Anya smiled as her and the boys climbed the stairs all the paintings were conversing with each other apparently the little... disruption in the halls involving her and Severus had not gone unnoticed by even the people in the paintings.
"Well here we are." James said patting the frame of a large and busty woman more commonly known as 'the fat lady.'
"I herd from my friend Vera you boys were causing trouble again," she said
"But I also herd that it involved a girl..." she shrank back behind Remus slightly afraid that the woman would yell at her Remus nodded
"Yes she's not a crowd person, James do you know the password?" He asked looking at the boy, He shrugged
"'Barlame.'" Peter said the fat lady smiled
"Yes thats it." She said swinging forward James jumped back and glared at Peter
"Sorry..." the boy said sheepishly Anya started to laugh Remus turned to her
"Come on and welcome to your home for the rest of you schooling." She nodded with a bright smile
As she walked into the common room however things went still and people looked at her. She withdrew hiding behind Remus a light blush on her face she weren't sure she liked being stared at
"You're the weird first year girl... They say you have crimson colored eyes... is it true?" some one asked she closed her eyes
"She's not weird." Remus said getting defensive
"Hey alright, alright I've got you... but she looks funny... I mean she's so... plain." The girl said Remus frowned
"What do you mean plain? What were you expecting, some curvy beauty? She's only eleven give her some time and she'll grow into a beautiful woman. I think she's fine why don't you back off and leave her alone?" Remus growled the girl backed off
"Jeeze a little touchy are we?" she said turning away
"What ever how a coward like her got into Gryffindor is beyond me."
"I'm not a coward you prune faced witch." Anya said the girl halted rounding on Anya as she stepped out from behind Remus the boys looked at her shocked
"What did you call me!" she demanded her scrunched up face going even more so in anger
"Your face reminds me of a wrinkly old prune, and you're rude and nosy... my eyes color is none of you business nor is it your business who I am friends with." Anya said a deep swell in the back of her mind, a tug of dark and hurtful thoughts she opened her eyes and narrowed them looking at the girl
"I may only be in my first year but I know those who have class and dignity and those who don't. You shouldn't have sold your self so cheaply... I don't need to see the make up to see you lost your last shred of purity at thirteen years old to a boy you liked. Throwing you self on him, he agreed assuming you nothing more then a whore he left you that morning with only a galleon and three sickles." Anya said the girls face grew red with rage
"What are you talking about Anya?" A hand on Anya's shoulder and she looked back Sirius, James, and Peter had collapsed in to fits of laughter along with several girls and boy of various ages, but Remus was looking at her with concern
"I'll teach you to spill secrets!" The girl yelled, her movement was quick she pulled out her wand Remus looked up and Anya shoved him back diving for her own wand
"Stupi-"
"VELVALY!" Anya's spell was stronger and in an instant the wand and most of the girls left arm froze in to crystal... you could see all the blood moving freely in side
"Don't attack me... I didn't spend my life just sitting around in the house... Papa trained me incase people attacked me... he was right you know... this outer world can be extremely dangerous to me..." she said the girl had collapsed to the ground nursing the arm as if it were broken
"Lievel" Anya murmured and her hand and wand returned to skin and wood. Anya paused a wave passed over her and she stumbled back collapsing to the floor
"ANYA!" she dimly herd the shout as her mind cleared and she passed out
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"Hey... Hey Anya... Are you ok?" her eyes drifted open as something cold patted her face the hand of the boy with obsidian eyes
"Oh good... when I got here you were laying there looking like you were dead... you really scared me." She smiled as deep obsidian eyes looked down at her concerned
"No I just used a spell I wasn't supposed to..." she made and attempt to sit up and the boy backed away. He held out a hand, she took it, and he pulled her up to sit
"I'm sorry..." she said smiling softly he looked at her confused
"For what?" he asked
"I mistook someone for you... I'm sorry for that... You're much too nice to be him anyway... You look the same though so I thought..." The boy looked at her surprised and smiled
