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::AN:: Wh-hoo! Updating! I'm glad that my schedule is becoming more… (can't find a word) right now. It's much easier to update these days. Which is good for me, and great for you lovely people! Just so it's clear with everyone – The only fics I'm working on right now are this one and 'Well, What Do You Know?' (Which, again, is in no way related to my whole little "universe" thing that I've created lol). In an attempt to keep my schedule on track, I will update these fics in alternate intervals. For instance, after this update, I will be working on the next chapter of 'Well, What Do You Know.' (Those of you who don't read that fic – don't be discouraged! Those chapters take me about two hours to write. It's so easy, lol.) After that update, I'm back here to work on the fifth chapter of 'To Be Unknown.' Understand? I've been doing this for a little bit, and I like the way it's working, so I think it'll stick.
Thanks for reviewing, everyone!
ominix: Um, yeah. Sort of. Like I said, this fic takes place during 'The New Girl,' so there are going to be certain scenes that are very familiar to everyone who's read that fic. But in here, it's either Remus or Lada's POV (sometimes a funny combination of both), which makes it different than 'The New Girl,' which focused mainly on Faylinn (and sometimes Sirius). Don't worry, though. As much as I like tying my fics together, I don't like typing the same things over and over, as that only makes things boring for people like you, who probably don't want to read practically the same thing twice (right?). I'm trying to balance it out, and so far it works for me. This chapter and one (maybe two, but probably only one) more later on are the only other ones that will be directly tied to scenes for 'The New Girl,' as they tie in to this fic in important ways as well. Anyway, thanks for reviewing, and I'm sorry if the last chapter disappointed you in any way. I hope you like this chapter!
randomblinx: FYI – Professor Armaband is a guy. As in male. As in "he," not "she." (Please tell me that was a typo in your review! Is it really that vague that he's a guy?) Thanks for pointing out my typos. It's sad that I've lost my beta, though, you know. Sometimes when I check on her while she's sleeping, I think she might have died so I come back on the computer and type out my frustrations in the form of 'Well, What Do You Know' in which you would probably play the part of Margie or Draco. (Hah, I love you!) Thanks for reviewing, and I hope you like this chap too!
sweetiepiepirate: Yes, adopted daughter. (lol) I don't remember where Armaband came from exactly. I do know that I wanted a totally lame-o name that wouldn't exactly make people laugh, but wasn't entirely normal, either. Thus, Armaband was born. (The process of picking the name didn't take as long as it sounds. Probably about five minutes while I heated up a Hot Pocket or something, then ventured back to the computer, lol.) You had your friends read my fic?! Aw, that's so nice! But why has no one else reviewed? Shame on those friends of yours! But you're cool, since you're a vair nice reviewer (creds to sweetiepiepirate!). If you read the Author's Note for this chapter, you will see my updating-schedule between this fic and 'Well, What Do You Know?' And the ring only makes her invisible. That's it. No special powers or anything like that. She can still bump into people and speak out loud (much like Harry and his Invisible Cloak, except that it stays on easier). The only other cool thing about the ring (besides its being able to make whoever wears it invisible) is that it was given to Dumbledore by people that are actually in my 'Sorcha' fic. Oh, and that the ring becomes important way later. (Like, say, twenty years or so? Not in this fic, then, obviously. Hah.) Anywho, thanks for reviewing, and I hope you like this chapter.
Evil Cheese of Doom: Your reviews always make me laugh, even though you don't say much. (lol) Excellent, you say? How flattering. Hah, anyway! Thanks for reviewing and I hope you like this chapter, too.
gloomy: Yay for you, then. You got two updates at once, practically. (lol) Thanks for reviewing, and I hope you like this chapter, too!
msj: Yay! You really think I'm doing a great job? I hope it's not too, like, boring or anything. I mean, to people who have read 'The New Girl.' I'm afraid they might think it's like reading the same thing twice, lol. Thanks for forgiving me, hahah. Anyways, thanks for reviewing and I hope you like this chapter!
Lada raced across the grass after Remus and his friends. "Wait!" She hissed through a jagged breath – that they obviously hadn't heard – as she tried desperately to catch up to them.
From about a hundred feet away, she saw the boys sneak up on a blonde girl as she walked towards the forest, unaware of her followers. Suddenly, Peter ran forward, shouting "Stupefy!" and sticking his wand out.
