Inklings of Celebrity
Chapter Ten: Theories & Mystery
A/N: I know I've been putting in a lot of Dilandau & Selena stuff, but I seriously can't help it. They're quite fun to write about. And all the quotes in the summary are also about Dilandau. He just happens to have more interesting/funny parts!
For the next few days, Selena's hangover continued violently. She had headaches, still threw up often, and felt quite sick. Dilandau had brought her to Madam Pomfrey, yet she couldn't do anything. The only thing Dilandau could do was stay by her side and comfort her. He'd suggested that they switch bodies for a while so Selena wouldn't be ill. However, Selena thought that Dilandau had done enough for her, so refused.
Dilandau wasn't the only one that noticed that Selena wasn't herself. The other Gryffindor fifth-year girls shared a dorm with Selena, and had seen most of what went on. Lavender Brown and Pavarti Patil formulated their own theories about this one day, and decided to test out their theory.
Selena received a note on Monday morning, which was incidentally Folken's 26th birthday. After reading it, she called Dilandau to her. Read this, she told him. He looked the contents over- We know what's happened.
He blanched, and silently resolved to find out who sent it, and what they meant by the note. It wasn't signed, nor was the handwriting recognizable, being in capital letters. But for the rest of the day, he was deep in thought and responded shortly to those who spoke to him. Hermione was particularly annoyed by this, and figured Dilandau had gone off her because she got drunk.
She didn't stop pestering him, though. Throughout the entire day, Dilandau's crankiness built up, until it was boiling over. The first person who spoke to him would've gotten a very nicely matched set of handprints on their face. This person happened to be Hermione, who'd never gotten into any kind of physical abuse.
Therefore, the burning slaps on her cheeks shocked her into speechlessness. Harry and Ron weren't that shocked, though, and immediately pulled out their wands to defend their comrade. They each muttered different spells, which headed for Dilandau in identical bolts of light.
Someone screamed, and Dilandau suddenly disappeared. The spells continued their way, and hit the unfortunate Draco Malfoy, both of the spells. He started convulsing and belching green slugs, and Crabbe and Goyle gathered menacingly around Ron and Harry.
A nervous silence gathered over the crowd, broken by Selena. "That could have been you," she told Dilandau- who had mysteriously appeared next to her- pointing at Draco on the ground.
"Thank you," he thanked her gratefully, hugging her; Harry was struck with the thought that they made a perfect couple. He tried hard to get this thought out of his head, since he still hoped that Selena was going out with him.
Ron, unlike Harry, wasn't thinking, but charging at Dilandau, yelling, "YOU BASTARD! I'LL KILL YOU! DON'T HURT MY FRIENDS!" Dilandau didn't seem at all alarmed at this, and kicked out- with excellent aim.
Ron howled as blood streamed readily from his nose. By now, Harry was terrified of Dilandau, although he felt protected because he knew Selena. He figured his best bet would be to take Hermione and Ron, then make a hasty retreat to the infirmary, so that was what he did.
Dilandau, despite his latest act of violence, was still not satisfied. He wasn't any closer to finding out about Selena's mystery note. During lunch, he went up to Selena's dormitory to get her sword for her. She was in a bad mood and still in hangover mode- which wasn't scientifically correct, but neither was Selena herself. If anyone at all irritated her, they'd get hurt.
As Dilandau crept into the girls' dorm, he heard voices from a curtained four-poster bed in the far corner of the room. He snatched Selena's sword, like he'd said he would, then listened. "... so I made sure to see her open our note," a voice was saying. Dilandau glided soundlessly up to the outside of the bed, and switched places with Selena, a useful trait he'd discovered earlier on that year.
Selena found herself suddenly in her dorm, sword in hands, but had the good sense not to talk. "Do you think she really is pregnant, then?" asked the other girl.
"Of course," scoffed the first. "Why else would she have turned quite so pale when the note was read? And didn't you see how she showed it to Albatou, and his reaction was the same? It's obvious he's the father. Why else is he always in our dorm?"
"I see what you mean, and the throwing up is of course morning sickness. It's really disgusting how this has been going on, in our very own dorm. Everyone else has just been looking the other way. It's not like Selena belongs here to begin with; she's remarkably different. And such a tomboy!"
"She went with Harry Potter to the dance this year. I think she was on drugs then, by the look of her."
"Didn't you go with Harry to the dance in the fourth year?" Silence was heard, which Selena correctly interpreted as a nod.
"That sl-" Selena had had far enough, and stuck her sword through the curtains, slicing them in half. She peered through the curtains and saw the two girls. Pavarti and Lavender were not gossiping anymore.
"Wouldn't it be a shame if you were brutally murdered, 'in your very own dorm'?" Selena grinned. "That would be really disgusting indeed- blood, blood and more blood. Several different pieces strewn throughout, although no one could tell who it was from. That would truly be talk, not the false lies of a nonexistent pregnancy." Pavarti whimpered.
"What did we ever do to you?" Lavender boldly asked.
"Good question. If I were pregnant I would have had something to say, as you would have been bringing me to light. But right now? No," Selena said. She was really seething by now, having spent her whole day worrying about the note for nothing. "For now, I'll just content myself with this." She swung her hand back and it met with Lavender's skin. Doing this once again, the blow landed on Pavarti.
