::Thoughts
Chapter 3: Pay back
Slytherin won their first match by 190 points.
Tom, like he'd promised, saw Amethyst make her first catch of the season but in doing so he also saw Lestrange curse his sister off her broom on her victory lap.
All hell had broken loose after that and Lestrange had been put in the Hospital wing on the bed next to Amethyst by Tom and Rubicelle.
He had also been placed in two weeks of detention.
Amethyst only spent an hour in the wing before taking flight.
Having had the girl as a patient before and knowing there was no chance in returning her to the wing Madam Boris gave her potions to Rubicelle.
"I don't see why I have to take them. It was a bloody concussion. Lestrange couldn't hex a fly properly," Amethyst whined as her sister stood in front of her waving the potions.
"Just take it or I'll tell Tom you're being difficult,"
It was well known among the trio that Tom had the uncanny ability to get what he wanted from them despite everything.
Whether it be through blackmail or stubbornness.
"If he touches my broom I'm coming after you Celle," Amethyst said with narrowed eyes before downing the potion and throwing herself backwards onto her bed.
"I don't get why you don't like Hospitals," Rubicelle said shaking her head.
Amethyst closed her eyes at the memories that Rubicelle had just inspired.
"You never tell me what happened in that foster home, Meth, maybe if you just talk to-"
Amethyst got up and headed to the door.
"You always do this, Rubicelle! Why do you always have to try and make me talk?" she asked angrily.
Rubicelle stood up knowing her sister's temper wasn't something to get on the bad side of without being prepared.
"Because it's eating you up from the inside out, it always has,"
Amethyst whirled around to face her twin her purple eyes were blazing with anger and hatred that the memories had inspired.
"Just stop, Celle, I don't want to revisit that,"
Rubicelle knew Amethyst believed she had to be the strong one out of them but for once she wished Amethyst would let her be strong for her.
Amethyst walked over and wrapped her arms around her sister.
"It's the past, Rubes, I'd like to keep it that way,"
The dorm door burst open and Olive Hornby strutted in.
"Ugh I was hoping you'd have heard the news and wouldn't be here," Olive said with a nasal tone.
She had flat black hair that was styled into pigtails and was a slightly ordinary looking girl.
"Why what's happened?" Rubicelle asked as Amethyst pulled out of their embrace.
"Another muggle born has been attacked," the girl responded with a roll of her eyes as if it wasn't worth her time.
"Who was it?" Amethyst demanded of the girl.
It was common knowledge that the bully of a girl was frightened of Amethyst more than anything else.
Her boggart was of Amethyst smirking, something Amethyst took advantage of when she needed to.
Olive looked at her before sighing. "Some weirdo called James Mckinely. Such a horrid name. I'm just disappointed it wasn't that loser Myrtle from Ravenclaw,"
Amethyst smirked and Olive shrieked a little before rushing into the bathroom and slamming the door shut.
It was an effective way of clearing the girl from the room.
Tom needs to stop this. Rubicelle thought to her sister.
Amethyst shrugged. I know.
Tom looked up as his sister sat around him.
"You need to stop, Tom," Rubicelle said looking her brother in the eye. "They don't deserve this,"
Tom just stood up.
"I appreciate your concern but its nothing to do with either of you. You have nothing to worry about and I'd prefer for my peace of mind that you left it all well enough alone,"
"They haven't done anything," Rubicelle said looking at the boy she considered her brother.
"They're muggle trash, you two know first hand how awful muggles are and these are the spawn of that evil," Tom said his eyes narrowed.
Amethyst knew she couldn't say anything. She didn't like muggleborns either but she wouldn't do this to them, her brother was taking it too far.
"Tom,-"
"No, Amethyst, if you love me and trust me, the pair of you will stay out of this it isn't safe," Tom said before walking away.
The girls watched as a gaggle of upperclassmen purebloods followed their brother out of the common room.
"He's lost control of it," Amethyst said shaking her head. "But he's determined to get it back under control so he can use it how he wants,"
"What can we do?" Rubicelle asked looking horrified.
"Nothing. Absolutely nothing, not without loosing Tom, and I'd rather have all the mudbloods in this place drop dead before loosing him," Amethyst said standing up.
"For someone who defends those lesser of herself you can be heartless, Meth," Rubicelle said shaking her head.
