Lives and Loves of Ravenclaw Girls
Chapter 03 – Snivellus Pays
By: Samantha, Julie and Megan
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Heading towards The Slytherin common room, Sirius, James and a very sad looking Remus came across a slinking figure emerging from one of the side corridors.
"Lumos," James whispered as his wand tip lit up.
"Whose there?" Sirius asked, wand raised.
"What the hell are you doing down here Potter?" Severus looked at James then to Sirius and Remus. "Come to throw another punch at me have you? Well you can go away now I don't want nor do I need it thank you."
"You hurt a mate of ours, Snivellus. Why should we just let you walk away?"
"I actually think he's hurt already," Remus whispered to James.
Sure enough Severus came into the light showing him holding his side with a mark of pain plastered onto his face.
Sirius laughed "Oh, this is precious, who beat you up? Or is this just an act so we don't break every bone in your body for what you did to Sam?" Sirius looked menacing.
"Oh, don't tell me your her friends too, her other friends are bad enough, let alone you idiots as well," Severus said sounding a bit annoyed.
"Give me one good reason as to why I shouldn't cover you in boils or better yet, beat the crap out of you right now, Snivellus," Sirius said advancing on him with his wand raised
"Look I didn't intentionally hurt Sam. Hang on I don't need to explain myself to you," Severus turned and started to walk away.
"We're not finished with you Snape," it was Remus' turn to speak.
Snape turned around
"I'm finished talking to you so if you'll excuse me."
But before Severus could take another step Sirius and James were upon him Sirius raised his fist and right on target hit Snape square between the eyes James punching anywhere within reach.
"Have a heart you greasy bastard, you say you like this girl, but you break her heart, she spent nearly an hour crying on my shoulder as to why she was so upset," James's fist collided with Severus' jaw with a noisy crack that echoed through the corridor.
"Stop, James, Sirius, lets get out of here what if we're caught we shouldn't be dueling within school and muggle dueling at that. COME ON."
And with that James, Sirius and Remus bolted back up towards the Gryffindor common room leaving a bruised and bloody Severus lying unconscious on the cold stone floor.
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Slowly the trio started to slow down and come to a walk. They ambled down the halls in silence. Sirius led the way, guiding through the castle with ease. James was in the middle, still aware of what had happened. Remus lagged behind, he had not been an active participant in the beating, his mind was too occupied with his own troubles. Neither James, nor Remus had noticed when Sirius had turned down the wrong corridor, and farther east than the Gryffindor tower.
Sirius led them to a little room, far out of the way, behind secret passages that led to more secret passages, and flights of stairs. He took them to a little spot they had found back in third year. He opened the door and the boys followed him in, now aware of there surroundings.
"Wow, I think Gryffindor tower looks very different today," said James rolling his eyes.
"I think I want to know what's going on here."
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked James angrily.
"Where is this sudden interest in this Sam girl, James? Did I not see you last night with Lily? Don't you dare think you can drop Lily like you did with all those damn girls before her!" Sirius yelled, getting red in the face.
"What are you going on about?! I do not LIKE Sam that way! I'm with Lily, not Sam. She is just a friend. You know what Platonic is? That's us. Get a grip Sirius, I'm in love with Lily, and as much as i think she needs serious help, Sam loves Snivellus," James finished, hoping to get his point across.
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Heidi pressed the towel to her face; she needed all the relaxation she could get. Between the many clubs she joined and led and the grueling Quidditch practice she just had. Her captain had went all out, forcing them to work for so long, and so hard that it took Ryan Station to fall off his broom in pure exhaustion before the captain let the team go and change. She had left for practice after Sam and Julie had gone to get drunk.
So Heidi was the last one left in the change room, but she didn't mind. It was at times like these that she really thought that enough was enough, and it was time to quit before she got a headache. She decided that she would take her time today, not just hurrying from place to place. Slowly, she gathered her things and walked out towards the pitch. A blur caught her eye, high above her.
She looked up to see someone doing laps around the pitch. They were as graceful on the broom as they did loops and moves. She could tell from the persons build it was indeed a male. She watched him for a few moments, just looking up at him in the middle of the pitch. She didn't know if she looked like a fool, and frankly, she didn't care. She watched the figure, studying him. He wore red and gold, obviously a Gryffindor, his talents gave away that he had to be on the Quidditch team. And if he wasn't, Gryffindor didn't know what they were missing.
She was so caught up in thoughts she hadn't notice the figure caught her staring and was beginning to descend towards her. As he neared the ground Heidi finally noticed he was coming to see her and began to blush. This is weird, she thought, I NEVER blush! But she was as she finally saw who it was that she was watching. It was Will Roberts. If lashing before was bad, she had no words for this. Her friends had teased her that morning, she had told them something happened, but the truth was that nothing had.
"Hey Heidi!"
