Disclaimer: I do not own Scorpius Malfoy, Hogwarts, or any other place or character from JK Rowlings stories. I am writing this fan fic for entertaining purposes only. Mesira, Serinaa, Astryx, Avalon, Phoenix, Kailin, and Raina belong to me (though their lineage does not, nor do their last names). I'd love some feed back so R&R
So this chapter is kinda sketchy...bit racy even...See Mesira is a bit of a Mind fuck and enjoys mentally torturing people who piss her off...but enjoy anyways! -M
I grabbed the clerk's attention and began ordering a lot of candy as my friends slipped through the basement doors and downstairs. Thank Merlin Honeyduke's bags had a "bottomless" charm set on them because otherwise I'd have had to carry multiple large bags through the tunnels. The store clerk gave me my change, handed me my bag, and then went to check on another customer. I took the opportunity to slip into the basement where Astryx was waiting sitting on the edge of the trapdoor, Serinaa and Avalon already in the tunnels darkness. I heard Serinaa growl, "It's bloody cold down here, move your ass Mez!" Astryx nodded and hopped down into the darkness and I followed suit, the trapdoor snapping shut leaving us in complete darkness.
We ran toward the school, a ball of light drifting above us to light our way. We slowed to a stop, breathing heavily we grabbed our uniforms and began to dress. The light above us began to dim as we slipped the robes over our heads and pulled our wands out to whisper a silencing charm on the massive statue above us. When the charm was in place I tapped the bottom of the stone and mumbled a spell causing it to move and slowly allow us out of the tunnel. I climbed up first and reached down to help Avalon up when someone chuckled darkly and I froze.
"Who do you think you are?" the girl's voice was sadistically dark and excited. I paled turning to see the smug blonde Gryffindor smirking at me.
"I am Mesira Athlyn Riddle, and I am a Slytherin." I pulled my hand back from Avalon and snuck a glance at Serinaa who pulled the two Ravenclaws back into darkness. I stood up dusting myself off, "A Slytherin Head Girl. Why are you patrolling the halls during dinner? Don't you have something better to do than to stalk an innocent Head Girl?" the statue slipped over the three girls, though not without protest from Astryx.
"Who else is down there Riddle?" she growled. I crossed my arms, my wand tapped my leg as I stared at her questioningly. She raised her wand when I smirked.
"Stress of being perfect already got your head in a tizzy? Poor Vance." I said in mock concern. In a second I was smashed into the cold wall, my breath painfully escaping my chest in a gasp. A sharp pain was resonating from my jaw as I noticed her wand was shoved into the crook of my jaw and throat.
"You're a filthy little git like your grandfather and you can't play all cute and coy with me. What were you doing underneath that statue?" she growled her eyes dancing in delight from the obvious pain dancing in my own. My eyes closed and she dug the tip of her wand in deeper.
"Sadist are we? I took you more as the one rubbing one off in the corner, not the one causing all the pain…"I started, I saw a startled alertness in her eyes and I took the opportunity to throw my head back and moan convincingly, "and pleasure!"
"What were you doing under the statue?" she growled. I opened my eyes to see her blushing like mad and her wand pulled back a little from my neck. Her eyes were looking down at my neck obviously confused and embarrassed. I touched the wall behind me with my hand and watched the statue move again. Serinaa popped her head up first and I signaled for her and the others to run. She lifted up a bag silently then dragged Avalon up. Astryx climbed out on the other side on her own.
As she looked around she saw me pressed against the wall with an expression of pain as Phoenix looked into my eyes and growled, "Spit out your reason snake before I get McGonagall out here."
Astryx went to pull Vance off of me when I grabbed Phoenix's wand hand and extended my other hand flinging the three girls around the corner without my attacker realising they were there. "Now now, there's no need for such hostility Vance. I'll gladly tell you all you want to know."
She stood there waiting when the sound of a glass bottle falling over alerted us to where we were. I saw one of my four Firewhiskey bottles rolling around on the floor by the foot of the statue. Phoenix, wand still carefully pointed at me, crept backward and checked around the corner where she apparently found nothing because she grabbed the bottle and walked back over to me.
"This yours Riddle?" she smirked and I raised my eyebrow in suspicion. I nodded slowly an alibi forming in my mind.
"This is hardly the way I wanted to invite you to the annual Hogwarts welcome home party but obviously your hostility to my sneaking into the hidden Firewhiskey vault means you won't be joining us tomorrow night?" I smiled grabbing the bottle and pulling it towards me. Her grip tightened and I feared briefly that she saw through my lie.
"You're inviting me to a party after this morning?" she asked suspiciously. I nodded innocently then with a smirk I pulled the bottle from her hands.
"I may be a Riddle and a Slytherin but I'm not one to ignore out valuable Gryffindor brethren. You are welcome to invite whoever you please. The Room of Requirement at midnight tomorrow." I nodded and with my bottle I left her in the hallway stunned. Before turning the corner however I stopped and said over my shoulder, "Be sure not to tell McGonagall of my little indiscretions will you?" I saw her hesitate, then nod. Smiling to myself, I left her.
