hey guys. sorry it took so long to update! i went through my whole story and reproofed it and also added more lines and details. i think my changes brought the story up a notch. well you know the drill. i dont own nothing! hehe
i hope you like it!
Allie woke up two hours later, still curled up on the the couch with Fred sitting on the other end. She noticed that someone had draped a blanket over her. She rubbed her eyes and stretched her arms out in front of her, trying to regain feeling in her limbs. She looked around, Fred hadn't noticed that she had woken up, in fact no one was looking her way (which was awesome, but strange). A loud noise all of a sudden registered in her mind: some one was yelling and they sounded furious.
The little blond sat up and saw a red eared Ron yelling at a very small looking Ginny. She looked just as angry as Ron and started yelling back at him, although unlike her brother, her features held a tint of fear in them which Allie assumed was the reason she looked so little. "How could you do that Ginny!? Your so stupid! Do you have any idea in that tiny little brain of yours how much you screwed up and messed with Allie's life!?" Ron screamed.
His sister narrowed her eyes, her ears turning tomato red to match his. "I didn't do anything wrong Ronald! You know she's a vampire! Do you want her to go around sucking the blood out of every student at Hogwarts!? I had to tell someone!" At this statement Allie stood up, the only one who noticed was Fred and he was looking at her with nervous eyes, he sat up a little straighter as if he was really paying attention to her next more. Allie made a motion with her hand silently telling him to relax. He nodded him head and winked at her before settling back into the couch.
"Ha, you told every student in the school and not ONE teacher! That just shows how much of a git you are! She isn't dangerous! If you cared to talk about it with her before blabbing it to the whole school you would have known that!" Ron argued. Allie could almost see the smoke coming out of his ears. She was grateful to the red headed boy, he was sticking up for her. It gave Allie a good feeling, Ron really was a true friend.
"Oh yeah? Well did you know that she was with Harry in a deserted corridor when I found out last night? She has a boyfriend, right Ronald?" Ginny spat.
Allie had had it with the red headed girl. The short blond stormed up to her and got inches from her face, having the sudden urge to make her feel as uncomfortable as possible. Ginny was probably three or four inches taller than Allie but she didn't care, Ginny was getting personal now and Allie was going to end this. Right now. Ginny's eyes filled with fear when she noticed that the vampire was so close to her. "I don't have a boyfriend, Ginny. Not anymore anyway. And last time I checked it was none of your damn business." Allie growled. Her own eyes glowed red like Ginny and Ron's ears. Ginny stepped back at the frightening sight.
"You're a freak." Ginny whispered quietly so only Allie could hear. Allie let a short laugh escape her lips and nodded her head.
"Yeah, that may be. But at least I'm not a jealous bitch." She stated gingerly and shrugged her shoulders innocently. Allie sized the youngest Weasley up. Ginny knew exactly what Allie meant by those words. They both knew that she liked Harry and was mad that Allie had been dating Cedric. "Stay the hell away from me." Allie told her. Ginny just stood there, shocked that the supposedly sweet natured Allie had just swore at her three times. Allie tilted her head to Ginny. "Off you go." She shooed the 3rd year away. With one last snarl Ginny stomped up the stairs to her room.
Allie turned around to face the rest of the kids in the room. For the third time that day Allie had caused a room to go silent as the grave. "Anyone else have a problem with me?" She questioned. The students remained quiet, everyone just stared at her with various degrees of fright on their faces. Allie sighed deeply and regained her composure. "Listen guys, there's nothing to worry about. I'd never hurt any of you. I'm only a half vampire, I don't have to drink blood. You've seen me, I eat human food."
"Yeah, we know that's right." The twins said in unison. She stuck her tongue out at them and gave each of them a little smile.
"What I'm trying to say is that, I understand your concerns but they are unnecessary." She gave the room a small smile. She felt someone come up behind her and put their hands on her shoulders in a comforting gesture. She didn't even have to look back, she could smell Harry's blood in his close proximity. His touch allowed a surge of tranquility run through her, calming Allie after her row with Ginny.
