Serena took the package she had been waiting for from Hedwig and quickly finished off her dinner. It was usually unusual to get mail in the evening but Serena desperately needed that package. The groups split up and Serena kissed Draco goodnight missing the glare on Pansy Parkinson's face. Serena sat down in the common room and whizzed throguh the homework he had started just before dinner. As soon as she was done Hermione was still on her second assignment. Serena grabbed the package and opened it.
"Whatcha got there, Princess??" Fred and George said wearing the sweaters their mom made them last year since it was rather chilly in the common room.
"You two are wearing the wrong sweaters." She looked at the twins and they frowned.
"Spoiled our fun!!" They whined. "Besides we already know people will call us Gred and Forge.
"Right.." She said opening the package and another package, and another package and then a bag.
"How many times did Ami wrap that??" Harry asked.
"More than enough.. she wanted to make sure no stuff like last year happen." She opened the bag and inside was a small clear crystal and inside was a guy who went by the name of Tom Riddle.
"Finally you take me away from the human dictionary!!! I thought I would die of boredom!!" came up on the glass and Serena giggled.
"That really wasn't't he reason why I brought you here!!" She said quietly. "Hermione thought maybe you had broken free and well recently there was a BIG silencing spell along with holographic trolls and.."
"Thought I was up to something?? If I were free I'd only kidnap you again lovely!!" Serena blinked as well as Harry.
"In all the time I've known him he never spoke to anyone in such a gentle way." Harry said, Ron and Hermione nodded together.
"Yeah that's the impression I got too. Are you high or something??" Serena asked earning giggles from Hermione and a chuckle from Harry. Tom merely glared at them all.
"DON'T SEND ME TO ANY OF THOSE GIRLS!!!!"
"Why not??" Serena like poking fun at the miniature guy who could only be released through her magic.
"The Blonde talks about guys and PERSONAL girl stuff, the priestess is moody and shakes me up when she's mad. The Encyclopedia tries to teach me muggle things, the Brunette forces me to watch all the muggle stuff on that...Television." He stopped his message for a moment. "The other blonde keeps glaring at me, the littlest keeps looking at me with sad eyes and the other one with the blue hair plays her muggle music for me."
"Fine.." Serena laughed and put him back in the bag. "I guess it gets to a wizard by making him watch soap operas." She shrugged off the stares the others were giving her. "Anyone sneaking out with me later.. me and Draco-chan are going to play some poker with Nearly headless nick and the Bloddy Baron."
"I'm in.." Hermione said earning strange looks as she went up to the girls' dormitory.
"What's that about??" Ron asked.
"She's been hoping someone would ask to the Yule Ball this year and she had asked a guy ahead of time and he told her she was too 'square' and compared her to Vanilla ice cream." Serena said.
"Oh…" Harry said watching Ron scrunch his face up in disgust.
"That wasn't a nice thing to say!!" Ron said. "And I guess I'm going or 'Gred' and 'Forge' will tease me for being 'square'."
"Not tonight.. I still have that essay for McGonagall to finish." Harry said showing his page was still practically empty.
"Ok.. I'll tell you what happened tomorrow then, Harry." She said kissing his cheek and he wiped it off realizing she had her pink lipstick on. "See you Harry!!" She took the invisibility cloak, Uncle Kenji gave to her for doing so well in wizarding school out of her subspace pocket and left him. No one noticed the portriat to the Gryffindor room closing oh so gently. The figure ran until she was at the Slytherin house.
"Serpensortia." She said and the door swung open.
"Where did you go to?? A voice said making her jump.
"Don't do that Malfoy." She said quickly.
"Not my fault you didn't see me." He said going back to his homework. She ran upstairs to her room and saw Pansy Parkinson was pacing aroung the room tearing up anything she could her hands on.
"Why does he insist on staying with that blonde twit. She's aging fast anyway, her hair's already turning gray."
"Actually it's silver."
