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This chapter is LONG! I was off from school and it just sort of drags and it's VERY dark and it just keeps going and going and going and going……..so enjoy it while you can!
She Made The Blind Boy See
Chapter 6
My Heart Will Go On
Hermione's POV
Home. I was finally home. Well, not really. I was at Sirius's place... Grimwald place. The place where they house the Order of the Phoenix. The group that fights against Voldemort. Not just the group that fights him… the soldiers that go to war against him. I honestly never thought I would grow up during a war. I guess I will.
But I'm already all grown up. I'm almost fifteen. In two months I will be. It's early July now. I took a deep breath and leaned my hands down on the sand…. sand? I looked out before me and saw the ocean on red sunset sky. Waves crashed against the shore. It looked like a picture, like a planned sculpted out picture. Wind picked up and blew my hair.
"I thought you needed to get away." Molly Weasley said from behind me, her wand pointed at the beautiful scene before me. "So I got creative." She said with a smile sitting next to me on the sand she had made for me in the middle of the disgusting house.
"You're right." I said quietly. Before I know what I was doing, I was sobbing on her shoulder, and Mrs. Weasely's arms were around me and her soft soothing voice was telling me I didn't have to be so strong.
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"Lucius Malfoy… Wormtail it taking to long. You know the school. The boy is alive. Make sure the girl is there. He will die for her."
"My Lord, Not that I have any intention to disagree… but he has only known her for a short time."
"THAT DOES NOT MATTER! He loves her. The magic is already working…."
"My Lord… I speak from personal experience and love takes time…"
"Yes… you and Narcissa. The romance is classic! But the magic that kept the Hufflepuff alive was from magic of love that was meant to be. It was buried deep within them when they were born. Why do you think the girl so willingly gave her life away?"
"Maybe you are right…"
"Of course I am right! Here… take these. The boy has been healing to fast. I want you to see the look on his face when you try to kill her, then I want to tell me exactly how it looked. Use them… they're very rare. Dark magic. He'll gain his senses back, only to lose them again. Oh… but he won't gain them again now will he? You will DISTROY HIM! NOW GO!"
Lucius was already gone.
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(Back to Mione's POV)
I had changed into a muggle bikini with petite jean shorts and an open tight fitting sweatshirt for the surreal beach before me. It felt good to at least believe like everything was normal again. I touched my toes to the salt water that lapped against my bare feet. I leaned my head back to experience the spray of the water in my face. I felt myself lie on the ground on my side and shut my eyes.
I kept my head back, and as if almost by themselves, my arms lifted up to the sides. I saw a vision in my head, and it took all I had in me to remember it wasn't existent. Cedirc was behind me and holding my arms out to the side like a bird. He smiled at me, and I smiled back, knowing he was really seeing me for the first time. He was wearing the same outfit he wore into the maze the quartered shirt with dark green and yellow, before he died… or almost died. Came back to life…
"Keep you're eyes closed." He said in my ear and I could almost feel the tickle of his breath. I felt myself nod my head. "Open them." He muttered in his deep voice. I did.
"I'm flying." I muttered. The old classic dream ended. My vision came full circle. We were at Hogwarts again. The third task! NO! I was in the ring standing next to him. He dropped my arms and turned around and grabbed his wand at a sound that came from deep within the tall looming maze. He started walking away from me.
"Stay here!" He screamed at me. "Don't follow. Promise me. Stay here. Where it's safe…." With that he turned away from me, he walked into the fog… back into the fog. Back to his death…..
I woke at a start with a horrible scream. I took no second guess, no second thoughts. Cedric was in trouble. My life was no longer my own, I was living for someone else yes… but when was that ever considered a bad thing. I knew what I had to do. I had to get out.
Where does Sirius keep the brooms? Right… second level, corner closet. I grabbed the nearest one.
"HERMIONE!" I heard Ron scream as I ran past him. I broke through the window, and I left the beach, and my old life behind me.
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(cedric's Point of View)
"Who's there!" I felt myself try to scream as something woke me up. But then I remembered I couldn't talk. I sat up from lying on my chest as I heard footsteps.
"He was right…" I heard the cold hard sneer. "You are healing too fast for your own good." I felt a spell hit me square in my chest and I was lifted form the safe contents of the bed and suspended in mid air and then I was crashed to the floor. A hand wound around my neck and what felt like leaves fall down my throat. Cold gloved hands touched a freezing cold liquid to my eyes that ran through my core. I felt the tip of a wand touch my heart.
"GET OFF ME!" I screamed hitting the man back. I opened my eyes; Lucius Malfoy. I stood up. My legs didn't crumble beneath me, I could see his evil derided face.
"I've been touched with Black magic haven't I?' I asked the man whom I knew to be wicked. I shock a little and leaned against the nightstand.
