Upon arrival detention didn't look so bad, nobody was there but professor Slughorn and she was sure she could brave detention with whoever Mr. Black may be.

"Aah, Mrs. Levesque right on time. I am glad you're here. Please take a seat." He smiled smugly, as if he'd won a battle that Hazel didn't even know they were fighting. She took a seat, as he suggested but as far away from Slughorn as she could get.

"Alright, I want you Mr. Black to write, I will not blow up my cauldrons a hundred times." He seemed pretty happy with that punishment, even if it was pretty lame. Hazel turned to look to see who Slughorn had addressed only to spot a boy five feet away from him, resting his head on the table, as if he were sleeping.

He wasn't just any boy, he was the boy from the train, and then the boy who'd rudely ran into her in the Gryffindor common room. It was as if the universe was pushing as many unlikely encounters on the two as possible.

Then he turned to Hazel and gave a sadistic chuckle, "You Mrs. Levesque need to write, I will not ditch class one hundred times."

Okay, so Mr. Slughorn may have been just as uptight as the rest of the teacher's, but he most certainly didn't know how to dish out punishments. He was too soft a man, and no amount of pretending could change him.

Hazel nodded pulling out her notebook. She dipped her quill into her ink and began furiously writing. It was bad enough she had her first ever detention, if she got caught not doing her work she wasn't sure what cruel punishment Slughorn would impose upon her.

Three lines in, Slughorn and him – who she'd come to find out was named Sirius – had a very light hearted conversation about why forcing somebody to write the same thing one hundred times was considered child abuse. It seemed as if Slughorn was winning despite the poorly chosen reasons supporting the statement Sirius was debating.

She pulled out her hearing aids, before her impulsive want to but in and prove both the two wrong got her in trouble. The world around her was completely silent, and thus provided her with a stable work environment.

Which also meant that if anyone was trying to get her attention she wouldn't answer which could potentially provide her with a few more troubles. However she was only focusing on getting her work done, and making it through detention without a hitch.

Which worked out for a little while, until the universe declared war on Hazel Levesque. If there was a time for the world to strike her down where she stood – sat – why must it have been now?

-

To Sirius's surprise it wasn't just he, Mrs. Levesque – as Slughorn called her – ignored. She even had the audacity to ignore Professor Slughorn, who wasn't in the best mood considering he'd just lost a debate surrounding child abuse.

To his credit, he put up a good fight. Most teachers never lasted as long, when Sirius didn't want to do things – such as spend his afternoon writing the same sentence a billion times – he usually found a way out of it.

There were a few things to remember when having an argument with Sirius Black,

He won't listen to what you have to say – only his word is valid.

He is usually always wrong - save for rare occasions, Sirius's people skills are always wasted on pointless arguments that cause both parties too much trouble.

Sirius is merciless – there aren't very many good things about being born to a family such as his, one good thing however was always getting what he wanted. Even when his parent's told him no, he was very charismatic and knew exactly what to say to get them to oblige. Some would say he was manipulative. He was raised to believe he was better than everyone else, and thus was the main reason he was so full of himself.

Yes, Sirius Black wasn't one to be messed with. Which Slughorn had found out years ago, yet always seemed to have forgotten. Upon losing he'd decided that maybe if he'd asked somebody else, who voice the same opinion as he, he could salvage what little bit of dignity the old man had left.

The only other person in the room being Hazel, didn't really leave with many options so he begrudgingly strode over to her. He let out a soft cough before launching into explanation.

When he'd seemingly went unnoticed, his speech unheard, Slughorn got angry. Which was rare. He did however have to put up with two teens he found far from pleasing. Anybody would have their blood boiling with a few hours with the two.

He tried again to get her attention but to no avail, it seemed as if he was completely invisible to the girl. Which was impossible, he had to have heard her. When he no longer found rationality to be a good way to get her attention he slammed his hand roughly against her desk.
Which in turn caused her to recoil so far she fell off of her stool and landed on the ground withering in shock. Her face turned a sickly shade of pink as she looked up at her teacher. Sirius held in a snicker.

