Of Wisdom and Cunning
Oh my so many chapters for you all today...well and i just want this thing to be finished, although it's fun to reread and fill in other details.
Chapter 20
Albus pulled me against him and kissed me forcefully. I giggled and pulled away and tightened his emerald and silver scarf and around his throat as we hiked up to the castle from herbology through the bitter wind of February ripped through the grounds of Hogwarts. "So I was thinking the next planned Hogsmeade trip in next weekend and we have yet to be on an official date…" Albus said as her pulled my Slytherin hat down so my ears were covered. He kissed me again.
"Valentine's day weekend?" I asked, grabbing his gloved hand as we entered the main portion of the castle. He nodded and pulled on my pigtails lightly. "Okay….that should work." I said.
"It should?" he asked his eyebrows raised, his eyes glinting slightly.
"What if we have a test on Monday or something?" I asked pushing up my glasses as we walked to our common room.
"It's a bloody holiday Love!" he said loudly, "They won't over fill our schedules with homework." I gave him a skeptical look before running up to my dorm to get into more comfortable clothes and out of my uniform. "Don't think this over Ootori!" he yelled after me, I laughed and shut my dorm door.
"There you two go being flirty again…" Dominique Weasley hissed from her position at the window, outside a grindylow floated by. The blonde flickered her hair over her shoulder and checked her nails, "Aren't you all snuggly and happy with Alby-"
"I don't believe this…are you really….oh no way." I said staring at her in disbelief. Dominique finally faced me and narrowed her Weasley blue eyes at me, her lips pursed. "A-are you jealous of me?" I asked, Dominique stood up from the window.
"Should I be?" she asked, "You don't seem all that special, I don't get why there's all this hype around you? Why makes you so important?" she asked stepping up to me. I stood there and gawked at her. "Well?"
"I never said or behaved like I was. Why do you all hate me? Rose, Hugo, Freddy, Louis, James, Lily and Albus, even Teddy treat me like a normal human, I don't get why you and Roxi hate me so much! I've never done anything to hurt-Ah!" my head hit the floor as Dominique straddled me.
"You threatened Roxanne's life! You got Jamie kicked out of school! And now you are taking away Alby too?! I don't think so!" Dominique yelled pinning my arms down, I struggled to get away but couldn't, she was to strong. I felt my magic building inside of me like a shaken up carbonated drink. I closed my eyes and fought it down, but the pressure of my magic intensified. No, no, no. I will not let it take over, not again! I mentally screamed. "Why are you crying Ootori? Afraid you'll lash out on me as well? Go ahead, I can take it."
"No…you can't take it." I replied opening my eyes to glare at her, she froze, her eyes wide. I sat up against her now dwindled strength that held me down moments before. "Because I am not what you think I am, I'm stronger, scary, and less human. So no don't ever take me for a dainty princess who is afraid to destroy a French manicure, because I can tell you, I could care less how my nails look. I'm not a posh punching bag for you crazy European girls, I'm an Ootori, one of the fiercest fighters of high end Japan, Daddy didn't raise a spoiled fool and Mommy didn't shelter me like a fragile glass doll." I flipped her over and stared down at her, "If you ever want to fight me again, remember….I'm the scariest witch you've ever seen." I stood up and changed into black yoga pants and my Weasley sweater with a giant lavender K on the front and my matching lavender moccasins and left the room. On my way to the common room a mirror on the wall caught my attention.
"Oh dear me, you should hide that, demon eyes are a dead give away Love." The mirror said, I stepped closer and reached out to touch the Mirror. My eyes were black, the beautiful grey I was born with was swallowed by black, dark unnatural coloring that never been there before.
"Half Human, and half not human, something else entirely."
"Demon…I've heard of them but never…Dad's always talked…"
"NO!" I screamed and ran into the common room my heart pounding. This can't be happening, it's not real, that's not me…I thought furiously. I schooled my features and blinked a few times to calm myself down. "Albus?" I called as I flopped down on an emerald couch. He didn't respond, "Most likely with Scorp." I mumbled as I pulled out my laptop and opened it. I began working on my notes for the paper I had to hand write for next week. "They really need to catch up with the times. I'm sick of writing with a feather for a pen." I muttered as I quickly typed down my notes on werewolves.
"Look at you, working on next week's homework already, Merlin." Albus said sitting down next to me and wrapping his arm loosely around my shoulders. "What's your topic?" he asked nuzzling my hair.
"Infections in werewolf bites and how they affect transformations, and whether or not the werewolf is affected during his transformation." I said nonchalantly. Albus snickered and kissed my ear.
