A Study in Emerald: Silver Linings
(100 PROMPTS)
Summary: "People don't get pauses like these very often. Some people never receive them at all...I did." Kagome looked at Draco, her cheeks flushed as she smiled up at him, the cold air was nipping painfully at her nose, but she didn't care. If there had been a clock nearby, it would have stopped. Occasionally, there were minutes that got extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them...these moments were hers.
Anime/Book/Movie: InuYasha/Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco/Kagome
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Rated: M for Mature Content
R.I.P – Alan Rickman
(Severus Snape)
Remember
The Half-Blood Prince
~ALWAYS~
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(3. Shoes)
Landing hours later, Kagome and Draco were in a bit of a thrill as they snuck back inside to put their brooms away. When he came out of the Shed, he saw her looking around in a state of confusion. "What are you searching for?"
She looked up at him from where she was looking under the shed, "my shoes...really do seem to have walked off."
"What are you going on about?"
She wiggled her toes and sighed, "I guess it's fine...I have another pair in my room. I simply won't hear the end of it if I wander into the common room without my shoes on."
Draco nodded; he had seen the Lovegood girl go through similar situations with bullying. He played with the idea that maybe someone was bullying Kagome, and perhaps they'd stolen her shoes and hidden them. The thought brought a frown to his lips before he knocked the thought away. "Come on, it's getting dark. Not too many students will be in the common room as it's close to dinner time."
Kagome grinned, "right! I forgot..."
"You have surely been placed in the wrong house."
"Why must you tease!" She frowned, "I'm as much a snake as any other Slytherin!"
He shook his head, "I find that hard to believe." Stepping through the great doors of the castle, the two walked through the castle and stopped short as a curious sight. "Aren't those-"
"My shoes!" She ran towards the pair of black Mary Jane's and her eyes widened in surprise as they turned towards her and jumped in fright before running off in the opposite direction. "Oh, you must be joking!" She pulled her wand out, "Immobulus!" The shoes froze in mid step as she nodded her head with a smile and walked over to them. Crouching down, she looked curiously at the pair of polished shoes. "How ever did you two learn to walk on your own?"
"They've clearly been tampered with," Draco sighed, "you can't be so clueless."
"I don't believe any students in Slytherin would know a spell that animates apparel though."
Draco couldn't deny that the charm work was certainly peculiar. "Ask Professor Snape to fix them, I'd do this before they regain their movement though."
Kagome grabbed the shoes and ran towards the great hall; her target was the Potions Professor who was already seated at the table with a goblet in hand. A scattered number of students were already seated, but hardly in Slytherins were around. "Professor!" She called as she ran up the steps with bare feet. "Professor, my shoes have been charmed to walk on their own...could you please?"
Severus Snape, in all his calm and collected ingenuity, looked with a raised brow of uncertainty at her claim. "We do not cover simulation charms in school, Miss. Higurashi."
"Oh, but Professor, they ran away from me earlier, I'm certain that it was a charm of some sort. I had to cast Immobulus on them just to catch the blasted pair of shoes."
"As you say, Miss. Higurashi, come around and I will take care of them."
She grinned and walked quickly around the long table for their professors. Apologizing to her Transfiguration's Professor as she stepped out of her way and made her trek to her Head of House. Placing her shoes down on the ground, she watched him wave his wand over the shoes first to examine the charms that had in fact been caste upon the shoes.
"...you don't seem to have been making things up, Miss. Higurashi. There is in fact a complex charm that was cast upon your shoes, interestingly enough...it's nothing that I've come to see over my many years at Hogwarts."
"Someone made it up then?"
"Do not sound so surprised. All charms, hex's, curses, spells and potions came into existence through the creative outlet of one's mind." He cast a reversal to the charm, returning them to the plain black lifeless shoes that they were before the charm. "Anyone has the aptitude to create their own charms, you need only have an in-depth understanding of wand-waving and spell-casting."
"Thank you, Professor..." Kagome slipped her shoes on and smiled, turning her eyes up to her professor who had returned to his goblet and staring out at the students as they began filing into the great hall. "Professor, have you made many spells?"
