Chapter 29

While the group was waiting for Sammi and Candi to return, they were all awkwardly trying to create small talk. Harry and Raven had grown very close over the last few weeks, which is why Harry and Ron were in the room waiting with the group. Nichole had a feeling that Rachael knew something the others didn't, Rachael wasn't ever particularly loud but since class she had been unusually quiet.

"Rachael can I have a word?" Nichole asked, trying to channel her thoughts into Rachael's head. Nichole was now very fond of her ability; it quite often came in handy. It was obviously that Candi was hiding something in her head, she had been to the library and borrowed books on protecting her mind against attack and it had worked.

Oh no, maybe she knows I know about Victor and Candi, Rachael thought. Rachael cursed under her breath, when she saw Nichole's jaw drop, "a word now please!"

"Okay," Rachael agreed, not wanting to get in trouble with Nichole. Rachael hadn't intended on telling Nichole about Candi's extra curricular activities, but she couldn't not think about it at all! Nichole ushered Rachael into her room to have an important chat. As one door shut another opened, the main one. Sammi and Candi entered followed by Oliver and Wood, Sammi was yelling at Candi not very discreetly.

"Why didn't you tell me one of your cousins died yesterday? I had to find out from the stupid headmaster who thinks it is somehow emotionally distressing you!" Sammi shouted.

"Caitlin could die ten times over and I doubt I would care!" Candi shouted back at her.

"Is that why you were sulking in the corridor when you came back from somewhere last night?"

"I wasn't sulking!" Candi protested, getting madder by the second.

Victor flicked his wand twice and both Sammi and Candi became mute, Candi grabbed her throat when no noise came out. Sammi stood there with her arms crossed looking mad at both Candi and Victor. Rachael and Nichole both emerged from Nichole's room.

Victor softly said, "I think that's enough bickering for one day. I'm going to take the spell off and you both get ready for lunch, Wood and I will wait here for you two." With another two flicks of his wand the silencing spell was lifted, Candi rubbed her throat before glaring at Victor once more.

"Weasly and Potter, what are you doing here?" Oliver Wood asked, feeling like Victor's shadow. Oliver idolised Victor, he was one of the greatest Quidditch players of all time. Oliver wasn't going to sign on for another season with the Cannons Quidditch team; he was hoping for bigger and better. It was Oliver's dream to play Quidditch with some of the greats, like Victor Krum himself. Harry and Ron shrugged, "then beat it, you're not meant to be in here!"

Harry and Ron left without a fuss. Oliver just noticed that everybody was quiet; the entire room was watching Nichole glare at Victor with Rachael standing behind her looking embarrassed.

"What can I do for you?" Victor asked, concerned he wouldn't like the answer.

"By the sounds of it, more then a student would expect from a teacher," Nichole said smiling cockily. Wood and Krum were so busily trying to deal with Nichole that they didn't notice Candi sneak into Sammi's room which under Dumbledore's new rules was forbidden. Dumbledore had derived a set of rules for Candi until the found out if she was pregnant and to who she might be pregnant too. The firs rule was that Candi and Sammi weren't allowed to communicate without the supervision of a staff member, which is why they were being constantly under the supervision of Victor and Oliver.

"Oliver can you go see if the girls a ready and I'll handle this," Victor instructed.

"For the record, I don't want to be handled in the same way you handled Candi," Nichole said cheekily. For the first time in her life she wanted to be sent to the headmasters office, but Krum wouldn't dare send her.

"You should really do your research before making ridiculous claims like that, you could get punished," Victor warned.

"Again I'm not Candi, so no handcuffs or whips please!" Nichole smirked.

Victor was glad Oliver wasn't within earshot he had just knocked on Candi's door and entered her room. These girls were now all rather sure of a fact that he denied but knew was true, if any staff member heard these rumours he would be fired for sure. Victor liked spending time at Hogwarts but his Quidditch pre-season training would start soon and he still hadn't picked a team to sign with although he was leaning towards resigning with Bulgaria.

"Victor!" Shouted Oliver as he exited Candi's room, "She's not in there."

