Ch.14

Meanwhile Stephanie had just nailed a guy in the face with her fist.

"Don't you ever fucking touch me again!", she screamed as she tried to flail out of the peoples grasp on her arms. The other guys on the team looked at him darkly. One of them feeling inclined to speak, "You're lucky that Draco wasn't here to see that."

"Lucky that I wasn't here to see what, exactly?", Draco said sharply as he entered the quidditch stadium.

"Here to see him grope your girlfriend."

Draco's jaw visibly clenched and his body became tense.

"That violates code. You are automatically off the team."

The guy walked cautiously by Draco, knowing that he couldn't possibly get let off so easily. The guy gave a sigh of relief once he had passed by but, it was for not. Draco twisted around and flung a nasty hex at him putting boils all over his body. The guy screamed and scrambled away as best he could. The guys released Stephanie and she went over to Draco and hugged him.

"Thank you."

"Don't mention it. And guys?"

They gave a sign that they were paying attention.

"If something like that happens again, don't hold Stephanie back."

The guy that spoke up for Stephanie answered with a smirk, "Don't have to tell me twice. Besides that, she's a biter. Better watch out Draco."

Draco raised an eyebrow and looked down at her. She blushed before looking away and mumbling. "I wanted to get loose. What else was I supposed to do? Put a spell on them?"

The guy answered, "Ah, but alas, Dear Stephanie, you have already enchanted us with your spell.", he said as he bowed and took her hand to kiss it. Which Draco promptly wacked.

"Watch it Victor. Do that again and you'll be cleaning balls." Stephanie giggled. "Hmm...that didn't quite come out like I had planned."

"That's quite alright, I'll scrub your balls anytime."

Draco looked at him with a shocked expression.

"Joking Draco. Joking."

"Uh...yeah.", he said as he maneuvered himself behind Stephanie.

"So much for keeping me away from him.", she said with a sarcastic look.

Sanya swayed in tempo to the music that came from the strings of the ebony piano as they were hit upon. She left the last note of the classic Fur Elise stop ringing before she began playing Rondo. Her slender fingers skimmed along the keys of the piano with the fast pace of the song. The song ended and applause came from the corner.

"Bravo Miss Romaine, bravo."

"Thank you, Salazar.", she said to the portrait.

"Anytime. And by the way, you have a visitor."

"What? You're daft nobody is he-", a sharp knock interrupted her sentence, "-re. Nevermind then.",she rose from the red velvet covered seat of the piano bench.

She answered the door with a smile on her face and her standard "How may I help you?"

"Do you have any frog's breath?"

"No, my breath smells fine, thanks."

"That isn't-"

"-what you meant. Yes, I know. I was simply trying to be humorous. Yes, I happen to have some somewhere. Uh...it may take me a moment to find it.", she said as she walked over to her cabinets. She opened an over head cabinet and began searching. A few minutes later Severus jumped from the snitty voice of Salazar.

"For god's sake man, quit standing there and help her look!"

Severus mumbled and walked over to the cabinet and began searching.

Sanya finally managed to find it.

"Aha!", she said as she pulled the vile with a fog like substance swirling around inside.

"Bloody thing took forever to find."

"I would have it organized but...uh....its a work in progress."

"Oh yes, in progress perfectly describes having healing powder next to arsenic."

"I haven't got to that part of the cabinet yet."

"What have you gotten to?"

"Obviously not your brain, because you don't seem to understand what I mean by work in progress. I have not gotten to it yet but it is on my list of things to do. How does that work for you?"

"I guess the same way being a hag works for you. Perfectly fine.", he said as he turned and left, closing the door behind him. Sanya yelled at him through the door, "I would rather be a hag than an old fart!"

"Graceful. Way to win with dignity."

"Shut up Salazar."

"Well, excuse me.", he said as he exited the picture frame.

Meanwhile Stephanie and Draco met up with Blaise while dropping their things off from practice in the commons. The Slytherin trio made their way down to the great hall for dinner. Unfortunately their simple trip to dinner was interrupted by an unwanted visitor.

"Pansy."