Right usual stuff. Spelling, description. I've also enlightened more on the reason why Tash refuses to date Sirius.
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Chapter 10
Over the weekend, the news that Lily and James were dating spread through the school faster than lightning. During Sunday, Lily had to endure the looks she was getting from the girls who wished they were in her place. Surprisingly she found that she didn't care. She was happy with James and felt she could take any jealous comments thrown at her.
On Monday morning, Lily woke up and smiled to herself. She had never been so happy in all the time she had been at Hogwarts, despite the amount of homework they were getting and despite the increasingly evil looks she was getting from the Slytherins.
"Rise and shine!" Jenny shouted, ripping back her curtains. "Life is good, life is wonderful, life is great in my green pyjamas!"
"If you say so," Tash said groggily, and the green pyjamas and wearer, were bombarded with pillows.
"Come on Lily! James will be waiting for the lady of his life," Jenny ran over to Lily and found that she was already getting up. She turned instead to Tash. Lily laughed, as Jenny ripped back the covers and Tash groaned loudly.
"Jenny!" Tash wailed. "Cold!"
"Come on Tash! Hupsy daisy! It's a beautiful day!"
"What are you on woman? It's a horrible day!" Tash said pointing to the window. There were dark storm clouds above the castle and it had been raining all night. As Lily glanced at the storm there was a rumble of thunder and Apollo and Bali both hissed in fear. Lily cuddled Apollo and he seemed to settle down.
"Okay so it's not the sort of weather you'd seen in Florida," Jenny shrugged. "You must seize the moment! Get out of bed! The day is waiting for you!"
"Yes Jenny, but you've forgotten that today I am supposed to duel Bellatrix," Tash reminded her. "So if it's alright with you I would like an extra half an hours sleep!" She tugged the covers back over herself. Lily ran to get the bathroom before anyone else could. Fifteen minutes later when she reappeared, Tash and Jenny were still arguing and Crystel had got up and was looking for the school books she would need that day.
As Lily approached her bed she was very surprised to see a drenched and bedraggled owl sitting on her pillow. Lily recognised him. It was Godric and he belonged to James. She sat down on the bed and set about removing the note attached to his leg.
"Come on Tash!" Jenny begged. Lily noticed that Jenny had now stripped all of Tash's sheets off leaving the taller girl curled in a foetal position with a scowl on her face. "You get two hours of sleep in history of magic. And you have to eat breakfast before the fight!"
"What, so I can throw up all over her?" Tash asked before looking thoughtful. "Cool! I wanna puke on Bellatrix!"
"Knew that would get you up!" Jenny smiled. Tash sprinted for the bathroom, tripping over her discarded sheets as she went. Lily snorted with laughter at her friend before reaching into her beside drawer to fetch some owl treats for Godric. While Jenny was occupied throwing Tash's sheets back onto her bed, Lily tore open the note.
"Morning Lily – Hope you aren't still sleeping, else Godric will probably be making a mess. Meet you in the common room for breakfast – Love James"
"So, how is life for the woman tied to the handsome Quidditch star called James Potter?" Jenny asked Lily, plonking herself down on her friend's bed.
"It's wonderful," Lily said, smiling at the note before tucking it into her robes.
"So how much do you like him?" Jenny asked.
"Well," Lily thought for a minute. "If I was ten years old, I would be doodling his initials all over scrap pieces of parchment and drawing hearts around them."
"My God!" Jenny said. "You've got it bad girl!"
"He is the most wonderful person I have ever met," Lily said.
"I'll try not to take offence," Jenny said. Lily looked at her and saw she was teasing.
"He's sweet, funny," Lily continued ignoring her, "and he cares for me. I like him so much."
"Happy you went out with him at last?" Jenny asked.
"Best decision of my life," Lily said.
"Yeah, I know the feeling," Jenny smiled, thinking of Remus. Both of them sat daydreaming for thirty seconds before Crystel cleared her throat.
"Before we all go daydreaming about the perfect guy, we have an extra two hours sleep in History of Magic," she reminded them. "And then we can watch Tash and Bellatrix, the final showdown!"
"Dun dun dun!" Jenny chanted dramatically.
"Dun what?" Tash asked, sticking her head out from the bathroom. She was fully dressed and combing her wet hair.
"Dun you in defence," Jenny said, walking to the bathroom. "Bellatrix is going to get what's coming to her!"
"I'll throw in an extra spell for the two of you," Tash promised plonking herself back on her bed.
"Just be careful," Lily warned. "Bellatrix is a very dangerous person. And you're not exactly her favourite witch right now. Especially since the Slytherin prank."
"Slytherin prank?" Crystel asked frowning.
