A/N- Thank you for reviewing! Hope you like this chapter, hopefully you
will understand the pain Cat has gone through and why she is the way she
is.........
Chapter 6- To be an Emotionless Freak.
"How was Hogsmead?" Sirius asked vaguely.
"Fine." Remus replied. "Why didn't you come?"
Sirius sighed and glanced at everyone around the table. Cat was the only one not there, as she had gone to take another shower. Another.
"I thought I already explained that."
Silence reined and a state of gloom rose over the teenagers.
"Why is Cat so sad?" Asked Remus again softly. "I mean, she never cries or get angrey over big things. She just coops it up in side. She's all fun and games. What happened?"
"Yeah," Lis said. "I never really thought about it before, I thought that was just the way she was. What happened to her?"
"What is this, 20 questions? Isn't it obvious? She is an emotionless freak! Nothing to it." Sirius replied angrily, banging his hand on the table. Irritation settled on the way he spoke and shook.
"Don't you dare call Cat a freak!" Lily said jumping to Cat's defense. Ari and Lis glared. Torii shook her head.
"I didn't call her a freak, I called her an emotionless freak!"
"Well there isn't any difference, is there?"
"Please Be quiet!" Remus tried to sustain the peace.
"Please?" He tried again. Ari and Lis were now involved in the arguement.
"SHUT UP!" James roared.
Immediately everyone fell silent.
"Let me just explain something, ok? I have lived across the road from Cat my whole life. Every year, my family and her family would travel together in the Knight Bus to out cottages, which were side by side on a beach in Ireland. We played together all the time, Cat, her older sister Laura, her older brother Teegan and I...."
"Cat doesn't have a brother!" Sirius put in.
"She used to." James replied softly. Everyone fell silent again.
"We were the best of friends. We shopped, cooked, did everything together! Cat's parents were related to my great grandmother, so technically, we are cousins or something. Rachel and David, Cat's parents were like my Aunt and Uncle. The same for my parents to her, Auntie Julia and Uncle Mathew. Teegan and I used to play tricks on everyone. He was like a big brother to me too, just like Cat and Laura are my sisters. I was an only child, so having them was great for me."
James shook his head wistfully. "I remember one time when Darrren Meredith, a kid down the end of our street, who was Teegan's friend and is 2 years older than us, he was in Laura's year at Hogwarts, sprayed Cat with a muggle water gun. She chased him down the street. Darren is a great guy. He is finishing his training to become an Auror."
"Sounds just like something Cat," Ari commented.
James smiled, "Course. She set a firework off in my room and got grounded. I put bubble gum in her hair when she was 8 year old. She got it cut out and her mom magiked her hair back to what is was again."
"Yep, that's Cat!" Remus said.
"Yeah, it's funny that you all got through almost 7 years of Hogwarts, not knowing. You all see the fun side, except for you girls."
"Yeah." Torii said softly. "Lily, Ari and I asked her once, she said she didn't want to talk about it."
James swallowed. Shakily he went on. "Everything seemed perfect. Then, on the year before we got our letter to Hogwarts........" Here James closed his eyes. He took a deep breath and wiped a tear away, but not before everyone saw.
"My brother caught Unicorn Disease."
It was Cat. She expressionless, she climbed over Remus to sit beside James. Putting her arm over his shoulders, she continued telling what the strong James could not.
"Unicorn is harmless for girls, in fact, we can't even catch it. For boys, it's fatal. And incurable. My brother was in so much pain. First, you catch an itchy rash. Next, come the excessive coughing and vomiting blood. Finally, you go crazed, hallucinating and scratching. The rash become sores, sores turn to wounds which bleed. No one can do anything. You can only sit back and make bets on which way they will die, open would and excessive bleeding or suffocating to death."
Lily gasped. Before anyone could say anything, Cat continued.
"Everything was very vague from that point on. I remember Mom, Auntie Julia, Laura and I tending him. Mom hadn't allowed Dad or anyone else near Tee. For the first time ever since I had remember, James and I were separated. He was sent to his grandmother's in Bristol. To me, our house was wreathed in sadness. Everyday, I would go and sit beside Tee, read him stories and talk to him."