Victor cursed and jogged down the corridor. Candi was sitting on the floor holding Sammi's pregnancy test, Sammi was waiting on the end of her bed. Sammi was too stressed to even look at the test let alone read it.

Oliver and Victor slammed the door open, just as Candi saw a little '+' sign appear on one end of the pregnancy test. Candi threw Sammi a sympathetic look, unfortunately Victor saw. Victor told Wood to get Sammi down for lunch and that he was going to have a talk with Candi, who had now slid the test into her pocket.

Victor quickly coaxed Candi out of the room and soon enough they were walking towards the Great Hall for lunch, Candi hadn't spoken a word since she realised Sammi's test was positive.

"Give it to me." Victor instructed.

"No," Candi said firmly, "if you want it you have to get it yourself."

"Very smooth, no you're going to willingly give it to me before we see Dumbledore," Victor told her.

"I don't think you're going to do that," Candi said smiling cunningly.

"Oh really, do tell me why?"

Candi put on a well-rehearsed voice, which was soft, quiet and full of fear, "Well I did have a thing with a member of staff, but I don't want him to get in trouble."

"You wouldn't?"

"If you don't believe me call my bluff, take me to Dumbledore, then we'll see if I'm bluffing. If you give me another day, I'll figure something out and I'll tell him myself." Candi offered, not wanting Victor to feel trapped and do something irrational.

Once the pair arrived at the Great Hall Victor escorted Candi up to the teacher's table (which only held half a dozen teachers), where he left her under the supervision of Hagrid the half giant man who taught Care of Magical Creatures. Victor went a joined Oliver at the Gryffindor table.

Candi who was too anxious to eat much grabbed some fruit and a piece of chicken for lunch, the giant guy kept trying to act normal. "Ah here's Professor Snape, he's a bit late he was meant to be watching you for this entire meal break."

Candi noticed the greasy haired Professor had arrived with Draco Malfoy, which made Candi slightly nervous. Last time she had talked to Snape he seemed to have know that she had 'been with' the blond student on more then one occasion.

Oliver and Victor pretended to be involved in a deep conversation about Quidditch a few seats away from the girls, but were actually earwigging on the girls conversation using extendable ears. From what they could hear the girls believed that a blond Slytherin was the father.

Nichole who was unaware of Oliver and Victor listening said, "well it's obviously him! Evil, blond, rich, plays sport and is obviously horny, it's her stereotype! We should have tried harder to stop this earlier, I saw them talking two days ago in a deserted corridor."

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Draco always had hated how his father had sent him messages through Professor Snape, especially when it hardly concerned him. The most recent message he received was only ten minutes ago; his father had found out (presumably from Snape) that he may very possibly impregnated one of the muggle girls. Draco was sure he would get in trouble because she wasn't a witch let alone a pureblood, but instead his father congratulated him. If this girl was the one they were looking for it would be brilliant, even if she's not having a baby gets you in closer to all her friends. Once again Snape reinforced the urgency of retrieving a sample of blood from each girl.

Draco saw the five muggle girls get up and leave, escorted by Victor Krum and Oliver Wood whom Draco had never liked (mainly due to the fact he was such a good Quidditch player). Draco quickly got up after having to tell his cronies to stay behind and met them at the door, having no idea what the Dark Lord was looking for in their blood. Very discreetly he tripped the closest girl, who fell landing against the door hitting her head and hip rather hard. Wood quickly ran to the girls aid and helped her walk, the headed of in the direction of the Healer Madame Pomfrey. Draco quickly pulled a small vile out of his pocket and put a few drops of the door magically into it, before heading back to his dorm to label it.

After only a minute Oliver realised he had to carry Sammi, the gash on her forehead was larger then he thought and he didn't know what he'd do if anything happened to her. The healer quickly gave directions for Oliver to place the girl on any empty bed, which wasn't hard because they were all empty. Once Oliver arrived at a bed he went to put Sammi down, but found it difficult, he didn't want to let go. How could he protect her if he wasn't holding her close?

"Okay. There's no show here, Victor dear could you escort these young ladies back to their rooms, I'm sure their friend will be fine."

