Kat slowed down and looked at her surroundings. Even though she intended to go to her Common Room, she was at the Gryffndor's. She kicked the wall. "Argh" Her foot started throbbing immediately. "Ooow…Stupid wall!" Someone put their hand on her shoulder. Kat spun around, her hands in fists, ready to fight. She relaxed a bit when she was it was Snape.
"Miss Riddle, what are you doing here?" Snape asked, trying to not sound threatening.
"Ugh! Don't call me that! It's not my name!" Kat shouted. She started glowing with energy. She looked at her and her eyes filled with terror. She took in a sharp breath. "What…?" She looked up at Snape, frightened. "What's going on? Why—Why am I glowing?"
"It would seem that your state of intense emotions is letting out some of your magical powers. It has been known to happen. Your father's done it a few times." Snape stated.
"Thanks for that, Spock." She spoke back, her voice dripping in sarcasm. (Spock, from Star Trek! Snape sounded very Vulcan there. Nodnod)
He placed a hand on her shoulder. "You need to calm yourself."
She wrenched out of his grip. "I can't! You're all claiming I'm someone, no, something, that I'm not!" She took of running down the hallway, her robes flying being her. Her shoes were the only noise in the empty hallways. Everyone else had gone to bed. This time, she made sure to go the right way. Snape followed, slightly behind, so he wouldn't be seen.
Snape watched Kat try to open the entrance to the Slytherin Common Room. She screamed in frustration and Snape stepped forward. He tapped the three bricks and said, "Noir." The entrance opened ad Kat walked in.
"Thank you, Professor…" Kat mumbled and walked up the stairs to her dorm room. She proceeded to the small desk and opened a small blue and white composition book. She picked a quill and began to write.
Down in the main portion of the Common Room, Snape was explaining Kat's heritage to Draco. "I expect you to show her some respect." He lowered his voice to a whisper. "If you tell anyone, including your father, you will feel my wrath, boy." With that, Snape glided out of the room and left Draco alone with his thoughts.
He paced for a few minutes, considering whom to owl first. He rested his arm on a fluffy armchair. 'Snape's wrath can be no worse than a weeks worth of detention,' he thought. Draco hurried off to owl his father; the infamous Lucious Malfoy.
Up in her own dorm room, Kat was trying her best to ignore her roommate, Risika, who kept pestering her about how Kat stood up to Draco that day. "Why'd you have to go and make all of us real Slytherins look bad!"
Kat rolled her eyes. "The only person I made look bad was Blondie Boy. And he deserved it."
Risikia's eye's flared. "Blondie Boy! How rude!"
Kat shrugged. "You only say that cause you've got a thing for him."
Risika 'Hmph'ed and stormed out of the dorm and into the Common Room. Kat chuckled and got into bed. After pulling the curtains around her bed shut, she soon fell asleep.
Kat woke to someone poking her. She mumbled something and rolled over. The poking persisted. "Kat! Wake up!"
Kat rolled onto her back and glanced at the clock.. "Blimey. It's six in the morning!" She turned to the poker. It was her roommate, Risika. "What do you want?"
Risika scowled. "Draco wants to talk to you."
Kat yawned. "About what?"
"He said it was about your real name." Kat sat up straight. "He didn't say much else."
Kat stood up and pulled a sweatshirt over her head. After running a brush through her hair, she walked out the dorm and into the Common Room. Draco was there, waiting for her. He walked up and attempted to hug her, but she shoved him away. "What was that for? I thought I was just mudblood filth to you."
Draco tried to look innocent. "I'm hurt!" She gave him a look that said she didn't believe him. "I just wanted to apologize correctly, Katarin."
Kat glared and sat on a couch. "How do you know my real name? I haven't been called that in years."
Draco looked down at her. "Wouldn't you like to be called by your real name, Katarin Riddle?" He smiled slyly.
She jumped up and glared at him. "Why you little…who told you?" She thought for a moment as a grin spread across Draco's face. She snapped her fingers. "It was SNAPE! That slimy git!" She turned to go out the Common Room, undoubtedly to go yell at Snape. Draco's grin had faded.
"Wait!" He jumped in front of her to keep her from leaving. "If you go tell him, he'll have my head!" He placed his hands on her shoulders.
She knocked them off. "You kinda screwed yourself over, Blondie." She paused and looked into his eyes. He was terrified. "Alright…I won't tell him." Draco's eyes lit up. "But if you ever call me that filthy name again, I'll kill you myself." She spun around and left a speechless Draco down in the Common Room while she went up to her dorm to change. After she was done, Risika too was ready for the day.
"Hey, muddy, breakfast is in a few minutes."
Kat glared at Risika and left. She walked out the Common Room and down the corridors to the Great Hall. She saw Fred standing outside it, waiting for her. She really wasn't in the mood to talk to him. She plastered a face smile on her face and walked up to him. "Kat!" Fred hugged her. After a moment, he pulled away. "What's wrong?"
"Oh…it's just…" She caught herself. She was about to tell him about who she was. "It's nothing." She shook her head. Why would she want to tell him? 'He'd probably call mea freak, or be afraid of me,' she thought. 'And I sure don't want that.'
He looked at her with some concern, but took her and walked into the Great Hall together. They took seats at the Gryffindor table and Fred started eating. Kat just pushed food around on her plate. Fred glanced at her and stopped eating. "Alright, I may have only known you for less than a day, but I know you well enough to see when you're troubled."
Kat sighed and glanced around the room before looking at Fred. "Okay…But not here, there are too many people." She stood up and started walking to the main entrance/exit. Fred followed her. They reached the door just when it opened it up and in walked Professor Snape.