Too Long In The Rain

Chapter 8

Hermione (cat, we'll keep calling her Hermione, shall we?) looked up at the other her (and we'll call her 'the woman') and back at Oliver who saw nothing wrong with this except for the fact that he was in Hermione's room without her and, knowing Hermione, he could be in serious trouble. Surprisingly though, the woman wasn't angry, she smiled even, this SHOULD have tipped Oliver off but he's just a boy, we really can't expect much from him. (To any boys reading this, don't take offense to that, it's a JOKE).

The woman walked over to Oliver getting a bit close and asked," Oliver, what are you doing here?"

Oliver rose and eyebrow slightly at the fact that she called him Oliver and asked," So it's Oliver now? What happened to Professor Wood?"

She smiled and got closer making Oliver's eyes widen before she said," Posh." And then she backed off going over to Hermione's desk and setting down some books then turned back to Oliver and said," Come on Oliver, we're both professors here, we've known each other for a while now haven't we?"

He shrugged still a bit confused," I suppose."

"Well we should be on first name basis by now, I mean you already call me by my first name." The woman turned to him and saw the real Hermione standing behind Oliver just staring at her, of course she didn't know that it was Hermione and walked over to Hermione saying," Oh, Crookshanks!" Then she preceded to pick her up and holding her like a baby.

By now the real Hermione was very put out and immediately jumped out of her arms. The woman shrugged and turned to Hermione's desk and was about to grab one of her personal files when Hermione jumped onto the desk hissing angrily. The woman backed off and turned back to Oliver who was getting even more confused by the second.

"Why doesn't Crookshanks seem to like you today?" Asked Oliver looking back at the cat who looked at him trying to silently warn him.

"Crookshanks has been very fussy lately, besides, that cat doesn't like anyone." Replied the woman and Hermione took that opportunity to leap to Oliver who was sitting on a chair and press up beside him then looked at the woman with her face in a defiant way. The woman looked back at Hermione then at Oliver again and said," Well, let's forget Crookshanks." And with that she picked Hermione up and put her on the ground then turned to Oliver and sat lightly on his lap facing him and said," Do you like me Oliver?"

Oliver opened his mouth to say something but the woman ignored it and started kissing him!

Oliver was completely shocked but kissed the woman back thinking it was Hermione, meanwhile the real Hermione was even more shocked and looked back at the woman when she saw that her once long wavy brown hair (like Hermione's) was shortening, straightening, and turning a darker brown, almost black. Hermione saw that she was reaching for her wand and jumped onto the woman's back digging her claws into the woman's back making her jumped up and off of Oliver.

Hermione held on tight before she felt the woman grab her by the fur on her back and toss her off and onto the ground, Hermione however landed on her feet and looked back at the woman whom, Hermione guessed, was changing back to her real form because the effects of a polyjuice potion was wearing off.

The woman let out a yell and turned to the smirking (on the inside of course, I've never actually seen a cat smirk but…) Hermione and let out a frustrated sound before kicking her back into a wall knocking her unconscious and shifting her back into her natural form. Oliver jumped up looking from the real Hermione back to the woman who was now shifting back into her real form, which was that of Pansy Parkins.