Nanci: The elousive and rare CHAPTER TWO! *thunders and lightings in background*
Damion + Mandy: *snicker snicker*
Nanci: WHAT!? What could possibly be wrong with THAT?
Damion: It would be more impressive if it wasn't a thunder storm outside right now *thunders outside*
Mandy: Whatever can we just get to the chapter now?
Nanci: LIKE A BOSS!
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Mandy: -_-
Nanci: You should know by now that I don't own Harry Potter!
Damion: Last time on 'Remember'
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"Mr. Goyle, put him on that bed right there. Ms. Parkinson what has happened here?"
"I don't he just started to throw up and he couldn't stop!" The girl was in tears now. The boy who'd been carry the blond was looking quite bored at the moment. The blond was still heaving but it seemed have slowed down. The blond sat up still heaving slightly.
"I think I'm okay. Maybe I'm allergic to something or..." he had opened his eyes and... All Harry could see now was his eyes, Draco's eyes. And Harry knew him. Harry remembered him!
"Draco! Draco Malfoy! I remember you!" Harry cried out excitedly almost jumping off the bed.
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Chapter Two: Why?
Madam Pomfrey looked up from Draco and cried out also "You remember! Oh, Harry! You remember! I can't believe it!" The three Slytherins in the room exchanged a look but Madam Pomfrey was already writing a letter to Dumbledore and Harry was just sitting there stairing at Draco, his eyes wide. Madam Pomfrey ordered Malfoy to stay there until Dumbledore got there and then told Pansy and Goyle to leave and go back to their common room.
"But we need to be here ..."
"For nothing. Mister Malfoy will fill you all in later I'm sure." Dumbledore said as he entered the room followed closely by Alexia. The two Slytherins left shooting murderous looks at the Headmaster. "Now, Poppy, I couldn't understand a word of your letter. So tell me, what has happened here?"
"Well, Harry here has remembered something! With the help of Mister Malfoy here." She said.
"Oh, what happened?" said Alexia stepping out from behind Dumbledore.
"Well, Harry has been in here all day and then Draco came in throwing up. We set him down on the bed," Alexia had pulled out a small notebook and was quickly writing in it while Madam Pomfrey talked. "he sat up saying he was fine then Harry shouted that he remembered Draco. Then I wrote to the Headmaster. Oh, I'm so happy!"
Do any of you remeberexcactly what Draco said?" She looked at the three people. "Any of you?"
"'I think I'm okay. Maybe I'm allergic to something or...' that's what you said. I remember." Harry said not taking his eyes off Draco.
"Are you sure?" Alexia questioned.
"Yes, I'm sure." Harry said looking at Alexia now."Who are you, though?"
"Alexia, pleased to meet you." she said absentmindly looking at her notes.
"Well, it seems you four are getting on well so I'll be leaving now." Dumbledore said and then left.
"Okay, Draco, I want you to say excactly what you said earlier, in the excact same tone and just... Okay?" Alexia said turning toward him "And Harry, I want you to be in the excact same position you were when he said it, okay?"
"Why should I?" Draco sneered at Alexia.
"Because you owe me. Now do it." Alexia said taking a step back so she was no longer near the boys. "Just do everything excactly as it happened, up to the point where Harry started to yell."
"Fine." Both boys said at the same time. Harry scooted back on his bed and got into the same position as he was and Draco leaned back onto his arms in a half laying position.
"I think I'm okay. Maybe I'm allergic to something or..." Draco said as he pushed himself up at the same time that Harry leaned forward and their eyes connected for the second time that day. Draco looked up into Harry's eyes and for the first time Draco noticed how incrediblely green they were. "Wow..." Draco murmered.
Alexia looked at him "What was that?"
Draco's pale face turned slightly pink "Oh, nothing..."
"Madam Pomfrey, may I speak to you privately, please?" Madmam Pomfrey nodded 'yes' and the two woman left the room leaving the boys alone.
"Um, Draco?" Harry said slowly.
"What, Potter?" He said stressing his last name, as if encouraging Harry to do the same.
"Thanks, for helping me, remember, you know." Harry smiled and looked down at the book he had in his hands this whole time. He began to half read it, not really paying attention to the words on the page. Draco didn't respond and he fell back onto the bed and began to study the ceiling as if trying to memorize every individual tile.
Alexia and Madam Pomfrey re-entered the room. Madam Pomfrey went over to Draco "Draco, I want to you stay another night in here. So I can moniter you."
"Yes, ma'm." Draco muttered sullenly still studing the ceiling. Alexia went over to Harry.
"Harry, I want you to return to your dorm, maybe being there will shake loose a few memories. Okay?"
"Sure, Alexia. Um, I have a question though."
"Could you ask me in a second? I need to talk to Draco and I should do it before I forget."
