The Truth Is Told
Chapter 9
Catch the Dentist in the Act of Taking the Cop's Shirt Off
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SLAP!!!!!!!!
"You Malfoys are all the same! You're all a bunch of dirty liars with no honor at all! I hate you!" Hannah screamed.
'Uh-oh. Something went wrong here. How'd she find out?' Leo thought to himself as he hit the ground. That really must have smarted. 'Ouch!' he thought as he stood up holding his cheek. He cursed under his breath as he brushed himself off. He looked up to try and catch her, but she was long gone. She must have run pretty fast.
"Oh great, now what? She totally hates me! If I ever find out who ratted on me, there's gonna be hell to pay!" Leo shouted.
'Wait a sec, why do I care so much? What is it about this girl that makes me care that she hates me?' he thought.
He noticed storm clouds off in the distance from the window he was by. 'How ironic, that's exactly what my head feels like, except I think she might have broken my jaw.'
"Ow," he whimpered as he made his way to the hospital wing.
Maya was looking everywhere for Hannah. It had been such a long time since they'd talked. She was getting tired of Diana always hanging around and trying to get on her good side. Maya wasn't an idiot, she knew better than that. Diana wasn't looking for a friend, she was looking for dirt on Hannah, that, and revenge. Maya wasn't about to give her what she wanted, so she decided to play along for now. However, she had come to regret that decision.
They were always planning pranks that she ended up taking the blame for if they were caught, Hannah had virtually excommunicated her, and Diana never took a hint. She had to be the most stupid person alive. You would think someone running away from you would make you say, "Hey, they must not like me or something," but no. Diana was just as bad as Dudley was, except she was more clever.
Hannah, as Maya soon discovered, was in the owlry. She was, no doubt, sending a letter to her brother Harvey. Maya cleared her throat to announce herself. Hannah jumped and spun at the same time. She had been crying.
"Hannah, what's wrong? Why were you crying? Tell me what happened," Maya said coming closer to Hannah. As soon as she was in hugging range, Hannah threw herself into Maya and started crying her eyes out.
"Maya, it's awful! He's a Malfoy, and he lied, and Professor Snape, and the points..." Hannah trailed off. She hugged Maya some more and kept crying. She didn't say anything else until she got it all out.
"What happened Hannah? I can't help you if I don't know," Maya said quietly.
Hannah calmed down and started slowly and shakily, "Professor Snape and I ran into each other in the hallway and he asked me all the questions he asked my dad. I only remembered the answer to one of them. He made a face like I was some kind of hideous creature. It was awful. He took away ten points because I didn't know the answers to the other two. Then, as if that wasn't enough, I found out Leo 'Marks' is actually Leo Malfoy!" she stopped here and looked as if she'd burst into tears again, but she held it back.
"What, that's it? You let Snape and a Malfoy bring you down? Honey, you really are losing your touch. He's only one guy; you have many others to chose from in your sea of admirers. Why is he so important? It's not like you guys were going out or anything. Just because he's a Malfoy, doesn't mean he's automatically a bad person," Maya comforted.
"I know there are others, but he was getting to be a...a friend. He was really nice, and now I can't help but think that he was just using me or something like that. It isn't fair; he shouldn't have lied to me. All Malfoy's are despicable creatures, and I never want to be involved in anyway with one ever again!" Hannah said with hatred in her voice. It was really more hurt than hatred, but nobody would know that until later, except, of course, Maya.
"Wow, you must really hate him, huh? Let's get out of here, the smell of owl droppings is making me sick," Maya said. With that they both left for the dorms.
Madame Pomfrey had done an excellent job of making the pain go away, but she couldn't do anything about the unsightly red hand mark that still lingered on his face. So all day he had to answer questions about it. Questions like: "Who'd you piss off?" and "Whoa, who broke up with you?" and all he Could say was, "Nothing," "Nobody," "Got a problem with it?" and my personal favorite, "The real question is, how'd it happen to you?"
