Chapter Two: Shared Room

I yawned silently and pushed her shirt against my arm once more. It was almost all red and it was hard to see the donut shop name embroidered onto the chest. I didn't understand why Lucius had brought her here. I didn't want to have to take care of anyone. I wanted to be alone. I watched her fast asleep on the ground. I kept her head tilted as she had thrown up various times already. She murmured something about demon cheese and turned herself over. I ran my hand across her face. How could something so vicious be shoved into a body as weak as hers? She had passed out as soon as they tossed her to the main hall floor. Was that going to stop them? No, they continued anyway. Then, as if on cue, something had awakened inside of her. Lucius said that she had started to twitch. "Fuck," she whispered quietly and held her head.

She turned over and opened her eyes. "Are you alright Kali?" I questioned.

Her piercing blue eyes looked at me. "I'm still here," she said. "I thought it was just a terrible dream."

A hate filled her eyes that I hadn't seen for a long time. I had looked at people like that before. Why does she hate me? "Yeah. You're still here," I said. "Do you remember anything?"

"No," she rubbed her bare arms. "Why aren't I cut like you?"

"You fought back," I said.

She sat up and blinked. I turned away as she threw up once more. "How? I have this horrid taste in my mouth, did I bite people?" she questioned.

I remembered what she looked like when Lucius and several others had tossed her in. "Sort of," I replied. "Do you really want to know?"

"Yes," she said, looking at the different piles of vomit on the floor. "Is there a finger in that one?"

I told her in the most sincere and calm way I could. "You turned into a beast and chewed on anyone who was near you. You bit off Lucius' son's hand, several other hands, various fingers, one foot and one manhood."

I watched her jaw drop. I held in a smile. "Did I throw up everything?" she asked.

"Yes," I said. "Plus, you won't have to worry about being called up again."

She let out a sigh of relief. "Will you still be called up?" she questioned.

She's concerned about me? I thought she hated me. "Most likely," I stated.

I moved away from where she was laying to another part of the cell. She followed me, stepping around her stomach waste, and sat down beside me. "Was it that pill that you gave me?" she asked.

"No," I replied. "I did nothing."

She pulled her clothes around her, obviously too weak to actually put them on. She was just a child. I doubted she had finished university. "What am I?" she questioned.

I looked at her, but she wasn't watching me. She stared at her no name jeans and ran her hands against the fabric. "I don't know," I said honestly.

Tears started to stream down her face that had just started to have colour back into it. "Can you find out for me? You seem to know everything," she stated.

Her watery eyes looked into me. It was almost like she knew everything about me, what I was. She didn't even know about wizards, but she hadn't asked yet. She was quiet. She observed things. "I promise that I will get you out of here and when I do, I'll find out what you are," I said.

She smiled at me and leaned back against the bars of the cell, satisfied. She didn't seem aware of her nudity or she had already gotten used to it. I handed her, her bloody shirt. "Thank you," she said and slid on the shirt. "It's rather unclean."

I shrugged. "You did offer it," I said.

She returned my shrug and rubbed the sleeves. "Are you cold?" she questioned. "I'm freezing."

I can tell. "I'm fine," I said. "If I had a shirt I would offer it."

I heard footsteps come near to us. It was my time. I took a deep breath and stood up. Lucius appeared and smiled slightly. "Your boyfriend got you off the hook," he said. "Take the monstrosity with you."

I waited for Kali to put on her pants as Lucius tossed me a chain. "I told you I'm not a spy," I scowled and put the chain around her neck.

I pulled on it so she'd stay behind me. Kali learned quickly to stay close to me. I felt her breath against my bare back. "You'll come to the next meeting, right?" Lucius asked me.

"Of course," I nodded.

I shoved Kali into the fireplace, figuring she knew something about floo powder. "Don't bring her near my son though," Lucius said.

"I won't," I said putting some of the powder into her hands.

