Light. That's the first thing she registered, a blinding light shone into her eyes. The ebony haired girl turned her head to face to other way, that's when she noticed her banging head ache and dry mouth. Groaning she pushed her self to sit up shielding her eyes from the sun light with her hand. Blinking the girl looked around the room, living room, so she had made it home.
"So-Sofia" she whispered her voice horse "Sofia where are you?" A groan came from the floor behind her "Get up everyone will be awake soon"
"Screw it they can find me like this" Sofia blinked her eyes open and stared at the ceiling "How did I get here?"
"Merlin knows, I don't even remember leaving the party" Claudia rubbed her temples and slowly stood up using the couch to support her. "I feel like I've been smacked by a hippogriff" Claudia looked at her cousin as she sat herself up, her blonde dreads were all over the place and a purple pointed hat lay next to her "Who's hat is that?" Claudia laughed slightly, the night before had been insane.
"I have no idea looks familiar though" Sofia pulled herself to stand "I think it belonged to a Hufflepuff"Claudia raised a brow "Well if it does i'm sure he'll find it" They both burst out laughed and slowly made their way out of the room using each other to stay stable.
Once at the top of the stairs the two girls bid each other fair well and headed to their rooms. Claudia slowly pushed her door open taking comfort on the site of her bed, flopping down on it she huddled her blanket up to her, the cool breeze from the window she constantly left open helping her to drift back to sleep.
Sofia walked into her room shutting the door behind her and leaned on it while kicking off her shoes, her room was fairly warm, humid even and surrounded in plants. Slowly the girl walked over to her bed and pulled a small box from under it, in the box was a small sachet of a green plant cuttings and some small pieces of paper, She skillfully rolled her self a joint and lit it using a small flame that she summoned from the tip of her wand, as she smoked she began to undress and put a bath to run. As the young witch relaxed in her bath still smoking, her house elf entered the room, he took one look at his mistress and instantly knew what she'd been up to.
"Mistress!" Sofia sat up her bath almost dropping her joint "Mistress of her blood should not be out all night with low class people!"
"Merlin! Ludok you could have given me a heart attack" She relaxed back and closed her eyes taking a long drag of her joint then letting the smoke run from her mouth "Last time for several month Ludok don't you worry, I highly doubt Claudia and I will be able to do such things at Hogwarts... we haven't the last 6 years... much" She smirked remember one party the two started in their common room that had ended with the two serving a month detention with Filch.
"But Mistress is part of a respectable family! Should Mistress' father find out Mistress would be punished" Ludok began to clean away Sofia dirty clothes and pull out her uniform for her. He jumped up and snatched the joint from her hand and threw it into the large fire place that had been lit. Sofia playfully glared at the old house elf before standing and pulling a towel he had handed to her around her. "Mistress should be more careful with that horrid stuff"
"Don't knock it till you try it" She made her way over to her bed drying herself off "Now bushy brows, Could you please pack my trunk for me?" She pulled on her under wear and socks and sat to roll herself another two joints that she put back in the box before pulling on the rest of her uniform leaving her Slytherin tie undone "Right i'm starving"
Claudia felt something tug the boot off of her foot and pushed herself up to see who it was. "Oh hey Breen" she smiled and the old house elf who was glaring at her "ah.. sorry?"
"You are a despicable child!" Claudia suddenly regretted teacher her house elf grammar. "If you're Father was to find out! He'd banish you from this house hold all together" The elf walked over and put a bath to run for her mistress.
"I should be so lucky, come on Breen it was my last night of freedom before I go to Hogwarts" Claudia pushed herself off her large bed and stripped off then climbed into the hot bath. "Did we leave a mess when we got in?" Breen shook her head " Make much noise?" again she shook her head "come on Breen, talk to me!"
"You should count yourself lucky that you have such a good family home!" The tiny house elf began to sort out the things Claudia would need for the day.
"Family home?" Claudia closed her eyes "Some Family I have" she sank under the water coming up moment later gasping for air. "Breen in my bag is a small vile, could you bring it over please?" The house elf did so and Claudia downed the contents on the vile. In moment she felt perfectly fine and was soon getting dressed while Breen braided her hair. Once she was ready she headed down to the dining room where she found Sofia and the rest of her family except one person. "Where is Seren?" Sofia shrugged and went back to drinking her coffee.
Seren woke slowly to the sound of her bath being run by her personal house elf 'Mitsy', she pushed her long messy tresses off of her face with a frown on her pouty lips.