"That's what you did to me," she answered, and walking out of the room, swinging her sword and humming. Upon reaching the dinner table, Selena realized that her hangover had ended.
Throughout the next week, the school was quite calm (although the teachers were working very hard to catch the evildoer that had spiked the punch for the dance). Dilandau and Selena weren't, although it was admittedly fun to plan out their vengeance against Pavarti and Lavender. Even so, they didn't have very many choices of activities offered to them. One time, they decided to go wandering throughout the school, an idea that stemmed from curiosity, mischief and boredom.
It started out normally enough. The two of them went to the different Houses of the school and hid there, with Invisibility Cloaks on. As they stood there, they could hear the passwords for each house being said. After this, they recorded the passwords and decided to visit each of the houses that night.
This went well at first. The Slytherin Common Room was not very nice, in Selena's judgment. The Hufflepuff common room was actually very comfortable, and Selena and Dilandau spent a while there- in front of the blazing fire. But the Ravenclaw common room was admittedly the very nicest, in their eyes. It was bursting with elaborate splendor, and rather sophisticated designs.
As Dilandau himself said, it was what the Vione would've been like if Dornkirk had chosen a different goal, interior decorating- 'Spreading beauty through the buildings; let us do what we want or we'll kill you'. Luckily for the two of them, their laughter was not heard. Eventually, they left the Ravenclaw room and chose to go to the kitchens.
Filch was roaming the corridors when they emerged from the elegant room. They could hear him muttering to Mrs. Norris as he was about to come across him. There was virtually no escape, since the corridor was very big, lighted by moonlight and bare of doors or escape routes. The footsteps got closer and closer, yet Dilandau & Selena could not think of the proper action.
In the last slow footstep, as Filch was rounding the corner, Selena pulled Dilandau to her, and kissed him. He was surprised, happy, and knew that Selena's ulterior motive was actually to look as of the two of them hadn't done anything except of the hormonal nature. Despite this, he kissed her back while seeing Filch just watching them, apparently not going to inflict punishment. Pervert.
The two students didn't break apart, seeing that Filch was still there, but hoped he would go. He didn't seem to be leaving, more like waiting for someone. Several students trailed into the hallway sulkily- Draco Malfoy, Van Fanel and Hermione Granger. Hermione, on seeing the two, made a stifled cry and ran off towards the end of the hallway.
The male students to be punished went along at a less rapid pace. Draco decided to needle Selena about it the next morning, and grinned evilly. Until he remembered the amount of bodily harm that Selena could cause him, and then hastily abandoned his idea. Filch called the two of them along, and they turned the corridor.
Selena and Dilandau broke apart, and silently made their way back to the Gryffindor tower.
The two of them both knew how redundant it would be to try and avoid each other. First of all, they'd been the same person. Secondly, they never tried to avoid anyone in their life, or lives, for the matter. Therefore, Selena and Dilandau were seen together as much as before- possibly even more often then before. Hermione had told Harry and Ron about her late-night escapade.
"You were wandering around at night, breaking rules?" Ron asked her shiftily.
"I was in the library," she explained, considering this to be an adequate answer.
"You've taken to haunting the library both day and night then, I suppose," Harry remarked sarcastically.
"Can we get back to the problem at hand?" Hermione glared at her friends, then rubbed her cheeks, which she claimed still hurt from Dilandau slapping her. Harry wasn't sure whether she was telling the truth, not knowing the power of Dilandau's slaps.
"So what you're saying is that they were kissing in the hallways when you wandered upon them?" Harry asked, trying to get it all straightened out. He wanted to go through every detail, to see if it could be false.
Hermione sniffled. She seemed very torn up by now, and apparently was still smitten with Dilandau. "Yes. They didn't even seem to notice us."
"I think," mused Harry, "that I should talk to Selena." He was true to his word, and approached her the next chance he got- Potions class. "Selena," he tentatively began, "what were you doing last night with Dilandau?"
"We visited the different common rooms throughout the school. The Ravenclaw common room is the nicest, you know. On our way back, we were almost caught by Filch- but he went right past us without saying anything," Selena honestly replied.
"So that's your explanation for it then," sneered Draco Malfoy, going over to the window. "That's why you were acting like a bunch of lovebirds in the hall."
"Why do you think Filch went past us?" Selena asked him, smirking. At the table in front of them, Van smiled. That really was an excellent scheme, when you thought about it. He turned around to give his input to the conversation.
"Brilliant idea," he praised Selena, although not Dilandau. She nodded, then Snap interrupted them.
"Fanel, you apparently can't control yourself with the ladies. Get over there in the corner with Malfoy," Snape demanded. Van didn't move, but stayed in his seat, facing the front of the class and looking quite angelic (which he was, although Snape didn't know this). Snape slammed his fist down on Van's table, making the beakers rattle incessantly. "Get over there, you young imbecile," he hissed.
Van chose to oppose this order, but instead jumped out of the window, mouthing for Selena to bring his stuff to the common room after. Most of the girls shrieked at seeing what would've been suicidal act for humans, but when Snape looked out the window, the scene looked peaceful.
The wind was swirling several leaves around in the breeze, along with shreds of cloth. A few white feathers floated, slowly and methodically, down to the ground.
A/N: Well, what do you think of that? A very boring chapter for those who like only adventure, but otherwise readable. Allen shall and must be put into the story soon! But just keep reviewing, because this is how I get started on new chapters:
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