"Me, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter put nifflers down the chimney one night," Tash explained in brief.
"My god!" Crystel smiled. "That was you!" She cracked up laughing.
"You should have seen the chaos!" Tash grinned, tapping her hair with her wand and drying it. "They all came tearing out of the common room screaming. It was fan-bloody-tastic!"
"Anyway," Lily said, "Crystel, have you heard anything from your family?"
Tash turned around half way through tying up her hair. Crystel's smile dropped.
"The funerals during in a few weeks," she said. "I'll be going during the weekend."
"Join the club," Tash said glumly. "I've lost three cousins to those bastards. And according to Dumbledore, this is just the beginning."
"When did he tell you this?" Lily asked.
"On Friday," Tash said. "I had to go and speak to him about Auror training at the Ministry."
"Have you told your parents?" Crystel asked.
"What? That I'm considering entering a career where the death rate is higher than in any job in the world?" Tash asked. "Certainly not! My mum would fuss, and Dad would treat me to a whole lecture about how I'm not making a 'sensible, well thought out' decision."
"Breakfast!" Jenny chimed, reappearing from the bathroom, dressed and ready to go.
"Jenny normal people spend ten or fifteen minutes in the bathroom," Lily said. "It just took you less than five. You are not normal you know!"
"I knew I wasn't normal when I was eight," Jenny said. "I had a witch for a mother and a muggle father, whose hair I turned purple accidentally." Everyone laughed and the three girls went down for breakfast.
OOO
"You were brilliant," Lily whispered to James as he sat down next to her. James had just successfully won his round against Snape, which resulted in the greasy Slytherin falling asleep in the middle of the floor and snoring something suspiciously like 'God Save the Queen'.
"What, no kisses in class?" Tash asked innocently as James grinned at Lily.
"Last round will be Miss Black and Miss Marquand," Ramton announced. "This should be interesting." He gave an evil smirk.
"Good luck Tash," Lily and Jenny both hugged her.
"Give my cousin hell Tash," Sirius smiled at her. Tash nodded, took a deep breath and faced Bellatrix, who snarled at her.
"Three…" Ramton counted. "Two…"
Tash and Bellatrix both started on two. Tash sent an Invocatum spell at Bellatrix, causing her to dodge to the left. Bellatrix retaliated with 'Cestor morandum!' Tash ducked to the floor. Bellatrix reacted unbelievably fast, casting a choking curse at her. Tash rolled away and sprang to her feet again, trying another Invocatum spell.
Bellatrix pulled up a blood red shield, blocking off the spell. She grinned evilly and shouted, 'Serpensortia!'
Lily shot a worried look at Tash. She knew that Tash hated snakes and prayed that she wouldn't lose her head. Tash glanced at Lily and smiled.
"Glacius!" she shouted. A jet of ice shot out of her wand forming a solid ice cube around the snake. Tash cast 'reducto' at it and the ice and snake, shattered into a million pieces. Bellatrix took this moment to shout 'cestor morandum!' again.
Tash shot backwards into the wall and there was a loud crack as her arm broke. Beside her, Lily felt Sirius tense up.
Before Bellatrix could knock her out, Tash seized her wand again, pointed it at a bookcase and yelled, 'Carpe Retractum!' A thin gold light shot out of her wand and the bookcase was dragged in front of her, as Bellatrix's spell smashed into the books. Tash got up slowly, tapped her wand and said 'ferula.' A bandage and splint strapped her arm up.
"Reducto!" Bellatrix shouted. The bookcase exploded and Tash flung her arm in front of her eyes, as splinters tore at her face and robes. Enraged that she was still alive, Bellatrix screamed 'tracostor maxima!' Tash dodged, not wanting to choke to death, and shouted the first spell that came to her mind. Bellatrix's hair instantly turned pink. Sirius, James, Remus and Peter burst out laughing and Jenny and Lily cheered Tash on.
"Vermillious Tria!" Tash shouted. Three jets of red light spewed from her wand and Bellatrix gritted her teeth as the spell hit her causing her to fall flat on her face.
"Paralizus!" she yelled. Tash dodged, but went straight into the 'Verdimillious maxima' spell that Bellatrix had cast just seconds after the first. The light shocked her and she gritted her teeth with pain before she fell on all fours panting. Bellatrix advanced menacingly.
"I've waited for this for a long time mudblood," she hissed. Tash glared at her.
"This fight's not over Bellatrix."
Bellatrix raised her wand just as Tash swung her leg round, tripping the Slytherin over. Bellatrix landed flat on her back. Tash rolled away and grabbed her wand. Bellatrix sat up to see where her opponent had gone.
