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Ch6: First Impressions...
"Ginny whose side are you even on?!" Delilah whined pouting as she looked at the copper haired teen "Why would you bring them here?"
"Hey hey, were all friends-" Harriet said trying to defuse the tension before it got too wild.
"I didn't know you could sing…" Veronica said throwing Harriet's plan out of the window.
"And I didn't think that you were actually literate, guess we all learned something new today…" Delilah snipped, and the redhead's eyes immediately sharpened.
"Heartless bit-" Veronica's words were cut off by Ginny slapping her hand across her mouth as they took notice of the unfamiliar male snickering at Delilah side.
"And just what is so funny?" Delilah asked narrowing her eyes on the taller blonde who the others were surprised didn't flinch back from ice in her tone.
"You went and gotten yourself an interesting group of friends that's all, I never would have thought you would befriend so many Gryffindor's. they are not what I excepted and yet, they compliment you very nicely."
Delilah's cheeks tinted pink as she scowled but didn't say anything else.
"And who the hell are you?" Veronica asked as she stared at the guy, who had seemingly silenced the Malfoy.
"Ron!" Hermione and Ginny snapped.
"What?" She asked sparing them a confused look. Why where they always yelling at her like she did something wrong.
The blonde boy chuckled again before straightening himself out. "My name is Umehito Nekozawa."
"And just how do you know the ferret?" Veronica asked staring at the taller boy suspiciously.
"Ron!" Ginny hissed her face red as the blonde boy blinked at the name.
"Ferret?" He mumbled in confusion while Delilah scowled.
"You really are a complete idiot aren't you weasel?"
"What?" Veronica said glaring as she stepped up to the Malfoy. "You wanna go?"
"Not necessary." Luna said stepping between the two as she placed her hand on veronicas shoulder to ease her back.
"Besides you wouldn't want to make an even worse impression on her cousin, now would you?" Luna said sweetly but it shocked the golden trio all the same
"c-cousin!" Hermione, Ginny and Harriet seemed to choke out.
Veronica scrunched up her nose looking between the two not seeing the resemblance. "You two don't even look alike…"
"I wasn't aware we had to be identical to be related, not all of us can have"
"Pardon the confusion." Umehito said before removing his cloak and dark haired wig.
Ron's eyes widened as she stared at the two of them together.
"See the resemblance now weasel?" Delilah said even as she seemed to drape herself on him despite him beginning several inches taller than her.
"Bite me!" Snapped out from embarrassment as she took in the cousin's sly faces. Screw all those damn Malfoys!
"Really you should keep whatever sexual preferences you like to yourself." Delilah countered only further embossing the elder Weasley.
"You bitch!" Veronica chocked out her face as red as her hair.
"I'm so sorry" Ginny said towards the handsome blonde completely embarrassed by her older sister.
"It's alright." Umehito said putting on his cloak and wig as he smiled at the copper haired teen. "No harm done. To be honest it's a common mistake."
"If you don't mind me asking, why are you wearing a wig and a cloak?" Hermione asked curiously, and Luna sighed preparing for the worst when Delilah's head snapped towards the brunette. "I looked perfectly fine so why the charade? Surely you don't need to hide behind-"
"Actually Granger," Delilah spat glaring at the brunette who flinched at the livid tone she was using. "I do mind. Keep your nose in a book where it belongs and out of others personal affairs, especially when concerning my family."
"Lilah…you didn't have to-" He paused silencing himself when his cousin shot him one of those world renown Malfoy glares that quickly silenced him.
"What did you guys need. You were looking for us, right?" Luna said trying to eliminate the tension in the room.
"Ah y-yeah, we wanted to talk about what we learned today…" Harriet trailed off before looking at Umehito. He might have been her cousin and nice but that didn't automatically make him trustworthy of their business at Ouran.
Delilah's eyes followed Harriet's to her cousin and back before nodding.
"Well since they have so obviously tracked me down, my mood has been ruined I might as well return to classes." She said as she looked at him.
