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Desiree watched with bated breath from the shadows as Peter scampered down the spiral staircase to the common room. Though sorely tempted to see what he planted in Harry's trunk, Desiree opted to follow the rat, and to finally catch him.
Years of loneliness and pain fueled her as she followed Wormtail with the agileness of a cat into the hallway. Her bare feet made absolutely no sound as she stayed close to the wall for camouflage and kept her eyes on her goal.
`Watch the mighty lioness as she stalks her prey.' She thought humorly to herself in an Australian accent as she and the oblivious mouse made their way down the sweeping staircase towards the front doors and Great Hall.
She knew that it would be a whole lot easier if she just used her powers to float the rat to her, but where was the fun in that?
Carefully watching her step on the stairs, Desiree leaned forward slightly to get a better view of Wormtail but her shifted weight caused the stair she was standing on to give a creak. Desiree gasped and froze as Wormtail stopped and looked back. A faint, high pitched squeak was heard from the rodent as he darted to the doors in front of him.
Practically feeling his surprise and horror, Desiree leaped off the stairs, pulled the small handgun from her pocket that she took back up to carrying, and began to chase him.
`Of all the doors to choose from, he had to pick the one to the ball.' Desiree thought sourly as she busted into the Great Hall where everybody else in the school was dancing and having a typical teen night.
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"Having fun mate?" Ron asked Harry as they sat down at their table. "Oh yeah, loads." Harry said darkly as he glared at Parvati, who had barely left his side at all tonight, as she laughed falsely with Ron's date Lavendar who looked positively bored at the prospect of conversing with her.
"Why don't you just go back to the dorms and apologize to her?" Ron asked helpfully, knowing that his friend missed Desiree greatly. Harry stared at him with a disbelieving look and replied. "Apologize to her for what? I did nothing wrong. She's the one with the problem and she needs to get over it." "I thought you said that you'd love her no matter what?"
Harry glanced back at Ron before he let his mind automatically wander back to the night that he made that promise.
~~**~After about an hour of dancing and socializing it was time for Desiree to open her presents which had accumulated to a small mountain. Finding the one from Harry she opened the box excitedly to find a small, thin gold band encrusted with diamonds all around it and a black stuffed winged unicorn with a gold tag engraved with `Sunshine' around it's neck. "Harry this is way too much." she said to him when she saw the piece of jewelry. "No its not. It's a promise ring. A promise I'm making to you now that I will always love you no matter what." Synchronized `awes' broke out all around them.~**~~
"I did say that didn't I?" Harry said softly as he stared out at the crowd. Harry shook his head and banged his fist on the table before he said "I'm such an ass."
At that moment, the Great Hall doors swung open to reveal a very determined looking and disheveled Desiree.
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Though many obstacles were in the way now, Desiree still kept her eyes on Wormtail as she shoved people out of her way. "Get the fuck out of my way bitch!" Desiree yelled to no one in particular.
She raised her gun and aimed masterfully and pulled the trigger. BOOM! A huge hole was now in the marble floor but she consequensly missed the fat rat. "Shit!" Desiree raised her gun again, but before she could pull the trigger, her eyes met with Harry's.
"Go left and head em off!" She shouted to him. For a fleeting moment she thought that he would just laugh at her but she knew that he saw the rat and he also knew what catching him would mean to both of them.
Harry nodded his head at her and darted to the side to try and head off the infamous Wormtail. Desiree barely saw the skinny bald tail of her obsession dart under the table before she leapt on top of it. Rich food was ground into the green tank top she wore as she wiggled off the table to get to him.
Harry and Desiree both saw him head towards the open garden doors and went after him. Even though both were equipt with the knowledge that Dumbledore was probably hot of their trail, they did not care. The only thing that mattered right now was to find the rat and to make him pay.
Harry and Desiree raced through the garden hedges and kissing couples and into the open field next to the forbidden forest. "Dez! You take it from the sky and I'll take it from the ground!" Harry shouted to her. He saw her nod and give him a thumbs up.
