Becoming Something New
Chapter Four: Nerds All Around
By Saxifrage
Summery: DotM/HP Spoilers for "The Becoming". Tianna is still alive, and Jimena tells the girls about a Follower-Settlement in England that she found out from recently recovered memories. On their trip to London, however, they find more than just Followers and for some reason, they're expected.
Disclaimer: Book stuff not mine. Yadda, yadda, yadda… Peacocks haunt my dreams…blah, blah, blah…I think Stanton is sexy…mooshie, mooshie, moosh-moosh….I think dancing naked llamas are nifty…Chuckwalla, chuckwalla, woot…Jimmy rules my world…scoobie-doobie-doo, and I wish I was an Osco Myer Wiener!
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Tianna woke up feeling relaxed and refreshed—a feeling she had never really enjoyed, as for half her life she'd been on the run and the other half of her life she'd stayed up pondering questions about herself. But Tianna smiled as she remembered the previous night's events. It was just so amazing to her that they were under cover at a magic school!Tianna felt like dancing in excitement, which Catty had done before.
That is, until someone started screaming.
"SHIT!" Vanessa screeched and scrambled out of her bed.
Catty sat up, yawned and cracked her neck before saying, "Vanessa, why are you yelling?"
"WHAT TIME DO CLASSES START?" Vanessa yelled at her as if it was a life or death question.
Tianna frowned. "Nine o'clock, I think. Why?"
Vanessa glared at Tianna. "Because it is eleven right now!"
There was a pause as the information sunk in.
"OH SHIT!" Tianna and Catty yelled simultaneously before scrambling to get their clothes. And then they realized that not only were they late for class, but the proper uniform hadn't been provided. Instead, there was a little note that asked them to meet in Professor Dumbledore's Office at Eight o'clock sharp—needless to say, this provided more panic.
"What are we going to do?" Vanessa whined, wringing her hands.
Tianna started pacing. "Okay, we mustn't panic… So we are isolated in a school of witchcraft… no wand… no uniform… people might get suspicious… unknown followers might be prowling about… so that makes us very vulnerable goddesses…" Tianna blinked. "Oh, wait a second." A smile was suddenly dancing on Tianna's lips, and she looked at Vanessa and Catty's confused expressions. "We're such nerds—
"Time travel is a resource to us." Tianna said simply.
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Thirty minutes later, Tianna, Catty, and Vanessa were all showered and dressed and ready to go. Then, Tianna and Vanessa grabbed onto Catty as her eyes dilated and the hands on her glow-in-the-dark watch began to spin backwards. Soon, the air around them was cracking with energy and a giant hole appeared above them and sucked them in. Tianna was engulfed by the familiar burnt-cabbage smell until they were dropped out of time and into darkness.
Groaning, the girls got to their feet and stumbled around in the darkness. "Catty," Vanessa whispered. "Where are we?" Catty didn't answer her.
Tianna felt someone punch her. "OW!" she said loudly. "Don't do that!" She slapped at the person's hand, hard. "Catty? Where are you?" Tianna was slightly worried now.
"Tianna?" Vanessa asked as she pressed her hands to Tianna's face.
"Yes, it's me!" Tianna snapped. Then she sweetly added, "And I didn't know you felt that way about me, Nessa." Tianna could almost feel Vanessa rolling her eyes in the darkness. Suddenly a bright flash lit the entire room and Catty fell on top of her and Vanessa, but not before Tianna saw the room around her.
"Sorry," Catty gasped, helping the two girls up as darkness once again quickly surrounded them. "I accidentally dropped you guys and continued back in time. I went all the way to before the sorting."
"Well, I think I've had enough darkness and mystery. Where are we?" Vanessa asked loudly.
Tianna furrowed her brow. "I think we're in the girl's dormitory… I saw beds and people sleeping in them." She moved over to her left, where she had originally felt the hand slap her. A bed was lying there.
"See?" Tianna started lowering her voice. "We should leave before we wake them."
"Yeah," Catty added, and grabbed both their hands and headed towards where they presumed the door was. Before the got there, however, they tripped over a bunch of clothing.
"Crap, that wasn't there before!"
"Shut up, Vanessa!" Tianna and Catty whispered harshly.
"Sorry."
"What doesn't make sense though," Catty wondered aloud, "is how I managed to be so accurate…twice, none the less."
