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Chapter 4: Drama in the Dungeons

The first day of classes went by like a breeze for Ellena and Logan. Everyone else on the other hand, was still having a difficult time dealing with the Slytherin, Gryffindor best friends. The fact the Logan hung with Draco, and Ellena hung with the trio, put everyone in their potions class on edge about how this mix would work out.

Snape had put directions on the board and left for the duration of the class, with a warning to the students that they better be finished when he came back. People were mixing and chatting, trying to maintain light conversations while praying that they didn't mess up their potion.

Logan and Ellena on the other hand, were yet to start as they sat at their desk talking intently about everyone and everything. Just as they were recalling an incident that occurred with another one of their friends from home, Hermione interjected with her criticism.

"You know, Snape is a really difficult teacher, and this potion takes all period to make, you two should probably get started," she stated hoping that Logan took this as helpful not bossy.

"Yeah your probably right." Logan said starting to pull out his materials. Ellena just sat there and watched him get to work.

"You gonna do it?" he asked noticing her lack of movement.

"Yeah I'll start it later, I don't want to right now" she said brushing it off and sounding bored. She stood up and walked to the table behind them where Harry and Ron sat. She grabbed a chair and pulled it the opposite side of the table, and sat down across from Ron.

"Hey babe" she said lazily, giving Ron a friendly smile.

"Hey" he responded trying to be friendly but really concentrating on his potion. It had gone from a pale yellow to a dark blue, when it was supposed to be neon green. Frustrated he put his stuff aside, deciding to use his time on Ellena instead.

He sat down and moved his cauldron to the side, and leaned in starting a conversation with her.

"So I know we've only had 3 classes so far, but how's British school working out for you?" he asked watching her fidget with his left over ingredients.

"It's pretty good, the teacher are a lot more strict then I'm used to. Snape seems alittle…" she trailed off looking for the right word.

"…Intense? Hard?" Ron threw out suggestions

"Psycho" she finished, making Ron laugh. He had heard Snape been called many things including evil, but never psycho.

"Have you already finished your potion?" he asked.

"Nope haven't started." She replied nonchalantly.

"But class is over in 10 minutes. It takes nearly 40 to make." He pointed out

"I'll just borrow some from Logan." She said plainly

"That's cheating" Hermione pointed out, she had joined them at the table somewhere in the middle of Ellena and Ron's conversation.

"Yeah, I guess it is" Ellena replied.

"You wont ever learn anything if you cheat the whole time" Hermione countered. Ellena gave her a blank stare for a few moments, tore up a few pieces of the dry leaves in front of her (not bothering to measure them first), threw them into Ron's potion, and everyone watched as it turned the correct shade of green.

"Can't really learn what I already know," she said getting up. She pushed in her chair and without giving Hermione another glance, walked over to Malfoy and sat down with him a Logan.

"Whoa." Harry was the first one to comment, "She's good. She didn't even measure that stuff she just eyed it! Snape doesn't even do that." He carried on. Ron however turned to Hermione angry.

"Why do you have to do that? You're not a teacher, who cares if she cheats, you didn't need to go all McGonagall on her!"

"She needs to realize that you cant cheat through everything" Hermione said, alittle embarrassed but unwilling to step down.

"It was ONE potion! And she obviously already knew about it. But you had to be perfect teachers pet, and now you drove her to Malfoy. You know he wants her, and now your ruining the chances for anyone else!" He jumped out of his chair knocking it over and left the classroom.

Hermione stood there, she looked as if she was on the verge of tears, but she pretended to be concentrating on bottling her potion.

Harry looked at her not sure what to say. "Um, are you ok?" he asked cautiously.

"Yeah, of course" she said putting on a very weak smile. Harry, not wanting to be put in an awkward position, bottled his potion, and then bottled some of Ron's for him.

"I'll take yours up if you want," he offered.

"Oh, ok thanks." She handed it to him and started cleaning up, never once looking up from the table. As Harry walked to the front, Logan came over to Hermione and put his hand on her arm, rubbing it soothingly.

"Hey, you alright?" he comforted.

"Yeah I'm fine, great" she replied unconvincingly.

