Well exams are finally over!!! YAY!!! So here goes another chapter.
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"Right then, Draco you may start with the simpler charms from the beginning of the year. I am sure she would benefit with the extra practise." Professor Wood pointed to the front two desks of the room as both Evelyn and Draco walked in, one holding a scowl and the other blank as if thinking.
"Right then Evelyn, remember I teach, you listen to me got it?"
"Alright Draco."
"What did I say about calling me by first name? Oh never mind," Draco regarded her for a moment longer before slamming his text book on his desk and extracting his wand. "Oliver seemed to be too amused by their antics to notice a bright young witch walk into his class carrying a pile of books that resembled an accident waiting to happen. ... of course, two seconds later the books were airborne and a few sequels and yelps followed as a few novels came in contact with a few heads.
"Opps, sorry guys I didn't have anyone to help me bring these down." Lulu shrugged it off as she bent down to pick everything up, and Oliver being the gentleman that he is (indeed) jumped up to help.
"No worries, thank you for bringing these down, you know you could have asked me for help." Oliver bent to pick up the same book as Lulu as their heads and hands collided. Movie cliché's it seems did not only happen within sappy books and romance movies. All this was very silly to a certain Malfoy though who thought that puppy love was pointless and a waste of time, opposite of Evelyn's opinion, who rightly or wrongly thought that life without life was nothing at all.
"Um thanks Oliver, I will just get to work on grading those papers." Lulu rushed over to her own desk which Professor Wood had set up shortly after being assigned a personal student teacher. He not only had a desk area for her, but he had placed all sorts of things such as quills, journals, books, her own bookshelf, just to make her feel at home. He was trying a little too hard, but at least he was a gentleman, his heart was in the right place anyway.
"Evelyn pay attention I know you have trouble with this spell even if I learned it back in second year. First thing is first, pronunciation, repeat after me. Wing-guardian Leviosa." Malfoy started off explaining it as if she was a child but Evelyn knew that under his venom was the real Draco, after all he was just all talk and no action.
"Wing guardian Leviosa." Evelyn's quill which had been laid out before her start to float in the air as a certain red head sauntered in not thirty minutes after everyone had settled in to work.
"Well 'ello Lulu, how are you this fine evening?" George raised his eyebrows as if surprised he would find Lulu in Oliver's classroom during the week, when she worked...
"What are you doing here George?! What a great surprise!" Lulu jumped out of her seat and went to hug George whilst a certain Professor Wood started to smoke at the ears... Not healthy in the least.
"Well I figured I would come over here and offer dear Oliver my hand in friendship, after all friends shouldn't be fighting. It's only the right thing to do." George was smiling very deviously. He had it all planned out like the good little prankster he was, the evil genius he had turned out to be, his mother would be proud... maybe.
"If we were ever friends to begin with, though I suppose fighting is juvenile so I agree let's stop this squabbling but like I said we won't be friends as of yet." Oliver only added the last part with a glance at Lulu who had a kind of begging in her eyes, as if saying please can't you just be friends like before? Well he had to admit, George and him were twins whilst they were playing Quidditch together, George was a mean beater after all.
"Well then, I don't suppose you would mind if I stole Lulu away for a honeydukes ice pop then? After all she works so hard! Never takes a break this one." George gave Lulu a wink as he grabbed her hand and hauled her out of the class room leaving a shocked Oliver and two snickering students.
"I'll be back soon!" Lulu called as Oliver sat down in a huff. Fine, she would be ten minutes, not one second more... No worries right?
"Get back to work you two!" Oliver's growling seemed rather kinky then scary but then again you don't call a teacher's attempt at anger kinky... or anything near that for the matter.
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"How about we take tonight off? Perhaps go for a butter beer?" Dimitri gathered up some papers he had been working on as Kassi walked through the door. She'd just finished another little meeting with Hermione and her concerns were growing. One day closer to Valentine's and she was alert twenty four hours a day waking in the night easily to a hoot of an owl.
"Don't we have plenty of work to do though? I mean I wouldn't want you to fall behind, nor would I like to take advantage of this job." Kassi was always the blunt one.
"I'm sure the headmistress won't mind if we take an hour to relax, after all we are human even if we are wizards right? Plus I have been needing to talk to you." Dimitri disregarded the strange looks coming from Kassi as he led her by the hand out on to the school grounds towards Hogsmade. Something had gotten into him but the question was what was it? Strange happenings were once again taking place at Hogwarts.
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Earlier
"Is everything in place?"
"Of course, one month of preparations left, everything is placed."
"Hem-Hem, I do think we should act now, I mean it is better to straighten this whole school out now, then later."
