Rumours were spreading around the school like wildfire after what happened out on the grounds, with many saying that Jess had killed Edward, and some even said that Voldemort himself had been on the grounds.
Dumbledore had called an emergency prefects meeting the next morning and had briefed them on what was going to happen.
"We have Aurors situated on all gates around the school to stop anyone unauthorised to enter, or leave the grounds." He told all the prefects around the table in the prefects common room. "All Hogsemade trips have been cancelled for the rest of the year." A small groan went around the table when he said this. "All classes with be escorted to and from lessons by a teacher, and all students will be confined to their common rooms after 7pm, except prefects who will be required to patrol the corridors in shifts. I have had a rota drawn up which tells you when you should be patrolling and who with, this will be left on the notice board. If you are on patrol and you find anyone out of their common room with out a teacher then they will receive detention, and five points taken from their house, is that all clear?"
A murmur of assent went around the table.
"Excuse me sir, but what exactly happened?" Asked a Hufflepuff fifth year.
Dumbledore sighed, "well, last night a student was killed on the grounds by a Death Eater."
"Who?"
"His name was Edward Cummings." Dumbledore said, "but please no more questions, I will be holding a whole school assembly this morning, and I will talk to the whole school. Now please go and get some breakfast."
Whenever they weren't in lessons that day, Lily, Emma and Laura were in the Hospital Wing with Jess. This did annoy Madame Pomfrey, and she had told them that there was no point in them coming around so often as she would be out in a few hours anyway.
They took no notice of this however and still sat at her bedside for as long as they could before getting kicked out.
They told Jess all about the new security measures being put on the school, but she didn't really care, she seemed traumatised by the whole thing. But then again she had watched someone die and that leaves some effect.
Jess was let out of the hospital wing, and she was a sort of celebrity in Hogwarts.
Everyone rushed up to her when she entered the common room and begun bombarding her with questions. Lily had to threaten them with detention to make them stop.
Jess just sat in the common room with Emma, Sirius and Peter that night, just listening to the conversation rather then joining in.
"So what's everyone doing for practical week?" Emma asked the group at large.
"Is that next week?" Sirius asked.
"Yes, it is next week, you should know with all the teachers banging on about it!" Emma said.
Practical week, was one week that seventh years went out into the magical world and experienced what their chosen careers would be like. I was just like the muggle work experience, except with wizarding jobs.
"Flip, I completely forgot about that!" Sirius said.
Emma rolled her eyes, "God what are you like!"
"Well, I'm tall, dark haired and extremely handsome." Sirius said smiling cheekily.
Emma couldn't help but smile at this, and she gave Sirius a good long kiss.
"I'm going to bed." Jess said when she couldn't take anymore of Emma and Sirius getting off with each other.
"Oh, do you want me to come?" Emma asked.
"No, your alright." Jess said and she walked away.
"What were you going to go to bed with her?" Sirius asked hopefully.
"No, not get into the same bed, I just meant keep her company." Emma said, "you dirty minded thing!"
Sirius shrugged, "I'm not going to deny it, I am!"
Peter laughed, but he quickly stopped.
His dark mark started burning, he resisted the urge to shout out in pain.
Why now, he couldn't get out of the castle even if he wanted to. He had been ignoring his mark all day when it had been burning non stop.
"Are you alright Wormtail?" Sirius asked.
"Um, yeah, just tired. I'm going to bed." Peter said, and he escaped before Sirius could stop him.
He went to his dormitory and got ready for bed, even though he wasn't tired at all. He climbed into bed and closed his eyes, and quickly opened them again.
He had seen the image of the mud blood he'd killed again, he knew he wouldn't be the first to die, he knew that once he had left Hogwarts many others would die at his hand. He would get used to the guilt that he felt.
He slowly drifted off into an uneasy sleep.
He dreamt that he was in a cold, dark grey room. Except it wasn't a dream, it felt real. He could feel the cold and the damp, and he shivered.
"Pettigrew!" Came a high shrill cold voice.
Peter jumped and whimpered.
