Reviving the Past

By Test of Faith

Rated: PG-13

Chapter 3

Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville or it's people. I do own Kat, Tess, and anyone having to do with the Assembly, also the plot, I don't own Sirius or anything having to do with Harry Potter, those rights go to J. K. Rowling, Scholastic book company, and a bunch of other people I don't know.

Spoilers: Obscura

A/N: hmm…nothing to say to you today…to bored to say anything…'cept I'm grateful for my wonderful reviews…and that once again…I'm basically taking all Japanese in this chapter from a Japanese Reference Dictionary…and Lana may seem a little OOC, but it's only cause I've never seen her not like anyone.

"Class, I would like you to welcome our newest student, Katrina Blackwing," a young female teacher with short mousy brown hair said as Kat stood in front of her new homeroom class. "Katrina, there's an empty seat next to Chloe that you can sit in."

"Hello," a few lone students said dully, the rest just taking in her dark look.

Her black hair (done up in the oriental sticks that people use for their hair), her black leather trench-like-coat, black pants, black T-shirt, and black leather high-heeled army style boots didn't seem too friendly looking. A few even thought that they should keep an eye on her, the dark look didn't seem to go over too well with those few.

"All right," Kat said turning to look at the class, seeming to analyze it quickly, before taking her seat next to Chloe, amazingly not taking any of the other empty seats scattered around the room by other girls.

"Hi, my name's Chloe Sullivan," Chloe said before glancing up from her notebook holding out a hand, the instant she saw Kat, her eyes went big and her mouth stopped just before it closed all the way. "Kat?"

"Chloe?" Kat whispered, her face about the same as Chloe's, within seconds she had caught herself and gone into smile mode. "Watashi kangae anata sumu iru…" [I thought you live in…]

"Metropolis, yeah, I moved in eighth grade," Chloe told her, receiving a somewhat blank look. "That would have been my third year, if I had stayed with the institute."

"Right, the way the years are set up confuses me greatly, Tess had to set everything up ahead of time for me," Kat confessed changing back to English with a small laugh.

"I have second period free, what'd you have?" Chloe asked slipping her stuff into her bag. "My first period is a writing class."

"Same here, see," Kat handed Chloe her schedule.

"Wow, you have most of my classes," she told her just as the teacher was telling the class to have a good day as they rushed off to their first class. "You can come help me with the Torch, if you want."

"I'd love to," Kat smiled standing up and following Chloe off to their first period class.

"Someone's coming," Kat whispered, just before Clark walked in.

"Good job with the warning," Chloe laughed as she continued with her work "Hey Clark."

She didn't glancg up to see Clark's confused face at the sight of Kat sitting in one of the chairs snacking on Cheez-It Snack Crackers and drinking a can of soda, while Chloe worked on the latest issue of the Torch.

"Hey Chloe. Hey, Kat, I've been looking for you all over," Clark said receiving only a flash of a half-smile from Kat, who didn't really even look up at him. "You guys know each other?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah, we went to boarding school together in sixth grade," Chloe quickly explained as Clark sat down at a nearby desk.

"Yup, Chloe and I've been catching up," Kat said finally looking up, a broad smile on her face now. "Talking 'bout boyfriends and crushes."

"You never did tell me his name," Chloe realized suddenly. "That guy you said you were going out with."

"Yeah, I'll have to get back to you later about that," Kat mumbled. Then, louder, she asked, "Have you been getting the Daily Prophet lately?"

"Delivered here daily," Chloe replied pointing to a pile of newspapers hidden in a corner.

"Is it safe to store such things here?" Kat asked walking over and flipping through one of the older ones near the bottom, whose pages were slightly wrinkled and had moving pictures of people dressed in robes and witch's hats.

"They help me understand the wall of weird a little better," Chloe said nodding to the wall. "And it's one of my last connections to that world."

"Hmm. So many people, oh, there I am, way up at the top," Kat muttered to herself, brining a chair over and stepping up on it to see the article better. "And a recent one too, last spring, pretty good."

Slowly she began to read it aloud, now pacing the room in a strange state of concentration, the article gripped firmly in her hand.

NEWEST WITCH ON THE FASHION SCENE

Recently, Miss Katrina Rosewood released her latest fashion line of sensational robes for the modern-day witch. She is said to be coming out with a new line of robes for the modern wizard, though when this line will be released, no one has any idea. Though her newest line has hit stores in Paris, Japan, and Spain, you shouldn't expect to see it here in England till May. Also, don't miss the revealing of her summer line on June 27, at the Blackwing Ballrooms. Any witch who's any witch will be there ready and waiting to send out for their own Rosewood robes.

Miss Rosewood is a widely renowned member of the Assembly, the newest and youngest executive of Black Riddle, Inc, and one of the top fashion designers in the way of woman's robes. The Assembly is known for it's wonderful work in improving both the muggle and magical world in many ways. Miss Rosewood's high position set her in the right circles for getting her robes sold globally. She is known for working alongside Tess Blackwing, the owner of the Blackwing Ballrooms, in developing new ways of growing many plants used in many potions.

