Another First Person POV chapter!
(Leah's POV)
I slept…for a while. A long while. When I woke up, Draco was right there with me and the clock said that it was 7:32pm. I frowned, because when I came upstairs it was 8 O'clock. Then I realized that it wasn't the same day. I groaned and tried getting up but Draco's hold on me just tightened and he muttered something. I tried a few times before sighing and finally pinching him.
"OW! Bloody hell!" Draco said, letting go finally and I fell out of the bed. I stood up and stretched.
"You fell asleep before I did." I said, looking around.
"And stayed asleep." Draco yawned, sitting up.
"We've been asleep for a whole day!" I said. Draco didn't seem fazed by that. "I've never done that before. On purpose anyways. Like…I will if I've been knocked out or something like that…like what normally happened at school but…"
"Blabbering." Draco said, pushing off the blankets and standing up. He really did know me too well. He could pick out whenever I was blabbering now. "So how you feeling?"
"How am I feeling?" I asked, frowning. I then remembered why I felt so panicked the night before. "Oh right…the protecting Wormtail thing. Well…" I looked down at myself. "Nothing different. And…I don't feel anything from him. So…I guess I'm good for now."
"Ok." Draco said. His hands were running up and down my arms now. There was a knock on the door and Ginny popped her redhead in.
"Hey! You're awake!" She said. I nodded. "You guys must be hungry right?"
"Oh my god…yes!" I said.
"Thought so." Ginny said. The door opened more to reveal that Hermione was with her and both of them were holding trays full of food. Draco laughed, more then likely because of the look on my face. That's when it all hit me…literally. I felt like someone had suddenly just hit. Oh god…it's the same feelings I had when I was protecting Draco and he was getting beat. Someone was beating Peter.
"Leah!" Draco said, sounding worried. I paid him little attention as I worked on keeping myself from apparating.
"It's Peter." I managed to say. I heard one of the girls swear. By the time I had fallen to my knees from the pain, all three of them were around me and holding onto my shoulders. That was helping to keep me from apparating. You can apparate with one person holding onto you this tightly but not with three. After a while everything stopped. The pain died away into nothingness and I was able to stand back up again with help from my loving boyfriend.
"Are you ok?" Draco asked. I looked at him to see him looking paler then usual. I nodded and hugged him quickly.
"Do you want anything to eat?" Hermione asked. I nodded again and we all sat on the floor in a rough circle and ate the food my friends had brought up. After a while Harry and Ron came up and somehow the three boys got involved in a game of exploding snap, leaving me to talk with Hermione and Ginny and somewhat privacy.
"You two have been asleep for like two days." Ginny said. I stared at her then at Hermione who nodded.
"Holy fuck." I said. "Two days..." The girls nodded. "Really?" They nodded again. I was asleep for two days? Oh my god that's...new. We sat in silence for a while until a bang made us jump and look at the boys. All three of them had black marks on their faces and Ron and Harry weer asking Draco if he was ok.
"I'm fine." Draco said. "Didn't know you cared though." He was smirking. I rolled my eyes.
"If you got more hurt then you already were and Leah had any reason to blame us...she would." Harry said.
"I wouldn't blame you and Ron." I said. "I'd blame Draco for doing anything that would get him hurt more."
"I think I feel safer around Potter and Weasley then I do around you." Draco said.
"Ohh...you just said the wrong thing." Ron said. I threw a blush brush at Draco, hitting him in the head.
"Ow!" Draco said. All of us laughed at him. I didn't think it was possible, not after what happened last, but I guess we could still have fun and laugh as if all we had to worry about was what we were going to do now that all of us were out of school.
(Draco's POV)
I rubbed my head and smiled slightly. Seeing Leah happy is a good thing so I let the attack slide...for now. Potter had told me that me and her had been asleep for two days. Whether because we were really tired or someone made us...I don't know. I lost a few rounds in the snap game thinking about it. The round I did win was the one that made the cards explode.
"Who's all downstairs?" I asked, lowering my hand.
"Mom and dad, Sabrina and Sirius, Mr and Mrs. Weasley, Dumbledore, Remus, Tonks, Bill, Fred and George."Potter said.
