Chapter XXIII
It was sooner than Keller expected as she came out of the hospital wing after spending a duration of two crucial days of resting and doing nothing but the assignments from classes for the remainder of her stay.
"If I spend one more day in here, I'm going to go completely and utterly insane!" She told Hermione before Madame Promfrey came to give her one last check-up and saw that she was doing better and said she was good to go.
"Now, your wings still need time to recuperate and none of your flying for at least another few days and Ms. Lucian will inform me if you do, is that clear?" She said as Keller was changing and getting ready to leave, "Remember no flying understand?"
"Yeah yeah, I got it!" Keller didn't seem to pay attention to what she was being told but her back still ache and knew would take a while, at least maybe a day or two for them to heal. Best to play by ear but there was a positive note to all this.
No more being stuck in bed, having nothing but homework and a liquid blood 'diet' that held no taste and wasn't like the real deal. Hermione thought the med-witch looked more than happy to see Keller go walking through those doors by her cousin's side.
"Man I thought I'd never get out of there, now I know how a cooped up bird feels inside its' cage. It's like having your wings clipped but lucky mine weren't." She touched underneath the soft fabric the small bumps that were a little sore and purple and until in the later afternoon would stop hurting as they went to up the tower to gather their things.
They gave the password to the Fat Lady and she greeted Keller when she saw her, "Nice to see you back among us Ms. Corvin, I do hope you feel much better after what Peeves did. That horrid imp, I swear that Bloody Baron should keep that thing on a short leash if he's going to cause so much trouble for these students. His pranks are getting worse and worse each year..." And swung the portrait open to let them in.
Classes were still in sessions and Hermione had been grant permission to see how Keller was faring after she finished and copied down her assignment. Some of the kids were confuse as to why she got out early but Dumbledore already relate to some of their professors about what sort of happen, leaving out explicit details for the sake of Keller's secret to not leak out into Hogwarts.
Hermione took a seat on the couch and pulling from her bag some 'light' reading to pass the time while Keller went to change then came back and sat on the floor, her legs crossed and eyes closed.
Hermione finished the last paragraph and flipped to the next chapter and felt a awed presence that set her on edge and looked to where Keller was and sensing this coming off her.
She shut her book and still staring at her and trying to see if it was her imagination running and wishing that whatever Keller was doing she'd stop before it's too late.
"Hey Kell, what are you doing?" Keller was still in her trance and without breaking her concentration.
"Mediating, what does it look like?" As if stating the obvious and Hermione knew that what she was feeling was the one she sense maybe more than once which disturbed her greatly.
That night back in September and had seen it with Keller, small but noticeable as James grab her arm and she threw him down and felt the minor tremor of her power she let out.
She might've done worse than try to break James' arm and could've pulled it right out of the socket if she wanted to. But that wasn't like Keller but for their sakes had to make sure she was aware what was going on.
"I know that but do you remember when you try to well attack James and our fight in the room?"
"Yeah what about it?" Keller still not getting what she was trying to imply and Hermione needed her to stop and decided to be blunt instead of dancing around the problem, seeing it wasn't going anywhere.
"I don't know how to say this but you have some aura around you and its happening like before and it's coming from you."
This time it got her full attention and Keller wide awake and turn, her mouth open and close before she spoke, her voice faltering for a second, "W-what did you say? Are you sure?" She stood up shaken by what she said and trying to get over her immediate shock but seem unlikely to happen so quickly.
"I saw you have it coming off while you were mediating." Keller's eyes widen and looked down at her hands, flipping them back and forth as if to inspect them for any unexpected changes and brought them to her face to feel if anything was alter or different but found none.
She looked to Hermione again, "Are you absolutely a 100 certain?"
"Positive. Keller what's wrong? Please tell me what is it? Maybe I can help if you let me know what's the matter?" She tried to grab her hand but Keller quickly stood up and walk towards the fireplace and gazing into the fiery ember, recalling those same words she heard echo in her mind.
"That's what Drake said, that's what she told me. No it can't be happening, not again…"
Before Hermione could question or understand what she meant by, realizing that it might have to do with more her hidden past, the door to the common room swung open and students came in to drop off their books and then head for lunch.