"Confound you Mitsy! I told you I was not to be awoken by water you stupid creature, I should give you clothes!" she slid out of bed and her silken nightclothes to ease herself into the hot water she sighed happily.
"Mitsy! Prophet!" the house elf stumbled her way over to the bathtub and raised the paper only to fall in fear when her mistress screamed in manic glee, stood upright in the bathtub, unfazed by her own nudity and smiled at the cover.
"Oh Mitsy! he's out! The man I wish to marry has escaped Azkaban! I must tell father, Bring me my clothes." she snapped her fingers and used her wand to dry herself and hurried into her uniform, making sure her clothes where neat but leaving her hair free as she breezed downstairs, years of pure blood upbringing wouldn't allow her to run.
"Daddy! I have decided who I wish to marry!" but halted in shock, there stood Lucius Malfoy half way through shaking hands with her father. "Yes darling you shall marry the Malfoy heir, aren't you pleased princess?" with an art of perfection a convincing smile brightened her face. "Oh yes daddy I was just about to say Draco as I came in."
"Morning" Claudia looked behind her to see her youngest cousin, slightly shorter with a mass of silky but scraggly, black hair, she was completely different to her and Sofia which was probably why the family liked her more. "Stop staring at me like that!" Seren yawned and flopped down in her chair pouting.
The train journey to Hogwarts was almost the same as every year, Claudia and Sofia either slept or read while Seren complained about being bored. This time how ever the girls were pulled out of their routine when the train came to a sudden halt. There was no way they were already at Hogwarts, Sofia looked out the window and quickly sat back in her seat she uttered one word that terrified two of the girls "Dementors" Seren whispered almost lovingly.
"What the hell are they doing out here?" Claudia shouted locking the door to their compartment.
"They must be looking for that jerk who broke out of Azkaban, what's his name.. Syphilis Crack? or something?" Seren glared softly but darkly "His name is Sirius Black Sophie!" Sofia looked out the window again "shit they're coming this way!"
"Look stay calm as long as we don't get in their way we're fine" Claudia reasoned. Seren nodded and huddled her self into a corner pulling her hood up as the windows became covered in frost smirking and then slipped out of the compartment. Sofia pulled the hood of her robes up and slouched down in their place pretending to be asleep Claudia followed doing the same thing.
Seren was giggling at the feeling of the Dementors, the chill making goosebumps raise on her skin and child-like giggles escape from under her hood and she came across a compartment, which just so happened to have the golden trio inside with a teacher, she knocked and entered. "Hello Professor my name is Seren Selwyn of the Illustrious Selwyn family residing in the west of Wales, can I be of any help?" she stared into his eyes and her breath hitched in pleasure as she noticed the trademark flecks of gold that indicated lycanthropy. "No no, thank you Miss Selwyn, but all is al right in here, I am Professor Lupin and I shall be your DADA teacher this year." he smiled gently "Oh no Professor Lupin, thank you i'm sure we shall have a pleasant Teaching and Learning experience together, such a fitting name by the way." she winked and left to go back to her compartment with her cousins.
Soon the whole ordeal was over and they were sat in the grate hall watching the new lot of first years being sorted. "This is still the single most boring thing to sit through" Claudia sighed and let her eyes wonder across the teachers table stopping when she reached Professor Snape and gave him a small smile when he happened to glance at her, both quickly looked away from each other. she looked over to Seren to notice that she was sat next to Draco Malfoy and that they where both in a whispered argument, she rose her eyebrow as Seren brushed off Draco and fixed her attention to the new professor at the head table.
After dinner the three girls began to make their way down to their dorms. Claudia walked along looking over her new time table, with it being her last year most of her time was freed up as she no longer needed to study subjects she didn't want to, it also meant the rest of her time was filled with Potions, Care of Magical Creatures, Muggle Studies and Apparition. Not bad really when she thought of it, but mostly she wanted to study Care of Magical Creatures, she'd always had a fondness of all animals, in fact the only animal that didn't agree with her was Seren' bloody owl. A Great big (almost the size of toddler) over weight Eagle Owl that went by the name of Owly, and much like it's owner he was mental. Once in the common room the dark hair girl sat herself down near the fire ignoring as Draco and his gang walked through the room pushing and shoving each other. "Seren, what was you and Draco arguing about at dinner?"
Seren humphed and flicked her hair over her shoulder "only that his dear father could have asked me before arranging the details with my father! and then he has the nerve to say that if he knew he would have tried to stop him!"
