Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Author: Avery McAire

Disclaimer: I own a catfish. Seriously. he lives in my little pond. He's sooo cute!

Description: One Shot, maybe. Ginny can feel something is wrong. Especially when the Head Girl Seven Roulette starts hitting on her. Ginny's gonna need something mighty fierce to protect her from what can never be and something even more so to protect her from what will be.

Chapter One

Detention with Seven.

Ginny Weasley angrily blew a strand of red hair out of her face as she stormed down from the Gryffindor common room. Detention again? Hermione's voice followed her in her head. Ginny why can't you just try to apply yourself? This was a familiar argument between the pair. The problem was, as Ginny put it, that she wasn't challenged enough.

Ginny Weasley, following where her brother Ron failed, was extremely intelligent. She was in Advanced classes for most of her subjects. She was taking private classes with Professors McGonagall, Flitwick and Binns. She was a grade ahead in Care of Magical Creatures and two years ahead in Herbology and Defense Against the Dark Arts. But Professor Snape--Ugh! he refused, as he had with Hermione to acknowledge her intelligence. Finally Professor Dumbledore stepped in and requested Ginny be provided with advanced potions to perform. Ginny found the potions ridiculously easy. she had an amazing memory and could remember everything presented to her. She had always been this way all her life, part of why she was so scared her first year when bits of her memory started disappearing.

Ginny paused outside Snape's classroom, to collect her self. Her cauldron full of her ingredients was tucked under one arm. she knocked softly.

"You're early, Miss Weasley." came the sultry voice of Seven Roulette as she walked to the front of the room and set up her cauldron. Seven, the Head Girl of Ginny's year was leaning against the front desk. Ginny should have figured Seven would be watching her detention. Seven was without a doubt the second most intelligent girl in her year, beat only by Ginny herself. Ginny was almost constantly in detention and so it was decided unwise for her to be the Head Girl. Might set a bad example. Not that Ginny cared. She could do just as well with out the dubious honor.

So, she thought, we're to put up the facade of civility. Very well, Seven Collete Roulette, let's dance. her temper, terrible and easy to spark, flared back as it had in class, thus landing her this and a whole slew of previous detentions.

"Tonight, Miss Weasley, you will make the Wolfsbane Potion. If you had studied during class as our professor told you, this will be easy. But it seemed you were too busy picking an argument with him." A smile slid over Seven's immaculate face. "Well we'll see if your legendary memory measures up to rumors. Begin."

The potion was easy enough for her though it required long minutes of sitting and waiting. often Ginny would drift off during these minutes and randomly find Seven staring at her. She resisted the desire to stare back and put it in a corner of her mind for later consideration.

The potion got a little tricky towards the end and Ginny focused her attention on the potion, putting all thoughts of potions masters out of her head. Finally she finished and looked up triumphantly. she bit back a gasp to find Seven so close. She had moved to her side while she concentrated.

"Very good Ginny."

Ginny bit her lip at her name from her lips. She was very close and Ginny had no where to go except over the table. And that was very undignified. And she smelled very good...

No! Bad bad! She's a girl. She's nearly twice as arrogant as Malfoy for Merlin's sake!.

True but she doesn't look all that irritating up close.

Ugh! What the hell are you thinking girl? She hates you!

Does she?

"Miss Roulette," she began as Seven leaned close. "Um, not to be disrespectful, but what the fuck are you doing?"

"A very good question."

Both students looked around to see Professor Snape standing in the doorway. Ginny felt a blush crawl up her cheeks. She didn't know why. Seven was just as much at fault as she was. Seven looked casually at the professor.

"I was just checking Miss Weasley's potion. Won't do to let it over boil." Seven made a show of studying it before pronouncing it sound and dismissing Ginny.

Ginny gathered her things close and shot one last glance at Seven. Seven was looking at Snape with an expression Ginny didn't like in the least. She closed the door and leaned on it. Something was up. For someone as obviously into girls as Seven appeared to be, the look she had been bestowing on Snape was most certainly not the kind good Christian girls should know about.

And Seven's parents were about as Christian as they came...

Ginny fingered the silver chain around her neck. She knew she shouldn't fall for Seven. But she always did have a thing for those overly arrogant types...

(A/N: The beginning of this chapter might seem familiar to anyone acquainted with Nikki Flinn's work. Nikki originally wrote a chapter for a fic that started in the same way. Ginny was brilliant and headed to detention. In Nikki's Snape was attending to her and ended up snogging her silly. Nikki didn't get any reviews on it so she took it down. When she was down here I went though her files and found this chapter backlogged. I asked Nikki about it and she said she'd been planning to delete it. I asked her if I could play with it. She let me and this is the result.

Sooo should I continue? I can't say what ships will come but definitely some Ginny/Seven. Possibly Ginny/Neville, Ginny/Draco, Ginny/Snape and/or Seven/Snape. Snape will probably go evil and there will be death and maybe even a coherent plot.