They were surprised to see Keller after being gone for two weeks, one round of rumors to leading another. Wasn't long before the Heads took charge and made threats to give out detention and deduct points if anymore were spread on such ridiculous notions of being kidnapped or running off into the Forbidden forest at night and well the rest so farfetched to even describe.
Most were asking where she been as they immediately gathered around her and she being bombard from different directions with no escape as they blocked her exits.
Her eyes caught Hermione's over everyone and mentally told her, I'll tell you about it later. Hermione would keep her to her word but now she would have to deal with their questioning.
"I was on the stairs when someone, I'm betting Peeves set a trap for me to get caught by Flinch and I tripped. I was unfortunate to dislocate my shoulder and other bones in my body and had to undergo for a surgical operation and have been stuck in the hospital…" Keller tried to put the bits and pieces as best could thanks to Hermione who told her what she had originally told Lily beforehand.
It was around lunch as they went down to the Great Hall and sat down to eat with everyone. Remus by his girlfriend's side and giving her a quick peck and welcoming Keller back and remembered the good news, knowing it might lift her spirits.
"Hey Kell, you won't believe what Professor Valerious got plan for us in DADA." Keller look up from her stew, curious, as she hadn't heard any news from her cousin or the others.
Apparently they had been keeping something from her, even as she tried to read Hermione's thought who turn to Remus seeing he was given permission to. "Dumbledore has given her permission to have the Dueling club."
This instantly perked Keller and grasping her attention, "Are you seri-I mean absolutely sure?" Remus nodded, "Yes! Oh right, now I'm feeling in a much better thanks Moony, you're the best." She went to go embrace the werewolf, not noticing the faint blush on his cheeks and pulled back, "Anytime you need a favor from me let me know."
She couldn't wait to know when the Dueling club would be so she could get ready for a chance to jinx someone's ass, "So when is it exactly?"
"Oh, Professor Valerious told us that by this week we be having practice rounds and supposedly the first one is today."
"WHAT, and you're telling me this now? I haven't had time to practice and I had no chance to brush up on my jinxes or counterattacks!" She said as she thought that being in the hospital must've really taken a toll and didn't feel at her full potential with lack of practice.
Hopefully she was going to go out and in the forest and couldn't wait to enjoy the thrill of hunt with Hermione but there was also Remus to consider. He wanted to come along during one of the full moons as he was Hermione's mate and he would most likely feel more comfortable and possibly in control with her around.
It would be cool, the three of them hanging together, running off into the night. Yeah two hybrids, a werewolf and maybe a stag and dog…speaking of dogs, she didn't hear his bark-like laughter which seem odd for him since he was always the loudest during this time.
That was strange but was really of no concern as she finish her lunch before someone tap her on the shoulder and turn to see a young man standing behind. What does he want? She wondered as she saw him smile then began talking to her.
Sirius was the only one who was silent throughout the meal and didn't dare say anything unless he wanted to grab Keller's attention, which he thought not to in case she might have a few other things to say to him.
He was still recalling the look in her eyes, her anger and hatred shining from those black orbs and the words coming out of her mouth.
I hate you Sirius Black! I hate you with all my heart! I never want to hear or speak to you ever again!
He heard them many times over the weeks in his dreams but they were different. She'd yell them out and feel them cut into his flesh like sharp knives, digging deeper and deeper as she repeated them over to him.
He would be lying on the ground, his blood making a puddle with the many cuts on him while he's calling out but she had already disappeared from his sight, leaving him to bleed on the floor.
He would wake up drench in sweat and trying to fight the twinge of pain inside his chest as he lay back down on the bed, resisting the urge to close his eyes and fall back to sleep.
When James told him of what happened, he felt even much worse, blaming it was his fault for her condition and did little except spend most of his time worrying over Keller.
He had even taken the liberty of using James' cloak to see how she was doing, being quiet as he saw her telling Hermione how scared she was of the operation that was to happen when the med-witch left them alone.
