Sky was silently walking through the forest. She wore a black hoodie and faded blue jeans and black shoes. She had her wand tucked into her hood pocket. She walked in slow, steady steps. She needed to be out in the fresh air of the trees.
Goblet's aimless wandering from the lake had accidentally led him to the forest, where he recognized a new friend, Sky. "Is that you there, Sky?" called out Goblet.
Sky looked around. She heard a male voice calling her. "Yes, Its me Goblet." She called back to him.
"Oh that's delightful. Didn't think I would run into you in the forest, but somehow my absentmindedness has led me to you. Are you taking a walk?" asked Goblet.
She nodded. "Would you like to join me?" She pulled some of her dark hair back from her eyes and looked at him. She wasn't as cheerful as she usually was.
"Sure thing," said Goblet, clearly more happy than Sky. He went up to her side and starting walking with her. "Does anything bring you out here or do you just like the woods?"
She looked at the sky then at the trees. "I guess I just..have some things on my mind. And this gives me a place to think." She fiddled with a wristband on her right wrist. "What brings you here?"
"Oh I was at the lake and I guess I wandered a bit, and I somehow ended up here. Now I have somebody to talk to on the way back."
She smiled then it faded away. "Goblet...I think..someone is coming after me." She looked at him with frightened gray eyes. They hadn't had that look since she was six.
Goblet's mood faded slightly. "Why do you think that someone is after you?"
She took a deep breath of the crisp air. "I've been seeing things. Like...the death eater that killed my parents. I see him everywhere. I think its a sign that he's coming for me." She wiped her eyes before Goblet could see a tear. "Maybe I'm just crazy."
"Well," started Goblet. His mood was ruined by Sky's, though she isn't at fault. "That certainly... is not healthy," said Goblet, not quite knowing what to say. "I don't know what what these previsions are Sky, but if necessary and if I am in close proximity when this disgruntled death eater comes, I will be there. I can assure you of that. In regards of questioning your own sanity, I think you might be surprised how much the wizard mind can do with itself."
Sky sighed. She didn't know what to say. She simply sat down on a large boulder and stared out into the forest. Maybe she was going insane. She never should have used the charm on her. It affected her in so many ways.
Goblet didn't sit down. "So, do you want company or should I go? Because I can go if you want me to."
"No...I actually like having you here." She said with a small smile. "You make me feel safe."
Goblet sat down on the ground right next to the boulder Sky was sitting on. "All right then. I'll just sit right here, just to make you feel safer. God knows everybody hates an unsteady mind."
Sky looked at Goblet. Something about him intrigued her. She stood up and walked infront of him. She tapped his shoulder. "You're it!" She exclaimed and she ran away from him, behind a tree.
"Wow," said Goblet. "Are you an actress or are you bi-polar?" Goblet got up.
She peeked out from behind the tree. "No...I just heard that having fun can take your mind off of things."
"Then you must be desperate of you want to play tag. I mean, when was the last time you played this?"
She shrugged. "I'm not sure. But Its a fun game."
"Because I haven't played this since I was a single digit age. But what the hey, if it makes you feel better." Goblet got up and started half heartedly to chase Sky.
She grinned and ran farther away from him. "I bet you can't catch me."
"I've caught people faster than you, Sky," said Goblet, running now fairly fast after Sky.
Sky stuck her tounge out and kept going. "Yeah suuure." She said back to him, going at a fair pace herself.
"I have though," said Goblet still running. "What makes you think that you're faster than anybody else I have taken down?"
She shrugged yet again. "Atleast try to catch me!" She said as she went full speed.
Goblet also went full speed. Now he was gaining on Sky.
She ran as fast as she could and started to feel her muscles inflaming in her side. She ignored it and kept going, running past large tree's and a group of centaurs.
"How often do you run, Sky?" asked Goblet, not even drawing that much breath as he continually gained on her.
She looked back. "Not often." She called to him. "My sides always hurt when I drink something and run. Before you got here, I had a shot of firewhiskey."
"And HOW are old are you?" asked an amazed Goblet.
She stopped randomly. "I'm almost seventeen." She said matter of factly.
Goblet stopped too right next to Sky. "Well pardon me. Anyway, told you I could catch you."
She smirked and poked him. "I guess you're it again."
Goblet tagged her back and darted in the opposite direction.
She took a deep breath and chased after him. He was several yards infront of her, but she was getting closer by the second.
"Are you having fun?" asked Goblet, who was now going full speed.
"Yeah. I guess I am." She said, now going her full speed.
Wow, he is fast. She thought.
"Are you?" asked Goblet. "Are you really having fun?"
"Yes. I actually am. I'm running in one of the most interesting places at Hogwarts while playing one of my favorite childhood games with a new friend."
"But isn't your innocence and childhood dead by now?" asked Goblet.
She stopped and thought for a moment. "Theres always a little piece of your innocence and childhood in your heart." She said to him.
Goblet stopped running too. "If it is there, over it will always be a cruel mixture of cynicism and intelligence."
"Its good to know intelligence is there." She said. "I didn't have it a few months ago."
"What happened a few months ago?" asked Goblet.
She looked at the ground. "Its..." She started. "Theres alot to say." She said quietly.
"Couldn't be that hard to explain if you're intelligent now," Goblet joked.
