A Trip to the Past

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 Chapter 19~~~~~~~~~~~~

  I woke to Siren clawing my hand. I swatted her away and jumped out of bed. I was bleeding from where her claws had dug but I didn't care I needed a shower more. After my shower I bandaged my hand and dressed in my clothes. I was going to make an impression today.

  My shirt had a bloody skull on it while my black jeans had rips, tears, and holes in it all over the place. My boots had red paint on them and then I turned to work on my face. I put on my black eyeliner and eye shadow. My lips had their one blood red strip and I left my hair fall down only it was straight.

  I grabbed my cat, put her in her cage, and levitated her and my trunk downstairs. Dad couldn't see us off today and I sat at the table while Mum was getting ready to form the plan of attack on the boys. Apparently Remus decided to get up early and joined me as Mum went to Marauder land as I had affectionately called it since the summer after my first year.

  After twenty minutes of struggle all the boys were up and getting ready to leave. I still sat with Remus imagining Sirius, James, and Peter dreading the coming fourth year as I was except they were more vocal about it. After ten more minutes of waiting the boys were all grumbling downstairs for a quick breakfast before Mum took us to London.

  Mum loaded us up into the magical car because we couldn't get their anyway else. I sat in the front with her while the boys talked about what trouble they were going to cause and I knew Mum had given up trying to stop them. After an hour and half of pure sadistic time we were at Kings Cross Station and I was ready to leap through the platform.

  I said my goodbyes with the boys to my mother and we boarded the train early as usual. We got our own compartment by ourselves and slipped on our robes to wait. My robes had safety pins and duck tack on it; McGonagall was going to blow when she saw it but I didn't care. I settled by the window and waited till we began moving an hour later into the forest.

  The ride there was filled with a sense of dread and unhappiness in our compartment because no one really wanted to be plunged back into pain and suffering. I was filled with that thought I didn't even notice the guys had left to cause trouble. I left my cat and trunk on the train at Hogsmeade station and entered an empty carriage. I sat alone as we returned to Hogwarts.

  I snuck into the feast without McGonagall or any teacher finding me before I entered. I took a seat at the end of the table and waited for the boys to come in. They innocently took their places and I knew something was up. I looked at all of them studying and watching what could be done involving them.

  I didn't wait long soon I had the repugnant screams of the Slytherins and the laughter that ensured from everyone else. As James had done to Lily the Slytherins were flashing bright colors in their skin and their hair was covered in what smelled and looked like poo. I laughed and then began to slink away from the feast to walk for a bit. At least no one saw me leave and no one bothered me as I walked through the corridors.

  I ended up walking to the Gryffindor Tower and had to wait outside for the others to come. I waited for about twenty minutes till a prefect came and gave me the password while looking at me like I was a freak. I slipped into my dorm and unpacked.

  Lily came soon after I had unpacked and just looked at me without a word. Clara wasn't as smart as her to leave me alone while I was being a silent thing. She swaggered her floozy ass in front of my bed and I glared at her with a note of needing her to be dead in my eyes.

"Looks like you completed your act of becoming a freak."

"Nope sorry I am not done and in fact say another word to me today Thornton I will become violent."

"Freak" she said smirking at me.

  I leapt from my bed and instead of killing her I went into my wardrobe. I found a sewing needle, a silver stud, and rushed into the bathroom. They wanted freak I would give them fucking freak. I put a numbing charm on my nose and then sanitized the needle. I guess I went into a trance and I shoved the needle through my nose, and then put the stud in. I have no clue how I got enough strength to shove the needle in my nose but I did and I liked it. I took the numbing charm off and then healed the hole so it was fine and the hole wouldn't close. They all were going to freak but I gave no shit for it.

  When I came out they all decided it was better to leave me alone and had no idea what I had done to myself. I stomped into my bed and I went to sleep soon after hitting the pillow. The next morning I woke early as usual. I showered and dressed in a tattered top which had holes in most of it, a pair of black jeans with holes in the knees and duck tape on them. I put on my robe, my dark make up, and grabbed my wand.

  McGonagall didn't even look at me as she gave me my schedule so she didn't notice my new piercing and as I wasn't hungry I went back to get my bag for the day. The girls were rushing around and I silently packed my bag then decided to put a hoop in my piercing. I went into the bathroom put it in then slipped back out under an invisibility charm. I wondered the halls till my first class, transfiguration. This was going to be fun.

  I took my usual place at the front as the boys took their places in the back. I had my head down so she would tell me to pick my head up when class started. No one bothered my multicolored self beside Lily who by nature took her place by me and Dawn on my other side.

  Predictable McGonagall asked me to raise my head and after the first try of me refusing to she lost her top at me because I had never defied her before. I slowly raised my head for the affect of it while smirking at the old fashioned teacher. She gasped and that drew the attention of the entire class.