And during Defense Against the Dark class, the class had seen the phoenix, Fawkes came with a parchment attach to his leg, which he flew straight to Professor Valerious' desk. He knew couldn't be good as a sense of dread hung heavily in his stomach and made it churn uneasily.
Valerious stopped her lecture and went and removed the note from his leg and read it before she placed the note inside her pocket and send Fawkes away and continue the lecture, finishing up rather quickly while everyone wonder what the note said.
James, Remus and Lily seem to have an idea and later Sirius himself as he saw the professor asked Hermione for a moment upstairs in her office.
On the night of the operation, he had a dream where Keller was strapped down on a operating table with men that didn't look at all like doctors but wearing black and leering at her lying naked writhing like a squirming specimen for them.
She scream and continue to struggle as they did something by opening her legs and then pointing inside her and…
Merlin that was the worse one and it almost seem too real. Sirius shuddered and his gaze move towards Keller to where she was talking excitingly about the duel and just as she finished speaking with Hermione, a boy from the Ravenclaw table came over and asked to talk to her. His grip on the fork tightens and knew what he was probably here for.
Ever since the Halloween ball and everyone had known who she was, the Sparkling Diamond and boys from other houses, well with the exception from Slytherin, were wanting to ask her out and one had gotten to her first.
Merlin, she just came out of the hospital wing and already one has the gut to go and ask her out.
He remembered back at the ball, after she dance with her partner and rejected them politely which made him breath easier but that didn't stop them from coming. But Sirius's eyes watching them as the guy flirts with her and she smile, saying she think about it and talk to him later.
He didn't seem to notice him digging his knife into his lamb chop and scrapping the porcelain and taking the chop and gnawing at it like an angry dog and wanting to rip it to shreds.
He shot daggers at the guy's back as he made his way to the Ravenclaw table, wanting to send a jinx or two his way but that Keller would figure it was him and knew wouldn't help fix the bridge on their relationship.
James was the one who had watched what he was doing and stopped him by cuffing him on the back of his head and while Sirius was rubbing it, turn to ask why he did that as James grabbed his collar and dragged him out of the room.
"What's the bloody matter with you?" James took his best friend outside to have a private chat with him as he let go of his robes and Sirius tried to fix his clothes, trying to ignore what he was asking but to no luck, "The past few day you've been acting totally different and not yourself!"
James continue, counting off on his finger the list of things he notice, "You're a lot quieter, you barely up to anything, not even for pranks that I think is not right for you, you sit in the room all day doing absolutely not one thing except stare at the bloody ceiling and breathing and you're screwing badly at Quidditch practice.
"Merlin, you haven't even laughed in day as I told you my funniest stories? What's wrong with you? What happened to the Padfoot who loved to joke and flirt with all the pretty girls with legs? What happened to the Sirius who became my brother, who wouldn't hide anything from me and now doesn't let me know what's the matter with him? Out with it now before I decide to wring it out of you!"
Sirius turn to stare, knowing that everything he said hit accurately close to the point of his misery and decide to confront it with him. "Tell me Prongs, what would happen if Lily had told you in your face that she hated you and never wish to speak to you again?"
"Probably keep going at it until she gives in to my undying love and affection."
Sirius didn't say anything and not in the mood for jokes as he gruffly stated, "That's not what I meant and you know it. I mean what if she came to you with a look of such coldness, one you would never expect to see and have her say right in your face she hated you and never wanted to speak with you again!"
James saw how serious he was and knew that it was better to be open and truthful than to outright lie to him, knowing it might depress him more but Sirius had asked and be honest about it if that were to happen to him and knew would hurt with what he would tell him.
He took a deep breath and losing all humor as he spoke in a solemn tone that sound a little off coming from him, "To be perfectly frank with you, I think my heart would feel as if it was broken and shatter into a million pieces and I'd try everything in my power to ask her to forgive me and then to try and start over, hoping with time and patience we can gain it back again."
Sirius sigh and ran a hand to push his hair from his eyes and notice the dark circles underneath them and how tired he look. "I suppose but what if it doesn't James, what if she doesn't want to start over and I made the biggest mistake of my life."
