A.N: Sorry it took so long for this chapter. I think I might have rushed
through this one, but I like it. Enjoy!
Chapter 5: Beautiful Nightmares
A young girl stood before a tall, gold-framed, mirror. Her reflection had been ghastly as of late. Her usually beautiful brunette hair was now singed and short. Her face was covered in scars and one eye was pure white. She sobbed shortly and covered herself up in a cloak.
Just then, a knock came from the door behind her.
"Come in." the girl whispered.
The door opened and none other than Christian L'Amour stepped in. He looked towards the cloaked girl and said, "Well, how have you been?"
"Don't ask that!" the girl snapped.
"Bad question." Christian laughed. He walked over to the girl's bed and laid on it. He sighed and starred up at the ceiling. "Does Ceradine hate me?" he asked.
"No, I don't." another female voice answered. Christian turned to a dark corner and saw the shadow of a taller woman. He could also make out the demonic wings towering over her.
"Did you find someone yet?" the cloaked girl asked.
"I have." Christian answered shortly.
"Well?!"
Christian got up and glared at the cloaked girl, "Have patience."
"This is all your fault, you know?!"
Christian frowned. He walked back over to the door and opened it. "Forgive me, my love." He whispered. Then he left the room, slamming the door.
The cloaked girl continued to sob.
~*~
"Come on you guys!" Trini said, looking happy for someone who was about to go to detention. "Detention won't be that bad."
Snape and Lucius paused in the middle of the hall. Both gave Trini a look of pure confusion. "Are you mad?" Lucius exclaimed, "We're going to detention! This is taking up our lunch time! What do you mean it won't be that bad?!"
Trini snickered and pulled out a book from her robes. Snape and Lucius looked at the book and read the cover. "101 Pointless but Fun, Maybe Even Cruel, Spells"
"Wasn't that book banned from Hogwarts?" Snape asked, looking worried.
Trini shrugged, "My mother gave it to me for my birthday. We have to stay entertained somehow. Besides, I heard that Gryffindor teacher's pet, Lily, is having detention with us as well. Ugh! I can't stand her."
"You can't stand any Gryffindor." Snape sighed, "You're a Slytherin, and it's in your nature. Anyways, why does Lily have detention? She's like a good girl."
"You know the drill." Trini groaned, rolling her eyes, "She can't spend lunch without her beloved James Potter. So, she skipped a class and bawled her eyes out the whole time. But, I guess it was worth it for her."
"I won't believe this until I see it!" Lucius laughed.
"Believe it." Snape said as the trio stopped again in the middle of the hall. Going into McGonagall's classroom was Sirius, Remus, James, Peter and Lily.
~*~
"Don't even think about it!" McGonagall snapped as she saw all the Gryffindors sit at a table together and the three Slytherin's sit at a table far away from them. "This is detention remember? Black, Malfoy, you two sit at the first table. Now!"
Sirius and Lucius gave each other the death look and went to sit at the first table. McGonagall then made James and Snape sit together, Trini and Lily, the only lucky ones were Remus and Peter.
Lily was silent as she took her seat next to Trini. She kept her head down and starred at the desk, even though she could still feel Trini glaring at her. Trini smirked and looked over to Lucius. She pulled out the book and winked. Lucius returned the smirk then looked over to Snape. He just shook his head.
"I will pick up your work from the potions professor. I don't want to hear a peep!" McGonagall scowled. She hurried out of the room.
"Peep." Sirius chuckled.
"Hey Potter!" Trini snickered, "I think your girlfriend is scared of me!"
James growled and turned to Trini, "Don't you do anything to Lily!"
"Or what?!"
"You'll regret it!"
"You won't touch her!" Lucius growled.
"Guys, Professor McGonagall said not a peep." Peter whined.
"Shove it tubby!" Trini commanded.
"Yes 'mam!" Peter squeaked.
"Don't let Trini push you around!" Sirius hissed as he glared at Trini, "She won't do anything."
"I won't huh?" Trini grinned. Sirius and James glared at Trini as she pulled out her book of pointless spells. Peter looked more worried than ever and Remus seemed to be asleep. Lucius and Snape were urging Trini on.
"What are you going to do?" Lily asked. Her voice sounded gentle, she talked in a soft whisper but you could still hear the fear in her voice.