Every time the last question was asked the people who asked what happened to him, would run off in search of a mirror. It always worked, and it always made him laugh. But then he remembered what happened, and the laughing stopped. Thunder crashed and rain kept on pouring, reflecting once more on his feelings. He sighed as he went into his dorm and tried to forget about what happened, but he was finding out that it wasn't easy to just 'forget' Hannah Potter.
Suddenly he had an idea. An apology was in order, and if anything, it wouldn't hurt, would it? The storm had fizzled down to a light rain, and Leo kept thinking of the IRONY.
Leaving the boy's dorm, he went to the common room. Finding an open chair he flopped down on it to think. Maybe it would be better to calm down here. Looking around at his surrounding he noticed that Jorell Parr was staring at him.
Jorell Parr was a tall and gangly lad with brownish-gold curls reaching to his shoulder. It wouldn't be so bad if it was actually clean, but it appeared as though Snape and Jorell shared the same grease pool every morning. This was probably the reason why Jorell had an explosive case of acne. His beady brown eyes gave him a somewhat rattish appearance. His nickname: The rat. For more reasons than one.
"What are you staring at Parr?" he snapped, giving the poor boy the Malfoy glare.
"Where'd you get that hand print on you face, Malfoy. Some girl you like slap you one? Maybe it was that Potter girl. I don't see how you could like her!" Jorell snapped right back at Leo.
Those two never did get along, and every time they talked they would fight. Why did Jorell always want to talk to him anyway? Leo had no clue. In Leo's opinion Jorell Parr should have been put in Slytherin not Gryffindor. But this is where that stupid hat put Jorell, so he would have to deal with it. The world just loved to plot against him didn't it?
"Mind your own business Jorell, and no I wasn't slapped by a girl." He practically shouted this time.
"Yes you did. Look at that handprint on your fat face and see for yourself. You bloody bastard!" Jorell shouted getting really mad now.
"Shut the SMURF UP Parr and mind your own business for once in your pathetic life." Leo screamed this time.
"What? Potter don't like you any more. Maybe you're too stupid for her. Have you ever thought about that? Or could it be that YOU didn't tell her YOU were a Malfoy."
"I thought I told.... Hey, how did you know that?!" Leo was screaming now.
"What, you didn't think that I had a reason for yelling out Malfoy did you? Wake your stupid arse up. I saw she was coming down the hall and she bumped into Snape. Then I saw Snape leave her a little later. Well there you were coming down the hall right at me. And I always did like that Hannah Potter, BUT YOU HAD HER. I also knew you told her you were Leo Marks, not Leo Malfoy," Jorell said, pausing there to see how Leo was reacting to what he was telling him. The Rat looked like Christmas came early, he was enjoying every minute of Leo's anguish.
Leo looked like he was about to just beat Jorell with a stick right then and there. But Jorell wasn't afraid. He knew what Leo wouldn't hit him.
"So, I thought why not? It would be a perfect opportunity to take Potter as my girlfriend. So I yelled out your last name knowing she would hear."
POW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Did I just punch Parr?!' he thought to himself.
Jorell's nose was bleeding-a lot. He grabbed his nose and pulled out his wand. Before he could cast any spell, Leo shouted, "expelliarmus!" and Jorell's wand was fired from his hand.
Leo heard immense thunder raging outside. He was ready to duel this little freak for even attempting something so disgustingly low.
At that particular moment however, Maya Weasley, who arrived at the scene shortly after the thunder had died down, saved Jorell.
Jorell's pathetic attempt to be villainous when she entered was, "We'll finish this later Malfoy."
Leo really wished Jorell would stop spreading his real surname around so much. Maya turned to watch Jorell head for the infirmary before the hideous onslaught of questions collided with his aching brain.
"Why did you lie to Hannah? I can't believe she ever liked you-" but she was cut off rather quickly by Leo who had regained his composure.
"She liked me? Why didn't she say anything?" he asked in a daze as the wind picked up slightly outside.