Sammi was still conscious, but her head was very heavy and dizzy. Sammi knew where she was and how she got there, but she wanted to leave still. Hospitals sucked, even though this wasn't really a hospital it still had injuries, needles and other painful tests.

"Sammi this is a lucky coincident, I'm going to do a CT scan on your brain who would have thought muggle medicine would actually come in handy?"

Sammi didn't think this was a funny coincident, the woman conjured a large machine before using it to examine Sammi's head. The scan probably only took two minutes, but Sammi got the feeling something wasn't right. Wood was next to her looking at the screen, with his right hand gently resting on her shoulder, he to looked a little anxious.

The doctor lady smiled, "excellent news it's only a slight concussion all you need is a little rest along with some pain killers and you'll be good as new, I'll just look at your hip and you'll be all done."

"That's it? Why did you look so worried then?" Sammi asked, not knowing what they saw inside her head.

"Nothing of great concern, it doesn't even really effect the functioning of your body." The women smiled hastily, but continued after a look of irritation from Sammi, "a small section of you're frontal lobe is missing."

"A piece of my brain is missing?"

"Yes but it's insignificant, a boy who went here fifty years ago had the same problem you might be very distant relatives. Genetic deformations like these usually skip a few generations," the woman said smiling again, "that boy went on and made many gallons at his fathers wand shop which he later inherited." All her smiling was starting to annoy Sammi, who was currently reflecting on her biology lessons. The frontal lobe was the part of the brain that dealt with emotions, behaviour and memory.

"Well then, lets take a look at that hip." The women said smiling, once again to the annoyance of Sammi. Madam Pomfrey helped Sammi talk of her robes, Sammi was feeling glad she had decided to wear a tank top under her robes today. Sammi once again rested on the bed, this time only wearing her under garments and the tank top, feeling very vulnerable.

Madame Pomfrey pulled up Sammi's top slightly and inspected her hip, which was now starting to bruise. "Thank you Oliver, but you had better wait outside."

Oliver went to leave, before Sammi asked, "Is it okay if he stays?" She just didn't want to be left alone right now; especially after just finding out she was pregnant.

Madame Pomfrey positively didn't think this was a good idea but eventually agreed, feeling Sammi could do with some moral support. "We'll have to get this x-rayed to check but I think it's broken."

"Can't you just treat me?" Sammi said with slight urgency.

"No. If a bone isn't actually broken the potion is rather toxic," the doctor women informed her. Sammi suddenly wished she hadn't asked for Oliver to stay, "I don't think I'm up for an x-ray just yet," Sammi lied. Madame Pomfrey pointed out that that Sammi didn't need to do anything to get an x-ray taken.

The small magical version of an x-ray was brought closer to Sammi, "it works similar to a muggle x-ray using radiation for imaging."

"NO!" Sammi shouted.

Madame Pomfrey very quickly joined the dots, "Oliver you must leave now!" She said in a very serious stern voice. Oliver didn't know what was going on, he wish he knew a bit more about muggle medicine.

Krum was left babysitting the four girls who weren't in and sort of trouble and compared to watching Sammi and Candi, it was a walk in the park. Three of the girls sat on a couch reading while the forth sat on her muggle device Krum knew as a computer. Victor would have been bored, but her had lots on his mind and just to add to his thoughts there was a knock on the door.

Nichole jumped up to get it but Victor told her to sit down before he opened the door himself. Standing at the door was none other then Draco Malfoy who he had met only last year at the Triwizard tournament. Draco busily tried to hide the look of surprise on his face as he greeted Victor.

"Just coming to see if Sammi was okay, is she back from the hospital wing yet?" Draco asked, trying his very best to sound sincere. Within less then a second Victor knew he was lying through his teeth, also he was rather certain it definitely was Sammi the blond boy was looking for. Victor couldn't help but think about what he had overheard at lunch, about Candi liking Draco.

Everybody watched as Victor left the room to talk to Malfoy, all of them were thinking the same thing. Rachael especially felt like the Malfoy boy was going to have a big part in something. Rachael much to her surprise saw Candi and Draco kissing in an office. Rachael walked around them; saw they were each wearing a ring on their left ring finger then she woke up, though she hadn't even been asleep or had her eyes closed. Jane was looking a her funny, "your eyes were just glazed. Did you have another vision?"