"Okay!' Harry smiled and Madam Pomfrey began helping him pick up the things that his friends had brought him and his books and handed him some of his robes and he went to the bathroom to change.
"Draco, what happened back there?" Alexia said softly, sitting on the edge of his bed.
"What do you mean?" He said quietly as if afraid of being overheard.
"When we were re-enacting that part. You said 'Wow.' and I was wondering what you ment by it."
"Nothing, it didn't mean anything." Draco snapped and looked away from her. She stayed perched on the edge though and the two sat in silence until Harry walked up.
"Hey, Alexia, I wanted to ask you a question, remember?"
"Yeah what was it?" She said straighting up and scooting back making herself more comfortable.
"Are you two related? Because you look almost excactly alike."
"No, we aren't." said Draco.
At the same time Alexia answered with "Maybe."
Draco looked over at her "What do you mean 'maybe'?"
"I was adopted and then when I turned eleven I got excepted to Hogwarts because my father wanted me to even though I didn't know him. I still don't. I was confused because I lived right near a wizarding school in America. For all I know my father or my mother could be related to you." she smiled at him and Harry "Come on, Harry we have to get you down to your dorm." Harry smiled and grabbed his things. On the way out Draco looked at Alexia and noticed something; the roots of her hair was lighter than the rest of her dark brown hair as if she needed to dye it agian. Draco shook his head violently. 'She is not related to you, Draco. She is not related to you!' he thought with every swing of his head.
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Harry walked with Alexia up to a picture of a fat lady. "Hello, you two! Oh, Alexia it's been a long time and Harry. I heard what happened to you, are you okay?"
Alexia answered for him "Yes, he's fine. Finslik."
"You two have a great day." She said as the portrait swung open revealing the Gryfinndor common room. She walked in with him and grinned as he was attacked by several of his friends all hugging him at once.
"Harry, we have to put your things upstairs now." Harry broke away from his forgotten friends and headed upstairs with Alexia.
"Are all those people my friends?" Harry asked as he walked into his room.
"I guess so. Harry, you know when you remembered Draco did you remembered anything about him or did you just put a name to a face?" She said turning to him with a serious look on her face.
"I completely remember him being a total jerk to me and a lot of the people down there. I know he is a horrible person but it was still nice to have remembered something, even if it was him." Harry shrugged and went back to taking things out and putting them in his trunk.
"Harry, I have an idea at how to make you remember some more but I wanted to run it by you before I tried it."
"Okay, what is it?" He turned to her and smiled.
"I think you should stay with Draco for a little bit. Just to see if he is the reason at why you remembered. Is that okay?" she weakly smiled at Harry.
He sighed and frowned a little "I guess, I should. I mean it was only his eyes that made remember that time. I guess it wouldn't hurt to try." Alexia's eybrows furrowed.
"One second Harry I have to go and check something." She left the room with out waiting for an answer. In the common room below she searched out Hermione who was sitting next to the fire reading a book. "Hermione," She sat next to her "what was the weather like on the day of quidditch match?"
"It was cloudy and gray, why?"
Not answering her question she asked "Who was Gryfinndor playing that day?"
"Slytherin, why?"
Once again ignoring her "Does Draco Malfoy play on that team?"
"Yes, why!?" Said Hermione losing her patience.
"One more question, did you win or lose that match?"
"We won even though we didn't catch the snitch. Now. Tell. Me. Why." Hermone pratically shouted at her.
"No! I can't." She had taken out her notebook and was writing furiously fast. "I have to do something. Thank you, Hermione!" She raced out of the common room and to the Hospital wing still writing. She burst through the doors and yelled "Madam Pomfrey, I need to talk to Draco alone for a little bit! Okay?"
Madam Pomfrey came out of her office looking red in face "Don't yell in the Hospital Wing! But yes, you can talk to Draco." She looked over at him and said "Go with her." Draco got up and walked out of the Wing with her. Just outside the door she stopped.
"Okay we have no time to get to my office so I'll ask you here. Why do you want to help Harry regain his memory from what I've heard you hate him." Draco went paler if that was possible.
"I don't want to help him. Where'd you get that idea?" Alexia looked at him with a knowing stare. He squirmed under her hard gaze.
"We both know that's not true. You want to help him and I need to know why. So fess up." She gave another hard stare one that rivaled Professor McGonagall's own.
Draco murmmered something that neither of them could hear and he knew it. "Can I go now?" He said louder.
"Fine, go, see if I care that Harry never get's his memory back and is never able to defeat 'You-Know-Who'?" Alexia turned on her heel and walked away leaving a silent Draco in her wake. He stopped and his mind raced in that thought that she had left him with.
"Wait! I'll tell you but only in your office." Alexia stopped with a smile on her face.
"Fine, come on let's go." The pair speed walked down to her office. She closed and they heard the lock click behind her. "Why?"
