bBabyJayy: Thank you, thank you, thank you for reviewing. Kudos.
I like to know that I am actually writing something that people read.
Thank you thank you thank you!!
On with the show. This chapter will have a lot of dialogue, so it will be kind of long, k?
IWarning: There are some elements in this chapter about Dary and her past that are pretty strong. This is a very strong chapter when it comes to Dary. /b
The next day, Saturday, dawned gray and cold. It was also the morning of a Hogsmeade visit. Danni got up, showered, and dressed in baggy jeans, and a baggy black tee shirt. She pulled her strait, long black hair into a low ponytail, and headed off toward the Common Room.
It was pretty full and among the chattering Slytherins, sat Lucius, his arm around Narcissa. She hurried out of the common room, trying to avoid another confrontation. She would have made it out, if Severus had not been blocking the door. Narcissa noticed her hurrying, and pointed it out to Lucius.
"You'd better run, Adams, your little lover isn't here to save you, this time," he shouted after her, "Stupid bitch." He added.
She was about to give him the double finger, (A/N: in England to flip people off, it's a backwards peace sign, for those of you that did not know that) but when he called her a bitch she felt a pang of hurt, she stared at him for a second and then left the common room.
She was walking along and rounded a corner. Her mind still lingered on what Lucius had called her and she kept her eyes down. She rounded a corner and ran into a tall male body
"Sorry," She grumbled
"Oh, hello there Danni," the body said.
"Oops, I'm really sorry Remus, my mind on a different planet than the rest of me. "She said
"That's quite all right, so what's up?" he asked, smiling
"Ugh, Lucius Malfoy is a bloody pain in the royal backside, that evil bastard,"
"He didn't try to hit you again, did he?" Remus said, his eyes and his voice full of anger and concern.
"Oh, no, no not at all," she said quickly, she did not want him going mad "he's just taken to screaming obscenities every time I walk by the whelp."
"Well, it's better than hitting you." He said
"Yeah...I guess." she said in a somewhat hurt voice.
"Why does it matter to you so much? Why not just ignore him."
"I wish I could, really I do. But he is my cousin." (Dun dun dun)
"Your cousin? Wow that seems like a genetic cock-up doesn't it?" (Hehe I love the term 'cock-up' so I had to use it somewhere!)
"What do you mean?"
"Well, he's a mad-evil, pureblood obsessed, icy, monster." He said. Danni was unsure where he was going with this "You, on the other hand, are kind, loyal, and accepting. I mean, look at who your friends with. Lily is a muggle born. Dary is...err...well I don't really know Dary, she seems kind of quiet and...sad, but she's nice enough. But you, are a Slytherin, and most Slytherins wouldn't give either of them a chance."
"So what you're saying is that since I am a Slytherin that I should be cold and horrible to those who actually care what I think or have to say?"
"No, of course not, I'm just saying that you're not like most...Slytherins, it seems like you were not meant to be in that house."
"Well, to tell you the truth, the Sorting Hat said that I should be in Ravenclaw, but I asked it to put me in Slytherin because my father said that he would..."
At this point Danni realized what she was saying, and stopped.
"Your father would...do what?" he asked
"Nothing, forget I mentioned it." She said
"You don't like your family much, do you?"
"Remus, please, I don't want to talk about it."
"Fair enough" he said and the subject was forgotten.
They continued down the hall together. Remus was explaining why Danni woke up to see Severus in a dress, and blonde, greasy pigtails. It was James' and Sirius' latest prank. Danni burst out laughing, a true hearty laugh.
They reached the Great Hall and Danni started off towards the Slytherin table.
"Danni, wait up for a second." He called out after her. At the sound of his voice she wheeled around, her black hair swishing behind her.
"Yeah?"
He walked over to her.
"Are you...err...I was just wondering...umm if youweregoingtoHogsmeadetoday."
"Pardon, I couldn't understand you."
Remus took a deep breath: "Will you go to Hogsmeade with me today?"
Danni was surprised by his question, and had no idea what to say. She looked into his eyes and saw a mixture of hope, embarrassment and nervousness.
She smiled and said: "Sure, why not...err, Remus, you can breathe now."
"Oh right sorry...heh; I'll meet you in the Entrance hall in half an hour."
"Right, then," she smiled at him, a true genuine smile. A smile that not only showed on her mouth but in her eyes too.
Remus went back to Gryffindor table.
