Disclaimer: Same as always, I don't own Harry Potter only my characters.
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Paul held his wand out in front of him, his hand shaking. Paul closed his eyes and held his head up high.
"This is it," Paul said, "Avada Kedav-,"
"MR AVALON!"
Paul jumped out of his skin and dropped his wand which fell to the floor. Paul opened his eyes to the sight of Professor McGonagall, who looked absolutely terrified at what she had almost experienced.
"What were you thinking?" she asked clutching her chest.
"I was trying to kill myself," Paul mumbled, "It's what I deserve; seen- seen I'm the one w-w-who killed Tom."
McGonagall walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder and whispered, "I have heard about that but I do not believe it was your fault at all."
Paul looked astonished. It wasn't his fault? He told those guys a lie about Tom when it was actually him who did it and it still wasn't his fault? Paul shook his head and screamed, "No! It's my fault and I deserve to die!"
"No Mr Avalon. No-one deserves to die and most certainly not you," McGonagall said calmly.
Paul knew this was a battle he just couldn't win and admitted defeat. McGonagall smiled and bent down to his level, not looking as serious as she usually did.
"Don't blame yourself for this," she said, "Go to the Great Hall and have some lunch."
"Yes Professor," Paul mumbled and walked down the stairs slowly.
All the way down to the Great Hall, Paul walked as slow as he could, not wanting to bump into anyone. He had one flight of stairs to go and he bumped into the one person he really didn't want to meet, Michael Corner who looked very smug.
"Well, Avalon, I must thank you," Michael said bowing before him.
"And I must tell you the truth," Paul said loudly.
"What? Did Tom do something else?" Michael asked jogging up the stairs to Paul.
"No. I'm the one that should be in that forest. I'm the one who was making the moves on Ginny," Paul said kicking the ground.
Paul shut his eyes; half thinking Michael would punch him in the face. Seconds past and yet nothing had come. He reopened his eyes and sneaked a look at what Michael's face. He looked rather happy about it.
Paul left his eyes opened and lifted his head back up. Michael just stood there smiling a smile that really wasn't his. Paul started to get worried and back away to the wall.
"You? HA! No, no, see, you told me it was Boarder that liked my Ginny and made moves on her, not you!" Michael said laughing, "You, oh that's a good one Avalon!"
Paul thought he had gone mad. He had just admitted he liked Ginny and made moves on her. Was he really that deaf? Paul got back off the wall and waved a hand in front of Michael's face. Michael whacked his hand away and grabbed his wrist tightly, cutting off some circulation.
"So, did you really make the moves on Ginny or you just regretting about the whole Tom in forest thing?" Michael whispered as he pinned him up against the wall.
Paul started breathing heavily. It was crunch time. Michael was finally going to know the truth about who liked Ginny and made the moves on her. Paul took in one last huge breath and nodded as he let it out.
Michael's used to be happy face was now a real sour one. Paul shrugged and took Michael's hand off his wrist and quickly ran down the stairs and past Michael's friends. Michael started shaking with anger and when he looked back up again his face was full of angry and hate.
"RUN AFTER THAT MIDGET NOW!" Michael roared and stormed down the stairs and ran after Paul down the corridor, his friend's right behind him.
Paul sprinted down stairs after stairs, with Michael and friends right on heels. Paul had no idea where he was going or what he was going to do when he got but all he knew was that he had to lose Michael and his friends.
When the stairs leading down to the entrance of the castle come into Paul's view, he let out a huge sigh of relief. The castle grounds were a perfect way to lose them. He jumped down the last flight of stairs and with the little bit of energy he had left, he sprinted to the main entrance of the castle and pushed the doors opened and ran out onto the castle grounds.
As they watched Paul close the doors behind him, Michael held out his arm to stop his friends from running anymore. They all looked at him, asking why he stopped them. He turned to them and sniggered.
"Easy, will just grab some brooms and take that little wimp for a ride," Michael said evilly.
His friends then all grinned evilly and laughed. Michael turned and looked at the front doors, grinning. Today was his best yet, getting rid of two worms all in the same day, even in the same hour. Michael let out one last laugh and him and his friends over to the broomstick cupboard and took a broom each and followed Paul out onto the castle grounds in the air.
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Paul and Michael weren't the only ones searching the castle grounds; Rhys was jogging around and around trying to find a way into the forest without any teachers noticing, with Ginny running to keep up with him.
