So guys…I love the reviews I'm getting. I'm really happy you all like this story! -smiles all around- I had my one friends, who is a Harry Potter fanatic fan like I am, told me that she missed Sashi. So…I can promise you she will show up in this one. And I just want to ask, beta? It's getting kinda hard by myself.
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"So, Harry…" Severus leaned back in his chair. "I would like you to write down for me why you are not talking." He gestured to the piece of paper and quill laying in front of Harry.
Harry looked at him strangely, and it was minuets before he even moved for the offered writing materials. He sat for a while before writing on the paper. When he handed it back to Severus, he read, 'I don't really know. I just…can't.'
"You can't, or you don't want to?"
'Little of both.'
"Explain."
Harry sighed. 'I don't want to because it's bad. I can't find it.'
"Find your voice?"
'I think so…There's more to it…'
"Well, what else can't you find?"
'My wings. Or at least, that's what Sashi told me.'
"Ah." Severus sat forward and looked straight into Harry's emerald eyes. "What do you think she meant by that?"
Harry looked confused. He then shrugged.
Severus stood and motioned for Harry to follow. As he walked with Harry to the door of his office, he told the boy, "You will think on that. In tow days, you shall return here with your answer. Do you understand?"
Harry nodded, waved and turned leave. When Severus called his name, he looked over his shoulder at the dark man.
"There is one rule for this. You can't ask your snake. Figure it out on your own." Before Harry could object, the door slammed in his face. Harry snickered to himself, and left.
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Harry sat in the common room, alone. Everyone went to bed hours ago. Except Harry. He had promised Ron he'd be up later. Not that he intended to keep that promise.
He sat in his favorite chair, in front of the raging fire, thinking. He'd been doing that since he'd gotten back from talking to Snape. He had been putting a lot of thought into what Sashi said about him finding his wings. He didn't quite understand what that meant, but true to his word, he wasn't about to ask his snake companion about it. Speaking of Sashi…
Harry looked around the room, and didn't see her anywhere. 'Oh well…' Harry thought, slumping back into the chair. 'Must be out hunting…'
He stared into the fire. Minuets ticked by, and the clock on the mantle struck one a.m. That's when Harry felt something slither into his lap. He didn't need to look down to see who it was for he already knew.
"Hey, Sashi."
"If you keep doing that," Sashi hissed from his lap. "You're going to hurt yourself more."
Harry looked down at his arm to see red, angry welts. "Oh…" Harry lowered his arm that he'd been scratching with, and sighed. After a few minuets, he picked his hand back up and started to pet Sashi.
"Little lower." Harry smiled and moved his hand farther down her scaly back. "Ohhh…Right there…So what are you doing up at this time of the night, child?"
Harry looked back into fire. "Well, I talked to Snape…And do you remember what you told me? On the train here? About me finding my wings?" He felt Sashi nod. "Well, I told him that. Now he wants me to figure out what you meant by that…Without asking you." He added quickly when Sashi started to say something.
"Well, darling…What I meant was quite clear. But do not examine it so closely. Just think about what I said, not what I meant." Sashi stretched her wings. "Now then, don't you think it is time for bed?"
Harry shook his head. "You go up. I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight."
Sashi shook her silver head. The light from the fire danced across the metallic scales. "No, child. I will stay up with you."
And indeed they did.
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"Merlin, Harry. You look like death."
Harry picked his head up off the table, and glared at Ron, before letting it drop back on the table.
"Did you not sleep well?" Hermoine's worried voice made him pick his head up off the table again, and shake his head. No, he hadn't slept the past two nights.
"Why don't you go up to the infirmary? Maybe Madame Pomfery has something to help you." Harry then looked into to Hermoine's brown eyes. He then nodded. "Okay. We'll get your homework for you."
"Yea, mate. Don't worry about a thing." Ron winked at Harry as he stood to leave the Great Hall. "We'll take care of ya'."
Harry gave them both a small smile of thanks, then left. But to the infirmary, he wasn't headed. Instead, he went out to the lake to his favorite rock. He knew Sashi would be there and he still needed to figure out what she hadn't meant that day on the train.
"Maybe if we were to repeat the conversation, you would understand." She suggested when Harry had told her what he was thinking.
"Yea…Maybe…Can we give it a try?"
"Alright. So…First we got on the train, and your friends were talking to you…then…" Sashi trailed off.
"Then Ron had asked me about my summer. And then they got worried because I wasn't answer them. I think that's when we started talking. You had asked me if they knew."
"Right, right." Sashi moved to sit on his shoulders. "So let us begin. Harry, do they know?"
"Know about my uncle? My summer? The abuse? No. I didn't want to ruin their summers just because mine was bad…"
"Why though, child? Are they not your friends? Is that not what friends are for?"
Harry shrugged. "I guess. But they have enough problems as it is. They don't need mine as well."
"Why don't you tell them that? They will understand…"
"I would if I could, but…" Harry trailed off, just like he had done that night on the train.
"But what, child?"
"I can't find my voice. I lost it. I couldn't talk to them even if I had wanted to…"
Sashi rubbed her head against Harry's cheek, then hissed, "It is not just your voice you need to find. You need to find your wings."
Harry and Sashi sat silently together, before Harry gasped and stood up suddenly. "I understand!"
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Omg…I love this chapter! Please review! And, again, beta?
Sorry for the confusion, Fire From Above.
-smiles all around-
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