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Chapter 16
"What do you mean, Scott?" Dumbledore asks. "You were the one who witnessed her death."
"I didn't witness her death!" I argued. "She didn't die. She couldn't have died. It doesn't make sense. I saw her right before I left for Hogwarts."
"People imagine the dead when they miss them all of the time, Mr. Wayward," Madam Pomfrey tells me.
"I wasn't imagining anything! She's not. . ."
It was a Lie. Whatever voice that was in my head mixed the Truth and Lies. How could I be so stupid? The Lie was that my mother died five years ago. But what was the Truth?
She's already gone.
The voice was telling the truth. She did die. Just not five years ago. But why did he kill her?
"Professor Dumbledore!" I exclaim. "It's a Lie! She didn't die five years ago!" I bite my lip. "But she did die. Someone murdered her. It's the person that's mixing the Truth and Lies."
"Scott, what on earth are you going on about?" Dumbledore asks.
"You came to me in a dream. You told me about the Truth and Lies."
"Well it was a dream," Dumbledore says. "Speak of the devil, maybe you should do that now. Get some rest. Sleep can answer all of your questions sometimes." He winks.
I understand right away. He's coming to me in a dream.
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"Professor Dumbledore?" I call.
"Scott," he responds. "I'm sorry about before. We can't talk about Truth and Lies outside of your mind."
"I believe we can't talk about it at all then. Someone invaded my mind today."
"I thought that might happen soon. Tell me what happened."
I explain everything that happened with the voice to him."So you're saying that your mother dying is a Lie?" Dumbledore asks when I finish.
"No," I explain. "What I'm saying is that she didn't die five years ago. This voice is the one who murdered her. Unless he isn't working alone."
"I would highly doubt that he's working with anyone. Then he would have to split your mind."
I gulp, but I put on a brave face. "But they won't take my mind. I'll stop them."
"I know you will," Dumbledore assures me. "But you need to figure out how to control your powers."
"I know. But I don't know how to do that. . ."
Dumbledore smiles. "You'll figure it out. By the way, your mind is safe in your dreams. It's the one thing that you can't invade. It's pure imagination in control. It's extremely dangerous to enter."
"Then how are you here?"
"I have my ways. Good night, Scott."
And just like that, my dream ends. I sit up in the bed at the Hospital Wing and look out the window. Still dark. Must be four o'clock or something.
I try to imagine myself separating Truth and Lies. The Truth is the death of my mother, and the Lie is that she died five years ago. I close my eyes and picture it. They're forging together. But some pieces were still not mixed. I imagine myself tugging on those pieces and the whole thing comes apart.
A flow of relief floods through my body. I smile. Scott, I think you've figured out how to separate Truth and Lies.
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"Scott, what the hell happened to you yesterday?" Avalon asks me when she comes in.
"Good morning to you too, Ava."
She rolls her eyes. "What happened? All of your friends are telling me that you had a panic attack or something last night!"
"You have to be calm. What about to tell you might be a little hard for you."
"What?" she asks. She sits down at the edge of the hospital bed.
I bite my lip. "Yesterday, I had a a bad feeling about something. I started crying and then I had a vision. . . well sort of. It was more like a memory. It was before I left for Ilvermorny when I was nine. Mother was talking to me then someone shot a killing curse at her."
She blinks. "So it was only a vision. . ."
"No, Avalon. Mother is. . ." I feel a year fall down my cheek. "Mother is. . . gone."
Avalon's eyes start to water. "She. . . died?"
"She was murdered. In front of my own eyes."
She bursts into tears. I lean over to hug her. She smiles grimly. "Damn it, Scott. You made me cry."
I couldn't help but smile back, even though I had a sickening feeling in my body. "Slytherins don't cry."
We just sit there hugging for a while in silence.
I break the silence. "We'll probably have to leave Hogwarts for her funeral."
She nods with tears in her eyes. "You're the big brother, Scott. You're the one who's supposed to fix this."
My voice is cracking. "This is something that I can't fix."
But I did fix one thing. If Avalon didn't know that Mother died that means that I figured out how to separate Truth and Lies.
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Back in my dorm, I pack for my return back home. I'm basically ready to leave.
Sirius keeps on frowning, James looks regretful, Remus looks worried, and Peter keeps glancing at everyone in the room. Kevin is pretending to read a book and he looks up every few seconds to glance at me. No one dares to speak. I guess no one knows what to say.
"Scott?" Kevin asks, putting his book down.
I look at him.
"I'm sorry for getting mad at you. I wasn't thinking about how you felt. All I thought was that you were leaving me."
I sigh. "You don't have to apologize because my mother died."
Kevin looks like I slapped him. "That's not why I'm apologizing. I'm seriously sorry."
I sit down on my bed. "Sorry. I didn't mean to say that. I guess I'm just acting up because of. . ."
Kevin understands. He joins me on my bed. "You seemed pretty mad at your trunk. You were, like, abusing your stuff." He smiles.
I laugh. It hurts the knot in my stomach, but I don't care.
"We're cool?" he asks.
"Yeah." I look at everyone else and smirk. "You don't have to stare. I know I'm handsome but—"
Somehow Sirius ends up hugging me, with his gray eyes looking so regretful. "I'm so sorry."
"What was that?" I ask. "I couldn't hear you over your ego."
Sirius smiles. "Sorry for being a jerk. I was pretty annoying."
"No, I'm pretty annoying. You're just a git."
That earns a laugh from Kevin, Remus, Peter, and James.
James sits down on my bed too. "I think that I was a little rude too."
"A little?!" I tease.
"Whatever. Do you forgive me?"
"Hmm. I'll forgive you and Sirius if you say, 'I solemnly swear to never call Scott Wayward 'Prescott' ever again and I am a stupid git.'"
"I solemnly swear that I am up to—" James starts.
"Wrong swear, Prongs," Sirius says. "I solemnly swear to never call Scott Wayward 'Prescott' ever again and James is a stupid git."
I grin. "Sirius, what was the swear?"
He sighs. "I am a stupid git."
Everyone laughs.
"I solemnly that I will never call Scott Wayward 'Prescott' ever again and Sirius is an even stupider git than I am."
Everyone laughs again.
I nod for a few seconds. "This was fun. Let's do it again sometime." I sigh. "I have to leave now."
"Bye, Scott," Sirius says.
James rumpels my hair, which is slightly awkward because I'm taller than him. "Bye, Scott."
Remus sighs. "It'll be a little cliche if I join you by saying, 'Bye, Scott.' How about farewell?"
I smile.
"Yeah. Farewell, Scott," Peter echoes.
Kevin hugs me. "Goodbye, Scott."
I wave as I exit the dorm. "Bye, guys."
A/n: So if you still don't understand chapter 15, this will explain everything. If you understand everything, you don't have to read this.
Scott has a vision that his mother gets killed before he left for Ilvermorny at age nine. He passes out and ends up in the Hospital Wing, and he freaks out because he thought it was a warning to save his mother. A voice enters his mind telling him that his mother was already dead. He realizes that this voice was the one mixing the Truth and Lies. Dumbledore comes and Scott tells him that he thinks his mother is about to die. Dumbledore is confused because someone mixed the Truth and Lies together and thinks that his mother died five years before. This basically sums up Chapter 15
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