"Ever the brain, aren't you?" he teased. "So Valentine's Day?" he asked pulling me to face him. I smiled.
"Sure." I replied Albus kissed my forehead gently.
"Good cause I'd hate to spend the day here with all the mopey loners and the passionate lovers." Albus said, saving my notes and closing my laptop, I sent him an unhappy look as he placed it on the coffee table. He gave me a tender kiss on the lips, I leaned into it and kissed him back. "Although, we could stay all snuggly and warm, just like this if you want." He said breaking kiss. I narrowed my eyes and raised a single eyebrow as if to say "If you are insinuating what I think you're insinuating and you know how protective Father is then you are insane" he snickered and nuzzled my nose. "Are you okay? You seem a little off." He asked and took off my glasses. I made to grab them but he stopped me and cupped my face with his hand. "Kyo, what's up with your eyes?" I looked away, my bangs falling into my eyes. "Kyoko, darling what's going on? Why are your eyes like that?" Albus asked. I stood up and moved to leave, grabbed my wrists and pulled me to him.
"Albus….let go!" I whined struggling against him.
"Love, is this…." He started, I pulled myself from his grasp.
"I-I'm…this the physical form of….of my other half." I whispered, Albus stared at me, his eyes wide in shock. I felt a lump form in my throat at his lack of response. "Albus?" I asked, he merely gaped. I bite my lip keep the tears at bay and sprinted out of the room. I ran down the hall and kept running until I hit a door, I forced it open and fell to the cold tile floor.
"they make fun of you too?" a frigid voice asked, I looked up a saw a pair of translucent eyes behind equally half there glasses staring at me. I felt a scream lodge in my throat. "Don't, I get it you've never met a ghost before. Well I've got news for you sweet heart, this is the home of ghosts in England, so you'll be seeing a lot of us from time to time."
"GET BACK DEAD ONE!" a voice erupted out of my chest, one that wasn't my own, but escaped my mouth. I clasped my hands over my mouth, the ghostly girl flew backwards and managed to hit the wall. "Shit! I'm so sorry! Are you okay?" I asked running over to her. She giggled hysterically.
"Of course I am, I'm dead, although how I managed to hit the wall is beyond me….wait….you're not quite…..you smell of sulfur." She said sniffing around my head. "Warlock?" she asked, I stared up at her.
"H-how did you know?" I stuttered.
"I'm undead, you learn to pick it up." She said casually. "Soooo what's eating you?"
"Just that…I don't want to be a danger, especially not to…." I started and stopped myself, I mean for all I knew this girl could tell anyone and everyone, that didn't need to know about my relationship with Albus.
"The little Harry? Don't worry if the whole school doesn't already know about you two, then I won't be the first one to tell them. Not that anyone listens to me anyway." The girl said pouting slightly. Suddenly the world fell black and I was sitting a shiny wood table, in a beautiful tux, a crème coat, red and gold tie and form fitting black dress pants and shiny black shoes. My heart felt like it was breaking in two.
"Congratulations Haruhi, your debt is paid off, you are allowed to leave after the fair." I looked up and there stood Father in a matching tux. His, my eyes, were filled with an emotion I couldn't place, or at least Mother couldn't. I felt her heartache more, like she wanted run to him and cling to him for dear life.
"Allowed to leave…debt paid off…." Mother muttered numbly, I felt tears well in her eyes. Father looked down like he was batting away his own. Mother placed her arms on the chair's as if deciding she was going to hug Father when suddenly Grand Father passed behind them, Father tensed as if sensing his cool presence, which wouldn't surprise me Father had a knack for sensing him.
"Such a disappointment…." Grand Father hissed. I felt Mother stand up and cross around behind Father. Anger mixed with compassion and loyalty rolled off her in waves. Father moved to stop her but she evaded him.
"Kyoya-Sempai is not a disappointment! He works so hard to make sure everyone is happy and safe a hundred percent of the time! So I don't understand why you think he's a disappointment. In fact I think Kyoya-Sempai is amazing!" Mother's heart accelerated, out of the corner of her eye I saw Father turn to gape at her, a light blush covering his cheeks. Mother's heart skipped a beat and she fought a smile that threatened to form on her lips. The world fell black, I opened my eyes, air smacked my lungs and I sucked in greedily. I was laying on a bathroom floor, the ghost girl floated over me with wide scared eyes.
"Are you okay, Warlock?" she asked, I stared at her like she was insane and then I realized I hadn't introduced myself.
