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Cloe: Don't you have something to say?
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Cloe: … Well'?'!'
Juice: It's ok Aibou. No one's mad at you.
Me: well … I … ;sniffs; I'M SORRY'!'!'!' I didn't mean to wait this long without making the next chappie … I just got preoccupied and-
Mysterious Voice: HAY! GET BACK HERE YA JACKASS!
;Everyone watches as Voldermort runs out cased by Thorn who has a bat with nails sticking out of it that's flaming blue;
JC: Why doesn't he attack with his wand?
;A chibi Rosa, held by Jou, is being carried out with a broken stick/wand in her hands;
Chibi Rosa: YAY! ;giggles; I wanna pway wif da stik! ;is suddenly sad; It's not da Sennen Wod dow …
Jou: ;to me; You're gonna put me back in, right? And where's Seto?
Me: Can't say. 'Cuz then, everyone would know and it wouldn't be a surprise. And I think he's in his room sulking.
Thorn: GET BACK HERE DAMMIT! ;chases Voldermort across stage-thing-y with a guy with wings fallowing by flight and a dark energy blob with red eyes sticking out of it;
JC: What's with her?
Me: You'll see.
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Domino or Bust!
Chapter 11: A surprise around every corner
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Harry ran down the corridor with as much speed as he could muster, which was a lot considering the circumstances. He turned sharply around the corner and through a door in the Room of Requirement and found himself running down a long hallway. It seemed to go on forever and it was taking to long. He started to speed up in a frantic, adrenaline filled burst of speed, though he didn't know why. Something just told him he had to get where he was going. And fast.
What was merely seconds, seemed like minutes while the minutes felt like overlarge hours in themselves. It was then, in the torch lit, ever going hall, that he spotted a pair of large, wooden, oak doors with golden handles. He opened the door and gasped in horror.
Ron, Yami, Bakura, Seto … all their bodies lay on the floor. Blood oozing from various cuts while Hermione, Yugi, Ryou, and some male with blonde hair cried over their unconscious other; trying to fix the bleeding wounds. He looked to another side of the room. Sue and Tori where trying to fight, but had gotten thrown up against the wall, when Hex and Azote became angry and charged at a large snake before, somehow, killing it, and going to help nurse their friends … right after Tori and Sue of coarse.
Seeing as everything was ok, he ran through the next door, and through another corridor that, again, seemed to take forever. He came to a door, identical to the last, and opened it. He looked to one side, Rosa and a girl that looked like her, where trying to fight off Voldermort who had gone crazy with insane laughter. He was pointing at something so, Harry looked.
His heart stopped right then.
Pinned up on the wall, a dagger right through his heart … was Draco.
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Harry shot up out of his bead. Sweat beaded down his face. It had only been a week since he had woken up in Draco's arms. He blushed how the situation effected his body. He quickly gathered some clothes before running into the bathroom where he took a really. cold. shower(he he).
He jumped out after washing off and washing his hair before changing into an extra pair of pajamas. He had checked the clock before going to the bathroom and found it was 5:30. He had planed on going back to bed, when he herd Ron yelling at everyone to get up. He sighed as he shook his head to rid his hair if the excess water.
Fore once, he wished Christmas had come one day late.
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Rosa woke up to the sounds of snickering and decided to dismiss it and fell back to sleep … only to be woken up ten minutes later by Ron shouting things about 'Christmas' and 'presents' and 'Oh no! Crookshanks ripped the presents open again!' and other stuff like that. She wasn't one to think without her usual yogurt cup in the morning so it took her a minute to register what Ron was yelling about.
It his her like a ton of bricks. She quickly took her head out from under her pillow, having shoved her head under when Ron wouldn't stop yelling, and jumped out of her bed. She checked to make sure that Hex and Tori where up, seeing as they had gotten into the habit of sleeping in the same bed, to find no one was there, before checking up on Azote and Sue; who had also gotten into the habit of sleeping in one bed.
She went back to her bed and picked up Lyins before placing him on her shoulder and heading out of the room. She saw everyone crowded around the tree, and two very familiar people who hadn't been there the night before. As she walked out, she saw the two where snickering there little Egyptian, blonde, asses off. "And just what are you to laughing at?" She asked. She really wasn't in the mood to joke around.
Especially when she's still half asleep.
Ron, Hermione, and Draco where gaping at her while the others, except for Bakura who was snickering like no tomorrow with a half asleep Ryou on his lap, smiled. "Your hair Rosa," Seto said as he took a sip of his coffee. "He did it!" Mokuba said as he pointed to Marik who was trying to contain his laughter.
"Rosa?"
Harry was just coming down the stairs. "What happened to your hair?" He asked as he went to go sit down beside Draco. Andre handed her a mirror. She looked into it. She didn't seem much different. Her hair was just messy.
'Wait … messy?'
She reached her hand behind her head, expecting to find the bun she had wound the long strands into the night before. Nothing met her hands except the tickling strands of short, cut hair. Her eyes widened before she dropped the mirror and ran to the dorms. Before she left, everyone had been able to see the tears in her eyes.