"Maybe you were lucky," Tianna suggested with a shrug that was invisible in the dark room. Then her hands met the wall. There was no door. "Shiiiiiiit." She whined.
Vanessa sighed. "Okay, back we go then."
Together, they turned and carefully stepped over the offensive clothing that had tripped up the three goddesses before. They blindly walked to one of the beds and felt their way around it. Tianna's hands met something hard and long, and she paused to inspect it. It was smooth, but at the end it had long scratchy bristles gathered in a clump. After a second of pondering, and a quick hush to her companions who were bickering over her pace, something clicked in her mind.
It was a broomstick.
It was nothing unusual, now that Tianna thought about it, as they had just joined a school for wizards… But funnily enough, Tianna hadn't remembered one of the girls having one out the night before. Mind you, now, she did kind of slump into bed and fall unconscious. Damn those comfy beds.
Suddenly someone grumbled in the bed next to her. Fearfully, Tianna found Catty's watch hand and hit the button to make it glow. It was six o'clock, meaning that people were starting to get up. Tianna heard curtains being pulled back and feet hit the ground. If her heart wasn't in good condition, it would have burst at what she heard next.
"Ahhhh,"—someone yawned—"Time to get up." It was a very masculine voice. Eyes wide with fear, Tianna slowly backed up to Catty and Vanessa, both of whom had frozen.
"Catty…" Tianna whispered, her voice shaking slightly, "I think I know why this room's unfamiliar."
"I- I think I know t-two…" Vanessa said, her voice raising slightly in pitch. "Get us out of here!" She whispered harshly at her best friend.
The masculine voices continued to mumble as each of them got up. Thankfully no one had opened the drapes to the windows yet, so still no one could see.
"Oww…" Someone complained. "My hand hurts—like someone slapped it!"
"Oh bugger off, Neville. You're always punching things in the night, you big lump." Another answered.
"Hey, I resent that." Neville replied, apparently hurt.
Tianna looked guiltily at where she supposed her hand was in the dark. She didn't know she hit someone else! She had thought it was Catty—or Vanessa!
And then Catty had to give them away. By giggling. Really loudly.
"What was that?" Neville yelped.
"Someone laughing dumb-ass." A new voice answered
"But even Neville doesn't laugh that high!" That one, Tianna thought, sounded oddly familiar.
"That's because you're the one who laughs in falsetto, Ron." Someone teased.
"Do not!" was the heated response. "Besides, it sounded like a girl."
And then a boy pulled on the drapes and light flooded the room. Tianna recognized two of the boys: Harry Potter, the "holy man" of the wizarding world, and Ron Weasly, his cute red-headed side-kick. Three other boys were there, too. A pudgy, blonde-headed kid, and two others that she didn't get the details of as there was only a ten second pause as everyone looked around at each other before—
"AHHHHHHHHHH" The boys screamed.
"SHIT!" The girls shrieked.
"Damn it, Catty!" Vanessa cried in anguish, turning towards the offender. "How many times have you done this to me! How many times?"
Catty held up four fingers before she fell over in a fit of giggles and Vanessa angrily pulled her up. "CATTY REESE! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GET US OUT OF HERE!"
Tianna kept her voice in her throat—and attempted to not join Catty on the floor with laughter—as her eyes searched the room for an escape.
"What are you doing here?" Ron asked, very red in the ears.
"Um…" Vanessa started. "Well you see—"
"We were going for a walk!" Catty yelled, a huge smile on her face. "And we got lost. I just don't know how we could have gotten up here." The sarcasm was evident in her happily giggling voice as she shook her head in a supposedly sad way.
Suddenly her eyes dilated and Tianna and Vanessa took this as their signal to grab onto her. Tianna brought her cool back to her head, and then smirked. It was an incredibly funny situation…
"Sorry, boys, we got to go! We have a very important meeting to attend to. Bye!" Tianna waved at the flustered boys, and once more she was sucked up into Catty's tunnel and was crashing through time. Thankfully, this time as they left the tunnel, they feel onto of a giant table.
They quickly established that they were in a library, as the large shelves of books gave it away. Unlike the boy's dormitory (which Tianna had now registered was where they had been), the library was already flooded with morning light. They must have only gone back five or ten minutes in time.
