"I hate her." Gwen screeched, slamming her hand into her pillow.
They had already cast a silencing charm and Miley was only feet away, sleeping behind closed curtains.
"Stupid bitch thinks she's so great. I mean I wasn't even scared but I went along with it at the time" Monique told them snootily. They didn't quite believe her as the memory of her shaking afterwards crept back but said nothing of it.
"Yeah. We should get her back for it" Martina replied, throwing her brown hair over her shoulder.
The others nodded.
"But how?" Izzy asked, confused on the ferge of dazed. It was how she always looked.
They all sat for a minute
"How do we get Miley Clarkson back..." Monique murmered to herself before her eyes lit up with malice
"Thats it! Clarkson! We write to her parents." She told them with a smirk.
They all looked pleased with the idea, Gwen went and got parchment, a quill and ink and they began to write.
Dear Mr. Clarkson,
We have an unfortunate duty to relay a piece of bad news to you. Your daughter Miley has been acting in a very un-Slytherin way. Did you not know that over the summer she kept within your own walls a werewolf and together they made a potion that would benefit other werewolves. We were scandalised to hear of it and knew we had to contact you on the matter immediately. Also she has become friendly with some Gryffindors, which is against the Slytherin code devised hundreds of years ago as you know. She also refuses to make links within Slytherin which is highly recommended for later life and has gotten some of the most famous of our house where they are today. I know that you will act appropriately in disiplining your daughter in the name of Slytherin.
Yours Sincerely, Your humble Slytherin messenger.
They finished it after changing some of the words while using Izzy's new thesaurus. Once completed they sent it off with Martina's eagle owl.
They all hi-fived and went to their own beds after this, proceeding to give each other one last smirk before going to sleep.
And there rested Miley. Unaware of all the changes one tiny letter could bring to her life so soon...
Next morning...
Sirius woke up still tired and with his head banging inside his skull. Barely any sleep will do that to you.
He could not believe what Regulus had told him. he had had no idea and resolved to make it up to his poor younger brother. He also made plans with James and Remus (who had earlier scolded him for picking a fight with his mate) to get as many pranking items as they could to use on his parents the next summer. They would pay for hurting his brother.
James and Remus patted his back consolingly while Pater stood back, confused as he had arrived when they had already been asleep.
They all got ready and went for some breakfast.
"What he got this morning then?" James asked carelessly, his gaze wandering to Lily for a second.
"Care of Magical creatures again, after break Divination, then Potions after lunch." Remus replied instantly, he had learnt his time table by heart and knew today they had all their lessons together.
James nodded absentmindedly.
Peter stayed quiet. His eyes drifting towards the Slytherin table.
Lucius was sitting with Remus's mate, trying to get her attention but she shrugged him off and carried on listening to Snape.
Peter saw him sigh and then turn, to look straight at him, he shivered as Lucius smirked at him and winked. He squeaked and sharply turned away, looking to see if his friends had noticed. They hadn't.
Remus looked at Miley and smiled softly. Malfoy was trying to talk to her but she stubbornly ignored him, instead carrying on her conversation with Snape, waving the blonde off.
He frowned though, something wasn't quite right. He could taste something sour...revenge.
He moved his eyes down her table to see the popular Slytherin group, which had in it the awful girls who had hurt his mate. He forced down a growl and watched them, they had their heads close together, the girls seemed to be telling people something, and anyone who knew laughed and looked down the table, towards Miley. He didn't like it one bit.
Sirius sighed and looked around the hall, James was reading a Quidditch magazine, Remus was looking at Miley and Peter had just disappeared.
His heart seemed to stop for just a second as he saw her again.
How had he not noticed her before, she was chatting animatedly to a friend next to her, she did look tired though. She was slim, long brown hair and blue eyes, she was beautiful. But not someone he would actually go for usually, she hid a lot of her body whilst the sluts Sirius tended to sleep with showed more than neccesary to get his attention. They knew it was just sex and so did he, he liked it that way, both parties got what they wanted.
But she seemed to stand out in a crowd. He felt like he wanted to know her. First step would be finding out her name he decided.
Her friend looked round the hall and saw him watching, she quickly turned to the girl with brown hair who looked at him just as he looked down at his plate, he was Sirius Black, he couldn't be cuaght staring at a girl with lovey-dovie eyes, not that he was!
With Isobel...
"It's fine Amanda, I just didn't sleep well" She comforted her friend, who was still looking at her worriedly.
"Sure?" She questioned, narrowing her eyes in a way she thought was menacing.
Isobel nodded firmly and took a sip of her Pumpkin juice to hide her very slight blush, it always happened when she lied, it was very annoying.