"Hey Will, how are ya?" she asked him, her face returning to normal.
"Just flying off some steam, you know?" Did she ever! She flew so often the pitch was like her third home (first being her real home, second being Hogwarts in general)
"Yeah, I don't think there's life without it!" she laughed.
"It's great to meet another Quidditch enthusiast," he said honestly.
"Well it won't be so great when i beat you in a race!" she said with a grin. It was second nature to be so competitive.
They flew their legs over their brooms and sped off around the pitch in a race.
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Will sped as fast and as far as he could, he had to beat Heidi. He saw the finish line and knew that he was going to win. Then it hit him. Literally that is, Heidi's shoe had hit him right between the shoulder blades. Her shoe fell to the grass, but before it hit Heidi swept below and caught it. She sped ahead as he slowed down and stared at her in bewilderment. She crossed the finish line and turned to him,
"I win."
"What the heck was that?" he asked her, shocked.
Heidi just shrugged, "I do anything to win."
He raised an eyebrow to her statement, "You cheat to win? I thought you were a Ravenclaw."
"Well, maybe I'm a Slytherin at heart," she stated bluntly.
"I don't know what you are, but i think i like it. You're very entertaining you know that?"
Heidi paused a moment before speaking, she was unsure if she should say what she wanted out loud. She let her cares go, and said, "The way I hear it, you could use some."
Will regarded her a moment before saying, "You mean Lily?" Heidi nodded, unsure of what to say. Will and Heidi headed up to the stands, to sit and talk.
"I guess I always saw it coming. I mean, the way they look at each other. They way they always talked about her. It was like I was never really there for her,"
Heidi looked at him for a second before stating her reply, "You were there, Will, you were there when he wasn't. She still had feelings for you, if she didn't you would never have been with her in the first place."
"Still, though. One thing we were together, and then she's off snogging James? You'd think we would actually talk first."
Heidi had always taken pride in saying anything she wanted, anytime, anywhere. So why was it she couldn't say what she wanted to in front of Will. She gulped back the lump in her throat,
"I think she was an idiot to give you up."
Will looked at her for a moment.
Then Will did something Heidi had expected the least, he kissed her.
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"So th' duck shays, 'I don't need to moo fer you!'" with that last word Julie sloshed the bottle of whiskey all down the front of her. She and Sam had been in the corner of the kitchens for a long time. A very long time. They hadn't known how long they had been there, but then again they didn't know much about anything at the moment.
Only that if they stopped drinking the pain would return. And so with enough empty bottles to fill a cubical scattered around them, they sat in a blissful haze, talking about nothing, and how guys just suck.
Sam walked up to the nearest house-elf (again) and started to try and get him to dance. When the elf had done what all the others had, run off, Sam sat back down. The two girls bluntly ignored the numerous bottles of Sober-Me-Up that the house-elves kept sliding towards them.
They sat in their corner, drinking their whiskey ("Isn't there anything better?" Julie had asked) and talking about how guys suck. Sam just moped over Snape and the fact he couldn't handle that someone had real friends, not just slaves, or cronies. People she liked to be with, for the most part. Julie on the other hand, was peeved at Remus for flirting more than his stupid little comment. So they drank until the repeating voices fell to hums, and the ever-repeating scenes they saw when they closed their eyes started to blur and fade a little.
"I wish sevvy-wevy would wash his hair," said Julie, extremely intoxicated.
Apparently this was funny enough to have the other drunk rolling around on the floor laughing; tears streaming down her face. Eventually Julie started laughing in pure mirth over nothing in particular.
The two lay there laughing until Sam finally asked, "What are we laughing about?"
"I thought you knew," replied Julie, "Oh well, must not have been important."
"Sevvikins really is a greasy git," stated Sam.
"I'M A GOOD GIRL!" started wailing Julie
"BUT HE'S MY GREASY GIT!" wailed Sam even louder.
So the two drunken idiots continued sobbing over there suppose-to-be loves.
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Shannon descended the stairs from the girls' dormitory. She scanned the room for the sight of any of her friends. None were there, except Tag and Megan, who were in the middle of a screaming match. The whole common room was deserted, so Shannon turned around to go back up and wait for their fight to end, or anyone else to return. She stopped short, catching their conversation.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T WANT IT?" screamed Megan. Her face was bright red from her evident anger.
"We're not ready for it, Megs! You can't keep it! DO YOU HEAR ME? YOU CAN'T!"
"Yes, I can, Tag! It's mine! YOU MAY BE A COLD HEARTED JERK BUT I AM NOT!" she screamed back at him
"Well it takes two, so it's partly mine. You can't do this! You can't have it!"
"I can, you arse, and I will," Tears streaming down her face, Megan took off up the stair case. Tag stayed behind watching her go. When he could see her no longer he smashed the glass table in front of him, shattering it in to a million pieces. Shannon took off after Megan.
