Vanessa's POV
I woke up and walked over to my bathroom to see the tear stains left on my cheek. Sigh… I went over to my closet in the bathroom and picked out a black denim skirt and a lavender cropped tank top. Once I was done getting ready, I walked out of the Heads room and to the Gryffindor Common room. Once I got there, I went into the boy's dorm thing and saw that Harry and Ron were still asleep. Hmm what to do? What to do? I had a smirk on my face and started jumping on Harry's bed. He awoke, grabbed his glasses, and saw who it was.
"Nessa, you scared me half to death!" Harry laughed
"Wake up!" I whined while still jumping on his bed.
"Well, I'm awake now!"
"Get ready! I'll be waiting in the Common Room" I said as I skipped back into the Common Room, but before I could sit down, I was falling to my knees.
I saw a bed with the sheet over it, and people were having sex under the sheet. Then there was an image of me crying and someone consoling me while I tried to go to sleep. Next, there was an image of me running up and hugging someone while crying.
Then the vision ended. I was left on the floor on my knees, sweating. Harry came out of the dorms, and when he saw me on the floor, he quickened his pace.
"Nessa? Are you alright?" He asked and kneeled next to me.
"Yea, I think I'm fine." I responded. He smiled at me and started to help me up off the floor. I smiled and got him to go down to breakfast with me. We walked into the Great Hall, he went to go sit over with Hermione and Ron. I laughed at him and went to sit with Dean, Seamus, Neville, and Luna.
"Hey, guys!" I said with enthusiasm.
"Hello Vanessa, why are you not sitting with your friends?" Luna asked.
"You guys are my friends!" I defended
"You know what she means..." Seamus started
"What happened with the golden quartet?" Dean finished Seamus' question
"Hermione and I got into a bit of an argument yesterday." I explained to them
"What was the argument about?" Neville spoke up
"The Triwizard Tournament and my Dad." I tried to explain without explaining too much.
"Oh yeah... I heard it as I was walking into the common room." Dean said awkwardly
I was glad when Dad dismissed us to go to our classes, the Gryffindor's have is Transfiguration with the Slytherin's. I jumped up and started towards McGonagall's room. I was the first one there, so we had a little talk.
"How have you been since we talked yesterday?" She asked as I went to sit on her desktop.
"Sigh… I've been better. I got into a fight with Hermione then because I was mad, I yelled at Blaise. Then this morning I went to go find Harry in the common room and I had another vision. There was an image of me crying and someone trying to console me. Next, there was an image of me running up and hugging someone while crying. Then the vision ended. I was left on the floor on my knees sweating. Harry came out of the dorms and saw me on the floor and helped me up. I'm scared. What is going on with me?" I asked, scared and concerned.
She came, wrapped her arm around me and said, "I think your Dad should be the one to tell you about this, not me."
I saw out of the corner of my eye that children were starting to walk in. I nodded and walked over to a seat. Once a few more students came in McGonagall said, "Don't get too comfortable."
I inwardly groaned, every year since I was a first year there has been assigned seats for McGonagall's class. Once everyone was in there, I walked over to Blaise and started talking to him.
"Is she doing a seating chart again?" He asked
"Yep. Same shit different year."
"I am going to hand out the seating chart and I want you to take your seats." She started, and just as she was giving us the seating chart, Malfoy strutted in with red lipstick on his pale face. I rolled my eyes, but Malfoy didn't get in class without McGonagall noticing.
"Mr. Malfoy, if you would please be on time to my class and stop fooling around with the ladies, it would be greatly appreciated." She said a sarcastic tone, and I snorted as he scoffed while walking over to Blaise and me.
"How was it, mate?" Blaise asked Malfoy and he responded with "Not half bad…"
"Come over here, you look ridiculous." I said as he leaned his body over to mine and I took my hand, wet it with my spit, and wiped the lipstick off of his face. After I wiped it off his face, he smirked at me and I rolled my eyes at him. I zoned out, after that, until I heard McGonagall speak my name. "Vanessa, you will be the back-middle table, with Mr. Malfoy. I want my two best students together, so no one can copy off you two."
