Disclaimer: Its been far too long my friends, but yes...I AM BACK!!! =] And I'm ready to give you chapter 18, I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry for the long delay, Its just with finals, graduation, tests, and all the other stuff in between I just couldn't find the time to update but now I have!! And I hope you guys have still been hungering for me cause here it is the moment you've all been waiting for! I won't be answering reviews for now lets just all skip to the story shall we? enjoy.
"What the hell was that Tom?" Nagini said with much anger in her voice as she angrily stomped around the lair.
"What was what Nagini?" Voldemort asked.
"This!" Nagini hissed pointing to the same dream scheme that had been sent to Cho. "This Grace Potter, this disgusting little thing, marrying you?!?"
"Now now Nagini, calm yourself. You know I don't want anyone else but you. "Voldemort said, placing a hand on her face.
Nagini quickly shoved his hand off and gave him a disgusted look.
"Don't...you...EVER...touch...me...again..." Nagini said dangerously.
"And what do you suppose you'll do Nagini? Compared to me, you're just like the rest of those fools, those so called wizards and witches out there. Powerless and oblivious." Voldemort said slyly.
"You make me sick!" Nagini spat out.
"SILENCE!" Voldemort yelled.
A loud snapping sound rang through out Voldemort's lair. Suddenly silence was the only thing heard in the lair. Silence..and soft breathing from Nagini who had hair in front of her face while she placed her hand on her cheek. Voldemort turned his back to her and took up his hood on his cloak.
"If you don't want to feel more pain then that, I suggest you shut your mouth and obey what I say." Voldemort said.
"You bastard..." Nagini said softly.
"What was that?" Voldemort asked.
"I said...YOU BLOODY FRICKIN BASTARD!" Nagini yelled at the top of her lungs.
The echos of her scream rang throughout the lair, and then it followed the sound of another loud snapping sound and a thud. Nagini was on the floor, quivering from pain on her face. She pushed herself over, away from him, not even looking at Voldemort.
"I hit you for a reason Nagini. Your loyalty to me is now in question...dare try to say another word and I will make the pain even worse." Voldemort said, grasping her around the neck.
Nagini looked at him with anger in her eyes. Voldemort smirked and dropped her back down to the floor. He then walked a couple of paces and then soon disappeared. Nagini kept her hand on her cheek and her neck, still feeling the sting and the grasp, and the burn of the hit.
"I remember now...I remember why I had plotted to leave him many many years ago...this abuse. This abuse that nearly got me killed!" Nagini said under her breathe.
Nagini walked over to a mirror and looked at the red mark on her face. At first she saw the mark of a skull but soon her skin started to bubble and the mark painfully disappeared. She felt the anger boil in her blood.
"Why should I have to tolerate this? Tom won't do half of the dirty work...so I guess I'll have to do it myself...for revenge...and to get out of this disgusting body." Nagini said walking off, diverting a new devastating plan.
"What's coming sooooon?" Ron sang in a sing-a-long type voice.
"N.E.W.T. and if we have to sing like this again I'll have to seriously kick you." Harry sang back in a sing-along-type-voice.
"My gosh...Harry, Ron, such beautiful voices you both have." Cho said trying not to laugh.
Cho and Samantha then bursted out laughing completely at the both of them as they looked up from their preparation books. Cho took in a big breath as she regularly did, to relieve any type of stress away from her unborn child. Cho placed a hand on her stomach and then went back to her work.
"You know what's amazing Cho?" Samantha asked.
"What is it?" Cho said with a small smile.
"How you're at least 4-5 months pregnant and you still maintain your petite figure." Samantha said laughing slightly.
Cho laughed "It may look like that, but believe me I don't feel anywhere near small at all" She replied.
"And they call laugh at us for singing Harry? Can you believe this?!" Ron said pretending to be appalled.
Samantha throw her eraser at Ron, grinning. " Oh shush Ron." She said.
