Kat (POV)
I rush past through a sea of red hair, almost colliding with the golden trio.
Out of the corner of my eye I can see Will's un-naturally golden hair.
Without saying anything I take Harry's invisibility cloak out of his school bag and wrap it around myself, avoiding his protests.
"Have you seen Kat?" Will asks.
"I haven't seen her anywhere." Hermione lies.
Nico doesn't seem to completely believe her. "If you see her tell her we- actually just tie her up with rope and bring her to us."
Ron snorts next to me.
Once Nico out Will are out of sight I pull off the cloak. "Thanks porcupine head."
"How do you even know about the cloak?" Harry asks, putting in back in his bag.
"Nico mentioned it in first year." I shrug. "Plus you are so not subtle."
He attempts to glare at me. "Why are you hiding from Nico and Will?"
"They're secretive buggers." I admit, looking around to see if they've returned.
"You're all secretive buggers." Ron tells me.
I sigh. "I'm actually not. The only secrets I have are a muggle friends and there's and those I found out on my own."
Harry gives me a sympathetic look. "Nico loves his secrets. There's plenty of things I've found out that he has never explained."
"Right he shadow travelled with yo-" I say, before covering my mouth. "This is why they don't tell me secrets."
"So that's what it's called." Hermione says thoughtfully.
"You told Ron and Hermione? Of course you did." I say.
"Why are you upset?" Ron asks. "I mean it's Nico, what else would you expect?"
Hermione wracks him over the head. "Ron how would you like it if we never told you any of our secrets?"
"He has a point." I sigh. "It's just that he does trust people with his secrets, he tells Will everything HE EVEN TOLD DRACO ONE!" I exclaim.
"He doesn't even like Malfoy." Harry says, clearly just as confused as I am.
"Exactly." I grumble. "I should go before the emo ninja finds me. Thanks for the cloak." I say, once again stealing the cloak from his bag running away.
I find myself almost running straight into Professor Snape.
Snape doesn't seem to notice me, instead he storms right into the door behind us.
Out of curiosity I follow him. I haven't seen Snape look this angry since the last time we pranked him.
"Ah Severus." Lupin greets, not looking up from his book.
"Do not play games, Lupin." Snape hisses. "I know what you did."
"You discovered I hid chocolate under my desk for eating during classes? I have been ruined!" Lupin mocks, looking completely calm.
"Do you really expect me to believe it's a coincidence?" He hisses. "We both know how he got into the castle and where he hid."
I freeze. Does he mean Black?
With these words Lupin sharply looks up. "I realize you do not like me, Severus. You don't have to, or even trust me. But I would never purposely endanger any students."
Snape's lip curls. "We both know that is a lie. You endanger them every moment you remain in this school."
"Dumbledore trusts me, why can't you?" Lupin replies.
I move around to get a better look.
"Dumbledore is being a fool." Snape hisses. "He trusts his little pets far too much."
Lupin glares at him. "I believe it would be wise if you left Severus."
With one final warning look Snape swoops out of the room like a large bat.
With him gone Lupin falls back into his chair.
I know realize just how stressed Lupin looks. He's even paler than he had been on the train, his face is sunken and his eyes seem to be even more tired than the rest of him.
Deciding against spying on my obviously ill Professor, I silently make my way out of the room.
When I had made my way back to the girls dormitory Hannah and Susan are both there, taking avidly about how Sirius Black could have gotten into the castle.
"How do you think he got in Kat?" Susan asks.
I shrug. "Honestly I'm not sure. Either he found a secret passage way or he can somehow make himself un-noticeable to the Dementors."
"Maybe he transfigured himself into something else and snuck his way into the castle!" Hannah exclaims. "Like one of Madam Sprout's plants!"
I sigh. She might have a point about transfiguration, but a shrub? Seems a bit ridiculous. "I don't know, but I'm betting however he got in is also how he got out of Azkaban. So he'd have to be mobile, so no shrub."
She sags down with disappointment.
I sigh and take out my diary, considering writing to Alex. It's been two days since Halloween and so far I've successfully avoided my friends, but it won't last.
