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Chapter 3:
Lily gasped when she saw Calico's father for the first time. He was very tall with almost perfectly white skin; his raven black hair fell in a part at his eyebrows, his black eyes shown out against the stark white of his face. He was dressed all in black with a heavy black traveling cloak fastened at his neck.
Bridgette was talking with Calico and greeting all of her friends with handshakes and warm smiles. Her father however, remained silent and unmoving.
"Maurice, please say hello to your daughter's friends."
He turned and when the word "hello" ran off his tongue, a chill when up Lily's spine.
"C'mon mummy, daddy, lets go in the castle for some hot chocolate."
"I see you've gotten much strong," said Bridgette as the group moved into the castle.
"Thanks to Professor Brightman," said Calico walking in after her mother.
"He's still here? He was here when I was here," said Bridgette with a surprised tone. "He must be a million years old by now."
As they walked through the halls a bit later, Lily was becoming curious about Calico's father. He was tall, with a dark atmosphere around him, and mysterious. He was completely unlike Calico. She wondered how her parents ended up together; they were at different ends of the spectrum.
The Leckas left that evening after supper. Calico was upset to see them go, but she knew that she would see them again soon enough.
"Lets go back to the Common Room. James and Sirius can nick us some tea and cookies from the kitchens," said Lily.
"Since when did you become everyone's thief?" asked Sirius.
"Since now!" exclaimed Lily.
The two boys scuttled off and the rest went back to the Tower. Since no one else was in the Tower, and took the whole common room to themselves. James and Sirius returned a few minutes later with a tray of tea and cookies. At one point Calico go up and went up to the dormitory for a moment. There was a photo album of hers laying on the coffee table of the common room. James picked it up and began flipping through it.
"I hate to say this, but her dad looks very scary with out his cloak. Its almost like he's a Vampire. Vampires are cool but I just don't wont to meet one in a dark alley," said James.
"I hate Vampires. Their entire race should be exterminated," said Peter bitterly.
At that moment they heard the sound of china breaking on the floor. Everyone jumped and turned. Calico stood there frozen, her teacup lay shattered on the floor.
"Calico? What's the matter?" asked Sirius.
"N-nothing," stammered Calico using her wand to clean up the glass shards.
"You're a really bad liar," smiled Lily.
Calico returned the smile uneasily before letting out a breath she seemed to have been holding.
"I'll be back, I'll get more tea," said James leaving the Common room with the tray in his hands.
"Cal, what's the matter?" asked Lily.
"Nothing, I promise," said Calico.
"You can't lie. You're really bad at it."
"Why was Peter talking about Vampires?" asked Calico finally.
"He's weird, you know that. Chill out hon, its not like he was suggesting that you're a vampire."
James reappeared later with another pot of tea and tray of cookies. But it seemed as though he'd been gone longer than just a trip to the kitchens. Calico slept well that night and as a result woke up late the next morning. She dressed quickly and went out the door into the common room and found no body. When she reached the bottom of the steps into the Great Hall she found Lily and James in a heated argument.
"James if she was she would have told me! And besides does she really seem like one to you?" yelled Lily.
"Does who seem like what to who?" asked Calico.
James backed up in fear. Calico looked confusedly between the two.
"James got in his head that you're a Vampire because you're dad reminded him of a Vampire."
"She is you twit." Said and oily voice.
Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy sidled up to Calico and Lily.
"Look at her skin," sad Severus. "And theses."
Cal was grabbed roughly from behind and her hands twisted behind her back. Severus walked around and forced her lips open revealing her rather sharp pair of teeth. Lily gasped and backed up. Calico fought free and slammed her fist into Severus's face before running from the Great Hall. Tears streamed down her face as she burst out on to the grounds. Her secret was out. She sat shivering for a few hours before someone put a cloak over should shoulders. She looked up and saw sandy blonde hair and golden brown eyes.
"Why are you here Remus? Aren't you afraid I'm going to suck your blood?" sniffed Calico.
"No, you're too sweet. That's why you take that potion so you're almost like human." Said Remus.
"How did he find out?" asked Cal.
"James? Well he made a stop at the library lat night after seeing your father and showed us all and said 'Doesn't this look like Cal's dad?' This is Maurice Lecka."
Calico hung her head and looked at the snow.
"C'mon, they're ready to apologize."
Remus helped her up and she gave him a hug. He put an arm around her shoulders and led her back inside. James, Lily, Sirius, and Peter were still sitting at the Gryffindor Table.
"Cal," said Lily standing up. "I'm so sorry."
It was one long line of apologies, with James' being the longest.
"Apologies accepted," said Cal. "Now don't we have some mischief to commit?"
One wintry day towards the end of break Cal was walking outside one the freshly fallen snow. It was completely silent except for her own feet. Calico got that feeling that she was being watched. She stopped and turned and was met with a blow to the face that knocked her out cold.
"Remus, have you seen Cal?" asked Lily.
