Enjoy chapter ten! Or else… :P

DISCLAIMER!

Lily: Right. As you all know so well, Ice-Princess-93 doesn't own anything.

Me: If I did, I'd make some changes to both HoA and HP. Like Nina and Fabian kissing before Prom, and making a second HP series on the chronicles of Rose Weasley and Scorpius Malfoy.

Rose: Can you?

Me: I can try.

Chapter Ten: House of Suspicion

Albus' POV:

"Well?"

I was sitting in the common room with Lily. Nina, Fabian and Amber had gone to the library to do potions essays - and I was surprised about that because Amber didn't seem too smart to begin with. Rose was out somewhere with Malfoy, James had something to do for Professor McGonagall, and Hugo took Alfie and Mick somewhere to talk about Quidditch.

"Well what?" I asked Lily. She stared at me, wide-eyed.

"Nina," she said quietly. "You know she's with Fabian."

"Albus!" Dominique stormed down the staircase and plopped down in an armchair between Lily and I. "You will not take Nina Martin away from Fabian Rutter!"

"What's he doing?" Lucy asked, coming through the portrait hole. Molly and Louis followed her, and Roxanne was a few paces behind them.

"Great," I muttered, covering my face with my hands. "Nothing!"

"He likes Nina Martin, the new girl in my our dormitory," Dominique explained.

"Dom! Shut up!" Lily shouted. "What're you guys doing here? Don't you have Quidditch practice?"

"Don't you have Quidditch practice?" Fred shot back at us. He had appeared out of nowhere too. "I mean, Albus," he turned to me, "you are our Seeker. Dom, you too. You're a Beater."

"Wait," I snapped my head up. "We have Quidditch practice today? OH THANKS FOR TELLING ME, GUYS!" I ran out of the common room and returned a few minutes later, broom in hand.

"Our lovable cousin Captain James said he wants to see you on the pitch. Now," Molly told us, leaning against a wall. "He looked mad."

"But-" Lily started to protest, then shut her mouth and thought better of it. "Oh, fine. Go ahead, Al. We'll continue this talk later."

"And," Roxanne butt in, "Hagrid said he wanted to see you two outside his house." She pointed to Dominique and Lily. "Something about an owl."

"What about an owl?" Dominique asked. She looked confused. "And aren't I needed on the Quidditch pitch?"

"Yeah… And I don't know," Louis replied. "Maybe the owl's for the newbies?"

"Okay, okay. Goodbye!" I shouted.

We rushed out the portrait hole and down to the Quidditch pitch, followed by Hugo.

Once we were outside, something came to my mind. "Why isn't Dominique joining us? She's a Chaser! And where's Keeper Rose?"

"I'll go get her!" Hugo replied, veering off back towards the castle.

"You heard me," Roxanne said. "Hagrid wanted to see her and Lily. She'll be along soon."

"Oh whatever. You're all mental," I muttered under my breath.

We reached the pitch and I spotted James circling up ahead. Alfie and Mick had joined us by this point, and they decided to climb up into the stands to survey practice. James swooped down, landing perfectly once he saw us coming towards him.

"Why weren't you here sooner?" he asked, walking over with his broom in hand.

"You said you had something to do for McGonagall!" I shouted, mounting my own broom and streaking up into the air. "Why are we practicing now anyways?"

"Because! Our next match is against Slytherin, and they're really, really good at tactics and whatnot! We need to get in all the practice we can get. Now where's Rose and Dom?" he asked, joining me in the air.

"Rose is coming - Hugo's getting her. And Dom's at Hagrid's."

"Why is she at Hagrid's?"

"He told her to go!" By now, Roxanne had joined us in the air. "She's with Lily. He mentioned something about owls."

"Oh for Merlin's sake!" James looked really mad.

Suddenly, I spotted Rose and Hugo running towards the pitch, and once Rose had mounted her broom and was in the air, Hugo left to sit in the stands with Mick and Alfie.

"There you are!" James shouted. She smiled.

"Thanks for making it a surprise practice, moron," she said jokingly. He didn't laugh. "Where's Dominique?"

"Forget her! Let's just practice."

"But where's-"

I saw Lily and Dominique heading for the pitch from the direction of the castle. "There she is!" I exclaimed, pointing. "And there's Lily."

"Why'd you go to Hagrid's?" I asked Dom once she was in the air.

"He got owls for the newbies," she explained. We all nodded in understanding.

"Okay," James started off, taking his position as captain. "Me, Rosie, Dom, Al, Roxie-"

"Don't call me that!" Roxanne shouted.

"-Lucy and Fred," he finished, ignoring her. Fred had silently creeped up into the air when we hand't noticed. "Let's start."