I slowly trudged over to the back table and laid my stuff down. After McGonagall gave us our seating chart, and homework we didn't really have much to do anymore so we just talked to our seat partner. The professors are trying to promote inter-house unity and make everyone get along, so we were forced to talk to our table mates. Inter-house unity is one of the reasons that a Gryffindor and a Slytherin were made Head Boy and Girl.
"So, who was it?" I asked him, bored of just sitting in silence.
"Who was what?" He asked
"The girl you had sex with." I confirmed my question
"Astoria Greengrass."
"Isn't she like 15?" I asked another question
"16."
"Did you at least use a condom?" I asked another one
"Of course. I'm not stupid." He whispered
"I wasn't implying that you were stupid."
"Are you going to tell me who your first was? Or have you had your first yet?" He questioned
"As a matter of fact, I have had my first, Malfoy."
"Who was it then?" He asked
"You don't deserve to know." I whispered to him
"You'll tell me someday." He said confidently.
"Okay. You are dismissed. Don't forget about that homework." McGonagall dismissed us and I gathered my thing, just as Hermione walked up to me.
"Hey, Nessa, I just wanted to say that I am sorry for last night. I was just stressed out and said some things that I really didn't mean. I hope you can forgive me." She said while looking at the floor.
"I can never stay mad at you for too long. I have to confide in you like best friends do!" I said then we both laughed, and she grabbed me in a hug.
"Come on, we don't wanna be late for potions." I said as I grabbed her hand and we walked to the dungeons together and talked about random girl things. When we got there, we saw Harry and Ron sitting at a table with two open seats. We walked over there and sat down just as Slughorn started to give the assignment.
"Welcome back, to start off the year I want to give you an assignment. Today you and your group will make Dizziness Draught. You have 1 hour and 30 minutes."
We got the ingredients and Harry, Hermione, and I started in the potion while Ron twiddled his thumbs. When we do group projects Ron doesn't do much except sit there. When we got done, we literally had 3 minutes to spare, so I walked over to my bag and grabbed a bottle of water.
"Time everyone now let me see your potions."
He walked around the room and looked at all our potions. Once he was done, he went back to the front and started the announcement. "Okay everyone did a wonderful job, but the best group was Draco, Blaise, Theodore, and Gregory. I would like everyone to now empty out and wash your cauldrons."
I grabbed the cauldron and took it over to the sink where Malfoy was already washing his.
"Dumbledore, do you want me to wash yours? I mean, since I'm already over here?" He asked while reaching for my cauldron.
"Yea, thanks Malfoy!" I handed him my cauldron and started to walk away, but I felt a liquid being dropped on top of my head and drizzling down my back and face. I quickly closed my mouth hoping that I don't get any of the potion in my mouth… But you know that can't happen because just as I close my mouth, I feel the potion go inside my mouth. Then suddenly, I'm feeling very tired, and everything started to go black.
Draco Malfoy's POV
I was washing out Vanessa's cauldron when I saw Pansy walking up from behind her with her cauldron. Before I could even do anything, I see Pansy pour her cauldron down Vanessa's back. Pansy's face was full of pure evilness. Slughorn turned around and saw what had happened, and he started fussing. While he was fussing, I saw Vanessa start to fall, I jumped to my feet and nonchalantly caught her, but not before she hit her head on the side of the table.
"Is there anyone that can escort Miss Vanessa back to her dorm." Slughorn asked the whole class, then Blaise spoke up and said, "Draco and I will Professor."
He grabbed her out of my arms and started toward the Head's dorm, and I followed quickly after. I started talking because Vanessa had already fallen asleep.
"Blaise what the hell happened in there?"
"Pansy poured her potion on Nessa." He said in a matter of fatly
"No shit. I mean why?" I asked
"I have no idea Drake. Maybe you should ask Pansy, but now you gotta help me with the door." He said standing in front of the door.
