The rest of the week was blurry to James, When he finally stumbled back onto the castle grounds the sky was slowly fading from the pitch dark black it had been when he entered. The woods had livened up when he walked out of it as some of the birds that took home to the trees chirped at the on coming morning. He had walked, well limped actually into the castle and towards the common room hopping that Laine could help him heal his hurt leg and the rest of him but without a chance of luck Filtch and his bloody cat had found him sneaking in that early morning and dragged him by the ear painfully towards Headmistress McGonagall's office. She had then dragged him to the infirmary giving him a lengthy lecture about how if she ever caught him sneaking in he would have highly unsought punishment.
"Headmistress I swear I was only cur-" James tried to explain to the old witch but she wouldn't budge. She only put her free hand to her lips making a 'shushing' sound towards him.
"Mr. Potter, This is you're final year at this school. I would think that you would have out grown this tomfoolery and begin to think of life as a responsible young adult would by studying for your O.W.L's" she gazed over at the young boy following beside her with a stern look. The wrinkles on her forehead creased together as James looked back to her from the floor. He thought about telling her what had happened out in the woods but he knew if he did there would be a lot my explaining to be done.
"What fun with that be?" he questioned as he counted the bricks on the wall they were passing, old witches and wizards in painting's watching them with such interest if they could have they would have fallen through the frame. "Study, study, study." he chuckled slightly as McGonagall let out a sigh.
"Just like your grandfather." she stated keeping her eyes on him with interest. "He saw thing's that way, and still made his way to be as talented as he was." she looked ahead at the hospital wing that was a few feet away and looked over at James. "If I find you out on the castle ground's again this late without a reason, It will be detention and I will contact your parents, keep that in thought." she nodded and turned around walking to the end of the hall and out of James' sight.
The conversation went round in James' head for the next few days, having a debate with the thought of his inquiringness to know what was in the woods. He groaned as a headache started to come shaking through his skull and a bone in his leg snapped back into place next to another from the potion the night witch had given him and he sat back down pushing his head into the pillow. "Fuck." he muttered just as his vivacious best friend walked into the room with a slight spring in her step as his leg straightened more.
"Do you have to use such acrimonious language?" she questioned her pained best friend as she sat at the edge of his bed.
"Do you have to use words I don't know the meaning of?" he retorted with another question, bitterly as he lifted his head from the pillow showing his tousled bed head "What'dya want Laine? If it's more work from my class tell them to-"
"You're such a crab." she announced at him while holding out a chocolate frog in a box with raised eyebrows "I came to just see how you were." she dropped the treat on his stomach and stood up "but I see you are cranky so I'll-"
James stopped her with a sigh as he rubbed his forehead sitting up fully as the pain in his leg started to null down to something bearable "I'm sorry, I'm just spent, my leg keeps me up half the night lately while it goes into place." Laine sat down next to him again with a nod and looked around at the hospital wing.
"I can tell you haven't slept." she nodded at him looking over "and not just because you look like you got your arse beat." James raised his eyebrows at he questionably and she smirked at him "When you're tired you act like a big baby."
Within a few day's after James was back on his feet and walking through the halls on time to his classes. He knew that if he could keep himself busy and his thoughts from wandering her wouldn't think of the woods or what had happened to him. He had started doing his homework and wandering around inside the castle walls with his cousins and Laine after hours seeing now they were all keeping a close eye on him, wondering themselves what there older cousin was possibly getting himself into.
"So what really happened last week?" his cousin Victoire's voice filled the hallways as she enquired him about the night, making his thoughts twitch over his longing to go into the woods.
"I think it was one of Hagrid's beast's, it must've broke out of it's cage and thought I was it's next meal.." James furrowed his eyebrows together. "I sent a curse at it when I was able to reach my wand and-"
"Liar." The shorter blonde snapped at him while keeping her gaze on the painting's occupants going throughout various activities, Her tone of voice caught James of guard and she looked over at him with raised eyebrows. "I know because you weren't the only one hurt."