"Hey Malfoy!" Diggory yells, running after me, as I walk towards the changing rooms.
"Can you call me Williams?" I sigh, wiping my rain soaked hair from me face.
He nods apologetically. "Alright, Williams. You should know since your brothers still hurt we're going to be playing the first game against Gryffindor."
I grit my teeth. "That little cockroach isn't hurt at all! The weather has been a nightmare and he just doesn't want to ruin the hair he spends two hours every bloody morning slicking back."
Cedric chuckles "Nothing we can do about it. Besides it would be nice to have a chance against Gryffindor after it was cancelled last year."
I nod. I haven't had a chance to play against Harry before. "But damn, Harry's good. Draco I can beat, but Harry? He's never lost a match."
"Neither have you." He points out.
"I've barely played two, it doesn't count." I sigh. "We need to double all our practices… and possibly pray to every Quidditch god out there."
"Already on it." He grins. "But we only have two days before the match so maybe we should just go back out there now."
I look at the stormy sky and rain soaked pitch. "Why can't we have inside arenas like basketball?" I sigh, following him back to the pitch.
On my way back from Quidditch practice I almost walk straight into professor Snape.
"Malfoy." He hisses. "You're late for detention."
"That was today?" I ask innocently.
"It is every day." He replies, his glare growing.
"But-" I begin to protest, but before I could I was being dragged by my ear to the dungeons.
When I arrive in the classroom I see it's completely empty. "Where are the others?"
"I thought it would be best to separate you all." He sneers, walking towards a large steaming cauldron. "This detention you will once again be recounting every ingredient derived from an animal."
I glare at him. "But I'm a veg-"
"I am well aware." He says with a cruel smirk. "Also don't forget to clean every cauldron, and no magic allowed."
My glare increases. "They're self-cleaning."
His cruel smirk grows, and he returns to stirring his cauldron.
After two hours of counting body parts and cleaning cauldrons with a toothbrush, Snape calls me to the front of the class.
"Deliver this to Professor Lupin." He tells me, with a small smirk.
I give him a confused look, studying the steaming goblet. "Are you poisoning him?"
Ignoring my question he forces the heavy goblet into my hands.
"You're welcome." I mutter, as I make my way towards Lupin's office.
"A DELIVERY FOR PROFESOR LUPIN!" I yell, making my way into the class.
Lupin looks up from his book.
"Here's your poison, sir." I greet handing him the goblet.
"Ah thank you." He says, giving me a thoughtful look and drinking it.
"Dude, I wasn't kidding about the poison." I say with a hint of worry.
He chuckles. "Don't worry. Professor Snape was kind enough to brew me a potion as I have been feeling under the weather."
I raise my eyebrows. After what I saw between them, unless Snape is taking killing someone with kindness literally it doesn't sound like something he would do.
"Would Professor Snape really have a student deliver poison for him?" he chuckles.
"He would probably have me taste test it first."
He smiles. "Shouldn't you be getting back to detention, Miss Williams?"
"There are only so many pig guts anyone can stand, especially a vegetarian." I sigh.
He gives me a sympathetic look. "I would still return if I were you, and if Professor Snape isn't respecting your beliefs perhaps you can ask McGonagall to speak to him."
I shake my head. "Wouldn't do any good. Bye Professor!" I say, walking back to detention, still wondering what was in that potion.
Will (POV)
Whenever we get within five feet of Kat she runs in the opposite direction or makes an excuse to leave. Even in classes she sits on the other side of the room.
Nico doesn't seem as bothered by her behaviour.
"Of course I want Kat back." He sighs. "But maybe it's just a sign that we shouldn't tell her."
I glare at him. I know Nico is insecure about his parentage, I can't blame him. But Kat will accept him I know she will, if we can just bloody well get her to talk to us.
She had also taken to sitting at the other tables during breakfast.
"Can't she just grow up and confront us about it?" Nico grumbles, eating another spoonful of his cereal.
"Do you ever?" I ask, making him glare.
