A/N: I know, I know, please don't kill me, or Aries, we've been soooo busy it's not funny. There's been illness and death coming at us from all angles, and this story came in second to our lives. Here we go again, trying once more to keep our readers happy with this next chapter.

Chapter 11

They walked down at least 100 stairs. Draco was about to open his mouth to complain when he hit his head on a low hanging rock. His swearing echoed from deep within the tunnel.

Sarah snickered as she ducked to avoid doing the same mistake. She tripped over his foot and fell down the last step. As she hit the floor, torches lit up all along the tunnel wall.

"You ass wipe!" she yelled, "you did that on purpose!"

"You laughed at my expense, that must be punished," he said casually, rubbing his forehead.

Steph came up behind him and shoved him to the ground. "You mother fucking slut whore!" she yelled, "you could have killed her! How did you know how many stairs there were?"

"I didn't think about that." He said calmly brushing himself off.

"You didn't think period!" she helped Sarah up and stormed off down the tunnel. Harry walked up to Draco.

"Good job dumbass." They followed the girls down the tunnel, Draco thought to himself.

"I know it was stupid, now I got Steph on my ass, she'll never let me live this down, it's going to be a long week…"

Finally coming to the end of the passageway after walking a bit after the staircase, they all watched as Steph pushed on one of the stones that was sticking outside of the wall.

"I have to remember this place." said Sarah aloud as she took a quick look around. "Hey Steph, where down this take us to, inside the school?" she asked, but before Stephanie could answer, the wall before them opened up and moved to the side. Stepping out after Steph, Sarah continued to wonder what area of the school she was in until she saw a familiar painting.

"Slytherin Hall…" she muttered under her breath. Turning around as the secret passage closed behind Harry and Draco, Sarah took hold of Harry's hand. "Alright, talk to ya in the morning Steph, and Draco, next time you touch me, be prepared for an ass kicking." She threatened. Ignoring Draco's glare, Sarah sprinted off down the hall with Harry in tow, after waving farewell to Steph.

Running through the corridors and almost getting caught by Filch, Sarah grinned as they ran down the last hall and stood before the portrait of the fat lady.

"Pickleweasel." Harry said as he took a moment to catch his breath. Ignoring the fat lady's protests at being woken up at such an ungodly hour, they walked into their common room.

"Thanks for bringing us Harry," whispered Sarah as she shuffled her feet out of nervousness.

"Eh, no problem, it was fun even if Malfoy had to tag along, and him tripping you was rather uncalled for." Harry replied, his grin forming into a frown at the thought of Malfoy.

"It's not like I broke anything, I'll just have a bruise on my ass is all. And if he thinks I can't do much damage because I'm a girl, just wait till he starts something up…" she trailed off. Coughing as her cheeks went red she said, "sorry, you don't need to hear this so umm… goodnight and thanks, I had a good time." Kissing him on the cheek, she ran up into the girls dormitory and left a dazed Harry Potter standing with a baffled expression in the common room. Shaking his head, Harry muttered something under his breath as he headed towards the boys dormitory, thinking to himself that Canadians were rather different.

Meanwhile, Draco and Steph had just entered the Slytherin common room to find Blaise and Pansy glaring at them from their seats in the plush leather armchairs. "Had fun?" Blaise asked snidely as he crossed his arms and fixated both Steph and Draco with a glare.

"Where were you two?" demanded Pansy as she got out of the chair and waddled slightly over to Draco's side.

At Pansy's attempt to sexily walk towards Draco, Stephanie frowned. "What the fuck are you two doing up?" she growled, facing Blaise.

"I could ask you two the same thing" he barked. "I demand to know what you were doing with him" he pointed to Draco.

"Oh I don't know, I had a lot of pent up sexual frustration, so I just went and shagged the first guy I saw." She replied sarcastically, "what do you care what we were doing? You don't own me, you can't control me. Mind your own business."

"You shagged him!" Pansy shrieked, "you keep your filthy Slytherin wannabe hands off of my Dracky!"

"Shut your mouth you ugly cow." Draco said calmly turning to face her, "how many times do I have to tell you? I'm not yours and I never will be. You were a one-night-stand so get over yourself and move on." He gave her such a glare that fear shone clearly in her eyes.

She slowly backed away, her eyes brimming with tears. "But Draco, we were meant for each other. It was written in the stars…" she said pleadingly.

"You failed divinations, you wouldn't even know what a star looked like," he scoffed, "now get out of my way, I'm going to bed" he walked off towards the dorm rooms, Stephanie followed closely.

As they reached the division that would lead to the rooms, Stephanie leaned over to whisper something to Draco, "it's written in the stars Dracky poo…" she mocked.

"Shut up!" he yelled trying to hit her. She danced out of the way laughing.

"Goodnight 'Darling…'" she drawled, running up the stairs to the girls dormitory. Her laughter could be heard echoing through the common room.