"Then you best move on then. There are plenty of other fishes in the sea you know. It's for the best and I'm sure you'll get over it…" James said as he went back to the Great Hall to join the others and Sirius took a seat on a bench and putting his face in his hands.
Yeah but there would only be one girl like her in a million and I have completely screwed it up.
Defense Against the Dark Arts was abuzz with excitement and couldn't wait for what they were going to be doing today. Professor Valerious arrived with professor Flitwick as he had once been a Dueling Champion.
"Now class since we are going to have a chance for everyone and this room is too small for all of us, Dumbledore has given us the usage of the Great Hall. Now, Flitwick and I have made a list of who they will be dueling against.
"Perhaps then we try and have by January with partners and a champion duel with us, your professor, if everyone feels they like to take the challenge." Many were suddenly interested in the idea and soon the whole class was in the Great Hall as Flitwick cleared his voice and started calling out their names down the list.
Sirius Black: Rodolphus Lestrange
Keller Corvin: Bellatrix Black
Lily Evans: Evan Rosier
Sonja Lucian: Narcissa Black
Remus Lupin: Lucius Malfoy
Peter Pettigrew: Severus Snape
James Potter: Rabastan Lestrange
When he finished, Professor Valerious assign them to a medium size stage where each was set with a barrier to not have any wayward spells hit outside the circle and they could walk around and watch on how they duel.
Keller reach the stage she was assigned and looked over to where her opponent was and saw Bellatrix glaring coldly at her from the other side. Keller could still see faint marks on her forehead standing out and couldn't help but smiled at her. Her cousin hadn't been the only one to come up with a good jinx to pimpled up on ones own face, especially on the forehead with neon lights to make them stand out.
"Well well look who decided to come back from the dead, seems like you like to disappear a lot these days?"
"True but it only has to do with the fact that maybe I don't enjoy seeing your face half the time. And oh by the way, how's your sister's teeth, last time I checked she had them nearly hanging to the floor, scrapping the dirt and grime and seem to do a great job as I can now see my face. Give her my regards."
"You watch what you say otherwise that so called mouth of your is going to be bloody ripped off."
Keller rolled her eyes, scoffing at her threat, "Is that the best you got? Empty threats if that's so then let's get this done and over with Be-a-Bitch!" She saw the blood rush to Bellatrix's face and almost showing the words on her forehead.
Professor Valerious went to the center and said, "Everyone, bow to your opponent, wands at the ready, at the count of three begin, one, two, three!"
"Expelliarmus!" Bellatrix shot while Keller said, "Protego!" The shield instantly rebound the attack to her opponent while Bellatrix dodge it and shot another in Keller's direction, "Incendio!"
This seem to go on the whole class session, Lily had cause Rictusempra on Rosier while he hit her with a jelly-leg jinx. Sirius hit Rodolphus to cause him to have boils all over his face while Sirius had been hit with a stunner.
Hermione was able to cast Oppugno and send a flock of canaries against Narcissa and Remus was hit with Tarantallegra spell causing him to do a crazy dance.
Petter wasn't holding up too well with Snape and let just put he was having the worst luck out of everyone.
It wasn't long before things were starting to get out of hand that the professors had decided to put a stop to them.
"Finite Incantatem!" Everyone's jinxes were put to an end, everyone but two people were still going at it.
Keller dodged another of Bellatrix's attack. She thought that this bitch was all hot air and no game but she was wrong. She had almost got her with that last spell if she hadn't moved.
Better think of something Keller! Stay on your feet and find your opponent's weak point. Drake's imperious voice rung out as she tried to think what advantages she had against her as she seem to have every intention of obliterateher.
She was good at magic but she exceed martial arts she was used to hand-to-hand and excellent at weapons and stealth. It hit her suddenly as an idea came to her.
That's it! She had now figure out the perfect plan and hope could be able to work it out if she could without breaking her concentration.
Quickly saying one of the spells out loud and the other in her head and dodge another of Bellatrix's attack while her hand to the floor and performed all three spells at once.
"Accio fan!" A fan appeared and caught it and held in her hand and opens it and held it out.
Bellatrix looked at it, skeptically as if that was the best she could do, "What are you planning to do with that? Fan me to death!" She laughed as Keller hid a smirk behind her fan then threw it straight at her.
