Pirate Blood

Chapter 47

When You Want To Say Everything Yet You Can't Say Anything

Kaylee had left earlier that day. It was horrible. Hermione was crying through her goodbyes. She desperately wanted to keep in touch with her even though she knew she couldn't. Jesse even let a tear slip as he hugged his sister goodbye. Blaise could barely speak. Draco didn't go to say goodbye to her. He sat watching from the window. He had to remind himself that he was doing this for her own good.

Kaylee couldn't say goodbye to Dean. He was the only one that she really regretted not being able to tell her secret to. She left a letter on his night stand. It didn't really explain everything, but it would help him understand why she left. She knew that Jesse would explain the rest.

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Dean woke to find an envelope on his night stand. He opened it with confusion. Inside there was a letter that read:

Dean,

I am so sorry I couldn't say goodbye. It wouldn't have been safe. You've been circling around my secret for months now. I thought that you should know the truth. If it's safe for me to come back to London one day, I will definitely come see you. Until then, this should answer some questions.

Yours Truly,

Chris

Attached to the letter was a few articles from the week Colin Sparrow was found dead. "Jesse!" Dean called.

"Dude, you don't need to yell. I'm right here." Jesse said walking through the door.

"Was Chris really Kaylee Sparrow?" Dean blurted out.

"What?" Jesse asked, shocked and confused.

"She left me this." Jesse looked at the letter and envelopes.

"Yeah, Kaylee was hiding out here as Chris." Jesse continued to explain the whole thing to him as Dean just stood there in shock.

"So now no one knows if she's dead or alive."

"We know she's alive. But we don't know if she's safe. She must have really trusted you to let you in on this."

"Yeah, I guess so. Is it wrong that I kind of wish I didn't know?" Dean asked.

"Not at all. I wish that all the time." Jesse said.

"You should go. Don't you have a date with Hermione?"

"Yeah. Are you sure you're okay man?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine."

"Okay." Jesse grabbed his leather jacket and went down to Hermione.

"Hey, how are you?" he asked her. He knew that she'd been a bit of a wreck since Kaylee left.

"I'm okay, I guess. You?"

"Same. Come on, we're late for meeting Blaise and Draco."

They went to the court yard. It wasn't very cold for the beginning of February. Draco and Blaise wore hoodies over their t-shirts. They exchanged greetings.

None of them knew what to say. They were all upset for different reasons. Draco was upset because he wasn't going to see her again, even if she is safe. Jesse and Hermione wanted to know that she was safe.

Blaise was too busy feeling guilty to feel upset. He told Draco to make her leave. He lied to Draco to get him to do it. He is the reason that Draco is upset. Kaylee is probably upset too. He felt he was the one to blame for everything. "I'm dating Dani." Blaise said quietly.

"Good." Draco said.

"It's about time you got a girlfriend." Jesse said.

"It's nice to see you happy, Blaise." Hermione said.

Not one of them took their eyes off the ground while they spoke. They stood like that for at least ten minutes before one of them suggested they should go back inside. They all went off into the direction of their dorms, except Draco. He sat down by the lake.

"Hi." a voice behind him said.

Draco turned around. "Paris?"

"It's Parvati actually. I was wondering if maybe you want–"

"I came here to be alone."

"Sorry. I was just wondering if maybe you and I could go out to Hogsmeade together sometime."

"No."

Parvati pulled down her shirt to reveal more cleavage. "But I–"

"Go away Parvati."

"Fine." She huffed.

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In the Great Hall at dinner, McGonagall announced that the annual seventh year party would be held on April 22nd. All the seventh years were buzzing with excitement. All the boys discussed who they were going with while the girls discussed what they were going to wear or how they were going to do their hair.

Well, most of them did. Blaise just winked at Dani, who blushed, and then continued to eat his food. Draco made some grunt of acknowledgment.

"So, you want to go to the party with me?" Jesse asked.

"Yeah, okay." Hermione said, staring at the untouched food on her plate. Jesse put an arm around his girlfriend to comfort her.

(A/N: Alright, we're getting closer and closer to the end. If it goes the way I plan, there should only be three or four chapters left. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. If you did, or even if you didn't, drop me a line in a REVIEW.

On another note, I just started a new fanfic called Anything But Normal. It's for the show Supernatural (which if you don't watch, you should. It's on Thursdays at 9 on the CW in the US. If you're not in the US and wanna watch, let me know and I'll tell you when it's on in your country. And yes, I know that I'm a walking commercial for Supernatural. I should be getting paid.) The link to the story is on my profile, and if you watch the show I hope you'll check it out. Hopefully I'll be updating both this story and the new one sometime next weekend. L8R Nikki)