Chapter twenty-six: Warm Fuzzies All Round

Lemo climbed into her bed, she muttered good night to Andy and Steve and was about to drift off when someone burst into the dorm,

"Who the bloody hell is-"

"Lemo!"

"Mione?"

The light was switched on and Andy screamed and threw her head under her sheets,

"What the fuck is wrong with you woman!"

Mione ignored her,

"Lemo, where's Lotte Tegan?"

Lemo shrugged,

"She was in the forbidden forest...But never mind that, guess who really betrayed Barry's parents-"

"Where abouts!"

"Huh?"

"Where about was Lotte Tegan in the forest!"
"Uhh...I don't know...Somewhere near a tree..."

Mione rolled her eyes,

"Lemo! I'm serious!"

"No your not...But since we're on the topic, he was proved innocent this evening and-"

"LEMO!" Mione yelled.

Andy popped her head out from underneath the covers,

"You know, I'm trying to sleep at the moment..."

"I'm trying to tell a story here Andy," Lemo glared.

"Well, I'm sorry, but I must sleep."

"Sleep, smeep. Barry now has a loving home."
"Well loving home my ass. I need sleep."

"You can sleep later."
"But I wana sleep now," Andy complained.

"Andy," Lemo said sternly, "Paitence-"

"WOULD THE PAIR OF YOU SHUT-UP!"

Lemo blinked, Andy's mouth dropped open.

"Mione. What are you doing here anyway? The Hogwarts Express is broken."
Mione threw her hands up in the air,

"I just want to know where Lotte Tegan is!"

"I'm going to go spend the night with Drew...I'll get some sleep then..."

"That's not all your going to get!" Lemo teased.

"Only sleeping Lemo..."

"Well I'm the godmother."

"Yea, whatever Lemo..."

"You can't go back on that!"

Mione shooked Lemo,

"Focus! Please! This is important, where exactly did you last see Lotte Tegan!"

"Please stop shaking me."

"Not until you tell me where you saw her! It's important!"

"Well how am I supposed to tell you?"

"Show me then."

Before Lemo could question Mione, she pulled out two small hourglasses, Mione held them up to Lemo's face,

"This is a Travellers Glass, this one will take me anywhere and this one takes me to anytime. This is how I've been able to get to my classes and how I got here."

Lemo's eye grew round,

"Wow. So why are you telling me this at one in the morning?"

"We have to find Lotte Tegan."

"Why...?"

"She died tonight Lemo."

Lemo eyed Mione doubtfully,

"What makes you say that?"

"I just know," Mione said, "Now come here."

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Lemo looked around,

"Mione...Where are we?"

Mione looked around also,

"In your head."

Lemo laughed,

"Oh sure we are..." They were inside a dark space, it was damp and a rather horrible smell that made Lemo wrinkle her nose, "So where are we really?"

"In your head."

Lemo rolled her eyes,

"Not funny Mione."

Mione walked over to a filing cabinet in the corner,

"Around what time did you see Lotte Tegan?"

Lemo frowned,

"I don't know...Around eight?"

Mione bent down, pulled out a lower drawer and grabbed a file from inside at random,

"Did you think about how it'd be hot to 'see Barry and Drew do it' before or after you saw Lotte Tegan?"

"What!"

"Before or after?" Mione repeated.

"How did you find out I thought that!"

"Answer the question."

"Before..." Lemo muttered.

"Thank-you...Now, this is your head Lemo. Now all short term memory files are here...Long term are other there...And general knowledge is over there..."

"So this really in my head!"

"Aha!" Mione exclaimed here's the file with Lotte Tegan! We can go now."

"But we just arrived-"

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Lemo and Mione found themselves back in the dorm.

"Mione how could I be in my own head?"

Mione was still holding a file,

"Your mind isn't actually in you head...Anyway, I'm going to borrow this, okay? I'll give it back later...Cya." Mione chucked her place hourglass on the bed, "Oh and you can use that one, since I'm borrowing your memory..." Then she vanished.

Lemo stood and stared at the hourglass for a moment then grinned,

"I'm so going to have fun with this..."

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Lemo skipped around Barry's mind,

"HE THINKS ABOUT ME NAKED!"

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Lemo's squeal echoed through Andy's mind,

"You've nailed him!"

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Lemo looked at one of Andrew's few knowledge files,

"He knows how octopie mate!"

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"We all have serious issues..." Lemo then collasped on her bed, going through people's thoughts was exhausting...

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Andy awoke to non-sexual poking,

"Mione, I told you before...Leave me alone! That goes for you too Drew."

"It's not Andrew."

Andy opened her eyes,

"Lotte Tegan!"

"I need to apologise-"

"Mione said you died."

"I didn't - she went back in time and - Oh don't worry about that. I don't know if Andrew told you...But I was his stalker," Andy looked alarmed. "Oh but don't worry, I'm over him. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that. So yea...I guess I'll go now..."

Andy cocked her head,

"And this couldn't wait until morning?"

"No, not really. I'm just glad I'm alive now."

Andy nodded,

"I guess you would be...Who drove the stake through your heart then?"

"I did."

An uncomfortable fell over the pair. Andy coughed,

"Awkard..."

Lotte laughed,

"Nah, don't worry about it. Hey, Andrew offered me to sit next to you guys tomorrow, is that okay?"

"Uhh...Sure."

"Thanks."

Andy looked closely at Lotte Tegan, and that's awfully close, as Andy didn't have her contacts in,

"You're not pasty anymore."

Lotte grinned,

"Well I suppose now that your awake you won't mind hearing a quick story?" Andy was about to protest but Lotte ignored her, "When Mione found out I was a vampire she researched people like me and she found out that if you kill the vampire that bit me it frees me from the curse. So it turned out this evening Mione had a breakthrough and found out who killed me, where they were and went after them using her Travelling Glass-"

"Which would be..."

Lotte ignored the interruption,

"And so she managed to kill him, honestly Mione could be like that muggle girl...What was her name? Muffy? Eh, anyway she killed him, no idea how she found him, who cares...But then she found out I'd died so using one of Lemo's memory files-"

"What!"

"-And found me and went back in time and brought me to the Hospital Wing as soon as Andrew left me in the forest."

"Then how did you get well so quickly?"

"Well you lot were down in the Shrieking Shack for an awful long time. I just left the Hospital Wing. They only just found Snape you know." Andy sniggered. "Well I best be off, I'm going to find a spell to dye my hair brown, it'll be nice to have the decision...Night."

Andy mumbled a night and put head back on the pillow she was sharing with Andrew.

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Barry, Lemo, Andrew, Andy and Lotte (Mione had gone home), sat chattering on at the Gryffindor table as though nothing had happened the previous night when suddenly Dumbledore rose from his seat,

"Well we are still having differculty getting the Hogwarts Express working again, so we suggest you find a way home because we're closing the school early. That is all."

There was stunned silence for a moment then Lemo jumped onto the table, closely followed by Andy and they both screamed,

"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!"

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Weighed down by their luggage, Barry, Andrew, Lemo and Andy flew home on their broomsticks, (Lotte's father had come to pick her up, pleasantly surprised to find her cured.) laughing all the way.

"So Barry, when did Sirius say he'll be ready for you to come live with him?" Andrew asked.

"Well he said as soon as I've got all my stuff sorted at the Dursley's, I just have to send him an owl."

"You'll have to owl us when you've moved in!" Andy said.

"I will!" Barry called.

Lemo smiled, she couldn't believe it, finally Barry had escaped the Dursley's...