"Who else was found hurt?" he asked, his eyes gleamed of inner curiosity of finding out what girl had helped him. He felt like he owed her, he knew he did and until he could figure out how he could repay her a thank you would have to be enough for now.
"Can't say." his cousin nodded her head at him and looked over at him. "Because I don't know. I heard professor McGonagall talking about her needing a potion when I went to see you." The young girl shrugged her shoulders and walked a bit faster as if to get away from the questions her cousin had to ask her.
"Why wouldn't she just go to the infirmary.." James frowned questioning her and himself at the same time as his eyebrows furrowed close together in unison.
Victoire shrugged and looked over at him with a smirk "Maybe she didn't want to have to look at your face everyday until she healed." It took a few seconds for the insult to click to James before they both took off down the hall, Victoire making her way away from James' chase.
Narcissa looked at her brother as he sat at the other side of the sullen green couch, frowning and looking at the tiles with a harsh glare. Looking down at her hands she fidgeted with her robes and adverted her gaze to anything but him. He was mad at her, it would only last a few more hours but it was still bothering her. "I don't understand why you're giving me the cold shoulder." she announced finally, as the silence between them became deafening.
"I don't understand why you so such stupid things he said as he glanced down at the cast covering a good portion on her injured arm and he scoffed. "A broom." he shook his head back and forth slowly "If you had gotten hurt worst mom and dad would have had both our heads."
"Is that all you're worried about? Mom and dad finding out?" she raised her eyebrows and stood up starting to make her way up the dorm stairs, quickly being followed by her older brother who had wished he had chose better wording.
"I worry more about the fact if you had fallen differently out there you could have snapped your neck!" He shouted a little to loudly at her "Have you forgotten that can't just be fixed by a healing charm." he stopped walking as he was a few footsteps behind her letting her walk the rest of the steps up to the girls dorm where Zella appeared at the entrance with crossed arms over her chest with a skittish looking Athena hovering behind her in curiosity "What is going on now?" The mocha skin girl questioned at the older blonde boy as she narrowed her eyes, letting Narcissa walk through the door. Zella had started standing up for her friend more often as her brother had been taking things slightly to a ridiculous level of protection.
"She's being daft about her arm, and the broomstick situation." Scorpius scowled at the girl as he took a few steps back down towards the common room again.
"She isn't six years old anymore, Scorp. You can't control her life, You aren't your father." Zella turned away from the door as she started to walk into the dorm just as Athena appeared at the door looking down at the blonde, her sparkling brown meeting his soft storm cloud gray eyes before she looked at Zella mumbling something about how she thought the cast could come off by now. Zella nodded and turned towards Scorpius one last time.
"I'm trying to keep her from doing something stupid, Apparently my past efforts weren't good enough though." he waved his hand in a swishing motion at the door and mumbled as he moved down the stairs to the main floor with louder footsteps than needed.
"He is such an idiot." Narcissa announced as she started to pick at her cast with the end of a letter opener on her side table. Zella walked over and ripped it from her grasp as the two shared a friendly glare that was only intended anger from Narcissa to Scorpius and she looked down at her arm with a scowl.
"We've know this for years I thought." Zella agreed with her close friend as Athena sat next to the blonde, her wand in her hand as she slowly enchanted the cast to enlarge and slip from Narcissa's arm, Narcissa smiled at her a whispered a thank you. "I mean he is the same boy who tried to convince your mother to have you home schooled after his second year to keep you from getting into trouble."
Narcissa scoffed as she though of it and just shook her head, twisting her wrist around so that her arm got some movement as she did so. "I can't wait until he leaves. He act's like he want's what's best for me and then act's like this!" she waved her hand at the door and winced as she put to much force into it and rubbed her bad arm looking to her two friends.
"Smooth move." Zella smirked and avoided a swing from her friends leg as she backed away just in time. "What are you going to do about it?" she questioned her blonde friend as a look of thought crossed over her face and she looked down at her arm.
