(Sorry for the wait. Ugh, school! Here you go. Thank you, nice reviewers, you make my day.)
During dinner, Dark still kept Professor Snape on spoon-watch. She was almost dreading detention, because she had a feeling that Snape had something in store for her. She didn't have any pranks planned for detention. Shame. She continued eating dinner wondering what was in store for the evening.
Desert was chocolate mousse. Dark didn't really eat any. She was busy watching Snape. Since mousse was most likely eaten with a spoon, Dark was probably going to have to leave the hall. Then, Snape deliberately caught Dark's eye. As soon as she turned to look at him, he held up his spoon in sort of a mock salute. That was her que. She squeaked with "terror" and darted out of the hall. She was really getting sick of this prank. She decided that she'd stop it.
Waiting in the Gryfindor common room, Dark had a sketchbook layed open in her lap. She was lazily flipping through the pages. Most of the pictures were in manga style. That wwas really all that Dark could draw. Anime. Well, the only thing she could draw well. There were mostly drawings of made up people. A few reapearing. There were some attempted self portriats, a picture of her niffler, a picture of Sirius ( from a year ago). The second half of the sketchbook was still blank, Dark hadn't drawn much for a while, unless you counted the doodles on the margins of her notes. Soon, the clock chimed quarter of nine, and Dark thought it best to get going. She didn't want to suffer the dire concequences of being late to one of Snape's detentions.
Dark made her way to the potions classroom and knocked on the door.
"Enter" came Snape's voice.
When Dark stepped inside the room, she saw that two other students were serving detention. They were two Slytherin boys. Second years by the looks of it. Speaking of looks, they seemed to be trying to look tough. Heh, boys. Dark knew they were probably scared of Snape's wrath. Even if they were Slytherins.
Snape walked over to the three students. " You all know why you're here." He was looking more at Dark than at the two boys. Dark looked back, not faltering. " You two, you're cleaning cauldrons. Get to work." He said to the boys. " Miss smith, Madam Pomfrey needs more batches on the Acnecide potion. The supplies are all there." He gestured to one of the work benches. " Two cauldron fulls should be enough."
The Acnecide potion cleared sking of acne and most other blemishes. The main indredient was diluted bubotuber pus. Ick. It wasn't too complex of a potion, still if you weren't exact the whole thing was likely to mess up.
Next to the materials, there were directions on how to make the potions. Dark quickly reviewed them, and set up her cauldron. then she prepared the ingredients. While Dark was crushing some dried nettles, Professor Snape left the room to fetch something, but not before giving the three students a "you've been warned" sort of look. Once the door closed behind him, Dark spoke quietly to the younger boys.
"So, what're ya in for?" She asked boredly. The boys looked at her.
" Well, Gryffindor," Said one of the boys, Dark rolled her eyes, the kid thought he was some hot-shot or something. "We were teasing the Hufflepuffs. Those wimps."
" Yeah, dumb first years. " Piped in the other. Dark snorted.
"Oh, tough little hot-shots." She said sarcasticly. " 'Cause you're so much bigger than those firsties." This made the boys scowl.
The three hushed up at the sound of Professor Snape's footsteps. He opened the door and looked from the two cauldron scrubbers, to Dark, who was adding diluted bubotuber pus to her poton.
About fourty minutes had passed and Dark looked at the directions again. There was one last step. "Let stand with flame still on for ten minutes." Dark set a little timer on the work table for ten minutes. Ugh, the potion smelled horrid, of course, it did until the pus completely setted, which would be in ten minutes. Dark kept her face far away from the poton.
Then an idea struck her. It was a dumb one, obviously, but fun nontheless.
"Professor Snape, aren't these two so badass?" She asked, conversationally, pointing to the two Slytherins. The boys cringed at the thught of being brought to the dreaded Snape's attention. Professor Snape stared at Dark. There was a look of angry disbelief and slight amusement in his eyes.
" Miss Smith, please shut up." He said, simply.
The two boys sniggered. " You two, keep cleaning!" Snape barked. His voice suddenly became harsh. Dark smiled inwardly.
'Ding!' The timer went off, and Dark ladeled the potion, which no longer reeked, into glass bottles. The potion produced five bottles worth. Setting up her things again, Dark got ready to make the second batch.
Things were going smoothly with the second potion. Soon all there was left to do was let it sit on the flame for ten minutes. Dark had just finished setting her timer, when something caught her eye. Snape performed some sort of spell in her directon. Cringing, she expected to feel some sort of hex hit her. When she opened her eyes, she saw something that made her gasp.
The flame under the cauldron was out. The foul smelling potion started bubbling vioently. Boiling. A thought struck the panicking girl.
" This kind of potion has sort of an opposite reaction to heat after all of the components are added. Leaving it on the flame is like letting it cool off, or set. Turning the flame off would be like adding extreme hea---"
'BOOM!' "AAAAACK!" The potion blew up. Stinky mustard colored slime went flying, and completely covered Dark. She got the sludge out of her face and breathed heaily out of shock. The two Slytherin boys were laughing childishly. Dark's glare did not stop them.
When she looked up at Professor Snape, she saw him smirking in a satisfied manner. Outraged, Dark turned to the door and started to walk.
"Miss Simith, I believe you have a potion to make." Snape said.
Dark Sorted and made a start to run, but Snape grabbed her slimy wrist.
"This is detention, Smith. You can't just leave." He said in a dangerously low voice. Dark went back to her workstation grudingly and got as much of the potion off of her as possible. It was starting to harden, and it smelled really bad. Dark groaned. She set to work yet again.
By the time she was done, the other detentionees (is that a word? it is now!) had allready left. Dark left the room tired and stinky. Potion was caked in her hair, smeared on her robes, and still sort of on her face. She'd get Snape back for this, but first a shower. That would get the smell out.
Reaching her dorm, Dark went into the bathroom and grabbed a clean towel. She undressed and threw her rancid clothes into a heap in the corner of the room. She turned on the hot water and stepped into the spray.
Contrary to her belief, a shower did not get the smell out. No matter how mant times she shampooed her hair or scrubbed her face raw, the smell would not come out. Dark was almost in tears. She knew it would be days before she'd smell normal. A miserable heap of stench, she put on her pyjama pants and a t-shirt, and went into her dorm. The girls were all sitting on one of their beds. When they caught a whiff of Dark, they turned around.
"What is that?!" Squealed one of them.
"That would be me. Potions incedent." Dark said throught clenched teeth.
" Oh, no." Said one of them. It was Katie Bell. Probably the only un-annoying one in the room... besides Dark that is. Heh. ( Is Katie Bell even in that year. I think she is, but uh, can anyone tell me for sure?) "We gotta help you get that out!" She said.
They tried using sprays and stuff, and when they were done, Dark didn't smell like a dead thing. She smelled like a dead thing that went skipping through a field of flowers.
In the end, they settled for Dark putting up a bubble like ward aroung Dark's bed. Then the stench wouldn't bother the others. Dark put a charm on herself, so that she didn't smell anything at all.
"This," She thought. "Is day one of being an outcast." Groaning, she added aloud. "Snape will pay so dearly"
(So, erm, about Katie Bell. I never knew what year she was in. But tell me what you think about the story so far.)