She found Megan curled up in a ball sobbing in the bathroom the girls shared. Shannon went and put a comforting arm around her, letting Megan sob in to her shoulder. Eventually she calmed down enough for Shannon to ask,
"Megan, sweets, what's wrong?"
Megan looked up at Shannon with tears still streaking down her face,
"Oh, Shannon! I ... I ..."
"What's up Megs, come on, you can tell me."
"I'm Pregnant."
Shannon's mouth dropped. This was not happening. No, one of her best friends was not pregnant. It just couldn't happen. Could it?
The look on Megan's face told her it could. Oh, how it could.
"You're sure?" she whispered.
"I took a muggle test, it's over there," she pointed to the counter. Shannon got up to look, "It was positive, so I tried another one. It was positive too." Megs broke back down into sobbing.
Shannon took the strips and looked them over. She knew it was wrong, but she smiled to herself.
"You're not pregnant." Megan looked up at her,
"Yes I am! I took that test twice!"
"And they both came back negative; you read the colours wrong," Shannon smiled down at her, box in hand, "blue means negative."
"Oh," Megan couldn't say any more than that. There was a long pause before she spoke again.
"I don't think you know how much of a relief that is! I really couldn't believe it. We only forgot the charm once and, well ..." she trailed off.
"I think you should go tell Tag," Shannon advised.
"I will, eventually," she said simply.
"He deserves to know, I mean he thinks he's a father right now. He needs to know, from you."
"Yeah you're right, but i don't think this changes a lot. I mean i still want children, but you heard him, he said no. I can't believe he said no!" she was starting to get angry again. She got off the floor and began towards the door. Shannon looked around one last time before calling back out to her,
"Megan?"
"Yeah?" she said, popping her head back in.
"Were you really going to keep it?" Megan smiled,
"Yeah."
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Heidi pulled unwillingly back from the kiss. To say it was amazing would be a gross understatement.
"Heidi?"
"Hmm?" was her only reply, afraid words would betray her.
"Will you go out with me?"
"You think i could say no to that kiss?" she asked playfully.
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The conversation with Tag hadn't gone well at all. Instead of being happy with each other, they continued to fight. Megan asked him if that was how he would always re-act when the situation came. Then they fought over potential kids. Megan had had the last line before storming out of the common room,
"Is it that you don't see kids in our future? Or do you not see me."
Shannon had to (again) follow after her. She was able to convince Megan to go and talk it out over a cup of hot chocolate in the kitchens.
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As Heidi pulled away from the snog session she heard her stomach growl. That was right; she was so busy she had skipped dinner. A decision she was currently regretting.
"Aww, you a little hungry?"
"Only a little," she said rolling her eyes, "want to go to the kitchens?" Will looked at her oddly. "What's wrong?"
"You know how to get to the kitchens?" he asked her.
"Yeah, we learned back in second year. Well Julie actually did."
"Wow, that's impressive, how'd she find out?"
"She used to talk to the portraits," Heidi saw the look Will gave her and continued, "Well, even she admits she's not the sharpest tool in the shed. She used to ask them to tell her secrets about the castle, but hey, it worked didn't it?"
"You have some weird friends," he told her, throwing his arm over her waist as they walked up to the castle.
Heidi just muttered under her breath,
"You have no idea."
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Meanwhile after James had
thoroughly (after a lot of smacking to the back of Sirius's head)
convinced Sirius and a sulking Remus that there was NOTHING between
him and Sam.
They decided to make their way back to Gryffindor
tower.
"So absolutely nothing then," Sirius said to James.
Remus was brought back to reality with a loud smacking noise.
"NOTHING," James yelled after hitting Sirius harder for like the 10th time to the back of the head.
"Okay, okay, I get it. Ouch mate,"
"Well, you can be very stupid, can't you? Maybe, it was one to many Bludgers to that brain of yours," James said with a grin.
Sirius looked over to Remus who was sitting staring out the window.
"Hey, Moony, what's wrong mate?" Sirius walked over to Remus and sat down.
"Nothing," Remus said not looking at either of them.
"You can't hide that look from us your upset. What's she done?" James came over and sat down on the other side of Remus.
"Julie broke it off," A tear fell down Remus' face
"I told her everything and she called it off because I was an idiot."
James got up and walked over to his trunk.
"Why, Moony, you said you loved her and she did say she loved you right?" Sirius was looking worried for his friend
"It was the conversation she saw me having with you the one about all the girls, I think it upset her. I haven't spoken to her since she threw the jersey back at me," Remus was nearly in full tears by now.
James came back and sat down handing Remus a bottle of Butterbeer.
"Thanks James but I think I need something stronger,"
Just then Sirius got up,
"I've been saving these for something like this I never hoped I would have to use them but hey" and with that 3 crates of Firewhiskey appeared at the end of Sirius's bed
"WOW!" James said "How come you never told me about those?" James looked kind of hurt.