"Oy, Moony, what took ya so long? One minute you were there and the next you weren't." asked Sirius
"Oh I was talking to Danni, really nice girl."
"What were you saying to her in the doorway, mate?" Asked James
"Oh. I was just...umm..." he answered and then mumbled something that only he could hear.
"Sorry, mate, couldn't here you." Said Sirius
"I was asking her out, alright?" The rest of the Marauders were gawking at him. "What?" he asked
"Oh nothing..." Said Sirius, "Except that she's a SLYTHERIN!! Open your bloody eyes Moony they're no good, the lot of them!"
"Well Danni is different. I mean look at whom she is friends with. A muggle born. And....well...look at her."
All four of them looked over to the Slytherin table. Sure enough, there was Danni at one end, just sitting there, not joining any conversations. She was drawing.
"I still say she's dodgy." Said Sirius, turning back to his bacon.
"Well nobody asked you, did they Padfoot? No I don't think anyone did. So just shut your yowling screamer, and leave me to my business." Remus snapped, got up and moved to the other end of the table and looked at his watch.
"God, first I piss you off, James, then I get Moony all snippy with me. What next?"
"Well, you aren't exactly Mr. Tact-and-Diplomacy." Piped up Peter
"What are you trying to say, Wormtail?" Asked Sirius, who looked ready to kill.
'N-nothing, nothing at all, Sirius."
After a half an hour, the 3rd years and above moved toward the Entrance hall. Remus was waiting nervously by the door. Danni saw him and walked up behind him.
"BOO!" she shouted, Remus turned around, she had obviously startled him.
"Oh, hey Danni." He said breathlessly. "You look...erm...nice."
"Thank you, even though I haven't changed anything since a half an hour ago." She said smiling, her gray eyes twinkling. She had never been this confident with someone before.
They went to exit the door; Remus put his arm around Danni's waist. He half expected her to jump out of his embrace, but she didn't.
Dary hurried past them at this point. Lily was hurrying after her. And after Lily came James. Danni wanted to say hi, but they had already past her and ran out of the door.
bSwitching Points of View to Dary /b
Dary woke up at the crack of dawn. IWhat a dream/i she thought to herself. She dreamt that James and Lily got married, had a son, and got murdered. The flash of light that killed Lily in her dream had also woken Dary.
She got up silently, and went down to the common room to see if anyone else was up. There was no one so she decided to take a shower.
She climbed out of the shower; put her shiny auburn hair in a messy bun. She grabbed a pair of black and red bondage pants and black and red striped long-sleeved shirts. (I know that bondage pants were not present in the 70s but this is my fiction...so they are now). She started to get out her make up, but thought, Iwhat's the point? /I and then put it back.
She went down to the Common Room and got her sketchpad. She flipped through and looked at some pictures she drew at the beginning of the year. There was one of her, standing in front of a mirror with her arm up, cuts all up and down it, red paint, which symbolized blood ran down her pictured arm. She flipped to a picture of her sister's tombstone. Her older sister, Annie, was depressed for years and finally hanged herself.
Tears welled up in Dary's eyes and spilled down her cheeks and onto the picture. She lifted up the sleeve of her shirt and saw the gray scars of the cuts she had made to numb herself. On her forearm, she had carved the words. "Why?" She made these deep cuts after she found out about Annie's decision to end her life.
She heard someone coming, so she hurried out of the Ravenclaw Common Room and headed toward the great hall.
She got there quite early, so the only people in the Great hall were James Potter, who kept glancing at her, and there was Ji-Li Jiang. (Cho's mother)
She decided to draw. She started to draw a picture of her sister, when she was happy, but it caused her to cry again. Silent tears fell down her cheeks. She did her best to hide them, and continued her picture. She lifted her head up after about half an hour, the shape of her sister's body on the paper. The Great hall had filled up.
Lily came over to the Gryffindor table opposite Dary's seat and sat down. Dary quickly dried the rest of tears and put her sketchpad away. Lily unfortunately caught her.
"Hey Dary, what's wrong?" She asked
"N-nothing."
"Oh my god, Dary, your arm!" said Lily, looking at her arm.
Dary realized that she had forgotten to pull down her sleeve. She looked at Lily with a look of fear, the colour drained from her face. Without remembering to pick up her sketchpad, tore out of the Great Hall.
Dary looked over her shoulder and saw Lily looking through the sketchbook and she started running after Dary. Dary blew past Danni who was standing with one of the Marauders. Dary was too upset and frazzled to care. She thought about what Lily had seen in her sketchpad, and then Annie entered her thoughts and she couldn't run anymore.