"Such pretty hair." Trini complimented with a smile.
"Thank you." Lily responded with a squeak.
Trini grinned and flipped through her book. She pulled out her wand and waved it towards Lily while chanting, "You'll be a sticky one with that ABC gum! Take my advice, you might want to wear a hat, but don't look at me like that! Really you act like I'll use a flare. But too bad, you had such nice hair."
There was a snapping sound from Trini's wand. Then the room filled with pink mist. The mist smelt sweet and everyone was enjoying the scent until they heard a scream. The mist cleared immediately and everyone turned to the direction of the screaming.
Lily was running her fingers through a certain spot in her red hair. A huge wad of pink gum was stuck in it and Lily was only getting a little of it tangled in her fingers. James stood up instantly and ran to Lily. Trini, Snape and Lucius were laughing and the other three were just starring in shock.
"Such an old school spell." Lucius said through his laughing, "Wizards only did poetry spells during the Middle Ages, didn't they?"
"Who cares?!" Trini continued to laugh.
"Get it out!" Lily cried.
"You'll pay for this Darksummer!" James promised.
"Serves her right." Trini shrugged.
Sirius growled and walked over to Trini's desk. "What did Lily do to you to deserve this?" he asked.
Trini smiled, "I don't like teacher's pets."
Sirius was silent for a moment. He looked over in Snape's direction then turned back to Trini. He smirked, "Neither do I."
~*~
"I don't understand!" Lucius huffed as he and Severus climbed up the changing stairs, hoping to get to the Slytherin common room in time.
"Understand what?" Snape asked.
"Why we got a week's more detention!" Lucius exclaimed. He threw his books to the floor and blocked Snape's path. "We have to put a stop to Trini. I'm tired of losing points and getting detention."
"Some friend." Snape muttered.
Lucius cocked an eyebrow but decided he didn't want to know what Snape just said. He continued to block his friend's path as he looked up and down at every portrait in the hall. They never interested him before, but he had to think of some excuse to make Snape talk to Trini instead of him.
Then a noise caught Lucius's attention. He jumped and turned to Snape, but he didn't seem to notice. It was swishing sound.
"Is something wrong?" Snape asked.
Lucius opened his mouth until he heard it again. He looked behind Snape and his jaws dropped. He saw a towering shadow on the far wall. It seemed to be a feminine figure with great, towering, demonic wings surrounding her.
Lucius turned to Snape, who looked confused. Lucius smiled and nodded his head, "See ya buddy!" he took off down the hall.
"Hey! You left your books Luc.." Snape sighed as he stopped his own sentence. Lucius was already too far down the hall and into the common room. Snape shook his head and knelt down as he picked up the books Lucius had left behind.
"I wonder what scared him," he said to himself when he was done collecting the books. He turned to the direction Lucius was looking. "nothing there but portraits. Maybe one of the pictures made a face at him or something." Severus shrugged and turned back around to a handsome face starring right back at his.
Severus jumped and dropped the books. He quickly changed his scared expression to an angry one as he went to pick up the books yet again. "What are you doing here Sirius? Following me?"
"I didn't mean to scare you old friend." Sirius responded, sounding nice for once. "I saw you getting ditched by your friend so I decided to see what was up."
"Go ahead, make fun of me. You'll regret it tomorrow." Snape seethed.
Sirius laughed and shook his head, "No, you don't get me. Don't worry, I'm alone too. I just wanted to talk to you."
"About?" Snape said in an annoyed tone.
"I see you spying on Remus once a month. You peer out the window and see him and Dumbledore sneaking off the grounds. Don't look at me like I'm stupid. I see you spying on us.. Err, I mean him." Sirius explained.
"So?"
"Don't you want to know where Remus goes?" Sirius asked.
"What's it to you?!"
"Whoa, calm down man! I just wanted to tell you," Sirius put his arm around Severus's shoulder about this time and went on, "him and Dumbledore are sneaking out again tomorrow night. So, if you want to see what this is all about, sneak out with me, James, and Peter."
"I don't know." Snape said, calming down a little, "How do I know you won't gang up on me once you've taken me far away from the school?"
Sirius smirked, "You have my word." He let go of Snape and headed down the hall. He waved to Snape and called back, "I'll meet you tomorrow at midnight. Unless, you're afraid that is."
