Authors note: Hi thankyou for the reviews last chapter. I like reading them. If you get confused don't be afraid to ask questions to clear it up. I'll try my best to answer them. Remember suggestions are welcome and if you want something to happen ask and I might try see if it fits in to what I want happening already.
Secondly please tell me for the next chapter if you want it in first person with Catyana's POV, Tayla's POV and occasionally Draco and Harry's. Thanks, I hope you like the chapter I tried to make it longer than the last. In fact I've decided I won't post unless it is over 2000 words.
Disclaimer: Same as last time. I don't own anything.
Servants of a Snake: Chapter 2
Catyana opened her eyes slowly, before scanning the area. To her surprise a couple of Aurors were standing nearby, one was looking right in her direction, and pointing. "T-Tayla," said Catyana "A group of Aurors are here to get us... I think. He's talking to that boy. You know the one with the red head, and brown haired girl?" Tayla moaned in response, before taking her hands off her eyes. A few seconds later the dizziness had gone away and she managed to look at what Catyana was so worked up about.
Instead of showing panic on her face- as Catyana thought Tayla would- Tayla just laughed. Slightly nervously, but close to normal. "Ana, you have it all wrong. And you should really research more. That's Harry... and the Weasley boy. Ron is his name. The girl is Hermione I think. Draco's memories of her had her with over the top bushy hair but that is her."
Knowing the truth Catyana calmed down. Maybe they wouldn't be caught, just maybe. She gave Tayla a look, signalling she was going to get on the train now. If they got on before the trio then it was less likely one of them would want Catyana and Tayla to sit with them.
A few people smiled as they walked to find their seats, some looked at them as if they were crazy and others looked once before walking away. They slid open a door, expecting to find a group of weird people, like Hufflepuffs, if that was the case then they could scare them away.
But to their luck they walked into the same area where Draco, Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle had chosen to sit. Blaise was just leaving. Tayla pushed past Catyana as she wanted to be first in. "Hi." She said happily.
"Out!" snarled Draco "Can't you see we don't have space for someone like you?"
Catyana stepped forward and glared at him, replying before Tayla could. "We aren't leaving. No matter what you do. Anyway, I have a wand. As does Tayla. We aren't stupid. We know how to use them. What do you mean by 'someone like you'? I bet I'm better than you."
"Don't." hissed Tayla "If we get ourselves into this conversation you know what will happen."
"He isn't going to curse us into oblivion. He doesn't have the guts to."
Draco stood up, his eyes narrowed. Pansy pulled on his arm, hoping she could bring him back down.
"Ravenclaws are you?" said Draco.
"No." Tayla snorted "Why would we want to be one of them. We're new and we thought that coming to where your group was would be the right choice."
"Can we sit down already?" pleaded Catyana.
"No!" said Draco and Tayla at the same time. They glared at each other.
She sat down anyway, pushing Pansy out of the way, leaving herself to sit next to Draco. "I'm Catyana." She said.
"Draco. Draco Malfoy." he said, still suspicious.
"And I'm Tayla."
For the first time since they entered Draco took a long, good look at Catyana. She was beautiful. Although he had heard Pansy mutter she was ugly, or something along those lines. Her hair was long, and blonde. A similar colour to his own. Her eyes showed kindness at a short glance, but if you stared –as he was- you could tell she could be evil when she wanted. For a minute he was sure he had seen her before but shook off the thought when he overheard Catyana and Tayla discussing the homeschooling they had in the past.
Plus where ever it was they lived it sounded far enough away. He shifted uncomfortably when he noticed Tayla staring constantly at him. Sure he had overheard them, but he had been staring at the floor. "What are you looking at?" he yelled, making her flinch.
"Nothing." She muttered.
"Draco," whined Pansy. She was trying to save Tayla from his anger, maybe it could work. "You haven't even talked to me since they came here. You haven't even introduced me to them."
"Why should I?" he said coldly. Ignoring her after that he turned to face the window. Finally it was getting darker, within hours they would reach Hogwarts.
Pansy scowled at nothing in particular since it seemed the attention was on the new girls now, instead of on herself. Huh. Well she would make sure that they would talk to her as well. "What house are you hoping to be in?"
"Slytherin." answered Catyana automatically. Tayla's answer was slower but in the end she said the same.
Everyone was starting to get bored at this point as nothing interesting had really happened on the train, apart from meeting new students. Crabbe and Goyle at first had been staring, but after not being involved in conversation they talked between themselves. Only laughing occasionally.
Tayla looked across back at Draco, he was smiling slightly to himself. It seemed as if his thoughts were keeping him busy. She could guess what they were about. He was probably thinking how lucky he was to serve the Dark Lord. Of course he would be.