"What's the password?" I asked
"Optime de Amicitia."
The door clicked, I pushed it open, and Blaise walked in with Vanessa in his arms. I saw an owl fly through the door after him, and land on the back of the couch. I took the letter off the owl's leg and proceeded to read it out loud.
Mr. Zabini & Mr. Malfoy,
I would like to tell you that you are both excused from the rest of your classes today as well as Vanessa. I want Vanessa to recover, and I thought that you both would be wonderful people to take care of her. Thank you both.
Sincerely,
Albus Dumbledore
I finished reading the letter and laid down on the couch.
"Hey, at least there is something good that came out of today. No classes." I said while laying my head on the arm of the couch.
"So, when are you gonna admit it?" Blaise asked
"Admit what?" I asked him very confused
"You know, that you are in love."
"What? I'm not in love." I said shaking my head.
"Drake, I have known you for more than 6 years. I know when you are in love. You have always loved her, ever since you guys first met."
"What the bloody hell are you talking about?" I asked as I sat up on the couch.
"You two have something different. It's like you both feel it, but you don't act on it. I know love man; my mom's been married 9 times."
"Blaise, I might have had a crush on her when we were younger, but it's gone. I'm an eligible bachelor ready to mingle." I said as I made my way over to the kitchen to get a glass of water.
"Whatever you say." Blaise said shaking his head, but at least he let it go. We sat there for a few minutes in silence before she started to stir.
Vanessa's POV
I started to hear fuzzy voices, then I opened my eyes to see Blaise and Malfoy staring back down at me.
"What are you looking at?" I asked them, while slowly blinking.
"Ness, you're awake! How are you feeling?" He asked, kind of like a helicopter parent while feeling my forehead.
"My head hurts a bit, but other than that I feel alright." I explained to him.
"I tried to catch you, but you still hit your head on the counter." Malfoy explained and he looked kind of guilty.
"We should take you to Madam Pomfrey to make sure you're okay." Blaise suggested. I nodded but winced and stopped abruptly when my head started to throb. Then I started to stand up and I almost blacked out again, luckily Blaise and Malfoy were right at my side to stop me from falling.
"Come on, we will help you down there." Blaise said as he grabbed one of my arms while Malfoy supported the other side. Once we got their Madam Pomfrey was waiting for us.
"Albus said you three would be down here sometime today. Come over here Vanessa." She said calmly as Blaise helped me over to the bed where I sat down, and she started to examine me.
"It seems that you have a mild concussion. I recommend that you do not do anything to stressful or active for the next few days." She concluded as she finished the exam.
"Sorry, Malfoy, I need to stay away from stressful things like you." I said sticking my tongue out at him. Malfoy snorted while Blaise full on laughed at my statement.
"Madam Pomfrey, can I go now?" I asked before she could decide that I wasn't allowed to leave.
"Yes, just be careful." She responded looking concerned.
I nodded slowly and got up from the bed. I started to slowly walk out of the Hospital Wing with Blaise and Malfoy following. We got back up to the Heads room and I went into my bedroom to change into some ripped jeans and a black cropped tank. I walked back out to see that Blaise and Malfoy were still there.
"Come on, I told Severus I would help him during today's class." I said dragging them towards the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
"Why do we have to go?" Malfoy asked
"I saw the note."
"Off to Snape's classroom we go." Blaise said as we turned down a corridor. We were walking awkwardly until we got to Severus's class which just so happened to be our class. Blaise, Malfoy, and I walked in the door and everyone stared at us.
"Miss Dumbledore, Mr. Zabini, and Mr. Malfoy how lovely for you to join us." Severus said while smirking at the three of us.
"Professor, I was in the Hospital Wing and they were making sure I was okay on Professor Dumbledore's orders." I explained.
"Okay, Mr. Zabini and Mr. Malfoy since you are here please take your seats."
