The Prank and Practice
The bell rang as the last of the first years were seated. "Welcome to PE." Hermione said, pretending that it was exciting and glorious. She looked at Blaise, they really had a fresh start with this group so almost none of what they said to the other groups applied. He winked at her and then smirked. She rolled her eyes as he faced the now confused class.
"In this class we'll hang you by your thumbs until they fall right off and force you to become a Death Eater." Blaise said, looking particularly thrilled and excited.
"Ignore him, we will do no such thing." Hermione said after she quickly controlled her laughter. "Today we will start learning how to swim so we need to split into three groups so everyone stand." Everyone stood. "Now, You" she motioned to Blaise, "go over there." she ordered, motioning to the other side of the room. He saluted her, making the first years laugh or get confused before he obeyed. "If you can swim very well, go stand over by Professor Zabini and try to ignore the gruesome words." A handful walked over, including Rose. "If you can swim, but your not very good, but you wouldn't drowned, come stand behind me." A few came over to her looking between the other two in their group and the other group. "If you can't swim at all, go stand to my right and if you don't apply to that category, than find your group." she said as she watched a few leave the bunch to come into her group and one into Blaise.
"All right. Now we seal you in a tank of water and study the average amount of time you can stay alive after we fill it to the top!" Blaise said, scarring the group. Hermione bit back laughter.
"Ignore him. We're going to swim, hold on while we change." she said. She flicked her wand and they were all in bathing suits. "Okay, the experts will go with him and you can do whatever you want besides drown or cause someone else to. No diving head first if you aren't good at it." The group left with smiles or nervous glances at Blaise. "My group, you can either swim in the middle, or learn to swim better, but hopefully you won't need to pay attention today." The group wandered into the middle. "Alright, everyone in the water, don't worry, you can stand." Everyone got in the water, including Hermione when suddenly, there was a scream Hermione recognized immediately. She turned around to see Rose in Blaise's arms having a fit, eyes closed, fists beating him, legs kicking, and teeth clenched. Hermione dove under the icy water and appeared by Blaise's side, who was having trouble holding her. Hermione quickly took her into her arms and started to sing softly in her ear, Rose immediately falling limp. She kept singing as she walked back to the wall and laid her down.
"What are you all looking at, swim!" Blaise said, getting his group to move. He quickly walked over to Hermione who was studying Rose. "What was that?" he asked softly so she could barely hear.
"That means she had a very disturbing vision. Go find out who touched her last." Hermione said quickly, starting to hum as she dried and clothed Rose magically. Blaise left and rounded up his group, to find out a little boy had accidentally tapped her arm while swimming by. He dismissed the rest and had the nervous boy come forward to Hermione. "What's your name?" Hermione asked without even looking.
"Brandon Hews." The boy said quietly, his voice trembling.
"Are your parents Death Eaters?" Hermione asked again, causing the two behind her to look shocked.
"Yes." he said quietly.
"That's all I need to know. I'm sorry for your loss." Hermione said with her head bowed.
"What?" Brandon and Blaise said at the same time. Hermione turned, tears falling.
"I believe your parents have probably been killed, they were spies, were they not?" she asked, stunning the boy. He looked around and then into her eyes, truly amazed, nodded his head. "Probably got found out. You should go see Dumbledore about it."
He nodded and walked off out the door. The rest of the class went smoothly, and all of the first years could tread water and do a simple breath stroke before the lesson was over. The two watched the group leave.
Hermione glanced at their schedule and realized that it was time for lunch. She told Blaise she was going to take a nap and to wake her ten minutes before class. The two left the room and headed in separate directions. Hermione to fall asleep and Blaise to the Great Hall.
Bryan sat down on the yard or so of empty bench space around Rose. "Hermione really doesn't want to sing Bryan, you shouldn't make her." she said as he started to put food on his plate.
"We need a singer, besides, I'm sure she'll like it after a while." Bryan said, inhaling his food.
"So how is Niki? Did you dump her yet?" Rose asked.
"Yes, last week I was there. Anyway, how's my cupcake full of joy?" Bryan asked. Rose smiled the tiniest smile.
"Sad, no one will be close to me because they think I'm morbid and gruesome. It's not my fault I see the future horridly." Rose said.
"Just wait, maybe you should try that odd RavenClaw, Luna Lovegood. She looks nice." Bryan suggested.
"Good idea." Rose said, standing and leaving for the RavenClaw table. He watched everyone but Luna move and smiled when the two started talking so much that they forgot to eat.
"Lovesick, Granger?" Draco sneered at him. "Who is it over? Loony Lovegood?" he said.
"Actually, I'm not. I was happy that someone was strong enough to listen to Rose. Looks like you got your ass beat by Luna who is enjoying Rose's company while you fear it."