"The last real conversation was on my birthday, August 1st. He gave me a necklace that he had bought for me on the last trip to Hogsmead. It was a silver chain with a small cat hanging off it. Behind it, there were words engraved on it. To my Favourite Pussy Cat, Love Tee."
Cat dropped her arm and fingered something on her throat.
"He told me not to feel sad, that heaven was better than the pain he was going through. He told me to be strong my whole life, never to cry for him. Laura was there, and I remember Laura and I promising. Never to cry for him, never to mourn him. To go on with life. He hugged us and gave Laura a small charm for her charm bracelet. He must of sensed that he would never talk to us again." Cat paused and blinked a few times.
"The next days were horrible," she continued softly. "He hallucinated, yelling and scratching at us. Uncle Mathew took me and Laura to stay with James and his grandmother. A few days later, Mom sent us an owl. My brother had suffocated to death."
Here James hugged her, his face finally tear free.
"I remember Tee in his coffin, he had a smile on his face." James said.
"Lifeless, not like the Teegan I knew." Cat added.
"People crying, everyone in fact except Laura and you." James licked his lips.
"We'd promised though, and we kept this promise."
"Yeah," James said haltingly.
James opened his mouth to say something else, but Professor Solvene cut in.
"Miss Starrling, a word about your behavior, if you please?"
Cat grinned and stood up, her emotionless face had disappeared. As Cat walked away, James continued.
"I think that she and Laura have kept that promise, not just for Tee, but for everything. The reason I think she hates anyone calling her Puss, Kitten ,Kitty Cat or something was because Teegan had pet names for her."
"Wow, I never knew...........she always had secrets, that I knew, but nothing serious." Ari nodded her head slowly. "Yes, that makes perfect sense. Her whole nobody but me protects me theory, her whole just glaze over everyone's bad habits, etc. She gets mad, yells, laughs, and stuff, but never cries........."
Lily looked up sharply, "Sirius, when are you going to talk to her?"
Glaring, he answered, "3 days, I told you, for the last time!"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Night came. Cat lay on her bed, barely moving.
You knew that they must know sometime, Cat thought. But I don't want anyone taking pity on me! Wearily, she fell asleep. Tomorrow, I will get back into myself. I'll even hex Snape or something!
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Sirius sat in front of the fire. 2 days left. I wonder if she'll come. I certainly don't want to ruin my reputation of being a bad boy. Smiling, Sirius thought of a plan.
Jealousy, Regret. I'll make her come crawling back to me, He thought rather evilly.
Pulling the covers over his head, he reviewed the list of girls that he hadn't snogged recently. No one said he couldn't snog them more than once.
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Packing up her things, Lily turned to Ari.
"Interesting, huh?" Ari said, reading Lily's thoughts.
"Yeah. I never knew what she has been through. We should try to be more supportive."
"In a unnoticeable way though," cautioned Ari. "She won't want to be pitied."
"Your right, she won't," said James. Lily dropped the books she was holding. Ari and Remus exchanged a knowing smile. Leaning down, James picked then up for her.
"Here you go, coming?"
"No! I would never go anywhere with you!" Lily said hastily.
"Oh, I thought you might be coming to our meeting with Dumbledore, but, ok, I'll just tell him your busy."
"Meeting? Oh, just....one minute." Lily seemed flustered and busied her hand by picking her papers and arranging them on the couch. James was being much to nice and close to her liking.
Ari took Remus' hand and together they moved to the other side of the room.
"Ready?" James flashed Lily one of his best smiles. One that made her stomach jitter, but she wasn't going to tell him that.
"Yep." What kind of answer was that Lily! She mentally cursed herself.
"Come on then."
Side by side, James and Lily walked out the portrait hole, and even though they wouldn't admit it, everyone else who was near them, thought they were a perfect couple.
And thus passed the 3rd day of the plan.
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Ok, so do you like it? I am debating whether to post it now, or wait t'll i get more reviews!! Come on people! Don't you love me......hic ( cries now.)
Anyway......I not so hyper today, I have a dance competition on Saturday.......may be I'll just wait a bit to post this.
