Turns of Time
Chapter 8
past ghosts
meetings and piled up paper works
A/N: can't think of an appropriate Chap title. Sorry!
Disclaimer: don't own them... nope! not me. She points to J.K. owns Them.
Turns of Time
A/N: can't think of an appropriate Chap title. Sorry!
Disclaimer: don't own them... nope! not me. She points to J.K. owns Them.
The brown haired girl turned and saw Harry staring straight at her, sporting a bewildered expression. She quickly hid both of her hands behind her back and slowly closed the open bedside drawer with her hip.
"What are you doing here?" Harry asked, placing his things on the nearby table, he took a step towards the girl. She quietly shook her head and slowly edged her way around Harry.
"Are you hiding something?" Harry darted and spun her around. Grabbing her hands with his gloved ones, he pried them open and out tumbled the golden box.
Harry picked the box up from the ground. He held in on his hand quite firmly, looking at it.
"What do you want with this?" he asked. He looked at Hermione only to find that she had already raised her wand and was pointing it at his head. Harry slowly backed away. He looked sideways and saw his wand lying at the table with his Quidditch gears.
"Hermione...what are you doing? What's happening with you?" He asked as he quickly stuffed the box inside his robes.
"Obliviate" she whispered, her voice echoed, it was eerily deep.
A flash of light surrounded Harry, his eyes slid out of focus and a dreamy expression placed itself on its features. Then Hermione struck him on the head, hard.
Hermione heard the door click. She swiftly stuck her wand inside her robes and turned to the door.
Ron entered and saw Harry on the floor.
"What happened?" He asked dropping to the floor beside Harry.
"He fainted." she replied, backing away towards the door.
She quickly exited.
When Ron turned around to ask for her help, he found that she was already gone.
"Oh good, you're back!" Draco said sarcastically. He turned around and met Hermione's eyes and smirked.
She in turn looked back at him, bewildered. What was he talking about? Hadn't she gone anywhere after their strangely blurred meeting with McGonagall?
She looked at the clock situated above the fireplace; it read quarter past eight. She looked back at the silver-eyed boy and found that he already left his place at the couch and was striding towards the fireplace, grabbing a handful of ashes from the pot, he threw it on the flames and roared, "PREFECTS, EMERGENCY MEETING, HEAD BOY AND GIRL DORM, NOW!"
As he paced in front of the fireplace, Hermione sat on the couch, she shifted through the papers quickly, scanning their contents. He had already drafted out practice schedules, match schedules and even the patrol schedules. She had to admit, she was mildly surprised that Draco Malfoy was taking his role seriously. She quickly muttered a spell and made several copies of each, to be given to the prefects and posted on bulletin boards.
When she looked up, he saw that Draco had already conjured a small round table and some chairs in the middle of the room.
Prefects were starting to arrive and, mostly, all off them were already in their pajamas. Some of them were muttering curses and shooting Malfoy death glares. As they grumpily sat on the table, Hermione pasted a smile on her face and passed out the papers to the ones present, Draco on the other hand lazily waved his wand in the air, cups of hot chocolate appeared and gradually floated itself down onto the table.
Draco rudely snatched a piece of paper from Hermione's hand. She watched as his eyes scanned it, he smirked and thrust it back at her.
The meeting started with Draco quickly explaining as to why the meeting was at this hour. After the explanation, almost everyone in the room was shooting her glares. She smiled shyly and bent her brown head down while Draco watched her amusedly.
After explaining the patrol schedule and making corrections, the group voiced out ideas for the spells they can use to prevent fights. They finally settled on the "stupefy" and "immobulus" charms.
Draco did most of the talking, while Hermione stood beside him silently, she quickly replayed today's events in her mind and found that she couldn't remember eating dinner or what she did after the meeting earlier that afternoon.
The meeting ended with Draco telling all of them that everything starts tomorrow. Ron stayed with them for a while, chatting with Hermione. Draco resumed to his seat on the couch, poring over sheaves of parchment.
"Harry still hasn't woken up." Ron whispered discreetly. Hermione looked at him wildly for a second then she quickly dragged him to the other side of the room.
"What?" she asked, looking over her shoulder at Malfoy. He was staring at them.
