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CHAPTER TEN
ARROGANCE
"It's cold!"
"It's not, shut up!"
"But I'm freezing to death here!"
"Shut up!"
"If I die, I'm going to haunt you in your sleep you ignorant little girl!"
"SHUT UP!"
Sirius watched in amusement as his daughter was hissing rapidly down her jacket. He smirked. Only his daughter could befriend an arogant snake and carry him around in her jacket. They were currently in the park again, Ida was sitting infront of her sculptures, wich surprisingly enough had not been touched, neither by people or weather.
He knew why she wasn't working on them though. She was waiting for her friend, that Zabini boy. He didn't mind that she was friends with the little bugger, oh no, he might have a slightly bad past experience with the boys parents, but if Ida thought the boy was okay, than damned it, he was okay.
Ida continued to hiss at Sinclair the insuffable snake as Sirius took another sip of coffee, and thats when he noticed that her hissing had begun to attract people's attention. It probably wasn't the best idea to have a little girl hissing angrily at a cobra tucked under her jacket in a park filled with muggles.
"Sweetie, you have to keep it down, these people aren't used to children talking to animals." Sirius said softly, Ida looked up from her jacket and pursed her lips.
"Sowwy daddy." She said with a small grin and began forming small things in the snow. Sirius smiled widely. One of the best things with being a father was to hear her say the word 'daddy', it practically made his heart swell with pride.
"I don't think your friend is going to show, why don't we just go back inside where it's warm?" Sinclair recuested, Ida however, did not say a word.
"Ignoring me now are we? Hmfh!" Ida still did not say anything, she would not go against her daddy's wishes, and sh understood that the muggles did not want to see a little girl talking to a snake. If she didn't know about magic, she would have thought it was odd too.
"Ida?"
Nope, she refused to answer.
"Iiiida?"
Still nothing.
"IDA!"
"What?" She whispered, finally giving in. Sinclair gave her what could only be recognized as a smug look.
"Hah, you talked, you loose!"
"I can't talk to you, Sinclair! The muggled might see me!"
"Muggles? What are those? Can I eat them?"
"No, you can't, you dummy! Muggles are non magical people, they don't know people can talk to snakes." She said as quietly as she could, glancing up at her daddy. He didn't seem to have noticed her talking.
"So that means I can eat them. Good... Oh, look, your friend did show up after all, how fantastically convinent for little, poor, freezing me..."
"I'm not going to give you another piece of bacon if you don't shut up!"
Now that shut him up pretty quickly, and to Ida's delight he had been right about Blaise, he was now making his way towards her. Ida jumped on her feet and waved at him with a grin, he returned it with a toothy grin of his own.
"Hiya Ida!" He greeted her and to her surprise he gave her a hug. Ida smiled.
"Hi Blaise."
"Tell him hi from me to, Ida! Tell him I will suffocate him for dragging us out here in the cold and-" He didn't get to say anything else for Ida had punched him through her jacket. Blaise looked at her confused.
"Why is your tummy hissing?" He asked as he scratched the back of his head. Ida laughed.
"It's not my tummy!" She kneeled down and gestured for him to follow. She glanced around to make sure noone was looking, people would not like her having an poisonus cobra with her in a park packed with children after all, and slowly zipped down her jacket.
"What are you doing? Are you crazy? It's freezing!" Sinclair complained loudly and dove further down her jacket away from the cold air. Blaise's eyes widened to the sice of dinner plates.
"I- It's a snake!" He whispered loudly, trying to get another peek down her jacket. Ida giggled and looked down at Sinclair.
"His name is Sinclair, I found him in the basement and he was twying to bite my ankles! Now he's my fwiend." She explained before turning to the cobra.
"Sinclair, Blaise would like to meet you, would you come out and say hi, please?" She asked, and if possible, Blaise's eyes widened even more and he allmost fell backwards. Ida looked at him, slightly confused.
"Y- your a - a Parselmouth!" He whisper shouted and Ida grinned proudly at him.