"Do be careful… your body isn't anywhere near ready to support you just yet. I see you're recovery is going well though. No bandages I see?" I looked down. The bandage around my torso was indeed off, and what was once torn skin was healed and well.
"Never liked hospital pants." Lucius said walking to me, commenting on the dark blue pants around me. "Always made people look weak."
"They were on because its standard procedure and my legs couldn't support anything else." I said grinding my teeth trying to gain my strength.
"Good Cedric Diggory. Always doing what's right." He said tossing me my wand. I gripped it firmly in my hand. "You won't live long enough to thank your little girlfriend."
"She's not my girlfriend!" I screamed, but I realized my mistake as a jet of light hit me and I heard a cry of:
"Sectumsempra!" I felt a cut dive deep into my body and slice down, I tried not to scream, I told myself I wouldn't scream at the torture, but I did. I fell to my knees at the horrible agony and suffering that coursed through me. Blood pored over me and onto the floor. And the splitting hurt that coursed through me was unimaginable. I fell to the ground and breathed hard as the torture continued to radiate through me. I heard another spell hit me that I knew to be the Wound Healing spell.
"GET UP!" He screamed at me. I did, and I felt my face turn to that of a man fighting his greatest rival. I grabbed my wand from the floor and the duel began.
Dodging spells this way and we moved around the gigantic room, I had never stopped to think. I just screamed all that I had been taught. The fact I had my senses back never crossed my mind. I just concentrated on what I had to do. Then, Hermione burst through the room.
"Cedric!" She ran over to me and took me in her arms with such surprising force I fell over with her on top of me. "I thought I would be too late! I thought…MALFOY!" She screamed getting off of me when she watched the blond man laugh, clapping his hands in mockery.
"I see you dressed for the occasion. How lovely." Hermione looked down at her clothes, and she flushed red and tried to cover herself up. Her jean shorts were little and showed almost her entire legs. She wore a purple bathing suit top that left none of her curves to the imagination and her beige skin tight open sweatshirt gave no comfort. I had never really scene her before. She was beautiful.
I thrashed out at the Death Eater as Hermione whimpered as he grabbed her around the neck and lifted her up, pointing his black snake like wand at her throat. I stood up in a sudden… realizing I would give anything to save her now.
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(Hermione's POV)
"Put down your wand boy, or the mudblood dies!" he jabbed the wand hard into my neck causing me to wince. I couldn't hear anything. I felt nothing. I was frozen. I saw him start to lower the wand.
"NO! Cedric! He'll just kill us both! No! It's not worth it!"
"You are worth it." He spat viciously talking to me, but glowering at Malfoy. He cast his wand to the side and it hit the floor with a clank and a clatter. I shut my eyes tight. No. Why was this all happening to me! Lucius flung me to the floor like a rag doll, Cedric crouched to the floor and grabbed me and held me in his arms like old lovers do.
"Imperio," was muttered behind us, and the door slammed. A luminosity shinned around the rim of the door and the key hole locked. A self-locking charm. Only Lucius could let us out. I wasn't the one effect by the spell. That meant…
Cedric fell to the floor, his eyes shut tight. Had Lucius, the coward killed him without looking at him? With him powerless? My world crashed around me as I ran to his side.
He was not dead, he was far from it. He sat up quickly; his eyes had a white coating look to them. These were not his eyes. This was not him. His mouth parted slightly as he breathed deeply and came towards me. He was going to kill me, Cedric was going to kill me. I shut my eyes tight and waited for it to come. Instead I felt his lips touch mine. The kisses were gentle and sweet but they held passion, something I did not expect… even from the Imperious Curse. And when I started kissing him back, I wanted to die right there.
I shut my eyes as my tears blinded me. So this was Lucius's plan? I let my tears flow freely. Cedric wouldn't know. Cedric was lost to me now. His hands rested on my shoulders and his grip tightened (so tight I'm sure they'll leave marks) and the kisses became stiff and resisted. But, maybe. Just maybe.
"Cedric… can you hear me?" I screamed when he let me go. He could hear me. I know he could.
"Mione…" In a slow hoarse whisper was all I got. He was fighting it. Cedric was fighting the Imperious curse. Only Harry had ever been able to do that. Only Harry. Dark Magic had touched Cedric, something dark, but maybe something good. Maybe.
"Cedric!" I grabbed his head in my hands and stroked his sweat stained hair from fighting the evil that was trying to shove him into darkness. "It's alright Cedric. Everything's going to be alright." I said it but I didn't feel it. I was petrified, yet I was emotionless. Even in the course of the past month, I had learned to become impassive. I blocked myself as much as possible to emotion. As I was now.
"Forgive me….go through that door over there. Go get Madam Pomfrey," was all I heard before he rolled away from me and screamed in agony. The door behind me burst open. I ran as fast as I could like he told me through a door in the wall I had never seen before. All I heard as I ran crying down the stairs for help was:
"NO ONE FIGHTS THE IMPERIOUS CURSE!" If he killed Cedric, I decided, I would kill him.
