Author's Notes: Okay, so my Beta reappeared. Sorry I took a bit longer to update (a little more than a week? lol), but here it is! Enjoy! On another note, I have to give credit to GD/Yaksmar. She was the one to suggest through e-mail for me to make a Detention chapter and a Blind Date because I was... Blocked. I'm alright now and she only suggested the titles in case you are wondering. Yaiii!

Chapter 10

Substitute Player

Larissa started to suspect in seconds where Draco was taking her and she didn't like it at all. He was taking her to the Room of Requirement! No. She wasn't ready. In fact, she never would be! She started to struggle to escape from Draco's arms, but he wouldn't let her. He was shocked though. "What is wrong with you?" The girl kept thrashing in his arms until he put her down.

"I can't!"

"You can't what?"

Sa blinked several times and blushed. "Nothing."

Draco shook his head and laughed a little, but grabbed her by the hand and they went up the last staircase. The door appeared very quickly, surprising Larissa. They entered and it looked like a living room with a sofa, a couch, a table in the center with some flower pots... She looked at Draco raising an eyebrow before sitting on the sofa. The white blonde boy slumped himself beside her. "Alright. Now we have more privacy, don't you think? I don't want any 'pansies' spying on me. Plain and simple."

Sa laughed a little, but stopped abruptly lowering her eyes. She suddenly frowned: "What do you want?"

"I want to discuss 'us'. What do you think?"

Sa sighed and let her head fall backwards, long black hair loose and disarrayed. "I don't know. It's... confusing. You are supposed to be Slytherin's most arrogant git after all..."

Draco gaped: "Why thank you! And you are supposed to be the 'oh so famous' scarred freak Harry Potter! Plus Dumbledore's favorite! Plus the bloody Boy-Who-Lived and bloody Chosen One! The list goes on and on and you call me arrogant?"

"Hey! I never asked for any of those things! Why should I be famous for something I don't even remember doing? Who would like to be famous at the price of his parents being dead? Why the hell did you bring me here anyway?" Larissa stood up all of a sudden, but a hand grabbed hers and pulled her back to the sofa. She glared at Draco: "What?"

"Sorry."

"Huh?"

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to say those things! I'm as confused as you plus the rest of my house wants to kill me! How have the others Gryffindors treated you?"

"Except for Ginny and Hermione they are giving me the silent treatment. Ron is giving me the 'you've gone mental' treatment."

"Lucky you! I wish they would simply ignore me!"

Larissa suddenly laughed. "Draco... Do you think most of them would ignore me if they knew who I really am? I am indeed receiving glares from Seamus and Dean. Neville seems terrified of me. The others don't care because to them I'm a nobody. I am some weird girl that is supposed to be McGonagall's grandniece. That's the reason why they ignore me. Your case is different. They look up to you and you have always been a pompous bratty bastard... Suddenly seeing you drooling for a Gryffindor must have them pissed."

"You will seriously pay for those last two sentences, McGonagall."

"And how will you make me pay, Malfoy?" As she asked that question Larissa suddenly felt her heart beating really fast. She had a feeling Draco would kiss her and she was right, but the kiss was very heated and aimed to wanting more.

The blonde boy and the black haired girl found themselves kissing non-stop and they even fell from the sofa to the floor. Larissa moaned as she felt one of Draco's hands groping her. The desire of feeling him inside her was too strong and she suddenly had an urge to escape. She had a very bad feeling about the situation. Larissa tried to remember something Hermione had told her. It was something important, but she couldn't remember anything. Her mind was completely clouded and suddenly she didn't care about anything in the world except for feeling loved by a certain Slytherin.

They were both panting as it was over. Larissa felt dizzy and kept trying to get a hold of herself. She tried to push Draco away with difficulty and he looked at her lovingly before whispering in her ear: "You're mine now."

