Disclaimer: I wrote this when I was 12 to 13 in 2003. Harry Potter is hereby © to J.K. Rowling. Everything else is © to me, or its respective owners.

Chapter Eight: Halloween and Fear

Everyone had so much fun at the party. The days at school seemed to whiz by. It was Halloween. Cho's seventeenth birthday. Cho had awoken and found gifts waiting on her bedside. She opened each parcel and loved each gift. She dressed and went down to the common room. Dumbledore had given them the day off today to unwind, and so the students could have an extra study day. Harry and the others arrived in the common room and together they set off to breakfast, then Cho and Hermione set off to the library.

They were taking quick notes, and Cho left the library early, and was heading out to the grounds when she was pulled into a broom closet on the second floor. Her robes were forcefully taken off and were left outside the broom closet door, then the door was shut hastily and locked, and someone was kissing her. And it wasn't Harry. She shoved him off, and was looking at Josh Davies.

"You asshole!" Cho screamed.

"You can scream all you like, but no one will hear you. The door is soundproof. Not even your precious Potter can save you now!" Josh cackled.

"Well someone's been thinking pretty hard…" Cho said coldly.

"Oh shut up…now, my little tart, I'm going to make you my slave!" Josh said, grinning.

"You wish!" Cho replied.

Josh took out his wand and cast a placement charm on her, so she was stuck to one of the walls. Josh was smiling and laughing insanely.

"My dreams will come true at last!!!" He shouted, as he removed Cho's socks and shoes.

"I don't even want to know what you dream about…" Cho muttered.

"What's that, darling?" Josh asked.

He kissed her again, his tongue entering her mouth. Cho bit his lip, making him draw back.

"You're rather feisty today, aren't you?" He asked, licking her face. "It'll make what's about to happen even more enjoyable…did I mention you taste good?"

"You're sick! Let me go!" Cho shouted fiercely.

"No…I like you…I've liked you for a while now…and I'm going to take my chance to get close to you while I can…maybe your feelings will change after the few minutes you'll spend in this room…" Josh said hopefully.

"I will never love you."

"That should all change…"

He tore off her clothes and admired her figure in her underclothes.

"Nice…I never knew you looked this good."

"Josh, go fuck yourself, ok? Just leave me alone, and let me go, alright?"

"That's no way to talk to me…"

"Well get used to it!"

Josh kissed her again, and touched her chest, then dug into the pocket of his robes and took out a small knife. Cho saw the blade and shuddered.

"Oh don't worry…I won't hurt you…as long as you be a nice girl for me…"

Harry had just walked into the library.

"Where's Cho?" He asked Hermione.

"I don't know. She left a while ago." Hermione replied.

"I'll check the common room." Harry said.

"I'll help, I'll go get Alyssia and Whitney…" Hermione said.

Both left the library and walked in different directions and met up in the hall again.

"She's not in the common room. I asked Akira to check if she was in her dormitory. She's not there." Harry said.

"Get Tai." Hermione, Alyssia, and Whitney answered in unison.

They rushed off to the fifth floor and went into the office that Tai was using.

"Tai! Cho's missing." Harry said once he was in the door.

"What?" Tai asked.

"We can't find her. She's not in Gryffindor Tower. She has to be somewhere in the castle." Hermione replied.

Josh had taken the knife and cut the straps on Cho's bra, and he cut the piece of fabric by the clasp that held it closed.

"Nice…" He muttered.

Cho's bravery was not to last for much longer…fear was starting overwhelm her, and it only made Josh grin some more.

"Oh it looks like you've calmed down now…" He said, grinning.

Cho suddenly felt cold and started to shudder. Her eyes were burning, dying to let a river of tears flow. But she wouldn't let Josh see her cry. That's exactly what he wanted. He wanted to see her weakness, and he'd take advantage of the moment, and she'd be helpless to do anything.

'Harry…where are you?' Cho thought.

Currently everyone was scouring the third floor now, and they had run down to the second floor. Harry was in the lead, and then he saw a small black pile.

