A/N: Here it is folks! It was inspired by the song Move Along by The All American Rejects, which is a really good song. So R/R please!


Disclaimer: Cassie and Paige are mine that is all. And quite frankly I'm proud of them so take your accusations elsewhere. Thank you.

Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Move along
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)

When everything is wrong we move along
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
When everything is wrong, we move along
Along, along, along

When all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through

Move Along by the All American Rejects


Chapter 9: Cassie's Fury

The first week of school was passing rather quickly. Professor Spinnet had quickly become the favorite teacher. In the past week so had transfigured a record number of Slytherins for their comments. After the 49th McGonagall made a rule against student transfigurations but Cassie wasn't sure what other teacher could possibly need the rule.

Aside from that life was fairly normal at Hogwarts. Small explosions could be heard from the Gryffindor common room and on Wednesday all the spoons at the Slytherin table magically attached themselves to the students' foreheads. On Friday however Cassie woke with a feeling of dread that at best was completely irrational. That is until she looked at the clock and saw that class started 10 minutes ago.

'MOTHER F-' It was probably fortunate that there was no one was in the tower; as Cassie continued to swear loudly while she got dressed and raced down the stairs.

She finally slid into Transfiguration five minutes later yelling an apology and sliding in next to Alice. Unfortunately McGonagall wasn't particularly lax and proceeded to take five points from Gryffindor and give her a detention.

The rest of the day was just as bad. Cassie blew up two desks, seven chairs and oddly enough a parrot over the day from sheer frustration and had landed a record number of five different detentions for various reasons. To put the cherry on top of the pile of crap that was her day she was cornered by Slytherins after lunch, who made the mistake of informing her she polluted a family, was the scorn of the world, blah, blah, blah…. shortly after they turned up in front of Madam Pomfrey trying to explain why the appeared to be coated in a vile acid.

The end result was that Cassie was in a remarkably bad mood when it came to dinner and her day proceeded to go downhill from there.

'What's up Cass?' Alice asked from her left as the other girl scowled at her mashed potatoes. 'Nothing,' she replied grumpily. 'Bad day that's all…'

'Must be a bad if you're like this,' Alice replied sympathetically. 'This is Paige level brooding.'

Paige lowered her book from her place across from Alice and frowned at her before bringing the book up again while Alice simply grinned at her for having her point proven. Cassie ignored this and glared at Lily across from her. 'Why can't you get on with James? I can't even have dinner with my bloody boyfriend.'

'Try to eat his face more like,' Lily replied uncaringly then broke under her friend's glare. 'We can sit with them tomorrow alright? What's so wrong with sitting with us for one meal anyways?'

'Nothing,' Cassie said with a sigh laying her fork down beside her plate and putting her head in her hands. 'I just have this feeling that the world is crashing down around me.' She looked up and got a sympathetic look for her friends. Cassie made a face; she hated pity.

Still trying to shake of the feeling when she glanced over at the front hall then stopped and stared. There was an adult, a women actually, standing in the doorway as students milled in around her. She had long black graying her, cruel eyes, expensive clothes, Sirius' nose- and Cassie jumped up alarmed making her friends stare at her concerned, clearly under the impression she was experiencing some sort of mental break down.

'Guys we have to move!'

'Why?' Lily asked bewildered but Cassie didn't hear her as she was already making her way down the table. After sharing a shrug her friends followed. When they got there they saw Sirius glance over at the front and drop his knife and fork to the ground. Lily, Paige and Alice all glanced at the front to the woman slowly making her way over to the Slytherin table. Alice and Paige immediately sat down as the group huddled close together. After a confusing second Lily joined them still not entirely sure what was going on.

'Sorry mate I don't have the cloak on me,' James said worriedly. Sirius just shook his head and muttered something along the lines of '…not your fault.'

'What's going on?' Lily asked but everyone ignored her.

