Chapter Four
If I hear Voices Everywhere, Does That Mean I'm Going mad?
"Come… come to me… Let me rip you… Let me tear you… Let me kill you…"
Hope gave a loud shriek, her books made contact with the stone ground, their loud crashing sound echoed throughout the corridors. Ginny gave a small mouse-like jump and turned to see if her friend was still intact.
"What's the matter?" She asked, her red hair falling into her face as she picked up Hope's schoolbooks. "Something wrong Hope?"
Hope Malfoy looked around the hallway; no one was there but Ginny and herself. Puzzled, she took her books back from the youngest Weasley and asked, "Did you hear that voice?" Ginny shock her head, her long red lock, flying in every direction as she did so.
"No… only the sound of your cry and your books… why? Did you hear something?"
A single part of her mind screamed 'DON"T TELL HER!!!' But why shouldn't I? She asked herself as they started to walk down the corridor, why shouldn't I tell Ginny- she's my best friend! Her other half of her mind was silent for a moment then it spoke up again. Cause hearing voices usually means one is going insane. "Oh." Hope muttered softly. Yeah, best not tell any one then….
"Hey Ginny what's our next-" Hope turned around to ask her a question, but Ginny was gone. "… Ginny?"
Suddenly, the corridors seemed much bigger and more frightening then before, without her friend her side every thing seemed so much bigger then Hope was. "This isn't funny Ginny!" She called out. No one answered her calls, not even a snicker of mirth could be herd. "Hello…. Is any one here?"
More silence. Unnerved by all of this, Hope took flight and began to hurry down the corridor at a very fast pace, calling out her friend's name as she went. "Ginny? Please- you have my books!" Or "Please stop it- this isn't funny!"
"Hey watch it!" Hope had collided with another student, both where sent to floor, textbooks clattered loudly as they hit the floor. "Stupid can't you watch were you-"
Draco stopped and starred at his sister. Oh no… He quickly started to pack up his belongings, No, no, no! The one person I DIDN'T want to run into! Their hands touched on top of Travels with Trolls, for it had seemed that Hope had too started to pick up his books.
"Er…"
"Sorry…" Hope muttered, hurriedly pulling her hand back, face a slight pink.
Neither Malfoy spoke, the silence settled over the halls like a fresh blank of snow. It was, eerie to them how deeply they started into one another's eyes- it had only been two day's since their argument and rumors were already flying every were. Draco broke the silence.
"So… any new happen?" He got to his feet, Hope followed his movement and she too stood up.
"Not really… unless you count Ginny doing a vanishing trick and running of all my books- no. Nothings new at all."
Malfoy snickered slightly and they began to walk down the hall, the mood was lightening up, nothing could go wrong once Hope was happy or so he thought. Things were about to take a turn for the worst.
"… Rip… tear… kill…" Hope's screeched echoed off the walls, causing Draco to once again drop his books.
"What did you yell for?" He asked her in annoyed tone.
She gave a small shudder and looked to see were to murderous voice had come from.
"T-there was… a v-voice…"
Draco gave her a puzzled look, the one that Ginny had bore on her face not long ago.
"I heard nothing…"
"Soo hungry… for so long…" The voice seemed to be nearing them, Hope was looking franticly for the person or creature to which it belonged too.
"Look, I don't hear-"
"Then shut up and listen!" she snapped at her brother.
Taken back by this, Draco closed his mouth and… in a certain way, opened his ears.
"… Kill… time to kill…" The sound was moving closer and closer to the two Malfoy's.
"I hear a hissing sound…" He said unsurely.
"LOOK!" Hope yelled.
Draco turned his head and saw, coming out of a nearby picture of a Unicorn, was a giant head. He let out a blood-curdling scream, dropped his books again, grabbed Hope and ran for it.
"Don't run… let me kill you!"
Hope screamed along side Draco, both running for their dears sweet lives, never once looking back.
"Ah! Draco!"
Draco stopped, realizing that his sister had fallen to the ground, her leg bent in a funny direction. Shit, no! The monster had not yet caught up to them, so using what little time they had left, Draco rushed over and tried pull Hope to her feet.
"Ow! Stop it brother- that hurts!" It was pointless, he knew he could not move her for fear of hurting her more and if her tried and took to long the monster would find them- and kill them both. "Get out of here!" Hope yelled at him. "Get away from here!"
"Not without you I'm not!"
Time had run out, the creature's forehead was peeping out of another corridor.
"…I found you…" It hissed.
Draco took hold of his little sister, embracing her in his arms. Small tears flood down his cheek onto her dirty blond hair.
"Close your eyes…. I've been told it hurts less like that…" he muttered into Hope's ear. "I'm not leaving you to die, if you then I go too!"
Draco…. Hope obeyed her brother's orders and shut her eyes; it all went dark. Draco too closed his eyes letting his sight be plunged into thick blackness. The hissing sound that only Draco could understand grew closer, Hope heard it muttering on how it would rip them to little pieces, their dirty blood spilled all over the walls.
