Chapter 19

Dey felt like just staying in bed the entire Sunday, not wanting to face anyone, just rest. She woke up again after lunch and the room was empty, she took her time to put on black jeans, a red jacket and shoes, and take in some candy she had; she even took longer to apparate and go down. Since almost everyone was at the great hall she decided to just walk around the grounds.

"Remember when I asked you for help?", Dey spoke when she was sitting beside the lake, "I meant with me…I didn't want a confusion…I know you sent Luna to help, but…", she sigh, "forget it…I don't know what I was going with this."

She took in a bite of the chocolate she had before her eyes caught the lake, she saw a glimpse of her mother, making her get up and let the chocolate fall.

"M-mum…?"

She saw the vision smiling at her, asking her to come in and she was starting to listen to it. She took off her shoes before getting her feet in the water. Between notebooks, Harry had the marauder's map, to keep and eye on Dey and when he caught a glimpse of it, he saw her walking to the lake. His eyes opened wide as he took it in; Dey was already in the lake. Harry got the map and his wand before he ran out, ignoring Ron and Hermione's calls. George and Fred were sitting a few feet from them and they saw him. Fred looked at George, both had a clue it had to do with Dey since she wasn't around and they saw the map, but George just looked down to keep eating. Fred kept looking at him, trying to knock some sense in. Dey's eyes were burning with the water, but she needed to see, and her body was freezing, but she kept going deeper into the cold. Her wand was lighted up so she had better vision. The trio was running down hill by now, Harry ahead.

"Are you sure?", Hermione asked behind.

"Yes! She's in the lake! I think she jumped!"

Dey saw something shinning between two rocks, something silver. She kept going deeper until she stopped at the rocks and with a bit of struggle she got it out, she wasn't sure of what it was, but it had a weird symbol in it and it looked like a piece of something that broke. She looked to her side to find grindolows swimming her way. Her eyes opened wide before she pointed to them and a blue light sent a few away, while others kept going to her.

"I don't see her", Hermione said when they reached the lake and Harry was taking off his clothes, "What are you doing?"

"Someone has to get her", he said and Ron started to get his shirt off too.

Something burst out of the water, making them freeze and caught Dey hit the border of the land, coughing. The three of them ran to her and she hit the silver piece in her back pocket in a chance she got.

"What's wrong with you?", Harry said, putting his jacket over her, she was trembling, "what were you thinking?"

Dey just started to breathe in the breeze and started to feel warmer compare to the killing cold that was down there. Hermione got her wet hair away from her neck to see the grindillows marks, she also had in her hands and her jeans were ripped, with marks showing.

"We have to get you to the hospital", she said.

"N-no, they didn't do much."

"Why were you down there?", Harry asked.

"I saw something."

"What?"

"…nothing, it was false alarm."

"Well it was a lot of trouble for a false alarm.", Ron commented.

"Yeah, but it was nothing. I should go up to my room."

"I'll take you."

Harry helped her get up and the four of them went on their way to the castle. Hermione and Ron went back to the great hall to get their things and Harry's too.

"Ron", George called him by impulse, "what happened to Harry?"

"Um…", Ron looked at Hermione, then back at George and Fred, "he saw Dey in the map…she jumped into the black lake."

"…what?-is-is she ok?"

"Yeah, she just said she saw something, but some grindollows got to her."

"Is she going to the hospital?", Fred asked and Ron shook his head.

"She said it was nothing. Harry's taking her to the common room. Why don't you see it for yourself?", Ron asked and looked at George, along with Hermione and Fred.

