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CHAPTER 13: Nightmare?

Kali's POV:

No. No, no. Uh uh. Not happening. I don't get nightmares- ever. But that is the only thing that this can explain. When did I fall asleep? I don't know… But I must have… Crap… I should have known the worst thing I ever did would come back to haunt me.

Because I fell in love.

And now, the boy I fell in love with, oh so many years ago, is standing in front of me. I would know his face anywhere… But why is he here? Why, on earth, would the boy I met in a muggle ice cream parlor be here? And why on earth did he look like Bellatrix?

It happened when I was six. I got mad at Bellatrix, and I went out, and found a muggle ice cream parlor. I went in, and frowned, looking around. A young boy and his mother were standing there, at the counter. I kind of wanted ice cream, so I went up to her and tugged at her skirt. She looked down, surprised.

"Hello, sweetie. Did you lose your mommy?" She asked.

"Well… No, I don't gots no mommys. But I wanted some ice cweam! 'nd I don't got any moneys…" I said, making my lower lip tremble- even then I was an excellent actress. She smiled at me, and offered me some ice cream. She got me a vanilla cone, and her son got a chocolate. She sat at the table, and him and I sat at our own booth, and we talked. I knew he was a muggle, but I figured no harm could come from talking to him- and anyway, I was just talking.

"My name is Kali!" I told him.

"My name is Leo!" He told me.

"What's your last name?" I asked him.

"Black! Yours?" He giggled. We proceeded to talk for quite a while, and I went back every Friday. I slowly became friends with him, even if he was a muggle. Then one day, he stopped coming. Come to think of it, it was a few weeks before I turned eight… the last time I saw him was exactly two years after the first time…

"Why are you here? I thought you were a muggle? And you stopped coming! I went back every day for a month, thinking maybe we had changed the date, and you never came!" I snarled.

"Li- my dad was in Azkaban, and my mom died. And I am most certainly not a muggle. I am pureblood." He said, and I nearly fainted from the shock.

"Who was your mother? And your father, for that matter?"

"Sirius Black. And my mother was not the woman who was coming with me to the ice cream parlor- my own mother wouldn't have let me come there, although it turns out it was a good thing I went, I suppose. Coincidences are an amazing thing… but, my mother was pureblood, which is all I will tell you about her. And why are you here?" And then the scene changed, and we were in a dungeon somewhere. Not just anywhere, actually… it was the prisons below Riddle Manor… and Leo was no longer standing in front of me, but chained to the wall in the back, with pleading eyes looking at me. "Help me, Li. If you can hear me. I bet you don't remember me- but I remember you…"

And then I woke up screaming. Of course. Of course it was a dream… although I haven't had a nightmare in so long… not since before Tom took me in… And why was he in my dream? I shuddered, but luckily I have Silencio charms on my bed. A bunch of charms, actually. But it is already 6:58, so I may as well get ready. And it isn't even the right Saturday for that… I shuddered and got ready. I went down to the Great Hall slightly early, before any one else was there. I changed my mind, ran out, went into the forbidden forest with my cloak on, and used the Mark to go to Bella. I then looked around, and went down to the prisons. I just had to be sure… It was a dream, sure, but so VIVID, and the only nightmare I had had in 11+ years… And I went into the end, and look in the one where I had seen him- and there is a body in there, chained to the wall, wearing the exact some things that Leo had been wearing in my dreams- and then the body looks up. Leo. I stifle a scream, and stare at him. He has two black eyes, a split lips, a cut down half his face, and is obviously suffering from the effects of the Cruciatus Curse.

"I know you're there, Li…" He muttered. I stared, and took off my cloak.

"What happened to you?" I said, and he whimpers slightly.

"I wouldn't tell them how I knew you… didn't want you to get in trouble…" He muttered.

"Why… why were you here in the first place?"

"They found me… I sent you an owl, and apparently it got sent here… the thing is… I sent the owl six years ago."

"You mean the time when you stopped coming?"

"Yes- my mother died, and my father was already in Azkaban, and I had to go live with this horrible person… don't even know why I had to live with her…"

And then I heard footsteps.

"Why is someone talking?" I heard tom's voice come down the stairs. I looked around, and also saw other prisons had people in them…

"Sorry" I muttered to Leo, and threw a quick charm at him- now he looked like he was either unconscious or asleep. I threw on my cloak. Tom stepped in, and looked around. He relaxed slightly for some reason.

"Kali, why are you here?" He asked. How the heck did he know it was me? I frowned, and then took off the cloak.

"I came to see my friend Leo. Which I don't understand why he is in here." I glared at Tom.

"He sent an owl here, somehow, and when he was asked how he knew you he refused to tell me!" Tom glared right back.

