Seven Futures, One Destiny
by: Harrison and The Cow Chain
Chapter Four: Jealousy, Treachery, and an Unbreakable Bond.
Everyone just kind of stared out into space for a moment. And Aerial, bless her soul, had a look of death on her face as she too ran out of the building. Hermione and Zac exchanged glances, as Harry patted the owl, and Ron finished off his 3rd butterbeer. They all stood. " C'mon Zac." Hermione said with a sad tone, taking his hand and leading him out of the pub. " It's best that there left alone for awhile." she said, and they all left, walking into different shops.
**** Aerial looked everywhere for Draco, finally finding him on the outer parts of the village near the Shrieking Shack. She saw him walking up the hill and then seat himself under a willow tree.
She walked in its direction.
****
The gang had now seperated. Harry and Ron had gotten bored with Zac and Hermione lagging behind in the group, so they left them completely, going off to do what they wanted without being bothered by them. Honestly, Zac and Hermione could've cared less. They were having fun by themselves. Eating candy, laughing, and buying wizarding toys from the joke shop. They stopped in a wizard shop so Hermione could pick up a book order that had come in for her. Together they walked inside, and were greeted by none other that Viktor Krum.
" Victor?!" Hermione squealed as she ran up and hugged him.
Zac merely scowled and dragged behind. He wasn't a fan of Krum. In fact, he hated him. After hearing all those stories about the Yule Ball, and trips to Romania, he had grown to despise even the mere name of the guy.
" Her-my-own-ninny?!" Krum said, and Zac didn't even try to hold in his laughter. Hermione and Krum talked a bit,with each minute, Zac grew more and more jealous. And he seriously wanted Krum to leave. And when he did he was more than relieved. With a kiss on the cheek, and wave of hands, Victor Krum dissappeared from the shop.
Zac exploded.
" What the HELL was that about?" he thundered. Hermione looked shocked.
" What was WHAT about?" she said, truthfully cluless.
" Th-THAT! That Krum thing!! You kissed him!!" Zac yelled, his face getting red.
Hermione chuckled. Now she understood. Zac was jealous. " I don't like him, Zac!" she said. " You do know that, right?" " I know know alot of things. " He scoffed. " But I'm not so sure whether you do or not! You sure as hell acted like you did!"
" Oh shut up you!" Hermione teased. And before Zac could say anymore..
Hermione kissed him.
**** Draco sat. Alone and confused underneath the willow tree with his eyes closed. He heard soft footsteps and knew right away that it was Aerial. He didn't want to talk to her. Didn't want her to know that his father was a monster, that was now ruining his life more than ever, by trying to stop him from seeing her. How could he tell her? Of course she had heard the letter, she was there!
" Go away." He said coldy. Malfoy figured, that if he hurt her feelings, she'd never want to talk to her again, and that he wouldn't have to worry about it anymore. But she didn't go away, he saw. She stood before him with a fixed expression on her face. An expression of pain, and sadness, and confusion. Down in her palm, crumpled but noticeable, sat that damned letter that his father had written.
" How does he know about any of this?" she asked, her voice cracky. She was going to cry. He knew it.
" He knows everything." Malfoy spat, standing to his feet. " He has sources all over the place, watching every move I make. I should've known he would do something like this"
Aerial sighed. Was Malfoy really going to listen to the letter?
" Malfoy.." she said softly, walking slowly toward him with an outstretched hand. " Please."
" No!" Malfoy screamed, backing away. " Just shut up, Aerial! I can't see you anymore! Don't you get it? Leave me alone!" He was screaming at the top of his lungs.
" Draco, stop it!" Aerial screamed back, now crying. " You don't know what your saying! Stop it, please!" She pleaded through sobs, as she walked up to him and touched his shoulder. He flinched and grabbed her by the wrists hard.
" I can't see you anymore Aerial! If I do he'll kill you! He'll kill us both!!" He hissed into her ear as his grip tightened painfully. She winced, but didn't stop looking him in the eyes.
" I don't care." she said in a whisper. " I don't care! He can torture me until eternity but he won't take you away from me! He won't..." Aerial layed her head on Draco's shoulder and he pulled her into a tight hug, holding her head with his hand and stroking her head.
" We'll think of something.." He said softly, as he held her and kissed her head.
***** ::FlashBack::
She kissed him. It re-played in his mind as they broke apart.
"Ummm well.." Was all Zac could get out, "Yeah.....that was fun." he added.
"Should we continue?" And thats what they did.