"It's true guys." He explained to the group of Gryffindors. "She's a good girl." Harry teased. Allie laughed lightly. The two waited for the groups response. A little first year girl that Allie tutored in Transfigurations came up and gave her a hug. Allie smiled and wrapped her arms around the younger girl.
"I believe you." The girl said sweetly in her small mousy voice.
Allie nodded her head. "Thank you." She looked up and saw others starting to stand up and move over to her. She was engulfed in a hug from Dean, Seamus, then Neville, each one picking her up off the floor in doing so. Lavender and Pavarti came up to her next and said how wicked cool it was that she was like Harry (who was such a hottie according to them). Allie weirdly enough said thank you.
All the Gryffindors showed their support. She was happy that her house accepted her. After the mob broke apart everything went back to normal. The girls talked in small groups while the boys played different gamed and did other boy things (like seeing who could hold their breath the longest. Dumb.). Harry came up to her 'tsk' 'tsk'ing as he approached. "You really told Ginny."
Allie felt bad for the fierceness of her words to the younger girl, but then she remembered what Ginny had done to her and said. "She deserved it, Harry. You cannot blame me for that. I might have been a little harsh, but you should have heard the way she was attacking me a few minutes ago..." She was starting to regret her choice words to the red head, she felt like a total creep.
"I know she did and I don't blame you at all. Ginny was way out of line. I'm just glad that you are sticking up for yourself now and not freaking out about this anymore. How are you feeling by the way?" He questioned her.
"Fine. Better now after I slept." She told him. Harry looked down at his closed hand, he reached out and grabbed Allie's. He placed her bracelet into her hand and closed her fist. Letting his hand linger over hers for a few seconds longer.
"I went looking for it when I noticed that you weren't wearing it at the Qudditch pitch. I thought you would be missing it." Harry confessed. Allie let out a deep breath and gleamed up at Harry, her eyes sparkling with gratitude.
"I hadn't actually noticed it missing myself." She looked down at the only reminder she had of her mother. "But now that it's back, I really did miss it. Will you put it on me, please?" She asked Harry, he nodded his head and took the braided bracelet from her tiny hand. She outstretched her right arm so he could slip the bracelet on easier.
"Your scar's on the other wrist." Harry told her, confused.
"Oh, I know. I just figured that there's no reason to wear it on that wrist anymore, everyone knows about the stupid thing anyway." She winked at him. He chuckled and placed it on her right wrist instead of the usual left.
"You ready to go to dinner?" He asked her.
The small blond nodded her head. "Yup, let's get this over with." Harry led Allie down to the Great Hall. She took a deep breath before entering the massive room. The Gryffindor didn't even care anymore that everyone was staring at her, she was beginning to get used to it. Harry grabbed her hand and led her to their table. She sat down between him and Dean and across from Hermione. The bushy haired girl gave her a thumbs up to show that she was doing a good job. Allie gave her a thumb's up in return and glanced around the room. She cast her gaze up and down every house table, the whole time smiling sweetly at all in her line of sight.
She was scanning over the Hufflepuff table and made eye contact with the one person who could cause her to fall apart again. Cedric was looking at her with sad eyes, his usual smile was nowhere to be seen. Allie held his gaze for a while. Harry turned to tell her something and saw her staring off into the distance, he turned his head and saw what was going on. Harry felt like his heart was breaking, but he had a strange feeling that it wasn't his heart at all. He thought, due to the connection between them, he was feeling what the half-vampire was feeling at the moment, and to be honest the feeling hurt Harry like hell.
"Allie." He said gently. Her blue eyes didn't leave Cedric's at the sound of her name. Harry knew she was really hurting, he could feel it. The dark haired boy grabbed her shoulder and turned her so she was facing in the opposite direction of Cedric. The Hufflepuff dropped his gaze for a second before it returned in Allie's direction. Harry gave the handsome boy a sympathetic look, Harry knew very well what it was like not to have Allie in your life and he wasn't going to lie about it. Once she was there, it's hard to handle it when she's not around anymore.
