Chapter 5: The Common Room
Lacy barely recognized who she was, she never acted like she needed to be taken care of or feeble. She hadn't acted like this before on the train, or before she had eaten. That's it! Someone must have poisoned my food...but how?
Lacy was sitting on a chair in a cold, dark dungeon, somewhere beneath the school she guessed. An older man was sitting at the desk near her, but he didn't look up to see her. Lacy looked at his desk, and there was a sign that read: Professor S. Snape. Lacy moved, and it caught the attention of the man.
"Ah, you are awake, good. I am Professor Snape, head of Slytherin house and Potions Master of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I will be here for any of your concerns. Now I have arranged for a guide to show you around the school for the next few weeks, and if he is unhelpful then we can find another one to show you around. Do you understand?" His voice was deep and low, and almost lulled Lacy back to sleep, if it weren't for the rapidity of his words.
"Uhh...sure. Wait..him? Who him?" Lacy asked quizzically. Not him, not him. Professor Snape opened his mouth to speak. "Draco Malfoy." Not him–oh my god..HIM!
"Is this suitable for you? I know you've already met him, so that might be helpful." Professor Snape looked at her strangely, so Lacy just nodded. "Yeah..yeah, sure. It's ..uhh..fine. I think..." She was very scattered. What is wrong with me? I can't even put together a coherent sentence.
"Right..."Said Professor Snape. "Let me take you back to the common room. Are you sure you are feeling alright?" Lacy stood up and waved her hands, "I am fine, it's nothing. Just feeling weak..I miss my home." Snape nodded, but didn't turn back to look at her. He lead the way out of the dungeon, and through some winding hallways. They came to a stop in front of a bare, damp stone wall. Lacy had no idea why they had stopped in front of it, because it seemed different. Maybe it was the fact that every square inch around it on the other spaces of the walls, water was dripping down, but not there.
"Veritaserum." Snape said in his cold, dark voice. A stone door hidden inside the wall opened, and Snape looked to Lacy.
"Veritaserum...truth serum?" Asked Lacy. Snape looked at her with a glint in his eye. "So, you know your potions..or your Latin in the least. We'll see what you make of it. After you." Lacy looked at the door way uncertainly, but walked through none-the-less.
The Slytherin common room was what she expected: long and low room with rough stone walls, with green lamps were hanging down from the ceiling by chains. At the far end of the room was a colossal carved mantlepiece with several green high backed chairs and many green lounges with silver pillows scattered across them. Whenever Lacy and Professor Snape walked in several people looked over and stared. Malfoy was sitting lazily on a chair off to the side of the room with two other boys and a girl. The girl looked from Malfoy to Lacy, and back again. Malfoy was of course staring at Lacy, and the girl didn't seem to like it too much, so she started pulling on his shirt to make him look at her, but he pushed her away and mouthed something that was probably similar to "Go away." She looked hurt and slouched back into her chair.
"Ah, there's Malfoy. Good thing he's here. Ah, Malfoy, I know you've already met Ms. Kilnern, which is good because you will be escorting her for the next few weeks. I trust her company to you, that would be all so I'll.."
"Professor?" asked the girl with a smug look on her face.
"What you silly girl?" he shot back at her. She looked annoyed, but it didn't stop her.
"This new girl will need some female guidance, perhaps I could be the one to escort her around."
"No, I said Malfoy would do it, but your point is arguable. I'll tell you what you can both do it, whenever Ms. Kilnern needs female help you may give it, but otherwise Malfoy is her quide, is that understood, Ms. Parkinson?" He looked at her from down his nose. The girl looked hurt, but nodded her head. Professor Snape nodded his head and left without another word. Lacy stood there with Malfoy looking at her with pleasure on his face, and the girl with jealously. Suddenly she stood up rather quickly.
"Come on Goyle, let's go somewhere else." shrieked the girl, and one of the boys looked towards Malfoy.
"Yes, go Goyle, you too, Crabbe. I would like some alone time with Ms. Kilnern." Malfoy said it like there was nothing else better in the world. "Please, sit." Lacy didn't want to obey him, and make him even more cocky than he already was, but she was feeling faint again, so she did. She knew he was going to have that look in his eyes when she sat down, but she didn't care so she sat down anyway.
As she sat down, she saw a few pictures in her head that she wasn't seeing. "Ow!" she exclaimed.
"What? What are you talking about, nothing happened." Malfoy looked shocked and weary. "Nothing, I just. AH! Ow..ow..that...hurts.." She said it as she slid out of the chair. The last thing she saw was Malfoy's face peering over hers with confusion.
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Author's Note: Not much of a cliffie, but whatever. Hope you like it.