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3rd Year Part 2

Elise had saved her dreaded Arithmancy essay for last. Out of the pile of homework and assignments she'd received for the weekend, the cursed essay would be the death of her; she'd attempted to start the essay various different ways, but every time she'd scratch an introduction onto her parchment paper and read it to herself, nothing seemed right. There were just too many ideas and not enough concentration left within Elise to actually execute a well and seamless Arithmancy essay describing how the certain set of values she'd received could foretell anything.

She'd made a mistake in leaving the assignment for last…

The girl set her feather quill to the side and caped the ink bottle, all the while narrowing her eyes to read the clock. It was late, later than usual and most of the students had already left to their common rooms but only a handful were either continuing their studies or just gathering their books to leave-mostly fifth, sixth and seventh years because of the upcoming O.W.L and N.E.W.T examinations. Although library hours were extended to exceed the curfew by an hour only for those three years, Elise had managed to persuade Professor Flitwick, shifted to supervise students at this hour, to let her stay.

Defeated, Elise grabbed her belonging and headed towards the main entrance of the library. "Goodnight Professor" she managed to whisper but her voice seemed louder in the nearly quiet room that it made other students peer up and harshly watch her.

The short man nodded with a small smile "Goodnight"

Elise blocked out the stares as she left; it was weird enough that she happened to be the only third year among all the upperclassmen.

She proceeded into the dimly lit halls, turning a right and slowly digressing from the brighter lights leaking from the open library. Ten more steps and her path was only lit by the full moon coming in from the high windows.

Her pace was quick maybe because of the fact that the halls seemed much more frightening without the bustle of students, but mostly because of the constant paranoia of being watched… or worse followed.

Meow

She jumped at the noise turning around searching for the cause of the sound. When she didn't see anything and started to turn back towards her original path, she was surprised by the cat by her foot, purring….it was Filch's cat.

"Shoo" she waved at the cat to move away from her but it started to meow louder and even follow Elise when she'd take a few steps forward "I said shoo!"

"Who's there?"

Someone had turned around the corner behind her, but it certainly wasn't Filch. The voice was much smoother, silkier and sinister.

The cat immediately ran away with a loud purr, it had its job in detecting a student breaking curfew.

"I-I was at the library? I was given permission by Professor Flit-"

Elise tucked her bangs nervously behind her ear trying to make out the being walking towards her. She was horrified when the man had stepped into the very dim lights: it was Lucius… it wasn't that she'd been found by a prefect, but a Slytherin prefect such as Lucius that frightened her… they had a habit on picking on other houses' younger students….

Lucius was lean and quiet tall, towering over Elise, who was proud of her five foot five height. He wore a slightly amused expression as if he'd just caught the fish he'd been waiting for all day and flipped his long platinum blonde locks out of his face in triumph.

"-but I don't see a pass?" and she heard a girl's voice? She hadn't noticed before but slightly shorter girl had walked in to the scene from behind Lucius.

"But I haven't any…" Elise looked over and around the boy to stare directly at Bellatrix, who, also, was a Slytherin prefect. Her wild dark curly hair and disheveled outfit-tie loose, sweater lost and her inappropriately unbuttoning of the top of her shirt matched her disturbingly wild and malevolent personality.

"Then how do I know you aren't lying?" Lucius watched her closely, scrutinizing her face. He knew it embarrassed her, it was evident in the slight blush he saw creeping up on her cheeks, but he still chose to continue and enjoy the humiliation she was feeling. But then it hit harder then any brick- she was a Potter. His grey flickered to her house badge on her chest to verify that this was, in fact, that misfit Ravenclaw girl who hung around with that misfit Gryffindor brother and friends of hers.

Elise's eyebrows rose and she slowly turned to her side, hugging her books closer to her chest, suddenly wary of what this boy was thinking. "Hey!"

The blonde knocked out of his thoughts, meeting Elise's stern eyes.

"Potter" he spat her name almost as if it were a filthy word to his pureblood mouth, which it probably was. Lucius was fully aware of that rowdy James Potter kid; he hated him. Prancing around like he was the hero of Gryffindor-no of Hogwarts and now, Lucius was standing face to face with Potter's kid sister, who seemed equally annoying to him only because of her relation with him. But what irked him the most was that her-no her whole Potter family was a disgrace to the pureblood race- they were all traitors in the cause of creating a whole pureblood society; he knew this because of the deep seeded hatred his parents and her parents had for each other.