Several seconds later Desiree tore through the sky in her dark raven form while Harry prowled the ground as a sleek black panther as Wormtail rushed into the dark area of the forest.
Harry nimbly wove his way through the overgrown stumps and weeds in the forest right behind his enemy. After awhile, the trees began to get thicker and it was getting harder to see just where Wormtail was headed, but Harry persisted.
Just as he saw Wormtail dissapear underneath a clump of roots, out of the panthers reach, Harry heard the call of a raven above him and saw Desiree flash underneath the roots.
Harry returned to his human form and waited with his wand ready.
He heard the scuffling and scrathing underneath the roots between Wormtail and Desiree and was tempted to transfigure into something smaller so he could get under there as well but felt a wave of relief when he heard Desiree's muffled cry of "I got the dirty bastard!"
Desiree's head appeared out the roots and drug the now unconscious Wormtail behind her. "Let me handle him." Harry said to her referring to the tratior. He muttered a few choice words and Peter Pettigrew was now suspended in thin air, following Harry's movements toward the school.
"Wow, are you okay Dez?" Harry asked her when she saw her scratched and bleeding face in the moonlight, genuinly concerned. "Yeah I'm fine." answered Desiree, who had her weapon and wand raised at Wormtail with fire in her eyes.
Harry took a deep breath and decided that it was now or never to tell him how he felt while he still had the courage. "Look Dez, there's something I have to tell you. I'm..."
Before he could get the word sorry out, Wormtail grabbed Harry by the neck with his metal hand, causing the young man to drop his wand, and elbowed Desiree in the head with the other arm, causing the same effect as Harry.
He snatched Desiree's now abandoned wand and pointed it right in between Harry's eyes. "Now it is time to finish you. I know that master wanted to but I will be rewarded greatly if I did it out of glory for him!" Wormtail raised his wand to preform a fatal curse but was faltered by Desiree taking him from behind in a head lock with her gun resting at his temple.
"Drop the wand." She demanded. She heard Harry get up and get his wand. "Drop it NOW!" she said with more force in her words and in the grip she held onto his neck with. "That little thing can't hurt me little girl." Wormtail said in an almost laughing voice.
Desiree turned the gun to point it at a tree and set it off. A huge hole was now present in the trunk and bits of bark were flying around. "Now tell me that won't kill you, you son of a bitch. And don't forget whose little girl I am and just what were capable of."
"Harry, Desiree!" Harry turned to find Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape rushing towards them, wands raised. "Stand up Mr. Pettigrew. You are under arrest by the Ministry of Magic." Dumbledore said in a steely voice.
"Yeah, and that means you have the right to remain silent and anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." Desiree said standing, not letting go of the short man.
She saw that she was getting several perculiar stares from the people around her so she said "What? That's what they used to tell me when I got arrested."
"Let's just get him up to the school." Snape said as he took up a position behind the hostage.
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"Is there anything you would like to ask or say to him Harry?" Dumbledore asked after they chained Wormtail up in one of the dungeons and put anti-animagus charms on him so he couldn't escape by transfiguring.
"You never thought about it did you?" The raven haired man asked the chained man.
"Thought about what?" Wormtail spat back.
"The consequenses for stabbing your friends in the back. I bet not once did you consider the rippling effect you would cause on peoples lives because of your decision. I had to go and live with verbal abuse and be ignored my whole life because of you, Desiree had everything horrible and then some done to her because of you, Sirius went to hell because of you, and you know what? We survived. We're still here and still strong. That's what all of your torture did to us. It made us stronger people and we should really thank you for that. But not all of us are here, not all of us made it. My parents were murdered because of your cowardice. You don't hear them fighting Voldermort in your dreams do you? You don't see their deaths everytime you close your eyes do you? Well I do and I am going to make sure that you pay for all the shit you put me through. You took everything away from me and Desiree before we had the chance to realize it. You destoyed our childhoods for what? So you can cower at your pathetic masters feet and pray that we didn't find you. You're pathetic and you make me sick."
