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It was a Saturday morning and Paige was bored out of her mind. She had already done her homework; she had woken up earlier than everyone, and was waiting for the others to finish getting dressed.
"HURRY UP HERMIONE!" Paige called up the stairs.
"Coming!" Came the reply. Paige sighed and sat down on the couch, soon Ron and Harry came down the stairs, Hermione followed a minute behind.
"So what are we going do today?" Harry asked. Paige thought for a moment and then suddenly she had an idea.
"Well I have a great idea but we might want to eat breakfast first." she said
"Oohhh what is it?" Hermione asked. Paige just gave her a sly smile. They all headed down the stairs to the Great Hall. When they got there, they found it was empty, except for the teachers who liked to eat early. When the group sat down; they began to eat and wonder what Paige had in mind.
"So, what's this idea you had in mind? Is it a game?" Hermione finally asked. The boys turned toward Paige expectantly.
"Sure is!" Paige replied but Snape swooped into the Great Hall at that moment and Paige decided it would be wise not to say anything, unfortunately Ron didn't see Snape so he talked.
"So what is this gam- YEOW" Ron yelped as Paige kicked him from underneath the table. Snape, who was walking towards the head table, looked over at them with a glare. His face filled with suspicion. But he kept walking. Paige sighed when he was far away.
"Sorry... Snape could have heard and this isn't something we want him overhearing. Anyway, the game I was thinking on playing was Truth or Dare!" Paige exclaimed happily. Ron's face began to take on a confused look. He was about to ask her what Truth or Dare was when Ginny, Fred and George, and Neville, joined. Everyone stared at her. Hermione and Harry seemed to understand, Harry's face was filled with approval and Hermione's...not so much.
"I don't know... We could get into trouble if we're caught... but I guess that a game or two wouldn't hurt." She said when everyone stared at her.
"Alright well we need to go into a class room or something. And the rules are that if someone dares another person, that person has to do that dare or suffer the consequences. And if that person picks truth, then they have to answer truthfully or suffer the consequences" Paige explained.
"You will do no such thing!" Came the annoying voice of Percy Weasly. He had come over and was watching them all. Paige glared up at him.
"And what are you going do about it?" She asked challengingly. He blinked at her like an owl.
"I'm a prefect, you have to listen to me or I will tell the teachers!" He snapped.
"Tattle-tale… If you really were a Weasly you wouldn't say something like that!" Fred said. Percy glared then whirled around and stocked back to his seat. After a moment, they all stood and went to find a class room.
In the class room, they began the game.
"Hermione, truth or dare?" Paige asked. Hermione thought for a moment and then answered.
"Truth"
"Have you ever wanted to kiss a boy?" Paige asked, not wanting to ask anything overly embarrassing at first.
"...Yes" She replied. Her face was all red. Paige smiled and then sat back. Hermione looked around and then asked. "Neville; truth or dare?"
"Hmmm, truth!" Neville replied. Hermione thought for a moment.
"Is it true that you don't always feel like you belong?"
"Yes…a lot actually, especially with those Slytherins always making fun of me" Neville replied sadly, Paige's heart went out to him.
"Ron, truth or dare?" he asked Ron after an awkward moment.
"...Dare." Ron replied. The girls sniggered.
"I dare you to...send an admiration letter to Professor Lockhart!" Neville said. "And sign it as Professor Trelawny!" He added everyone stared at him and then laughed their heads off.
Ron got out a piece of paper, and commenced in writing. He paused long enough to look over at everyone.
"George; truth or dare?' Ron asked.
"I think I'll go with truth." George said grinning.
"Is it true that you stole mom's apron when you were 5 and walked around the house mimicking her?" Ron asked immediately; George smirked.
"Haha yes and when she caught me I couldn't stand for a week!" They all laughed at that. George then looked at Harry.
"Harry, truth or dare?" George asked.
"Im going with truth, I am afraid to see what you would have me do if I chose dare!" Harry said.
"SLYTHERIN! You coward! Oh well…Let's see…Are you really treated as the Golden Boy at home?" George asked.
"No, no I'm not actually. My relatives make me work and don't give me any special treatment at all." Harry said "They think I am too lazy and Dudley isn't!" They all roared with laughter at the joke. Harry, after getting control of himself ; looked at Fred.
"Fred, truth or dare?" Harry asked.
