Kiss From a Rose

Disclaimer: I do not own anything that contains any of J.K. Rowling's work, she by far is much more experienced in writing then I am at the current moment. This is her universe that I am using to produce works like Kiss from a Rose.

Author Note: I would like to thank all of you who waited for so long for the last chapter to come out. I know it wasn't the best of chapters for such a long wait but it was a stepping stone to get back into writing again. I lost so much information over the time I had not written. I can barely remember what my main objective of this story was or half of the Harry Potter characters are. (I never write them down I just had the knack to remember them all but that's all lost now). Anyways, it's feels good to finally pick up a pen (or I should say keyboard) and write again since it has been a hella of a long time since that happened. Anyways enough talk and continue on reading chapter 18: The winds of change.

Chapter 18 - The Wind's of Change:

"What did Dumbledore mean when he said that we had something to do tonight?" Harry asked Lily.

"Well next week is the beginning of the spring trimester so it means that we have some catching up to do, we have to practice for the dueling club." Lily smiled before starting to walk to the Gryffindor commons.

"That much time has already passed?" Harry followed right beside her.

"Yes, you've been moping around all day and night in that hospital wing I'm surprised that you haven't died of being heart broken." Lily giggled but then became serious as they arrived at the entrance of the Gryffindor commons. "Are we going?" Lily turned to Harry. Harry smirked as he turned to Lily, "Did you think anything less?"

They both walked into the commons and immediately up to there dorms to pack a small bag of clothes for there trip and to kill a bit of time. About an hour after they had left the hospital wing they both (after meeting up in the commons) traveled quietly and silently to the front entrance of Hogwarts. They made sure to cover up in dark clothes to hide in the darkness that slowly was covering the grassy plain. Finally they made it down to hogsmeade where from there they decided to stop into a shop to rest and think of another plan to get to London. Upon arriving into the three broomsticks they noticed that Hagrid was there along with Dumbledore. 'Certainly not good, Harry thought to himself as he backed out of the three broomsticks and into the street.

The night was cold like all others in winter time. The sidewalks lined with fresh powder snow, the lake in the distant glistened as the moon light filtered through the clouds. For most nights it would be beautiful, but every night for Harry was dark and grey, his Hermione was still in the hospital in her silent coma.

"Well scratch going in there." Harry said to Lily who was wrapped in a long black wool coat.

"How come?" Lily said while looking at Harry who was just wearing his normal jeans and t-shirt.

"There's two people in there that we don't want to see right now." Harry said while putting his hands in his pockets and walking down the other way towards the train station.

"Well, how about the hogshead?" Lily asked as she followed right next to Harry.

"Alright, let's go there." Both Lily and Harry walked down the snowy streets towards the hoghead pub. Harry and Lily took seats in the far corner away from the view of the rest of the folks that were sitting around the fire obviously to get warmed up. Harry could only help but to smile as he watched them, he wondered if that would be Hermione and him sitting together at the fireplace in the Gryffindor commons one Christmas day. Possibly reading a book together, maybe just holding each other was that to much to ask for, he asked himself. He wondered why this had to happen, and every time he wondered he could only feel anger rise in his body.

Lily was watching Harry's eyes, how intently focus upon the group of people around the fire. She didn't want to read Harry's thoughts but they immerged with so much passion in them it was hard not to. As she read what he was thinking she felt her heart grow even more colder, hardening it self trying to contain the hurt that she was feeling. She wiped her eye of a tear that she felt starting to form trying to hide the pain from Harry. There was enough going on and the job was the goal, not fall victim to mortal emotions like crying or having unconditional love. Harry turned to Lily and smiled a bit before looking at her, he noticed that she was sad though he knew not of the reason why.

"Something wrong Lily?" Harry asked while looking around for the waiter.

"Just thinking about what we are going to do once we get to London." Lily said while folding her hands together on the table. The bartender came over, his pudgy face resembling more of a pig then a human.

"What can I get you two." The bartender asked while looking at both the pale skinned vampires.

