A/N: - Sorry this update took so long. Since I started this I've had a baby and discovered the joys of parenthood and responsibility.
So on with the show!
Chapter 3
Rayne, Keller and Winnie all had double Divination first lesson, as they followed the others they walked with Harry and Ron.
"This lesson is stupid, but at least it's easy." Ron said.
"Why's it stupid?" Winnie asked him, she had her arm looped through his after convincing him it was an American thing.
"Well Trelawney, the teacher, has predicted Harry's death every year since we started this class." He replied.
"It's really embarrassing." Harry added.
"Poor Harry." Keller said rolling her eyes. They reached the trap door and climbed the ladder. Professor Trelawney was at the top welcoming everyone in; she had a whispery voice and a faraway look in her eyes.
'Does she looked stoned to you?' Rayne asked her two friends telepathically. Winnie and Keller sniggered, as Rayne entered the room she wrinkled her nose at the overwhelming smell of incense, it actually gave the room a haze. Cushions scattered on the floor served as seats.
"Welcome dears, you look new what are your names?" Trelawney asked them.
"Don't you know already?" Rayne asked her innocently.
"Well of course dear, but the rest of the class might not so humour me." The professor explained.
"Oh well if that's all it is, I'm Rayne."
"I'm Winnie, and that's Keller." Winnie said gesturing at her friend.
"I can speak for myself witch." Keller muttered.
"Okay everyone take a seat in front of a deck of cards, today we'll be learning the art of tarot." The lesson was going well if you didn't count Neville Longbottom getting hit in the eye by a rogue card as he was shuffling his deck. Trelawney was going around the classroom listening to the readings, while Winnie was doing a reading for Rayne; Winnie heard a gasp from behind her. Winnie looked up at the professor and frowned, as far as Winnie was concerned there was nothing gasp worthy in her readings. Sure the cards hinted at an upcoming conflict in Rayne's life and it was currently telling her that Rayne was going to meet someone who would somehow be important in her life.
"Oh my poor child. There's no easy way to tell you this but… you're going to die." Trelawney said in a voice filled with sympathy.
"Actually I think you'll-" Winnie began only to be cut off.
"Please dear you're only just learning, what would you know?" She snapped.
"A lot if you stopped inter-" Winnie snapped back only to be cut off by the teacher holding up her hand.
"So I'm going to die? Doubtful." Rayne told her.
"What did you say?" Trelawney asked with narrowed eyes.
"I said doubtful. But if you want to believe I'm going to die knock yourself out." Rayne replied.
"Well if you won't be told don't come running to me when my prediction comes true." The professor said with a little smirk.
"If your prediction comes true just how exactly am I supposed to come running to you?" Rayne asked with a smirk of her own. Keller snorted.
"Do you see this class, some people don't have the talent and so they don't believe. I feel sorry for you I really do." She said addressing the class, not long after the lesson came to an end and they all left the tower.
"Glad it wasn't me this year." Harry said breaking the silence.
"Yeah I'm sure. Winnie what lesson do you have next?" Rayne asked.
"Arithmancy, you?" Winnie answered.
"Transfiguration, what about you Keller?" Rayne asked turning to the other girl.
"Transfiguration with you darlin." Keller replied. They were about to walk off when Harry tapped Rayne on the shoulder; she turned slowly looking at the offending hand upon her person.
"What!" She snapped. Harry quickly moved his hand back to his side.
"Um… can I ask you a question?" He asked. Rayne pinned him with a look, the kind a cat gives to a mouse.
"Sure." Rayne said sounding resigned.
"Why don't you like me? I mean I like to think I'm a pretty affable guy but I seem to be getting a lot of hostility from you and Keller." He asked hoping against hope that his instincts had been wrong.
"I don't not like you Harry, I'd have to care about you one way or another to not like you and I don't. To me you're just…" Rayne said trailing off.
"Vapour." Keller finished off with a flick of her hair. While Harry stood there appearing to be in shock, Rayne walked over to him and got right up in his face.
