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Lazy Cat ch2

"Oh no! Another cat." Hermione's mom said opening the door.

"Yea." Hermione said plainly. She brushed past her mom a bit annoyed that was the first thing her mom said upon seeing her.

"Sorry dear." She yelled as Hermione ran up the stairs to her room.

Hermione went down for lunch with her parents. She brought back up to her room a little saucer of milk for the cat which still seamed pretty hostile.

Hermione sat on her desk and opened her laptop. She glanced at the black cat looking at her with glowing green eyes trough small metal bars. She remembered now this was actually a person, so she put the cage down behind a bed to have her privacy.

She tapped her fingers on the desk. The laptop was slow and outdated. She used it so rarely and only at home. For reading she definitely preferred books, the computer was just for music and stuff.

Pretty soon she got bored and threw herself on the bed. She turned her attention back to the cat. Against her better judgement she opened the cage to pet the cute animal. As soon as she picked it up the cat clawed her making a scratch on her hand and ran for the door.

The wrong door thankfully, the cat slipped trough the crack of the bathroom door, probably thinking it was the exit.

Hermione rushed after the cat. When she opened the door a bright light blinded her and before her on the black and white checkered floor laid Pansy Parkinson.

"What are you doing here?! You're the cat?!" Hermione snapped.

"Yes. Stupid Dumbledore… why would he send me to you?" Pansy said getting off the floor and inspecting herself in the mirror. "He should have known better, you lot are useless, Potter and all of you."

"If I knew it was you I never would have accepted to bring you here!"

"I wouldn't come here if I had a choice!" Pansy snapped back. "I'm leaving!" Pansy said pushing past Hermione, she went down the stairs.

Hermione followed her. "Wait, aren't you in some kind of trouble? We should let Dumbledore know before you…"

Pansy ran out the front door and out of the house.

"Hermione who was that?" Hermione's mom who happened to be in the hallway asked.

"A friend…" She said unsure what else to say. "I'll be back soon." Hermione said and quickly ran out the door. It was night out already and sleeping time for a lot of the people around here, mostly elderly couples who went to bed early.

"Don't follow me! I can take care of myself!" Pansy snapped turning around and continued walking down the suburban street passing a few green lawn houses.

Hermione was really worried. Dumbledore would think her completely incompetent if she returned with an empty cage after the summer break. Even worse, what if something happened to Pansy, it would be her fault. Hermione couldn't let that happen, she had to stop Pansy somehow. "Wait, we should let Dumbledore know before you leave, he surely had a good reason…"

"No! You go tell him you're a complete nitwit!"

"Just stop walking for a second!" Hermione yelled out.

At that Pansy turned around and pointed her wand at Hermione. She fired a spell, but Hermione remained still. The spell pushed her only slightly witch surely wasn't what Pansy intended to do.

Pansy looked very frustrated. She looked at her wand thinking weather or not to throw it away in anger.

"You always were very poor with magic." Hermione said laughing.

"No!" Pansy protested. "I just didn't wanna hurt you that's all!"

"Yea, right! What a joke! Being a pureblood does nothing for you if all you do in class is chew bubblegum." Hermione grabbed her wand out of the back pocket of her jeans. She looked around, she knew she wasn't supposed to but there were no muggles around and she just couldn't resist. "This is how you do it!" She said casting a spell.

Hermione fired the same spell as Pansy before, only it was a lot stronger. It hit Pansy in the belly knocking her back several yards.

"Ouuu!" Pansy let out a moan as she landed on her ass on the concrete of the sidewalk.

Hermione walked up to her offering a hand to help her up. "Come, let's go back to the house, I'll send an owl to Dumbledore."

Pansy pushed her hand away. "No, I don't wanna stay in your muggle house."

"Fine! And I don't want you to stay either! Soon as Dumbledore sends someone to pick you up, I'll be glad to be rid of you. Who are you even hiding from anyway?"

"Them." Pansy said pointing forward with her finger as her green eyes opened wide in fear.

When Hermione turned around she saw a death eater walking towards them, and seconds later another one disapparating behind him. They were about 30 yards away and now running to them at full speed.

Hermione grabbed Pansy's hand and picked her off the ground.

