When Science Labs Explode
A/N: I wrote this with Ella Moon, so if you recognize her style of writing or word usage or whatever, then that'll be why. This is also my very first time posting so if things are a little screwed, I apologize. I'M LEARNING!!!
Disclaimer: We would like to make it clear that we IN NO WAY own or claim to own, or any rights to, or any trademarks of any characters recognizable from the Harry Potter series by Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Or any trademarks, rights to, express or implied, to the Calgary Board of Education, or anything else at all you may recognize from anywhere else.
We also in no way own Ransom Jr. High or any teachers therein. ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY THAT ARE NOT FROM THE HARRY POTTER SERIES WERE EXTRACTED FROM REAL LIFE AND ARE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE. PLEASE DO NOT SCREW AROUND WITH THEM, FOR WHATEVER REASON YOUR TWISTED MIND MAY THINK OF. However, we changed everyone's names (including our own). Neither do we mean to upset any supporters of the Canadian Alliance. If you support them, don't read this!
Chapter 7
Or "Draco's Second Try"
Later in the day, Kait was walking to the Ravenclaw common room from the South Tower with Lily and the others. She had dropped back behind everyone else, and made a squawk that none of her friends heard as someone grabbed her by the collar and dragged her into a side hall. She almost screamed when she saw Draco Malfoy standing there, with smooth white-blond hair and dashing black robes. He would've been almost too handsome if he hadn't been so sickly pale and didn't look so scornful. Then Kait realized she was being restrained by Crabbe, who, she noticed, smelled horrible, and had his hand over her mouth. She spat into it. The offending hand was removed. Draco clapped his hands like a mini, pale-blond maharajah, and Crabbe and Goyle slid into another hall, leaving them alone. Kait prepared to bolt - she bit her nails, so they were of no use, and she was generally not the "duke-it-out" sort of girl. She was more like a fluffy bunny; confronted, Lily was the vicious feline, prepared to fight, and Kaitlyn was the scared rabbit, prepared to flee. More the non-serious confrontational type. However, either Crabbe or Goyle had used the leg-locker curse, or Draco was using dark magic, or his fiery touch iced her bones and made her amazingly terrified (he reminded her, in his black robes and sarcastic eyes, of someone she'd read of … he'd been bad news), but in any case, Kait couldn't run. Draco, noting this, released his grip on her arm and attempted to play it cool, inviting her to lean against the wall beside him. She simply looked terrified (deer-in-the-headlights sort of eyes).
"OK, if you won't relax, listen." He drawled, making his voice low, and making Kait's skin crawl, causing her to back away from him.
"I know some pretty secret places in this school," he said, and Kait backed away farther. "And they're the perfect places for people like - you and me, for example, to meet… you know, at night… to have some… fun…" Kait realized what he was hinting at, and the thought of dating someone like Malfoy, whom many a girl had, she knew, swooned over, disgusted her. She, faced with the chance (and not an "I'm madly in love with you, please go out with me" chance, an "I need a girl and you're next on my list" chance) did not feel flattered that someone as good-looking as Draco was asking her out. No, she ran away, her insides churning but functional, her face dripping with sweat like she'd just had a nightmare (and maybe she had, you never knew), and tears streaming down her cheeks. She raced up some passages, and came into the main hallway leading to the Ravenclaw Tower entrance, where her friends were just uttering the password. When they saw Kait tear around the corner looking as if a dementor was after her, they stopped and turned to face her. She reached the safe haven of her buddies' company, where they fussed over her until Lily took charge.
"Alright, already! She knows we're worried. Give her some space, peoples, jeez! Come on, Kait." And then Kait was led into the common room and up into the girls' dorm.
"Are you OK?" Kait nodded.
"Would you mind telling us what happened, Kait?" asked Sally.
So Kait told them about the whole incident/encounter, and as soon as Lily heard, she started cussing a blue streak and went tearing down the hall. When she found the offending three, she confronted them.
"Malfoy." He turned to look at her.
"What do you want?" he asked, a look of immense derision marring his otherwise attractive features.
"Oh, just wondering when you're going to stop terrorizing innocent girls." She said, her attention seemingly focused on her nails.
Crabbe and Goyle stiffened, prepared to pummel this insolent girl till she screamed for mercy, and maybe a little longer. Sensing the movement, she immediately glanced up, her dark eyes intently watching them. Crabbe and Goyle clenched their fists while Draco shifted somewhat nervously, and still the dark gaze remained on them, never flickering for an instant. After about a minute, all three boys were very nervous, wondering what she was doing. She still hadn't moved, not one muscle, except to blink and breathe, but somehow when she blinked that terrible gaze grew more intense.
"Not long now." She murmured, although they couldn't think why… Lily's dark stare was completely unnerving, it was as if her attention was focused completely on you, but she was aware of everything around her at the same time.