Have a great weekend! Love ya,
RhiaCat
Chapter 6- To be an Emotionless Freak.
"How was Hogsmead?" Sirius asked vaguely.
"Fine." Remus replied. "Why didn't you come?"
Sirius sighed and glanced at everyone around the table. Cat was the only one not there, as she had gone to take another shower. Another.
"I thought I already explained that."
Silence reined and a state of gloom rose over the teenagers.
"Why is Cat so sad?" Asked Remus again softly. "I mean, she never cries or get angrey over big things. She just coops it up in side. She's all fun and games. What happened?"
"Yeah," Lis said. "I never really thought about it before, I thought that was just the way she was. What happened to her?"
"What is this, 20 questions? Isn't it obvious? She is an emotionless freak! Nothing to it." Sirius replied angrily, banging his hand on the table. Irritation settled on the way he spoke and shook.
"Don't you dare call Cat a freak!" Lily said jumping to Cat's defense. Ari and Lis glared. Torii shook her head.
"I didn't call her a freak, I called her an emotionless freak!"
"Well there isn't any difference, is there?"
"Please Be quiet!" Remus tried to sustain the peace.
"Please?" He tried again. Ari and Lis were now involved in the arguement.
"SHUT UP!" James roared.
Immediately everyone fell silent.
"Let me just explain something, ok? I have lived across the road from Cat my whole life. Every year, my family and her family would travel together in the Knight Bus to out cottages, which were side by side on a beach in Ireland. We played together all the time, Cat, her older sister Laura, her older brother Teegan and I...."
"Cat doesn't have a brother!" Sirius put in.
"She used to." James replied softly. Everyone fell silent again.
"We were the best of friends. We shopped, cooked, did everything together! Cat's parents were related to my great grandmother, so technically, we are cousins or something. Rachel and David, Cat's parents were like my Aunt and Uncle. The same for my parents to her, Auntie Julia and Uncle Mathew. Teegan and I used to play tricks on everyone. He was like a big brother to me too, just like Cat and Laura are my sisters. I was an only child, so having them was great for me."
James shook his head wistfully. "I remember one time when Darrren Meredith, a kid down the end of our street, who was Teegan's friend and is 2 years older than us, he was in Laura's year at Hogwarts, sprayed Cat with a muggle water gun. She chased him down the street. Darren is a great guy. He is finishing his training to become an Auror."
"Sounds just like something Cat," Ari commented.
James smiled, "Course. She set a firework off in my room and got grounded. I put bubble gum in her hair when she was 8 year old. She got it cut out and her mom magiked her hair back to what is was again."
"Yep, that's Cat!" Remus said.
"Yeah, it's funny that you all got through almost 7 years of Hogwarts, not knowing. You all see the fun side, except for you girls."
"Yeah." Torii said softly. "Lily, Ari and I asked her once, she said she didn't want to talk about it."
James swallowed. Shakily he went on. "Everything seemed perfect. Then, on the year before we got our letter to Hogwarts........" Here James closed his eyes. He took a deep breath and wiped a tear away, but not before everyone saw.
"My brother caught Unicorn Disease."
It was Cat. She expressionless, she climbed over Remus to sit beside James. Putting her arm over his shoulders, she continued telling what the strong James could not.
"Unicorn is harmless for girls, in fact, we can't even catch it. For boys, it's fatal. And incurable. My brother was in so much pain. First, you catch an itchy rash. Next, come the excessive coughing and vomiting blood. Finally, you go crazed, hallucinating and scratching. The rash become sores, sores turn to wounds which bleed. No one can do anything. You can only sit back and make bets on which way they will die, open would and excessive bleeding or suffocating to death."
Lily gasped. Before anyone could say anything, Cat continued.
"Everything was very vague from that point on. I remember Mom, Auntie Julia, Laura and I tending him. Mom hadn't allowed Dad or anyone else near Tee. For the first time ever since I had remember, James and I were separated. He was sent to his grandmother's in Bristol. To me, our house was wreathed in sadness. Everyday, I would go and sit beside Tee, read him stories and talk to him."