Malfoy and Blaise gave me a glare while I rolled my eyes towards them.
"Miss Dumbledore, since you have a concussion, I will have you sit at my desk grading some tests and homework assignments." I nodded slowly and walked over to his desk while he continued his lecture. I looked down at the tests and the words started forming together. I couldn't tell what the answer was and what was the question. I sighed loudly and everyone looked over at me.
"Miss Dumbledore is everything alright?" Severus asked as the class stared at me.
"Professor, I can't tell the difference between the question and the answer. They are flowing together, and I can't read anything." I explained.
"It is quite okay Vanessa. Just sit here and try to pay attention."
"Yes, sir." I said as he continued his lecture, and I drifted off into a vision.
I saw Blaise, Malfoy, and I in the Beauxbatons Heads Common room, but Malfoy and I were cuddling. Then it switched to an image of Malfoy and I singing together. The next image was me hugging someone with tears in my eyes. After that I saw me dancing the night away at the Yule Ball. Next, I saw me getting ready for my wedding, and walking down the aisle.
I gasped as I broke out of the vision and ran out of Severus's classroom. I headed straight to my Dad's office. Once I got there, I frantically said the password and walked up the stairs and into the office.
"Dad!" I yelled as I walked into his office
"Vanessa, what has you so worried?" He asked as he walked towards me.
"I've been having these visions, and they are starting to get obsessive. They are nonstop…"
"Vanessa, when did this start happening?"
"It's been happening since 4th year! I told you a week before Cedric died that he would! No one would listen to me!" I raised my voice louder than it was before.
"Come here, Vanessa." He said as he grabbed me in a big bear hug as I cried into his robes.
"Dad, what's wrong with me?" I asked through the tears
"Shh… It's all going to be okay in time." He tried to comfort me as I was losing my mind.
"Will you please tell me what is happening to me?"
"Okay, as you know you are 1/4 vela. You mom was 1/2 veela and let me just remind you that your mom loved you very much. You mom was a special veela with special powers. She had powers to see the future of her loved ones and her own future as well. She had multiple powers, but her healing powers and her premonition powers were her strongest. Those are the powers that were passed into you, however; your mother and I did not know that at the time. Once you were born, she knew that some of her powers were passed on to you. She wanted to know which ones, so she set out to try to find which ones she passed on to you. While she was trying to figure out which powers you had she ran into Lord Voldemort who demanded she join him or die. She rejected him so he killed her on the spot. She died knowing you as a little innocent baby, and I have watched you grow into a strong independent young woman." He explained everything to me
"I love you, Dad."
"I love you too, Vanessa... Now there is something else I must tell you... Your prophecy at the Ministry in the Department of Mysteries says that you will help two friends through tough times, help them accept themselves as they are, and help them conquer the hardest tasks. We know one of them was Harry and helping him defeat Voldemort, but we have no idea who the other person is."
"Dad, how am I supposed to help them if I don't even know who they are?" I asked
"Vanessa, you helped Harry without even knowing your destiny. You will do the same for this person. You will make whoever it is a better person. I have faith in you. Now go find Harry, Blaise, and Malfoy. They are so worried about you…" He said with a smile on his face. I nodded slowly and started to walk out of his office and down to the Great Hall for lunch. I was walking through the corridors, when I saw Blaise and Malfoy running up to me.
"Bloody hell! You're okay?" He said as he lifted me off the ground and twirled me around.
"Did you think I died or something?" I asked laughing
"I don't know, but we knew something had happened… What did happen in there, Vanessa?" Malfoy asked, but I didn't really hear the question all I heard was him using my first name instead of my last name. Blaise and I jerked our head towards him and started speaking simultaneously.
"Did you just…" Blaise started
"Call me Vanessa?" I finished Blaise's unfinished sentence.
"That is your name isn't it?" He asked like he said my name all the time.
"Yea, but…" I started
"I can go back to calling you Dumbledore if you want."