"Miss Potter what happened to your nose, it has an earring in it."

"I know, I pierced it last night and I have to get a chain for it."

"It is mutilation of yourself take it out this minute."

"Sorry teach I won't, there is no rule against facial piercing."

"On the first day back you are refusing to follow my orders now remove the hoop from your nose, please Potter."

"No" I drawled while the class strained to get a closer look at my nose.

"Then go to the Headmaster and discuss this with him. You obliviously are disobeying my orders."

"Fine" I hissed and gathered my still unpacked bag and took the pink slip to get into Dumbledore's office.

  I walked to Dumbledore's office in a perfectly cheerful mood because I knew I was right. When I arrived in the Headmaster's office his eyes were cheerful as usual. I took my seat in front of the Headmaster's desk and just looked at him before handing him the slip.

"Well Tempest I must say you have become quite the colorful student here" he joked before lowering his eyes to me. "Do your parents know you have done this?"

"Nope"

"Then I have to write them but beside that there is no punishment except Professor McGonagall and the other teachers' lack of respect."

"Oh well you think I am a freak as they do so I don't care."

"Wrong Tempest I don't believe you to be a freak but an activist."

"What?"

"You see your mother wrote and said that you stopped eating meat and if I could make sure you ate something vegetable like everyday and I honored this because most of the time people don't see meat as murder myself included but you do."

"Yes because it is and everything should be free from a slaughtered death."

"I agree in my mind but my stomach doesn't so I can't be as free as you are Tempest. You see Tempest you are brilliant, powerful, and an activist, please do not cost your life for something you believe, our world wouldn't be the same."

  He waved his hand goodbye and I left the cryptic professor. I headed back to McGonagall's class smiling and knowing she would be pissed at me. While I was walking the bell rang for the next class and I turned and had to go the other way to get to charms. I spent the rest of my day avoiding people and even my friends, boyfriend, and brother in conversation.

  Finally James and Sirius cornered me in the library reading a book I had brought with me. They took seats next to me and both looked at me anger in their usually prankish eyes. I didn't really care though I was too involved in the shock factor of life.

"Tempest Nicolette Potter what did you do to your nose?"

"If people want a freak I'll give them one James. So sorry if you don't like it I do!"

  I pushed out of my chair, grabbed my things, and stomped out leaving two very anger boys. I stormed into the common room and everyone was quiet in a second. They had been talking about me I knew and I flipped them off as I climbed the stairs up to my room. I hated them all.

  I deposited my things into my trunk and then grabbed my sword from under my bed. I walked out of my dorm not even caring that people were around. I slammed down the stairs making so much that the ghosts even avoided trying to discuss things with me. When I got outside I walked past Hagrid's Hut into the Forbidden Forest, not really affected by its creepy factor.

  I found a clearing some way into the forest and laid the sword on the ground. I stretched my body out from my arm cramping and then I picked the sword back up. The hilt was perfect for my hand and then I decided to teach myself to learn how to use a sword.

  I hacked and began to understand how to block, if I really wanted to get good I would have to practice often and believe me I would. I then snuck out of the forest and back into the castle. I once again appeared into my common room then in to my dorm. I laid the now dirty sword on my bed and transfigured spikes to hang my sword off of my wall. I hung it on my wall then got ready for bed.

  I was in my bed, curtains drawn with a silencing charm. I was reading a book in my pajamas and didn't wish to be bothered. Luckily no one even walked near my bed as if I had the plague, even Lily. I really didn't give a damn about her or my friends anymore. They just were so different from me, willing to accept this world without fighting even if they said they would fight.

  I fell asleep reading and woke with the book resting on my chest. I showered and dressed in a cut skirt that had tatters falling from the sides, with a black tank top and a bright red cover up. I fixed my make-up as usual, and my piercing was fixed to its normal state. I put on my robe then left with my bag.

  I hung out by Professor Flitwick's classroom which was my next class during breakfast to avoid stares from the gawking people. I walked in at the bell and took a seat in the back in a dark corner so no one could gawk like I knew they would eventually.

  Professor Flitwick smiled graciously at me and then turned his back at me and began to write on the board. I guess he didn't hate me or lose respect for me like all the others had. I went through the entire day trying to avoid everyone because I didn't feel like dealing with there shit about how much a freak I was or how Sirius was sure to dump me now. To tell the truth I didn't care all that much about what they said about me and Sirius.

  After coming back from practicing my sword in the Forbidden Forest later that evening I heard two girls talking, it turned out to be Alice and Viv. I went to go into the room they were talking in but then what they were saying caught my attention because it seeped out from the semi-open door into my ears. Hurting me, filling me with such a taste of revenge on them I had to watch and wait for when they came out of the room.