He was glad to see that this girl wasn't causing just trouble for him, but Slughorn also. He'd managed to get her out of his head, and convince himself she was just a human in the process. Which worked beautifully, he no longer felt that tug in his heart when she didn't pay attention to him. However there was still a nagging voice ringing in the back of his mind, which he did his best to ignore.

-

Hazel felt absolutely humiliated. She was silently cursing the world, and Slughorn for being such a nuisance. They'd been able to co-exist for the past sixteen years why couldn't they continue to do so. Why'd he have to make everything so hard on her all of a sudden?
It wasn't until twenty seconds in to his little rant did Hazel realize he was ranting. The world was still silent to her and even though she could make out a few words, she couldn't understand a thing he was saying. He was talking to fast for her.

She stood quickly and held up a finger to Slughorn as if to silence him. To her surprise, it worked. When she'd located her hearing aids and managed to put them in she began, "Okay say that again but a little slower."

Not to Hazel's surprise he didn't oblige. He was staring at her curiously, the anger he was once boiling with faded to a whimpering curiosity.

"Mrs. Levesque next time I request your attention please don't ignore me." Hazel hadn't picked up on most of that but could make out ignore and immediately went into defensive mode.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Mr. Slughorn you mistake me. For I was not ignoring you I simple couldn't hear you. Surely you must know I am deaf?" Upon his shock Hazel realized he did in fact not know that she was deaf.

She'd been attending his class for six years and he didn't know that she was deaf? To be fair she'd never told anyone, assumed they'd already knew. She'd thought at least the teacher's knew, surely Dumbledore run it by them.

Slughorn immediately felt shame for behaving in such a disappointing manor. He didn't know if she was really deaf but he'd had no choice but to assume she was telling the truth, for why would she lie? If she was pretending she sure was good at it.

"Excuse me, Mrs. Levesque. Please resume your work." Grateful for the peace yet still reeling from her encounter with Slughorn she half-heartedly resumed her work.

-

Sirius felt as if he was going to be sick. Deaf? She ignored him because she was deaf? Or maybe she didn't ignore him at all, maybe she just didn't know he was there. Then he thought of when he'd accidentally bulldozed her over in the common room and he felt the farthest thing from fine.

He ran a hand through his curly hair, he didn't understand why this was such a big deal. It's not like it was the end of the world. One girl couldn't hear, big deal.

Yet he knew it was a big deal, there was so many things to hear; like the crack in someone's voice when they say I love you, or the desperate trading of laughs that trailed behind Sirius enrapturing him.

He set his quill down, no longer ready to defile anything. He'd planned on writing something about how lame Slughorn was but now all he wanted to do was sulk.

He tried telling himself that this didn't really matter. that there are so many things going on right now, some deaf girl could not be his top priority.

-

When Hazel had finished her work she raised a hand, repeating the words she'd planned on saying aloud in her head over and over. When Slughorn called on her, she could tell he still wasn't over the little incident that happened a few minutes ago.

"Yes, Mrs. Levesque?" He asks rather loudly, Hazel could see his lips move slowly as if to enunciate each word carefully so she could catch on.

"I've finished." She said lamely, her rehearsed words gone out the window. He gave a curt nod, "Of course you are, Mrs. Levesque. You may go, I hope to see you on time tomorrow." He attempted to make his words pointed but they just kind of sounded hopeful.

It was as if the atmosphere had been sucked from that room, like the three people residing in it would suffocate should they stay there any longer. Which they probably would for the tension was high.

With Hazel's pride lost, she quietly marched from the room. Yet Hazel was far from graceful, which through the years she'd come to blame it on bad breeding, and her bad hearing.

She tripped over her feet and landed right in front of Sirius Black, who seemed to have been staring off into space. She sat there for a moment debating whether or not she should just stay there and never move again.

Without meaning too she'd accidentally received Sirius's attention, she'd meant to give a sigh of defeat but when she'd caught sight of his eyes she let out a scoff. He was some stupid boy who didn't know just how insufferable he really was. Hazel no longer felt as if she would like to reside on the floor. She stood quickly and scrambled to exit the room.