Draco Malfoy sat on the dock reading a book while his twin sister lied adjacent to him, her head in his lap, looking up at the clouds. She was humming one of the songs her mother used to sing when she and Draco were young.

"The sun is starting to set, should we go inside?" Draco asked her

"No. I just want to stay a bit longer." Elara said, looking up at him. He nodded his head and then turned back to his book. Elara looked at the picturesque sunset before her. She heard footsteps and turned to see Harry Potter, walking through the entrance of the dock house. Elara sat up and Draco closed his book.

Harry looked worried but when he saw Draco his face calmed. Elara wondered what had worried him.

"Hey you." Harry smiled, sitting next to Draco.

"Hey." Draco smiled back and then kissed Draco. Elara rolled her eyes.

Not a moment later Ginevra Weasley walked through the door of the dock house. Elara smiled brightly.

Ginny sat down next to Elara and Elara noticed the cuts in her uniform and on her face. Elara's eyebrows furrowed in worry.

"The hell happened to you?" Elara asked

"Couple of 6th year Slytherin girls were bullying a group of third year Hufflepuffs so I fought them." She said simply.

"Who won?"

"Who do you think?"

"You?"

"Yeah right."

"Want me to beat them up?" Elara asked, moving hair out of Ginny's face so she could inspect her cuts.

"No. What I would like you to do however, is help me address my wounds and then help me fix my robes." Ginny replied.

"That I can do." Elara stood up and then offered her hand to Ginny. Ginny took it and Elara lifted her. "Come on boys."

Draco stood and Harry followed. The two walked secretly hand in hand behind the two girls so they wouldn't be seen. They snuck into the Slytherin common room and then into Draco, Ginny, and Elara's room.

"Sit." Elara ordered to Ginny. She began grabbing supplies and then walked back over to Ginny. Harry walked over and stood behind Elara's shoulder, an overwhelming look of worry across his face.

"I'm fine Harry. Don't worry." Ginny assured him.

"I'm your brother Gin. I always worry about you." He replied. She smiled and Elara pretended to gag, earning a small laugh from her brother.

Harry elbowed him.

Elara finished tending to Ginny's wounds and then used magic to fix her robes.

"Good as new." Elara claimed.

"Thanks El. I owe you one."

"Shut up, no you don't." Elara said, throwing a pair of Gryffindor pajamas at Ginny, one of the pairs she left in their room because she slept there every night.

Their friendship, however unlikely, was never a secret. Ginny had been very nervous about making friends, seeing as in the year they met Ginny was being controlled by Voldemort, unbeknownst to Elara who had become in enraged to learn about that fact at the end of the year.

Elara and Ginny were both late to their classes and they were running in opposite directions in opposite hallways and they turned the corner only to run into each other head on. Elara stood up and apologized only to have Ginny scoot backwards.

"I'm not gonna hurt you. I promise." Elara said. "I really didn't didn't mean to hit you."

She held out her hand and Ginny cautiously took it. Elara walked her to her potions class and told Snape that she had run into her on the way to class and it was Elara's fault that she was late. Ginny was surprised. Then Elara picked her up from class and walked her to her next one. Then she did it again. Then she took her to the library after classes.

As much as she didn't want to admit it, Elara had no friends either, other than her brother. The two kind of needed each other.

The day Elara found out about Ginny she was very upset.

"What do you mean Ginny was the one who opened the chamber of secrets?" Elara asked Dumbledore who stood across from her while she sat in the chair next to Ginny's hospital bed.

"She was being controlled by Voldemort through what seems to be a journal your father slipped to her." Dumbledore responded calmly. Elara then became furious, she threw herself up out of her chair in anger.

"WHAT?!"

She had woken Ginny.

That was almost four years ago.

Now Ginny practically lived in Elara and Draco's room. She had her own section of the wardrobe and all of her toiletries had become mixed in with Elara's.

"Hey Harry, it's almost curfew. If you aren't out of our room in three minutes I will kick you out and hope you get points taken!" Elara called from the bathroom as she washed her face. Ginny laughed from in the shower which was behind Elara. Harry groaned and laid back on Draco's bed. Elara poked her head out the door, her toothbrush now in her mouth. She pulled it out and smiled at him. She spit out her toothpaste in the sink then looked again to see if he was still laying there, and he was. "Now."

