Marcus and Fate waded through the crowds of people, holding hands and attempting to stay close to eachother while they tried to find a seat. Along the way they bumped into a few of Fate's friends and noticed that Robyn was looking halfway between surprised and disgusted. Fate moved herself closer to Robyn. "We have to talk! Meet me outside the Great Hall after dinner is over. You won't believe what happened when I was sitting on the train... I had a long talk with Oliver."
Robyn shuddered. "Oh stop it!" Fate angrily hissed at her Ravenclaw friend, " You fall in love with the boy, sleep with him, and then just refuse to speak to him? If he wasn't just using you the whole time I would be really mad at you. Now just meet me after dinner- I wanna tell you all that's happening, and just so you know- I am going out with Marcus, he asked me on the train. Oh, and what's with you and News alliancing against me? Oh nevermind, I'll just ask Sarah, she's in Slytherin, we'll just have a nice talk." Fate turned and left Robyn who was standing with her mouth gaping open at the news of Fate and Marcus dating.
Fate anxiously marched up to her friend Sarah and sat next to her, Marcus taking the place next to Fate and intimately kissing her neck as she talked to Sarah. "SO what's up with you and Robyn treating me like second class?" Fate asked excitedly.
Sarah looked at Fate and then looked down. "Well, you just were annoying me so I, well, I kinda told Robyn all this stuff you said about her and calling her a whore and stuff and then she was dissing you all the time and yeah, sorry about that.... anywayz.. What's with Marcus Flint, I thought he hated you?"
Fate smiled. It wasn't unusual for Sarah to do that, just forget about whoever she hated and proceed onto new gossip. Fate rolled her eyes slightly and decided to just go along with Sarah's delirious ways of living life and such. "Well, I was on the train, sitting in the compartment all alone when Oliver Wood came in and told me all this stuff about how he was just using Robyn for sex and dissing her and stuff, in that innocent little preppy way, and then all the sudden Marcus storms in and orders him out. Well Marcus and I had a war of words because I was totally gonna have nothing to do with him this year after last year, but then he turned all sweet and scared me and then he went on to tell me that he had a girlfriend last year and he wast hurt by hr and then he wanted me but he knew it would just be rebound so he just went on and screwed some muggle girl and then boom, he was confessing his ultimate and undieing love for me. So, how's goes your life, I mean after you told all those lies about me and then basically tried to sell me out so you could be better friends with Robyn?" Fate smiled and flipped her braided hair, revealing her new red leather choker with a small flame charm and the word ~!~ FATE ~!~ carved into it.
Sarah sat there amazed. "Well, I met this nice guy named Mike during the summer, he's a muggle you see. Oh, and I saw Oliver today and I gotta say, I'm kind of interested. I mean, so what- he used Robyn, who doesn't? Plus, he's damn fine. Will you help convince him that he likes me? He seems to be all friend like with you," Sarah twirled her hair mindlessly around her finger, not bothering to care what anyone else thought.
Fate rolled her eyes for what seemed like the hundredth time to her. She sighed heavily and simply said "I need new friends" and got up, walking away, Marcus close behind her.
She heard Sarah gasp as if she was offended but she honestly didn't give a fuck. She walked along and smiled as the first years filed in and Marcus grabbed her hand. They sat down together near the end and flirted mindlessly as the first years struggled to pay attention to Professor McGonnagell instead of the two of them. Fate happened to look over just in time to notice Oliver staring at the two of them, she suddenly felt bad. She smiled forgivingly at him and waved to him. Then Marcus looked up and smiled at Oliver as well, a rude smile, however. Fate turned to Marcus quickly. "Listen, Oliver is a good friend of mine and he's really nice to me. If you want this to last then I'm afraid your going to have to be a bit nicer to him."
Marcus opened his mouth a little until Fate pushed up his chin.He smiled faintly as 'Malfoy, Draco' was placed in Slytherin and everyone else stood up and cheered. At that moment Marcus leaned in and kissed Fate, deeply and lovingly, slowly moving his tongue into her mouth. She recieved and returned the favour to him as the crowd sat back down. They stopped when the name 'Potter, Harry' was read. The whole school fell silent as the hat was placed upon his head. It was a long and annoying process before he was put in Gryffindor. Fate smiled "Relax boys and ladies! We don't need Potter to have fun! We're Slytherins! Come on now...cheer up!" as few responded she continued on, hoping to raise their spirits a little, "Hey there's a rehearsal of the Sexy Slyths tonight!" Fate smiled as a reaction grew among the male crowd and the members all perked up their ears at the thought of finally showing off their stuff that they had been practicing all summer long.
