A Story For Juanita
Beaner-Bop
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A/N: I love the Ginny/Draco pairing ^.^
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Distribution: FanFiction.Net and if you ask nicely… ^.^
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Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns the characters though not the very few that I own that our in here and Shania Twain owns the brief mentioning of a song…
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Prologue: A Crying Girl
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Juanita brought her hands up to her face and cried softly into them. Why did she have to seem like such a wimp. She couldn't believe what she just did in the hall behind her.
Everyone who was there seemed to be fighting, like normal. A Slytherin group met up with a Gryffindor group and the two obviously got into a fight. A few Ravenclaws decided to watch the fight and the group began to grow until even some Hufflepuff's joined them.
She walked in then and everyone ignored her, it was hard to see a first year she presumed, and then she LOST it.
Not just a little bit either - oh no. She lost it BIG time.
"WOULD YOU ALL JUST STOP?!" She screamed. Everyone turned to look at the young girl who for once in her life seemed to grow a back bone. "WOULD YOU ALL JUST LOOK AT YOURSELVES! FIGHTING, FIGHTING, FIGHTING!" They were all staring at her with shock and being quiet. Apparently nobody expected this. Juanita took advantage of their silence and lowered her voice. She knew that everyone was still paying rapt attention to her though.
"You are all so pathetic! You sicken me!" She turned towards her house members, or the Slytherins, and pointed a finger at them. "You! All 'Kill the Gryffindors! Get the Gryffindors!'" She turned around to the Gryffindors who were snickering at her comments and pointed her finger at them shutting them up, "Oh! And you're so much better!" Out of the corner of her eye she saw Professors McGonagall and Snape coming to see what all the ruckus was about but she felt the need to finish what she was saying. "I bet you're just the same! 'Get the Slytherins! Kill the Slytherins!'. CAN'T ANY OF YOU GROW UP?!" She walked over to the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws that were assembled and pointed to the betting card that one of the students had made up.
"Oh gee! How lovely! A betting card to bet to see which side is going to win the next magic war! I hope you Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs feel swell on betting which side is going to BEAT EACHOTER UP THE MOST! GAH! I HATE HOGWARTS!" With that the little blond girl turned around, past the shocked people there and was now at one of the stone walkways that showed off the lake. She rubbed her eyes softly with her robe sleeve and looked distastefully at the snake on her robes, thinking that it just prevented her from making any real friends in the other houses.
She heard two pairs of footsteps and knew instantly who they must belong to. She pulled herself up onto the cold cement turned around and made herself into a little ball.
"Go 'way!" The little ball said to the two new people around it. Neither did her bidding. They stayed silent though, making Juanita feel safe and yet nervous. After a while she spoke up.
"Why are you two still here, I told you to go away!" The girl on her left snorted.
"Juanita, you're crying, you're in pain, we're your siblings, and we didn't do it to you." Her sister patted her on the back lightly. "We want to help." The boy on her right, her brother, nodded in agreement.
Slowly, Juanita turned herself around and looked at her sibling's logos, which showed their houses.
Her brother, a proud snake slithered around his robe, he said he enchanted it at the beginning of the year, and her sister, a lion that was currently sleeping. Juanita giggled, her sister's sense of humor was weird, especially to those who knew her.
The said girl cocked an eyebrow at her. "You're laughing at something and your not letting big bro and sis in? Well that's not very nice. Severus - I think we're going to have to do something about that!" Juanita turned to see her brother pushing himself off the cement perch he was on and walking over to them.
"I agree with you entirely Narcissa! The question is," He turned to her and smirked, a smirk which Juanita has seen on him MANY times before because her siblings often like to-
"NO!" She jumped off the cement and started to run towards the part that opened to the lake. She heard her sister's voice behind her.
"Onward Severus! We've got someone to tickle!" She couldn't help herself when she giggled, her sister sounded stupid and she bet that that was what she was going for too.
She ran into the forest knowing that there was no chance for her if she went in there, but she decided to go anyway. The twins, her brother and sister, knew the forest like the back of their hands - or 'better' as Narcissa would say.
She tripped over a branch and tried to get up quick but she fell again and she heard her brother's voice behind her.
