A/N: I hope you like this chapter; sorry it's short. Katherine is away on holidays so I am writing this chapter instead!
This chapter written by Pinocchio.
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Chapter twelve.
Over the next few days, James spent more time with Ellie. Lily knew there was nothing going on, she trusted Ellie, and she knew that she was helping James to grieve. Ellie was his counselor; no one else really understood anything he said and they were also very close friends, even though they had gone out in fourth year. Whenever he wanted to talk to her, she would go, even if she were in the middle of something. They would go walking or flying.
There were rumours going around the school about Ellie and James. All their friends knew it wasn't true; the only thing they understood about James' grief was that Ellie felt it too. This event had brought back lots of past emotions she had felt about her parents' death. She had kept them bottled up for the past eight years, now wasn't the time to let them out, but she couldn't help it.
"I feel…alone." James said, a silent tear ran down Ellie's cheek, she hated seeing someone else going through what she had been through, "And I just want to be violent, I want to hit something." They were sitting in the Forbidden Forest, they had James' cloak with them, just in case.
"Then hit something." Ellie said,
"What?" James asked,
"This." She said, she withdrew her wand from her robes and conjured a punching bag.
"What is it?"
"A punching bag. It's a muggle thing, people use it for body-building, but it works for releasing anger too."
"Okay."
She watched silently as James punched the crap out of the punching bag, he had been at it for ages, but he still wasn't tired.
Ellie's thoughts drifted quite a bit, suddenly they settled on Remus. Ever since she had come out of her 'coma,' he had been rather distant. She wasn't too sure about how she felt about him. Their relationship was like a yoyo. It just went back and forth, together, not together, together, and not together. He wouldn't make up his mind!
"Okay, I'm done now Ellie. Let's go back to the castle. It's way past dinnertime." James said, wiping his forehead.
"That's ok, I'm not hungry anyway." Ellie said,
They slowly walked back to the castle; neither said anything on the way.
Jesse walked briskly down the corridor of the seventh floor; Peter Pettigrew was following her again and it was freaking her out. He was trying to be subtle but he wasn't doing a very good job of it. She didn't understand why he was following her, why couldn't it be Claudia or Bellatrix?
"Jesse wait!" he called, she kept walking, "Jesse!"
She stopped, "What do you want from me?" she snapped,
"Will you go out with me?" he asked hopefully,
"No!" she said, disgusted that he wouldn't even think he had a chance with her.
"But I'm in love with you!" he squeaked,
"Shut up Pettigrew, and stop trying to get information about the Dark Lord, joining his side will not make me like you!" she hissed, and was about to turn around again when Peter grabbed her and kissed her. She pushed him off her after a minute; he tried to be sexy and grinned at her before waddling off, to Jesse he just looked like a petrified duck. She spat on the ground and tried to wipe her mouth clean.
"Euurgh! Yuck! Oh my god gross!" she spat, before looking up to see two girls doubling over in laughter, it was Claudia and Bellatrix.
"That was hilarious!" Claudia laughed,
"Definitely." Bellatrix said.
Sirius ran over to the fireplace, narrowly dodging a goblet that was being thrown at his head. He was standing in the Head's common room, in a fight with Emma.
"Emma! I'm sorry!"
"You should be! But you're not forgiven yet!"
"I didn't want to do it!"
"But you still did it!" she screamed, throwing a plate at him, this time it missed,
"Emma, please! Let me explain!"
"No!"
"Emma calm down." He begged,
"No! Sirius Black I hate you!"
"Let me explain!"
"No! You might want to get out of my way Black or I might actually get out my wand!"
"Stop, come on, I'm sorry!"
"Shut up!" Emma threw another goblet that hit the wall and smashed into lots of little pieces. She whipped out her wand, and pointed it straight at Sirius' throat.
Ellie and James climbed through the portrait hole, when they were both through; they stopped immediately at the sight of Sirius' petrified face with Emma's wand pointed straight at him.
"What the…?"
"This bastard," Emma hissed, "Cheated on me, and I'm about to hurt him!"
"Emma stay away from him." Ellie said calmly, as she and James simultaneously edged towards them
"Emma, please." Sirius said,
"Shut up."
Ellie slid her hand into her robes as James walked towards Emma, Ellie pulled out her wand, "Expelliarmus!" she yelled, as Emma's wand flew out of her hand, Ellie caught it as James grabbed Emma and pulled her away from Sirius.
"I don't know how it happened, I thought there was something odd about her, but I dismissed the thought immediately."
Emma was glaring at him venomously, she was very angry; she had been this way when her last boyfriend had turned out to be gay.
"Emma, calm down, let him talk." James said,
"What's going on?" Lily asked; she was standing at the top of the stairs, with Kat.
"Are you guys ok?" Kat asked,
"Well, I don't know, we just came in and almost saw Sirius' death." Ellie said,
"Pity you didn't." Emma snarled, as she struggled to get free from James' grip,
"We were just about to find out what happened when you two came in."
"What's happening?" Remus asked as he came in through the portrait hole, carrying quite a few books.
"No I can't tell you yet, the whole population of the world isn't here yet!" Sirius yelled, getting very frustrated at the fact that he couldn't explain because everyone kept interrupting, Emma stifled a laugh.
"Just shut up and say it!" Ellie said,
"Okay!" he shouted, "I was walking up to the kitchens, I wanted some toffee-apples. I saw Emma walking towards me, there was something different but it didn't bother me. So I walked up to her, and I kissed her hello, and she deepened it. Then I heard a scream, and I saw Emma staring at me from the end of the hall, and then I looked at the Emma that I was kissing, and it wasn't Emma anymore, it was like they had switched places. It was Ursula Rookwood. You know the Slytherin one in fourth year? She grinned at me evilly and then ran off. How did you switch places with her Emma? Why would you switch with someone?" Sirius asked, he was very confused with everything,
"I never switched with anyone! I was looking for Ellie and James, but I couldn't find them! So I was on my way back to the common room when I found you with the Slytherin bitch!" Emma spat,
"I didn't! You were her, she was you, I don't know, I'm confused." Sirius said,
"I figured it out." Ellie said,
"What do you mean?" Kat asked,
"I mean; I know how it happened." She said, her hair flickered turquoise, which indicated thoughtfulness, she paused, and didn't say anymore. The other six people in the room stared at her expecting her to say something, she didn't say a thing, she just stared out the window.
"Yes? What do you want?" Ellie asked,
"Are you going to tell us?" Lily asked,
"Tell you what?"
"How it happened?" Remus said, knowing that Ellie could be completely nuts when she wanted to be.
"Oh, yeah. Right. She's a metamorphagus, I've seen her around the school, and she hardly ever changes her looks though, unlike me. Even if she never changes, I can tell." Ellie explained, her hair flickered back to brown, her normal colour, yet her eyes stayed purple.
"Oh. Okay, Emma do you understand now?" Sirius asked hopefully, Emma wasn't seething with anger anymore; she was sort of calm. The others started walking out, knowing that Sirius and Emma would want some privacy.
"No. I can't deal with it. You kissed someone else, I'm sorry, but no." she said,
"What?" Sirius asked,
"I said no. Sirius, I need a break."
"A break?"
"Yes a break. We're on a break." She said, before turning and walking away from him, as a tear rolled down her cheek.
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