"But making people fear me is my favorite!" Allie pouted as Mia dragged her away.
"Sorry about the foolish filly I call my best friend, sir."
"I will not accept this impudence from a human," Bane growled. Mia waved her hands frantically.
"I think she's a dwarf, sir."
"HEY!" Mia kicked Allie in the shin.
"Let this one live, not only is she a youngling but I see her having great importance," a centaur said.
"You just think she's amusing," Ronan sighed.
"The other one we have accepted. She has associated herself with too many manners of life to call herself human," another centaur pointed out. The first centaur paused.
"So that means we must accept her friend?"
"Go, young ones. Do not return within the week. The full moon is soon."
"Thank you, honored herdsmaster."
And with that, a humiliated Mia dragged Allie out of the forest.
"When I introduce you to my friends, must you always embarrass me?"
"I was joking around!"
Mia hissed. "That was joking around?"
"You should joke around the mermish. They're friendly and giggly as long as you're not a veela." Allie informed her friend.
"What if you befriended a veela?" Mia asked curiously.
"As long as they don't see each other, it's fine. I asked." Allie replied as they set off to the castle.
"Just not with centaurs, okay?" Mia beseeched.
"Fine…" Allie grumbled and Mia ran off.
(OvO)
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There was that image in the mirror again. A puppet master weaving strings in the wrong places. Pretty little braids and long complex tapestries were broken and made as the girl laughed. Mia could almost touch them. The girl turned to her, face identical to hers.
"What are you so afraid of?" The Mia in the mirror asked her. Her face was twisted and cruel. She wished she'd stop going back. But here she was.
"You," she breathed.
A sickening grin broke out on her face.
"You were made for power," she crooned. "Just use that enchanting ability like you know how to."
"STOP!" Mia screamed, and the mirror shattered. She caught the image of her lips in a smile not her own before the world went dark.
She woke up in the hospital wing. Fred, George, Luna and Ginny, the Golden Trio, and Allie stood around her bed. There were tears running down her face.
"Are you all gonna say something or just stand around my bed like creepers?" Mia asked sarcastically. The others in the exchanged glances before slowly filing out. All of them except Allie.
"You disappear on me for a few hours, and then I get called to the office and told that you were in the hospital wing?! What the heck Mia!"
"Allie, just stay away from me. I'm not safe," Mia choked out. Allie stared at her, eyes brimming with fresh tears.
"What happened to you," she breathed.
Mia's smile was bitter.
"Magic."
Allie left the room, before collapsing against the wall sobbing. If Mia heard it, she said nothing.
Fred and George looked at the sobbing girl and pulled her into a hug.
"We'll help you fix her. She helped us with that time turner, we'll help her get better," George's voice was steady and the younger looked at them with teary eyes.
"Promise me," her voice was small and Fred nodded.
"We promise."
(OvO)
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"George?" Mia blinked in surprise to see the fifth-year leaning on the wall as she headed to class. The late March weather was still rather chilly. He grinned at her,
"Sit with me."
Mia shook her head.
"'S cold."
George laughed and jumped down, following her.
"You're not as evil as people think you are, Mia." George said to the younger girl. Mia laughed bitterly.
"I'm much worse." He glanced at the girl walking beside him. She felt dead.
"What do you mean?" He saw the dark look in her eyes even before she spoke.
"I tear with and play with the fabric of reality so much that I get a sick sense of pleasure from it. I hadn't even realized my effects, but boy do I have them. Allie does too, but she hasn't realized. I'm like, 'Don't mind me, just having an existential crisis', but I'm scared. I'm scared, George." There was something wrong with the way he was looking at her but she couldn't place it.
"Effects? What do you mean?"
"I can create enchantments that break laws. I can influence a person by letting my magic loose. I can see the strings of magic and time. I'm not a normal witch. There's something wrong with me. There's something even more wrong with me."
"So what?"
She choked, "Huh?"
"Who cares about that? You're really cool just the way you are!" George gave her a boyish grin. Mia's heart pounded. No boy had ever said that to her.
"You think so?"
"I know so. Come on! Let's go see what Gred and Allie are up to!"
He ran ahead, with a blushing Mia in tow. But maybe… maybe…
Splitting pain.
Disgustingpuppetplayerevil
The world spun violently.
Monster
For the second time, Mia hit the ground.