Lucius nodded and walked off, keeping his eyes to the ceiling. Kali smelled the powder and raised an eyebrow. "What am I supposed to do with this? Why am I in a fireplace?" she questioned.

"Say Snape's Chamber – Hogwarts," and toss down the powder.

She opened her mouth to question me, but changed her opinion quickly. "Okay," she took a deep breath as I let go of the chain around her neck. "Snape's Chamber – Hogwarts," she said.

I watched her frail body get eaten in flames. I waited several moments and then followed. I saw, already, introducing herself to Albus Dumbledore. Their hands shook as he greeted me. "Ah, Severus. I've already met you're follower," he smiled.

I nodded, slowly. "How'd you get me out of there?" I questioned.

Albus had a somewhat mischievous grin on his face. "I have my ways. Someone cleared you case," he said.

"I see," I said. "No one was harmed?"

"In that process, no. May I ask why the girl is still with you?" Albus asked.

"Lucius told me to keep her away from his son. She scared him, I guess," I replied, picking up her chain once more.

I did not want to have the creature she could become at any moment maiming the students. I held in a smile. Maybe I did want her maiming the students. "Why? What's wrong?" Albus eyed the girl that was surprisingly silent and then the chain around her frail neck.

I sighed carefully and tried to ignore her somewhat depressed expression; not that I blamed her for being depressed. I told Albus what I had heard from Lucius. Lucius had barely told me anything and I doubt anyone really knew what she was. "Intriguing," Albus ran his hand along his long beard. "Well, I suggest you hold onto her."

"WHAT?" Kali seemed rather upset with this choice. "I'm not just some item to own. I'm a person. Please. I just want to go home. I just want to forget this all happened."

I noticed several tears fall from her pale eyes. Albus touched her arm softy. He should take her. He knows how to handle these kinds of situations. "It will be safer here in the school," he said. I envied his quick thinking. "And we'll figure out what had caused this transformation, okay?"

She nodded slowly. She said close to a whisper, "Where am I going to stay?"

Albus looked at me. I held in my frustrated sigh. "With me," I said.

I watched Kali step closer to me. "Sounds good," she didn't seem too happy about it though. "At least I know I can trust you."

Albus stood up. "I'll leave you two alone then," he said. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight," I replied as I watched him step out the door.

"It was nice meeting you," at least Kali tried to be polite.

Albus smiled, "You too." He shut the door behind him.

I looked around the room, trying to decide where I should tie her up. What am I doing? This is probably so degrading. I took off her choke chain and collapsed into a chair. I observed her stand there for a moment. Blink once. Blink twice. "You can sit down," I said.

"How will you know I won't transform?" she asked.

I took out some papers and glanced at the clock. "I don't," I said. "But I noticed that you changed when you were in danger. Besides, I can spare of a few limbs."

She smiled. "Do you think I could shower?" she rubbed her arm awkwardly. It was easy to tell she wasn't sure of her place.

"Of course," I said. "It's just in that room," I pointed vaguely.

She nodded, but she watched me instead of going into the washroom. I watched her. Again she itched at her arm. "Do you have some clothes I could borrow?"

"Oh," I nodded. I touched my wand on my desk. Does she know about magic? I stood up to go to some of my drawers. "I don't really have anything that would..." I turned to look at her and searched for a proper word. "That would flatter you. I'll find clothes that fit you in the morning."

I had lost track of time from being in the cell. "Thank you," she said and watched me search through my clothes. "That one is fine."

She pointed to my favourite nightshirt. I handed to her openly. It's the least I can do I guess. "There you go," I said with an awkward smile.

She seemed careful with it, like it was a piece of glass that could easily be shattered. I was going to wear that tonight; the least I could have done was nothing. I should have stuck with that. "Thank you," she repeated with a large smile.

