Chapter 5: Mysteries

A/N: Fire's Dew: She does rule, thanks! I'll write more soon!

fairysk8r: She should've kicked her ass! But don't worry, she will soon!

willowwiccantara: Thank you very much! I'll keep writing!

julz: Thank you, it is pretty good. Yes, Dawn is a muggle born ('mudblood' as Draco calls it) Slytherin. Odd. Really. Read to find out about her being muggle born, it may be in a few chapters ahead. I don't know yet!

Erin: I am going as slow as I can. Once I get an inspiration to add to the story, I write it down on paper. Then once I think the chapter is good enough, I type it up and then I print it out on typing paper and correct the mistakes on paper and then on the computer. Then, I publish. I do try and do this to every chapter I get to, but sometimes I can't. Forgive me. I'm only human. And there aren't too many riddles. A lot of people seem to like it. If you don't like it, then don't read it.

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The next morning Dawn woke up, she couldn't see. Her eyes had a burning sensation that automatically kicked in on watery eyes. She wiped her eyes and looked out of them. Shaving cream. "You bitch" she muttered wiping as much as she could off of her face. She walked into the bathroom and grabbed a towel to begin wiping her face off.

"Wow Dawn, your second day here and you're already getting fucked. Gosh, he really cummed all over your face, didn't he? Who was the unlucky guy?" Pansy asked.

"Bitch" Dawn muttered.

"Now, now. Don't wanna go around spreading rumors, you might get in trouble" Pansy said stalking out of the room.

Dawn was so determined to knock the shit out of her, but she didn't. She wasn't getting in trouble this easily. She got ready for breakfast and classes and walked out to meet Sirius there.

"What are you doing here?" she asked him.

"I'm the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. You didn't have that class yesterday?" he asked back.

"No, I have it today. With Parkinson" she growled at her name.

"Don't let her get to you, she's just annoying to anyone" he said.

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"Dawn?" Draco asked. "Are you okay?"

"Huh? Yea, I'm fine" she replied. She was in a huge daze.

"You wanna talk about it?" he offered. This is probably the ONLY girl he's EVER been nice to in his whole entire life.

"Do you always know everything?"

"Just about."

"Oh it's just Parkinson. She put shaving cream all over my face today."

"Don't let her get to you. She's just annoying anyway. But"

"But what?"

"You can get her back for it" he suggested.

"What do you have in mind?"

"Well" he started, but got interrupted.

"Miss Parkinson! I have asked you umpteen times to be quiet! Now, if you could just shut up, maybe I can get on with my lesson and you can learn something!" Sirius screamed.

"Summers and Draco have been talking over there the whole time and you haven't said a word to them! Just because you are a legal guardian to her doesn't mean you have to favor her to the rest of the class!" she said back.

"I do not favor anyone over anybody else! Get up and go to Professor Dumbledore's office, Malfoy, assist her."

"Shit" he mumbled as he stood to escort her out. She linked his arm with hers and she pulled away.

"Don't touch me" he said in a monotone voice.

"What happened to us, honey? You used to love me before she came" Pansy replied. She scowled at him when he didn't answer.

"I never loved you, Parkinson. I never have, and I never will. Get it through you're pug-faced head!"

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"Summers!" Pansy called out to Dawn. Dawn had been reading a book on her studies in the common room by the fire and guess who had to ruin it?

"What?" Dawn said. As she spun around, Pansy punched her in the face. Dawn fell backwards.

"Ugh" she muttered. Everyone was staring at them. Dawn got up and grabbed Pansy's foot that was about to ram into her stomach. She smacked Pansy and then Pansy fell and brought Dawn with her.

Pansy rolled them over and had her fingers around Dawn's throat trying to choke her. Dawn hefted her arms up and grabbed Pansy's face, digging her nails into Pansy's skin. Pansy cried out in pain. Snape just happened to have been walking by and heard the noise. He opened the common room door as they continued fighting.

Dawn had a bloody nose and a ring around her throat. Pansy had claw marks going down the side of her face. It was horrible. "Separate" Snape pointed his wand in the middle of the girls and they flew apart. "All of you, back to your dormitories" he hissed. Dawn and Pansy tried to go with the crowd, but Snape caught them.

"You two come with me" he sneered. The girls followed them to the dungeons. "You will each have detention for a month for fighting, and you Miss Summer's will have to deal with your father. I mean guardian" he quickly covered.

She eyed him mysteriously but then just let it go. ~Simple slip-up~ she said to herself. She shook it off and began listening to Snape again.

"Miss Parkinson, you will start detention for a week on Monday and the next week will be Miss Summers. I will inform you what to do on Monday in class Miss Parkinson." Snape left with his black robes billowing behind him.

"This isn't over yet, Summers" Pansy hissed.

"I'm ready for all you got, Parkinson."

"I'm not afraid of you."

"You think I'm afraid of you? Oh, my bad. Every time someone looks at you they wanna scream and run away" Dawn remarked and then left. Pansy always got her way with everybody and always scared everyone, well not with Dawn. Dawn was the one to be afraid of now, she has lived on the Hellmouth. Pansy wasn't going to let her see that she really was afraid of Dawn.

"Screw that idea" she muttered to herself and walked in the other direction.

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Dawn was on her way to the common room to finish her studies and then a noise came from behind her. She stopped and turned around, worried. "Hello?" she asked timidly.

She sped up with her walking. Footsteps came out from the side of her and whoever or whatever it was tackled her. They landed on the other side of a small, deserted hallway. A big body was almost crushing her. She decided it was a man. He had many muscles. Dawn could feel his hot breath against her neck.

"Get off me" she struggled.

"Chill, Summers" he purred once again into her ear. This was probably the second time he's done it.

"Get off, Malfoy! Or I'll scream!" She began to open her mouth, but before anything came out Draco stuck his hand over her mouth. He slipped it away and lightly kissed her on the lips.

"Ew!" she said and pushed him off of her while she got up. She smoothed her skirt out as he pulled himself up alongside of her. He got her up against the wall and put rested his hands about an inch from where her shoulders stood. He kissed her lightly again and she never pushed away this time.

She fell into his kiss and her arms around his middle section to hold her up. He took his hands off the wall and held her into his arms. They each pulled away and hugged for a brief moment.

"Dawn!" someone shouted.

"Uh oh. Sirius" she whispered to Draco.

"What are you doing to her!?" Sirius shouted to Draco.

"Well, sir" Draco tried to explain.

"Someone grabbed me from behind" she lied. "And Draco happened to save me, so I hugged him" she made an unusual face.

"A week's detention for you, mister" he pointed to Draco "for hitting on my daughter, I mean, legal person thing." Draco hurried off.

"Come with me" Sirius said. He led Dawn into his dorm room and sat her in a chair.

"You know better than to be snogging in the hallway. Especially with Malfoy!"

"You called me your daughter. And Snape called me your daughter. Then you both corrected yourselves. What's going on?" Dawn asked.

"You don't need to know now."

"I'll find out eventually."

"Fine. How much time do you have?"

"Go on" she pushed.