Umehito was a clever boy…that and he was a Malfoy, he wasn't a fool, who knew that they wanted to discuss something private and he knew a dismissal when he heard one.
"Right. Well then I best be going myself, perhaps I'll see you at lunch if you're not too busy?" he said looking down at his cousin with a hopeful expression, she was right about her company, he did miss her.
"Perhaps…" She said neither promising nor denying him.
He nodded in understanding. "Well then I shall see you later."
He kissed her on her forehead, nodding to the others before leaving the music room.
"Lu-" Delilah began, the silencing charm was whispered off of the Ravenclaw's lips before the Slytherin could finish her name.
Once they were sure the room was sound proof, they locked the doors, and set of a privacy ward that would alert them if someone was trying to enter the room.
They then moved the couches into a circle with a large table between them before beginning their discussion.
"Alright." Harriet began after clearing her throat. "We've discovered and interesting bit of information today and the day is not nearly finished. We wanted to catch you up to speed since you were not with us when we meet up with Ginny."
"What were you doing before I found you, by the way?" Luna asked turning her head towards Delilah as they were sharing the same couch.
"I was searching for anything suspicious or anything magical before I came across Umehito. But it seems my search was in vain no hidden passages, no talking paintings…"
"No nargles or any magical creature." Luna added.
"No magical reside…nothing." Delilah sighed. "But I know there has to be somewhere, this is an accredited wizarding school for Merlin's sake."
Harriet nodded. "Right, so then we must keep looking. Also, we will need to see those files you acquired on the students of this school."
Delilah raised an eyebrow before nodding. "Alright, but it will have to wait till the marrow."
"Why?" Harriet asked curiously.
"Simple. I want to make sure it is compiled with all important details we may need, not just standard information."
"Ok. Fair enough." Harriet said not really sure what the blonde was talking about but not wanting to argue with her. Harriet turned to Ginny. "Want to take over?"
Ginny nodded before sitting up straighter when Delilah's eyes locked on her.
"To keep a long story short. I came into contact with a girl that is a part of the host club."
Ginny knew that had Delilah been anyone besides herself she would have been in for over dramatized reactions.
However, when Delilah was served this kind of news she was always calm, calculated and collected. She was a true Slytherin.
Her best friend's eyes seemed to sharpen at the information. The slight blue in her eyes fading fully to a storm of silver. "Oh?"
"Yes."
"And?"
"Well, she invited me er, us to come and visit her, apparently they host in this room. Music room #3"
Delilah took in that information, but her eyes only seemed to ice over. "What else, did you pick up anything off of her?"
Ginny shook her head. "No, as far as I can tell she is a muggle, she let me borrow one of her mechanical pencils when she noticed that I had forgotten my quill-"
"How did she notice that, was she watching you?" Delilah asked sharply.
"No…I don't think so."
"Is it no or is it you're not sure, it cannot be both." Ginny resisted flinching at the hard tone. She knew her friend was looking out for her as Delilah didn't trust anyone especially not muggles but merlin did she feel like she was under investigation. Ginny made I side note to recommend Delilah look into being an auror, she was sure there was no one that could strike fear into the hearts of dark wizards in a single glance like she could.
"Delilah." Harriet said shooting the blonde a look to which the blonde blatantly ignored as she continued to drill into Ginny's peridot green eyes.
"I'm not sure, I mean, she wasn't watching me anymore than the average person in the room, I am a new student to her class."
Delilah nodded easing up and Ginny released a breath she didn't even realize she was holding before she took that as way to continue.
"I didn't sense her having any magical imprint on the device thus making me suspect her of being a muggle. We chatted briefly in class, nothing revealing more standard conversation of how I liked the school thus far ect. Then as I went to meet up with you all she offered to walk with me."
"And why would she do that?" Delilah asked suspiciously.
"She seemed worried I would get lost." Ginny shrugged. "She also didn't think I had any friends."
"Yes, she did seem relatively surprised when she saw us all. She was obviously excepting you to be alone." Luna nodded.
"She told me about some shortcuts that I could take to get around the school faster before we actually crossed paths with everyone."