"Rhys, let's just go back inside. Norton went off to tell Dumbledore, just let them handle this," Ginny said puffing.
"No. I gotta find Tom. He needs me, I'm his best friend. I can't let him down," Rhys said speeding up his pace.
From what Ginny could see, there was no way she could stop Rhys from trying to find Tom. She knew how close they were and she knew that Rhys wouldn't stop searching until he found Tom, safe and sound.
Just ahead of them, Ginny saw someone that she knew would certainly get through to Rhys, Emily who was walking along side Ron, hand in hand. Ginny smiled to herself and sped up past Rhys and went over to Emily and Ron.
They both looked worried as they saw the look on Ginny's face and how shaky and how much she was covered in cold sweat. Ron grabbed his little sister's shoulders and bent down to her level and asked what Paul had done now.
"He told Michael Corner that Tom was making moves on me and-and they put Tom somewhere in the forbidden forest," Ginny said pointing over at the forest.
Emily covered her mouth with her hand. Her brother had changed and for the worse too. The old Paul would never have done this. Something had happened to Paul and had changed his attitude completely. Emily threw her head back and looked up at the sky.
The sky was pitch black and storm clouds were starting to settle in. The odd thing in the sky was about five or four kids on brooms, who looked like they were following someone. Emily thought she noticed the one in the lead, and she did. It was that kid that beat up her little brother, Michael Corner.
Emily taped Ginny on the shoulder and pointed up at the sky. Ginny looked up and noticed them too. By this time Rhys had reached them and wondered what there fascination with the sky was. He looked up too and he noticed the kids on brooms too. He noticed that it was Michael.
Anger ran through Rhys' veins. The person who put Tom in all this trouble was up there, soaring threw sky as though he hadn't a care in the world. Rhys' fists started shaking with anger as he watched them.
"I'll show you," Rhys mumbled and started running back up to the castle.
Ginny looked shocked and yelled, "Rhys, don't do it!"
But there was no stopping him. He had his mind made up and it was made up to go get a broom and follow after them in the sky. Ginny sank to her knees and covered her face with her hands. Ron bent down next to her and put a comforting arm around her shoulders.
Emily watched Rhys still running back up to castle. She had her mind made up too. She quickly kissed Ron on the cheek and set out in a sprint along the castle grounds. Ron stood up and called, "Emily where are you going? EMILY!"
Emily ignored him. She knew exactly who those bullies were following. Paul. Just thinking about what they'd do to him if they caught him made Emily's legs go even faster than usual. So she and Paul were in a little argument, she still wasn't going to let him get hurt.
Emily's legs were going so fast that her surroundings were blurred. In the distance she could see Paul running and those bullies up in the sky, closing in on him. Then what had happened next frightened Emily to pieces. One of the boys flew downwards, picked up Paul and then they started heading over to the forbidden forest.
"LET HIM GO!" Emily screamed as they flew high up over her head.
They all just flew over her head, not noticing her screaming or her even there. Emily watched them fly closer to the forbidden forest. They were about to do it all again this time with Paul. Emily covered her mouth and just watched hopelessly. Then all of a sudden, someone wrapped their arm around her waist and took her off high up in the air.
"HEY, PUT ME DOWN KID I'M TAKEN!" Emily squealed trying to get out the person's grasp of her.
"Emily shut up it's me!" Rhys yelled over the top of her.
Emily stopped squealing and saw Rhys focusing on the people he was casing. Emily hopped on the back of Rhys' broom and held on tight around Rhys' waist. Emily took a look at where the boys were. They were nearly there.
"Can't it go any faster Rhys?" Emily yelled.
Rhys looked back at her and said, "I thought you'd never ask."
Soon the broom was doubling its usual speed and the group of boys and Paul were better and closer in their view. Rhys squinted through the cool air brushing across his face, focusing harder on his target, Michael.
Their broom soon was going twice its normal speed limit and Michael and the others were just a broom's length away. Emily gripped tighter to Rhys and yelled, "Rhys this is way to fast!"
"We're so close to him! I'm not slowing down now!" Rhys yelled and sped up next to Michael.
"What the fuck?" Michael asked when he saw Rhys fly up next to him.
"Where's Tom Corner?" Rhys yelled across.
Michael sniggered. He laughed and said, "Forget it Johnson, he's probably dead by now just like little Pauly Wally here's going to be!"
Emily gasped and taped Rhys on the shoulder and said, "Rhys I now your not best buddies with Paul for what he did but please, we've got to save Paul!"
