Secrets and Dirty Deeds
By the Barefoot Pianist
Chapter 12
Day Two
Wand in hand, Carmen pushed the boys' dormitory door open and crept up to the bed, in a similar manner as yesterday. Learning from yesterday's experiences, she put down her wand, grabbed both shoulders and shook furiously. "Waiky, waiky Draco! Its morning!! And guess who's here to make one special person's life absolute hell!!!"
"Don't tell me… I'm the special person?" Malfoy murmured in a pained voice.
"You can bet your fucking Nimbus Two Thousand and One that you are! And one hell of a day is coming to you!"
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That afternoon, they had Potions. Everyone was paired up, and to Malfoy's dismay, his pair was Carmen. Carmen was unable to hide a grin of evil contentment. This, to her was going to be fun.
As they were busily bubbling and boiling that day's special potion, Malfoy started to rummage through his small collection of basic ingredients to find some scarab beetles. But, he was out of luck and decided to go through Carmen's things. "I'm going to take some scarab beetles from your stuff," he told her.
"Yeah, sure," she casually said while chopping up slugs. Malfoy gave a sigh of relief when she started to speak in English again. All morning, Carmen had babbled to him in Russian, and was not able to get one word of sense out of her. But as he turned around and picked up jars of random things, he heard her say in a dark voice, "No, don't let him touch your things." Confused, he turned around to ask whether she was talking to him. But he was interrupted.
"Oh, don't talk like that," Carmen's brighter voice said.
The darker voice; "I can talk in any way I like."
"Seems you haven't changed in the slightest since we met last, Evil Carmen. Are you still taking over Carmen's mind, setting a few things on fire perhaps?"
Malfoy couldn't believe his eyes or his ears; Carmen's two personalities were having a conversation!
"Hah, you know me well, Good Carmen. But setting things on fire isn't really my thing. What I do is much better, like..."
"I don't think I want to know this," Carmen's good side cut in.
"Hello, hello. What's happening today?" this was a different tone from the previous voices of Carmen. Malfoy's eyes boggled slightly, there was a third personality.
"Intelligent Carmen! It's been so long! How are things?"
"You know, the usual," the third voice said. "Trying to sieve through all the junk these teachers feed to her and shoving more useful things into the brain."
"What? Like how to revive a person having a heart attack?" the darker voice scoffed.
The third personality, "No, nothing like that. Just things like Russian swear words and how arsenic reacts to the body."
"Oh, how interesting! Do tell us!" the first personality chirped.
"Well, first of all, it starts to dissolve your throat, so it stops all air from entering your lungs, then it moves on to… well, to cut a long story short, it kills you after suffering a very long and very painful death."
"Hmm, I like that. Let's say we try it out," the evil voice said.
"Now, there's an ideas person!" it turned out that the 'Good Carmen' was not so good after all. "How about we try it on that Malfoy boy?"
Malfoy paled and looked down at the jar in his hand, labelled 'Arsenic'. His eyes widened in horror. Why the hell would she keep arsenic among her potions ingredients?
"Good idea…" Carmen said in her evil voice and turned to face Malfoy. He looked at her, his eyes popping out. Carmen gave her a little smile and said, "Cheese!" The next thing he knew, Carmen had pulled out something and a bright light flashed in his eyes, becoming partially blind. Once the dancing lights were out of his vision, he saw her grinning from ear to ear holding a black camera and rolling around on the floor laughing her head off.
"No photographing in the dungeons!" bellowed Snape.
A/N: R&R please!!! So what did everyone think? Oh and just for the record – Carmen is not schizophrenic! She just did that to freak out Draco … and she got a good photo of him in the process. Anyway, I though it was pretty funny. I often invite my split personalities to join a conversation... Come to think of it, I don't think I've met my evil side in a long while. :)