Snape clutched his fist with his free hand. "I am not afraid." He whispered.
~*~
Lucius didn't feel the least bit worried about leaving Snape. As long as he was safe everything was okay. He yawned and cuddled up in his blanket and went to sleep before Severus even returned. Not worried about the demonic shadow, not worried about a thing.
He drifted off into a more relaxing land. Lucius found himself in his own castle, walls painted black with numerous paintings around him. People were on their knees, worshipping him and many beautiful women in chains surrounded his throne. Lucius was laughing and being hand fed grapes.
But his laughter soon stopped when we noticed one person was not bowing to him. Angry, Lucius stood up and pointed to the cloaked defiler. The person was pushed through the crowd until it reached Lucius.
"Take off your cloak." Lucius demanded.
"As you wish," a beautiful, but deadly sounding voice came from beneath the hood. Slender fingers pulled the hood down and a trestle of long black hair tumbled down the stranger's back as the whole cloak slid off the person's body.
Lucius starred at the person in shock. The defiler was one of the most beautiful women he has ever seen. She was taller than him, long straight black hair ending at her waist, much of her bangs were covering her left eye. The stranger wore a white tank top and skirt, which was torn up and it barely covered a thing of her well-developed body.
"Wh-Who are you?" Lucius stuttered.
The woman smirked and answered, "Ceradine." Then she wrapped one strong arm around Lucius's neck and pulled him into a rough kiss. Lucius didn't resist and kissed the woman back.
"This is a dream." Lucius thought, as he was filled with so much ecstasy.
"Too bad it is." Ceradine thought to herself, as she could read Lucius's mind. Suddenly, all the pleasure Lucius was feeling turned into pain. It felt like all the air in his body had left him and he couldn't even obtain the power to scream.
All the people and the castle disappeared. It was just Lucius and Ceradine trapped in blackness. Lucius knew he was going to die. He could feel it. "How could I have been so stupid?" he thought to himself.
Then before Lucius could keel over dead, Ceradine let go with a wicked giggle. She backed away from Lucius as he fell to his knees and began coughing and gasping for precious air.
She winked and blew the boy a kiss. "Goodnight." She whispered.
Chapter 5: Beautiful Nightmares
A young girl stood before a tall, gold-framed, mirror. Her reflection had been ghastly as of late. Her usually beautiful brunette hair was now singed and short. Her face was covered in scars and one eye was pure white. She sobbed shortly and covered herself up in a cloak.
Just then, a knock came from the door behind her.
"Come in." the girl whispered.
The door opened and none other than Christian L'Amour stepped in. He looked towards the cloaked girl and said, "Well, how have you been?"
"Don't ask that!" the girl snapped.
"Bad question." Christian laughed. He walked over to the girl's bed and laid on it. He sighed and starred up at the ceiling. "Does Ceradine hate me?" he asked.
"No, I don't." another female voice answered. Christian turned to a dark corner and saw the shadow of a taller woman. He could also make out the demonic wings towering over her.
"Did you find someone yet?" the cloaked girl asked.
"I have." Christian answered shortly.
"Well?!"
Christian got up and glared at the cloaked girl, "Have patience."
"This is all your fault, you know?!"
Christian frowned. He walked back over to the door and opened it. "Forgive me, my love." He whispered. Then he left the room, slamming the door.
The cloaked girl continued to sob.
~*~
"Come on you guys!" Trini said, looking happy for someone who was about to go to detention. "Detention won't be that bad."
Snape and Lucius paused in the middle of the hall. Both gave Trini a look of pure confusion. "Are you mad?" Lucius exclaimed, "We're going to detention! This is taking up our lunch time! What do you mean it won't be that bad?!"
Trini snickered and pulled out a book from her robes. Snape and Lucius looked at the book and read the cover. "101 Pointless but Fun, Maybe Even Cruel, Spells"
"Wasn't that book banned from Hogwarts?" Snape asked, looking worried.
Trini shrugged, "My mother gave it to me for my birthday. We have to stay entertained somehow. Besides, I heard that Gryffindor teacher's pet, Lily, is having detention with us as well. Ugh! I can't stand her."
"You can't stand any Gryffindor." Snape sighed, "You're a Slytherin, and it's in your nature. Anyways, why does Lily have detention? She's like a good girl."
