Chapter 4

~Phoebe POV~(Still Flashback)

"Listen, just shut up. I wanna see you do it without your friends to help you!" I snapped and he smirked, getting in my face. "Anytime, baby." I shoved him away and he was caught off guard. "Tomorrow night then." His smirk faded and I climbed outta the bed, making James move off. "What? You scared of the willow? I'll do it and then you can just shove off and leave me alone." I said and he smirked.

"I'd like to see you try that again, maybe this time it'll crack your skull." He said and I went to pull out my wand, but remembered I didn't have it. "What? Gotta have a wand to prove your better than me?" I snapped when he took out his own. He put it up and smiled. "Prove me wrong." I walked over to him, got into his face and he made a kissing sound at me, I glared and stomped on his foot, then kneed him in his face as he bent over.

I pushed him to the ground, standing over him. "Acting tough isn't the same as being tough. Stay down." I said and he glared at me, and then tripped me, making me fall to the ground beside him. I tried to get up, but he climbed on top of me and pinned me down. "Stay down." He repeated and I looked away, he loosen his grip, thinking he won, but I grabbed his wrist and jerked him toward me, then rolled on top of him.

"Sirius, I'm telling you one last time, stay down or I'll spill your blood next." "Spill my blood?" I nodded and he smirked, leaned toward me and whispered, "Try and see what happen-" I cut him off by head butting him and breaking his nose. I got up and he did too, holding his nose, which was bleeding now. "What is going on here?" Madam Pomfrey said and saw Sirius, moved him onto my bed and fixed his nose.

"What happened to you?" "Looks as if he ran into a wall, thinking he would be able to turn at the last second or make it vanish with his all powerful magic." I snapped and Sirius glared at me from behind her. "You four need to get back to class now." She said and Remus nodded, taking Sirius's arm and Peter followed them. "You too Mister Potter." "Just a minute more?" he asked and she sighed, nodding, then went back to her office.

"You're pretty tough." "I grew up in a bad place, learnt to protect myself at a young age, without relying on magic." He nodded and patted the bed; I sat down and rubbed my head. "Did it hurt?" "Not really, just making sure I didn't have his blood on me." he stared at me and frowned. "I thought you had violet eyes, why are they brown?" I looked away. "Take them out." "Excuse me?" "I want to see your eyes again, without the sun burning against them." I did and he smiled.

"You shouldn't hide them, they are very beautiful." I felt myself blush and he got up. "I better go before Madam Pomfrey comes back and yells." I nodded and waved as he left. I looked down at my contacts and decided not to wear them anymore.

~End Flashback~
I walked outside and down to the lake, nothing else to do, so I decided to watch the squid in the lake swim around. "Miss Ice?" I glanced over my shoulder and saw a boy with bleach blonde hair looking at me. "Yes?" "May I join you?" "I don't care." I said and plopped down, stretching my legs out and crossing them so that no one could see up my skirt. I leaned back onto my arms as the boy sat down near me, I saw him staring at me from the corner of my eye and chuckled.

"It isn't nice to stare you know." He quickly looked away and I saw a slight blush. "You don't have a class?" he smirked, "Going to give me detention if I do?" "Actually I could care less; it's your own life you're wasting away." He looked at the lake and frowned. "I mentioned your name to my father, and he told me he went to school with you." "Your father is…" "Lucius Malfoy." "Ah…well yes I did." "So you're old?" I snorted and turned to face him fully.

"Watch what you say boy. I'm not old, I'm OLDER than you, but not old." He went to say something, but I held up my hand. "Go to your classes Draco." "I didn't tell you my name." I stood up and he followed, eyeing me. "I have ways of finding out things." He got cocky. "So you wanted to know about me did you? Well you could've just asked." I tossed my hair out of my hair and looked down at him.

"Sorry, but no, I heard you were making trouble last year for some of your piers, just wanted to find out who so that I would be able to watch for you." I started off, wanting to be alone, but he followed. "Fine, I'll go to class this once for you." "Whatever." He jogged up the hill and I walked back to the lake and glanced at the willow, letting memories flow in my mind.

~Flashback~

I was walking back to the common room when two boys appeared from some shadows. "Hey" one said and I saw that his hair was blonde, really blonde with blue eyes. The other was the opposite, jet black hair with coal colored eyes. I turned and they stared at me for a moment, before the blonde smirked and did a slight bow. "How lovely for you to be out on a night like this."

I chuckled and shook my head. "You're weird." His smirk faded and the other boy smiled. "Lucius Malfoy" he held out his hand and I shook it, thinking I shouldn't be rude to older students. "Severus Snape." The other one said and I shook his hand as well. "Nice to meet you." I said and they both continued to stare at me. "What beautiful eyes you have." "Yes, quite lovely to behold." Lucius added and I tried not to laugh.

"Well, look what we have here." I turned and saw Sirius leaning against a wall, watching us. "What do you want?" I snapped and he glared at me, before walking over to us. "Snape, Malfoy, leave her alone, she's with us." He said and put his arm around my waist. I felt my anger building faster than before and I shoved him away from me and into the wall. "Stay away from me before I hurt you…again." I hissed at him and he looked at the guys.

"Like I said, she's with us." He didn't make a move to come closer, but Lucius and Severus turned and walked off, leaving me alone with the dog. I glared at him and he shrugged. "I'll deal with you tomorrow evening." I said and he blinked at me. "Oh, have you forgotten? Or just thought I was joking?" "About what?" "Getting past the willow without any help from friends or magic."

I watched his face change from confusion, to fearful, then cocky. "Nah, I'm ready, I'd do it tonight, but you probably still hurt from the first time." "Let's go." "What?" "If you're so ready, let's go now." "Now?" "What's wrong dog? Scared?" "You wish." We glared, and then I turned and headed toward the doors, with him following behind. We reached the doors when he finally spoke. "Shouldn't we get James and the others? In case you get hurt and need someone to help you. Because, frankly I don't want to touch you."

I looked him up and down, and then nodded. "Fine you baby, go get your friends and hurry." I waited and waited and then finally he returned with sleepy friends, still rubbing their eyes. "What's going on?" Remus asked and I smiled. "Sirius was under the impression that I was joking, so we have decided to do our bet tonight instead." I explained and James fixed his glasses and looked at me.

"Are you sure? I mean you just got out of the hospital." He seemed concerned, but I shrugged. "I feel perfectly fine. Let's go, he wanted you to be here to make sure he doesn't get killed." I said and walked outside, they followed, we made our way to the tree and it was already trying to attack us. "Looks like it's still angry about last night." James said and I turned to Sirius. "Who goes first?"