The stars (Harry Potter fanfiction)

Chapter Sixty-Three

My eyes open and I'm on some tree trying to catch my breath, I feel vomit coming up, so I turn my head and let it all out. I soon see it's not vomit but water, all that water I sucked in trying to get to Harry.

Harry, where is he?

I turn my head around looking for Harry, but I don't see him. I'm about to stand up before a hand pulls me down.

"You need to take it easy; your lips are blue."

My eyes trail up to the person's face, I'm soon met with Ron.

"Ron!" I scream out getting up and throwing my arms around his neck, shaking while doing so. He chuckles and pats my back.

I pull away, looking at him in the face examining him for any cuts or bruises. I see none but then my mind trails off again.

"Harry, where is he?"

He points to Harry, getting dressed, and then I notice Ron has something.

"Is that Godric Gryffindor's sword?!" I ask in disbelief. He nods showing it to me that's when Harry comes over and wraps two more blankets around me.

"You need to go in the tent, you're going to freeze out here. You are turning blue." He tells me wrapping his arms around his body, I shake my head. "No, I want to stay out here with you, I almost died from that damn necklace, so I want to see it destroyed."

"Why did you let go of my hand, Athena?" Ron asks me, I act stupid like I don't know what he is talking about.

"I just passed out," I tell him lying straight through my teeth, the real reason was because of Harry.

But only I should know that.

I wrap myself in the blankets tighter walking behind a tree and taking a seat there, trying to catch my breath and warm myself before I pass out again. Ron and Harry have gone off to break the necklace.

I start to close my eyes again, not being able to stop myself from the exhaustion that is hitting me.

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I wake up with a pounding headache I sit up coughing while wiping my runny nose, I look across the room seeing Harry and Ron on the bed together I smile and wave.

"Feeling any better?" Harry asks, I nod giving him and thumbs up lying once again I feel like shit. "Did you... Destroy the necklace?" I ask my voice all scratchy him and Ron nods, "Ron right here did it."

I clap my hands congratulating Ron. "So how many more to find?"

"Only three I think."

I smile before coughing up some more, coughing so hard I start to wheeze. "You're lying, you don't feel any better," Harry tells me, I just ignore him laying back on the bed.

Ron and Harry soon start to talk about Hermione. I listen silently coughing occasionally, I jump where I hear a big noise turning my head to them. Quickly seeing Harry making the fire smaller which he just enlarged.

"What's going on in there?!" Hermione shouts from outside the door, "nothing." Both Ron and Harry respond with.

She soon walks in sitting on the bed with me pulling me up while rubbing my back, "we all need to talk."

"I want to go see Xenophilius Lovegood." She states before turning to me. "Your mother was friends with Luna's mum, did she ever tell you anything about Xenophilius."

I shrug my shoulders, "nothing. She just called him an odd man."

She then pulls out a book she has, "see this?" She tells us pointing to it. "It's a letter Dumbledore wrote to Grindelwald. Look at the signature. It's the mark again."