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Chapter 25: Down the Rabbit Hole

After one small hiccup where Harry showed off his apparently brilliant creepy ghost voice, we made it to the forbidden corridor with no trouble. Then Harry turned to us.

"You can still turn back." He said solemnly.

I rolled my eyes. "No way, you're stuck with us dude."

Ron and Hermione nodded.

Ignoring the harp, I began to sing the song I found most appropriate for the situation to calm the beast.

"Help, I need somebody
Help, not just anybody
Help, you know I need someone
Help!

When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now these days are gone I'm not so self-assured
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors"

Here, I pointed at them to go through the trapdoor first.

"Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?"

After that I jumped in too. And landed on some Devil's Snare.

"This is Devil's Snare, it hates light and warmth!" Hermione exclaimed.

"So light a fire!" Ron gasped and the plant started crushing his lungs. It had wrapped pretty tightly around my legs while I was stunned.

"But there's no wood!" Hermione panicked.

"Hermione, you know that piece of polished wood you're holding? You can say some fancy words and it will make a lovely fire like you used on Snape!" I said with maximum sarcasm as I struggled against this stupid plant.

Hermione blinked, facepalmed, and then lit the fire.

"Lucky you pay attention in Herbology!" Harry gasped, rubbing his chest.

"Lucky Kayla doesn't panic in emergencies! 'There's no wood', honestly." Ron grumbled.

"This way." Harry said as we started to move forward again.

The next room was filled with flying keys. I saw a bit of Flitwick style in this challenge. Since Harry is the best flier, we just followed his orders for us to corner the key we needed. The next room, though, was all McGonagall.

A giant chess game. Lucky for us that Ron's a genius at chess. Too bad he's a self-sacrificing git, though.

"It's the only way for us to win!" Ron stated firmly.

"But you're going to get hurt!" I tried to plead with him, knowing it was futile.

"It's the only way we're going to catch Snape in time!" He retorted and then moved. And then got hurled across the room.

"No!" I screamed.

Harry quickly made the winning move and I ran over to my twin.

"Please be okay, please be okay,…" I kept murmuring as I fluttered my hands around him. I turned to see Harry and Hermione just standing there. "Why are you still here? My brother didn't get himself beat up for you not to go get that stone! I'm going to take him to the Hospital Wing and get ya'll some back up! Now get! And if either of you die, I'll kill you!"

Without waiting for their response, I hefted Ron onto my back 'piggy-back' style and started walking back to the key room. I made myself firmly focus on my purpose so that I wouldn't think about my friends who are still in danger.

Once, I had flown us up past Fluffy. I got Ron back on my back and made my way as quickly as possible towards the Hospital Wing. I met Dumbledore in the entrance hall.

"They've gone after him, haven't they?" He asked. I had barely nodded before he fled to the blasted corridor.

I was having quite the time trying to move by the time I got my brother and I to the Hospital Wing.

"Madame *gasp* Pomfrey!" I called out as best as I could as I carefully heaped Ron onto one bed and fell back on another.

"Gracious! What did you two get yourselves into this time?!" Madame Pomfrey questioned incredulously.

"Well you know that forbidden corridor?" I began.

She levelled me a gimlet stare. "You didn't."

"Well Dumbledore wasn't here and no one would believe us when we said that someone was gonna get the Stone. So we took matters into our own hands. Don't worry, Dumbledore's back and gonna fix it, though." I gushed out in one breath.

She handed me some bruise balm for where the Devil's Snare got me, whilst grumbling about reckless students and negligent teachers.

Now all I can do is wait.

~oOo~

A little while later, Hermione joined me in the waiting game.

"Of course Harry would end up alone." I sighed, stroking Ron's hair. Apparently, he was just sleeping now.

An hour later, Dumbledore brought in an unconscious and pale Harry with a grim expression.

Hermione and I held each other as Madame Pomfrey worked frantically over our friend.

An hour and a half later, she said all we can do is wait for him to wake up on his own.

She then made us leave.

~oOo~

Ron joined us the next morning in our pacing in front of the Hospital Wing (Madame Pomfrey wouldn't allow us in).

Darren came up and timidly asked if I wanted to push off the band auditions. I was about to bite his head off when Hermione said, "You should go. You know Harry would just guilt himself if he found out you put this off for him."

I wanted to disagree, but I knew that she was right. "You tell me if there's even the slightest change. I don't care if that means interrupting an audition."

~oOo~

"Are you alright?" Darren asked as we made our way to the empty classroom next to the Muggle Studies room that we had set up with our instruments and a fold out table with parchment and quills for us to make notes with.

"Physically, I'm fine. Otherwise, I'm a wreck because Harry still hasn't woken up. He looked so pale, Darren." I spoke shakily and he gathered me in for a hug.

"Well, let's get this over with so you can go back to your vigil." He said softly.

~oOo~

After listening to several poor attempts at drumming I was about to tear my hair out. Especially after that last Gryffindor second year, Cormac McLaggen, was so focused on sneering at Darren that he didn't realize that he was off-beat and holding the drumsticks backward.

"Why does Fate hate us so much, Dare? What did we do to it?" I asked hollowly staring at my notes which were pretty much swears and drawings of cats.

"There, there. We only have one more." He comforted with a slight smirk.

Just then, this adorably pig-tailed Asian Ravenclaw came in. "Hi, I'm Su Li. I hope you like my drumming."

And then she started playing the drum part to Black Veil Brides' "Unbroken."

"Oh, hell yes!" I exclaimed, jumping in on piano while Darren started the guitar and then by some working of magic we all began singing at the same time.

"Now you're adrift in a sea of lies
A foolish villain in an endless chapter
The demons writhing behind your eyes
A simple shadow we can fight together

I'll never walk away!
Tear down the walls that will surround
Cry out above the burning sound
Show me a bleeding heart still pounds
If we stand together, we will be unbroken

We carry forward into the nights
The strength of innocence like children's laughter
An army standing for what is right
We'll fall like angels if we lose what matters

I will not walk away!
Tear down the walls that will surround
Cry out above the burning sound
Show me a bleeding heart still pounds
If we stand together, we will be unbroken

(Whoa whoa...) [2x]

We will not walk away
Tear down the walls that will surround
Cry out above the burning sound
Show me a bleeding heart still pounds
If we stand together, we will be unbroken

Tear down the walls that will surround
Cry out above the burning sound
Show me a bleeding heart still pounds
If we stand together, we will be unbroken"

Darren and I shared a glance before we turned to the petite drummer and exclaimed, "You're in!"

"Thank you!" Su exclaimed.

"No, thank you! I thought Kayla was about to stab herself with a quill before you showed up. I'm Darren by the way." Darren exclaimed, shaking her hand.

"Yeah, yeah. So Tom from the Leaky Cauldron owled me back and said we could practice there over the summer. I'll owl you the details unless you have a phone, then I'll call." I said quickly, I really wanted to get back to the Hospital Wing.

"While my mom is a muggleborn, we don't have a phone. Sorry." Su explained. "My dad kept forgetting not to use magic around them and they kept exploding."

"So you can look for my decrepit owl, then." I smiled slightly. "I've got to go, one of my friend is still in the Hospital Wing."

And just like that, I'm back to waiting.

~oOo~