Title: Voldemort's Daughter
Author: Tsubasa Kya
Dude, where did my disclaimer go?!
Chapter eleven: Can't Leave
"Why should I, Pansy?" Carolina snickered. Was this 'Pansy' the same person Blaise had mentioned having a new boyfriend every other week?
"Don't you use my name," Pansy said.
Carolina laughed again. "Why not, Pansy? We're all friends here, aren't we? We're all Slytherins. Why can't we all be friends?"
"Why can't you go jump off the Astronomy tower?" Pansy hissed. That comment earned her a rough slap from Carolina. Kagome guessed the two were of opposing sides of the Slytherin house. "You slap like a bitch, as usual," Pansy sneered.
Carolina lifted her wand, pointing it straight at Pansy's nose. Kagome felt a chill run down her back, and before she knew what was happening, she had her wand out and threw a random hex at Carolina. She wasn't sure which one she'd sent out, it had happened so fast, but she knew she couldn't let Pansy be bullied. Carolina fell to the floor as if her entire body had become jelly. Her friends looked to see where the curse had come from, clearly not worried about Carolina. Really, that's screwed up.
"The transfer student?!" one of them uttered.
Kagome pointed her wand at them; they returned the favor and pointed their wands at her. "Leave the girl alone," Kagome told the bullies. Really, who woke up at three in the morning and decided, 'Oh, I'm in the mood for some torture today, let's go find me a victim!' Apparently these girls.
"You don't want to side with Parkinson," said one girl. "Just put your wand down and leave. We can forget today."
Kagome felt a brief smirk ghost her features. "Okay," she said and she put her wand in her sleeve. She held up her hands to show them it was away. Pansy had pursed her lips and was watching Kagome carefully. "It's down."
"Now leave," another said.
The last said, "We'll forget this happened."
Kagome couldn't help the ironic smile that twisted her lips. "Sorry, but I can't do that. Wand down or not, you best be the one walking away. Take your friend to the hospital wing; I don't know what spell I cast, but it looks… okay, actually she looks improved now, but you'll probably want her all fixed and good as new to torture some other unsuspecting witch you find around here."
Pansy's eyes went wide. "Just walk away," Pansy said. "Don't involve yourself."
Kagome sighed and rubbed her temples. "Sorry; I've never really been good at walking away from something wrong that's going on. I probably would've fit better in the Gryffindor house because of that." She put her hands down and looked at the girls. "So, what do you think? You going to walk away?"
One girl smirked. She flipped her blond hair back before pointing her wand and opening her mouth. She yelled some sort of hex, but Kagome missed it due to the fact that three other hexes drowned out what she said. With hexes coming from all four wands, they thought at least one would hit her.
None of them did. A black hole that looked similar to being described as 'nothingness' seemed to just form instantaneously in the air in front of her, with no real reason as to why it should, and grew faster than the spells could move so that the four spells disappeared into it.
With gaping mouths, the Slytherins all stared at that hole. It disappeared far slower than it came, but still moved at an alarming speed until it looked similar to a hovering black ink blob about the size of a snitch. "Hmm," Kagome murmured half-amused. Really, it was an early morning. She'd had an uncomfortable night's sleep in a dungeon, just shy of freezing cold, suffering nightmares that she couldn't recall now, and some dummy decided to beat up on an innocent bystander (from Kagome's viewpoint, at least).
"You—what—huh?" one of the girls said rather intelligently.
Kagome sighed. "Yeah, that sums that up well," she ushered a smirk onto her features and told them, "You aren't fast enough to hit me, you know. It's going to take a hell of a lot more than that. And your spell levels aren't strong enough to break through or alter my defense." Kagome called the blob to her with a sharp whistle, and it came. She grasped it in her palm, sticking it in her pocket.
"What?" again with the intelligent responses.
"Naggen," snapped a cold voice behind Kagome. Kagome turned her head to find Chavi and Blaise standing at the top of the stairs that led down into the dungeons, looking at the Slytherin girls. Chavi was the one who had spoken and she didn't sound pleased. "Take Wiggens to the hospital wing. I'm not a patient woman this morning." She had her wand drawn, and Blaise was idly twirling his wand in his fingers.
