The next few months that passed by, passed much too quickly for my liking.
Most of the group focused solely on bettering their dueling skills, using wordless and wandless magic, defensive and offensive spells.
There wasn't much to do once, most if not, all of us knew how to perform them. Since there was only so much we could practice and go over everything.
True to the headmaster's word, people who wanted to get a review or catch up in their classes used the weekends to do so.
Most if not all the school had already found out what was going on through the rumor mill.
Whether it had been the daily prophet, obviously blowing things out of proportion, or the teachers giving the brief information to those who asked for it.
Everything that ever occurred within the school or to any student always seemed to come to light within the student body. Even the most insignificant of things.
I was currently in the library trying to brush up in my herbology lessons with Newt, when Narcissa and Bella came rushing in.
Excitement radiated off them. Bellatrix practically skipped to where I sat, pulling the chair next to mine before she spoke out in a rush, ignoring Newt all together.
With it being the last week of April and my mood being sour, you could say now wasn't the time to be skipping in my presence.
Even Tom was avoiding me due to my mood changes, using the excuse of having a prefect meetings to excuse himself, after I growled at him for asking me a simple question. 'Why did I bother studying for Herbology when N.E.W.T.S weren't until the end of the month?'
"Guess who is coming down tomorrow to see us?" Bella asked, excitedly bouncing in her seat.
"I don't know. Merlin's great, great, great grandson?" I asked, sarcasm dripping from my voice as I nibbled on my long nails, staring blankly down at the herbology book and parchment full of notes before me.
"I'll see you some other time, Soph." Newt muttered, after gathering his things before he quicklyheading away from our tables.
"Alright, thank you for all of your help, Artemis!" I called after him, before turning back to the girls.
"No. Annie, be serious." She said, pouting as she sat across from me.
I watched his retreating figure disappear out of the library before turning back to look at Cissy and Bella. Letting out a long sigh, before I answered them.
"I don't know. Andi and Teddy? Your parents? Mine?" I asked, rolling my eyes again, before closing them and taking a deep breath.
"Quit being a such smart arse, Soph. Come on, who is coming to visit tomorrow, Bell?" Narcissa asked, putting down her defense against the dark arts book.
"She's right. It's Andi. She said she has something important information to tell us..." Bella said after pouting at the table.
"Really? How is she feeling? I asked Ted in the owl he sent me last week but all he told me was that she was feeling better, morning sickness vanishing after she entered her second trimester of pregnancy. She's weeks away from giving birth now, what could possibly be so important that she is risking traveling all the way here simply just to see us?" I asked, putting my sarcasm and foul mood aside.
"I haven't the tiniest clue, but if I had to guess, my guess would be, you." Bellatrix said.
We stared at each other for a moment as the last comment sank in.
Within the next second we all grabbed our things from the wooden desk, shoving my things into my bag and quickly rushed back to the Slytherin dormitories.
We passed the guys as we rushed through the common room in the direction of my room.
Ignoring all the calls from them to stop as we practically ran in the direction of the girls' dormitories.
After quickly running in Bellatrix quickly put up the barriers, and locked the door magically, before turning to both of us with wide eyes.
"You-you don't think she found the information you asked for during the summer, do you?" She asked, nervously as she sat before me next to the lit fire in the pit.
"No, no. It can't be that, that information would be too hard to find, it's been eighteen years since it happened." Narcissa commented unsure, looking at us as she leaned on the bed post.
"So, what could it possibly be? She could be risking her baby and neck, for me." I muttered.
I was just about to ask them if they'd heard any word from their parents when a serpent slithered into the room, towards me before stopping by my feet.
"Ahhh! I'll never get used to seeing that." Bellatrix said, jumping a foot in the air as it slithered past her boot, pulling her legs up to her in disgust.
'My lady, My Lord has requested your presence in the Room of requirements, after lunch.' It hissed, bowing its head.
I nodded in response.
'Bring your friends too.' It hissed once more before disappeared.
"They want information. We only say what we know, no more no less." I said looking at them in the eye as before my eyes flickered towards the fire.