"Dare of course!" The reply came with confidence. Harry thought for a minute then said,
"I dare you to...put a sign in McGonagall's office saying "GREEN AND SILVER ALL HIGH AND MIGHTY, SLYTHERINS ALL WEAR WITEY TIDEYS!"
"Ok! I'll be right back!" Fred started towards the door.
"IM coming with!" Paige called! Fred smiled then replied
"Fine but since we both might be gone a while... Paige truth or dare?" Fred asked
"Dare duh!" She said with a smile, and then she found out what she had to do. But soon after she smiled again, reached into her bag, and pulled out a skateboard.
While Fred did the whole office thing, Paige thought up ways to do her dare. Soon enough, Fred was done and he even added Malfoy's name. Paige smiled and grabbed her skateboard.
"Alright, my turn, and nice touch with the snake and the signature." Paige said as they walked down the hallway. They stopped at a straight hallway, with a few turnoffs. Paige breathed and then got on the skateboard. She zipped down the halls with a delighted yell. She did a few tricks and stunts before she came to the end of the hallway. Then she turned around to do it again. Fred was smiling his head off as she came back. Then about half way down, page passed another hallway, but she didn't get far. A large figure came out of nowhere and she crashed right into it.
Paige found herself on her butt. She looked up to see Snape standing there glaring down at her. Paige quickly got rid of the skateboard with magic (at least she tried to). She tried see around him to see if Fred was gone. Snape just watched, not saying anything, which scared her slightly. She moved slightly so she was peering around him, sure enough, Fred wasn't there. Her face scrunched slightly WIMP she thought. She looked back up to see Snape's eye brow raised. She slowly stood. The whole time, Snape watched her. She smiled sheepishly at him.
"And what do you think you are doing?" He asked with a deadly calm voice. She swallowed hard, and then looked around.
"I was just trying to find something that I lost the other day!" Paige explained. Snape stared. And then he flicked his wand and the skateboard flew off the ground, which she had hidden behind her.
"Well, I think you've found what you were looking for." He said icily. Paige had an idea.
"Yes sir! I was walking around when I came around the corner back there and I stepped on it. Then it rolled me all the way down here and into you!" she smiled and Snape glared. Paige reached forward and snatched the board out of his grasp. Snape stared at her with surprise. Then he glared again.
"Don't let me catch you with it again!" He snapped and then he walked off. Paige shot him the finger behind his back and then raced off
When she got back to the class room, everyone was laughing. Apparently, Fred filled them in. she glared at them all.
"Thanks for waiting!" She growled and then laughed.
"What did Snape say?" Hermione asked. Paige smiled then began to reenact Snape's little show. After she was done they all were on the floor laughing. Then Fred reached into his pocket and brought out a bottle of Fire Whiskey. They all began to drink it, never having tried it before. They all continued the game and drank more and more of the Fire Whiskey. Glancing at her pocket watch, Paige noticed that they'd been at this game for about 2 ½ hours. They had started around 10 am, right after breakfast. She didn't know how the twins snatched the alcohol, nor did she particularly care. The Fire Whiskey was warm and sweet to them all, none of them had tried it although some had seen their parents drink it. They'd each been drinking for about an hour and a half, having gone through about two bottles. None of them knew what the effects would be but at that point, none of them cared (mostly because of the alcohol in their systems).
"Ginny truth or dare?" Paige smiled at the red headed girl.
"Truth. I have nothing to hide!" But that only made Paige smile even more.
"Is it true that you would rather throw up on Snape's shoes than to kiss Draco?" she asked. Ginny grinned. "Oh god, we already did something like this didn't we Neville? Oh what the hell Ginny answer the dang question already!"
"That is definitely true!" She replied. "Hermione truth or dare?"
"TRUTH!" Hermione immediately cried. They all laughed at the drunken look on her face.
"Alright is it true that we shouldn't stop drinking this stuff? I mean it is AWSOME!" Ginny said, obviously she couldn't think of anything else to say.
"Well I really think we should stop, but you're right it is really good!" They all laughed again. They kept playing and about another hour later, Ginny had to run around the school in her underwear and training bra as fast as she could. She thought she saw a teacher but wasn't sure. On top of that, Ron and Paige had to swap outfits, leaving Paige in oversized trousers and a sweater while Ron was awkwardly wearing a skirt and sweater. A few other truths and dares had been thrown around before the circle came back to Paige.
