A/N: This story will be long, hopefully, so be patient. I hope you liked the first chapter, which is probably 3x better than this chapter. I am sorry for my lack of grammatical knowledge, but nobody does the language perfect I believe. But, enjoy anyway. It's hard to write Fleur's, Viktor's and Seamus' accents. I'm trying my best. Please don't hate because of that. Thanks!
HELP: I am not sure if 'Seamus said' (for example) is right. Is it 'Seamus said' or 'said Seamus'? Either write in a review OR PM it. I'll use "Seamus said" in this chapter.
MUSIC: The name "A Shipwreck In The Sand" comes from the song with the same name from the band Silverstein. Chapter 1 got its name from Silverstein's album with the same name. Most chapters will probably be named from a Silverstein song. If not, I'll let you know.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything within "Harry Potter", this is a fan story.
A SHIPWRECK IN THE SAND
Chapter 2: Smile In Your Sleep
Since yesterday's event, Seamus felt horrible. Not everyone was so friendly with him anymore, and just thinking of what was waiting for him in the near future made him shiver in fear. Normally Seamus would just drag jokes about it, but this was dead serious, so it wasn't that easy to make fun of.
"How's the others?" Ginny asked, looking over the breakfast table on Seamus. During the breakfast, there were almost no one talking, not sure what to say. "Who?" Seamus asked, looking up from his food, half asleep after spending last night with the two other champions.
"Viktor and Fleur." Ginny said, sipping from her cup.
"Oh, well... Fleur is sweet, talks a lot. Viktor doesn't talk too much though. He more likely answer questions Fleur and I ask him. But they're both kind, for sure."
"What do you usually talk about?" Ginny was a bit curious, since she had an eye for Viktor, for sure.
"I don't know, our lives I suppose? Everything exept the Triwizard Tournament." Seamus replied, stuffing more food into his mouth.
"What a happy trio." Ron snorted. Seamus disliked Ron when Ron got his smartass attitude on.
"Shat ap." Seamus mumbled with food in his mouth.
Someone tapped Seamus on his left shoulder, and as he turned, he had to swallow his food fast so he wouldn't embarras himself in front of Fleur.
"Bonjour, Seamus." She said, and slightly bowed.
"Hey." Seamus said, smilling widly. Ron was amazed that Seamus actually talked to Fleur, since she was probably the most populare girl inside the school walls.
"I was thinking, maybe you, Viktor and I could meet up later somewhere and talk, maybe? Not necessarely today, but later sometime?" Seamus loved Fleur for being a friendly and yet an atteractive girl.
"Yeah, would be great. Have you asked Viktor yet?" The Irish boy turned towards the table set up for the Durmstrang students, and saw that Viktor was absent.
"Yes. I asked him last night after we split ways with you. Right now I don't know where he is, but some girls over there said he was down by the lake working out. But very well, it's a date then!" She blinked at Seamus before walking of, out of the Great Hall.
"Blimey, a date with Delacour? And Krum? I must be out of my mind." Ron hicked, thinking how lucky Seamus was.
"It's not a date, fool." Seamus said, not realy too pleased about Ron being around him, actually. To be honest, Seamus didn't like Ron at all. Ron was a plague, a plague that never disappeared.
"Seamus, is it such a good idea to befriend them? I mean, they're your opponents." Hermione asked, as they left the Great Hall, heading outside of thw castle this lovely saturday morning. It was a few days ago that Fleur Delacour had asked Seamus to meet up Viktor and her.
"Well, I believe it's a good thing getting to know them. What's the catch? They're both very nice persons as far that I've experienced, but we'll see how it goes. Even though Viktor is a Bulgarian, I was thinking I could give it a shot to befriend him. And that's one in a million." Seamus said, looking at Hermione. "Yeah. You're right I guess. It isn't too often that you talk to a Bulgarian, that's for sure." Hermione replied, walking down the path leading to the lake, where they were going to study. Wasting a beautiful day like this in November was not accepted.
"I still doupt it's a good idea, Seamus." Hermione said, stressed and looked up from her book. They were now by the lake, sitting on a couple of big rocks.
