Author's note: Heres a new chapter hope you enjoy. R&R Please
Chapter 21
After the incident in Potions the Slytherin's seemed to get the message that Gemini was not to be trifled with, so things were going very smoothly for her. The weekend had come and gone and as Wednesday drew closer Gemini began to fret about what she had heard James say. She had tried to warn Alec, but he just brushed her off stating he could fight his own battles and that she shouldn't worry so much about him. Even Scorpius had told her she was being ridiculous because Alec would be fine, and that it was more likely that James would be the one regretting the duel.
It was difficult for her to look out for him because she had detention every night, which would've been okay if they had placed her with Alec or Scorpius but no they had to go and place her with Sam Goyal. While Sam hadn't done any kind of retaliation, but Gemini still kept her guard up and was grateful that they always had a teacher supervising them. She often let her mind wander as she cleaned, scrubbed or reorganized things and it always ended up on how to stop the duel without getting Alec or James in trouble.
Tonight, she was reorganizing the potion ingredients while Sam scrubbed out the cauldrons and she was half-way done so things were looking up. Suddenly a glowing blue stag bust into the room.
"We need immediate help in the third-floor corridor. Please bring blood replenishing potions." Harry's voice slightly frantic voice boomed.
Slughorn moved faster than Gemini had ever seen him as he opened his private cupboard and filled a small satchel with potions.
"You two are dismissed for the night please go directly to your common room," With those words he busily scurried from the room.
Gemini had absolutely no intention of going to her common room because she needed to know who was hurt. She started after the professor not even bothering to shut the ingredient cabinet in her frantic rush. Just as she was about to leave the room she heard Sam's voice.
"Imobilous!" He bellowed and Gemini's whole body froze. Sam slowly came around in front of her his dark amber eyes glittering with malicious intent.
"Well looky here. No one to protect you now. I'm going to make you regret ever humiliating me and I will have to thank whoever caused this fortuitous situation. Now what to do with you. What to do," He stroked his jaw as he dragged his gaze slowly down her body.
She could only flick her eyes around trying to figure out what to do. She couldn't cast a spell, she couldn't move. Hell, she couldn't even call for help. This was not good.
Aries and Albus were wondering the halls after supper just trying to pass the time until Scorpius was done with his detention so they could finalize their plan of attack against the Slytherin girls. They decided to go and see if they could find the room of requirement because it seemed better than aimlessly wandering about. As they headed up the stairs they noticed students being ushered about.
"Everyone go back to your common rooms immediately!" McGonagall's amplified voice decreed.
Aries grabbed the arm of a passing Hufflepuff student.
"What's going on?" He demanded taking in the boy's shaken appearance.
"Someone's been attacked on the third floor. It didn't look good." The boy answered before continuing on his way.
"Hey, wasn't Gem trying to warn Alec to stay away from the third-floor?" Albus asked an icy sliver of fear shot down his spine.
"Yea but James wouldn't seriously hurt Alec, would he?" The pair looked at each other and raced up the stairs two at a time.
As they neared the third floor they noticed all the staff seemed to be blocking students from passing or getting close enough to see what was going on.
"Alright we need a plan. If Alec's hurt we need to be able to protect James from the pure fury Gemini will unleash upon him." Aries pointed out as he tried to asses the seemingly hopeless situation.
"I get wanting to find out but honestly how are we going to get past all of that?" Albus gestured to the professors.
The pair settled against the railing slightly out of view of the staff and pondered what to do. Aries absent mindedly played with his 'deck of cards' and then it hit him.
"The Instant darkness powder!" He announced and Albus nodded in agreement.
Aries quickly opened his box and placed it on the step in front of him so he could see the vials. His eyes found the bottle and he opened it, intent on grabbing a small handful but what he didn't know was all he had to do was open the bottle. The second the stopper left the bottle darkness flooded around them.
"Aries I don't think we thought this through," Albus whispers trying to see anything.
"Well if we can't see neither can they," Aries pointed out as he closed and repocketed his kit.
All around them students were freaking out and searching for the railings, so they stayed off to the side until the banister ran out and then slid against the wall hoping to squeeze passed the staff without too much trouble. Finally, the darkness started to dissipate, and they were able to see that they were indeed well passed the staff members' wall. They still kept to the wall hoping to be mainly obscured from view. They saw Madame Pomphrey and Professor Slughorn fretting over someone, but they weren't close enough to see who.
"They'll have to move the kid when they have them stabilized so we should wait here. If we get much closer their sure to hear or see us," Albus reasoned even as he fought down the terror that gripped him. Aries merely nodded and the pair crouched behind a set of armor.
"Alright Pomphrey that's all I can do. We need to call Severus. Its his curse after all, he'll know better how to fix the issue." With a flick of his wand the pair gazed in shock as a glowing blue ball took off." Let's get her to the infirmary."
Slughorn and Madame Pomphrey levitated a red-haired girl in Slytherin colors and started down the corridor. The girl's uniform was stained with blood and her face had deep gashes like someone had carved her up. Before Slughorn and Pomphrey got too far Harry approached them.
"We need a minute. Someone used Peruvian instant dark powder and we're trying to get it to dissipate. If you go through there now you would probably fall down the stairs. So, what happened?" Harry asked as he took in the young girl.
"Miss Greystone was attacked. There's no other way to put it. Honestly Harry it looks similar to the wounds I had to treat on Mr. Malfoy after your little bathroom confrontation." Madam Pomphrey stated fretfully.
Harry had the decency to look ashamed at the mention of his use of this terrible spell.
"I've already reached out to Severus and he should be meeting us at the infirmary. She's too frail to move to St. Mungo's right now. Has her family been contacted?" Slughorn asked.
"McGonagall left word with them, but it seems they are out of the country right now. Blimey how did this happen?" Harry demanded to no one in particular.
Flitwick came down the corridor and announced the area was clear and the group set off to the hospital wing. Aries and Albus waited until they couldn't hear any footsteps before coming out of their hiding spot.
"Wow…someone was really attacked. Like really. I get duels but mainly those are used to prove a point, and no one's seriously hurt. Someone tried to seriously hurt that girl. I just- I don't understand," Albus stated hopelessly as the pair trekked back towards their common room.
"Yea. Some people are monsters. We need to figure out who did this because whoever it is doesn't deserve to be called a wizard or witch. I think that girl is in our year." Aries states still reeling from the brutality.
"Aries the teachers are looking into it. I don't think we can do this and if we did what are we going to say? Hell, what if the student, if it is a student, attacks us too?" Albus demanded.
"What if it had been Gem? What if it had been me? Would you still just stand ideally by and let the adults figure it out? No we would be in the thick of it figuring out what happened. We aren't going to step on their toes we're just going to help them. That's all. We won't confront the student if we find them but I am going to figure out who they are. Are you with me or not?" Aries demanded.
Albus simply nodded and the pair went back to the common room to figure out how to solve this puzzle.
