Hey people! Thanks for reviewing, as I said before, it really means a lot to me! Ok just wanted to make a few things clear. This story was also an explanation why Severus is so cold and cruel. I didn't really believe anyone could be like that without a good reason. Severus has two, his screwed up childhood with prents who don't care a thing about him and now this story. It's not the main storyline, but just a little side thing. Ok some people asked where the name Pyscia comes from and no, Ramona-Eline I'm regretful to say that she is not psychic. But if you read carefully you can find out what she really is. (She's human don't worry.) There are hints every so often. Watch for one in this one. It's a big one.
Special Thank-You to Ramona-Eline! Who pointed out some very embarrassing typos.
Disclaimer: the usual, (dull tone) the world of Harry Potter and fans does not belong to me....
Btw, this was formerly part of the previous chapter, but it was too long and here's the result:
A Day Worth Remembering
"Why do you keep on turning around every alternate second? And sitting like your ass is on fire?" Lucius asked me, while ordering another fire whiskey for himself. Talk about refining manners.
"I'm not turning around every alternate second Lucius and thanks for describing my sitting posture in such a way." I replied coolly, taking a drag from the purple liquid in my bottle. No, don't worry, I don't usually drink such heavy stuff in the morning, but I am celebrating.
"You're not meeting someone, are you?" Narcissa asked peering curiously at me, with some hysteric interest.
"Huh?" I asked shocked, completely caught off guard, why is it with all girls that they can read your mind? Or something close to it? Really, the first day I started Hogwarts I decided that all girls were annoying, terribly annoying. This was a classic example why. Well alright, not all girls, one exception. And no, it's not my mother. I hate that bitch.
"So what's her name?" Narcissa asked getting all exited and leaning closer.
"Who's name?" Lucius asked draining his goblet.
I pretended not to know and shrugged innocently.
"The name of the girl he is meeting Lucius." Narcissa said staring adoringly up into Lucius's face.
"Ehhh...." I really didn't know what to say (which was rare for me), I mean if I said that she was my date, that was technically wrong as I didn't ask her to be my date. I just asked her to come with me to the Dance. And saying that I was meeting her here would be strange too, as obviously she's only coming because Narcissa is here. Then the door opened and a gush of cold air filled the bar, a few snow flakes fluttered in too landing on my head, no doubt making me look like a iced figure on some stupid Christmas cake. Hazel got her little wish, it had stopped hailing, hopefully she wouldn't whine about the snow as well. I looked to see who this annoying person was, too open the door so widely and coat us all with snow, when I saw the familiar locks of hair silhouetted against the white bright world outside. And she came in cheeks flushed a raw red colour from the wind and a few stray snowflakes that got stuck to her eyelashes. She looked around the bar and dragged Hazel in our direction. She was absolutely gorgeous, all wrapped up in a tangled cloak and her red cheeks, her balck curls bouncing with every step she took. Meanwhile Narcissa found out who my 'mystery girl' was (that's how she choose to call her) and grasped.
"I knew it!!!" she said in an exited disgusting tone, clasping her hands together and following my gaze towards the entrance. "I saw you glancing at her throughout potions yesterday!"
"My, my, my you two do make a sweet couple, Sev." Lucius commented getting me back for bringing up the topic of Narcissa last night.
"We aren't even going out." I said bluntly, hoping that it would stop them. Boy was I wrong.
"But you both have a thing for each other." Narcissa said in a silky teasing voice.
"There you are!" Pyscia acclaimed seating herself next to me and pulling off her gloves.
"A fire whiskey fast." Hazel commanded the bar tender.
"Haze! It's only like eleven in the morning!" Py said shocked. I sheepishly hid the bottle I had been slurping from the last ten minutes.
"Make that two." Hazel said ignoring Py, "And shove the second one in her direction."
"Getting drunk so early in the morning are we Snivellus?" A taunting all too familiar voice asked from behind us.
"What's this?" someone asked, grabbing the bottle of purple liquor I had been hiding behind my back.
"Perhaps because he's so miserable, nobody likes him."
"Give that back!" I snarled grabbing at the bottle, hoping Py didn't see it.
"You're drunk and it's not even past midday!"
"Potty, Traitor will you piss off!" wait.... Who said that? Did I hear it right? Was that Miss Goody-Two-Shoes aka Py who I heard?