"No we need a bit more time, the diary needs more time, and do not forget your promise Kassi is not to be harmed."
"Nor Lulu."
"Understood, anymore requests?" Eyeing the room of the select elite wizards and witches left in their world, they would start a new order. A world with pure blooded Ayrans, the true Aryan race, superior and meant to rule, she would have her revenge and he would have his dream. "It's good to know some of us have not gone soft."
"I would never. I know my place, I know my reward in the end and she is a mudblood and means nothing to me."
"Be careful Draco, I am not so sure you can have two faces without misplacing your loyalties."
"You need not worry about me, both like these two lover boys here..."
Dark plans are disgusted with in the shadows and darkness of night while the only ones prying into the conversation are owls hooting away in non-interest. Misplaced hearts, misplaced trust, as universes intertwined as did personalities, worlds, hearts, and souls, what will come of their lives. What once might have been has been changed, as evil seeps into every crack and cranny of their world, intruding on secret moments of self discovery and first loves... Will the rules of a cliché world win out in the end? If they did we wouldn't have a real story would we?
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"Thanks Draco, you know you really are helping..." Evelyn was surprised herself at how much Draco had been able to teach her in the twenty minutes that Oliver had disappeared.
After fifteen minutes of Lulu and George's absence Oliver had stalked out of the room uttering a few distasteful words under his breath. This love triangle was getting a little old even when we still could not tell whom had taken control of Lulu's heart. The plot thickens was all Draco had to say to Evelyn prodding a giggle out of the girl.
"Well then I think that's it for tonight, I mean practise the one's we went over, and perhaps we can do this again?" Draco looked at Evelyn for her answer as his hands paused over his books.
Ever heard of excellent timing? Well Fred had heard of it, excellent timing for him that is, or rather perhaps bad timing for all three?
Within seconds of the question a red headed, steaming, frustrated, angry Fred Weasley burst into the classroom. No one had ever seen him so utterly unsure of how to feel.
"Evelyn, where were you tonight?! Remember your supposed to work tonight!"
Opps. Evelyn stared up at Fred guilty as charged, she had forgotten about work when Oliver insisted she come here tonight for extra help with Charms. Oh no, thought Evelyn, even if he is a git, he gave me a job when I needed one...
"Hey, leave her alone got it, it wasn't her idea to be here tonight." Draco was picking up for her?
"Ya right, and whose was it yours?" Fred snapped right back, he couldn't stand that smug Slytherin, Draco was exactly like his father, a coward, or at least he was in Fred's eyes.
"No, it was Professor Wood's, he wanted her to have extra help for her Charms exam. After all she started off with double courses both from sixth and seventh years, it has to be a little hard. Plus no one has tried to help her with any of it." Draco was unhappy about Fred's attitude, what gave him the right to dictate Evelyn's life anyway?
"I'm so sure, she could have had help from anyone like Hermione, why you Malfoy? She doesn't need you."
"Fredrick Weasley! I will not tolerate that tone towards a person who has been more human to me these past two weeks then you have been. I am sorry I wasn't there tonight but I did not have a choice in coming for Charms, on strict orders of Professor Wood. Now if you wish me to go in now to finish the stocking and everything I shall, if not then why are you here?" Evelyn was angry, how dare he talk to Draco like that, sure Draco has made some mistakes, but everyone makes mistakes, people can change right? Wrong...
"Good night Mudblood. I've no need to stand here and listen to this blood traitor." It took Draco near his whole being to say that word, that one word, Mudblood... but he needed to remind himself she was the enemy, the impurity that was of no importance to him. He chanced a glance at her and instead of a broken gaze he saw a calculating look, as if she was trying to see beneath his exterior, well he thought, there is nothing else, what you see is what you get.
"See you tomorrow, Draco." She empathised his name, making sure that he knew the meaning of it. For some reason she remembered those words, to be kind even if those words were from an unknown source she knew somehow that they had meant Draco in particular... When they were alone he was so different, so she would not judge him now.
Why does she have to be so nice? Why is it that I am a little glad that she listened to that little angel speaking in her ear of a secret. What am I to do? I have no choice, there is no other way, I have already made my choice, for now I will do anything I can to make her last days the best. I owe her that much. I am a Malfoy, and I will live up to my name... I am a Malfoy, I am superior and I will live up to my name, I am a Malfoy
Those thoughts ran through Draco's head as Fred Weasley shooed Evelyn out of Hogwarts in a rush to get to the Joke shop where an empty shop awaited with no costumers. Fred could have handled it alone or perhaps not, perhaps he could not have handled the alone part of the deal. Rushing into the shop Fred suddenly was at a loss at what to do or say, why had he stormed off to Hogwarts? He could have enjoyed a quiet evening, but quiet evenings are nightmares to a Weasley twin.
