Hey all, so it's taken me forever to come back to this story once again and I ask you all to bear with me throughout some changes that are going to be taking place. First off I will be renaming the story to something less common. It's hard to find when searched for as there are other Harry Potter fanfics that have similar titles. Other than that I will be rehashing the first few chapters and probably starting a new story sometime soon. But have faith in me, I'm not going to just give this one up.
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Previously:
She looked at me distantly, calculating my power. It was in this one look that I realized why she had been placed in Slytherin. And I saw the sheer determination shining through the bruises of her face. "Okay Hermione." She said, too meekly for me, I had been expecting much more of a fight.
"Really?" I asked, surprised by her willingness.
"Of course," she replied, " you're right. But right now we both need to go to bed. I'm exhausted." And with that she went over to her bed and lay down and turned away from me.
Startled by the sudden end to our conversation I too made my way over to my bed and lay down. I was surprised at how tired I felt and soon drifted away into a deep sleep.
Let it Begin:
And all she keeps inside, isn't on the label
She says she's ashamed
Can she take me for a while
And can I be a friend, we'll forget the past
But maybe I'm not able
-"Shimmer" Fuel
I woke up the next morning cringing at the sight of the silver and green colors. This was definitely going to take some getting used to. As my thoughts slowly began to emerge from my haze of sleep, I glanced over at Kali. She was curled into a small ball against the wall to the side of her bed. Yawning I pulled myself over the side of the bed slipping into my red and gold slippers. Just because I was now a Slytherin doesn't mean that I was just going to give up on my old colors. Anyway I was still convinced that red and gold were definitely my best colors.
As I padded up the stairs to the common room I was once again shocked by the lack of people who were awake in my new house. It was a wonder that they managed to pass their classes. But then again mommy and daddy no doubt helped by those passing grades. I glanced at my watch, the Great Hall probably still didn't have any food. I went over to the bookshelves and after surveying the shelves I soon found a copy of my favorite book, "Hogwarts; A History." I settled myself comfortably into a green plush chair and opened the book.
It was an hour later when I was jolted out of my world, by who else, but the infamous Draco Malfoy. I was beginning to sense a pattern to these mornings. "Morning Mia," he said the ever present smirk twisting up his lips.
"Good morning Malfoy." I replied.
"Now now Mia," he said mockingly, "I thought we had the conversation about my name yesterday, now if you wanted to repeat that conversation I wouldn't be complaining…"
"Ew. No thanks Malfoy, and forgive me if the years of being called Mudblood and dealing with all your crap doesn't make me inclined to address you by your first name."
"You didn't seem to mind dealing with my 'crap' last night as I recall."
I blushed as the heated memory of his kiss came back to me full force. "That's completely unrelated to this conversation Malfoy."
He leaned in closer, his breath hot on my face. I breathed in the smell of his cologne and a lingering of spearmint on his breath. His smell drove me crazy. It was so masculine and I felt my longing spread from my head to my toes lingering between my legs.
I pulled back and jumped away, glancing at my watch. I yelped I only had ten minutes before my Charms class and I still had to shower and get dressed. Cursing Malfoy as I ran up the stairs I couldn't help the smell of him, that seemed to still be lingering in my nostrils. Had I turned around, I would have seen the disgruntled and disappointed look that spread across his usually undisturbed features.
Praising the deities that I was a witch, I quickly charmed my hair to lie straight and threw on a red tank top with a pair of jeans, pulling my robes on top and sliding into some moccasins as I ran up the stairs and out of the common room.
I made it into Flitwick's class pretty late, but since I was a prize student, he chose to ignore it gesturing to me to take the only available seat. I moved over to the seat and flopped down into it rather ungracefully. I reached into my bag to take out my quill and parchment only to hear a familiar drawl that seemed to be coming to from right next to me.
"Why hello again Ms. D'Avrene."
This is not happening to me, I thought as I turned to see Malfoy's handsome face. He wouldn't be so hard to resist if he wasn't so charming and good looking. Just my luck. "No need for the formalities, Malfoy, Mia will do just fine." I whispered trying to avoid the attention of not only Flitwick, but the rest of the class. I was never going to be able to make up with Harry, Ron and Star if they saw me talking to him.
"Actually, Ms. D'Avrene, I've decided that I will continue to address you this way until you agree to refer to me by my first name." He replied, louder than I would've liked.
I glared at him, wondering if I could get away with throttling him before the rest of the class noticed. Why did he continue to insist on being such an ever present pain in the arse? "Is there any particular reason why you insist on being so completely obnoxious DRACO?" I snapped.