Bellatrix saw it coming and said, "Incendio!' Ahh, too bad, looks like its'—" But the smoke cleared she saw the fan still coming, only the skeleton frame as the rest had been burn away to reveal razor sharp blades, shining pointed and deadly as it came straight at her, not losing momentum with how strong Keller threw it accurately, despite Bellatrix spell. It was nothing against her pure strength as she had made certain to give it fully even as it might lose some speed but kept going.
Bellatrix moved, only to feel one scratched her cheek and falling to the ground to bump into—Keller grinning and holding her wand pointed at her.
Shocked to see that she was standing there where she had not been a second ago, tried to back up before feeling something protrude behind her back.
She turned her head and saw Keller standing there with the same trademark grin and glint in her eye. She looked back and forth seeing the other Keller still there in her original spot.
"Boo." And watched as Bellatrix bump into the third and final Keller. Everyone who had finished their matches were now staring as they saw not one but three Kellers surrounding Bellatrix.
"Looks like we win!" The three Kellers said and scaring the complete shit out of Bellatrix as she back out of them slowly and giving one final threat to the trio, "You haven't seen the last of me! I'll get you for this!"
"Oh no you haven't…" One of the Kellers said as she approached her with determined strides to Bellatrix.
"And we have not seen the last of you…" The second one said as she join her side. "This is only the beginning." The third on the other side of her and then at the same time said, "Be-A-Bitch!" Bellatrix scramble back to her group of Slytherin who were muttering darkly as class was over and they left in a huff. Half the class stayed along with the two professors as the Kellers all high-five one another.
"Wait, which one of you is the real one?" Lily asked as she looked to each of them, they were identical and surely was impossible for there to be three of the same person but here was the Kellers look to the others and said, "Well why don't you try and figure which one of us is the real one and which are the fakes?"
Hermione took to looking at each of them and said, "I know one of you is fake because I can see which one holds the wand in her hand," She pointed to the one with her wand in her left while the others held theirs in their right.
"Good call!" The one holding her wand in the wrong hand said as she tapped herself over the head and slowly her body began to change to a silvery color and dissolve and turn into the silver needles they had once form the skeleton of the fan once more.
The fan went into one of the Keller's hand and held it before her. "Now there's only two of us, can you guess which is the real and which is the fake?" The class all pondered this and Remus seem to have figured it out as he had been looking them both up and down and saw to where their feet were.
"You don't have any shadows." Everyone heard what he said and looked to see he was right and one of them had to be a shadow.
Sirius was staring at them and noticed that the right had a look of mischief and amusement while the other carried closeness and secrecy behind her gaze no matter how hard she tried to hide it.
That had to be the real Keller.
It wasn't long before the teacher said whom she was without pointing out as she saw the same thing as Sirius and then the second Keller, slowly evaporated and sinking to the floor and was once again her shadow.
"Marvelous, simply ingenious, I say I have never seen such a complex multitude of spells used for a duel or for the outside wizarding world. And you created a copy of yourself using your shadow, I'm amazed to say that you come up with such an interesting spell."
Flitwick praised her as well did the students after Keller came down from her stage, her legs a bit shaken but didn't show it as she joined her friend and felt them congratulating her.
It was a good thing classes were finished for the rest of the day; she didn't think she could handle another lesson without having to collapse from the energy she used just after getting out of the hospital.
She and everyone exit the Great Hall and head back to the dorms. While they were on the stairs, she was feeling slightly dizzy as they were going up and held onto the railing as it switch and moving to the next set.
Maybe I shouldn't have used so many at the same time and I hadn't gotten my full strength back. I feel that if I don't lie down soon, I will, I will…
Before she knew it, she felt the room start spinning and the sensation of falling taking over.
"KELLER!" She heard someone but didn't know who said it and felt someone grab her before she could hit the ground. But she was out like a light as she felt unconscious and unaware what was going on.
Oh my head, what happened? What's going on?
She opened her eyes, seeing everything blurry and then became clear and focus. She saw she was in some room that she was unfamiliar with. And with unfamiliar faces, well one was familiar among them and that was Dumbledore and was that James standing next to him?