"I didn't ask for your opinion Leona." Pansy snapped at the first year that shared a room with her. Leona glared and growled at her then went back to staring at a crystal in her hands.. one that was empty. It then began glowing gently.
'Why didn you stay in the future??' Leona thought. 'I came because you were causing my family pain because of my stupid mistake. They can never find out that I let you free and now that there's two of you in the same dimension the future might not happen.'
"I know what I'll do!!!" Pansy finally decided breaking Leona's thoughts. "I'll embarrass her, Mortify her. Make her look bad!! Yes that will do it!! He'll see a side of her he won't like.. not that innocent side and he'll break up with her and he'll be mine!!" She said. "Yeah That's it. The Queen of the world will be queen without him!!"
"How do you plan on doint that?" Leona rolled her eyes know that the two will be together in the future.
"I'll figure out something." Pansy said
*~*~*~*~*~*~
"I can't wait to see Serry again!!" Serena said as the group of friends headed over to Hagrid's class of Magical creatures. Just then they saw the previous students walking away talking about what they learned about hippogriffs from their text book and aboiut rumors from what happened two years ago with a kid getting hurt by one.
"Sounds like a familiar story eh, Malfoy??" Harry elbowed the blonde in the ribs.
"Uh… I have no idea what you're talking about Potter." Draco looked up at the sky and Serena stopped her chatter.
"What did I miss??"
"Two years ago we were able to learn with real hippogriffs. Harry had easily been able to get one to like him. Buckbeak was the name of it. Anyway to be mean as always Draco provoked it into attacking him. He lived up to the injury when in truth he was perfectly fine. We of course couldn't prove that and Draco told his father about it and they were going to put Buckbeak to death." Ron quickly explained.
"And he didn't care??" Serena frowned..
"Nope.. he found it rather amusing." Hermione said as Draco looked at them all horrified. They were only getting him into trouble.
"So I see.. my Draco-chan was a mean old bully who lived off the pain and suffering of others." She glared at the blonde haired kid.
"That was before I met you and you changed my life of course." He said quickly in defense.
"I'll give you that one…" Serena said. "but next time the compliment better be even better!" She siad and he stood there with his mouth open.
"What are you doing Pansy??" A girl asked.
"Shouldn't you be going to Flitwick's class, Leona?? That's what the first years from Slytherin are doing now."
"Nope. We're not in Flitwicks class.. we're out here with McGonagall. One of the kids turnedhis button into a dangerous snake and slithered away and we're trying to find it. Now what are you doing??" Leona asked again watching her mess with the bindings on the medium sized purple dragon.
"Putting my plan into action. Serena looks like one of those Prissy girls who can't stand to be dirty or they'll cry. Since this little thing is so energetic it'll probably push her into the mud puddle over there behind her." Pansy said. "3….2….1..go!!" She let it free and the purple dragon ran full speed at Serena.
"Serena Move!!" Harry pulled his sister out of the way and the dragon plowed right into Draco pushing him in the mud. Everyone merely stood there and giggled when they saw the purple dragon licking his face.
"Serry, get off!!" Serena said and the dragon the tackled her.
"Watch it. She's becomin' slighty playful if yeh know what eh mean."
"More like rough!!" Serena said groaning when Serry began licking her face.
"Tidius!!" Hermione waved her wand and Draco Malfoy was now clean of mud.
"I thought eh tied her up though." Hagrid said.
"Maybe she managed loose. You said it yourself she's becoming 'playful'" Crabbe said.
"Yeah…" Goyle agreed.
"You ok Serena??" Ron asked noticing her gaze off in the direction Serry came from.
"Yeah I'm just fine.." Serena said.
"So what are we learning about today, Hagrid?" Harry asked.
"Unicorns." Hagrid said. "Be with you in just a moment though!" He went to tie Serry up again.
"What were you looking at??" Hermione asked.
"Hmm?"
"You were staring over there really hard." Crabbe said.
"I thought I saw someone." Serena said with a grin. When the others were convinced she chewed on her bottom lip in wonder.