"Fine." He pouted. He stood up and looked towards the bathroom. "Night Ginny! Night El! Love you both!"

"Love you too!" They screamed in unison. Harry turned to Draco.

"Love you. Goodnight." Harry said. Draco smiled and kissed him.

"Love you, goodnight. See you tomorrow, you arse." He replied as Harry walked towards the door

"If you are so lucky ferret." He called as departed the room. Ginny turned off the shower and stepped out in a towel. Elara left the room and took a deep breath. Draco walked into the bathroom to shower. Elara brushed Ginny's hair and then she put it into two French braids. Ginny smiled and then laid down in her and Elara's bed.

Elara said goodnight to her and Ginny fell asleep immediately. Elara walked into the bathroom as Draco was washing off his toothbrush.

"Shit." Elara said, rubbing her forehead and sitting on the counter.

"Still feel it?" Draco asked. Elara nodded her head.

"Yeah." She muttered.

"Still getting worse?"

"Gets harder to hide it everyday"

"Maybe you should te-"

"No. I won't. I'm not doing that." Elara interrupted.

"I don't know what else to tell you El. That's the only thing to do." He said

"Yeah I know."

Pause.

"I'm gonna go to bed. Love you." She hopped off the counter and Draco pulled her into a hug. He kissed her on the forehead and she smiled.

"Love you too. Night El."

"Goodnight Dray."

Elara walked over to her bed and laid down. She looked at Ginny the turned the opposite direction. She closed her eyes and breathed in.

She had been best friends with Ginevra Weasley for three and a half years and she had been in love with her for three of them. The worst part was that her feelings grew stronger the more time she spent with her and she spent all of her time with her.

Currently the only time she spent away from her was classes and that almost hurt more than being with her.

Elara looked back over towards Ginny and smiled. She was in for it deep.

"Fuck"

Elara looked at the sun outside the window for a moment and then looked over at Ginny. She admired her for a moment and then shook her.

"Ginevra." She said soothingly. Ginny's face turned the other direction.

"Ginny." She said it a bit louder but still nothing.

"Ginny!" She was much louder this time and Ginny not only got up but she fell out of the bed entirely. Elara caught her before she fell with a spell and then looked down at her. She let her touch the ground and then she began laughing.

"You okay?" Elara asked. Ginny rolled over.

"Yeah. I'm fine." Ginny laid there for a second and then she started laughing. Elara sat back up and looked at her brother. She threw a pillow at him.

"Wake up!" She screamed. He sat up and looked at her. She smiled at him.

"Morning sleepyhead." She said. He glared at her, threw the pillow back, and then looked around. Ginny had finally stood up and she was walking towards the bathroom. Elara stood and walked in as well. She went to the shower and turned it on. She looked up at the mirror to see Ginny looking at her only to look down quickly and blush. Elara smiled, shut the curtain and then stepped into the shower, throwing the towel the had been wearing over the top bar so it wouldn't get wet.

Ginny wasn't in the bathroom when Elara got out but Draco was. Elara got dressed and then walked forward to the mirror. She dried her hair and then she curled it. Her makeup was quick, she had it on a system by now. She stared at her reflection for a moment and then she exited the bathroom.

"Ready?" She asked the two in front of her.

"Yeah." Ginny smiled.

"Yes." Draco said after. She smiled and then looped her and Ginny's arms. The three of them walked out of the room to meet Blaise and Pansy. The five of them walked to the Great Hall together.

Once there Ginny separated with Elara and went to the Gryffindor table. Elara took a deep breath and then followed her brother. He looked at her.

"You okay?"

"I never think it's possible but I wake up in the morning, look at her, and I'm more in love with her than I was before." She replied, sitting down next to him. She grabbed toast and some orange juice.

"You really should-"

"Tell her. I know." Elara looked over at Ginny and then she looked at Draco. "Sorry to report I don't think that is ever going to happen."

Draco didn't reply.

Elara wasn't paired with Draco as usual, Harry was. With Snape, Elara knew it was malicious, in an attempt to mess up Harry's day because Harry 'hated' Draco. Elara was paired with Weasley.

"Hey." She said, smiling and sitting down next to him. He looked at her.

