Faithfully Yours

Chapter 8

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" Fuuuck, I'll save you babe I promise." With that, she grabbed the cloak that her great grandpa had given her. As she put it on she vanished from sight. It was a gift she didn't use often but it helped her get around Hogwarts without being detected except on one special map. 

She opened her door as quietly as she could and noticed that some of the first years were conversing on the couch as she went to close her door they all stopped for a moment and looked around for the source of the click that happened when she closed the door to her room. 

She went to open the door and the first years who had just been telling ghost stories stopped and looked at the door open by itself and they all ran thinking their common room door was possessed. Causing a light laugh from Ebony as she closed the door. Now where to look? She decided to go to places that meant something to her and Weaver. It took a while before she found the right one, there was another letter much like the first one. 

it read [ Clue number one, open your eyes to the road unseen, for you and me has always been a thing.] 

Tapping her lower lip with her finger she thought for a moment before realizing the place that she meant was the stadiums for quiddich. It was always the place we would go when things were going bad because we could get lost in the crowd of those who watched the practice matches and talk in whispers to each other. Hurrying to the stadiums she found the spot they would always go to which was under them.

Ebony found a second clue it was taped so it wouldn't be blown away. Picking it up she opened it and it read [ Congrats on finding the second clue, for there are a total of 7, one for each year I have known you, each clue a step closer to the antidote you need for your new obsession for that is all she is, I don't think you can actually love, you like being aloof and out of touch, it is one of the things I love about you. Any way clue two is [ together we stand in a place with a hand that has two to count until the days' end.] 

So, the clock tower... She thought, running against the time, she checked her timepiece which stated she had an hour and forty-five minutes. She hated that she had to rush against time but hey it's one hell of a workout. Reaching the clock tower she went up to the highest point in the rafters. Finding the next clue she hurriedly opened it. [ clue  three read time is time until it's not if I were you I'd wear a forget me knot.]

This one took a few minutes then she remembered when she was in the third year she was gifted a remembrall so she went to the great hall and ran her fingers under were the Slytherin's sat and found one under the table she was guessing it was where she was sitting when she got it from her grandparents. Weaver did have a really good memory, but even so, it appears she has kept a lot of random things but hey it was her game she was playing so she opened it and sat down at the table.

clue four read [clue four  Night is Night till the end of sight, only one who can cast it will be forever Light] what could be used at night but always be bright??? She thought of maybe charms class, running up to where charms class was she saw an envelope that read [  clue five read close, so close but not quite, bright is only as strong as your happiest memory].

OOOH, now it made sense, she was talking about where she first cast her Patronus which was in the courtyard. So she cast a Patronus which was a black swan, and it took off leading Ebony to the next clue. running after it still in her special robe it happened to fly past one of the teachers as they were headed for their quarters. Looked around and even tho they heard footsteps couldn't quite find where it was coming from cuz right as she saw them turn around she made her shoes grow moss on the bottom to stifle the sound of her footsteps. 

Following the Patronus, she came to the courtyard. Her eyes adjusted to the darkness her eyes fell onto the statue that was there and right in the stone hands was another clue.[ the sixth clue stated, Now you found me in the stone, Feel how cold and solid it is, if you don't finish this in the next five minutes you will lose the one who you treasure above all Miss.] Looking at her timepiece she realized it was getting dangerously close, this bloody clue thing had her running all over the damn school. The notes must be charmed or something because she realized she only had ten minutes left.

  as she went to put the card in her pocket something fell out from it, it was a gem that had a red ribbon through it, the perfect shape and made for those to wear on a necklace. Somehow Weaver had been listening. Ebony's eyes began to swim as she didn't understand this one at all until her tear landed on the gem it glimmered lightly and the next clue was shown to her in her mind.  

Running to the seventh clue which ended up in the owlery she found the small cubby where the parchment and quill were placed for those who forgot to bring their own for the owls to send out. She found a special package, it was an elaborate spider made of silver with the eyes as fire opals. The note said 

[ If you have gotten this far it means you really do love her, and I can respect that because I want you to be happy always. I just had to make sure you really did love this one. It's just sad that I know I will most likely be expelled as I'm sure the headmaster already knows about the clues I have been sending you through. As promised the antidote is being sent to Madam Palmfree as your love Violet hasn't been in her common room she is going to be missed and as much as you try to hide this place has a way of revealing secrets. Your ever faithful weaver.] It was signed in her delicate handwriting and a lipstick kiss mark on the note.