That morning we arrive at Defence Against the Dark Arts expecting to be able to forget Kat and fight some Hunky punks, only to find Snape standing at the front of the class.
"No need to wait for the grass to grow. Take your seats." Snape sneers as we enter the class.
The only people to seem happy about Snape's presence is Draco and his usual followers. "Sir, did they finally fire Lupin?"
"He has fallen ill." Snape tells us in a tone saying he wishes he was fired.
I notice a worried look on Kat's face across the classroom.
"Hmm Professor Lupin does not seem to have kept any record of the topics you have covered so far." Snape tells us, shuffling through Lupin's papers.
"We've done boggarts, Redcaps, Cappers and Grindilows." Susan tells him.
He glares at her. "Five points from Hufflepuff for interrupting, Miss Bones. I was merely commenting on Professor Lupin's lack of organisation, not asking for information.
She blushes as red as her hair.
"Hmm, Professor Lupin has been far too easy on you." He mutters. "Now everyone turn to page 364."
That's the very end of the book. He can't have expected us to have covered that.
I do as I'm told, and quickly scan the chapter on werewolves. There's have almost nothing to do with what we were learning before, we had mainly been dealing with water creatures. Werewolves are just cursed people.
I notice Nico's hand finding its way to his shoulder where one of the large werewolf scratches are hidden under his robes.
"Which of you can tell me how he distinguish between a werewolf and a true wolf?" he asks the class.
Nico is the only one to raise his hand, but by class he apparently only meant Slytherins.
"Nobody? How disappointing." He drawls, sending sharp looks to his house.
"Are you telling me Professor Lupin hasn't even taught you the basic distinctions between a werewolf and wolf?" Snape says, with a twisted smile. "You wouldn't even recognise a werewolf if it were teaching your class."
"Most werewolf's stand on their hind legs and have larger snouts and more human like bodies and movements." Nico answers anyway.
"I did not tell you to speak, Mr Di Angelo." He hisses. "20 points from Hufflepuff."
"You asked a question I gave you an answer." He shrugs, not seeming bothered by the points.
We continue to take notes on werewolves for the rest of the lesson, while Snape awards points to his own house and insults Lupin's teaching.
"You must all write two rolls of parchment of how to identify and kill a werewolf and hand it to me by Monday morning." He tells us.
The Slytherin's seem shocked to have been given homework by Snape, the shock made Goyle tip ink all over his untouched book.
I can't help but feel like I'm missing something obvious, like somethings on the tip of my tongue but I just can't remember it.
Kat (POV)
While on my way to the Slytherin commonroom to annoy Draco and put my converses on the sofa, I suddenly feel two hands on my shoulders.
Before I could react I feel the familiar feeling of being pulled through the shadows.
When I open my eyes I realize I'm in an abandoned classroom with Nico and Will.
"WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT USING YOUR POWERS?!" Will yells, glaring at Nico.
"You said we needed to talk to her." He shrugs.
"I meant find her the corridor, not kidnap her with the shadows!"
"I did find her in a corridor."
While they're bickering I attempt to run, only to find a wall of shadows appear in front of me.
"NICO!" Will screeches.
"I haven't used my powers in four months!" he exclaims.
"Um, can I leave now?" I ask, crossing my arms.
"No." they say together.
"So you kidnapped me and I'm going to die an excruciatingly long death while you two have your lovers spat."
Their faces turn matching shades of red.
"We need to apologize." Will says.
"No shit." I mutter. "Does this apology come with an explanation?"
Nico sighs. "Maybe you should explain why you overreacted so much to me not telling you about a power?"
I glare at him. "I'm not upset about the power, that's cool. I'm upset you never tell me anything, like I don't know that you have a half-sister? Or do you reserve that secret just for telling people you don't even like."
He freezes, before muttering "I forgot I mentioned that to Draco."
"You told Draco about Hazel?" Will asks, looking confused.
"And there is my prime example of you trusting Will more than me." I say, feeling petty.
They share a look. "We can explain that."