She has also been found to be the multi-powered witch chosen to inherit You-Know-Who's millions and millions. Though many find this a major turn-off, she has promised that she will make sure that the money will not go to the dark things that You-Know-Who had most likely hoped it would be put to.

"Good, they didn't have Rita Skeeter write the article, she would have made it sound like I was having a scandalous affair or something incorrect like that," Kat exclaimed with a laugh. "Though it most likely already is, and I'm just totally oblivious. I mean really, the source of the inheritance alone."

The smile on her face disproved any notion that she thought the source of her millions scandalous, more of an amusement than anything else.

"So, when will I get to see this spring line?" Chloe asked pulling several pages of newspaper out of one of the filing cabinets. "These pictures don't really show the robes to well."

"Forget the spring line, I've got a great Halloween line almost complete," Kat said waving it off. "So, why is that on your wall of weird? It doesn't seem so weird to me."

"So what was boarding school like?" Clark asked noticing that Chloe didn't seem to want to answer that question.

"Which one?" Kat asked walking over to Clark, tossing the article, which had been accompanied by a picture of her working on a fiery red robe, onto the desk in front of him and taking her seat across the room again. Then, as if out of a brief daze, she said shaking her head, "Oh, right, sorry. It was all right."

"All right?" Chloe asked in disbelief. "The place was huge, and it was lots of fun. The library alone…"

"The only thing missing was a school newspaper," Kat laughed. "Lorelei owled me sometime in third year, she said that they were starting up their own school newspaper, had gotten the idea from Bara Hana Akadeī [Rose Blossom Academy] in Japan, which had a wonderful newspaper set up when I was there in second year."

"So, how's it going?" Chloe asked, wondering how well the dysfunctional group of kids that had wanted to start a school newspaper, when she was there, was doing.

"Awful, they have no idea what they're doing, Kiki owled me last year to ask what happened to you, after second year. Why didn't you send me an owl?" Kat asked.

"After what happened at the end of second year, dad was kind of worried and took me out," Chloe explained quickly. "He made sure I wouldn't get in contact with people from, you know, that world."

"You know you could have borrowed an owl from Lex, he wouldn't have minded," Kat informed Chloe.

"You mean he's a…" Chloe started to say, but didn't finish as she remembered that Clark was still in the room. "I forgot."

"Yes, lots of people in this town are, you just can't sense it because of the meteor rocks," Kat told her, refraining from actually saying what the people actually were. "The meteor rocks have a lot of power in them, just muggles can't get these powers to work, so they think of the rocks as harmless stones."

"We should probably talk later," Chloe said, just as the bell rang.

"Ok, so where do I go for Mr. Summer's geology class?" Kat asked looking at her schedule.

"I'm going there next, I'll show you where it is," Clark offered.

"Great, I just need to run by my locker and get rid of some things," Kat told him. "It's just across the hall, all right?"

"Yeah, I'll be there in a second," Clark answered as she walked out of the room. Then, to Chloe, he asked, "Mind if I take a look at a few of those newspapers?"

"No, you can take the top few, just don't let anyone get a hold of them, they aren't the kinds of newspapers you'd normally find," Chloe said slinging her bag over her shoulder and handing him several papers.

"Thanks," Clark called before going off to meet Kat, after carefully placing the papers into his backpack.

"Hey, guys," Pete greeted as he met up with Clark, Kat, and Chloe, in the hall after third period. To Kat, he said, "So you're the mysterious new girl in school."

"That's me," Kat replied with a laugh, her English accent only doubled in her laugh. "But I am not mysterious, the only thing that is mysterious is who's going to get on my bad side first."

"Nice to meet you, my name's Pete," Pete answered, falling into step with the group as they headed outside for lunch, it wasn't cold enough to keep them inside, yet.

"Something wrong?" Clark asked, noticing that Kat had slowed down as they neared the doors.

"No," Kat answered somewhat hesitantly, catching herself, and quickly adding, "Nothing's wrong."

"So where are you from?" Pete asked as they started eating their lunches at one of the picnic tables out side.

"The last place I was living was in the country side of England, a very charming old castle," Kat told them.

"So how exactly do you know Chloe?" Pete asked, wanting to know more about the 'non-mysterious' girl.

"When I was eleven, I spent the school year at a boarding school in Salem, Massachusetts, that's how Chloe and I met, there was another girl to our little group, but I haven't heard from here in a long time," Kat answered, a smile playing on her rose-colored lips.

"What was her name?" Clark asked.

"Her name was Lana," Chloe answered. Noticing a questioning look on Clark's face, she continued, "Yes, the Lana here."

"You know her?" Kat asked.

"She goes to school here, also," Chloe informed her. "Without you, we never were really friends."

"Oh, ok," Kat said brushing it off with a shrug of her shoulders.

"So what was boarding school like in England last year, is Professor Dumbledore really as great as they say he is?" Chloe asked.