"Why have you not been answering my calls?" Came Voldemort's voice from a high backed chair behind Peter.
"Um………… well……….. I couldn't get out of the grounds to apparate to you my lord." Peter whimpered bowing as far down as he could.
"That isn't good enough, you should have come the moment you committed the deed." He growled.
"I'm sorry my lord." Peter said in a small voice keeping his eyes down.
"Look at me when I'm talking to you!" Voldemort roared.
Peter lifted his eyes off the floor and looked at Voldemort.
Voldemort started into his eyes for a few minuets.
"You will never ignore me again, do I make myself clear?" Voldemort asked in a dangerous whisper.
Peter nodded.
"Answer me!" Voldemort shouted.
"Yes my lord." Peter whimpered.
"And if I find out that you have told anyone about what you have become, epically your friends or Dumbledore, I will kill you, then your family, and them your friends. I will make it epically painful for the girl that you seem to love, this Jessica." His lip curled.
How did he know? Peter thought through all his fear. "I won't tell anyone my lord, not a soul."
"Now, you must be punished." Voldemort said lifting his wand. "This will teach you to be a more obedient servant. Crucio."
Peter fell to the floor squirming in pain. He felt thousands of knives stabbing him all around his body, he just wanted it to end, he just wanted to die.
"Peter!" Someone said shaking him awake.
He opened his eyes and found himself not in the dark room that he was in before, but in his bed with three worried faces poking through the hangings.
"Are you alright mate?" Sirius asked.
"Um……… yeah, I'm fine." He said and the faces disappeared.
He lay for a minuet thinking, that wasn't just a dream, it was more then that. But how had he been transported from one place to another, and how had his master know what he was feeling. How did he know that he loved Jessica, he didn't even know that he loved her. He just thought that he liked her………… a lot.
The four girls sat in their dormitory together later that day. It was a Saturday, so no lessons, and Lily and Laura weren't needed on patrol until later.
They weren't spending their time with the boys, as they didn't want to alienate Jess.
"How long is it to exams now?" Emma asked.
"About four months." Lily said.
"God, just think, this time next year we will probably have jobs and homes." Laura said.
"Where are we going to live?" Emma asked, "we can't stay at home."
"We are all going to live together, you know like we said before. We can but a flat, or a small house between us." Lily said.
"I thought that you would all move in with your boyfriends." Jess said joining the conversation for the first time.
"Well……… no. I don't want to live with James right away." Lily said thoughtfully. "I mean what if his feet smell really bad, or he burps a lot, or he might snore! I couldn't live with that." Jess smiled.
"And if James is bad, imagine Sirius!" Emma said and the girls laughed.
"So if we're all going to live together, where are we going to live?" Lily asked.
"Somewhere in London?" Jess suggested.
"Yeah, near the shops!" Emma said.
"Well why don't we see what there is to available." Lily said.
"Lily don't you have to go on patrol?" Jess asked.
"Oh, yeah!" Lily said, "come on Laura."
Laura didn't answer.
"Laura, we have to go." Lily said, looking for her wand.
"Ur…… Lily Laura has fallen asleep." Emma said.
"What?"
"I think she wore her self out with Remus last night." Emma said.
Lily rolled her eyes.
"Laura wake up." Lily said shaking her.
"Go away!" She muttered and she rolled over.
Lily smiled mischievously. "I know." She said and she picked up the jug of water that sat on the window sill. "Laura." She said sweetly.
"Go away!" Laura said again.
Lily just smiled and poured the water over her head.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Laura screamed. "LILY!"
Everyone in the room fell about laughing.
"Come on it's time for patrol." Lily said like nothing had happened.
"What did you do that!" Laura asked.
"What wake you up?" Lily asked innocently. "I had to it's time to go on patrol."
Laura narrowed her eyes and Lily just smiled.
"Come on, we don't have all day!" She said and she left the room.
Sorry this has taken ages to post, but it's here now.
The next chapter sould be good, I wanted to do a bit when they weren't at school.