"You know Tempest, as I do. Don't you think she is the biggest freak you could ever meet" Viv sighed loudly.

"I think she is a freak but she is really nice to us and is our friend."

"So she has a nose piercing she inflicted, hasn't said one word to her "friends" since she has been back, and she has dyed her hair those damn colors and does she honestly think she looks good that way, she knows she doesn't" Viv said viciously now, "Come on lets go everyone will be wondering where we are."

  I kicked the already open door as they turned to come out. I the two girls stood there stunned as I entered a smirk plastered on my face, telling them I had heard what they had said about me. I walked towards them and they backed up, afraid of my anger and what I could do to them. "So I'm a freak, huh? Well it's a good thing I don't kill back-stabbing bitches, just hurt them."

"You couldn't and wouldn't touch us. You are afraid of the consequences."

I slapped Viv across her horrible talking mouth and then looked at shivering Alice and saw something in her that Viv didn't seem to have: regret at what she had said just to agree. "Leave Allie, I am not angry with you. You just agreed to have some friends. Go find Dawn, Lily, and Jeannie, ask what they think I am now and do tell me."

  Alice scampered off and Viv was still nursing her face, which made me want to laugh at how much I had really saw of her true side. She was just like all the other superficial girls in the school and now I was disgusted with myself for befriending her. "I can do worse but you know I won't. I am sorry I ever called you a friend and you know one word about me from your mouth will result in a hell of a lot worse, bitch." I turned to leave, turned back around, kicked her ankles out from under her, and left the now crying girl.

  I headed out towards Hester to find Allie sitting out there with the three other girls. I walked up to them and all but Dawn cringed at me. I think she like d what I had done to myself and I was thankful I at least had one solider at my side. I looked at all of their faces seeing all of their hatred directed at me except for Dawn's and I turned and walked away. Maybe I wasn't meant to have anyone but Sirius who I had pushed away as of late.

  I went up to my dorm considering all of this and changed into baggy pajamas and sat at my window sill and found tears welling in my ugly hazel eyes. I wouldn't cry for anyone anymore even my love. I wiped the tears away and put on one of my Doors records. I found Jim Morrison's lonely voice quite fulfilling now. I rested my head against the glass and let it cool my face. I only heard the door opening and closing then I felt a hand on my shoulder.

  I looked up startled to see Sirius standing there his eyes looking at me with sadness and a hint of hope. He sat on the window sill opposite from me and he looked directly at me, wanting, hoping, and living off the idea that maybe I would talk to him about something.

"I want to know what I did wrong for you to ignore me all ready and turn your back on everyone so soon."

"Nothing, just everyone thinks I am a freak and they want one freak I guess I should just display myself for there pleasure."

"Tempest, I and you know we are just being ourselves so don't worry what the world thinks anymore, I just need a little warning is all."

"Today I heard Viv talking about me with Allie and she said I was a freak as well and now all my friends have turned on me except maybe Dawn."

"It will be okay, this weekend we will do something special involving something me and James found out about during the summer when you were at Lily's."

"Fine" I hissed at that name and he just smiled at me.

"Come on and sleep in my room today, I brought the invisibility cloak and we go can go under it to get downstairs and to my dorm."

  I got under the cloak and we soundlessly made our way to Sirius' dorm and then I lay on his bed, like a kitten would. I climbed under the comforter and closed the hangings as soon as Sirius joined me in the bed. I laid my head in his chest and I waited with baited breath as the boys loudly returned to sleep or plot either could happen.

 They decided to sleep thank Merlin and I soon fell asleep myself. I woke before they all did the next day and returned to my sleeping dorm. After my shower I dressed in a tattered black dress that one sleeve flew onto my shoulder. I pulled on my robe and grabbed my bag for today I was going to stick around for owl post today. I was because Mum's letter of disapproval was coming today I knew, it always would come two days later.

  All till pot people were staring at me and pointing while talking to their friends. Mum's owl soon appeared with a red smoking envelope and I knew it would be a howler once it landed in front of me. James and the rest of the guys took seats by me that same second as I timidly opened the letter which I must say was a huge mistake.

"TEMPEST NICOLTTE POTTER, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GIRL! HOW DARE YOU GO AND PIERCE SOME OF YOUR BAODY PARTS AND YOUR DAMNED NOSE OF ALL PLACES! WHEN I SEE YOU I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU BECOME A NORAML GIRL AGAIN AND WHEN I SEE YOU THAT THING BETTER HAVE CLOSED!"

   Mum's now louder voice kept the entire hall quiet it was done. Thanks a heel of a lot mum, now everyone knows it is true. I picked up my bag though and left the hall silent and went on with the rest of my day in a pissed mood. Damn did I really hate this place now, even if I was still the smartest in my year.