"You're not going to cry now are you?" She asked sounding sympathetic, but Harry could see in her eyes the sadistic pleasure she was taking from his discomfort and turned away. Rayne and Keller burst out laughing and walked off to their next lesson.
"Are you coming Winnie?" Keller called over her shoulder.
"How can you stand to be friends with them? They're horrible!" Ron exclaimed.
"They're my best friends, no-one said our friends had to get on did they? All that matters is that we like each other right?" Winnie said blushing as though she'd just put her heart on the line.
"You like me? " Ron asked in disbelief. Winnie nodded shyly and ran off to catch up with her friends leaving a shell shocked Ron in her wake.
"Winfrith Arlin, you are a wicked witch. Please tell me you're toying with him and that you haven't fallen for a human." Rayne said to the elfin girl next to her.
"Let's not forget to mention a poor human. Have you seen the tribe that are his family at this school?" Keller asked.
"You know me guys, this is what I do." Winnie assured them with a wicked smile.
"Well I'm going tolove seeing this one play out, didn't the last one become a blubbering wreck?" Rayne asked. Winnie nodded.
"But not before I had a healthy amount of his trust fund and his car." She sniggered and turned into her Arithmancy class with a wave.
The next lessons passed by uneventfully and before they knew it, it was lunchtime. Rayne finally met up with her brother at the Slytherin table.
"Have you heard your sister is going to die?" She told him in mock seriousness.
"Really? Do we have a date for this little tragedy?" River asked only to have Rayne slap him on the arm.
"No, the teacher is a menace. A fraud. But Winnie did mine and apparently there's a conflict coming up in my life and I'm going to meet someone who's going to be important in my life." Rayne explained.
"Is there a description of the lucky person?" River asked.
"No, you know these things are really vague, why?" She asked.
"No reason, no reason at all." He said with a slight smile that his sister didn't see.
"What's up guys?" Keller said after finally extricating herself from Galen.
"Nothing just telling River about divination." Keller started to laugh and turned to Rayne.
"Ready for Mr-I-have-a-huge-rod-up-my-butt?" She asked.
"Oh you just know I'm gonna be on my baddest behaviour." Rayne said with a wink. River dropped his fork on his plate and when he noticed his sister looking at him he just shrugged.
"Not really feeling the human food today, Winnie put a spell on Galen's CD player. Lets go outside and listen to music." They all went to collect their things and Winnie who insisted on bringing Ron. Outside the school Elephant Man filled grounds with the sound of 'Log On'. The group were down by the lake, Rayne dancing to the song playing on repeat, Winnie was dancing around an extremely embarrassed Ron. River was sitting down next to Galen who had Keller's head on his lap, the sound of music and giggles drew a crowd from all houses. Rayne noticed Draco standing in the crowd that was either dancing or lounging.
"Malfoy, get that cute butt over here. Come and dance with me." Rayne called out.
"No thanks Redfern. I don't do muggle music." He replied with a smirk.
"Oh come on. Music is music, I'll tell you what. You just stand there and I'll dance around you... please?" She asked pouting. No one was more surprised than Draco when he found himself doing as she asked. Rayne started dancing dancehall style to the song, bumping and grinding she lost herself in the music and her dancing was only made worse because of how short her school skirt was. When the track ended she could feel the crowd staring at her some open mouthed with disbelief.
"Just what I said she's a skank." Pansy shouted out.
"What's the problem Pansy, Rayne giving you a run for your man?" River asked lazily from where he was sitting.
"Oh Pansy. How much would you give to be me? If this is about Draco dancing with me and not you ask him." Rayne challenged.
"No-one will be dancing with anyone. My lesson is about to start and I expect to see all Gryffindor and Slytherin in my classroom before me." Snape said his voice ringing with authority. I wonder what that felt like. Snape thought to himself thinking about the way Rayne had been dancing around Draco. Rolling his eyes at himself he walked back into the school, Rayne watched him frowning.
Rayne was sitting next to Keller in the lesson; Winnie was next to Ron stroking his thigh under the table. Hermione was next to Harry glaring at Ron and Winnie, Galen was next to River and Pansy was sitting next to Draco and kept sending Rayne triumphant looks on her face. They were still waiting for Snape to arrive despite running what felt like a marathon to get to the dungeons.