"Liar" he joked, cracking a small grin.

"I didn't mean anything by it, I wasn't trying to be mean. I just figured she didn't know how Snape is, and the rules and everything. Now Ron's mad at me, and she probably hates me too." She started rambling becoming frustrated.

"I know you didn't mean any harm by it, it's just that, that's how we kind of do things. We lean on each other a lot. And Ellena doesn't hate you; she just doesn't like being told off. She even went to talk to Ron for you, don't worry she's really good at fixing things for people." He reassured, and pulled her into a hug.

This helped calm Hermione down immensely, and she leaned into him finding his strong arms very comfortable, and she relaxed into his chest.

"Thanks" she said quietly.

"Not a problem" he said back "But now you have to do something for me." He whispered and leaned down to say this more directly into her ear.

She held her breath and nervously asked "what?"

"Come to my party Friday night?" he asked with a smile that made her melt. Her stomach tied into knots. He wanted her to come? With him as a date or a friend, or did he just want her to show up? Was he expecting something from her? She looked up into his eyes stalling.

"You don't have to if you don't want" he reassured her, noticing her pause. This made her smile, he knew exactly what to say to make her comfortable with it, he wasn't expecting anything, and he was giving her total control.

"I'll be there." She said finally. She already was planning on going with Harry and Ron, but he hadn't known that. His friendly smile grew into a grin that was contagious.

"Great" he said giving her a tight squeeze before releasing her from the hug. "Ill see you later."

"Bye" she replied and finished cleaning up her area.

Logan walked back to Draco and sat down.

"What?" he asked at the stare he was receiving.

"Seriously? Granger? What could you possibly see in that?" he questioned completely and utterly perplexed.

"She's cute and fun. I don't really know there's just something about her that I like." He said shrugging.

"I don't know if anyone's told you," Draco started, leaning in, "but she's a mudblood." He finished as if this changed everything for Logan.

"Dude that has nothing to do with it." He stated loosing a little respect for Draco. "Where I'm from, its not about race or blood, it's just who you are. I mean my sister is engaged to a muggle, I've dated muggle's, its no different then dating a pureblood, except for the 'they can't do magic' part." He explained to Draco

Draco sat there trying to take it in. Logan, who came from a respectable pureblooded family, liked Granger, a mudblood. He knew what she was and he didn't care. That concept was too confusing for him to handle.

"Ok, so just pretend for a second that Hermione was a pureblood. She looks the same, acts the same, blood is the only difference. Are you saying that you wouldn't go for it with her? You wouldn't be interested at all?" Logan tried putting it into perspective for him. Draco thought about it for a moment. She was cute, and she didn't realize it, which seemed appealing to Logan. But personally Draco usually went for the more obviously hot girls, ones with short skirts and tight shirts. He looked over at Hermione and studied her. She was cleaning up from making her potion, doing everything perfectly. She rebottled her left over ingredients instead of throwing them out. She even darkened the labels so they were easier to read.

"No I wouldn't." he came to his decision. "She's to perfect with her grades, and her being organized all the time. She's way into school, I bet she never goes out for fun. And look how she dresses! It wouldn't kill her to wear something a little more flattering or revealing every now and then. He was getting annoyed just watching her.

Logan chucked. "Whatever man, I like that she's smart and doesn't dress like a hoe." He said.

"Well, then do what you want," Draco said giving up on him. If Logan wanted to date a mudblood, then whatever it wasn't his problem. Let him screw up his own life Draco thought to himself.

Shortly after, Snape burst through the door and walking directly to his desk announced "class dismissed" and waved his wand, cleaning up anyone's potion who wasn't finished.

A little annoyed with Hermione's judgment, Ellena decided not to cause any drama on their first day, and leave it alone. She got up and walked back to Logan, who was now talking to Draco. She pulled up a chair flipped it around, and sat straddling it with her arms crossed on the back

"Hey" she said to Draco smiling

"Hey, how's it going?" he said smiling back.

"Pretty good. So is Snape always this intense?" she asked sparking a conversation. Draco laughed.

