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Chapter 11: Waiting for You

Promise me to think of us, of a time so beautiful ...so beautiful

Promise me to think of us, still bright, still colorful ...still colorful

Promise me to look back at us, of a time in your life, you enjoyed

(Promise Me by Dead By April)

Two Months Later: Harriel's POV

I collapse backwards onto the sands, vaguely aware of the little particles cutting into my skin. Ulquiorra glides down next to me, his night black wings folding up at his back. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah. I'm just tired."

"You did better."

"But is it good enough for you and Keta to let me go to Hogwarts?"

"Perhaps. You still have a week and a half before the start of term, Harriel."

"But I still need to get my things for school!"

"And we will all be going with you."

"Like who all?"

"Nnoitora, Grimmjow, Anita, Souske, Gin, Szayzel, Yammy, Ayume…"

"Okay!" I scream, getting his point. "You literally meant everyone. Now how about telling me who's not going." Before he opens his mouth to start rattling everyone that he's ever met that I haven't, I cut in. "I mean of the people I actually give a damn about."

He chuckles. "Mum and Mother are not going."

"I figured as much. Mum never wants to go anywhere if she can spend time with Mother."

He laughs again. "Yes, that is very true, little bird." He ruffles my hair softly, and I lean into the caress of my elder brother.

Suddenly, I have an epiphany. "U'ra, why is it that the rest of our family and those others that you and Keta were once friends with have Alice in Wonderland nicknames, but I don't? I mean if you're the White Rabbit, Violetta's the Black Rabbit, Mura's the Caterpillar, Shiro's the Mad Hatter, Ichigo and Ichimaru are the Cheshire Cats, Byakuya's Dinah, María's (Soi Fon) the Dormouse, Mum's the Red Queen, Mother's the Queen of Hearts, Kitzan's the White King and Hanna's the White Queen, then what am I?"

He thinks for a minute before smirking. "You're the Grey Rabbit, a mixture of my personality and Violetta's."

I smile and hug my brother tightly. "Thanks, U'ra."

Ulquiorra's POV

"Can I kill myself?"

The females (excluding the tomboyish duo, Lilinette and Anita. The latter of the two went with her brother, Grimmjow into Nocturne Alley to find something dangerous to play with and the former with her boyfriend, Ggio in the Quittage stop) in our group look at me like I've enacted the wrath of my mother. "Ulquiorra, I thought you liked shopping," Nelliei says, watching as my sister makes me stay still so the seamstress can finish my dress robes that I apparently have to have.

"I do, when it doesn't involve myself in clothes."

"Oh, hush. You'll be fine," Keta murmurs from her place next to me as her seamstress starts pinning and stitching up a black and white satin dress. Harriel is beside her, growling as Hallibel tells him that he's going to need a whole new wardrobe.

"Let me kill myself too!" he bemoans, trying not to move and disrupt the work already done.

"No," María says, lying on the floor. "If I'm stuck here, the two of you are too. And when I find the boys, I'm going to murder them for leaving me."

"Besides," Keta interjects, giving her friend a dark look, "I have a present for you if you behave."

"Like what?" he asks excitedly.

"Tom's here."

"Really?!" The excitement melts away into worry. "But won't he be spotted?"

"He's under glamours, Harriel."

"Oh, then that's okay!"

"So you'll be good?"

"Hai! I promise, Keta!" So for the rest of our time in the robe shop, he's silent as he waits for the rest of the girls to finish. He seems calm but the slight bounce in his stance betrays him.

As soon as we walk out, he looks for Keta's approval before taking off towards the familiar figure of the werewolf, Remus Lupin. "Harriel, wait for the rest of us!" Anita calls, emerging from the Alley with Grimmjow, Szayzel, Bella, Gin, Souske, Ana and the boys María wants to kill.

The pink haired arrancar falls into step beside me, smiling creepily. "Please tell me you didn't go in there to scavenge body parts."

"Now does that sound like something I would do?"

"Yes."

"You have little faith in me. Besides, Bella wanted to go with Ana so I had to go too."

"You are so whipped."

"Piss off, batman."

I chuckle and link arms with my friend as I look up at my younger brother. He has his arms wrapped around a man with long brown hair and green eyes. If you were to look close enough you could see that he's really Tom Riddle. "Kitzan! Kitzan! Can I stay with him until school starts?"

"I suppose," Souske says softly, smiling down at him.

"Yay! Yay!"