"No, that's okay... I'll tell you later, I'm hungry right now." I said as I walked into the Great Hall to be trampled by Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Jordan.
"Where were you?" Hermione asked
"Are you okay?" Harry questioned
"Why did you run out of Snape's class?" Ron continued with a string of questions.
"Dad's office. Yes, I'm fine. Because I had to sort some things out." I said answering all the questions they asked. They all took a big breath of air, and we all sat down and started to eat. Harry gave me a look that said that I was going to tell him what was going on, and I nodded. Once we finished lunch, they all went to their classes while I met up with Blaise and Malfoy.
"What does the Hogwarts Princess want to do on this fine day?" Malfoy asked sarcastically
I thought for a minute, then grabbed their hands and drug them up to me bedroom. While we were walking, I looked at Malfoy, he was smiling and having fun and not being a dick. I said the password to my room and pulled them into my movie room.
"Have you always had this here?" Blaise asked me
I nodded and smiled at the two guys.
"How the bloody hell do you have such a big room?" Blaise asked and I responded with the most sarcastic answer possibly.
"Magic"
Malfoy and I laughed, while Blaise glared at us. I grabbed The Great Gatsby off my movie shelf, and we sat in silence and watched the movie until it was over.
"Blaise, Malfoy, I think I'm good. You two don't have to babysit me anymore. I'm good." I said as the movie finished.
"We promised Dumbledore that we would watch you…" Blaise started, but Malfoy sensed I wanted some alone time.
"She says she is fine. She's a big girl dude, she doesn't need a babysitter" He said while looking over to me. Blaise nodded and they said their goodbyes and left.
Draco Malfoy's POV
Vanessa had just told us we could leave, and she could take care of herself. So, Blaise and I were walking back to the Slytherin Common Room. When we got there, we saw Pansy, Crabbe Goyle, Astoria, and Millicent sitting and talking to each other. Blaise and I strutted over there and sat down.
"Draco!" Astoria said excitedly.
I inwardly groaned and started to push her attacks of kisses. While Pansy just looked over at me.
"What do you want Pansy?" I asked
"Draco, can you believe what a big deal Dumbledore made about that potion? Now I have a month's detention with McGonagall." She complained to me and the group.
"Well, you kind of deserved it…" Blaise said under his breath.
"Why did you even drop the potion on her in the first place?" I questioned
"She was all over you, Draco! I couldn't let her grope my boyfriend while I was standing there!" She said and I started to lose my shit.
"I dumped you! I've been trying to dump you for a long time! I've gotta get out of here." I said as I stormed out of the Slytherin Common Room and off to find someplace quiet.
Vanessa's POV
Once they left, I took a 10-minute nap and then I went to look for Severus and apologize for running out of his class earlier. I was walking through the corridors when I saw the Room of Requirement there. I slowly walked towards the door, and then into the room. When I walked in, I saw that it was a music studio, and I saw Malfoy sitting next to the piano.
"Hey…" I said as I made my way over to him.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Malfoy asked
"I noticed the door and decided to see what and who was in here. Why are you here?"
"I needed a quiet place to think and calm down…"
"What happened?" I asked as I sat down at the piano with him.
"I asked Pansy why she poured her potion on you and she said that "you were all over me during potions and she couldn't handle that, so she poured her potion on you." I exploded reminding her that I had dumped her and have been trying to dump her for a long time, then I called her crazy and stormed out." He explained and then I laughed as he glared at me.
"It's not what you did that is funny, it's that she actually thought I was all over you. I handed you my cauldron and you washed it! She really is crazy!" I laughed out the words.
He nodded and started playing the piano. I sat down next to him and started playing as well. A few minutes later I heard him start singing.
Malfoy: Someone told me long ago
There's a calm before the storm
I know; it's been comin' for some time
I listened to the lyrics and sang along with him.
Me: When it's over so they say
It'll rain a sunny day
I know; shinin' down like water.
Both: I want to know
Have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know
Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?