"For goodness' sakes! We met in a muggle ice cream parlor when I was six because Bellatrix was being weird, like, weirder than normal, and I didn't want to deal with her because I had a headache, so I went to an ice cream parlor to make her mad, but then I wound up not telling her because I met him, and I thought he was a muggle, but I figured talking to him wouldn't hurt anything, so I met him every Friday for two years until he stopped coming, and apparently he stopped coming because his mother died, and he sent that owl SIX YEARS ago, and for some reason you are only just getting it here, and you decided to do that" I flapped my hand around the area of his face "Because he wouldn't tell you where we met? Why the heck does that even matter?" I glared in such a way that it would make even Snape cringe.

"And I had to test him. See how weak he was, because he obviously likes you." My mouth dropped open. Tom- TOM, the Dark Lord, the one with no emotions, self-declared hater, was testing someone to see…?

"That's nice." I glared, and brought Leo back awake. Leo cringed back slightly at the sight of Tom, but stood pretty firm; given how much pain he was feeling.

"Ka-kali?" Leo said, trying to keep his voice from cracking.

"Yes, Leo?" I sighed.

"Why are you here? Why…" Leo trailed off.

Fudge. I had hoped he wouldn't ask… But… So I smirked. A wide smirk twisted my face. Leo looked very, very confused.

"Because, my dear Leo… I am not only the Dragon Queen," Here I paused to let him absorb his shock, "But also, I was the Dark Child." I smirked so much I am surprised my face didn't split.

"But…" He spluttered. Then his face shifted into a grin. "That's wonderful! Why didn't you tell me?" I glanced quickly at Tom. Then I sighed. To heck with it! To heck with it all!

"Because, Leo, I loved you, then you broke my heart. No matter. I was silly, and young. It won't get in my way. Now, you can either…" I trailed off, unsure what to say.

"You loved him?" Tom's voice was cold and full of fury. Drat.

"I did." I stiffened, raising my head and looking him directly in the eyes.

"You… did. I see. And he obviously loves you… very much. I have, however, learned love can be a powerful force for the Death Eaters, to help them follow me, so long as they use it appropriately… take Bella for instance." Tom's mouth twisted.

"Yes, Bella is rather devoted to you. You are saying, I presume, that I can keep him and turn him to a dragon, then, I suppose?" My mouth twisted into a cruel smirk, almost a sneer.

"Yes, Kali. I suppose I am." Tom sighed.

"Brilliant!" I smirked, clapping my hands slowly. I waved him away, something only I would dare to do, although he knew I meant no disrespect. He frowned, then walked away. I turned to Leo. " 'Ello, Leo! Ready to become a dragon?" I smirked.

"Ah… I suppose. What does being a 'Dragon' entail, exactly?" Leo frowned slightly.

"I need to prepare a speech for this… Or, I could have someone I already have explained it to explain it to you! In fact… I'll get Bella!" I smirked delightedly, lifted my ankle, and called Bella. She arrived within seconds.

"Yes, My Lady?" Bella asked, frowning at the sight of Leo with me.

"Leo here is to become one of my senior dragons. I trust him fully, but I don't wish to explain everything that I have already to you and the others, so I require you to." I smirked slightly, knowing she wouldn't appreciate it but would do so.

"Ok, Leo. Here's what you need to know." She took a deep breath. "Kali-is-the-dragon-queen-she-gives-the-dragon-mark-to-senior-and-junior-dragons-but-lizards-get-nothing,-and-seniors-get-a-specific-mark-and-a-potion-that-gives-them-metamorphazing-abilities-too-and-also-learn-occulemncy-actually-everyone-learns-occulemency-and-you-get-to-be-her-senior-dragon-or-at-least-one-of-them-so-your-lucky-and-you-better-be-loyal!" She gasped for breath.

"Very good, Bella." I smirked once more, and then turned to Leo. "Do you accept that?"

"Y-yes." He swallowed.

"Very good." I said, and I took off the chains, "Come here." I said, and I motioned for him to come to me. Once he had I grabbed his ankle, and pressed my wand to it, spelling out the dragon. "What do you want and where for your specific mark?"

"Ah… I want… A lion and a snake head, next to each other, on my elbow crease." I frowned at that, which was what he and I used to… Never mind. I frowned and grabbed his right elbow, and turned it, then pressed my wand harshly to his elbow crease. I passed a lot of anger and force into it, so it went quickly, but also painfully. I then spent the next few hours teaching him occulemency, giving him the potion, and healing him up. Finally, he was ready to be presented to Tom. I smiled and beckoned him to follow me up the stairs.

A/N: OK, CRAP! CURSE OF CHAPTER 13! OR SOMETHING… BUT THIS TOOK ME A FEW DAYS TO WRITE! AND I CAN'T FINISH IT! HOPEFULLY THE 'CURSE OF 13' WILL BE OVER ONCE I POST THIS!… EITHER THAT OR I JUST MUTILATED MY STORY… *FROWN*