"You see our secrets kind of intertwine." Will says.
"You're dating?" I guess.
I'd have to be blind not to see their ridiculous crushes on eachother.
They both blush, yelling out their protests.
I grin. "Explain your intertwining secrets then." I say, moving my eyebrows suggestively.
"Have you ever heard of the Greek Gods?" Nico asks suddenly.
I'm taken aback. "Huh?"
"It's important." Will adds.
"Um Zeus cheating on his bitch wife and sleeping with mortals. Hercules showing off his muscles…" I say, making them both chuckle.
"Accurate actually." Nico says approvingly.
"It's real." Will says.
"The Greeks are real too! Bloody hell" I curse.
"Too? What gods do you know are real" Will questions.
"Nico you remember last year when I got you to drop me off for a friends birthday?" he nods and Will glares at him
"Well it turns out Sadie is mixed up with the Egyptian gods, we spent her birthday being chased around London by two minor gods and we got help from the dwarf god and Anubis, who BTW base his human form off you Nico"
"Why didn't you tell us?" Nico ask ignoring my comment about Anubis.
"Didn't think you'd believe me… so where do you two fit into this?"
"We're demigods." Nico answers. "Half god, half mortal, or in our case wizard."
I grin. "THAT IS SO AWESOME! Who are your parents?"
"Apollo, god of the sun, medicine, archery, art, music, prophecy, and technically poetry."
"I've seen your poetry." I tell him sceptically.
"It's better than his fathers." Nico mutters.
"Wait the sun? GLOWSTICK!" I cheer, running to hug him. "Ah! Sunburn!" I mock, making him pout.
"What about you, Nico?" I ask eagerly, my brain still trying to catch up with everything going on.
"Um… Hades." He says nervously.
I realize why he's nervous immedietly. From what I remember Hades isn't exactly the most well liked god.
"I should have got that from the shadow powers and ghosts crushing on you." I mutter. "THAT'S SO COOL!"
He looks shocked. "Y-you don't care?"
"Yeah I care, I think it's awesome." I squeal. "What else can you do?"
"You can't tell anyone about this." Will reminds me.
I remember how everyone reacted to Harry being able to talk to snakes. I'm not telling anyone.
"I promise." I swear. "So powers?" I question, grinning. "Do you have any awesome monster fighting stories?"
They share a look. "Uh, there was a war…"
"WHAT?!" I yell.
"Um Knonos came back." Nico says awkwardly.
"Tell me everything." I demand.
They then start to explain the prophecy of the big three and what really happened to Nico's family, Percy Jackson's battles, the battle of Manhattan (one word: Capsicule) Will being a field medic in the war and Nico's… being awesome.
"Okay so you two fought in the front lines of a war." I breathe.
"Actually two…" Nico corrects, rubbing his neck awkwardly.
"WHAT?!"
They then go on to explain the doors of death, Nico bringing Hazel back from the dead, the romans, the forced exchange program, TARTARUS! (Had to stop me from strangling Nico at that one) the jar, The Argo II, The seven, the Athena panthos, and the rest of the fucking shit Nico got himself into.
"You don't value your own life do you?" I ask, glaring at him.
"No he doesn't." Will agrees, glaring at him.
I pull them both into a hug. "If you try to get yourselves killed again I'll do it for you."
"That doesn't even make sense." Nico points out.
"Neither does going into Tartarus."
"So you're okay with all this?" Nico asks nervously.
"Hell yeah! But you putting yourself in danger? NO." I answer.
Will smirks smugly at Nico.
I check my watch. "And I'm two and a half hours late for Draco to help me with my potions homework."
"Go on you need all the help you can get. I hear Malfoy's top of the class at potions." Will tells me.
"That's just because Snape adores him." I point out.
"That's because he's your godfather." Nico shrugs, making me freeze.
"WHAT?!" I scream for what has to be the hundredth time in the last two hours.
"Didn't Malfoy tell you?" Nico asks, awkwardly.
"Ferret face didn't tell me anything." I hiss, before storming off to have a similar confrontation.