"I suppose she had more faith that your skull wasn't as thick as you're making it out to be. I think you're horrible to keep such a secret from her- " but Leo had once again cut her off mid-sentence.
"I know I was wrong but it wasn't like I could tell her out of the blue that I was the son of her father's worst enemy now could I? Besides, she would have found it out anyway. I know she's not an idiot like me," Leo said suppressing a small amount of rage, the wind still picking up.
"You could have told her the truth from the beginning even if you wanted her to like you, you should have relied on your more charming traits that she would never shut up about-"but Maya didn't continue here because she knew Leo would interrupt her again.
"So you're telling me that she liked me for who I was up until she knew I was a Malfoy? Well that's really not saying that she liked me for who I am now is it?" he asked, still stunned that Hannah ever thought about him at all.
"You don't understand, that's not it at all. She really liked you Leo. It totally crushed her that you lied. Whereas she would be willing to look past your last name, her dad probably wouldn't trust you straight off the bat. She is very attached to her dad and she would be torn between two people she cares about a lot," Maya managed to get out without interruptions from Leo.
"What? That doesn't add up. She can't look past my name now, and how can you casually say 'look past'?" he said infuriated and confused.
"Well your family hasn't got the greatest reputation now does it? She's just in shock. Nobody's ever kept that huge of a secret from her before. She's never trusted someone to not tell her the truth about themselves. Hannah's not the kind of person who would let this get to her unless she thought it meant trouble ahead," Maya successfully got out.
"She cares that much?" he asked quietly.
"Why else would she be crying over you?" the instant she said it, she regretted it. She'd just lost major best friend points with Hannah. 'Way to go Weasley' she thought to herself.
Before she could say anything else he'd ran through the portrait whole in order to search for Hannah. 'I made her cry? Oh that's just perfect, maybe I can rip her heart out and crush it with my own hands next. Way to go Malfoy' he thought as he searched the corridors.
As he was walking through the halls, Nearly Headless Nick happened to be coming up behind him. Leo stopped for a second to look around and then Nick passed right though him, which totally freaked him out. He screamed a rather high-pitched scream and jumped back a few feet. Nick merely shrugged at the noise and moved on passing through another wall. The frozen sensation hadn't left his body until...
CRASH!!!!!!
He ran into Maya and Hannah simultaneously. This wasn't going to end well. He shot up and held out his hands as a means for the girls to get up. He apologized and helped Maya up, but Hannah refused any help and coldly accepted his apology. She stared at him with a look of repulsion.
'I guess Maya went to go find Hannah after I left; and she found her before I did.' He thought.
"Hannah, I need to talk to you alone for a minute, I promise it won't take long," Leo pleaded. He was standing there like an Orlando Bloom clone. Who could say no to Orlando Bloom? He used his puppy dog eyes and she couldn't help it. She gave in after like five seconds.
"Fine," she said.
He led her around the corner away from Maya and other general people.
"Hannah, I need to ask you, what did you mean when you called me a Malfoy?" he asked.
"Don't pull that with me! I know you're one of them! I heard your friend yell at you in the hall. I think I know your voice by now, so I could have told if you had called him," Hannah said heatedly.
"I suppose so, but do you really think that I'm one of them? You jumped to a conclusion," he began. The wind picked up outside, much like his heartbeat.
Hannah cut him off quickly with, "I know what I heard, You're a Malfoy. Nobody else was there, except me. I know when you lie now, your eyes twitch a little bit. You can't fool me anymore. Did you think I wouldn't figure it out?"
"You're right, I shouldn't have lied to you, but that doesn't mean that I'm a different person than the one you got to know. Please Hannah, don't give up on me yet," He pleaded.
"Leo...." she started, but she was interrupted by Peeves. He had decided to throw dung bombs down every hall and one almost hit them both, but they separated before the bomb exploded and Hannah, who's courage seemed to fail her, disappeared around the next corner.