In the great hall the following morning, Sarah had met up with Steph. "Last night was fun!" exclaimed Sarah, excluding the part where Draco had tripped her, and that she had a very colorful bruise at the moment.

"Yeah it was fun until me and Draco stepped into the common room to be questioned by Blaise and Pansy," replied Steph as a frown appeared on her face. "We had quite the little argument too. They seemed to believe we snuck out to be together." she explained. A small, evil grin appeared on her face, "so I told them I shagged him just because he was there." Sarah laughed out loud, drawing the attention of the Slytherin table. Draco was glaring at them, he obviously didn't like the idea of a Slytherin sitting at the Gryffindor table.

"I'd better go," Steph said hesitantly, "he may decide to try and get me 'voted out' of Slytherin."

Sarah didn't look too happy, "who cares? He doesn't have any business in your life."

"Well duh, but I kinda have to make it up to him." she grinned again, "I kinda spread a rumor that Pansy was pregnant with his baby and that he had proposed to her."

Sarah fell off her chair backwards, holding her ribs to keep her sides from splitting. She continued to laugh as Steph made her way over to her house table.

"Sarah, are you ok?" asked a concerned Harry as he stood above her. Cheeks red and puffy, Sarah tried to stop laughing but couldn't hold it back long enough to stifle a grin and more laughter taking Harry's outstretched arm, she let him pick her up off the floor before answering.

"Damn that was funny!" she exclaimed. Fixing her hair and uniform, she waved off Harry's confused expression as she sat down at the table.

"What's so funny?" questioned Hermione as she gave Sarah a disinterested look.

"None of your goddamn business you damn brown noser." quipped Sarah, her good mood quickly diminishing. Glaring at her, Hermione scoffed as she stuck her nose in the air. Crossing her arms, she ignored Sarah. Sticking her tongue out at Hermione, she turned to Harry and leaned in close. "Steph's just bugging Draco, I'll tell you more after" she whispered into Harry's ear, winking at him as she pulled away. She picked up a piece of buttered toast and munched on it, while continuing to ignore the strange looks she was receiving from others in the great hall.

At the Slytherin table, Stephanie winked at Draco as he glared at her. Taking a seat, she grabbed a muffin and began picking at it. Blocking out the random comments her house mates were blabbing, she quickly finished her blueberry muffin and stood up. She was about to walk away from the table when Draco snidely called out.

"Watch your back Malefice!"

"Nah, mine's fine thanks, but you should watch out for Pansy's, with her having your kid and all. She's bound to have her own difficulties and you should be there for her." She cheekily replied. Turning her back to him once again, she left the great hall and headed towards the dragon room to do a bit of studying. Stifling her laughter as she left the hall, she heard a few questions directed at Draco, and his frustrated cursing.

Laughing at Draco's outbursts from over at the Gryffindor table, Sarah held onto the table so as not to fall off.

"Oh, Steph's asking for it, but it's so funny" she giggled.

"What'd she do?" asked Harry as he eyed the Slytherin table.

"She's bugging Draco and saying Pansy's having his kid and that the two of them are engaged." She said laughing as Harry's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. She watched as he choked on a mouthful of pumpkin juice. "Well, catch ya in the common room," she snickered. Getting up from the table, she left the great hall with an amused grin on her face. Whistling a tune as she exited the great hall, Sarah decided she's go find Steph, Sebastien and Patrick to see if they wanted to play a little quidditch later in the afternoon.

As she walked by the teacher's lounge she overheard a conversation between professors Dumbledore and McGonagall, she didn't mean to eavesdrop, but she had an ear for gossip.

"You still plan on announcing the dance, Albus?" McGonagall asked.

"Yes Minerva, the students deserve to have a little fun," Sarah could almost picture the twinkle in his eyes.

"But Albus, the presence hasn't left yet. There's something out there, something powerful."

"There have been no incidents all semester; we don't know if the presence is good or evil, we simply assume it is evil. Let them have fun while they can; if it is evil then we need to keep the students unaware."

"And if it is evil?"

"Then we deal with it when the time comes. Until then, we will have the dance," Dumbledore concluded.

"Very well, I will go deliver the message to all the teachers."

Sarah quickly ran up the stairs and ducked into the first hidden passage she came to. She only stopped to catch her breath when she reached the dragon room.

"Canadian eh?" she gasped. The door slid open; she immediately spotted Patrick and Sebastien sitting in plush chairs playing exploding snap. She looked around and noticed Stephanie in the study section, next to a large pile of books.

"Steph!" she cried out in exasperation, "this is no time to study!"

"Huh?" Steph asked, "and why not? If I get it done now I'll have free time later."

"I got some good gossip!" Sarah exclaimed, "studying can wait" with a wvae of her hand she cleared the table of books.

"Hey! I still needed those!" shouted Steph angrily.

"Don't worry, you'll get them back exactly how they were." reassured Sarah.

Steph leaned back in her chair and pouted sarcastically. "This had better be good LaChance"

"There's going to be a school dance!"