"Geez, what's her problem?" Marik asked after a loud slam erupted from where the door to the dorms had been. "Baka." Everyone was looking at Seto who was glaring at the platinum blonde. "The shorter hair reminds her of Thorn.". Now Yami was glaring at the blonde as well as everyone who had known Rosa for an amount of time. Seto stood after glaring for another minute, and walking to the girls dorms.
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Rosa curled up in a ball on the bed. Her arms wrapped tightly around her pillow as her face buried itself into the white cloth being stained with her salty tears. It hurt. The pain of her other half being away had taken to much of a strain of her fragile heart. She had been able to bury it away over the years; never crying.
The pain had been to much. She didn't blame Marik. He had just wanted to play a harmless joke. For a minute, she thought she was looking at Thorn in that mirror. But her hopes had been crushes as soon as she has realized … realized that Thorn was gone. That she was gone and there was no proof to weather she was coming back.
Just like her mother.
That fact had torn her heart in half. She couldn't stand it. She opened her eyes upon the feeling of an extra weight on the bed. Her vision was blurred by the oncoming tears that refused to let up like an ongoing storm. She was quickly buried into a comforting hug by her father who was rubbing her back to try and ease the tears.
"Shh … Shh … It'll be okay Rosa. Shh …"
She looked up to see her father was holding back tears of his own. "You know, what I see when I look at you?" He asked. He shook his head no. "kindness, caring, courage, strength, and a heart of gold … just like your mother."
Rosa pulled away and wiped the tears away as the river slowed it's flow as her father continued talking.
"It's hard to lose your other half"
"You miss mama, huh?"
"Yeah. I do"
" I wish Mama and Thorn where back … and everything was back to normal"
"Or at least as normal as our lives can get right?"
The last voice caused both Rosa and Seto to look back in shock and surprise as it chimed in. There, standing in the room, was a male. The only Male who could cause such an impact on both people in the room.
" … Jou?"
The male smiled and pilled his hood back. in an instant, he was forced to the ground by his family minus 1. He was soon, allowed to breathe as the two got off him and he was pulled into a hug by Seto who was holding the blonde to him as if his life depended it. Jou found his arms encircling the man's waist as he snuggled into his tight grasp.
"Dont' you dare leave me again. Got that puppy?"
The blonde almost melted. it had been a long time since he had heard that silky voice. "Never, My dragon," he replied. "Will I ever leave your side."
Rosa watched the two with a smile. They where both crying their hearts out in that embrace. She stood and left the room quietly with a small smile on her face and tears in her eyes. She shut the door behind her before walking to the over stuffed arm chair where she curled up. "Rosa," Rosa looked up at the less psychotic blonde. "I'm sorry for what my yami did." He apologized as the other blonde glared at the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. "It's ok." She replied. "Although I am sad for what I was forced to remember, I'm glad … for papa"
"Rosa," Yugi asked. "Who was that cloaked figure who walked into the room?". All he got was a smile in response along with "The only Kaiba with a Boston accent." It took a minute, but everyone understood it and smiled in relief … save four people in the room. "The cloaked man is Rosa's mother." Jayson filled the other three in.
Seto and Jou walked out soon after words and over to the couch where Jou was pulled onto his lover's lap and held possessively. Only a few could see the genuine smile on the CEO's face.
It was then everyone got into the swing of things and started ripping apart their presents. Everyone had mainly gotten a bunch of gift cards seeing as no one knew what someone would truly want. Seto had talked to Rosa secretly for a minute and she had conjured up a small box fit for holding jewelry. He had them given it to Jou who opened to and gave the man a large hug(and a kiss of coarse). He had given him a gold locket with 'Never forget how much I love you' engraved on the back.
Rosa had been creative and had gotten everyone a dueling card with hand drawn portraits of them in it. Hex, Azote, Sue, Tori, and Fiamma had, instead, gotten a bunch of tokens that they would use at their next Cosplay convention(they always went as themselves). Harry blushed a bit when, in his card summery, it had said 'works best with Draco Malfoy' who was blushing since his said the same, except with 'Harry Potter'.
Soon, they had all opened their presents and where dressed. Ready for going to play in the snow. Well, except for Rosa. She wanted to stay in. "I'll be out in a little while." She said as she snuggled into her large sheet that was draped around her form till it fell to the floor. Jou gave her a hug, whispering, "Take all the time you need.", into her ear before letting go and dragging his husband outside.
As soon as they had gone, Rosa's cheerful exterior dropped; showing the inner turmoil of her soul. She walked slowly towards the Gryffindor common room; her steps making loud echo's throughout the empty corridor. It seemed to take forever, but she reached the common room and headed towards the overly large, overly stuffed red chair that sat in front of the fire.
She took a deep sigh as she snuggled into the chair, her sheet having fallen to the carpet when she entered. Her eyes rested on the flickering red and orange of the fire that proceeded to burn in the place of another. Like a phoenix being reborn from it's ashes. Only, these where cinders, not ashes. Little, burnt up, dissolved, black specks of wood that where once the great thick bark on the tallest of all trees.
It sorta reminded her of her life.
