Ch 3. Tears from Heaven
The first week of classes had gone fairly well. There was always the
clashing of ideas between the Slytherins and the
Gryffindors she had to contend with, but that was healthy for them
at their age. When Saturday came she was entirely grateful.
Some of the Slytherins were staring to dislike her because she didn't
play favorites. She took almost 60 points from Slytherin
that week among points from the other houses. She refused to have a
biased opinion about it. Yes they were in her house, but
she still felt they had to be punished when they did something wrong.
Well, Draco Malfoy didn't like that at all. Now he was an
absolute terror in her classes. She was just glad for the weekend.
And if it wasn't enough Snape would rub it in whenever they
met to discuss the house. They usually didn't end up talking about
much because they would both get so angry with each other
that they would leave.
But nothing would get her down. This weekend she
planned to go out to one of her favorite Muggle spots and dance her
sorrows away. Dancing was the only thing that let her speak her emotions.
She could get out her anger and frustrations there
and not worry about anything outside the door to the club because none
of it mattered then. Nothing mattered at all.
So Saturday night she changed into a Muggle-Style dress. It was long
and black with spaghetti straps and slits on the sides. It,
of course, clung to her curves and was matched by her black heels.
She pulled her long black cape on and tied it, putting the
hood on over her head. Her room didn't have any floo powder in it so
she would have to risk the Slytherin common room
fire place.
She sneaked out of her room and made her way whilst an unseen form
caught her in his eye and followed her. The shadow
stayed back as she whispered "Mantra's" and walked through the fireplace.
The shadow then repeated Aurelia's actions and
went through a little behind her.
The shadow watched her remove her cloak and let her long black hair
flow to her back. It watched her walk into the
Nightclub and smiled its evilest of smiles..
"I've caught you." he said.
He proceeded to walk inside as well. Snape was going to get the dirt
on this girl and she was leading him to what he needed.
He sat in a far corner in the darkness out of sight. He watched her
sit at the bar and decline several offers from muggles to
dance or do anything.
*If she wasn't so annoying she might actually be a little pretty.....wait
did I just think that?* He mentally smacked himself.
Back on task he saw her continue to just sit there and was beginning
to think that was all she was going to do. Then she
suddenly seemed to perk up and even smile. Her eyes began to shimmer
and she walked up to the nearest guy and beckoned
him to follow her onto the dance floor. He followed with great ease
as if she was some beautiful goddess.
"Must be a charm..."he muttered under his breath not wanting to acknowledge
that she needed no help from a charm.
Then she began to dance.
He turned in his chair to get a better view as she moved through the
crowd of people. She began to move sensuously to the
beat and the muggle quickly followed suit. She looked as though she
was enjoying herself and he could tell the muggle was
enjoying himself as well. He noted the grace at which she moved and
the almost angelic movements of her arms. It was if she
was a different person here. He then saw the muggle pull her by the
arm out of the club and into the night.
He got up quickly to follow. He placed his invisibility cloak back
on and walked back into the night. He saw him dragging her
under a near tree where they stopped.
He sped up and remained a few yards from them, just enough for him
to still hear the conversation.
"Well pretty girl, would you like to go back to my place?"
She chuckled.
"I'm not a girl."
"Alright then, pretty woman, what do you say?"
"I say If I said yes, what then?"
Severus shook himself mentally. She wasn't actually thinking of going somewhere with this obvious scum.
"What do you mean what then?"
"Well, what do you expect if I go home with you?"
"Well....you know...."
A strange gleam came into her eyes then.
"Ah I see....and then what....what happens tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow? Whoa....I don't get it."
"What do you like about me? I have a body...but do you even care about
the rest?"
"Umm......should I?"
"Wrong answer."
"Okay okay...tomorrow I guess.....well I didn't plan on there being
a tomorrow..."
"Right you just were going to sleep with me and move on to the next
sap...sorry I don't think so. Leave."
"But baby.."
"I'm NOT your baby and I'm not some little muggle slut either!"
"Muggle wha?"
"Nothing nevermind. You should leave now before I get angry."
He was going to try again but stopped and turned back to the club when
he saw her furious glare.
As soon as he was gone she turned her back to the club and faced the
tree. The furious glare melted into a long sad frown.
She kicked the tree then full of anger yet again.
"Why?" she screamed to the sky.
Severus was in shock. What did all this mean? That boy would have just
used her and left as he said. But why all the anger?
Then the tears came. They slowly rolled down her cheeks and she began
to sob as she dropped to her knees.
Severus couldn't stop a pang of hurt inside of him. What could have
happened to her to make her this way? He suddenly felt
guilty for seeing all of this. Obviously no one was supposed to know
about it. He decided not to tell Dumbledore about her
escapade for he knew there was no rule keeping her from doing it anyway,
and it was mostly his arrogance that wanted to taunt her for mixing her
pureblood with muggles. But he still thought this girl had some alterior
motive like most of the other DADA teachers and he would still keep an
eye on her. He started to turn back when he heard her whisper. He looked
at her face, turned towards the sky, and saw her
whisper the word,"help..".
Suddenly lightning cracked and clouds came from no where and rain fell.
It was as if the sky was crying with her.
