Thanks a million to Arinus and Liasid for my first two reviews, I never thought I'd actually get a review on my first story so quickly!
Copyright disclaimer: Dude, my name doesn't even start with a J. And last time I checked, I didn't write the song August 28th 3.30 AM.
'Rabastan is going to kill me if he sees me with Sirius,' Mina thought, hysteria momentarily paralyzing her rational thoughts
Dread weighed down each step she took towards the Great Hall and slowly, reality sunk in. Trying to tug her hand out of Sirius's hands, nausea started assaulting her senses as they neared the entrance towards the Hall.
"Let go!" She hissed, causing Sirius to give her an annoyed glance as one would give a toddler insisting on having a cookie before bedtime.
"Please, let go!" Mina tried to dig her feet into the ground, but only ended up sliding along the floor, looking comically like she was trying to ski. She didn't dare raise her voice at Sirius in fear that she'll draw not only more attention towards herself and her current predicament but especially, anyone from the Slytherin House.
"Come on," Mina heard Sirius adopt, what he probably thought, was a consoling voice, "You can sit with me and my friends at the Gryffindor table!"
'Merlin! NO!' Words failed Mina as her eyes widened in horror at the thought of enduring that kind of attention.
Sirius frowned, wondering why Mina was staring at him like he just killed her kitten. Girls usually thanked their lucky stars when he invited them over to eat dinner with the Marauders. This was one weird bird.
"Don't worry," Sirius continued, clueless to Mina's thoughts, "My friends are perfectly nice people and I'm sure no one would hassle you for sitting with me for dinner. If it makes you feel any better, you can invite your friends too, those blonde twins, how does that sound?"
Flashing his trademark smile that caused many of her gender to simply swoon, Mina stared in horror as they crossed into the Great Hall, where immediately, everyone and anyone who happened to glance in her direction dropped their utensils and either a) pinched themselves or b) stared and then pinched the person next to them. Many "Ows!" and "What the hell was that for?" could be heard ringing around the room as Mina tried in vain to free her hand from Sirius's.
Too scared to glance in the direction of where the Slytherins sat, Mina tried to shrink into Sirius's side, praying that they reached the Gryffindor table soon. She was quite tiny, even she'd admit, so it wouldn't be too much of a problem hiding behind some burly seventh year student. Unable to spot any sign of her friends, Mina allowed herself to be dragged reluctantly to the Gryffindor table, trying to reassure herself that no one in their right mind would attack her in front of all the teachers and students.
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Rabastan Lestrange roared as his twin brother elbowed him suddenly, causing him to spray pumpkin juice all over himself. Murderous, he turned around only to be told coldly by his brother to look at the table where mudbloods and blood traitors sat.
"What?" He sneered at his brother, only to be given a sardonic, pitying look.
"Since when did you let filth touch your sex toy?"
Rabastan's head jerked back to the Gryffindor table, then surveyed the Ravenclaws slowly.
"Where the fuck," He paused, trying to suppress his rage," is Campbell?"
Across the table, he heard Bellatrix Black cackle madly.
"Poor Rabby," She crooned, as Rabastan shot her a venomous look. Completely oblivious to the daggers in his eyes, Bellatrix continued laughing until she found a wand pointing threatening in her face. She raised a calm eyebrow.
"You wouldn't," She taunted.
Eyes narrowing angrily, Rabastan opened his mouth to curse her when his brother punched him in the arm and mouthed some ugly words about nothing touching his precious girlfriend.
'Today is not my day," the dejected Lestrange brother thought, 'Oh well, at least I can use Campbell as a stress ball later on.'
Meanwhile Bellatrix was smirking at her boyfriend, coyly asking through her gleaming eyes, 'Should we tell him?'
Rodolphus glanced at his brother and sighed. Why was he constantly being forced to choose between his brother and the cunning, black-hearted Bellatrix Black?
"We saw Mina arrive earlier with Bella's darling cousin," He finally relented, and watched his brother choke on a new goblet of pumpkin juice.
