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Alanis and Draco spent the whole morning in the Room of Requirement, skipping their classes and letting that poor bird pass several times, just to be sure that everything worked out.

The process got easier with every short travel and Draco could feel how he improved with performing the magic that the Cabinet needed to create secure and safe passageways.

Alanis was a great teacher and Draco had already noticed that the Cabinet obeyed her much more than him, which he justified with the intense reparations she had done on it. But it was just admirable to see her touching it, feeling it, as if she was connected to it.

It seemed that this particular Cabinet just became hers.

After some hours, Alanis finally took some steps back, her expression brightened and she smiled at him, which he just wasn't able to return. Why, the hell, did he still not feel comfortable with her, even if he knew what she meant to him?

"We finally have to try it out on ourselves, Draco. We have to know if the Cabinet is ready to transport humans.", Alanis said and Draco flinched as she drew nearer to him and he once more caught a gentle breeze of her hypnotizing scent.

"You want to try it out? That's too risky!"

Alanis just smiled warmly at him and reached out to open the door of the Cabinet, but Draco grabbed her arm to hold her back.

"I believe in my skills, Draco. I feel that it is ready. And it will work if you cast the spell properly as you did the last hours."

Although she fend against him, he managed to drag her some steps away.

"I won't let you go inside that thing, Alanis! There is a big difference between a little bird and a human being! Remember, that have been your words too!"

Alanis sighed and tried to free herself from his grip which he felt that would actually hurt her. But he therefore tightened it and felt how his nails scored her flesh.

"But would the Dark Lord be satisfied with birds? Wouldn't he want you to prove that it works?", she asked and bit her lip and she flinched as his grab around her wrist tightened even more.

He fought with himself, beads of perspiration covered his forehead. She would see the wheels in his mind rotate and he loosened the grip around her arm. He took some eager steps to the Cabinet, lifted his arm and let his hand run down the dark wood.

"He doesn't really care, Alanis. The Dark Lord doesn't believe me to success, he only wants Dumbledore dead, no matter if some deatheaters invade the school or not. I'm still out of time.", he mumbled and opened the door. Draco took one step into the Cabinet, but Alanis rushed forward.

"What are you doing?"

"I will be the one passing. I won't let you risk being locked up inside that bloody Cabinet, or even return dead.", he said and pushed her back, with a severe expression on his face. But then Alanis quickly pulled out her wand and pointed it at him.

"Don't take any step further, Malfoy."

He hesitated at the creepy sound of her voice and looked at her, cocking his eyebrows as he saw her pointing her wand at him. But he couldn't even glimpse before her face grew angry, as he noticed her being in that same mood as he had been at the Astronomy tower. For his taste, there was too much rage within her, too much rage between them.

"Put your wand away, Alanis. I won't argue, that's senseless. I will pass."

Alanis closed her eyes quickly and looked at him once again, as if she just cooled herself down. But as she spoke another time, her voice shook and sounded much heavier than before:

"You're wrong. This is my turn. I'm less worthy than you. If I'll be lost, you'll find a way to bring me back. If I am lost, the danger of you being uncovered by me would be extinguished."

His face grew pale as she took one step further and pressed the tip of her wand into his chest.

"I never expected you talking such nonsense, Dumbledore. You are the one who fixed the Cabinet. If I go, you would be the only able to bring me back, as the Cabinet responds to you and only you entirely. I would not be able to safe you in return.", he snapped and grabbed her wand, as her rage caused some red sparks spurting out of the tip of her wand and threatened to burn his clothes.

"And additionally you talk if you don't count, if losing you would be no loss for anybody!", he snapped, regretting that his own wish to be with her for all time resonated within it.

"But it is true, Draco! You are the one who will finish the task, you're the one who will prepare to fool Voldemort to make Snape assassinating Dumbledore and gaining his trust, you're the one who has already got to play his part! I've already done it. I helped you fixing the Cabinet and now I want to test it. It's not the choice of Dumbledore or even yours. It's mine."

Draco's mood changed with every word she said, until he swallowed heavily. She took the chance, pulled him off the Cabinet and stepped in. He wanted to protest, but she still pointed her wand at him.

He grunted. He didn't only jump at her call, he even let her making him surrendering to her. What would she then be able to do to him in the future? How would she continue changing him?

"Should I use the Imperius-curse on you or will you obey my wishes?", she said with more strength as he actually thought of her possessing. "And don't smirk like that, I am completely serious, Malfoy!"

Draco's face grew hard as he saw that she had to put all her strength into her looking brave and calm. He grabbed the doors of the Cabinet, just to make it unable for her shutting them.

"Draco, you don't even have to cast that spell. It would a better proof of your skill if you did, but I would do it as well! I will take the whole responsibility!", she said and her voice was calmer as she might have seen the worried look on his face.

"No. I will do that.", he said shortly. Draco pressed his lips together.

