Authors Note: This is my ramble on about animal abuse. If you want to read read and help stop abuse. If not then just scroll down... though if you don't care about animals there isn't much to say about you as a human is there...
cheers! Or well I dunno, I'm to sad about animal abuse to say cheers....
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Animal Abuse
Every day thousands of animals are subjected to abuse.
Every thirteen seconds an animal is either beaten or killed.
Animals although decidedly not human, are still living creatures and humans who have some sense of goodness in them should not let an animal be beaten or killed.
They talk about domestic abuse, child abuse, spouse abuse but what of animal abuse? Oh yeah, thats right! Humans are fucked up and don't care so much do they...
save the animals
give help
fight abuse.
rated T for a reason... la...^^
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Upon a Glimpse.
Chapter Twelve: Set me free with your love.
"Can you believe it?"
I sighed and shook my head, merlin himself knows that I cant believe this. Its been one whole year since I've last seen my family. Though to be honest, having at least someone from my time here with me is good. Thank heavens for Frank, I dunno what I would do if I didn't have him here with me...
"Yeah, Frank, I can."
"I miss mum and dad, even though when I go back mum's going to skin my hide, I still miss them and cannot wait for that moment to come." he grinned while pushing his mashed potatoes around his plate.
"I know you do Frank, and if we hurry and get this done, you'll be back with them before you know it."
"I cant wait to tell Fred and Hugo, no doubt they will be over the moon with this idea." he grinned again. "Me conversing with supposed dead people..." he trailed off thoughtfully, his face upturning into a brighter grin. "So Valentines day is coming up. Have any plans?"
"Besides eating a vat of chocolate and trying to keep Lily from hucking things at snogging couples?"
"Of course."
"Nope, I do however plan to avoid James at all costs because he is still carrying around that damnable piece of mistletoe that is no doubt infested to the core with nargles."
"Nargles?" he laughed loudly. "Your still on about the nargles Lyla? They don't exist."
"Well yeah, and yes they do. They're evil little bugs that make your skin itch like a mad crazy ichy machine."
"A mad crazy itchy machine?" he laughed again. "You really need to stop hanging around Sirius so much, he's changing your vocab which used to exceed mine..."
"Oh shut it you. I don't spend enough time with that bugger, and I really cant help it, he's my friend."
"Only your friend?" he asked seriously.
I glared at him. He knew that Sirius and I were only friends and nothing more. He'd best not be in that damnable faction going around spreading gossip crap because the last bloody thing I need was to have Natalia Hersh come and pester me again about taking her man...
"You know that you damn ass." I said popping a carrot in my mouth. "All Sirius and I will ever be is friends."
Frank nodded at me thoughtfully.
"So then you don't have any feelings for Sirius other that friendship?"
"No! I don't! So quit the damn forty questions will you?"
"If things were different and you both belonged in the same time, would you then?" he asked taking a bite out of his steak and kidney pie.
I paused. Maybe...
"Nope, there is only one person in this time and place that I fancy, and trust me, its not him." I grinned popping another carrot into my mouth.
"This time and place?" he asked raising his eyebrows. "Could that be James...?"
I narrowed my eyes at him.
"You and this whole entire bloody damn school know that James and I were only faking it, that much you've made known."
"But if this person you fancy is in this time and this place than who is it?"
What? Wait... oh shit
"Well not in this err time and err place..." I stammered. "Just a figure of speech..."
"Mnnhmmn." he nodded. "So it is Sirius..."
"Its not bloody Sirius!" I exclaimed stabbing my baked potato. "I wish you damn people would stop assuming and realize that Sirius and I are nothing more than friends and never will be!" I huffed.
"Sorry." Frank sighed. "Its just the way you two act around each other."
"What exactly my friend, do you mean by that?" I narrowed my eyes while munching on a cellery stick.
"Well for one its the looks you both give each other thats a pretty dead give away... if you did have feelings for him."
"I don't give him any looks that don't say hello my friend. Now tell me why you fools all think that Sirius and I have this lovey stupid romance hidden?"
"Like I said the looks are the first dead give away, yours are always more... cheerful but content and loving and his are more... longing I guess."
"Longing?" I asked in disbelief.
"Longing but yet secured I guess."