"Nah, you just have to get on his good side. Probably won't happen to easily for you, cause you know, you're in Gryffindor, and your friends with Potter. That hurts your chances. But luckily you're also friends with me, and that makes up for the Potter part."

She laughed, "Well I hope you don't mind me using you to boost my popularity and my grade." She said sarcastically.

"Not at all. Be my guest." He said grinning.

. Logan noticed the tension coming from where she left the trio, and he interrupted their small chat to see what went on.

"What happened?" he asked her curiously, gesturing to where Harry, Ron, and Hermione were.

"Nothing happened." She stated simply, "can I take some of your potion?" noticing that he had finished it within 10 minutes, and it was the perfect color.

"Not until you tell me what happened," he said, playfully pushing his potion away from her.

"Seriously it was nothing. Hermione said I should start working, I said I would borrow yours, and she went off on how that's cheating and you cant learn anything from cheating. So I told them that we learned how to do this like two years ago, and then I came over here cause I didn't want to get into it, cause we both know that I would probably have gotten annoyed and told her off, which I don't want to do." She then summed it all up with "not a big deal". She was about to change the subject when her attention was drawn to Ron, whose chair had just crashed to the floor, and then watched as he stormed out.

"Ten bucks says I know what that was about." Logan said to her. He glanced over at Harry, who looked utterly dumbfounded, on what to do, and Hermione who was trying not to cry.

"Damn it, I was trying to avoid drama." Ellena stated. She looked at Logan as the both stood up, knowing what had to be done.

"Alright," she sighed, "I got him, you take Hermione." And with that she quickly bottled their potions, and left to go find Ron.

She didn't know the castle very well yet, so she had to be careful not to get lost. She knew her basics: Great Hall, Common Room, and Library. Beyond that he mostly followed other students, or in worst-case scenario, she guessed.

She decided to start with what she knew and headed to the Great Hall. It took her ten minutes just to find her way out of the dungeons and to the hall. When she got there, it was completely empty of people and the only things there were the four house tables, and the staff table. She thought of the next place she knew, which was the dorms, and figured this to be a likely place for him to be, and headed in that direction.

When she had found the portrait, she was exceptionally proud of how quickly she got there, and gave the password to the fat lady. When she walked in, she saw that the room was completely deserted except for Ron, who was sitting near the fire, actually doing homework.

He didn't notice her walk in, and when she hopped onto the couch beside him; it made him jump a little.

"Hey" he said going back to his textbook.

"Hey. How's it goin?" she asked as if nothing was up.

"Fine" he replied plainly.

"Liar." She said smirking. "What's wrong, why'd you storm out of class?" she asked propping her arm on the back of the couch, holding her head up, and looking genuine in wanting to know his answer.

"Hermione was just bothering me." He didn't want to tell Ellena that he liked her yet, and he didn't know how to explain that he was mad without doing so.

"Is it because of what me and her got into?" she coaxed him along.

He looked up from his work, and into her eyes. He paused for a moment searching her eyes or anything other then sincerity, but he didn't find anything. She really wanted him to talk with her.

"No" he answered dully going back to his work. He had read the same two lines in his book over and over since she sat down.

"Are you lying again?" she accused

"Maybe" he replied. He wasn't sure why he hadn't just said no.

"Look it's not a big deal. I'm not mad at her, she's not mad at me." She stated simply. She moved her hand to above his knee n an attempt to be comforting and calming, but she didn't realize that this actually made his heart beat faster, and caused him to tense up.

"The only reason I got up is because I didn't want it to something, and start drama. Not because I was mad. Hermione is a great girl, I mean she obviously caught your attention, you two are best friends and nothing should hurt that." She was trying to make it better, but couldn't tell if it was working, his expression was very hard to read.

"It just made me mad how she had to make a point of telling you off, and make a big deal over nothing." He said growing annoyed again thinking about it.

"Hey," she started rubbing up and down his leg to calm him down, "I'm not worried about it, you shouldn't be either."

"Yeah… I guess you're right, I probably overreacted." He had to admit that he had gone a little over the top.

"I think you should go talk to Hermione." She suggested.

"Yeah she should be getting out of transfiguration soon, I'll catch up with her." He decided.