"The last real conversation was on my birthday, August 1st. He gave me a necklace that he had bought for me on the last trip to Hogsmead. It was a silver chain with a small cat hanging off it. Behind it, there were words engraved on it. To my Favourite Pussy Cat, Love Tee."
Cat dropped her arm and fingered something on her throat.
"He told me not to feel sad, that heaven was better than the pain he was going through. He told me to be strong my whole life, never to cry for him. Laura was there, and I remember Laura and I promising. Never to cry for him, never to mourn him. To go on with life. He hugged us and gave Laura a small charm for her charm bracelet. He must of sensed that he would never talk to us again." Cat paused and blinked a few times.
"The next days were horrible," she continued softly. "He hallucinated, yelling and scratching at us. Uncle Mathew took me and Laura to stay with James and his grandmother. A few days later, Mom sent us an owl. My brother had suffocated to death."
Here James hugged her, his face finally tear free.
"I remember Tee in his coffin, he had a smile on his face." James said.
"Lifeless, not like the Teegan I knew." Cat added.
"People crying, everyone in fact except Laura and you." James licked his lips.
"We'd promised though, and we kept this promise."
"Yeah," James said haltingly.
James opened his mouth to say something else, but Professor Solvene cut in.
"Miss Starrling, a word about your behavior, if you please?"
Cat grinned and stood up, her emotionless face had disappeared. As Cat walked away, James continued.
"I think that she and Laura have kept that promise, not just for Tee, but for everything. The reason I think she hates anyone calling her Puss, Kitten ,Kitty Cat or something was because Teegan had pet names for her."
"Wow, I never knew...........she always had secrets, that I knew, but nothing serious." Ari nodded her head slowly. "Yes, that makes perfect sense. Her whole nobody but me protects me theory, her whole just glaze over everyone's bad habits, etc. She gets mad, yells, laughs, and stuff, but never cries........."
Lily looked up sharply, "Sirius, when are you going to talk to her?"
Glaring, he answered, "3 days, I told you, for the last time!"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Night came. Cat lay on her bed, barely moving.
You knew that they must know sometime, Cat thought. But I don't want anyone taking pity on me! Wearily, she fell asleep. Tomorrow, I will get back into myself. I'll even hex Snape or something!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sirius sat in front of the fire. 2 days left. I wonder if she'll come. I certainly don't want to ruin my reputation of being a bad boy. Smiling, Sirius thought of a plan.
Jealousy, Regret. I'll make her come crawling back to me, He thought rather evilly.
Pulling the covers over his head, he reviewed the list of girls that he hadn't snogged recently. No one said he couldn't snog them more than once.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Packing up her things, Lily turned to Ari.
"Interesting, huh?" Ari said, reading Lily's thoughts.
"Yeah. I never knew what she has been through. We should try to be more supportive."
"In a unnoticeable way though," cautioned Ari. "She won't want to be pitied."
"Your right, she won't," said James. Lily dropped the books she was holding. Ari and Remus exchanged a knowing smile. Leaning down, James picked then up for her.
"Here you go, coming?"
"No! I would never go anywhere with you!" Lily said hastily.
"Oh, I thought you might be coming to our meeting with Dumbledore, but, ok, I'll just tell him your busy."
"Meeting? Oh, just....one minute." Lily seemed flustered and busied her hand by picking her papers and arranging them on the couch. James was being much to nice and close to her liking.
Ari took Remus' hand and together they moved to the other side of the room.
"Ready?" James flashed Lily one of his best smiles. One that made her stomach jitter, but she wasn't going to tell him that.
"Yep." What kind of answer was that Lily! She mentally cursed herself.
"Come on then."
Side by side, James and Lily walked out the portrait hole, and even though they wouldn't admit it, everyone else who was near them, thought they were a perfect couple.
And thus passed the 3rd day of the plan.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, so do you like it? I am debating whether to post it now, or wait t'll i get more reviews!! Come on people! Don't you love me......hic ( cries now.)
Anyway......I not so hyper today, I have a dance competition on Saturday.......may be I'll just wait a bit to post this.
Have a great weekend! Love ya,
RhiaCat