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Harry POV
What the… what is he doing here! And why is he a vampire and a prince! I don't get it, I'm so confused my head hurts.
Darren looked around, head raised, back straight. And finally our eyes met, dark brown met green. And I'm sure that everyone in the room saw the sparks and electricity. He smiled a small smile that only I could see.
"So now that everyone has arrived we can all go to bed. Rest your brains because tomorrow we will fill them again with sweet knowledge." Wow Dumbledore sure makes studying sound fun. I hope you can pick up the sarcasm.
Everyone started to get up, the volume of noise went up. The sound of thousand footsteps and laughter echoed through the room.
"hey Harry, are you coming?" I heard Ron ask.
I turned to my friends, all waiting for me. And I wanted to go with them, but I wanted to ask Darren what in Merlin's name was going on.
"no you go ahead, I reeeally have to go to the bathroom." I hoped on my feet to empathize my words.
"If you're sure, okay" yes "The password is Patronus by the way" oooh thank Merlin for Hermoine!
And they went on their way, laughing and talking. The one louder than the other.
My eyes looked around for the one person I really wanted to see. And then I saw him. Standing by the door, waiting for me and waving his 2 vampire companions away. I went up to him, slowly first, but when I saw the last student and vampire go around the corner, I ran. And then I tripped… why me! I heard Darren laugh, and after 5 minutes the knight in shining armor finally helped me. Asshole.
"I'm sorry Harry, I didn't mean to laugh, it was just so funny" he gave me a small kiss
I still haven't forgiven him.
"hah!" I tried the 'I don't care' thing. Didn't really work well. Damn, my knee really hurt and I probably looked like a dust bunny, why is the floor even that dusty!
While I was looking down, Darren's fingers lifted my chin. He's eyes smoldered under his eye lashes.
"I'm verry sorry" he whispered.
Oooh he's trying that 'look at me! You love me so forgive me' thing. And it's working…
"okay okay, if you tell me why you are here" I said
"well like that old guy said, it's my birthday and I've come to celebrate it. And to do the maintains on the wards." While he said it, he linked our hands as we walked to what I presumed were his quarters.
"I didn't know you were a wizard." I told him about me being a wizard when I found out that he and his uncle allready knew about wizards.
"I'm not, I was born a squib. My father build this Castle and the wards are also his. But the only thing I need for the wards to update, is my blood. And as I am the last of my blood, only I can do that" he explained
"but why is it then used as a school if it's your castle?" I asked. We stopped at his quarters, I've never been in this part of the castle. He dragged his hands along a wall and it opened up to show a cozy living room. The fire was cracking and throwing shadows on the walls. But not in a creepy way. There were sofa's and love seats, a little table, candles, paintings, all down in tints of brown, black, red, yellow, to give it a very cozy homey feel. We sat down on the sofa in front of the fire.
"well, about 1000 years ago I was changed into a Vampire, I traveled the world, lived in the Vampire for a long while and didn't have a purpose for this place. And that's a shame because it's a beautiful place. So when suddenly 4 wizards asked to transform this place into a school, I said yes. The castle is big enough to accommodate a lot of students, had a lot of rooms that could be used as classrooms. And the wards will protect everyone. And it's good that they wanted to educate the young people."
He got up to get some wine.
"and in all these years you didn't miss this place?" I took a glass of wine. Hmmm it's really good, dry and bitter, but good.
"there were times when I missed it, and when I did, I visited. And the places that have some value to me are not allowed to students and faculty, except the house elves. So things always stay the same here." The fire gave him a soft glow, and I just realized that he always looked very pale.
Suddenly the clock chimed 21 pm.
"I should go back, before I get detention. And the school year hasn't even started yet." We both stood, not wanting to let the other go. We walked out of the door.
"do you want me to escort you to your dorm?" Darren Asked
"No, it's okay. It's better if we're not seen doing lovey dovey stuff, otherwise they will think that you're just a big soft vampire instead of a scary one." We both laughed at that. I really liked the sound of his laugh, he sounded so young and carefree, but his eyes told a different story.
So we agreed he would escort me to the end of his corridor.
I looked at our intertwined hands, thinking that they just felt complete, so right yet so wrong.
All to soon we came at the end of the corridor. His soft lips touched mine and then he whispered goodnight. Slowly and in a daze I almost floated back to my dorm.