'He's a damn perv. You should've heard what he was thinking about me.' Rayne thought to her brother.
'What did he think?' River asked.
'He was thinking about what it would be like to dance with me the way I was dancing with Malfoy.' Rayne told him.
'Such is the life of a walking heart attack my sister. Were you scanning his mind on purpose?' River asked.
'No, but he projects all the time.' Rayne explained. River laughed and shook his head. Before Rayne could ask him why he was laughing Snape blew into the classroom his black robes billowing around him and a scowl fixed firmly on his face. Before he even sat down he began barking questions at the class picking students at random. Rayne knew it was coming perhaps before he even knew he was going to choose her.
"Miss Redfern, what is one use of Mandrake root?" He asked sneering, obviously thinking she wouldn't know. Without looking up from her nails and in a bored voice she answered him.
"Mandrake root can be used to cure pretrification… sir." She glanced up at him and saw his face was the same but coming off him in waves was his shock. It was so strong she had to fortify her mental shields.
"Correct Miss Redfern, 20 points to Slytherin. Now today we'll be making a sleeping draught. Once you've copied down the instructions you may begin." The lesson passed by lazily and even Rayne found herself concentrating to make the potion right. With the lesson over everyone packed up and was beginning to leave the room, as she stood up she felt the professors hand on her shoulder and sat back down. She watched everyone file out including her friends.
"If you didn't show me such blatant disrespect yesterday Miss Redfern, you'd be with your friends now instead of being in detention with me." He told her.
"You mean if I hadn't disciplined my servant, you would've made another students life hell." Rayne replied.
"You will not speak to me like Miss Redfern are we clear?" He snarled.
"As crystal, what am I doing for detention?" She asked playing with one of her pigtails and Snape found himself watching her. He coughed once.
"You will be cleaning the cauldrons, the muggle way. Maybe next time you order Jessica the way you do, you'll think of your detention today."
"You think doing everything the muggle way is a punishment. Hello I've been doing it for 18 years. I was raised to treat humans the way I do, which is a damn sight better than the way your lot treat house elves. If anyone is mistreated its them. Jessica isn't a slave, but they are!" Rayne shouted her ice blue eyes flashing as she looked up from cleaning the cauldron. Snape said nothing and she allowed herself a little smile thinking she'd won.
"Miss Redfern, you will now have detention with me for 2 weeks, and I'll keep adding a week if you continue to have your say." Snape said with a smile that wasn't very pleasant.
"That's just typical, just because you're a teacher. I'll bet you can't stand that I'm not scared of you!" Rayne shouted throwing down her sponge.
"3 weeks."
"I don't care! Goddess you such a pain in the ass, don't you remember being a student?"
"4 weeks, and I treated my teachers with respect, the way all my students treat me!" He shouted
"Respect? Newsflash, they're petrified of you!" Rayne shrieked.
"5 weeks!"
"Bring it on!"
"6 weeks."
"You're pathetic. A pathetic little man who makes himself feel better by making other people's lives miserable. Oh but wait you're a pervert too. I know what you think about me in that sick mind of yours and if you wanna find out what its like to dance with me or see how silky my hair is to touch come and find out, come osi." Rayne said with a wicked smile playing on her lips. She wasn't entirely sure if he even knew come osi was italian for ' I dare you', but she knew it sounded good.
"7 weeks." He said in his deathly calm voice that made Rayne shiver.
"It was worth it!" She screamed through gritted teeth, her green eyes were filled with anger and what he assumed to be hatred.
"No professor I don't hate you, you're beneath me." With that she grabbed her things and ran for the door, as she reached his desk he reached out and caught her wrist. A massive static shock ran through Rayne's body from the touch, her vision seemed to go pink for a split second and she came to a halt.
'It's you.' They both thought at the same time but that thought was chased away by Rayne thinking, what the fuck? She looked into those twin pools of onyx that looked confused before shaking her head and bolting for the door, ignoring his calls for her to come back.