"Invocatum!" Tash screamed.
"Comaxa!" Bellatrix cried.
A jet of purple light hit Bellatrix causing her to pass out. The green light from her wand crashed into Natasha and she screamed loudly. Everyone covered their ears as she too, collapsed into unconsciousness.
"Draw," Ramton said, looking at Bellatrix's fallen form in disappointment. "What a pity."
"Shouldn't she go to the hospital wing?" one of the Slytherin looked at Bellatrix in worry.
"Who cares about Bellatrix!" Jenny, Lily and the four Gryffindor boys had jumped out of their seats and were nervously crowding around Tash. "She's only stunned. What about Tash?" Jenny was hysterical.
"Try a potion," Remus suggested.
"I haven't got anything that can revive a knock-out curse," Jenny said.
"She needs to see Madame Pomfrey," Lily said sternly daring Ramton to disagree with her.
"I've got her," Sirius picked Tash up and hurried over to the classroom door just as the bell went for next lesson.
OOO
"Do you think she'll be alright?" Lily asked later in the hospital wing.
"Me, Sirius, Tash and the rest of the Gryffindor team have probably been in here more than any other students!" James said. "She'll be fine."
He was standing behind Lily with his hands on her shoulders. This might have been affectionate or for protection since Bellatrix was in the next bed, shooting them evil glares. She had been brought round in a minute, but getting her hair back to the right colour was another matter.
"Hey. She's coming round!" Sirius said watching her intensely from the left side of the bed.
"Tash?" Lily, who was sitting on the other side of the bed, peered nervously at her friend, who was beginning to stir.
"What happened?" Tash asked slowly. Her eyes were still slightly out of focus.
"Bellatrix," James said. "That's what happened."
As if on cue, Jenny threw her arms round Tash as well as she could in the bed. Tash groaned in pain and Jenny released her and sat back down on the other side next to Remus and Sirius. As she sat up against the pillows, Tash noticed Bellatrix.
"Did I win?" she asked suddenly.
"No," Lily shook her head. "You drew. Your stunning spell hit her just as she knocked you out."
"I didn't lose?" A smile was spreading across Tash's face. "HA! I drew. In-your-face Barbie hair!" She pointed a finger at Bellatrix, who snarled.
"Who or what is a Barbie?" Sirius asked.
"Plastic muggle doll which nearly always wears pink," Lily explained.
"How do you feel?" Jenny asked.
"Honestly, like I've been run over by a heard of Hippogriffs along with a dragon and…an elephant. No that's too heavy. A rhinoceros," Tash decided.
"Poor Tash!" Jenny said. "Where does it hurt!"
"All over," Tash complained. "That curse is really painful!"
"From the loudness of your scream I imagine it probably was," James remarked.
"Do you want me to kiss you better?" Sirius asked hopefully.
"Go jump in a lake Sirius," Tash scowled.
"Okay!" Sirius ran out of the hospital wing and down the corridor.
"He's not going to do it is he?" Tash asked.
"Not a clue," Remus said. "But it should be interesting to see how Madame Pomfrey reacts to him coming back soaking wet!"
"And it's still pouring with rain out there too," Jenny pointed out.
"Men," Tash muttered shaking her head and sitting up straighter. At this point, Madame Pomfrey came charging out of her office carrying a tray, piled high with potions.
"Honestly!" she tutted. "Duelling in lessons. I've had more casualties in this hospital in the past three months than I have in the last three years! What was Professor Ramton thinking!"
"Ramton thinks?" Lily asked. "God that's a scary thought!"
"So what happened after I got knocked out?" Tash asked, as Madame Pomfrey began measuring out potions to feed her.
"Well Ramtons only response was 'A draw, what a pity.' And then Jenny tried to revive you but didn't have anything that would work," James explained.
"I'm so sorry Tash!" Jenny wailed, throwing her arms around her again and knocking Madame Pomfrey's arm. The medication slopped onto the floor.
"Bloody hell Jenny, don't worry!" Tash said. "You didn't know she was going to use a knock-out curse."
"Miss Tailby kindly release Miss Marquand," Madame Pomfrey ordered shoving the spoon into Tash's mouth. Tash gulped and snorted.
"Pleasant," she said dryly as the matron disappeared to get another bottle. "So then what happened?"
"Well then Lily said you needed to go to the hospital wing," James continued. "You should have seen her glare at Ramton. I think he was scared that she'd hex him." He smiled at Lily and planted a kiss on her cheek.
"Oi, get a broom closet!" Tash said, throwing her pillow at them. "So what happened next?"
"Sirius carried you up here," Remus said. Tash's jaw dropped.
"Again! Does he like carrying me or something!"