The girls immediately picked up Wiggens and rushed out of the entrance hall and up the stairs. Blaise and Chavi stepped fully into the hall. Chavi moved over to Pansy while Blaise stepped over to Kagome. "I thought Chavi said you weren't going to get involved," Blaise asked curiously.
Kagome frowned and followed Chavi toward Pansy. "I can't stand by and watch people be beat up or bullied, Blaise." She said quietly. "I never have been able to."
"Are you okay, Pansy?" Chavi asked.
Pansy nodded, pulling her sleeve over her broken fingers. "I—I'm fine," she lied, though the pain in her voice betrayed the calm look on her face. "Just a scratch."
Kagome held out her hands to Pansy. "May I see? I can help."
Pansy shook her head. "I'm fine," she said again and her voice was stronger this time.
"Pan," Blaise said, placing a hand on the girl's shoulder, "you're not fine. I saw your hand. At least one of those fingers is broken."
Pansy lifted her chin up stubbornly. "I am fine. I was never not fine. There was no need for you to interfere," she added with a slight glare toward Kagome. "This isn't any of your concern. Go back to Japan and deal with your own problems."
"Stop it, Pansy," Chavi said, grabbing the girl's arm roughly and dragging it toward her despite Pansy's small cry. She pulled back the sleeve and they could see that the first and second fingers were both broken quite obviously. "We need to get you to the hospital wing." Chavi said.
Kagome sighed. She supposed it was better that way; if she used the power of the Shikon no Tama to aid her in healing Pansy, there was a likelier chance they would find out about it. It was bad enough she had already used it once today.
"I'm fine." Pansy yelled and yanked her hand back. She cried out but then silenced herself. She moved across the floor, grabbed up her wand from where apparently it had fallen, and said, "I'm going back to the Common Room!" And with that, she sauntered off down the hall leading toward the stone wall entrance to the Slytherin House.
"What's with the pride issue?" Kagome asked. "Is it really too much to acknowledge that she needs to get her hand fixed?"
Chavi shrugged and ran a finger through her blonde curls. She turned to look at the rather large hour glasses that would show the points for their houses. "Slytherins are loners, Kagome. We find it incredibly degrading to ask for help from anyone." There was silence between the three as they waited for other students to show up for the class they were to take.
Finally, Blaise whispered, "So, you're obviously on our side of Slytherin then, eh, Kagome?" Two Hufflepuff students had entered the entry hall, as well as three Ravenclaw students. Kagome guessed from his whisper that the other houses didn't know about the separation of the Slytherin House. Of course, by all outward appearances, Slytherin would want to make it look like they were united… but how united could they be when push came to shove?
Kagome shrugged. "Like I said, I can't stand by and watch people get bullied. I can't ignore it."
Chavi whispered, "They won't keep quiet. Wiggins, Naggen, and the rest of them will make sure everyone knows that you refused to walk away."
"Hm," Kagome said. "I guess, I have no choice then… Ah well, I'm with you guys though, right?" She looked at them hopefully and Blaise slung and arm over her shoulders, smirking devilishly at her.
"You're with the sexiest Slytherin in the world!" he boasted.
Before he could claim that title, though, Chavi smirked and said, "Who is me, of course."
Blaise sent her a playful glare. "In your mightiest dreams, Chaviah, you might be. Might be. Of course…" he ran a hand through his hair. "I'm the epitome of sexy. Just look at me. Tall, roguishly handsome, clean shaven, and feel these abs! Rock hard, I tell you!"
Kagome curiously poked his belly and he let out a breath. "Pretty soft rock you got there, Blaise," she chirped, and both Chavi and Kagome began laughing at the pout on Blaise's features.
Once they calmed down, Chavi said, "Oh, look, Blaise. Here comes the Golden Trio." There was slight contempt in her voice as she said it.
However, Kagome didn't really notice where Chavi was looking. She was too busy looking around for Kiyoshi. When her eyes spotted the kitten, she practically beamed.
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