If he had to loose her, he wanted to take the burden entirely. He placed his hands on the doors and slowly shut them. But as he was not able to look at her.

As soon as Alanis had stepped in, Draco's doubts caught her too.

What if the Cabinet was still not working correctly? What if it really rather responded to her than to Draco?

She forced herself to smile at him, but she felt nothing but fear and uncertainty.

Then, a few inches before she was totally covered in darkness, he hesitated and let his glance move to the ground.

"I would never forgive myself if something happened to you."

She knew how hard it was for him to tell her that and she took some steps behind to hide in the darkness, just not to let him see how her body shuddered with fear. She just shook her head, because she wasn't able to collect any words to answer him. But she reached out, as Draco didn't seem to move forward and shut the doors by herself.

Now there was just darkness around her, she heard her breath come out in small pants, felt sweat running down her back. She clenched her fist around her wand.

The darkness seemed to put a veil on her, heavy and breathtaking and there was just silence. She felt her blood boil and a strange noise filled up her ears, but it was just the unbearable complete silence that was beyond all bearing.

Infinite Darkness.

It was just so deep, as if the black walls of the Cabinet radiated it and it seemed to creep over her, touching her with ice-cold fingertips, willingly to lodge itself deep inside her, deep inside her heart, and slowly drag her to hell.

Her legs got more and more wobbly and she felt herself more and more urgent to escape from that dark hole.

And then she just heard three muffled words through the wooden walls of the Cabinet.

"Harmiona Nectere Passus."

At first nothing did happen. But suddenly she felt as if something drained her life force out of her, as if she was separated from her body, leaving everything behind. She felt as if she entered a great emptiness that was about to swallow her up. Was she fading?

Her body she felt as if she was lifted like in one of that muggle-elevators and then squeezed, her stomach growled and she also felt weak and uncomfortable as if she was apparating.

She pressed her hand on her mouth to suppress the deep moan that came up her throat. Very soon everything went calm and Alanis felt quite normal once more, beside her heart racing as if she just ran a marathon. She held her breath and listened.

Was it just over? Was she still in Hogwarts? Even ad Borgin at Burkes? Or somewhere between it, lost in endlessness, locked up for all time?

She felt solid wooden ground under her feet, but she immediately reckoned that she had changed the places. She sniffed quietly.

The air was different and she even felt that the Cabinet was different too. That was not her Cabinet. It was its twin and she felt how foreign it was to her.

She stretched out her hand and tried to open the door of the Cabinet. To her surprise, it was not locked. Although it was just dim light that covered her face, it blinded her and she frowned.

She cautiously looked out of the Cabinet and a sudden bolt of excitement shot through all her veins as she reckoned that she really had been in Borgin and Burkes as she found the Cabinet surrounded by high storage racks, fully loaded with hazardous looking dark objects.

She quickly retired into the Cabinet, with a big and relieved smile on her face, to prevent herself from being uncovered by the shopkeeper, Mr Borgin, who just walked around the corner and walked right across the small showroom. He was just ugly, with his greasy and stringy grey hair and moth-eaten clothes that had definitely only been fashionable hundreds of years ago.

But Alanis didn't mind his disgusting appearance, if he would just not keep drawing nearer to the Cabinet.

"Just another little nice dickey inside there, hugh?", his voice rattled heavily and Alanis was able to see him smirking through that small crack that was still missing to shut the doors of the Cabinet .

She knew that Cabinet would not work until the doors were closed and now, there seemed no chance to escape from being discovered from that horrible shopkeeper.

"This time I won't let you get back, my little singing bird. This time old Borgin won't listen to your nerve-racking tweets again."

Alanis pressed herself against the Cabinet wall and pointed her wand out, but she wasn't able to think clearly. If Borgin would open the Cabinet's doors, she would have to curse him immediately.

Focus, Alanis, as you already did it before.

"Old Borgin will just silence you, little one. There's nothing to fear."

Call me back!

Please call me back!

Alanis trembled and raised her wand, but her heart was in her mouth and she felt that she wasn't even able to breathe. Her mind was still blurred of travelling with the Cabinet and she knew she would hardly be able to cast at least a verbal spell.

Merlin's most baggy Y fronts, call me back, Draco!

But suddenly she felt as if she had to vomit, as the dim light swayed before her eyes and she felt that something pulled her away with force. Was she Cabinet actually working, although it wasn't shut entirely?

And as she felt herself finally being dragged away as if she was lifted into thin air, Borgin opened the Cabinet, crying out with joy that only an old miserable and batty man could have, but Alanis was already gone.

As she finally found herself back in her own Cabinet, she almost couldn't keep herself from fainting and she panted heavily. Merlin's beard, that was even more than close!

Then suddenly the two doors were opened roughly and strong arms pulled her into a tight embracement. Draco seemed to crush her bones as he pressed her against him and she felt him burying his face in her hair, breathing in her scent with heavy gasps.

"I'm ba-!"

But Draco cut her off.

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