Wearily, the girls straitened out their clothing and walked out of the library. Of course, then they realized that they had yet another problem: they didn't know where Dumbledore's office was.
For thirty minutes they ran around the Library's general area before venturing out into the hallways, and getting themselves lost. They were walking frantically down the paths nervously for an hour or so, with Vanessa working up a panic attack. And then came two girls came to their rescue.
"Oh, THANK GOD!" Vanessa yelled and flung herself at Jimena and Serena. Tianna rolled her eyes, though she was quite happy to see the two other goddesses herself. Vanessa always was a drama queen—but then again, for a shy girl like her (even one in a rock band), that whole thing was pretty traumatic. "You have NO idea what we've gone through!"
Vanessa opened her mouth to explain what happened, when a look passed over her face. Tianna was confused, but quickly realized Serena had telepathically said something. Serena turned to them with a grim and harassed face.
"Hey," She said. "Couldn't find your way? Neither could we. Malfoy decided to show us where the office is." Immediately, Tianna, Catty, and Vanessa put up their guard against any trick Malfoy might have learned from Followers.
A cold and harsh voice then reached Tianna's ears. "Just being kind. Not many others would have liked showing the mentally challenged around the school."
Tianna turned to the boy that she has missed. And there he was, standing behind the two goddesses, watching them with morbidly happy curiosity. She glared at him. "Oh, well thank you, for being so kind, Malfunction… um, I mean Malfoy!" Tianna said sarcastically. Oh, how she disliked that Follower.
"You're welcome, mudblood." Malfoy sniffed.
"Hm, such a weak insult." Catty muttered to Vanessa, not really bothering to keep her voice down.
"Well, I wouldn't want to overload your brain with the more complex ones, would I?" Malfoy sneered at her.
Tianna smiled sympathetically and patted his arm. "Its okay, Malfoy. You don't need to put up an act… We all know you just aren't smart enough to come up with something better. But don't worry, we won't tell anyone about your down syndrome."
Malfoy jerked his arm where Tianna touched him, and she smiled evilly.
"Nice one," Vanessa commented quietly.
"Why you—" Malfoy started forward, but was stopped by Jimena's body in his way. She had steeped forward and was now glaring at him with all her gangster strength. He cowered under her fierce eyes. Ah, Jimena's warrior and gangsta' days were definitely showing through. Tianna silently gave her a whoop of appreciation in her mind. 'It wouldn't do for us to get into a fight on the first day of school,' Tianna thought, 'especially since I can obviously whip his skinny white ass!'
"Don't mess with the best!" Serena quipped and hooked arms with Jimena. The goddesses laughed, and waited for moody Slytherin to lead them on. They all walked in silence—though Malfoy had tried fruitlessly to ask them why they were at a school where they weren't wanted—not wanting to reveal anything about themselves.
Tianna made sure to scan the hallways as she walked through them, wanting to know her surroundings as soon as possible. It was an old habit that she chose was best not to abandon from her days on the run. After all, you never knew when you'd run into trouble. She could feel Jimena running through the same habit, though, for her, it had been brushed up from her years on the street.
The Hogwarts castle was made up completely of stone. There were paintings everywhere, and Tianna still had to bite her lips to keep herself from both laughing and screaming when one moved from one portrait to another, or when one talked to her. Old and rusty suits of armor could often be seen playing out battles with newer and shinier looking suits, shouting things like, "Ye old dawg!" and, "Come back 'ere ye mangy cowa'd!"—this provided Tianna with great amusement. But what both frustrated and relieved Tianna was the fact that there were so many trick passageways. On the down side: it meant she'd have more of a chance of getting lost; on the bright side: if Tianna and the other goddesses learned all the passageways, they could use it in favor of themselves.
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Tianna was brought out of her thoughts when Malfoy stopped walking and she almost bumped into him. "We there?" She asked in a bright voice.
"Yes…" Malfoy said coolly, eyes running over her body. Tianna frowned and crossed her arms over her chest. Why did he make her feel so violated when he looked at her?
"Okay, so how do we get up?" Vanessa asked.
"Did he tell you the password?" Malfoy asked, raising an eyebrow.
"But yesterday it opened automatically for us!" Vanessa cried. "Don't tell me we actually need a password to get in!"
"Alright." Malfoy smirked. "I wont."
"Bastard." Catty growled.
