Title: Seven of Hearts

Author: Yaoi Girl and Slasherfiend

Rating: R

Warnings: SLASH SLASH SLASH!! You have been warned.to all no slash fans please don't read if you are uncomfortable with 2 men going at it k?

Chapter 2: Revealing Secrets

Fae appeared to be a quick learner, at least of places, because by the end of her first week, she knew her way around better than most of the sixth years.

"I don't get it she's too nice to be a Slytherin." Ron said at breakfast. Harry nodded in agreement.

"Yes that is definitely one thing I'm bound not to understand." Hermione said

"On top of that she hangs out with Malfoy and the group. Have you seen how they act together? They seem more like they're related than classmates." Harry added casting a glance at Fae as she laughed at a joke someone at her table had just said. Malfoy whispered something into her ear and she simply nodded looking at her watch. Slowly they got up from their seats and headed out the door. Crabbe, and Goyle following. Harry grinned at his friends and they followed.

"What are following us for Potter?" Draco asked.

"What and destroy the whole schedule we have set up?" Ron said with a grin.

"Be quiet Weasel, People like you should pay for every word you say..maybe then they'll shut up" Draco sent back. Thus the verbal sparring began. Meanwhile Hermione and Fae were on the side lines chatting on recent events.

"Yes that assignment that Professor Binns gave was so simple.." Fae said Hermione nodded.

"You just had to read chapter 23 completely and you would understand."

"That's what I was trying to explain to Dra but will he listen to me? Nooo he simply mumbles something about us only being on chapter 3 and continues reading through the whole book before he arrives at chapter 23."

"Same with Harry and Ron..I think it's just a guy thing."

"True"

"I think it's time for our first class.. Shall we?" Hermione asked motioning towards the arguing boys.

"Yes." Fae said and both proceeded to separate their respective sides.

"That's enough for this morning's argument." Fae said placing a hand on Draco's shoulder

That was a normal morning. Fae had convinced that boys will be boys and allowing them to insult each other before classes begun caused less havoc between classes. Hermione agreed so they just chatted away along the boys to let out any steam. Not that the boys every truly noticed.

"Let's head to Defense Against the Dark Arts." Hermione said. Gently leading Ron and Harry behind the Slytherin group.

"Top o' the morning to ya Harry, Ron, Hermione!" He greeted

"Aye how are ya Seamus" Harry mocked in a fake Irish accent. Seamus elbowed him.

"Where were you this morning for breakfast?" Hermione asked as they headed down the hall.

"errr,.aa.well..I slept in.." Seamus said nervously scratching the back of his head." Oi, I hope we don't have Snape Substituting again. " he quickly changed the subject. They had had a rotating cast of teachers supervising their classes for the past week.

They walked into the DADA classroom, and found most of the class already in their seats, transfixed by the short, ginger haired woman sitting behind the teacher's desk. She had her eyes closed and Harry thought he saw headphones in her ears. Harry had never seen her before. But that wasn't what bothered him. It was the fact she was singing a very inappropriate muggle song he remembered hearing once.

"Don't get strung out, by the way I look Don't judge a book by its cover, I'm not much of a man by the light of day But by night I'm one hell of a lover I'm just a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania-huh-huh! Harry banged into Draco at the "lover" line, he forgot he hadn't stopped walking. Draco didn't seem to notice for about three seconds, before turning to Harry questioningly, and nodding towards the teacher. Harry shrugged. They slipped into the only empty seats left, two right across the aisle from each other, in the very front row. Their eyes never left the ginger haired woman.

"Let me show you around, and maybe play you a sound You look like you're both pretty groovy." She splayed her hands in the direction of Harry and Draco. Harry clenched the sides of his desk. Fae chuckled maliciously from the back.

"Or if you want something visual that's not to abysmal We could take in an old Steve Reeve's movie" The woman was quiet for a few seconds. Harry turned his head to look at his silent fellow classmates. Ron was sitting two rows behind him with his mouth hanging open. Hermione reached over and closed it for him before raising her hand.

"Umm, excuse me, are you the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?" she asked.

"Well you got caught with a flat well, how bout that? Well babies, don't you panic. By the light of the night, it'll all seem alright, I'll get you a satanic mechanic. I'm just a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania-huh-huh!" She opened her eyes, then jerked the headphones off her ears and shoved them into a desk drawer, quickly setting a yellow piece of paper on the desk and folding her hands over it.

"Good Morning. Um.when did you get here?" She asked.

"Um.about.well, 2 or 3 minutes ago miss.Professor... um.. Who are you?" Hermione asked. The woman got up from the desk and stood before it. She wore a heavy silk cream skirt which fell to just above the middle of her calf; a matching shirt with flowing sleeves tied at the wrist. Over it was an orange silk bodice which changed color from yellow to red depending on how the light hit it. She wore gold rimmed oval spectacles, and her hair had two decorated wooden sticks thrust into a complex looking bun.