They all laughed and then continued to look around for important notes they may need to be prepared for the test. Books were stacked all over the common room. Some of the stacks were even taller then Ron. There was silence, only the scratch of a quill writing on a piece of parchment could be heard.
"So, Cho, what are you going to be when you get out of this school?" Samantha asked, breaking the silence.
"Not really sure... I don't think I can't start working right away because after the birth of my baby of course I'll have to stay home and care for it." Cho replied.
"But after all that, what do you want to be? So then Harry over doesn't have to keep on supporting the money." Samantha said smiling.
"Hey!...Actually she does have a point there..." Harry said.
Cho hit Harry playfully on the arm and then turned back to Samantha.
"I dunno...maybe a worker for the ministry, or a writer, not like Rita Skeeter though. I wanna make...maybe a romance novel." Cho said.
Samantha smiled at Cho and then got back to her work. Cho kept a smile on her face, trying to scan Samantha as she did, trying to see if she really was the same as before. Hoping that she wouldn't have to see the dark evil side of Samantha. Suddenly a bright light shined around Samantha's neck. Cho looked at it curiously wondering what it could be.
"That's a really nice necklace you've got there Sam." Cho said.
"Thanks, I found it on my bed stand in the hospital wing. I suspected it was from Ron to help me get better." Samantha said as she walked over to Ron and kissed him on the cheek.
"Can't expect anything less from me right?" Ron said with a slight smile as he put his arms around her waist.
Samantha kissed him once again. "Never, from a great husband like you." Samantha replied smiling.
Samantha put her arms around Ron and stayed in his arms. Harry and Cho looked over to Ron with a disappointing look on their faces. They continued on working to study for N.E.W.T.S. Ron rested his head on Samantha's as he held her close to him.
"You'll love me no matter what right Samantha?" Ron said quietly.
Samantha looked up, into Ron's eyes and a warm smile came across her lips, almost calming him automatically.
"Of course I would Ron. What kind of a wife would I be if I didn't?" Samantha said.
"Well.." Ron began.
Ron held Samantha close to him once again, as she rested her head on his shoulder. Harry looked over to Cho and eyed over to the two of them. Cho looked over to Ron and made eye contact with him, saying he shouldn't say anything about what happened in the past.
"Never change...you're perfect the way you are." Ron said, his glance still on Cho's.
Samantha smiled and suddenly got a flash in her eyes. In her mind she could see herself attacking Ron and Hermione in the common room. She saw herself being trapped into a little orb, her eyes were very red. She could hear herself screaming "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME RON?!" She saw a flash of an apparent torture commencing. She could not see the girls face but she could hear the horrible screams. And quickly Samantha jumped back from Ron's arms and held on to her head.
"Samantha! Samantha are you ok?" Cho asked as she ran over to her.
Samantha sank to her knees, crying in anguish. "Make the voices stop...make the flashes stop Cho, they're horrible!!" Samantha cried.
The pain Samantha felt on her mind was too excruciating to even describe. She didn't understand why the flashes were coming to her though. She didn't understand why she was having continuous flashes of Ron and Hermione together. Strictly she knew that Ron was hers and would always love her and that Hermione had absolutely no interest in him. Soon the flashes had stopped and the pain had gone away. Ron was down on his knees in front of her, trying to get a look into her eyes to make sure she was ok. Sweat pellets were falling from her face and she quickly got into Ron's arms, completely mortified.
"I don't remember ever feeling this much pain Ron...what's happening to me?" Samantha cried.
"It's ok, darling it'll be alright." Ron said soothingly.
Harry and Cho stood next to each other and tried to think it out thoroughly. They knew that Samantha had no knowledge at all on what ha happened over the last couple of weeks. She didn't remember the affair Ron had had with Hermione. She didn't remember ever switching sides and going under Voldemort's command. And in this time being it was still a mystery on why and how Samantha had been so bruised up. Right behind Ron and Samantha, Harry saw an outline of a figure near the portrait entrance. In the entrance was Hermione with her wand raised over to Samantha. Slowly she put her aim down and back into her pocket, turning for the door.