Nichole and Raven who weren't listening to the hushed conversation announced, "we're going to get some fresh air." Really they just wanted to hear what Krum and Malfoy were talking about.

"No," Rachael lied through her teeth as she answered Jane's question, "I was just thinking." Rachael couldn't see Candi and Malfoy getting married, but they both were wearing silver wedding rings, Candi's with a nice rock set in it. Rachael knew it was a really nice ring, even though she herself personally preferred gold unlike Candi.

Oliver Wood did not protest and left the hospital wing as Madame Pomfrey had asked him too, but he needed to know what was wrong with Sammi. Oliver hated feeling helpless when someone he cared greatly for was in trouble, he had to find out what was wrong with her so he could help her fix it.

Candi had been pacing around Professor Snape's office for the last twenty minutes looking at all the weird stuff he had in jars. When she saw the teacher looking at her, Candi would occasionally touch her stomach lightly just because she could. There was a knock on the door and Oliver Wood entered, appearing calm and collected.

"Professor Dumbledore sent me to relieve you," Oliver lied. Snape was fairly certain that the ex-student wasn't telling the truth, but he still didn't want to watch over the meddlesome teenager, "she's all yours." Snape turned to Candi, "I'll be seeing you in half an hour, I'm assisting Professor Lupin in your defence against the dark arts class."

"Can't wait," Candi said cheerfully, she couldn't wait to get out of that dark and boring office! Once the were well and truly out of ear shot Wood walked down an unlit corridor, stopping near the end. Candi didn't have a clue what was going on but was pretty sure it wasn't going to be good. Wood turned around so he was facing her, Candi felt slightly intimidated; Oliver was an inch or two taller then her and Candi had noticed earlier that he had some pretty nice muscles. Candi continued to look at Oliver, until he finally spoke.

"Why would someone not have an x-ray?" Oliver asked calmly, but any idiot could tell he was concerned and not very happy.

Candi wasn't going to answer that question, if Sammi didn't tell Wood she was pregnant, he might not be the father and that would kill what ever it is they have going. Candi took a small step back but a wall got in her way, Candi gave a quiet nervous laugh, so Candi tried to leave the corridor. Oliver saw it coming; he leaned forward and put his left hand on the wall, preventing her from leaving whilst also being even more intimidating.

"I can't tell you that," Candi said quietly, "you'll have to ask..."

Candi stopped talking mid-sentence, their light source from the end of the corridor had vanished. Candi could clearly see the two people at the end of the corridor, "oh crap."

Oliver quickly took his hand of the wall and stood up straight, quietly whispering to Candi, "do you know who it is?"

Candi did know, but she did get a chance to answer. A familiar disapproving voice came from an even more familiar face, "Candi? What are you doing?"

Candi magically lit her wand, "hi Nichole and Raven." Trying to be calm was rather difficult because Candi was trying not to laugh, even though she knew this wasn't going to turn out so great.

Wood too was distracted; luckily he remembered that he was meant to be watching Candi, because he nearly went to the hospital wing without her. Though it did turn out convenient that she was with him, Oliver and Candi entered the hospital wing and Sammi was looking upset.

"Oliver, you can't come back in yet, we're not finished," Madame Pomfrey insisted.

"Sorry Madame Pomfrey but Candi hear desperately needed to talk to Sammi about some girl issue, can you give them a minute please," Oliver asked very politely. Candi who was standing next to him, nodded her head while trying to look concerned about a 'girl issue.' Everybody knows that the 'girl issues' excuse only works on male teachers.

"Okay then, I'll be back in five minutes and if anything happens to either of them while I'm gone I'll have your head and hand it on the wall like a house elves!"

Oliver Wood nodded to show he understood, then waited for her to leave before walking to Sammi's bedside.

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WOW it's a double chapter!! Poor Rachael who's having her mind broken into by Nichole, who thinks like Raven that Oliver is up to something with Candi, who's lying to protect Sammi. Poor Jane I'll put her in the next chapter more! Thanks for all the reviews you're all going to give me… OR else.. HAHAHAHAHA Evil Laugh