"Well now that we're here, what would you like me to do, seeing as there are no costumers and we close in an hour or so." Evelyn was fed up with it all, the questions, the memory loss, the secrets and she was fed up with Fred.
"Well... I." What are you going to tell her now smartass? Well? You already have everything done... "You can start by switching the vomit candy with our new display of Super tongue twisters, that should take you a little while..." Perfect, useless work...
"Ok" What is his problem, really? We've never switched the products around and everything seems to be done, oh well he is just wasting his money in paying for me to do pointless work. Evelyn walked over to the left of the shop to start, might as well get it done.
Tick-tock, tick-tock. Fifteen minutes passed in silence as the shifting of boxes continued with a nervous Fred constantly glancing up as if the door kept opening. I could say that they glanced at the same time into each others eyes and finally admited their feelings but then it would end here, and it doesn't.
The door jingled open as in sauntered Kate and Angelina giggling and glancing around.
"Hi Fred, where's George?" Angelina looked at Fred smiling as she fiddled with of of the boxes on the counter.
"He is gone up to Hogwarts to see Lulu." Angelina's face contorted with something that we like to call jealousy, it is a nasty thing to have and harder to get rid of then the flu.
"Why? Doesn't she just work here on weekends?" Kate asked as Angelina stood there fuming red.
"Yes she works here on the weekends but you see my dear brother has taken a fancy to the gal. Now what may I do for you girls?" Fred was trying to stap out of his ravine and into reality, he wasn't acting himself.
"A fancy to that thing? With the unruley hair, and God she has no style." Angelina snapped as Evelyn's ears perked up to the conversation.
"She looks nearly like Hermione although she does have a good sense of humor so I guess she's alright." That was Kate trying to prevent a bomb from going off, there was no way she could prevent it now though it had already been lit.
"What do you mean by that, I think Hermione is a right gal, she is smart and even if she is a bit on the rule loving side she is really rather beautiful in her own way." Fred seemed a tad insulted by the girls disregard for natural beauty over physical, "You two used to be more like tom boys then one of those air headed girls, what happened?"
Kate stood there shocked, Angelina didn't even hear him as she started muttering things under her breath, "What do you mean by that Fredrick Weasley? Weren't you here just last night snogging the hell out of me, nearly begging me to go up to your room?" These words seemed to be the last centimeter of string before the bomb exploded as suddenly the room was deafly quiet and Evelyn was very sure that they could hear her heart hammering, teeth grinding, and blood boiling.
"I didn't mean anything by it really, just saying that the girls are just as pretty as anyone else is." Fred was trying to save his arse, he didn't even know why he bothered with girls they always found something wrong in any comment he would make.
"You mean I'm only as attractive to you as that Evelyn is?!?" Kate was yelling now and those words were the only one's Evelyn needed as an excuse to pounce and rip and tear with her nails and teeth like an animal. The two women rolled around on the floor of the shop throwing wild punches, slaps, scratches, anything to hard the other one. Fred and Angelina stood there for a long time shocked by the outbreak of animalism until the carpet started to turn crimson that is. At that point Angelina started in on the two as both her and Fred tore the girls apart.
"You little monster!" Kate was a horrid mess, her hair hanging every which way as trickles of blood ran along her arms but that was nothing compared to Evelyn who had too much adrenaline in her blood to recognize her injuries.
"You do not deserve to walk on the same Earth as those girls..." Evelyn need not raise her voice it held enough threat and venom to get her point across, and to warn Fred if he let her go she would jump upon the other girl and finish what she had started. At the moment Evelyn's arms were held behind her as blood trickled down her face from several cuts on her forehead and top of her head, whilst red scratches appeared on her arms, bruises were sure to come.
"Angelina, perhaps tonight isn't a good night to be here I will call you both later. I am very sorry about this," Fred looked at the girls apologeticly as Angelina let go of Kate and allowed her to stand properly.
"I suggest you get new hired help Fred, they do say it is hard to find good help and it seems it is true. I will see you when this filth isn't around." Instead of stalking out of the shop like most would picture her doing she pressed forward throwing Evelyn on the ground, where Angelina kept her, while she grabbed Fred into a passionate snogging session.
You would think after all this there were no more hidden bombs to explode? Well your wrong... so very wrong. Timing is everything and at that very moment Draco Malfoy opened the door and sauntered in with his head held high until he saw the blood and then Fred's snogging session, finally his eyes rested upon Evelyn's mangled personnage.
