Chapter Twelve: A Meltdown
"GWEN!" she had been doing homework in front of the fire when Seamus Finnigan came running in, screaming her name.
"Yes?" she blinked tiredly.
"Kevin's gone mad!"
"He'll be fine," she dismissed the complaint.
"No, I mean completely barmy; he's destroying everything in his path and hurting people."
Her face paled and her papers went flying as she jumped up, sprinting out with Seamus behind her.
"How bad?" she demanded.
"Bad, he shrugged off stunner spells—"
"Does he still have his wand?"
"No, Harry disarmed him when he went nuts."
"Good. What floor is he on?"
"Second."
"Is there an unused classroom on that floor?"
"Yes, why?"
"When I get him in there it'll need to be locked and nobody is to go in there for at least twenty-four hours."
"O…kay." They arrived on the second floor.
"Man the door boys."
Ben, Harry, Ron, and Seamus ran to flank the classroom's door.
The hallway was absolutely destroyed and the stairwell that led to the first floor showed similar signs of Kevin Eleven having gone through it.
As it was he was tormenting a few first years while Julie and Hermione attempted to subdue him by magic. The spells bounced off him harmlessly.
Gwen took off her shoes, slipped out of her tights, and discarded her robes, saying, "Julie make sure those get back to Gryffindor please."
He paused at her voice.
"Dad forgive me!" she muttered before inhaling, exhaling and beginning to use her…feminine wiles to lure him away from the poor traumatized tweens and to her. That telltale glint entered his eye and that smirk found his face as he saw her. He approached her quickly. When he pounced she dodged, sprinting into the room making sure he was right behind her.
"Now!"
Their friends slammed the door shut, sealing it magically behind them.
"What's she going to do?" Seamus asked worriedly. The man was a maniac and the girl seemed very delicate looking nevermind the powers she had
There were several bangs, thuds, and thumps.
"Gwen can calm Kevin in a way nobody else can." Julie explained while Ben mimed retching behind her.
"Oh." The teenagers blushed and then turned green.
There were other sounds from the room.
"Hermione can you soundproof the room?" Ben asked
The bushy haired brunette nodded and made a complicated movement with her wand and the door glowed bright blue and then went back to normal.
"Thanks for getting her, Seamus," Ben spoke calmly, tipping the boy eight Sickles.
"No problem," Seamus pocketed the money with a nod, "but will he hurt her?"
"No, not in ways she doesn't enjoy anyways."
"Right." And he left.
Julie took Gwen's things to Gryffindor and, after gathering her school stuff, placed them in the apartment within.
When she returned to the common room she found the rest of her group, sans Gwen and Kevin of course, waiting with their bookbags.
"We should start that stupid Potions' essay," Ben voiced and she nodded, smiling, in agreement. She grabbed her things and they headed to the library.
"Wound Healing Potions…" she read out their assignment in a whisper so as not to incur the wrath of Madam Pince, "Isn't this a bit too advanced for third years?"
"It's Snape." Harry replied as justification.
"Spartan method Julie," Ben mumbled. As he had said, he liked this school but he didn't like the Potions' Master.
"I guess so…alright, let's do this…"
The scratching of quills were the only sounds coming from the group until a Prefect showed up with a note.
"Professor Lupin wants to meet with me," Julie read bemusedly, "right now."
"Why?" Ben replied.
"Doesn't say; stay here with the kids," she stood up, "I'll be right back…"
"Bu—!"
"No, you stay here; we were brought here to keep an eye on them," she pecked his cheek, "I'll be right back; don't worry so much." She walked off, leaving her things.
When she came back she was pale and looked rather confused.
"He thought I was a werewolf." She explained quietly.
"Did he hurt you?" Ben demanded, these witches and wizards seemed to see werewolves as less than even ants.
"No…but…when I explained that I wasn't and how I got that sketch he seemed…disappointed…"
"Why?"
"I don't know…"
Their badges lit up and they answered them.
"Hey guys, Kevin's sane again," it was Gwen, "can you bring us some clothes?"
Julie chuckled as she answered, "ten-four. Be there in a few minutes…"
She gathered up her stuff, saying, "C'mon guys, we don't need them streaking Hogwarts…"
Ben laughed uproariously and in return got a look that promised death from Madam Pince.
"What's so funny?" Harry asked, which only caused more and louder laughter and so Julie obliged the answer, "In our line of work we have dealt with many wild and wacky things…including a laser that destroyed clothes but left their former wearer harmless…unfortunately the way we found this out was that Kevin got beamed. Gwen was sick in bed at her place so she couldn't cover him with manna and then we find out that he locked himself out of his car, the keys still being in the ignition…"
Ron began laughing as did Harry.
"So then he had to walk, butt naked to my place, an hour's walk through the city mind you, past my parents and then had to patiently wait while I scavenged some of my Dad's old clothes…Now this, this was funny enough on its own terms right? It got better. Several persons had seen him complete his march of shame and recorded it via cell-phones…"
Hermione began to laugh.
"And quite a few videos were uploaded to various internet websites but one was shown on a local news channel…which is how and when Gwen found out…"
The laughter increased significantly as she deadpanned the ending of the sad tale of Kevin's Naked Time experience, "and then, my genius of a boyfriend here, remembered that he could have simply unlocked the GTO's door via several different alien abilities all with a clicking of his watch…"
They finally arrived at Gryffindor.