"Whatever I want to do." Narcissa nodded before she walked over towards her four poser bed and took of her robe leaving the rest of her school clothing on before she laid down on her bed closing the green curtains hiding her away in her own personal space away from her two friends that now had their eyebrows raised curiously.
The sun was rising slowly outside the window that Zella and Narcissa were leaning by and the design of the window's glass was shadowed onto the floor. Everything was quiet and peaceful this early and the only thing that was seen was teachers preparing for their classes and a few students who like the two girls liked the quiet hours of the morning. A pair of arms snaked their way around Narcissa's waist and she jumped slightly, Zella's face scrunching up showing freely announced disgust. "Can we help you?" she spat looking at the brunette boy who's lips had sprouted a smirk that hovered over her best friends hair.
Narcissa made a face as she saw the reflection of Arthur in Zella's harsh eyes and she made an attempt to move away from him. He snaked his arms a bit tighter pulling her closer. "What?" he questioned raising his eyebrows at her "I can't say good morning to my gorgeous girlfriend?"
"Not when I'm with her and every time I see your face I want to vomit in my mouth." she stated not caring about his reaction, "I would rather look at the Weasley boy than you. Narcissa smirked and bowed her head to hide it, secretly wishing he would move away at the comment but he just released her from his arms and pointed a finger at Zella "Watch it Zabini." he snorted at her, "Your face isn't a patch of roses either."
"Enough." Narcissa hissed as she turned to the boy that was behind her and narrowed her eyes at him, her soft gray eyes turning cold as she moved next to her best friend momentarily whispering that she would catch up with her soon and that she had something to deal with, as her still hash eyes darted towards Arthur again and Zella looked towards her cautiously. "I've got it Zella." the blonde nodded as her friend looked to the two and slowly walked off with reluctant footsteps.
"Why is she always such a bitch?" Arthur narrowed his eyes at the girl as she walked away, moving closer to Narcissa ignoring her attempt to move away from him. He wrapped his arms around he and grinned as he turned her around slowly to lean in towards her lips slowly to meet his until a hand was covering his preventing the connection and Narcissa pushed away from him breaking the hold he had around her leaving him dumbstruck. "Don't touch me." she snapped at him, the anger she didn't have when she was younger boiling up inside her as she crossed her arms over her chest glaring at him "and don't you -dare- insult my friends." she barked at him making the silent halls echo and a student down to hall take a sudden turn leaving it. Arthur's eyebrows furrowed as he moved closer to her until she was backed into a wall near the window, her eyes still fixed in a hard glare as she moved her hand to push his chest again and make him move until his hand wrapped tightly around her wrist.
"Where is this coming from?" he questioned her, an amused look filling his blue eyes. He leaned his free hand on the wall beside her head and some of the fire left her eyes slowly as she realized the situation she had gotten herself into. Narcissa tried to move her wrist away from it but it was a useless attempt at the fact he was stronger than her and the wrist he had grabbed was weaker due to being in a cast. "It's coming from the fact I have no interest in being with you." She annunciated to him with a slight shake in her voice as she reached for her wand her action being caught by the corner of his eye and he took it from her pocket and tossed it on the ground.
"We're going to talk like normal people about this," he hissed at her and she scoffed loudly letting a laugh rise up from her throat.
"Normal people are we now? She motioned with her head at her wrist he had grasp on and his hand by her head. "This is far from normal." she spat at him and squirmed at his grip.
"You'll run away if I let go." he scoffed and looked at her, "You're the one who agreed to try this again."
"I made a deal to try for my brother." she announced and narrowed her eyes at him, "but now I'm remembering how much of an arse you were last time, I guess some people never change do they."
James yawned loudly, over exaggerating his actual tiredness as Rose Weasley dragged him through the Hallway in her Ravenclaw robes that were to long for her dragging along on the floor. "Why are we up so early?" He asked and rubbed his eyes tiredly looking around the hallways at how dead they were. "This is what time normal people wake up to go to classes, They don't usually skip the first two." she answered him as she walked along the hall hitching her books up her arm more so that she could be in a more comfortable position.