George just lowered his head and kept eating, while Fred looked at him in this disappointing way. Ron and Hermione just left, not wanting to get more involved. After Harry left Dey alone to change, she took out the piece she had found and started to look at it on every inch. It was noticeable the thing it was part of was circular. She knew she was meant to find this, but does she need to find the rest? She wasted no time and put on clean clothes to leave and go directly to the library. She looked in every book she got her hands on, any title of a book she thought it could help, she grabbed it, but nothing showed that symbol or anything that could get her closer. She kept going the next week to find something, but nothing. Harry had noticed she has been too distracted, but every time he asked she said it was just detention with Umbridge, which was cutting into her time of looking. On the Friday night of that week she fell asleep in the common room, surrounded by books that she thought it would help her; she only closed her eyes to rest them for 5 seconds, but she ended up completely asleep. George and Fred just got back from their sweets hunt and George froze to her sight. Fred grinned at him and tapped his elbow with George's.

"Go ahead, I know you want to."

George looked at him, wanting to say no, but it was killing him not being close to her. Fred took the sweets he had and continued his way alone. George went to her and saw her sleeping so peacefully; with the tip of his fingers, he passed her bangs away from her forehead and he noticed her hair was way too long, looks like with all this studying she hasn't had time to cut it. He started to close the books and when he started to pile them up; he saw the silver piece at the end. He grabbed it and started to think why it looked familiar. A movement she did made him lost concentration and smile at her. He hid the piece in his pocket and picked her up in his arms and started to take her up stairs. She cuddle even closer to him when he reached the door and even grabbed his shirt, pulling herself closer to him; she also mumbled something, 'George' he understood, and he couldn't help smiling. Carefully he opened the door quickly, to not let her fall, and brought her inside to lay her in bed. He started to remember the time he stayed with her on her bed, before they had their first kiss, how he held her for so long and how she got closer every minute while she was asleep. His eyes caught the piece again when he took it out of his pocket, still trying to figure out where he has seen it. The next day, Deyanira was flipping trough every book she had use the night before, trying to find the piece, but nothing. She asked Harry if he had brought her back and he said no, she knew it had to be George since he was the only one who knew she and Harry were sleeping here. She gathered the books again and was placing them on the shelves of the library.

"Lost this?", she looked to her side to find George, holding the silver piece.

"Give i-"

"I know where I've seen it.", he cut her off and let her speechless for a few seconds.

"W-where?"

"…Can you get Harry's map and invisibility cloak?", he whispered and got closer.

"Ah, yeah"

"Get them and meet me in the common room tonight around midnight. Ok?"

She nodded, paralyzed due to his whispers and breath rubbing her. He grabbed her hand and placed the silver piece on it before letting it go, slowly. He just wanted to pull it back to him and hold her forever. He walked away before he would pushed her against the shelf behind her and give in to her stare, which still made him tremble every time, even when he tried to hide it. Midnight hit the clock and Dey was on her way out, dressed and with the cloak and map in hand. When she left the room, a body bumped with her, making the map slip trough her fingers.

"Sorry", George said before he got down to get it, "we better go now. Prefects will change places in about 5 minutes."

"Ah, yeah, where are we going?"

"Just follow me"

He gave her this grin before he grabbed her hand and took her away, almost running until they reached the fifth floor. They saw a prefect coming out of the fourth to check the stairs and he pushed her inside of the door frame to hide. When the prefect was back inside, they ran out, quietly and passed by the fourth floor. When they reached the third floor, George took the clock and stepped behind Dey to place it over them. He stepped closer to her, so they would fit, making it a bit awkward for both for 2 seconds before he gave her a gentle push to continue. Even if the Library was close, a simple alohomora spell let them in.

"No one's here", George whispered in her ear, making her shake; he had seen it on the map.

"Looks like the prefect already check here."

Dey took off the cloak so this torture would end.

"I've already looked here, there's nothing.", she said to him.

"What about the restricted section?"

"…what?"

"The restricted section is a place that holds more advance books, in magic and in dark arts, specially. I once saw your thing there, by the way, did you bring it by any chance?"

"Yeah."

"C'mon"

He started to walk and she followed, quick, until she was beside him. They reached this part that was separated by doors with windows and it was locket. Deyanira thought a place like this couldn't be open so easy, but George just said alohomora and it was opened for them.

"Dumbledore needs to work on his security", she said and George chuckled while he opened the door for her.

Both lighted up their wands and Dey followed George.