"Wait... Uncle had arranged for you to marry Draco?" Claudia whispered trying her damned hardest not to laugh.
Seren' newly filed nails bit into the leather of the armchair she sat in and hissed through her teeth "it is NOT funny Claudia, you know we don't get along!"
"No of course not... it's bloody hilarious" Claudia gave way to a giggling fit but quickly puller herself together as her cousin glared at her "sorry... well you're going to have to learn to get along aren't you"
"I don't see that happening" she rolled her eyes and sighed "I was hoping father would let me ask for Sirius again, I much prefer getting what I want rather than what's better for me"
"That's the Pure Blood upbringing in you my dear" Claudia sighed "Beside Black is old enough to be your father! In fact I think he's older then your father!"
Seren rested her cheek on her fist "Like your one to talk, Miss i'm banging the potions professor."
Claudia' eyes shot wide open "I am NOT" She coughed and lowered her voice "I am not 'banging' as you put it Sev- Professor Snape" She glanced around the room to insure no one was listening to their conversion. "I just so happen to enjoy his company"
Seren raised her eyebrow and the corner of her mouth "Of course, anyway did you notice the new DADA professor? he has something that I want!" a slight evil glint went into her eye as she smirked.
Claudia stared blankly at her cousin then shook her head "You want it all don't you?" she paused and stared into the fire "He seems shy Seren. Play nice" she glanced at her cousin and gave a small smirk.
The young witch whispered harshly "I want his lycanthropy cousin, surely you noticed the tell tale signs, but yes I shall play nice with this one" Claudia gave her cousin one last glance before getting up and heading to her room.
The young witch whispered harshly "I want his lycanthropy cousin, surely you noticed the tell tale signs, but yes I shall play nice with this one" Claudia gave her cousin one last glance before getting up and heading to her room.
"you realise that's a CURSE Seren?" Sofia had been sat in the other large arm chair writing up all her deals and concealing them with a spell she changed the password every term to ensure she wasn't cheated by a Ravenclaw, like she had been in her first year….that Ravenclaw was in the infirmary for some time.
"but can't you imagine, living your life knowing that you have the power to lift five times your body weight as if it where a single feather, to feel as if you where one with the moon!" Seren' eyes had lit up at the mere thought. "It's not enough being an Animagas, not that I can become one."
"Well we still don't know if you have an Animagas, be patient, perhaps you're a late bloomer unlike Claudia and I, after all you are very different to us." Being able to become an Animagas at an early age was a family trait, and known throughout Pure Blood wizarding families. Sofia's Animagas was a Matted blonde Persian who had a taste for Catnip, and Claudia's was a loyal Doberman. So far Seren had not shown any talent for it, but it was in her blood, she should find it soon.
"I can't do it! I would've shown some ability by now surely!" Seren whined and sat forward in her seat pleading with her cousin. Sofia sighed, slightly admitting defeat, it was true, Seren hadn't shown any talent for it, and she and her cousin had found their Animagas quite young.
"Just...wait a little longer, and think harder before you jump into cursing yourself alright? It's a lifelong thing becoming a Lycan" Seren pouted and relaxed back into her seat.
"I suppose" Sofia swiftly closed her book and giving a slight sigh of relief, and left for her room. Seren followed her with her eyes, until she knew Sofia was out of sight and was unable to hear her. She slid back up, sitting properly in her seat, ankles crossed, a large smirk emerging on her lips.
"Now how can I get that Lupin' trust?" she tapped perfectly manicured nails onto her lips and grinned chlidishly, "Well I suppose if I cant be one, i'll just have to be the life mate of one." someone cleared their throat and Seren turned in shock, taking in the blonde hair and cold eyes. "You will not be the 'life mate' of anyone, you are to be married to me, Mrs Malfoy" he sneered as Seren visibly bristled "Not if I can help it 'darling'!" she stopped and took a deep breath "Look Draco, we're not exactly the best of friends, but I want to keep my father happy, so I propose a truce?" Draco shook her hand and kissed the air above the back of it "Fine, but never call me 'darling' or any other type of 'nickname', fair?" Seren quirked the corner of her mouth "As long as you never call me Mrs Malfoy again, sure, deal" she smiled gently and brushed her too-long-bangs out of her face and headed to the stairs to her dorm for bed. "Goodnight Draco ... darling" she cackled as she ascended the staircase.