"Something hot… maybe a cup of hot coco." Harry said while his sliver eyes looked at the bartender.

"And you?" The bartender looked at Lily.

"Same thing is fine." Lily said before turning back to Harry who watched the bartender walk away. "What are you thinking about?"

"Just wondering… about what if I just decided one day to up and leave this world behind. Travel to around the world." Lily looked at Harry with a bit of a smile on her face. "Why are you smiling?" Harry asked.

"Because, all vampires say the same thing yet after they finish traveling the world they get bored and go around doing mindless things. Your better off here next to your love ones." Lily smiled and then turned her head just in time to see the bartender walk over with the two hot coco's. 'He's certainly fast' Lily thought to herself while grabbing her hot wooden cup of coco. Lily and Harry both nodded to the bartender who nodded back before walking back to his bar. Harry looked at the hot coco and smiled as he put his hands around the cup savoring the warm feeling that ran through his fingers and hands. The sweet smells ran through his nostrils making him vaguely remember the time when he could taste the coco. Remembering the time when life was grand and even though every year he had a dark lord upon his back some how life always corrected itself.

Lily watched Harry, how his silver eyes just stared into some unknown space behind her. How the lighting gracefully played with the shadows making him even more handsome then before. How just this simple act of carelessness and serenity showed her that her heart was his and no matter what happened to her she would do everything possible to make sure he is not hurt. She smiled gracefully as she smelled the coco rising from the cup, the sweet scent of chocolate that she longed to remember how it tasted. It was her favorite substance, chocolate, but now she can't even remember the taste. She moved her eyes down from Harry and to his chest, where there she stared for no reason at all but to imagine that she was being held by him. His arms wrapped around her shoulders and his lips carefully placed upon her neck. 'How much my dead life would be complete if that truly could happen' Lily thought to herself. She noticed that the coco was losing its heat and its ability to send its sweet scents into the air. Self gratified of her dream she woke up and looked at Harry would look right back at her and smiled.

"Are you ready?" Harry said while putting aside the cup of cold coco.

"Whenever you are." Lily smiled before getting off the chair and with Harry walked out into the cold airy night. Lily wrapped herself with her jacket while Harry just stuffed his hands into his jeans. "When we are in London, remind me to get you some nicer clothes please?" Lily said while putting her own hands into her pockets and walking down the street next to Harry.

"How come? I kind of like what I'm wearing right now."

"Aren't you frozen?"

"I'm dead, it's not like I really care." Harry smirked just as the wind started to pick up. Now it was getting cold, he might be dead but he could still feel the wind chill affect.

"See! Why don't you get out your jacket?" Lily said.

"Alright Mom," Harry laughed and pulled out from his pack one of Dudley's old jackets that he got out of the graciousness of his uncle. He slipped it on and although it made a very little difference at least it was something.

"So have you any clue how to get to London?" Lily asked.

"Take a train?" Harry said questionable. Lily looked around, and then turned to Harry.

"My eyes must be deceiving me because I really don't see a train." Lily sarcastically said with a smirk on her face.

"Oh shut up." Harry said as he walked over to a bench and took a seat closely followed by Lily. Lily snuggled close to Harry trying to keep herself warm while putting her head upon his shoulder just waiting for him to say something.

"Well, we can always head back to the forbidden forest and take one of those Thestral's." Harry said. Lily turned her head to Harry, "you mean we walked down here for no reason."

"No I had a reason to walk down here but then I forgot what it was" Harry laughed under his breath while he turned to look at Lily.

"You know…" Lily said squinting her eyes.

"What?" Harry smirked and smiled while watching Lily's eyes.

"You are…" Lily stopped again and pulled away to get up. "Let's go get those Thestral's so we can get this girl that you met somewhere in this world and then come back to enjoy the rest of the school year?"

Harry sat there watching her with a grin on his face while he got up from the bench and walked next to her side as they both started back up to Hogwarts.

