here's chapter four

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"Jared?!"

"WHY DO YOU INSIST ON HAVING MY BROTHER?" Melanie yelled.

"It's for the greater good," Sam said salmly, but this made Melanie angrier.

"SCREW THE GREATER GOOD!" Melanie yelled her temper rising, "I'M NOT GIVING UP MY BROTHER! HE DESERVES TO LIVE!"

"HE DESERVES TO DIE AND YOU KNOW IT!" Sam yelled back. Then with a calmer voice he said, "I will get your brother and he has to die! He could destroy the entire world."

Melanie, suddenly, became intrigued, "What do you mean?"

"Jake isn't your brother's real name," Jared said as Melanie looked up at him surprised that somehow knew more about Jake than Melanie did, "It's Malachi. Years, sorry, centuries ago Malachi destroyed an entire city because his 'inner demon' told him to. I should know I was there."

"So is Jake a reincarnated version of Malachi?" Melanie asked and both Jared and Sam nodded their heads.

"And you're the inrecarnated soul of Cartushca, the slayer of demons and everything evil," Jared said as Melanie gave a big grin, but one question came to her head.

"How'd she die?"

"She was tortured, raped, and burned at the stake," Jared said shedding tears, "That night I watched my girlfriend burn and die."

"When did this happen?" Melanie asked remembering something she had read.

"589 A.D.," Jared said. Melanie's eyes grew wide.

"That's it!" Melanie said making a connection," Cartushca has every died 100 years and she dies the same way. She burns. Wait! Does that mean I'll burn also?"

"Most likely, but not necessarily," Jared said as a teacher came into the common room. It was McGonagall and all she saw were two guys, a girl with an open blouse with a bandage over her breast and a forgein creature.

"What happened here?"

"That thing attacked me and Jared saved me," Melanie said pointing to the winged creature and then to Jared.

"Jared Schmidt," McGonagall said folding her arms and smiling, "I haven't seen you since you've graduated. How's life?"

"Death," Jared said. McGonagall looked taken aback, "I'm dead."

"Oh I'm terribly sorry," McGonagall said, "When did you die?"

"A long time ago," Jared said as McGonagall nodded her head and turned her attention to the winged beast on the floor.

"A gnargle attacked you?"

"Gnargle? Those things exist?" Melanie asked remembering all the stories her father used to tell her about Luna Lovegood, "So why didn't anyone believe Luna?"

"Because everyone thought Luna to be a lunatic," McGonagall explained with her stern voice, "Luna saw Thestrals because she witnessed death, well gnargles go by the same principal. Melanie, you've witnessed death, I think, Jared you obviously are dead and Sam is death so I guess that's why you both see them."

"How come my father never saw them?" Melanie asked since Harry never believed half the things Luna told him.

"I'm not really sure," she answered, "Ask your father that one. Now if you three will excuse me it is late and I am very tired. Goodnight to you all."

"Goodnight Professor," Melanie and Jared said in unison.

"I need to go as well," Sam said disappearing as McGonagall walked out.

"I'm pretty tired myself," Melanie said to Jared, "Thanks for saving my life."

"You're welcome," Jared said walking Melanie to her dormitory.

"Do you wanna get a cup of coffee or butterbeer tomorrow?"

"Are you asking me out?" Melanie asked smiling and blushing.

"Is that a crime?" Jared asked holding Melanie's hands.

"No," Melanie smiled and pulling her hands away she finished, "but not right now. My boyfriend just died and I need time to grieve."

"Alright," Jared said looking disappointed.

"I'll keep your offer in mind," Melanie said kissing his cheek, "Thank you." She opened her dormitory door and went inside and cried. This great guy had just asked her out, but Kyle was a great guy as well.

"Bridgit, I need your help," Melanie called, but she got no response. "Follow your heart Mel, just follow your heart." she told herself.

She changed into her pajamas and climbed into her bed with thoughts of both Jared and Kyle, but the dream she had changed her mind about Jared. As soon as she closed her eyes she saw Jared talking to a gnargle and then she saw Kyle being thrown out the window, but then she saw Jared with a knife at her neck.

"What are you going to do now?" Jared asked as he slit her throat. She woke up with a ring around her neck and part of the ring had cut into her neck, but the one thing that startled her the most was that Jake was standing at the foot of her bed, very silent.

"What's wrong?" Melanie asked Jake, but he fell to the ground and a black figure was standing behind him. Melanie sprang from her bed and lit the lamp, but the murderer was gone. She went to aid her brother, but it was already too late. His neck was slit and his blood surrounded his head, but where was the murder weapon?

"Dead?" Jared asked as Melanie cried in his arms, "Is there anything I can do?"

"You can bring him back," Melanie said, but Jared chuckled.

"You know I can't do that," Jared answered making Melanie frown.