Blaise walked over to the group. "Did I just hear that Luna and Rose are friends? Good match if you ask me."
"Yup." Bryan said. "Would you happen to know where my step is?" he asked suddenly.
"Taking a nap." Blaise said.
"That sounds really suspicious. Has she been odd lately? She might be sneaking around with some punk like Ryan. He was hard to catch. Why she dated a track star I'll never know. Tell me if she keeps avoiding gatherings." he said standing.
"No guy would date her with you around." Blaise said.
"No guy would go near her with a ten foot pole." Draco added.
"You underestimate her. She seduces policemen out of giving her tickets." Bryan said. "At least that one guy who would pull her over for no good reason. What's the password to your rooms?"
"Are you crazy? She'd kill me, you, and probably try to get Draco and Josh before being sent to Azkaban." Blaise said. "Actually, a nap sounds good." he grabbed an apple and headed for the doors.
"You don't think-" Draco started.
"No way." Bryan said. "At least not until they start flirting and she starts getting hickeys."
"That's sick!" Draco exclaimed.
"I'm glad you think that, one less boy to worry about." Bryan said.
Blaise left the two Slytherins and headed for the dorms. He found Hermione asleep on the couch. He glanced at the clock. There was at least another twenty minutes left so he sat down only to stand back up when there was a knock at the door. "Yes?" he asked, pulling open the portrait only to find no one there. He was about to close the door when he looked down and saw Josh bloodied and passed out. "Fuck, you have got to be shitting me." he muttered. He quickly levitated his band mate onto a couch and woke Hermione, pointing at Josh.
"Oh my God!" she exclaimed before quickly letting out a string of healing spells, one after another until he was completely healed but still bloody. She quickly cleaned him up and smiled when she was satisfied he was healed.
"Wow, where did you learn how to heal?" Blaise asked, looking over her shoulder.
"Madam Pomfrey, Harry was in there so much I picked up quite a few spells." she said with a shrug, "we need to go, class starts in two minutes." The two left and let in the waiting students. Hermione and Blaise did the whole routine to the other bunch of fourth years before looking at the schedule, that had been their last class. They quickly rushed into their common room and found Josh sitting up and looking at himself and then around. Hermione rushed up and hugged him.
"You're okay!" Hermione cried.
"Umm... was I not okay?" he asked, looking at Blaise for help.
"You were at our doorstep passed out, covered in cuts and bruises. She kept muttering you were going to die from lack of blood or at least go into a coma." he said with a shrug.
"Oh, that, just some punk ass kids fault, wait, no, it was Bryan, kept screaming something about Hermione." he said, growing confused.
"Damn it!" Hermione exclaimed before stocking off.
"Looks like she has your revenged covered." Blaise said with a smirk.
"Good thing too, I don't think he would have let me live the second time." Josh said. Blaise laughed and the two started talking.
Meanwhile Hermione had burst into Snape's potion's class, stunning half the class at the interruption, and did a body bind on Bryan. She dragged him out of the class and closed the door but they could still hear every word.
"What the Hell! You fucking killed Josh! I'm surprised that he isn't dead or in a coma! You are one lucky bastard. Ugh, I can't believe you did that! You pummeled him because you thought I was seeing him? You're such an idiot it's not even funny!" she screamed.
"He made it to your dorms?" Bryan asked in shock.
"He had to climb up stairs?" she growled. Whack! She had slapped him across the face, a red hand print suddenly appearing. "You will pay." she ground out before releasing his bind and stalking away.
"Suddenly mugging him doesn't seem like it was a good idea." Bryan muttered to himself.
Hermione went to the room of requirement and started on her humiliating project.
A/N: This is where I was going to stop but this is way too short.
During dinner, nothing happened, besides the fact Bryan was really jumpy and suspicious of Hermione's smirk every time he was caught staring at her. Dumbledore stood and dessert was served and everyone started to dig in. Half an hour later, when everyone was just talking and very few actually eating, a big bang came from behind the staff table and a huge banner fell down, reaching from the ceiling to the floor, was not only a picture, but a video clip of Bryan in his fourth grade play, dressed up as poop, singing about going to the bathroom and constipation. Everyone, even Snape, burst out laughing, except of course Bryan who was as red as a beet. Blaise elbowed him slightly.
"I told you she had stuff on you." he said, trying to hold back laughter as Bryan sang 'I am pooooooooooooooooooooop.' on the video.'
"This means war." Bryan responded, immediately sobering Blaise up.
"No, you will not, you deserve this and probably more. I have to agree that what you did was stupid and idiotic." Blaise said. "Besides, we would have had to get a new drummer."