Draco and Aerial were doing the same thing. It was the only thing they could do to keep their minds off what Draco's father had said.
"Hey! Harry, wait up!" Came the voice of Cho Chang.
"Hi!" he replied, "What are you doing?"
"Nothing."
"Wanna go walking with me?"
"Ok!" And so it was. Everyone was paired up and alone. Zac and Hermione were under a tree near the book store, Draco and Aerial were on the hill, Ron and Lavender were walking around and so were Harry and Cho. Kaiya disapeared into the far reaches of the world to be with her true love, Good Charlotte.
*********
Somehow by a miraculous act of Merlin, everyone found there way back to each other. Hermione, Zac, Aerial, Draco, Harry, Ron and now Lavender all walked back towards Hogwarts, a friendly air around them all. Even though each person were secretly battling powerful emotions inside, outwardly everyone looked happy. Even Draco, who had previously been grief stricken by his fathers letter, talked happily to everyone as they all passed around the lake. They all chatted about what had happened at Hogsmeade, until something shot out of the lake.
THE GIANT SQUID!
" Is this for real?!" Aerial squealed as she and Hermione ran up to the edge of the lake in girlish awe. " It's so cute!"
" It's CUTE?!" Ron said in disgust, " How can that..that..slimy 10 legged son-of-a-sea urchin be CUTE! Right, Lavender?" He said, turning to nothing. Up ahead, Lavender was down beside Aerial and Hermione, giggling away about the cuteness of the squid.
" Weird.." Zac said to Harry and the others as the Giant Squid floated over and made loud growling noises.
" Aww..it's purring!" Hermione said, while outstrecting her hand to pet one of its long tenticles. " Isn't it amazing?!"
Zac snatched her hand before it reached the unsightly arm, " Yeah, real cute. C'mon Hermione.. I don't think that was purring you heard." he said sternly as he pulled her to her feet. Hermione pouted but consented. Aerial frowned.
" Aww!! Do we have to leave?! It's just about to the shore!!" she made a puppy dog face at Draco, who stood solid as a statue.
" That trick doesn't work on me." He said flatly.
" Oh but I bet this does.." Aerial said smirkily as she kneed him in the jewels playfully and pranced off. Draco fell in the grass and made a noise.
Lavender was dragged off by Ron, and Harry wavered in the background, laughing hysterically at the sight of a helpless Draco. You could say he was somewhat enjoying Draco's suffering.
Together they all walked up the castle steps and turned to face the lake. With a loud roar, the giant squid lashed out with its many arms and dove underneath the surface with an angry growl.
" So much for being cute." Aerial said under her breath as they walked inside.
As everyone made their way to dinner, love had filled the air around them. Well, for the gang it did. Harry, Ron, Zach, and Draco raced to their seats, where Zac landed and shouted, "HARRISON AND THE COW CHAIN!!!!!" which made the whole hall die out laughing. Dumbledore, himself, could not hold back either.
"Zac!!!" Hermione hit him in the ribs, "Your gonna get us in trouble!" And he just replied with a simple, "Yeah, but we can get in trouble together!" He then started eatting his meal.
Dumbledore stood up, which meant he was about to say something. "Due to the fact that last year's dance was good, there will be another in one this week called The Welcome Back Dance. Every year is able to come, but you must have a date. There is a mega new song I wish to hear, and Zac Cloninger, no more shouting out Harrison and The Cow Chain."
And with that, Dumbledore sat down and everyone went back to eating. This time, Aerial was the one to laugh out loud.
"What is so funny?" Draco and Harry asked at the same time. Then she pointed to Colin Creevy, who was taking their pictures as if they were all models.
The gang sat eating their meal until something strange happened. Suddenly everyone at the gangs table lifted out of their seats and started breakdancing on top of the table.
" I can't stop!!" Hermione died out laughing as her robe shot up, flashing several people.
Zac saw and shouted, " Shabam!" and tried to breakdance over to her but he fell off the table and spun in his back.
" WHAT THE HELL did we drink?!?!" Aerial said as she flipped backwards and ran into Harry who was spinning on his head.
" I DUNNO! probably some spell!" he yelled.
Draco did the worm down the table and busted his ass on a goblet. Hermione fell off the table and onto Zac, who suddenly stopping break dancing. Dumbledore and the whole school stared at the scene with raised eyebrows. He stood to his feet yelled, " JOUST ME KING TELEPH!" and everyone stopped. The gang flipped the Slytherin table off and sat back in their seats.