"Of course, he's even greater than that," laughed Kat. "He and his granddaughter, my aunt Alicia, you remember her right? Well, they put together a masquerade for Christmas, kind of like the Yule ball that was put on during the Triwizard Tournament during forth year."

"Wow, that sounds interesting," Clark said slightly amazed, as Pete also was.

"Yes, the ball was lots of fun, but the rest of the year, was a disaster," Kat replied still smiling lightly. "The next thing I fear, is that I'll be sent to a school in the middle east, or somewhere of the sort next year. Most likely I won't be sent anywhere and will just be brought fully into the company, taking over Tess's spot."

No one had anything to say to this, they were either trying not to be amazed that this seemed like so little to her, or trying not to seem jealous.

"So enough about me, what's it like around here?" Kat asked, a dazzling smile now taking life on her face. "Lex has told me so many wonderful things about the area."

The three friends shared a look, one that each of them understood perfectly, leaving Kat wondering for a few seconds, before Chloe took the liberty of explaining.

"Um, it's not usually a good thing to…um," Chloe tried to explain, but failing miserably, for once almost at a lost for words.

"What she means is that not everyone in this town likes Lex," Clark explained. "So it's not always good to associate yourself with that name."

"She knows exactly what that's like," Lana interjected, sitting down on the few inches of space left next to Clark across from Kat.

"Hello, Lana," Kat greeted with what seemed to be false sincerity.

"Hey, Kat," Lana replied in the same tone.

"Long time," Kat stated, all hints of a smile on her face gone now. "I thought you said your aunt was going to send you to Hogwarts. I was there last year, and no one even knew who you were."

"You were a Slytherin, right?," Lana guessed, in a voice that didn't seem like her at all, fairly indifferent.

"Oh, yes, why wouldn't I be?" Kat answered, a insincere smile on her face.

"Yes, well, I should go, don't wanna bother the new girl too much," Lana smiled, before leaving a surprised group, excluding Kat.

"We never did get along too well," Kat shrugged. "Didn't understand, power doesn't always come from the heart."

The group tried to ignore that little scene, and went on to talk about the Salem Institute. Slowly Kat pulled herself out of the conversation and sat quietly, her skin slowly taking on its normal deathly pale color.

"Kat, are you ok?" Clark asked, noticing how pale she looked.

"Yeah, I'm fine, just a little too much sun I think," Kat replied putting the apple left over from her lunch and putting it into one of the pockets in her backpack.

Bring.

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

Her pager, she could feel it vibrating, luckily she had turned off the sound, no one would hear her hitting the button to clear the message.

Incoming Fax

'Damn,' she thought, knowing that it was something important, but she'd have to wait till the end of the French class, something that seemed never ending to her.

She knew she'd be cursing Tess later for signing her up for French class, when she knew the language perfectly, having gone to school in France for a year.

"Mademoiselle Blackwing," the teacher called, Kat remembered her from homeroom, though considered it a good thing that she had remembered the small mousy woman at all. Then, the teacher continued, in French (A/N: hey, you'll just have to pretend this is in French, my little French book doesn't tell me exactly how to write the sentences in French), "Please read the sentence on the board, and translate it."

"Bonjour, monsieur, comment allez-vous? Hello, sir, how do you do?" Kat read, conversational French, much too simple. Then, in French, she went on to explain how she had known it and spoken it as fluently as her first language, English, though in reality French was her third language, Japanese being her second.

"Hey, Chloe," Clark said, catching up with her at her locker.

"Yeah?" she answered as she continued to put away the books she wouldn't need to do homework from that night, and tucking the ones she would need into her backpack.

"Could I talk to you after school?" Clark asked just before she slammed her locker shut.

"Sure, I have to stay and finish up the next issue of the Torch tonight," she agreed easily.

"Hey, Clark, there you are, I wanted to tell you I'm going over to Lex's place, if you want I can give you a ride home first," Kat offered as she stopped next to him in the hall on the way to her locker.

"Actually, I was gonna stay behind and help Chloe out with the Torch," Clark answered.

"Well, that only makes it easier," Kat laughed. "So what time's a good time to get back?"

"Five is good," Clark replied, pretty sure that it'd be good if she were back for dinner.

"All right," Kat agreed. "Bye till five then."

Before he could reply she had disappeared, even though there wasn't a crowed to disappear into.

"What do we have here?" Kat asked herself aloud, as she pulled about ten different faxes from the fax machine tucked away inside the glove compartment, with many other electronic items stashed away inside also.

Most of them were just different things showing how much money the company had to do this and that, or what other companies were worth, or which companies would be good to take over. Nothing new. Kat stopped suddenly as she was scrolling down the last fax, it was from Tess.

Kat-

Falcon came back this morning, with a message from Rena to me. Gone back to HQ in H,E. You'll be able to handle everything.

-Tess

"Damn, can things get any worse?" Kat whispered.

Of course as things go, they can, and will, only get worse.