THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU (ESPECIALLY ILDERA) for the fabulastic
reviews! It made me happy, despite the fact that I'm in summer session and
I have a mid-term in the morning:-P
BTW: So sorry for those who retched a bit with the Ginny/Lockhart deal. I HAD TO! IT WENT WITH THE SCRIPT!
Now that I have apologized and defended the pairing (I don't like it either...), here's another chapter..it's almost over!
*tears*
~Kissy~
~*~
Pansy took the hysterical Hermione to the bathroom and sat her down on the toilet. She filled the sink with water.
"Get up."
Hermione looked at Pansy with a mixture of fear and curiosity. 'Why is she in here with me? Helping me?' Hermione shook her thoughts away and walked towards Pansy.
Pansy smiled, put her hand on Hermione's back...........and dunked her face into the sink.
"Pluh! Blegh! Gurgle gurgle! PANSY!"
"Shhhhh....." She dipped Hermione's face in slower this time, and then brought her up and wiped off the water with a towel.
"Better?"
Hermione sat back down on the toilet. "Yeah."
Pansy took the towel back over to Hermione and handed it to her. "Ok, come on, dry it off."
Pansy looked at Hermione and realized she had never seen the bookish girl look so lost and vulnerable. At first Pansy wanted to dance in circles and rejoice that Hermione had fallen off the pedestal everyone put her up on.....but looking at her crumpled on the toilet seat, sobbing into a towel used by EVERYONE on the staff, well, Pansy wanted to.....feel sorry for her.
She knelt down in front of Hermione and stroked the sobbing girl's hand. "So I guess nobody really has it all together."
Hermione looked up and a small smile formed on her lips. "No."
"I feel like I should welcome you to the neighborhood or something," Pansy said with a small laugh, her first laugh that day. "Anyway, did you really want to do Gilderoy Lockhart in the count-out room? Is that how you always imagined your first time would be? You're back up against the daily totals and your feet pounding against the safe?" Pansy got up and backed up against the bathroom wall in a fake swoon. "Oh Gildy, stop that! You're so sexy!"
Both girls looked at each other, and collapsed in a fit of laughter. Hermione was the first to stop. She looked at Pansy and sighed, "Why are you being so nice to me?"
Pansy got up and smirked. She pulled up Hermione and opened the door. Before she walked out, she turned to face Hermione, "Let's save our happy moment, it doesn't happen too often."
Hermione watched Pansy walk out, and for the first time, she realized she didn't need to be perfect for Pansy to like her at all.
~*~
Ron took over the couch and popped in a WVD (Wizard Video Disc). His favorite band, GWAR (also known as GWAR to muggles...but muggles never really know how many wizards pose as muggles, which would take all the fun out!) came on the screen and started stomping around on stage. Ron reached over the side of the couch where he was hiding the pumpkin cakes that Seamus had made him earlier that day. 'mmmm..these are pretty good!' Ron gobbled up the 'magic' pumpkin cakes while taking in every aspect of the GWAR WVD to get some pointers for when he started his band.
Suddenly, the singers on the WTV stopped stomping and started talking to Ron.
"Hey! Hey Ron! You love GWAR, why don't you join the band!"
Ron looked around the room frantically, bits and pieces of pumpkin cake flying out of his mouth. Then, as if he had touched a port key, he was IN the video WITH GWAR!
'This is wicked trippy!' Ron giggled as he began to stomp around on stage. He played air-guitar like he had so many times in the store, and before his eyes, a real guitar appeared. Ron strummed on it to start off, and then he was wailing all over the stage.
Then the music stopped.
The lead singer came up to Ron and clapped him on the back. "Aw man, Ron, you play a mean guitar, man. It's really a shame that you must DIE!"
Out of nowhere, a giant bunch of Devil's Snare appeared and started to go after Ron. He ran and screamed like a girl, "Awwww, wait! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Hey! Come on! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..............."
"Whoa!" Ron looked around and he was back on the couch, eating the magic pumpkin cakes. "Ha, wicked, I love you Seamus, man, you never fail me with the cakes."
~*~
Snape was in his office, trying to take in everything that had happened. 'How in Merlin's name,' thought Snape, 'did everything happen this way? Today, of all days! At the same BLOODY TIME!'