"No, but she said she was going for a walk," said Remus looking up at her.
"She's been gone for three hours!"
"C'mon!"
The pair hunted all over the inside of the school for her. Lily burst out the front door and onto the grounds with Remus at her heels. Lily ran out and down towards the lake. She saw a heap down near the bank. She gasped and ran down to the bank and sank to her knees next to Calico's still figure. Her skin and lips were tinged a blue frost color. A large gash above her right eye and a bruise that covered the whole side of her face that could be seen.
"Oh my god she isn't dead is she?" said Lily taking note to all the extra blood around her face and head.
"I don't think so," said Remus checking for a pulse. He turned her onto her back carefully and Lily gasped and turned away. The whole left side of her face was ripped open. He picked her up and carried her to the hospital wing with Lily sobbing behind him.
"Lily, she's not dead," said Remus putting a hand on her shoulder after Madame Pomfrey ushered him out.
Remus steered Lily back to the common room where they found the rest of their friends.
"Hey you guys, did you find Cal?" asked James.
"Yes, and she was severely injured. We need to figure out who did this," said Lily darkly.
Remus gave her a sidelong glance and for a second he thought she was about to go berserk and kill somebody.
"I think we should just wait until she wakes up and ask her who did it. That way we don't wrongfully accuse someone of doing something that they didn't do." Said Sirius.
They stared at him in shock.
"Did that hurt you in anyway?" asked Lily still staring.
"Did what hurt me?" asked Sirius.
"That brilliant thought," said James.
"Guys, I'm not as think as you dumb I am," said Sirius cracking a smile.
The group continued to study and go about doing what they had been doing but Lily had begun to pace.
"Lily, please stop before you wear a hole in the floor," said James.
"I can't, I'm worried."
"You shouldn't be worrying about me."
They turned towards the portrait hole and saw Cal leaning just inside.
"CAL!" exclaimed Lily. "You're alright!"
"Of course I'm alright. I'm immortal, sort of. As long as my heart beats I can regenerate.
"That's amazing," said James in awe.
"Who did this to you?" asked Remus seriously.
"Who else?" said Cal with a shrug. "Lucius Malfoy, but I wouldn't bother trying to convict him of it because he daddy will get him out of it and manage to somehow get me expelled."
"Well we can't let that happen now can we?" said Sirius with a smile.
"No, I just thought that I would give him a bit of a scare," said Cal with a smirk.
"I like the way she thinks," said Sirius with a glint in his eye.
Chapter 3:
Lily gasped when she saw Calico's father for the first time. He was very tall with almost perfectly white skin; his raven black hair fell in a part at his eyebrows, his black eyes shown out against the stark white of his face. He was dressed all in black with a heavy black traveling cloak fastened at his neck.
Bridgette was talking with Calico and greeting all of her friends with handshakes and warm smiles. Her father however, remained silent and unmoving.
"Maurice, please say hello to your daughter's friends."
He turned and when the word "hello" ran off his tongue, a chill when up Lily's spine.
"C'mon mummy, daddy, lets go in the castle for some hot chocolate."
"I see you've gotten much strong," said Bridgette as the group moved into the castle.
"Thanks to Professor Brightman," said Calico walking in after her mother.
"He's still here? He was here when I was here," said Bridgette with a surprised tone. "He must be a million years old by now."
As they walked through the halls a bit later, Lily was becoming curious about Calico's father. He was tall, with a dark atmosphere around him, and mysterious. He was completely unlike Calico. She wondered how her parents ended up together; they were at different ends of the spectrum.
The Leckas left that evening after supper. Calico was upset to see them go, but she knew that she would see them again soon enough.
"Lets go back to the Common Room. James and Sirius can nick us some tea and cookies from the kitchens," said Lily.
"Since when did you become everyone's thief?" asked Sirius.
"Since now!" exclaimed Lily.
The two boys scuttled off and the rest went back to the Tower. Since no one else was in the Tower, and took the whole common room to themselves. James and Sirius returned a few minutes later with a tray of tea and cookies. At one point Calico go up and went up to the dormitory for a moment. There was a photo album of hers laying on the coffee table of the common room. James picked it up and began flipping through it.
"I hate to say this, but her dad looks very scary with out his cloak. Its almost like he's a Vampire. Vampires are cool but I just don't wont to meet one in a dark alley," said James.
"I hate Vampires. Their entire race should be exterminated," said Peter bitterly.
At that moment they heard the sound of china breaking on the floor. Everyone jumped and turned. Calico stood there frozen, her teacup lay shattered on the floor.
"Calico? What's the matter?" asked Sirius.
"N-nothing," stammered Calico using her wand to clean up the glass shards.
"You're a really bad liar," smiled Lily.
Calico returned the smile uneasily before letting out a breath she seemed to have been holding.
"I'll be back, I'll get more tea," said James leaving the Common room with the tray in his hands.
"Cal, what's the matter?" asked Lily.