"Relax Hermione! As far as I know, they're great people! How many times do I have to tell you that?" Seamus said, a bit stressed up. "Seamus, how many times have you guys actually had a real conversation?" Seamus had to think. Tricky question. They had spoken a few times, but the only time they had a long and real conversation must've been the night they were elected. "The night we were chosen." Seamus said, lowering his voice. "See? You don't even know if you'll become friends with them. Or, you kind of are, but you know what I mean." As she said that, Viktor Krum walked, further down towards the sea, past them whilst working out. He looked at them, grinning in a nice way. Of course, the fanclub was right behind him, but he did a realy good job at ignoring them. "I feel sorry for Viktor." Seamus said out of the blue. Hermione looked after Viktor who was disappearing behind some trees, wondering why. "How come? He's populare, he got the looks, and you say he's kind. Why do you feel sorry for him?"
"He told Fleur and I that he feels lonely. He've never experienced to fall in love for real, neither real friendship. Most people like him only because he's famous." Seamus looked throughout the horrizon. The landscape covering the grounds of Hogwarts was beautiful. Hermione nodded as a responce, looking at Seamus. She'd brought a few books, so they both could study. The first task wasn't realy far away anymore. A couple of weeks...
"What are you saying?" a conserned Hermione said, almost whispering. "The first task has something to do with dragons." Ginny started, "And you didn't hear it from me." she said, getting up and walked away from the still conserned Hermione that was now sitting all by herself in the Gryffindor Common Room. It wasn't such a big surprise that the first task consisted of dragons, she and Seamus kind of predicted it, since Dragons were the most common task in all of the Triwizard Tournaments. 'Poor Seamus... I hope he'll manage. I'll tell him tomorrow...' She though before going to bed, as Seamus just left the Gryffindor Tower to meet up with Viktor and Fleur. Now it was one and a half week left until the first task. The journey down from the tower was short, as he almost ran down the stairs. He was going to meet them just outside the main entrance, as the night was realy hot, and there were no clouds in the sky, so it was a perfect opportunity for stargazing.
"Hey guys." Greeted Seamus as he walked out of the school and saw both Fleur and Viktor sitting on a bench, looking up to the sky. They both said hi and winked him over. Seamus simply sat down at a small wall next to the bench, as it seemed like there weren't any room for him left on it. "How's everything?" Seamus asked, smiling as he looked up into the sky. They both answered simply, giving signs that they were realy relaxed right now. The sky was beautiful tonight. The stars were shining as never before, and the moon was gigantic, giving almost as much light as the sun in the middle of a day. Seamus though this was weird, since it was November and stuff. End of the autumn. "How is Herm-own-ninny?" asked Krum, breaking the comfortable silence. Though talking wasn't uncomfortable either, but it was seldom as quiet as this. "Oh, she's fine. She is worried about me though, I kind of notice it on her." Viktor and Fleur just nodded. "She seems like a sweet girl after Viktor's explanation of her." Fleur added, smiling a sweet smile. "She is." answered Seamus and smiled back, feeling that the three of them would be great friends if they got to know each other better. There were a comfortable silence once more. Just sitting here was great, and Seamus would deffinitly redo it sometime. "I haff asked Herm-own-ninny this, but are you her boyfriend?" Viktor asked, leaning forward, looking straight into Seamus' eyes. Why ask again if she already answered it? "No, I'm not. Why? You like her?" Seamus teased a bit, smiling one of those happy smiles of his. "Maybe. But do not tell." Viktor smiled a mysterious smile. "It looks like the two of you are dating, to be honest. You and Hermione I mean." Fleur giggled as she said it, since she knew that they weren't. "Yeah, we just care about each other. And we spend a lot of time together." said Seamus, giggling along too. As the long night passed in short time, they all laughed, talked and enjoyed themselves. Of course, befriending the opponent in a tournament wasn't the best thing to do, they didn't care. They got realy close that night, talking about everything that crossed their mind, as the three of them had a blast of a night. Befriending such nice people would never be a regrettful act. No way. Seamus couldn't imagine so.