"Tai! Over here!" He yelled.

Tai ran over.

"What is it?" He asked.

Harry picked up the small black pile. And held them up, showing black Hogwarts robes with a Gryffindor badge on the chest and a small silver Head Girl pin above it.

"It's Cho's robes…" Harry replied.

"And it's right outside…" Tai said.

"A broom closet." Harry, Whitney, Alyssia, and Hermione finished.

The five of them put two and two together.

"Uh-oh." The five chorused.

Tai tried to open the broom closet door. It was locked.

"She's definitely in there. This broom closet is always unlocked." He said. "Alohomora!"

The door unlocked with a click, and Tai put his hand on the knob, Harry ran forth, his wand drawn. Tai nodded at Harry.

"One. Two. Three!" He counted.

He turned the knob and the door flew open.

Light spilled into the dark broom closet, and Cho saw two faces that she was so happy to see. She was saved.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Harry shouted, his wand at Josh.

Josh fell stiff as a board, and hit his head on an overturned metal bucket, and ended up knocking himself out. Tai examined the way Cho was being held to the wall.

"Placement Charm…counter charm…oh yeah…Unplacetonium!" He muttered.

Cho fell off the wall and into Harry's arms, where she cried. Harry held her close and stroked her raven black hair. Cho stopped crying and looked into Harry's eyes.

"I was…so…scared!" She choked.

Tai handed Cho her robes. She slipped them on and took her wand out of the pocket and tapped a part of her stomach and a t shirt and shorts appeared. She pointed at her feet and she had sandals. The rest of her uniform that Josh had forcefully taken off was lying in a crumpled heap.

"Evanesco!" She whispered.

Her clothes disappeared, and she put her wand away, then Whitney, Hermione, and Alyssia bustled into the closet and gave her a hug.

"Oh Cho! Are you alright?" Whitney, Hermione, and Alyssia asked.

"I think I should be…" Cho replied.

"Ok, could we like, get out of here? Because it's getting really stuffy in here and there isn't much room in here for all of us!" Alyssia asked in an annoyed voice.

"Yes…let's get out of here!" Cho agreed.

They all stumbled out of the broom closet and lay sprawled in the hallway. Each of them stood up and Tai revived Josh, and seized him by the ear and was about to take him away.

"No. Tai, wait. Let me…" Cho said quietly, grinning evilly.

Alyssia, Hermione, and Whitney had to hold their laughter in, and Harry fought to keep a straight face.

"Um…ok, sure…" Tai replied in an obviously fake uncertain voice.

He let go of Josh's ear, and Cho shoved him at the wall. Josh was confused, but went with it. He started grinning, and Cho grinned and put herself against him. Cho leaned her face towards his, and raised one of her legs slightly. Josh leaned forward towards her, and Cho raised her knee so it collided right between his legs. Josh fell over, and Cho kicked him several times in the small of the back, so he'd start rolling. She kicked him one last time, and Josh went rolling down the stairs that led to the first floor. Cho and the others burst out laughing.

"Tai, you'd better give me bonus points for getting that close to him." Cho said.

"Yeah…Ok um…ten points to Harry for helping me, and fifteen to you. Five for charming him with you good looks and distracting him from your evil plot, and ten for taking your evil plot into action. Sound fair?" Tai replied.

"Sounds good…now um…we should be getting back to the common room…"

"Nonsense. Dinner's about to start."

"Oh fine…"

They went down to dinner and Dumbledore made the usual Halloween speech, and the school ghosts flew in and out of the Great Hall, and Peeves would occasionally blow in someone's ear or make a honking noise. Students laughed, and smiled and everyone had fun with wizard crackers, and happily ate pumpkin pasties, Cho got even more presents, including one from Josh. She didn't open it, but made sure that Josh could see, and she set fire to the parcel with her wand tip, and grinned. Everyone had a great time that Halloween. The feast ended, and everyone turned in and went to bed early. November arrived, and the winter came in, harsh and cruel…