Hecate's Realm

New Homes

AN: As always, when a character is speaking latin, its translation will be in bold. This of course excludes Tower passwords or spells used by the characters.

This has been beta'd by the amazing xx ShamiksXa xx, so go check her out!

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Seamus chuckled as he took Frank back to Gryffindor Tower. "Good luck."

"Why?"

"You'll see."

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Seamus stopped in front of a painting of a woman and said clearly, "Fortuna Major." The portrait swung open to reveal a short hallway which led to a room that wasn't unlike the common room that had been in the Room of Requirement. Although, this one only donned the colors burgundy and gold. Because their impromptu meeting had taken so long, there wasn't anyone else in the Gryffindor common room, except for one Hermione Granger. She was facing the now dying fire re-reading "Hogwarts: A History" for what must've been the millionth time, or at least what felt like it. She was too deeply invested to hear that Seamus and Frank had come in.

"Think we'll be able to sneak past her?" Frank whispered cautiously.

"We're never that lucky, but then again, neither is the Golden Trio." It was obvious and clear that Frank was perplexed, but Seamus put his hand up. Assured that his questions would be answered once they were away from Hermione, he kept calm and tranquil. The Romans snuck by the the boys staircase and were fortunate enough to not step on creaky floorboards or anything that would alert the nosy girl of their presence. Frank let out the breath he hadn't realized he had been holding once they had gotten to a room with 6 four poster beds, while only four of them looked used.

"Will I be sleeping here?" Frank inquired. Seamus nodded and sat down on one of the unused beds. Frank suspected they were sitting on Seamus' bed, as there were undeniable scorch marks on the posts, just like the ones that could be found whenever him or the rest of his siblings were concerned.

The two demigods talked throughout the night and early morning, only getting a couple hours of rest before the sun came up. "Why do we have to get up so early?" Frank groaned complainingly.

Seamus yawned nonchalantly and ran a hand through his hair. "Do you want to answer their questions when they see all the battle scars?" Frank begrudgingly got up to start the day.

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Luna smiled as she grabbed Hazel's arm and dragged her near the kitchens towards the Hufflepuff common rooms. *

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"Thank you for showing me around the castle, Luna." Hazel had allowed herself to be dragged around by the Ravenclaw, even though Hecate had given her a layout of the school previously. Then again, she wasn't about to correct one of the first people she had become friends with, even if it would've saved both girls some time.

"It's no trouble, really. Besides, it's nice to be able to visit this part of the castle when I can remember it."

"When you can remember it?"

"Oh yes. I sleepwalk, that's why I wear my shoes to bed, and besides, who doesn't enjoy a good adventure now and then." She watched the blonde ramble. Luna reminded her some of her classmates back when she went to school with Sammy. Even though she went on about random facts about herself and the castle, she found she didn't mind as much as she did when her classmates would talk endlessly about trivial matters of her time: assignments due, cute classmates, if they could go do gods knows what.

She had been tuning out whatever Luna was talking about and started paying attention when the Ravenclaw had taken her to the kitchen corridor and stopped. Hazel wondered if she knew the password, or lack thereof, technically speaking. " ... and that should be everything you need to know."

"Thank you for showing me around the castle. I don't know what I would've done without you," she lied easily.

"It was no setback. Well goodnight Hazel, and be sure to mind the wrackspurts."

"The- ... goodnight Luna." She was already beginning to learn that it was best to not question what Luna said. She watched her go before entering the common room. She was lucky enough to slip through the empty canary yellow and raven black Hufflepuff common room and into her shared room. She fell asleep as soon as her head came in contact with her pillow. She was dressed in her full uniform (shoes, tie, everything), and her roommates would be surprised to say the least when they saw the foreign exchange student from the night before in their room the following morning.

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*Alright, so for most of this story, it's been from Frank's POV, which has been fine, but I figured that Hazel and my fellow Hufflepuffs deserved a chance. So any time that there is a passage in italics from a previous chapter, chances are the POV is changing. I feel like the name of the current narrator doesn't need to be announced each time it happens, but I thought I might as well address it seeing as it's the first time I'm trying this out. When there are shifts in future chapters, there won't be a long AN to accompany them like this one did.

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