"You're spoiling the scenery." She snapped. Yup that was definitely her.
"Ohhhhh.... Need your girlfriend to protect you, huh!" Sirius Black sneered,
"She's not my girlfriend..." Was all I could get out. I am such a pathetic mess, I'll never drink in the morning again, I swear. This stuff was messing with my head.
"Yes.... I see now, why would someone even get it into their head to go out with you?" Potter said in a soft hiss.
"THAT'S IT!!! YOU ARE NOT INSULING HIM ANYMORE, UNDERSTOOD!!! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY WHAT OTHER DECENT PEOPLE THINK OF HIM OR COMMENT ON IT!!!!" The corwded bar fell silent and everyone was staring our way. That was quite alot of people, as the Three Broomsticks was as jammed up as a sardine can. Wow, was that Py again? How many more surprises is she going to jump on me? I turned around to face Pyscia and saw her face flushed with anger and her hand clutching the chair back so tightly that her knuckles were growing white. There was fury playing around in her face, like I have never seen before. Her eyes where growing darker and darker, like a vicious sea growling and tossing around. For a moment, one sweet moment, Potter and Black looked very shocked and very scared too. Taken aback, I'm sure they never had someone a girl yell at them in that way. Serves them right!
The silence was so intense that it could have been cut by a knife. Everyone, and I mean everyone was staring our way, in disbelief that this was their Head Girl who just thrown a sort of shouting fit. So shocked I don't even think they heard what she had said.
"Well of course the Dance will only end at midnight James." Hazel said loud enough for everyone in the silent bar to hear. Smart, I have to admit, hopefully it would work too, "Honestly didn't you go to the prefect meeting?"
That did the trick. Everyone went back to their business and slowly the noise got turned back on. No doubt some of them would be talking and gossiping it, but it was the minimal damage done.
"So we need two girls now to look after you do we?" Potter sneered returning to his seat and slamming down my bottle in front of me. I could feel my blood boiling, if this bar were Hogwarts I would have whipped around and cursed with all the Dark Magic that I knew. Next to me Pyscia took a long gulp of her fire whiskey and set it down. I could see her breathing deeply, anger overflowing from her body. Then suddenly she started muttering a soft melodic stream of foreign words, it sounded like song, so peaceful. But at the same time, you could sense some danger in it, but refusing to notice it as it was so beautiful. Just as her words died down, I was about to ask her what it was. But was distracted by some kicking struggling noise coming from behind us. I turned around and saw Potter and Black having a fit of some sort on the floor. I looked back at Pyscia, who still facing the same way, ignoring the comotion behind her, and camly took a small sip from her goblet. looked back down at the floor where the two squirming idiots lay, it looked painful and was very enjoying to watch. I'm sure if they could have made a noise, I would have wanted a pair of earmuffs, but somehow they were mute, just kicking around grabbing at their throats.
"Hmmm...." Narcissa said lightly looking over at them, "Looks like someone is having a small epilepsy fit don't you think."
"Yes, dear." Lucius said, "Has anyone got anything to cover these two freaks? It's disturbing for ladies to witness" Wrapping a protective arm over his girlfriend.
I don't know what had come over me, I didn't really mean to do it. It just shot out. Besides they were really being too much. Maybe it was the fire whiskey that made me do it. I don't know. I sat back staring into space as I heard the others make some comments about the Potter and Black. Calmly I helped myself to another sip of the stuff. I could feel it going down my throat, giving me a warm burning sensation. It wasn't that strong, I've had worse before. I was just wondering what stuff Severus had been drinking and wondering whether I could ask him for a sip, as that Evans bitch came up to me.
"Please! Make it stop!!!" She said pleading, grabbing my sleeve and yanking it . Her face was twisted in fear and she kept on looking back at them. "Please.... I beg you! Make it stop!"
"Get away from me you whore!" I spat pulling my arm out of her reach, "I don't know what you are talking about. Perhaps your little boyfriends ate something that was poisoned. You should take better care of them."
I couldn't believe what she did next, she went down onto her knees tears streaming down her face. "Please I beg you!!!" she sobbed. Wow, the Gryffindors really had sunk that low.
I shook my head in disgust and turned back to my drink. Someone pulled Evans up and said roughly, "She's not worth it Lily." So her name was Lily? What a weak, pathetic flowery name.
