To You I'm Devoted
xStarletx
A/N: Wow people really don't like this one, this one's doing as bad as my Twilight fic well if you like it review plz :) I should have at least one or two reviews by now. Thanks guys. Hope you like it.
Chapter 2
The next morning, the students that had stayed home for Christmas break, which was many more than usual considering the two schools that had come to join them for the Triwizard Cup and those who had stayed for the Yule Ball. Everyone was twittering about Aria, who wasn't present at the current moment while glancing over to Harry who was trying to ignore the gossip swirling around him. I sat at my table, my friends were talking about her as well.
"So how did you get on with Cho last night?" One asked. I stared at my friend my mind just not taking in anything that didn't involve Aria.
"Uh, fine." I replied, returning to my eggs. I hadn't slept well, Aria had haunted me in my dreams. There was a sudden bang that echoed through the great hall. Everyone's head whipped up and there she was in all her leather bound glory crouched up on the Gryffindor table. She was staring down at Harry who was staring at her, his mouth open showing off his half eaten boiled egg, in horror. Her large heeled boots were dripping mud onto the wooden table top, her black cape was splattered with mud, odd because it was snowing outside, where would she have found mud? With another thunk she was sitting beside Harry, who lost a bit of his half chewed egg falling out of his mouth as he tried to keep up with her movements.
"So what's for breakfast?" She asked, magicing up a plate, and starting to help herself to the food around her.
"Where did you even come from? Look at the mud on the table! You can't do that!" Harry cried, having finally finished eating his egg.
"I came from outside, and I can do anything I want." Aria challenged. Harry growled loudly.
"You can't just appear out of nowhere." Harry tried to plead. Aria turned to watch him talk, she didn't seem to be taking it in, she was just staring. Harry continued, "There have to be boundaries, you can't pop in and out like that, I want normal entrances, do you hear me?"
Aria swallowed her bite of bacon and lifted her hand and in a quick movement a green orb formed in her hand and then she slammed it down to table top. Harry clutched his throat, his mouth opening and closing like a fish gasping for air. He looked to be trying to speak but no sound was coming out. Aria turned back to her plate of food.
"One, the only rules in play are mine, and you have to obey them. Two I will do and say what I want, and Three, there are no boundaries not in a job like this. Let me make this clear to you Mr. Potter, I am considered the best in the business for a reason, and that reason is because I do whatever is necessary to protect my charges, and you will be no different. Now I will give your voice back, I will not hear any more demands or complaints, or I will take it back and hide it and only give it back when Dumbledor demands that I do." Aria warned, pointing the tip of the knife to Harry, who's eyes were wide and bulging out of his head. I know I should have tried to keep it in, but I couldn't help it, the laughter came bubbling out. In flash Aria wasn't in her seat. Everyone was glancing around, then the bang echoed again.
Suddenly I was looking at mud splattered boots I had jumped in surprised. Her slender fingers were gripping my hair, forcing me to look up.
"Something funny?" She asked, her eyes were a stunning dark blue, now that I could see them up close. For some reason I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face.
"No." I struggled to whispered. She was watching me carefully and I relished it.
"Good." She replied. Her stare softened as she straightened his tousled hair.
"Hm, soft hair for a boy." She mused and then got up, she stepped off of the table and walked back to Harry.
"For the love of God please stop popping in and out!" Harry cried
"Look, if you want to get all technical I'm jumping not popping. " Aria snarled, glaring at him. She had taken up a second plat in her hand and was dumping an assortment of food onto it in large piles.
"No trouble while I'm gone!" Aria demanded pointing a finger at him and then she walked away, out through the door out to the guardians, heading back towards her floating castle. My hand traveled to where her fingers had gripped my locks, for some reason my smile wasn't wavering, she had touched me. Sure it had been threatening at first, but the few pats as she straightened my hair had been soft and relatively nice. She even thought I had soft hair. Suddenly I wasn't hungry. Getting up, I raced out the door, running after Aria.
"Aria!" I cried, seeing that she had managed to get half way across the field and was almost back to her castle. She didn't stop moving she kept walking ahead. I was sprinting now, trying to reach her in time.
"Aria!" I cried again this time she turned, she stared at me for a while and then turned away. A path formed on the lake and she walked across it. By the time I reached it the path had disappeared into the water, and she had disappeared into the large castle. I stood on the banks of the lake watching, waiting to see if she'd come out, but she never did. Defeated and deflated I returned to the great hall, I had classes to go to, work to do and a second challenge to figure out and plan for.