Harry took a deep breath and took a step away form the man who was the source of his pain.
"I know you can't sit there and tell us that you didn't think that nothing positive would come out of this?" Wormtail averted his hard gaze from Harry to Desiree who was leaning against the wall with a thick red blanket wrapped around her slightly hypotherimc body.
"Because of all of you're lying, cheating, stealing, and backstabbing, we were made fighters. We don't back down when things get tough, we fight back. Whenever life throws us lemons, we throw those damn things back because we want better and we will get it, because we'll fight for it. My skin is so thick you can stand there and call me names all day long and I wouldn't care, but one bad word or action against my family, you better pray that a hospital is only a few feet away when I get done with you. And you wanna know whose fault it is? It's yours and only yours. You ruined my life. So thank you. I don't think I would've made it through boot camp if it wasn't for you, ya sorry peice of cow shit."
Desiree and Harry kept their gazes steady with Wormtail until Dumbledore said "If that is all Desiree and Harry, you should go back to your dormitories, it is late."
Harry turned on his heel and stalked out of the dungeon without a backwards glance at Wormtail but Desiree shoved off the wall, flipped Wormtail off, then followed her ex-boyfriend out of the dungeon.
The two Gryffindors walked silently side by side until they reached the portriat hole. Harry muttered the password but stopped Desiree from going in.
"You know when we were in the woods and I was trying to tell you something before Wormtail came around?" "Yeah." "Well, I was trying to say that I was..."
"Harry, did you catch him?" "What happened?" "What's going on?"
Once agian poor timing kept Harry from confessing his feelings to his ex because it seemed that the entire house had stayed awake to discover the reason behind the fiasco at the ball.
"I guess a hero's work is never done. Good night Harry." Desiree said softly before she pushed past the people crowding the hole to go to bed.
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Desiree watched with bated breath from the shadows as Peter scampered down the spiral staircase to the common room. Though sorely tempted to see what he planted in Harry's trunk, Desiree opted to follow the rat, and to finally catch him.
Years of loneliness and pain fueled her as she followed Wormtail with the agileness of a cat into the hallway. Her bare feet made absolutely no sound as she stayed close to the wall for camouflage and kept her eyes on her goal.
`Watch the mighty lioness as she stalks her prey.' She thought humorly to herself in an Australian accent as she and the oblivious mouse made their way down the sweeping staircase towards the front doors and Great Hall.
She knew that it would be a whole lot easier if she just used her powers to float the rat to her, but where was the fun in that?
Carefully watching her step on the stairs, Desiree leaned forward slightly to get a better view of Wormtail but her shifted weight caused the stair she was standing on to give a creak. Desiree gasped and froze as Wormtail stopped and looked back. A faint, high pitched squeak was heard from the rodent as he darted to the doors in front of him.
Practically feeling his surprise and horror, Desiree leaped off the stairs, pulled the small handgun from her pocket that she took back up to carrying, and began to chase him.
`Of all the doors to choose from, he had to pick the one to the ball.' Desiree thought sourly as she busted into the Great Hall where everybody else in the school was dancing and having a typical teen night.
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"Having fun mate?" Ron asked Harry as they sat down at their table. "Oh yeah, loads." Harry said darkly as he glared at Parvati, who had barely left his side at all tonight, as she laughed falsely with Ron's date Lavendar who looked positively bored at the prospect of conversing with her.
"Why don't you just go back to the dorms and apologize to her?" Ron asked helpfully, knowing that his friend missed Desiree greatly. Harry stared at him with a disbelieving look and replied. "Apologize to her for what? I did nothing wrong. She's the one with the problem and she needs to get over it." "I thought you said that you'd love her no matter what?"
Harry glanced back at Ron before he let his mind automatically wander back to the night that he made that promise.
