Christine stormed down into the dungeons, wanting nothing more than to collapse onto her bed, even if that meant hexing a few people along the way.

'I know Siri didn't mean to say it that way, it's just ugh! I wish he would get past the idea that all Slytherens are scum, IM a Slytherin for goodness sake! He knows I'm not like that. OY!

She finally made it to the common room entrance and mumbled the password. The snake quickly moved out of her way, as though sensing her mood. She quickly stormed through the common room, oblivious to the looks she was receiving and marched up to her room. She grabbed the door knob and did her best to turn it, but it just wouldn't budge. After about ten tries to open it, she let out a frustrated cry, which caused her roommates inside to let out a fit of giggles.

Christine banged her fist against the door, as if trying to break it down as she began screaming, "You three better let me inside right now or I will find a way to make each and every one of your lives a living hell!"

The girls did nothing but laugh even harder. Eventually, Narcissa calmed down enough to be able to piece words together, "Aw, Chrissy, Why do you have to put such, difficult wards on your trunk? Afraid that we will break in and find something unpleasant?"

Narcissa began to laugh again as Christine's rage boiled over,"You will stay out of my things!"

Without another word, she ran down into the common room, for the first time realizing that her screaming must have attracted the attention of everyone in there. She glared at each of them as she walked down towards the boy's dorms. She had to get her stuff back and she knew exactly what she had to do.

She walked towards the 5th year dorms and walked inside, not even bothering to knock. She smiled inwardly as two boys Christine knew from potions class shrieked and grabbed the sheets, obviously trying to hide the fact that they had just been changing. Christine looked around for Lucius, but there was no sign of him. She sighed and caught one of the boy's attention, "Um, is there anything you want?"

"Oh, yeah, do either of you know where Lucius is?"

The two boys snickered as Christine heard a familiar voice right behind her, "So, come to reconsider my offer?"

She turned around and was met by Lucius who was standing a mere two inches from her, she regained her composure and scowled, "No, Lucius, I'm sorry but like I said, there is no way in hell I would sleep with you. But I do need to ask you a favor."

A smirk crept onto his face as he drawled out, "Oh what, pray tell, might that be?"

Christine suppressed the urge to smack him across the face and wipe off that smirk, "I need you to go up to my dorms and get my trunk, seems my oh so lovely, roommates have locked me out, and I figured, since Narcissa loves you so much, you could get in there with no problem."

"And how exactly do you suggest I get up the stairs in the first place?"

Christine looked around the room a moment, and then walked over to one of the boys in the towels, "Can I borrow this?"

The boy looked at her in utter confusion until she pointed towards the broom that was lying in the corner, "Um, sure."

She said quick thanks and picked up the broom, handing it to Lucius, "It's an old trick, just fly up the stairs and knock on the door."

Before waiting for a reply, she pushed him out of the door and into the common room. He reluctantly mounted the broom and flew up the steps, Christine right behind him. She pointed him towards the door to her room and he frowned. She glared at him and reminded that he owed her one for helping ward of Narcissa. He walked up to the door and knocked hesitantly and Christine heard Narcissa's scathing voice, "Christine, I thought you had given up?"

Lucius sighed before replying, "Narcissa, this isn't Christine, its-"

Lucius was abruptly cut off as the door swung open, revealing a very excited Narcissa, "Lucius!"

She quickly pulled him into the room and shut the door. Christine couldn't hear a word, only a few muffles. After about ten minutes Christine began to get a little worried for his well being when the door flung open, her trunk racing out of the door, a panting Lucius behind him. He bolted down the stairs, past the common room, and into his dorms, Christine's trunk dragging behind. Once in his rooms, he fell up against the wall panting, and set her trunk down next to a bed. Christine looked at him, complete surprise written all over her face, "Dear Lord Lucius! I had no idea you could run that fast? What the hell did that woman do to you?"

Lucius took a moment to regain his breathe before he could answer, "It was horrible, she pulled me in and started talking, she wouldn't stop, the she kept touching me, trying to get me to kiss her, she wouldn't let go of me, her grip was to strong. Took me forever to get out, I pity you Christine, for having to put up with them for the past five years."

Christine tried to suppress the laugh that was rising inside of her, but she finally gave into hysterical laughter and fell down on the bed behind her. It took about five minutes for her to control herself, at which point, someone was standing in front of her, scowl etched on his face.

"What in the dickens are you doing on my bed?"

Christine sat up and moved over on the bed, allowing the person in front of her to sit down, "Well Severus, I couldn't possibly stay standing while laughing that hard, I would have hurt myself, so decided instead to lie down on a bed, and this one just happened to be closest."

Severus sat down next to her as Lucius turned towards them, "So Christine, what exactly were you planning on doing now? You cant go back in there, Narcissa is probably angry that you made me go up there, besides, I didn't go in there and grab your trunk just so you could put it back!"