"… Wait…" it hissed, "You… you two… both… pureblooded…" She wished to open her eyes to know what was hissing at them but she kept her eyes shut tight thinking better then to open them. "One… one is HIS heir… the girl… Girl?" It was hissing at her, Draco flinched. "Can you… you understand me?" Hope nodded her head. "Then… I… I can't not kill… such... such a pity…" The sound of movement grew fainter and fainter by the second; soon there was no sound at all, nothing but the sound of the two Malfoy's ragged breaths.
"I-is… is it gone?" Draco asked her.
"I-I… I think so…"
Both opened their eyes… they were alone… nothing had changed. Draco's books lay somewhere in a neighboring corridor and the walls were as clean as ever. It was almost like the whole thing had never happened.
"Wha… what just happened?" Draco asked his sister, still a little nervous about getting up.
"I… don't know- I wish I did… but I don't…"
The older of the two stood up, pulling Hope onto his back as he did so. "Come on," he muttered "Let's get you to the infirmary."
"But your books-"
"I can get them later… what matters at the moment is that I see to it that your in one piece and that we get the HELL outta here!"
Draco carried his sister up flight after flight, some how he ended up on the second floor, still carrying his wounded sister.
"So…" he asked, trying to strike up another conversation. "How did you hurt your self?"
"I was running with you and I slipped- must have landed on my leg on wrong..." Hope's voice died down as they passed a nearby wall, something was written on it. "D-Draco… look…"
"Do I REALY want too?" He turned his head and let out a loud gasp. On the wall, written ether in red ink or blood was:
THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.
"Oooh dear… look at what's next to it." Hope turned her head and nearly screamed. Mrs. Norris, the caretaker's cat was hanging by its tail from a lit torch, she was as stiff as a bored, her round cat eyes starring emotionlessly at them.
"Oh… my… god…" Was all Hope could must up for words.
"Yeah… p-pretty scary…."
Then every thing went from bad- to worse. Ever herd of Murphy's Law? It this saying that goes something like this, 'what ever can go wrong- WILL go wrong!' It was an unpleasant saying but a most accurate one at that, for you see just as Draco said those very words a mass of students came clattering down a nearby hall from dinner. They stopped at starred, horror struck at what was presented before them.
"Oh my god! Is the Mr.Filch's cat?" Some yelled.
"Chamber of Secrets… what's that?" Asked another.
"I bet it was the Malfoy's who did it!" another yelled.
Hooo boy… Hope thought. This day just keeps just REALLY seems to hate me…
"What's going on?" Every turned their heads, and then in a hearts beets movement, moved out of the way. Filch loud out a shriek of terror at the sight of his beloved pet.
"MALFOY!!!" He rounded on Draco and Hope, his eyes shown with murderous intentions. "YOU- YOU MURDERED MY CAT!!!"
"No- we found her- Hope- her leg's-"
"I'LL MURDER YA' BOTH!!!"
"Argus!" Dumbledore put a soothing hand on Filch's shoulder. "Do not believe that Miss and Mr. Malfoy here have anything to do with the petrified cat. I simply believe that they were at the wrong place and the wrong time." he turned to Face Hope and Draco, his light-blue eye's shinning through their half-mooned spectacles.
"I believe that it is time for bed… perfects would you please lead your houses back their rooms- Draco I suggest you take your sister to the infirmary. Minerva please round up the rest of the teachers for me would you?"
Professor McGonagall gave Dumbledore a swift nod and set of to work. "Hufflepuff's/Slytherin's/Gryffindor's/ Ravencalw's this way!" the prefects called out to each individual houses. The hallway, now cleared, left only the Malfoy siblings and Headmaster Dumbledore.
"Please Dumbledore," Hope cried. "We're innocent! Draco and I haven't done anything wrong we-"
"Didn't you hear me say 'simply at the wrong place at the wrong time?' No, you two could not have Petrified Mrs. Norris, no that was much stronger Dark magic then ether of you two combined could have done- and with your left leg broken I highly doubt you could have even harm a fly."
Hope starred at Dumbledore in disbelief. She was purely amazed that he thought BOTH of them were innocent.
"Well?" He asked them after a long pause. "Hurry up to Madam Pomfrey, she's expecting you two." Dumbledore smiled at the two Malfoy's. Draco nodded his head and left the headmaster standing alone in the wet-puddle hallway.
"Lucky break, huh?" He asked her as they climbed the steps up to the infirmary.
Hope shook her head, dirty blond hairs flying every direction.
"No," she said in a cold voice, "it's not lucky… just wait and see- tomorrow every one's going to be accusing you and me of the Mrs. Norris stunt." And I'll be considered no better then Draco… I never wanted any of this to happen! Why? Why god? Why do you hate me so much!??!
Yes it seems God does not like our little fuzzy friend... sighs, oh well that be me fault but- it makes a good story! Yeah I finally got the Chamber of Secrets in the Fanfic! now the story can really get going... hmmm... I still deciding wether or not to make this HarryXOC or DracoXOC... it's a hard choice- but I'm also thinking of making a next series for this, ether the 4th book or the 5th book... both are really good ones to mess with. Please tell me which one would be better? Thanks!- Hope
(and yes that is my realy name... I was going to name the girl Sara... but writing that name down over and over again would make me think of a girl who USED to be my friend... so I put my own name down for fun and it sounded cooler anyway...)