Leo who was feeling rather deflated decided to just leave her be for a while before confronting her again. He joined Maya as she walked backed to the common room.
"Please, don't let Hannah know I blabbed about her crying. She'd hate me forever," Maya said glumly.
"Why would she hate you for telling me I made her cry?" He asked her.
"She sees it as a sign of weakness. She'd never forgive me if she knew I'd told you how her feelings overcame her," Maya said as they entered the dorm.
It seemed as though the rain would never stop. He was in a gloomy mood and the skies seemed to act upon his misery.
He walked to the window to see just how bad it was getting. It had been exactly half an hour since he'd watched Hannah walk away from him and the weather had been pretty lousy then.
As soon as he looked out the window he saw her. Hannah was standing in the rain. Didn't she know that was how you get pneumonia? He walked rather hurriedly out of the common room and as soon as he was out he broke into a run. The idiot was likely to get herself killed and Leo wasn't about to let that happen to Hannah.
Leo reached the part of the grounds that she was at in about three minutes. She looked at him as though she was in pain and caught in a deep depression. Hannah looked more like a lost child than a person full of hate. It was apparent that she'd been crying her eyes out. They were still red and swollen for the most part.
"Are you happy now Leo? Now that you know I'm a pathetic weakling with no heart or sense of right or wrong?" she asked him with the sound of defiance and anger rising within her.
"I'm not happy if you're not. I shouldn't have lied to you and put you into this position. I thought that if you didn't know my last name you wouldn't just brush me off like some filth on the street. You have had some kind of day haven't you?" he said.
"I never should have started crying over you. Now I can't seem to..." she trailed off.
Hannah cried more than ever and he didn't know what to do. They were both getting soaked and chilled to the bone. Panic began to rise within him. If he didn't get her inside soon, Hannah would need more than Madame Pomfrey's cures to heal her.
A very strong wind had picked up and had sliding Leo along the ground. Hannah slid along too, though she hadn't stopped crying yet. A flash of lightning illuminated a funnel cloud that was dangerously close to touching down. Hannah was too busy drowning in misery to notice.
Leo ran to her and threw his arms around her to keep her with him so that they could get back inside together. The cloud had turned into a full- fledged tornado. Hannah stopped crying and froze immediately out of fear. She hugged Leo tightly and braced herself. The tornado was starting to sweep them away, but as usual it was Maya to the rescue.
She had seen Leo leave the dorm and followed him to this spot on the grounds. She called out to Leo and Hannah who were huddled together in fear of being dragged away and they floated back to her. She grabbed their hands and pulled them inside to the safety of the castle, which was enchanted to resist the weather.
"Don't you ever do that to me again! We could've all been killed! It was a miracle we survived!" She yelled while clutching her heart through her drenched robes. "Maya...you used your powers. You called and we came. You saved us," Hannah said out of pure shock.
"I did? I stood up to a tornado?" She said turning scarlet.
"How'd you do that?" Leo asked quite without a clue.
"I can call on things and they come to me, I was born with that ability," she said deftly.
"Wow. That's incredible! Can you do anything Hannah?" he asked.
"Well you know when you hung from the chandelier in Diagon Alley?" she asked timidly.
"That was you?" he asked surprised.
"Well it was an accident! I did try to apologize," she said in her defense.
"Strange weather occurred in Diagon Alley that day too, YOU CAN CONTROL THE WEATHER?!" Hannah busted out in amazement.
Leo merely pulled her closer and hugged her.
Maya how was standing to the side watching the two of them was sudenly wondering if Harvey had any powers. So she voiced her qustion, "Hannah does Harvey have any special power too?"
"Oh my God, I completely forgot to tell you. Yeah, he does; he has Telepathy. He can hear and speak through his mind," Hannah said pulling away from Leo's strong but wet embrace.
"Wow that's great; we all have powers. And I'm pretty sure that nobody else has powers like us," Maya responded.
Little did they know that someone was just around the corner and listening to everything they said.