Christine sighed, she really didn't know what to do, "Well, I have no idea, maybe I could just move into the Room of Requirement, on a permanent basis."

Lucius shook his head, "No that wont work, people would drop in to much. Maybe you could just stay in here, I'm sure we could conjure an extra bed."

"Oh yeah, I'm sure the Headmaster would just love that idea, besides, my brothers are just down the hall remember? They would kill me if they found out I was sleeping in here."

"Well, I don't see any other possibility, unless you want to go back up there, though I'm not going to get your stuff again, you used up your last IOU with me. Come on, your brothers wont find out."

Severus, who had been quite quiet since entering the room, finally spoke up, "I highly doubt that your brothers would prove to be a bother, seeing as how they have moved into Fredrick's Head Boy quarters as well."

Christine thought it over for a moment, "Well, I guess I could, but where would I sleep?" She held up her finger to shush Lucius before he spoke, "And there is no way in hell I will be sharing a bed with you."

Lucius looked slightly hurt at her comment, "Well, I wasn't going to suggest that, I was merely going to suggest that we transfigure you one, or kick someone out."

The three talked for a bit then decided to just grab Christine's bed from upstairs, neither of them had ever transfigured a bed before, so after lots of begging and pleading, Lucius finally agreed to go back up to her dorm, after Christine promised to do his potions homework for the next month.

Christine and Severus didn't bother to go and watch the fiasco. Christine let out a sigh and fell back on the bed exhausted.

"Tired?"

"Exhausted. I have so much homework to do its not even funny. Let's see, I have a potions essay, an ancient runes worksheet, a few Arithmancy problems due tomorrow, and I have to successfully transfigure an owl into a key."

Severus let out a slight laugh and laid down next to her, "Christine, your forgetting something."

"What?"

"We have the same schedule, except while you have Care of Magical Creatures, I have free."

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Well, I guess we have a lot of homework to do eh?"

Before Severus could answer, Lucius once again burst into the room panting. Christine and Severus couldn't help but laugh, "Have fun with Cissa did you?"

Lucius just glared, "That was not worth the month of potions homework."

Lucius tossed her the shrunken bed as she stood up. She looked around the room for a moment before placing her bed in between Severus' and Goyle's beds, directly across from Lucius's bed. She took her wand and enlarged it and then walked over to her trunk and dragged it over towards her newly placed bed.

Lucius sneered at her, "Well, it looks like someone trusts me."

Christine glared at him back, "The fact that I'm even sleeping in the same room as you should be enough to convince you of the small trust I do have, but besides, it just wouldn't do for me to sleep near one of the biggest man whores in Hogwarts now would it?"

Lucius tried to keep his emotions down as he spat back, "You very well know that is a lie."

"Yes I know that. Others don't, hence my decision. It would be much better for me to be placed next to two of the, well, "Less Desirable and Promiscuous" people in Hogwarts, no offence Sev."

"None taken."

Christine smiled and walked over to her trunk, removing her wards and taking out her books and parchment, stuffing them into her bag. "Well boys, I'm off to go start on homework, want to come Severus? I could use your help with Ancient Runes."

Severus looked a bit awkward for a moment then grabbed his bag and stood up, "Um sure. Goodbye Lucius."

Christine stuck her hand through the door and waved goodbye to Lucius, almost as an afterthought. The two walked back up the stairs and into the common room and Severus made for one of the empty couches. Christine stopped in her tracks and looked at him oddly, "What exactly do you think you are doing?"

"Starting on my homework, isn't that what you wanted to do?"

"Well, yes, but not here. Come on, follow me."

Severus followed her out of the dungeons and up about thirty flights of staircases towards the Astronomy Tower. Once they had reached the door, Christine grabbed her wand and whispered, "Alohamora" The door opened and Christine grabbed Severus by the hand, guiding him up through the top of the tower. Once they had reached the last door, Christine pushed it open, and was pleased with the gasp she heard from Severus, apparently he had never been here at night.

Severus gawked, something he had only done once before, but he couldn't help it. The view was incredible, the sun was just starting to set and the sky looked as though it was on fire, the reds and yellow's and purple's that were mixing were just exquisite. The whole of Hogwarts could be seen, along with the forest and Hagrid's hut, chimney smoking as always. It took a moment for Severus to remember where exactly he was before he turned to Christine, "This is much better than the common room, I must say."

She smirked and sat down, pulling out her Ancient Runes worksheet, "Yeah I know."

The two worked on their homework till they could barley keep their eyes open. It was way past curfew and they knew that there was no way they could make it back down to the dungeons without being caught so Christine simply laid her head on Severus' shoulder, closed her eyes, and drifted off to sleep, Severus not far behind her.


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