"I'll make her remember all that happened. And then afterwards, she'll go into insanity making Ron...mine." Hermione said softly to herself as she walked out of the door.
"Harry...Harry what are you looking?" Cho asked look forward to the entrance.
"I'll tell you later." Harry said quietly, his gaze still on the place where Hermione stood.
"How is it even right...manipulating Samantha like that? What could Hermione possibly be thinking?!" Cho said outraged as she got prepared for bed that night.
"I don't know...but whatever she plans to do we have to make sure she stays far away from Samantha. We don't want another fight to start." Harry said as he continued to study for the exam.
Cho smiled slightly as she saw him looking over a few questions, tossing his messy jet black hair back and forth as he stressed to find the answer.
"I feel ashamed. I have to go to sleep for the benefit of the baby and you have to stay up to study." Cho said going over to him, putting her arms around his shoulders from the back.
"You shouldn't feel that way. You need as much rest as you need. Cause once this baby wants to come out into the world, you won't be feeling as sorry for me anymore. You'd want to kill me by then." Harry said grinning.
Cho laughed and gingerly kissed him on the lips. Harry let his hands graze on her arms for a little while. Even while she was baring his child Harry saw Cho the same way. She was his beautiful wife, his soulmate, his life. She was perfect to him and he felt that looking at her was just a sense of comfort to him. Having her smile at him would ease the pain of stress from his day. Her kisses would calm down his nerves and set him right back to a good mood. Holding her in his arms would send him a rush of warmth across his body that he couldn't find the words to describe the feeling. Every thing that he did with Cho, every day that he spent with her, just seemed so right for him.
"I'm still the same petite girl I was in the earlier years right?" Cho asked.
"Of course you are, you haven't changed a bit...Samantha was right...you're phenomenal." Harry replied. "Here come sit."
Harry rested his one hand on his lap for a couple of moments. Cho hesitated at first.
"I dunno Harry. I could break your leg or something. You'll be carrying two weights." Cho said sheepishly.
"Harry laughed at this slightly. "Cho if I could carry you up the stairs and into this room without breaking a sweat, I think I could possibly stand you sitting on my lap too. Plus...I really need this, I haven't held you close like this in ages." Harry said.
Cho just smiled at him and then proceeded to sit down. As soon as she sat down, she just looked into his eyes, and let her arms wrap around him once again.
"See? I told you I could stand it." Harry said.
"I love you..." Cho replied.
"I love you too." Harry said.
"I-I really meant it...I really do. You're probably the best thing that has ever happened to me Harry, I want you to remember that." Cho said.
"I understand that sweetheart, I do. But why are you saying all of this...like..." Harry began.
"Like it's the last time I will? Might as well get used to it. From now on I'm going to speak to you as if it were my last time speaking to you." Cho said.
Harry chuckled. "That's no way to live your life Cho. Thinking all of the time 'Oh I have to speak to him like it's the last time' Cho I am always going to be here, no matter what." Harry said.
"I guess you're right..." Cho began. "It's just I've been...I've just been...I've been scared ever since the trip to the doctors. After my little spell...I just haven't really gotten over it." Cho said quietly.
Harry held on to her hand and kissed the top, keeping a tight grasp on her hand. He let his other hand feel through her long black hair as she rested her head on his shoulder.
"Was she beautiful?" Harry asked.
"Who?" Cho replied.
"Our daughter...our daughter Grace." Harry said.
Cho stayed silent for a couple of moments. The visions of Grace flew across her mind, as she remembered the little toddler, the teenager, and the grown woman in front of her eyes. Being her daughter...being hers and Harry's daughter. Cho sighed and continued to rest her head on Harry's shoulder, as he rested his head on top of hers.
"In all honesty...she was a vision. She had long but messy jet black hair, the messy part most likely coming from you." Cho said running her hands through his hair.
