hey hey hey. so here's the next chapter. um yeah. i dont own anything.

oh and i started a new story. its a songfic called 'there's a curse between us' check it out if you want! i think it sounds pretty cool but then again i wrote it so i dont count. lol i hope you like this chapter.

Allie's alarm clock would not shut up. It buzzed over and over, taunting her because she wake up and it didn't. Stupid clock. She didn't want to get up and go to classes, it was too early and she didn't get enough sleep plus it was freaking cold in that drafty castle (hello it's called heaters). She rubbed her eyes and grabbed for her glasses. She slid them on her face and rested her hands behind her head, looking up at the ceiling she began thinking deeply.

The blond had an interesting day yesterday and was still in kind of a funk about it. She understood everything, except Cedric. She thought it was totally weird that Cedric looked like her dad, it was really kinda wrong actually. But then she began to think it over and it started to make sense. The saying goes that we marry (well in this case date and get dumped) by our parents and Allie figured that was why she was drawn to Cedric. She figured on some level of her subconscious (and that level had a very uncool sense of humor) that was the reason she picked the Hufflepuff instead of Harry the night of the Yule Ball. Her feelings for Cedric could not compare to those she had for Harry but she couldn't bring herself to abandon him. Like my dad did to me. She shook the thought from her mind hoping it would stay away. The bitterness of her mental statement made her cringe.

She groaned as she reluctantly dragged herself from the comfort of her warm bed. Going to her dresser she picked out her usual plaid Gryffindor skirt and black socks. She went to her closet and put on the customary white oxford and tie with the Gryffindor colors. Allie pulled a black v-neck sweater with the Gryffindor crest on it over her head. Looking in the mirror, she straightened her tie and sweater until she was satisfied with her appearance.

Allie sighed, she now had the lovely task of searching for the mate to her black Ugg boot. It was impossible for Allie to find her shoe no matter what day it was. One time she found her flip-flop under Hermione's pillow. How the heck could her shoe get under her best friend's pillow? Allie was about to give up and try to find another pair of shoes when a though hit her like a head on collusion: she was a witch. With powers.

"Accio boot." She saw her boot fly to her from the direction of the window. She nodded her head, satisfied with the results of her spell. She pulled it on and headed to the bathroom to get ready.

Allie didn't go back to the Gryffindor Tower after she left the lady's room. She was starving, which was probably due to her lack of eating the day before. It was still early so there wasn't too many people in the Great Hall just yet. She scanned the head table in the front of the room where the teachers sat. Snape stood out like a sore thumb with that scowl on his face which was meant for her, of course. He openly glared at Allie showing no hint that he cared if McGonigal scolded him once again.

Allie smirked at her enemy. She gave him a deep and sarcastic bow. She gazed up at him, his scowl only grew more at the sight of her being a smart ass. She chuckled lightly before standing up to full height.

"Giving Snape a hard time already? It's only 7:30, Miss. Cullen." She spun around inhumanly fast and saw Draco Malfoy staring down at her. She saw his eyes widen at the speed of her movement, but a second later they returned to normal. Showing any sort of weakness (such as being scared by a vamp) was not Draco's style.

"It's never to early to bug Snapey." She leaned in close to whisper to him. "Have you noticed every time I do something -like Merlin forbid, breath- his hair gets greasier? I swear you could grill some burgers on that man's head." She made a disgusted face at the potions master. Draco laughed slightly at her joke.

"Would you like to accompany me for breakfast?" Draco asked. Allie wrinkled her forehead at the Slytherin.

"Are we allowed to do that?" She questioned.

"Well, no but no one's here so it won't be that big of a deal. Come on." He started to walk toward the Slytherin table. He noticed Allie wasn't following and turned around. "What?"

