A/N: Happy New Year! and thank you to my beta iamawesomeanduknowit
Chapter 4
The transfiguration class is not bad, to be honest, not only that, she is also the first one that able to change a matchstick into a needle without any problem at all, as if she has been learning magic for quite sometimes. To receive ten points for able to do some transfiguration without any problem indeed lifted her sour spirit a little bit.
Her eyes keep twitching, but that's all because of the cause of the sour spirit she had was sitting right next to her, namely Draco fucking damn Malfoy.
She starts to wonder who the fuck put a curse on her for bratty little Draco sat right next to her. Not only that, the sour spirit also came from his mouth, because he never stops talking and insulting which obviously Pierrot ignored. Finally, the evil blonde idiot shuts up when he realizes Pierrot isn't reacting to him. She looks at him from the corner of her eye. "Done? I thought that your mouth won't stop clucking like a chicken about to lay eggs. Why don't you actually try to transfigure the goddamn matchstick into a needle instead?"
Draco's face turns red when Professor McGonagall walks over to them and sees that the matchstick on Draco's side was still not turned into a needle.
"Mr. Malfoy, I must agree to what Ms Pierrot said. Less talking and Start practicing." She sternly reprimanded Malfoy.
"My father will hear about this," Draco grumbles.
Pierrot rolls her eyes. This boy has been rotten to the core, she thought.
"Will you stop grumbling and just do what you have to do? You haven't transfigured anything. Your father is not about to come in and transfigure it for you in here." She scolds her annoying partner.
Draco looks over Pierrot heatedly and begins to transfigure the matchstick.
Just as he attempts to say the incantation, he loses focus as his ears catch the melody of a song he never had heard before.
I remember the rise
We were running backyard to yard
Wasn't scared of going too far, staying out til it's too dark
Now daylight don't make it right
And you would really know this
Closed hearts make closed minds
I won't tell you it's all butterflies and roses
When I back in time
When we were safe
Back then when we were safe
There's not much comfort in this place
I'll keep you safe
When you can't fight the bitter taste
I'll keep you safe
Slowly, Draco looks over at Pierrot from the corner of his eyes. For some reason, he couldn't shake off the song that she sang from his mind. Her voice makes him feel as if she was a mermaid.
I don't remember it all
But I know that I was invincible
Like the heroes in the cartoons
Saving lives through my living room
Now daylight don't make it right
And you would really know this
Closed hearts make closed minds
I won't tell you it's all butterflies and roses
When I back in time
When we were safe
Back then when we were safe
There's not much comfort in this place
I'll keep you safe
When you can't fight the bitter taste
I'll keep you safe
The songs makes his chest swell. He didn't know what it was, only that it reassured him, made him feel safer. He concentrates back on the matchstick and says the incantation for the transfiguration, but Pierrot's song is still stuck in the back of his mind. He can feel the magic engulf him. Draco closes his eyes, and suddenly feels that he is floating, as if he were on a cloud.
I know that I'm a fighter
Yeah, always been a fighter
But I tried to play with fire and I got burned
Don't know how to help us
Yeah, I'm feeling kind of helpless
Yeah, maybe you so selfish if it don't wanna hurt
I know that I'm a fighter
Yeah, always been a fighter
But I tried to play with fire and I got burned
Don't know how to help us
Yeah, I'm feeling kind of helpless
Yeah, maybe you so selfish if it don't wanna hurt
There's not much comfort in this place
I'll keep you safe
When you can't fight the bitter taste
I'll keep you safe
Back then when we were safe
Back then when we were safe
Back then when we were safe
Back then when we were safe
When he opens his eyes again, to his own surprise, he has successfully transfigured the matchstick to a sharp, metal needle.
"You did great; all you had to do was relax and calm your shit down." Pierrot told him as she examined his needle.
Draco almost jumps upon hearing her voice, but he is quite relieved to hear her compliment. Although, he felt her last comment was scandalous and inappropriate for a young lady. She may be smart, he thought; but she is crass and rude.