The words didn't scare her. Instead, she felt even more attracted to the Slytherin boy, if that was possible. She closed her eyes feeling his breathing between her neck and face and smiled. As she opened her eyes, she was horrified by what she saw floating above them. How in Merlin's name had it gotten into the Room of Requirement? The creature started to cackle uncontrollably and Draco reacted: "Fuck!"

The Poltergeist kept cackling and suddenly went through a wall, but they could easily hear Peeves' yells: "SHAGGING IN THE SCHOOL! MALFOY AND MCGONAGALL SHAGGING!"

Draco and Larissa were dressed in seconds and ran out of the Room of Requirement. They separated going in opposite directions as soon as they could, Larissa running as fast as she could towards Gryffindor Tower and Draco running like the wind towards Slytherin's common room.

Larissa entered through the portrait and didn't speak to anyone as she fled upstairs into the 7th year girls' dormitory. She dropped herself onto the bed not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Soon all of Hogwarts was going to know what Draco and she had been doing!

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The next day Hermione kept trying to pull Larissa from the bed, but Larissa was hugging one of the columns of her bed. "I won't go to classes! Tell them I'm sick or something! I am not coming out!"

"Stop acting so immature, Sa! No one believed Peeves anyway!"

"YOU don't believe Peeves, but the rest of the school does!"

Parvati and Lavender were giggling and Lavender decided to say something: "Peeves once saw me kissing Ernie McMillan and started to spread that we had been shagging too instead of snogging. Don't worry about it. No one will care. What did you do anyway? Kiss Malfoy again like in The Three Broomsticks?"

"My mouth remains shut! I won't say anything and I am not going to classes!"

"I am going to get your aunt then so that she can get some sense into you, Sa!"

"You won't dare, Hermione! You won't dare do that to me!" Sa looked at Hermione with a very serious expression.

"I will if you keep acting like this! I will do it!"

"Fine!" Sa abandoned her bed's column and changed from her white sleeping gown to school robes. "Happy now?"

Hermione rolled her eyes and she and Larissa left the room together while Parvati and Lavender still changed clothes and giggled.

Hermione was worried. She didn't want to believe what Peeves had been saying, but at the same time she was very worried about Sa. The girl did look like she wanted to hide something. Had Sa been 'gulp' having sex with Malfoy? One thing was kissing, but jumping into bed was very dangerous in Hermione's opinion.

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By the days after St. Valentine's, Malfoy and Larissa were officially a couple. They had decided that they wouldn't hide it and most of the Slytherins had decided to swallow the bitter news, but not Pansy. She had her own plans even though she had been careful and silent lately. After having kissed Draco, he kept avoiding her, but she was going to put a stop to it very soon. She was going to get him and if he didn't learn to love her back, she was capable of killing him. If he couldn't be hers then he wouldn't be anyone's, especially not McGonagall's. McGonagall was also going to pay if what Peeves had said a few days back was true.

Larissa was very happy even though Ron still kept complaining. That Thursday evening Ron suddenly entered the common room looking for her desperately and Sa rolled her eyes thinking that he was going to bring another accusation against Draco, but she quickly learned that wasn't it.

"Ha, I mean Sa! We're screwed! We're majorly screwed!"

Sa looked at him and raised her eyebrows. "Ron, calm down and explain yourself."

"It's the Quidditch captain, Ginny! You know that ever since we couldn't have you back on the team she decided to play seeker for the team!"

"So?"

"Ginny somehow managed to get too close to the Whomping Willow and is unconscious in the hospital wing! Madam Pomfrey says she won't be ready for Saturday as she is too bruised plus still knocked senseless!"

"WHAT?" Sa got up to go to the infirmary to check on Ginny, but first she frowned at Ron. "Ginny would have never gotten close to the Whomping Willow. This is sabotage, but I wonder why the Slytherins would do that when the game is against Hufflepuff..."

"Probably because we 'violated' them in November? They desperately want us to lose! Larissa... We need you! You're the only one..."

"NO! You know I can't! Do you have any idea of how everyone will wonder how I have a Firebolt and didn't even try out for the team? Plus you are telling me to replace Ginny with less than two days until the game! They will wonder how the new girl was so good in the first place when she never even tried out for the position of seeker or any place at all on the Gryffindor Quidditch team!"