"To get your beautiful voice to say my name, of course. And see? It worked." And with that he turned back to taking notes.
"Ignorant ass." I mumbled under my breath, and turned back to Flitwick. But for the rest of class I couldn't get those last words out of my mind. "beautiful voice." Did he really think I had a beautiful voice or was he being just typical Malfoy and attempting to get under my skin.
I spent the rest of my day in furious attempts to avoid him. Instead I focused my efforts on Harry, Ron and Star and by the end of the day they had forgiven me. I told them all about my first couple nights in Slytherin, omitting certain details, such as Malfoy's persistence and kisses and Blaise and Kali's turbulent relationship. These things I would save to tell Star later. She was the only girl I had here to really confide in and I trusted her as much as I trusted Harry and Ron, but only she would understand stuff like this.
After a quiet and quick dinner alone at the Slytherin table I made my way up to the Gryffindor common room to spent some time with Harry, Ron and especially Star. She came to the portait hole to let me in. It took some getting used to not being able to just get in myself, it didn't help the the Fat Lady kept shooting me pitying glances before I glared at her and she huffed indignantly.
I made my way into the once familiar common room. People avoided my glances, treating my situation like some huge elephant in the room that no one wanted to discuss. At least Harry, Ron and Star treated me normally, Harry and Ron were in the middle of a intense game of wizard chess so Star and I settled ourselves on a couch.
"So tell me all the Slytherin gossip, " she said. "I know you didn't tell Harry and Ron everything."
I started to tell her about all the wild hook ups and crazy habits of the many ever changing Slytherin couples. And then once I exhausted everything I knew I started to tell her about Kali's situation. She was sympathetic, but her mind seemed to be on something else. In fact, as I thought back her mind seemed to be on something else for the entire conversation. I noticed her shooting a glance at Ron and things started to fall into place. Ron. Star. Oh no.
"Star, what's up? You're pretty distracted today."
"Oh nothing, sorry."
"Star come on, I've known you forever you're not fooling me."
"Well, Ron and I have really been getting close the past couple days…"
"And?" AND?!?!
"Well he kissed me last night!" She whispered.
My heart sunk. All those years of my crush on Ron. All those years hoping he'd finally realize that we were supposed to be together. I thought after fourth year he would've learned. He was so jealous about Krum. But now he was kissing my sister. My sister, who knew how I felt about him, who knew that I secretly loved him all these years. And she KISSED HIM! I felt like simultaneously screaming as I ripped her face off, but I forced myself to stay calm.
"Star, you knew how I felt about him." I said my voice shaking with anger.
She glanced up at me with an innocent look on her face. "Well, yeah Mia, but that was back when you were younger. I mean we're sixteen now and Ron really likes me, we want to start dating. I knew you'd understand."
"UNDERSTAND!? UNDERSTAND! YOU'RE MY SISTER STAR, MY SISTER! AND EVER SINCE WE'VE GOT HERE YOU'VE BEEN NOTHING BUT A STUPID… A STUPID… A STUPID BITCH!" I screamed as I turned on my heel and stormed out of the room, my robes waving behind me as I slammed the portrait hole closed.
I ran down the flights and flights of stairs to the Slytherin common room, screaming the password as I flew in a whirlwind of tears and betrayal. The party came to a crashing halt as they all watched me fly in and down the stairs and opened the door to my room. I flung myself down onto the bed crying as though my hear was about to burst. I was crying so hard I didn't hear the door silently open and Kali walk in.
She sat down on the bed rubbing my back to comfort me.
"Hush Mia, hush. Tell me what happened."
I forced the sobs to slow to desperately hiccupping gulps that shook my body as I attempted to suck in air. Slowly I told Kali the whole story, when I finished she sat looking at me a long time.
"Well, Mia, you know what you need to do."
I looked at her questioningly.
"You're a Slytherin now, and Slytherins don't just stand by and let themselves be hurt. We get revenge."
I considered this. She was my sister, but then again she had no qualms about stabbing me in the back. And it wasn't like I was going to hurt her, maybe just give her some healthy competition for Ron's heart.
"Okay, what do I do?" I asked.
She smirked the familiar smirk that all Slytherins seemed to have patterned into their DNA. "First we're going to need Draco Malfoy."
There you go all. I hope you enjoyed it and I promise I'll try to get another up again ASAP. Thanks for all your support and please shoot me some reviews!
Love,
Alwyn