"Well, I didn't think you needed them and it looks like Remus does so hey what the heck lets get a little drunk, shall we?" Sirius said with a mischievous grin.
"Plus, we could always celebrate the fact that we gave Snivellus something he had coming for a long, long time," James and Sirius laughed.
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LATER THAT NIGHT
"I can't believe Sam is with Snivvy," Sirius stuck his finger down his throat as if to make himself throw up.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE ITS OVER," Remus slurred swaying slightly.
James
got up and wobbled to stand next to Remus and slung his arm over his
shoulder.
"Mate you, you, you, you'll figure it
o-o-o-out.
Sirius laughed so hard that he fell off the bed into a pile of empty Firewhiskey bottles.
"Ouch, mate," Remus tried to make his way over to Sirius but tripped over on the edge of the rug and fell face first onto Sirius's knee.
James laughed so hard he slide down the wall.
"We are sooo drunk," James slurred.
"We should stop drinking this wirebliskey," Remus mumbled
James and Sirius looked at each other contemplating what Remus had just said.
Just then there was a weird noise coming from Remus himself.
"Moony, mate, what's wrong?" Sirius and James tried to get up but fell onto each other.
"Wait," James said to Sirius "I think he's laughing!"
"S'good ta see you laugh moons," exclaimed James.
"He's snot sad! Are ya Remmy-Wemmy?" asked Sirius.
"I was sad?" he asked confused, "Ohhh, yeah, that. Darn shame ya know? She wassa great girl!"
"Not as good as Kassie though. She's a dollsies," replied Sirius, not know what he was saying.
"Do you fink Lils wants some Whisbiky?" asked James, before grabbing a bottle and heading for the door. Sirius, Remus, and Peter followed after him. But even the three other drunks winced as James went tumbling down the stairs. The boys were silent, waiting for him to say something before,
"S'hat was fun! You gotta try it!" James hadn't even bothered getting up. Sirius, taking James word for it, jumped down the stairs after him,
"WWHHHHEEE... OUCH!" Sirius frowned in pain, "that hurt!" Sirius looked as if he was about to cry before Lily and Kassie walked up.
"What do think you guys are doing?" Lily asked, eyeing the two boys lying at their feet.
"Jumping down the stairs," stated Sirius as if it were obvious, "WATCH!" Sirius jumped up, ran up the stairs and out of sight. Out of no where Kassie let out a small shriek as she watched Sirius tumble into view. He reached the bottom, landing on James, who was cracked up in laughter. Sirius jumped up yet again and grabbed Kassie's hand, pulling her up the stairs.
"Jump with me!" he begged her, pulling her toward the stairs again. Kassie looked at Sirius as if praying he has joking, but as her first foot hit the stairs she knew he wasn't. She tried desperately, pulling on his arm. When she gave up on lightly tugging she pulled his arm as hard as she could, which wasn't the best idea as they were already on the stairs. The two of them fell backwards, Kassie screamed again, but Sirius just went "WHHEEE!" again.
Kassie was pulled to her feet by Sirius, "No, no, sweetie, we have to go HIGHER!" Kassie was sick of his little game so she successfully tripped him, bringing him to the ground. When he moved to stand back up she sat on him.
Lily however, went up to James and plucked the whiskey bottle from his hands. She was about to scold him before another blur caught her eye, Remus was also rolling down the stairs.
She watched him roll right towards her, but only thought to get out of the way before it was too late. Remus crashed in to Lily, pushing her to the ground. James crawled up to Lily and threw his arm around her.
"Come on, Lils gimme a kiss, ok?" James slurred to her. She just pushed James off.
"I don't believe you guys. You all got drunk?" No one answered her question.
"Bloody alcoholics!" cursed Kassie. Sirius seemed offended.
"Hey, hey, hey! I am NOT an Alcoholic ... I'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings." At this the guys fell back in to peels of laughter.
"Why? Why do you do this? Especially jumping down stairs."
"Oi! LEAVE HIM ALONE!" yelled James suddenly.
Kassie and Lily were shocked, and confused. "Who?"
"Remus o'couasre. He and wass-her-name broke it."
"Broke what?" asked Kassie, still not understanding James' slurring.
"The thing! Their s'not dates no more!" Kassie finally understood as she turned to Remus, "Awe, Remus, are you okay?"
Remus' eyes grew dark as he growled, "Just peachy."
"Look, you guys have got to sober up. You'll be in a lot of trouble if someone finds you. Come lay on the couch, we can't carry you up to the dorms." said Lily. Kassie turned to Lily and said,
"We have to get them a sobering potion from the kitchens. I know they have one down there."
"I'll go."