"I don't need your help," Draco sneered, but to be honest, he did indeed need her help to make him calm.
"Whatever you say, pale face," Pierrot smirks.
Draco's face turns red again, but any come back he had was put to an end after Professor McGonagall informs everyone about their homework.
The transfiguration class is not quite as bad as Pierrot thought, but since there was still some time left before she had to go to her potions class, she thought she might as well read a bit from her text book. She had read some of the books when she couldn't sleep, but it never hurt to read more.
She doesn't even call for Madam Pince as she enters. She looks behind her shoulder, and around her to see if anyone is looking, and once the coast was clear she walked straight right into the restricted section. She knew that she wasn't technically supposed to be there, but it then again, as they say, curiosity killed the cat.
As she heads over to that section, she hears a weird slapping sound and someone moaning. Pierrot panics and runs over to where the sound was coming- only to be scandalized by what was going on.
"You know if you done with your shagging session, perhaps you should move so I can take the book that you lean." She dryly says to the couple shamelessly screwing each other. The couple stop their, eh-hmm, 'activities' and look at her as if she had three heads, but do what she asked nonetheless. Slowly, Pierrot leans to one of the bookshelves, waiting for them to finish their 'exercise', after all the book that she wishes is at the back of the girl. Lorde, to think that they were shagging near those books. She cringes.
Pierrot looks over at the book that she took out from the bookshelf with relief ,when she saw there was no weird fluid that she had to deal with.
The couple promptly resume their screwing.
The blond boy had a bulky body, like that of an athlete or professional body-builder. She even saw some kind of Viking tattoo on his shoulder, and judging by the uniform and robe that he's wearing, the boy was in Slytherin.
His partner, judging from the robes, was a brunette Hufflepuff. She was completely unfazed that a little girl caught them red-handed; in fact, she screams the boy's name even louder.
That was a very bad move, because it attracted unwanted attention and another girl joined Pierrot as to see what had happened.
"Ahhh!" the young girl screams.
The couple, now brought back from their land of ecstasy look over to see the girls, and completely shocked, they throw their clothes at each other and started screaming at each other. In their haste, they do not realize that they had accidently exchanged their ties.
"Pierrot! Why you didn't call Madam Pince when you saw them!" Pierrot looks over Hermione, slightly amused. But upon seeing Hermione's accusing look, she realizes that Hermione was serious.
"And do tell me why?" Pierrot asks her.
Hermione looks at Pierrot with horror "This is a library! They are-They are doing it!" Pierrot nods her head with amusement yet she manages to keep her expression stoic. "Yes true this is a library and they were fucking each other like damn fucking rabbits in heat, so your point is?"
Hermione looks over Pierrot with wide eyes and a horrified expression. You could define horror from Hermione's waiting for Hermione to snap her mouth, Pierrot look over at Thorfinn and the Hufflepuff. "How about the two of you dress up more properly, huh? No one wishes to see that disappointing elephant trunk and those cow milk tanks."
The Hufflepuff look at her skeptically, but she does dress up properly. Pierrot looks over Hermione and gives her a small nod. Hermione understands and leaves immediately.
Thorfinn looks at the small, blonde girl. If he hadn't noticed her closely, he would've definitely mistaken her for a Malfoy. However, this girl's hair was a white blonde, unlike the Malfoy's platinum blond hair. Not only that, he could clearly see a bruise that was fading on her delicate skin. There were multiple scars and stitches all over her, even on her neck. He now definitely knew that this girl was not a Malfoy; from what he knew about their son, they would definitely not treat their children the way the small girl in front of him had been. He tries to recall, where had he seen that face? when realization hits him. Ahhhh, yes.
"You're the girl that doesn't have a last name, are you not?" Thorfinn whispers, while Pierrot was reading the book silently, as if nothing happened a few minutes ago.