"If she is a muggle, why is she a part of their group?" Delilah asked.
"She's their servant." Luna said and at that Delilah raised an eyebrow.
"They have her crossdressing so that she can continue working under them." Ginny clarified.
"She said it was because she had to repay a debt because of a broken vase that was worth 8 million yen." Hermione added.
"She's a slave and forced to lie about her gender because she broke a stupid vase, that's dumb." Delilah deadpanned.
"It could be that the vase was magical." Veronica offered.
"That's more believable but why not just pay them back? Why be a servant?" Delilah said.
"Or maybe it was even a portkey…" Harriet said suddenly. This idea had them all tensing.
"Do you really think so Harriet?" Veronica asked with wide eyes.
"It's the only thing I could think of that they would force a muggle into slavery."
"But she didn't look that put out by being a part of their group…maybe it's not that bad?" Hermione said with a frown.
"And what does that mean? They're wizards, there are plenty of spells they could be using against her and make her ok with it." Delilah said locking eyes with Hermione.
"Lilah's right. They work for the dark lord, they could be using the imperious curse on her and she doesn't even know it." Veronica said with a sigh.
"Or they could have slipped her a potion to make her compliant." Ginny sighed running a hand through her hair.
"Then that means we need to help her, she's clearly a victim." Hermione said.
"Unless she's not." Luna said evenly making the golden trio look at her with horror.
"Luna how could you say that?" Hermione asked with a frown.
"I'm just keeping all the options in the open." Luna said evenly.
"Luna's right, we need to look at both sides. If they are controlling her, they are no doubt using her as a spy, if she is doing this on her own, they might be rewarding she with only Salazar knows what." Delilah said even as she ran her fingers through Luna's hair making the petite girl lean into her touch.
"Why would you say that, do you think so lowly of her?" Hermione asked feeling the need to defend the girl.
"Muggles are often influenced by greed, are they not?" Delilah's eyes cut her down.
"And wizards aren't?" Hermione asked returning her gaze.
"I'm not saying wizards aren't, but what I am saying is take a look at muggles history all of their wars come down to greed. All of them, I'm a pureblood never once stepping into the muggle world until now and even I knew that, I wonder what that says about a muggle born witch, or perhaps are you just delusional against muggles period?"
At that Hermione was silence.
"So, what do we do?" Ginny said looking between Harriet and Delilah just like veronica Hermione and Luna were. She wanted an answer, but she was also wanted to take the heat off of Hermione as Delilah really seemed to not hold back against her today.
They had long since decided that the two were their leaders.
"We do nothing." Delilah said finally, and Harriet frowned.
"Delilah. If she's a victim-"
"And there you have said the magical word. If. I will not risk the lives of my friend on an if Potter…but perhaps you being the chosen one are? Tell me, how expendable are our friends to you, for some muggle girl?" Delilah's tone was hard and unyielding.
The two stared at each other willing the other to bend, and after a silent five minutes had pasted Harriet's eyes shifted downwards in submission even as Delilah stood to her feet, in a show of dominance.
Delilah cast her gaze to the others when the immediately settled on her seeing as Harriet had seemingly lost this round.
"We do nothing, except watch her. Her slavery voluntary or involuntary is not our main priority right now." Delilah's eyes took note of Ginny, Harriet and Hermione shifting uneasily at the thought of just abandoning the girl, but they knew she was right and that's all that mattered to Delilah.
Haruhi was not their priority.
"She offered for us to see her…" Ginny said.
"And as a group we decline." Delilah said evenly.
"Won't that seem a bit…suspicious?" Ginny asked curiously, and Delilah shook her head.
"No. Why? Because we are new students, we must first get fully acclimated into the school before we start looking at club or the sort." Delilah reasoned, and the group nodded before they all began to stand.
"We have missed class, but it is almost lunch time." Luna said with a smile.
"Great I'm starving." Veronica said stretching her arms.
"Do we sit together?" Ginny asked making her sister look at her like she was an alien.
"Why wouldn't we Gin?" Veronica asked resting her hand behind her head in a relaxed position.