The two girls turned to look at Remus, who they hadn't expected to talk.
"I don't think you should Remus i mea-"
"I said I'll go. I need to go for a walk anyway," he cut her off. Not leaving room for any argument, Remus turned and left the common room.
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Upon entering the kitchen, Shannon and Megan had to take a step back to clearly see the situation. Julie and Sam were curled in to balls in the corner of the kitchens with around 20 bottles surrounding them, some full, some empty.
Cautiously they walked up to the pair, unsure of what to do. Shannon bent down and tapped Sam on the shoulder,
"Sam, sweetie, put the bottle down."
Sam looked at Shannon as if she had asked her to jump off the astronomy tower. Sam took a short swig of the bottle before clutching on to it for dear life.
"SAM!" Shannon said more forcefully, "Put. The. Bottle. DOWN!" Sam just stuck out her tongue before dropping her gaze back to her bottle.
"Give me that bottle Sam,"
"You wants the bottle?"
Shannon hesitated, yes she wanted it, but what would Sam do? "Maybe."
"FINE! Take the bottle!" with that Sam whipped the bottle at Shannon's head. But, as Sam was seeing about three Shannon's it clearly missed her.
Sam was unfazed to this, as she grabbed a new (and empty) bottle. She began muttering "My bottle," repeatedly. Shannon rolled her eyes and watched Megan try and do the same to Julie.
Julie had been less violent, but as her bottle was taken away from here she got up and decided to hop from table to table. Megan chased her on to the Slytherin table, and jumped after her from table to table, as Julie started yelling things like "You can't catch me!" and "I AM SUPERWOMAN!" Eventually Julie stumbled and they watched her disappear between the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff tables. All they heard was a meek "Ow."
Shannon now turned her attention back to Sam who was currently walking towards her. Sam's finger pointed right at her. "You're not very nice, Shannonunon. You try to steal my drink. MY DRINK! She's an idiot!" Sam said suddenly looking at Julie as she re-emerged. Sam went to take a step before tumbling into Shannon.
"Now we lay-off on the drinking. Okay?" Shannon asked. She knew her efforts were pointless, but she had to try.
"Snape is SOO Sexy! He was mine, but he's an arse. He's cold, and bad. He doesn't like you. He doesn't like me. Shannon does Snape like me?" She asked quickly
"Yes Sam, he likes you alot."
"LOOK I'M A FROG!" yelled Julie. Shannon turned to face her and saw she was standing on a table again, in a crouching position. "Ribit."
All of a sudden she heard the door open. She prayed it wasn't a teacher, and as she turned around she let out a sigh in relief. It was Heidi, and Will. Will? She thought to herself. She pitied the poor couple, only imagining how it must look to have one girl crouching on a table repeating Ribit, and one girl laying on another table, trying to drum a beat.
Shannon quickly yelled to Heidi,
"Thank goodness your here. We need a little help, unless you can't tell."
"What happened?" she asked.
"They took it upon themselves to get drunk."
"Crap."
"Tell me about it. Um, are you sure he should see this, he wont get scared off or anything?"
Heidi turned to Will, "You know how you thought my friends were crazy before? That's nothing compared to us drunk?" Will just shook his head and nodded towards Julie (Who had her tongue sticking out in attempts to catch something)
"I can tell." Heidi just smiled and thanked whoever for his understanding.
And so the four of them set to work, trying to coax the girls in to calmness. Out of no where Julie just fell to the ground, staring at the doorway.
Remus had just walked in.
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Now Remus wasn't the best drunk. He did what many would; he mistook a great deal of things. It took him a good 10 minutes trying to remember how to get in to the kitchens ("Poke the apple?") so when he saw the scene in front of him his mind drew half a blank. That half being the fact he and Julie were in a fight.
"Julie!" he exclaimed walking up towards the tables. All the sober people's mouths dropped as he draped his arm around Shannon instead. Remus turned to her in all his drunkenness and said,
"Hey, sweetie,"
Shannon was in shock. He was sorely mistaken! She was not Julie, but she was aware of the fact Julie was watching them intently, not as drunk as before. Shannon was about to shove Remus off of her and point him in the direction of Julie, but there was one thing stopping her.
His Lips.
Pressed up against hers that is. She was stunned for a moment before she took it all in. Remus was reeking of alcohol; she could practically get drunk off his breath. Did he inhale the stuff? She thought to herself. She was lost in the fact that they were kissing that when she felt his tongue touching her bottom lip she jumped a fair few feet back, off of him.
Some where before the beginning and end of the kiss Julie had gotten up and stood right beside them. Remus looked at the both of them in awe,
"You're not Julie," he said pointing at Shannon.
"NO SHIT!" she hissed at him.
"I–" Remus began, but he was stopped by a large slap, straight across his face. He turned to see Julie, tears streaming down her face, pulling away from the slap.