I felt a familiar stirring in the pit of my stomach as my vision began to cloud.
Quickly laying back onto the cushion of the overstuffed divan, as my breath became hectic.
I first began to see blurry images and then heard distorted voices before it cleared up before me.
Vision:
Andi waddled before me, her stomach protruding before her as she paced back and forth before me nervously, her shoulders tense as she did so.
"Don't you see Anna, they've lied. All of them. Your parents. They aren't dead! They went into hiding. Someone was hunting them down, like worthless animals. There is absolutely no evidence supporting their deaths, just people's words. No bodies were buried, no death certifications, nothing..." She said, cracking her knuckles.
Ted quickly put a calming hand on her shoulder, causing her to stop her hectic pacing and sigh before looking me in the eyes.
"There is more we discovered, and frankly, we're truly scared to even utter it... we're not even sure how it's possible, just that it is." Ted said.
"You seriously can't expect me to believe all of this do you? H-how is it possible?" I asked, feeling my stomach roll.
Andromeda grabbed my hand, closing her eyes in concentration.
I quickly watched as Ted and she walked through the Ministry of Magic. A department I didn't recognize.
They walked slowly before they began searching through document upon documents.
"H-how?" I gasped out, feeling my body double over .
I quickly ran towards the trash bin that was stuffed into a corner of the room, unable to stop as I spewed over and over until I felt the energy drain from me.
I sighed, wiping my mouth roughly with the back of my hand.
Ted slowly made his way towards me with a glass of water, watching as I rinsed my mouth, and helpingme to my feet.
"We don't know." Ted said, as I stood upright.
"There's another thing. When we questioned that retched woman at the Wool's Orphanage, her memory and mind shown to have been tampered with. We discovered that the memory she had of Tom's mother was, in fact, false. Two people helped out in his birth. A woman with multicolored hair and a tall blonde man." She said.
I felt as my legs began to give from under me once more.
"I'm sorry I know this is difficult to hear, but there's something else. You should know..." Ted said, trying to calm me as I collapsed onto the seat behind me.
"W-what's that? Please... don't let it be what I think it is." I said, my lips beginning to tremble.
"The woman..." Ted began, but stopped when I began to shake my head in disbelief.
"She was pregnant." Andi said, hugging me as I began to gasp, and tears dropped from my eyes.
The image distorted once more before I blinked my eyes opened, tears blurring my vision as I snapped back into the present.
Bellatrix stood above me, frantically trying to check if I had injured myself.
"I'm alright, Bella." I croaked,pulling myself up on my forearms.
"I'll believe it when I see it." She said, scanning me from head to toe before stepping back unsatisfied, and crossing her arms over her chest. "Hmm...I guess, you are." She sighed, after a moment.
"As I said before. I am alright." I said, giving them a watery smile.
"Is there something you need to tell us?" Narcissa asked, looking at me before walking towards me.
"I know why Andi is coming." I croaked, clearing my throat before continuing. "She does have the information I asked for." I confirmed, standing up before inclining my head for them to follow me.
Watching as they both stiffened when I told them I knew why Ted and Andi would be coming, careful to not reveal why.
All three of us waved our hands together, making the charms disappear before we exited the room.
We slowly made our way down to the common room, where we were met by Tom and the boys along with Evangeline.
"Eva, nice to see you. Come, I need to speak with you before we head to lunch in the Great Hall." I said as the girls followed me out of the common room.
"If any of you follow the ladies and me, there will be repercussions. Don't do it. I will know." I said without looking back.
"We should be allowed to know what this is about." Bastan called from behind us.
"Tell everyone who belongs in the Alliance to meet me tomorrow morning, in the Great Hall. All you need to know is that it doesn't pertain to you. So, quit following or I'll hex you." I replied coolly, causing the girls to giggle.
'Do you honestly have to be so distant?' Tom asked as he pushed into my mind.
'I'll tell you what I know tomorrow. Alone. After Andi and Ted leave. This is important, that is the only thing you need to know that for now.'I replied, sighing as we disappeared around the corner.
I let out a sigh in relief as we made our way out of the castle down the steep hill and into the small cottage just on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.