Disclaimer - hmm, let's see… well I do own Juliette… but that's about all… damn.
Unrequited Hate
Chapter Two
It was Friday, the day after the encounter between Ron and Pansy. Pansy was sitting next to her best friend, Juliette Avery, and was pushing her breakfast around the plate, but not eating very much. Juliette was taller than Pansy's petite 5' 2" by about three inches and had pale blue eyes and wavy dark brown hair. She looked over at Pansy and asked, "What's up?"
Pansy looked at her and smiled a tiny bit. "Nothing," she answered.
"Right," Juliette said sarcastically. "I'll get it out of you sooner or later. But right now we've gota go to Transfiguration." And with that the two girls got up from the table and left the Great Hall.
At the Gryffindor table, Ron was eating his pancakes and determinedly not looking over at the Slytherin table. He had just finished when he heard Hermione saying, "C'mon you two. We have Charms." He and Harry grudgingly got up from the table and followed her out of the Great Hall.
Pansy's Transfiguration class went well enough; although one of the Hufflepuffs across from her did some how manage to cause a fire with the pillow he was supposed to be changing into a rabbit. At the same time, Neville was causing some chaos in the Charms classroom, but nothing out of the ordinary.
After that Pansy and Juliette went to Divination while Ron and the other sixth year Gryffindors had History of Magic. Those were the last classes before lunch, and when Pansy entered the Hall, her eyes wandered to the Gryffindor table, where she saw Ron sitting with the other two members of the 'Dream Team.' She could feel Juliette's eyes on her and quickly looked at look for a seat, which she found across from Draco and Blaise. Juliette sat down next to her while giving her a questioning look, which Pansy effectively ignored.
The four ate in relative silence, laughing at a few comments made by their follows, until Juliette said, "Potions next."
"Thank you for stating the obvious," Blaise said with a roll of his eyes.
"Almost the weekend," Draco stated. "This has been one shitty week."
"Tell me about it," Pansy added.
They finished eating and left, heading down to the dungeons. They sat in their normal seats, two tables in the back, Draco and Juliette next to each other, Blaise and Pansy behind them. Juliette sat on the table, her feet resting on the chair as they talked.
"Thought we'd never get rid of your idiotic lackeys," Juliette told Draco.
"You and me both," he answered. It was well known in the Slytherin house that Crabbe and Goyle were even dumber than they appeared, and had begun following Draco around at the beginning of first year, and he hadn't been about to get rid of them since.
"What took you so long to transfer here anyways, Juliette?" Blaise asked.
Juliette rolled her eyes. "Mother and Father didn't want to move until Alex was born." Alex was Juliette's eight month old little brother.
The four sat in silence, each lost in thought until Draco spoke up. "I got a letter from Mother the other day about the arranged marriages," he told them.
Pansy groaned quietly before asking, "What'd she say?"
Draco smirked before answering, "They've all been broken."
Juliette and Pansy looked at him with stunned eyes. "Are you serious?" Juliette managed to ask. Draco nodded his head.
"Yes," she and Pansy whispered in a tone of relief.
"What, are we that undesirable?" Blaise asked in a tone of false hurt.
Both the girls laughed. "Blaise, you know I love you, but not like that. You're like my brother," Juliette told him with a grin.
"Same to you Drake," Pansy said to the blonde.
It was then that Gryffindors began to stream into the classroom, beginning with Ron, Hermione and Harry. Juliette slid into her chair and the four were silent again, and the ice cold façade back.
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Ron, Hermione, and Harry had eaten and left the Great Hall quickly to avoid the first through fourth year girls who had taken to staring at Harry throughout meals. The three had walked down to Snape's classroom and stood outside to wait. Harry was about to start speaking when they heard Draco Malfoy say, "…about the arranged marriages."
That certainly got their attention. Even Hermione, who should have known better, didn't stop them from listening in on just a tiny bit on the conversation.
Pansy Parkinson groaned quietly. "What'd she say?"
They heard Draco answer, "They've all been broken."
A girl's voice they only vaguely recognized asked, "Are you serious?"
They didn't hear anything until the unknown girl and Pansy both whispered in a tone of relief, "Yes."
"What, are we that undesirable?" a voice they knew as Blaise Zabini asked in a tone of false hurt.
Both the girls laughed. "Blaise, you know I love you, but not like that. You're like my brother," the mystery girl said.
"Same to you Drake," Pansy added.
It was then that they three outside the door decided to make their entrance before they were caught, and Ron opened the door. The four Slytherins became silent, and Harry saw that the unknown girl had been sitting on the table, but slid into her seat when they walked in. Right after the trio sat down, Seamus and Dean walked in, followed by Lavender and Parvati. A few minutes later the entire class was there, sitting quietly, awaiting the entrance of the Potions Master.
Snape swept into the classroom, his robe billowing and it became quietly almost instantly.
He looked around menacingly before saying, "The Headmaster feels that the hostility between the houses must be lessened, thus all of you shall have a partner from the opposite house. These will be your partners for the rest of the year - no changes, no exceptions." And with that he pulled out a sheet of paper and began to read.
"Mr. Nott and Ms. Brown. Mr. Longbottom and Ms. Greengrass. Mr. Malfoy and Ms. Granger. Mr. Potter and Ms. Avery. Mr. Weasley and Ms. Parkinson."
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a/n - cliffie… so mean, I know. Once again, thanks to Steelo for being so awesome and supportive.
Alrighty, well I'm gona work on Broken Inside and How They Came To Be, but I make no promises until after my exams are done on the 14th. But I think you all can survive for nine days… oketays, you see that purple-ish blue button down there? It knows your name, and it wants you to click and review… pwease?
Tiarwen-