I promised myself.
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(cedric's POV) Stop fretting it's almost over
I felt like a blanket had been lifted from me. I could breathe again. I had felt suffocated and deteriorated from oxygen and memory. I remembered nothing. I breathed deeply and felt relaxed. I was covered in sweat and I felt overcome with fever.
"Oh dear… I have no idea what that Death Eater did to him… oh but he's sick…" I heard Madam Pomfrey talk to herself. I felt soft hands touch my forehead and my head was placed in a lap. A cold wet towel was placed on my forehead by Hermione and my vision cleared so I could see her. She was in a muggle Hospital gown, her hair tumbled and lose around her like water coming over a steep cliff.
"Oh No…" Madam Pomfrey said with great emotional strain. "He was given the Reversible Charms. You Boy were not supposed to live through that!" She said leaning over me.
"Thanks…" I said coughing as I did. "Why?" I asked weakly.
"Oh young Diggory, Reversible Charms undo bad doin's like you suffered. It cleared you're blindness, you walked again. And talked! Oh, but they come at a terrible price. After so much time, the curse fails and shuts down everything that had been healed."
"I'm… I'm going blind again aren't I?" I asked. "I won't move or talk again will I?"
"No Cedric. You won't." Hermione dropped my head to the ground as she stood up furious.
"Surly there must be SOMETHING you can so!" she screamed. She was either so miserable or fuming with anger. I didn't know which.
"If we do ANYTHING Miss Granger he will die! It's the nature of the Magic! The reversible Charm is horrible! It gets worse! It's made to be torture and it is! The agony he will experience in a few moments is enough to kill. It causes pain to make the body go back to the way it was!"
"So you mean?" Hermione asked incredulously "That this Black Magic was created to heal someone then to make them suffer and to… un-heal again?" I didn't need to see the kind Nurse nod her head.
"There is some thing you can do."
"What? I'll do anything!" Hermione begged.
"we can make the process go faster."
"WHAT? I will NOT make him lose his sight and ability to speak faster!" Her words were drowned out by waves of almost electrical agony coursing through me. I was not ashamed anymore… I screamed.
"Fine! What do I do?" I herd the bustling of objects and the clinking of bottles. As Hermione was muttered instructions.
"Cedric, I will leave you. Good-bye again dear boy." I watched the nurse walk away and I knew that would be the last time I would ever see her again. My misery was interrupted by another wave of generated pain. Hermione was obviously told to start working when the next set of pain came to me because she instantly set to work..
'Do you want to go blind, mute or immobilized first?" she asked with no emotion in her voice.
"Immobilized." I muttered shutting my eyes at what I was saying. Hermioen reached to the side and grabbed my wand and put it in my right hand.
"Keep it close." She said gently.
"You are not causing me to become handicapped Hermione. They are. Not you. Don't blame yourself. Please. I hate it when you suffer." I begged. I watched her rub some silver liquid like substance in her hands and she brought it down to my chest and arms. Like lotion, she rubbed it into my skin. Her hands ran over me, kneading the pain killer in and a cool numbing sensation followed where her petite hands had been.
"Can you still move?" I liefted my arms.
"yes but it feels numb." I answered.
"Move to the bed… otherwise I won't be able to move you in a few moments." Her eyes were sparkling with new tears. I stood up for the last time and moved to the soft bed. "Roll over; I need to do your back." She rubbed the silver concoction in into my back till I could feel the cold ebbing into my muscles.
"Mute or Blind?" She whispered as tears slid down both our cheeks.
"Both. The exact same time." she nodded solemnly she took a blue mixture and put it on my eyes. It soaked into my skin leaving it numb there as well. She touched her soft finger tips to my mouth with a thick red potion that sank in as she rubbed it in. as her fingertips rubbed in the remaining potion I kissed her fingertips solely as the frozen feeling sank in as well. She cried loudly now, and I took all the remaining strength I had and pulled her against me and kissed her. I kissed her with all I had left.
I tasted our salty tears mix as we kissed for the first… and last time. She responded to my deadened mouth moving across her inexperienced one. I cupped her face in my hands, holding her tight as her arms wound around my neck. My arms travel up and down her back and rested on her hips. I finally let her go. I had to let her go. I opened my eyes with effort and looked at her beautiful face that was blood shot from tears. I touched my hard to her cheek. I felt myself slipping, maybe she knew that. Maybe that was why she smiled and kissed the palm of my hand. I looked once more at her beautiful face. Everything was about to leave.
Mione… I…I-I lov…."
My eyes turned black and my voice was gone. And as much as I tried to tell her I loved her and as much as I tried to see her, I couldn't find her.
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