Chapter 9
Catch the Dentist in the Act of Taking the Cop's Shirt Off
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SLAP!!!!!!!!
"You Malfoys are all the same! You're all a bunch of dirty liars with no honor at all! I hate you!" Hannah screamed.
'Uh-oh. Something went wrong here. How'd she find out?' Leo thought to himself as he hit the ground. That really must have smarted. 'Ouch!' he thought as he stood up holding his cheek. He cursed under his breath as he brushed himself off. He looked up to try and catch her, but she was long gone. She must have run pretty fast.
"Oh great, now what? She totally hates me! If I ever find out who ratted on me, there's gonna be hell to pay!" Leo shouted.
'Wait a sec, why do I care so much? What is it about this girl that makes me care that she hates me?' he thought.
He noticed storm clouds off in the distance from the window he was by. 'How ironic, that's exactly what my head feels like, except I think she might have broken my jaw.'
"Ow," he whimpered as he made his way to the hospital wing.
Maya was looking everywhere for Hannah. It had been such a long time since they'd talked. She was getting tired of Diana always hanging around and trying to get on her good side. Maya wasn't an idiot, she knew better than that. Diana wasn't looking for a friend, she was looking for dirt on Hannah, that, and revenge. Maya wasn't about to give her what she wanted, so she decided to play along for now. However, she had come to regret that decision.
They were always planning pranks that she ended up taking the blame for if they were caught, Hannah had virtually excommunicated her, and Diana never took a hint. She had to be the most stupid person alive. You would think someone running away from you would make you say, "Hey, they must not like me or something," but no. Diana was just as bad as Dudley was, except she was more clever.
Hannah, as Maya soon discovered, was in the owlry. She was, no doubt, sending a letter to her brother Harvey. Maya cleared her throat to announce herself. Hannah jumped and spun at the same time. She had been crying.
"Hannah, what's wrong? Why were you crying? Tell me what happened," Maya said coming closer to Hannah. As soon as she was in hugging range, Hannah threw herself into Maya and started crying her eyes out.
"Maya, it's awful! He's a Malfoy, and he lied, and Professor Snape, and the points..." Hannah trailed off. She hugged Maya some more and kept crying. She didn't say anything else until she got it all out.
"What happened Hannah? I can't help you if I don't know," Maya said quietly.
Hannah calmed down and started slowly and shakily, "Professor Snape and I ran into each other in the hallway and he asked me all the questions he asked my dad. I only remembered the answer to one of them. He made a face like I was some kind of hideous creature. It was awful. He took away ten points because I didn't know the answers to the other two. Then, as if that wasn't enough, I found out Leo 'Marks' is actually Leo Malfoy!" she stopped here and looked as if she'd burst into tears again, but she held it back.
"What, that's it? You let Snape and a Malfoy bring you down? Honey, you really are losing your touch. He's only one guy; you have many others to chose from in your sea of admirers. Why is he so important? It's not like you guys were going out or anything. Just because he's a Malfoy, doesn't mean he's automatically a bad person," Maya comforted.
"I know there are others, but he was getting to be a...a friend. He was really nice, and now I can't help but think that he was just using me or something like that. It isn't fair; he shouldn't have lied to me. All Malfoy's are despicable creatures, and I never want to be involved in anyway with one ever again!" Hannah said with hatred in her voice. It was really more hurt than hatred, but nobody would know that until later, except, of course, Maya.
"Wow, you must really hate him, huh? Let's get out of here, the smell of owl droppings is making me sick," Maya said. With that they both left for the dorms.
Madame Pomfrey had done an excellent job of making the pain go away, but she couldn't do anything about the unsightly red hand mark that still lingered on his face. So all day he had to answer questions about it. Questions like: "Who'd you piss off?" and "Whoa, who broke up with you?" and all he Could say was, "Nothing," "Nobody," "Got a problem with it?" and my personal favorite, "The real question is, how'd it happen to you?"
