Sylence still had a hold of Valentina's hand. She had dragged her from the library to the room of requirments. She had dragged her because Valentina was so caught up by the fact that they had stolen the book from the library.

Once they where safely inside the room, she quickly pulled out the book and stated "What now?"

Valentina had been dragged by Sylence all the way from the Library. They were lucky that the library lady ignored them, as soon as Valentina had said (loudly enought, and on porpose): "I'm sure the Professor will understand if we're late for DADA classes!"

Valentina took a deep breath as Sylence opened the door of the Room of Requirement.

As they stepped in, Valentina got ready for what she had been planning to do. April had done it last time, surely she could do it!
I need to hide something... But where?
She obviously wasn't trying to hiding something, but find it.

She felt something fall off from behind her and turned to see the massive piles of hiden stuff people had been placing over the years.
"here!" she pointed at Sylence, showing a glittering of a golden light. Sylence went over to get it.

"be carefull!" She yelped, running over. There, by the far corner, was the large golden chain with a palm-sized golden necklace, with two rubies for eyes, and green emeralds along it's back.
The scar that the necklace left Valentina last time, started acheing.
It said "Heir".

" as soon as you tuch it, something hard will push you down on the floor. I want you to try and say something to the necklace, Sylence, but i'm not sure it will listen!" Valentina warned her.

Last time that had happened, Valentina was the only one to have talked Parsletounge, when April wasn't able to even talk.

Sylence stared at the neakalace for a moment then grabbed it. Immedatly she collasped to the ground. She felt as if someone was sitting on her chest. Someone or something large.

"Stop it!" she cried out to the neakalace pathically terrified. Something was not right and Valentina her best friend was not telling her something.

Sylence crawled into a ball hoping the pain would stop as the neakalace still stayed in her hand.

Valentina, in exactly the same moment as Sylence grabbed the necklace, she felt a huge and terrifiying force pull her down.

She tried hard to force her head up, but it was impossible.
She heard Sylence shout something, but as if it was magnetic, she could only hear a voice, or better, a hissing.

" who dares wake me up for a second time? Speak thy or die the most painfull of deaths! "

Valentina's stomach twinched. The voice was by far more unplesant than last time.

" Stop hurting us, you evil voice! " she shouted back, again, realising it was a low hiss.

The force stopped in that same instant. She got up.
Valentina helped Sylence on her feet.
The necklace was back on the floor, without anyone holding it, but it still looked somehow alive.

Sylence stared from Valentina to the neakalace confused and afraid. She couldn't speak for a moment still thinking of the pain. She could feel something slipping down the side of her face slowly but still stared from Valentina to the neakalace.

Finally she brung her hand up to touch what was falling down the side of her face. When she brought her hand into eye veiw she saw blood.

"What is going on Valentina?" she asked harshly trying not to seem half as scared or angry as she was.

Valentina stared in horror as red blood dripped down from Sylence face.
For a second or two, she was so scared that she felt as if she was Petrified.

"S-Sylence..." she whispered slowly, urging words out, "you're injured!..." She felt suddenly sick, and fell to her knees in pain.

"it's all my faul!" Valentina whispered slowly, realising what she had just done.
"I-I've almost killed my best friend! For a necklace!" tears were falling down her cheeks, and loud, sad sobbs echoed in the room.

Sylence didn't want to be mad at Valentina but she was. She didn't know what she was getting herself into. She wished she had known what she was getting herself into. As soon as the tears started to fall her anger disappeared.

"It's okay Valentina, It's just a bump" she told her best friend. She tried to cover up her pain as best as she could but she was hurt badly. She didn't want her best friend crying. She closed her eyes for a moment to erase the nausea that had just came about. At least she thought she had closed her eyes for a moment, it was much longer then a moment.

Valentina looked up at Sylence, still noticing the blood through her blury eyes.
She sniffed again, before whiping her tears away.

"Sylence... I owe you some explaining!..." She said,as another loud sob filled the room.
Valentina looked around he room, as if to check that noone was listening.

"I think I'm the Heir of Slytherin!" She whispered miserably.

"You indeed are, Mistress!..." the snake's voice said.
"shut up! " Valentina belowed back, in a low hiss.

" I just told that thing to shut up!" She said quickly to Sylence, that looked quite surprised.

"The heir of Slytherin. The heir of Slytherin. I think I should sit down for a moment." she muttered as she sat down in the spot where she had been standing. Her best friend Valentina was the heir of Slytherin. How had she missed this. She had missed it because Valentina was so nice. She'd expected someone like Flame Harshing. She sighed.

"So let me get this straight. Your the heir of Slytherin. You know where the second chamber is. And you can talk to a killer neakalace".

Valentina wanted to laught, but let out a loud sob instead.

"I mean... I think I am... And i don't even know if there is a chamber of Fire!... I bet it was only a joke to sell more copies of that book!" She said flatly. But then again, who would want to sell or buy the books that were in the Restricted Section?

"And i can talk Parsletounge... That's about it really...". She knew, however, that this wasn't exactly a case of similarities.

I am not the heir of Slytherin! She thought, throwing soft punches on her head.

Sylence didn't want Valentina to be upset. She sighed to herself and moved closer to her bestfriend. Sylence didn't know what to say. She couldn't say I know how you feel because Sylence was never or ever was kind of the Slytherin heir. She alwayswas the Clandestine heir.

"Okay let's start from the beginning. How did this start?" she asked Valentina with a sigh as they both sat on the floor.

" i dont' know how it started..." she sobbed, looking down at her necklace. It had a silver snake tied to a black lace. It somehow looked ancient, but yet new.
She had had it since she was born, yet, it didn't change her fate.

"I always avoided it!" she blurted out, "My father always knew it, i know he did!" She sobbed again.

Her snake necklace would never come off, Valentina had tried endless times, with simple spells, to Dark Magic, and then to untie the knot without jinxes.

"I found out at the beggining of the year, in the dungeons... I found out an empty frame at the end of a corridor."

Sylence nodded as Valentina spoke. Honestly it was amazing. She thought to herself My bestfriend ... Valentina... Sweet innocent Valentina... is the heir to the throne... And the Chamber ... Wait the Chamber.

Sylence suddenly pulled herself off the grown and pulled Valentina up "No time for crying love. We have to find that chamber. Maybe it will tell you more about your faimly. If you want to know of course".