" HELL YES!" they all said in unison. Everyone around them stared. " BREWSKIES!" Zac said as he threw his goblet into the air and caught it.
As Zac caught his goblet, he grabbed Hermione and cried out: "AT THE CRACK OF DAWN, WE UNLEASH THE POWER OF BREWSKIES AND LOVE!!" Dumbledore then said dinner was over. He also told Zac to see him in his office after dinner. So, after dinner, Zac headed to Dumbledore's office.
Everyone else went to the Gryfinndor Common Room. Even Draco went. They all wondered what was going on in that office. Was it fighting? Was it saddness? Or was it
.....Brewskies?
Dumbledore explained to Zach, that he needed to calm down some,not outburst like that. But Zac just told him that's what he does sometimes,that the breakdancing thing was something no one could explain. Dumbledore said that, yes, it was alright to do that, but if it continued to happen more and more, he could get expelled. Zac walked out of Dumbledore's office and went to the Common Room, where he was due to the break of dawn.
Everyone stayed up that night, partying and playing games!! Hermione had put a sound barrier spell around the gryfindoor common room so that they could be as loud as they wanted and no one would hear. The gang sat in a circle playing truth or dare.
" I got the greatest dare!!" Aerial shouted happily as she jumped out of her seat on the floor.
" WHAT!?" Everyone yelled.
Aerial gave them all a look, and stared back at her cousin Zac.
" Ohh..you'll see." And then she laughed.
Zac gulped, Hermione blushed, and Harry and the others just sat clueless. It was zac's turn to be dared.
" Well Zac? Ready to accept your end?" Aerial said to her cousin as he growled.
" Don't shit a brick! Nothing you dare me will be my "end" Zac said with a laugh as he chose dare. Aerial laughed too.
" I dare you to makeout with Hermione IN THE BROOMCLOSET for 15 minutes!" she shouted.
Everyone fell over.
But Zac had a mighty grin on his face. * BREWSKIES!* he thought. * MY staff shall ignite the darkness as I enter the closet of love!!* and he looked at Hermione. Her face was red!!
" Well, you heard her." Zac said as he pulled her off to the closet.
As the door shut behind them, Harry began keeping time.
" WHOOO!!" Aerial yelled as she jumped into Draco's lap. " This is gonna be fun!!"
by: Harrison and The Cow Chain
Chapter Four: Jealousy, Treachery, and an Unbreakable Bond.
Everyone just kind of stared out into space for a moment. And Aerial, bless her soul, had a look of death on her face as she too ran out of the building. Hermione and Zac exchanged glances, as Harry patted the owl, and Ron finished off his 3rd butterbeer. They all stood. " C'mon Zac." Hermione said with a sad tone, taking his hand and leading him out of the pub. " It's best that there left alone for awhile." she said, and they all left, walking into different shops.
**** Aerial looked everywhere for Draco, finally finding him on the outer parts of the village near the Shrieking Shack. She saw him walking up the hill and then seat himself under a willow tree.
She walked in its direction.
****
The gang had now seperated. Harry and Ron had gotten bored with Zac and Hermione lagging behind in the group, so they left them completely, going off to do what they wanted without being bothered by them. Honestly, Zac and Hermione could've cared less. They were having fun by themselves. Eating candy, laughing, and buying wizarding toys from the joke shop. They stopped in a wizard shop so Hermione could pick up a book order that had come in for her. Together they walked inside, and were greeted by none other that Viktor Krum.
" Victor?!" Hermione squealed as she ran up and hugged him.
Zac merely scowled and dragged behind. He wasn't a fan of Krum. In fact, he hated him. After hearing all those stories about the Yule Ball, and trips to Romania, he had grown to despise even the mere name of the guy.
" Her-my-own-ninny?!" Krum said, and Zac didn't even try to hold in his laughter. Hermione and Krum talked a bit,with each minute, Zac grew more and more jealous. And he seriously wanted Krum to leave. And when he did he was more than relieved. With a kiss on the cheek, and wave of hands, Victor Krum dissappeared from the shop.
Zac exploded.
" What the HELL was that about?" he thundered. Hermione looked shocked.
" What was WHAT about?" she said, truthfully cluless.
" Th-THAT! That Krum thing!! You kissed him!!" Zac yelled, his face getting red.
Hermione chuckled. Now she understood. Zac was jealous. " I don't like him, Zac!" she said. " You do know that, right?" " I know know alot of things. " He scoffed. " But I'm not so sure whether you do or not! You sure as hell acted like you did!"