She was lucky however, as Amanda took that moment to look around the hall, she then turned back to Isobel, smiling.
"Sirius Black is looking at you!" She told her excitedly.
"No he isn't, I think you're seeing things" Isobel told her laughing after she looekd at Black, who was keeping his eyes on his plate across the hall.
"I am not! He was I swear!" Amanda cried, pouting. Isobel smiled and started to eat her toast.
First lesson...
Miley and Severus made their way out to the grounds for their lesson chatting about random things and somehow weren't even late.
"What do you think we'll be learning?" Miley asked him, he answered with a shrug as they got closer.
Soon everyone was there and Professor Bingley began.
"Well I don't really see the point in doing my planned lesson on Werewolves as the speech we heard yesterday did the subject more than justice from our very oun Miley Clarkson-" Everyone turned to look at Miley and her cheeks flushed pink.
Remus's eyes darkened at it, everything she did seemed to make him more attracted to her it seemed.
"-So I have decided that today we shall study flobber worms to celebrate. Now this I remind you is not now a free double lesson. You must all stay around the lake until the end of lesson" He told them firmly, but ended with a small wink and smile that told them they had actually got a free lesson.
James punched the air and ran over to Miley who looked at him shocked as he grabbed her shoulders and yelled
"Thank you!" Before taking off towards the lake, Sirius soon followed, laughing and Remus waved at her and smiled, she returned it and then turned to Snape. Remus watched her retreating back for a moment with a small smile on his face before going after his friends with Peter in tow who had shown up at the doors to the castle when they were on their way to class.
"Miley why did you decide to help werewolves?" Severus asked suddenly as they began tp walk around the lake.
"Like I said, I had a friend who was a werewolf" She answered, not liking where the conversation was going.
"You said 'had'. Are they dead now?" He pressed. She knew he didn't mean to be nosy, it was just in his nature to question.
"Yes she's dead. Has been for a long time...So did you finish that potions essay?" She told him, quickly changing the subject. He raised an eyebrow but went along with it and she silently thanked him.
"Yes actually did it last night. You?" He answered, adjusting his bag slightly as they continued walking.
"No, I was busy finishing off my speech. I'm going to do it in the library later." Was the reply.
With the boys...
"I just realised something guys! We haven't pranked Snivellus since we got back to school" James suddenly shouted from his seat, making Sirius fall sideways down the hill in shock.
Once he had climbed back up with a sour look on his face he nodded
"True. What about now? We could do something in the lake." He mused
Remus frowned
"Don't get Miley involved, she is walking with him after all" He told them firmly.
They agreed with a joint nod and started to get some ideas going.
After ten minutes they came up with something that could work and told Remus about it.
"Okay it's this spell I found in the Restricted section last year. It's quite clever actually, you point your wand at the intented victim, mutter the spell and imagine what you want to happen to the victim. We intend to throw Snivellus into the lake head over heels" Sirius explained.
Remus thought about it and looked towards the pair. Sape was standing nearest to them so the spell would hit him and not her. He frowned again, Snape hadn't really ever done anything to them and Miley seemed to like him. But one glance towards his friends faces told him he couldn't change their minds.
"Okay. But if that spell hits Miley I will kill you both." He warned.
They both nodded, knowing he would actually try to kill them if they hurt her in anyway.
So they watched as a group as the pair neared.
Closer. Closer. Just a little more...
With Miley...
"Yeah mum seems to have gotten a bit better actually. She doesn't feel tired all the time anymore" Severus told her, looking quite happy for once.
She listened and nodded. Happy for him. His mother had been ill for a long time and he often confided that he was scared for her when he was at school. But research into her condition had created a spell which helped.
She noticed out of the corner of her eye that Remus and his friends were watching them. She thought it odd that they were silent. Severus seemed not to notice and carried on.
Then the whole world went into slow motion, she saw Sirius lift his wand and say something. On instinct she pushed Severus out of the way and the silver beam of light spun through the air for what seemed like forever before it finally hit her full on in the chest. All the air went out of her lungs as she was thrown into the air, she flipped over and crashed into the water, disappearing under the waves.
Remus had been on his feet before Snape had even hit the ground, but he didn't reach her in time.
Sirius and James both stood and ran with him. What if she couldn't swim?
But before Remus could even touch the water the air turned cold. He watched in horror as the surface of the lake began to freeze. His eyes flew to a figure across the lake, he could only make out, even with his eyesight, a dark shadow, a tall figure in a black cloak, his wand outstretched towards the lake.
Everything stopped.
She would die.
A/N yes I'm evil! but if i get reviews i'll write faster! sorry for the cliffy but i haven't really done one for this story yet.