"He likes sweets." Jimena said suddenly. Everyone's head snapped to her. "What? He does! Remember 'Rena? He said he had a rather strange passion for…" She paused in thought, "muggle sweets."
"Oh yeah!" Serena exclaimed. "Okay, so… like what? Um, 'M&Ms'?" The statue didn't move. Understanding what Jimena and Serena meant now, the girls started randomly shouting candy. Malfoy left them to their own devices, snickering at their attempts.
"Hersheys!"
"Tootsie Rolls!"
"Jelly Bellies!"
"Lolly Pops!"
"Starbursts!"
"LaffyDaffy!"
"Nerds!"
The statue sprang to the side at the last shout. The goddesses laughed. "Nerds? Do you think he was unpopular when he was in school?" Catty asked in good nature. The girls rolled their eyes.
The five girls stepped onto the rotating stairs and cheerfully chatted about what had happened to them, now that Malfoy was gone. "You were seriously in the boy's dormitories?" Serena asked, raising an eyebrow.
By this time, they had reached the top of the steps (as the story wasn't very long). Dumbledore wasn't in the room, so the girls kept on talking.
"Yeah!" Catty exclaimed. "It was so funny! My favorite part was when they turned on the light and were just like 'What the hell!' and Vanessa was pretty much peeing her pants!" Catty laughed enthusiastically, with all but Vanessa joining in. "I haven't seen you that excited and embarrassed since I dropped you in the boy's changing room with Michael!" Vanessa blushed angrily.
"It wasn't funny! It was really embarrassing! I'll never forgive you for that!" Vanessa burst.
"Aw, honey, you don't mean that do you?" Catty purred. "Besides, wasn't that the day he asked you out? So you should not only be forgiving me, but thanking me!" Catty proudly sang. "Besides," Catty added, taking on a more serious tone. "It's not like they'll really remember anything."
Vanessa sighed, thoroughly beat. "Fine." She stated. "But you owe me a soda."
"Done!" Catty shouted. The other goddesses laughed at Catty's antics.
Tianna sat down. "So what did you guys do in the so called 'Dreaded Slytherin' house?" she inquired politely.
Jimena scowled. "Well, half the girls were not only ugly, but grosero too. I wanted to sock them in the face, but Serena told me to 'play nice.' Juego agradable mi ASNO! Next time they even suggest that I'm only here to 'give the boys some fun,' I swear, I'm gonna revert to my gangster days and pop them!"
Tianna laughed nervously. "You don't mean that." Tianna said, then faultered at Jimena's grim face. "Wait—do you?"
Jimena sighed. "No, I guess not. But I will bloody them up a bit if my fist sees it fit."
"Anyways," Serena started. "As Jimena said, they were really rude and all. The girls seemed suspicious of why we're here, but the boys were… well, being boys. All they wanted to know is if we were 'willing.'" Serena sighed. "We are definitely gonna have to watch ourselves."
"There wasn't even one nice person?" Tianna asked. "I mean, not all of them can be bad, right?"
Jimena frowned thoughtfully. "Well, I noticed that a few of the younger kids weren't very hostil, but after a few years around those perras, they will be."
"Perfect!" Catty cried, springing up from her chair and pacing in front of the goddesses. "You can find all who are willing and are, to the extent of your knowledge, not Followers, nor are willing to be, and rally them up. You ladies can train them to be our soldiers, and we'll do the same in the other house who are more willing with Gryffies like us. Soon we will have an army and will take over the school!" With this, Catty placed her pinkie finger to the corner of her mouth and laughed what she assumed was an 'evil' laugh. "MWAHAHAHAHA!"
Tianna raised her eyebrow. "There were a lot of big words in that speech, Catty. Are you sure you can handle the title of President of this operation?" Tianna asked, patting Catty pitifully on the back. "You know, maybe we should put Jimena in the front of this assignment." She suggested softly.
"NOOOOO!" Catty yelled dramatically. "I have been betrayed by my own family!" She started to sob uncontrollably in her hands.
"Are you guys okay?" Vanessa asked, shaking her head. "You seriously need to see a doctor. I know a very good psychiatrist in LA, you know." There was a pause before Vanessa could no longer keep a strait face and started cracking up. Soon, all of the Daughters were rolling on the floor laughing.
