Hey y'all! Okay, so i said i was going to try and note in every chapter. I have nothing to say except for maybe that if you're kind of confused at the end of this chapter thats okay because i did kind of split the story in a strange way. BUT, BUT, i am going to post the next chapter tomorrow. if i remember. So dont worry. If you are extremely confused, like so confused, you cant think about it without getting a headache, do tell me, and I'll try not to do that in the future. Okay, now that i think about it, one more thing. When i post chapter nine, i'll post chapter ten not to long after, because of how short chapter ten is going to be. It will probably be the absolute shortest chapter at less than four-hundred words, including an authors note. So, yeah. Introducing: Chapter 7!
No one really saw Hermione or Ginny the rest of the day. Harry claims he spotted them kneeling in front of the floo, their rumps in the air, heads in the flame. Mrs. Weasley said they told her their plans, and she agreed. At around ten-thirty that night, Luna, Katie, Alicia, and Angelina appeared at the Burrow, and were led upstairs to Ginny's room. Fred tensed up when he saw Alicia. Their break had been clean, understanding, but left an icy sense of air between them. He really hoped that whatever was said in that room was kid-friendly.
"That bastard!" Alicia exclaimed, after hearing what had happened in the past few days with Hermione and Fred. "I'm so sorry, Hermione. I should've knocked him into place before send him to you." She apologized. Hermione shrugged. "It's fine. I'm having fun with my revenge."
Even though they had placed imperturable charms on the door, and muffliato, and some other clever spells Hermione had come across, the six girls leaned in closer. Hermione grinned. "My first bout of revenge was torturous to him. I'm not going into too many details, but I'll tell you right now that it involved sewing needles, and it got him pleading for me to stop." She said, and the other girls' mouths dropped open.
"Pleading? You're serious, he was pleading?" Alicia spit out, and Hermione nodded. "Constantly, he was going, 'Hermione, please stop, please stop it. Hermione, please don't.' If that's not pleading, then I don't know what is." Ginny looked at her friend in amazement. "How did you get him pleading? Did you, like, seriously injure an important part to the boy's anatomy?" she asked, and Hermione shook her head.
"I had planned on maybe going there if I felt like torturing him longer, but I had him pleading when I started, with his hand." Ginny nodded. "That would explain the tiny holes in his right fingertips. And now that I've said that, you have to tell us what you did." Hermione nodded, and lay on her stomach, and got comfortable. "Well, after knocking him into the wall, almost making him pass out, and almost letting him crash into the floor, I took out the needle. I used a sticking charm to keep his hand stretched out like this." She lay her hand down, mimicking how she trapped Fred's hand last night, then continued.
"And I slowly let the needle press his skin, but didn't let it penetrate far enough to draw blood. I made several marks on each finger, going deep enough to hurt, but not draw blood. He begged me to stop most of the time. Then I moved to this spot on his palm." She pointed it out, then continued again. "I hadn't pressed down near as far as the fingertips, when he started thrashing as best he could against the bindings I had him under." Her face softened a little bit as she told the next part. "'Hermione', he said, 'Hermione please, please stop. Please don't. Please, Hermione.' Because of another charm I had found, he was unable to move his head away, or shut his eyes. His gaze was directed towards where I was working. Somehow, he had managed to turned enough that he was looking right at me. I couldn't find it in my heart to push any farther."
Ginny, who was extremely impressed, reached over, and rubbed Hermione's shoulder. "That was perfect revenge. Although I expected more." She said. Hermione sat up, nodding, her face taking on a comical expression. "Why do you think I dropped him in the lake?" she asked, and the group of girls laughed. When they calmed down some, Hermione sighed.
"I'm finishing off my wonderful revenge by taking on different looks until he has to propose. You know, today, how I looked sexy? I'm trying anything to make him mental for me, but almost completely ignoring him, unless to use a comeback. I may try some other things, but for now, I want to make it as though I'm not wasting any energy." The others' faces lit up in excitement. Katie laughed. "It's like waving a piece of bacon in front of a dog, almost giving it to him, then jerking it back and eating it."
Hermione nodded. "Fred's second least favourite thing in the world is not being allowed something he wants. This'll drive him mad." The others agreed, and even though it was near midnight, they were all hyper. Then Katie, the big softie in the group, froze. "Hermione, don't you feel guilty at all?" she asked, and Hermione paused, a chocolate frog half-way to her mouth. She nodded. "A little bit, yes, I feel like I could've been a little easier. But he was being so mean, and he's always been a little mean to me. I just need to work hard to knock him into place. I need to go a little farther than I would normally, because with Fred, normal isn't going to cut it."
Alicia smiled at Hermione. "I don't suppose you would let me have a little revenge on him, would you? You're my friend, and no one should ever treat you like that. And although we had a clean break, he was extremely, er, blunt about why we had to." Hermione shrugged. "I'm not going to stop you. I have one other thing in mind that I'm going to do, but it won't come into play until he proposes." Alicia grinned. "I know about some of the twins' products that aren't out yet, but are ready to be. One of those things is a potion, that acts like a boggart. It shows what the victim fears worst to the victim only. It works for an hour, and basically unending until the time is up. The twins decided not to sell it, but they gave me the prototypes, and the recipe."
Hermione grinned, and nodded. "Go ahead. I'd like the recipe, though. We should all have a copy, in case we need to set one of men in their place. Oh, excuse me, one of our boys." She said, pretending to be embarrassed. The others laughed again. Ginny suddenly caught an idea, and leaned forward to tell the others.
After the girls disappeared upstairs, the guys decided to invite a few buds over, and have a bonfire by the lake. Although they had to promise they wouldn't have any alcohol, they had managed to get Muggle sodas, like Coke and Mountain Dew. They were all just chilling around, and drinking whatever they chose. Harry had chosen who was coming, and had invited Oliver, Lee, Seamus, Dean, Neville, Draco and Blaise. Although the others were a little skeptical about two Slytherins there, Harry convinced them, and once Draco and Blaise arrived, everyone was friendly.
