CATastrophe

Chapter 2- The second day

Once everyone got back into the Common Room, Fred and George headed up to their dormitories for sleep. Sakura, Drisana, and Galatea headed for the girls dormitories before the others. Four other people sat on the couches relaxing in front of the fire. As for the others, Jet, Isla and Rowan were heading up to their dormitories for a good night sleep. But before they got the stairs, they saw Hermione sleeping in a chair.

"Come on, we better take her to bed," Jet said.

"Jet, get her arms, and I'll get her legs," Rowan replied.

"Sure thing. Isla you have to be my eyes."

"No problem."

Jet went over to the chair where Hermione was sound asleep and took both of her arms and lifted her up. Rowan picked up Hermione's legs and both girls carried Hermione up the stairs to her room. Along the way Isla helped Jet and Rowan step up each step, making sure that they wouldn't fall.

By the time the girls reached the rooms, they were out of breath. Isla opened the door to Hermione's room and Jet and Rowan stepped inside and placed Hermione on her bed and put the covers over her.

"Thank you so much Rowan."

"No problem. Holy she's heavy," Rowan groaned.

"Don't say that when she's awake," warned Jet.

"Don't worry, I won't."

Rowan left the room to her room, and Jet and Isla headed into their room next door. Sleeping soundly in the crib near their bed was their daughter Ivy. She looked so cute and peaceful. While Isla went to get changed in the bathroom, Jet just smiled down at her daughter.

"You have the most luckiest life ever, you know that, hmm?"

When Isla got out of the bathroom, Jet quickly went inside and changed into her ankle length midnight blue nightgown. When she was all changed she headed back into her room and crawled into bed.

"Night Isla."

"Night Jet."

After that the two girls were out like a light. Sleep came easy to them, taking them into peaceful dreams. But of course, a pleasant nights sleep means an early morning wake.

It was a little past seven when either girl's woke up. Isla was a little more awake than Jet was. Jet was even more exhausted than she ever was in her life. But after getting in the shower and changing into her school uniform, she felt a little more awake.

"Okay, so Aretha will be coming in a little bit to look after Ivy for the day."

"Well at least we have an idea who's coming this time."

"There was a mix up, okay?"

"Whatever, I heard there's waffles," Isla said changing the subject.

"Oy wait up."

The two girls ran down into the common room where they saw Hermione sitting on the couch still waking up. She was rubbing her neck, for a possible neck ache from last night of sleeping on the chair.

"Morning Hermione."

"Morning."

"Hey, I was wondering, by any chance are you done you're homework?"

"Yes. Why?"

"Um…do you have your uh…revising under control?"

"Yes. Why?"

"Well, uh…"

"Why?" asked Hermione in an annoyed tone.

"We need help with a potion we're making."

"Jet, you are the best potions maker ever in our year."

"Yeah, well there's some side effects to it and I don't want to figure them all out right now."

"Sure, you mind telling me what it is?"

"Tonight, not here or now."

"Okay, show me tonight."

With that, the three girls left the Gryffindor common room and headed down to the Great Hall for breakfast. Along the way, they passed quite a lot of people on their way down to the Great Hall.

Once sitting down on the benches, Isla began to collect her breakfast while Jet picked at a few things. Hermione busied herself with a drink of Pumpkin juice while waiting for the morning paper to arrive.

"So uh Jet, what's with the nervousness?"

"Nothing, I uh…nothing, absolutely nothing."

"Does it have something to do with the potion?"

"Possibly."

"Just tell me then."

"Can't too many people."

"Okay, fine."

After breakfast, Jet and Isla headed back up to the common room to collect their books for the next classes. Sitting in the common room was Aretha holding Ivy in her arms.

Aretha was a Nymph that was the best babysitter they had since Nikki. She had hair the colour of sun on a nice summer day. Pieces of her hair fell on her light brown skin. Her eyes were the colour of teal. She was the Nymph of water.

"Morning girls."

"Hey Aretha, what's going on?" Jet asked.

"Hmm, not bad, I'm not complaining," Aretha said with a soft laugh.

"That's cool, well we'd better head out, we got our stuff now, so see ya later."