She was crying harder than ever. She slid down the wall. Lily caught up with her and sat down next to her.
"Dary...." She said, but James came up behind her.
"Lily, I saw you run out of the Great Hall, what's wrong." James was standing behind them.
"Nothing that concerns you, Potter, now get the bloody hell away from here." Said Lily.
"Wow, remind me to never care about your friends again," he said.
Dary had taken advantage of this opportunity and had run into the Ravenclaw dormitory.
"Lily, please tell me. I don't think I have ever seen anyone cry like that. Lily, your head-girl and there is clearly something wrong, and since I am head-boy it seems like an important thing to tell me." Said James.
"James, I c-" she started to say
"Don't try it, Lily, tell me."
"James, I saw her arm. It was full of scars. Some of them formed words. It said 'Why?' James, Dary hurts herself." She said
James was bewildered. "Do you think we should help her?"
"James what kind of question is that? Of course we should help her. I just don't know how." Lily said, "All I know is what I found in this."
She handed James the sketchpad. He started to leaf through it. There were paintings, all depicting something about death or pain.
"Lily, she needs help...NOW!"
"I know, but I don't know how. I already said that." She said, close to tears. She was frightened that her friend was in there hurting herself even more. "James, I'm scared."
"I know, I know." He pulled her into a hug. Normally she would have resisted, but right now she just needed a friend.
Dary was in the common room, screaming.
"ANNIE!" she wailed "ANNIE, WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME?" She collapsed on the floor in a fit of tears. After she calmed a little, she realized that Lily still had her sketchpad and opened the door to go and find it. She opened the door and saw Lily and James. She tried to sneak away, but James saw her.
"Daryl-ann!" James called
She turned to go but James grabbed her wrist. She looked at her arm in his grasp, and saw his hand moving toward her sleeve to pull it up, she looked into his face and punched him, and ran off.
bAuthors note:/b I did want Dary to be a very upset girl. Sorry this chapter is so long. So tell me what you think. It was originally supposed to be a fluffy chapter but I've had too many of those. I know that Dary seemed happier in the other chapters, she was just reminded of Annie and Lily found out her secret. The happiness was there to hide her secret. R/R plzzz!
On with the show. This chapter will have a lot of dialogue, so it will be kind of long, k?
IWarning: There are some elements in this chapter about Dary and her past that are pretty strong. This is a very strong chapter when it comes to Dary. /b
The next day, Saturday, dawned gray and cold. It was also the morning of a Hogsmeade visit. Danni got up, showered, and dressed in baggy jeans, and a baggy black tee shirt. She pulled her strait, long black hair into a low ponytail, and headed off toward the Common Room.
It was pretty full and among the chattering Slytherins, sat Lucius, his arm around Narcissa. She hurried out of the common room, trying to avoid another confrontation. She would have made it out, if Severus had not been blocking the door. Narcissa noticed her hurrying, and pointed it out to Lucius.
"You'd better run, Adams, your little lover isn't here to save you, this time," he shouted after her, "Stupid bitch." He added.
She was about to give him the double finger, (A/N: in England to flip people off, it's a backwards peace sign, for those of you that did not know that) but when he called her a bitch she felt a pang of hurt, she stared at him for a second and then left the common room.
She was walking along and rounded a corner. Her mind still lingered on what Lucius had called her and she kept her eyes down. She rounded a corner and ran into a tall male body
"Sorry," She grumbled
"Oh, hello there Danni," the body said.
"Oops, I'm really sorry Remus, my mind on a different planet than the rest of me. "She said
"That's quite all right, so what's up?" he asked, smiling
"Ugh, Lucius Malfoy is a bloody pain in the royal backside, that evil bastard,"
"He didn't try to hit you again, did he?" Remus said, his eyes and his voice full of anger and concern.
"Oh, no, no not at all," she said quickly, she did not want him going mad "he's just taken to screaming obscenities every time I walk by the whelp."
"Well, it's better than hitting you." He said
"Yeah...I guess." she said in a somewhat hurt voice.
"Why does it matter to you so much? Why not just ignore him."
"I wish I could, really I do. But he is my cousin." (Dun dun dun)
"Your cousin? Wow that seems like a genetic cock-up doesn't it?" (Hehe I love the term 'cock-up' so I had to use it somewhere!)
"What do you mean?"
