You couldn't care less...
Chapter one:
An Angel bored like hell
Tatum Winthrop looked out of her dorm room window across the fields of Hogwarts. Things looked so peaceful, so quiet, so still.
A little bored she played with a strand of her hair as another girl walked in. Paying no attention to Tatum the dark haired girl, known as Wilona Wallis, searched her suitcase before leaving again. Most people in her house paid no attention to the girl and Tatum was therefore not surprised. Slytherins weren't very tolerant and she was pretty different. She was a true goody-two-shoes.
In the beginning of the year Tatum had often wondered why she was put there, but soon found out that if crossed she was a true devil. Yet as she was seen as an angel she got away with pretty much everything. Her reputation saved her from many detentions, yet it also deprived her of any friends.
No the first year of Tatum had not been all that great. Nor had her summer been that wonderful.
The girl therefore hoped that this year, her second, would be so much better. It did not start all to well, begin bored only a week into term.
She grabbed some books and walked outside, sitting herself underneath a tree where she could easily look around and make drawings of all that she saw.
An hour later she was joined by a figure and she did not need to look up to know who it was.
"Hello Severus" she stated and he mumbled a reply. They weren't the best of friends, but neither one had that many to people to hang out with and whenever they were bored and alone they'd meet up. Sometimes they'd talk about all the things they could do to get back at those prankers calling themselves the marauders, but neither was brave enough to truly step up yet. And other times they'd just sit and say nothing.
Severus Snape was one of the very few people that you could have a comfortable silence with. Both liked it that way. Still he never stayed for to long, Lily Evans would walk by and Severus would go with her. That was the way it had been whole of last year and it would most likely not change.
Today they choose for silence and it wasn't until after three hours, that he left to find Lily. Longest he had ever been with her, Tatum felt better at once. She was his friend, not just someone to spend some lost minutes with.
A little while later Tatum stood up to find her way inside again. She had enough of drawing for today and she was starving. Lunch would be served in 10 minutes.
Making her way towards the castle again she was soon stopped dead in her tracks by what she saw before her. Severus fighting, with the marauders. Again they went after him, had they nothing better to do?
Though she knew he did not want her to get involved she knew she could not turn her back now, instead she hid herself in the bushes and muttered minor curses under her breath. Soon James Potter and Remus Lupin were writhing on the ground tortured by endless tickling, while Peter Pettigrew was screaming like a little girl. Only Sirius seemed untouched. His attention went to his friends and he lifted the curse they had on Severus. Within seconds Severus was out of sight and Sirius turned his attention to the bushes where Tatum was hiding.
"Come out!" he screamed but she knew better then to oblige. Quietly as she could, she crawled away and found her refuge behind some other bushes before acting as if she was just walking by at that moment.
Sirius eyed her suspiciously but said nothing of it as his friends were finally overcoming their laughter ( and screaming in Peter's case). Tatum hurried of to find Severus.
"Was it you?" Severus asked as he saw Tatum walk in the great hall looking a little flustered and hurried.
"No" she replied much to soon and he just looked at her with a smile. He really smiled and again Tatum felt blessed. She never really thought he saw her as a friend but today he showed he did. Did she finally make a friend? She smiled back and grabbed a few sandwiches as they appeared on the table.
Sirius looked across the great hall and saw Severus and Tatum smile at one another. He was sure now, it had been her. She was the only person he knew to pull of such a strong tickling curse. He tried once but was overcome by her talent. Most of the prank curses they used as children were her speciality. She excelled at all of them. But then again she excelled in most things. No wonder either, she was always on her own. For a split second he felt guilty. Had he abandoned her? His brother said he did, but was he right? Was her life still that bad? He hoped not. Her mother had remarried after all, things must have gotten better. Her father was the one that hurt her, he could no longer touch her now.
He stood up a left the table mumbling something about bathroom to his friends who were far to engrossed in their story of the hidden curser. They were clueless to who it had been.
Outside he waited for her to come, she always did. Eat two sandwiches and then leave the hall for a stroll towards the library. Today was no different.
"It's not very polite to hit curses when people have their back turned" Sirius said and Tatum was a little shocked but quickly recovered and looked at the boy with disdain.
"I never said I was polite" she just stated and walked on. She had no sympathy for the boy before her and was in no mood to speak to him.
"Wow that's it? No witty comeback, no fight?" Sirius asked her a little flustered. She always put up a good fight but today she did nothing.
"you're not worth it" she simply replied and kept walking without glancing back.
"to bad" he said and mumbled something under his breath.
Within seconds Tatum felt herself hanging upside down and while screaming for him to let her down, she watched him walk closer to her.
"Next time I won't keep my mouth shut" he said and she knew he had not told his friends yet.
"Neither will I" she replied and thought of the opportunity of going to the teachers, they always believed her.
"I don't doubt that. But remember revenge is sweet" he said close to her face and with a swift move she spit in his face and he dropped her to the ground.
Pained by the impact of the fall she lay still for a moment and listened to the footsteps walking away from her hurriedly. She smiled. Again she had gotten to him. She had been able to do just that ever since they were little and she was still mastering that skill.
A few weeks passed and Sirius and Tatum had been throwing curses forth and back ever since their last encounter. This alone earned the girl many new friends and she did not feel any regrets. After all Bellatrix told her he deserved nothing better.
Most of the time Tatum now spend with Narcissa and Bellatrix, pulling pranks on their sister Andromeda and cousin Sirius. They had a blast, but she began to lose focus of her main goal. Getting on his nerves and keeping the few friends she had. Severus had been more distant as of lately and it wasn't just the marauders she hurt these days. Only three days ago Tatum had been present while Bella cursed Lily Evans. Though she felt a little uncomfortable for hurting a friend of her friend, she did not move. What if Bella and Narcissa didn't like her anymore if she did?
But the look in Severus eyes told her, he no longer liked her now.
Well everything has it's price I guess.
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