"Bye you two."

Once in the hall again, they came up to Sakura who was talking with Drisana. Casually they walked up beside the two women.

"Hey, how's it going?" Drisana asked surprised. Drisana had dark brown hair that hung nicely down her back to her waist. She had dark eyes, no one could really tell what colour they were. Her background was Hindu, she met Jet and her sister during third year, and ever since then they've been friends.

"Not bad, you?"

"Not bad, did you talk to her?" asked Sakura.

"Yes, and she said she will."

"Excellent, did you tell her what it was?"

"No, we're going to wait for tonight."

"Fair enough."

The entire day was just another boring day. Classes went by almost like a roller coaster, fast then slow, then back again, just dragging along at its own pace. The entire time, Jet couldn't wait to tell Hermione the plan, praying that she wouldn't freak out too bad, especially after what happened in second year.

Boredom finally hit near the end of the class of the day, of course that meant Divination class, only good thing was it was no longer Professor Trewlaney, it was now Firenze. But problem being it was still boring. The last class decided to take forever, which put Jet into a slumber. When the class was over, Jet was still a little dazed from what was going on. Isla had to snap Jet out of her trance before dinner.

During dinner Sakura and Jet with the others were all sitting at the table talking. Hermione was near them also in the conversation, trying to understand what was going on.

"So, is someone going tell me what is going on?"

"Not here, it's not safe, especially with her around," Sakura said pointing toward the teacher's table at Umbridge.

"So when are you going to be telling me?"

"After dinner, I promise."

"Tell you what?" Ron asked sitting down.

"Nothing," Sakura said not looking at him.

"What?"

"Nothing," Sakura said again, she really didn't like Ron, even when they first met.

"Hermione, what's going on?"

"Nothing is going on."

"Okay, so Hermione by any chance are you done your Transfiguration homework?"

"Yes, why do you want to know anyway?"

"Well…uh…I need to look at your notes."

"I thought you said you were done?"

"Well I've been busy with…"

"Don't even try it, we all know that won't work."

"Fine, I haven't been able to get it. Better?"

"Yes, I'll help you when I can."

"Hey Hermione, we're heading out now, coming?"

"Yeah sure, wait up."

Everyone got up from the benches and headed out of the Great Hall with Fred and George right behind them. Everyone headed down to the classroom where the potion was. Sakura shut the door to the room and turned to face them once they got there.

"Okay, just to bring Hermione up to speed, what's going on it we're making a potion to turn the entire school into Cat people. I don't know if your still a little freaked about it from second year or not, but yeah, so do you still want to help make the potion?"

"Yeah sure, not a problem."

"Cool, this is going to work out so well."

"Hey, we have a plan as well," Fred said.

"What is it?"

"Think fireworks," Fred said. George went into explained how they were going to set it up.

"That would be excellent."

As everyone was standing there trying to work out the ideas, there was a knock on the door, everyone froze with fear and stared at the door. When the knock came again, it was as a password. Jet walked over to the door to cautiously open it to see Elisha standing there.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Jet asked the distraught friend. She was same age as Jet and her sisters. She had black shoulder length hair, and one annoyed attitude. She was wearing her usual black jeans, with a dark blue tank top with a black jacket over top.

"Oh nothing, not if you count getting into shit because of Umbridge, she gave me a detention for swearing with my friends, so yeah I'm a little pissed off."

"Okay, come on in."

Elisha stepped into the classroom and Jet closed the door behind her and went to join the group with Elisha. Sakura filled Elisha in when she looked around with a confused look.

"So uh Jet, by any chance do you have a spell that I can cast on Umbridge?"

"Yeah, well actually I've about at least three or four you can use," Jet replied.

"Awesome, this should really work to our advantage on this."

"You think, okay, come on we better get going, I don't people to get suspicious," Sakura said looking at her watch.

"Okay, let's get going."

Everyone left the classroom, cautiously heading down the hall to the Gryffindor common room. Once there, everyone headed inside the room, half of them retreating up to their rooms for sleep while some of others remained down in the common room to work on any homework or just relaxing in front of the fire.