DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Harry Potter or any of its characters. I also do not make any money from this.
WARNINGS: Yaoi (male x male), Yuri (female x female) adult topics, swearing, sexual scenes and violence.
This has not been Beta'd.
PAIRINGS: Ron x Hermione, Blaise x Cho
'text' is thought
"text" talking
Hidden Element
Chapter 14: Relocated
Elementals:
Ice and Void – [Name]
Fire – Pansy Parkinson
Earth – Blaise Zabini
Nature – Cho Chang
Light – [Name]
The Forgotten:
Electricity – Saito Blackstar (OC)
[Element] – Carsly Hendricks (OC)
[Element] – [Name]
Water - Yasmin DiAngelo
Wind - Miya Hendricks (OC)
Draco had gone in a heartbeat, and her breath took this moment as a sign to ventilate. She didn't react when Ron's warm arms wrapped around her shaking body. It was cold outside, probably why Draco had thought about giving her a coat. Looking up, a puff of mist following from her mouth, she could see the stars brightly shining.
They had always reminded her of him. Sure, the name was a constellation, yet he had also had a fascination for them due to the fact he'd been named after one in the first place. The serenity and somewhat clarity of that one millisecond vanished as soon as she stepped into the house.
The bang of the door and the brightness of the hallway lamps took her by surprise, snapping her out of her fitful daze. Ron was still guiding her, and she could vaguely remember their current direction being that of the sitting room. Slowly, she found herself lowered onto a plush couch, a blanket warmly wrapped around her figure.
She had to remember to thank Ron for this attentiveness later. Hermione shook her head slowly, her vision stabilising enough so she could reach into a coat pocket and lift a now uncorked bottle of orange liquid to her waiting lips. Potions were indeed miracles. She could feel her muscles relax and her mind clear up from its previous foggy state.
"Mione, It's probably not the first thing I should say, but I have to ask. Where the hell have you been?" Ron's emotions got the better of him as he shouted the last sentence. Tentatively, she looked around. Ron was now sitting next to her, hand brushing up and down her blanketed arm. Ginny sat haphazardly on the floor by her feet and at the corner of her eye she could make out Harry standing stiffly to the side looking completely lost. No sign of Ginny, Neville or the two elementals.
"I... Are you?" Ron gave her a look of disbelief.
"I got thrown into a car, but that wasn't anything special, I've had worse happen to me. We were so worried! I was so worried, I woke up, and you were gone! All anyone else could say was that you were with Pansy and that you'd be safe. Tell me you're OK?" Hermoine gave a slight chuckle and glanced up wearily as Harry came to join Ginny on the floor.
"The whole truth 'Mione." And he was deadly serious. Those emerald eyes had turned a determined shade of jade. 'Probably the whole Draco thing.'
"I... Fine, but no matter what I say, it's fine now. OK?" Ron paled considerably at the words he didn't want to hear, and seeing this, Hermione rushed into her explanation. "You missed it Ron, it was amazing. They both created these massive entities using their abilities. One was a dragon, while Pansy's was a phoenix. I didn't listen to Pansy, however. She was trying to protect me and, well I thought I could help. Next thing I knew, I was dying." Her hand blossomed in pain as Ron's caught hers with an iron grip, his eyes full of sorrow and guilt.
"Hey, there's nothing you could have done, we took a knife to a gun fight." Harry grinned sadly at her badly timed joked, widening it as both red head brother and sister seemed confused by it.
"Are you sure you're OK? Hermoine..." She lifted a hand up in a silencing motion. She had been sorry to interrupt Ginny, yet she wanted no interruptions to her own tale. Ginny sighed and nodded in understanding, leaning closer to the chair.
"I got impaled by one of the dragons claws, and it hurt like hell, I'll tell you that much. Pansy portkeyed me away. I woke up today in a safe house. As you all know, I came across an old friend, and before you even say it, I know nothing more Harry. He'd been healing me back to health, but he seemed in a hurry. He didn't say much, apart from to take this potion that he gave me regularly and that he was fine.