COMPLETE SILENCE

"That's it?" Steph asked.

"Well there was something about something about some powerful presence on the grounds that they don't know if it's evil or good and how we shouldn't have the dance because it might be dangerous and how they haven't been able to find it whenever they went out looking for it." she rambled in a single breath. She gasped, "But the important thing is, we're having a dance! I gotta go shopping, I gotta get ready, I gotta start asking guys out, I gotta—."

"Calm the fuck down," said Steph, "you don't even know when it'll be. You'll give yourself an anxiety attack like this."

"Nuh uh, 'sides, even if I don't know when it is, I can still prepare for it." protested Sarah. Putting his hands on Sarah's shoulders as he came up behind her, Sebastien turned her around to face him.

"Deep breath Sarah! Calm down already." He said as he gently shook her. Taking a deep breath, Sarah stuck her tongue out at him in a mocking manner.

"You know you wanna go to the dance." Said Sarah in a sing song manner.

"I'd rather have my teeth pulled," Steph replied sarcastically, "but I guess I would go, I gotta socialize if I want to fit in at this school."

"Yay!" laughed Sarah, "so who you gonna ask?"

"No one."

"Wha? Why not?" asked Sarah, "you gotta go with someone."

"If they ask me, maybe I'll go with them. But I'm not going to go run around looking like a desperate fool."

"Oh come on… maybe Patrick will go with you."

"Huh? Hey wait, no, don't go dragging me into this" stuttered Patrick, "No offense Steph, but I had someone else in mind."

"Oooh, Patrick has a girlfriend," grinned Sarah.

"No I don't," he blushed, "she's just a friend."

"What's her name?" asked Steph suddenly curious.

"Melanie… she's in Hufflepuff." He answered slowly.

"Way to go, you're gonna get laid" exclaimed Sebastien clapping Patrick on the back.

Stephanie hit Sebastien over the head. "Pervert" she muttered.

"What?" protested Sebastien, rubbing the back of his head. "I was just saying what everyone was thinking."

"You were the only one thinking that," glared Sarah, "we were all thinking that it was sweet that Patrick liked someone."

"Come on guys, it's not that big of a deal," complained Patrick who was now a deep shade of red, "I was only considering asking her to the dance, not like I'm going to marry her."

"Okay guys, let's leave him alone," sighed Steph.

"Yeah, we were trying to find a date for Steph," grinned Sarah.

"What!" cried Steph, "No!" she backed away from the group.

"Oh yes, you're going to the dance and you're going to have a date, even if it kills you" Sarah grinned evilly.

"What about that green haired guy, Blaise?" asked Sebastien.

"Yeah, he seems to like you" smiled Patrick.

He seems to like my ass," grumbled Steph, "look, let's wait until it's actually announced, then we'll worry about me being stuck with a date."

"Ok, until then we'll work on picking an outfit for the dance." Sarah giggled and clapped her hands.

"No, that will wait until it's announced too."

"You suck out all the fun of things" pouted Sarah.

"I do not."

"Fun sucker! 1" she stuck her tongue out.

"Alright, enough girls," Patrick stepped between them, "we'll plan everything AFTER it's announced."

"You guys all suck," complained Sarah.

"Yeah, yeah," the three sighed.

"You guys wanna go play quidditch?" she asked smiling once again.

"That was a quick mood change."

"Yeah, sure, we'll go for a little while," answered Steph, "gotta get my homework done for tomorrow."

Sarah rolled her eyes, "hey, why don't you go to the dance with Draco?" she asked suddenly.

I thought we weren't discussing this anymore…"

"Yeah, but he likes you, I can tell. I'm sure he'll ask y—."

A high pitched scream cut her off, the teens all whipped around to the source of the wailing. Covering her ears Steph tried to be heard, "What the hell is that screaming!" she shouted.

"I don't know, we were just talking about going to the dance with Dra—." A small dragon statue shot across the room towards Sarah's head. She ducked and it crashed harmlessly onto the opposite wall.

Sarah sat on the floor, stunned. The screaming finally stopped and a soft sobbing could be heard. Then just as suddenly as it started, it stopped. The teens looked around cautiously, the next thing they knew they were all pushed to the ground by an invisible force.

The same force began to beat on Steph, as if someone was kicking her in the ribs. "Make it stop!" she cried as she got hit in the face and back.

Sarah scrambled to her feet and cried "RICTUSEMPRA!" shooting the spell in an arc, hoping to hit whatever was attacking Steph. A sharp cry was heard as the spell connected with the invisible attacker. Whoever it was, she landed on a shelf of crystal ornaments and flickered back into view.

Her long black hair flowed angrily around her, she bared her teeth to reveal fangs and she hissed. Her bright red eyes flashed in hatred as she scrambled to her feet and dove out a window.

A/N: There ya go! All done with this chappy, hope ya like it, and we'll try not to take so long with the next one.

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