After the feast Robyn stood outside the doors, waiting impatiently for Fate. Fate swept by holding onto Marcus' hand and giggling with her fellow Slyths. Robyn coughed loudly and Fate turned suddenly. "OH! Right!! Robyn listen, we have to rehearse, you know, bring up the Slytherin morale after that whole Potter fiasco, plus we have to show the first years what it means to be a Slytherin. Sorry, send me an owl, we'll chat later," Fate smiled and moved on with the crowd.
Robyn stood angrily and stormed off...she was mad, she wanted a serious boyfriend, she needed to find Oliver. Robyn smiled as she turned the corner to see Oliver. "Olly! Oh! I've missed you the last few weeks, since we um..confirmed our love.." she trailed off seductively, "but listen I was wondering if you wanted to go up into the Ravenclaw dorms and do it again, a sort of welcome back to Hogwart's thing?" she smiled at him, her gaze penetrating into his soul as she moved her tongue around her mouth.
"Errm, Actually, Robyn..." Oliver turned his head away from her "I've been meaning to dump you for the last few weeks, ever since we've done that..it was horrible, maybe you should see a doctor about that rash, and I just don't think we should have done it" he sighed and walked away from her, smiling as he heard her gasp.
'Just turn it up and turn it on' they finished seductively, wearing their muggle style warm up suits. This year the Slyths had it in the bag. Of course, only the students really knew about the inter house championships. Inside of each house there was a squad which spent countless hours, choregraphing, perfecting, and rehearsing their acts. These acts were based around current songs but the dance moves had to be entirely original. The squad had to of course sing each song themselves, not dance to a recording, which meant that every squad had to be in excellent physical shape in order to be able to do flawless complicatred moves while correctly singing a pop song. This year the Slyths concentrated mainly on Jennifer Lopez songs, which were easier to dance to and even simpler to sing while doing it, since they could alternate the parts when a voice began to grow tired and coarse. The squads traditionally grouped together for special occasions at Hogwarts, such as the Triwizard Tournament, but nothing that big had happened in years, none of the current squads had ever performed school wide. "Alright girls, we're good, and we know it. We've got everything in here, and we don't even need all of the practices we're gonna be doing. However, we have to keep on top of the Gryffindor team, they're gonna think they got it all. But here's the most important thing: a secret new song. A solo actually, and I think we have just the ability to pull this off. It's sort of slow, so the choreography will be hard, but it has to be exact. She smiled and played the backround music and enchanted the words into everyone's hands. The song beautiful by Christina Aguilera played as they sang along. They were fairly good and the whole common room was silent during their first try but without choreography and polishing it wouldn't stand in the grand competitions. The team choreographers set off to work on it and Fate cuddled in with Marcus as Juliet flew in the room. She dropped a thick roll of parchment into Fate's lap and continued on. Fate opened it up, pondering what it could be, after all, all of the people who should be writing her otes and such wouldn't this early in the school year. She smiled as she opened it up. It was the schedule for the competitions this year, and the Slyths had it easy this year. Fate stood up "Guys...we have it so good this year. Our first match is against Hufflepuff and it's the night after our first Quidditch Match" In fact, all of our competitions are nights after Quidditch matches..and we go against Gryffindor midway through, when it really doesn't count for the final rounds.Guys, I know we have this one in the bank...there's no way we can lose it. We've been the best squad for years..this is simple. We got this down, just a new song, maybe two just on case, and we're in" Fate smiled and sat back down with Marcus.
Marcus smiled at Fate as he looked into her eyes. "You know you guys should have some practices with the Quidditch team, maybe Dumbeldore will let you guys work it at our games. You don't need the practices but you might scare the other houses off a little bit"
Fate smiled at him. She knew it would be a risk to perform at the games, letting everyone see what they had, but the could use simpler songs in the games to get the new recrutes used to performing in front of large audiences. Fate yawned and tilted her head. "I suppose it wouldn't hurt us at all. But I'll tell them tomorrow, I'm exhausted now.. I think I'm gonna go upstairs to bed, see ya tomorrow?"
Marcus grinned devilishly. "Well, why don't I come with you...I'm pretty tired too"
"What? We've been going out for what, a day?" Fate raised her eyebrows in astonishment.
"No no no, no, I don't mean, well I want to, but not right now! Unless you want to..but you don't, do you? Of course not..I was just kidding! I just suggested that because we both have to wake up early and well, I can wake you up" Marcus smiled slightly, trying to look innocent.
Fate rolled her eyes. "Alright, but try anything and you and I are done, understand?"
