Loralei awoke with a start, breathing hard like she just ran a mile. She rubbed her face as she sat up, leaning on her knees.

"You okay baby?" Fabian asked, sleepily, his hand reaching up to rub her shoulder blades.

Loralei nodded. "Bad dream. We fell asleep, what time is it?"

"A quarter until ten." He told her, sitting up and wrapping his arms around her. "Are you staying over tonight?"

She nodded. Her parents were gone for some kind of foreign connections for the war, and it wasn't like she was wanted at her house. Or at least she felt like she wasn't.

"Do you want to talk about your dream?" He asked.

She shook her head. "I don't really remember it." But that was a lie, a complete lie. She got out from under the covers. "I'm going to get some water."

"Okay," Fabian said, softly. He could always tell when she was lying, but he didn't say a word.

Loralei walked out of his room, and went to the kitchen to get herself a glass of water, trying to get the visions out of her head.

She saw something she could never think was just a normal dream. She saw James...but it wasn't James, his eyes were different, and his body limp on the Hogwarts grounds. It freaked her out more than she would ever admit, but maybe it wasn't a fixed point in time yet, it could be one of her visions she had that wanted to change. Merlin, she wanted it to change. Even if it wasn't her brother, she couldn't imagine having someone die that looked like him. No matter what they put each other through they were still siblings, and had a bond that would take a whole lot more than it had to break.

Loralei shook her head and went back to Fabian's room, the glass of water still in her hand.

"Are you sure you're okay?" He asked.

She nodded, a hint of a smile on her lips, before taking a sip of water. "Yeah, I'm good." She got back in bed, and turned on her side to look at him. "What are we going to do when I leave for school next month?"

"What do you want to do? Do you want a long distance relationship?"

"I don't know." She told him. "I've seen you almost everyday since we got back together, it's going to be hard not seeing you."

"I could go to Hogsmeade to meet you when you can, and we have Christmas break." He told her.

"Yeah, there's always that, and I know the secret passages better than you did, I could get out most weekends when there isn't a game or anything." She told him.

"Maybe we should've done the long distance thing last year." He said, pushing some of her long hair behind her shoulder.

"Maybe," she agreed softly.

"I never stopped loving you, you know." He told her.

She smiled, and kissed him. She was unable to say that back, after all she pretty much forgot about him for a few months there. He didn't deserve this. She knew he deserved more than this, and maybe not with someone as complicated as her. Either way she couldn't help but want to stay with him. She was selfish in that.

"They're here!" Mrs. Potter called loudly, waking up the entire house; everyone knew what she was talking about.

Loralei barely bothered to put on some sweatpants before dashing down the stairs since she was the farthest from the kitchen. She grabbed her letter and just as she was about to open it, her mother grabbed the letter from her.

"Wait for the boys." She said.

Loralei pouted. "My future depends on those OWL's."

"So does theirs, you can wait a minute." Mrs. Potter smiled.

Loralei started tapping her nails against the counter because of her nerves.

After what seemed like ages to Loralei, Sirius and James came downstairs, yawning.

"Took you long enough!" Loralei spit out, before holding out her hand for her letter from her mother. "Please?"

Mrs. Potter handed the boys theirs first, and they still didn't get them open before Loralei.

Ordinary Wizarding Level Grading system:

Pass Grades: Fail Grades:

Outstanding (O) Poor (P)

Exceeds Expectations (E) Dreadful (D)

Acceptable (A) Troll (T)

Ordinary Wizarding Level results for Loralei Rose Potter:

Ancient Runes: E

Astronomy: O

Care of Magical Creatures: O

Charms: O

Defense Against the Dark Arts: O

Divination: O

Herbology: A

History of Magic: E

Muggle Studies: E

Potions: O

Transfiguration: E

Loralei looked up from her paper, happy tears in her eyes as she looked at her mother.

"What did you get?" She asked, taking the paper from her daughter. "No failing grades! I'm so proud of you! Six outstandings oh baby girl!" She hugged her daughter tightly.

"I knew sleep was overrated!" Loralei laughed. "What'd you get?" She asked the boys.

James looked down, a sign that Loralei did better than him.

"Let me see." Mrs. Potter took the paper away from her son, and nodded, not as happy as she was about Loralei's scores, but still pleased. "You only failed one thing, James."

"What did he fail?" Loralei asked.

"Don't sound so happy about it." James snapped, before muttering. "Muggle Studies."

Loralei and Sirius started laughing.

"The one class you took so you could talk to Lily? You failed boy." Loralei told him.

"Didn't we tell him in third year?" Sirius said.

"Tore the mickey out of him after I found out." Loralei nodded.

"His face was red for a week."

"We couldn't stop laughing for a month!"

"Yeah, yeah." James said, sounding like he didn't care, but his face told another story. "What'd you get Padfoot?"

Sirius hid the paper behind his back. "Nothing."

James and Loralei looked at each other, before saying in duet, "Together!" They lunged at him, James grabbing his arms, and Loralei grabbing the paper from him, before jumping away to read it.

James and Mrs. Potter were concerned when her face went blank.

"What's wrong?" James asked, when she looked at Sirius with mixed emotions in her eyes.

"He got an E." Loralei smiled. "You actually listened to me."

"What?" James said, releasing Sirius and taking the paper from his sister. "Man, you didn't fail any! You even passed Divination!"

"Loralei tutored me in it."

"And he learned." Loralei said, still in shock. "I didn't waste those hours of my life."

"I always listed when you talked." Sirius told her.

Loralei smiled at him, and gave him a hug; the first physical act of affection she had given him in months.

Fabian walked though the Ministry, he walked with purpose, and slightly anxious. He walked to the Minister's secretary outside his office.

"Hey Marie, is he busy?"

"No, but I don't know if he'll see you."

"Tell him who it is, he will." Fabian told her.

The middle-aged secretary did as he asked, and to her surprise she was told to let him pass.

"I've been waiting for this. Please sit down." Mr. Potter told him as he closed the door. "What is it you want to ask me?"

Fabian did as he was told before taking a deep breath. "I want your permission to ask your daughter to marry me."

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