Author's Notes: Just like I promised! A quick update! 16 might not come as quickly because I haven't started it yet. -Hides from the readers.- I'll start it soon! I promise! Problem is that then it will go to my beta and she doesn't send chapters back immediately... LOL Plus now I've added another fic to her. Hope that it won't hinder her even more! -nervous laughter- Anyway, enjoy this chapter!
Another Note: This fic will go beyond the school year, meaning school will end and the fic won't be over at that.
Many thanks to Menecarkawan for beta-reading. I still wonder if you do this against your will and only say yes because you want to be nice to me... LOL I love you Meni-chan!
Song: 'Wake Up Angel' by Funta (From Pita Ten)
Chapter 15
Psycho Pansy
Draco was still laughing after Sa had explained why she had run out of the Great Hall. Draco thought something was wrong and had quickly gotten up to follow the girl only to find out that she had been fleeing from the kidney pie.
"It's not funny! I have already developed cravings, but I didn't think there would be food rejections too!"
"Maybe you can ask Pomfrey... I don't think I'm the best person for that... Preg..."
Sa covered Draco's mouth and with her eyes signaled to him that there was someone behind him. She spoke to the person: "What do you want now, Parkinson?"
Draco turned around to see Pansy there. She had obviously followed him. The girl looked pissed: "And here I thought that it was my lucky day!"
Draco clenched his teeth: "Pansy, stop this madness already! I am not interested in you, but Zabini probably is by the way he covers for you. Why don't you go to him instead?"
Pansy started to cry: "Oh Draco! I am so worried about you! You know this is Potter! I've heard you calling her Potter, Draco! Larissa McGonagall doesn't exist! I've checked all the records! I've even checked about McGonagall's relatives and the man that is supposed to be this bitch's father never had daughters! He had three sons and they all live in New Zealand!"
Sa was wondering how she would get out of that one when Draco spoke: "Okay? So you insist that this person here is Harry Potter." Draco pulled Sa from behind him and placed her in front of him. "Now prove it. Turn this girl into Harry Potter, but no jinxes or hexes. You have my permission and trust to use spells to turn her back."
Pansy looked taken aback, but she wasn't the only one. Sa looked horrified and whispered to Draco: "Have you gone mental?"
Draco whispered back. "Trust me."
Sa swallowed, but decided to trust Draco on that one. Pansy still looked surprised, but lifted her wand and started voicing different strange spells that whenever they approached Sa's body were rejected as if there was an invisible shield in front of Sa. Pansy looked confused at that reaction of Sa's body to the spell and kept trying different other spells and curse breaking spells she had actually rehearsed always getting the same repelling reaction from the black haired girl's body. "This is strange!" Pansy finally exclaimed. "Why is it that they are repelled? Is that spell permanent? Potter turned into a girl permanently?"
"Hey! I didn't..." Sa was about to screw up by muttering that she didn't curse herself, but Draco was the one to cover her mouth this time. He didn't need Pansy to confirm her suspicions yet. A confused Pansy was better than a fully knowing one.
Pansy started to laugh hysterically. She dropped to her knees and was weeping at the same time she laughed. "So Potter screwed up with magic by turning himself into a girl permanently? I am going to turn you back, Potter! I will! I'm not a witch for nothing! I will find a way!" Pansy got up and ran out of there crying.
"Draco?" Sa's voice was very soft, but Draco gripped her shoulders from behind her. "If a curse is supposed to be permanent, can it really be removed? Is there really a way or are Dumbledore and Snape wasting their time? I think this curse has gotten... stronger."
Draco frowned and whispered: "I don't know, Sa. I don't know. I'm sorry."
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For many days, Pansy didn't attack Sa, but she always glared at the girl in classes. She also glared at Draco from time to time and kept looking more disheveled every day that passed. When they reached taking the N.E.W.Ts she still looked terrible, making Sa wonder if she had even studied for the tests. A day in June came where it looked like she hadn't even bothered to comb her hair after getting up from bed or even used a charm to smooth it. There were bags under her eyes from lack of sleep and she wore a constant sneer and at some times laughed maniacally. Draco was actually concerned about Pansy's mental health.
That day, when they were heading to DADA class, Pansy suddenly pointed at Draco with her wand and screamed in the middle of the corridor: "YOU DESERVE TO DIE! DIE! DIE! YOU'VE BETRAYED US SLYTHERINS BY GOING AFTER POTTER! I DON'T CARE THAT I CAN'T PROVE IT, BUT IF YOU ARE NOT MINE, YOU WILL BE NO ONE'S! YOU WILL DIE DRACO MALFOY! AVADA..."
Zabini removed Pansy's wand at that point and Nott held the screaming girl. Draco's face looked ghastly from the shock. The Slytherin girl named Daphne
Greengrass glared at the white blonde boy. "This is all your fault! She is like this because of you!"