"Come on, Sa! They can just think that you are rich or something! It can't be that strange for another student to have a Firebolt..."

"The answer is still no!"

Ron got on his knees grabbing Larissa's robes: "Please, please! I beg you! I implore you! Have mercy on me!" Larissa turned beet red as some of the other students in the common room had stopped their conversations and were staring at them.

Sa whispered to Ron: "Ron, you're making a scene."

"I don't care!"

"Alright! You win then!" she kept whispering. "I'll play."

Hermione had suddenly come out of nowhere: "Ha! Should have figured! Quidditch is indeed everything to you, Ron! You should be ashamed of yourself!"

Ron got up and cleared his throat before placing his right hand on Hermione's left shoulder. "It's something that you will never understand, Hermione."

The bushy haired girl rolled her eyes and spoke to Sa: "Wanna accompany me to see Ginny?"

Sa nodded and joined Hermione while Ron decided to follow them.

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When Sa told Draco on Friday that she was going to play, he got very nervous and started to almost hyperventilate. He thought that the truth could be somehow revealed or some students could start suspecting and then the Slytherins would really murder him, but Sa calmed the blonde boy down. She told him that she didn't think anyone could suspect just like that unless they had some sort of proof, which was impossible. When Draco said that to Larissa something snapped in her mind. She had never bothered checking the Marauder's Map to see how it identified her. The map identified Scabbers as Peter Pettigrew perfectly in 3rd year. It had also identified the fake Moody as Barty Crouch in 4th year although she never knew the truth behind it until after Voldemort had been revived. It was definitely worth checking if the map showed her as Harry Potter.

The night before the Quidditch game, she took the map out when the other girls were asleep and said in a whisper: "I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good." Using a Lumos, she checked the map and gasped. The map showed the name Larissa McGonagall instead of Harry Potter. The map never lied. That only meant that what Snape had said was true. The curse had been created to be permanent.

With trembling hands, Sa turned off the mild light after stating 'mischief managed' and saved the map. She then dropped her face on the pillow and wept until sleep claimed her.

In the morning, Sa decided to push the thoughts from the night before aside. She was out of practice and she would play Quidditch. She had barely practiced the night before with Ron right after spending some time with Draco.

In the team's room before the game, she was wearing what had been Potter's team uniform, but transfigured the name. Thank Merlin for Transfigurations! She felt strange as she got on the Firebolt and the game started. She remembered that she was a bit clumsy as Larissa and that could actually help in the style looking different so long as the clumsiness didn't interfere with her grabbing the snitch. She soared and several times the Hufflepuff seeker tailed her. She smiled at the guy just like Cho Chang had done to 'her' as Harry in 3rd year. It was funny to see the guy trying to smile back. He was in 6th year. That much she knew.

Hovering over the Quidditch pitch with the other seeker after her she turned around and this time she winked at the boy almost causing him to fall off his broom. So being a girl had certain advantages over a boy, huh? Just then she saw the snitch and decided to deviate's the Hufflepuff seeker's concentration one last time. It was fun after all. She put her hand over her lips, kissed it, and made it look as if she was blowing a kiss at the boy, who turned scarlet. One last wink and Sa went after the snitch with the other seeker completely out of concentration. Was that foul play? Nah! With snitch in hand she winked at the now gaping boy again as Gryffindor was declared the winner.

After a nice shower and getting out of those rooms, Larissa was suddenly pinned against a wall. "Hey!"

She was surprised to see rage in silvery eyes, Draco's eyes. She wondered if she had looked too much like Harry Potter so was surprised when the angry question came: "Were you flirting up there with Hufflepuff's seeker, Larissa?"

Her eyes went completely wide with shock.

Thanks to my beta, Menecarkawan. I even asked her is she wanted an early retirement, but she doesn't want it even when she has a busy life. Thanks love!

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