"He's dead," Rabastan snarled, as fire lit up behind his dark blue eyes. As he stood to move up, his brother grabbed his arm and looked at him like he was a stupid House Elf.
"Not now, and not here, oh smart one. Not when there's a few thousand witnesses including teachers around at least."
"She's going to pay," He thought determinedly, a dozen twisted spells for torture dancing through his mind, "But first, we have a Slytherin vs. Gryffindor match next Tuesday…"
A sinister smile illuminated his aristocratic features.
This was going to be fun…
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"You're not eating anything!" Mina sighed, wishing they would just leave her alone.
Although she was indeed hungry, sitting at the Gryffindor table next to Sirius Black and his friends was a suicide mission and she didn't know how long she was going to last. Despite her hunger pains, she couldn't even bear to put anything in her mouth, nerves grating higher than an opera singer's voice
"I'm on a diet," the asinine words flew out of her mouth before she could even think.
Six pairs of eyes looked at her, with a mixture of astonishment and disbelief.
"You don't need to diet, in fact, if you use a good ten or twenty pounds more," Remus Lupin told her austerely.
"I…" She started to defend herself, only squeak like a mouse being stood on, as a smiling Bellatrix Black heading towards her.
"Oh Merlin," She whimpered, "No, no, no…"
Oblivious to her distress, and thinking that she was shaking her head at Remus's comments about her weight, Sirius stabbed his fork through a piece of satay chicken kebab, bringing it towards Mina's mouth.
"Come on baby, trust me, open up, this is good…"
"Aww, look, how cute," A saccharine voice cooed, causing Sirius to miss Mina's mouth and jab her chin with his fork.
"What do you want Trixie?" Sirius asked calmly, displeasure colouring his deep voice.
Bellatrix sneered at the nickname, before ignoring her cousin and focusing on the ashen faced Ravenclaw, " You better watch your back, slut."
"Sirius, no!" Remus was trying to restrain Sirius, who had his wand out and was trying to aim.
"He knows…" Mina whispered to herself, before a small lick of anger ignited in her veins.
"This is all your fault!" She intoned angrily to a very surprised Sirius, "If you had just left me alone and ignored me for another two years, then my life would've been perfect! Now thanks to you, I have an invisible Curse Me label hanging over my head! Why did you make me sit with you for dinner! Why couldn't you have just stayed away from me in the library."
Sirius gaped. Openly.
The little kitten had claws. And to his immense irritation, she only unsheathed them towards him. He'd seen her freeze and tremble around Bellatrix. Why didn't she stand her ground a few minutes ago? He was just trying to help her! Merlin, this girl was trouble. And he was starting to think he was a masochist.
"Now look here," Sirius heard his best friend jump to his defense, "Sirius was only looking out for you –"
"Looking out for me? We've never even spoken before today! I doubt he even knew my name before today. If he had just stayed in his damn dormintory instead of going out wandering last night –"
"Hey!" Sirius interjected angrily," You were wandering around the castle too! What gives you the right to tell me what to do when you were breaking the same rules as I? You're a bloody hypocrite!"
"Shut up! And stay away from me!" Mina pushed herself off the chair and rose, running out of the Great Hall, half stunned that she had yelled at someone, her, mousy, little Mina with only two friends, who never dared raise her hand in class, who murmured when addressed to by teachers, she had yelled at someone, the Sirius Black no less.
"This is great, first I piss off Rabastan, then I yell at Sirius Black, just who did I piss off in my past life?" She groaned as she sped towards the Ravenclaw Tower, stomach rumbling as she panted.
"What is hidden among friendly faces?" The disembodied voice Rowena Ravenclaw asked as Mina stood, out of breath at the entrance towards her dormitory.
"Danger," She whispered, scurrying through the portrait door.
I know, I know, that password thing was lame and I couldn't remember whose voice actually asked the question, I think it was Rownea Ravenclaw's. Please review?