"Now than Paige, truth or dare?" Ginny said, she was still in her underwear because Hermione had ordered it to be so after her run.
"Hey! I already went…..but I guess I choose truth." She said smiling.
"Does your mother ever tuck you in at night?" Ginny asked.
"No my mother hasn't done that since I was about three!" Paige laughed good naturdley, the alcohol in her system numbing her emotions so the anger she usually felt toward her mother wasn't there.
Suddenly the door slammed open and McGonagall, Snape and Dumbledore all stepped into the room. All the kids stared in horror. And Fred hid the Fire Whiskey bottle, but not before Snape saw it. He glared then moved across the room and held out his hand. Fred reluctantly handed it over. The adults all stared around at the 8 children in horror. All the children returned their stares of shock. Ginny's mouth was wide open in a silent scream; she was still in her underwear and training bra and absolutely mortified at the thought of the teachers seeing her like this. Ron's face went bright red, still being in Paige's skirt.
"I believe that you should all come to my office….Mrs. Weasly, please put your clothes on before you come, Mr. Weasly and Miss Castro please return yourselves to your proper school attires." Dumbledore said calmly.
Wow, he isn't going to yell at us? My old headmaster would have tried to hit me if I did something like this. Paige thought drunkenly.
None of the kids moved. Snape had grabbed a full bottle of fire whiskey from Fred, not the empty ones, which Paige had gotten rid of. Dumbledore smiled and then walked out the door. McGonagall followed him. Snape stayed to their horror. He of course wasn't looking as Ginny slipped into her clothes and Paige and Ron swapped clothing, but when they were done he turned to look at them all. And he looked furious.
"If I were the headmaster, you would all be out of this school before you could throw up this alcohol." He spat.
"we aren't that drunk!" Paige argued.
"The headmaster wants ALL of you in his office, now!" He barked and they all jumped and staggered. Snape's eyes narrowed as they filed out, walking past him. Paige was the last to go. When she was approaching the door, Snape gave her a dirty look. She stuck her tongue out at him. He glared and moved forward as if to cuff her. She stepped back and almost fell. Snape; unfortunately caught her. He grabbed her arm and steadied her. When she straightened she was given a look that just told her that she was busted.
"HOW DARE YOU DRINK ALCOHOL?" McGonagall was practically screaming it at Paige, everyone was waiting outside the office. Snape and Dumbledore watched in silence. Page felt like an idiot. "YOU'RE ONLY 12! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" She yelled when Paige didn't reply. Everyone waited in silence as Paige chose her words.
"I…I'm sorry professor. We didn't know what it was! Honest! We all just thought it was some type of juice!" Paige lied easily, just praying that the others (who were in the corridor) would catch on if asked. "We didn't know...why is it bad for us?" Paige asked, playing dumb.
"Because it's wrong for someone your age to drink alcohol." Dumbledore replied. Paige already understood how bad it was, but as drunk as she was she wasn't going to let on that she knew.
"My question is, how much have you all had to drink? I confiscated one bottle from Mr. Weasly but your behavior indicated you've all drank more…" Snape said with a sly smirk on his face. Jerk! It was only because she stumbled in front of him!
"We didn't drink that much sir! Honest!" Paige tried convincing them.
"Well let us bring the others in to see what they have to say." McGonagall stated before heading to the door and ushering the others in. They all looked drunk and scared.
After a while longer, the three teachers determined that the students had drunk about two bottles of Fire Whiskey including some of the full one (although they had been working on the almost full one which was their third). Paige tried biting her tongue the entire time, knowing that the 8 of them were in enough trouble as it was.
"All of you shall receive detention!" McGonagall exclaimed. They all groaned. "Mrs. Castro, Potter, Longbottom and Granger shall be filling out their detention with Professor Snape. And the four of you Weasly's are with me. You shall carry your detentions out on Friday night at 6:00 sharp." She finished. They had less than a week of freedom. Paige glanced at Snape and saw him smirking. She let out a low growl. Although no one heard it. Why did she have to have another detention with him! He hated her!
"All of you are to go straight back to your common room and stay there for the rest of the day!" McGonagall snapped.
"But Professor it's only 1:00 in the afternoon! We haven't had lunch!" Paige protested.
