Twisting love for a laugh

Chapter 1 – Starting with a Detention

Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Nor do I own the settings/basis/characters of this story (apart from Faye and a couple of others). This applies for the whole story.

"You're late," a shrill voice commented, "That's the third time this week Miss Pent. That'll be 20 points from Gryffindor I'm afraid." The teacher smiled slightly to herself at the thought of Gryffindor not winning the house cup for once. "So what's your excuse this time? A troll stopped you and asked you round for tea?" Professor Higgins said sarcastically.

"Wow, how did you know?" Faye Pent replied equally sarcastically. The teacher scowled at her.

Higgins shot daggers out of her eyes at the student, "Just take your seat Miss Pent or I might have to put you in detention for disrupting the class."

Faye swung her satchel onto the nearest free desk with a bang, sending several pieces of parchment scattering, and sat down. The girl she had sat next to gave a horrified look and hurriedly shuffled her stool away from Faye. Faye just smiled at her in a fake sickly-sweet way and started to doodle cartoons of vampires on the desk in front of her.

A scrunched up piece of paper suddenly hit her on the back of her head.

And again.

And again, repeatedly hitting her until she swatted it out of the air and turned around to see who had sent the charmed paper her way.

Three rows back sat four boys, also in Gryffindor like her, laughing and jeering at her. Faye rolled her eyes at their pathetic attempt of annoying her and expertly flattened out the piece of paper before quickly folding it into an origami dragon, waving her wand over it and throwing it back in their direction.

As she started to draw on the desk again she heard a chorus of squeals of pain from behind her. Fire magic, she chuckled to herself, always works a treat.

"Pettigrew, Potter, Lupin and Black!" The teacher barked at them, "You have wands don't you eh? Then use them!" she flicked her wand at the dragon and it fell to the floor. Then glaring at the boys that had interrupted her demonstration of the dusting charm, "Right, would any of you four care to tell me who threw this at you?" The Marauderers remained silent as they cast uncertain looks at each other. "Would anybody else care to tell me who found fire magic so amusing that they had to try it out?" Faye failed to stifle her laughter, "Ah, of course, Pent did you do this?"

Faye put on a pretence of innocence, "Let me see, now why would I waste my time on sending a fire breathing origami dragon to these idiots here when I could be learning all about the wonderful world of dusting spells?"

The Professor pursed her lips, "Detention, tonight Miss Pent at six o'clock sharp and don't be late. You will be dusting the trophies, oh, without magic." Faye smiled politely as she excepted her punishment.

Sirius Black let out a laugh at Faye's misfortune of being caught, "Think it's funny Black? Then you can join her."

"But miss…" James, Remus and Peter interrupted, seeing the unfairness of Professor Higgins unnecessary punishment.

"You three can join them to since you seem so eager. Now can we please get back to the lesson?" The teacher huffed and strode back to the front and continued to demonstrate the correct wand movements for the dusting charm.

"This will be fun." Faye mouthed to the boys who groaned and slumped onto their desks, she laughed again to herself.

The rest of the lesson passed rather uneventfully and when it had finished the class spilled out into the corridors eagerly. Faye swung her bag onto her back and picking up her folder she made her way out of the classroom, only to find her way blocked by four boys.

"Thanks a lot Pent, because of you we now have to spend our evening dusting trophies." Sirius said.

"It was my pleasure." Faye smiled back at him, "Now if you guys don't mind I've got to go and make someone else cry."

"We're not crying." Peter piped up. Faye ignored him.

"You know what you are Pent." Sirius continued.

"What, beautiful, intelligent, charming? Tell me, I'm just dying to know."

"I was thinking more along the lines of 'self-centred, cold hearted bitch' but whatever." He snapped back at her.

"You're such a charmer Black." She giggled in the fashion that so many of the girls in the school would do put under the charm of Sirius Black. Faye took a step towards him so that she was forced to look up to meet his eyes, "It's such a shame that you don't know what a barber is." Quick as anything she took a strand of his hair and tugged it sharply, pulling it from his head.

"Oh go hang yourself Pent." James intervened. Faye laughed the kind of laugh that you imagine witches from fairy tales to have and pushed her way through Peter and Lupin and continued on her way.