Harry smiled at this. "Continue." He said.
"She had my eyes, and she was beautiful. She was exactly how I imagined our first daughter to be. She was perfect." Cho said.
"So basically, she had all of your traits except for the hair." Harry said.
"What do you mean by that?" Cho asked, looking up to him.
"You said, she was beautiful and that she was perfect. Sounds like you." Harry said kissing her.
The warmth of the kiss was everlasting and it was strong. The world seemed to fall to pieces and all that was left was them, sitting together and being in the comfort of each others arms.
"Get some sleep." Harry said kissing the top of her forehead. "We've got a whole new day ahead of us."
"Don't stay up too late studying ok?" Cho said kissing him as she got over to the bed.
"Alright." Harry said with a slight smile. "Sweet dreams"
Cho settled in bed and just gazed at Harry for a couple of minutes, she smiled with delight, and soon she had fallen asleep.
"Rock a bye baby on the tree top...when the wind blows the cradle will rock..."
"The baby dies soon...the baby must die..."
Cho's eyes sprang up as she heard these words coarse through her ears. She felt around her atmosphere and felt a hard cold ground floor. For this place though she wasn't familiar with it. She felt like something was missing, she looked down to pat her stomach, but her stomach was flat, and blood strayed on the floor. She gasped as a sudden need for air came to her. The blood continued to flow down it was unstoppable. Cho rested her head down as she had no strength to move.
"What's happening to me? Where's my baby?!" She thought.
"Mmm hush little baby don't say a word...I'm gonna buy you a mocking bird..." A voice sang out.
"Who is that? What...what's going on?" Cho thought once again.
Cho heard a few hard steps come to the floor, and soon she sees a woman, a very dark and sinister woman. Her hair was strayed green, her figure was sleek and slim, she was as pale as the moon, and her lips were as black as the night. In her arms she held a bloody bundle, and every other second Cho could hear soft cooing.
"W-w-what have you done?" Cho said softly in a very hoarse voice.
"Shh you're too drained to talk now, but in a few minutes that won't even matter...you're dying Chang."
"Who are you?!" Cho forced out, she started coughing afterwards.
"I suppose you deserve an explaination...I'm--" The person began.
The bundle she was holding was soon then crying before she could finish. The woman looked annoyed and threw it down over to Cho, who quickly caught it and held it close to her. Cho took a look inside and could see a baby with blood all around its body. The baby could barely keep its eyes open, it was coughing, its breath was short, and she could see an orange liquid foaming from its mouth.
"Hmph, say hello to your darling child Cho...now say goodbye because as you're holding it now, its life is ending at a rapid pace." The woman said.
"No...it-it can't be." Cho said softly.
Cho used the rest of her strength to sit up and hold the baby close to her once again. The little infant held on to her pointer finger, its breathing getting even less by the minute.
"Aww is mummy going to cry?" The woman said laughing slyly.
"My baby...please...please stay awake..." Cho said crying quietly.
Soon Cho could no longer feel the grasp of her baby holding on to her finger. The baby closed its eyes and soon stopped breathing. Cho put her head down into the bundle, crying with anguish.
"My baby...please no not my baby...WHY?!" Cho cried out loud.
"Amazing, you're slowly being drained of your blood and you still have the strength to scream." The woman said.
"You...you did this to me, you...you did this to my baby. WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!" Cho screamed.
"It'll be easier done then said Cho my dear..." The woman said holding up wand. "I want...to end...your life!"
A bright white light came in front of Cho's and eyes and soon she started screaming with pain.
"Cho! Cho! Wake up! Cho!" A voice rang in her head as the light consumed her.
Cho sprang up again and found herself safe in her room. Harry looked at her worried, and held her in his arms, weeping away the tears and the sweat. A dream...it was all a dream. She looked down and saw her stomach was still big. Sweat pellets continued to fall from her face and she stayed in Harry's arms crying.
"Its alright darling, you probably just had a nightmare." Harry said quietly.
