Ever stopped to think about the characters, forced to do all those horrendous fanfics?

Consider the Characters

Chapter 6 - Not Talking

Draco walked through the archway into the room and slouched down into a chair to wait. He looked around uninterestedly, his eyes finally coming to rest on the only other occupant. Glaring, he spoke.

"I can't believe you're the person I have to work with."

There was no answer.

"Not going to talk? Fine. It's not as though I've got anything to say to a bit of filth like you anyway."

Draco stared moodily at the stone-flagged floor, kicking his feet and fiddling with the sleeve of his robes. At length he dug in a pocket and pulled out a crumpled scroll, which he unrolled. Glancing down the page of writing he said, more to himself that anything

"This is so unrealistic. I would never do that."

Draco suddenly looked up at the other occupied chair. "Have you read the script?"

Realising he had sound a lot friendlier than he'd intended, he added sarcastically

"Oh but of course you've read it. How could you not read anything that's shoved under your nose!"

The other occupant of the room gave no answer, not even acknowledging Draco's words.

A heavy wooden door at the far side of the room, opposite the archway Draco had entered through, opened with a creak. Out of it walked Argus Filch, running a chain through his hands and closely followed by Mrs Norris. He leered at Draco as he walked across the room, before disappearing out into the corridor.

The room was silent for a minute or so until the quiet was broken once again by the sound of the doors creaky hinges.

Ginny Weasley hurried out, looking around nervously. She was pale and ill-looking, and Draco could see long red welts on her arms where the sleeves of her robes were rolled up. She practically ran across the room and out through the archway, going the opposite was down the corridor to Filch.

A voice from the room behind the wooden door shouted

"Next fic."

Draco's soon to be partner jumped out of their chair and headed towards the door. Draco stood slowly and, sighing resignedly, followed Scabbers into the fic.

Urgh. I cannot believe I wrote that. Hehe.

Thanks to crzyangelchic for the Draco/Scabbers idea and RavensWritingProphecies for the characters talking outside a fic idea. I'm sorry if Draco is a bit OOC, and I also don't really know why I've got him as the main character in 2 chapters, as ideally I'd have a wide range of characters, a different one per chapter. /Shrugs/ I really shouldn't be having anything to do with fanfic at the moment, having a horrendous amount of school work to do (who knew GCSE year would be so stressful!), but, uh...here it is anyway.

This was meant to sound like a Draco/Hermione, but I'm not sure if it worked...the '"Oh but of course you've read it. How could you not read anything that's shoved under your nose!"' bit is him being sarky because obviously Scabbers can't read, although it was meant to look like obviously Hermione had read it, cos she reads everything. Just thought that might need clarifying. Bleurh xP.

What did you think? I don't really like this chapter but thought I might as well put it up.