we could be the greatest thing that the world has ever seen || [n.l book two]

thirteen

I couldn't find Neville, Harry, Luna, Ginny, Ron or Hermione anywhere. Alex was with Mr. Weasley, at least I had hoped he still was.

~Neville's POV~

My adrenaline was rushing through my body like mad, this had never happened before to me and I liked it, feeling a rush. I should start blowing up bridges more often. I ran back into the school, looking for Jenni. I needed to tell her. I didn't want to die having not told her. As I ran up the stairs, occasionally stopping to look around, I saw Ginny and Harry in the crowd of students and wizards and professors.

"Harry!" I yelled, running to them, nearly tripping on the way there.

"Neville? Are you alright?" He asked, looking at my weary state, most likely the blood coming from the side of my head.

"Never better! I feel like I could spit fire!" I exclaimed, nearly jumping in place. "You haven't seen Jenni have you?"

"Jenni?" He repeated.

"I'm mad for her! I feel as though I might as well tell her since we'll probably both be dead by dawn!" I said before jetting off again. I saw Cho standing by the wall with a group of scared, crying first years.

"Cho!" I yelled. "Have you seen Jenni?"

"I saw her in the great hall!" She yelled. I nodded her a thank you and took off for the great hall. I needed to find her.

~Jenni's POV-

I was fighting a pair of death eaters with Seamus next to me, him sending fire incantations at them.

"Reducto!" I yelled and the death eater exploded into fine dust.

"Jenni!" I heard a voice yell before I whipped around, seeing Neville standing far away from me. I ran to him at full sprint and hugged him.

"Neville, I don't want you to die." I said into his chest. He hugged me tightly before pulling back, staring directly at me. "What is it Neville?"

"There's something I've been meaning to do for a long time that is extremely overdue." He said, before putting his arms around my neck and kissing me full on the lips. I had my hands on his chest, connecting the space between us. For a second, I felt lighter than air, as if this wasn't happening. But it was. I had finally kissed Neville Longbottom. For his presumably first kiss, he wasn't that bad of a kisser as I had thought. But I probably was really sucking at it. We broke apart and he put his forehead on mine.

"I love you." He whispered before pecking me on the nose.

"I love you too." I whispered in return before he broke off in a sprint out of the great hall. I stood there, mesmerized in the moment, before I heard someone yell, "Stupify!" I jumped back and saw a bolt of colour from a spell zip past my face. I returned the gesture to the death eater by unleashing a counter curse on him.

"Bombarda!" I exclaimed and pointed my wand at the wall above him, the rubble falling shortly after on top of him and three other death eaters.

"Dean!" I heard Seamus yell out. I turned and saw that Dean had been hit with a Leg-Locking curse. Seamus was knelt over him, as Dean had fallen and hit his head on the ground making him unconscious. I ran to their side and pulled out my wand.

"Mobilicorpus!" I yelled at the wizard who set the spell, which sent him to the ground, their arms and ankles tied. I performed a spell to get Dean out of the curse and yelled for someone.

"Madame Pomfrey! Madame Pomfrey!" I yelled out, seeing Madame Pomfrey stunning a death eater. She turned to our direction and raced over, hiking her dress before doing so.

"What's happened?" She asked, leaning over Dean.

"He got hit with the leg locking curse and fell, hitting his head." Seamus explained as tears fell down his face. I hugged him tightly.

"He's just unconscious Mr. Finnegan, he will be fine." She explained slowly to him before standing up. "Someone help me pull him to the side." I grabbed his legs as Seamus and Madame Pomfrey grabbed his arms. We began to carry him over when Bill appeared and grabbed his other leg.

"Thanks Bill." I thanked him and he just nodded and ran off into the crowd. "Seamus, you keep him safe, alright?"

"I will guard him with my life." He said and I nodded before racing off.

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"Luna!" I yelled as I saw Luna running up the stairs. She stopped and came back to me.

"Yes?" She asked, still as whimsically as ever. How she does it I will never know.

"Have you seen Neville?" I asked her immediately after she finished her sentence. "I can't find him anywhere." At this point I was blatantly panicking, it was pretty obvious to everyone and anyone currently.

"He may be in the great hall, everyone's going for there now. They're bringing in all the people who've died fighting so far." She explained. I frowned and sighed at the same time.

"Where were you going?" I asked her.

"Just going to try and find other people who didn't know we were gathered. Like you." She simply said and I nodded.

"Thanks." I thanked her and walked to the great hall.