~~**~After about an hour of dancing and socializing it was time for Desiree to open her presents which had accumulated to a small mountain. Finding the one from Harry she opened the box excitedly to find a small, thin gold band encrusted with diamonds all around it and a black stuffed winged unicorn with a gold tag engraved with `Sunshine' around it's neck. "Harry this is way too much." she said to him when she saw the piece of jewelry. "No its not. It's a promise ring. A promise I'm making to you now that I will always love you no matter what." Synchronized `awes' broke out all around them.~**~~
"I did say that didn't I?" Harry said softly as he stared out at the crowd. Harry shook his head and banged his fist on the table before he said "I'm such an ass."
At that moment, the Great Hall doors swung open to reveal a very determined looking and disheveled Desiree.
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Though many obstacles were in the way now, Desiree still kept her eyes on Wormtail as she shoved people out of her way. "Get the fuck out of my way bitch!" Desiree yelled to no one in particular.
She raised her gun and aimed masterfully and pulled the trigger. BOOM! A huge hole was now in the marble floor but she consequensly missed the fat rat. "Shit!" Desiree raised her gun again, but before she could pull the trigger, her eyes met with Harry's.
"Go left and head em off!" She shouted to him. For a fleeting moment she thought that he would just laugh at her but she knew that he saw the rat and he also knew what catching him would mean to both of them.
Harry nodded his head at her and darted to the side to try and head off the infamous Wormtail. Desiree barely saw the skinny bald tail of her obsession dart under the table before she leapt on top of it. Rich food was ground into the green tank top she wore as she wiggled off the table to get to him.
Harry and Desiree both saw him head towards the open garden doors and went after him. Even though both were equipt with the knowledge that Dumbledore was probably hot of their trail, they did not care. The only thing that mattered right now was to find the rat and to make him pay.
Harry and Desiree raced through the garden hedges and kissing couples and into the open field next to the forbidden forest. "Dez! You take it from the sky and I'll take it from the ground!" Harry shouted to her. He saw her nod and give him a thumbs up.
Several seconds later Desiree tore through the sky in her dark raven form while Harry prowled the ground as a sleek black panther as Wormtail rushed into the dark area of the forest.
Harry nimbly wove his way through the overgrown stumps and weeds in the forest right behind his enemy. After awhile, the trees began to get thicker and it was getting harder to see just where Wormtail was headed, but Harry persisted.
Just as he saw Wormtail dissapear underneath a clump of roots, out of the panthers reach, Harry heard the call of a raven above him and saw Desiree flash underneath the roots.
Harry returned to his human form and waited with his wand ready.
He heard the scuffling and scrathing underneath the roots between Wormtail and Desiree and was tempted to transfigure into something smaller so he could get under there as well but felt a wave of relief when he heard Desiree's muffled cry of "I got the dirty bastard!"
Desiree's head appeared out the roots and drug the now unconscious Wormtail behind her. "Let me handle him." Harry said to her referring to the tratior. He muttered a few choice words and Peter Pettigrew was now suspended in thin air, following Harry's movements toward the school.
"Wow, are you okay Dez?" Harry asked her when she saw her scratched and bleeding face in the moonlight, genuinly concerned. "Yeah I'm fine." answered Desiree, who had her weapon and wand raised at Wormtail with fire in her eyes.
Harry took a deep breath and decided that it was now or never to tell him how he felt while he still had the courage. "Look Dez, there's something I have to tell you. I'm..."
Before he could get the word sorry out, Wormtail grabbed Harry by the neck with his metal hand, causing the young man to drop his wand, and elbowed Desiree in the head with the other arm, causing the same effect as Harry.
He snatched Desiree's now abandoned wand and pointed it right in between Harry's eyes. "Now it is time to finish you. I know that master wanted to but I will be rewarded greatly if I did it out of glory for him!" Wormtail raised his wand to preform a fatal curse but was faltered by Desiree taking him from behind in a head lock with her gun resting at his temple.
