A/N: just to clear it up before some one gets confused...this takes place an hour or two after the last chapter…where G+D wake up after being knocked out and Harry comes in after talking all night with Severus….kk please please please review! and a huge thank you to those of you who have reviewed it means a lot to me...i feel like this is a piece of crap until i read your reviews so thank you!-manda

Chapter 15 The Morning After

Blaise was sitting on the floor in front of the coffee table with his back against the couch when Ginny woke up. She walked over and slid in beside him looking at the food spread out before them. Taking a bite of a strawberry she turned to him, "There's more to us than we thought, isn't there?"

"Yea," he paused looking at her "I came here during the summer, about a month before everyone else showed up. My father tried to force me into getting the Dark Mark and he went to Cruciatus me but the house-elves blocked it and let me get away, so Dumbledore let me stay here. I got to walking around one day deep in the Dungeons, where no one's been in a very long time apparently because I found an orb."

"An orb? What do you mean?" Ginny asked taking a drink of pumpkin juice. Blaise turned to look at Draco, who was groggily making his way towards them. "Morning Sunshine." Ginny said and Blaise continued as Draco fell to the floor on his other side,

"It was magic, literally, and it was calling to me so I went to it. Anyways, the point is I absorbed it, and it was part of one of the Spirits, that's how I'm the link."

"So…" Ginny looked at the two young men next to her, "Drake's an Ice Elemental, I'm a Fire Elemental, and you have part of a Spirit in you, bet it's Weather since it always seems to rain when you cry."

"I don't cry!" Blaise retorted as Ginny and Draco started laughing.

"Drake does too, so it's ok."

"Hey!" Draco said sitting up, the mirth leaving his eyes.

"Moving on!" Ginny shouted over the shouts of her lovers who had taken to rolling around on the floor wrestling. "As entertaining as you two are, you're turning me on and we don't have time for that right now." They stopped looking at her and then Draco grabbed Blaise and shoved his tongue into his mouth, the action receiving a moan from Blaise. "Prick." She muttered.

"It's a bit more than that," Draco said breaking away from Blaise. "And I think you know that." He wagged his eyebrows at her suggestively and she laughed. "Alright all ready, all work no play. So why you? I mean it called to you, right? Right. So again, why you? No offense or anything."

"None taken, I dunno... I just felt it pulling at me, kinda hard to explain."

"It called to your magic." Ginny looked up at them. "Which means it was meant for you, it was waiting for you Blaise. Nobody else could have removed it, I'm right aren't I? There were wards around it, wards that you walked straight through, right?"

"Yea…." Blaise whispered.

"It was always going to be you, you were supposed to get the orb, you were supposed to be our link, you are the one who was meant to be with us." She walked over to him and gave him a light kiss.

"But what's so special about him?" Draco whined.

"Him? Him, what about us, Draco? Why us? Why our families? Huh?" she shouted at him and he flinched at her words.

"Kitten, he's just trying to figure things out, so am I, so are you. And let's not get angry, things tend to happen when we lose control of our emotions." Blaise smirked into her shoulder as he wrapped her in a hug.

"Love?...Sorry, didn't mean to piss you off, get a little carried away when I don't know everything…I love you, both of you….we ok?" he asked fear evident in his voice.

"Oh my dear Dragon," she left Blaise and walked over to him "Nothing could make me stop loving either of you, not even you could stop it ." She grinned kissing him softly. She wrapped her arm around Draco's waist and turned to look at Blaise, "Good thing we've got rugs all over the damn place or we'd have pneumonia, as much time as we spend on the floor." They laughed,

"I can think of a few more things we could do on the floor…" Draco whispered huskily.

"How'd it go, Harry?" Ron asked moving towards his friend as he walked through the portrait hole. Harry looked up at Ron through tired eyes and then looked to the couch where Hermione was sitting, watching them. When Harry was sitting on the couch in front of the fire with his two best friends he told them what happened.

"I went to see him after the Library yesterday and he looked shocked to see me when he opened the door to his office but he let me in anyways. It was all awkward at first but then he told me that he'd never wanted to be mean to me what with my parents and everything. He told me he'd had to act like he really hated Sirius after he learned that it was Wormtail that betrayed them. We talked, well he did most of the talking, telling me about my parents and "the gang", as he calls them, when they were all here. But yea he got a little teary when we talked about Wormtail and the night they died…and then I cried…oh shut up Ron!" he looked at them; Hermione had a sappy grin and Ron was making gagging noises but was smiling none the less.

"Harry, are you going to have a relationship with him?" she was watching him.

"I think I might, yea."

"It's gonna take a lot to get used to." Ron said "You're not gonna start calling him Uncle Severus or anything are you?"

"Actually…" Ron shook his head and a look of horror spread across his face. "I'm just kidding! Neither of us is ready for endearments just yet, maybe way later I might be comfortable enough with it but not now. He said I can call him Severus though, so I might when we aren't in class, but yea."

"That's wonderful, Harry!" Hermione lunged at Harry wrapping him in a hug. Ron grinned and grabbed both of them.

"Gosh, we're just one big happy family!" he said mockingly in a sugar-sweet voice and they all laughed. "Ok, food time."

"You haven't eaten yet?" Harry looked shocked.

"Well no, I was heading down when Hermione showed up and drug me back in here." The girl blushed, "And then you came along and now here we are and I'm bloody hungry!"

"Ron! Calm down. We can go to the Kitchens; it's almost time for lunch anyways. Oh oh oh, let's have a picnic! We can sit outside by the lake, pleeease?" she whined

They caved under her stares and she squealed. "Terrific! Let's go, I'll conjure a blanket when we get down there, wouldn't want to stain one of mine anyways." She said dragging them towards the portrait hole.

"I'll meet you down there." Harry said pulling his arm back and at their questioning looks he continued, "I want to change, I'm still in yesterday's clothes."

"Oh, alright then, hurry up though." Hermione said pulling Ron out into the hall.

"See ya mate!" Ron yelled as the Fat Lady shut behind him.

Dumbledore sat in his office, a grin on his face, "Yes Fawkes, I think everything will turn out just right. Severus is happy for the first time since he was a student here, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are handling everything rather well, and they, well, they're growing stronger everyday. Yes, everything will work out." He said popping a lemon drop into his mouth. "Wonder how much longer they'll actually put up with lessons…"