"I don't want the Dark Lord to win and if he gets to powerful then I'll be forced to get the mark." Drao started to cry. Alexia went forward and hugged him and he cried harder "He would kill me if I refused, but I just can't stand the thought of it.... on me." He shudder at the thought of it and it only made want to cry harder.
Alexia released him "Then you have to help, with your full co-operation, I'm sure I can get Harry's memories back." She smiled in, what she hoped was, a reashuring manner. They talked a little longer and then Draco left Alexia heard the lock click and prayed that the silencing wards on the room worked well as she screamed and felt a deep driling sensation in the pit of her stomach. After the pain had passed she pulled herself into the small bathroom and turned the shower on cold, freezing cold. She climed in fully dressed and lay there in the ice-cold water for what seemed like forever.
The memory came back more powerful and shocking than before.
The rain fell all around her as she watched the coffin being lowered into the ground. No tears came now, it was as though she cried away all her tears over the last five days. The others at the funeral all had black umbrellas raised above their heads, but not one offered their's to the poor little orphan girl, who's platinum blond hair fell around her face like a curtain. She felt a powerful grip on her shoulder and looked up to see a man with blond hair, just like her's. He looked down on her with cold eyes "We must go now." She followed the man to a car across the street. A car like she had never seen it was sauve and new, it emenated power and money. She looked at it and felt smaller than she ever had in her life, smaller than when she was laughed at school for her second-hand clothes and messy hair. He ushered into the back and she expected him to get in the front, like her mother used to, but he got in next to her and waved to a man already sitting in the front of the car. He started right off not like the other adults she had talked to "Your previous caregiver didn't take as much care of you as I would have liked. So I will be placing in a different neighborhood with new parents."
"She wasn't a 'caregiver' she was my mother. I don't like the way you talk about her so stop! Who are you anyway?" He turned to her with malice in his eyes. He raised his gloved hand and smacked her across the face. She began to cry, in all her ten years her mother had never struck like this man had.
"I am your superior and you will show me respect!" He pulled out a long black stick and waved it in the air and said nonsense words. Alexia almost giggled at this but stopped herself as he pulled off a glove revealing a pale hand he stuck it out as if to shake her hand. She stared at it like it was a foriegn object until he hissed out "Take it." she reached out and took it but instantly recoiled as she felt a sharp stab of pain shoot through her body. She cried out and fell to the floor. "Good," he smiled "it works." The car stopped outside a large house with two people standing on the porch. They smiled and waved but didn't dare leave the safety of the dry porch. The man grabbed her with a re-gloved hand and walked her up to him. "Take her. Feed her. Keep her safe." He said to the two people and then to Alexia "These are your new parents, hopefully they will teach you respect." He turned and walked away and that was the last and only time she saw her father.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Some one was pounding on Alexia's door "Alexia! Alexia! I've just remembered something else! Alexia!" Harry yelled. She pulled herself out of the shower and struggled to the door she had shed her heavy with water coat and answered the door sopping wet. "Why are you wet? Whatever, I don't want to know." Harry walked past her into her room. And repeated himself "I've remembered something!"
"What've you remembered?" She sat down at her desk and picked up her. note book which, thankfully, she had thrown there before her "shower".
"Well, I've just remembered some of my first year here." he said excitedly.
Alexia perked up and began to write fast "What happened?"
"Well, I was walking down here to see how you where doing. And I saw Draco walking down the hall and I asked him where you were and he said you were in your office. He smiled and said good-bye, then I remembered the finding the sorercer's stone and seeing Voldermort and I remembered a little of Ron and Hermione. I was so happy I ran all the way down here and I've been banging on your door for the last half-hour. What happened?" Alexia stopped writing.
"I thought you said you didn't want to know?"
"I didn't want to know then I want to know now." Harry sat down in the chair opposite her and looked at her with wondering look in his green eyes.
"I was just remembering something, something really terrible. Before you say anything, no, you don't want to know." The two sat in silence for a little while until Alexia broke it. "Harry you should probably be getting back to your common room."
"Yeah, I should. Oh, and Alexia, thank you for all you've done." Harry left the room.
Alexia sighed "Harry, I haven't done anything."
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Draco stood in the owlery and pulled out a small scrap of paper as his eagle-owl came down to greet him.
Dear Father,
Do we have anyone in our family named Alexia? Reply quickly.
-Draco
He tied it to Hale's leg and watched him as he flew out the window, unknowingly, with Alexia's death certificate strapped to his leg.
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Hale, unfortunately, was a fantastic flyer and got to the Malfoy Manor right as Narcissa and Lucuis where settling down to bed. Hale tapped lightly on the widow to their bedroom. Lucius sighed and went to the window. "I wonder what he wants now." Narcissa said settling down under her covers. Lucius read the note and read it again and again and again. He turned to Narcissa.
"Narcissa, read this." He handed it to her. She read it and gasped she dropped the paper like a dead rat.