Marcus nodded as Fate led him to her room. Noone really noticed except for a few of the Quidditch players who smiled to eachother. Marcus gave them a thumbs up and continued on with his girlfriend. Fate sighed and went behind a japanese blind and changed into her pygamas, baggy pygama pants that were baby blue and had light blue, white, and light pink glittery stars at the bottom of the legs. The top was a spaghetti strap that was the same shade of blue, but Fate hurridly pulled a sweatshirt over top of her which was bright yellow and had a confused looking monkey on it. "It's so cold down here, I wonder if all the common rooms are down here.." Fate pondered out loud, looking out the window which was under water, since they were submerged in the moat.
Marcus came up behind her and put his arms around her body, sniffing her hair. "Naa, the gryffies wouldn't be caught dead down here, and the Hufflepuffs'd get lost. The Ravenclaws maybe..it's hard to say really" he kissed her neck, she knew what he was trying to do, she could feel what he wanted to do.
"Ready for bed?" Fate spun around hurredly, into his arms further, bringing their faces close together, she noticed that he had already changed, he was wearing only his boxers, she was glad she'd put her hair up, otherwise he would have gotten injured by her long braids as she flung herself around so.
He took her in his arms, trying to be romantic no doubt, and carried her over to her bed, he layed her down and then layed next to her. Facing eachother they kissed, a long, enduring kiss, which Fate figured was to begin sex in his mind, but she was stronger then that. He pulled away and looked in her eyes. She looked back in his eyes. At first you wouldn't know it, but he was handsome. Once you saw past his teeth and that hoarse, ogre like voice he resembled everything she had ever wanted and needed in a man. His eyes penetrated her soul, slowly begging her to take the next step, but she still refused. Marcus now spoke, the first words muttered for a while, but Fate wished she heard other ones. "Fate, I wish that you'd come a little closer to me, maybe let me...come closer to you?"
Fate sat up. "Get out"
Marcus scrambled to get his clothes and looked at her with pleading eyes. "You obviously fell in love with someone else over the summer Marcus" Fate spoke, her words quavering.
He left and she slammed the door shut behind him. As soon as the bang hit her ears she began to cry. She wiped the tears away and walked to her bed, wrapped herself in covers and wept. 'Why can't anyone see who I am?' she thought to herself as she pulled a razor blade from her trunk. She stopped crying and watched the blood run from her wrists. Carefully she put tiny scrapes of cotton and tape over the cuts and put sweat bands with flames embroidered on them over her wrists, he wiped the remaning tears away and looked out the window once more. She sighed deeply and thought about where Gryffindor's common room might be, and who might be waiting up and looking out their window too.
Robyn shuddered. "Oh stop it!" Fate angrily hissed at her Ravenclaw friend, " You fall in love with the boy, sleep with him, and then just refuse to speak to him? If he wasn't just using you the whole time I would be really mad at you. Now just meet me after dinner- I wanna tell you all that's happening, and just so you know- I am going out with Marcus, he asked me on the train. Oh, and what's with you and News alliancing against me? Oh nevermind, I'll just ask Sarah, she's in Slytherin, we'll just have a nice talk." Fate turned and left Robyn who was standing with her mouth gaping open at the news of Fate and Marcus dating.
Fate anxiously marched up to her friend Sarah and sat next to her, Marcus taking the place next to Fate and intimately kissing her neck as she talked to Sarah. "SO what's up with you and Robyn treating me like second class?" Fate asked excitedly.
Sarah looked at Fate and then looked down. "Well, you just were annoying me so I, well, I kinda told Robyn all this stuff you said about her and calling her a whore and stuff and then she was dissing you all the time and yeah, sorry about that.... anywayz.. What's with Marcus Flint, I thought he hated you?"
Fate smiled. It wasn't unusual for Sarah to do that, just forget about whoever she hated and proceed onto new gossip. Fate rolled her eyes slightly and decided to just go along with Sarah's delirious ways of living life and such. "Well, I was on the train, sitting in the compartment all alone when Oliver Wood came in and told me all this stuff about how he was just using Robyn for sex and dissing her and stuff, in that innocent little preppy way, and then all the sudden Marcus storms in and orders him out. Well Marcus and I had a war of words because I was totally gonna have nothing to do with him this year after last year, but then he turned all sweet and scared me and then he went on to tell me that he had a girlfriend last year and he wast hurt by hr and then he wanted me but he knew it would just be rebound so he just went on and screwed some muggle girl and then boom, he was confessing his ultimate and undieing love for me. So, how's goes your life, I mean after you told all those lies about me and then basically tried to sell me out so you could be better friends with Robyn?" Fate smiled and flipped her braided hair, revealing her new red leather choker with a small flame charm and the word ~!~ FATE ~!~ carved into it.