Goyle was trying to distract her while Crabbe rushed in, fists flying. Lily kicked Crabbe in the shins, and he sprawled on the stone floor. He got up, shook his head and rushed at her again. She stuck out a fist and he ran straight into it. Draco looked around nervously. He attempted to keep up the act of scorn, but gave up after a moment.
"You don't scare me, girl." He said scornfully.
Lily bristled at the use of gender as an insult. He gulped audibly. Her lip curled in a sneer, and somehow she did it better than Draco, who had been doing it for practically his whole life. Her voice was soft and quietly dangerous as she said, "Why don't we take it outside, Malfoy?" He gulped again, looking around him as though searching for reinforcements.
"Somewhere quiet, and… secretive, perhaps? I'm told you know lots of places like that. Why don't you show me one?" Amy snickered.
"Uh… o-okay." Draco said, and edged down the hall, Lily close behind him.
"Remind me never to make Lily mad," said Amy.
"Sure thing," replied Kaitlyn, sucking on a chocolate frog.
* * *
Out on the grounds, Harry and Ron were out walking, when they heard a strange noise coming from their right, away from the castle. They edged closer, all conversation over, ears straining to catch stray sounds. There was the sound of a scuffle back behind some bushes, accompanied by muffled cries and savage growls and hisses. A tiny scream of fear and pain echoed in the dark night. It was swiftly followed by an angry snarl, and the agonized squealing subsided into fearful whimpering. And then, a sudden violent movement in the bushes, and a dark shadow, just slightly blacker than the night, sped off towards the castle. Ron and Harry were about to give chase when a piercing cry split the night.
"SHE BIT ME!!!"
* * *
Later, Kait, Lily, Amy and all the others were walking to the hospital wing, going to get Kait some chocolate. When they arrived, a whimpering Malfoy was extending an arm with teeth marks and blood to Madam Pomfrey to treat for rabies. Not that he had anything to worry about, but he wanted to be on the safe side. Kait and Lily exchanged glances, snickered, and Kait seemed back to normal. However, Lily gagged and ran off.
When Kait, Sally and Amy returned to their dorm, (having left Suzy down in the common room, flirting) they found Lily in the bathroom, busily brushing and flossing her teeth as though she had tasted something awful and was trying to get the lingering flavour out of her mouth.
"Hey, Sally, mind if I borrow your mouthwash?"
"Uh… no, go right ahead."
"Thanks." She grabbed the bottle. Rinsed, gargled, and rinsed some more.
A/N: I wrote this with Ella Moon, so if you recognize her style of writing or word usage or whatever, then that'll be why. This is also my very first time posting so if things are a little screwed, I apologize. I'M LEARNING!!!
Disclaimer: We would like to make it clear that we IN NO WAY own or claim to own, or any rights to, or any trademarks of any characters recognizable from the Harry Potter series by Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Or any trademarks, rights to, express or implied, to the Calgary Board of Education, or anything else at all you may recognize from anywhere else.
We also in no way own Ransom Jr. High or any teachers therein. ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY THAT ARE NOT FROM THE HARRY POTTER SERIES WERE EXTRACTED FROM REAL LIFE AND ARE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE. PLEASE DO NOT SCREW AROUND WITH THEM, FOR WHATEVER REASON YOUR TWISTED MIND MAY THINK OF. However, we changed everyone's names (including our own). Neither do we mean to upset any supporters of the Canadian Alliance. If you support them, don't read this!
Chapter 7
Or "Draco's Second Try"
Later in the day, Kait was walking to the Ravenclaw common room from the South Tower with Lily and the others. She had dropped back behind everyone else, and made a squawk that none of her friends heard as someone grabbed her by the collar and dragged her into a side hall. She almost screamed when she saw Draco Malfoy standing there, with smooth white-blond hair and dashing black robes. He would've been almost too handsome if he hadn't been so sickly pale and didn't look so scornful. Then Kait realized she was being restrained by Crabbe, who, she noticed, smelled horrible, and had his hand over her mouth. She spat into it. The offending hand was removed. Draco clapped his hands like a mini, pale-blond maharajah, and Crabbe and Goyle slid into another hall, leaving them alone. Kait prepared to bolt - she bit her nails, so they were of no use, and she was generally not the "duke-it-out" sort of girl. She was more like a fluffy bunny; confronted, Lily was the vicious feline, prepared to fight, and Kaitlyn was the scared rabbit, prepared to flee. More the non-serious confrontational type. However, either Crabbe or Goyle had used the leg-locker curse, or Draco was using dark magic, or his fiery touch iced her bones and made her amazingly terrified (he reminded her, in his black robes and sarcastic eyes, of someone she'd read of … he'd been bad news), but in any case, Kait couldn't run. Draco, noting this, released his grip on her arm and attempted to play it cool, inviting her to lean against the wall beside him. She simply looked terrified (deer-in-the-headlights sort of eyes).