He swooped down to release the balls, and we all started practice. It went pretty damn well, if I do say so myself.

Fabian's POV:

"Nina, something weird's been going on with Albus lately," I told her. Her and I were in the library trying to do our Potions essays. Amber was there too, but she wasn't exactly working.

"What do you mean?" she asked, looking up from her notes. Just then, Mara, Jerome and Patricia walked in. They took seats at our table.

"Hello," Jerome greeted us, taking his Astronomy book and a Star Chart from his bag, as well as an ink bottle and quill. "What goes on?"

"Potions," Amber replied. In reality, she was sitting there, painting her nails. "Oh, I mean, they're doing Potions. I'm doing my nails."

"Amber Millington!" Madam Pince shouted from her desk. "Either do some work, or head back to your common room!"

"Bye guys!" Amber gathered her closed book and nail varnish, threw her bag over her shoulder, and nonchalantly skipped out of the library, heading in the direction of Gryffindor Tower. We stared after her.

"Okay…" Mara muttered, taking out a Muggle Studies book.

"Mara," Patricia started off, pointing to the textbook. "Why are you taking that class? We've been living among Muggles for our entire lives! And you're a half-blood!"

"I'm taking it because I wanted to know how Wizards seem Muggles! You know, like how Muggles are put into perspective in the Wizarding world. Plus, the professor for this class is quite nice," she explained, opening the book to a random page and jotting down notes on a roll of parchment.

"So Fabian," Nina started off. "What were you saying about Albus?"

"Oh, I-"

"You guys!" Alfie and Mick came running into the library, much to the dismay of Madam Pince. She looked furious. "You have to see this!"

"See what?" Jerome asked.

"Quidditch!" Mick exclaimed. "It's bloody brilliant!"

"You've been watching their practice instead of doing your Potions essay?" I asked. "Way to go, mate. You're even a procrastinator here."

"Hey, don't insult me alright? Anyways, the game's ruddy amazing. You should all come to the pitch and watch their practice."

"Maybe next time," Nina and I said in unison. Patricia and Jerome, however, got up to follow them. Mara stayed where she was.

"You're not coming, Maraculous?" Mick asked.

"No, because unlike some people, I have an assignment to do," she told him. They kissed swiftly before he ran out of the room with the others.

"Bloody sports fanatics…" I heard Madam Pince mumble.

"Mara?" Nina asked. Yet again, Mara looked up from her work.

"Yeah Nina?" she asked, putting her quill aside.

"What's the real reason you're not going to watch Quidditch practice?"

"Well, for starters, I really don't know why Jerome and Patricia even went! I mean, it's your House practicing, not ours. James Potter and the other teammates from your House will probably banish them from the pitch for the remainder of the day if they're spotted," she said, stopping to take a breath. "Secondly, I'm just not into sport. I want to do well in my studies is all… Just like back at Anubis House."

Nina looked at her quizzically, as if noticing there was something our friend wasn't telling her. "Okay…" she finally said after a minute.

"There's one other thing," Mara sighed. "I… I think I might fancy Jerome instead of Mick."

"Ah."

"But Nina, he's dating Patricia! And there's no way he'd like me at all anyways, so why bother?"

"You could be wrong," I butt in. "He may fancy you too. I know back at Anubis, he always had an air of jealousy about him when he saw you and Mick together. And Mick mentioned it a few times as well. It was awkward, because I didn't know what to tell him."

"Hmm. Well, I guess I'll have to do some snooping around, then." With that, Mara gathered her books and supplies, stuffed them back in her bag, and left. I guessed she was going off to Ravenclaw Tower to change into warmer clothes and her winter cloak.

I turned to Nina. "Well, I guess it's just the two of us."

"I'm hungry," she said, getting up and collecting her stuff. She walked out of the library.

"And then there was one…" I trailed off, sighing. I held my head in my hands until I felt a tap on my shoulder.

"Fabian?" It was Joy. I really didn't want to deal with her.

"What, Joy?" I asked, starting to pack my stuff up. I wanted to go to the Great Hall and find Nina. "What do you want?"

"Never mind." She walked away, going back to a table full of Slytherin girls. I stared at them, then left to find my girlfriend.

I did end up finding Nina, and after we had something to eat, we headed back to the library, sitting as far away from Joy and her cronies as possible. The good news was we finally finished our Potions essays.

"Let's go eat," Nina said once we had left the Gryffindor common room after dropping our books off. "It's dinnertime."

"Okay Love. Then maybe we can see what everyone else is up to, seeing as they ditched us earlier," I replied. We smiled at each other and set off back towards the Great Hall.