"Nothing, I promise," said Calico.
"You can't lie. You're really bad at it."
"Why was Peter talking about Vampires?" asked Calico finally.
"He's weird, you know that. Chill out hon, its not like he was suggesting that you're a vampire."
James reappeared later with another pot of tea and tray of cookies. But it seemed as though he'd been gone longer than just a trip to the kitchens. Calico slept well that night and as a result woke up late the next morning. She dressed quickly and went out the door into the common room and found no body. When she reached the bottom of the steps into the Great Hall she found Lily and James in a heated argument.
"James if she was she would have told me! And besides does she really seem like one to you?" yelled Lily.
"Does who seem like what to who?" asked Calico.
James backed up in fear. Calico looked confusedly between the two.
"James got in his head that you're a Vampire because you're dad reminded him of a Vampire."
"She is you twit." Said and oily voice.
Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy sidled up to Calico and Lily.
"Look at her skin," sad Severus. "And theses."
Cal was grabbed roughly from behind and her hands twisted behind her back. Severus walked around and forced her lips open revealing her rather sharp pair of teeth. Lily gasped and backed up. Calico fought free and slammed her fist into Severus's face before running from the Great Hall. Tears streamed down her face as she burst out on to the grounds. Her secret was out. She sat shivering for a few hours before someone put a cloak over should shoulders. She looked up and saw sandy blonde hair and golden brown eyes.
"Why are you here Remus? Aren't you afraid I'm going to suck your blood?" sniffed Calico.
"No, you're too sweet. That's why you take that potion so you're almost like human." Said Remus.
"How did he find out?" asked Cal.
"James? Well he made a stop at the library lat night after seeing your father and showed us all and said 'Doesn't this look like Cal's dad?' This is Maurice Lecka."
Calico hung her head and looked at the snow.
"C'mon, they're ready to apologize."
Remus helped her up and she gave him a hug. He put an arm around her shoulders and led her back inside. James, Lily, Sirius, and Peter were still sitting at the Gryffindor Table.
"Cal," said Lily standing up. "I'm so sorry."
It was one long line of apologies, with James' being the longest.
"Apologies accepted," said Cal. "Now don't we have some mischief to commit?"
One wintry day towards the end of break Cal was walking outside one the freshly fallen snow. It was completely silent except for her own feet. Calico got that feeling that she was being watched. She stopped and turned and was met with a blow to the face that knocked her out cold.
"Remus, have you seen Cal?" asked Lily.
"No, but she said she was going for a walk," said Remus looking up at her.
"She's been gone for three hours!"
"C'mon!"
The pair hunted all over the inside of the school for her. Lily burst out the front door and onto the grounds with Remus at her heels. Lily ran out and down towards the lake. She saw a heap down near the bank. She gasped and ran down to the bank and sank to her knees next to Calico's still figure. Her skin and lips were tinged a blue frost color. A large gash above her right eye and a bruise that covered the whole side of her face that could be seen.
"Oh my god she isn't dead is she?" said Lily taking note to all the extra blood around her face and head.
"I don't think so," said Remus checking for a pulse. He turned her onto her back carefully and Lily gasped and turned away. The whole left side of her face was ripped open. He picked her up and carried her to the hospital wing with Lily sobbing behind him.
"Lily, she's not dead," said Remus putting a hand on her shoulder after Madame Pomfrey ushered him out.
Remus steered Lily back to the common room where they found the rest of their friends.
"Hey you guys, did you find Cal?" asked James.
"Yes, and she was severely injured. We need to figure out who did this," said Lily darkly.
Remus gave her a sidelong glance and for a second he thought she was about to go berserk and kill somebody.
"I think we should just wait until she wakes up and ask her who did it. That way we don't wrongfully accuse someone of doing something that they didn't do." Said Sirius.
They stared at him in shock.
"Did that hurt you in anyway?" asked Lily still staring.
"Did what hurt me?" asked Sirius.
"That brilliant thought," said James.
"Guys, I'm not as think as you dumb I am," said Sirius cracking a smile.
The group continued to study and go about doing what they had been doing but Lily had begun to pace.
"Lily, please stop before you wear a hole in the floor," said James.
"I can't, I'm worried."
"You shouldn't be worrying about me."
They turned towards the portrait hole and saw Cal leaning just inside.
"CAL!" exclaimed Lily. "You're alright!"
"Of course I'm alright. I'm immortal, sort of. As long as my heart beats I can regenerate.
"That's amazing," said James in awe.
"Who did this to you?" asked Remus seriously.
"Who else?" said Cal with a shrug. "Lucius Malfoy, but I wouldn't bother trying to convict him of it because he daddy will get him out of it and manage to somehow get me expelled."
"Well we can't let that happen now can we?" said Sirius with a smile.
"No, I just thought that I would give him a bit of a scare," said Cal with a smirk.
"I like the way she thinks," said Sirius with a glint in his eye.