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Faye sat on the floor in the common room. She was re-plaiting her hair where the plaits had fallen out. She wore her waist length black hair down most of the time except for the four or five tiny plaits she always had in it. Some unkind sixth formers had told the first years that each plait represented a person that she had killed. A lie, but at least it kept the first years from her. It also kept some older students away, but they wouldn't ever admit it.

"Oh, ready for our date are you?" she called out as Remus, Sirius, James and Peter entered the room from a stairway the other side. "

"Shut your mouth Pent." Remus replied as people had looked to see who Faye was talking to.

"Oh, you're getting more attitude Lupin; they're a bad influence on you." She nodded at James and Sirius.

"Come on." James pushed Remus forwards and out of the portal and the rest of them followed. Faye followed.

"What do you want Pent? Can't you go annoy someone else for a change?" James didn't even bother to look around.

Faye pretended to look hurt, "But it's so much fun annoying you! Besides since we're all heading the same way I thought we could go together." She tucked one of her plaits behind her ear.

"Yeah, but that's only because you don't have any friends of your own isn't it?"

"Why would I want friends, especially if it meant having to hang around with freaks like you?"

They turned another corner and entered the trophy room. The caretaker was waiting for them and without a word of greeting handed them three dusters, some cloths and a bottle of polish.

"I thought we only had to dust them! Now we have to polish them too!" Remus complained.

The caretaker continued to take their wands before slumping off to find another student to prey on.

Faye grabbed a trophy and started to polish it slowly, pulling faces at her own reflection. When she had finished she grabbed a smaller one then picked up two more. Throwing one up in the air and then another she started to juggle with them.

"Faye!" Remus gasped in shock, "You're going to break them."

"Oh, scared you'll get in trouble. Hey, Black, toss me another." Sirius picked up a trophy but instead of throwing it to her, he threw it at her. It hit her hard in the face causing her to drop the other trophies and fall backwards on the floor, hitting her head on a shelf on the way down. James, Remus, Sirius and Peter laughed, then, realising she wasn't getting up, Sirius bent down next to her.

"Pent, hey Pent." He flicked her arm, he gained no reaction, his eyes widened in worry about what he might just have done, "Faye, are you okay?" Faye stayed slumped where she was. Sirius turned to the others, "God guys, I think I knocked her out." Suddenly Faye's green eyes cracked open and with her hand clenched into a fist she punched Sirius hard on the side of hisface.

"Ouch! Shit Pent, what was that for?" Sirius stood abruptly up and clutched the side of his face as a lump rapidly appeared there.

"That was for making me fall over and hit my head, which, if you're concerned, did hurt. All I was trying to do was make this detention a bit more fun and you go and try to knock me out."

"God, you punch hard." He muttered, "For a girl."

The rest of the detention was spent mainly in silence. Faye occasionally looked up from her work to glare at Sirius or mutter names under her breath.

After about an hour it began to get quite warm in the small room with all five of them in there. Sirius took his jacket off and hooked it over the back of a chair.

Faye's eyes gleamed with malice as she saw her chance and started to clean a trophy next to the chair, carefully placing the polish on the seat of the chair with the lid off. The she 'accidentally' gave the trophy another rub, perhaps to violently and knocked the bottle over with her elbow: all over Sirius's jacket.

"Whoops." She said innocently.

"What the heck have you done?" Sirius exploded. As he saw what had happened, "You've ruined it!" He rounded upon her. Sirius could get quite angry at times and the transformation wasn't pretty, in fact it was actually quite scary. Faye stood up and took a couple of hasty steps backwards. He was a lot taller than she was. Sirius walked up to her and grabbed her collar shaking it. "What did you do that for? Think it would be a bit of a laugh? Another way to make the detention a bit more fun, eh?" he had a lifted her off the floor now. The usually confident Faye had suddenly turned quiet.

Sirius felt Remus's restraining hand on his shoulder, "Mate, calm down. It's only a jacket. Put Pent back on the ground." Sirius dropped her and turned round to inspect his jacket.

"It's okay. I know a spell to get it out." Faye said quietly, feeling only ever so slightly ashamed of her actions.

Sirius turned around again, "You know I actually feel sorry for you." Faye looked at him questioningly, "You don't even know how to apologise properly. You've never apologised in your life. It's no wonder you don't have any friends. Your parents must be bloody proud of you."

Faye suddenly stormed out of the room.

"Hey the detention's not over yet!" James yelled after her, but she took no notice.

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