Other Eyes ⌁ Ginny Weasley

Chapter Eight

After learning a little bit about who her mother was, Eadan wasn't sure if she wanted to know more. After all, it had been ten years since Mea had left. Eadan didn't need to know more.

Eadan didn't dwell on her mother any longer as she began to focus more on what was important. Halloween was coming soon, and she was very excited to experience it at Hogwarts. She remembered how Dillon described the beautiful decorations and the games he would play with his friends. She wanted to see it all for herself.

Elizabeth and Eadan spent a lot of time telling Meloira all about the holiday festivities at Hogwarts. Meloira did not do much for holidays at her home, and hearing the stories made her just ask excited as Eadan was.

"Dillon told me that during his first year, there was a pumpkin so large, it could fit nearly ten students!"

"Gran said that when she was at Hogwarts, the old headmaster had a Christmas tree that broke through the top of the Great Hall because a student accidentally hexed it!"

"Last year there was a troll!"

Soon October 31st came. But unlike the weeks prior, Eadan was not excited. In fact she was very scared.

That morning, Eadan woke up with the pain she became familiar with almost two months ago. There was a dull pounding in her stomach and it hurt to lift her head from her pillow. Every sound, every shred of light felt like someone was poking every one of her nerves with a knife.

Eadan told herself it wasn't real. She was paranoid, there was nothing to be worried about. But each move she made, the pain in her head got worse.

Her roommates worried about her again, even Ginny who had been disappearing on and off for weeks. Just like last month, Elizabeth placed the back of her hand to Eadan's forward as Eadan laid in bed, her blankets pulled up to cover her eyes.

"You're very warm. I'm taking you to the hospital wing," Elizabeth attempted to pull the covers down, but Eadan held on to them with a vice grip.

"I'm fine, just — just please leave me be," Eadan kept her blanket's up, shielding her friends from the fact that tears were forming in her eyes. "I promise, I'll be fine."

From across the room, Eadan heard Meloira's voice. "Is it your lady days?"

"No, Mel, it's not."

"I'm really worried about you, Eadan," Elizabeth said softly to her. "You could be really sick."

"Please, I'm okay. I just want to sleep."

The three girls left quietly, not before they each protested about Eadan not seeking help to find out what was wrong. But Eadan knew what was wrong.

Something bad was going to happen. Eadan just didn't know what or when.

Just like the first Saturday of September, Eadan's friends brought her food and drinks through out the day. Despite having no appetite, Eadan forced herself to eat just a few bites. She needed something to make the pain go away. She needed the damned day to be over.

When it was time for the Halloween feast, Eadan was curled up in her bed while the rest of the Hogwarts students made their way to the Great Hall. Elizabeth promised she would come straight back with something to eat, but Eadan didn't respond as she pretended to be sleeping.

Ginny was the last girl to leave the dormitory when it was time for dinner. Eadan could hear her light footsteps approach her and she felt the bed shift as Ginny sat down.

"Eadan are you sure you're alright?" she said quietly.

Eadan stayed completely still, and told Ginny that she was fine. There was no response as Ginny left the dormitory and headed to the Halloween feast.

It was shortly after seven o'clock that Eadan felt it.

She was lucky to be able to fall asleep after Ginny left, but the blinding pain that ripped through her head woke her. She opened her eyes wide, wide enough to know for a fact that she was not sleeping anymore. Instead of the ruby curtain that she kept closed around her bed, Eadan saw the same dark gray tube from two months prior.

Eadan was going upwards. She was fast, fast enough to feel like she was flying. The icy chill from the metal around her sliding from her head to toes. She could hear echoes in the walls around her. Music and laughter from near the dungeons. Children talking from the next floor.

With a sharp turn, Eaden glided along the pipe. She heard the sudden flush of water, and then she saw it coming towards her. Eadan pushed forward, head first into the oncoming water. A screw in the pipe burst next to her from the force of her body and the water. She heard the sound of trickling, and then it stopped.

Eadan backed up, and saw the opening from where two pieces of a pipe came loose. She squeezed through, forcing the two halves of the pipe wider and wider apart under she was in the wall, slithering across the floor.

Ahead, spiders raced each other to get away from Eadan. Up the wall and through cracks in the floor they fell. There was light shining through a large breach in the stone. She lurched foreword, trying to get there as quick as possible.

Hiss

They needed to know she was coming.

Hiss

Water from the burst pipe began to catch up with her, following her as she reached the crack in the wall, flooding in front of Eadan onto the floor in front of the crack.

Eadan lined up her eye with the hole in the wall, and empty room was all she could see. The water pooled out through gap in front of her, creating a perfect mirror against the gray stone of ground. In the reflection she could make out the form of a sink and toilet stalls.

Turning her head, Eadan forced her way through the wall and made her way to the large wooden door in front of her. She listened against it and silence was the only thing heard. Water from the pipe continued to flood the floor, leaking underneath the gap beneath the door. Eadan cracked it open, just slightly, but it was just enough.

Another perfect gray mirror formed on the floor in front of her, in the middle of an empty corridor.

Above, a gray tabby can walked along the ledge of the wall. Eadan could see it perfectly. She watched as it as it marched forward onto the torch bracket on the wall, wrapping it's long tail around the metal. It was so close.

Hiss

The cat looked down into the pool. Eadan watched its reflection as the cats yellowing eyes searched the mirror.

It found her.

As if the world had frozen it's self, the cat seized and fell to the side. It's tail stayed locked in place, hanging her upside down below the torch. A ghastly shadow was cast along the wall.

Hiss

A set of slow footsteps echoed around the corner of the hallway. Eadan knew that it was time, so she backed away, and went back inside the hole she came from.