Screaming memories..

[Rory Kraven]

Time: Night
Day: A week after Jonnie's death
Weather: Cold and Snowy

Rory breathed a sigh of relief as she was finally able to escape from Hogwarts. Everything since Jonnie's death had just been a big blur for her. She couldn't feel anything. Since she found out, she hadn't even cried once. While walking past everyone in the halls, seeing some crying and others comforting, but she would just keep on walking. Part of her didn't believe that Jonnie was dead. Everytime someone would touch her, she would look up and expect it to be him, but would then realize that it would never be him. She was alone and there was no changing that.

She kept walking, hearing the crunching of the leaves slightly sprinkled with snow. As she continued with her quick pace, she began to slow down. She looked up at the sky just in time for a snowflake to land on her forehead. Then reaching up her hand to wipe the snowflake off, she did what she hadn't done in what felt like months. She smiled. It wasn't an enormous grin or anything, but a small soft smile. Then in an instant, it seemed, the sky began pouring out what seemed like rain but was actually beautiful snow.

Rory began walking again as she felt the snow falling on her. After a while of walking, she finally found her favorite tree. It was dead and the roots lifted up, forming an awesome place to sit. As she found her way to the tree, she wiped off the snow and sat down. As she looked around at the beautiful scenery, she was forced into a memory. This was the exact day and place where she was sitting in her third year when Jonnie and some of his friends found her sitting here. She was reading, when Jonnie came up and said hi. Rory had said hi back, when two of Jonnie's friends came up and started calling her names and making fun of Jonnie for talking to her. Then instead of Jonnie sticking up for her, he joined in and threw a snowball at her, then walked off laughing. As they had walked off, she remembered him turning around, looking at her with sorrow in his eyes. That was when she flipped him off.

She then gasped as she realized that while she was replaying that memory, she had been sobbing. As she reached up to wipe off her eyes, more tears started coming out as her whole body seemed to weep. She then gathered all the strength that she had in her and let out a really long and loud scream. It was all she could do. Just scream and cry. She had been holding it in and she knew she had to let it out. She had lost the one that she loved. Pain hit her like it never had before. All the memories of them two together flooded back to her.

Finally, after what seemed like hours, she stopped screaming and she was returned to the present. She gave a violent shiver and leaned her head against the base of the tree, small tears still streaming down her cheeks. As she kept on crying, another thing happened that hadn't happened in a while. She drifted off to sleep. But no soothing dreams would happen this night.. only dreams filled with terror were to come to her.

[Raven Way]

Raven felt incredibly lost. He didn't really know anyone, and yet here he was, in the middle of the turmoil of his first week of Hogwarts. By now, he had heard of the boy who had died. Jonnie. Of course, Raven didn't know him personally, but he had gathered enough information to learn that he was well-liked as well as a genuine guy. Who had killed him, no one seemed to know, but Raven knew in his heart that something was off. For a student to die so suddenly....something didn't quite fit.

He gathered up his nightclothes and shoved them in his trunk before striding out of the Gryffindor Common Room. Taking one last look back at his stuff, he sighed and closed the door behind him. He walked down the spiral staircase connecting the dormitories to the Common Room. Muttering the password to the portrait, he climbed through and played with a lock of hair as he began descending the stairs.

Going down floor after floor, he wasn't sure what to think. On one hand, he felt bad for these other people for what they were going through: A loss of a classmate, even if you were not friends with him, is always hard. After all, Raven could sympathize: Even though he didn't know if Mum or Dad were dead or not, he knew that he would never see them again. And that kind of thought was as bleak as the void in his heart.

He decided that he would take a walk outside, since he figured that he would have on warm enough clothing to stand it. It reminded him of the night not so long ago that he had arrived at the School, only to meet up with Alyssa and Jane right away. Jane. He smiled to nobody in particular at the thought of her, as she seemed like a delightful person. Even mysterious in her own way, which Raven did not mind at all.

He began walking across the field when a shape in the distance caught his eye. He craned his neck, looking to see who it was, and saw a girl with robes not unlike his own: Black with red trimming. He decided that he would go see what was wrong: Often, it meant trouble when a girl was all alone with no one around her for a long distance.

After a few minutes, he closed the gap, and as the image of the girl became sharper, he realized that she was leaning against the trunk of a dead tree, lost in thought as her tears fell thick and fast onto the ground around here. Snowflakes were falling all around her, which would have been beautiful scenery if it wasn't for the situation.

Making sure to walk quietly so that he would not startle her, he brushed his dark hair back as he squatted next to her, and put his arm comfortingly around her. He wondered faintly if she would mind this, but he pushed it out of his mind. Obviously she needed some moral support anyways. "Hey, are you allright? If you're crying because of Jonnie, I know how you feel. I think we all lost a little part inside of us that night." His green eyes, a piercing contrast to the darkening night behind them, shone out with sympathy as he gently rubbed her back in gentle circles, letting his thick hair cascade and frame his pale face.

[Rory Kraven]

Rory jumped as she felt a hand on her back. She had fallen asleep and had obviously been crying. She hadn't cried so hard in a long time. She looked up to see who was rubbing her back and she saw that it was Raven Way, a fellow Gryffindor. She gave him a watery smile as she started to wipe her eyes. Her eyes were sore for crying and when she touched them, she winced. While rolling her eyes, she leaned down to grab some snow and then touched the snow to her eyes. She sat there like that for a while until her eyes felt better and then she made the snow into a snowball and threw it as hard as she could at a tree.

Then, looking back up at Raven, she replied, "Yeah, I am crying about Jonnie. It's weird.. him being gone. I keep thinking that he's here but I know I'm just fooling myself into believing that he's alive. This is the first time I've actually felt an emotion since it's happened. I've just felt empty this whole time. Seeing people crying in the halls and other people being angry is just all weird to me. I don't know if this is making any sense. But it's what I'm going through. How are you taking it?"

She slid off the tree and layed down in the snow. The cold snow felt like heaven on her overheated body. She figured that she looked like an idiot, but she stayed there, calming herself down. Hopefully he doesn't think I'm a complete freak. She thought to herself.