Finally night came and I changed into my completely black outfit, put my hair up like Serena's, and put the bracelet from Harry back on my right wrist. I dropped from the balcony as I had done the other night and luckily no one was in the parlor to see me. I ran through the woods until I reached the field. It was much colder now and there was a few inches of snow on the ground. I leaned against a tree and looked up at the moon. It was full and golden. I stared at it for a long time. Then I was aware of movement on the other side of the field. I looked and saw Cory, the twins, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny coming toward me. I waved to them and they waved back. They came across the field and were about halfway when I felt someone step up behind me. I glanced back and saw Draco in the shadows behind me. His eyes had a strange glazed look that I thought I recognized.
"Are you going to tell them about me?" he asked.
"Yes," I said. He stepped up to me and wrapped his arms around me. I looked back at the others. I smiled so that they wouldn't be alarmed.

"You won't tell them," Draco hissed in my ear. "Is that clear?"
"I'm telling them," I hissed back. "And you can't stop me."
"Yes I can," he said. Then there was a searing pain in my back. I gasped in pain. He stabbed me! Draco let me fall to the ground pulling the athame out of my back. I landed with the side of my face in the snow. My breathing was shallow and every breath caused pain to shoot through me.
"Schyler!" Harry cried.
"Draco you bastard!" Cory yelled. "I'll kill you!" Draco smirked and I looked back to watch him melt into the shadows. The others rushed to me and crowded around me.
"Schyler!" Harry cried. "Can you hear me?" I coughed.
"Yeah," I said weakly. The twins, Hermione, and Ginny started crying.
"What'd we do?" Ron asked.
"We get her to Dumbledore," Cory replied.
"How do we do that?" Harry shouted. "We can't Apparate!"
"I can," Cory snapped.

"It wouldn't do you any good," Hermione said. "You can't Apparate in Hogwarts. We'll have to send an owl or something."
"We could go by Floo Powder," Taylor said. "I saw an empty house in that village that we came through"
"Are you sure?" Cory asked. Taylor nodded.
"But we haven't got any Floo Powder," Ginny said.
"In my pocket," I said. "I brought my bag with me." Cory reached into my pocket and pulled out my bag.
"Hang in there," he said. "You'll be okay." He picked me up and they ran back to the village.
They found the house that Taylor said was empty and went inside.
"How are we supposed to carry her with us?" Harry asked. "She might get hurt when we start to spin." Cory handed the bag to Harry and shifted me so that my chin was against my chest and my knees were pulled up so that my feet wouldn't hit the fireplace walls. I was unconscious by now. Cory stepped into the fireplace and took some of the Floo Powder.

"Dumbledore's Office!" he cried as he dropped it. Then he and I were spun out of the house.

Cory stumbled out of the fireplace in Dumbledore's office.
"Professor!" he cried. "We need your help!" Harry and the others were beginning to arrive. First Taylor, then Jordyn, then Hermione, then Ginny, then Ron, and last, Harry. Dumbledore came out of whatthey assumed was his bedroom.
"What seems to be the problem?" he asked.
"It's Schyler," Harry said. "Draco stabbed her." Worry flashed across Dumbledore's face.
"Come, we must get her to the hospital wing right away." Dumbledore led everyone to the hospital wing where Madam Pomfrey healed my wound.
"She should wake up any minute now," she said. She walked off with Dumbledore, leaving my siblings and friends to try to coax me to wake up.

"C'mon Schy-san," Taylor said. "Wake up. He can't hurt you now." I didn't want to wake up though. I was afraid of Draco and of seeing what everyone would think of me now that they knew what had been going on.
"Schyler," Harry said taking my hand in both of his. "Please, wake up." A tingle went up my spine when Harry touched me. That hadn't been happening with Draco lately. Not since he had started beating me. Dumbledore came over to us.
"I've called your parents," he said to Cory. "As soon as Schyler wakes up I'm going to send you all to the Weasley's. You're parents and younger brotherwill meet you there. Why don't you change out of those clothes? I've set some that should fit you over there." Cory looked down at his jeans and T-shirt. They were covered with blood. He nodded and went to the pile. When he had an outfit he turned to the others.
"Harry, Ron, one of you come get me if she wakes up," he said. "I'll be in the boy's bathroom." Harry and Ron nodded. Cory walked out.
"Schyler," Harry said again. "Please...wake up."

"Draco can't hurt you now," Hermione said.
"We won't let him," Ron agreed.
"Schyler," Harry said. "Wake up. We need you." He leaned toward me and his lips met mine. His tears fell against my cheeks. Again, more tingles.
"I love you," he whispered when he pulled away. The others gasped. My eyelids fluttered and I opened my eyes and looked at Harry.
"Harry..." I whispered. I heard Ron dash out of the room. Harry's eyes filled with tears and he hugged me tightly.

"Thank God," he said softly. I sat up and Harry continued to hug me.
"Schy-san!" Taylor cried jumping onto the bed and throwing her arms around Harry and I. I reached down and touched the back of her head. I smiled slightly, she had her hair up like Rini's from Sailor Moon.
"I'm okay," I said quietly. Cory and Ron came back into the room.
"Schyler," Cory said. He came over to me and Harry and Taylor moved so that he could hug me.
"Cory I..." I began.
"Later," Cory replied. "We'll talk about it later." He helped me out of bed and we walked back to Dumbledore's office.
"We're going to Ron's house," Cory said. "Mum, dad, and Bryson are going to meet us there." I nodded and we used my Floo Powder to get the Weasley's house.