"You seriously think I'm going to sit at the Slytherin table? They'd jump me or poison my food." She glanced over at the table where, sure enough, some 4th year Slytherins were killing her slowly with their dagger like eyes. Ouch. "Why don't we sit at the Gryffindor table? Their nice and friendly over there." Allie pointed to her house table where barely anyone was sitting. Most of the Gryffindor's were as lazy as... well lazy Gryffindors. Draco gave her a look that said that wasn't going to work either.

"Come on. We don't have to sit by them. We can sit way over there" he pointed to a deserted end of the long table "were none of them can reach you or your food. I thought you were all about trying to encourage relationships within houses. What have you got to lose? Scar head, Weaselbee, and that mudb- Granger aren't even here yet."

Allie narrowed her eyes at Draco. "Don't call them that. And in case you haven't noticed I'm a muggleborn too. Just like Hermione." She began to frown at the 'prince of Slytherin house'.

"That's different. Your parents-"

"Weren't witches or wizards. I don't have a single ounce of magical blood in my body, Draco. Let's not beat around the bush here. I am a... mudblood. And a vampire. And if you can't except that some people weren't graced with such luxuries as having pure blood then we can't be friends and you'd just be a total prick like your friends over there." She nodded in the direction of his table.

He let a sigh. "I'm not like that, I just hear that stuff thrown around all the time at home and in the common room and... I don't I guess it stuck. I'm sorry." Allie looked at her potions partner and gave him a small smile.

"Can we eat now? I'm so hungry that I will start to eat my hand in about a minute." She walked over to the Slytherin table and sat down on the deserted end that Draco had mentioned early. Every one in the room was looking at her (yet again). She scanned the room to take in all the people. Allie raised her hand up into the air and waved rather obnoxiously. All the students (and teachers) snapped their eyes back down at their own plates. Draco was standing where Allie had left him, looking at her like she belonged in a physic ward. "Ya comin or am I gonna have to sit here looking like an idiot all by myself?"

He chuckled and sat on the opposite side of her. The two ate and talked. Draco was trying to explain to her the concept of a Snitch and how it worked (a task that Harry had failed a while ago.) Every once in a while Draco's eyes would flutter over to his house mates and would grimace. Allie followed his gaze, it had to be hard for him to associate himself with a Gryffindor.

"Why are you only nice to me?" Allie asked. Figuring she knew that answer but would give him a chance to answer before prying it from his brain.

"I don't know, because your my potions partner, I-"

"Bullshit. Next answer." Allie cut him off, she wasn't going to allow him to waste his breath on lies. He tilted his head at her and tried again.

"Your a nice person and-"

"You don't expect me to believe that was the reason you decided to be nice to me that first day in potions, do you? Cuz I'm not that dumb." Allie told him. She crossed her arms over her chest in an intimidating gesture.

"Well what do you want to hear?"

"The truth."

"What makes you think that I wasn't telling the truth?" he questioned.

"I can read minds, remember?"

"Then you already know the answer."

"None of it's real, you know." Draco's eyes flickered ever so slightly. He gave her an almost stunned look.

"What do you mean?" He tried to say casually.

"I'm not perfect. That's the whole vampire thing. I'm not everything you think I am." She told him gently, she knew her vampireness (is that even a word?) worked it's magic on the platinum blond.

He nodded his head. "OK" was his only response. He remained detached for the rest of breakfast. Allie looked out the window, welcoming the sun as it cast warm rays across her face. The grounds of Hogwarts were beautiful, it must have snowed the night before because the ground was covered with the fluffy white stuff that was absent only the day before. Allie smiled to herself. The snow made everything different, better somehow. It created a new world that was more serene and peaceful. Allie hoped that today was like the snow, she hoped that today she would have peace from all the chaos of her life.

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Allie ducked an insane expelliarmus spell Harry cast her way. She fell to the ground right before the thing was going to hit her in the face, instead it hit the wall behind her and made a explosion like noise. She stared at the spot on the wall then directed her gaze back at Harry. She had her mouth open, stunned at how bad that spell went. "Geez, Harry. I know we aren't sure if I can die but do you really want to find out right now?" Allie accused. Harry walked over to her and offered her is hand. A frown was playing across his features.