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"Where Am I?" Hermione said as she looked around to see a shell of blackness cover her.

"Don't you know where you are?" Another voice said through the thickness of the black.

"Who's there!" Hermione shouted while searching desperately for her wand.

"Just a lonely friend that needs to find some company." The voice said in a very low growling menacing tone.

Hermione looked around for no use because it was pitch black and nothing she could do would make that change. For the first time in her life she felt this undeniable coldness surround her, not just for being in a pitch black room, but for the mere fact that she had no one around her. She hugged herself as the voice appeared again.

"Hermione… Why don't you lie down and go back to sleep…"

"Why?" Hermione questioned the voice's motives.

"Because, you are going to be here for a very long time Hermione." The voice said in a rash whisper.

"I'll get out of here!" Hermione screamed as she started to run into the blackness, not knowing where she was going but only to know that she was at least moving since she could feel the wind press against her face.

"Where are you going to go Hermione? Look around you… its all black, you know why it's black Hermione?" the voice said.

"No…"

"Because your mind is dying, the doors are closing and your far away from your loved ones. They all abandon you, left you to die, left you to fight this alone. They don't love you any more and you know it." The voice chuckled as it drifted away from Hermione. She felt like crying, she knew it was true because she could feel that as every second passed the blackness got thicker, it was harder to breath, and it was getting colder. She was suffocating from her mind and she didn't know what to do about it. Hermione felt herself hit the ground with her knees and then her butt as she slowly curled into a fetal position covering herself, holding herself, wishing that Harry was there, wishing that somebody was there to help her.

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Harry and Lily walked up to a Thestral who was scourging around eating the fungus that grew upon the decaying fallen trees. The eyes of the beast looked up at Harry and then wavered over to Lily before kneeling down for them to get on.

"It must know our intentions." Lily said as she hopped onto the Thestral while Harry got behind her.

"No, this one knows me; she took me to the ministry last year when Voldemort tricked me into going to the department of mysterious to save Sirius." Harry patted the Thestral on the side before she stretched her wings and then took off into the air and off to London. Lily loved the feeling of flight from what Harry could see. Her eyes squinted to look beyond the clouds below, trying to see everything that was passing by. A very wide grin was on her face as she held on tight to the Thestral's mane. To Harry it was always fun to have that feeling of flight. In no time they landed in a small alley way some where in London Harry presumed. Lily smiled as she hopped off the thestral and patted its head before walking to the streets; Harry turned to the Thestral and smiled upon whispering a thank you before walking to Lily.

"So…" Harry said.

"We get here and now we don't know where to start looking…" Lily said while turning right and walking down the streets.

"Yeh…" Harry said sullenly as he followed.

"But it's good that I came along because I know a few people that might help us." Lily smiled as she walked a bit faster through the London crowds that walked against them.

"What do you mean you know a few people." Harry asked.

"Trust me, I know a few people." Lily said while dodging in and out of the mortals.

"Ok…" Harry said just before he passed and alley way with a few men surrounding what it looked like to be a woman in trouble. "Lily stop." Harry said while walking into the alley with the men and the one woman.

"Don't be all heroic Harry, she's a mortal it happens there isn't a point in trying to save her." Lily said while putting her hand on Harry's shoulder.

"Yeh but it still isn't right."

"It's not our problem now lets go, the more time we waste upon this silly stuff,  the more time Amato –"

"Amato" The men in the alley turned around to see the two young vampires there watching them. "Is that the name you just said…" one of the men said while walking away from the pack and over to the two.

"That's what I said." Harry looked at the people as they one by one left the woman lying on the ground crying but otherwise safe and started to come over to them.

"Why do you speak that name young one." The man in the center, who Harry deemed to be the leader of this pack asked. The man was a tall man, around Romulus's height, Harry knew that these were not men at all but vampires from the way they moved and how they acted. But what gave them away were there silver eyes so boring and dull, yet with the strange chill that they bore into your soul searching for some ounce of fear in you.