"OK, if you won't relax, listen." He drawled, making his voice low, and making Kait's skin crawl, causing her to back away from him.
"I know some pretty secret places in this school," he said, and Kait backed away farther. "And they're the perfect places for people like - you and me, for example, to meet… you know, at night… to have some… fun…" Kait realized what he was hinting at, and the thought of dating someone like Malfoy, whom many a girl had, she knew, swooned over, disgusted her. She, faced with the chance (and not an "I'm madly in love with you, please go out with me" chance, an "I need a girl and you're next on my list" chance) did not feel flattered that someone as good-looking as Draco was asking her out. No, she ran away, her insides churning but functional, her face dripping with sweat like she'd just had a nightmare (and maybe she had, you never knew), and tears streaming down her cheeks. She raced up some passages, and came into the main hallway leading to the Ravenclaw Tower entrance, where her friends were just uttering the password. When they saw Kait tear around the corner looking as if a dementor was after her, they stopped and turned to face her. She reached the safe haven of her buddies' company, where they fussed over her until Lily took charge.
"Alright, already! She knows we're worried. Give her some space, peoples, jeez! Come on, Kait." And then Kait was led into the common room and up into the girls' dorm.
"Are you OK?" Kait nodded.
"Would you mind telling us what happened, Kait?" asked Sally.
So Kait told them about the whole incident/encounter, and as soon as Lily heard, she started cussing a blue streak and went tearing down the hall. When she found the offending three, she confronted them.
"Malfoy." He turned to look at her.
"What do you want?" he asked, a look of immense derision marring his otherwise attractive features.
"Oh, just wondering when you're going to stop terrorizing innocent girls." She said, her attention seemingly focused on her nails.
Crabbe and Goyle stiffened, prepared to pummel this insolent girl till she screamed for mercy, and maybe a little longer. Sensing the movement, she immediately glanced up, her dark eyes intently watching them. Crabbe and Goyle clenched their fists while Draco shifted somewhat nervously, and still the dark gaze remained on them, never flickering for an instant. After about a minute, all three boys were very nervous, wondering what she was doing. She still hadn't moved, not one muscle, except to blink and breathe, but somehow when she blinked that terrible gaze grew more intense.
"Not long now." She murmured, although they couldn't think why… Lily's dark stare was completely unnerving, it was as if her attention was focused completely on you, but she was aware of everything around her at the same time.
Goyle was trying to distract her while Crabbe rushed in, fists flying. Lily kicked Crabbe in the shins, and he sprawled on the stone floor. He got up, shook his head and rushed at her again. She stuck out a fist and he ran straight into it. Draco looked around nervously. He attempted to keep up the act of scorn, but gave up after a moment.
"You don't scare me, girl." He said scornfully.
Lily bristled at the use of gender as an insult. He gulped audibly. Her lip curled in a sneer, and somehow she did it better than Draco, who had been doing it for practically his whole life. Her voice was soft and quietly dangerous as she said, "Why don't we take it outside, Malfoy?" He gulped again, looking around him as though searching for reinforcements.
"Somewhere quiet, and… secretive, perhaps? I'm told you know lots of places like that. Why don't you show me one?" Amy snickered.
"Uh… o-okay." Draco said, and edged down the hall, Lily close behind him.
"Remind me never to make Lily mad," said Amy.
"Sure thing," replied Kaitlyn, sucking on a chocolate frog.
* * *
Out on the grounds, Harry and Ron were out walking, when they heard a strange noise coming from their right, away from the castle. They edged closer, all conversation over, ears straining to catch stray sounds. There was the sound of a scuffle back behind some bushes, accompanied by muffled cries and savage growls and hisses. A tiny scream of fear and pain echoed in the dark night. It was swiftly followed by an angry snarl, and the agonized squealing subsided into fearful whimpering. And then, a sudden violent movement in the bushes, and a dark shadow, just slightly blacker than the night, sped off towards the castle. Ron and Harry were about to give chase when a piercing cry split the night.
"SHE BIT ME!!!"
* * *
Later, Kait, Lily, Amy and all the others were walking to the hospital wing, going to get Kait some chocolate. When they arrived, a whimpering Malfoy was extending an arm with teeth marks and blood to Madam Pomfrey to treat for rabies. Not that he had anything to worry about, but he wanted to be on the safe side. Kait and Lily exchanged glances, snickered, and Kait seemed back to normal. However, Lily gagged and ran off.
When Kait, Sally and Amy returned to their dorm, (having left Suzy down in the common room, flirting) they found Lily in the bathroom, busily brushing and flossing her teeth as though she had tasted something awful and was trying to get the lingering flavour out of her mouth.
"Hey, Sally, mind if I borrow your mouthwash?"
"Uh… no, go right ahead."
"Thanks." She grabbed the bottle. Rinsed, gargled, and rinsed some more.