In a few months she would be the one to serve Voldemort fully. With the dark mark and all. She would also pass him in every single class. That pathetic mudblood Granger would even be worse than her. It made her smile to think it. Yes, Hermione wasn't the best at the school. She, Tayla Potter was, and the only person who would come close was Catyana and secretly she felt even that wouldn't happen.
Everyone looked up when the compartment door opened, half of them hoping it was the food/trolley lady. Although unfortunately she had decided to stay clear of them this year. Blaise had finally come back from wherever he had been.
He glared at Tayla when he saw her sitting in what had been his seat. Although he briefly stopped looking at her to instead try and force the door closed. "What is wrong with this stupid door?" growled Blaise trying to close it.
"I don't know, maybe someone's standing there?" said Pansy sarcastically. Tayla had looked at Draco's memories that the Dark Lord had collected and knew Pansy was right, even if she didn't realise it just yet. She looked at Catyana and nodded quickly. She smirked in response and decided to act normal for a while and resume conversation with Pansy.
The door eventually closed and Blaise sat down. Draco's eyes flickered from one spot to another, but shook his head when he decided nothing was there. "What did Slughorn want?" Draco asked.
"Not much." said Blaise, distracted. "He just wanted...Merlin! What is that new girl doing?" All eyes went from what they were doing to Catyana standing, looking angry, with her wand pointed at nothing in particular.
"Petrificus Totalus!" yelled Catyana.
"Why did you let her in?" Blaise sighed.
"She wasn't crazy then... I think." said Pansy. Tayla stood up and walked over to where she had heard a thump. Kneeling down she felt around for something other than thin air, she found it and pulled it off to reveal Harry Potter lying down, shocked, and unable to move.
"Potter." snarled Tayla, a look of disgust on her face.
"What should we do to him?" said Catyana sweetly.
"Nothing." mumbled Pansy. "I mean just don't... we'll get caught. And kicked out of the school."
"No we won't," she Tayla "No one will know and he won't even know that it happened. I'll just alter his memory slightly. I'll be the sweet little girl who saved him from Malfoy on the train. Until the sorting of course, then he is in for a surprise." Draco rolled his eyes, and Pansy forced a laugh.
"Let's get this done with. Tie him down someone, and I'll make sure he can move and scream as much as possible." said Catyana. Pansy mumbled a spell quietly causing his arms to be tied with ropes, the other part was tied above. Catyana undid her spell so he could talk and move, although she removed his wand from him first.
"You evil witch!" yelled Harry.
"May I go first?" asked Draco, smiling at Catyana. She shrugged. Instead of using a spell he punched Harry in the stomach, followed with a kick, causing Harry to gasp in pain.
"My turn." sang Tayla, stepping forward. Before casting the spell on him she whispered something in Harry's ear that caused him to spit in her face.
"How dare you!" she screeched "CRUCIO!" he bit down hard on his lip to stop the screams from coming but eventually he couldn't handle the blood and whimpered, as well as letting out a scream.
"You used an unforgivable curse!" yelled Blaise, staring at her "You'll get all of us expelled." Catyana laughed at him and rolled her eyes before healing him and muttering 'obliviate' so he wouldn't remember the events.
"I'm gone." said Crabbe and Goyle, before walking out to find food.
"Malfoy," snarled Harry "What did you do to me to get me in here?"
"I didn't do anything."
"You passed out," said Tayla sweetly "I brought you in here because there was nowhere else. I thought Dra-Malfoy would help you since he seemed all too willing but unfortunately he started making fun of you. I'm sooo sorry." She said. Draco couldn't believe that the girl who had –less than four minutes ago- been using an unforgivable curse on Harry was now talking to him. As if he mattered.
"Unbelievable." he said. "I'm going to be sick." said Pansy. Harry blinked twice before looking around. It seemed like a good enough excuse and she did seem nice enough. He felt around for his wand before noticing nothing was there. "Oh." He gasped. A blonde chick threw it to him, also smiling. As the train came to a stop the girl helped him up off the ground and led him out, winking at Tayla as she left.
"See you soon." she mouthed, before going out of sight.
"That was interesting." someone said.
"Yeah," agreed Blaise "I guess."
Tayla stood up to leave and only stopped at the door to say "See you at the sorting. You better be there. ALL of you." She then walked out.
Both girls stood nervously at the doors to the entrance of the Great Hall. Everyone would find out soon. Find out who they were, or at least who they were related to. At least nobody would know that they were the daughters of them. A boy who couldn't do a simple task. And the boy who lived.