"Attention!" Headmaster Dumbledore's voice boomed over all other conversations. The chatter stopped and Allie eyes were on the old man. "Due to recent... developments." His eyes twinkled at Allie. The tiny girl gave him a smile and small nod before he returned to address the rest of the students body. "There is some information I deem necessary to tell you concerning one of our transfer students."
Allie grabbed Harry's hand for support. He looked down at their linked hands and grinned. The half-vampire girl who lived (holy crap that's a long title. Allie thought to herself) took a deep breath and was ready to hear her life story shared with the entire population of Hogwarts.
Dinner ran way past curfew due to Professor Dumbledore's long explanation. Some people gasped at parts of Allie's story while other parts brought some girls to tears, the story of the Cullen vampires was a tragic one and now everyone knew it. Allie didn't stick around long enough to get hounded with questions. She took Hermione by the hand and dragged her up to Gryffindor Tower leaving Harry to deal with the 'girl who lived' part of her nature.
He, of course, didn't answer too many question because he really didn't have the answers. Students began to realize this and left him alone after a while. Harry walked by himself back to the Common Room, Ron didn't want to wait for him in that zoo of people and headed back earlier. Harry walked slowly, replaying in his mind how so much had changed in such a short amount of time. He skidded to a halt when he came to the portrait hole. Cedric Diggory was leaning against the frame like he had done so many times before while waiting for Allie to come out.
"What are you doing here? Does Allie know-?" Harry began only to be cut off by the Hufflepuff.
Cedric shook his head. "No, no. I came here to see you actually." He confessed. The two boys stood in silence for a moment. Harry urged Cedric on with his hand until he began to talk. "Um, how... how is Allie?" he stammered while rubbing the back of his neck. This little meeting was awkward for both of them
"She's ok. She's had a long day but she's doing fine." Harry stated.
"Good. That's good. I want her to be good." Cedric seemed so uncomfortable to be there.
"Let me rephrase that." Harry said. The images of Allie bawling her eyes out flashed into his memory at the sight of the other Hogwarts Champion. "She's ok with everyone knowing who she is. But, Cedric, you broke her heart, trust me I know." Harry explained. He didn't want to make Cedric feel worse than , Harry guessed, he already did but it made Harry angry to know that Allie was feeling such pain because of him.
"I didn't mean to." Cedric said while running his hands through his hair. "Gosh, I would never wish that upon her. She's the most amazing girl I have ever met. I'm... I'm pretty sure I loved her but we just cannot be together. She was never supposed to be with me, it was never me, it's always been you Harry. You're supposed to be with her, not me." Cedric admitted with defeat dripping from his being. He paced a tight circle in front of Harry before kicking the wall out of frustration. Harry just stood there, not knowing what to say to Cedric's speech about love and who Allie is meant to be with.
Cedric let out a deep breath before turning his gaze back to Harry. "You better take damn good care of her, Potter. If you don't I'll kick your ass." He stated in the toughest voice he could muster.
"I will." Was Harry's only reply. Cedric nodded his head, glad that they had that settled. He let out one more deep breath before walking away from the picture of the fat lady and into the darkness of the corridor.
Harry watched him as he went, feeling sorrier for the Hufflepuff with every step he took. He opened the portrait hole and saw a small figure wrapped in a blanket sitting on the floor in the foyer of the common room. Harry crouched down and tried to look in Allie's eyes but the darkness of the place made it almost impossible.
"He's been out there for a half an hour." Allie explained. Harry reached up and pulled a stray lock of hair that had fallen out of her loose ponytail behind her ear.
"He just wanted to talk to me." Harry told her honestly, trying to make it seem as off hand as possible. He didn't know if he could handle seeing her cry again.
"I know Harry. I can read minds remember?" She said tiredly.