"Is there any problem with that?" the girl didn't look at him or even flinch at all. He wondered as to why she acted like that. If he was her age he would've ran for the hills, trying to burn that image out of his brain. He would've been traumatized forever.
What he didn't know was that Pierrot had seen that scene before. Almost everyday. Concealing her emotions was now her second nature.
"Then that means you just a child that her parents didn't wish to have her. What a pity. You know, I can teach you something that no one ever teaches you." He raised his eyebrow and smirked at her, haughtily.
"Yes, I'm aware that my own parents didn't wish to have me at all. But I never cared nor do I need a shoulder to cry. As for your proposition; no. I don't want to. Perhaps you should comfort that Hufflepuff of yours. I know that she might be an easy shag but it never hurt to show some sympathy for her." Pierrot turns her face to look at Thorfinn.
Thorfinn observes her closely. Her eyes appeared to be Amethyst from a distance, but now he could see her right eye was ice blue and her left eye was jade green.
"Ms Pierrot, Mr Rowle and Ms Grace, please follow me to the headmaster office now!" Madam Pince's voice snaps him back to reality. So that was where the mousy girl went. Thorfinn internally groaned.
Madam Pince looks over the trio with disdain. Pierrot doesn't need to be told twice; she immediately gets up.
"But before that, can I borrow this book Ma'am, I haven't finished reading it yet" she asks Madam Pince.
The older woman looks over at Pierrot, perplexed but then she takes the book from Pierrot's hands and nods her head. She is confused; was this child afraid or did she simply not care?
"Ms Pierrot. Perhaps you can tell us what you have seen before Ms Granger came around?" Professor Dumbledore looked at her with that twinkle eyes that made her wish to dig out his eyes with her bare finger.
Pierrot raised her single brow that still has a stitch and starts to look around. There was Professor Snape, Madam Pince and obviously Dumbledore and those two rabbits in heat.
Without batting her eyes all around again, she opens her mouth and talks about everything from the time she enters to the library until she meets the two idiots in the middle of their mating session and how Hermione met her and told Madam Pince. She doesn't miss a single detail.
Right after she finishes her talking, Professor Snape and Madam Pince turn red as tomatoes while Dumbledore coughs awkwardly. The blond boy looks at her with smug face, but his eyes clearly tell her that he will find and end her life as soon as they got out of there. The Hufflepuff on the other hand, was extremely embarrassed and wanted to get out of there as soon as she could.
Before Pierrot can say something that will make the girl mouth close, Dumbledore starts talking. "Ms Pierrot, indeed I asked for you to inform us, but perhaps you ought've considered the implications."
Pierrot looks over Dumbledore and raises her brow.
"My apologies but you asked me to inform you everything, without leaving anything at all. I told you everything without you using legillemency. I sort of saved your work." The sarcasm literally dripped from her mouth.
Dumbledore flinched. Before he could say anything, Pierrot bowed her head. "If that's all, perhaps I must leave, as I have another class to attend and I don't want to be late for my first class, Albus" Pierrot say Dumbledore's name very quietly, it was as if she wanted him to hear it, but not really.
She knew that she might be on the edge, but she never once called any Professor their first name in school without adding their designated title.
Again, in the potions class, which was taught by Professor Snape, Draco sat next to her. Good Lorde, why did this little brat have to sit next to her.
Pierrot waits patiently while Snape continues to belittle Harry, which makes her a little irritated. However, Draco's snickering about it was enough for her to almost bash his face in.
"Now Ms Pierrot, what is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?" Pierrot comes out of her stupor when Snape suddenly asked her a question. Moving on to a new victim, I see, she thought.
"They are the same plant, they also come with the name of aconite, aconitum, Arnica Montana, leopard's bane, mousebane, women's bane, devil's helmet, queen of poisons and some even call it blue rocket." She replied confidently and with such accuracy, that even Snape himself was slightly surprised.