" Oh shut up you!" Hermione teased. And before Zac could say anymore..
Hermione kissed him.
**** Draco sat. Alone and confused underneath the willow tree with his eyes closed. He heard soft footsteps and knew right away that it was Aerial. He didn't want to talk to her. Didn't want her to know that his father was a monster, that was now ruining his life more than ever, by trying to stop him from seeing her. How could he tell her? Of course she had heard the letter, she was there!
" Go away." He said coldy. Malfoy figured, that if he hurt her feelings, she'd never want to talk to her again, and that he wouldn't have to worry about it anymore. But she didn't go away, he saw. She stood before him with a fixed expression on her face. An expression of pain, and sadness, and confusion. Down in her palm, crumpled but noticeable, sat that damned letter that his father had written.
" How does he know about any of this?" she asked, her voice cracky. She was going to cry. He knew it.
" He knows everything." Malfoy spat, standing to his feet. " He has sources all over the place, watching every move I make. I should've known he would do something like this"
Aerial sighed. Was Malfoy really going to listen to the letter?
" Malfoy.." she said softly, walking slowly toward him with an outstretched hand. " Please."
" No!" Malfoy screamed, backing away. " Just shut up, Aerial! I can't see you anymore! Don't you get it? Leave me alone!" He was screaming at the top of his lungs.
" Draco, stop it!" Aerial screamed back, now crying. " You don't know what your saying! Stop it, please!" She pleaded through sobs, as she walked up to him and touched his shoulder. He flinched and grabbed her by the wrists hard.
" I can't see you anymore Aerial! If I do he'll kill you! He'll kill us both!!" He hissed into her ear as his grip tightened painfully. She winced, but didn't stop looking him in the eyes.
" I don't care." she said in a whisper. " I don't care! He can torture me until eternity but he won't take you away from me! He won't..." Aerial layed her head on Draco's shoulder and he pulled her into a tight hug, holding her head with his hand and stroking her head.
" We'll think of something.." He said softly, as he held her and kissed her head.
***** ::FlashBack::
She kissed him. It re-played in his mind as they broke apart.
"Ummm well.." Was all Zac could get out, "Yeah.....that was fun." he added.
"Should we continue?" And thats what they did.
Draco and Aerial were doing the same thing. It was the only thing they could do to keep their minds off what Draco's father had said.
"Hey! Harry, wait up!" Came the voice of Cho Chang.
"Hi!" he replied, "What are you doing?"
"Nothing."
"Wanna go walking with me?"
"Ok!" And so it was. Everyone was paired up and alone. Zac and Hermione were under a tree near the book store, Draco and Aerial were on the hill, Ron and Lavender were walking around and so were Harry and Cho. Kaiya disapeared into the far reaches of the world to be with her true love, Good Charlotte.
*********
Somehow by a miraculous act of Merlin, everyone found there way back to each other. Hermione, Zac, Aerial, Draco, Harry, Ron and now Lavender all walked back towards Hogwarts, a friendly air around them all. Even though each person were secretly battling powerful emotions inside, outwardly everyone looked happy. Even Draco, who had previously been grief stricken by his fathers letter, talked happily to everyone as they all passed around the lake. They all chatted about what had happened at Hogsmeade, until something shot out of the lake.
THE GIANT SQUID!
" Is this for real?!" Aerial squealed as she and Hermione ran up to the edge of the lake in girlish awe. " It's so cute!"
" It's CUTE?!" Ron said in disgust, " How can that..that..slimy 10 legged son-of-a-sea urchin be CUTE! Right, Lavender?" He said, turning to nothing. Up ahead, Lavender was down beside Aerial and Hermione, giggling away about the cuteness of the squid.
" Weird.." Zac said to Harry and the others as the Giant Squid floated over and made loud growling noises.
" Aww..it's purring!" Hermione said, while outstrecting her hand to pet one of its long tenticles. " Isn't it amazing?!"
Zac snatched her hand before it reached the unsightly arm, " Yeah, real cute. C'mon Hermione.. I don't think that was purring you heard." he said sternly as he pulled her to her feet. Hermione pouted but consented. Aerial frowned.
" Aww!! Do we have to leave?! It's just about to the shore!!" she made a puppy dog face at Draco, who stood solid as a statue.
" That trick doesn't work on me." He said flatly.
" Oh but I bet this does.." Aerial said smirkily as she kneed him in the jewels playfully and pranced off. Draco fell in the grass and made a noise.
