Thanks to my friend, Aerith4you, for giving me the answer to my question of whether or not the necklace should be a Horcrux. And the answer is: you'll have to read on and see. And don't worry, potter-me-, Vanessa will have her chance to be important very soon…I also realized that I haven't really had the HP characters do much, and there hasn't been much romance between the two pairings there…there's also not enough fluff on either side for me to be happy, so this chapter will be mainly building fluff. Hmm…I've got nobody monitoring one of the pairings…okay, I'll now put in Vanessa's POV. There, now there are two people for the HP side, and two for the GoT side! Yay! Oh, and you'll get to learn a bit more about Clara, Kyle, Jacob, and Vanessa in the next two chapters.

Chapter 5

Kyle

Everybody watches the necklace intently. Those of us who know what the spell does are looking specifically for that, while everyone else is just waiting. Finally, after about 2 minutes, the necklace glows green. Harry breathes a sigh of relief mixed with frustration; relief that this wasn't the final Horcrux so he won't have to fight Voldemort anytime soon, and frustration that now we have to keep looking.

"Well?" Matt asks.

"Not it," Hermione replies.

"In that case…" Isabel grabs it from the table and places it around her neck again.

"So now what are you guys going to do?" Neriah asks.

"I don't know…probably search the rest of Angel Falls until we find the real Horcrux." Hermione sighs before rubbing her eyes.

Ron notices this and says, "But we should probably turn in for the night first."

Everyone else agrees; it's already 11:00 at night! We all walk outside except for Arkarian, and Clara and I branch off away from everyone else to walk to her place. As we walk, I notice for the first time just how pretty she looks. Her hair always looks beautiful, even though it's only red in the sunlight, and I've always been a fan of dark eyes. Mine are about 5 shades too light.

She looks at me, and I know that I haven't been shielding my thoughts. Not my fault! I only just learned today that these people can do that stuff!

"It's called Truthseeing, and not all of us can do it," Clara informs me. "Only me, Rochelle, Arkarian, Matt, and Neriah."

"Oh. Well, forgive me for getting the term wrong, but I just learned about it today!"

"It's not my fault that you only learned it today," she counters. "If you lot had proven a little more trustworthy earlier on, then we'd have told you a while ago!"

"Don't get on my case about trust!" I say, feeling my anger rise with my voice. "You people were even harder to trust, and now we learn that you were reading our minds all along! I wouldn't call that very trustworthy."

She looks down. I appear to have hit something. "I know. I'm sorry, but it had to be done. You've got to understand that we've all been through a whole lot, and it's come to the point where we can't just trust anyone off the bat. When they first found me, I had to wait about 4 months before they could fully trust me. Of course, it helped that I had my two skills with me, otherwise it would have taken about a year."

"Hang on, two skills? I thought you only had one." She looks up at me, and I see panic in her eyes.

"Um…did I say two? I meant only one. Okay, let's get a move on; my mum rented all four Scary Movies and Epic Movie for us to watch tonight." She starts to move forward faster, but I grab her wrist.

"Hold it, Clara," I say with a commanding tone in my voice. "You still haven't told me what your second skill is yet. If you don't tell me, I'm just going to ask one of the others."

"They wouldn't be able to tell you, because I haven't told them I even have a second skill."

"And why not?"

She stops and her eyes stare straight into mine. "Because, Kyle, I'm too ashamed of it to tell anyone."

Her answer has me surprised. "What? Why would you be ashamed of a skill?"

Her eyes look at the ground again. "I don't want to talk about it." She turns slowly and starts walking away again.

"Come on! Please?"

"NO!" Clara spins around extremely quickly, and her dark blue eyes turn lighter than mine. A huge gust of wind knocks me on my back, so hard that I pass out.

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Vanessa

Even though I've been staying with Jacob for somewhere around a month now, we've still never talked about ourselves. I think it's because both of us are too scared to admit our feelings for one another. At least, I hope that he likes me…

We get to his place and he unlocks the door. I remember asking him the first night where his parents are, and he didn't respond right away. When he did, all he said was "dead". I decide to ask again, and see if he'll tell me this time.

"You know," I start, "You still haven't told me what happened to your parents."

He closes the door behind us, and I can't help but notice his hands shaking slightly as he does so. "Maybe…we'd better sit down."

We walk into the living room and I sit on a chair while he sits on the couch opposite me. Jacob takes a deep breath before beginning. "I was six. I had just gotten home from my first day of school (I was allowed to walk on my own, since we lived right across the street from the school), and my mum was waiting for me. As soon as I walked in the door, the dinner that Mum was cooking started to burn." His voice cracks a little, and I see a tear leak out of one of his closed eyes. "I was scared half to death, so naturally, I couldn't move. Mum screamed and grabbed me, pulling me out of the way since the fire was already spreading towards me. Unfortunately, in doing so, she put herself right in the way of the flames, and they consumed her.

"I fainted in shock, but instead of not hearing anything, I heard a little voice telling me that it was all my fault, that I caused the fire. My rational side, even at that age, was telling me that I didn't, that it was only an accident, but then the voice reminded me that the flames leapt up when I came inside." By now, there are thick tears streaming down both his cheeks, and I feel a few leak out of mine as well. "I woke up to my father calling my name, and I saw that I was in a hospital. When I asked what happened, I was told that the firefighters put out the fire, but by the time somebody called, my mum's body had already been reduced to ash. The only thing they found of her was her silver necklace, somehow untouched by the flames.

"Apparently, I was found on the floor with flames all over my body, but I only had one or two burns. They kept me in the hospital for a few more days, just to make sure that I was really okay before they sent me home with my dad. He couldn't handle living without my mum, and he'd never liked me, so he killed himself a few days after I got home. I lived in an orphanage until about 3 years ago, and I decided that I wanted to move as far away from my old place as possible for a 13 year old, and came here, to Angel Falls."

I get up off my chair and go sit by Jacob, putting an arm around him comfortingly. "Hey, it's alright." I'm about to say, "At least you knew your parents", but I don't want him to worry over my problems when he has his own.

For a little while, the two of us sit there like that, until I let out a huge yawn. He looks at me and grins. "I guess that means it's bedtime," he says matter-of-factly.

I just nod. Jacob gets off the couch and grabs a pillow and blanket for me. I lie down and fall asleep almost instantly.

Yeah, I'm pretty evil. But that's nothing to what I'm going to do in future chapters…mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!! Please review! I value your input!