"Well, Normal people are insane than." James looked around as they passed the windows to the courtyard and looked at the sky pointing out the window as he stopped walking making Rose pass him going up the hall "The birds aren't even awake yet, What does that tell you." The redhead rolled her eyes as she turned a corner.
James ignored her and walked into the courtyard looking around as the dew from the morning grass clinged to his shoes, he watched as an owl swooped down and made it's way through the castle and up towards the bowler where it belonged. Looking around James decided that if Rose didn't come looking for him again he would spend the first two classes here, who would possibly think James Potter was hanging out with an old tree. He snickered and started making his way over towards the benches that had been set out there until her heard a girls voice from the other entrance to the court yard and turned his attention towards that direction raising his eyebrows and slowly taking footsteps towards the voices.
"Let go of me!" The girl spoke first, loud enough for it to come clearly into James' mind.
"We can work this out." the boy who had been talking to her answered.
"It's over! I'm done." she stated, assertiveness filling her voice.
".?" he looked over as his thoughts broke away from the other conversation and he looked over to his busy redheaded cousin that was now grasping the bottom of his arm with her free hand "mind your own business, James!" she whispered as she gave his arm a tug back before he pulled away from her shushing her and walking towards the door and inside of the castle again.
James' gaze fell to a Slytherin boy who was in Albus' class that was holding the blonde that he had run into the other day, The one who had almost gotten him into a fight with his best friend. He could have walked away remembering what Laine had told him about her, and the fact the Rose now stood just outside the door motioning for him to come back outside. Instead he turned to the two of them and crossed his arms over his chest and cleared his throat gaining their attention and a acrimony glare from the boy. "Do we have a problem here?" he motioned to the boys had on Narcissa's wrist and the one leaned on the wall with raised eyebrows, feeling something in the pit of his chest faintly making him return the glare.
"Mind your own business, Gryffindor." Arthur snapped at the other boy as he moved away from Narcissa keeping a still tight grip on her wrist.
James took a step forward before Rose who had reached her hand out to grab him could stop him "I'm making it my business now, So why don't you let go of her and listen to what she said." the boy scoffed and chuckled looking over at him.
"What are you going to do about it?" he smirked at him with a Mephistophelian grin "Tell your famous daddy?"
"Stop it both of you!" both girls said at once as they stepped in-between the two, Narcissa ignoring the way it twisted her wrist and Rose ignoring the fact that she had a small regret of stepping into this.
"There is no need for this, James we have to get to class." Rose spoke to him in an agitated whisper "If her brother get's here and see's this he can do enough damage."
The hall slowly started to fill with student's only a few at a time, some turning their attention to the group that wouldn't be likely seen together. A few stopped completely pretending to have a conversation but obviously being nosey.
"James, listen to your cousin and go." Narcissa frowned looking at him and nodded her head not wanting to drive any more attention to the situation. All James did when she said this was stare at her for a moment before moving Rose out of the way.
"I'm not going not do that.." his eyes met hers and he frowned slightly "Some of us do have a heart when it comes to other's." suddenly his body twisted and he balled up his fist sending a clear punch into Arthur's nose causing him to release Narcissa's wrist who as soon as this happened moved away from the boy's arm span. The other boys arms flung over his nose as a clear snap was heard and Rose flinched, James shook out his hand and pointed to the boy across from his with an annoyed glace. "Except you" he stated looking at him and hiding a smirk "You seem like a dick.".
"Potter!" another's voice echoed from the end of the halls and everyone's heads turned to look as Narcissa and Rose's eyes both widened and James narrowed his eyes. "What do you think you're doing!" Scorpius yelled at him gesturing to Arthur and getting ready to pull his wand out.
"Scorpius, No!" Narcissa made her way over to her brother and James and stood between the two so that she was facing Scorpius. "Siria Narcissa Is-" he started as he reached out to push her out of the way again to get to James, finally having a reason to hex him.
"Listen to me you stubborn mule!" she said as she kept her ground in front of her brother. "Just for once!"