Lavender was dragged off by Ron, and Harry wavered in the background, laughing hysterically at the sight of a helpless Draco. You could say he was somewhat enjoying Draco's suffering.
Together they all walked up the castle steps and turned to face the lake. With a loud roar, the giant squid lashed out with its many arms and dove underneath the surface with an angry growl.
" So much for being cute." Aerial said under her breath as they walked inside.
As everyone made their way to dinner, love had filled the air around them. Well, for the gang it did. Harry, Ron, Zach, and Draco raced to their seats, where Zac landed and shouted, "HARRISON AND THE COW CHAIN!!!!!" which made the whole hall die out laughing. Dumbledore, himself, could not hold back either.
"Zac!!!" Hermione hit him in the ribs, "Your gonna get us in trouble!" And he just replied with a simple, "Yeah, but we can get in trouble together!" He then started eatting his meal.
Dumbledore stood up, which meant he was about to say something. "Due to the fact that last year's dance was good, there will be another in one this week called The Welcome Back Dance. Every year is able to come, but you must have a date. There is a mega new song I wish to hear, and Zac Cloninger, no more shouting out Harrison and The Cow Chain."
And with that, Dumbledore sat down and everyone went back to eating. This time, Aerial was the one to laugh out loud.
"What is so funny?" Draco and Harry asked at the same time. Then she pointed to Colin Creevy, who was taking their pictures as if they were all models.
The gang sat eating their meal until something strange happened. Suddenly everyone at the gangs table lifted out of their seats and started breakdancing on top of the table.
" I can't stop!!" Hermione died out laughing as her robe shot up, flashing several people.
Zac saw and shouted, " Shabam!" and tried to breakdance over to her but he fell off the table and spun in his back.
" WHAT THE HELL did we drink?!?!" Aerial said as she flipped backwards and ran into Harry who was spinning on his head.
" I DUNNO! probably some spell!" he yelled.
Draco did the worm down the table and busted his ass on a goblet. Hermione fell off the table and onto Zac, who suddenly stopping break dancing. Dumbledore and the whole school stared at the scene with raised eyebrows. He stood to his feet yelled, " JOUST ME KING TELEPH!" and everyone stopped. The gang flipped the Slytherin table off and sat back in their seats.
" HELL YES!" they all said in unison. Everyone around them stared. " BREWSKIES!" Zac said as he threw his goblet into the air and caught it.
As Zac caught his goblet, he grabbed Hermione and cried out: "AT THE CRACK OF DAWN, WE UNLEASH THE POWER OF BREWSKIES AND LOVE!!" Dumbledore then said dinner was over. He also told Zac to see him in his office after dinner. So, after dinner, Zac headed to Dumbledore's office.
Everyone else went to the Gryfinndor Common Room. Even Draco went. They all wondered what was going on in that office. Was it fighting? Was it saddness? Or was it
.....Brewskies?
Dumbledore explained to Zach, that he needed to calm down some,not outburst like that. But Zac just told him that's what he does sometimes,that the breakdancing thing was something no one could explain. Dumbledore said that, yes, it was alright to do that, but if it continued to happen more and more, he could get expelled. Zac walked out of Dumbledore's office and went to the Common Room, where he was due to the break of dawn.
Everyone stayed up that night, partying and playing games!! Hermione had put a sound barrier spell around the gryfindoor common room so that they could be as loud as they wanted and no one would hear. The gang sat in a circle playing truth or dare.
" I got the greatest dare!!" Aerial shouted happily as she jumped out of her seat on the floor.
" WHAT!?" Everyone yelled.
Aerial gave them all a look, and stared back at her cousin Zac.
" Ohh..you'll see." And then she laughed.
Zac gulped, Hermione blushed, and Harry and the others just sat clueless. It was zac's turn to be dared.
" Well Zac? Ready to accept your end?" Aerial said to her cousin as he growled.
" Don't shit a brick! Nothing you dare me will be my "end" Zac said with a laugh as he chose dare. Aerial laughed too.
" I dare you to makeout with Hermione IN THE BROOMCLOSET for 15 minutes!" she shouted.
Everyone fell over.
But Zac had a mighty grin on his face. * BREWSKIES!* he thought. * MY staff shall ignite the darkness as I enter the closet of love!!* and he looked at Hermione. Her face was red!!
" Well, you heard her." Zac said as he pulled her off to the closet.
As the door shut behind them, Harry began keeping time.
" WHOOO!!" Aerial yelled as she jumped into Draco's lap. " This is gonna be fun!!"