"He then apparated me over here. Like I said, he said nothing more, so any information you wish to know, I can't give you. We're right back to where we started. We had never truly found him in the fist place. Give him more time Harry. What worries me, is that Pansy knows where Draco is, since she knew the safe house location. If you really want to find Draco, we find Pansy first."
"For that, we need Cho." Ginny whispered awkwardly.
"Tomorrow," Ron grated out. "I think we ALL need to get some rest, then weigh our options in the morning." It was a tone of authority that Ron rarely used, but it clearly expressed his need to get his fiancé into bed. He also quieted the curious glance Harry was aiming at her. There would be no talk of Draco tonight.
They had portkeyed to the top of a hill in Wales. Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione and Blaise had gone to meet her for negotiations. The rest of the Order had stayed behind to look for recent natural disasters while Cho had stayed behind to look after them just in case. The weather was warm, yet slightly humid. The location had been picked for its higher altitude and rare visitor this time of year.
Ginny giggled as she saw the soft trail of daisies as they walked languidly across roughly grown grass.
"Blaise?" she smiled, pointing to the trail. "I wasn't aware that you could do that!" Blaise's ears instantly brightened yet he remained quiet about the subject. They had truly thought that enough time had passed for them to go back to the Order. They had, in fact, kept well away from that sort of behaviour since they'd arrived. 'Great, the one weekend we decide to go for it.'
He flushed at the insinuation that the delicate flowers tracking him were of his own device. The insistent giggling and gossip of it all began to tug on his temper. A glance to the right showed him Ron giving him a 'just give up' look.
"I can't..." he stammered, but when their curious looks appeared, he knew he had to tell.
"As we are the embodiment of an element, it does something when we get close to any of the others. An elemental can't become immune to another's element, but if they stay too long near an element stronger than theirs, and I mean in a sense of living in the same house for a few years they start to rebuff it slightly.
"When you get serious with one, they will start to find a way to harmonise so as to interlink. The accumulated energy between the two elementals gets released in both directions if they become... intimate. In other words, I'm not the only one sporting a bit of someone else's element," he gulped.
"Someone got laid this morning in other words?" Hermoine grinned.
"Two nights ago," Blaise stated bluntly, shocking them slightly and then causing them all to laugh. "But it doesn't have to be sex, could be making out or just kissing."
"So being together as elementals is potentially better than being single? I mean, your wife is probably causing mini earth quakes somewhere, right? So that means you both have both elements," Ginny asked curiously.
"It doesn't work like that. It's like being on a high. It lasts for a few days or hours depending on what type of situation you were in as the element pushes the foreign one out. If I decided not to have sex with my wife for a day or two, it would be just me again. It's just residual, because it's not my element, my body tries to release it from my body since I can't really handle it, unless you want us making out in the middle of the battle field." They couldn't help but laugh at that.
The subject was left alone, yet they found themselves thinking about its potential uses.
Pansy was sitting lazily on a red and black striped blanket underneath an apple tree. She seemed thoroughly bored, and one had to wonder how long she'd been sitting there. The group sat wearily on the blanket, and Hermione was thankful to get off her feet.
"You gave me quite a fright, you know?" Hermione stared at Pansy for a while, only seeing worry, and nodded in gratitude.
"I just want to know... you know where Draco is, don't you?" Harry interrupted.
"This is neither the place, nor the time. That's not the reason why you came to seek me I hope." Ginny elbowed Harry in the ribs before laughing at his seemingly utter obsession with his whereabouts lately.
"Mission first, remember?"
"I'll put it bluntly. We need your help Pansy." Ron stepped up as everyone was otherwise preoccupied with their own thoughts.
"I'm not so sure you want that," she sighed. There had been a reason why Dumbledore hadn't wanted her fighting, and unfortunately, she wasn't getting any closer to finding a cure. Fire spread once unleashed, and leaking the way she was, it was bound to get out of control.