"Once, while I was running around with Fred, we found this place on our first year.", he started to tell, "that night we sneaked in and I was looking in some of the books until…", he suddenly stopped in front of a shelf and grabbed an old book, it wasn't as big as the others, but it looked the oldest.

"Until…?"

"I saw this"

He opened the book in the middle, or maybe close, and a drawing on a circular figure was shown. It had some kind of swirls, but it didn't seem like something important, what seemed important was what it does. Deyanira got out her piece and placed it beside the drawing, a part of it was the same as the piece she had.

"It's…it's identical."

"You only need the other two pieces.", George added while she grabbed the book.

"The Argentum Plate is a kind of medallion that can make any demon escape a humans body, even if it's only half a demon. For years, many wizards have found it valuable in cases which a family member or a friend has been possessed or born with a demon side. The plate was destroyed 80 years ago, but it is said that if you put the pieces together and take them to Montem Mortuus and placed them together on the golden pedestal, the piece should work perfectly find.-this is perfect. This is it."

"You've been looking for a way to get the banshee out of you, right?"

"Yeah, I got kind of tired of Dumbledore not coming up with anything…this is it."

"But, Dey, look-'Since the piece was once destroyed, it's powers might have also been affected. The person who has the demon has to be the one to place it on the pedestal and also be aware of the consequences. Death could be close if not careful.", he read.

"If not careful", she repeated, "I'll be"

"Dey-"

"I got what I wanted, let's go before someone comes."

George sighed as he grabbed the book and placed it back. Dey looked in the map and saw that a prefect was coming to the library. She grabbed George's hand and ran out of the restricted section just when the library doors opened.

"Who's there?", said the prefect after hearing the doors of the restricted section close.

George was not pulling Dey away from there between bookshelves so they wouldn't get caught. Sometimes, their feet would hit the floor harder and noticed the prefect heard it too. George stopped in front of a shelf and looked up to a purple flag hanging from the walls with a golden H on it.

"Up", he said, grabbing Dey's hips to help her get up on the shelf.

When she reached the top, George started to climb and she helped him. When he reached the top, he saw the prefect close so he jumped to Dey, making her lie down with him on top, waiting until the prefect was away. When he was out of sight and they heard the doors of the library opening and closing again, George looked at her and took some will power to speak.

"That was close", he said and both let out a little laugh.

Their eyes met again and George's hand went to her hair, bringing back memories. He slowly went down until their lips were together. His moved, but hers stayed still for a few seconds.

"G-George", she whispered, making him stop, "I-I think we should-"

"Go-yeah", he finished, disappointed, "um, I know a secret passage."

He lifted himself with his hands and knees and moved the flag away from the wall, showing an open square to pass trough. He let her go first and he followed.

"Be careful on going down.", he said when she pushed the portrait at the end of the passage.

She just jumped out and he followed; they had ended up at a classroom and with out wasting anymore time, they put on the cloak and went back to the common room. Dey took of the cloak and there was a sudden awkward moment before Dey started to walk first to the stairs.

"Kinda funny, don't you think?", George said, making her turn as he walked to her, "about 6 years ago I found that book…who knew 6 years later it'll help you out…", Dey just looked at him, not knowing what to answer, "…did you talked to Luna?"

"Ah…no, um…I decided not to…just to forget about the whole thing."

"Including me?", he was too close now and she was standing on a stair case, making the eye contact straight in level, "what's going to happen tomorrow morning? Nothing. We're just going to continue ignoring each other?"

"…I don't wanna hurt you, George."

"You're doing it anyways."

"Yeah, but…I really wanna focus on this now…and what happens if I fall for someone else again?...you were my first crush and…you know you won't be my last…I just don't wanna-"

"Hurt me, I know…the kiss didn't happen then?", with hesitation and pain, she shook her head and he sighed, "Night then"

He passed by her to go up the stairs and she followed him with her eyes, shining from about to cry. That hurt her, but she couldn't take the risk to hurt him again either and to lose focus on her research.

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