Sarah sat there amazed. "Well, I met this nice guy named Mike during the summer, he's a muggle you see. Oh, and I saw Oliver today and I gotta say, I'm kind of interested. I mean, so what- he used Robyn, who doesn't? Plus, he's damn fine. Will you help convince him that he likes me? He seems to be all friend like with you," Sarah twirled her hair mindlessly around her finger, not bothering to care what anyone else thought.
Fate rolled her eyes for what seemed like the hundredth time to her. She sighed heavily and simply said "I need new friends" and got up, walking away, Marcus close behind her.
She heard Sarah gasp as if she was offended but she honestly didn't give a fuck. She walked along and smiled as the first years filed in and Marcus grabbed her hand. They sat down together near the end and flirted mindlessly as the first years struggled to pay attention to Professor McGonnagell instead of the two of them. Fate happened to look over just in time to notice Oliver staring at the two of them, she suddenly felt bad. She smiled forgivingly at him and waved to him. Then Marcus looked up and smiled at Oliver as well, a rude smile, however. Fate turned to Marcus quickly. "Listen, Oliver is a good friend of mine and he's really nice to me. If you want this to last then I'm afraid your going to have to be a bit nicer to him."
Marcus opened his mouth a little until Fate pushed up his chin.He smiled faintly as 'Malfoy, Draco' was placed in Slytherin and everyone else stood up and cheered. At that moment Marcus leaned in and kissed Fate, deeply and lovingly, slowly moving his tongue into her mouth. She recieved and returned the favour to him as the crowd sat back down. They stopped when the name 'Potter, Harry' was read. The whole school fell silent as the hat was placed upon his head. It was a long and annoying process before he was put in Gryffindor. Fate smiled "Relax boys and ladies! We don't need Potter to have fun! We're Slytherins! Come on now...cheer up!" as few responded she continued on, hoping to raise their spirits a little, "Hey there's a rehearsal of the Sexy Slyths tonight!" Fate smiled as a reaction grew among the male crowd and the members all perked up their ears at the thought of finally showing off their stuff that they had been practicing all summer long.
After the feast Robyn stood outside the doors, waiting impatiently for Fate. Fate swept by holding onto Marcus' hand and giggling with her fellow Slyths. Robyn coughed loudly and Fate turned suddenly. "OH! Right!! Robyn listen, we have to rehearse, you know, bring up the Slytherin morale after that whole Potter fiasco, plus we have to show the first years what it means to be a Slytherin. Sorry, send me an owl, we'll chat later," Fate smiled and moved on with the crowd.
Robyn stood angrily and stormed off...she was mad, she wanted a serious boyfriend, she needed to find Oliver. Robyn smiled as she turned the corner to see Oliver. "Olly! Oh! I've missed you the last few weeks, since we um..confirmed our love.." she trailed off seductively, "but listen I was wondering if you wanted to go up into the Ravenclaw dorms and do it again, a sort of welcome back to Hogwart's thing?" she smiled at him, her gaze penetrating into his soul as she moved her tongue around her mouth.
"Errm, Actually, Robyn..." Oliver turned his head away from her "I've been meaning to dump you for the last few weeks, ever since we've done that..it was horrible, maybe you should see a doctor about that rash, and I just don't think we should have done it" he sighed and walked away from her, smiling as he heard her gasp.
'Just turn it up and turn it on' they finished seductively, wearing their muggle style warm up suits. This year the Slyths had it in the bag. Of course, only the students really knew about the inter house championships. Inside of each house there was a squad which spent countless hours, choregraphing, perfecting, and rehearsing their acts. These acts were based around current songs but the dance moves had to be entirely original. The squad had to of course sing each song themselves, not dance to a recording, which meant that every squad had to be in excellent physical shape in order to be able to do flawless complicatred moves while correctly singing a pop song. This year the Slyths concentrated mainly on Jennifer Lopez songs, which were easier to dance to and even simpler to sing while doing it, since they could alternate the parts when a voice began to grow tired and coarse. The squads traditionally grouped together for special occasions at Hogwarts, such as the Triwizard Tournament, but nothing that big had happened in years, none of the current squads had ever performed school wide. "Alright girls, we're good, and we know it. We've got everything in here, and we don't even need all of the practices we're gonna be doing. However, we have to keep on top of the Gryffindor team, they're gonna think they got it all. But here's the most important thing: a secret new song. A solo actually, and I think we have just the ability to pull this off. It's sort of slow, so the choreography will be hard, but it has to be exact. She smiled and played the backround music and enchanted the words into everyone's hands. The song beautiful by Christina Aguilera played as they sang along. They were fairly good and the whole common room was silent during their first try but without choreography and polishing it wouldn't stand in the grand competitions. The team choreographers set off to work on it and Fate cuddled in with Marcus as Juliet flew in the room. She dropped a thick roll of parchment into Fate's lap and continued on. Fate opened it up, pondering what it could be, after all, all of the people who should be writing her otes and such wouldn't this early in the school year. She smiled as she opened it up. It was the schedule for the competitions this year, and the Slyths had it easy this year. Fate stood up "Guys...we have it so good this year. Our first match is against Hufflepuff and it's the night after our first Quidditch Match" In fact, all of our competitions are nights after Quidditch matches..and we go against Gryffindor midway through, when it really doesn't count for the final rounds.Guys, I know we have this one in the bank...there's no way we can lose it. We've been the best squad for years..this is simple. We got this down, just a new song, maybe two just on case, and we're in" Fate smiled and sat back down with Marcus.