I quickly suspected that the smile was from the soft fabric. Professor Flitwick had charmed my dryer for me. She wandered off into the bathroom as I sat back down at my desk. I looked at the clock once more, waiting for the time when I patrolled the hallways. I didn't feel like marking. A slight pain through my arm reminded me of the wounds across my body. I took my wand, but soon realized that I didn't have a shirt on either. With a wave of my wand I was perfectly dressed once more and I had fixed most of my wounds. I smiled triumphantly and went back to marking papers.

Time seemed to drift lazily along as I listened to the off-tune hum of Kali in the next room. I didn't understand how she could be so cheerful, but it seemed more of a sad tune. I couldn't really decide. After I completed marking the papers I noticed Kali walk out in my nightshirt. She had a blissful smile on her face. "Isn't it amazing how much better a shower can make you feel?" she asked.

I nodded. "It is," I said.

She looked at my desk. "Marking?" she questioned.

I had forgotten that she knew I was a teacher. "Yes," I said.

"Good marks?" she questioned.

"Some," I replied.

She wandered around for a moment, looking at my walls. "I was a terrible student," she muttered.

I really should tell her about the whole magic thing... "Are you going to go to bed? Or stay up and read for a while?" I asked.

"Well," she flopped down on the floor beside me like some sort of rag doll. "Do you have something interesting for me to read?"

I sighed lightly. "I have something to tell you," I said. "But I think reading everything about it would be easier... if you're the reading kind of person."

She nodded slowly. "I'm the reading kind of person," she replied. "I'll read it."

I tried not to smile at Kali on the floor. She looked rather cute curled up in my clothes. I stood up and took out all of the magic books I could think of and put them in some sort of order. "Witchcraft for dummies" was somewhere in there. "You can sleep on my bed," I said, carrying in the books. "I'll stay on the couch until we get something planned out."

She eyes the books curiously and followed me into my room. I set them down on my bed and manually turned on my light. She jumped onto the bed and knocked over my neat pile. "Do you think I'm going to be here for a long time?" she asked, looking up at me with her worried eyes.

"I don't think so," I replied and couldn't resist sitting down on the bed beside the pile of books.

She looked so comfortable. I watched her crawl over and sit down beside me. "Are you going to bed soon as well?" she questioned.

"No," I said. "I patrol the hallways at night to try to catch curfew breakers."

She smiled. "Damn rebels!" she chuckled. "I'll start reading then."

"Okay," I stood up and started to walk from the room. "If you have any questions I'll answer them when I get back."

She nodded. "I'm really sorry for being in the way all the time," she said.

"It's fine," I said, hardly sounding like I meant it.

With a half-smile I walked out of the room. I grabbed my wand and left quickly. I wasn't used to someone being in my room. I didn't want to be there for her when she found it; she wasn't my responsibility. It was Lucius' fault, not mine. I heard my footsteps echo throughout the empty hallways. No one was out and I quickly questioned why I even bothered. I heard another pair of feet echo with mine. I stopped walking to listen. They were coming closer. I walked towards them. They didn't sound like the heels of Minerva McGonnigal and they were too silent to be the bumbling Hagrid. "Mr. Potter, state your business here," I stopped Harry Potter in the hallway.

He seemed startled, but spoke bravely. He didn't seem as scared of me as he was during earlier years. "I'm sorry sir, but I just heard you were back. I didn't want to wait for class," he whispered.

I cringed, remembering Lucius bring up Harry in the donut shop. I quickly avoiding making eye contact with him and took horrid thoughts of him staring at me out of my mind. "Well?" I snarled. "What couldn't wait?"

"Not here," Harry whispered, motioning with his hands that he preferred that I lowered my voice.

I wasn't in the mood. My body ached. "Why? I'm supposed to be patrolling the halls," I said, narrowing my eyes into a glare.

He looked around nervously and looked up to me. "We're right by the Slytherin room and it's about..." he looked at me and raised an eyebrow. "You're situation."

I sighed. "I'm out of that situation Mr. Potter, not that it was any of your business." I looked at him for a moment, shrugged, and continued to walk. "Unless you mean Miss. Kali?"