"No," Catty said through remaining laughter, after they had all calmed down a bit. "Seriously, we should do that. Well, not the 'let's take over the school' deal, but we should get as many people to be our allies as possible."
Serena shrugged. "Sounds like a plan to me. But what happens if somebody finds out who we are?"
"We're screwed." Tianna said simply. "No point in sugaring that up. But I'd say that people would be more suspicious if we weren't social, rather than if were were."
At this point, singing reached their ears. They cringed slightly at the off-key voice.
"I feel pretty, oh so pretty! I feel pretty, and witty and GAY! And I pity, any girl who isn't me today… LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA!" Dumbledore rounded the corner and started walking down the stairs that obviously led to his living quarters. He was wearing bright purple pajamas that had white stars on them and bunny slippers. His beard was braided, and in his hands was a giant rubber ducky. He was swinging the toy around in a dramatic fashion and singing "I feel pretty" at the top of his lungs, giving a squeeze to the duck at random intervals in the song which then emitted a rather real-sounding quack; he ignored the five girls in the room.
The five girls looked at each other with amused smiles on their faces. Dumbledore sang another two verses before he turned to them and saw them. "Oh!" Dumbledore said, smiling in surprise. "My, I am sorry, you must think I'm very rude. I wasn't expecting you for another ten minutes!"
"Excuse me, Mr. Dumbledore," Vanessa said timidly. "It's eight-ten right now, and you told us to me you here at eight."
"Really?" Dumbledore asked, his eyebrows rising slightly. "Aw, yes that would explain why you're here. Well, do forgive me; I'm afraid my mind gives me the slip once and a while." Dumbledore took out his wand from his pajama pocket and gave it a wave, aimed toward himself. In an instant, his pajamas were replaced by very similar, bright purple robes, and Tianna noticed with a slight smirk that his bunny slippers were still in place.
"Hm, now you needed to go shopping for books, robes, and wands, correct?"
"Yes sir!" Catty exclaimed happily with a mock salute. Tianna could tell that she really liked Professor Dumbledore—especially when he saluted back.
"Great!" Dumbledore said, clapping his hands together. "Well, then, I think our Head Girl and Boy should show you around there, as most of the teachers are very busy and will be otherwise occupied today." Dumbledore gestured toward the door. The quintet turned around to see a very pretty girl and an extremely good-looking boy come towards them. "Ah yes, Ms. Jenkins, Mr. Sparrow, come in, come in!"
Catty was openly ogling at the boy, who cheekily smiled at her in return. Jimena leaned over and shut Catty's mouth with a flick of her finger, and smiled wickedly when Catty glared at her. "Just trying to help, honey." She told her evilly.
Catty rolled her eyes then and turned back towards Dumbledore, her arms crossed in a huff. Tianna smirked at Serena, Jimena, and Vanessa, and they smiled back in secret agreement. This dude was hot, boiling hot. He had shaggy, blonde hair, and bright blue eyes that demanded every female's intense attention. Maybe even some of the male's attention, too. Tianna thought, snickering silently. Skin moved into wrinkles around his eyes as his smile brightened, making him look even more… Tianna searched for a word that would describe him.
Yummy. A voice whispered in her mind. Tianna turned to look at Serena; their eyes met, and they sputtered to keep their laughter inside.
"Nate Sparrow." He said, nodding his head towards each of them. Out of the corner of her eye, Tianna saw Jimena raise an eyebrow. Tianna felt like raising one herself: Nate? What kind of a name was that?
As if reading their minds, he shrugged. "It's a nickname." He smiled charmingly. He certainly was the silent type, Tianna thought with a frown. Personally, Tianna went for the more outgoing guys. Like Derek.
Tianna's heart missed a beat at the thought of that name, and she blushed and looked away.
"Hi, I'm Heather Jenkins!" The otherwise unnoticed Head Girl exclaimed, extending her hand towards Tianna. Tianna accepted it politely and smiled warmly. Heather had light, curly brown hair that was pulled tightly in a pony tail, and dark eyes framed in oval brimmed glasses. Her pale skin was covered in brown freckles; not even her hands seemed to go unscathed by the ruthless dots. All in all, she was rather pretty with a stubborn chin, a strait nose, and dark, swooping lashes.
"I'm Tianna. This," Tianna pointed to the other girls, "is Vanessa, Catty, Serena, and Jimena."