"I'm sorry," he said before she bolted off, out the door.
Megan grabbed Remus by the collar, and shoved a sobering potion in to his mouth. Remus drank the entire contents before staggering a few seconds. He looked around at the pissed off faces, remembering what had just happened.
"Shit."
Remus bolted out after Julie.
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"Shit. Shit. Shit!" Remus said over and over as he searched for Julie. There were only so many places the girl could go.
It took him a moment to realize he had the map with him and he whipped it out, searching for the familiar name. "I'm so stupid." he swore to himself as he saw her in the alcove in the library. He made his way up to the library cursing to himself the whole way. He pulled out the well known book and went inside. Julie was curled on the bed a heap of blankets covering her sleeping form. She looked beautiful, absolutely beautiful. And then he saw her tear streaked face and his heart broke all over again. He walked to the bed and knelt beside it grasping Julie's hand and burying his face in the sheets. "I'm so, so, so, sorry, Julie. I never meant any of that. I'm a stupid jerk. A very stupid jerk. I just said that to keep Sirius off my back. But it was no reason. I love you. And I hate that you're hurting like this. And I hate that I'm the one that made you hurt. And if I could turn back time I would go back and tell the truth, but I can't. And ... I don't know what else to say, except that I love you so much and I'll never ever put you through that again," Remus heard a sniffle and looked up. Julie was awake and looking at him.
"Did you mean all that? Did you mean what you just said?" She asked a single tear falling down her face.
"Of course, I meant it, Julie. I love you so much, and I know I'm an idiot. But I'm a very sorry idiot," Remus chocked out.
"Okay."
"Okay? Okay what?" Remus asked.
"Okay, I forgive you," and she held open her arms for him to come into.
"Really? You forgive me? After I was such a jerk?"
"Yes, especially since you are the kind of jerk that acknowledges that he is a jerk and is sorry for him being a jerk," Julie laughed and pulled him into a kiss
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Meanwhile back in the kitchens Megan was trying to hold Sam's arms behind her back while Shannon forced some sober-up potion down her throat. While Heidi tried to explain to Will why her friends were drunk in the kitchens in the first place.
"Well, you see ..." she started "they both had a bad day with their own respective boyfriends and decided alcohol would solve that problem. And ..."
"Heidi!" Will interrupted. "I don't care why your friends are drunk. They have their reasons; you don't need to explain them away."
"See!" Sam yelled "Sevvikins would never say that!" Shannon took the opportunity of having Sam's mouth open to pour the potion down her throat. "Hey!" Sam said getting her bearings back "What are we doing here? And why do I feel like I have a massive hang over?"
Megan sighed in relief and let her go. "It's a long story, Sam. Why don't we go to our dorms and talk to you about it?" She then grabbed one of Sam's arms as Shannon grabbed the other. "Bye, Heidi." she said and then in a whisper "Good luck, girl." and with a wink left the couple standing in the middle of the messy kitchen.
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The kiss between them was sweet and passionate. Julie felt all her problems float away. It felt great to kiss him again, nothing could go wrong.
She giggled against his lips as she felt his hand caressing her cheek. He was so perfect; she felt his breath float in to hers. She pulled him on to the bed, so he sat beside her. She broke the kiss to plant soft kisses along his strong jaw line.
He muttered something out loud that made her blood run cold,
"Shannon."
Julie pulled away instantly and glared at him, a knot in the back of her throat. She couldn't hide the hurt she was feeling, "What did you just say?"
"Not...nothing, I swear," he choked out, "I was just thinking about what just happened."
"Well at least you have your memories," she said with an oddly detached voice. She just turned and ran out of the room, all the way up to her common room.
Remus was left sitting in the old room hidden in the book.
"What ELSE can go wrong?" he yelled to himself before burying himself in to the pillows.
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After
Shannon had finished shoving down the rest of the sobering potion and
Sam had straightened herself out.
They said goodbye to Heidi and
Will and left for Gryffindor tower.
"Come on, Sam, it's nearly 10pm, if Filch catches us it's or necks," Shannon cried.
"Go ahead, I couldn't care less right now if Filch
catches me, it's been a bad day," Sam replied a tear falling
down her cheek.
"Why can't I ever be happy? I always get
broken and everyone treats me like glass, I'm not a child, i'm not
fragile, I HATE THIS!" Sam screamed.
Shannon ran back over to Sam and slung an arm around Sam's shoulder and dragged her behind a tapestry.
Sam took this chance to start blubbering on Shannon's shoulder.
"Why can't I be happy? I want what Julie and Remus had, they were so in love. Severus said he loved me, I think I love him too, but I can't go back to him after what he said. Friends are important to me."
Shannon didn't quite believe what she was about to say until it came out.
"I'm sorry, Sam, I know you're not a child, but we are your best friends we are only looking out for you," Shannon whispered.