The girl fell to the ground without even turning around. Lada wondered if she had even realized what had happened as she jogged up next to the boys, momentarily forgetting that she was invisible as she cast confused looks at Remus as he bent down to pick the unconscious blonde girl off of the ground.
"Do you think she'll figure it out when she wakes up?" James whispered.
Sirius shrugged. "I don't know." He continued walking towards the forest.
"Where are you going?!" Remus hissed.
"Faylinn's in there." He said without turning around.
James threw his hands in the air. "So?" He exclaimed. "Faylinn's a big girl, she can take care of herself!"
Lada glanced from one boy to the other. What does it matter? She thought to herself. She walked up next to Remus, who was standing in one spot, holding the sleeping girl in his arms. "Is she okay?" Lada whispered.
He jumped about a mile. "You're still here?!" He said lowly so that the others wouldn't hear him.
Lada nodded, forgetting momentarily that he couldn't see her. "Still here." She confirmed. "Is the girl all right?"
"She's fine." He mumbled, glancing up towards his friends. Lada followed his gaze to Sirius, who hadn't made any attempt to rejoin to group.
"Should we go after him?" Peter was asking James.
James shrugged. "I don't know." He gestured to the blonde Remus was holding. "What are we going to do about Helen?"
"She won't wake up for a little while." Remus spoke up. "We can just take her with us, then all come back together."
"That could work." James rubbed his chin. "All right. Let's go before Sirius gets too far ahead."
Lada grabbed Remus's sleeve to stop him from following the others. "What's going on here?" She asked. "Why did he feel the need to stun this girl? Where has your friend run off to? Why are –"
Lada cut herself off when Remus shrugged her off and heading in the same direction as his friends. "Well, I'm coming, too, then." She said as she settled into step next to him.
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"Uh… NO!" Lada heard someone shout as she followed the boys through the forest. That's a girl's voice. She leaned forward slightly when the boys came to a halt behind a large cluster of trees.
"Let's make a deal, Cammie ol' pal." The girl said. Lada glanced to the boys to see if they had heard. By the looks they were giving each other, she knew they had.
"Stay low." James whispered suddenly. "Listen first."
"Right." Peter murmured.
Lada furrowed her brow and peeked around a tree. "What…" She trailed off under her breath, squinting in the darkness.
"Play the tricks and the thorns will prick." Came a giggling voice.
"Lada." She heard Remus whisper quietly. She looked back at him and saw him looking around, searching for where she might be.
"I'm right here." She shushed him, turning back to where the voices were coming from. Losing her balance suddenly, she toppled to the ground, causing a pile of leaves to spread about.
Remus frowned at the imprint of a figure in the leaves. "Uff." Lada breathed, closing her eyes and opening them again slowly.
"What in Merlin's name is that supposed to mean?" A voice hissed.
"That's Faylinn." Sirius said suddenly.
"Don't move." James ordered, holding onto his friend's shoulder to keep him from moving.
"Betray and you shall pay." The giggling voice sounded.
"Oh yeah, I'm like the biggest traitor ever, right Camden!" The voice that Lada guessed to be 'Faylinn's' exclaimed. "What is your problem?!"
"We've seen them in the forest, prancing like they own it. Human tricksters, those four are. Seen you with them, so traitor you are."
Lada scratched her head and looked around for a moment. It was far too dark for her to make out anything other than the boys, since they were so close to her. My head… She put her hands over her ears in an attempt to stop the pounding in her ears.
She leaned back onto the leaves in exhaustion, closing her eyes for a few more moments. Oh, my head… So tired…
"Camden needs GLASSES!" Lada heard the Faylinn-girl yell. "Merlin knows you're blind enough, you can't even fly properly!"
Lada furrowed her brow as she opened one eye. Whoa. I missed something. Did I just fall asleep? Oh, oh no.
Lada looked around frantically. "Remus?" She whispered when she couldn't find him in the darkness. "Lupin? Where are you?"
"Camden sees fine. In fact he sees five." The giggling voice said.
Lada stood and looked around, seeing that Remus and the others had moved to another spot a few yards away. She scampered towards them quickly, but paused when she saw a girl standing in a small clearing not far from where the boys were hiding. Were they watching her?