"After he fainted while talking to you, he hasn't stirred yet." He said, lowering his voice even more.
"I'll go see him." she said, turning her back to Ron. She strode towards the door. Only to be stopped by his voice.
"Hold it." said Draco, raising his head, looking at her. "Where do you think you're going?"
"I'm going to see Harry." she said as a matter-of-factly.
"Oh sure, go ahead. I do all the work here-"he slammed his hand down on the stacks of paper making Hermione jump. "-anyway."
Hermione rolled his eyes and waved Ron goodbye as he turned around and sat on the same couch, making sure that there was a lot of distance behind them. As soon as Ron left the room, Draco stood up and walked to his room.
"Where are you going?" she asked, following him with her eyes.
"Time to return the favor. Finish what I'm doing." With that he slammed his bedroom door shut, leaving Hermione in the common room with stacks of paper.
Ron looked up from his essay and saw Harry, descending from the dormitory stairs.
"Good your up." Ron greeted his friend.
Harry smiled and walked towards him, "Mind telling me how I got this humongous bump on the side of my head?"
"You must have hit you head hard on the wall when you fainted." Said Ron, turning back towards his essay.
"I fainted?" Harry asked, gingerly touching his bump.
"Yeah, mind you, you scared Hermione to death. She went out of the room silently, shocked I think." Harry started walking towards the portrait hole, as he swung his right leg over the hole, "Where are you going" Ron asked him, stopping him. ("Are you going out or not?" The fat lady grunted.)
"To see Hermione." he said it as if it was the most obvious answer in the world.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, mate. Malfoy's going about Hermione not doing her Head girl duties---mind you, she did seem a little out of it this days." Said Ron.
Harry slowly closed the portrait hole and trudged back to Ron sullenly, He grabbed a seat and sat beside him, resting his chin on the table and letting his hands hang down in the air, he watched at Ron lighted a candle and dropped the liquefied hot wax on the parchment paper.
"Ron?"
"Hmm.." He was intently pouring the liquid wax on his paper.
"What are you doing? I think you got it wrong, the wax goes on a basin full of water." Harry added, he was now sitting straight up eyeing the damage Ron had done.
"This is for decoration. To pretend that I really did the real thing." Harry stared at his friend crooked writing and noted that he was predicting his misfortunes and deaths again for Trelawney. Ron was now fanning the paper with his hands and scrapped of the wax from the parchment with a ruler. He raised it and admired his handiwork by the fire, "A masterpiece!" he whispered solemnly.
"You got extra parchment?" Harry asked grabbing Ron's quill. He grinned at Harry as he handed him a roll of parchment. "You think she got tired of the Grim?"
"Nah! So far its her favorite.." He said waving his hand in the air. "Here, Fred and George sent me this earlier, this should help." He pushed a long piece of parchment under Harry's nose. He opened it and in it was a long list of misfortunes and disasters, from being roasted alive by a dragon to being pulled down the lake by a giant man eating shark and squid.
Harry smiled and happily began copying some of the things on the list.
Draco quietly opened his door to a crack; he peered out to the common room and saw that Hermione was still there, quills still scratching the surface of the parchment. They were arranging the time for visits to Hogsmeade and the various club meeting in the school.
He looked at his bedside clock it was already well past midnight.
He looked at her again he could practically see the eye bags under her brown eyes. Maybe he had been too harsh on her.
He got out of the room and walked over, he sat down opposite her and conjured up a plate of butter cookies and a jug of hot chocolate.
He pushed the papers aside and replaced it with the cookies. Hermione looked at him strangely, he silently gestured towards the plate and poured her a cup of hot choco.
Hermione hesitated at first, before accepting the offer. "You're tired. I'll continue this. You get some sleep." He said looking at her, he reached and pulled the stacks away from her.
"The deadlines tomorrow, right? You've done your part and I guess-I'll do mine. It wouldn't be fair for you." She replied avoiding his gaze. She looked up when she heard the scratching of the quill.
His hands flew over the pages while he consulted the charts every now and then.
"Why?" Draco stopped his writing and looked at her. "Why are you doing this?"
Draco shrugged, "Go to sleep, you're still taking too many classes, you're very stressed out. You need to rest."
Hermione smiled at him gratefully, "I really appreciate what you're trying to do, but I believe we'll do it faster if I do half of that."