"Sam can," Melanie said, but Jared covered her mouth.

"Don't call for him," Jared told her letting her mouth go, "He has enough on his plate. Don't bother him."

"Alright," Melanie said getting up and stretching her arms and legs, "I just lost so much.

"I've lost a lot too," Jared said as Melanie turned her head sharply towards Jared.

"You mean Cartushca?" Melanie asked, "Oh right she was your girlfriend."

"There's something I need to tell you," Jared said holding her hands, "About a thousand years ago, Cartuscha's soul was reincarnated into another human being. And that would be you."

"Wait! I'm your girlfriend?" Melanie asked very confused.

"Well, technically," Jared said as Melanie let go of his hands and sat back on the couch.

"Why didn't you tell me this?" Melanie asked burying her head in her hands.

"I was going to tell you on that date, but you refused," Jared said sitting next to her.

"Because Kyle had just died," Melanie said calmly, but her temper was rising to its boiling point, "Just because no one grieved over your death doesn't mean you have to keep me from doing it!" She exhaled viciously and returned to her dormitory, "I will see you tomorrow."

"Goodnight," Jared said as Melanie walked up the stairs. When he heard the door close and lock he said, "You can come out now!"

"How did you know I was here?" Katrina asked. She was dressed in a short catholic school girl plaid skirt with a white blouse that was hanging out of her skirt, she was wearing a black tie, black pointed high heeled shoes, she was wearing black lined reading glasses, and her hair was down and poker straight.

"I could hear you breathe," Jared said as he gazed upon her, "You look hotter since the last time we met."

"I only do it for you," Katrina said planting a vicious tongue filled kiss on his lips, "You're supposed to be killing her spirit not trying to seduce her!"

Jared remained silent.

"You need to remember the plan."

"I do remember the plan," Jared said going over to the fireplace and sitting on one of the couches, "I killed her father, her boyfriend, and her brother. Who else is there to kill?"

"The castle," Katrina said as Jared eyed her suspiciously.

"You're suggesting that I destroy this castle?" Jared asked thinking about the idea.

"Well Hogwarts is her second home," Katrina said sitting next to Jared, "And now Hogwarts is her permanent home. If we destroy that, she'll really be broken."

"I'll think about it," Jared said as he heard a noise, "You'd better go."

"Alright," Katrina said kissing Jared softly on the lips, "Let me know if anything major happens."

"Okay," Jared said as Melanie came down the stairs right as Katrina disappeared.

"Can we talk?"

"Sure," Jared said moving over on the couch, but Melanie refused.

"Walk with me."

"I'm sorry I blew up at you," Melanie apologized, "I've lost so much and I just feel alone now."

"Well I am here," Jared said holding Melanie's hand and surprisingly she did not let go.

"Thank you," Melanie said as the two walked by the second floor by themselves, but suddenly Melanie remembered something, "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure," Jared said smiling.

"I had a dream last night that you were te reason behind Kyle's death," Melanie said as Jared looked at her curiously, but in his mind Jared was screwed, "Were you?"

"Why would I kill Kyle?" Jared asked as they walked the halls of the castle's second floor (it was a big second floor).

"I don't know that's why I am asking. I want to make sure that my dream was a dream and not a premonition."

"Premonition? Well that's fascinating," Jared said releasing his now very clamy and sweaty hand from Melanie's gentle and soft hand. They wondered up a staircase which moved without warning, but when it stopped the door they were standing at gave melanie a bad feeling.

"Come on," Jared said holding out his hand, but Melanie did not move.

"I don't think we should go through that door," Melanie said hesitating to go further.

"The staircase is going to move at any second," Jared said holding out his hand, "It's either with me me or you move back to the other side of the school. What will it be?"

"Fine," Melanie said grasping Jared's hand and pulling herself to safety. As the staircase moved to the other side of the school, Jared and Melanie ventured into the room behind the door, but it was the exact room Melanie feared.

"Jared, we need to get out!" Melanie said, but Jared was no where to be found, "Jared? Jared?!" All she heard was her voice echoing, but the noise that came next almost stopped her heart. The floor started to shake beneath her feet, there was an odor coming from in front of her, and suddenly there was a roar that could have made someone's ears bleed.

"Jared?!" Melanie yelled, but what came out of the darkness was not Jared. Melanie was not staring at a huge ten foot mountain troll that was swinging its club wildly in the air. Melanie whipped out her was, but none of the spells she tried worked. She ran through the troll's legs and through the dark hallway and cam upon a door. She jiggled the handle, but it was locked and she heard the troll's footsteps coming towards her.

"Alohomora!" Melanie said unlocking the door, but after she close it the troll started banging on it and she relaized she had stumbled into the room of none other than Fluffy. The three headed dog got up and growled at her

"Shit!"