Sugababy15: Well, this is my Christmas present to you all, or what ever holiday you celebrate…Anyway, Happy Holidays! I hope you enjoy this chapter, it was a killer to write. And now, for my

Hall of Cool People

tashalrose

Bratknee

Hailey awoke to the sound of whispers. She did not open her eyes or move, but listened intently.

"Do you think she's dangerous?" a female voice whispered, unaware she was being heard.

"Well I am not sure, she did almost killed Bryan." another voice whispered. This one was a boy, he sounded young because his voice seemed high pitched to Hailey.

"Should we wake her, it's almost time for dinner, and she looks a mess." the girl asked.

"No, let her sleep, she isn't our responsibility, and besides, she might try killing us next." the boy answered. There was a squeak of the couch and the sound of footsteps and the two were gone.

Hailey could feel hot tears building in her eyes but fought to hold them back. She had to bite her lip to keep from crying out. 'Am I really that bad? I didn't mean to, don't they know that?' Hailey shook violently. A raspy voice rang through her head.

"You will never escape me, you can not get away from my wrath. You have been around me too long to forget what I taught you. You will kill someone before you leave that school. You can't go without killing, it's in your blood child."

His voice seemed to rip her ear drums. Hailey instinctively covered her ears to protect them, but it didn't help, his voice was still there.

"Leave me! I am safe from you and there is nothing you can do!" Hailey mentally screamed back.

His laughter filled her head for an instant then his voice echoed through her head again.

"Who has been lying to you child. You will never be able to escape me, my power is strong and I have servants everywhere do you forget that? You will die or come back to me, you will never be able to live your life without pain. So what will it be Hailey? Do I have to start killing before you will give in or will you come before this war begins?"

Hailey's body shook as she listened to his offer. She didn't want to go back, but she would not allow people to die for her, and she knew he was using this to his advantage.

"Come and get me." Hailey snapped

A sharp pain cut Hailey's thoughts off and she looked down to see what had happened. Her hands had automatically covered the injured spot when she felt the pain. She moved them aside to see them covered in blood and shrieked when another pain shot through her body. The wound on her stomach gushed blood onto the floor and Hailey's body shook with pain. Her vision gradually became darker and she heard something crashing onto the floor. Then, she blacked out.

Hailey awoke to the sounds of two people talking, as she had done earlier that day.

"Harry, calm down it's been three days and she has been breathing ever since the accident!" Hermione's voice was sharp and what sounded to be annoyed with Harry's anxiety.

"Hermione she's the only family I have left and I would like to keep her alive! I want to know who did this to her so I can murder the bloke! I bet you it was Malfoy!" Harry shouted, Hailey was not sure whom he was shouting at but he knew he didn't mean to direct it at anyone.

"Harry calm down!" Hermione shouted back.

"Yes Harry, calm down. I'm going to be fine." Hailey's voice was raspy and almost a whisper but the two who had been yelling heard her. She didn't open her eyes but lay in the bed peacefully, almost afraid to move.

"Hailey! Bloody hell, are you alright?" Ron asked and Hailey felt his body weight on the side of her bed immediately. She couldn't help but to smile.

"I think so. I don't hurt anymore, but I am not sure how long I will have a scar." Hailey slowly opened her eyes. It was noon from what she could tell and the light hurt her eyes, she moved her hand up to shield them quickly.

"Hailey you were out for three days. What happened?" Hermione pulled the curtains shut and sat on the other side of her bed.

"Thank you. As for what happened….well you see…" Hailey sighed and gathered her thoughts, so she could better explain what happened. "Well, I went back to the common room after Draco calmed me down. I didn't want to go back to class because I knew there would be things said. Well when I got back I was extremely tired so I laid down and fell asleep on the couch in the common room. Well when I awoke I could hear talking, two people were watching me sleep and talking about me. One of them said I might kill them if they woke me for dinner. I guess I got upset at what they said, I can not remember much about my emotions. Well next thing I knew Voldemort was speaking with me through my mind. He told me that I should go back to him or he would have to kill a few people to get to me, he told me he had spies here waiting for me to slip up so he could capture me. Then I got ignorant and told him to come and get me that I was safe with Dumbledore. Well that's when he decided to hurt me. I felt a pain in my stomach and then I began bleeding…a lot. Last thing I remember I heard something crash." Hailey looked at the three faces surrounding her. Harry was in deep thought about what could have happened and Ron seemed happy that she was alright. Hermione on the other hand seemed frustrated.

"Hailey, you were the thing that crashed. You collapsed from blood loss, you were almost dead when we found you." Hermione looked at her, her eyes were almost filled with tears at the mere memory of what she had seen.

"Hermione, don't get all emotional, I'm alright." Hailey looked around the room. Flowers and boxes of candy were spread about the tables near her. One vase of flowers caught her eyes, a vase of a dozen blood red roses. There was a small teddy bear tied to the vase and a card with shiny dark green ink. The whole assortment looked extremely expensive.

"These are just some of the flowers you got. You seem to have a lot of fans." Hermione laughed when she noticed Hailey looking at the flowers around her.

"Fans? Why?" Hailey asked sitting up slowly. Her head rushed and her temples pounded, but she ignored the slight pain as she slid out of her bed and walked over to the floral arrangement that had caught her eyes earlier.

The car was tied neatly around the top of the vase and sealed with green wax. The symbol of the seal caught her curiosity, it was a rose crossed with a sword. Hailey slid her fingers along the seal trying to think of who could have sent it. She carefully opened the letter, avoiding breaking the seal. Inside there was a short letter written in the same green ink that was on the envelope.

