By the fire

Chase stared at the girl with her mouth open. "She took his diary?" She was in disbelief. Chase had a diary of her own, and there was so much in there she didn't want people to read. A lot of what she thought, of what she felt, it was a lot of information she didn't want people to read about! She would hate it if someone read through her inner most thoughts, and sure it was all trying to figure out why he had killed himself, but it was kind of obvious wasn't it? He was gay, and people didn't really accept people like that in today's society.. she hadn't even met a gay person before.

Chase watched her get up and poke the fire. "Eli is nice, if you rub him the right way.. I mean.." She hit her forehead with her hand. "I mean, if you get along with him well, we both kind of yelled at each other when we met, he said I was being stupid, I told him to watch his mouth, and it's just kind of a.. mutual respect thing.. then we made friends." She said and while her back was turned, she slowly touched her lips with her hand, bringing her knees to her chest, and putting her feet on the chair. She touched her lips for a second and then sighed. "He really is nice if you get to know him.."

"It was stipulated in his will that she get it when he died. It was an odd request, but we fulfilled it anyway. Brienne believes that being a gay guy doesn't mean the person would kill themselves. Daniel didn't, and he was picked on just as much" Luna said.

She listened to Chase talking about Eli, "Now, I'm really curious. I'd love to meet him eventually. However, he looked as if he hated first years such as myself, so I thought he was just naturally bad like the others that picked on firsties like me."

Chase looked at Luna for a moment before nodding slowly. How had she realized what she was thinking? She glanced her over before curling up more in the chair. "He doesn't seem like a bad person, I wouldn't know though.." She said slowly shaking her head. "I don't think I ever met him, how long ago was it?" She asked slowly. Her mind suddenly flashed to the kid who had been blown up on the train. She stared ahead of her for a moment. Watching in her mind, Eli dropping the lung on the floor. He had seemed so odd then. But he really wasn't a bad person.

"Yeah.. I think he's a bit biased towards first years..." She said slowly. "He's a 6th year though, I'm actually older then him.." She said with a short laugh. "I don't feel like it though, I feel like I'm younger then him, but just next year I have to go run out into the world and take care of myself." She sighed and looked around the common room. "I'll miss it in here..." She said suddenly. "I'll miss everyone here.." She said took a deep breath and looked at Luna. "It seems all my best friends are younger then me.. well... the people I used to call my friends, and the one person who I do call my best friend right now, all younger then me.." She said and smiled slightly staring at her knees.

"Why are people biased against first years anyway? Not all of us are horrible people, and we grow up pretty quickly" Luna listened with a sympathetic ear, "Well, if you don't like leaving, I hope that you can get a teaching job so you can come back or something. I've always wanted to be a teacher, or something like that. I want a job where I can help others. If only I was as old as you are, then I'd be graduating alongside you, and I'd continue to be your best friend". She then added thoughtfully, "Brienne's a seventh year, but she's a Ravenclaw."

Chase smiled at her and nodded. "I'm going to be a healer at St. Mungos actually.. I'll be busy, I'm actually taking intern programs." she said smiling and then looked at her for a long moment. "I'll miss it of course, but.. I think I'll learn to live outside of Hogwarts." she said with a small smile. "It'll be a good last year, of course the teachers are pretty horrible." She said with a small giggle. "Last year they weren't this bad believe me, you came in a bad time I think.." She said shaking her head.

"Anyway, I'm so tired, I got my homework done finally, I tend to do homework to get my mind off things." She said glancing towards the stairs up to the dorms. She stood up and stretched, wincing at the stiffness in her shoulders. She needed to find someone good at massaging her back. She carried a lot of tension in her shoulders, and she hadn't been to a masseuse since the beginning of the summer, and she was starting to feel the tension. She took a deep breath and looked at Luna. "You should go to bed love, you're young, you need your sleep." She said smiling at her kindly.

"I think I did come in at a bad time" Luna yawned. She still had the photo of Silas, which was a little crinkled. "That sounds nice, a job at St. Mungo's. Daniel is an Auror, and Brienne wants to be one as well. Daniel is also a young potions master, he knows how to make a potent Wolfsbane". She yawned softly and got up.

"You look like you hurt a lot in your back. Daniel knows how to massage a person. He did quite a number on Eli, as Brienne told me" She was observant. She started heading towards the dorms herself, "This is my first night in here. It's hard to cope with all my grief and the homesickness. That's why I was up".

Chase put her hand on the girl's shoulder as she yawned. "Yeah, I like helping people, I helped people after the demon attack.." She said slowly and smiled at her. She looked at the girl as she spoke of her family and friends. "Daniel sounds like a cool guy, I might have to hit him up." She said smiling, knowing she wouldn't because she didn't like the world seeing the horrible scars that marred her body, which he would not only feel, but would see during a massage. Her agent already had a surgery planned for when she got out of school to remove the scars in a muggle way, and clear her body of blemishes.

"I'm sure you'll get used to the homesickness, Hogwarts is the best, and soon, you won't even remember home until you're ready to go back for the Holidays." She said smiling at the girl. "I hope you get used to Hogwarts, and I hope to see you around Luna, You're a cool kid." She said giggling and setting her hand on the girls head. She didn't remember being that short when she was a first year, but she must have, even though Chase wasn't that tall. She was still taller then most of the first years. She smiled at her and started up the stairs. "I'll see ya later Luna, don't stay up to late!" She said smiling at her as she headed up the stairs at the same time as her.

"Thanks Chase" Luna said, hugging her before going to the dorms herself. It'd been a long first day for Luna, being sorted into Hufflepuff and attending her first classes with less than savory teachers. There was also the matter of the traumatizing train ride, immediately after the demons went away and she was better, she played a bit of tetris on a portable gaming device. Brienne told her that was the best way to lessen the trauma of the event. She went into the dorm, and settled into her bed for the night.

Chase walked up to the top of the tower, where her year had been since she had come to Hogwarts. She walked to her dorm and sat down on her bed for a long moment. Her dorm mates were all asleep by now and she sat in the semi darkness, not getting ready for bed yet. Could it be true that Elijah had been so.. so mean? Telling someone that they didn't have a chance with him? And then kissing her? She felt the need to crawl into bed with someone, preferably Andrew, but seeing as that would never happen, she knew Elijah wouldn't of cared. If only he wasn't in a different house.

Getting up she got into her pajamas and made her way to bed. Luna was a strange child who had a lot of years to go through... she would make it though, Chase had faith in her, if she could survive the train ride to Hogwarts in her first year, what a year to go through... demons, teachers who were anything but nice. Chase hadn't decided what the new.. club was.. or what was going on in the school, but there was something wrong with the teachers, and she wasn't to happy about it. Obviously something was going on, she didn't attend the class, but she knew quite a few people had on their list of classes: "Dark Arts" Whatever that was, she was happy she wasn't in it.

(Timeskip to Morning...Yay!)

Luna got out of bed, classes were far away it seemed. She hadn't slept very much though, and breakfast wouldn't be for a while. It was about 5 am. She thought of Chase, and what she'd discussed with her last night. Brienne wouldn't be up for a long time, and even then she'd just grab food from the Great Hall during breakfast and then head towards the lake to eat there. In a way, she was much like Luna, who liked to eat anywheres but among the bustle. However, she preferred the inside and usually chose the Common Room.

She sat down and started the fire again, it'd gone out during the night. She grabbed a small pouch from the dorm. It was loaded with different candy. The same one that Daniel packed with the rest of her belongings.