Draco felt like everyone was against him, but the last person he would have expected to defend him suddenly got in front of him. "She is like that because she's bloody mental! Not because Malfoy has done anything to her! She has done that to herself!"
Draco gaped. "Weasley?"
Ron snorted and got into the classroom followed by a happy looking Hermione. Sa grabbed Draco's hand and dragged him into the classroom too, where Professor McDowell started his class.
The rest of the day didn't go smooth at all. Pansy jinxed Draco several times whenever she had the opportunity. Draco never lifted his wand against her. It almost reminded Sa of domestic violence, but in this case the female attacking the male. That was probably what Draco could have expected if he had married Pansy sometime in his life.
By the end of the day when they left the last class, Draco had hair as long as Sa's that made him almost look female too. He also had what looked like chicken pox and Sa quickly fixed both things and grabbed his hands. "Why don't you jinx her back? Why don't you defend yourself and let her do all that?"
"She was a childhood friend, Sa. I can't do anything against her. I just can't. She is just not in her right mind right now." He sighed and let himself drop to a sitting position on the floor hiding his face behind his hands. "I won't lift a finger against her. That would only give her more reason to hate me."
"If you won't go against her I will. She is crazy! I won't let her hurt you! She tried to use the killing curse on you for Merlin's sake, Draco!"
"Do you really think she would have been able to make it work? To really mean it?"
"It's still a forbidden curse whether she meant it or not!"
Just then, hands gripping her neck strongly surprised Sa. She could feel her neck almost being crushed with great force and a voice reverberating in her ears. "YOU'LL DIE, POTTER! YOU'LL DIE FOR TAKING DRACO FROM ME! DIE! DIE! DIE! YOU WILL BOTH DIE!" Sa moved her hands trying to remove the enemy hands from her neck to no avail. She couldn't breathe anymore and black spots were forming in front of her eyes when she heard Pansy scream at being removed from her. Sa felt her body losing balance unable to open her eyes and arms that grabbed her. The strong arms lifted her and she heard a familiar voice that wasn't Draco's.
"We have to take her to the hospital wing, Hermione!"
"What about Draco?"
"He can handle Parkinson! He just separated her from Sa, didn't he?"
That was the last thing Sa was able to hear before everything went black.
Sa woke in the hospital wing with a brace around her neck. She could feel the effects of magic under the brace. Pansy must have really meant to try and break Sa's neck. That was for sure. Sa wanted to see Draco and there was a hand holding hers, but disappointment adorned her features when she saw red hair instead of platinum blonde. "Ron?"
"You're awake! I have to tell Madam Pomfrey!"
"Where's Draco?"
"I don't know. I expected him to be here by now... Why did you choose him of all guys, Sa? You could have chosen me if you wanted a guy to love you, you know?"
"It just happened, Ron and... Please don't tell me you feel like that about me. The last thing I need is a guy acting the same as Pansy."
Ron laughed. "No, I was just using an example. I could have loved you anyway... If you wanted me to love you like that..." Ron looked scarlet after saying those words.
"Ron, you're just scaring me."
"Can I kiss you? Just to check I'm not really falling for you?"
Sa looked almost frightened, but nodded. If it was just to verify it would be okay, right? She closed her eyes and felt Ron's moistened lips on hers. Immediately she wanted to break the kiss thinking it was wrong, but Ron managed to invade her mouth, but it lasted very little. The redhead quickly broke the kiss himself. "I suddenly saw you as Harry when I kissed you. That's why I broke it. It felt terribly wrong!"
Sa sighed in relief. "I thought it felt terribly wrong too." Sa shuddered all of a sudden.
"Are you cold?"
"No... I just had a very bad feeling, Ron. Something is not right. I need to see Draco. I need to see that he is okay."
"Everything is okay! Classes have almost ended! Summer is here! N.E.W.Ts are over! How can something be not right?"
At that moment, Hermione entered. "I can't find Draco anywhere! I think the Slytherins ganged up against him and did something terrible!"
In seconds, Sa was out of the bed. She broke the brace that was around her neck and used a quick spell on the bruised area to quicken the healing. She ran out of the hospital wing leaving a surprised Ron and Hermione. Ron turned to the brown haired girl: "Is it just me imagining things or has Harry gotten a lot better with magic spells and even non-verbal spells ever since he became a girl?"
"He has. I noticed it too, but right now, we should follow Sa. She might put herself in danger and she already has a small bump. She shouldn't be running like that."
"I had forgotten..." Ron stated matter of factly.
"Forgotten what?"
"That she was pregnant. I noticed the bump and thought she was getting fat."
"You are such an idi... Let's just go find her!"
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Sa was running through aisles and corridors and suddenly Snape stopped her. "Ten points from Gryffindor for running through corridors, McGonagall!"
"Please, sir! Don't stop me! Draco is in danger!"
Snape raised an eyebrow and smirked. "No one is in danger in school, Potter."
