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That's what happened:
Evgenia smirked. She wasn't sorted into Slytherin for nothing. She could play as dirty as them.
Leaving the arithmancy book in the common room, and going back to bed with a satisfied grin, Evgenia was already scheming ideas….
On with the story…
The next day, she woke pretty early and got dressed. She pulled her long hair into a high ponytail and put on a light make-up, enhancing her natural beauty. Smiling, she stepped away from the mirror and went down for breakfast.
Brilliant. He was already waiting for her at the stairs.
"Abraxas." Evgenia said in a melodic voice, batting her eyelashes at him. He was stunned for a second. Abraxas shook his head and blushed – very unusual for a Malfoy.
"Evgenia. Would you like to go down to breakfast with me?" he asked in his cocky voice.
"Sure, I'm starving." Evgenia said, smiling brightly.
Abraxas couldn't believe his luck. He smirked broadly at somebody behind him. Evgenia didn't need to turn around to know that it was Tom. Her plan was working flawlessly.
All the way to the Great Hall, Abraxas talked about everything and Evgenia just listening. Actually – though it was hard to admit – it was really interesting. She guessed, she still had to learn a lot about the life in Great Britain.
'Focus, Anastasia, Focus.' Evgenia thought anxiously, when they arrived in the Great Hall. Abraxas sat down and patted the bench next to him. Evgenia spotted them at the Gryffindor-table at once.
"Let me say a quick Good Morning to my brother and my friend." Evgenia said smiling brightly. Abraxas' eyes narrowed. He was clearly torn between pleasing Evgenia and keeping his Slytherin pride.
"Go if you must." he grumbled, trying to keep a cool façade. "Great see you later." Evgenia trilled, turning around.
Daniel Crabbe was looking at her dumbfounded. "Why is she heading towards the Gryffindor-table?"
"Obviously, because she wants to see her friends." Abraxas said in an icy tone.
"But she is in Slytherin!" Crabbe grumbled.
"So what? Her brother is in Gryffindor as well." Abraxas mumbled.
"What's the matter with you? Wasn't it always you, who defended the Slytherin-pride?" Crabbe asked stiffly.
"What's it to you? Mind your own business." Abraxas said harshly, stabbing his sausage with his fork.
TRTRTR
"Hey Sarah." Evgenia said, plopping down between next to Dumbledore's niece. Sarah looked at her with wide eyes.
"I'd like to apologize for Abraxas' behaviour yesterday." Evgenia said, pulling an apologetic face.
"No need to. I know what they are like…" Sarah rolled her eyes and smiled. "Don't worry."
"Yeah, just wanted to let you know." Evgenia watched her brother with interest. He seemed to be following their conversation avidly.
"By the way, I like your nose stud. It's so pretty!" Sarah declared.
"Oh, thank you. I got it from a market in Moscow…" Evgenia smiled and blushed. She had to admit that she really liked Sarah. Sarah was sincere, kind and friendly… she wouldn't let her brother toy with her. She shot him a last look through narrowed eyes and stood up.
"Got to go to my Slytherin-table." Evgenia told her with a roll of her eyes.
Sarah waved her good-bye.
TRTRTR
Tom Riddle couldn't believe it. Abraxas had beat him. He had escorted Evgenia to breakfast AND he let her go to the "enemies ". Tom sighed. He seriously doubted the loyalty of his closest servant.
He sat down next to a smirking Abraxas.
"So." Abraxas declared smugly, raising one eyebrow.
"So?" Tom asked, in an unconcerned voice, though watching Evgenia at the end of the table, between Alphard and Cygnus and talking animatedly to Eileen Prince. His breath got caught when he saw her smile, exposing her white, even teeth.
"You still remember our deal, I hope?" Abraxas asked, eyeing Tom carefully.
"What do you mean?" Tom asked harshly.
"Well, GET THE GIRL!" Abraxas rolled his eyes.
Tom sighed inwardly. Of course on the outside he seemed cruel, arrogant and hard. But in reality he was clueless. How could he win over Evgenia? And did he really want to? Wasn't she too much of a distraction? He never had a girlfriend, just a shag, named Olive Horny, but he couldn't compare an angel to the night. He had no idea, how to win over this unbelievable woman.
At that moment, Evgenia got up gracefully, swishing her long her back and Tom swallowed. He was absolutely clueless. But was a Dark Lord supposed to be clueless??
TRTRTR
Evgenia walked alone to Potions, when she heard footsteps behind her. She swiftly turned around and noticed that it was her brother, his face dark red.