"He attacked my friend." Harry spoke calmly to the vampires. All of the men laughed and looked at Harry with a lopsided grins on there faces.

"Well young one, there is no such vampire any more, gone, perished, the father of all of us died to a few rogue wizards." The leader said.

"Let's go Harry." Lily said wrapping her arm around his arm.

"And where do you think you two are going?"

"Away from here." Harry stated as he turned to go back to the streets of London. But it was a futile attempt as he felt a cold hard hand upon his shoulder stopping him from going.

"Young one, I think you might find something that I have of interest to you. A young girl that keeps calling for a vampire named Harry." The leader smiled as he turned to look at his other men waving his hand to grab the girl and go back to where ever they might be going.

"Is her name Arianne?" Harry asked.

"That is her name." The vampire smiled with his fangs showing as he walked further into the alley way and then into what look to be an abandon warehouse.

"This trip might be over sooner then I thought it be" Harry said to Lily as he entered the warehouse with Lily right behind him.   

The warehouse was dark and musty from what Harry could see and smell. It was filled with the smell of thick blood which he could tell had been spilled throughout the years. Not even the moonlight filtered through the stain panel glass on the upper decks. Harry had a hard time depicting how many people were really in the warehouse but from what he could gather Lily and he was out numbered.

"I don't like this place Harry let's go get my friends and then come back." Lily said moving closer to Harry. The leader flicked his wrist as someone flipped the switch and appear as the light turned on was at least twenty vampires maybe a bit more and there in the center was Voldemort and Arianne who was sitting in the chair slumped over.

Harry immediately reached in his pocket for his wand and aimed it at Voldemort. Voldemort through did not grab for his wand but instead just continued to stare at Harry. Harry was confused that Voldemort did not look like he had the power to harm Harry nor did he want to.

"Welcome" the leader said as he turned around to look at Harry.

"Tom… Let her go." Harry stated with a rage in his voice Lily had never heard. She being right next to him could feel the power within him starting to swell to powers that she had only seen once in the Gryffindor commons which she wished to never see again.

"I can't do that Harry." Voldemort said as he put his arm upon the chair Arianne was sitting upon, he looked like if he was trying to support his own weight and that his legs were no longer strong enough.  "I need your help Harry."

This certainly stunned Harry and Lily, Voldemort asking for help, was this another trick like last time Harry asked himself making sure to note every possible exit while stalling for time. "Why do you need my help?" Harry question holding himself back from killing Voldemort who was in such a weaken state.

"Because this involves the both of us and every one of your kind." Voldemort said while taking his wand out of his dark clothing that loosely hung over his frail body. "What I did, was wrong on my part… I should have never done it… and now because of what I did I've put my war against you in danger from never being completed. Along with both our destructions."

At least he was blunt about it, Harry said to himself as he looked at Voldemort, who he knew was speaking the truth. Harry didn't know how he knew but he could feel that the words that came from Voldemort were the truth and he did need his help. Amazing, Harry thought to himself, helping out the dark lord because of his own stupid mistake.

"If you don't help me, your beloved Hermione will die, along with this world, and there won't be anything left because of you." Voldemort stated as he started to breathe heavily.

"What is it that I need to do" Harry asked, if this was to help Hermione then he had to do it, no matter what the cost even if it meant his life was on the line.

"Amato…" Voldemort wheezed out of his throat.

"What about him." Harry looked curiously at Voldemort, he seemed that he was fighting something more powerful then he was and was losing the battle.

"He's trying to rise to power by taking over Hermione's body."

"I know that already, what's why I came to find Arianne." Harry rashly stated while moving closer to the center of the room closely followed by Lily.

"Arianne can not fight him alone.." Voldemort wheezed again. "I need to be there to, to fight him, I need to be in Hermione's mind to fight Amato."

This was a certain no, Harry could not allow this, nothing in the world was going to change his mind. How could he even propose a question like that, Harry questioned himself while formulating a plan of escape and attack if needed to come to that.