"I don't think Draco is in the school right now." Sa's eyes were full of tears and she started her race again ignoring the Potions Master's raging yells after her. She kept running drying her tears until she found herself in front of Pansy. "Where is he?"
Pansy looked very happy even when her face was swollen and dirty. Her eyes had very blackened circles and her hair was a complete greasy mess. Even Pansy's robes looked dirty. She started to laugh maniacally and then smiled eerily. "Looking for your boyfriend, Potter? You'll never find him! He is so dead!"
"Where is he?" Larissa asked with great confidence.
Pansy's eyes were almost out of their orbs and red. "There was a massive break out in Azkaban today, Potter! It's in The Evening Prophet! Of course, Mr. Malfoy was in the group that escaped! I had been contacted before hand and I knew about the break out that was going to take place. They sent me a carefully hidden Portkey that was prepared by the Dark Lord himself. It was completely untraceable! It was meant for Harry Potter, but I used it with Draco! Right now he must be being tortured by the Dark Lord!" Pansy started to laugh maniacally again and fell to the floor laughing, her eyes bulging in a state of complete insanity.
Sa turned around and Snape was there behind her. He was looking at Pansy with an almost pitied gaze. "You know where Voldemort is. Send me to him!"
Snape looked at Sa incredulously. "I cannot do that."
"You will do it! I'll end this once and for all! Just alert Dumbledore and the Order and send them after me!"
Sa expected Snape to laugh at her or ignore her. What she didn't expect was for Snape to remove a wrapped object from his pocket. "I had also received a Portkey to send you to the Dark Lord. Take it, but be aware that you will appear in the middle of his hall probably surrounded by Death Eaters and in front of the Dark Lord himself. Also be aware of the Dark Lord not knowing that you are a girl now. He will expect Potter and not some strange girl. Use it to your advantage."
"Why are you being so nice?"
"I'm not being nice. I'm sending you to a possible death," stated the Potions master expressionlessly.
"Thanks anyway!" Sa opened the package and touched what looked like an emerald and disappeared.
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Just like Snape had said, Larissa appeared in the middle of a hall, but there was no one there. It seemed that after Draco had been sent they didn't think anyone else would be appearing, which was strange if Snape had another Portkey. Sa used a Disillusionment charm on her and tried to detect where Draco could be. She knew he was alive, but how many hours had passed? She suddenly felt hunger and remembered that she didn't have dinner, but there was no time to worry about that. She checked her watch and saw that it was almost 9:00 PM, hurrying her pace as swiftly and silently as she could. She held her breath as she saw a Death Eater passing by, putting herself against a wall. The corrupted wizard didn't notice her and she quickly started her mild jogging through corridors that had a scent of old in them. It reminded her of the smell you could feel in a cemetery.
The gray walls made of blocks seemed to be endless, but she could feel herself closer to Draco. She needed to see that he was alright. As if in answer to her prayers, she was in a dungeon corridor. There were skeletons and even corpses decomposing. Many witches and wizards had gone missing that year and it made her wonder if some of those corpses belonged to the missing people. She retched because of the smell of putrefaction. Being pregnant was a disadvantage as the sense smell was too sharp. She cast a spell to block her sense of smell. If she didn't do that, she wouldn't be able to focus in what she had to do.
At last, she found a cell that had a living person, but gasped. There was blood everywhere and the body had been slumped there probably to die of blood loss and decompose just like the others. The hair that was once white blonde now looked pink as it was splattered with blood. The body was naked, swollen and covered with deep lashes and bruises. "Draco," she whispered, but received no answer. She used a spell to break the cell's lock and entered it. She picked up his upper body, cradling it in her arms. He had been knocked senseless and definitely needed the hospital wing urgently. In Charms class, they had only touched the basics of creating a Portkey, but with that little knowledge Larissa removed the Disillusionment charm, broke a piece from her robes, and wrapped it around Draco's wrist. She then weaved a spell on the wrapped piece of cloth that would make Draco appear in the hospital wing in Hogwarts and invoked a password for it so that it wouldn't activate immediately. She kissed the swollen lips and whispered: "Everything will be alright now, but I will make Parkinson pay if I come back alive, whether you want it or not." Sa said the password, which was simple and easy: "I love you."
As the body disappeared, Sa felt a sense of emptiness surrounding her, but she wouldn't cry. She could have escaped with Draco, but she needed to destroy Voldemort once and for all. Remembering the happiness she felt as she discovered that she indeed loved the Mafoy brat, Sa summoned her Patronus. "Go to Dumbledore and make him call the Order in case Snape has betrayed me. I still don't trust his loyalties. After that, go to Pomfrey to make sure she notices that there's a very injured patient that needs help."
Just after the silver stag silhouetted Patronus left there was a voice behind Sa: "Where is my son?" Sa turned to find herself in front of none other than Lucius Malfoy. The man looked unsettled and angrier than Sa could have ever imagined, but she stood firm and set, not quivering at all.
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