"What do you THINK you are doing?" he asked through gritted teeth, seething. "What do you mean?" Evgenia was startled.
Why did her brother ALWAYS overreact?
"First flirting with the headboy, then flirting with that blonde-haired git and THEN trying to get my girlfriend away from me!" Andrej said.
"Humpfh. First of all, I am NOT flirting with anyone. And I am NOT trying to get Sarah away from you." Evgenia spat back.
Dennis grabbed her arm.
"Don't you DARE contradict me. You know exactly what I am doing. You know of my plans, Anastacia. And since you were not able to fulfil them, you now try to hinder me. You didn't get any glory and now you don't want me to get glory as well. You are jealous, sister!" her brother accused her, gripping her arm tighter.
"How can you say that?" Evgenia was outraged.
"Because I see how you try to keep her away from me! Do you think I'm blind?" Andrej now took both her arms and twirled Evgenia towards him so that she was facing him.
"Now you listen to me!" he said.
"Dennis, you are hurting me." Evgenia said, with almost tears in her eyes.
Andrej didn't listen, he just gripped her harder.
"We can't have that. I want you to stay away from her AND from me. You will not be in my way. You will not destroy my plans!" Andrej said hatefully.
Andrej and Evgenia didn't notice the group of Slytherins exchanging dark looks as they approached nearer the fighting siblings.
"Look, you keep out of my business, and I will keep out of yours." Evgenia pleaded. Her arms really started to hurt now. Andrej didn't know when to stop, sometimes.
"Hey, please stop hurting me now!" Evgenia said quietly.
He didn't listen. "I will NOT keep out of your business – you are my sister and therefore…" but he couldn't finish his sentence. Tom was towering over him.
"Get. Your. Hands. Away. From. Her." he said through gritted teeth. His menacing voice was quiet and dangerous.
Andrej let go of his sister immediately. He glared at Tom.
"What's your problem, man?" Andrej eyed the headboy angrily.
"What's YOUR problem? Why are you hurting your sister?" Tom shot back.
Andrej was momentarily lost for wards, just glaring at Tom.
Tom used the silence, however, to say: "These are my final words, Dolohov, and if I catch you manhandling your sister again, I will make sure, that you will suffer. And believe me, if I say suffer, it means suffer… or sometimes death." Tom smiled an evil dark smile.
Evgenia shuddered involuntarily.
Andrej just snorted.
"For now 20 points from Gryffindor will do." Tom said waving his hand while the amount of rubies were reduced significantly. Andrej almost stomped his foot in frustration.
Without another word, he shoved past the snickering Slytherins into the potions-classroom. The only other person that was as furious as Andrej, was Abraxas. He didn't look at Evgenia or anyone else when he walked inside, his face darkred with fury.
Evgenia turned towards Tom, gratefully.
"Thank you, Tom." she said smiling slightly.
Tom straightened up. "No problem." he smiled as well. He was happy. He didn't know why. Maybe, because he had beat Abraxas. Maybe, because he had kicked a Gryffindor's ass. Maybe, because he had helped Evgenia and made her happy.
Without thinking twice, Tom offered her his arm.
"Let's go inside." he said uncertainly. 'What am I doing? This is all so wrong… but it feels so right… Tom, get a grip… there are other things, more important things than girls…' Tom thought angrily. But when he looked at the happy smile of the beauty next to him, nothing else mattered.
TRTRTR
The next day, Evgenia got up early. She had the photoshoot today and was pretty excited. She knew that she would be shooting with another model from Russia, though she was unsure of who it was. She hoped it was no one of the business she knew. All of her model-friends were icecold and stuck-up. She didn't want to deal with that now.
After a hot shower, Evgenia decided to just head down to breakfast for a cup of coffee.
"Good morning, Evgenia." Alphard Black said, his face red, walking down the stairs uncertainly.
"Good morning, Alphard." Evgenia greeted brightly.
"Already up so early? Seems like we are the only ones." Alphard said, pointing at the empty common room.
"Well, it't not THAT early – you know that the Slytherins like to sleep in long – so do I normally, but I've got a photoshoot today." Evgenia smiled.
Alphard blushed. "Right I forgot that you are a famous topmodel." he said half-jokingly, half-admiringly.
Evgenia sighed. She wanted to stop her modelling career. She was not interested anymore.
"Well, you get to ditch classes at least." Alphard chuckled.
"Says who?" a voice said. A familiar voice. A voice, Evgenia never wanted to hear anymore, a voice that made her shiver and shake…