"What happened here?" Draco ran to Evelyn as he extracted a white handkerchief from his pocket dabbing the blood from Evelyn's face. Kate broke away from Fred and marched out of the shop with Angelina as Fred's eyes turned to see his new visitor.
"Nothing much Draco, just a little scrap fight, seems that I may not be good with magic but I put up one hell of a cat fight." Evelyn started to laugh as some strange joke as Draco cleaned her up as best he could and Fred stood there like an idiot.
"Right then Evelyn I guess you can go back to Hogwarts..." Great words Fred, inspiring, she was just beat up by your ex girlfriend and now your telling her she can leave in that mess...
"Weasel can I at least clean her up, you must have water in this place or are you too poor for that too?" Draco was sneering at Fred expecting a snappy reply but it never came instead Fred left to return within minutes with a bowl of water and a few more cloths.
"Here we go," Draco washed off the blood and whispered a few healing charms under his breath as the wounds closed themselves. Evelyn watched Draco's usual cold, icy eyes study every inch of her looking for other injuries, it was so unlike him.
She looks at him like he is her own personal angel, then again perhaps he is. What did I do as I watched her blood spilled in front of me? Nothing I didn't even take up for her. I used to be able to turn everything into a joke, why can't I do that now? Perhaps because it's just not funny anymore. Why do I just want to snatch her away from Malfoy? As if she is mine. She isn't though and it is my fault. Merlin I've been a bloody arse. Fred watched them only for a moment longer for there was an awkward silence settling over the three of them.
Coughing Fred cleared his throat, "Draco would you mind escorting this young lady back to Hogwarts, I've got to clean up this mess before I close up." Draco was about to agree with something a Weasley said when Evelyn spoke up.
"No Fred its alright, I can clean it up, after all I do need the money for school so I should clean it up and close the store. Don't worry about me, Draco did a wonderful job in fixing me up, he is amazing after all." Evelyn's words had two effects much like Communism and Fascism they were opposite, as white is to black. Draco's once pale cheeks turned the color of her blood which splattered the floor as his eyes refused to meet that of the girl, and Fred growled in displeasure and anger at a Malfoy being complimented by a Gryfindor in his shop.
"I'll meet you back at the castle then? Or rather I'll see you tomorrow Evelyn. I've too much homework left anyway to be walking you back there." Draco was trying to be rude; he was trying to be a Malfoy. What made a Malfoy a Malfoy anyway?
"Of course Draco, I will see you tomorrow. Thanks again for the charms help." Surprising to all three parties, Evelyn wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged the blonde headed boy who wanted everyone to think he was invincible. Letting him go she allowed the Slytherin to walk out into the darkness as she turned to clean up the crimson spill on the carpet and pick up a few boxes they had knocked over in their little scrap.
"You don't have to stay here, after all I'm sure Malfoy wouldn't mind your company back to the Castle," Fred snapped as he turned his back on her with the bowl of water dyed red in his hands.
"What's wrong Fred, a little jealous?" Evelyn used an uncanny impression of Slytherin sarcasm dripping with what was recognized by the ginger head as malice. Did she really hate him that much?
No answer came as Fred promptly walked to the back of the shop whispering under his breath leaving an angry teenage girl in front. It's a good thing she didn't have a licence to kill.
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"You should watch how close you get to that nosey little girl, she could be trouble. Not worth keeping alive."
"Don't worry I won't get close to her, just leave her out of this, she has nothing to do with any of it, you've already got your sacrifice to bring him back."
"Indeed, be careful Siruis."
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That is when Draco walked in.
Well you certainly are feisty, you showed her after all without magic, quiet a feat.
The look on Fred's face was worth it
Indeed
Thank you for being my friend, and I don't even know your name.
Once they may have called me Tom.
Tom, I like it, good name.
Don't tell anyone.
No worries I won't.
Going off to bed shortly after she had finished writing then vomiting up her supper, Evelyn settled in for a restless sleep.
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"How long do you think she'll last?"
"Mom?" Evelyn asked from the shadows unable to see anything.
"A few months maybe less."
"Mom?!"
"Dear God where is Evelyn?!?" Everywhere smelled like death, everywhere smelled of remorse, where was she? The hospital of course... Again seeing her family in her dreams unable to comfort them.
"MOM!"
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In the end the girls would all have a choice... Who, where and what would they choose? Love is a fickle thing, family is forever, but family is not always made of your own flesh and blood.
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I hope you enjoyed this!!!! I swear I will write a better chapter for 12. If you've any ideas please do feel free to tell me. Thanks to my new Reviewer and fan! I was SOOO excited to receive your review.
Till next time.