I'm sorry for the wait, and for the fact that this chapter is short with basically no plot. ill update soon, (hopefully), with a longer chapter and, you know, plot. Thanks for the reviews, favourites and follows.
Chapter 10; suspicion.
"We can't ask anyone else about it." Reyna turned to Annabeth and Thalia. Thalia looked confused.
"Why?" Annabeth answered before Reyna could.
"Didn't you see Cho's face? Clearly, it's a big thing, even in America. If we look like we don't know, people will get suspicious."
"Oh. But, the others aren't completely ignorant, except maybe Percy. So, soon they'll notice something's up too, and we can't let them make that mistake." Thalia pointed out.
"Then we'd better hurry up"
"Library?"
Annabeth grinned, "library."
The girls walked down the many corridors of Hogwarts in silence, lost deep inside their own thoughts. They were halfway up the final staircase when Thalia let out a yelp of surprise. Reyna and Annabeth whipped around to find her with her right leg knee deep in… the stair?
"Oh my Gods!" Annabeth hurried down the steps to Thalia, and grasped her by the arm, pulling hard. "Reyna, help!"
Reyna swallowed her laughter that she felt rising up, and took Thalia's other arm. "What did you do?"
"I don't know! I was just walking on the step, and then the step wasn't there!"
They kept pulling, but made no progress. They must have made a fair amount of noise, however, because two students-both Gryffindor- came running to see what all the noise was about. Reyna recognised them as Harry and Ron, both being from her house and year.
"Hi Ron, Harry. Could you possibly lend us a hand here?" She asked.
"Um…. Yeah. Sure." Harry replied, trying to ignore the rudeness of his best friend laughing in the background.
He took out his wand and cast a quick spell at the step. Almost instantly, the pressure around Thalia's foot decreased, and Reyna gave one final tug on her arm. Thalia's leg came free, but the change of weight made them stumble, causing Thalia to fall. Right on top of Reyna.
As they were Laying on the ground, their eyes locked for a moment; an instant of calm in the middle of the storm that made up the last few days. Their noses were almost touching, their faces so close they were breathing the same air. Reyna cleared her throat, awkwardly, and Thalia's cheeks coloured a little. She quickly rolled off, then stood up and offered a hand to help the other girl up. Reyna took her outstretched hand and pulled herself up with a blush. The five looked at each other, and burst into simultaneous laughter.
"I can't believe no-one told you about the disappearing staircases!" Ron choked out.
After the staircase incident, the three demigods remembered that they were actually on that staircase for a reason, and hastened to the library to make up for lost time. The three girls sat around one of the tables situated in a small cut off alcove. They chose it because it was perfect for doing things you didn't want others to see.
Reyna cast a quick silencio charm, then sat down with a stack of books. She picked up a likely looking volume which was titled 'Darkest wizards of our time' and flicked through it. The book detailed the stories of a lot of various witches and wizards, many with odd names; such as Grindlewald. She got to the second half of the book, which seemed to be completely dedicated to a man referred to as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
She scanned the text, then spoke out to the others next to her. "Guys, come and read this…"