"Uh, right, sorry, I'm Ootori Kyoko, and you are?" I asked as kindly as possible, she merely gaped, Damn it I've slipped back into Japanese. I scolded myself, "Sorry, I'm Kyoko Ootori, what is your name?" I asked again slipping into English. "And yes I'm fine thank you."
"Oh, I'm Myrtle, most call me Moaning Myrtle." She replied sadly.
"A pleasure to meet you, I take it you know a lot about Hogwarts and it's happenings? Being a ghost that haunts bathrooms I'm sure you hear quite a bit…" I asked feeling my inherited business mindset kick in. Keep her close…My consciousness sounded oddly like Father suddenly. She nodded silently. "What do you know about…..Scorpius Malfoy and Rose Weasley." I asked, her face split into an evil smirk.
"What isn't there to know? Shall I start at the beginning?"
"No, I want to know one thing…are they dating or do they simply fancy each other." I asked slyly, she cackled. I raised an eyebrow.
"They have been sleeping together for about two years…" I smirked at this and walked out. "Oh don't tell anyone!" she yelled after me. My smirk grew and I kept walking.
"No promises." I said coyly and walked out of the bathroom. Scorpius came barreling down the hallway and right into me. "Bloody hell! What do you Europeans eat as children, boulders?" I gasped as I smacked him a couple of times in the shoulder. "Seriously, get off me!"
"Oh Merlin I'm sorry, I didn't see you there…and uh…no we don't eat boulders as children." Scorpius said snarkily as he stood up he held out his hand to help me stand. I rolled my eyes.
"I was kidding, thank you." I said and turned to walk away, quickly burrowing away my knew information on this boy.
"Oh Alby is lookin' for ya, he's in the library. Said something about Warlocks? Anyway just go see him he looks mighty worried about you." Scorpius said before disappearing in a hurry. I laughed lightly as I turned to go to the library. As I entered the old musty, parchment filled, hideaway of a room the sound of tinkling laughter and Albus' voice filled the air. I felt something new ignite in me and images of my father storming the mansion flashed through my mind, he must have felt this way as well. I quickly padded over to mine and Albus' hang out as silently as possible and watched him through the gap in the books on a shelf. A blonde haired girl with familiar blue eyes and much shorter than regulation skirt sat seductively on the table while Albus squinted over a text, twirling her thick wavy hair around her dainty little finger. Her impish features exclaimed that she was at least half Japanese. Her Hufflepuff tie was tied in a bow near the front of her hair line, her blouse was open…quite a bit for my liking. I stepped out of my hiding spot and watched a moment longer, the girl leaned forward a bit to emphasis her obvious need for a bigger shirt. She mumbled a question, Albus looked up to answer and turned bright red and turned his face back to the book. She moved to run her fingers through my man's hair, I had had enough.
" Alby? There you are!" I called with lots of sweetness and extremely fake excitement. Albus' head snapped up in my direction an uneasy smile light up his face.
"Babe, hey!" he greeted shakily. I strolled forward and stopped next him, wrapping my arms tightly around him, his arm fell around my shoulders. " I'm sorry about earlier I-" I stopped him with a passionate kiss, feeling a predatory need to claim him come over me and oh did I give in. I crawled on to his lap and ran my fingers through his hair greedily, his hands slide down my side and tightly gripped my hips pulling me closer. He undid my pigtails and latched on to my hair pushing my head firmly against his, a small cough prevented us from going any further.
"Sorry forgot that you were there." I said as I pulled away from Albus, looking over my shoulder and through my now frazzled hair. "I don't think we've met." I said my voice dripping with pleasantries and obvious disgust. I turned to face the girl and rest against Albus' muscular chest. "I'm-"
"Ootori Kyoko, right?" she asked in Japanese. I narrowed my eyes, as i finally registered why she was so familiar.
"Yes." I replied in English, just to irk her. She pursed her lips, a familiar pout formed on her face. I schooled my features to a cool look of indifference, "How did you know, I'm not exactly famous." I asked, deciding to playing stupid, and hoping i was wrong in this assumption.
"You look just like your father, save for the small stature…and tiny nose." She hissed in English, a her French accent was obvious. I was boiling with rage inside, but my face should no sign. She reached out and combed her fingers through my hair smoothing it, "I bet if you cut your hair, you'd look just like a boy…" I snapped and jolted into a half standing position, Albus' arms were my only restraint at this point.
"Shut your mouth, bitch, who do you think you are!" I yelled struggling against my boyfriend. The girl smiled an obviously fake friendly smile and tilted her head.
"Danica Suoh." She said icily. My blood ran cold, this could not be happening.