"You lot should have thought about that before getting yourselves into trouble." Snape stated simply.
"What are we going to do for the rest of the day?!" Paige snapped back at him.
"Try homework, I know some of you could benefit for getting it done on time for a change." Snape stated simply.
Paige glowered at him, she'd already done all of hers! Now she'd need to find something else to do!
"Enough! Common room now! And not another word about it!" McGonagall snapped angrily.
The 8 children quickly scurried out of the head masters office and off toward their common room. The three adults watched them go before turning around to discuss what had just occurred.
Back in the common room, Paige and the others walked back into the common room. It had taken the adults about an hour to yell at them, get the information out of them, and then dole out punishments and none of them were too happy about it. Still, detentions weren't that bad and the four Weasly's had got off easier than their four friends. The time was around 2:10 in the afternoon, they were not going to get lunch anytime soon and they most likely wouldn't get dinner either. Well that's what the four second years and the first year believed until the twins smiled and told them not to fear. Soon enough a house elf was called by the twins, Millie the house elf was more than happy to bring them food from the kitchens and soon enough the 8 starving kids were gorging themselves on sandwiches and other lunch foods. They did the same when dinner time came around. Until then and bed time, they found ways to occupy themselves.
Once it was close to bedtime, Paige excused herself and went upstairs to get ready for bed. Each of the kids had had enough time to allow the alcohol to leave their system. Just to help with the symptoms, Paige grabbed a notebook her dad had given her and looked for a spell. She found what she was looking for and pointed the wand at herself.
Alcolisper she chanted and the left over drunken feeling went away. Her father had made that spell up. She smiled. But that went away when Hermione walked in.
"Hey… gosh I'm tired and kind of queasy, ugh its been hours since we've had that alcohol! No wonder my parents are against it! Hermione stated still semi-drunkenly. Paige turned to look at her.
"Yah, I was queasy too, maybe sleep will help us." Paige said
"What do you mean you were queasy?" Hermione asked. Paige snorted then explained. Then after she pointed her wand at Hermione and chanted the spell. Hermione was better in less than 5 seconds. Hermione then settled in bed and when Paige thought she was asleep, she crept over to the window and looked outside. The moon was shining brightly. It was full. Paige felt her heart skip a beat, she shoved the feeling down. Looking down at the forest line she froze. There was something out there. And it was looking right at her. Her eyes narrowed and she glanced at Hermione. Then she grabbed her cloak and slunk out of the room.
As she was walking through the corridors, she kept a look out for teachers, and Mrs. Norris. Went she reached the main entrance, she opened the door quietly. Then she slipped out into the darkness.
When she reached the woods, Paige looked around to make sure she wasn't being followed or watched. After determining that she was safe, she walked a little ways into the woods and turned into an enormous grey wolf with piercing ice-blue eyes. She sniffed around and smelt something odd. She followed the smell until she found what it was.
A man was standing in a clearing staring at nothing. He had long brown hair and amber colored eyes; the color of a wolf's. He was wearing torn jeans and no shirt. He looked at Paige and smiled, revealing long knife-sharp teeth.
"Why if it isn't young Mist, I thought you might want to talk to me." He smiled as Paige moved into the clearing and turned human.
"Don't play around Shadow, or should I call you by your human name? Luke isn't it? I would appreciate it if you didn't call me by that name. My human name is Paige and you know it. You know my father won't like you being here. You can't expect to get away with hurting me and expect a warm welcome back into the pack!" Paige snarled, she had hated this man from the moment she met him. He just watched her thoughtfully then smiled.
"You have guessed why I'm here? Clever girl." He smiled maliciously and then laughed. That laughter turned to something inhuman. And as he laughed he turned into a gigantic brown wolf. Paige sensed a fight. Then she transformed also.
Two wolves faced each other, one a large grey wolf, the other a large brown wolf. They growled and then lunged for each other. While she had been trained in combat, Paige was inexperienced with fighting like this, but she sensed that this wolf was dangerous. She leapt at the man and missed by an inch. Luke shoved her to the ground with massive paws. He smiled down at her.
You should join me Paige! You don't know what your- He broke off as Paige jerked forward snarling back in wolf talk I would die before I joined you LUKE. He took that as a challenge
So be it! He replied as he bent and grabbed her by the throat. He lifted her up into the air, twisted his body and threw her up against a tree. She cried out in pain and sunk down onto the ground. He raced over to her before she could stand and commenced in beating her with claws and teeth. He then grabbed her by the neck and she let out a loud painful screech.
