The Boy Who Protected

Clue Solved, New Addition, and Fight!

Kaden POV:

It had been a week since the Yule Ball and I was now with Aurora going over the clue once again for the second task. I asked Cedric for the password to the prefects bathroom. We entered the bathroom with the egg, I went to fill up the swimming pool sized bath with a diving board as she went to change. Once I started filling the bath I also went to change. We emerged from the stalls in our bathing suits.

"Damn shining star, how did I get so lucky?" I asked checking her out.

"Are you checking me out prince?" She quipped back with an eyebrow raised.

"I could ask you the same thing." I replied and caught her staring at my abs and chest.

"Shut up." She said trying to walk away but I grabbed her arm and spun her around.

"Make me." I whispered in her ear.

I smirked at her seeing her flustered before she kissed me passionately. I started walking her back to the pool. When we broke the kiss, I smirked at her and gently push her into the pool while she screamed.

She came up from under the water and she did not look happy.

"KADEN REMUS BARNES!"

"uh oh." 

"Uh oh is right. Come over here and help me out." She demanded.

"Yes darling."

I walked up and crouched down extending my hand to help her up. She grabbed onto my hand and smirked causing me to lose mine. 

The next thing I knew, I was underwater. When I came up, I heard Aurora laughing at me. I swam over to her and pinned her against the pool wall. 

"You think that was funny don't you?"

"I do. What are you going to do about it, handsome?"

"This." 

I leaned in and kissed her hard and passionately. I broke the kiss quickly before going over to my egg and bringing it into the water with me.

"You ready?" I asked her.

"Let's do this."

We took a deep breath before we went underwater and I opened my egg to listen to the clue once again to confirm my suspicions.

"Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
An hour long you'll have to look,
To recover what we took.

An hour long you have to look,
To recover what we took,
Your time's half gone so tarry not
Lest what you seek stays here to rot."

We emerged from the water and wiped the water away from our faces.

"So, what do you think the next task will be?" Aurora asked me.

I let out a sigh before replying.

"They are going to take you to the bottom of the black lake and I'll have to come find you."

"WHAT!?" She shouted.

"Hey, it's going to be ok. McGonagall is going to teach me a spell that will allow me to transfigure into an animal that can breathe underwater." I told her pulling her into a tight hug.

"I'm scared Kaden." She told me as tears built up in her eyes.

"I know but I promise you I will do everything I can to get you back safely."

"I know you will. That's one of the reasons I'm so in love with you."

I didn't say anything in return, I just kissed her softly. We stayed like this for a little bit until we decided to get out and go back to the common room.