"Rowan-Avalon, Professor Rowan-Avalon. I'm your new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher." She said grabbing the yellow sheet of paper. "I'm guessing you are my seventh year class. For those of you who don't know, that was Sweet Transvestite, from a Muggle musical called the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I highly recommend it to all of you. You are probably old enough to enjoy it (1)" She said with a straight face. The class began to wonder about their new teacher.was she sane? She cleared her throat, "Now, to find out who you are. Let's take attendance, shall we?" She glanced down at the sheet. Her mouth formed a small O. "This is the.Gryffindor/Slytherin class.How. appropriate. Having you at around" She looked down at her watch. " 8 o'clock in the morning. The gods are punishing me. I knew great uncle had it in for me when he told me about this job.This would never happen with the Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff class.Or even with the first years, I mean it might even go over their heads!" Professor Rowan-Avalon was ricocheting of the walls of sense. Now the class was positive, their new teacher was a mental case. "That's it." she sighed " Back to attendance."

"Brown, Lavender"

"Present!"

She breezed through the list till she was met with- "Granger..oh," She looked farther through the list "crap. Potter.Weasley.Why?"

"Professor?" Harry asked.

"Oh not you, dear. It's the trouble that seems to follow you and your little band." She said sweetly. Draco chuckled at the truth. Professor R. A. fixed her gaze onto him, in silent inspection. Suddenly her face lit with the enlightenment of recognition. "OH! You're Lucius Malfoy's kid!" She said happily. Draco blinked. "I dated him for a while. can't remember why. OH YEAH! My hormones were running the show.And he was cute.when he wasn't scowling. Yeah, that explains a lot. " Draco wore a look of absolute horror on his face. Harry gave him a smug smile of revenge. The professor continued through the list.

"Longbottom, Neville" She looked intently at Neville

"P.Present?" Neville stuttered out.

"I had the honor of knowing your parents," she said, absolutely serious. "Two of the kindest people I ever knew." Neville blushed. "If you are anything like them" She continued. "It would be my pleasure to have you in this class" Millicent Bulstrode almost burst into hysterics. "Ah, Ms. Bulstrode, your mother logged more hours in detention than any one else in the history of the school. Let's try not to break the record shall we?" Harry was now very confused. Who was this woman again? Hadn't he just heard her singing a song about a transvestite a few minutes ago? And there was something in her demeanor that was nagging his memory. WHAT WAS IT!?

"Professor?" Harry raised his hand. "What house were you from?"

"Why Gryffindor of course, wouldn't want to break the family tradition now would I?" She continued with the Slytherin half of the list without further pause. She then set the paper down on her desk when she finished and looked at the class.

"Now. let me make this clear. I am the premiere Scholar of the Defense Against the Dark Arts in Europe and North America. I am a highly respected Auror, and have recently returned from Albania studying the effects of the Dark Lord's presence upon the local populations, both magical and non- magical. I was requested to come here and teach by Headmaster Dumbledore barely two weeks ago. He has yet to provide me with a satisfactory answer as to why he could not find another teacher, but that can be explored at a later date. I have spoken with the other Professors of this school, and with your past Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers, those who aren't dead or terminally insane. Meaning, I was only able to speak with Professor Lupin. And for all of you eager looking Gryffindor, he is doing quite well, "she looked pointedly at Harry, " And has recently gotten a dog. Snuffles, I think he named it. For the irony I suppose. Massive, black thing." Harry's eyes doubles in size. What was his Godfather doing at Professor Lupin's house? And how did Professor R.A. know about it?

"What Professor Lupin told me," she continued, "Was extremely useful, though also very disturbing. We will be spending the first half of this term playing catch-up. The next half of the term and the next semester will be spent learning all you should know for your NEWTs. The last term will be spent learning all the fun advanced stuff that I will not let you leave my class without knowing. Not with the Dark Lord out there. Also," she said firmly. " In this class, his name is VOLDEMORT!" The class cringed. "That is his name. Not "You-Know-Who". Don't give him the pleasure of knowing your fear. The Muggles have known monsters far worse than Voldemort, and they not only call them by name, but they make rapacious fun of them too. Believe me, seeing Hitler get a pineapple up you know where. " Harry and Draco cringed. That would be PAINFUL.In the back Fae snickered. She had SEEN that movie (2).".Is quite hilarious. "R.A. continued. Seeing the looks her class was giving her, she added, "And yes, I am also a Scholar of Muggle Culture. I even got my Discman to run on magic, not batteries."

Fae shrieked. "REALLY! CAN YOU TEACH ME? The last one I tried it on blew up."

"That happened to about five before I figured out how to compensate for the.See me after class and I'll give you the spell." Professor R.A. said.

In her third row seat, Hermione was beaming. She was going to enjoy DADA this year.

~*~*~*~

Their next class that day was Care of Magical Creatures. Considering that Professor R.A. had played a Muggle game called Jeopardy with them to review (interspersed with um, odd comments), they doubted that anything Hagrid could do would be interesting. Except Fae.

"Wel'ome!" Hagrid said grinning from ear to ear. "Today we will be studying one of the student's magical creature."