"I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP!" Sam yelled.
"JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! I don't want to speak to you right now, it's thanks to you, Julie, Heidi and Megan that i'm in this state if you hadn't come looking for me then Severus wouldn't have got angry and we wouldn't have fought!"
"Sam," Shannon sounded upset
"Just leave me alone, Shannon, I need to be by myself."
Sam got up and ran leaving Shannon very upset behind the tapestry.
She decided to go for a walk a long quiet walk she needed to think but then again when Sam started to think it didn't always turn out good.
As Sam was walking along she saw a dark movement on the ground ahead.
This snapped Sam out of her thinking and she suddenly realised she made her way towards the dungeons.
"This is not good, not good," she whispered.
Just then the lump on the floor ahead gave another jerk.
"Whose there?" she called.
"Mmmmsmit," The lump replied
Sam suddenly realised where she had heard the voice before and ran forward dropping to her knees at the semi unconscious form of Severus Snape.
"Severus?" Sam said sounding worried.
"Huh wa," Severus said incoherently.
"Sev, its Sam, what happened?"
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Yelled Severus finally realising who was helping him.
"No matter what I do, I get hurt," he mumbled to himself.
"Who did this to you?" Sam said taking a closer step and raising her hand. Which was a bad idea as Severus flinched at the sight of it.
"Your buddies," Severus replied taking a step back from her.
"Okay, Heidi maybe be strong and a good sports player, but I doubt she could do that to you," Sam looked shocked that Sev would even suggest this.
"Not them, you stupid girl. Your other friends, Black and Potter"
"WHAT?!" Sam sounded shocked then realised what had happened.
She took a step forward again to where Severus was standing and took his hand.
"Its okay, I promise nothing is going to happen anymore," Sam started to look angry.
Severus was avoiding her gaze and looking at the floor.
"Look at me, Severus," Severus slowly raised his head "You need to see the nurse." Sam wrapped an arm carefully around his back and helped him up.
"I don't need your help, Adams," Severus said trying to push Sam's arm away.
"Oh, yes, you do," She replied as he winced and grabbed his side.
"Fine, but you are to tell no one about this, understand?"
"Fine."
Sam and Severus walked along towards the hospital wing quietly for a few moments before Severus stopped and turned to Sam.
"What is it, Sev?" Sam said looking worried
Severus just stared at Sam for a few minutes as if only just realising she was there and she was holding him upright.
"Sam," Severus said sounding a bit far away.
"Oh, to hell with it," he said out loud.
"To hell with wh ..." Sam tried to finish her sentence but Severus had stopped her as he drew closer to her and kissed her softly and urgently on the lips.
Sam stood there in shock for a few moments. It was only a few hours ago He was yelling at her in the Room of Requirement. At this thought Sam pulled back slowly
"Sam," Severus said sounding broken.
Sam was looking at Severus as her fingers came up to touch her lips.
"Sam, I'm so sorry, I should have ..."
But what Severus should have or shouldn't have done was chased straight out of Sam's mind as she leaned back in for another kiss more urgent and more passionate than before ...
A few minutes later Severus and Sam broke apart looking flustered.
"We really should get you to the hospital wing i'm going to kill those guys friends of friends or not" Sam said out loud to herself.
"Lead the way my lady," Severus replied the smile now back on his face in full force.
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The next morning dawn bright and beautiful. The trees swayed in the cool breeze, the birds sung loudly, everything was calm and perfect.
Too bad the all the students of Hogwarts could say the same. Remus had tossed and turned all the night before, not having slept a wink. His mind replayed what had happened over and over again. Ironically enough, the same could have been said for Julie. She had got back to her common room and listened as each of the others filed in after her. Oddly enough, she heard Sam come in last.
Sam was in complete glee from last night. She had finally got Sevvy up to the Hospital Wing, where she got yelled at from Madam Pomfrey for being out so late. After one last kiss from Snape she left to return to her dorms.
Heidi and Will had stayed in the kitchens, enjoying the food and snogs and food ... and more snogs. Finally around 11:30 they had dashed up to their separate common rooms albeit unwillingly.
Megan had just drifted the castle afterwards, thinking about children and still reeling over what Tag had said and acted. Shannon was a little on the upset side, she tried to pass it all off, Sam was just angry when she said that to her. And Remus. That was all just a big huge mess, but it wasn't her fault, he had kissed her. Not the other way around. So she dropped all the guilt in her stomach as she fell asleep, and woke up to the same feelings.
When Heidi's alarm clock went off, all the girls rolled out of bed and went about their usual routines. Granted Megan and Julie went insanely slow, while Sam and Heidi were incredibly fast and happy. Shannon was in between, having bursts of energy before slowing down.
"You know what today is?" asked Heidi to the others.
"The worst day of my life? No wait, that was yesterday," replied Julie dryly.