"Then there is no hope for us to stop Amato, you although have power it is not powerful enough to stop him. You can try but I can tell you that you will die and this is not a death like others. This is death in the mind, your consciousness will no longer be there, you will be non-existence in reality." Voldemort said while raising his wand into the air and point to Harry. "I'm dreadfully sorry to do this Harry but it is the only way for me to save myself and this epic battle that is to continue after this tragic event." Voldemort utter a few words as a bolt of light flashed out of his wand to fast for Harry to even have a chance to move out of the way as it struck him directly in the chest. Lily screamed and took out her wand and fired the killing curse at Voldemort but it did no good as his body had fallen just after Harry had been hit. The curse flew past Voldemort's fallen body and hit a vampire who had just happened to behind him.

The vampire was knocked against the wall and the sounds of sizzling flesh could be heard along with the intoxicating smell that followed. Although the vampire was in no trouble of dying the pain that ripped through his body could no even be matched by the snarling scream that ripped through the warehouse. Lily looked down at the ground to see Harry with his eyes wide open, they were slowly starting to turn red as if he had never eaten, but it wasn't because of that. In fact Lily could sense that Harry was no longer Harry but in fact the fallen Voldemort.

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"Hermione!" A voice shouted out from the void of black in which Hermione was in. It was a woman's voice, a very elegant voice something Hermione was happy to hear even though she did not know who it was or where.

"Who's there!" Hermione shouted back as she got up from her fetal position.

"My name is Arianne, I've come here to help you." Arianne said as she ran through the blackness and finally found Hermione standing there looking into no where. Hermione's eyes could not see Arianne, but Arianne could see Hermoine and she understood why Hermione could not see her. "You have to listen to me Hermione, you do not have eyes in this place, it's all in your mind, think about seeing don't try to see with your eyes, but think about what your trying to see. We have to hurry because he's coming closer and Harry is in trouble." Arianne said while putting her hand on Hermione's arm.

"I don't know how to do that!" Hermione said as she looked around the blackness and did not even feel Arianne's hand on her arm.

"Think about seeing me, I could look like anything so try to make out what I look like. I'll help you, I have Spanish brown eyes and hair, fair skin, and I stand just around your height." Arianne said while standing right next to Hermione.

"I am closer then I've ever been in taking someone's body" An old voice said through the black void. Hermione knew this voice and knew that it was closer from how loud it had gotten.

"Hermione you must hurry up and try."

"I'm trying I'm trying!" Hermione ran all thoughts through her head trying to see this woman with Spanish brown eyes and hair. Slowly but surely she could make out a woman no taller then her with Spanish brown eyes and hair and fair skin. "I can see you!" Hermione said in joy because finally things started to become clear.

"Good we have to leave now! Think about me, think about how it feels to touch a woman's skin, this is important and must be done hastily or were both in trouble."

It seemed to get simpler with each try that Hermione did think about it, the world was becoming no so dull and void in fact it was coming to be a stunning country side, a place she always wanted to live with Harry. Away from the world, away from the entire plight in the world, she was here but regrettably there was also evil here and she had to leave it behind.

"It's so beautiful." Hermione said as she looked around her, she was in her house. A house she dreamed of being in. In the corner was a small cradle for her baby, a bed right next to it, a small kitchen table and sink. On the far left wall was a shelf of books to the far right was a picture of Harry, her baby, and herself all holding each other. Arianne could see all this and she could only smile since it was a very picturesque place.

"We must go" Arianne broke Hermione's train of thought as she tugged on her arm and ran outside into the countryside.

"Where we going?" Hermione asked while following Arianne.

"I don't know yet, but away from that voice." Arianne responded while running away from the voice.

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Truth(): It was never going to be any longer of a chapter, I couldn't think of what else I could put in the chapter. I probably missed a whole bunch of stuff I should have put in but I didn't. The normal chapters I write are around 10-15 pages long pending on what the subject matter is. I'll try to extend to 15-20 pages if it's possible. Thank you for reviewing.

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~Kyu