"Yes, Come on, Sinclair, it's not that bad!" She turned back to her snake who openly and loudly refused to come up.
"No! It's too cold, I'm going to report you for animal abuse! I'm going to steal all your precious carrots!"
"Well, if you don't come out, I'll just have to bann you from ever eating bacon again, and I'll never read another book for you!" Ida insisted harshly.
To Blaise's surprise Sinclair's head suddenly appeared out of Ida's jacket and she smirked at him, nowing she had won the argument. Fair or otherwise...
"Hello human. I'm Sinclair the fantastic Cobra. I hope for your sake you are as important as Ida says you are, or else you will be tasting my poision." He hissed at him and his tounge went rapidly in and out of his mouth. Ida rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Dwamaqueen."
"What? What did he say?" Blaise asked both excited and a little bit scared at the same time, he did not like the look the black cobra was sending him.
"Oh, don't wowwy about him, he's just angwy 'cause it's cold and he don't have a wintew coat." Ida said making a face behind Sinclairs back. Blaise began to laugh at her face and when Sinclair turned to see what it was the human boy found so funny, Blaise made his own face while his back was turned causing the two children to roll around in the snow with laughter.
Sinclair, who had decided that the two children weren't longer worthy of his presence, retorted back to the warmth that was Ida's jacket and she zipped it up, begining to feel a little cold herself, as they were lying in the snow.
"So, what you wanna do?" She asked once their laughter had died down.
"I dunno, we could talk about stuff?" Blaise suggested. Ida raised an eyebrow.
"Like what?"
"Hm... What house do you wanna be in when you go to Hogwarts?" He asked.
"I don't know. It wouldn't weally mattew to me, as long as I go thewe." She answered with a happy sigh, thinking of Hogwarts made her excited!
"I hope I get sorted into Slytherin. Dad says that's the best house." He said using his arms to raise himself a little from the ground, then he looked at her funny. Ida, finding this a little uncomfortable, shot him a confused look.
"What?"
"Why are you allways saying 'w' astead of 'r'?" He asked curious. Ida bit her lip, that was something she hadn't thought of. Whenever she did try to say the letter R her mouth went all weird.
"I don't think I can say the lettew 'w'." She said sadly. Blaise's face lit up and he grinned at her.
"I'll teach you!"
"Weally?"
"Yeah, it's easy piecy! Just roll you tongue like this, rrrrrrrr." He demonstrated by showing his tongue. Ida tried, but all that came out was an odd noise that sounded more like 'whwhwhw'. Blaise gave her an encouraging smile.
"Almost! Try again, rrrrrr."
"Whwhwhrrrrrr, hey, I think I got it! Whrrrrr!" Ida's face broke into a huge grin and she turned to beam at Blaise.
"Yeah, one more time! RRRRRR!" He made the noice real loud and Ida laughed.
"WRRRRRR!" She she made it even louder and he laughed with her.
"RRRRRR!"
"RRRRRR!"
"YEAH, you got it!" Blaise shouted happy and Ida hugged him tightly before they both collapsed into another fit of laughter.
"Rrrrr!"
"Rrrrr!"
They were both in tears from the laughter and when they finally calmed down they grinned at eachother.
"Now say Ricky Rooster Rolled aRound on Repeat." Blaise comanded, and Ida was happy to try.
"Wi... RRicky Rooster Rolled aRRound on Repeat!" Ida jumped up and waved her arms happily, "I got it!"
"Wicked!" Blaise shouted and jumped up after her, she grabbed his hand and ran to her daddy who sat on the park bench. When the got there she tugged his robes excitedly.
"Daddy, daddy look what I can do! RRRRRRRRR!" She jumped up and down of glee.
Sirius who had watched the commotion from a distance, not really knowing what the kids where doing, beamed down at her and grinned widely. His daughter's problem with the letter R was something he had noticed from the moment she first had begun talking, but he hadn't said anything about it in fear of hurting her feelings. Now, however, he lifted her up and spun her around and she screamed of joy.