"Frank I think that your imagination has run away from you..."
He rolled his eyes and smiled.
"Maybe... the second give away would be how perfectly in harmony you guys seem to be. Its like your in sync or something..."
"Frank, have rabid evil beastly thoughts that have meticulously managed to take over your mind?" I asked reaching for another celery stick and ranch dip. "Because it seems like it to me from my side of this topsy turvy discussion..."
"Rabid evil beastly thoughts that have meticulously managed to take over my mind?" he asked with his eyebrow raised. "Lyla have you lost you mind?"
"Maybe I have, maybe I haven't.... though I swear its because of the rabid evil beastly thoughts that have meticulously managed to take over my mind..."
"What?" asked a barking voice from behind. "I thought we took care of those voices ages ago..." Sirius asked sitting down and piling a plate full of food. "You still haven't gone to Pomphrey yet have you?" he raised his eyebrows.
"I am not sick Sirius, and no I haven't and don't intend to."
"But what if something is wrong?"
Frank looked up worriedly.
"What do you mean she's sick?" he asked with wide eyes. "Lyla, how could you not tell me that you're sick?"
I glared at both of them, I swear to merlin they both were so controlling...
"Yeah, she gets really really cold and changes colors at odd times." Sirius said pouring himself a glass of milk. "She gets really red and then really pale like she's about to be dead."
"We're going to go and see Madame Pomphrey right now Lyla." Frank said standing up quickly.
"No we are not Frank, sit down and stop being such a tard." I said rolling my eyes and stabbing my potato again. "Its winter, everyone gets cold in the winter."
"Not you Lyla Gertrude Weasley! You never ever ever get bloody cold, even when its in the negative and your prancing around in you light hippie garb do you get cold. If your cold then your sick and if your sick we cant do what we need to do and if we cant do what we need to do all hope for this is lost like Hugo's socks. Now suck it up, stand up and lets go to see Madame Pomphrey.!"
I rolled my eyes at his dramatics, boy he sure was acting all weird lately... regardless I was not going to the hospital wing because I was not sick!"
"Ok darling, of course you are. Frank just sit down and lets talk bout this rationally." Sirius said through his mouth that just happened to be full with mashed potatoes. "Oi! Here come Prongs Frank, maybe he will have some input in this matter..."
"And just what would James have to say about this?"
"I dunno, maybe to help or something."
"Help with what?" I asked confusedly, what the hell was he planning...
"This."
And with that Sirius and Frank whom were both sitting on opposite sides of me grabbed my by the arms and hauled me up out of my seat.
"What the bloody hell is this you pricks?"
"We are taking you to see Madame Pomphrey."
"Over my dead body you are.!"
"Prongs grab her legs, we will carrying her if we have to." Sirius said grabbing my other arms and locked his arms around my chest to prevent me from moving anywhere. James grabbed my legs and wrapped his arms around them, locking them down so that I couldn't move them. Frank secured my middle and with that I was carted off to the hospital wing.
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"Are you sure that someone has been poisoning her?" Frank asked with a glare. "Like here let me slip you some foghoren root and watch you wither and die of hypothermia?"
"Yes Mr. Lorcan, I do in fact believe that someone has been poisoning her, though I'm sure that its not foghoren root or she would already be dead."
"Not if its slipped to her in small dosages." he countered. "In small dosages it would slowly just continually suck the warmth from her until she died of said hypothermia."
"Mr. Lorcan, I know what foghoren root can cause. Yes you are correct, in small even continual dosages it could very well lead to that extent."
"But who? Who in the bloody world would want to poison her?" he asked dejectedly.
"Oh I can think of someone." Sirius growled roughly, "And you can bet I'm going to go and beat the crap out of that bastard..."
"Padfoot..." I said narrowing my eyes at him. "Don't go pointing the blame at anyone Sirius, you don't know..."
"Mr. Black, please do calm down. Miss Winchester is correct, you cant go pointing the blame at anyone without facts." she told him before turning to me. "When was the first time you began to feel the cold?"
I sighed.
"This last summer during a camping trip."
"What foods did you eat during this camping trip?"
"Umm I don't remember." I said irritatedly "Lots of no meat foods... Remus's coffee..."