Me: Yesterday and days before
Malfoy: Before
Me: Sun is cold and rain is hard
Both: I know; been that way for all my time
Malfoy: 'Til forever, on it goes
Me: It goes
Malfoy: Through the circle, fast and slow,
Both: I know; it can't stop, I wonder.
Malfoy: I want to know
Have you ever seen the rain?
Me: I want to know
Have you ever seen the rain
Both: Comin' down on a sunny day?
Comin' down on a sunny day?
Once we finished the song, I turned to look at him and he smiled down at me.
"Vanessa, you have a beautiful voice."
"Thanks, you do too, Draco…"
He snapped his head towards me.
"Did you just call me Draco?"
"That's your name isn't it?" I asked repeating his question from earlier today.
"Yea, I just never thought I would hear you say it…" He said, his voice barely audible
I looked at him and smiled.
"Come on. It's time for dinner." I said as I grabbed his hand and took him towards the Great Hall for dinner. Once we got there, we went our separate ways and I sat down beside Harry at the Gryffindor table. We were eating until we heard Dad start talking.
"I would like to make a few announcements. First, I would like to remind the older students that we leave for Beauxbatons on the first of October. There is a list of teachers who are going as well and will be teaching their assigned lessons. If there is no teacher for a subject student will go to a Beauxbatons class. I would also like to bring up Miss Vanessa Dumbledore for something she would like to announce."
I slowly walked up to the podium and started talking.
"Sonorus. Hello. As you all know I will be turning 18 in a few days and I am throwing a big party. I would like to invite all the 6th and 7th years to my 18th Big Bang on Saturday, September 12. The event will be held in the Transfiguration Courtyard, and I would love if all the 6th and 7th years would come! Thank you!"
I slowly got off the podium and headed back to my seat. Once dinner was over, I said goodbye to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Jordan and headed up to my common room. Once I was there, I saw Blaise and Draco had made themselves at home.
"So, you're having a party?" Blaise asked
"Yes, and whoever sees Pansy first please let her know she is NOT invited." I said
"Why?" Draco said with a smirk.
"Because I don't wanna be passing out at my party!" I said with a laugh
"What kind of party is it?" Blaise questioned
"It's a luau party."
"So, there will be hot babes in bikinis?" Draco asked with the same smirk on his face.
"Stop thinking about having sex at my party!" I shrieked
"That is all he ever thinks about." Blaise said with a laugh
"Yes, Draco, there will be girls in bikinis." I rolled my eyes, and he smirked.
"All of the 6th and 7th year girls?" He asked
"Yes. You will have a choice." I sighed and sat down on the couch and threw my feet onto Draco. I laid my head back on the arm rest and I was out like a light.
Draco's POV
I looked over after a few minutes and saw that Vanessa was asleep. I looked over at Blaise and he was grinning.
"Man, you got it bad…" Blaise said looking over at me
"What the bloody hell are you talking about?" I asked.
"I'm talking about the way you look at her! You watch her as she leaves, and as she enters a room. How you go back and forth with each other and how you smile when you do it. How you are watching her right now as I'm speaking."
I jerked my head from Vanessa's sleeping body to look a Blaise.
"Blaise… It's complicated."
"No. No it's not! You love her! You always have!" He whispered so as not to wake Vanessa.
"She's too good for me, Blaise! She is such a better person than I could ever think of being. How could I deserve her? I don't deserve her."
"Drake, man, she is already making you a better person. She is making you a better person every single day. I haven't seen you smile as much as you have smiled these last two days in my entire life. She makes you happy! You make her happy too."
"Blaise, she is too good for me. She will never feel the same way I feel about her."
"Just wait." Blaise said smirked.
"Well, I'm going to carry her to bed, and then go to bed myself."
I slowly got up and picked Vanessa up and carried her to her room. I laid her down on her bed and pulled the covers over her body. I looked at her then kissed the top of her forehead before leaving and going to the Slytherin Common Room and going to sleep.
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