"You were listening to that whole conversation, weren't you?" the dark haired boy questioned. She nodded her head in response.
"I've been listening to his thoughts since he got here." She was quiet after that.
"Are you ok?" Harry asked.
"I wish everyone would stop asking me that." Allie said in a calm tone. She was not angry just stating some thing that had been on her mind. "All day long that's all I have heard from you and Hermione and Ron and the twins. Am I really that pitiful? I'll answer that for you. No. I'm fine now and I'll be fine in two hours, Harry. You don't have to worry about me."
He tilted his head to the girl and gave her a smile. "That's my girl being all bad ass." His statement sounded exactly like some thing Allie would say. She was starting to rub off on him and it wasn't a good thing.
Allie chuckled at Harry. He was sure he sounded more than a little silly. You can't exactly say 'bad ass' with a British accent, it sounds kind of stupid. Allie averted her gaze from Harry. She let out a long, drawn out sigh. "Cedric reminds me of my dad." Allie stated out of no where.
Harry furrowed his eyebrow. "I'm sorry?"
"Cedric, he looks like my dad. Since the first time I saw him I knew there was something familiar about him, something that I'd known once. You know how Jake came here this morning?" Harry nodded his head to show he did remember. "Well he said my dad would kill him if he knew that I had a boyfriend. It just kinda clicked after that. I have a picture of my parents in my room back home but I haven't looked at it in years and I just realized that... Cedric looks like my dad." Harry nodded his head, not knowing what else to do. What could he say to something like that? Allie looked up and gave him a closed mouth smile. "You don't have to say anything, I... I just wanted to tell you." She answered his nonverbal question.
Harry chuckled. "You'll be fine Allie Cullen. I have no doubt it my mind that you won't be." Harry once more ran his fingers across her cheek to get a piece of hair out of her gorgeous eyes. He let his hand rest on her face and locked his gaze with hers. Some thing in the way their eyes met made Harry feel like he could almost read Allie's mind. He had never felt this way about anyone before, but he felt closer to her than humanly possibly. Just like Dumbledore told us. Harry thought.
Allie's eyes flicked slightly at him. "You feel that too. Don't you?" He didn't ask it as a question but more as a statement. Allie nodded her head to him.
"I think so." She said confusedly. She looked him in the eye before starting to crack up.
He felt he had no choice but to join her. Tears streamed down Allie's face, but this time it was from laughter, not sadness. The pain she felt in her chest was not heart break, just the effects of laughing to hard. Harry quieted down and gave her a look that showed he though she was insane. "What was that about?"
Allie continued to laugh, she felt like she split her side from the pure force of it. She rolled over on to floor and held her hip, trying to will the pain away. She tried her best to contain to=he giggles that escaped her to answer Harry's question. "This day-" she burst into another fit of laughter.
Harry nodded his head, debating whether or not to call for Madame Pomfrey and have the girl medicated. "It sucked so bad." she snorted and then started giggling again. She clamped her hand over her mouth, making an attempt to quiet down. Harry gave her a quizzically look and started to chuckle along with her.
"Yeah, it really did." He said through his own laughter. They both finally stopped due to their deprivation of oxygen. Allie took a few deep breaths, but remanded laying on the tile floor, curled up in her care bear blanket. "Hey, Allie?"
"Hmm?" She mummbled as her eye's began to slowly flutter closed.
"The fact that today was horrible isn't really funny." Harry explained. A gleaming, tired smile appeared on her face.
"Yeah, well laughing about it makes it seem better." Allie replied simply. Harry looked down at her, and thought about her statement. Harry concluded that he could not agree more with her. The dark haired boy looked down at his watch, it read 12:13 am. It was a new day. Everything that had happened in the last twenty-four hours were only a haunting memory now.
sorry to everyone who likes ginny, someone had to be the bad guy and she got the short straw so thats how it turned out. please review, i love to read'em! thanks for checking on the new chapter!