I was thinking about making a sequel to this story about after they leave school, what do you think good /bad? Let me know.
Please review!!
Dumbledore had called an emergency prefects meeting the next morning and had briefed them on what was going to happen.
"We have Aurors situated on all gates around the school to stop anyone unauthorised to enter, or leave the grounds." He told all the prefects around the table in the prefects common room. "All Hogsemade trips have been cancelled for the rest of the year." A small groan went around the table when he said this. "All classes with be escorted to and from lessons by a teacher, and all students will be confined to their common rooms after 7pm, except prefects who will be required to patrol the corridors in shifts. I have had a rota drawn up which tells you when you should be patrolling and who with, this will be left on the notice board. If you are on patrol and you find anyone out of their common room with out a teacher then they will receive detention, and five points taken from their house, is that all clear?"
A murmur of assent went around the table.
"Excuse me sir, but what exactly happened?" Asked a Hufflepuff fifth year.
Dumbledore sighed, "well, last night a student was killed on the grounds by a Death Eater."
"Who?"
"His name was Edward Cummings." Dumbledore said, "but please no more questions, I will be holding a whole school assembly this morning, and I will talk to the whole school. Now please go and get some breakfast."
Whenever they weren't in lessons that day, Lily, Emma and Laura were in the Hospital Wing with Jess. This did annoy Madame Pomfrey, and she had told them that there was no point in them coming around so often as she would be out in a few hours anyway.
They took no notice of this however and still sat at her bedside for as long as they could before getting kicked out.
They told Jess all about the new security measures being put on the school, but she didn't really care, she seemed traumatised by the whole thing. But then again she had watched someone die and that leaves some effect.
Jess was let out of the hospital wing, and she was a sort of celebrity in Hogwarts.
Everyone rushed up to her when she entered the common room and begun bombarding her with questions. Lily had to threaten them with detention to make them stop.
Jess just sat in the common room with Emma, Sirius and Peter that night, just listening to the conversation rather then joining in.
"So what's everyone doing for practical week?" Emma asked the group at large.
"Is that next week?" Sirius asked.
"Yes, it is next week, you should know with all the teachers banging on about it!" Emma said.
Practical week, was one week that seventh years went out into the magical world and experienced what their chosen careers would be like. I was just like the muggle work experience, except with wizarding jobs.
"Flip, I completely forgot about that!" Sirius said.
Emma rolled her eyes, "God what are you like!"
"Well, I'm tall, dark haired and extremely handsome." Sirius said smiling cheekily.
Emma couldn't help but smile at this, and she gave Sirius a good long kiss.
"I'm going to bed." Jess said when she couldn't take anymore of Emma and Sirius getting off with each other.
"Oh, do you want me to come?" Emma asked.
"No, your alright." Jess said and she walked away.
"What were you going to go to bed with her?" Sirius asked hopefully.
"No, not get into the same bed, I just meant keep her company." Emma said, "you dirty minded thing!"
Sirius shrugged, "I'm not going to deny it, I am!"
Peter laughed, but he quickly stopped.
His dark mark started burning, he resisted the urge to shout out in pain.
Why now, he couldn't get out of the castle even if he wanted to. He had been ignoring his mark all day when it had been burning non stop.
"Are you alright Wormtail?" Sirius asked.
"Um, yeah, just tired. I'm going to bed." Peter said, and he escaped before Sirius could stop him.
He went to his dormitory and got ready for bed, even though he wasn't tired at all. He climbed into bed and closed his eyes, and quickly opened them again.
He had seen the image of the mud blood he'd killed again, he knew he wouldn't be the first to die, he knew that once he had left Hogwarts many others would die at his hand. He would get used to the guilt that he felt.
He slowly drifted off into an uneasy sleep.
He dreamt that he was in a cold, dark grey room. Except it wasn't a dream, it felt real. He could feel the cold and the damp, and he shivered.
"Pettigrew!" Came a high shrill cold voice.
Peter jumped and whimpered.
"Why have you not been answering my calls?" Came Voldemort's voice from a high backed chair behind Peter.