'Are there any secret passageways out of here, James?' Paige asked but James shook his head. 'There are but one's behind the staff table and the other's by the Slytherin table.'

'Guys?'

'Just walk out,' Remus urged. 'If you make it to the passage by the Hufflepuff common room…'

'He'd never make it Moony!'

'What is going on?'

'Maybe we should just call Dumbledore over.' Alice suggested.

'That would work…' Cassie said. '…if Sirius had told Dumbledore!'

'You didn't tell Dumbledore?' Alice asked in disbelief.

'Tell what!'

'Course not,' James muttered sarcastically looking worriedly at his best friend.

'Dumbledore knows everything,' Remus argued. 'He probably already knows.'

'Not everything,' Cassie reminded Remus. 'Just make a beak for it Sirius. We'll stall her.'

'Stall who!'

'No!' Sirius finally said his voice hoarse. 'It's going to happen sometime. Just let me get it over with. Please?'

Everyone nodded reluctantly (except Lily, who still had no idea what was going on) and sat back. Cassie looked worriedly at her boyfriend as his mother slowly made her way over. Cassie bit her lip and stared down at her plate worriedly as she heard the footsteps stopped behind her. Everyone else looked up and glared at the women except for Lily and Paige, who it seemed, had gone back to reading. Sirius' mum reached and and grabbed his shoulder roughly, probably meaning to make him face her.

And that was when Cassie just lost it.

She stood up and whirled to face her; a days worth of frustration pounding in her head. Cassie carefully placed herself between them and shoved her back, breaking her contact with her son. Cassie brought out her wand prepared for the piece of wood that was shoved in her face. What she wasn't prepared for was to see Mrs. Black's wand fly over her head.

'I wouldn't do that, Mrs. Black.' Cassie turned to see Paige standing, holding two wands and closing her book in a very calm, slow, deliberate manner. Apparently Paige had used her book as a cover to pull out her wand and silently disarm the women. Lily had comprehension, finally, in her eyes and she turned to the women disgust etched on her face.

'Filthy little Mudblood,' Cassie whirled back face flushed with anger and felt herself take a deep breath. 'What exactly do you think you're doing here?' Cassie voice was laced with venom; pure hatred pounding her ears. This was the person that ruined her boyfriend's childhood, caused him unexplainable pain and made him believe, for however short a time, that he actually deserved it.

"Do I deserve this Cassie? I think I do… I'm such a failure… I deserve this pain…"

"No one deserves that kind of horror, Sirius, certainly not a thirteen year old!"

The words of her and Sirius three years before echoed in her head as she started to scream. 'WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!' By now the whole great hall was staring and the lights stared to flicker from Cassie's anger. 'WHAT? HOWLERS DON'T WORK WELL ENOUGH NOW? YOU HAVE TO COME DOWN TO HOGWARTS YOURSELF TO HUMILIATE YOUR SON! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOU'RE BLOODY INSANE, DO YOU KNOW THAT? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GOES ON IN THAT SICK TWISTED LITTLE TINY BRAIN OF YOURS AND I DON'T WANT TO KNOW!' Cassie had tears in her eyes now from simply facing the horror behind all the pain and anguish she saw in Sirius' eyes when he woke up screaming from nightmares. The only thought Cassie had was that she couldn't believe Mrs. Black could come down here and try to taint the first place her son had ever found safety and love.

Cassie felt Lily's hand on her arm trying to calm her down but she shook it off as she continued to scream hardly even noticing what she was screaming anymore. 'WHAT KIND OF HORRIBLE PIECE OF CRAP USES THE CRUCIATUS CURSE ON ANYONE LET ALONE THEIR OWN SON!' Cassie dimly recognized the hall was deadly silent and Dumbledore and McGonagall had leapt to their feet but she hardly took notice of it. 'AND THEN JUST TO PROVE WHAT A HORRIBLE BOTTOM FEEDER YOU ARE YOU ACTUALLY TOLD HIM HE DESEVERVED IT!' Cassie shrieked the last to words as she felt a tear run down the side of her cheek. Mrs. Black took an angry step forward- and stopped to find a wand an inch from her nose.