Rhys knew she was right. He hated Paul but as much as he hated him no-one deserved this, not even people who put Tom is this amount of trouble. Rhys shut his eyes for a minute and looked back up and yelled, "Paul, hang on, we're coming!"
Paul looked over at Emily and Rhys and smiled which Rhys returned and flew over to James, who had Paul under his arm. Rhys rammed into James who nearly dropped Paul but luckily still held onto him.
"Let him go Thomas!" Rhys yelled ramming him again.
James laughed evilly and said, "If you insist Rhys. Can you say bye bye Pauly?"
And before their eyes, James dropped Paul into the forbidden forest which they just soared over. Emily squealed and shut her eyes. She couldn't watch this. Rhys dived down and sped up so fast, hoping to catch Paul before he hit the forbidden forest's floor.
"Come on, come on!" Rhys mumbled out of the corner of his mouth as he sped the broom up.
The broom dived down past Paul then shot back up and Rhys caught Paul on the back of his robes. Paul covered his eyes not wanting to see his fate, but when he opened them what he saw was the forbidden forest disappearing. He looked up at his rescuer and saw Rhys grinning his usual grin. Paul smiled broadly back and gave him the thumbs up.
Once they were over the forbidden forest, Rhys landed the broom and off jumped Emily who ran over to Paul and threw her arms around his neck and broke down into tears. Paul stumbled as her weight was thrown on him.
"Paul you're alright! I'm so happy!" Emily squealed started to cry with joy.
Paul wrapped his arms around his sister and whispered, "I'm sorry Emily. I was wrong, I do need you. You a big part of me and I never want our relationship to change."
They both broke apart and looked at each other with big smiles on their faces. Emily wiped her tears away, looked back up and said, "I'm sorry too Paul, I'm just glad you're alright."
"Wouldn't say that just yet," Rhys said and pointed to the people who had just landed.
"OI, YOU, JOHNSON, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Michael yelled storming over to him and pushing him onto the ground.
"Saving Paul from the same thing you did to my friend Tom," Rhys said getting up off the ground.
Michael pulled out his wand and stuck in front of Rhys. Rhys grabbed his wand and pointed it at Michael and said, "Wrong thing to choose to a dueling champion."
Michael's friends burst out laughing and starting rolling around on the ground. Rhys blushed slightly, but he wasn't going to let those people get away with what they did to Tom.
"I'm not joking, I and my whole family have won first place in our town's dueling competitions every year," Rhys said edging closer to Michael, wanting to hurt him, wanting to kill him.
Michael gulped and lowered his wand and said, "Who needs wands? Their for people who want to fight baby fights anyway."
Michael turned around to his friends and yelled, "Come on boys, let's go, these losers are giving me a killer headache."
His friends all laughed and followed Michael back up to the castle. Rhys glared as he watched Michael go, who was so close of getting to kill the person who had maybe killed his best friend. Emily noticed Rhys' face and went over and put a comforting arm around him.
"Hey, Tom's going to be fine," Emily said pulling him in closer, "Just believe in him and he'll be alright."
Rhys looked up at Emily and grinned his usual grin which Emily had longing to see back on his face. Emily helped Paul back onto his feet and said, "Let's leave it up to the teachers to find Tom; I think lunch is calling our names!"
Rhys and Paul both laughed and all three of them linked arms and skipped off to the Great Hall, all not knowing how much trouble Tom was in at the moment.
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Way out in the middle of the forbidden forest, Tom screamed hopelessly, watching the creature coming closer with every step it took. Tom tried to run, but only fell over, forgetting his legs were tied together. He looked back and saw the creature over the top of him.
Tom let out a long loud scream as the creature picked him up with its two front legs and took Tom back the way it had come. Struggling to break free, Tom noticed as the darkness got clearer that the creature was in fact a giant spider, just twice its usual size.
"HELP ME, SOMEONE PLEASE, ANYBODY!" Tom shouted but it was useless, no-one could hear him, only the spider that's grip got tighter every time Tom kicked and screamed.
Tom soon gave up and just lay in the spider's grip, admitting no-one was coming to save him, that no-one cared he was going to die, that no-one probably knew he was here. He knew Paul wanted this and there was no way he would have told anyone.
Tom shut his eyes and cried silently as the spider carried him off the path and off away from the trail, taking him where, Tom did not know and probably never would.
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Paul held his wand out in front of him, his hand shaking. Paul closed his eyes and held his head up high.