"It won't look suspicious, because we are all from the same school obviously we would want to sit together as we are most familiar with each other." Delilah said placing a reassuring hand on Ginny's shoulder making her nod.
The group nodded before Delilah went to speak again but the red warning flashing from Luna's wand drew everyone's eyes.
"There are people trying to get into the room, people of magical descent." Luna said softly looking at Delilah.
"The host club." Delilah scowled.
"That's right this is their meeting room, our meeting was longer than I thought…" Harriet said looking down at her watch.
"Well then let's not keep them waiting…" Delilah said her eyes glittering and the five girls wondered if their Slytherin friend would make a scene before pushing it to the back of their minds.
With that thought safely tucked away they began walking towards the doors in pairs.
Harriet and Delilah leading the group with Ginny and Luna being the shortest and in the middle, Veronica and Hermione pulling up the rear.
Luna dissipated the spells she had cast as Delilah throw the doors open making the six boys and 1 girl immediately move to the sides.
"Ginny ?!" Haruhi called out to the girl making the girl look towards her. "Hey!"
"Um, hey Haruhi." Ginny said stepping out of their formation.
"Are you ok, you didn't come back to class, I was worried you got lost." Haruhi asked looking at her before casting a curious glance at her group of friends that had paused and was staring at her with rather unfriendly looks that they didn't seem to have earlier.
Haruhi also noticed that there was another girl in their group. Haruhi's eyes connected with hers and felt a shiver flow down her spine, the girl's eyes were subzero.
Haruhi had seen cold eyes before Ayanokoji gave them to her often before she was kicked out of the club but this girl eyes were on a completely different level, and by the way she was looking at her she could tell that the girl did not like her but unlike Ayanokoji, Haruhi was sure that if she crossed paths with her in the hallway she would find herself in a worse condition than something as petty as finding her bookbag in the pond.
Her eyes promised it.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Ginny said before she noticed Haruhi staring at Delilah. Ginny tensed she knew that look in Delilah's eyes and it didn't exactly spell anything good for Haruhi.
"Hey so, um are you and your friends going to come by?" Haruhi asked shyly, she didn't have any girlfriend's especially ones that knew her secret and Ginny seemed like a person that Haruhi would like to spend more time with.
Haruhi also fought the urge to flinch when she felt the boy's eyes move from the other girls to her.
"Um…" Haruhi watched as Ginny seemed to look back at her friend none moved a muscle but the twitch from the blonde lip seemed to be answer enough for Ginny. "Sorry Haruhi but I-we won't be able to come and visit. We are not currently looking into extracurricular activities at the moment."
Haruhi blinked away her disappointment before smiling, she could understand where Ginny was coming from, if she weren't paying back her debt she wouldn't be focused on anything besides her studies either.
"Ok, well-" Before Haruhi could offer to study with her Ginny surprised her by cutting her off.
"Hey look Haruhi, I have to go, so, see you in class tomorrow." she said abruptly before falling back in line.
Haruhi noticed only after Ginny was positioned next to the petite blonde in the middle did the slightly taller blonde turn her eyes away from her.
Haruhi noticed the taller blonde spare Ginny a side-ways glance seemingly looking over her before the six of them began walking away in synchronized formation.
She blinked and wondered what had happened just that fast that they seemed to be willing to show such coldness to her. It was all very…odd.
But what she found even weirder were the boys reactions to them.
They were tense as they stared after them even Honey-senpai and Tamaki-senpai…
"Guys?"
"Who's your new friend Haru-chan?" Honey asked cutely making Haruhi blink a couple of times at quick change of mode.
"Who Ginny?" She asked before inwardly facepalming because who else would he be referring too; the other five girls sure didn't ooze friendly.
He nodded. "Yes."
"She's one of the new foreign exchange students from London." Haruhi said easily.
"What's her last name?" He asked a bit too serious for his Lolita image.
"Weasley." The twins supplied before she could say it.
She looked at them to see they much like Mori-senpai Tamaki and Kyoya-senpai where still staring in the direction the girls had gone.
