she wispered, she was trying so hard!

Suddenly the voices were gone, so was the odd sense of comfort she got from them.

Instead she heard two distinctly male voices. It sounded like they were coming out of a badly tuned radio, she couldn't tell who it was.

"She...the night...out of the woods."

Julia tried to figure out who was talking, the voices seemed so familiar. Then she heard the next voice, "You...don't know."

She knew those voices! She just had to remember who they belonged to.

Julia struggled to wake up, if only she could just wake up.

After Lupin left Severus sat back down next to Julia's side the whole time she was unconscious he had only left her once, that had been to tell the headmaster what had happened to Julia. It was then that he had found Dumbledore persuading his godson to join the order. 'Bastard! He's trying to get Draco killed.' Severus could not and would not let that happen. He knew that Draco hadn't officially joined, (as in he would be an active member) but that didn't mean that he wasn't worried about him.

Severus looked at Julia again. He couldnt believe she hadn't told anyone about her diabetes. He couldnt believe she had diabetes.

It was rare that a witch or wizard got diabetes, very rare, so very rare in fact that there hadn't been a witch or wizard with diabetes in 20 years. ' There hasn't been any magically inclined human to have it since Saris.'

Severus looked up as Julia let out a whimper in her sleep. He just wished he knew what that meant.

Draco walked down the hallway to his common room. It would be a temporary fix, but it would do. He just wished he knew what Dumbledore had planned for him. He had alluded that he would send him somewhere else, a safe house of sorts. He just didn't say when.

When Draco got to the patch of stone where the entrance to the common room was he had to struggle to remember the password. Dumbledore had told him last night when he was up in the headmaster's office but Draco hadn't slept yet. He closed his eyes and counted to ten (his way of clearing his mind). He thought of nothing, then it came to him, as he knew it would, "liberation".

'How fitting', he thought, as he walked into the common room and to his favorite couch in front of the fireplace.

He still hadn't thought too much about the previous night. It had all happened so fast he still wasn't sure if it had happened, maybe he was still dreaming. He would probably wake up to find his father still in prison. His mother would be pretending that all was well. His house would be false, happy. His life would be a sham. Somehow Draco hoped that this wasn't a dream. The only problem with the last 24 hours being real was the fact that he had left his mother at he manor, with Lucius. He hoped that she was okay.

Draco had not seen his godfather since last night when he had barged into the headmaster's office yelling about Potter's sister, he wondered now what had happened to her. He didn't let it bother him to long he had more pressing issues to worry about such as Severus and his mother, narcissa. Would he ever see her again? Draco hoped so, he loved his mother dearly, and he didn't know how she would feel about him now that he had joined the ranks of Dumbledore. He hoped that someday she would forgive him.

Draco was also worried about how Severus would treat him. He had been pretty angry last night when he saw Draco signing that piece of parchment. Draco was so confused, 'didn't he want me to join Dumbledore? He brought he there after all.' Draco didn't know what to think. All he knew was that he needed to see Severus.

His mind made up Draco headed toward the infirmary.

Julia was wondering through the mist again.

"Julia, come to us. Please julia" the spherical voices said.

Julia didn't know who those voices belonged to but she did know that they offered peace, comfort. She wanted so desperately to go to them. Every time she did though she seemed to drift farther and farther away from them. She had stopped trying long ago.

She had almost woken up once, she thought, when she heard those male voices, but she didn't have enough strength to actually wake up. She had just floated back to the spherical voices. She felt safe now.

When Draco got up to the infirmary he found Severus asleep in a chair by one of the beds. As Draco approached the bed he saw who was in it.

"Julia," he gasped.

She looked awful; her face was so pale she looked half dead, her lips and eyes were blue rimmed. The only sign that she was still alive was the slow up and down motion of her chest as she breathed slowly.

"What happened?" he asked himself.

"She was attacked by death eaters." Draco jumped at the voice. He had not expected an answer to his question. Draco looked around frantically in search of the voice until he found Severus looking up at him.

"Severus!" Draco said in surprise, he hadn't expected to see Severus awake.

"Draco, what are you doing here?" Severus asked in confusion, was there something wrong?

" I wanted to talk to you Severus. I need to know where we stand. What's going to happen to me... what happened to her?" Draco said nodding to where Julia lay prone on the bed. She was so pale.

Severus had not expected that. In fact he was shocked to his very socks. "Sit down Draco." It was more of an order than a request. Draco sat.

Now Draco this is what's going on..."

Julia could hear them again, not the spherical voices, the ones that made her feel safe, no she heard the real voices. The voices that she knew came from real people. She heard them, just not as clearly as she could wish.

"Down... Draco I wish..."

"Why... tell me. How... did you."

Both voices sounded so familiar Julia knew that she should know who they were but she didn't. She should know who the drawling voice belonged to, should know who the controlled voice belonged to. She should know but she didn't.

Julia concentrated on the voices once again.

"I'm sorry Severus."

Who was Severus?

"Draco it's not your fault"

Who was Draco?

Julia couldnt figure out who these people were but she knew she'd know once she woke up. Well she hoped she would.

It was time to wake up.

AN:

About: "In fact he was shocked to his very socks" yes I know that this is not really in the Severus zone but I was having a little fun. I'll try to get into the Severus zone soon!

SEQUAL? I was thinking about breaking this story into two parts summer and the school year. Don't worry i'm not near done with summer. In fact the fact that i'm not near done with summer has prompted me to think about splitting the story. And never fear I'll have Jules and Draco interaction very soon.

SARIS: for those wondering who saris is don't worry you'll find out soon enough. I haven't put in that little tid bit to leave you confused.

REVIEWS / MARY SUE: okies so I had this reviewer say that they thought that this story seemed a lot like a Mary sue, well i'm such a wonderful author that I didn't really know what a Mary sue was. Lucky for us I looked it up and no this is not intended to be a Mary sue, sorry if it comes across as that. Anyways to all of my reviewers thank you! Thank you! thank you! You guys don't know how much you make my day!

UPDATES / NEXT CHAPTER: So I actually have the next chapter partly writen and under normal circumstances I would try to have it updated ASAP but there are two or three very anoying things holding me up, One My computer is on the ritz, the only way im updating right now is because im useing my friends computer, and lets give her a round of aplause! Two, I'm starting College in about a week and a half so im in the process of moving into my dorm. College is going to take up a lot of my time, but lucky for all of us I'm going to write in my spare time, I don't know how much i'll have but hopefully after a while i'll be updating regularly, I just don't know. I ask all of you to hang in there with me because i'm planning on this to be a kick ass story!

Kira