"A Potter?" Bellatrix laughed and mockingly sang at the same time, walking up to Elise to size her up. "You the one o's been playing around with Sirius, hav'ent ya?" when she'd inched closer to Elise's face, Bellatrix crossed her arms and stuck her head high with a frown.

Elise looked away, angry, at the comment; she wanted to retort with her own insult but she thought better of it.

When Bellatrix noticed this, she laughed once again with a full grin.

The laughed was pestering; every chortle sank into nerves- it was more than enough to push Elise off the edge.

Bellatrix then rested her hands on her hips, bending over to the girl's ear, that snarl and grin still plastered onto her lips "You enjoying yourself?" she flicked her ear.

In an instant, faster than Lucius could even comprehend, Elise pulled out her wand and sank the tip of it into the girl's cheek. Bellatrix, surprisingly, did the same-pointing hers to the Elise's neck; she was so used to others pulling out their wand to defend themselves against her that she'd grown to draw her wand twice as fast as her opponent.

The grin suddenly disappeared from her face and she glared at the Ravenclaw with fierce and violent eyes; Elise returned it with a strong and frustrated one.

"Why would it matter to you? Sirius no longer belongs to your family!"

Bellatrix's anger poured from pores; if she could get any angrier she'd blow up into a ball of flames. "You filthy little blood traitor!" her voice was heavy and bellowed-each word much darker and louder then the one before.

There was a moment Elise saw in that girl's dark brown eyes that the Slytherin was about to spit out a spell, but then a voice so cool and low had deadpanned the whole scene- draining that sheer hatred that Elise saw in Bellatrix's eyes.

"Bella... Lucius?"

Their heads snapped at boy who'd just intruded. Regulus had turned around the corner and abruptly halted when he spotted his cousin and distant friend.

"Dear Cousin…" Bella smiled, wicked, pulling away from Elise "Come to join me teach this blood-trai'or a lesson?" She jeered back at the Ravenclaw's direction. Elise hadn't dropped her wand; although Bellatrix had moved away, Elise still held a firm grip on her wand and pointed it straight at the Slytherin girl.

Regulus watched his cousin for a bit with solemn stare, sighing at her cousin's theatrics and then shifted his pupils just slightly to meet with Elise's.

"I heard Filch not too far from here… and McGonagall's been patrolling this hall as well, we'd better scatter" he spoke not towards Elise but towards the two Slytherins, although still meaning to address all three of them.

Bella's wand dropped, "Boo…"

Lucius grabbed her by the shoulder roughly " come on" she rolled her eyes and started to follow the blonde but before she could she peered back at Elise and oddly winked at her "See you around filthy traitor" and with a final menacing laugh she disappeared with Lucius.

Elise was dumbfounded; she wasn't able to understand what had just occurred. In her right mind, she was about to hex that witch and now she was gone: frustration was boiling her blood.

Regulus looked up at her, from her feet to face with a small and narrow grin tugging one side of his deep pink lips; Elise was sure is she hadn't been staring at him, she would have never detected it. "You should scurry home to your common room," and with that he turned back around the corner he came from.

"No wait!" she called back but he wasn't about to turn around and so she followed after him, almost reluctantly and yet so willingly. When she curved around the corner she found him already a few feet down the dark corridor.

Lumos! She flicked her wand and the tip illuminated.

The dark haired girl jogged a bit and tried falling into sync with the boy's step "Hey! I'm trying to talk to you"

"Why are you following me?" he whispered harshly taking a turn into another corridor he wasn't meant to take but simply took to distract the girl; although he had a feeling this girl wasn't taking the slightest of notice of where they were walking.

Elise was taken aback from the harsh tone, it was a bit to familiar from the first time she'd bumped into him. Speaking of, she wondered if he even remembered her from that day. "Well I wanted to say thanks"

Regulus made a face even though he was distracted with the path they were taking. "For?"

"Letting those two slide past" she was trying to word it write so it didn't slip up that she hated the two, after all they were Regulus' close family and friend, she could only imagine how he'd react insulted them even the slightest bit.

"Hardly" he spoke, still not giving her the full attention "…I was simply informing you idiots of the attention you three were gaining"

"Still…"

"Do you know what time it is? Put that light out!" the two suddenly stopped and noticed one of the portraits of a very plump woman scolding Elise "Honestly!"

"Sorry" the girl mouthed.