"You did what?" Serinaa snarled at me when I told her later that night. I glared at her.
"What was I supposed to do? She was going to murder my reputation along with any chance of manipulating the teachers." I said icily, she turned on her heel pacing in the almost empty common room.
"Astryx was worried sick, not that she'd ever admit it to your face. She was gonna give Vance a piece of her mind when some tapestry behind us caught fire. Whoever thought of putting the torches by flammable tapestries was a complete nutter." She said defeated, obviously the reality of my capture and the consequences of my near fall from grace settling in her mind.
"Thank Merlin she took the bait, though it seems she now has some dirty laundry on me." I sneered leaning back onto the couch. Serinaa sat beside me, an unpleasant scowl on her face. "I told her the party was tomorrow night in the Room of Requirement."
"The same place that McGonagall said not to use for devilish reasons?" she smirked and I smiled nodding to my best friend.
"I'll cook up an alibi as always, you know Slytherins are resourceful like that." I said closing my eyes and yawning. I heard Serinaa chuckle and a hand patted my shoulder.
"Have a nice date." She said as she lifted herself from the sofa and drifted up the stairs to the girl's dormitory. I smiled, my eyes still closed. My eyelids refusing to open I drifted to sleep in the same spot I had the night before.
"Miss Riddle?" a voice called softly. I groaned turning over to lay on my back when the warm comfort of the couch slipped out from underneath me as I rolled off my makeshift bed. I cried out in surprise and pain as my leg smacked into the coffee table.
"Merlin's saggy left nut!" I exclaimed through clenched teeth. I sat up and reached for my knee which was wet and sticky as I tried to hold the sharp pain resonating in my right leg. A hand was on my shoulder, the other placed on my uninjured left leg in an instant.
"Mesira are you alright?" the voice was so familiar but my mind was so hazy with pain that I couldn't place it. I whined in frustration when the metallic smell of blood wafted through the air accompanied by pain pulsating through my leg. I could feel my pant leg getting wetter with every passing throb.
"I'm bleeding." I sobbed leaning against the man as tears escaped me. I felt the hands move and suddenly I was in the air, being held closely and taken somewhere. He was mumbling caring and comforting words but all I could hear were my sobs as we went to the hospital wing.
"Poppy, Miss Riddle has fallen and is bleeding." The man said carrying me to a spare bed in the infirmary. Sobs still wracked my body but I was holding them in, crying in silence.
"Merlin's beard! How did this happen Draco?" she exclaimed. My eyes shot open as Madame Pomfrey ripped my trousers to expose my slashed lower leg. I paled as the blood began to flow freely again. My eyes drifted upward to my blonde adoptive father staring at me with worry written all over his face.
"Dad?" I chocked out. Madame Pomfrey was busy tending to my wound that apparently needed a more muggle approach because she whipped the blood away and began applying pressure and bandages. When she was finally able to stop the bleeding she rushed off to her office to grab more fresh wrappings.
"What were you doing in the common room so late?" Mr. Malfoy asked suddenly unsure of himself as he tried to be more teacher than father.
"I fell asleep… I was helping the first years but I got tired and closed my eyes. Then I woke up falling off the couch and hurting my leg." I said. He stared down at me intently then sat down next to me on the bed and took my hand in his.
"Are you okay love?" his voice was gentle and worried but not judgmental and he had a worried smile on his face. I nodded ignoring the dulling throbs of pain coming from my right leg. He leaned forward and kissed me on the forehead, patted my hand and smiled at me, his face much less worried. "Good, now I'm going to check in with McGonagall. She'll want to know that you've been taking your Head Girl duties to heart and of course about your recent accident."
"Thanks dad, I'll see you tomorrow in potions then?" I asked lying back into the pillows as Madame Pomfrey removed my blood soaked wrapping and began trying to repair my wound through magic. He raised an eyebrow and I blushed realising that he never told us about his new job, "You know Hogwarts, if it's a secret everyone knows!" I laughed hoping the Hogwarts rumour mill was like that back when he went to school.
"Ah I remember now, it's good to know there are things that remain true about this place to this day." He smiled and left me to clench my teeth as Madame Pomfrey began to poke and prod my wound.
"Tell me what happened dear." She said softly. I had my eyes closed when I heard a soft tinkling. I opened my eyes to see Madame Pomfrey pulling bits of something out of my leg with a pair of tweezers. I paled as the small bits shined crimson.
"I fell asleep on the couch in the common room, I turned over and slammed my leg into the coffee table…Is that glass Madame Pomfrey?" I asked softly. She examined a piece for a second then nodded. "The common room table is wood, where'd the glass come from?" she shrugged at my question and waved her wand to retrieve the smaller fragments from my leg, replaced my wrapping and smiled softly at me as she left me to rest.
I turned to my left side, my right leg throbbing briefly as I moved it so that I could fall asleep comfortably. I closed my eyes, a slight headache causing me to frown, "Sorry SM I won't be joining you tonight." I slowly drifted off into sleep and into the dark nothingness of my dreams.
