Hell Tastes Sweet
Chapter Thirteen
For Pansy, the days that came after Draco's departure were the dullest and unhappiest days ever. Her group of friends had tried their best to cheer her up but, since none of them knew the whole story, they couldn't really help her much.
The biggest of Pansy's worries was how to manage to do exactly what Draco was expecting of her. She really didn't know how to get any of the Gryffindors' trust and she definitely didn't know how to get on any of the trio's good books. The solution though, would be brought to her by the last person she could have ever thought of.
One night, after they had finished their evening meal, Professor McGonagall announced:
"All prefects and the Head Boy and Girl, please follow me…"
Pansy saw Blaise Zabini getting up from his seat and starting to walk behind the Transfiguration mistress.
The day after Draco's departure, Professor Snape had made known who Draco's successor was going to be.
Pansy still remembered quite painfully the look of triumph on Blaise's face.
From that day, Blaise had self-proclaimed to be the new Slytherin leader and had started behaving in such an arrogant way that even Draco himself would have been scandalised.
Poor Crabbe and Goyle were now being bullied by Zabini's cronies and, these days, the pair tried to keep as quiet as possible, kind of hoping that, the less noise they made, the less Zabini and his friends would bother them.
Pansy, so far, had not been affected by the whole thing, but again, Pansy was a school prefect and a very popular girl with lots of friends.
Professor McGonagall took the prefects and the Head Boy and Girl to an empty classroom. There, they found Professor Dumbledore conversing with Professors Snape and Moody.
As soon as the Headmaster saw them, he stopped speaking and, turning to the students, said:
"As you know, soon we will begin the special training…I want you to help me picking the students from your house that, according to you, fill the requirements needed to follow the training…."
Each of the students looked briefly at each other. Pansy gave a quick glance at Granger. The Gryffindor was whispering something to Weasley.
"…if you please sit down, you can all write down a list with the names of your candidates…remembering our selection rule: only those with a mark higher than E in the Defence Against the Dark Arts subject..." Dumbledore continued saying.
Pansy looked up and saw that, on the previously empty desks, now there were pieces of parchment and quills, all ready to be used.
She sat down and started thinking of all the possible candidates from her house. Sonia was surely one of them…Millicent was absolutely out of the question…Pansy just couldn't stand the sturdy girl. Especially since Pansy knew how Millicent felt towards Draco and how jealous she'd been ever since Pansy and Draco had become an item.
Pansy glanced at Blaise. He was scribbling furiously fast. She saw that he already had a really long list and was adding even more names to it. Probably he was trying to get the favour from as many people as possible in his pursuit to become as popular as Draco.
As soon as she wrote the last of the names she could think of on the list, she placed her quill to the side of the parchment and leant back on her chair while waiting for everyone else to finish.
Professor Snape was in charge of collecting the pieces of parchments from the students, while he was doing so, Professor Dumbledore said:
"Thank you for your cooperation. Tomorrow morning you will be given a note to put up on each of your houses' notice boards…it will state the date of the first training session…as well as the list of the chosen students."
With this, the students understood they were dismissed. Pansy got up from her chair and started walking towards her common room.
She had reached the corridor that led to the dungeons when Pansy felt a hand grabbing her arm a bit too roughly for her own taste. She was about to turn around when she felt the other hand covering her mouth from behind. Then a very familiar voice, whispered in her ear.
"Finally…I've got you alone…."
Pansy started trembling with a mix of disgust and anger.
"Now you're going to be a good girl and you'll follow me without screaming…."
Pansy nodded slightly and the hand removed itself from her mouth allowing her to speak.
"Blaise…what kind of sick joke is this?."
"This is no joke darling…now…come with me…and shut it…your voice annoys me…" and as to give even more weight to his words, Zabini started dragging her with him pulling her by the arm.
They went to the potions classroom. Naturally it was empty now as it was the office attached to it. Professor Snape was now with Dumbledore and, by the looks of it, he would not go back to his office for quite a while.
"Blaise…really…what are we doing here?" Pansy asked ignoring his previous request for silence.
"Well…now that Malfoy has left you here…and since I'm now the most popular guy in our house…I think I deserve to be with the most popular girl…I don't normally take leftovers from other guys but…for you I'll make an exception…after all, if you were good enough for Malfoy…you'll surely be up to MY standards…."
Pansy thought that surely the whole think had to be a joke, either that or Zabini was completely out of his mind. She really couldn't decide which one of the options was scarier. She choose to continue to think it was a joke.
"Ha, ha, ha…very funny…now, if you're finished with this silly joke of yours…I've got to go and do some homework…" Pansy said turning round with every intention of leaving the classroom snatching her arm out of the boy's grasp.
Then, Blaise grabbed her arm again only that this time he turned her around and gave her a slap sending her straight to the floor.
"I'll teach you not to laugh at me you bitch…" Blaise said before sitting astride on the top of her legs pinning her to the ground.
He then leant towards her and, grabbing her head, crushed his lips onto hers. Pansy thought that, with a bit of luck, she would suffocate herself when Blaise stopped the kiss and, with one violent tug, he ripped both her school robes and her shirt open causing Pansy to scream as loud as she could.
Blaise slapped her again causing her lip to split. She started feeling the entire side of her head go numb.
The boy was about to start pulling her skirt up when the two of them heard someone outside the classroom's door.
Blaise, terrified of the thought of getting caught by Snape, got up and said with a voice barely above a whisper:
"If you say anything about this to anyone…I will kill you…and, mark my words Pansy…one of these days…I'll make you mine…."
Then, using the classroom backdoor, a way out only the Slytherins knew about, Blaise left Pansy sitting on the floor trying to get up.
Then the door burst open and, the two last people that Pansy had ever thought of coming to her rescue, stepped into the classroom.
"What are you doing here?" Ron Weasley asked accusingly seeing Pansy there.
Pansy finally got up fumbling with what was left of her shirt in an useless attempt to cover herself.
Granger saw that and, looking at her closely, she also noticed the Slytherin already swollen cheek and bleeding lip. Then, using a surprisingly friendly tone, the Gryffindor girl said:
"Who's done this to you?!."
To be continued…
A/N: Sorry for the huge delay updating this…I'm having lots of things to do lately…I'll try to post at least one more chapter this weekend…hope you're liking the story so far…and, don't worry, Pansy is not going to be suffering for too long…she's going to kick some ass soon!!!