"Do you think that Mr. Lupin could have caused this?"
"No! Remus would never do such a thing. I cant even believe that you would suggest something of that nature Madame Pomphrey! You know him better than most people do!" I said angrily. "If I had to put my guess on anyone it would not be Remus, in fact there is no god damned way that in all of everything in this world that Remus would do such a thing." I huffed.
"I'm only trying to figure this out Miss Winchester. You being poisoned isn't the best thing for someone of your age."
"Look, I'll stop eating in the great hall, I'll make sure not to take any food from anyone I don't trust and take the potions to make this all go away ok! So can I go?"
"I'm afraid that I would like to keep you over night for observation. If the perpetrator knows that your here he or she will of course attempt to poison you again. It could be candy, it could be anything."
"So your going to test anything that we bring her?" James asked incredulously. "What if I brought her a chocolate bunny or something? What you wouldn't let her eat it?"
"If it were to come from you three I would allow her to eat it. Anyone else though I will test it first."
"This is crap! I want to pound that bastard into the ground." Sirius growled. "How dare he try to kill my clover!" he snarled. "He will pay for this right?"
"Oh yes my dear Padfoot. They will, whomever he or she should be..."
"I'll dig up the nastiest mandrake root and toss it at they're head." Frank said before sitting down in the chair next to my bed. "God damned this! I am getting so sick of this. First the Dementor attack, now its foghoren, what will it be next? Some cursed dagger or something?"
Cursed dagger.... wait a moment, that weaponry from the room of requirement should be a good thing to have on hand when dealing with death eaters... and a cursed dagger would also be a good thing to have on hand if you were a death eater trying to kill some one who was trying out do your lord and master... Hmnn note to self, make sure that you are covered at all times and that no one can slip pass you.... got it!
"We must monitor her as to ensure her safety. The headmaster must be warned at once, Mr. Potter if you would please go and fetch him for me please?"
"Sure. Padfoot you coming?"
"Yeah, sure..." he said standing up. "Make sure that nothing happens to her while we're away alright?" he asked Frank.
They both shared a weird knowing look before Frank nodded and Sirius and James departed.
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Rough winds shook the castle, they were temperamental and harsh. Rain was lashing the grounds and castle, flooding lower parts of the castle such as the dungeons so the Potion classes were held in a different class room two floors above. It was Valentines Day and I was still stuck in this god forsaken Hospital wing with the shakes and cold flashes. Frank was here continually when he could be, though at the moment they're all in Transfiguration so I was bored out of my mind. I have so far, written three essays, read four books, devoured James's collection of Quidditch magazines and even read a Witch Weekly that Lily and Alice had brought me. I still cant eat anything that Madame Pomphrey hasn't checked and this whole situation really freaking sucks arse... the only things that I have been able to eat are the chocolates that James and Sirius brought back for me from they're midnight excursions to Honeydukes.
Madame Pomphrey was bustling around the Hospital Wing happily, checking on the ill fated students that were unfortunately sent to the Hospital Wing for the colds and such. I sighed and flopped down into my pillows, this was horrible... all I want is to go to classes and eat like normal not be stuck here in this god forsaken Hospital Wing being swarmed upon my Madame Pomphrey who apparently doesn't change too much in the course of forty or so years... I sighed again and turned to my right. I mean if there wasn't anything better to do, why not try and get some sleep yeah?
It was just as I was starting to drift off that the curtains around my bed started to move. First they bunched out before closing rather slowly. I sat up quickly in alarm and grabbed my wand out.
"Oh put your wand down Clover." a male voice sighed. "Its me." they said before they appeared at the end of my bed.
Remus sighed before sitting down in the chair next to me.
"Aren't you supposed to be in class right now?" I asked him raising my eyebrow.
"Maybe, maybe not."
"That really doesn't help much with my question you know."
"Oh to that fact I am quite aware my lovely green clover. How are you?"
"Cold. But thats to be expected right?"
"Of course. Any news on who is poisoning you?"
I shook my head.
"Remus I know who did it, I just have no proof and no way of getting him caught."
"Who?"
"If I told you that, you could be in danger and that I wont do." I grinned. "So is there anyway you could sneak down to the damn kitchens and bring me back a bowl of mashed potatoes and gravy? Madame Pomphrey is killing me!"