"It's fine I'm sure I look like a few people... how did you feel when you saw the person who looked like me?" he asked suddenly she looked at him surprised
"Very happy..." she said after a moment
"Very happy huh?" He muttered looking away she watched him for a moment
"Uh... Hey I don't know what you call you!" she said breaking the silence he looked at her raising an eye brow
"What to call me?" she nodded
"Yah I can't just keep referring to you as dream boy now can I?" she said and they both started laughing
"Dream boy?" he said and she nodded
"Well you're a boy and this is a dream world so why not?" He nodded
"That makes sense... you can call me S." he said with a smile
"S... That's cool Anya and S..." she laughed again
"How long can you stay this time Anya? Your last stay was so short..." she smiled
"I'm not sure I don't know how long time is here compared to the waking world." she said
"And considering I got here after passing out..." she trailed off
"I'll stay as long as I can, but I'm in school now." He nodded
"Yes I would assume as much, hey Anya what school are you going to?" he asked He only seemed to want to know about her
"Hogwarts, Papa's alma mater." She said with a light smile
"You seem upset what's wrong?" He asked
"The person I met who I thought was you also goes to the school... he's third year as far as I know... but he seems so cold... I think I really messed up..." she said he grabbed her shoulder
"I'm sure its fine... maybe he's just shy or something..." he offered she smiled
"I don't think it's that, I'm in a house called Gryffindor and he's in an opposite house Slythrin, the students in those two houses have never gotten along... and after how I acted I fear the friends I did make will no longer want anything to do with me..." He looked at her
"Why not? What did you do that's so bad?" he asked
"I followed the dark thoughts and hexed a girl because she was taunting me and my friend Remus..." she said looking down afraid his reaction would be bad he merely chuckled
"You hexed someone to protect your friend? That's fine there is nothing wrong with that you know..." he said
"I've hexed people before... that's one of the things you do with magic." He continued
"I doubt they will think any less of you because you were defending you friend" she looked up at him with a small smile his dark eyes locked on her crimson gaze
"Thank you..." she muttered he smiled
"You aide me... it's only fitting that I return the favor." He said softly A light blush crossed her face and she looked away and at the dark space
"You know I bet you could change what it looks like in here." she said standing and stretching
"Change what it looks like?" she nodded
"Yah I know this isn't my dream world mine is... different..." she said turning to him
"So this must be yours I bet if you put enough focus into it you could make it change into how ever you want it to look." she said smiling he nodded
"You should wakeup... you said you passed out right? Your friends must be worried... I think I have to get up to I have things I need to do... I hadn't meant to fall asleep... but I'm glad I did..." he said she smiled
"Alright, let's go then" she said holding out a hand he took it with a smile.
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"-ya? Anya? Are you ok?" Remus's voice filled her ears and her eyes drifted open
"Oh thank god you woke up..." He said with a weak smile the others were standing there to looking a little worried but glad she was awake
"Anya what happened you seemed fine one minuet... you even hexed Almati Amurashi (which was so funny by the way) and then you just collapsed." Peter said looking at her
"That spell you used was crazy you completely crystallized her hand... you have got to teach me that." Sirius said her eyes went wide
"NO! I shouldn't have used that spell at all... That's a bad spell..." she said quickly looking around she frowned
"Where am I?" She asked she was in a bed with white sheets a bunch of white curtains drawn around her
"The hospital wing... we weren't just going to leave you on the floor." James said as she pushed her self up
"You could have just taken me to my room... I'm fine now lets go back... I don't want to spend my first night here in a hospital bed." She said they looked at each other
"What is it?" she demanded
"Well It's about fours in the morning... we kind of sneaked out to see you..." she shrugged
"So I'll sneak back with you guys I'll just say I woke up and was feeling better so I went beck to my dorm, that's what's happening anyway, I'll just... omit your involvement." she said with a grin Remus shook his head
"Only a day and already we've been a bad influence."