Tayla wished most of all that when they asked if they would get to change their last names Voldemort would've said yes. It would give her a chance at friends. Pansy was only just beginning to be friendly towards her, Blaise slowly getting there. Draco... well he would be harder especially now that the new girl was related –in a way he would never guess- to his worst enemy. Now that's just great thought Tayla.
Catyana was bubbling with excitement, unlike her friend. Catyana was literally jumping up and down and even hugged Tayla at one point."Calm down. Can you act a little more like a Malfoy would?" hissed Tayla. Catyana pouted.
"You're no fun. Great, and slightly evil. But not any fun. Embrace freedom with me. A whole YEAR of it. YES!"
"Oh the joy of it all." Tayla sarcastically said.
Professor McGonagall came in at that moment. "You may come in as soon as the Headmaster has announced that we have new students. Don't fool around and don't take ages. Thank you, once you have been sorted go sit at the table where the rest of your house is. The colours above will direct you to which table, I assume you know the house colours." They nodded. The Professor turned around and left leaving them with a few minutes left.
They could hear Dumbledore speaking, he was explaining how both girls had been homeschooled their whole life and had this year decided an actual wizarding school was a different option. A place where they would meet new friends, and learn things their teacher wasn't able to teach them. Of course he didn't know who their teacher was though. No one ever would.
"We'll still be friends. Right?" asked Tayla anxiously. Catyana laughed.
"How silly are you? We have been friends our whole life almost, nothing will ruin that."
"Thanks." whispered Tayla.
"Now welcome our new students!" boomed Dumbledore's voice, as the doors swung open. Tayla bit her lip, so many were staring.
"I can't do this." She whispered. Catyana took her hand and dragged her in. Putting on her fake smile she waved at Pansy, Blaise and Draco. As they approached the steps leading up to the seat that the hat was upon a round of applause began.
"First can Catyana please step up here? Thank you. Catyana Malfoy." All clapping stopped immediately, Draco paled even. The new girl was related to him? Impossible. She smiled to herself at the thought this memory would keep him up all night. She walked slowly towards the hat, so that when she wore the sorting hat there would be silence. When she picked up the old hat she made a face. Who would wear that? It was so dirty and had already been put on by many others.
Looking up she noticed the Gryffindor table, towards the front were the Golden Trio deep in conversation. She sighed and put the hat on her head already it began to talk to her
"I sense you will do great things." said the sorting hat.
"I know that already." she replied.
"You're worried that Draco won't like the attention on you, as well. He won't accept you now, especially after this. You want to be the best but not ruin your chance at being friends with him."
"You're wrong. I don't even like him" she whispered. It didn't know her real past but it knew how she felt. Catyana was beginning to feel uncomfortable now.
"You're smart you know. Ravenclaw would suit you. But then you would make a great Slytherin as well. If you wanted to change Gryffindor would work. You could help in the wizarding war."
"I'll help just as much as a Slytherin. But I'll be on the side right for me."
"SLYTHERIN." the sorting hat yelled. Catyana sighed in relief and walked towards the right table. She'd hoped on sitting next to Draco but because of all this he was glaring at her and trying to make others hate her. Pansy felt sorry for her and told her to sit with them anyway. Silently she walked over. Don't feel sorry for yourself, it is Tayla who will get it worse.
Tayla had been watching Catyana's face change from annoyed to happy. Apparently it was talking to her.
"Quiet now." said Dumbledore. "Tayla Potter."
Before she even had a chance to walk up there Harry was standing up, drawing the attention to him. His eyes were narrowed, and his face red from anger. "This is ridiculous! What the hell is going on? You can't expect me to believe I'm related to her. She-"
"STOP!" yelled Dumbledore "That is enough Harry." Harry looked like he was going to argue but Hermione pulled him down and started making all these comments. Tayla ran up to the chair so she could be sorted, she wanted this to be over with. Crowds sucked. She lowered the hat down and closed her eyes, preparing for the worst.
"I can tell you are worried," the hat said "You feel that Catyana will make all the friends and you will be left with none on both sides. It doesn't have to be like that. You fit into the Gryffindor personality as well, you'd make friends there. You also fit into Slytherin, where your mind and thoughts will do you well. You're likely to do well there although people might hate you at first."
"Tell me the answer and be done with it."
"SLYTHERIN!" it yelled. She opened her eyes and walked down the steps, across the path, and towards her table. She stayed as far from the Gryffindors as possible. They were looking ready to kill, especially Harry. "Oh help me." She muttered. And started walking out of the Great Hall early.
Authors note: So please review and tell me what you think, thanks. I'll try get my next chapter out as soon as possible but it could be two or three weeks.