He slammed his fist on his desk just as the door opened and Minerva appeared in the doorway.
"Hey. So what are you doing when this day is over?"
Snape leaned back on his chair, "I don't know, I'm either going to jail or to hell, I can't decide which."
"Well, wherever you're going, would you like to come back up to Hogwarts sometime and help me out in scaring the small children again? That place sure seems cheery since you've been here acting like a regular wizard. We still need a substitute potions master from time to time, you wouldn't have to leave Empress, and it's only once a month or so."
For the first time that day, Snape smiled. "You bet."
(A/N: I KNOW in the movie the characters that Snape and McGonagall (SP?) play end up together, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I apologize to the disappointed ones.)
~*~
Seamus was sitting on the stairs, twiddling with some string he had found earlier on the backroom floor. Draco was sitting just a step below him, head in his hands.
"Hey Malfoy, Can I ask you something? Do you know where Warvard is?"
Draco looked up at Seamus, "It's in America, in a city called Boston."
Seamus shook his head, and slid down so he was sitting next to Draco. "No man, I mean, do you really know where Warvard is? It's another planet, man. Another universe. Totally unlike the one we know, even the fancy rich one you know. Filled with big blonder guys who eat ivy and row boats." Draco stared a Seamus like he had to heads, but he knew Seamus was on another planet himself, so he nodded for the boy to continue.
"What I'm trying to say is that you and Hermione are just not made for each other. Aside from being muggle born, she's, she's different that you. She's- -"
Before Seamus could even justify his ramblings, Draco had already started to walk away.
~*~
Hermione was drawing a symbol on a piece of parchment.
Harry walked in and looked at the cards that Hermione had drawn. "'Death is in the cards,' 'Rest In Peace Pansy,' A funeral. Is Pansy not with us anymore?" Harry had a quick flashback to Pansy's bandaged wrist, to him telling Draco that she was safe, then back to Pansy's wrists...
Hermione looked up from her parchment. Ever since Pansy left her in the bathroom, Hermione was determined to let Pansy know the people WOULD miss her, and that hurting herself was just as bad as what Hermione was doing. Pansy cleared Hermione's mind, now Hermione wanted to clear Pansy's.
"If Pansy wants to die, let's show her what a real funeral would be like."
BTW: So sorry for those who retched a bit with the Ginny/Lockhart deal. I HAD TO! IT WENT WITH THE SCRIPT!
Now that I have apologized and defended the pairing (I don't like it either...), here's another chapter..it's almost over!
*tears*
~Kissy~
~*~
Pansy took the hysterical Hermione to the bathroom and sat her down on the toilet. She filled the sink with water.
"Get up."
Hermione looked at Pansy with a mixture of fear and curiosity. 'Why is she in here with me? Helping me?' Hermione shook her thoughts away and walked towards Pansy.
Pansy smiled, put her hand on Hermione's back...........and dunked her face into the sink.
"Pluh! Blegh! Gurgle gurgle! PANSY!"
"Shhhhh....." She dipped Hermione's face in slower this time, and then brought her up and wiped off the water with a towel.
"Better?"
Hermione sat back down on the toilet. "Yeah."
Pansy took the towel back over to Hermione and handed it to her. "Ok, come on, dry it off."
Pansy looked at Hermione and realized she had never seen the bookish girl look so lost and vulnerable. At first Pansy wanted to dance in circles and rejoice that Hermione had fallen off the pedestal everyone put her up on.....but looking at her crumpled on the toilet seat, sobbing into a towel used by EVERYONE on the staff, well, Pansy wanted to.....feel sorry for her.
She knelt down in front of Hermione and stroked the sobbing girl's hand. "So I guess nobody really has it all together."
Hermione looked up and a small smile formed on her lips. "No."
"I feel like I should welcome you to the neighborhood or something," Pansy said with a small laugh, her first laugh that day. "Anyway, did you really want to do Gilderoy Lockhart in the count-out room? Is that how you always imagined your first time would be? You're back up against the daily totals and your feet pounding against the safe?" Pansy got up and backed up against the bathroom wall in a fake swoon. "Oh Gildy, stop that! You're so sexy!"
Both girls looked at each other, and collapsed in a fit of laughter. Hermione was the first to stop. She looked at Pansy and sighed, "Why are you being so nice to me?"