"I dunno. You know that anyone could slips some more foghoren into your food and then bam! Just like that your dead." he said quietly. "And Lyla none of us want you dead, so I am going to have to say no because who ever this person is they obviously know me and have been slipping it to you through my coffee for starters..."
"But Remus!" I whined. "I trust you! And I know who did it so please go get me some bloody food! I'm starving like Marvin here..."
"Oh don't be so dramatic!" he said rolling his eyes at me. "Plus you and I know that Sirius will bring you food anyways, doesn't he always?"
"Well normally he just brings chocolates, though I must say, after eating bread and chocolates for four damn bloody days I want actual food."
He started to laugh at me, his gold colored eyes lighting up with mirth.
"Alright, I'll go and get you some potatoes after we confirm it with Madame Pomphrey, I can only imagine what Sirius will do to me if you die.... scary thought." he said standing up. "Any other requests?"
"Some hot chocolate! Merlin some hot chocolate sounds good right about now..."
"Fine, I shall go and get you your potatoes and hot chocolate, though I will bring them to Madame Pomphrey to check before hand." he told me before slipping James's cloak back on and slipping out of sight.
It was about five minutes later that the bell for the last class let out and everyone was done with they're lessons for the day. It was no doubt that most people would go off and do those stupid romantic stuff for today as it was in fact Valentines day. On the plus side I was away from James and his near death mistletoe so he couldn't get me with it. I had a feeling that Frank was up to something, he'd been acting very strangely since the day they i.e he, Sirius and James forced me up here.
"I've got a box of coconuts. First ones standing in the way. I took one down and passed around now theres only fifty billion more boxes of coconuts in the way." came a rather happy persons sing song voice. "Doe a dear, a female dear. Ray a drop of golden sun." the pulled back my curtains. "Clover my love! I hath brought you a box of truffles for my dearest upon the day of love..." James grinned and tossed a box of truffles at me.
"You do know that I shalt only eat them if they are a variety and have the white chocolate lemon ones." I said pushing my nose into the air in mock snobbishness.
"Alas my darling, I searched high and low and all the lemon ones were gone. Though I did make sure that the cinnamon ones were in there and that there were the blueberry ones as well as the strawberry ones."
"Blueberry, Cinnamon and Strawberry you say?"
"I do quite in fact."
"Very well, I shalt eat them due to the fact that no chocolate should go a waste..." I said flipping the lid off and grabbing a chocolate blueberry one. "Whereabouts are the others?"
"Well Remus skived off and Sirius and Pete disappeared after class to talk or something. I've no idea." he sighed plopping down in Remus's vacated seat. "How was your day?"
"Horrible!" I sighed tossing another truffle into my mouth. "I hate this! All I want is to go back to being normal and stuff! Not being stuck up here in the hospital wing with the shakes and cold flashes all the time. Stupid foghoren crap!" I huffed munching on.
"I am sure it wont take much longer to get the stuff out of your system."
"One can only hope. So got any hot dates planned for tonight?"
"Nah, Lily does though." he huffed. "Kirk Tompkins asked her out this morning at breakfast. She said yes..."
"Don't worry my dear Prongs. It shalt be soon that she doth giveth you a chance for her heart. Less than a year now really." I smiled at him. "Just keep being mellow headed and not too arrogant and you've got her in the bag. Plus I've seen her eying you up a lot lately."
"Really?"
"Really."
"Oi! I've brought you your potatoes and hot chocolate! Already checked over by our lovely nurse." Remus said thrusting a large plate of mashed potatoes and gravy at me.
"Finally! Something of food quality that isn't sugary or sweet! Well the potatoes any who." I grinned picking up the fork and shoving a fork full into my mouth.
"Not that your hungry..." James laughed at me. "So Moons, see Pads and Wormtail?"
Remus shook his head lightly before sitting down at the foot of my bed.
"He was with you last."
"Yeah but he and Wormtail left on they're own, something about Sirius finally getting the chance to talk to him on his lonesome..."
Wait....
"Well go and find them!" I exclaimed setting my food down. "You have to go and find them now!"
James raised his eyebrows.