"Does that even rhyme?" The girl was asking to, apparently, nothing. "And, er, what? Five what? What are you talking about? Have you been drinking too much butterbeer? You know what that does to your system Camden, what have I told you –"
"Behind you Fay. It seems your humans have come to play."
A blinding light shone suddenly and Lada shielded her eyes with her arms. After a few moments, the light faded a little and Lada looked around. "What the –" She started.
"They're frozen." A male voice said suddenly.
Lada jumped and glanced in every direction. "Who's there?" She called.
"I can see you." The voice told her.
Lada looked down at her hand. Or, where her hand would be, if it wasn't invisible. "What… how can… I…"
"You shouldn't be here." Someone said in her ear.
"Gah!" Lada jumped. "What's going on?!" She ran towards the spot where Remus and Peter knelt on the ground. "Are you alright?"
"I've already told you." The male said in an exasperated tone.
Lada looked around. A few feet away she saw a tall boy with dark blue hair standing by her. "Who are you?" She whispered, then louder, asked, "Why aren't they moving?!"
"Do you own a watch?" The boy asked, cocking his head to the side.
She frowned and looked down at her wrist. "What about… Well, my watch is invisible right now, so...."
"It's stopped working." The boy said calmly.
She looked up. "What's going on here?!"
"You shouldn't be here." The boy said. "It's all right, though. I can send you back." He nodded. "If you run into any trouble along the way, be sure to mention that Camden sent you, and all will be well."
Lada opened her mouth to speak but stopped suddenly, falling to the ground.
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Oh, ow. Ow, ow, ow. Lada opened her eyes and blinked up at the white ceiling. Where am I? She asked herself. I was talking to the boy, and then… she paused.
"Hey!" She cried, sitting up. Quickly, she grasped at her hand and pulled the golden ring off of her finger. Taking a quick look around, she recognized the Room of Requirement, only that she was lying in a bed in the far corner. "Remus…" She whispered, then shot out of bed, racing towards the door.
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Lada crept into Remus's dormitory, sliding her ring on as she opened the door. Quickly glancing around the room, she gave a sigh of relief. They're alive! She cried gleefully in her mind. Oh, thank Merlin. I do think Albus would have had a few things to say if they were otherwise…
"Well, then." She whispered lowly to herself as she knelt beside Remus's bed. His blankets looked like they had become tangled around his legs, and his chest was showing, as he wasn't wearing a shirt. She watched his stomach rise and fall with every breath for a few moments, then studied his face. His hair is in his face. I'm sure he would mind if I just fixed that for a brief – or, okay, no! Right, just sleep… Keep sleeping… I'm only observing… Nothing more. She frowned for a moment, then. This feels sort of dirty, watching him sleep. Well, that's easily fixed, then!
"Up! Up!" She exclaimed loudly.
One of the boys in a nearby bed made a gurgling sound and suddenly hissed, "There's a girl in here!"
Lada watched as Remus sat up slowly. Poor boy. So sleepy. He quickly shot his arm out to the side, his hand colliding with her breast. AH! Get it off! WaAaH! She backed away a few steps, taking slow breaths to stop herself from screaming.
Nearby, Sirius watched the small scene and blinked at Remus. "What are you doing?"
Remus shook his head and got out of bed quickly. Lada watched him as she crossed her arms over her chest, feeling highly violated.
Glancing at the time teller quickly, Remus grabbed his robes, and pulled them on over his baggy gray pajama bottoms, pulling them across his chest tightly since he wasn't wearing a shirt. "I'll be right back." He said to his friends before leaving the room. Lada stood on the floor for a moment, then followed him out the door before it closed behind him.
"Where are you?" Remus whispered as soon as the door closed.
"Right here." Lada whispered back. "Sorry to startle you. I didn't know you would be so hostile when you first woke –"
"What are you doing?" He asked, looking at the floor since he had nowhere else to look. "Have you been around here all night?"
She shook her head, once again forgetting that he couldn't see her. "No. And it's six o'clock now, just so you know."
"We can't speak here." He said finally. "Meet me in the Room of Requirement."
"Sure." Lada nodded, walking past him. "Hurry, though, okay?"
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"Tell me everything that happened." Lada said from her spot on the corner of the desk as soon as Remus entered the room.
He raised his eyebrows at her. "Weren't you there?"