No she knew something was different with him, his eyes were green and he didn't have any lightning scar under his messy bangs. She saw that the other people had crowded around Dumbledore, wondering what he was trying to do, looking at something in his hands.
It was a black book, her book!
"Hey what are you guys doing?!" She went to snatch it from Dumbledore's hands but she seem to pass right through it as if she were a ghost.
What the! She tried waving her hand in front of his face, no response, she tried it with the James' clone by giving him and the red hair boy wet willies in their ears, nothing, nada, zilch.
What was going on here? She watched Dumbledore put the book down and said, "Vitam et sanguinem? Does anyone know what that means?" Some people shook their heads while others looked on confused, not knowing what those words meant.
He turned to a man who was standing next to him with sandy hair with gray strands and scars scratching up his face. He looked familiar and before she had time to figure out who he was, Dumbledore asked, "Well Remus? You know what those words mean?"
Remus, oh by the elders, Mione's mate, Moony! He was much older but still seem to hold some of that old Marauder in him but there was a hint of sadness that had gaunt his features and saw a few silvery strands in his sandy hair and the dark underlines on his face.
Remus nodded slowly, "It means lifeblood. I remembered because Sirius had asked me to depict it and knew that book seem so familiar when I found it in his drawers."
WHAT SIRIUS HAS MY JOURNALS, WAIT UNTIL I GET MY HANDS ON HIM?! She looked around the room, trying to find Sirius's face but no such luck and the James's clone had a look of melancholy on his face as if saying his name brought remorse in which she didn't understand why.
Her anger turned to one of confusion as some of the other had that same look on their faces.
What happened to Sirius then, surely, surely he wasn't, he couldn't be…
But her eyes were drawn to Dumbledore as he pulled back the sleeve of his robe and made a small incision on his wrist with a pare knife, a thin line bleeding blood from his veins. He pour it over the blank page and everyone watch as if memorized as the scene within slowly start to reveal what she had wish she never remember or shown to anyone else.
It looked to have taken longer before the book snapped itself shut on its own and the James's look-alike spoke, his face a bit pale after what he experience. "That-that girl, she had been through a lot hadn't she and…"
"Yes Harry I know, Ms. Corvin is someone I had once had the pleasure of meeting along with her cousin who had came to the school unexpected in the seventh year."
"Cousin? She didn't make any mention in there?" The red hair boy spoke pointing to her book, "All she put was about that teacher, the training, the bloody torture is more the word I should say and a load of other stuff but never about a cousin or her family even."
"Yes that's very much true but I can assure you that what I will tell you will probably make this a little bit harder for you to accept for you see Ms. Corvin and her cousin were from this time and somehow she had ended up in the time of Remus, Sirius and your father, Mr. Potter."
"WHAT?!" Everyone baffled except for Remus who he must've known or had been told before as everyone was questioning as to how it was possible.
"I have as no more of an idea as to this day as Ms. Corvin and her cousin, Ms. Lucian by the way had told me that they had come because Ms. Lucian had been hit by a killing spell by a Death Eater and she and Ms. Corvin time travel to that time."
"Wait, you mean a Death Eater used a Killing spell but didn't actually kill her or her cousin but send them back in time instead? Wonkers that something I don't think I can understand this sir." Tonks was the one who feeling as she had heard that name, Keller's and an unfamiliar face start creeping in from the back of her mind, a girl with long black hair and hazel eyes, blurry but getting something.
Had they met before and then Moody who recalled her at the alley and no wonder she had seem so damn familiar, "She had been with Ms. Granger at the time I saw her and when the Death Eaters had attacked Diagon Alley but we went to find Ms. Granger she was gone along with the other girl, not certain if she had ran during the fight or had disappeared until now."
"Wait but didn't Dumbledore said Ms. Lucian was her cousin and that they disappeared when the Death Eater's attack. But Hermione was and that girl had been with her, then that would mean…" Harry turn to Dumbledore and Remus as they both looked at him. "Ms. Granger wasn't what she had thought to be either Harry and had only learned from this summer of who were her real parents and what she really was."