"Don't be so sad! What i was going to say was it's the Ravenclaw, Gryffindor Quidditch game!" she responded eagerly.
"Ohhh, so you're playing your new lover boy? Hope you don't go easy on him ... again," joked Sam, smirking. Heidi's only response was to chuck a shoe right at her head, which had missed because Sam had ducked. Despite any problems they were having they all burst out into laughter.
"Come on, it's breakfast and i'm Starving!" exclaimed Shannon.
The girls left the room and descended the stairs. Megan saw Tag sleeping on the couch, but just turned away and walked out of the room, the girls following out after her. They slowly made their way out to the great hall. As the door was in sight Julie walked so slowly, it was as if she were stopped.
"Maybe we should eat in the kitchens instead. It'll be less of a crowd," Julie trailed off as Sam grabbed her arm and dragged her to the great Hall.
"Need food now," she said bluntly. On Julie's insistence, they slipped in to the great hall quietly and made their way down to the very end of the table. Julie shrunk in her seat, trying to go un-noticed. They girls talked and ate for a bit as people flittered in and out of the hall. When another figure approached the table, he went un-noticed.
Will plopped down beside Heidi, slinging his arm around her and giving her a kiss hello.
"Hello ladies!" he greeted the rest of them, "are you all feeling better?" Julie whipped a roll at him, hitting him on the cheek, "I'll take that as a no."
"Ignore her, we all do," said Heidi, but catching the death glare on Julies face added, "Kidding! I'm kidding! She's had it rough."
"Really? I hadn't noticed," she stated sarcastically. Heidi had no time to reply as Charlie Zader, captain and keeper of the Ravenclaw team approached her.
"Eat up Heidi; we need you focused for the big game. I hope you practiced the Ditch and roll like I had you do yesterday."
"I did Charlie, it's going to be okay, go eat something for yourself, you need food too."
"Later. Have you..." Charlie trailed off, finally catching sight of Will,
"What are you doing here? Trying to take out our team mates?"
"No I–" started Will before getting cut off.
"Then trying to overhear our battle plans? That's low Roberts. I can't be–"
"ACTUALLY," cut in Will, "I'm sitting here eating breakfast with my girlfriend, if you don't mind, and if you do, I don't care."
"Girlfriend?" he asked, turning to Heidi. He got confirmation with Heidi's nod, "I see how it is. Singe, we'll talk later." With that he turned and walked to the other end of the table.
"Wow, tensions are really high for this game!" said Megan.
"Yeah, but everyone can't wait to see Ravenclaw beat Gryffindor," smirked Heidi.
"Haha, that's a good joke," said Will laughing.
"Who said i was joking? We have a much better team then last year!" replied Heidi hotly. The other girls just shook their heads, it was common knowledge you NEVER pick a fight with Heidi over sports.
"I'm not denying you have a good team, but i think Gryffindor's is better. We have Potter, who holds the record for goals scored, Black has hit more things alone then the Hufflepuff beaters combined. Not to mention Patrick is one of the best seekers."
"That is nothing! I told you before our team had new people on it, were going to take you guys down."
"I doubt it."
"WELL DON'T!" yelled Heidi crossly, "We don't need your crap, just leave if you think so lowly of us."
"Heidi, don't get mad please, i'm just saying–"
"And i'm just saying leave," she retorted, cutting him off. When he didn't move she said, "NOW!"
"Fine, but you owe me an apology later," said Will before getting up and leaving.
"I'm done, lets get going," said Megan.
"Good idea," replied Shannon.
The girls rose and began to leave the hall. As they reached the giant oak doors, they had just been opened and the Marauders were walking through it. Shannon heard Julie mutter a vulgar swear word before walking on the farthest side of the group. Remus caught sight of her and grabbed on t her wrist as she went by. Julie pulled her wrist as hard as she could and kept walking.
Shannon watched her walking quickly down the hall as she heard Remus sigh heavily beside her. She had a sudden wave of anger and turned to him, "You brought this on yourself you jerk." She didn't wait for his reply before taking off after Julie, walking at her pace.
"Julie, will you please talk to me?"
"It's not like i'm ignoring you Shan," she replied, not slowing her pace.
"Well you won't say two word to me. Are you mad at me?" Shannon held her breath waiting for her answer. Julie stopped abruptly.
"Am I mad? No. You didn't do it, nor did you ask for it. It's just i look at you and i remember what he did. It's just a little hard."
"He was drunk when he kissed me, plus he thought it was you," she replied soothingly.
"Yes, I knew that. But then he found me and we talked then we kissed and he ..." she cut off, remembering what happened.
"He what?"
"He moaned your name," Shannon's mouth fell open in surprise. The poor girl, she thought. The rest of the girls had caught up to them, so they all began walking again.
--End Chapter 03