"Please, you have a younger sister who you are used to seeing crawling with guys and you try yo adapt to a different situation." Bryan said as he got up and left the laughing hall.
Hermione watched his brother leave and immediately stopped the video, much to many students displeasure. She quickly got up and followed him, stopping him right outside of the doors.
"Square?" she asked, holding out her hand.
"Square." he said, shaking it. She gave him a hug before starting to leave, only to hear him call out to her, "so who are you dating?" She just laughed and kept walking.
A/N:This is where I left off!
Hermione woke up the next morning to having her bed being jumped on, by two heavy seventeen year old boys. "Wake up sleepy head!" she heard Bryan call out.
"Your evil!" she said as she pulled the covers over her face.
"Is that any way to talk to your co-teacher?" Blaise asked, sounding very happy for some reason.
"Sure it is. Out, I'm hardly dressed under here." she called out. She immediately felt Bryan or who she assumed was Bryan because it was bigger, get up before he probably pulled Blaise out of the room. Once she heard the door closed she laughed at how stupid they were and fell back asleep, only for a second though because she heard Bryan and Blaise pummeling the door. Afraid for the paint on her door and her eardrums she hopped out of bed in her spaghetti strap and super short shorts and swung the door open quickly, causing both of them to fall right in front of her. "You're going to ruin my door." she stated as she walked into her closet before quickly reappearing in jeans instead of shorts and having a jacket half zipped over her shirt. She pointed her wand at herself to fix her hair and clean her up before stepping over the two forms still on the floor.
"Your evil!" she heard them say in unison before they rushed her and the three wound up on the couch, both of them tickling a very angry Hermione because she didn't like being tickled in the morning, or at least not by her step brother who never showed any mercy. Hermione though, still had her wand in her hand, so she quickly said stupefy and it luckily found Bryan, which was enough to get Blaise to stop too. She quickly unfroze him and started for the door again, only to hear a knock.
"Who is it?" she asked as she reached the door.
"Who do you think it is?" she heard Ginny Weasley call out.
"Hmm... Ginny and I'd have to guess Harry nd Ron don't love me enough to visit so maybe Luna and Rose." she said, pretending to be thinking about it. Two 'hey's were heard and she swung open the door to reveal a beaming Ginny Weasley and two hurt boys. "I'm kidding," she said as she gave each one a hug before letting them in.
"Looks like I can't go!" she said happily as the three sat down and Hermione got pulled down next to Ginny.
"No way you're missing the thing. You're the one who agreed." Bryan said.
"I did no such thing!" Hermione cried, standing up. She look very offended.
"Ten minutes before we leave, I have to go floo and probably wake up... him. Now that he's in one piece back at school." Blaise said nastily.
"You two stop that. Will everyone just shut up for two seconds!" Hermione screamed at the two groups. Everyone froze. Hermione turned to the three sitting behind her. "I can't stay, Ginny knows why, she is not, I repeat, not supposed to or allowed to tell you if she values her life. I am so sorry and trust me, this isn't by my own free will. Bryan and Blaise, shut up and floo him, so Bryan was stupid, what else is new?" she said, grabbing her still frozen friends hands and pulling them slowly off the couch before saying quick good byes.
"Let's go!" Blaise called from his room. Bryan headed toward Blaise's room and Hermione looked confused.
"Why are you going to get Blaise, I bet he'll be out in a minute." she asked, heading for the door.
"We're flooing! Duh! Brightest witch of our time my butt." he mumbled.
"I heard that! It's not my fault I'm still in shock from being jumped on, mulled, and having to scream in less than an hour." she said as she made her way into Blaise's strangely clean and plain room.
"Hurry up, it isn't a museum or interesting." Bryan called from by the fireplace.
"How do you live in here Blaise, it's so... eery." she asked as she hurried over to them.
"It's just as eery in the Slytherin commons." the two said at once. Hermione rolled her eyes and the three flooed to the practice room to see a sleeping Josh.
"Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey!" Hermione called as she shook Josh's feet.
"Eggs and Bacon?" he asked hopefully, and the other three laughed.
"Sorry no, it's just an expression. Let's get this over with." Hermione said.
"You would be a lot of fun in bed Granger," a voice said over the speakers, "let's get this over with." Draco Malfoy stepped out of the shadows and Blaise, Bryan, and Josh all had wands at his throat before Hermione could register what happened.
"Excuse me?" she said, not understanding why they were all against him. "Some one explain to me why you hate him. I thought you liked him." she said dumbly.
"He isn't supposed to know." Blaise ground out.
"Then wipe his memory but stop confusing me, it's too early." she said. Obliverate was heard and Draco was on the ground. They all looked to see Rose standing there with her wand pointed at Draco. She stunned him and stowed him behind a speaker.