"Where am I? Is she gone?" Cho said quickly.
"You're here safe at Hogwarts with me...and who are you talking about? Who is "she"?" Harry replied.
"Someone is after me and the baby Harry...I saw it happen...she...she killed our child, she was going to kill me...I...oh god Harry, it was horrible." Cho cried.
"Cho you have to tell me what she looked like. Maybe you had a dream premonition." Harry said.
Soon Ron, Samantha, and Paige(still in this case is Nagini)entered into the room.
"We heard screaming and crying, what happened? Is Cho going into labor?" Ron said fast not thinking as he spoke.
"No, she just had a nightmare...or possible dream premonition...its pretty bad." Harry said.
"G-g-green hair..." Cho began, disregarding that the others have come in.
They all listened inattentively, Paige in particular stood in her place frozen.
"She was very pale...her lips were black...she was going to tell me who she was but...but...god I can't say it." Cho said crying.
"Green hair...black lips...why does that sound so familiar?" Samantha pondered.
"Think we can do some research on this person and see if they're real?" Ron asked Harry.
"Worth a shot isn't it? You guys can go get Danielle to help out too." Harry said.
"No you can't!" Paige said.
"And why not? Paige don't you wanna help Cho?" Samantha said.
"Well Harry did say that it was a nightmare and it could've been a "possible" dream premonition. Don't you think we're just thinking way too ahead to research? That person may not even exist." Paige said in a matter of fact way.
"It felt real Paige, all my dreams have felt real. This could be a sign or a warning. We have to try." Cho said.
"But I-" Paige started.
"Come on Ron, its early morning, we can head out to get Danielle and then go to the library now and search around the history books." Samantha said taking his hand in hers.
"Alright. We'll meet back near noon in the commons, hopefully with an explanation." Ron said to Harry.
"Take as much time as you need." Harry said.
"Why won't you guys just listen?! This could be just a bull-crock character that Cho dreamed up, can't be that serious!" Paige exclaimed.
"What's gotten into your head today Paige? You're extremely moody." Ron said amused.
Samantha disregarded it and took off her light necklace, and put it around Cho's neck.
"I think you need this more than I do. It gives me this overwhelming faith every time I feel down." Samantha said. "Plus I think Ron probably incantated it to do that." She added quietly.
"Thanks Sam...this really means a lot." Cho said.
"Lets go Samantha, before there's a rush of early bird N.E.W.T.S studying people in there." Ron said running out the room.
Samantha quickly followed him and Paige walked out flabbergasted. Cho had calmed down slightly. She got out of bed and had put on her hooded robes.
"Where are you going?" Harry said.
"I need some air Harry, I can't stay in here for long, I just need some time to think." Cho said.
"Let me come with you." Harry said.
"Please...Harry just let me have this time to myself. I'll be back soon I promise." Cho said placing her hands on his face.
Harry put his hands on hers and nodded. "Meet me by the tree near the lake later ok? I don't want you dwelling away for too long." Harry said.
"Alright, just give me at least 15 minutes, I'll see you by the tree." Cho said kissing him softly.
Cho put up her hood and walked out of the room, down the stairs and out of the common room. Harry stood near the door for moment. He sighed and thrashed around his messy hair as he closed the door behind him. What they failed to notice was Nagini was standing in the corners watching them. She was fidgeting and was very worried that they'd find out the real truth. They would all know Paige's soul was stuck in the necklace and that she was taking control of her body. They'd find out her true form and try to seek her out and destroy her. She couldn't let that happen and she refused to think of what else could happen to her.
"I have to get this done once and for all. Potter and Chang are going down." Nagini said running down the stairs and running right after Cho.
Uh oh...what's gonna happen? Is Nagini going to succeed in making Cho's premonition dream come true? Where has Hermione gone since this time? What will the necklace to for Cho? Will Samantha ever figure out what happened in the past? Find out soon when I post up chapter 19 I hope I haven't lost my flair for the story, I hope I did fine.