"I got 'er! I got 'er!" His fingers went under her arm and another went to her neck and started to tickle her. She tried to fight back only making it worse, because it made it easier for Narcissa to come in and tickle her. They only stopped when her laughs became wheezes and she couldn't breathe. Severus picked her up and began to go to 'Their Clearing' so that all three of them could lie down away from prying eyes.
When they got there she had her breath back and all three of them were sprawled on their backs looking at the clouds as they past. Everything that she did earlier was wiped from Juanita's mind and began to slowly pick apart a flower that was by her.
"Juanita?" Narcissa asked.
"Hmmm?" Was the only sign that Juanita gave to show that she even heard her sister.
"Juanita, what was so big that Severus told us to go find you?" Severus was Professor Snape and also 'their' Severus' namesake. Juanita shrugged her shoulders.
"Dunno."
"Juanita…" Her brother had a warning tone in his voice that made her throw away the flowers and roll into a ball again and sob.
"What's," she sobbed loudly, "Wrong-with-me?" She started crying even louder and she felt Narcissa's hand on her shoulder. She flung herself into her sister's arms and began to cry on her shoulder. The older girl patted her shoulder gently making soothing sounds. Slowly, the story came out of her for both her siblings to hear. After a few moments, the twins burst out laughing. She just looked at them in shock.
"I'm in pain here, and the two of you are laughing!" She felt tears well up in her eyes again and began to turn around to leave. "Some help you are!" She felt her brother's hand on her shoulder and turned to look at him.
"We aren't laughing at you Juanita-" Her brother began, then her sister butted in. The two of them did that whole, finishing the others sentences a lot.
"Well, actually we are!"
"But that's only because you're calling yourself a wimp!"
"We wanted to say that to everyone at Hogwarts for years!"
"Exactly!" Juanita turned to stare at the two of them in shock.
"You, you two wanted to say it? But-But you never did? But, but I thought that…" Severus patted her on the back.
"We aren't as invincible as you seem to make us." Her sister nodded in agreement and began to get up and began to talk while she was at it.
"You know Juanita - I have TONS of friends in Slytherin, and I'm a Gryffindor!" Juanita shook her head.
"That doesn't count! Your last name is Malfoy and, and you knew all of your friends in Slytherin, well, the majority anyway, before you even WENT to school, so that doesn't count!" Her sister nodded but then pointed at her.
"I have friends in Slytherin, and they didn't leave me when I went into Gryffindor! How about that as a girl doing double duty!" Juanita nodded and decided not to fight back, but instead try to find more ways to get the two to agree with her.
"And, and you both get along with Rachel and Raphael! They're in Ravenclaw, and you both get along with Henrietta and Gabriel! They're in Hufflepuff!" Severus nodded. Juanita felt like crying again when she made another revelation.
"But that's just the two of you! Everyone else is all for the 'Kill the other houses!' Why do I have to not like fighting?" She pouted as her siblings laughed at her again.
"Juanita! I just can't believe you! You know how rare it is for someone to not like fighting? Believe it or not, it's a good thing! It's the fact that the talent is so rare that it probably looks like a curse to you." Juanita grabbed Severus and Narcissa's hands and made them sit down again, all three of them huddled into a little group. The oldest two were wondering what she was doing and Juanita began to explain.
"Remember when I was younger? I would come into one of your guys' room when I had a nightmare and then the other would join us and the two of you would make up stories of whatever I wanted to make me feel better?" The two of them nodded mutely. "I was wondering…can we do that again? Now?" Both of her siblings smiled at her, looked at each other and nodded then turned back to her again.
"Come on," Severus pulled her onto his lap and looked at Narcissa, both of them wondering what to tell Juanita.
"Well," Narcissa started, "What are the requirements M'lady?" Juanita grinned.
"Tell me the story, about mommy and daddy. But make it sound like a, a fairy tale!" Narcissa grinned.
"We're allowed to make changes here and there, right?" Her sister nodded. "Good! I'll start…" The girl looked up at the sky in thought for a moment and then grinned. "It won't be just like a fairy tale Juanita - but it'll hold the truth, because I always believed mom and dads love was a fairy tale." She cleared her throat.
"Once upon a time…"
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A/N: I'm gonna continue no matter what but…reviews would be nice ^.^
Beaner-Bop