Missing

Still Elena's POV.

Yesterday was not a very good day for everyone, and I thought Arthur would be at least a little sad to be alone, but that evening I watched him as he ate in his corner, seemingly uncaring for being left alone.

The sight was sad to see, and I initially wanted to go talk to him, but his cold attitude made me stay with Draco and the others.

I looked toward Arthur every now and then, but toward the end of the meal, just before the dessert, he disappeared. I didn't see him go, but he obviously wasn't there anymore.

I tried to push it off my mind but couldn't. He may have been mean to us, he maybe had a reason. And its not like its the first time he did that. And I tried to kill him not long ago, maybe… no, not maybe, he definitely doesn't deserves to be abandoned just like that. I need to talk to him.

So I waited until the end of dinner, and when we came back to our common room I intended on going to his room.

But the girls kept me with them for some time, and it was so nice to talk to them. In the end, before I could go see him, I heard a loud cry of pain.

Everyone had shut up when they heard it, and a shaking Peter came back holding Theodore Nott with him. Malfoy ran over to them and asked "What happened?"

Theodore had passed out. My god, what happened to him? Peter replied trembling "We tried to get in the enemy's room, but he has placed spells on it!"

The enemy was the name the organization has given to Arthur. By the way our organization still hasn't been named, I wonder what they will choose…

I got out of the crowd and asked "Peter, what did he do?" Peter replied "His mark, he placed curses on it. When Theo placed his hand on the door, he was basted back against the wall. He fainted from the impact."

I frowned and looked up. Did he really intend on distancing himself from us? Why did he do that?

In the end I hadn't had the courage to go up and talk to him, so I decided to talk to him tomorrow during breakfast, or transfiguration. We need to talk, I don't want him to think I don't care about him…

So this led to today. This morning I waited from 6.00 am to 7.55 am in the common room waiting for him. I know that he can wake up late, even if he doesn't want to admit it himself, but I still stayed to make sure I don't miss him.

In the end I didn't see him, but I saw a lot of other things. The organization had successfully taken the other three houses in. Gryffindors weren't hard, they suffered as much as us. But I was surprised about Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.

Actually Hufflepuff agreed because they wanted to beat a genius like Arthur through hardwork and teamwork. As for Ravenclaw a Gryffindor girl had convinced them by showing off her intelligence or something like that.

So now it is set in the stone, all first years are standing against one person, Arthur, with the goal to destroy him. Of course not everyone really is against him, everyone joined but they wouldn't try to destroy Arthur.

I for example, or the famous Harry Potter. After all, the later joined the Quiditch team thanks to Arthur, so even though his friend Ron had been assaulted, he didn't hate Arthur like others.

Anyway, I didn't want to be late so I hurried toward my classroom. Being a vampire is really useful when you are hurrying to go somewhere.

I arrived there quickly, and saw that there were only two seats left. One at the forefront of the room, obviously left for Arthur, and a sit next to Draco.

I was a little bit annoyed by him as this was obviously set up by him to make me sit next to him. He wasn't an absolute prick, but I wouldn't consider him the best person either. Hanging out with him is no problem, but if he is going to get into stalker mode it isn't going to be funny.

But I had no choice and thus sat next to him, and asked "What's happening?"

Malfoy answered "We made a plan. Arthur will obviously arrive late, and he will have to go to his seat by passing next to all of us. We will all insult him as he walks. Peter called this a psychological attack."

I sighed and said "It's probably not going to work, but do whatever you want." I may have said that, I still looked at the entrance, waiting to see whether he would show up or not.

Minutes went by, and soon we heard the clock ring, meaning the class has started. I turned back from looking at the entrance and took out my books. But as I did so I was stunned to see some black smoke beneath Arthur's table. It quickly disappeared though.

I scratched my eyes but it had disappeared. Was Arthur here? Or did I hallucinate or something?

This question stayed in my mind for the entire class. In the end, Arthur didn't show up. At all. I didn't see him in the morning, nor during lunch. I grew worried at the evening lunch because I didn't see him at all today. No trace of him.

When they were asked to return to their dormitories, when we arrived a few boys boasted they would go and get Arthur out, to organize a 'fair' duel, with fair meaning one against all, but they didn't even dare to approach his room.

I didn't hesitate this time and walked to his room despite my friends trying to hold her back, not sure whether him being in or not was the most scary.

I arrived in front of his room, the corridor empty, the mark on the door seemingly glaring at me. I gulped and pushed my shaking hand toward the handle… Am I afraid of him?

My hand touched the handle, and fortunately nothing happened to me, I wasn't sent flying nor did I get cursed. I tried to open the door, but it was closed. It was only closed when no one was inside. Does it mean he is out? Then where could he be?

Unless he has locked his door not to be bothered, but if he was inside and didn't want me to enter he would send me flying instead of just locking the door.

What I didn't know at that time was that Arthur is using a spell on his door, a spell that identifies the ones trying to open the door. He had collected, without telling them of course, their magical imprint so that only when his friends try to open the door would it not send them flying. For the door to be locked, it meant he wasn't there.

But oblivious about this I gave up for today and headed to my own room, joining my new friends again.

The next day, no one saw him. Nor the day after.

It has now been two weeks since anyone saw Arthur. He didn't come to classes, to meals or even to our common room. I had asked the teachers about him, as did most of the school honestly, bt the only answer we were given is that he had personnal matters to attend.

During those two weeks I may have been worried, I didn't let it ruin my life. It's not like there's any danger in Hogwarts. If I can't see him it's his decision, not mine.

So for those two weeks, I discovered a new world, a world where I had friends, with no one insulting me. Actually our group, which has been named the 'Vendetta group' (which was honestly quite a good name although it worried me), had started sparring lessons amongst ourselves.

In those lessons others had come to see my strength as a vampire, and I was met with a lot of enthusiasm as I was considered one of the main forces against Arthur.

But here is the problem. Don't get me wrong, I want to fight Arthur, but I don't want to rely on a group of people to do so. I want to defeat him on my own, to show him I am not just a princess grown in a flowery house.

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I first want to say that the chapter length is the same as usual even without the author note that will follow. So I didn't cheat you on the numbers of words with this note, it just didn't fit in Author's thought.

~Hey, you seemed to have liked last chapter a lot seeing from the comments. But there is something... I seem to have made Elena into a character you hate. It wasn't my goal. Because you don't like her, you may not like this chapter because it looks like it is her way of coming back. It's not. Whatever has been written here, Arthur doesn't know about it. So please don't assume their future decision just yet, they may as well get married or become mortal enemies. A lot still has to happen between the two, as for whether it will be good or bad, I don't know. I'll end my note by saying that you hate her because you only saw the POV of MC, not hers. Now you have seen both sides of the coin.

Now you know that she isn't just an hypocritical bitch who ditches her friends for no reason. Remember Arthur wasn't the best of friends either. He may have looked cool as my MC when he defeated her several times, but in those moments he was as bad as a friend as he was cool.~