"Drop the wand." She demanded. She heard Harry get up and get his wand. "Drop it NOW!" she said with more force in her words and in the grip she held onto his neck with. "That little thing can't hurt me little girl." Wormtail said in an almost laughing voice.
Desiree turned the gun to point it at a tree and set it off. A huge hole was now present in the trunk and bits of bark were flying around. "Now tell me that won't kill you, you son of a bitch. And don't forget whose little girl I am and just what were capable of."
"Harry, Desiree!" Harry turned to find Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape rushing towards them, wands raised. "Stand up Mr. Pettigrew. You are under arrest by the Ministry of Magic." Dumbledore said in a steely voice.
"Yeah, and that means you have the right to remain silent and anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." Desiree said standing, not letting go of the short man.
She saw that she was getting several perculiar stares from the people around her so she said "What? That's what they used to tell me when I got arrested."
"Let's just get him up to the school." Snape said as he took up a position behind the hostage.
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"Is there anything you would like to ask or say to him Harry?" Dumbledore asked after they chained Wormtail up in one of the dungeons and put anti-animagus charms on him so he couldn't escape by transfiguring.
"You never thought about it did you?" The raven haired man asked the chained man.
"Thought about what?" Wormtail spat back.
"The consequenses for stabbing your friends in the back. I bet not once did you consider the rippling effect you would cause on peoples lives because of your decision. I had to go and live with verbal abuse and be ignored my whole life because of you, Desiree had everything horrible and then some done to her because of you, Sirius went to hell because of you, and you know what? We survived. We're still here and still strong. That's what all of your torture did to us. It made us stronger people and we should really thank you for that. But not all of us are here, not all of us made it. My parents were murdered because of your cowardice. You don't hear them fighting Voldermort in your dreams do you? You don't see their deaths everytime you close your eyes do you? Well I do and I am going to make sure that you pay for all the shit you put me through. You took everything away from me and Desiree before we had the chance to realize it. You destoyed our childhoods for what? So you can cower at your pathetic masters feet and pray that we didn't find you. You're pathetic and you make me sick."
Harry took a deep breath and took a step away form the man who was the source of his pain.
"I know you can't sit there and tell us that you didn't think that nothing positive would come out of this?" Wormtail averted his hard gaze from Harry to Desiree who was leaning against the wall with a thick red blanket wrapped around her slightly hypotherimc body.
"Because of all of you're lying, cheating, stealing, and backstabbing, we were made fighters. We don't back down when things get tough, we fight back. Whenever life throws us lemons, we throw those damn things back because we want better and we will get it, because we'll fight for it. My skin is so thick you can stand there and call me names all day long and I wouldn't care, but one bad word or action against my family, you better pray that a hospital is only a few feet away when I get done with you. And you wanna know whose fault it is? It's yours and only yours. You ruined my life. So thank you. I don't think I would've made it through boot camp if it wasn't for you, ya sorry peice of cow shit."
Desiree and Harry kept their gazes steady with Wormtail until Dumbledore said "If that is all Desiree and Harry, you should go back to your dormitories, it is late."
Harry turned on his heel and stalked out of the dungeon without a backwards glance at Wormtail but Desiree shoved off the wall, flipped Wormtail off, then followed her ex-boyfriend out of the dungeon.
The two Gryffindors walked silently side by side until they reached the portriat hole. Harry muttered the password but stopped Desiree from going in.
"You know when we were in the woods and I was trying to tell you something before Wormtail came around?" "Yeah." "Well, I was trying to say that I was..."
"Harry, did you catch him?" "What happened?" "What's going on?"
Once agian poor timing kept Harry from confessing his feelings to his ex because it seemed that the entire house had stayed awake to discover the reason behind the fiasco at the ball.
"I guess a hero's work is never done. Good night Harry." Desiree said softly before she pushed past the people crowding the hole to go to bed.
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