"You'd think you'd receive better from a Ravenclaw! Hmph!"

But Regulus hadn't stopped for that reason; he'd heard a door close and lock with a great clunk in the distance: someone was coming.

Elise lowered her wand away from the lady on the portrait a bit embarrassed; she was about to put out the light when Regulus immediately turned to the girl, gripped her wrist.

"Quickly!" he roughly spoke and she frighteningly obeyed, immediately, while the two dove into the classroom on the right of them.

In the end, the classroom was a bit to dangerous- the movement would make too much noise, so the two ducked into the hallowed out section between two columns.

"Wh-" Elise's eyes were shut from the danger of being discovered. It was worse that they were hiding; It would only make whoever who'd find them more suspicious.

"Shhh!" Regulus pressed her into the corner, coving her mouth. He looked over his shoulder waiting and watching for the being he suspected.

Elise finally opened her eyes to follow his gaze out into the hallway. In all the anticipation to figure out who was about to pass the two, the boy slid away his hand from the girl's mouth. Eventually a man had passed them- no a sixth year Slytherin boy had.

"Rosier?" Regulus muttered a little surprised to himself.

The dark brunette, Evan Rosier, quickly darted past the two, unable to detect them because even he was paranoid of who might catch him.

"Do all Slytherins break curfew and mysteriously stroll around the school at night?"

Her whisper had suddenly broken Regulus' thoughts and he quickly snapped his head back towards Elise. And it was then when the two realized how uncomfortably close they were to each other. At first it was hidden from the fear of being discovered but now when they faced each other a little too close, everything seemed incredibly awkward.

He'd grown taller in Elise's eyes- much taller then when she'd first encountered him in their first year. Regulus was almost a head taller now, almost the same height of his very tall brother Sirius.

Regulus felt oddly embarrassed to have pressed her to the wall so much and quickly started to turn a deep shade of pink when he saw the Elise gaze up at him with those innocent and blue eyes; but right then he shook those thoughts away and lurched back quickly, fixing the sleeves of his shirt-rolling them again up to his elbows.

He tried to calm himself "it would appear so…"

Elise took a heavy breath as she felt his pressure against her release. She was sure she was blushing, but she too tried to stay clam down and return to the conversation. "And the reason for that is?

Was she trying to ask why he was breaking curfew?

Regulus combed his black hair back and stepped into the hall "I was returning from a detention with a professor"

He was lying and she knew it; or else where were his books? His robes even? Regulus was casually clad with only his button down shirt, trousers and shoes; he seemed liked he'd taken a long trip to his dorm before that 'detention' … which isn't permitted, detentions are served right after the dinner on Sundays and as punishment you need to be prepared with your books….

"….You?" he didn't give her a chance to even accuse him and they both knew that when she saw the smirk he threw when he questioned her.

Elise stepped out into the hall too and then started to walk with Regulus towards the stair cases after he flickered on some light from his wand "I was returning from the library"

"This late?" he could be skeptical of her but she couldn't of him?

"I was studying! Professor Flitwick let me!"

"Of course"

She didn't know if she was hinting out to the fact that she was only allowed because Flitwick was her house's teacher or how much of a typical Ravenclaw she for being so studious.

"…So Rosier… isn't he your friend? Why were you hiding from him?"

Regulus was a bit caught off guard and offended that it made him immediately turn around to face Elise with a quite annoyed expression. "Just because he's a Slytherin you assume he's my friend?"

She didn't know how to answer- so that was probably a hit harsh.

"…He isn't a friend of mine, acquaintances- yes, but no friend of mine. Besides…." His temper was simmering as rapidly as it had started to boil "he would have tore you apart if he'd seen you"

Elise made a face "just like that cousin of yours?" poking him with a narrow frown.

"Exactly…. You should steer clear of them, Ravendor" the two had finally made it to the stairwell and halted at a platform because they knew they were going to depart from there, in separate directions.

"You might be a Ravenclaw but you might as well be a Gryffindor like your brother and friends when they see you"

She walked into the direction of the stairs leading a few floors up, still listening to him.

"I mean it, I won't be there the next time Bellatrix points a wand towards you…" Regulus stepped down towards the other stairwell leading down a few floors.

"…you should be careful around her" he warned, not trying to look up towards her flight of stairs but he did anyway and when he did, she too happened to look down towards him with that same small grin.

"Funny…." She spoke slowly as if savoring every word before speaking them "That's what my friends told me about you"