"Hello." He replied, not even looking at her. She nodded her head in understanding and set down her stuff. She grabbed the ingredients and sat down. Elara began to put stuff together and Ron stirred, never saying a word. When the class was over, Elara grabbed her stuff and met Ginny outside.

"Hey you." Ginny said, nudging her. Elara smiled.

"Hey." She replied. In this moment, the one where Ginny grabbed Elara's hand, Ron walked out with Hermione and Harry and saw them. He looked at Ginny and Elara then scoffed.

"Dykes." He murmured under his breath. It didn't seem like he was attempting to be particularly offensive, he was just talking without thinking.

"Ron!" Hermione yelped in surprise. Harry looked at him and then punched him in the face.

Elara pulled Harry back from doing it again, but he got free. He ran up to Ron and Ron pushed him. There was an actual fight.

Hermione grabbed Ron and Elara grabbed Harry again.

"Harry, he isn't worth it!" She told him. Harry continued to struggle.

She dragged him away and Ginny followed. Draco met them in the room.

"Harry James, what was that?!" Draco yelled. Elara began cleaning his wounds and she looked at his broken nose.

"Ron called them Dykes." Harry explained, holding a tissue to his nose as directed. Draco's face turned from one of worry to one of anger.

"What?" He was very upset, you could hear it in his voice.

"Look, he thinks we are together and that makes him annoyed. He just doesn't think before her speaks. He's hot headed, he lets his emotions control him. He assumes I'm a dark witch trying to corrupt his baby sister." Elara explained, before cracking Harry's nose into place, earring a grunt.

"Blimey El." Harry muttered, holding his nose.

"That gives him no reason to insult who you are!" Draco yelled, ignoring Harry and staring t his sister.

"I know that but I'm not going to fight him because it's pointless."

"Well I wasn't gonna let him get away with being an arse." Harry told them. Elara smiled and Ginny did too. They locked hands and stared at each other for a moment. Then looked away. Draco kissed Harry and Elara told him that he was as good as new.

The four of them went to the docks.

"Harry?" Elara asked, sitting across from him in the library on a Sunday morning.

"Yes El?" He replied, looking over at her.

"What's been going on with you lately?" She asked him. He looked down.

"Nothing Elara. I don't get what you mean."

"Harry James Potter, if you think I haven't noticed your tired looks of worry then you are very wrong. I'm the closest thing you have to a sister other than Ginny and I know when somethings up so spit it out." She replied. He looked at her.

"I've been having nightmares." He said, almost embarrassed.

"What?"

"At first I just kept seeing Cedric die. I watched it a thousand times but then they started to change. The dreams became so much worse. Ones where you and Ginny and Draco die. Or Sirius. It's always my family that dies and it's always my fault. It's killing me El. Slowly but surely I can feel my soul being ripped out piece by piece. I don't know what to do but every time I close my eyes I feel like someone's in trouble and then someone is and then they're dead." He told her. Elara frowned.

"Have you told anyone other than me about this?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"I don't want people worrying about my problems." He looked down again.

"And what about your hand?" Elara asked. Harry's eyes widened and he looked up. "Of course I noticed. You're very bad at hiding things from me but almost everyone is so don't be upset about it."

"It's nothing."

"You have the words 'I must not tell lies' deeply scared into your hands. That's not nothing. Umbridge has no right to torture you as punishment." Elara replied coolly.

"When did you find out?" Harry asked after a brief moment of silence.

"I knew something was up with your hand for a while because you had been messing with it and hiding it. I saw it yesterday when you had a lapse in memory for a moment and forgot to hide it. I put the pieces together." Elara said. "Umbridge is the only person here who is evil enough and insane enough to pull shit like that."

Harry stared at her.

"You tell Draco?" Harry asked after a moment.

"No. He saw it when I did. He figured that's why you've been acting so strange but I knew something else was up. You've been like this since before the first days of classes." Elara told him.

"He mad?"

"At Umbridge? Yeah, He's pissed. At you, no. He's just worried." Elara told him. Harry smiled sadly and then gathered his stuff.

"So am I." And with that, he stood up, kissed her on the forehead, and then he left. Elara walked back to her room and she laid down in the bed.

She took deep breaths and assured herself that everything was going to be okay soon. She just had to stay calm.

She had never been more wrong in her life.