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Chapter Twenty-Six: The big, bad girl falls.

IDarleen fell onto her knees. She knew she was lost. Suddenly, she got up with an evil look on her face. And to everyone's surprise she said "No. Not yet. I still have one more card left to play."/I

Darleen snapped her fingers and in came Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle restraining...Grace. "Grace!" the voice exclaimed. Darleen smirked.
"Yes. I knew you would care for her. I have a deal for you. You give me my diary back and Grace is freed." Grace shook her head violently and tried to scream. But only muffled sounds came out of her mouth. "Nofe dofe doof if! Jamfs dofe!" Unfortunately for Grace, Darleen managed to understand her.
"So...James Potter. How are you doing? I heard you tried to Kill yourself after we broke up. Poor you, lovestruck by me. Ahh, I didn't mean to be so cold-hearted James. I really didn't you just took it the wrong way."
"So you found out who I am. How clever of you. And if you call it "not meaning to be cold-hearted" that I ran into you critizing me and then tried to kill myself then, you weren't cold-hearted. But in reality my dearest Darleen you were as cold hearted as one could be. Lily warned me about you, Sirius did the same. I should have listened to them. But you know what? Our rough breakup gave me strength to plan this. I have evidence against you. Everyone in this hall knows it and has heard it. Those memories cannot be altered. You are at a dead end Darleen. Give up."
Darleen smiled slyly. "Yes that is true. Everyone heard it. But they are not convinced Potter. At least, not my fellow Slytherins. I am making an offer. Give me the diary, I give you the girl."
The voice laughed. "Darleen my dearest, you are giving yourself away! Why would you try to bribe me if you didn't WANT your diary read aloud? Why did you take someone hostage? You are proving you are cold-hearted and a liar this very instant as you speak."
Darleen trembled with fury. "Dammit Potter! Why do you say that?"
"Because it is true. You didn't answer my question. Why did you take a hostage?"
"Shut up Potter! I won't answer your stupid question."
"I don't think you are in a position to complain Harper."
"What do you mean?"
"Look around you and you will know."
Darleen looked around and saw outrage and fury and rage reflected in every single face in the Great Hall.
"You see Harper, the hall is against you. If you don't answer my question, they'll take care of you. Answer it."
"I heard rumors. Rumors about an uprising against me. I knew I had to protect myself so I kidnapped Grace to barter with. I also wanted a source of information and since she was an old friend of mine and the most vunerable of them, she would be proven useful to me. I gave her a medium-strength truth potion, but she resisted. She told me nothing. I was unable to avoid this. Are you happy Potter?"
"No. Let her go."
"Potter!"
"Don't argue Harper. Don't!"
She turned towards Malfoy and Co. and signaled to release her. They let her go. Grace ran towards Hayley, who hugged her friend and untied her.
"There. I did it. NOW are you happy Potter?"
"I have one last request. I want you to confess."
"NEVER!" she yelled and made a dash for the door, but Sirius and James caught her on time. She struggled to get free.
"Potter let me go!"
"You are no longer speaking to James." said a different voice, a high-pitched voice. A female voice.
"I ask you on behalf of all those you have emotionally wounded to confess."
"I WILL NEVER CONFESS!"
"Then, I will do it for you. I will read from your diary."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"April 17, 1969

Evans Lily is no longer my ally. She is no longer of any help. I have finally disposed her. She went over the limit when she accused me of sabotaging any sort of feelings Paul might have had for her. Well, actually I did sabotage them, I told him she was a good-for-nothing cheater and that she was a really disgusting person. That was enough to place him against her. She had it coming after the Freddie Reale incident in which she told everyone about it. Oh! The shame of a Slytherin dating a MUGGLE! I had to end things with him of course, appearance is more important than feelings. Still, what was said, was said and making it untrue was hard, so payback was this and oh she has so many other things coming at her. Her life will become impossible."
A series of murmurs erupted throughout the outraged crowd.
"So Lily Evans told the truth 4 years ago. I can't believe we were tricked!"
The voice spoke again.
"Hear them Darleen. Listen to them. You have confessed. You swore to make my life miserable 4 years ago, and you succeeded until last May. Now, I swore I would prevent that anyone else would get hurt by your lies and needs. I have payed my debt to you. This is the real end of what once were 7 years of friendship. Frienship you didn't really value and threw out the window 4 years ago. The big, bad girl has finally fallen."
"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


A/N: Hello! Ppl were starting to nag me to post it ***cough***abbzdaaz***cough*** since I had it written, so I did. I was gonna post it anyways. I have only one more chapter **sniff**. Hope ya liked it! Thanks 4 the WONDERFUL reviews.

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