Amethyst grinned. "What can I say? you got all the heart in our development in the womb,"
"Miss NaStasia!"
Amethyst started awake looking at the aging transfiguration teacher.
"Yes professor Dumbledore?"
She could remember when the professor came to the orphanage for them.
***Flashback***
She, Rubicelle and Tom were all in Tom's room laughing at how Tony Campbell had mysteriously lost his shorts.
"That was brilliant, Meth," Tom chuckled nudging her.
"Well only I can make fun of you, you should know that by now Tommy," Amethyst said with a grin.
There was a knock on the door and eerily as one they turned to watch Mrs Cole leave an old man at the doorway.
"Who are you?" Tom demanded placing himself slightly in front of the girls.
Rubicelle hid behind her brother but Amethyst just watched curiously.
This man looked very influential but she didn't understand his thoughts.
Why was he so worried?
"You're here to take us to Hogwarts," Amethyst said bluntly.
"Ah Miss NaStasia, Mrs Cole warned me about your rudeness," Dumbledore said with a slight smile. "But alas yes you are correct, I'm here to inform you about Hogwarts,"
"A school for witches and wizards like us?" Tom asked looking to Amethyst for confirmation.
Amethyst nodded.
Dumbledore was curious as to how the three interacted.
They were obviously very closed children but they seemed to complete each other.
"I must say thought that theft, rudeness, lying and misbehaviour is not tolerated at Hogwarts,"
"How do we know you're not lying? You could be just coming to lock us away," Tom demanded.
The wardrobe erupted in flames and the box of goodies that Amethyst and Tom had collected from those that tried to bully them appeared out of the flames.
"It will not be tolerated," Dumbledore emphasised again gesturing to the box.
"They deserved it," Amethyst snapped. "Those that prey on the weak deserve every punishment that's thrown their way,"
Dumbledore gave them their letters and departed with only one thought in mind.
::They must be watched, such dark words out of a child's mouth indicates a dark future and I will not loose these children to the dark.
***End Flashback***
Amethyst remembered been offended by his thoughts and she still was.
Dumbledore still thought the three of them needed watching.
Especially her and Tom according to him.
"Your ignorance to what I'm teaching you is very rude," he said sternly. "Perhaps another detention is what you need,"
Amethyst rolled her eyes.
"If they haven't taken away the troubling behaviour that you've seen in me for six years how will one more make a difference professor. Perhaps if you want me to listen to you, you should be more interesting to listen to," she said before standing and walking from the room.
::Very troubling.
She rolled her eyes at the stray thought from the man.
"Well, well, well, look who I've found,"
Amethyst raised her eyebrow as Lestrange and his bunch of idiot friends surrounded her.
She knew Lestrange's older brother was in the group that surrounded Tom but the boy in front of her was nothing more than a nuisance.
"Move Tristan, I'm not in the mood," she snapped.
She was outnumbered seven to one and while she could prevent physical attacks her gifts didn't allow her to prevent magical ones.
She saw the blow coming before it came with help of her telepathy so she solidified her density making her as heavy and hard as the school itself.
"Shit!" he cursed as he knuckled broke on her cheek. "Get her!"
The rest of them tried jumping on her and they just fell through her and into each other.
"Crucio," Lestrange snarled at her.
Amethyst detached her mind from her body she watched herself shudder and arch but she felt none of the pain her body did.
The curse lifted and she let herself back into her body.
It ached but she stood with her eyebrow raised.
"Big mistake," she snarled.
"Indeed it was,"
Amethyst didn't turn as her brother and sister came to stand at either side of her.
"Crucio," Tom snapped at the Lestrange.
His screams echoed around them and Amethyst felt Rubicelle start to shudder as she felt the pain that Lestrange was in.
Amethyst pulled Tom's wand to her with her telekinesis.
He looked at her and she saw a flash of red before he realised who it was who disarmed him.
Amethyst let her eyes trail to Rubicelle who was shivering slightly and Tom blanched before nodding to Amethyst.
"You're lucky, Lestrange, that's all I'm going to say," Tom said before turning around and leading his sisters away.
Amethyst handed him his wand back and the three of them walked in silence not mentioning what had just happened.
Rubicelle shuddered.
How far would her brother had gone had Amethyst not stepped in?