"We should probably tell them about the 'attack'." Ginny said.
"What attack?"Weasley asked.
"Someone's hurt Peter." Leah said.
"So?"Potter asked. "Oh wait...yeah. I forgot. Not a good thing."
"Well if we're gonna go tell then let's go tell." I said. We all stood up and went downstairs, Potter and Ginny leading, Weasley and Hermione next, then me and Leah. "You alright?" I don't know why I asked that but something just made me do it.
"Yeah...I'm fine." Leah said, smiling. She was lying, of course she was...but I didn't want her getting any more uncomfortable then she already was. Ginny pushed open the kitchen door...why these people always meet in here, I'll never figure out. Leah told them about what happened and Dumbledore seemed to pale.
"Are you ok?" Sabrina asked.
"Yeah...it was just like a minute or something then the pain was gone." Leah said. "Which is weird because when I was protecting Draco and he was getting hurt, the pain didn't die for a long time even after he was through getting hurt." I frowned, trying to figure out why this could be.
"Maybe because you don't want to feel anything from Wormtail." Sirius said. "Or maybe it's because of yours and Draco's bond..." He stopped instantly, making all of us look at him. There was a small bang followed by Sirius flinching and grabbing his leg as Sabrina glared at him.
"We have a bond?" Leah asked. I looked at her to see she was looking at me before looking at her parents. "Like...what you guys had...wait a minute." Suddenly she looked sick. "When the hell did you guys..." She shivered. I had no clue what she was going on about.
"The only person that noticed just had to be our daughter." Sabrina said. I suddenly realized that she had some black streaks in her hair and that Sirius had a few streaks as well.
"Oh my god!" Lily suddenly said. "You guys...when?"
"Obviously last night if they weren't like this yesterday." James said.
"What?" I said, looking at Leah.
"My parents...they part of this weird...magic-y thingy where like...two people that are pretty much like soul mates..." Leah said. She looked like she was thinking. "They have a power exchange thing whenever they...uh...do it."
"Ok." I said, still not getting how everyone could tell.
"And when they have that power exchange...they also take on parts of each others physical attributes or something." Leah said.
"Oh...OH!" I said, suddenly getting it. "So you all know whenever they..." Everyone nodded. I looked at Potter and Weasley and was glad to see that they seemed to have the same expression on their faces as I'm sure I did.
"Ok well that's not the problem right now..." Sabrina said.
"This happens everytime?" I asked.
"Yeah...but...that's not..." Sabrina said.
"That's gotta suck." I said. "Everyone who knows about it will know whenever you...OW!" I rubbed my side where Leah had elbowed me. "Wounded enough as it is without your help." Leah just stuck her tongue out at me. Oh...I'll get her back for this later...she can bet on that.
"Anyways...enough about us." Sabrina said. "We still gotta figure out how to keep Leah out of Voldemort's grasp." I looked around at everyone else.
"What about, if he calls, we have some kind of decoy." One of the twins said.
"Yeah...we could make one up." The other one said. "Peice of cake."
"He'll know." Hermione said.
"Yeah...Voldemort isn't gonna fall for one of those." Ginny said. "Good idea though guys."
"What if I go with her?" Lily asked. "If he calls...I'll go with her. And if things get bad I'll get her out."
"I don't think you can pass off as a Death Eater much longer Lil." James said. I watched as they all came up with ideas then someone else spoke logically and blew the idea out of the water. I looked at Leah because through this whole thing she had been quiet. She was staring straight ahead of her, at the legs of one of the chairs I think. But she didn't look well. She looked as if she was fighting against something...
(Leah's POV)
Fred offered the suggestion of a decoy but Hermione and Ginny said it wouldn't work. Lily offered to go with me but James said it was too risky to keep sending her there. That's about as much as I heard...at least from these people.
I know your secret...I know what you are...
Voldemort was calling me to him again. Oh god why does this always happen to me? Why can't Harry be the one getting called?
Come protect your charge Miss Black.