"What she really was? What do you bloody mean by that? You're not making sense sir." The red hair boy said and Dumbledore looked to the two boys, knowing it was complicated for them to understand but better than to keep them in the dark about the situation.
"It means that she and her cousin, Ms. Corvin were the only first two of their kind, a half-vampire and half-werewolf, a hybrid of two different species."
The room seems to become quiet and she thought that if a pin were to drop she would hear it echoing off the walls. But then saw the room and everyone in it disappearing and turning dark as she felt something pulling her away and slipping back into her own.
Keller felt something cool and moist touch her forehead and opened her eyes to see she was staring at the ceiling of her four posters with Lily and Hermione standing over her and Lily wringing a hand cloth that she dipped into a basin by the bed stand.
Well at least she wasn't at the hospital that would have been bad enough just as she got out today. She asked what happened as she lay on her pillow looking at both of them.
Hermione was the one to answer, "Well apparently you fainted and we had to carry you up to the room, knowing you would have dare threaten us if we had taken you to the hospital wing."
Ahe didn't dare make mention that it had been Sirius who had caught her and knowing if she knew that would spell trouble for him and took from there.
"You were asleep for half an hour and dinner is coming soon but I would think it be best if you stay here and we'll have one of the elves bring supper up." Keller tried to sit up but Lily saying it was unwise as she told her to lie back down. Keller ignored her as she steadied herself in a sitting position then moved her legs to the side and stood.
"I'm fine really Lily, I'm ok, just need to use the bathroom." Her legs wobbly unwarily and tries to keep from collapsing as she asked, "Sonja, will you come in case I faint in the stall then?" Hermione nodded. "Thank you then." And the two went to the bathroom together, Keller turning on the shower watching as the water was going and then went to the door, locking and placing a silence charm even while the water ran.
"Keller what are you doing?" Hermione questioned as Keller straighten herself, her legs not shaking anymore, "I needed to talk to you here in private."
"Well why not used the mind-link like last time?" Keller shook her head, "I may be all right but my mind isn't feeling up to strength as it was before and it something important I had to discuss with you without Lily hearing us."
Keller took a deep breath and said, "I had a dream where I saw Dumbledore and this kid, he looks like James but isn't, his name's Harry, and a lot of other people and they were looking into my journal…" She explain what Dumbledore had told those people and Hermione knew that Remus had given Dumbledore to see if there was any clue as to who she was before he told them who they really were.
"And I woke up. Oh, when I get my hands on Sirius Black, I'm gonna…Hermione what's wrong?" Hermione looked down at the floor and Keller stopped to stare, "Come on you can tell me, what is it?"
"Keller, there's a reason why you didn't see Sirius in our time. You see…" She took a deep breath knowing it was painful to reminisce the event that happened by then, "About two years ago, we went to this place called the department of mystery, thinking Sirius was in danger but had been a trap…"
Keller listened as she told her about the battle at the Ministry of Magic and how they had been all lucky to survive with only a few jinxes and injuries that weren't too severe. She never saw what had happened to Sirius but Harry had told her and now she was telling it to Keller.
"Sirius was dueling against his cousin Bellatrix, you know the girl who you called 'Be-A-Bitch' well she will be and is in mine and Harry's book now. Sirius was taunting Bellatrix, right behind a veil and Bellatrix shot him, pushing him right through it. Sirius never came back from that veil. He's dead."
Keller seems to lose color on her face that was blanched of emotion but it was her eyes that had changed when Hermione had spoken those dreaded words. Her eyes were wide with shock as she finished her tale and left the bathroom and leaving Keller standing there, rooted to her spot.
It can't be true, it can't be! She argued inside her mind as she still couldn't believe it. With what Hermione told her and remembering the dream of nightmare wedding, the bridesmaid Bellatrix shooting Sirius and he falling behind an arch with a veil and never coming back through it.
The world seem to have spin, revolted around and then stop as she became sick in the stomach and couldn't stand up any longer as she fell to the ground and move by the toilet and felt herself gagging and retching nothing out as the words continue to come back to her over and over like a record.
Sirius…dead?