Secrets and Dirty Deeds

By the Barefoot Pianist

Chapter 9

"You bitch!" Daphne shouted. "You knew that I wanted him!"

"Don't blame me! He was the one who came to me!" Pansy yelled back.

But Daphne wasn't convinced, "You knew it! You did! You're doing this to spite me, aren't you?"

"Spite you?" Pansy's face darkened. "Spite you? I can do worse things than this to spite you!"

"Then you did do it on purpose!"

"No I didn't! How many times do I have to tell you? Nott came to me! And if you don't mind, we're happy!" Daphne's complexion reddened and she flashed out her wand and pointed it threateningly at Pansy. Pansy instantly got the idea and pulled out hers. "Want to fight over it, its fine with me. It's not going to change anything, but let's see what you've got!" and with that, a curse shot out of the end of Pansy's wand with a purple spark, only to be defended with a blocking charm.

"Is that the best you can do? You're worse than an idiot on brain steroids!" Spat Daphne. Carmen and Jade made their way through the crowd to the front and sat down in the front row.

"You stupid…" Smack! Pansy slapped Daphne across the face, and in a fraction of a second, a red hand print was clearly visible on Daphne's cheek. Daphne abandoned her wand and charged at Pansy and they both fell to the ground, grabbing and pawing at each other.

Carmen couldn't contain herself any longer: she had to do it. "Well, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and we're back to the Slytherin common room, for the final round between Pansy Parkinson and Daphne Greengrass," she started saying in a nasal British radio-commentator voice. Everyone immediately started laughing and enjoying themselves more.

Jade joined in, "And what a smashing show, we're having, eh Herbert? The weather is fine and the contestants are only starting to warm up!"

"Absolutely, my dear Winston. And what a jolly good hit by Greengrass! That's worth at lease five points!"

"Oh, goodness gracious me! I think its seven points for that artful display of arm biting there by Parkinson! Bravo!"

"But Greengrass is holding up well. My goodness, is that a bruise I see forming already? And what a beauty! I think that'll definitely turn green!"

"Oh, and a jolly good hit from Parkinson! Oh no! I heard a definite rip from her robe then, not sure if her mother will be happy about that!"

"Ah, now that is what we call a show, now ladies and gentlemen! And to the little kiddies; don't try at this home!"

"That's right, children! And that's fantastic hair pulling by Parkinson! And what a brilliant comeback by Greengrass!"

By now the crowd that had grown in size by twice, were shouting, cheering, screaming, and "Ooh"ing and "Ah"ing. However, the battle had to stop as either of them would have gone until they both passed out or one of them was dead. Pucey, Nott's best friend was the first to break away from the circle of the crowd and grab Daphne and drag her away from Pansy.

"Let go of me! I haven't finished with her yet!" Daphne snapped at Pucey, but was dragged away from Pansy who was nursing a scratch on her cheek. Daphne spat in Pansy's direction before she was dragged right out of the common room. The crowd began to split now that the entertainment was over, but they seemed satisfied that they were left with something memorable to talk about.

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It seemed that everyone was there when the fight began: all except Malfoy. He was the last to know, and the least interested of everyone in Slytherin and when asked where he was, he simply told them to mind their own business.

Carmen had great delight in trying to squeeze it out of him for the next few weeks. By the time she moved on to something else more annoyingly interesting, she had found out that he was alone. But Carmen had doubts.

However, it clicked about a week later, spending many hours brooding ideas upon it, watching Malfoy in his excerption from socialising and countless times with Blaise in what he thought was in "secrecy". But when it finally came to her, she banged open the common room door and charged straight to Jade and Daphne, who were sitting in the leather couches.

"I've got it!" shouted Carmen, "I'm a fucking genius!"

"And what has Carmen, Lord of Secrets found out this time?" Daphne questioned, a little sarcastically

"That's Lady of Secrets to you, Daphne. No, I've finally figured out why Malfoy's so antisocial with us!"

"And you don't suppose that that might be because he just got cheated on and broke up with his girlfriend?" Jade asked, one eyebrow raised.

Carmen looked at Jade frankly, "Okay that would play a part also."

"So are you going to tell us or not, Lady Carmen?" Daphne asked impatiently.

Carmen took a deep breath and readied herself for the moment, "Malfoy's been so antisocial because he's been trying to find himself."

"What? Is that it? You're trying to tell us that Malfoy is off his rocker every moment of the day on Gillywig stings?" Jade asked. Daphne let out an uncontainable snort.

"Fuck off. No, what I mean is that Malfoy's gay!"

"What?!"

A/N: Please R&R! Uh-oh! Another problem to add to the assorted bag we have already. So… what do you think'll happen? Can you think of any ways to end this crisis? If you have any ideas, let me know! And I'll tell you if you're close…