Golden | h.p

28| Sleeping Bonnie

~The next morning (we skipped a day)~

"Harry? Mate, are you alright?" Ron asked as he had witnessed Harry having a nightmare. Harry looked at Ron for a moment. No words escaping his mouth. Harry had been covered in sweat and was shaking. Ron got up from his bed and sat on the edge of Harry's. "Another nightmare?" Ron asked, in a hushed voice so he wouldn't wake up the others.

Harry nodded slowly before dropping his head back on his pillow. He stared up at the roof, not saying a single word. Ron stared at his best friend. He was never good at the whole pep talk thing or anything. He always left that part for Hermione to do.

Ron walked back to his bed and lied down, as he drifted asleep there was one thing or should it be said one person on his mind. Ron knew his best friend had just woken up scared and should have said something, but the only thing that happened was a smile formed on Ron's face as he thought of her.

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"Harry, you told me you figured out the egg weeks ago" Hermione said with her usual disappointed sigh. "Need we remind you that the task is two days from now" Diana said as she stood beside Hermione. "I know, I know" Harry sighed.

"I suppose Viktor's already figured it out?" Harry asked Hermione. Diana noticed Hermione slightly cringed at the name. "I wouldn't know. We never talk about the tournament" Hermione said honestly. "Never really talk at all" Diana and Hermione said in unison. Hermione shot Diana a slight glare, to which Diana shrugged with a slight smirk.

"Viktor's more of a physical being" Hermione said bluntly. Diana hit her arm, "Hermione!" Diana laughed. Harry joined in on the laughter. "I just mean he's not particularly ioquacious"' Hermione said. "Whatever you say Mione" Diana said, Harry nodded "mhm". Hermione rolled her eyes and hit both her friends.

"Mostly he watches me study" Hermione said. "That sounds like a stalker" Diana mumbled, Hermione ignored her "It's a bit annoying actually". Hermione shifted her gaze, "you are trying to figure this out? Aren't you?".

"What's that supposed to mean?" Harry asked. "These tasks are aimed to test you in the most brutal ways, almost cruel" Hermione said but Harry turned to the side to ignore her but Hermione walked on his other side. Before Hermione got a chance to say anything Diana did. "It's just that you have procrastinated on this egg and it's clear you didn't even want to be in this tournament... we are just making sure you are following through and not failing on purpose" Diana told Harry.

"I'm scared for you, Harry. Safe to saw we both are. You got by the dragon mostly on nerve with the help of Diana's magic. She won't be able to help you moving forward, do you understand that?" Hermione said.

"I know that, Hermione" Harry said through gritted teeth. "Hey, Potter!" the trio heard a certain Hufflepuff call out. Harry walked away but Cedric caught up to him. The two had minimal dialog. Hermione and Diana headed back towards the castle.

As the two girls walked back they bumped into another Hufflepuff, Emily Hale. "Bennett, I was just looking for you. I gave your Yule Ball things to Ginny Weasley so she could put it in your dorm. That is the last time I agree to go to a dance with Weasley. It was boring. All he did was sit around and sulk" Emily told Diana.

"Didn't you end up dancing with Zabini?" Hermione asked. "Yeah, it was better than sitting around watching Weasley watch you the entire night" Emily told Hermione, a slight blush appeared on Hermione's face but she shook it off remembering how he made her cry.

"Thank you, Em. I owe you big time" Diana said. "Hell yeah you do. I'll let you know when I'll cash it in" Emily said as she winked at the girls and walked off towards her Hufflepuff friends.

"Don't think I didn't see that blush, Hermione" Diana said and watched Hermione grow red. "Oh, be quiet. It's the same for you when someone mentions Harry" Hermione told her. "Since when?" Diana asked, not even bothered. "Since... never. But I know you like him" Hermione sighed. "Whatever you say, Mione" Diana said.

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Later that night Harry had been walking down to the common room so he could sneak out and go to the prefects bathroom like Cedric had suggested earlier that day. "Where the hell are you going?" Diana asked not bothering to look up from her 'Sleeping Beauty' book.

Harry jumped at the sound of her voice this late at night. "Merlin, Diana! Are you trying to give me a heart attack?" Harry asked. "You do realize it's around one in the morning and you are sneaking out with the golden egg in hand. Like that's not suspicious" Diana said with a short laugh.

"I'm just following up on a tip that Cedric gave me" Harry told her. "Okay" she simply replied and then continued reading. "Want to come with me?" Harry asked, "because when we were sneaking around last year it ended up great".

"Well you did kiss me so it's a fifty-fifty on how well it ended" he shrugged. Diana used her magic and flung a pillow at him. "We needed some sort of cover up. Not that it mattered since you dropped the map and got as caught anyway" Diana reminded him.

"So, you joining me or not?" Harry asked. Diana thought about it for a few seconds then shook her head. "Alrighty then" Harry sighed and walked out. Diana regretted her action almost instantly. She got up to go with Harry but she got another one of her unpredictable visions.

"Sleeping beauty spell?" Freya asked Elena. "Kai Parker had done some kind of Sleeping Beauty linking spell so that when Bonnie was alive I'd be in a coma and then when she died I'd wake up" Elena explained.

"Could that be what's happening to dear old Bonnie?" Klaus asked. "It could be possible but I doubt it. No witch in New Orleans would have the ability to do a spell like that other than Davina and I, but neither of us did it" Freya answered. "Who undid the Sleeping Beauty spell on you?" Klaus asked Elena.

"Bonnie" Elena answered. "Maybe in order to undo the spell it has to be done by a Bennett witch?" Rebekah suggested as she entered the room they were keeping Bonnie in. "The only two living and functioning Bennett witches are Bonnie and her daughter Diana" Damon said. "Alright then get Diana to do the spell" Rebekah said.

"I doubt she's powerful enough. It took Bonnie several months before perfecting the spell. What makes you think her fourteen year old daughter can do it?" Elena asked.

"I fucking knew it" Diana muttered as she closed her book and started thinking. She knew Bonnie would have the spell in her grimoire, the only issue was that Diana decided to not bring the grimoire this year. 'The one year I don't bring it is the one year I need it. Are you fucking kidding me?!' Diana thought. She got mad at herself and ended up throwing her book across the room before storming up to her dorm room.

One of her dormmates, Olivia Smoak, had woken up to the sound of Diana entering the room. Olivia decided not to say anything as she heard Diana mutter something under her breathe and then lie down. "Bennett?" Olivia asked after a few minutes. "What do you want, Smoak?" Diana asked as she tried going to sleep.

"Everything alright?" Olivia asked carefully, "spectacular" Diana lied and then closed her eyes and ignored anything Olivia said afterwards.