"And the others?" Honey said bringing her attention back to him.
"Uh, I'm not sure, I didn't get their names. We were formally introduced, and I only have class with Ginny." Haruhi said with a shrug.
There seemed to be momentary silence between the boys before Haruhi was shocked further by the boys.
"The host club will be closing for today." Tamaki said suddenly.
"W-what?" Haruhi gasped shocked.
Tamaki smiled at Haruhi as the brunette tried to wrap her head around the words he just spoke. "You heard me."
"What?"
"It's my decision after all." Tamaki said in offering but that wasn't enough for Haruhi.
"But why?"
"Takashi and I have to practice." Honey said suddenly making the brunette look at them.
"And I have an important meeting with a customer." Kyoya said.
"Our mothers fashion shoot is coming up-" Karou said
"-We need to prepare as we will so obviously be modeling." Hikaru said finishing his brother sentence.
"But but this is rather sudden, why now…is it because of the-"
"Haruhi." Tamaki said rather seriously making the girl look up at him, the last time she had seen him this serious it was when he was speaking to Ayanokoji. She just didn't understand what was going on.
"Consider this a vacation you could use this time to study and keep your high marks." Tamaki said.
"But-"
"No buts, I'm the king of this club remember." He said flashing her an easygoing smile that made her sigh and give in.
"Yeah, yeah I guess." She said before she began to walk away from them to look for a place to study.
"See you tomorrow." Tamaki chirped brightly, and the brunette paused giving him a small smile.
"Yeah, see you tomorrow Tamaki senpai." She said before walking down the corridor.
As soon as the males were sure that she was gone Tamaki's bright demeanor sobered up as he turned waltzing into the room that the transfers had previously occupied.
The boys set to work.
Mori and Honey warding with a silencing charm so they wouldn't be overheard while Hikaru and Karou checked the room to see if there were traps.
After the search was done they sat in a circle unknowingly much like the transfers.
"Kyoya." Tamaki said looking towards his trusted raven haired best friend.
The raven-ette need no other words pulled out a little black book before reading.
"Delilah Lucelia Malfoy Class 2A, 5'5" age: 17,
Harriet Jane Potter class 2B 5'7" age: 17,
Luna Primula Lovegood class 2B 5'0" age:16,
Hermione Jean Granger 2C 5'3" age: 17,
Veronica Breanne Weasley class 2A 5'7" age: 17,
and Ginevra Molly Weasley class 1A 5'6" age: 15. They are apparently exchange students from an academy from London, the six of them all excelling in such a way academically that their headmaster deemed it to be enough to send them here…like some sort of vacation…but that's only if you believe those words that came from their mouth."
The other hosts waited for him to continue but when it was clear that he wasn't Tamaki felt the need to speak.
"Is that it?"
"Yes, that I all I could find on them."
The other host shifted uneasily with disbelief.
"Birth records?"
"Classified."
"Health records?"
"Classified."
"Class schedules? School transcripts? Current address? Favorite food? Favorite color?"
"Classified. All of their information is classified."
"What, how can that be?" Tamaki asked in confusion.
"I don't know. But your father's seal is on all of their information, the others are foreign seals that I have never seen before. So real question is what is your father so willing to hide about these new transfer students." Kyoya said looking at Tamaki stoically.
"My father huh…" Tamaki frowned before seeming to stew quietly.
The host club sat in silence for ten minutes before Hikaru broke it. "So, what are we going to do? I mean, we all saw how they looked at us and Haruhi…"
"Nothing." Kyoya said after a moment of silence seemed to pass through him and Tamaki.
"But Kyoya senpai-" Karou started to protest until the older boy cut him off.
"We can do nothing except watch them. Pay close attention to them and if you can get close to them." Kyoya said with a tone that ended the discussion further.
The host club members nodded before they each began to leave, school wasn't nearly over yet but since they weren't hosting they could take that time to do whatever they could to find info our the mysterious new transfer students.
I haven't written for this in a while and then BAM inspiration! funny how that works right? I honestly can't wait to start writing each interaction, it gonna be fun!