(Author note: Feaar meeee.. lol, Just kidding. Look at that! I'm getting better at getting chapters out. This one I had help from Kerry, and Dania, both whom have wonderful ideas. O, yes, go read Kerry's story. It's awesome! Anyway, on with the chapter. BEWAHAHA!)

Chapter 14: Shining Stars, and Stupidity

"The stars are against us tonight" Luna sighed dreamily

Maya narrowed her eyes at her friend. "Luna, please. Don't talk about the stars while we are about to be punished." She growled, and sighed.

"Oh sorry" Luna sighed

"Let's go girls" Hagrid called as he put fang back inside the hut

"It's ok.." She sighed as well. Ginny walked along quietly, staring at the ground. "Mom is going to kill me." She mumbled.

"Hagrid? Can't you just let us go?" Asked Ginny in a small voice.

Hagrid shook his head "Youse no in betr then to go der tat night"

"I'm dead." Maya decided. "Especially if dad finds out." Hagrid led them to Professor McGonagall's door and knocked

Maya shook her head. "Hagrid, you are making a mistake!"

"Well hello Hagrid" Minerva greeted then saw the girls "What's going on?" Maya looked up at her mother, and smiled innocently.

"I found dem coming out of da forest," Hagrid said

Ginny frowned slightly. "Sorry, professor."

"What were you three doing in the forest at NIGHT?"

Maya shivered slightly. "See, well, we were bored."

"Haven't you even listened to the warning?"

"No.." Answered Ginny, hanging her head.

"The stars are saying we are in a lot of trouble.." Luna groaned.

"Yes you are Ms Lovegood" Minerva sighed "10 points from each house and you will serve detentions with me"

Hagrid nodded "No bode should be walking in da forest at night"

"But MOM!" Maya's eyes shoot up to look at Minerva. "I already have detention with

Professor Snape!"

"Well it was your choice to go in the forest now wasn't it" Minerva told her.

"How can I serve two detentions at once!? That's just STUPID!"

"You can do mine when you finish his"

"I don't finish his until LATE!"

"Don't argue with me or I'll add more on top of it"

"Mom, stop being STUPID!" She ordered. Ginny and Luna shivered, and took off down the hall. They didn't want to see Minerva's reaction to that. Hagrid bid them goodnight and left too.

"I KNOW you didn't call me stupid now did you?" Minerva asked

Maya narrowed her eyes, as if to challenge her mother. "Yes, I did."

"Your grounded for two weeks and you will serve three detentions with me as well"

"That's NOT fair!" She scowled. "All, I did was point out the obvious."

"I don't get to be a professor at Hogwarts for being stupid" Minerva told her

"Hmph. Whatever." Maya turned, and walked off down the hall.

"I'm staying in the DORMS tonight!" She called.

"Fine but you best show your but up for detention tomorrow night or I'll come drag you here"

"Bite me." She growled, and continued to walk, her attitude flaring up.

"Don't think I won't" Minerva snapped "and I'll spank your butt too for good measure"

"Try it." She snapped.

"In front of all these people" Minerva smirked knowing she wouldn't want that

"You wouldn't DARE!!" She roared.

"Accio Maya"

Maya came floating to her. "NO!!"

"You didn't think I would did you?" Minerva smirked

Maya whimpered, and tried to move away. "Don't'!"

"You deserve it for the attitude you gave me" Minerva said sitting on a chair and pulling her over her knees. Maya looked horrified. This was the first spanking she's EVER gotten, and she was getting it in the middle of a crowded hallway!

Are you going to act right or should I continue?" Minerva asked after one swat. Maya's face went deadly pale, as kids started to laugh.

"Should I take that as a yes?" Maya buried her face, and burst out crying.

"Back to your rooms" Minerva snapped "or else"

Maya wiggled away. "I hate you.." She whispered. "I frigging hate you.." She dashed into the chambers, into her room, and locked the door. Minerva sat down on the couch and sighed. Maya curled up on her bed, and sobbed hard. There was NO way she was going back to school Monday.

"Up and at em" Minerva called through the shut door on Monday morning.

"Go away." Maya grumbled, and rolled over, covering her whole body with her blanket.

"You're going to be late for class" Minerva called

"Who cares?" She shrugged, and went back to sleep.

"I do now get a move on it" She shrugged again, and curled up.

Minerva accioed a bucket of cold water then unlocked the door. "Are you getting up?" Maya slid under the bed, and yawned again. Minerva threw the cold water at her.