She nodded back at him. "Yes, I was. But then I fell and hit my head. I must have fainted or something because I woke up and you and you friends had moved a little ways away." She shook her head, trying to think clearly. "And then there was this really bright light… and this blue haired boy and –"
"Camden." Remus nodded. "So what happened to you, then?"
Lada shook her head. "I'm not sure." She paused. "The boy, he kept saying I shouldn't have been there, and then I saw you and your friends. And you weren't moving… Then I woke up in here."
"I don't understand." He told her, wrinkling his brow.
Lada shook her head. "It's all right. Doesn't matter." She shrugged as she jumped off the desk and began pacing across the floor. "So is everyone alright? What happened after the light came?"
"Well," He sat down in one of the armchairs. "Camden appeared and pointed us out to Faylinn. She sent Peter and me back to the castle to take care of Helen. We ran into Lily on the way and told her what happened." He paused. "I didn't know then if you had stayed behind with Faylinn, James, and Sirius or if you had followed Peter and me."
"Neither, apparently." Lada frowned. "Well. I'll figure it out, I suppose. You should go to breakfast or where ever it is you're supposed to be right now."
Remus nodded, standing up and heading back towards the door. He paused just before he opened it, turning back to face her. "You… You're all right, though?" He asked.
Lada looked up from a piece of parchment she was studying. "Oh, me?" She questioned with a surprised look. "Sure. Of course! I'm fine, perfectly fine. I'll find you later, then." She told him.
"Sure." He rolled his eyes as he exited the room, wondering what she meant by 'finding him later.' "Whatever." He shrugged, making his way to the Great Hall.
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Lada sat down in the cold dungeon, twitching her left foot as she impatiently waited for Remus to arrive to his class.
Isn't this boy supposed to be smart? Like, really smart? He studies and works hard and all, but if that's true, then why is he late for class? Lada wondered. She had been waiting in the silent, murky dungeon for five whole minutes by herself, listening to Professor Armaband singing an old song by the Cringing Jackals, an old wizarding band from the 20's.
As she sat there, thinking up more embarrassing questions for Remus to answer as revenge for being late (and forcing her to suffer through three verses of "Please Don't Go-o-o-o"), students began to trickle in.
Lada sat up abruptly from her limp, restful position as Remus walked in. She walked up to him briskly.
"Well?" she asked. Remus jumped about a mile off the ground. She remembered that she was wearing the ring and that he hadn't noticed her approach. "Is part of your study to find out how many times you can scare me, before I finally die of a heart attack?" Remus whispered lowly as he went to his seat.
"Of course not! Though…that would be a fascinating study wouldn't it?"
"Sure…" He sat down in his chair, pulling out a parchment and quill.
"Oh, well, your just not looking at it from my perspective. I think that that sort of study would be very insightful. But anyway, what are you doing in class today?"
"We aren't making a potion today, just studying up on certain ingredients." Remus answered.
"Oh, I see."
"Why did you wake me up this morning?" Remus asked quietly.
Lada was thankful that she was invisible, because she was turning about 3,000 shades of purple at that moment.
"Well. I'm supposed to be observing you, you know? So I just-"
"Observing me?" Remus interrupted. "So you were, watching me sleep?" He asked with a slightly repulsed expression on his face.
"What? Oh no no no no…you see. You misunderstood me. I went into your room to get you for studying purposes, you see? But since I had to wake you up, you were sleeping. So I wasn't watching you sleep, I merely saw you sleeping." Lada said shrilly.
"You have really floppy hair when you sleep." She continued. "Did you notice that ever? It was just all over the place. Like it is now. It must not only be when you are sleeping then. Fascinating." She reached up and ruffled his hair.
"Why did you just…touch...my head?" Remus asked quietly, as if questioning Lada's sanity.
Again, Lada was thankful that she was wearing her ring, as she opened and closed her mouth a few times. "I was… conducting and experiment." She stuttered. "I'm done now." She added quickly.
"An experiment?" He echoed.
"Shhh." She hushed, waving her hand in the air. "The complexities will only further confuse you. Now what page should we be on?"
"Forty-two." He answered just as she thought, Well, that could have gotten really embarrassing.
::AN:: Special thanks to randomblinx, who wrote most of the last scene for me while I panicked that this fic sucked in all the worst ways. (Thus, I have come to the conclusion that I am merely pessimistic. This fic doesn't suck, does it?)
Anyways, hope you guys like this chapter, and please review!