Right before they were about to go, Seamus noticed a ring that Krum wore on his right hand. The ring was obviously made out of silver, but a special type. A silver that the Irish boy had never seen in his whole life. It was brighter, and it reflected everything so much better than normal silver. And the top of the ring was formed as a skull. Seamus liked the ring, as if it spoke to him. "Awesome ring! What's it made of?" said Seamus, grabbing Viktor's arm and pulled it up for a closer look. "It is made off Frozen Silver, very, very rare." said Viktor, smiling as he looked at the ring as well. "It's realy beautiful." Seamus stated, turning and twisting on Viktor's arm slowly to get a better look. Seamus noticed that Viktor suddenly started to fold his fingers around Seamus' fingers. Seamus just thought it was imaginary, since he was tired, right? Fleur wasn't watching, she was looking up into the sky, walking around the small park in front of the entrance of Hogwarts. But the fact that Viktor was folding his fingers with Seamus' fingers wasn't imaginary. Now thy were folding hands, both standing there looking sheepishly at the other. Seamus first now noticed the height of Viktor. Compared to Seamus, Viktor was almost a giant... well, that's a bit overdoing it, but he was bigger, and older of course. Viktor is 18 years old, and Seamus, just a 14 year old boy who got himself into a wild chaos of a tournament where he had no chance, the two other competotors were 18, so he had no chance against them. Realising that just now, made him feel weak, but the feeling by just touching Viktor's hand was warm and pleasent, a feeling he had never felt before. And Viktor didn't seem to be withdrawing his hand. Just standing there, Seamus felt so alive, but so cold as the night turned chilling all of a sudden. Fleur knew that they were folding hands, she just didn't care so much about it. Viktor had told her a few things, and she was open minded, so there were no big deal. So what? So what if they fold hands? So what if it might turn into something else? Why does it matter? We're all human. Krum and Finnigan drew closer, slowly. They didn't know it themselves, but their smiles were equal, both a bit nervous and both a bit happy. And before the younger one knew it, the older one gave him a hug, holding tight around him. Seamus just did the same thing, held around Viktor. It was so strange for Seamus, since he had never done anything like it before. And never with a boy... 'A boy...' Seamus thought, not realy conserned about that fact, 'but he's a Bulgarian...' he could live with liking boys, but he wasn't so sure about the Bulgarian part. His family looked at the Bulgarian people as arch enemies within Quidditch, and Seamus' mother always said that all Bulgarians were cruel and ville. And since Seamus had a realy close relationship with his mother, he agreed mostly with her. But Krum wasn't like she had said. He was kind, he was nice, he was good looking, he was beautiful. Yes, Seamus thought Viktor was beautiful. What a there were butterflies in his stomach almsot ripping up his chest, flying like a bee swarm trying to stab you as you run away from them. Just standing there, having the longest hug in his whole life, Seamus almost fell asleep with the warm body of Krum folded around him. But they had to break apart at some point. And they did, both smiling sheepishly. Seamus stuffed his hands into his pockets, looking down to the ground. "I am sorry..." Viktor suddenly said, and walked off. Seamus just turned around, asking why he was leaving. "Where are you going?" His voice was soft, and it was something in Seamus' voice that made Krum turn around and smile a perfect smile. "I haff to go to bed. I will see you later. Ok?" Seamus just nodded, and Krum started to walk down to the dock, looking a bit happy.
Fleur walked over to Seamus. Seamus looked confused and happy as he seated down on the bench Viktor and Fleur was sitting on earlier. "It's not easy, is it?" Fleur nodded, sitting down beside Seamus. Seamus wasn't sure what she meant, giving her a more confused look. "Love, I mean. But what just happened between you... I'm not sure what it was. Viktor haven't talked so much about you, he talks more of this Hermione." Seamus just nodded, not realy surprised. Most people only looked upon Seamus as the joker of Gryffindor. "I don't know either. We're just friends, aye?" asked Seamus, folding his hands together like Viktor did with him. He was not sure what this feeling was, but he would look at Viktor differently now. He would look at him with a smile instead of the day-to-day face. But feeling tihs for a Bulgarian was weird... he didn't know how he was going to tell his mother, and to tell her that he was in the Triwizard Tournament, something he should have done many weeks ago. "I will go to bed now. A woman named Rita Skeeter is comign tomorrow to write an article about us. I will see you there." Delacour said, giving Seamus a hug before walking of. "Yeah, I'll see you!" Seamus shouted softly after her and smiled.
Walking up towards the Gryffindor tower again, he did the best he could to avoid prefects, and succeeded. Entering the dorm he was sharing with Ron, Dean, Neville and Harry, he saw that everyone was asleep. Not realy a big surprise, since it was 2:30 am. But as Seamus laid his head on the pillow, he could only think of the warm hug, and he fell asleep, with a smile on his face. So did Viktor, ending smiling whislt he was sleeping.