"You know the drill." Trini groaned, rolling her eyes, "She can't spend lunch without her beloved James Potter. So, she skipped a class and bawled her eyes out the whole time. But, I guess it was worth it for her."
"I won't believe this until I see it!" Lucius laughed.
"Believe it." Snape said as the trio stopped again in the middle of the hall. Going into McGonagall's classroom was Sirius, Remus, James, Peter and Lily.
~*~
"Don't even think about it!" McGonagall snapped as she saw all the Gryffindors sit at a table together and the three Slytherin's sit at a table far away from them. "This is detention remember? Black, Malfoy, you two sit at the first table. Now!"
Sirius and Lucius gave each other the death look and went to sit at the first table. McGonagall then made James and Snape sit together, Trini and Lily, the only lucky ones were Remus and Peter.
Lily was silent as she took her seat next to Trini. She kept her head down and starred at the desk, even though she could still feel Trini glaring at her. Trini smirked and looked over to Lucius. She pulled out the book and winked. Lucius returned the smirk then looked over to Snape. He just shook his head.
"I will pick up your work from the potions professor. I don't want to hear a peep!" McGonagall scowled. She hurried out of the room.
"Peep." Sirius chuckled.
"Hey Potter!" Trini snickered, "I think your girlfriend is scared of me!"
James growled and turned to Trini, "Don't you do anything to Lily!"
"Or what?!"
"You'll regret it!"
"You won't touch her!" Lucius growled.
"Guys, Professor McGonagall said not a peep." Peter whined.
"Shove it tubby!" Trini commanded.
"Yes 'mam!" Peter squeaked.
"Don't let Trini push you around!" Sirius hissed as he glared at Trini, "She won't do anything."
"I won't huh?" Trini grinned. Sirius and James glared at Trini as she pulled out her book of pointless spells. Peter looked more worried than ever and Remus seemed to be asleep. Lucius and Snape were urging Trini on.
"What are you going to do?" Lily asked. Her voice sounded gentle, she talked in a soft whisper but you could still hear the fear in her voice.
"Such pretty hair." Trini complimented with a smile.
"Thank you." Lily responded with a squeak.
Trini grinned and flipped through her book. She pulled out her wand and waved it towards Lily while chanting, "You'll be a sticky one with that ABC gum! Take my advice, you might want to wear a hat, but don't look at me like that! Really you act like I'll use a flare. But too bad, you had such nice hair."
There was a snapping sound from Trini's wand. Then the room filled with pink mist. The mist smelt sweet and everyone was enjoying the scent until they heard a scream. The mist cleared immediately and everyone turned to the direction of the screaming.
Lily was running her fingers through a certain spot in her red hair. A huge wad of pink gum was stuck in it and Lily was only getting a little of it tangled in her fingers. James stood up instantly and ran to Lily. Trini, Snape and Lucius were laughing and the other three were just starring in shock.
"Such an old school spell." Lucius said through his laughing, "Wizards only did poetry spells during the Middle Ages, didn't they?"
"Who cares?!" Trini continued to laugh.
"Get it out!" Lily cried.
"You'll pay for this Darksummer!" James promised.
"Serves her right." Trini shrugged.
Sirius growled and walked over to Trini's desk. "What did Lily do to you to deserve this?" he asked.
Trini smiled, "I don't like teacher's pets."
Sirius was silent for a moment. He looked over in Snape's direction then turned back to Trini. He smirked, "Neither do I."
~*~
"I don't understand!" Lucius huffed as he and Severus climbed up the changing stairs, hoping to get to the Slytherin common room in time.
"Understand what?" Snape asked.
"Why we got a week's more detention!" Lucius exclaimed. He threw his books to the floor and blocked Snape's path. "We have to put a stop to Trini. I'm tired of losing points and getting detention."
"Some friend." Snape muttered.
Lucius cocked an eyebrow but decided he didn't want to know what Snape just said. He continued to block his friend's path as he looked up and down at every portrait in the hall. They never interested him before, but he had to think of some excuse to make Snape talk to Trini instead of him.
Then a noise caught Lucius's attention. He jumped and turned to Snape, but he didn't seem to notice. It was swishing sound.
"Is something wrong?" Snape asked.