"This is it," Paul said, "Avada Kedav-,"
"MR AVALON!"
Paul jumped out of his skin and dropped his wand which fell to the floor. Paul opened his eyes to the sight of Professor McGonagall, who looked absolutely terrified at what she had almost experienced.
"What were you thinking?" she asked clutching her chest.
"I was trying to kill myself," Paul mumbled, "It's what I deserve; seen- seen I'm the one w-w-who killed Tom."
McGonagall walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder and whispered, "I have heard about that but I do not believe it was your fault at all."
Paul looked astonished. It wasn't his fault? He told those guys a lie about Tom when it was actually him who did it and it still wasn't his fault? Paul shook his head and screamed, "No! It's my fault and I deserve to die!"
"No Mr Avalon. No-one deserves to die and most certainly not you," McGonagall said calmly.
Paul knew this was a battle he just couldn't win and admitted defeat. McGonagall smiled and bent down to his level, not looking as serious as she usually did.
"Don't blame yourself for this," she said, "Go to the Great Hall and have some lunch."
"Yes Professor," Paul mumbled and walked down the stairs slowly.
All the way down to the Great Hall, Paul walked as slow as he could, not wanting to bump into anyone. He had one flight of stairs to go and he bumped into the one person he really didn't want to meet, Michael Corner who looked very smug.
"Well, Avalon, I must thank you," Michael said bowing before him.
"And I must tell you the truth," Paul said loudly.
"What? Did Tom do something else?" Michael asked jogging up the stairs to Paul.
"No. I'm the one that should be in that forest. I'm the one who was making the moves on Ginny," Paul said kicking the ground.
Paul shut his eyes; half thinking Michael would punch him in the face. Seconds past and yet nothing had come. He reopened his eyes and sneaked a look at what Michael's face. He looked rather happy about it.
Paul left his eyes opened and lifted his head back up. Michael just stood there smiling a smile that really wasn't his. Paul started to get worried and back away to the wall.
"You? HA! No, no, see, you told me it was Boarder that liked my Ginny and made moves on her, not you!" Michael said laughing, "You, oh that's a good one Avalon!"
Paul thought he had gone mad. He had just admitted he liked Ginny and made moves on her. Was he really that deaf? Paul got back off the wall and waved a hand in front of Michael's face. Michael whacked his hand away and grabbed his wrist tightly, cutting off some circulation.
"So, did you really make the moves on Ginny or you just regretting about the whole Tom in forest thing?" Michael whispered as he pinned him up against the wall.
Paul started breathing heavily. It was crunch time. Michael was finally going to know the truth about who liked Ginny and made the moves on her. Paul took in one last huge breath and nodded as he let it out.
Michael's used to be happy face was now a real sour one. Paul shrugged and took Michael's hand off his wrist and quickly ran down the stairs and past Michael's friends. Michael started shaking with anger and when he looked back up again his face was full of angry and hate.
"RUN AFTER THAT MIDGET NOW!" Michael roared and stormed down the stairs and ran after Paul down the corridor, his friend's right behind him.
Paul sprinted down stairs after stairs, with Michael and friends right on heels. Paul had no idea where he was going or what he was going to do when he got but all he knew was that he had to lose Michael and his friends.
When the stairs leading down to the entrance of the castle come into Paul's view, he let out a huge sigh of relief. The castle grounds were a perfect way to lose them. He jumped down the last flight of stairs and with the little bit of energy he had left, he sprinted to the main entrance of the castle and pushed the doors opened and ran out onto the castle grounds.
As they watched Paul close the doors behind him, Michael held out his arm to stop his friends from running anymore. They all looked at him, asking why he stopped them. He turned to them and sniggered.
"Easy, will just grab some brooms and take that little wimp for a ride," Michael said evilly.
His friends then all grinned evilly and laughed. Michael turned and looked at the front doors, grinning. Today was his best yet, getting rid of two worms all in the same day, even in the same hour. Michael let out one last laugh and him and his friends over to the broomstick cupboard and took a broom each and followed Paul out onto the castle grounds in the air.
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Paul and Michael weren't the only ones searching the castle grounds; Rhys was jogging around and around trying to find a way into the forest without any teachers noticing, with Ginny running to keep up with him.
"Rhys, let's just go back inside. Norton went off to tell Dumbledore, just let them handle this," Ginny said puffing.