Marcus smiled at Fate as he looked into her eyes. "You know you guys should have some practices with the Quidditch team, maybe Dumbeldore will let you guys work it at our games. You don't need the practices but you might scare the other houses off a little bit"
Fate smiled at him. She knew it would be a risk to perform at the games, letting everyone see what they had, but the could use simpler songs in the games to get the new recrutes used to performing in front of large audiences. Fate yawned and tilted her head. "I suppose it wouldn't hurt us at all. But I'll tell them tomorrow, I'm exhausted now.. I think I'm gonna go upstairs to bed, see ya tomorrow?"
Marcus grinned devilishly. "Well, why don't I come with you...I'm pretty tired too"
"What? We've been going out for what, a day?" Fate raised her eyebrows in astonishment.
"No no no, no, I don't mean, well I want to, but not right now! Unless you want to..but you don't, do you? Of course not..I was just kidding! I just suggested that because we both have to wake up early and well, I can wake you up" Marcus smiled slightly, trying to look innocent.
Fate rolled her eyes. "Alright, but try anything and you and I are done, understand?"
Marcus nodded as Fate led him to her room. Noone really noticed except for a few of the Quidditch players who smiled to eachother. Marcus gave them a thumbs up and continued on with his girlfriend. Fate sighed and went behind a japanese blind and changed into her pygamas, baggy pygama pants that were baby blue and had light blue, white, and light pink glittery stars at the bottom of the legs. The top was a spaghetti strap that was the same shade of blue, but Fate hurridly pulled a sweatshirt over top of her which was bright yellow and had a confused looking monkey on it. "It's so cold down here, I wonder if all the common rooms are down here.." Fate pondered out loud, looking out the window which was under water, since they were submerged in the moat.
Marcus came up behind her and put his arms around her body, sniffing her hair. "Naa, the gryffies wouldn't be caught dead down here, and the Hufflepuffs'd get lost. The Ravenclaws maybe..it's hard to say really" he kissed her neck, she knew what he was trying to do, she could feel what he wanted to do.
"Ready for bed?" Fate spun around hurredly, into his arms further, bringing their faces close together, she noticed that he had already changed, he was wearing only his boxers, she was glad she'd put her hair up, otherwise he would have gotten injured by her long braids as she flung herself around so.
He took her in his arms, trying to be romantic no doubt, and carried her over to her bed, he layed her down and then layed next to her. Facing eachother they kissed, a long, enduring kiss, which Fate figured was to begin sex in his mind, but she was stronger then that. He pulled away and looked in her eyes. She looked back in his eyes. At first you wouldn't know it, but he was handsome. Once you saw past his teeth and that hoarse, ogre like voice he resembled everything she had ever wanted and needed in a man. His eyes penetrated her soul, slowly begging her to take the next step, but she still refused. Marcus now spoke, the first words muttered for a while, but Fate wished she heard other ones. "Fate, I wish that you'd come a little closer to me, maybe let me...come closer to you?"
Fate sat up. "Get out"
Marcus scrambled to get his clothes and looked at her with pleading eyes. "You obviously fell in love with someone else over the summer Marcus" Fate spoke, her words quavering.
He left and she slammed the door shut behind him. As soon as the bang hit her ears she began to cry. She wiped the tears away and walked to her bed, wrapped herself in covers and wept. 'Why can't anyone see who I am?' she thought to herself as she pulled a razor blade from her trunk. She stopped crying and watched the blood run from her wrists. Carefully she put tiny scrapes of cotton and tape over the cuts and put sweat bands with flames embroidered on them over her wrists, he wiped the remaning tears away and looked out the window once more. She sighed deeply and thought about where Gryffindor's common room might be, and who might be waiting up and looking out their window too.