The following morning, Mary was snuggled against Luke's bare chest in his bed and she had a smile on her face. It had been a perfect night, better than she could have hoped for or even deserved. She heard male voices in whispers, and realized that she most likely woke because she heard them return from where ever Luke had convinced them to go for the night. Deciding to ignore them she nuzzled as close to the body beside her as possible.
"Mary! Get up!" Luke yells at her from what sounded at the foot of the bed.
Groggily she sits up and rubs her eyes. Once she wakes up more she turns to look at Luke, except it wasn't. Horrified she scoot away to see who she was next to better. She was wearing one of Luke's shirts that covered her, but she was staring at had red short hair and not Luke's shaggy dirty blonde hair. The redhead, whose name she could not recall in her sleepy state, had stood up as soon as he could to get away from her. Slowly she looks around at each face in the room until she came to stop on Luke's at the foot of the bed. His expression was one of hurt and anger.
"What the hell, Mary? What are you doing?" Luke asks disbelieving his eyes. His dorm mate already told him that he had woken with her like that and he had nothing to do with it – he had tried to escape but with no success.
"I… I don't know." She says slowly, and then reality hit her like a brick wall. She quickly stood next to him and rested her head against his chest. With a few minutes of panic she had found herself on the floor at his feet. "Please, please, please. You have to believe me. I honestly have no idea what happened."
He gently took her arm and helped her back to her feet. Then silently he led her to the door and opens it. "Go. I don't want to talk to you again." He says, not looking at her, his expression blank. "Keep the shirt. I will give Charlotte your clothes when I see her later."
"Sorry..." Mary says as she pulls her arm out of his hand and glances down.
She walks from his dorm to her own to put on her own clothes, and tosses Luke's shirt in her trunk. Sticking her hands into her pockets she makes her way out of the common room and down the Grand Staircase. Her face showing no emotion – she made a bee line around groups of students and toward the Green Houses. She opens the door to Green House 6 and walked straight to the back storage room to receive trimming scissors. Instead of tending the plants like she normally would have done, she left with the scissors and headed to where Sirius kept his bike under an invisibility charm – so to keep Slytherins away from it – and held the blades of the scissors open between her fingers. Undoing the charm Sirius had placed on the bike she drags the blade along the bike's seat a few times before turning to attention to the side of it. At first she just engraved her name with a crossed out heart next to it. Then she added phrases like 'blood traitor' and 'mudblood lover' over any open covering on his bike. Once she was finished she stuck the scissors into his back tire before leaving the scene.
Her next stop before going back to the school was the Gryffindor changing rooms at the Quidditch pitch. With the Hufflepuff players hard at work for their training, they paid Mary no attention as she unlocks the Gryffindor changing rooms and walking in. With a single tap of her wand she was able to open James' locker and pull out his broom and uniform, laying them out on the bench that rested in the middle of the room. Casting Incendio on the end of his broom first so that it becomes un-ride able before putting it out, she then ruins his uniform by using different spells to make it also unusable. Returning them to his locker, she repeats the process with Charlotte's locker.
Later in the day, Mary walked into the common room as if nothing had happened to find it empty. Empty apart from Charlotte, Lily, Remus, and Luke who had his back turned to the portrait hole while Remus was blocking the stairway to the dorms and Lily and Charlotte were sitting on the couch with Luke sitting on the arm furthest away from her. Upon hearing the Fat Lady Thudopen again behind her, she turns and finds herself looking at James and Sirius who both had expression of obvious anger. It was Remus who spoke first.
"What's wrong Mary? Luke approached Char this morning upset, I have barely kept Sirius from finding you and punching you in the face for vandalizing his bike, and we have a Hufflepuff saying that you came out of the Gryffindor changing rooms shortly before James found his and Char's things ruined. So tell us, tell me, what happened?"
'Say something and get out of there.'
"Why? Why would I ever talk to a monster like you?"
At that Sirius, acting as the loyal friend he was, jumped at Mary – stopping short so not to gain four holes in his chest from the fork she kept in her back pocket.
"Mary. Please." Lily spoke finally standing and taking a step toward her best friend, but stops when Mary points the fork at her. "We are trying to help."
"I don't want help from you. You… Mudblood and blood traitors," she manages to get out with slight hesitation. She turns her fork on Sirius and James who had both tried to jump at her. "Stay away from me."
At this point they were all standing and looking at her, even Luke. They all either looked hurt or angry, or both. Turning her fork on anyone who tried to talk or step toward her, she slowly stepped around the two blocking the door and out the portrait hole.
'Good job, Mary. Now meet me where we agreed this morning.'