Then he reached out to me and grabbed me cuff, and threatened in a would be scary voice, "You make them stop this instant or else I'll rip you apart!!!" he hissed. Hey I know who that was, it was that feeble tag along who was always sick once a month. Rip me apart? He rip me apart? Merlin, he was losing it.
I was about to reply but Severus gripped his arm and squeezed it so tight that Lupin was forced to let go. "You will not place your filthy hand on her." He said dangerously.
I drained my glass and set it down with a bang, as I did I heard the squirming and kicking behind me stop. And that whore going "Oh Are you alright?" As she helped her boyfriends to sit up.
"Let's get out of here." I said standing up and slamming down a galleon on the counter. "Some really strange people here, I don't want to get infected."
Smirking the other followed me obediently.
Outside the world was white and serene, it carpeted everything. I just loved the first snow, pristine white. It was a different world, a cleaner one, the snow muffled all the noise that should have been heard. And made everything calm and peaceful, it really was relaxing.
I strolled happily along breathing in the cool fresh air. Soon Hazel and Narcissa joined me linking arms on either side.
"Wow! Maraquelle, we underestimated you!" Hazel said grinning from ear to ear.
"Honestly!" Narcissa exclaimed, "That was absolutely awesome!!! Lucius compliments you!"
"Well... yeah." I said nervously, "I said I'd act accordingly when I saw it right!"
I saw Narcissa and Hazel rush up to her as soon as we were out of earshot. They put their heads together and did some giggling. I just strolled along with Lucius, listening to some of the comments he had to make.
"So what do you think?" He asked me.
"What?" I asked completely unaware of what he had just said.
"I asked you whether-" but I cut him off just shrugging and excusing myself.
Hazel turned around and saw me walking behind, she winked and pulled Narcissa away, leaving me with Py.
"Pretty isn't it..." I said catching up with her and looking around me at the white boring world. Yuk I used the word pretty! What is wrong with me?
"As if you think it's pretty!" She grinned, staring up at me. I shrugged.
"I was trying to be nice." I said smirking.
"Well don't, it doesn't suit you!" She replied smiling.
I smiled back and she blushed and quickly turned away.
"Well all I want to say..." I began, I could feel the heat rising to my face, "is thank you."
"I'm sorry." She said after a short silence, "I didn't mean to embarrass you."
"No, no, it's ok, you didn't." I said quickly. We walked on again, in silence.
I didn't know what to say or do, so I just kept walking. But as every step I took I could feel the silence growing getting thicker and thicker, slowly suffocating me.
"So what was the spell that you used?" I asked just to bring up a conversation, "I mean was it even a spell? You didn't use a wand did you?"
"Ohhh, just some magic that I learned from my mother." She replied casually, "It's commonly known as Fish Out of Water, it won't kill them just make them suffer as a fish out of water would."
"No wonder they were clawing their throats." I replied, "Looked painful." "It is." was her reply.
Then silence. Again. I hate that bitch. Silence I mean, not Py.
We walked on further ahead of the others. It became unbearable. So I grabbed her hand and held it in mine, like I had seen Lucius do before. I felt her hand stiffen, but them relax as she held on to mine. She looked up and smiled, her eyes a soft pale blue. I saw her shiver and saw that she was only wearing her robes. Quickly, one-handedly I wrapped my cloak around her too. It was big enough, it would keep both of us warm.
"Oh... Thanks..." She muttered, saying something about how she left her cloak and gloves behind at the bar and moved closer to me. It was sort of uncomfortable holing hands and trying to keep under the cloak so I put my arm around her shoulder. We walked on again, in a pleasant silence this time. I could hear her soft breaths and it broke the silence. Then she started playing a game seeing how much mist she could blow out and we both ended up laughing as I blew a few rings saying, "And this is how Dumbledore smokes!" How I got that pathetically lame, I don't know. Was she messing with my mind?
The rest of the day we just spent lounging around in the common room re- acting the fits and pigging out on food Lucius had bought from Honeydukes. An hour later Regelus joined us and things got more funny. Finally the common room began to empty and we departed off to our various dormitories. It was a day worth remembering.
A/N: ok please review, if you don't I'll get Py to try out her new 'Fish Out of Water' jinx on you. I'd love to see the effect. Sorry slowly turning in to a Slytherin. Damn those people. (kk don't get too freaked 'twas a joke.)