"Well, he's a mad-evil, pureblood obsessed, icy, monster." He said. Danni was unsure where he was going with this "You, on the other hand, are kind, loyal, and accepting. I mean, look at who your friends with. Lily is a muggle born. Dary is...err...well I don't really know Dary, she seems kind of quiet and...sad, but she's nice enough. But you, are a Slytherin, and most Slytherins wouldn't give either of them a chance."
"So what you're saying is that since I am a Slytherin that I should be cold and horrible to those who actually care what I think or have to say?"
"No, of course not, I'm just saying that you're not like most...Slytherins, it seems like you were not meant to be in that house."
"Well, to tell you the truth, the Sorting Hat said that I should be in Ravenclaw, but I asked it to put me in Slytherin because my father said that he would..."
At this point Danni realized what she was saying, and stopped.
"Your father would...do what?" he asked
"Nothing, forget I mentioned it." She said
"You don't like your family much, do you?"
"Remus, please, I don't want to talk about it."
"Fair enough" he said and the subject was forgotten.
They continued down the hall together. Remus was explaining why Danni woke up to see Severus in a dress, and blonde, greasy pigtails. It was James' and Sirius' latest prank. Danni burst out laughing, a true hearty laugh.
They reached the Great Hall and Danni started off towards the Slytherin table.
"Danni, wait up for a second." He called out after her. At the sound of his voice she wheeled around, her black hair swishing behind her.
"Yeah?"
He walked over to her.
"Are you...err...I was just wondering...umm if youweregoingtoHogsmeadetoday."
"Pardon, I couldn't understand you."
Remus took a deep breath: "Will you go to Hogsmeade with me today?"
Danni was surprised by his question, and had no idea what to say. She looked into his eyes and saw a mixture of hope, embarrassment and nervousness.
She smiled and said: "Sure, why not...err, Remus, you can breathe now."
"Oh right sorry...heh; I'll meet you in the Entrance hall in half an hour."
"Right, then," she smiled at him, a true genuine smile. A smile that not only showed on her mouth but in her eyes too.
Remus went back to Gryffindor table.
"Oy, Moony, what took ya so long? One minute you were there and the next you weren't." asked Sirius
"Oh I was talking to Danni, really nice girl."
"What were you saying to her in the doorway, mate?" Asked James
"Oh. I was just...umm..." he answered and then mumbled something that only he could hear.
"Sorry, mate, couldn't here you." Said Sirius
"I was asking her out, alright?" The rest of the Marauders were gawking at him. "What?" he asked
"Oh nothing..." Said Sirius, "Except that she's a SLYTHERIN!! Open your bloody eyes Moony they're no good, the lot of them!"
"Well Danni is different. I mean look at whom she is friends with. A muggle born. And....well...look at her."
All four of them looked over to the Slytherin table. Sure enough, there was Danni at one end, just sitting there, not joining any conversations. She was drawing.
"I still say she's dodgy." Said Sirius, turning back to his bacon.
"Well nobody asked you, did they Padfoot? No I don't think anyone did. So just shut your yowling screamer, and leave me to my business." Remus snapped, got up and moved to the other end of the table and looked at his watch.
"God, first I piss you off, James, then I get Moony all snippy with me. What next?"
"Well, you aren't exactly Mr. Tact-and-Diplomacy." Piped up Peter
"What are you trying to say, Wormtail?" Asked Sirius, who looked ready to kill.
'N-nothing, nothing at all, Sirius."
After a half an hour, the 3rd years and above moved toward the Entrance hall. Remus was waiting nervously by the door. Danni saw him and walked up behind him.
"BOO!" she shouted, Remus turned around, she had obviously startled him.
"Oh, hey Danni." He said breathlessly. "You look...erm...nice."
"Thank you, even though I haven't changed anything since a half an hour ago." She said smiling, her gray eyes twinkling. She had never been this confident with someone before.
They went to exit the door; Remus put his arm around Danni's waist. He half expected her to jump out of his embrace, but she didn't.
Dary hurried past them at this point. Lily was hurrying after her. And after Lily came James. Danni wanted to say hi, but they had already past her and ran out of the door.
bSwitching Points of View to Dary /b
Dary woke up at the crack of dawn. IWhat a dream/i she thought to herself. She dreamt that James and Lily got married, had a son, and got murdered. The flash of light that killed Lily in her dream had also woken Dary.
She got up silently, and went down to the common room to see if anyone else was up. There was no one so she decided to take a shower.
