Chapter 10
Duty bound
I woke up in the Hospital wing, I swear this year I've spent a hell of a lot of time stuck in here, it was dark outside so I must have been unconscious for some time, and no one was around so I took the liberty of discharging myself and wandering back to the Gryffindor common room. I snuck through the portrait hole and into the main common room, the fires were burning so I decided to sit down for a bit before going up to bed but I wasn't alone. As I made my way over to one of the comfy armchairs someone spoke. "I knew you'd sneak back tonight Sin," my twin knew me too well. "Yer well you know me, not one for sticking around hospital rooms for long," I said taking a seat opposite him. He looked tiered and had a few bruises and cuts on his face from the fight. "We need to talk about a few things Sin, starting with you and Avery. I think you should just do what our parents want and marry him, things are getting dangerous and you keep getting hurt, I can't protect you any longer. If you marry Avery all this could be over, you wouldn't get hurt again you would be safe-"
"Safe my arse, don't you dare tell me to give in, don't you dare! What do you know about what's safe and what's not, I'm the one who's been looking after us at home after every curse and hex, after every attack, it's me who made sure we were still alive so don't even think about giving me this little speech. Go to bed Sirius we can forget you ever mentioned this," I snapped. Sirius shook his head and frowned, "You just don't get it Sin, you're going to get us all killed, stop being so selfish," he hissed at me. That was it I shot a spell at the fire place and it exploded and then sent the room into darkness, I vanished leaving Sirius coughing and spluttering cursing me as I disappeared into the darkness. I ended up wandering the halls in the dark until a teacher caught me in the early hours of the morning and sent me to up to Dumbledore's office; apparently I've had more than enough warnings about the rules and curfews.
Dumbledore was waiting for me a knowing look on his face as I entered and took a seat when asked to. "Miss Black shouldn't you be in the hospital wing?" he asked me as he took a seat and gave me a stern look. "Don't like the hospital wing and I feel that I have spent more than enough time there this year Sir, can I please just have my punishment and go, no disrespect Sir but I think I've just about had enough of everything as of late," I sighed in defeat, I had a creeping headache and wanted my bed. "Yesterday's incident has brought several concerns forward about both you and your friends as well as some of the other students. You will be given a months' worth of detention as this seems to be a common occurrence, also you lost control of you magic yesterday, this can be very dangerous Miss Black so the teachers feel that extra tuition in control and restraint should be given to you, so as part of your months detention you are to report to Professor McGonagall every Thursday for tuition at seven o'clock sharp," informed Dumbledore. I didn't even give him a verbal response I just nodded and then left. I headed straight for the girls dorms to get changed and head down for some food before anyone else was awake.
The next couple of weeks crawled by, I avoided the guys and threw myself into my school work and studying much to Lilly's delight. I spent an increasing number of hours in the Library with her working and looking up spells and hex's that may one day be of use to me. I went to all my detentions and private lessons with Dumbledore and McGonagall. I had successfully avoided all the guys especially my twin until it came to a Wednesday afternoon when only me and Remus usually had a free period. I was sat by myself in the room of requirement in a room filled with pillows and other soft things curled up feeling depressed when the door burst open. "Sin we need to talk, enough is enough," the door slammed shut and next thing Remus is pulling a large floor cushion along and plonking it down beside me. "Leave me alone," I grumbled as I turned away from him and curling up again. "No I'm not going anywhere, not until you talk to me, what on earth is going on with you?" he snapped clearly pissed off at me. "Just go Remus, I don't want to talk," I grumbled. Remy was having none of it he grabbed my arm and forced me to turn around; I refused to look him in the eyes. "Stop all this bullshit right now Sin its getting old. Now I'm not leaving until I get some answers so suck it up and act you're age. Why have you been avoiding us all? You don't sit with us, you don't eat with us, you won't even look at us," said Remy angrily.
"I'm going to get you all killed apparently so I thought I'd do you all a favor and fuck off out of your lives and spare you all the pain that I'm going to bring. Maybe I've had enough of everything, all the detentions, the trouble, maybe I don't fancy spending any more of my damn time in the frigging hospital Wing. Hell maybe I should take Sirius's advice and give in and marry Avery, become some perfect pureblood and go on a Muggle killing spree," I snapped. "What the hell has gotten into you, I feel like I don't even know you anymore," he yelled. "Go, get out of here; the sooner you realize you don't need me the better off your all going to be. Don't you get it, I'm the one who's going to get us all killed me and my big mouth, me and my irrational actions and petty fights with the future death eaters." The next thing took me completely by surprise, Remus hit me straight in the face, "get a grip of yourself you selfish, self-centered, pathetic, pureblooded git. You may not need us but we need you, tonight's a full moon and if you're not there don't ever expect me or any of the others to speak to you again. You look like crap now get up and stop moping around," he snapped. All I could do in response was holding my face where he had struck me and turn my back to him. "So that's it, you're not going to yell at me or even try to hit me back your just going to sit there? You're more pathetic then I thought, goodbye Orsina," and with that he left and once again I was all alone with no one to really talk to.
I sat alone for a few hours until the time I knew the guys would sneak down to the shrieking shack, I got up from my cushion pile and made my way over to a window that had appeared and given me the perfect view to watch my brother and everyone sneak Remus around. I stood and watched as Peter transformed into a rat and froze the Whomping willow letting everyone sneak past. I watched until the full moon rose and the howling began but what I saw next froze me to the core, Snape, Snape had followed my brother and was heading straight down to where a hungry werewolf would be waiting. I didn't think I just acted; I ran and jumped straight through the window of the room of requirement, large, black, leathery dragon wings morphed from my back letting me glide down to the whomping willow. I landed and set off running ridding myself of my wings as I slid down the earthy tunnel to the shrieking shack after Snape. "Come on come on don't be too late," I urged as I sped down the tunnel occasionally being hit in the face by twigs and debris until I crashed straight into the back of Snape who was stood frozen to the spot. Growling snapped me from my daze and I quickly pushed Snape behind me and changed as quickly as I could into my animagus form, I barely managed to change in time as I felt needle like teeth rip into my flesh. I growled in pain and lunged at the werewolf kicking Snape backwards in the process. This snapped Snape from his frozen state and he turned heel and ran as fast as he could back to the castle, a large James stag pushed past me though and went after Snape, we couldn't let Remy's secret out. I grappled with the werewolf that was once my friend trying to make sure he didn't follow Snape and James. After a tiring fight with Remy he finally settled down and curled up for a nap, I dragged my bloody form over to a corner and collapsed, Sirius padded over and licked at some of my bloody wounds but I swiped at him with one of my large paws and he stopped. He whimpered at me and curled up opposite me keeping his eyes on my at all times but I ignored him and let sleep lull me away from the pain and blood.