"But why?" Remus asked confusedly. "Is there something wrong?"
"No.." I lied with a grin. "I just erm wanted to tell Sirius that umm I've got him a new chocolate frog card for his collection."
"Liar..."
"No seriously."
"Hey guys." Franks voice came from my far right hand side. He walked over to me and kissed me on the cheek. "Lyla." he nodded before leaning on the bedside table.
"Hey Frank, what made you steel away from your plants?" I asked raising my eyebrow at him.
"What? I cant come and check on you? Lily and Alice said that you were feeling better."
"I'd feel even better if I was outside of this damned hospital wing."
"Yes well that wont be happening until you've gotten better so suck it up and make the best of it."
"Yes Sir!" I saluted him before rolling my eyes. "I'll suck it up when hell freezes over. So um... did you happen to see Sirius when you were walking up?"
Frank narrowed his eyes questioningly.
"Why?"
"Well because I have this erm chocolate frog card for his collection and err I want to give it to him but apparently he went off to talk to Peter about something and hasn't been up here yet."
Frank got my message.
"I'll go and find him for you yeah?" he grinned getting up to leave. He was just out of my curtains when I called out to him.
"Ok, oh and I'll save you one of these tangerine truffles James got me! I know that they're you favorite."
"Yeah yeah. I'll be back..."
James narrowed his eyes at me whilst Remus just grinned.
"Lyla loves Padfoot!"
"Lyla loves Frank you dolt!" I snapped. "When will you people understand that Sirius and I are only friends?"
"When will you realize that you and Sirius are more than just friends and admit to it?" Remus countered. "I mean really clover, how much longer can you ignore love? Don't you want it? Don't you need it?"
"Ok Remmy, since when did you get all mushy?"
"Since I got a date tonight." he grinned. "But seriously, how much longer can you ignore it?"
"I'm not ignoring anything Remus! He's my friend just like you two are my friends."
"Lyla, I mean really...?"
"Damn you! I hate this! Even if I did have feelings for him that are more than friendly, it wouldn't matter because I have to go back to my own time. So what does it matter? And I don't have any feelings that are more that friendly towards him in the damn first place and I wish you two would just accept that and stop pestering me about it!" I huffed cramming another fork full of potatoes into my mouth before another cold flash hit me and I wanted to die.
"So you do then."
"No!" I snapped. "I don't!"
"Fine clover, if you must insist that you have no feelings for Sirius other than friendship then fine." James sighed. "So Remus, who's this date of yours?"
Remus turned brick red and started to mumble.
"What was that Moons? Couldn't quite hear you?" I asked with a grin.
Oh I heard him alright.... and it made me smile and want to jump for glee.
"Sarah Connelly." he mumbled. "Its just her hair its so... attractive..."
"Wow." someone said astonished. "I never thought that I would ever see the day that Remus Lupin is vain in his choice of bird." Sirius said plopping down next to Remus. "Surely there is more to her than just that?"
"Where have you been?" I growled at him.
"With Peter." he said darkly. "We just had a bit of a chat, thats all..."
I glared at him. Stupid fool! If that rat bastard realizes that Sirius knows than things wont go so pretty....
"Interesting." I snapped at him. Fool! I cant believe he would jepordize his safety like this...
"So when do you think you'll actually get out of here?" Frank asked with a small smile. "Any chance she'd let you out for a bit?"
"Doubtful, my chills have been getting worse lately. She thinks that there is something else there with the foghoren that makes the cold worse." I sighed taking another bite of my potatoes.
"But its Valentines day..." Sirius whined. "She cant really keep you locked up on the day of love can she?"
"Yes she can, and I cant say that I mind it. James is still carrying that mistletoe around and merlin knows what he'd do with it." I replied darkly, sending a mock glare in James's direction.
"I could pull it out now if you'd like..." he grinned at me. "See what happens."
"And you'll die!" I glared.
"Oh will I?" he pulled said infernal piece of shrubbery crap from his pocket.
"Here Moons, have fun tonight." James grinned passing Remus said shrubbery.
"Will do Prongs.... will do..."