She climbed out of the shower; put her shiny auburn hair in a messy bun. She grabbed a pair of black and red bondage pants and black and red striped long-sleeved shirts. (I know that bondage pants were not present in the 70s but this is my fiction...so they are now). She started to get out her make up, but thought, Iwhat's the point? /I and then put it back.
She went down to the Common Room and got her sketchpad. She flipped through and looked at some pictures she drew at the beginning of the year. There was one of her, standing in front of a mirror with her arm up, cuts all up and down it, red paint, which symbolized blood ran down her pictured arm. She flipped to a picture of her sister's tombstone. Her older sister, Annie, was depressed for years and finally hanged herself.
Tears welled up in Dary's eyes and spilled down her cheeks and onto the picture. She lifted up the sleeve of her shirt and saw the gray scars of the cuts she had made to numb herself. On her forearm, she had carved the words. "Why?" She made these deep cuts after she found out about Annie's decision to end her life.
She heard someone coming, so she hurried out of the Ravenclaw Common Room and headed toward the great hall.
She got there quite early, so the only people in the Great hall were James Potter, who kept glancing at her, and there was Ji-Li Jiang. (Cho's mother)
She decided to draw. She started to draw a picture of her sister, when she was happy, but it caused her to cry again. Silent tears fell down her cheeks. She did her best to hide them, and continued her picture. She lifted her head up after about half an hour, the shape of her sister's body on the paper. The Great hall had filled up.
Lily came over to the Gryffindor table opposite Dary's seat and sat down. Dary quickly dried the rest of tears and put her sketchpad away. Lily unfortunately caught her.
"Hey Dary, what's wrong?" She asked
"N-nothing."
"Oh my god, Dary, your arm!" said Lily, looking at her arm.
Dary realized that she had forgotten to pull down her sleeve. She looked at Lily with a look of fear, the colour drained from her face. Without remembering to pick up her sketchpad, tore out of the Great Hall.
Dary looked over her shoulder and saw Lily looking through the sketchbook and she started running after Dary. Dary blew past Danni who was standing with one of the Marauders. Dary was too upset and frazzled to care. She thought about what Lily had seen in her sketchpad, and then Annie entered her thoughts and she couldn't run anymore.
She was crying harder than ever. She slid down the wall. Lily caught up with her and sat down next to her.
"Dary...." She said, but James came up behind her.
"Lily, I saw you run out of the Great Hall, what's wrong." James was standing behind them.
"Nothing that concerns you, Potter, now get the bloody hell away from here." Said Lily.
"Wow, remind me to never care about your friends again," he said.
Dary had taken advantage of this opportunity and had run into the Ravenclaw dormitory.
"Lily, please tell me. I don't think I have ever seen anyone cry like that. Lily, your head-girl and there is clearly something wrong, and since I am head-boy it seems like an important thing to tell me." Said James.
"James, I c-" she started to say
"Don't try it, Lily, tell me."
"James, I saw her arm. It was full of scars. Some of them formed words. It said 'Why?' James, Dary hurts herself." She said
James was bewildered. "Do you think we should help her?"
"James what kind of question is that? Of course we should help her. I just don't know how." Lily said, "All I know is what I found in this."
She handed James the sketchpad. He started to leaf through it. There were paintings, all depicting something about death or pain.
"Lily, she needs help...NOW!"
"I know, but I don't know how. I already said that." She said, close to tears. She was frightened that her friend was in there hurting herself even more. "James, I'm scared."
"I know, I know." He pulled her into a hug. Normally she would have resisted, but right now she just needed a friend.
Dary was in the common room, screaming.
"ANNIE!" she wailed "ANNIE, WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME?" She collapsed on the floor in a fit of tears. After she calmed a little, she realized that Lily still had her sketchpad and opened the door to go and find it. She opened the door and saw Lily and James. She tried to sneak away, but James saw her.
"Daryl-ann!" James called
She turned to go but James grabbed her wrist. She looked at her arm in his grasp, and saw his hand moving toward her sleeve to pull it up, she looked into his face and punched him, and ran off.
bAuthors note:/b I did want Dary to be a very upset girl. Sorry this chapter is so long. So tell me what you think. It was originally supposed to be a fluffy chapter but I've had too many of those. I know that Dary seemed happier in the other chapters, she was just reminded of Annie and Lily found out her secret. The happiness was there to hide her secret. R/R plzzz!