(A/N): Hey Guys! So, I'm currently in PLP. I did work experience last week, and I've been super busy and tired, so I haven't been writing, so sorry!

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Leo

I waited until after she had gotten back into the castle - rather a lengthy wait if you ask me, my god humans were slow- before grabbing her arm gently, directing her more than dragging her, to the Room of Requirement.

"Damsel..." She refused to look at me. "Elaine." Her eyes darted to me before she could stop them, and I caught the look in her eye.

"Look, I know you don't like Brooke-" She cut me off, with a shove against my shoulder.

The actual impact didn't hurt, but it pained me inside.

"This isn't about Brooke!" I stared at her for a second, taking a step back as I surveyed the rage in her eyes, surrounded by something else- sorrow, pain.

"Then what is it about?" I asked quietly, and she gaped up at me, beautiful brown eyes swimming with tears. She seemed to choke for a second, before her gaze dropped to the ground and she crossed her arms over her chest.

"It doesn't matter." She spat bitterly, and I reached out, barely brushing her chin with my fingertips as I pushed her head up.

"Obviously..." I said, staring at her closely. "It does." She remained perfectly still for a second, before she shook her head, as if shaking herself out of a daze.

"Who was that?" I watched her, confused as to who she was talking about, curious, even though I knew it was just an attempt to change the subject.

"Who was who?" She shook her head quickly, a weak smile flitting on and away from her lips.

"Greygorry." I paused for a second, before nodding slowly in understanding.

"I'm guessing you saw him before he came after me?" She frowned for a minute, before looking up at me again.

"So, who was he? And why did McGonagall think he could bring you back?" I chuckled quietly, though it was weak, and somewhat forced.

"He's a vampire." She rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, we got that already." I smiled at her, indulgently now.

"Dumbledore and the other professors have employed him to... train me, kind of?" She gave me a skeptical look, but I raised an eyebrow at her. "I'm telling the the truth this time, really." She waited a second, before nodding.

"I know, you didn't do the eye twitch-y thing. I just wanted to watch you squirm." I stared at her, perplexed.

"'Eye twitch-y thing'?" I asked, but she just shrugged. "So, if it's not Brooke, then why are you upset?" I knew it wasn't Brooke, and I knew exactly what it actually was, and part of me couldn't believe that I hadn't seen it before now, and that part also wanted her to admit it, but the other part of me- the part that told me she had been lying when she had said she had liked me- also wanted her not to admit it, because I knew there was no way we could ever be together, in any sense of the word, due to my condition.

"I just... You're my best friend Leo, you know? I don't want you to get hurt." In theory, it made sense. Very little sense, mind you, but sense nonetheless. But, seeing as I had been hurt more times than anyone on the planet, dead or alive, could count, I knew it wasn't true.

"I've been hurt before Damsel. Besides, Brooke and I aren't dating." I paused for a second. "At least... I think we aren't. You know, I'm not actually entirely sure." She chuckled quietly, weakly, before she could help herself, and I smiled down at her, even though I knew she wasn't looking, and fitted my arm across her shoulders.

"How are you holding up Leo?" I frowned for a second, before she elaborated. "You're mother paid us a little visit today, remember?" I nodded, dread suddenly filling me, again.

"You do realise, now that she's seen us together, knows that we're friends, that you- and the others- are all in danger now, right?" She nodded, pursing her lips.

"I figured as much, yeah." I stared at the side of her head.

"You... don't really sound all that worried." She smirked slightly, her eyes still puffy, and she looked so fragile that I just wanted to hug her as hard as I could, which kind of defeated the purpose seeing as it would probably kill her if I did.

"You know, that's because I'm not worried." I blinked in surprise. "Leo, we'll be fine, trust me. We can take care of ourselves, remember?" I rolled my eyes. "You're a half-vampire, part-veela animagus, Remus is a werewolf, I'm an animagus... we'll be fine. We can look after the others. Well, not so much Remus, he's practically useless unless it's a full moon, and even then he can't be around people."I glared at her, and she seemed taken aback by it.

"My mother is a very dangerous person Elaine, I don't think we'll be much of a problem to her if she decides to go on a killing spree, hell, she'll probably head straight for us first! Besides, she's a pureblood supremacist, what do you think she'd do to Lily if she got her hands on her?" Elaine winced. "She's a cold-blooded killer, and she's not just here to get her jolly's off, she's here for revenge." Elaine's head snapped up.

"Revenge?" I ignored her.

"She'll get her jolly's off while getting revenge, but let's face it, there's not really anything we, teenagers, can do not matter how skilled we are, because we're up against a woman who, probably quite literally, kills people and eats them for breakfast." Elaine stared at me. "Oh wait, she only eats babies and virgins, that's right, how silly of me..." I muttered, spinning, pretending to busy myself with one of the books on the tables.

"I'm not going to leave you alone with this Leo."

Silence.

"We're not."

(A/N): So, what did you think?

It's almost recess guys, so I gotta go, and I'm probably not going to get another chapter out today, I have drama next, probably no computers, and then Home ec, where I have to cook a pie.

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This chapter has had small edits made to it on 30/12/22 - Changed Elaine slapping Leo to her shoving Leo, because again- I didn't like the way I had Elaine slap Leo, so I made her shove him instead. Leo wouldn't have cared whether she slapped him or not, but I think considering how much I harp on about Elaine and Leo being each others safe haven, and Elaine knowing that Leo would never hit her, I thought it was a bit hypocritical of me to have her slap him here. She did however need a physical release for her anger, because just yelling at Leo wasn't going to get the message across to him that he had hurt her.