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(An: Ok all, for this scene it is most important to change from Lyla's point of view to General, as Lyla will not actually be in this scene... well technically. But you will be shown some insight and you just might get some what would you call it.... thoughts about the next chapter. Remember though, not everything can be sugar quills and pots gold and rainbows...) herb3
Rain was lasing the Hospital wings windows threateningly, promising pain and demise in its stormy wake. The wind was howling outside, pelting the castle with horizontal rain drops and sleet. It was frighteningly cold and the young man who was calmly sitting in the dark had to put heating charms on to keep his teeth from chattering. It was most apparent that he did not want to wake up the person lying asleep in the bed he was watching. The young man sighed and growled up at the ceiling as if it were the perpetrator, though the young man knew quite well that it wasn't and he knew exactly who the real perpetrator was. He ran his hands through his thick black curly hair and growled slightly. There seemed to be nothing more in the world that this young man wanted to do but beat that person into oblivion. He growled again before picking up on a sound coming from the other side of the hospital wing. With any hope it would not be the schools nurse who was bound to give him a detention and kick him unceremoniously out.
It was however not the school nurse but another young man who was as well coming to check up on the occupant sleeping in the bed. The second young man walked slowly across the wing to the bed he wished to find. He however did not notice nor hear a small rat following him closely. He did not hear the scratches of the little rats claws against the floor nor did he see the pink fleshy color of the rats body in the pale moonlight. The second young man pulled back the curtains to the bed only to find the other young man sitting in the chair watching over the bed protectively.
"Sirius? What are you doing here?" asked the second young man before he summoned another chair as to sit in.
"Just watching over her. I cant wait to kill that damned rat." he spat. "I take it your here for the same reason yeah Frank?"
"Of course. I cant believe that he's been poisoning her right under our noses." Frank sighed sadly. "And how could we not notice something like this?"
"I dunno Frank." Sirius sighed as well. "I knew she got cold, but I never put it together that it was something bad... well not bad like this." he indicated to the sleeping female. "I will get him for this, I swear it ever if its the last thing I ever do in this life."
"You love her don't you?"
Sirius looked up at Frank dejectedly, as if loving the girl would be such a bad thing.
"Am I that obvious?"
"Yes." Frank chuckled. "No one ever said that loving someone was a bad thing did they?"
"She wont love me back though, that much is obvious."
"I don't know about that Sirius, she does have feelings for someone, she just refuses to tell me who." Frank chuckled.
"Wow Frank, you really don't know? I knew the second I met her."
Frank regarded Sirius closely in question. Had there been something he had missed?
"Who?"
Sirius just grinned at the other and sighed while putting his arms behind his back casually, as if there was nothing wrong.
"You Frank. She loves you, she always has I think..."
Frank raised his eyebrow in confusion.
"Me? What could she possibly see in me? I go through girls like yesterdays treacle tart..."
"Well hell if I know, she never told me why, only that she does."
"Wow, I'd never had suspected that..."
"I don't see how you wouldn't, its pretty obvious..."
"Its strange how things have gotten so mixed up huh?" Frank asked the other young man with a sigh. "Right now we really need to worry about those damned Horcruxes. If we don't take Voldemort down soon things wont go too smoothly. He's already got his death eaters after her, Dementor's? Foghoren root? Whats next?"
"I don't know, the other Horcruxes are just so hard to get to."
"I know, I've got a plan for one of them though, I want to run it by Lyla when she wakes up though."
"Understandable." Sirius yawned. "I'm tired, you?"
"Yeah, I am. I don't want to leave her alone tonight though, I've got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. Something is getting ready to go wrong, I can feel it." Frank sighed rubbing his neck. "I'll give it twenty four hours before it happens. Promise me something though.."
"Anything?"
"You will take care of her if something were ever to happen to me right?"
Sirius snorted.
"Frank, I'll be a hundred and fifty, on my death bed and I would still take care of her regardless of anything else."
"Just had to make sure."
The two young men fell into silence before both of them drifted off into sleep in they're chairs.
Neither of them heard a squeak.
Neither of them heard a scuffle nor a small crack before a whispered evil laugh.
Neither of them heard the door open with a small click and shut.
And neither of them knew what was getting ready to happen. No one could.
Authors Note: So there it is, chapter twelve. Bit dark at the end, just thought I'd prepare you. Any guesses on what is going to happen?...?
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