You had a choice. Luke said biting down harder. Paige writhed and tried to free herself. He merely picked her up and threw her like a chew toy. She landed in a heap on the edge of the clearing. Luke came towards her. When he was standing over her, he smirked and licked the blood away from his face, then bent his head and licked her cheek. A sign that the fight was over.
I can see that you aren't ready to fight me young pup. And so I shall wait. When you are older, I will be ready. He whispered in her ear.
And…. I shall be ready to…..kill you Lucian. She could barely speak. She was in so much pain. He just smirked then turned into a human and disappeared.
Hermione had decided to follow Paige, but had lost her somewhere in the forest. She hadn't been sleeping when Paige thought she had been. It was around midnight, Paige had left for seemingly no reason. Now Hermione was scrambling to find out what had made that awful noise. It wasn't far off, she needed to find Paige and make sure she was all right. She should probably go get a teacher but she would get into trouble if she did. So she walked forward.
Paige opened her eyes, her fur was matted and blood soaked. Why was her Uncle here? Why'd he choose to pick a fight with her? Why did bad things always seem to happen to her? First her mother…and now her Uncle….She knew someone would come searching for the noise she had made. She needed to get back to the castle.
Paige shifted painfully into a human and stood up. She gasped and clutched a nearby tree. No tears came to her eyes. She had learned how to not cry when she was little. She gathered herself then move off in the direction of the castle. She was limping and there was a huge pain in her back and head. She kept walking, and eventually the school came into view. And so did Hermione. Paige sucked in her breath, and collapsed. Hermione saw her and screamed her name. She rushed forward and crouched beside her.
"Paige! Oh my god! What happened!? Oh god. We have to get you to the infirmary! Come on Paige!" Hermione cried, tears were in her eyes as she helped Paige up and they slowly staggered towards the school. But at the edge of the forest, Paige collapsed once again.
"No Paige we have to keep going! You are losing blood! We need to get help!" She tried again but this time Paige pushed her away.
"Go get….help. g'on hurry." Paige replied her voice husky. Hermione looked worried but she nodded and leapt up and ran off. Paige watched her go. She wished she could just slip away already. But she had made friends and couldn't leave them. So she tried to drag herself forward. But cried out as her leg hit a stick. Her head dropped onto the ground and she stared dully up at the sky.
Hermione ran as fast as she could. When she got to the castle, she ran inside, leaving the doors wide open.
Oh god where is everyone? Paige I'm coming! She thought. She ran around like a confused rabbit. She raced past Filch without even seeing him. He stared, and then went off to find a teacher.
As Hermione ran, she ran towards the teacher's lounge. She was frantic and hoped that a teacher would be there. When she arrived, she burst the door open.
No luck.
She whirled around and raced out the door, only to collide with someone. She fell backwards onto the floor. She looked up and saw Snape standing there glaring down at her.
"Well, well, Miss Granger I didn't expect to catch you out of bed at this hour." He smiled an evil smile. Hermione jumped up instantly and grabbed the arm of Snape's cloak. Her stared down at her and moved back a step.
"What do you think you are-" He broke off at the look on her face. He studied her for a moment. Tears were in her eyes. He was about to speak when she cut him off.
"Paige!" She croaked. "You have to help her! She's hurt, I…I think she's dying." She quivered and tugged on his sleeve. He stared a moment then moved forward swiftly, grabbing Hermione by the arm. Hermione flinched but looked up at him.
"Where is she? Show me!" Snape urged. He realized that something bad must have happened. The two of them raced off.
Paige opened her eyes at the sound of footsteps. Her mouth was open in a silent scream of pain.
"There she is Professor!" Hermione's voice sounded close by. She blinked, and then made a noise. The footsteps came closer then stopped in front of her. She tried to see who it was that was with Hermione, but she couldn't. As if knowing what she wanted, the teacher leaned over Paige to get a better look.
It was Snape.
The only thought that crossed her mind once she saw him was; I am going to be in so much trouble in the morning.
And then Paige fainted; the last thing she saw being Snape's face. His face had been a mixture of blank emotions. One of them being…Concern?