They ran for their life between houses, and trough gardens as spells flew from behind them but luckily all missing.

All the running left Pansy breathless after a while. "I can't… anymore… Granger." She spoke trough heavy breaths as Hermione ran ahead pulling on her hand.

"Come on! Just a bit more!" Hermione insisted. "I have a plan."

They managed to get some distance from the death eaters since Hermione knew this neighbourhood better than them. They ran behind the corner and over the small chain fence of the garden and hid behind a brick wall inside the garden.

Hermione stopped breathing and placed her hand over Pansy's mouth as death eaters ran past them. Pansy was struggling but she couldn't remove Hermione's hand until Hermione let her go.

"Damn you… Granger! Why did you do that?!" Pansy protested slowly regaining her breath.

"Look." Hermione pointed.

Pansy peered from behind the wall. She saw death eaters were already far away, running down the street.

"Now lets go back home." Hermione said climbing over the small chain fence.

Pansy went to do the same but her school dress caught onto the fence. She tried to release it pulling on it with both hands. As she did she fell face down onto the chain fence. The sharp part of metal sticking out ripped her cheek from the side of her mouth.

The blood started flowing down to her chin as she got up to her feet.

"My god! What have you done?!" Hermione asked shocked.

"I fell… help!" Pansy said in panic seeing her bloody hands after touching the painful spot.

Hermione raised her wand to cast a healing spell but then she stopped.

"What are you doing?! Just heal me can't you see I'm dying here!"

"Relax, it's just a cut. Just keep it covered and follow me."

"Are you crazy Granger?! I will bleed to death here!"

"The hospital is nearby. Let's go!"

"Why can't you just heal me up!?" Pansy protested walking after Hermione.

"Did those death eaters appear just after we cast a few spells?" Hermione asked wondering.

"Yes, when you attacked me!" Pansy snapped frowning.

"This is a muggle area, they can probably detect magic with ease. Best we avoid spells for now."

"Fine…" Pansy sighed still keeping her hand over the wound as the blood flowed down to her neck. "How long to this hospital?"

"Just around the corner."

They got inside. The doctor showed Pansy into the office. Hermione asked to come in with her. There was no telling what Pansy could do here, surrounded by muggles, and she still had her wand with her.

Hermione sat on the chair in the corner as Pansy sat on the doctor's table.

"Remove your hand." The doctor asked. He shined a flashlight on the wound after wiping away some blood with a clean white cloth. "Nothing too bad, a few stitches to be safe."

"Stitches?! Oh no." Pansy said worried.

"The nurse will do it. Tracey!" The doctor walked out looking for the nurse.

"Relax, it won't hurt… much." Hermione said with a smirk. She was glad to see the girl scared like this. Seams like Pansy got away with everything at Hogwarts, being the rich spoiled girl that she was, she never got smacked on the mouth which she deserved so many times, Hermione thought.

"All of this is your fault!" Pansy snapped.

"If saving your life is my fault, than yes, I'm guilty. Though it's not my fault you can't climb over a small fence."

A young nurse walked in with some thread and a needle.

Pansy's eyes grew wide just seeing the needle, than she turned her gaze back at Hermione who had a satisfied look on her face. "Nurse! Does she need to be in here?!" She snapped pointing at Hermione.

"Fine, I'll leave just give me your wand first."

Pansy threw the black stick on the floor before Hermione. "Here! Just get out!"

Hermione picked up the wand and walked out into the corridor.

"Alright… that was weird." The nurse concluded. "Now, let's clean that wound first."

After ten minutes Pansy walked out with three black stitches on the side of her mouth. She looked annoyed but not as much as the nurse.

"You friend is really insufferable." The nurse said to Hermione. "I never had this much trouble with a patient."

"I know, and she's not my friend." Hermione replied.

"Than why…"

"It's a long story."

"Alright than." The nurse accepted. "I should have stitched her mouth up instead, permanently."

"Yea I wish." Hermione said laughing.

"Sadistic bitch…!" Pansy snapped at the nurse regretting the very next moment as her mouth still hurt from the stitches.

"You're free to go, just get her out of the building."

"Will do, thank you and bye." Hermione said and they walked out.