"SO were going to study an owl, cat, or toad?" Dean asked disgustedly

"Nope.Ms. Summer could you please call your magical creature?" Hagrid said. The students turned to Fae, she faltered for a minute before sighing and removing a whistle of some sort. She blew it, no sound came out. She put it back into her bag and sighed.

"Um.I don't think any animal could have heard that Mr. Hagrid sir.." Neville said looking up at Hagrid.

"Don't worry her creature will come soon. Cute thing likes wandering through the forbidden forest." Hagrid said excitedly. Fae let out a growl.

"Baka.(3)" She said before covering her mouth to form a primitive loud speaker. "ONI!! GET OVER HERE THIS INSTANT!"

"Oni?" Harry said looking at her.

"It means demon in Japanese. Her full name is Oni Tenshi-Demonic Angel. I just call her Oni cuz she usually acts like an demon. I have a friend that knows Japanese and he gave me the name." She cast a glance at the outskirts of the forbidden forest. A creature about the size out a Rotweiller zoomed out and ended up tackling Fae, licking her face with such enthusiasm it almost ate her sunglasses. She giggled and pushed it off.

"THIS is Oni" She said. The creature most definitely a breed of Dragon but.weren't they illegal to own? The scales were a gray color and its ears pricked up small stub-like horns were near the ears. Sitting on it's haunches it reached Fae's waist. Its paws seemed to be way too big in proportion to its body giving it a klutzy look. Its tail wrapped around its legs and was smooth.

"Isn't it illegal to own a dragon?" Ron asked eyeing the dragon cautiously. He still had memories of Hagrid's dragon Norbert.

" I believe that there is a slight loop hole. You must have a license and there's only one breed.Pixie Dragons. Not many people have it because they are hard to find and train in general." She said scratching behind the dragons ears.

" So. How old is she?" Hermione asked inching her way towards the dragon.

"Oh.this one..She's still a little dragonlet at 13 years of age but she won't grow any larger after now."

"Does she breathe fire?" Neville asked stepping away from the dragon.

"Nope but she does have a power.allow me to demonstrate." She led the dragon to Hagrid's wood cabin. "Although gray is the Pixie Dragons original color it has the power to become invisible." At the word invisible the Dragon seemed to disappear out of thin air. "It's instinctive for the dragons to do it due to their size versus other dragons. She snapped her fingers and Oni appeared behind Draco making him jump back in surprise. The class burst into laughter.

"Ain't it the cutest thing ever?" Hagrid asked patting Oni on the head. "Spend the rest of the period as a free one. spend time with Oni she always likes attention." The student needed no second bidding as they all came closer to the pixie dragon patting its head.

The rest of the day past as it's usual and Draco and Fae entered Slytherin common room both joking around.

"I still don't get why you don't you finish your homework at the same time I do? It takes you longer." Draco said with a grin.

"Maybe because I put more effort than you do." She said sitting in one of the black leather sofas and settling in to it

"Well good night Fae." Draco said heading to his dormitories. Fae smiled and waved at him.

It was 9 o'clock when Fae finished her homework and 12 when she decided that she had to return to the girls' dormitories. She really didn't like the girls in her house and neither did they. She sighed and lay down on the couch she was close to drifting off when the boys' dormitory door slid open. She stood stark still. Who the hell would be awake and leaving the house common room at 12:30?! She took a peak to see who was leaving. It was Draco. What the? Why is Draco leaving at this hour? Curiosity got the best of Fae as she stood up and followed Draco in the shadows of the hall unnoticed Draco stopped in the corridor as if blindly in search of something. or someone. Harry appeared before Draco from under an invisibility cloak. With a tender smile, (Had Fae ever seen such a lustfully sappy expression on Draco's face?) Draco embraced Harry and disappeared beneath the cloak. Fae grinned, what even Dumbledore didn't know was that her family had a little talent that was quite hush hush about, and for a good reason. They could see through any invisibility spell. All of them. And it was a good thing Draco and Harry didn't know this because.

'Jesus' thought Fae. Upon entering the cloak Harry had locked Draco in a passionate kiss. He was forceful about it too. 'And *I* thought he was a good boy..' Fae could practically SEE the tongue interchange as the couple proceeded to clean out each others tonsils, thoroughly. Harry pushed Draco against the wall fingers pulling the clasp of Draco's robes, desperately trying to bare the chest of his lover.

Fae turned away. She would never be able to face either of them tomorrow without totally losing it if she saw more. She headed back to the Slytherin common room. So, Potter and Malfoy, mortal enemies by day, and passionate-A muffled moan came from the hall behind her-Correction, VERY passionate lovers by night. As she entered the Slytherin common room her face cracked into a grin. She had just *known* that those two.were.well.yeah.She just had known it!! Climbing up the stairs and laying on the bed the song Professor Rowan Avalon Crept into her head.

If you want something visual, that's not too abysmal

Fae spent the rest of that night planning on just HOW to torment Draco the tomorrow morning.

TBC

(1) Rocky Horror Picture Show RULES

(2) It comes from Little Nicky

(3) It means stupid in a good way (Japanese)

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