"That isn't funny." He didn't like when Allie talked about whether or not she was able to die. He hated the thought of it either way. Allie stood up and gave him a huge grin.

"It was kind of funny." She said, amused at how serious he was taking her comment. Harry shook his head at her out of defiance. Allie just shrugged her shoulders and continued to grin. "Get into position." Harry raised his wand out in front of him to comply with Allie's order. "Ok, so your saying the spell right. But you need to flick your wrist a little more and make sure you keep it tight." She moved to touch his wrist and show him the correct motion. Harry didn't pay attention to anything she was showing him, he was too busy staring at her. Allie's mouth kept moving but it was like she was on mute. The electric shock Allie's touch sent through his body had completely taken over and all he could do was watch her.

"Hello, Harry!" She waved her hand in front of his face. "Earth to Harry! Come in Harry!" Harry snapped out of him trance-like state and refocused on what she was saying.

"Huh, sorry. Must have drifted into a weird day dream or something."

"Harry, I've seen your mind before, it's not that interesting." She laughed at her little joke. Harry chuckled sarcastically, only Allie could get away with something like that and not get a stern yelling at. "But you know what is fun." She took his hand and dragged him to his position on the opposite side of the room. "Defence Against the Dark Arts, and disarming me without... well disarming me." She slid one of her hands over the opposite arm as if slicing it off. Harry once again chuckled.

"Aren't we funny today." He stated.

Allie smirked at him. "I try. Now will you please focus?" Harry nodded her head, Allie did the same in reply. "Alright, now when I get back there disarm me, got it?"

"Yes, Professor." Allie stuck her tongue out at him as he teased her. Harry blinked and the next thing he knew she was standing twenty feet away from him with her wand at the ready. Harry focused on the spell he was about to cast. Tighten up your wrist! He strangely heard Allie yelling at him in his head. He did as he was told and yelled "expelliarmus!" The flash of light shot across the room and caused Allie's wand to go flying up into the ait. Harry smiled, satisfied with his work.

"Great job, Harry!" She narrowed her eyes mischievously at him. "Now it's my turn." In the blink of an eye Allie had picked up her wand and shot a silent spell at Harry. His wand flew triple the distance Allie's had and landed about twenty feet away from him.

The dark haired boy looked at her with wide eyes. "You know, you're bloody scary when you do that." Allie skipped over to his wand and retrieved it for him. In a flash she was standing in front of him with his wand in her hand.

"Yeah, well what can you do when you're designed to kill right?" Harry took his wand from her small fingers and placed it in his pocket. His bright green eyes scanned her bright blue ones. Allie was amazed by how easily it was to get lost in Harry's gaze. He really did have nice eyes....

"Miss. Cullen!"

Allie shook her head to get the fuzziness out. She turned and saw Professor Moody standing three feet away with that weird walking stick in his in hand. Allie stepped back from Harry. "Yes, Professor?"

"Did I just see you perform a nonverbal spell?" Whether he was pleased or enraged Allie couldn't tell and he freaked her out too much for her to search his mind for the answer.

"Yes, sir. It was just expelliarmus. Nothing major." She twisted her wand around in her hand absentmindedly. Moody's magical eye followed the movements of her wand while his good one looked at her. Allie had a strange feeling that it wasn't only the wand he was inquiring to but also her lightening bolt scar.

"Tell me, Miss. Cullen, about your wand." She looked down at it with curious eyes.

"11 inches, made of holly with a Thestral tail hair core, sir." She gave him a questioning look, not knowing why it mattered. He had a look of amazement and fright on his scarred face. "Sir?" She urged him to continue with the thought.