Sirius had stood up and now had on arm wrapped around Cassie's shoulders the other pointing his wand into his mother's face. 'If you touch her, oh mother dearest it's you who will have to limp out, tail between your legs.' His mother continued to glare and he lowered his voice to a deadly whisper, 'Give me one reason.'

She just glared at him and said, 'You and your little Mudblood, blood traitor friends will get what you dese-' She suddenly broke off after finding no one but six wands shoved in her face. Paige, Lily, Alice, James and Remus were all standing wands pointing directly at her.

'I suggest you leave,' James said motioning to the door with his wand free hand, eyes never leaving her face. Paige lightly handed Mrs. Black's wand back to her a pleasant expression on her face. 'I wouldn't try anything. Not with Dumbledore making his way over now.'

Mrs. Black looked over to where Dumbledore and McGonagall were making their way over. With one last glare at her son she swept out of the Great Hall.

Cassie just stood still trembling with anger then a look of determination came over her face. She slid out of her boyfriend's grip and sprinted down the aisle past McGonagall who tried to stop her and Dumbledore who just gave her a concerned look. She kept running across the hall until she was at the front of the Slytherin table.

All the students were looking a little terrified now at the girl standing in front of them. None of them have ever been on the receiving end or ever witnessed Cassie mad before. 'DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?' Cassie screamed tears still sliding down her red cheeks although she didn't notice them. 'IS THIS THE KIND OF THING YOU LIKE? TO SEE PEOPLE RIPPED APART AND THEN HAVING SOMEONE JUMP UP AND DOW ON THE PIECES! WELL THIS IS WHAT YOU DO! YOU AND YOUR STUPID PREDJUDICE! YOU TEAR PEOPLE'S LIVES APART!' Most of the Slytherin table was now standing set on leaving the hall. Cassie noticed this and pointed down the table. 'SIT DOWN!' All the students were magically pulled down to their seats the bottoms actually glued to the wood. 'IS THIS THE KIND OF THING YOU ENJOY! DO YOU FEEL ANYTHING? WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE SCREAM, WHEN YOU SEE THEM CRY DO YOU EVEN CARE? IF YOU SAW SOMEONE TORTURED WOULD IT EVEN OCCUR TO YOU IT WAS WRONG? DO YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE WE DESERVE IT? ARE YOU THAT BAD? ARE YOU THAT INHUMANE? DO YOU EVER FEEL ANYTHING AT ALL? ARE WE THAT WORTHLESS TO YOU? WE DON'T DESERVE THIS! NO ONE DOES! IS THAT ALL YOU SEE US AS? BLOOD TRAITORS AND MUDBLOODS AND POLLUTION! AT LEAST WE'RE HUMAN! CAN YOU SAY THE SAME! DO YOU EVER FEEL ANYTHING OR ARE YOU THAT DEAD INSIDE?'

Cassie felt arms wrap around her from behind and turned and buried her face in Sirius' shoulder sobbing. Sirius looked down the table a blank dead expression on his face then lead his hysterical girlfriend out of the hall followed by their friends stony expressions on their faces. After a minute Matt and Charlie got up and followed them out. Then Mickey from the Ravenclaw table then others until only the Slytherin table was left.

What Cassie didn't realize was that no one in the hall during her screaming would talk the rest of the night. The Slytherins just sat staring as Cassie's voice seemed to echo through the hall.

'When you see someone scream, when you see them cry do you even care? If you saw someone tortured would it even occur to you it was wrong? Do you actually believe we deserve it?'

What Cassie screamed that night in desperation and fear and pain…. It would never completely leave the hall.

DO YOU EVER FEEL ANYTHING AT ALL?


A/N: The beginning kind of sucked but I think it got better as it went on. Thanx! And please review! Please! PLEASE!