Maya screeched. "BITCH!"

"Accio Maya"

Maya came floating out. "AHH!"

Minerva turned her over her knees and pulled down her sleep shorts "YOU DON"T EVER CALL ME THAT"

Maya screamed an ear-piercing scream. "STOP THIS!! RIGHT NOW!"

"Not likely" Minerva said and swatted her hard five times "no child of mine will EVER speak to me like that"

Maya's hands went back to cover her bum. "DON'T! STOP IT! THIS IS WRONG AND BAD!"

"Well it's wrong and bad to call your mother a bitch too"

"Y-you hit me. I can't believe it."

"I spanked you there's a difference"

"Is not." She said quietly.

"There is most certainly a difference" Minerva snapped "if I wanted to have hit you I would have chosen somewhere else"

"I--Get away." She ordered, trying to move away from her mother.

"Not until you get dressed, you are going to class"

Maya growled, and shook her head. "Am not." She kicked her legs, and frowned. "You hurt me! Lots! It's not fun!"

"Maya, listen to me. I am your mother. Get dressed, you ARE going to class, even if I have to carry you there, dressed just as you are!"

Maya curled up on her lap, and buried her face. "You're mean.." She whispered.

"I am not mean Maya. But you going to class, one way or another. The choice of how dressed, and how many times I swat your bottom, is yours"

Maya looked up at her, shock written all over her face. "They'll laugh at me.. EVERYONE saw you hit me out in the hall!"

"That, again, was your choice Maya. If you listen to what I say to you, then there is no reason for you to be in trouble. You made the wrong choice, though in hindsight, I should have waited. But that is entirely beside the point. I hardly think many will laugh, Maya, as most probably get the same, or worse in some cases...." her mind drifted to the rumors of Harry's home life with the Dursleys "At their respective homes"

Maya hung her head, and closed her eyes tight. "This sucks." She mumbled angrily. "I don't want to be laughed at. It sucks, just like you hitting me sucks. As a matter of fact.." She drifted off in thought. "Life sucks." She decided, and looked up at Minerva.

"Life can suck sometimes," Minerva said softly, her eyes filled with sadness. "And I didn't hit you Maya. I would never hit you. I swatted you on your bottom, which is entirely different. And I didn't injure you in doing it, so there again, it is not hitting"

Maya sat up, noticing the sadness in her mother's eyes. "What's wrong?" She asked quietly, cuddling close.

"That you are so upset. When you are hurting, Maya, it hurts me. I am your mother, and what is your pain or burden, is my pain or burden." She gently rubbed Maya's cheek, kissing her forehead

Maya put a hand over Minerva's hand. "I don't want to cause you pain.." She whispered quietly, and sniffed. "I don't want to cause anyone pain.."

"I know darling. A good mother, however, can feel her child's pain, and wishes to make it go away. That is one of the very things that makes a mother a good mother."

Maya crossed her legs in an indian fashion. "Even when I wasn't here?" She asked softly. "Even when I was living with my other parents.."

"That was a different kind of pain," Minerva started off slowly. "That was the pain of making one of the biggest mistakes of my life, merely because I was afraid and alone. So I felt the pain of being separated from my daughter, my own flesh and blood, that I had carried inside me, and felt grow, for nine months. I couldn't feel your individual pain, of when something happened at school and such, but I felt your presence always. It was a hole in my heart, my life"

Maya put a hand gently over the place where her mother's heart was. "I felt pain too, you know? I always felt like--I wasn't complete. And when I found out I was adopted, I always wondered why wasn't I good enough..." She sighed sadly. "I always wanted to know why I was just given up, without a second thought."

"I know you did. And I don't blame you one bit for feeling that pain" Minerva kissed Maya's head. "I love you so much honey, never doubt that ever"

Maya smiled sadly at her, and hugged her close. "I love you too, mommy." Minerva rocked her gently in her arms.

"Do I have to go to class today?"

"Yes you do young lady," she said firmly, but gently.

She sighed softly. "I don't want to get made fun of.."

"I don't think you will be, the teachers will stop it, I promise"

She stood up, and nodded. "Fine. But if I get made fun of.." Minerva rolled her eyes

Maya giggled, and kissed her cheek. "Have a good day, mommy."

"You too sweetie"

(Author note: -throws chapter in bag- Yay. Well, until next time!)