"Thestral hair?" Moody asked with surprise in his voice. Allie nodded her head. "You have a rare wand indeed, Miss. Cullen. Not many wands are made with such a core. You can only master a wand like that if you have mastered death it's self, much like the Dark Lord has." Allie felt her skin crawl at his strange comment. He looked once more to her lightening bolt scar. "It's interesting that a phoenix feather does not resided in your wand seeing as you, the Dark Lord, and Harry are all connected.

"Not to be rude, Professor but it wouldn't be the 'twin cores' if there was a third now would there?" The scarred man simply grunted at her. "My wand has served me well since it chose me, sir. I have no doubt it it capabilities. And Voldemort has not mastered death, Professor seeing as he is dead now." The old man grunted once more. He took a step closed to Allie.

"You dare say his name." His tone filled with anger.

Allie nodded. "Why should I fear a name when I don't fear the man it belongs too?"

Moody opened his mouth to say something but stopped. He took out a strange flask and took a step before stomping over to a very confused Neville and started to help him out of a jam with his wand, Allie heard him mumble 'that girl...' under his breath as he left. Allie let out a deep breath at his departure. "That man freaks me out."

"Ha, yes well, what can he do when he's designed to kill right?" Harry quoted her from earlier. She pushed him playfully and let out a light laugh.

"Touche." Harry looked down at Allie's wand, he had never really taken notice of it before. It was the same length as his but unlike his own it had a black handle (his had a wooden one made of the same wood as the rest of it) with intricate design swirled around it like something Hermione would show him in her Ancient Runes book. It was wavy and skinny, but not terribly so. It was a rather nice wand.

"What is a Thestral?" Allie looked up at him and gave the black haired boy a small smile.

"It's a winged horse type of thing. We have them here at Hogwarts, I could show them to you if you would like."

"Wait, we have them here? I've never seen them before." Harry told her, puzzled.

Allie gave him a stunning smirk and raised one her eye brows. "That's probably because you weren't looking." Her statement sounded very philosophical to Harry. She liked to keep him guessing and he could tell.

"Alright, we'll go see the Thestrals." He told her. The two planned to go see the creatures after classes had ended that day. The rest of class ran smoothly. Harry disarmed Allie every time he attempted the spell, making sure to keep his wrist tight, which inevitably was the cause for his trouble earlier. Defense Against the Dark Arts ended and the two (followed closely by Hermione and Ron) left the room to go to their last classes of the day. Harry tried to hide the smile that threatened to break across his face. He was beyond excited for his outing with Allie Cullen.

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Allie led Harry down the grassy hill and past Hagrid's cabin, heading away from the castle and into the Forbidden Forest. Harry stopped on the outskirts of the trees. Allie stopped and turned to look at him with a look of utter disbelief on her features. "You are not going to tell me you are afraid of trees, are you?" she accused her companion. Harry pursed his lips at her.

"No, it's just... I haven't had the best times in that bit of wood." He looked into the tree line as if he was trying to stare down the forest and it's inhabitants (Harry wasn't stupid, he knew about the giant spider friend of Hagrid's and to be honest the thought gave him chills. He didn't want to be the spider's next meal). Allie turned her head to the trees, she scanned the area around her. She turned back to face Harry and walked backwards a few steps. She stretched her arms out wide.

"There's nothing here, Harry. Just you and me." She kept eye contact with him as she continued to walk backwards. "Now are you going to be a baby or are you going to grow up, Mr. Potter?" Her blue eyes burned holes into his green ones. Her gaze put Harry into a sort of trance, his feet fell into step until he was standing next to the short girl. She smiled and gave his head a gently pat. "Good job." She turned and began to skip into the Forbidden Forest.

She headed father into the dense vegetation with Harry following a step or two behind her. She had stopped skipping but she now hummed as she walked. Allie suddenly stopped and looked to her right then left. She cocked her head to one side as a dog would do when he was listening to something. Pointing to the left she told Harry "Their right through there." They fought their way through a thicket of bushes and came to a clearing. Harry looked around for the creatures but saw nothing.