"I think he likes doing the whole knight-in-shining-armour thing," Lily smiled at the look on Tash' face. She looked (to Lily) like she didn't know whether to be mad or to be happy. Lily frowned.
"He can keep his shining armour clad hands to himself. If I wanted to be moved, I would have asked you to levitate me!"
"I don't know Tash," Jenny said. "I'll bet there are a lot of girls, mostly the Sirius Black fan club, who wish they were in your place!"
"What? Sitting in a bed in the hospital wing?" Tash asked incredulously. Lily looked at Tash, who had gone a strange shade of red. She grinned suddenly sensing that Tash was hiding something. And from the look on her face she guessed it was about Sirius.
"Oh and here's himself!" Tash said nodding at the door as Sirius marched in, completely drenched.
"Do I get a kiss now?" he asked, grinning.
"No," Tash said bluntly. "Cause for all I know, you could have been wandering round outside until you got wet."
"GET OUT!" Madame Pomfrey screamed, sweeping over to Sirius and waving her hands at him. "Mr Black you are leaving puddles all over the floor. GET OUT!"
"See ya later!" Sirius gave Tash a kiss on the cheek and disappeared down the corridor.
"What was that!" Tash asked, her cheeks flooding with colour. "Sirius Black on a sugar high or something!"
"I guess we'll be following Padfoot," Remus said. "Got to make sure he doesn't go round kissing random girls."
"Bye," Jenny and Lily each kissed their boyfriends, while Tash made loud retching noises.
"Must you two do that in front of me?" she asked, once the boys had cleared out. "You two are like my sisters and it's not a nice thing to witness!"
"Sirius Black likes you!" Jenny said in an annoying singsong voice.
"Yeah and Remus Lupin likes you but we don't shout about it," Tash trying to act like this was no big deal.
"He KISSED you!" Jenny squealed. "Oh this is too perfect! Me and Remus, Lily and James, and now you and Sirius!"
"Jenny get your head out of Cupids pink flower covered apartment!" Tash ordered.
"Tash just go out with the man for gods sake!" Lily said. "He likes you and you obviously like him, either that or you are very sunburnt for the middle of November!"
"I do not like him," Tash said, the colour in her cheeks becoming more pronounced.
"Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!" Jenny chanted.
"Do!" Lily said.
"Okay, maybe I have a tiny crush on him…" Tash started. Jenny cheered, but was bombarded with pillows from Lily. Lily knew how difficult it was for Tash to admit that.
"But that does not mean I have to go out with him!" Tash protested, grabbing a chocolate frog from the pile on her table and tearing it open. "So I think he's hot. So do all the girls in this school! Its nothing new."
"But having a boyfriend is great!" Lily said. "Look at me and James!"
"Yeah but a few months ago you hated him, remember!" Tash said.
"Yeah well a few months ago you hated Sirius, but now you're on speaking terms," Jenny said.
"I just don't think I should date him," Tash said. "You know what he's like. His kisses them then he leaves them. I don't want that to happen to me. Nothing good can come out of it."
"What if its not a one off thing?" Lily suggested. Tash snorted.
"Yes but how likely is that?" Tash asked. "He'll be bored after a week and he'll go find someone else. He always does. I've been cheated on before. I don't want it to happen again."
"Have it your own way," Lily said. Jenny pouted and grabbed another chocolate, as the bell went for the end of lunch.
"Oh Merlin, we have to go!" Jenny said.
"Can I go yet?" Tash asked.
"No you cannot Miss Marquand!" Madame Pomfrey called from Bellatrix's bed. Her hair was still pink, despite the number of potions that the matron was shoving down her throat. "You may leave tomorrow morning, but for the rest of today, you are going nowhere!"
"Aww!" Tash whined as Lily and Jenny stood up.
"We'll visit you later," Lily promised.
"Yeah. And Tash if you're bored, your school bags down there with your radio," Jenny pointed.
"Cheers," Tash said. "But I don't think I'll play the radio, at least not that loud. Can you imagine Madame Pomfrey? She'll throw a fit!"
Lily and Jenny waved to her and hurried out of the hospital wing. James and Remus were waiting outside. Sirius it seemed, had gone to get dry. Little puddles of rainwater were splashed around the corridor.
"We're getting Tash and Sirius together right?" James asked.
"Hell yeah!" Jenny said. "I don't care what she says! They are meant to be together!"
A/N: Hee Hee! I went into a lot of detail about the fight I know. I'm just trying to fill up space to be honest. The next chapter will be a little more interesting, I promise! Can you review anyways? Update next Wedensday.
Next chapter: Detention and a second Hogsmeade visit.
May Stardust fall in your dreams!