"No. I gotta find Tom. He needs me, I'm his best friend. I can't let him down," Rhys said speeding up his pace.
From what Ginny could see, there was no way she could stop Rhys from trying to find Tom. She knew how close they were and she knew that Rhys wouldn't stop searching until he found Tom, safe and sound.
Just ahead of them, Ginny saw someone that she knew would certainly get through to Rhys, Emily who was walking along side Ron, hand in hand. Ginny smiled to herself and sped up past Rhys and went over to Emily and Ron.
They both looked worried as they saw the look on Ginny's face and how shaky and how much she was covered in cold sweat. Ron grabbed his little sister's shoulders and bent down to her level and asked what Paul had done now.
"He told Michael Corner that Tom was making moves on me and-and they put Tom somewhere in the forbidden forest," Ginny said pointing over at the forest.
Emily covered her mouth with her hand. Her brother had changed and for the worse too. The old Paul would never have done this. Something had happened to Paul and had changed his attitude completely. Emily threw her head back and looked up at the sky.
The sky was pitch black and storm clouds were starting to settle in. The odd thing in the sky was about five or four kids on brooms, who looked like they were following someone. Emily thought she noticed the one in the lead, and she did. It was that kid that beat up her little brother, Michael Corner.
Emily taped Ginny on the shoulder and pointed up at the sky. Ginny looked up and noticed them too. By this time Rhys had reached them and wondered what there fascination with the sky was. He looked up too and he noticed the kids on brooms too. He noticed that it was Michael.
Anger ran through Rhys' veins. The person who put Tom in all this trouble was up there, soaring threw sky as though he hadn't a care in the world. Rhys' fists started shaking with anger as he watched them.
"I'll show you," Rhys mumbled and started running back up to the castle.
Ginny looked shocked and yelled, "Rhys, don't do it!"
But there was no stopping him. He had his mind made up and it was made up to go get a broom and follow after them in the sky. Ginny sank to her knees and covered her face with her hands. Ron bent down next to her and put a comforting arm around her shoulders.
Emily watched Rhys still running back up to castle. She had her mind made up too. She quickly kissed Ron on the cheek and set out in a sprint along the castle grounds. Ron stood up and called, "Emily where are you going? EMILY!"
Emily ignored him. She knew exactly who those bullies were following. Paul. Just thinking about what they'd do to him if they caught him made Emily's legs go even faster than usual. So she and Paul were in a little argument, she still wasn't going to let him get hurt.
Emily's legs were going so fast that her surroundings were blurred. In the distance she could see Paul running and those bullies up in the sky, closing in on him. Then what had happened next frightened Emily to pieces. One of the boys flew downwards, picked up Paul and then they started heading over to the forbidden forest.
"LET HIM GO!" Emily screamed as they flew high up over her head.
They all just flew over her head, not noticing her screaming or her even there. Emily watched them fly closer to the forbidden forest. They were about to do it all again this time with Paul. Emily covered her mouth and just watched hopelessly. Then all of a sudden, someone wrapped their arm around her waist and took her off high up in the air.
"HEY, PUT ME DOWN KID I'M TAKEN!" Emily squealed trying to get out the person's grasp of her.
"Emily shut up it's me!" Rhys yelled over the top of her.
Emily stopped squealing and saw Rhys focusing on the people he was casing. Emily hopped on the back of Rhys' broom and held on tight around Rhys' waist. Emily took a look at where the boys were. They were nearly there.
"Can't it go any faster Rhys?" Emily yelled.
Rhys looked back at her and said, "I thought you'd never ask."
Soon the broom was doubling its usual speed and the group of boys and Paul were better and closer in their view. Rhys squinted through the cool air brushing across his face, focusing harder on his target, Michael.
Their broom soon was going twice its normal speed limit and Michael and the others were just a broom's length away. Emily gripped tighter to Rhys and yelled, "Rhys this is way to fast!"
"We're so close to him! I'm not slowing down now!" Rhys yelled and sped up next to Michael.
"What the fuck?" Michael asked when he saw Rhys fly up next to him.
"Where's Tom Corner?" Rhys yelled across.
Michael sniggered. He laughed and said, "Forget it Johnson, he's probably dead by now just like little Pauly Wally here's going to be!"
Emily gasped and taped Rhys on the shoulder and said, "Rhys I now your not best buddies with Paul for what he did but please, we've got to save Paul!"