Lucius opened his mouth until he heard it again. He looked behind Snape and his jaws dropped. He saw a towering shadow on the far wall. It seemed to be a feminine figure with great, towering, demonic wings surrounding her.
Lucius turned to Snape, who looked confused. Lucius smiled and nodded his head, "See ya buddy!" he took off down the hall.
"Hey! You left your books Luc.." Snape sighed as he stopped his own sentence. Lucius was already too far down the hall and into the common room. Snape shook his head and knelt down as he picked up the books Lucius had left behind.
"I wonder what scared him," he said to himself when he was done collecting the books. He turned to the direction Lucius was looking. "nothing there but portraits. Maybe one of the pictures made a face at him or something." Severus shrugged and turned back around to a handsome face starring right back at his.
Severus jumped and dropped the books. He quickly changed his scared expression to an angry one as he went to pick up the books yet again. "What are you doing here Sirius? Following me?"
"I didn't mean to scare you old friend." Sirius responded, sounding nice for once. "I saw you getting ditched by your friend so I decided to see what was up."
"Go ahead, make fun of me. You'll regret it tomorrow." Snape seethed.
Sirius laughed and shook his head, "No, you don't get me. Don't worry, I'm alone too. I just wanted to talk to you."
"About?" Snape said in an annoyed tone.
"I see you spying on Remus once a month. You peer out the window and see him and Dumbledore sneaking off the grounds. Don't look at me like I'm stupid. I see you spying on us.. Err, I mean him." Sirius explained.
"So?"
"Don't you want to know where Remus goes?" Sirius asked.
"What's it to you?!"
"Whoa, calm down man! I just wanted to tell you," Sirius put his arm around Severus's shoulder about this time and went on, "him and Dumbledore are sneaking out again tomorrow night. So, if you want to see what this is all about, sneak out with me, James, and Peter."
"I don't know." Snape said, calming down a little, "How do I know you won't gang up on me once you've taken me far away from the school?"
Sirius smirked, "You have my word." He let go of Snape and headed down the hall. He waved to Snape and called back, "I'll meet you tomorrow at midnight. Unless, you're afraid that is."
Snape clutched his fist with his free hand. "I am not afraid." He whispered.
~*~
Lucius didn't feel the least bit worried about leaving Snape. As long as he was safe everything was okay. He yawned and cuddled up in his blanket and went to sleep before Severus even returned. Not worried about the demonic shadow, not worried about a thing.
He drifted off into a more relaxing land. Lucius found himself in his own castle, walls painted black with numerous paintings around him. People were on their knees, worshipping him and many beautiful women in chains surrounded his throne. Lucius was laughing and being hand fed grapes.
But his laughter soon stopped when we noticed one person was not bowing to him. Angry, Lucius stood up and pointed to the cloaked defiler. The person was pushed through the crowd until it reached Lucius.
"Take off your cloak." Lucius demanded.
"As you wish," a beautiful, but deadly sounding voice came from beneath the hood. Slender fingers pulled the hood down and a trestle of long black hair tumbled down the stranger's back as the whole cloak slid off the person's body.
Lucius starred at the person in shock. The defiler was one of the most beautiful women he has ever seen. She was taller than him, long straight black hair ending at her waist, much of her bangs were covering her left eye. The stranger wore a white tank top and skirt, which was torn up and it barely covered a thing of her well-developed body.
"Wh-Who are you?" Lucius stuttered.
The woman smirked and answered, "Ceradine." Then she wrapped one strong arm around Lucius's neck and pulled him into a rough kiss. Lucius didn't resist and kissed the woman back.
"This is a dream." Lucius thought, as he was filled with so much ecstasy.
"Too bad it is." Ceradine thought to herself, as she could read Lucius's mind. Suddenly, all the pleasure Lucius was feeling turned into pain. It felt like all the air in his body had left him and he couldn't even obtain the power to scream.
All the people and the castle disappeared. It was just Lucius and Ceradine trapped in blackness. Lucius knew he was going to die. He could feel it. "How could I have been so stupid?" he thought to himself.
Then before Lucius could keel over dead, Ceradine let go with a wicked giggle. She backed away from Lucius as he fell to his knees and began coughing and gasping for precious air.
She winked and blew the boy a kiss. "Goodnight." She whispered.