"I saw you out there Pansy, you were amazing!" Hermione stated excitedly. "You looked to be in control to me." Pansy glared heatedly at her for a brief moment. Who was she to chastise her?
"She was about to," Blaise explained. "That's why she left Ron alone and disappeared. She would have stayed otherwise. Don't presume to know our limits just because you've seen a preview Granger." He received a look of quick anger from Ron before it melted with Hermione's nod.
"We need an answer though Pans," he continued speaking.
"I'm not sure..." Pansy gulped heavily.
"Pansy, we understand how you might feel about using your power. I'm sure were I in your position, I wouldn't want this choice either, yet I'm sorry. I have to force it on you... but..." Hermione assured softly.
"Agh!" she banged her hands against the soft grass irritably. Her red eyes were flashing more wildly than the last time they'd met, and something felt indescribably heavy and warm in the air.
"Hermione, let her cool for a bit... then you can ask again." Blaises voice was as soft as marble. Pansy was quick to anger, but she had never been so irritable about simple things. Something was on the red heads mind, he was sure of it.
"Hey Blaise... can you tell us about their hierarchy?" Ginny asked softly from her comfy position on the blanket, staring at the sky so as not to stare in horror at the way her brother was eating the picnic food he'd found in a basket beside the blanket.
"Please, we don't know a lot about them..." Hermione continued. Blaise nodded slowly, he knew instantly who they were referring to.
"I'll start from the weakest upwards. There's Wind, I know almost nothing about Wind apart from the fact her name is Miya. She is related to one of the top dogs, so is probably being kept on the safe end. You've had the pleasure of meeting Yasmin, I think her name was. If you want to know more about her, you'll have to ask Pans. For some reason, they have a habit of running into each other.
"Much like Pansy and Ice, their first and second strongest leak too, or so I've heard. As for the second strongest and the second weakest, I'm unsure whether or not Light might be able to give you more information. The leader has only been come across twice, by Light and Ice though he wasn't attacking anyone at the time. His element is current; electricity. Not much is known about him though."
Blaise cocked his head to the side as he saw something he was probably not meant to: Pansy's nervous sign. Upon mentioning the leader, her thumbs had started to twiddle. He stood up abruptly, there was always one sufficient way to find out.
"No! No Blaise!" she tried to stand up, but the Earth suddenly knocked her feet from underneath her. He was pinning her to the ground in a second.
"Blaise!" Harry shouted angrily. Blaise grasped her arm firmly, and let go suddenly like he was burnt and sat down dizzily. He swore briefly. Pansy had just burnt him; the bite of her bottom lip showed him she was sorry though.
"What did you do, Pans?" he asked. A tear fell from her cheek.
"I was worried! I needed to see him!" Blaise sighed and looked at her with a panicked expression. There was no doubt in his mind who 'him' really was. There had only been two important men in Pansy's life, or so she said, which made him question what Pansy had been up to. She knew something about Forgotten's leader, which she would have merely told them had she not been trying to hide something. That could only mean 'he' and the leader had something to do with one another.
Pansy's bottom lip wobbled slightly as she saw the look of realisation dawn on Blaise's face. He had always been quick to put things together.
"Why would you be worried?" Pansy played with her fingers silently once more. "Pansy! You can't hide something like that from me! He's my comrade too! Why worried?" he shouted.
"Don't you think the cease fire from the other side was a bit worrisome, Blaise? Why would they suddenly stop attacking when they seemed to love it so much?" Pansy shouted out angrily.
"He's really the…" he gulped, not sure how to react to that piece of information, but as he was about to question her on it, she gave him a bit of information that made him really furious.
"He doesn't live at his address anymore!" Blaise blinked stupidly for a while.
"You took this long to tell me he's vanished? He could be in trouble Pans!" Pansy started to laugh softly, instantly loosing her angry look and fell to the floor, arms spread out.
"He's in the safest spot he could possibly be, Blaise. You don't need to worry."
"Pans..." Blaise started softly, unsure what to make of her change of attitude, or this sudden situation.
XxHushHushxX: The M is for later chapters, be prepared! :p