"Sounds good" she was glad that things were ok between them now. "So what do you want to do until then?" she asked, there was only 30 minutes left until classes got it, rendering it pointless to show up now.

"Why don't you tell me more about you?" he suggested, wanting to get to know her better.

"Oh I don't know, there's not much to tell. I lived in Ashland my whole life, and I love it there, I love everything about the west coast. I have an older brother, he moved out like three years ago, but were still pretty close. Nothing too exciting." Wow she thought I am pretty lame.

"How do you know Logan?" he needed to know more about their relationship, everyone in school talked about how they act like a couple and it was starting to make him unsure.

"Logan?" she asked, not expecting him to come up. "Well, we met like two years ago through a mutual friend. And we helped each other through some pretty tough times, and we've just been close ever since." she explained, trying not to reveal too much. She wasn't ready to talk about her past with people. She didn't even talk about it with Logan, and he knew not to bring it up.

"What happened?" Ron asked, not understanding that she didn't want to discuss it.

She became very fidgety and started tapping her heel up and down on the floor impatiently, while twirling a loose string from her jacket around her finger in a spiral.

"What, um, what about you and Hermione?" she un-smoothly changed the subject. "How'd you two become friends?"

He noticed her complete avoidance of his question, but decided not to push it, as it was obviously a sensitive subject.

"Well, I hated her for awhile because I thought she was a know-it-all, but then Harry and I saved her from a troll, and she took the blame for the trouble we caused." He summed it up rather quickly. This odd and blunt description made Ellena laugh.

"Random, but ok." She said, looking at the clock she added, "We should get going, classes should be out soon." and started to get up. Ron closed his book that had been resting in his lap, and followed her out the door.

By the time they had reached the classroom, students had started filing out. When Hermione walked out, Ron gave Ellena a 'here goes nothing' look and then walked over, and putting his hand on her arm, guided her away from the other students to talk.

Logan walked up to Ellena and asked "Fixed?"

"Yep" she replied happily

"Well Jesus, it took you long enough." He joked.

"Shut up! I got lost." She said giving him a shove. "What about you? She ok?" she asked

"Yep it took like two minutes…unlike your two hours" he added this last part just to get a rise out of her. But when she didn't respond with a shove or witty comeback, he knew something was up.

"What's wrong?" he asked getting concerned.

"It's nothing, it's just, well…" she started to twirl a piece of hair around her finger, a nervous habit she had developed.

Logan knew this sign by now, and let out a sigh. "Sumner?" he asked. This was the first time that HE had been brought up since they had left for England.

Her eyes started to tear up but she refused to let herself cry. "Ron asked how you and me met and why were such good friends, but I couldn't tell him." She explained her voice shaking.

"Elle, sweetie, don't make yourself worry over him like this" he said in a soft comforting voice, pulling her into him and holding her. "You don't need to talk about it until your ready ok? And don't even think about Sumner, he's millions of miles away now, alright?" She nodded her head and wiped her eyes, putting her confident look back on her face.

"That's my girl." He said giving her a smile. "Are you hungry? Do you want to go get dinner?" he asked just noticing his own hunger.

"Yeah, ok." She agreed even though she didn't have an appetite at the moment.

They walked down to the Great hall in silence and when they walked in she noticed that Ron and Hermione were chatting happily to each other once again.

Even though he had done nothing wrong, Ellena didn't feel like talking to Ron at the moment. "Can I sit with you and Draco?" she asked Logan just as he was turning to the Slytherin table.

"Of course" he replied, and she smiled thankfully. They sat down next to Draco and the two boys started chatting adamantly about something that she wasn't paying attention to. Logan was eating like he hadn't seen decent food in a week while Ellena was picking at a couple of apple slices. She was tired and couldn't get Sumner out of her head. Logan glanced at her giving a 'are you ok' look with his eyes. When she responded with a warm fake smile confirming that she was, the first thing that popped into her head was what Sumner might say, and instantly a scenario as if he were there, came into play in her head.

After she smiled at Logan, Sumner would lean into her whispering something like "I saw that you whore, you better not be cheating on me with him." Then he would lean in and give her a little kiss on the cheek for show.

