A/N: You might have noticed I end all of my stories in cliff hangers. Well, that's because I want my stories to keep going and going because that is what makes them fun. I will end this one... eventually. Please review and favorite. All characters belong to JKR.
Sky ended up in Knockturn Alley and with a furious look on her face, but she just wanted to be able to get her anger out. This was one of the only places she could do that and not be treated like a bad person, but that was life. People always discriminated to the muggleborns, but that doesn't stop other people discriminating against outraged purebloods. They were usually the bad guys, and it wasn't that fair. Other people could get mad and not be blamed, but if they were a pureblood, especially a Slytherin, then there was automatically a light bulb that popped up in everyone's heads. That light said that there was a death eater.
The sounds of whispers were vaguely audible to Sky's ears, and she heard her name a few times. News traveled fast if her father knew about it, and it often wasn't the most positive news that people would generally wish to hear.
Her eyes glanced over to see a couple of girls laughing rather annoyingly, but standing next to them were two wizard boys that seemed to be very distracted from the current conversation. One of the witches caught on to what the boys were looking at and she nudged the other to start looking as well.
Being very confused, Sky glanced over. She saw Neville walking through the dark alley and he had his eyes on one thing, the exit. She ran over to Neville and he jumped away. "Oh, thought you were someone else," Neville said smiling at Sky.
"No, I am just me, but who else would-," Sky began to ask before she was cut off by two wizard boys running down the alley. One of them slammed Neville into a wall while the other stood behind the other one to make sure Sky didn't join in on the fight.
"You don't DESERVE her! YOU AREN'T ONE OF US!" the boy with black hair said as he punched Neville so that his head crashed against the wall. Sky closed her eyes hoping this would be over soon and that Neville could possibly fight back.
"What are you-" Neville asked before being interrupted by another slam against the wall. The blonde boy grinned when he saw Sky starting to shake with anger. She hoped Neville would get out of there as soon as he could.
Sky heard his head being rammed against the wall one too many times, so she pushed the blonde to the ground and pointed her wand at him. He stood up and ran as far as possible. She just had one more left, and this wizard was going to be pretty hard.
The last wizard slammed Neville's head into the wall one last time, and Sky had it. She grabbed the other wizard and pushed him up against the wall. "Number one, Neville deserves me more than any other boy on the planet does. Number two, don't you dare hurt him. Number three, you need to go and crawl in your stupid little hole to die." He opened his mouth to reply, but Sky said, "PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!", before anything could happen.
"How did you manage that?" Neville asked Sky as he stared at the other boy. She shrugged and said, "How did you manage to be the damsel in distress?" He crossed his arms and said, "I could have won if I wanted to." Sky's only reply was a laugh and she added, "Because death sure is a reward." "Are you emo now?" "No, Neville, that was sarcasm."
Neville opened his mouth to reply, but Sky kissed him gently instead. "You okay, you got pretty beat up back there?" Sky said laughing. Neville glared at her and said, "I'm fine."
Sky said, "So what were you doing here?" as she held his hand and started walking out of the alley. Neville glanced at her and said, "You sent me an owl telling me to meet you there immediately. I thought you might have been hurt or something."
She shook her head and swore under her breath. "Dad did go through my mail, so I wouldn't doubt that he sent you that letter. I know I didn't, so it had to have been him. I am so sorry," Sky said hugging Neville once they were now safely in Diagon Alley.
"Wait, but how did those guys know I was going to be here?" Neville asked looking at Sky very puzzled. She looked up at him and shook her head.
"I think he paid them," She said as she started to stare at her feet. "I'm sorry." She frowned and looked back up at Neville. His face was still blank with confusion, but it almost always was. She smiled trying to cheer him up, but he didn't smile back.
He glanced down at her and said, "He doesn't like me… none of your friends do… so I was thinking-" He looked back up and sighed.
Sky crossed her arms and said, "Neville, where are you going with this? You aren't dumping me, are you?" She felt her eyes start to tear up and she had to hold herself back from crying with every inch of energy she had, "I just saved you back there and now all of my family and friends hate me!" She couldn't help it any more, she just had to cry. Tears started to explode from her eyes at the pace faster than the worlds most powerful waterfall. She mumbled, "You don't know what happened back at the manor." With that, she darted off through the alley, not caring who she ran into on the way.
Neville yelled, "THAT ISN'T WHERE I WAS GOING, SKY!" He ran after her and grabbed onto her arm. She spun around, and Neville hugged her. "No, I was about to say that I was thinking you could stay with one of my friends."
Sky shook her head and said, "That is asking for too much from them, I don't even know most of them."
"You know Luna and-" Neville began before Sky was staring behind his shoulder. Sky hugged Neville as tight as she could and started crying again. Neville said, "What are you doing?"
"Well, look here. Nevvie and SkyPie," Lucius said as he walked up to the two. "Let's go back to the manor and have a little chat, you two," Lucius said laughing.
Neville nodded and said, "Yes sir." He held Sky's hand and they apparated to the manor, much to Sky's disagreement.