He shook his head at gave her some of the papers. Hours ticked by, it was already two in the morning when he looked up, Hermione had already fallen asleep.
He carefully carried her to her room and tucked her to bed, he then placed a gentle kiss on her forehead and he sat on her bed for a while stroking her hair. He closed the lights when he left her room, but not before whispering goodnight.
"Come in." an old, crackled voice said.
He took a step inside the room. Closing the door behind him, the noise coming from downstairs was completely cut off. The silence was deafening.
The only light source in the room was coming from the moon which was peering through the window. There was supposed to be a massive cahndelier above them right now, but it was not lit, causing the room to feel cold and strange.
He could clearly see his Grandfather's outline, he was sitting on a chair in front of the window and behind a huge mahogany office table.
He silently sat down on one of the chairs in front of the table. Avoiding his grandfather's gaze in the dark.
"You are now sixteen." His grandfather bent down and reached into the lowermost drawer. "Its time I give you this."
The old man placed a golden box carefully on the table. He pushed it towards his grandson urging him to pick it up. His grandfather didn't need to tell him what this is, he knew of it since he was a mere child. It was his families most guarded treasure.
As soon as he picked it up, his grandfather started, "I hope you know and understand the simple but grave rules that run this family." He also knew of those rules. He knew them by heart, but somehow he never gave any serious thought about it, he never thought that it would also be implied to him.
"Your wedding's already arranged, it will be after you graduation."
He gulped.
He never thought about it this way, he always thought that he'd be exempted from this all. But tonight, he finally realized how wrong he was.
"Meet me tonight, D.A.D.A. classroom"
He read the note for the last time before folding it over four times, then flipping it towards the next table.
She looked at the professor first before discreetly opening the note. Her brows furrowed as she read it, but nevertheless nodding in agreement.
"What are you doing?" He slowed his pace down untill he stopped completely.
"Nothing." A male voice, it was starngely muffled. He dared a peek round the corridor, hoping that what he guessed would be wrong.
He saw her pinned against the wall by a blond haired boy, who was ravishing her with kisses.
"I'm supposed to meet him."
"Never mind him, he isn't more important than me." he said as he nuzzled her neck.
She giggled, leaned forward and kissed him on the lips.
The boy staggered backwards and ran towards the opposite direction, mind telling him not to believe what he had seen, hatred froming in his heart.
Harry woke up, he could feel his bursting bladder in his lower abdomen.
Walking towards the bathrrom door. He tried the doorknob, but it wont budge, it also felt odly warm and sticky. Drawing his hand back, he could see it was coated with drak red sticky blood.
Backing up slowly, he saw blood slowly flowing down the top of the door, it was also seeping from the bottom. It was slowly crawling towards him.
Then suddenly the door burst open. the boy came out. its feet making no contact with the blood on the floor.
It was slowly walking towards him, Harry backed up until he hit the wall. It raised its hand, reaching for him. Harry cried.
Harry woke up, he placed his face in his hands. It was still dark outside.
Plopping back to his bed, he grabbed his covers and snuggled to it, only to find out that he wasn't alone in his bed.
Its lifeless eyes locked with emerald green ones. Harry stared at it unable to move as he watched its mouth slowly curve to a grin the reached its ears.
Hermione stirred, something smells delicious.
She sat up and found a steaming tray of breakfast in front of her.
"Miss Hermione Granger's already woken up!"
Hermione turned towards the source of the high pitched voice and found a house-elf.
"What's your name?" She asked curiously.
The elf bowed its head to low that his face was nearly touching the carpet, which still smelt of roses. "My name is Rinky,Ma'am. That sure is Rinky's name." The elf replied cheerfully.
"Master Malfoy wanted Rinky to tell Miss Granger that paper works are already finished. Master Malfoy also asked permission from the great professors of Hogwarts to give Miss Granger a day off. Master Malfoy said it is for Miss Granger to rest. He says. Miss Granger is doing too much."
Hermione stared at the elf, dumbstruck. She must have a build up of wax inside her ears. What she heard couldn't be entirely right.
"Eat!" Rinky gestured to the food, "Master Malfoy went down to the kitchen for that." With that he left with a "pop".
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