Ellena felt herself get nervous. Trying to pull out if it, she told herself, "This is ridiculous. Sumner isn't here. I shouldn't be afraid of something that isn't here." Taking a deep breath to calm herself, she decided she needed to be alone.

"I'm going to head up to bed." She informed Logan and Draco.

"Are you sure? Its like 8." Logan informed her.

"Yeah I know, I'm just really tired." She said getting up.

"Alright, well ill see you tomorrow. 'Night babe."

"Goodnight. Bye Draco."

"Bye, sleep well." He responded. And with that she left the great hall and went up to her dorm.

When she got to her bed, she noticed an owl by the window and recognized it right away. She excitedly ran to the window and threw it open allowing the owl to come in. She petted it happily and started talking to it as if it were a baby.

"Hi Mr. Bojangles!" her voice went up to an extremely high pitch. "I missed you!" she fed it a couple owl treats then took the letter from its leg. She let the owl use her spare cage to sleep since she knew it had come a long way. She got comfortable on her bed and opened the letter,

Elle,

I miss you so much! You have no idea how much it sucks without you and Logan here with me. Oh and I love how much you've been writing to me…. that's really great. Thanks. So what's it like over there? Meet any hot British boys yet? If you do, send me one back, cause I'm getting bored with Paul. Nothing special is going on here really except classes are already a bitch and the only way I'll pass math is if I cheat on my final. But other then that, I miss you so much! Oh my mom said I can fly out and visit you for thanksgiving or one of the breaks so talk to your principal about that. I cant really write too much because I'm in class right now, actually I'm in math…its stuff like this that's gonna make me fail. But I love you and I miss you! And you better write me back. HAVE FUN.

3 Always,

Kelly

Ps. Let Mr. Bojangles stay with you for a couple days since its such a far trip. Plus I think he misses Jingle-Heimer Joe.

Ellena smiled at her friends' letter and started writing a response.

Hey Kelly!

I know I'm sorry I haven't written to you yet, I don't have an excuse except I'm a bitch and that's what you get for being best friends with a bitch. I miss you so much you don't even know. It's not half bad here and I'm starting to really like it. The school is a castle, it's amazing. And everyone here has the cutest accents. There are a few hotties here and ill let you have whichever one I don't take first ;). Actually I would say things are going really good but something happened tonight. This guy Ron asked about Sumner. I haven't even thought about him since I left, and all this crap just came rushing back. I don't want to talk about it with anyone yet and Logan said I don't need to but I dunno. I just kept imagining what he would be doing and saying if he were here and it really freaked me out. I don't know I know its stupid but I can't help it. Ill talk to my 'Headmaster' (not principal here) about you coming to visit cause that would be the shit!!! But you forgot that they don't celebrate thanksgiving outside of the US! Well I'm going to go to bed now even thought its like 9. Tell Paul I say hi and give him a huge ass hug for me.

3 always

Elle

She slid the letter into the envelope and sealed it. She should have waited a couple of days so she could send it back with Kelley's owl, but she was to anxious so she tied the letter to Jingle-Heimer Joe's leg instead. She gave him a couple owl treats before telling him it was to Kelley and sending him off. Crawling into bed she felt much better since Kelley's letter and getting to tell her about her worries. It didn't take long for her to fall into a comfortable sleep.

As Logan and Ellena sat down at the Slytherin table for dinner, he noticed Draco watching her out of the corner of his eye. He glanced over and saw the look of deep concentration she was giving her apple. She wasn't eating it, but instead broke it up into smaller pieces and left it on her plate while she moved to the next slice. She was getting fidgety which meant she was either upset or extremely excited. He took a chance and figured she was still thinking about Sumner. After all who could blame her, after what he had put her through.

Logan had always felt guilty when he found out about Sumner and what he really was. They had been best friends since they were four, played quidditch together for three years, and hung out every chance they had. He should have known what happened behind closed doors, that his best friend was a monster. After all, no one knew him better then Logan, at least that's what he had thought.

