It's Not Fair
"Sky? Sky!"
Sky opened her eyes "W-what?"
George laughed "You fell asleep"
"Oh... sorry"
"Don't worry" he smiled "I'm going to be now. I think you should too"
"Yeah" Sky got up "Night"
"Night"
Sky walked towards her dorm.
"Oh and Sky?"
She turned around "Yeah?"
"Your hair's blue"
The next day, just after dinner, it was time for Sky's detention.
The newest thing that had happened was that apparently Hermione was missing. And apparently Sky was the last one to have seen her so, naturally, Ron hated her even more. This didn't help the current situation much.
As she walked towards Professor Umbridge's office, she wondered if she should just take a secret passageway to Hogsmeade and run away. Umbridge was the last person she wanted to see right now. But she couldn't leave. She had to say and help George in the library; he'd get lost in there on his own. Plus, if she wanted to find Fred, Hogwarts was the best place to be.
She knocked on the door.
"Come in?"
Sky walked into the horrid, pink, office.
"Please do the same as last time, Miss Brooks"
Sky didn't say anything as she sat down, picking up the quill waiting for her.
There must be some way out of this. I don't want that written on my hand!
But it seemed that there was no way out of it; she began to write.
So maybe I should ask her about Fred? If he had just randomly decided to leave, maybe he said something. But what if she did kidnap him or something? She is a deatheater, after all. Maybe she would kidnap me too and take me to wherever he is. Not that that would help much but I would be with him...
"Professor?"
Umbridge looked up "Yes, Miss Brooks?"
"Do you know where Fred is?"
Umbridge put on an overly confused face "I'm sorry, I didn't know you had and friends called Fred. Who are you talking about?"
Sky shook her head and went back to her lines.
She is such a bad actress! How the hell is she getting away with being a deatheater!
Suddenly Sky thought of something.
"Professor, when was the last time you saw Hermione?"
"At her last Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson. Please do your work" she replied quickly.
Perfect Sky thought sarcastically.
"Professor, are you sur-"
"Miss Brooks! Will you please do as you are told!"
"No!" Sky shot back "Not until you tell me the truth! I know you're a deatheater..."
She felt as if she was going to cry now. All the emotion that had been building up inside her had finally burst out.
A few seconds later, Umbridge had her wand pointed at Sky, who backed away towards the door.
"Now, Miss Brooks. There's no need to be shouting that, is there. It's rather lucky that I always have silencing charms on my door these days"
"Where's Fred?" Sky demanded, drawing her wand as she stepped backwards towards the door.
Umbridge sent some kind of very fast jinx at her, knocking her off her feet.
"I'm rather surprised that you bothered to ask that"
"So you do know! Wait till McGonagall-"
"Crucio!"
Sky's screams echoed in the small, pink, room. Every inch of her body felt as if it were on fire and for a split second, all she could think about was this stopping. She even forgot Fred.
As soon and Umbridge stopped the curse, Sky crawled backwards, towards the door, and managed to get to her feet using the wall. She still had her wand but she ran. It hurt to run but she still did. She had to get away. She wasn't shocked when more spells hit the wall beside her.
Sky kept running, crying, all the way to the Gryffindor common room. She burst through the common room and ran straight into George.
"Wow, Sky. What happened?"
She hugged him.
"Sky, your hand..."
She had forgotten about that. Only know, she realised that it was bleeding, badly.
George pulled her into the common room and they sat down. He summoned some bandages and wrapped them around her hand, rather messily.
"What happened?"
"Umbridge... it's s-so obvious when s-she lies. And she pretended to not know w-who Fred is and that s-she hadn't seen Hermione a-a-and-"
"Shh. It's ok. What you're trying to say is that she defiantly knows where they are?"
Sky nodded and he hugged her.
"T-then I shouted at her and ran a-and she s-shot spells... the C-Cruciatus C-Curse... at me a-and-"
He hugged her tighter.
"George?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm leaving"
"What!" he stopped hugging her and stared at her instead.
"I... I don't want to be in the s-same place as Umbridge. I'm going to f-find Fred"
"You have no idea where he is, Sky"
"No. But what else am I meant to do?"
"Wait here and try to work everything out"
Sky shook her head "She knows I know she's a deatheater"
"Wha-"
Suddenly the common room door burst open. It was Professor McGonagall.
"Miss Brooks, Professor Umbridge wants to see you"
Sky looked at McGonagall "No... maybe another time"
Professor McGonagall looked a little shocked that Sky had refused.
"She doesn't have to go..." George added.
"I'm afraid she does. You do not walk out of detention"
"Actually, she ran"
"Miss Brooks-"
"No!" Sky replied, shaking her head.
"Miss Brooks, is everything ok?"
"Of course everything's alright, Professor McGonagall" A sweet voice said from behind the stern looking teacher. Umbridge stepped into view "Miss Brooks just doesn't want to come to detention"
Sky glared at Umbridge, wondering if she should show Professor McGonagall her hand. The way that Umbridge was smiling back at her told her not to.
"Everything is not alright!" Sky almost-shouted back, with tears in her eyes.
Professor McGonagall sounded rather confused. She turned to Umbridge.
"Maybe it would be best for Miss Brooks to serve her detention another day, Dolores"
"She..." Umbridge didn't seem to be able to think of an excuse so she walked away. Professor McGonagall followed.
George hugged Sky.
"It's ok..." he told her. But it wasn't ok. It wasn't ok at all. It wasn't fair!
"George... can you help me get out?"
"What's this about getting out?" Ron walked down the stairs.
George looked at Sky and she nodded.
"Umbridge is a deatheater, she kidnapped Fred and Hermione, and now she knows that Sky knows..." George explained everything "Oh, and Sky" he added "I'm coming with you"
"Wait" Ron said "She took Hermione?"
Sky nodded.
"Then I'm coming too"
"No way" Sky glared.
"Yes way" Ron replied, glaring back.
"So... when are we going?" asked George.
"Now" Sky said, firmly.
"Tomorrow morning" Ron said, louder, at the same time.
"Tomorrow morning sounds good" George agreed.
Sky sighed but nodded. This was going to be hell.
A/N: Sorry it's short. I split the chapter I had written out in half so I could get a new chapter up quickly. The next one will be short too but then they should be back to normal :) Please review. It really does help and I'd love to know what you think of Sky.