Every time the last question was asked the people who asked what happened to him, would run off in search of a mirror. It always worked, and it always made him laugh. But then he remembered what happened, and the laughing stopped. Thunder crashed and rain kept on pouring, reflecting once more on his feelings. He sighed as he went into his dorm and tried to forget about what happened, but he was finding out that it wasn't easy to just 'forget' Hannah Potter.
Suddenly he had an idea. An apology was in order, and if anything, it wouldn't hurt, would it? The storm had fizzled down to a light rain, and Leo kept thinking of the IRONY.
Leaving the boy's dorm, he went to the common room. Finding an open chair he flopped down on it to think. Maybe it would be better to calm down here. Looking around at his surrounding he noticed that Jorell Parr was staring at him.
Jorell Parr was a tall and gangly lad with brownish-gold curls reaching to his shoulder. It wouldn't be so bad if it was actually clean, but it appeared as though Snape and Jorell shared the same grease pool every morning. This was probably the reason why Jorell had an explosive case of acne. His beady brown eyes gave him a somewhat rattish appearance. His nickname: The rat. For more reasons than one.
"What are you staring at Parr?" he snapped, giving the poor boy the Malfoy glare.
"Where'd you get that hand print on you face, Malfoy. Some girl you like slap you one? Maybe it was that Potter girl. I don't see how you could like her!" Jorell snapped right back at Leo.
Those two never did get along, and every time they talked they would fight. Why did Jorell always want to talk to him anyway? Leo had no clue. In Leo's opinion Jorell Parr should have been put in Slytherin not Gryffindor. But this is where that stupid hat put Jorell, so he would have to deal with it. The world just loved to plot against him didn't it?
"Mind your own business Jorell, and no I wasn't slapped by a girl." He practically shouted this time.
"Yes you did. Look at that handprint on your fat face and see for yourself. You bloody bastard!" Jorell shouted getting really mad now.
"Shut the SMURF UP Parr and mind your own business for once in your pathetic life." Leo screamed this time.
"What? Potter don't like you any more. Maybe you're too stupid for her. Have you ever thought about that? Or could it be that YOU didn't tell her YOU were a Malfoy."
"I thought I told.... Hey, how did you know that?!" Leo was screaming now.
"What, you didn't think that I had a reason for yelling out Malfoy did you? Wake your stupid arse up. I saw she was coming down the hall and she bumped into Snape. Then I saw Snape leave her a little later. Well there you were coming down the hall right at me. And I always did like that Hannah Potter, BUT YOU HAD HER. I also knew you told her you were Leo Marks, not Leo Malfoy," Jorell said, pausing there to see how Leo was reacting to what he was telling him. The Rat looked like Christmas came early, he was enjoying every minute of Leo's anguish.
Leo looked like he was about to just beat Jorell with a stick right then and there. But Jorell wasn't afraid. He knew what Leo wouldn't hit him.
"So, I thought why not? It would be a perfect opportunity to take Potter as my girlfriend. So I yelled out your last name knowing she would hear."
POW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Did I just punch Parr?!' he thought to himself.
Jorell's nose was bleeding-a lot. He grabbed his nose and pulled out his wand. Before he could cast any spell, Leo shouted, "expelliarmus!" and Jorell's wand was fired from his hand.
Leo heard immense thunder raging outside. He was ready to duel this little freak for even attempting something so disgustingly low.
At that particular moment however, Maya Weasley, who arrived at the scene shortly after the thunder had died down, saved Jorell.
Jorell's pathetic attempt to be villainous when she entered was, "We'll finish this later Malfoy."
Leo really wished Jorell would stop spreading his real surname around so much. Maya turned to watch Jorell head for the infirmary before the hideous onslaught of questions collided with his aching brain.
"Why did you lie to Hannah? I can't believe she ever liked you-" but she was cut off rather quickly by Leo who had regained his composure.
"She liked me? Why didn't she say anything?" he asked in a daze as the wind picked up slightly outside.
