The Hidden One

doubt

"Rose? What are you doing in the library?" Draco asked.

"Why did you have this?" Rose asked softly, holding out her bracelet. Draco grabbed the bracelet from Rose, looking at it with confusion.

"It's just a bracelet," Draco said.

"That's my bracelet that your father took from me the last time I was here," Rose said. "I can communicate with my dad that way."

A look of remembrance went over Draco's face as he handed Rose the bracelet.

"I don't know how it got in there. Father might've hidden it in a book and I borrowed the book or something," Draco said. Rose knew that Draco was telling the truth and was just as confused as she was.  "But you have to keep it hidden."

"I know," Rose said sadly. With a sigh, Rose told her father that she had to hide the bracelet again and then put the bracelet back where she found it.

"No offense, but you stink. You should go take a bath," Draco said. Rose cringed, knowing that he was right.

"I'll be back," Rose said as she left to take a quick bath. Once the door had been closed, Draco hurried over and grabbed the bracelet.

"I'm sorry, Rose," Draco whispered. "But I can't do this alone and I can't risk you finding a way to leave."

Draco glanced over his shoulder again to make sure that Rose was still in the bathroom before he hid the bracelet in his closet, making sure that Rose would never find it.

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The next few weeks went by slowly. Rose was sent into a panic when she couldn't find her bracelet, but Draco informed her that his father had taken back the book it was hidden in while she was taking a bath. Rose decided not to worry about the bracelet anymore, and to just be thankful that she got to talk to her father.

Rose was also having visions of Harry. She knew that he was hiding in various forests with Hermione and Ron, but they were all getting very cranky. There was little food, and they were stuck in a tent together with the horcrux. Harry was also having his own visions sometimes through his connection with Voldemort. He knew that the wizard was trying to find Gregorovitch.

Unfortunately for the trio, wearing the horcrux would make them even more upset than usual. Rose could tell that they had a schedule for wearing the horcrux, and they tended to avoid whoever was wearing it.

Much to the worry of Rose, the trio didn't have a plan on finding the horcruxes. They had basically decided to just see how it goes and to visit places that might be of importance to Voldemort. Rose thought that the plan was sort of stupid, but there was little she could do.

"Dean Thomas is missing," Draco said to Rose, distracting her from her thoughts. They were having lunch together by the small pond on the land. They were trying to distract themselves from reality, but it didn't work.

"Oh, is he?" Rose asked, although she already knew that. She had had a vision of Harry listening to Dean, Ted Tonks, a man named Dirk and two goblins, Griphook and Gornuk as they ate fish and talked. Apparently, the sword of Gryffindor that Snape had was fake, but he didn't know it. Ginny, Neville and Luna tried to steal the sword for Harry, but they were caught and punished. After talking to the portrait of Phineas Nigelus, whose portrait Hermione had apparently stolen, they learned that the three had to do a punishment with Hagrid, so they were okay. Rose had been brought back to reality shortly after Harry and Hermione realized that the sword of Gryffindor would be able to destroy horcruxes.

"Yeah, Dean is missing," Draco sighed as he swirled his tea some. "He might not be a pureblood, so he's gone."

"How sad," Rose fake sighed as she placed her head in her hand, only to wince in pain. She had had a vision during a meeting, and Bellatrix had cut her face because of it. The cut was barely healed, and was causing her a lot of pain. Rose grabbed her tea cup instead, hoping to gain some warmth from it. It was already December, so they were both freezing.