It's like I saw and felt what was going on. Voldemort was hurting Peter and, in turn, hurting me as well. But this was the worse I have ever felt it...even with Draco. It was almost as bad as the pain from when he ripped my baby apart.
Come protect him!
No! I thought. I felt the floor under my knees and a few hands on my back and shoulders and a hand trying to force my head up but I couldn't look at any of them. All I could do was feel and force myself not to go.
You will come! YOU WILL!
No! I repeated. I couldn't keep this up. Two hands grabbed my head and forced it up and I saw Draco's pale face staring at me. I closed my eyes as the pain increased. Someone shook me and I opened my eyes. Some noise was getting through my ears...shouting more then likely. I just stared at Draco. He looked extremely apoligetic. I realized what he was going to do and just nodded my head once. He said something, I'm not sure what it was. But next second everything went black.
(Third Person POV)
The instant Leah fell to her knees, everyone was by her. Hermione and Ginny had their hands on her back and were shaking her. Draco was kneeling in front of her and trying to force her head up. Nothing was working. She was groaned in pain.
"It's gotta be Voldemort." Harry said. "He must be hurting Peter."
"It was never this bad with Draco." Hermione said, panicking. "Leah! Leah!" She shook her friend harder.
"Bloody hell!" Draco said, grabbing both sides of Leah's head and forcing it up. The look on her face scared him.
"What do we do?" George asked.
"I'm not sure." Sabrina said.
"We wait it out." Lily said. "There's nothing else to do."
"To hell with that." Draco said. He saw Leah's eyes closed.
"Well what else is there to do?" Sirius asked. Draco shook Leah, making her eyes open. "What are you going to do?"
"I'm sorry." Draco said, mostly to Leah. Next second he had punched her in the side of the head. Everyone yelled at him as Leah fainted and fell to her side.
"What the bloody hell was that for!" Harry yelled.
"She can't apparate when she's unconscious you nitwit!" Draco said. "There's no way she can go to Voldemort. I know the look. He was calling her."
"Wait...how do you know?" Ron asked.
"Because he did the same thing in seventh year." Draco said. "Before he killed the baby. He called Leah to him and she had that same look on her face as she did then. That's not exactly a look you forget."
"So what? We just keep knocking her out until he gets defeated?" Harry asked. Draco shrugged. "Hate to break it to you, mate. But if what everyone's saying is right...then Leah is gonna have to be there when it all goes down."
"I don't bloody well know what you lot are gonna do when the time comes ok!" Draco snapped. "Why not just somehow manage to get Wormtail locked up or something? But I doubt that'll do much good. Voldemort probably knows what Leah is by now."
"Ok...relax." Lily said. "We'll...we'll worry about that when the time comes." Draco didn't say anything, just stood up, picked Leah up and left the kitchen. "Harry..."
"What?" Harry asked.
"You really gotta learn how to control your temper." Lily said. "And the sarcasm."
"He gets it from you." James said. Lily smacked him. "See."
"Do you wanna get so hurt that you're envious of what Leah is going through?" Lily asked. "Because that can be accomplished very easily." James backed away from his wife, hands up in surrender.
A little later, George was walking past Leah's room when Draco came out and stopped him.
"Can you watch her for a while?" Draco asked.
"Uh...sure I guess." George said. "Why? Where are you going?"
"Out." Draco said.
"Listen...Malfoy...don't be going near the Death Eaters if you can help it." George said. "They seriously will kill you and I don't think Leah could handle that."
"I'm just going for a walk." Draco said. "I promise. I'll stay around the general area and within shouting range from here. I just gotta get out of this place. It's driving me mad."
"You're the first one to know how Sirius felt." George said. "Ok...I'll watch her. Just don't be too long." Draco nodded, said his thanks and went down the stairs while George walked into the room. He sat down on the edge of the bed and looked at Leah. "Crazy stuff always happens to you doesn't it?" He sighed and moved over to the desk.
No, Draco is not going to do anything stupid and go after Voldemort so you can just forget about that. I kinda just went the opposite way of how I had this thing going in my mind so, again, I'm gonna need ideas. God I suck!