"Lucius! What- I thought she was dead! That's what you said! You said! I thought you said you took care of it! Didn't you? Didn't you?" Narcissa wailed as she jumped up from the bed and backed away from him. "Did you lie to me?" she asked in a tembling voice.
"I couldn't kill a child. She was just a baby, she couldn't have remembered us. Could she've?" Lucius was pacing now. He aways paced when he was nervous. "No, she couldn't have. She can't have and anyway even if did she would avoid Draco like the plauge." He stopped pacing and smiled.
"What do you mean 'avoid Draco like the plauge'?" Narcissa said looking at her husband.
"Oh, remember that trip to America that I took, what was it, I think, nine years ago, well her origanal caregiver had died and I needed to get her somewhere new. Don't worry she wouldn't have reconized me I was wearing glamour." Lucius was already writing a reply to Draco telling him that he absolutly, positively he no relatives named Alexia. "Well, anyway I put a spell on her that if she touched any of my relations, blood or extended, that she would be caused great pain. So it's okay, if she so much as shakes Draco's hand she feel like a someone has just plunged a knife into her stomach and was trying to cut her open. It's okay!" He was about tie the letter to Hale's leg, when Narcissa spoke up.
"Lucius, you idiot." He stopped and turned to her his mouth open as if to speak but no words came out. "Lucius, you complete idiot! I told you when we got married! I told you." She hit one hand on the other emphasizing each word. "I. Told. You. But you never listen! You idiot!"
"What are you talking about?" Lucius yelled.
"She has the sight! The sight! She could see right through your glamour! I told you my family has the sight! I told you there was a possibility that your children might have it! Oh, Lucius!" Narcissa began to cry and then moaned out "He's going to find her and kill her. Isn't he?"
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Draco finally went back to the hospital Wing after sending his message and was met by a sopping wet Alexia. "What? Alexia why are you wet?"
"Hmm, oh, this is nothing. I just had some news for you!"
"Good or bad news?"
"Fantastic! Harry remembered something! All thanks to you! Apperently you smiled at him and he remembered some of his first year here. Isn't that great?" She looked to Draco for conformation.
"Yeah, that's great." He said uncertainly smile and not looking into her eyes.
"Hey," she said placing a hand on Draco's shoulder ignoring the stab of pain that came with it "what's the matter?"
"Nothing. Nothing's the matter. Look, I've got to go get something from my room so... bye." He walked out without waiting to hear a response from Alexia. Instead of going to the Slytherin common room, he went to the Room of Requirement where he was met with lots of crystal glasses and pottery lining three of the walls. He picked up one of them and hurled it at the wall, it smashed making an oddly satisfying sound as all the peices hit the floor. He smiled and picked up another one.
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Alexia entered Hogsmeade considerably drier than she had been when she left Hogwarts to go there. Her raw and pruney feet pounded in her shoes every time she took a step end it was making walking a very uncomfortable experience. She sighed and sat down at a table outside a small teashop. A girl who looked to be about seventh year came up and sat down across from. She was wearing Ravenclaw robes. "Hello, my name is Cho Chang and there is an odd rumor going around that the reason Harry Potter hasn't been in his classes is that he has forgotten his memory and so Dumbledore hired you to fix him. Please, tell me if it's true."
Alexia glanced around the girl and saw a large group of girls, all wearing Ravenclaw robes, who kept glancing over at the two. Alexia leaned close to the girl and whispered "Cho, I admire your bravery at walking up to a complete stranger and asking them even stranger questions, but I don't know if I should tell you. So what I want you to do is go back to your freinds and look all knowing and secretive and don't tell them a word, In fact I want you to tell them I said this, but they won't believe you." She smiled at Cho's shocked face. Cho went back to her friends and began to talk very fast to all of them . She leaned back in her chair and ordered a sweet tea room a waitress. When the Ravenclaw girls all left and by the time Alexia left her feet were completely dry. She walked down to a book store and bought any random book not really paying any attention to what the title was.
She stepped out onto the crowded street and instantley jumped into it. Going along with the crowd hunching down trying to make herself invisble until the crowd began to thin near the road back to Hogwarts. Near there was Honeydukes and she slipped into it trying to blend with the late comers. Alexia snuck into the basement and counted six tiles over and three tiles down, she felt around the edges of tile and lifted it up. She fell into the pasage below and closed the tile above her closed. She closed and remembered seeing the platinum blond man trailing her ever since she had stood up from her table at the tea shop.
Nanci: Pound it.
Damion: *pounds it* That was awesome.
Mandy: *dreamily* Yeah *smile*
Nanci: What's up with her?
Damion: She's been L.W.I.B.A. from your chapter.
Nanci: By the way, L.W.I.B.A. means Living While Intoxicated By Awesome.
Mandy: Read and review please. *0*