Hailey,

I am terribly sorry to hear you are not well. I was looking forward to our classes together. You are an incredibly beautiful young woman and I hope that you give me a chance to get to know you better. I can not bare to imagine my life with an angel, but trying to imagine my life without one is painfully hard.

Yours truly,

Your secret knight

Hailey could feel the butterflies in her stomach shoot up through her senses. Apparently this "knight" had a way with words. She smiled softly and tucked the letter back into the envelop and smelled the roses. The smell was almost intoxicating. She could smell the sent of roses, but also that of her old home in the morning when her mother would make her blueberry pancakes. She could distinctly smell her mothers perfume and her father's coffee. She could also smell a hint of cologne. Her brow furrowed for a moment as she tried to remember who's it was. In the house it had always been just her mother, her father, and herself. And she knew her father never worse cologne. 'Must be some other memory mixed with the memory of my family.' Hailey thought and moved on reluctantly to the next arrangement of flowers.

After about an hour of looking through different flowers she sat on her bed. Hermione sat next to her and offered her some chocolate. Hailey smiled and took them happily. The pain in her stomach seemed to have disappeared after reading the first letter. She smiled giddily at the thought that a man in this school thought she was an angel. 'I hope I get another letter from him.'

"Hailey, you have another visitor." Madam Pomfrey walked into the room where the four teenagers were talking.

Hailey hopped off her bed and walked over to the nurse. "I will see them in private." Hailey smiled at her.

Madam Pomfrey nodded and led her to the door where, Hailey was surprised to see, Draco waited. Madam Pomfrey nodded at him then left the two to talk.

"Draco…um…I'm surprised to see you here." Hailey struggled with her words.

"That's alright. I just came to make sure you were alright." Draco chuckled lightly at her confused look.

"Yes, I am just waiting for Madam Pomfrey to release me and I should be heading back to class." Hailey smiled.

"Good, well you have a lot to catch up on in potions, and from what I hear you're not as great in that subject as you are in most of your others." Draco replied cockily.

"Well…no I am not very good at potions, so thanks for rubbing the fact that I will probably fail in my face." Hailey laughed at his need to be better.

"I didn't mean to insult you, I was just telling you this because Slughorn asked me to tutor you in what you have missed." Draco smirked and got closer to Hailey. "He has asked me to give you private lessons to catch you up in anything you need to know."

"I…well…thank you." Hailey stuttered as she felt his breath on her face. Her heart was pumping faster than she had ever felt it pump before.

Draco leaned closer and pressed his lips against hers softly, wrapping his arms around her he pulled her into the kiss. He smiled to himself when he felt the girl react slowly. 'She can't resist me.' Draco thought to himself with a chuckle.

Hailey felt herself melt into his arms. His touch made her shiver and yet she longed for more. She had to give him credit, he knew how to seduce his women. She giggled when she felt him nibble on her bottom lip lightly. She ran her hands down hid arms and was surprised to find out just how muscular he was. Before she was allowed to let her hands explore any more of his body, Draco broke away. His eyes were soft for a moment then changed back to a harsh, icy state.

"I'm taking that as, you will work with me?" Draco smirked and pulled himself away from Hailey.

"Yes…I will work with you." Hailey stuttered trying to regain her composure.

"You know Hailey," Draco smirked and leaned into her ear, speaking huskily, "if we keep this up, we may not get much work done during our sessions." he kissed on her neck quickly then pulled away and walked out, leaving Hailey breathless.

'Damn him, he's so bloody cocky!' Hailey cursed him mentally, then turned and walked back into the room. She was glad he had enough decency to kiss her softly enough to not leave a mark.

"Who was that? You were there a long time." Harry asked protectively.

"It was professor Slughorn, he had to convince me to allow Draco to tutor me after class. He said that because Draco was such a good student he was the best choice." Hailey rolled her eyes. 'Damn I good.' she giggled to herself at how easily she could come up with lies.

"Great, now I have to watch that cocky bastard even more." Harry cursed loudly.

"Harry, she will be fine, if Slughorn thinks it's best then we must go with his decision." Hermione tried to calm Harry down after seeing Hailey's worried look at his reply.

"Draco is a seductive, cold hearted, arrogant ass hole!" Harry shouted.

"Harry enough." Hailey snapped. Harry shut up quickly and Hermione smiled. "I am pretty sure I am allowed to leave now, I need to speak with Dumbledore though." Hailey looked to Madam Pomfrey who nodded and gave her a pass.

"Why do you need to speak with the Headmaster?" the elder woman asked.

"It has to do with what happened to me." Hailey stated, unsure if she would be questioned or lead to Dumbledore's office.

"Alright, I will take you there myself. The rest of you, go back to class immediately, no straggling around in the halls. Understood?" she looked to Harry and the others.

"Yes mam'." They all nodded in unison.

After Madam Pomfrey watched them file out the door she looked at Hailey. Her eyes were filled with worry. She nodded slightly and walked towards the doors, as if unsure that she was doing the right thing. None the less, she led Hailey to the door of Dumbledore's office.

"Here you are Hailey. Now don't take too long because the teachers you have all know you are better." she gave the girl a quick pat on the back then walked away.

Hailey stared at the large statue in front of her. She sighed and stepped forward. "Malted Milk Balls." the stairway appeared and began turning, Hailey jumped on and waited to get to the top. She smiled and thought about how unique his passwords was. There was an abrupt halt to the movement of the staircase and Hailey looked forward to see Dumbledore's office door. She sighed to herself and knocked three times on the large wooden entrance.

Sugababy15: Another cliff hanger! I love those. Sorry it took me so long to finish this, I will probably have the next one before the first of the year, I hope. And now for the question of the chapter!

Q: Who do you think gave Hailey the vase of roses?

Hope you enjoyed this chapter, please review!