"Kali?" Harry questioned. "No, no. Professor Dumbledore told me to talk to you."

"So then talk," I said, looking around.

"I can't," he started to grow frustrated with me. "Can't we go to your room?"

"Kali is reading and I'd prefer that she was left alone," I said. "Just talk quietly. We're not even near the Slytherin room now."

I watched him look around nervously. "Would you light up your wand?" he questioned. "No one can know."

How am I supposed to sneak up on someone with my wand lit? "Fine," I said, illuminating my wand. "Now what are you trying to say?"

His eyes lowered to his feet. "I-I... erm..." he stuttered, shuffling his feet against the ground.

"Spit it out," I grit my teeth.

I wish I had kept the light out; it would have been harder to tell that he was nervous. "I was the one that got you caught," he said quietly.

I stopped walking. "You what?" I asked.

Scratch that. Harry was responsible for Kali, not Lucius nor me. "I saw you turn in-into a... beast... and-and," he continued to stutter.

I wasn't sure how I looked to him, but it was probably threatening. "Stop stuttering," I wanted to shake some sense into him. "You thought it would be 'cool' to brag to your little friends about what you saw. Dammit Harry, do you have any clue about what you could have done?"

"S-sir, I'm really sorry," he said. "I didn't realize what you were doing. I d-didn't know! I fixed it up."

"'Your boyfriend got you off the hook.'" I shuddered. "Well, thanks," I said. "Why was that so important to tell me?"

Harry shrugged keeping his eyes lowered. He hadn't actually made eye contact with me since I had lit the wand. "Dumbledore told me too," he said. "It's probably better that you know, so you're more careful."

I nodded. "I will be," I said. "How did you clear it up?"

His emerald eyes finally looked towards mine. "Draco Malfoy overheard me, so I made it like I purposely wanted to mess with him," he said.

"So you told him you lied?" I asked.

"Essentially," Harry smiled.

"Well, just so long as everything is back to normal," I bottled up my anger as I normally did.

He stopped walking when we had finally reached the Gryffindor room. "Good night Professor Snape," he said, eyes lowered once more. "I truly am sorry, sir."

With that he uttered a word to the Fat Lady and slipped into his room. I stood there for a moment, to make sure he didn't try to sneak out. "He's not going to come back out," that Fat Lady said.

I walked away. I wasn't going to spend my time conversing with a painting when I could quickly get my job over with. I patrolled the halls in a somewhat friendly darkness. No one was around, but if there had been anyone I would have caught them. After I finally finished I, slowly, made my way to my room. Will Kali be upset about what she has found out? I feared the worse and couldn't really think of anything good to actually look forward too. Obviously she will be pissed off, she has every right to be. She could have been lied to about these things; she worked in a donut shop that was mainly for wizards and witches.

I put my thoughts aside as I opened the door to my room. She's not really that important anyway. I just have to find out why she's such a monster. I didn't turn on any lights, since I didn't need too. I quietly walked to what was originally my chamber. There was a dull light on, but I didn't hear a noise from her room. This could be good or bad. I haven't decided yet. After much contemplation and arguing with myself, I opened the door as quiet as I could. That wasn't very quiet. The body on the bed didn't stir. There were the books scattered around the bed and it looked like she had read bits and pieces of each one. I stepped closer and heard soft breaths escape from her mouth. She seemed peaceful and not upset with whatever she had read. Maybe she thinks it's a joke. I sat down on the bed hoping that she would wakeup. There was no response. Not a peep. I moved on the bed a little bit, too see if she would shift. Nothing. I sighed and waved my wand placing bookmarks into my books and stacking them on my nightstand. Of course, there was still no sign of consciousness in Kali's body. I stood up and manually turned off her light. I stood there for a moment, letting my eyes get used to the somewhat chilling darkness. She could change any moment. I walked from the room to my pullout couch. I lay down across the bed. What if she wakes up and I'm not there for her?

A/N: Here's the next one. It picks up after this. I hope you like it.
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