Pansy got up and smirked. She pulled up Hermione and opened the door. Before she walked out, she turned to face Hermione, "Let's save our happy moment, it doesn't happen too often."
Hermione watched Pansy walk out, and for the first time, she realized she didn't need to be perfect for Pansy to like her at all.
~*~
Ron took over the couch and popped in a WVD (Wizard Video Disc). His favorite band, GWAR (also known as GWAR to muggles...but muggles never really know how many wizards pose as muggles, which would take all the fun out!) came on the screen and started stomping around on stage. Ron reached over the side of the couch where he was hiding the pumpkin cakes that Seamus had made him earlier that day. 'mmmm..these are pretty good!' Ron gobbled up the 'magic' pumpkin cakes while taking in every aspect of the GWAR WVD to get some pointers for when he started his band.
Suddenly, the singers on the WTV stopped stomping and started talking to Ron.
"Hey! Hey Ron! You love GWAR, why don't you join the band!"
Ron looked around the room frantically, bits and pieces of pumpkin cake flying out of his mouth. Then, as if he had touched a port key, he was IN the video WITH GWAR!
'This is wicked trippy!' Ron giggled as he began to stomp around on stage. He played air-guitar like he had so many times in the store, and before his eyes, a real guitar appeared. Ron strummed on it to start off, and then he was wailing all over the stage.
Then the music stopped.
The lead singer came up to Ron and clapped him on the back. "Aw man, Ron, you play a mean guitar, man. It's really a shame that you must DIE!"
Out of nowhere, a giant bunch of Devil's Snare appeared and started to go after Ron. He ran and screamed like a girl, "Awwww, wait! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Hey! Come on! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..............."
"Whoa!" Ron looked around and he was back on the couch, eating the magic pumpkin cakes. "Ha, wicked, I love you Seamus, man, you never fail me with the cakes."
~*~
Snape was in his office, trying to take in everything that had happened. 'How in Merlin's name,' thought Snape, 'did everything happen this way? Today, of all days! At the same BLOODY TIME!'
He slammed his fist on his desk just as the door opened and Minerva appeared in the doorway.
"Hey. So what are you doing when this day is over?"
Snape leaned back on his chair, "I don't know, I'm either going to jail or to hell, I can't decide which."
"Well, wherever you're going, would you like to come back up to Hogwarts sometime and help me out in scaring the small children again? That place sure seems cheery since you've been here acting like a regular wizard. We still need a substitute potions master from time to time, you wouldn't have to leave Empress, and it's only once a month or so."
For the first time that day, Snape smiled. "You bet."
(A/N: I KNOW in the movie the characters that Snape and McGonagall (SP?) play end up together, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I apologize to the disappointed ones.)
~*~
Seamus was sitting on the stairs, twiddling with some string he had found earlier on the backroom floor. Draco was sitting just a step below him, head in his hands.
"Hey Malfoy, Can I ask you something? Do you know where Warvard is?"
Draco looked up at Seamus, "It's in America, in a city called Boston."
Seamus shook his head, and slid down so he was sitting next to Draco. "No man, I mean, do you really know where Warvard is? It's another planet, man. Another universe. Totally unlike the one we know, even the fancy rich one you know. Filled with big blonder guys who eat ivy and row boats." Draco stared a Seamus like he had to heads, but he knew Seamus was on another planet himself, so he nodded for the boy to continue.
"What I'm trying to say is that you and Hermione are just not made for each other. Aside from being muggle born, she's, she's different that you. She's- -"
Before Seamus could even justify his ramblings, Draco had already started to walk away.
~*~
Hermione was drawing a symbol on a piece of parchment.
Harry walked in and looked at the cards that Hermione had drawn. "'Death is in the cards,' 'Rest In Peace Pansy,' A funeral. Is Pansy not with us anymore?" Harry had a quick flashback to Pansy's bandaged wrist, to him telling Draco that she was safe, then back to Pansy's wrists...
Hermione looked up from her parchment. Ever since Pansy left her in the bathroom, Hermione was determined to let Pansy know the people WOULD miss her, and that hurting herself was just as bad as what Hermione was doing. Pansy cleared Hermione's mind, now Hermione wanted to clear Pansy's.
"If Pansy wants to die, let's show her what a real funeral would be like."