Rhys knew she was right. He hated Paul but as much as he hated him no-one deserved this, not even people who put Tom is this amount of trouble. Rhys shut his eyes for a minute and looked back up and yelled, "Paul, hang on, we're coming!"
Paul looked over at Emily and Rhys and smiled which Rhys returned and flew over to James, who had Paul under his arm. Rhys rammed into James who nearly dropped Paul but luckily still held onto him.
"Let him go Thomas!" Rhys yelled ramming him again.
James laughed evilly and said, "If you insist Rhys. Can you say bye bye Pauly?"
And before their eyes, James dropped Paul into the forbidden forest which they just soared over. Emily squealed and shut her eyes. She couldn't watch this. Rhys dived down and sped up so fast, hoping to catch Paul before he hit the forbidden forest's floor.
"Come on, come on!" Rhys mumbled out of the corner of his mouth as he sped the broom up.
The broom dived down past Paul then shot back up and Rhys caught Paul on the back of his robes. Paul covered his eyes not wanting to see his fate, but when he opened them what he saw was the forbidden forest disappearing. He looked up at his rescuer and saw Rhys grinning his usual grin. Paul smiled broadly back and gave him the thumbs up.
Once they were over the forbidden forest, Rhys landed the broom and off jumped Emily who ran over to Paul and threw her arms around his neck and broke down into tears. Paul stumbled as her weight was thrown on him.
"Paul you're alright! I'm so happy!" Emily squealed started to cry with joy.
Paul wrapped his arms around his sister and whispered, "I'm sorry Emily. I was wrong, I do need you. You a big part of me and I never want our relationship to change."
They both broke apart and looked at each other with big smiles on their faces. Emily wiped her tears away, looked back up and said, "I'm sorry too Paul, I'm just glad you're alright."
"Wouldn't say that just yet," Rhys said and pointed to the people who had just landed.
"OI, YOU, JOHNSON, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Michael yelled storming over to him and pushing him onto the ground.
"Saving Paul from the same thing you did to my friend Tom," Rhys said getting up off the ground.
Michael pulled out his wand and stuck in front of Rhys. Rhys grabbed his wand and pointed it at Michael and said, "Wrong thing to choose to a dueling champion."
Michael's friends burst out laughing and starting rolling around on the ground. Rhys blushed slightly, but he wasn't going to let those people get away with what they did to Tom.
"I'm not joking, I and my whole family have won first place in our town's dueling competitions every year," Rhys said edging closer to Michael, wanting to hurt him, wanting to kill him.
Michael gulped and lowered his wand and said, "Who needs wands? Their for people who want to fight baby fights anyway."
Michael turned around to his friends and yelled, "Come on boys, let's go, these losers are giving me a killer headache."
His friends all laughed and followed Michael back up to the castle. Rhys glared as he watched Michael go, who was so close of getting to kill the person who had maybe killed his best friend. Emily noticed Rhys' face and went over and put a comforting arm around him.
"Hey, Tom's going to be fine," Emily said pulling him in closer, "Just believe in him and he'll be alright."
Rhys looked up at Emily and grinned his usual grin which Emily had longing to see back on his face. Emily helped Paul back onto his feet and said, "Let's leave it up to the teachers to find Tom; I think lunch is calling our names!"
Rhys and Paul both laughed and all three of them linked arms and skipped off to the Great Hall, all not knowing how much trouble Tom was in at the moment.
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Way out in the middle of the forbidden forest, Tom screamed hopelessly, watching the creature coming closer with every step it took. Tom tried to run, but only fell over, forgetting his legs were tied together. He looked back and saw the creature over the top of him.
Tom let out a long loud scream as the creature picked him up with its two front legs and took Tom back the way it had come. Struggling to break free, Tom noticed as the darkness got clearer that the creature was in fact a giant spider, just twice its usual size.
"HELP ME, SOMEONE PLEASE, ANYBODY!" Tom shouted but it was useless, no-one could hear him, only the spider that's grip got tighter every time Tom kicked and screamed.
Tom soon gave up and just lay in the spider's grip, admitting no-one was coming to save him, that no-one cared he was going to die, that no-one probably knew he was here. He knew Paul wanted this and there was no way he would have told anyone.
Tom shut his eyes and cried silently as the spider carried him off the path and off away from the trail, taking him where, Tom did not know and probably never would.
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Hope that chappie strikes your fancy! Well, hope you enjoyed it and please make sure to R&R! (Hope my story isn't putting people off from doing that()
~KiTtY cOpY cAt~