Not the fire, but the cinders. The once proud logs of wood from some various tree. The way she saw it, the tree was like a life. The taller the tree, the longer the life had been for all to enjoy. Her own, personal tree, had been cut down when it was only a small sapling and had all it's branches and leaves sawn off before being left to wither away. Her friends and family where like gardeners who tried to fix her, but never could.
"So I'm left to wither away within my own, deep, troubled sorrows as I drown in self pity." She mumbled(Depressing aren't we?). She continued to stare at the flames. Watching them flicker in and out, flaring up and dieing down … like an out of control roller coaster on the longest test run of it's life.
Only, the coaster wasn't as much fun for those who are all alone. She wanted something more. Something -- no, someone she could share the moment with. That someone had been there for her all her life. Through the thickest and thinnest of times, had promised, that she would never leave her vulnerable … only to be snatched away by the darkness she thrived in and called her friend.
No, it wasn't that darkness. She had lived with it her entire life and knew it would never betray any of the item holders for any reason. No, The darkness her beloved Thorn had been snatched up by was too corrupt and twisted. The kind that scared just for the thrill; the rush of fear on it's victim's face. The kind you knew was in your house on dark, stormy nights when you're all alone in your room, shivering as you lay huddled under the sheets with all your stuffed animals and a flashlight.
Rosa shivered from the cold and snuggled further into the chair; her head resting on the chair's arm. It was an … empty feeling without Thorn. One that made her feel there was no reason worth living. One that made her cry on stormy nights.
No one had known, but she was afraid of stormy nights. Of the thunder's booming, the lightning's solid, spiked light descending onto the earth … it was just to much for her to handle. Thorn had always been there for her like that. She was the only one who knew Rosa was scared of storms, and it seemed she had made it her sworn duty to protect the smaller girl from said storms.
One time she tried to banish the storm to the shadow realm.
Rosa's lips turned into a sad smile at the memory. It had been a cold night. Rosa had been hiding under the covers of her bed with all her stuffed creatures and a flashlight. Thorn had been looking for her, having felt the wave of fear running through the mind link. When she was finally found, Rosa was shivering like crazy in fright.
Thorn had comforted her and suggested they make a tent in the living room. When they where finished with the tent, having been helped by Jou as Seto watched, they had covered the mass of pillows with a sheet or two before Rosa ran off and came back with all her stuffed animals and a flashlight. Her parents watched as Rosa and Thorn wondered around, placing animals at every entrance and exit to help keep the storm out.
Then, for the rest of the night, they played video games from in the safety of their tent. "I miss you so much Thorn." She said to nothing; hoping with all her heart that her other half could hear her ... even though she knew she knew it wasn't possible. "I wish you where back here. Here … with me. Don't you know how much you mean to me?". Her fists where clenched as her eyes where shut tight to futilely keep the tears from rushing out onto her cheeks. A drop or two landed on her clenched fist as she curled into a ball and cried herself to sleep.
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It had been two hours since everyone had gone outside to be pelted with snowballs, and they were all freezing. Harry's team had won and had opt to go inside for some hot cocoa with marshmallows and everything. Everyone agreed and hustled inside. It seemed that Yami, Bakura, And Marik didn't seem as cold as the others.
Everyone walked inside the common room before stripping of there snow clothes and placing them on the coat rack Harry had summoned, or just throwing them on the floor for the house elves to clean up. "Who's sheet is this?" Malik asked as he picked up a thin sheet folded in half. "It's Rosa's." Jou said with slight confusion on his face. He took the sheet and walked over to the chair facing the fire and frowned a bit before tucking it around his daughter.
"She's really gotta wear warmer clothes." He said as he was walking back. "What was she wearing?" Seto asked. "A white spaghetti strap top and a pair of boxers." was his reply. "No need to worry." Seto said as he pulled the blonde onto his lap. "She can be forgetful at times."
"I know. I'm just worried is all. Call it ... motherly instinct"
"Jou, you're the first guy I know to have a 'motherly instinct'." Malik said from his yami's lap which caused everyone to laugh at the cocoa was passed out.
A few miles away, a bloodied figure in a torn up cloak trudged to the top of a steep hill that had a perfect view of the Hogwarts castle. The figure sighed in relief, the cloak's hood casting shadows over it's eyes as it clutched a circular object wrapped in a worn fabric. With hope in it's heart, the figure took a deep sigh, and headed into the Dark Forest.
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Ok! This chappie's over with. Who's the mysterious bloody figure in the torn up cloak? You'll have to wait and see.
First off, I'd like to thank Tashi-chan for another awesome review, and I'd also like to give thanks to Taddybear, and Asaake for reviewing! Whoot! I now have other people who care enough to review my pathetic attempt at writing! I feel so special! ;grins;
Cloe: August 3
Me: ;sniffles; WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'!'!'!' I DON' WANNA GO BACK!
JC: ;is trying to calm down a hysteric Leah;
Juice: School starts on August third. That means less updating abilities seeing a she'll have homework. She also has three other stories to update so you're gonna have to deal with long periods of no type-age. And to explain for all summer ... well, let's just say her family travels way to much for her liking.
Me: NOOOH-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'!'!'!'
JC: ;to herself; ... But ... didn't school start yesterday?