"Hey bundle of joy! How are you?" Bryan asked, picking her up and spinning her around.
"Fine." she said plainly.
"Awesome, she can sing and I can leave!" Hermione suggested hopefully. The two looked at her and laughed, Rose just looked confused.
"Why are you here if you don't want to be, it's not like you're under an unforgivable." she said.
"I don't really have much of a choice." she said. "Well come on, let's start, I really want to leave."
"Whatever," Blaise said, picking up his bass and strapping it on as Bryan grabbed his guitar he left last time. Josh sat behind the drums and Hermione carried over the two microphones, placing one in front of her step. Rose sat on the couch and watched.
"Hermione, didn't you want to show us something?" Blaise asked all of a sudden.
"Oh, right, your lyrics need work, and I accidentally looked over Bryan's music and it is so much better than the lyrics, it makes no sense. Here." she said, handing over a packet of paper with typed up songs on them that were minimized in her pocket.
The three boys sat and read through each one, picking which went to which music while Hermione talked to Rose. The quiet was interrupted by Bryan, Blaise, and Josh's stomach's telling them that they were hungry. The three boys looked at Hermione who turned to them when she felt them starring.
"You ask me to get food and you'll not only get that but a lecture about women's right and how men disregard the new laws today by turning down-" Hermione started.
"I'll get it, Hermione's speech is so long I feel asleep twice with my eyes open." he muttered as he left, Hermione quickly rolling her eyes and figuring out what everyone wanted to eat before running to catch up with Bryan who actually looked a little lost when she found him. The two came back with the food and after an hour they were finally done with the songs and ready to play. They handed over the lyrics to Hermione and they all put on their instruments, or in Josh's case sat down.
"What song first?" Hermione asked, hand covering the mike, as the three boys warmed up independently.
"Suicide." they said in unison.
"What?" she asked with shock and horror, grabbing the packet and flipping through it. She found it and looked livid. "Bryan, how did this get in here?" she hissed at him.
"You put it there?" he asked. She sighed and looked really sad but put the lyrics back in front of her, even though she couldn't read them through her tears...
Suicide, the sweet fate,
the day it ends, that date,
written in stone for all to see,
and they say suicide is easy...
Men move mountains, people touch lives,
That doesn't make a difference on the other side,
Only those who commited suicide,
Are happy up to their eyes...
While you're having fun there,
We'll be crying down here,
Maybe once the tears fall,
You'll regret it after all...
Suicide, the sweet fate,
the day it ends, that date,
written in stone for all to see,
and they say suicide is easy...
Once you break your loved ones heart,
With that same deadly dart,
you used to kill yourself,
you'll think about everyone else...
The girlfriend you left alone,
The parents that didn't know,
The teachers who pretend to care,
The friends who buzzed off all your hair...
Suicide, the sweet fate,
the day it ends, that date,
written in stone for all to see,
and they say suicide is easy...
Hermione finished the song slowing down with the band and fading out. Rose clapped politely as she glanced up from her book and the other three beamed at the lyrics.
"How about... Shattered?" Josh asked, trying to remember all the lyric to music matchings. The other two nodded and Hermione looked confused before realizing what song it was. She looked puzzled they chose it but shrugged.
You promised you'd stay together,that we'd never fall apart,
But then you left, and you shattered my heart...
I'm not going to sit here with a shattered broken life,
I'll get up, get over you, you can go back to your wife,
The one that hates you but wants your money, unlike me,
It's so damn obvious,why can't you just see...
You shattered everything when you left, After I let you in,
Don't come back, you had your try,when you said bye it was the end,
I'll pick up the pieces, get some tape, when I'm done I'll celebrate,
Throw a party that I'm free, then cry later once they leave...
I'm not going to sit here with a shattered broken life,
I'll get up, get over you, you can go back to your wife,
The one that hates you but wants your money, unlike me,
It's so damn obvious,why can't you just see...
You were so perfect, now I see,
you follow that hypocrite with ease,
All you wanted is money and power,
you claim that's all that matters in the last hour...
You go around in dark clothes,
Wear a mask so no one knows,
Deep inside you love filth,
Fine, keep it to yourself...
I'm not going to sit here with a shattered broken life,
I'll get up, get over you, you can go back to your wife,
The one that hates you but wants your money, unlike me,
It's so damn obvious,why can't you just see...
Hermione looked at the three people behind her and prayed they didn't understand she wrote that about when she had a fling with a Slytherin who was in an arranged marriage. It was exactly like her and Blaise, except he didn't just screw her up and leave her. She sighed as they listed another song, one of their old ones, Josh's favorite...
A/N: A little short because of the songs, but I recommend that you read them. Remember that HERMIONE wrote them.