"I suppose she had more faith that your skull wasn't as thick as you're making it out to be. I think you're horrible to keep such a secret from her- " but Leo had once again cut her off mid-sentence.
"I know I was wrong but it wasn't like I could tell her out of the blue that I was the son of her father's worst enemy now could I? Besides, she would have found it out anyway. I know she's not an idiot like me," Leo said suppressing a small amount of rage, the wind still picking up.
"You could have told her the truth from the beginning even if you wanted her to like you, you should have relied on your more charming traits that she would never shut up about-"but Maya didn't continue here because she knew Leo would interrupt her again.
"So you're telling me that she liked me for who I was up until she knew I was a Malfoy? Well that's really not saying that she liked me for who I am now is it?" he asked, still stunned that Hannah ever thought about him at all.
"You don't understand, that's not it at all. She really liked you Leo. It totally crushed her that you lied. Whereas she would be willing to look past your last name, her dad probably wouldn't trust you straight off the bat. She is very attached to her dad and she would be torn between two people she cares about a lot," Maya managed to get out without interruptions from Leo.
"What? That doesn't add up. She can't look past my name now, and how can you casually say 'look past'?" he said infuriated and confused.
"Well your family hasn't got the greatest reputation now does it? She's just in shock. Nobody's ever kept that huge of a secret from her before. She's never trusted someone to not tell her the truth about themselves. Hannah's not the kind of person who would let this get to her unless she thought it meant trouble ahead," Maya successfully got out.
"She cares that much?" he asked quietly.
"Why else would she be crying over you?" the instant she said it, she regretted it. She'd just lost major best friend points with Hannah. 'Way to go Weasley' she thought to herself.
Before she could say anything else he'd ran through the portrait whole in order to search for Hannah. 'I made her cry? Oh that's just perfect, maybe I can rip her heart out and crush it with my own hands next. Way to go Malfoy' he thought as he searched the corridors.
As he was walking through the halls, Nearly Headless Nick happened to be coming up behind him. Leo stopped for a second to look around and then Nick passed right though him, which totally freaked him out. He screamed a rather high-pitched scream and jumped back a few feet. Nick merely shrugged at the noise and moved on passing through another wall. The frozen sensation hadn't left his body until...
CRASH!!!!!!
He ran into Maya and Hannah simultaneously. This wasn't going to end well. He shot up and held out his hands as a means for the girls to get up. He apologized and helped Maya up, but Hannah refused any help and coldly accepted his apology. She stared at him with a look of repulsion.
'I guess Maya went to go find Hannah after I left; and she found her before I did.' He thought.
"Hannah, I need to talk to you alone for a minute, I promise it won't take long," Leo pleaded. He was standing there like an Orlando Bloom clone. Who could say no to Orlando Bloom? He used his puppy dog eyes and she couldn't help it. She gave in after like five seconds.
"Fine," she said.
He led her around the corner away from Maya and other general people.
"Hannah, I need to ask you, what did you mean when you called me a Malfoy?" he asked.
"Don't pull that with me! I know you're one of them! I heard your friend yell at you in the hall. I think I know your voice by now, so I could have told if you had called him," Hannah said heatedly.
"I suppose so, but do you really think that I'm one of them? You jumped to a conclusion," he began. The wind picked up outside, much like his heartbeat.
Hannah cut him off quickly with, "I know what I heard, You're a Malfoy. Nobody else was there, except me. I know when you lie now, your eyes twitch a little bit. You can't fool me anymore. Did you think I wouldn't figure it out?"
"You're right, I shouldn't have lied to you, but that doesn't mean that I'm a different person than the one you got to know. Please Hannah, don't give up on me yet," He pleaded.
"Leo...." she started, but she was interrupted by Peeves. He had decided to throw dung bombs down every hall and one almost hit them both, but they separated before the bomb exploded and Hannah, who's courage seemed to fail her, disappeared around the next corner.
