Summary: Cho has just broken up with Conner and is moping/sobbing in a small cleaning closet. Only problem is, someone happens to overhear her mumblings.
She meandered down the corridor feeling out of breath and depressed. Her long black hair hung limp and her eyes no longer shone. She was somewhere on the second floor having ran down several flights of stairs already, eagerly she opened the nearest door and squished herself into an empty broom closet.
Had there been a light in the dark cubby you would of seen the tears silently pouring from her eyes. Her final year at Hogwarts and she had been broken up with by her fifth year boyfriend, her boyfriend of two years.
What the bloody hell went wrong that caused him to break up with me?
For Cho couldn't even attempt to deny that it was him that had done the dastardly deed of breaking up, and wondered in her small room what had happened. It had been simple, a private meeting, a small speech professing his sincerest and deepest apology, and then he was gone. Run out the back door toward the Ravenclaw dormitories.
She began crying louder not caring that someone should walk by, for few people used the second floor and it was almost curfew by now.
She hadn't expected them to last so long, it was a schoolyard romance, not to be resulted in marriage. Still, she was extremely upset and couldn't look at it objectively. Instead, she just sat there and cried her soul out into the empty air, for there was none who could comfort her.
It was around that time that Argus Filch walked by, his cat Mrs. Norris leading the way with her lamp like eyes. He heard the muffled sobbing from far a way and briefly smiled.
He never smiled for when he did you could see the touches age had made to his feature, the deep creases from frowning over magic and the small hidden scars from his family long ago.
It made him laugh to hear teenagers crying over their supposed woes. This girl, Cho Chang he supposed from the sound, probably thought her small problems were the end of the world. She didn't stop to think of those who had it much worse, of him being abused when he was little, and the fact that he was a squib tainting him in all communities.
This girl, this spoiled sheltered child, didn't stop to care about those who were in real suffering, oh no, she was left in her fantasy world. Argus picked Mrs. Norris up around the middle, she was the first creature that had loved him and he would always trust her. He cautiously headed towards the small abandoned cleaning closet, long ago he learned yelling gave him away,
He still did yell though, because those that really suffered deserved a warning, and he punished them, sometimes unfairly, because he knew they were sick of special treatment. This girl though, this selfish brat didn't deserve that. He knew everything in this school from picking up the notes left for trash, and he knew that the girl's boyfriend had probably broken up with her. He had been planning it for a long time, this Conner. He was yet another ungrateful chit.
Yanking the door open Cho tumbled out and lay sprawled on the floor. By his torch he could see (he had already heard) that she was crying, setting Mrs. Norris down gently he took a step closer.
"Well looky here, a student out of bed after curfew. In a closet no less, probably waiting for her boyfriend."
"No Sir, ju-just lost tr-track of time."
"Ravenclaws aren't known to sneak out. I think I'll write you up, detention for one week, maybe two. Now get to bed you scoundrel!"
Cho rushed off ashamed of getting detention and even more sad then before. Cho thought her life was the worst, horrible, ruined. For that thought alone she flung herself under the covers wishing morning never came.
Author's Note: This story was odd, that I'll give you. I wrote it for but one reason; there aren't any fics staring Argus and Cho. So I wrote one, as well as a challenge that you can look for in my bio. I like going for the unique edge, and am pleased that you read all of this. By all means, leave a review. It would make me very happy. This is a one-shot though, so I'd recommend checking out Braids and Boils(which will be updated in a few days, Proma's had some trouable on writting it!) for more fun by me.
In the end I hope you enjoyed this fic, check out my bio as I would love for you to participate in one of my challenges, it be great fun.