"That's amazing, sweetie! I'm so proud of you!" He exclaimed happy and put her back on the ground. She laughed and turned to Blaise, who Sirius noted, looked a little sad. He tried to cover it up, but Sirius could see right trough his attempts. He smiled at him.
"And this handsome young man was the one who learned it to you, am I right?" He asked wihth a mischievous twinkle in his eye. Ida nodded her head up and down so fast he was afraid the poor kid would get a headache.
"Mhm, he's great!" Ida said and grinned at Blaise.
"Well, that calls for a thanks, don't you think?"
With that, he picked Blaise right off the ground and spund him around over his head like he had done to Ida. The boy laughed out loud with glee and Sirius grinned.
When he put him down, he stumbled a little before grinning a toothy grin and exclaiming,
"Wicked!"
Zabini or not, the boy was still just a kid, and Sirius knew all to well how it was to have parents who didn't pay enough attention to him. He ruffled Blaise's hair and he smiled up at him.
"I would appreciate it if you did not touch my son, Black." A cold male voice said. Sirius looked up and looked right into the eyes of Mr. Zabini himself.
Damn.
"Aw, come on, Zabini, I was just giving the kid some fun." Sirius said just as cold. Mr. Zabini snorted.
"If Blaise needs fun he'll get it away from the likes of you." He said eying him and Ida distastefully. Blaise and Ida looked from one dad to the other, not knowing what to do. Ida swallowed and grabbed Blaise's mitten covered hand. Mr. Zabini sure knew how to be scary, she didn't know how Blaise could live with him. Well, he was his father, she reasoned.
"Why you-" Sirius began angry, but was cut off, something Ida found quite rude.
"Come along now, Blaise, let's not stay in these... peoples presence any longer." His father said sharply, grabbing Blaise by his arm. Blaise squeezed Ida's hand.
"But Daddy, I want to play with Ida!" Blaise protested, but his father ignored him and dragged him away, tipping Ida over in the process. She landed face down in the soft snow. Sirius rushed to help her up.
"Don't worry, Ida, he'll come around, okay?" He said softly, seing the small pout on Ida's face. Her lip stuck out and she was close to tears. How could Blaise's father be so mean when his son was so nice? She didn't know, and she wasn't sure she wanted to. But the look he had given her, it was a look of pure disgust, something inly Ashley would do.
Sirius lifted his daughter up and held her closely, beginning to walk home.
...
"Why that ignorant, big headed, abusive... Ida cover your ears!" Sinclair commanded and Ida did as she was told. She did not want to hear the words comming out of his mouth at the moment. She was sure the words would be wery rude.
After she and her dad had gotten home, he had placed her in a chair explaining in a very serious tone why some wizarding families acted the way they did. She had found it odd, if not even ridiculous. He had told her that some families thought that just because they had money and that they were pureblood (whatever that meant) they thought that they could treat others rudely.
While Ida admitted she was upset, she did not want to show it in front of her daddy, or Sinclair for that matter. Se was a big girl now, and big girls didn't cry. Sinclair carfully nudged her arm to indicate that he was done saying the rude words. Ida took her hands away from her ears and bit her lip.
"Do you think Blaise will ever come to the park again?" Ida asked worried, Sinclair did his sighing noise again.
"I don't know, Ida, but from the looks of his father," He practically spat the word, "I don't think so. I'm sorry, Ida."
Ida gave him a small brave smile and stroke his scale covered back.
"It's okay, I will see him at Hogwarts anyway. He said so himself. I'll just have to wait a few years, that's all."
"You are a very brave, little human, don't you forget that." Sinclair said snuggling up against her hand. She sighed and smiled at him.
Truth be told, Ida didn't feel very brave, Mr. Zabini had really scared her today. And she was worried this was the last time she would ever see Blaise. He was her first friend, after all.
Now all she could do was to wait 'till she could start Hogwarts to see him again, that gave her a little hope, if nothing else.
With that on her mind, she crawled up in bed and closed her eyes. She was almsot four now, it would't be so long.
And then sleep took over, with dreams of arrogant snakes and rude wizards.
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