The dark haired boy wrinkled his forehead in confusion. "Where are they? I thought you said they were here." Allie walked forward and began petting the air. Harry assumed she was just joking and that their really were no Thestrals at Hogwarts.

"You can't see them." She stated simply, still petting nothing but air. Once again, Harry was confused. "I thought you might have been able too but guess not. Harry, Thestrals can only be seen by people who have witnessed death." She spun around to face him giving him a closed mouthed smile. She reached her hand out to him, telling him to come to her. He did so and took her hand. She guided his hand to where hers had been a moment before. Harry was surprised when he felt his hand make contact with an invisible object. The figure felt like a horse only stranger, like it had an exoskeleton or something like that. Harry ran his fingers down the Thestral's back. Allie let go of his hand and went to sit under a large oak tree.

"Why can you see them?" Harry asked.

Allie leaned her head back against the tree trunk and closed her eyes. "Because I saw my family die." Her voice didn't carry it's usual perkiness. It sounded sadder and weaker to Harry.

"I saw my parents die, too."

"Yeah, well it's different. You don't remember their deaths, do you?" Allie questioned him.

"No." Harry continued to stroke the Thestral as he turned his gaze to the small blond. "Do you?" Allie opened her eyes and sighed. She nodded her head quickly hoping he wouldn't push further. "How? You were only six months old."

"Harry, I age differently than regular children. By the time I was six months I had the mind set of a three year old." Harry watched her with stunned eyes. "I remember everything about that day everything from my mother's screams to Voldemort's staring red snakelike eyes right before he tried to kill me. I wish I didn't remember these things but I do." She paused to take a deep breath. "That is why I can see them."

"And why you have your wand." Harry stated. Allie merely nodded in response as she stared off into the distance. Harry walked over and sat next to her. A single tear escaped her eyes, she wiped it away in a flash, but not fast enough for Harry not to notice. He wrapped an arm around her shoulder and brought her close to his chest. She laid her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes once again. Harry rested his chin on the top of her head and listened as she quietly cried. These tears were different from the ones she had shed recently. The tears she cried before were out of frustration and fright but these, these tears were for love. Love for her parents and family and the pain she felt without them there with her.

Allie lifted her head and looked into Harry's eyes. Harry felt like she was searching into the depths of his soul with her intense gaze. A second later Harry saw something flicker in her gaze and immediately her face changed into something completely different. Instead of the pain and sadness that had resided there only minutes before she wore an enlightened, almost happy expression. She let out a small chuckle and cast her eyes downward.

A smile spread across her face and she began to shake her head. Harry raised his eyebrows at her. "What?" He leaned his head down closer so he could see what she was doing.

Her eyes jumped up to meet his, her smile had grown wider. She let out a small laugh before saying. "I love you."

She chuckled again and shook her head like she was stunned that she actually said that out loud but she was happy that she did. Harry lifted her chin gently with his finger so she was looking him square in his bright green eyes. She still wore a huge smile on her face.

"And strangely enough, I love you." Allie's smile faded into something more serious but she still exuded a bright happy glow around her. Harry leaned in close and kissed her. He felt a spark pass between their lips instantaneously, feeling once more how connected they were to each other. The kiss was amazing. Sweet and gently but powerful. Harry pulled back and ran his hand up and down Allie's check. She smiled up at him and... blushed. Harry laughed at the sight of the most confident person in the world blush. Harry felt like his heart was about to explode, he could not remember the last time he had been this happy or if he had ever been this happy before in his life. Allie leaned her head against his chest, the dark haired boy kissed the top of her head in response. The couples hearts were beating in rhythm to each others. Never before had any two people been more connected than the boy and girl who lived were at that moment.

finally! its about time those two got together if you ask me. give me feedback please. i need it. it keeps me from sucking. lol thanks for reading!