"It's great to meet you!" She exclaimed happily.
Tianna blinked. "Okay," was all she could say in return. This girl seemed to be extremely happy about everything, but otherwise seemed nice. Heather sighed happily and turned to Dumbledore.
Dumbledore smiled in greeting to the Head students and motioned for them to sit in the new chairs he had summoned.
Dumbledore sat behind his desk, while Catty sat on the extremely squashy purple couch where she was joined by Nate on her left, and Vanessa on her right. Tianna and Jimena claimed the second couch, leaving Heather and Serena to sit in lonely, but comfy-looking red chairs.
"Well, now that we're all here, we can lay out the rules!" He said cheerfully. Tianna noticed Catty smile innocently at the word "rules." Tianna cocked an eyebrow. What was Catty cooking up now?
Tianna found herself being nudged by Jimena. She leaned over in a whisper. "Did you notice how this old abuelo seems to know everything?" Tianna nodded. "Be on your guard. He may not be a Follower, but he's definitely someone to watch." Tianna looked at Jimena quizzically. Jimena sighed, and explained: "I plan on taking down as many Follower-students as possible… and he may not like how we do it, usted sabe?"
Tianna nodded. Jimena was right; if the ways the daughters ripped away immortality and wrecked lesser Follower's chances of being in the Atrox's favor seemed harsh, they felt even worse. Serena had confided in the Daughters at how being stripped of her own immortality had felt like to her when Jimena had pushed her back into the cold fire—and Jimena said that it had been no picnic for her either. Dumbledore seemed like a good person, but how would he react to such treatment to the students he seemed so protective of?
"So!" Dumbledore said, his eyes glinting with amusement as Jimena and Tianna jumped. "Now that that's all settled, please be on your way!" Jimena and Tianna looked at each other in horror—they had missed all the instructions!
Tianna guiltily walked out with the daughters (Jimena's face had hardened as it always did when she was thinking or feeling emotion, like shame.) as they followed the two Heads out of the office.
Tianna and Jimena (with Serena and Vanessa behind them,) walked next to Catty. "So," Tianna said casually. "I think we should go over the instructions again." Jimena readily agreed.
"Really?" Catty teased, "How come? Did you forget your hearing aid when Dumby-Dore was talking?"
Tianna pouted. "Jimena wanted to say something." She grumbled as Jimena huffed and crossed her arms.
"It was important." Jimena insisted.
Catty rolled her eyes. "Whatever." She shook her head with a defeated look. "I'm just too nice to you guys. So, we go to Diagon Ally—wizard's version of an out-door mall, apparently—go to the bank, use Hogwart's money, buy supplies, and come back here."
Tianna tilted her head to the side thoughtfully. "Sounds simple enough. What about the 'rules?'" Tianna groaned as Catty smiled with an evil glint in her eyes.
"What?" Catty asked innocently "He told us not to over use the money, and return what we didn't use. Money for supplies only, I suppose." Catty shrugged, and Jimena eyed her skeptically.
"Nothing else was mentioned?" the reincarnated goddess asked.
"Not that I remember." Catty said and strode off to talk with the ecstatic Heather and—most particularly—the yummy Nate.
"But—wait!" Jimena called. "How do we get there?" Catty's only answer was consistent flirting with Nate. "NERD!" She yelled angrily before turning to Vanessa and Serena. "Do you guys know what's going on?" She asked.
"No," Vanessa said sourly. "Serena was telling me what you were telling Tia. Catty was supposed to get all the directions."
"But she's not telling us something!" Tianna whined. "That's not fair!" The three pouting girls turned to Serena in silent question.
"Nope," She answered, her green eyes narrowing. "I can't read her thoughts—she's blocking my mind. But she's definitely up to something."
Tianna sighed. "Oh well, I guess the only thing we can do is follow Catty's lead…Even if it means we have to follow in her steps and flirt with the hot guy." She smirked.
"Not that we're complaining about that part." Serena said evilly, and they ran to catch up with the others.
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AN: First of all, SO sorry about the horribly long wait! REALLY, REALLY SORRY! Please don't hate me! I've just been doing so much this summer with my stupid summer-homework and writer's blocks and everything. I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter, but I'm sorry that not much happened in it! I was going to continue writing, but I figured that you guys had waited long enough.
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