Sky sighed and motioned for him to sit down on the nearest log. She sat down on it and began explaining. "A little while ago...I had joined the Dark Lord. I knew how deep of a hole I was getting myself into, but never did anything about it. I left the school and miraculously escaped Vold...Voldemort. I found a way to get rid of his mark. It was the worst pain I had had in my entire life." She pulled up the sleeve of her hoodie to reveal a burn from her elbow to her shoulder. She sighed again. "I took a potion that neuralized the magical effects of the mark so I could never be tracked again. But I couldn't face seeing the mark on my arm again. I burnt it like an idiot." She looked in the direction of the school. "I risk alot being back here."
"Oh," said Goblet. He found it hard to believe that a girl like Sky could be involved in something that was so dark. "It's great to see that you have made a full redemption, but unfortunately you can't change the past. The only thing one can do is deal with it. Sorry to put it so bluntly, but it's true."
She felt her eyes watering. Her past hurt her alot in so many ways. It wasn't only embarrassing, but ashaming. She didn't mean to join with the dark, but she did. And Goblet was right. You can't change your past.
You Can't Change Your Past.
Sky looked at Goblet, and though him being just a new friend to her, she hugged him. "You're right. I can't. Thank you."
Goblet felt slightly uneasy, but felt glad to be Sky's only friend here. He patted her on the back. "Right..." said Goblet. "Your welcome."
Sky stood up and felt akward herself. She looked like a total idiot to Goblet. She was sure of it. She took out her wand and made bubbles come out of it.
Goblet could sense her embarrassment easily. "Please don't be embarrassed. It's quite all right for you to open up to me. I know you weren't thinking, but it's healthy for you to be vulnerable time to time. It's all right," assured Goblet.
Sky looked at him. "You don't get it. No, I can't change my past, but I still did the wrong things! I followed the worst person in the world next to satan...I let him get to me. I let my past drag me into the dark." She felt the tears coming again and turned away. She couldn't let Goblet see her cry like this.
"I'm not exactly a saint, Sky," said Goblet. "You can keep mulling over the past, but you should be glad of the fact that you chose to leave one of the most evil and influential people on the planet. It wasn't easy to do and doesn't exactly happen everyday. You're more along the side of good than I am, if you can believe that."
She took in a deep breath. "Im sorry I'm pouring all of this out on you. You don't deserve it." She wiped her eyes and faced him. "I just need a little more time to get things back on track." She put her wand back in her pocket and pulled a small, worn picture from her pocket and looked at it before putting it back.
"I need to let go."
"However hard it may to start letting it all out," said Goblet, wondering what the photo was of but still talking, "once you do, it'll seem like you can't stop. And you will feel better afterwards. I can you promise you that. And I'll be here, if you need me."
Sky nodded. "Thank you Goblet. I guess I'm gonna go back to the school now." She waved to him and ran off, the photo flying out of her pocket and onto the ground. Sky didn't notice it fly out.
It was a photo of her parents and her from when she was six.
Goblet looked down at the photo that had flown from Sky's pocket. Goblet picked it up and gazed at it close to his face. He saw what was a much younger Sky and with the older figures who must have been her parents. Does she always carry it around? Goblet wanted to keep looking at it, to fully grasp the concept of losing one's parents. But if she always carries this photo around, then she must treasure it deeply. Goblet decided to give it back. "Sky!" he called out.
Sky heard Goblet calling for her. She turned around. "What is it?" She called back to him. She ran over to him.
Goblet held the photo out, not saying a word.
She looked down at it. "Oh. I didn't realize...thank you." Sky gently took it and secured it in her pants pocket.
Wasn't Goblet happy ten minutes ago? His mood plummeted after realizing Sky's life. Now he wasn't feeling good at all. "Sky, I don't know about this but for what it's worth, I'm sorry," stated Goblet.
Sky gave him a little smile. "Don't be. Please. Nobody should be sorry." She said to him.
"It's quite all right, Sky. I'm just expressing my sympathy," said Goblet.
"I appreciate it." Sky said to him.
"You welcome," said Goblet. "Are you going to return to Hogwarts now? Because I think I may continue this walk."
"Well...if you want me to, I can stay." Said Sky.
"I'd like you to stay with me, but it's your choice." Goblet started walking.
She smiled. "Sure. I'll stay." Sky said quietly.
"Righty then," said Goblet. "Let's walk." Goblet started walking in a random direction while Sky followed at his side. "Do you feel like talking?" he asked.
Sky looked at him. "At this point, I can talk about anything."
"Right," said Goblet. He tried to think of a conversation topic. "Do you do anything creative?"
"I like to draw." Sky replied. She took a notebook out of her messenger bag. "Would you like to see?" She said as she held it out to him.
"Yes I would, Sky," said Goblet sincerely.
She handed it him. There were only four drawings because this was a new notebook.
There was a picture of a hippogriff, a dementor, a wolf, and of the Quidditch Field.
"Do you do anything creative Goblet?" Sky asked him.
"Yes, I play the banjo. These are really good, Sky," said Goblet. "How often do you draw?"
"I draw when I get the freetime and when my head need's clearing." Sky grinned. "The banjo huh? Thats pretty cool."
"Yeah, it's my favorite instrument. Do you have more drawings like this?" asked Goblet.
Sky nodded. "I have some back in the common room. Anything in particular you want to see drawn?" She asked as they walked further.
"I say to draw your favorite things. People seem to try harder and get more motivation when they do that," said Goblet.
"Yeah they do." Sky said.