"A number of them,"
"Could you show me someday?"
His eyes met hers and she found hidden in them a shadow of humor. "Make your way to the Slytherin table, Miss. Higurashi. It's nearly time for food to be served."
She pursed her lips in a pout before she grinned and nodded her head, "thank you again, Professor!"
As she made her way back around the table and down the steps towards her own, she noticed a spot next to Draco where his hand was resting while he talked with Blaise. He looked over in her direction and patted the seat next to him when he knew he had her attention. She blushed a smidgen and walked over to his side where he moved his hand and she settled herself down by him.
"Got your shoes in order?"
"Ah!" She closed her eyes and ducked her head; her long black silky tresses fell into her eyes as she tried to hide her embarrassment. "Yes, they don't walk on their own anymore."
Blaise Zabini, who was across from them, laughed as her flushed cheeks. "I can honestly say it wasn't me."
Her head shot up and she frowned, "Professor said it wasn't a spell that we learned at school. I think someone made it up."
"Pretty extensive a charm for a student to make up."
She looked past Draco and saw Theodore Nott. She had never thought she'd be involved in a conversation with these three. It was a notorious group among the Slytherin house, and she only wondered where the other two were. Pansy Parkinson and Daphne Greengrass. She wasn't part of this group, and by no means was she popular, but Draco had invited to join in on the group...it was...something like a dream. "Professor Snape mentioned that he's made a number of charms up himself...I wonder if he'd show us. I asked, but he simply sent me on my way." She sighed, "I bet he'd be an amazing Defense Against the Dark Arts professor...you know?"
"He's been vying for it." Draco muttered, "never gets it though."
"Could we put in a petition?"
Theodore shook his head, "all of Slytherin would sign and that's as far as you'd get. Possibly Ravenclaws, doubtful you'd get many Hufflepuffs to sign though and certainly not Gryffindors."
She pouted, "blast that house." Her cold tone took the three by surprise as she absentmindedly twirled a lock of her hair around her finger. "How obvious it is...house favoritism. I can't stand it. Had the Golden Boy been a Slytherin, I wonder if Dumbledore would be so sure to show his devotion towards Potter."
"Ah...so maybe you are a Slytherin after all. For a while, I was starting to have some serious doubts." Draco laughed.
"...I'm no troublemaker, not on the best of days. Still, I don't care much for those frivolous martyrs. The lot of them could get away with murder if there was a Slytherin nearby to blame it on." She didn't care of what houses anyone was in, but Gryffindors always had rubbed her the wrong way. Professor Snape was her favorite Professor bar none, because he protected his Slytherin's indubitably. After all, if he didn't, who would?
"Was there something I missed?" Blaise asked curiously as food finally started to appear, though he paid it no mind as he watched Kagome simmer at the thought of their rival house. Not that he could blame her! He hated the great lot of them too, but with grace, something not all his house could confess to having. "Did something happen between you and a couple lions?"
She shook her head and sighed, "I'm just in disagreement with Potter being made Seeker when Draco should have certainly been made Seeker for Slytherin. As far as flying goes, he is without a doubt, a more polished flyer. Once again, Potter is placed in the limelight for doing nothing, as he always is. Lucky bastard child is a blight to this school. In my opinion, he should have stayed with those Muggles instead of returning to the Wizarding World."
Shaking his head, Draco turned around and his own eyes narrowed at Harry Potter. He too had been more than a little pissed after hearing that the Golden Boy had been made Seeker. "Dumbledore wouldn't allow that,"
"Of course not, he'd lose out on a perfectly pliable puppet!"
"Say that three times fast," Blaise laughed.
She laughed and turned her attention away from Potter as the table was filled with food and her appetite began to surface. She wouldn't let The-Boy-Whose-Spoiled ruin her school year, though she couldn't promise the vice versa.
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ME: Heading to work now, I will be writing more soon, so please review and let me know what you think! This chapter's Prompt was SHOES and I hope it worked well!