He waited for Ellena to look up, and when she did he gave her the 'are you ok' eyes. She smiled as if this covered up everything, but Logan saw through it. He wanted to talk to her about it. They never really did, it was too soon for both of them. After a couple minutes, Ellena got up giving an excuse that she was tired, and left for the dorms.

When she was out of earshot, Draco stopped their previous conversation of quidditch all-stars and leaned onto the table asking, "Is she ok?" he had noticed her reluctance to talk or eat anything.

Logan watched her as she exited the Great Hall and answered, "She will be."

"Well what happened?" Draco didn't drop it at Logan's subtle attempt to end the topic.

"She just has some skeletons who refuse to stay in the closet." He was always good at talking without actually saying anything.

"Alright…" Draco responded, getting the picture and letting it go, for now at least. They had only been at Hogwarts for a couple days, and Ellena had managed to reveal her many colors and sides. Draco was intrigued by her complexity, and was determined to find out where it all came from. She jumped from one emotion to the next, never-ending, always surprising.

"Come on man, let's go to the common room." Draco said standing up ready to leave.

"Alright" Logan replied. Then glancing at all the food that was left, he quickly grabbed a napkin, opened it up, and started filling it with as much food as he could to take with him.

"What the bloody hell are you doing?" Draco laughed.

"I'll get hungry later, and you people only serve during meals." He explained.

"You know you can just go to the kitchens. The houseelves practically live to have people come down and ask for stuff." He told Logan.

"Seriously?" he asked as he stuffed his napkin of food into his robes. "Well now I know where to get food for the party. This is gonna be awesome." And with that they retreated to the Slytherin Common room to make plans for Friday night.

"Ok so I have the alcohol covered" Logan stated as he and Draco sat in the common room with their overstuffed black chairs pulled closely together so people wouldn't overhear. Logan was leaning forward, forearms resting on his knees, with a Pepsi in hand. Draco was leaning back one arm comfortably resting on the arm of his chair, while the other had an apple twirling in his fingers as he went over the to-do list with Logan.

"How do you have a connection already?" Draco asked impressed.

"I went down to Hogsmead and had a talk with the bartender at Hogshead. He's a good guy, for the right price." Logan grinned, and took a drink of his coke.

"So what are we getting?" Draco asked

"Fire whiskey mostly. But I also put a special order in for Vodka: Original, Raspberry, and Vanilla. And then some tequila and rum. Oh and I found this guy who said he can supply beer for anyone who doesn't want the hard stuff." Logan double-checked this in his head to make sure he wasn't forgetting anything.

"Man, you got everything down." Draco said. He had never been to a party with such a wide selection.

"Well I'm just trying to make a good first impression." He said smirking.

"How much will all that put you back?" all that liquor was bound to cost a good chunk of change.

"A lot" Logan answered loosing his smirk "That's why were going to have to charge people at the door. I don't want to but it's the only way we can afford it all. The beer is free but the rest is pricey. I figure five bucks a head should cover most of it if we don't include our friends."

"That's not a bad idea." Draco said, it seemed Logan had an answer for everything.

"You have a place right?" Logan asked

"Yeah and if it falls through, we can always have it here." He said gesturing around the common room. "Teachers never come here, Snape doesn't care, and we can just lock underclassmen in their rooms." He said with a smile.

"Last resort, this place could do. But where do you have in mind?"

"Room Of Requirements" he explained, happy that he had the answer for this one. "Anything you need, and it'll be there. Its perfect."

"Sounds like it, can we check it out later." Logan asked.

"Yeah I'll show you tomorrow." Draco responded

"Ok so finally, our only problem is getting everything form Hogsmead to the castle without teachers noticing." They both sat there thinking of different ways, none of them realistic, Draco, every now and then taking a bite of his apple and Logan, a drink of his Pepsi.

Then Draco tossed what was left of his apple into the fire and sighed, knowing there was no other option at the moment.

"I think I know someone who can help us here." He said grumpily.

"Who?" Logan inquired

"Pothead and the Weasel."

A/N: PLEASE REVIEW. I knowI already said this but I mean it. I have the next chapter ready I just have to type it out so it should be up soon enough. THANKS ;)