The whole class looked in Pierrot's direction with shock. They were not only surprised to hear those many names for the plant, but even the purebloods and half-bloods hadn't heard of a few of the names. Except for one muggleborn whose face was now sporting a grin.
"Ten points from Gryffindor" Both Hermione and Harry look at Snape with a frown and start to wonder why their house been deducted their point while Pierrot only raised her single brow. Draco looked at his godfather and Pierrot with wonder as to why his godfather deducted them. However, being the evil little git he is he was secretly happy.
"Okay, sure no problem with me." Again both Hermione and Harry look at her as if she suddenly had a another arm on the top of her head while Draco looks at her confounded.
Severus was filled with extreme hatred for his new student, upon seeing her arrogance and as it brought back a bitter-sweet memory. That answer was the same answer whenever he had a fight with Pierrot, and bring amusement to Lily.
"Excuse me?" he asked her, clearly repulsed.
"I said, it is no problem with me Professor Snape, after all you will take points from Gryfinddor no matter what the answer. After all, surely you will protect your house, isn't it, Severus?"
Pierrot blinks her eyes vigorously, what is happening to her. Why is she calling everyone by name? And how is it audible only to the person it applied to?
She knew something was amiss. While she wore contact lenses to hide her heterochromia, she could see the reflection of herself in her cauldron. Dammit, she cursed. Her true colors were visible now.
Meanwhile Severus was scared shitless when he heard Pierrot call him by his name, and when he suddenly saw her eyes shift from amethyst to that jade green and ice blue. He still remembers those eyes; they not only calmed him but also terrified him to no end. Especially when he saw her dying with her intestines spilled outside her navel.
Merlin, that sight alone until now haunted him to no end. He knew very well that even Lupin, Black, Potter, and Lily wouldn't be able to fathom who did such things to her. The LeStrange brothers, Yaxley, Dolohov, Nott and Greyback don't know who was willing to do that to her.
Sweet Cercie, Lily even met him and confront with him as to who will do such things to their Pierrot. But this Pierrot, it's as if seeing their Pierrot, that white blond is also like her, except their Pierrot's hair had a blue and deep purple strike in her hair.
"Another ten points for disrespecting a teacher in class" Dear Merlin, the look and the manner of this Pierrot is the same with their Pierrot. He needs to be prepared for his mental and physical, but he needs to do some research, he needs to know whether this Pierrot is some sort of doppelganger or not.
July 19, 1930
"Who are you and what are you doing in my room?" the boy look at the white blonde hair girl with a frown. As the girl turns around, the boy looks at the girl with wide eyes. The girl's face is bluish, greenish and slightly purple, from which he clearly deduced that the girl was abused.
Slowly the boy walked to the girl and wiped some blood off at the corner of the girl's mouth. The girl didn't even flinch. However, the boy was captivated by her eyes; they were so beautiful, the left eye was the color of his matron's jade necklace, but her right one, he only remembered seeing that color on the coldest of winter days.
The girl does not not respond. The boy asks her again as to what she doing in his room.
"To set your blanket and clothes," she replies. Her answer was simple, straightforward and a little sarcastic at the end.
The boy rolled his eyes upon hearing her answer, yet he tries again "What's your name? I never saw you before…"
The girl looks at the boy with hollow eyes. The boy sighs. He decided to initiate conversation. "My name Tom Riddle and you are?"
"Pierrot." the girl, Pierrot, replies.
Tom frowns upon hearing her name. "Only Pierrot?"
"Yes, may I go now? I've already set your blanket and your clothes. Please excuse me." The girl moved past him, and before he could call her, he saw blood seep from the girl's clothes.
He looks more carefully at the girl, Pierrot. He could clearly see scars, stitches and bruises all around her. That night he keeps on thinking, Who is that girl? Why did he never see her in the orphanage before? Why she don't have the last name? Why she have those things all around her skin?
He wonders who even thought that giving 'Pierrot' name to the girl is suited for the girl.
A/N: Hope you guys enjoy it, song by Daya - Safe