Leo who was feeling rather deflated decided to just leave her be for a while before confronting her again. He joined Maya as she walked backed to the common room.
"Please, don't let Hannah know I blabbed about her crying. She'd hate me forever," Maya said glumly.
"Why would she hate you for telling me I made her cry?" He asked her.
"She sees it as a sign of weakness. She'd never forgive me if she knew I'd told you how her feelings overcame her," Maya said as they entered the dorm.
It seemed as though the rain would never stop. He was in a gloomy mood and the skies seemed to act upon his misery.
He walked to the window to see just how bad it was getting. It had been exactly half an hour since he'd watched Hannah walk away from him and the weather had been pretty lousy then.
As soon as he looked out the window he saw her. Hannah was standing in the rain. Didn't she know that was how you get pneumonia? He walked rather hurriedly out of the common room and as soon as he was out he broke into a run. The idiot was likely to get herself killed and Leo wasn't about to let that happen to Hannah.
Leo reached the part of the grounds that she was at in about three minutes. She looked at him as though she was in pain and caught in a deep depression. Hannah looked more like a lost child than a person full of hate. It was apparent that she'd been crying her eyes out. They were still red and swollen for the most part.
"Are you happy now Leo? Now that you know I'm a pathetic weakling with no heart or sense of right or wrong?" she asked him with the sound of defiance and anger rising within her.
"I'm not happy if you're not. I shouldn't have lied to you and put you into this position. I thought that if you didn't know my last name you wouldn't just brush me off like some filth on the street. You have had some kind of day haven't you?" he said.
"I never should have started crying over you. Now I can't seem to..." she trailed off.
Hannah cried more than ever and he didn't know what to do. They were both getting soaked and chilled to the bone. Panic began to rise within him. If he didn't get her inside soon, Hannah would need more than Madame Pomfrey's cures to heal her.
A very strong wind had picked up and had sliding Leo along the ground. Hannah slid along too, though she hadn't stopped crying yet. A flash of lightning illuminated a funnel cloud that was dangerously close to touching down. Hannah was too busy drowning in misery to notice.
Leo ran to her and threw his arms around her to keep her with him so that they could get back inside together. The cloud had turned into a full- fledged tornado. Hannah stopped crying and froze immediately out of fear. She hugged Leo tightly and braced herself. The tornado was starting to sweep them away, but as usual it was Maya to the rescue.
She had seen Leo leave the dorm and followed him to this spot on the grounds. She called out to Leo and Hannah who were huddled together in fear of being dragged away and they floated back to her. She grabbed their hands and pulled them inside to the safety of the castle, which was enchanted to resist the weather.
"Don't you ever do that to me again! We could've all been killed! It was a miracle we survived!" She yelled while clutching her heart through her drenched robes. "Maya...you used your powers. You called and we came. You saved us," Hannah said out of pure shock.
"I did? I stood up to a tornado?" She said turning scarlet.
"How'd you do that?" Leo asked quite without a clue.
"I can call on things and they come to me, I was born with that ability," she said deftly.
"Wow. That's incredible! Can you do anything Hannah?" he asked.
"Well you know when you hung from the chandelier in Diagon Alley?" she asked timidly.
"That was you?" he asked surprised.
"Well it was an accident! I did try to apologize," she said in her defense.
"Strange weather occurred in Diagon Alley that day too, YOU CAN CONTROL THE WEATHER?!" Hannah busted out in amazement.
Leo merely pulled her closer and hugged her.
Maya how was standing to the side watching the two of them was sudenly wondering if Harvey had any powers. So she voiced her qustion, "Hannah does Harvey have any special power too?"
"Oh my God, I completely forgot to tell you. Yeah, he does; he has Telepathy. He can hear and speak through his mind," Hannah said pulling away from Leo's strong but wet embrace.
"Wow that's great; we all have powers. And I'm pretty sure that nobody else has powers like us," Maya responded.
Little did they know that someone was just around the corner and listening to everything they said.