"Um………… well……….. I couldn't get out of the grounds to apparate to you my lord." Peter whimpered bowing as far down as he could.
"That isn't good enough, you should have come the moment you committed the deed." He growled.
"I'm sorry my lord." Peter said in a small voice keeping his eyes down.
"Look at me when I'm talking to you!" Voldemort roared.
Peter lifted his eyes off the floor and looked at Voldemort.
Voldemort started into his eyes for a few minuets.
"You will never ignore me again, do I make myself clear?" Voldemort asked in a dangerous whisper.
Peter nodded.
"Answer me!" Voldemort shouted.
"Yes my lord." Peter whimpered.
"And if I find out that you have told anyone about what you have become, epically your friends or Dumbledore, I will kill you, then your family, and them your friends. I will make it epically painful for the girl that you seem to love, this Jessica." His lip curled.
How did he know? Peter thought through all his fear. "I won't tell anyone my lord, not a soul."
"Now, you must be punished." Voldemort said lifting his wand. "This will teach you to be a more obedient servant. Crucio."
Peter fell to the floor squirming in pain. He felt thousands of knives stabbing him all around his body, he just wanted it to end, he just wanted to die.
"Peter!" Someone said shaking him awake.
He opened his eyes and found himself not in the dark room that he was in before, but in his bed with three worried faces poking through the hangings.
"Are you alright mate?" Sirius asked.
"Um……… yeah, I'm fine." He said and the faces disappeared.
He lay for a minuet thinking, that wasn't just a dream, it was more then that. But how had he been transported from one place to another, and how had his master know what he was feeling. How did he know that he loved Jessica, he didn't even know that he loved her. He just thought that he liked her………… a lot.
The four girls sat in their dormitory together later that day. It was a Saturday, so no lessons, and Lily and Laura weren't needed on patrol until later.
They weren't spending their time with the boys, as they didn't want to alienate Jess.
"How long is it to exams now?" Emma asked.
"About four months." Lily said.
"God, just think, this time next year we will probably have jobs and homes." Laura said.
"Where are we going to live?" Emma asked, "we can't stay at home."
"We are all going to live together, you know like we said before. We can but a flat, or a small house between us." Lily said.
"I thought that you would all move in with your boyfriends." Jess said joining the conversation for the first time.
"Well……… no. I don't want to live with James right away." Lily said thoughtfully. "I mean what if his feet smell really bad, or he burps a lot, or he might snore! I couldn't live with that." Jess smiled.
"And if James is bad, imagine Sirius!" Emma said and the girls laughed.
"So if we're all going to live together, where are we going to live?" Lily asked.
"Somewhere in London?" Jess suggested.
"Yeah, near the shops!" Emma said.
"Well why don't we see what there is to available." Lily said.
"Lily don't you have to go on patrol?" Jess asked.
"Oh, yeah!" Lily said, "come on Laura."
Laura didn't answer.
"Laura, we have to go." Lily said, looking for her wand.
"Ur…… Lily Laura has fallen asleep." Emma said.
"What?"
"I think she wore her self out with Remus last night." Emma said.
Lily rolled her eyes.
"Laura wake up." Lily said shaking her.
"Go away!" She muttered and she rolled over.
Lily smiled mischievously. "I know." She said and she picked up the jug of water that sat on the window sill. "Laura." She said sweetly.
"Go away!" Laura said again.
Lily just smiled and poured the water over her head.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Laura screamed. "LILY!"
Everyone in the room fell about laughing.
"Come on it's time for patrol." Lily said like nothing had happened.
"What did you do that!" Laura asked.
"What wake you up?" Lily asked innocently. "I had to it's time to go on patrol."
Laura narrowed her eyes and Lily just smiled.
"Come on, we don't have all day!" She said and she left the room.
Sorry this has taken ages to post, but it's here now.
The next chapter sould be good, I wanted to do a bit when they weren't at school.
I was thinking about making a sequel to this story about after they leave school, what do you think good /bad? Let me know.
Please review!!