The Dog Slipped In
By Artemis The Artist
A.K.A. Sombra The Resurrection
Chapter 2
It was pouring like crazy. The rain came down in sheets. He ducked from cover to cover, trying to find somewhere warm to sleep.
He hadn't done that in a while. Sleep. He could tell, his body was about to collapse.
There. A metal grate. Steam was coming from it. There was a windowsill's ledge just above it. Enough to give even something the size of him shelter. He sat under, feeling the warm steam roll around his body. Much better. This was the warmest he'd been in days, and that was saying something. It was the end of august after all.
He felt something bump him from behind. He jolted for a sec, but relaxed as he saw it was actually a kitten. It was wetter then he was. He gave it a sniff, sighed, and picked it up with his mouth, pulling it closer.
It mewed softly, and snuggled in. Sirius looked at it for a moment, then rested his head on his paws, drifting into sleep.
Meowing. Lots of it. And something was pushing on his nose. Sirius opened his eyes. The kitten was trying to get his attention. Sirius shook his head, and sat up, looking around. The sun was out, most of the water was dried up. He looked back down at the kitten. What to do?
He picked the kitten up by the back of it's neck again, and trotted down the alley. Glancing around, he saw two signs on a wooden light pole. Getting closer, he recognized the pictures.
The top one was a wanted poster of him, picture frozen for muggle's sake, and the other...
He stopped. He read it. The kitten meowed were it hung from His mouth.
He turned, heading in what he thought was the correct direction.
_[2]_
Anastasia was lifting the trunk up and onto the higher railings as the trains whistle sounded, blowing for the third and final time. She sat back down, pulling her personal bag closer, opening it up to reveal a flat silver slab.
"Time to test this bad boy out." she muttered, flipping the laptop upside down, opening the compartment stating 'Battery'. She pulled the plastic square out, and withdrawing her wand, tapped it four times, muttering under her breath. A slow glowing, transferring from the tip of her wand to the plastic itself, began to die down after a moment, and she slipped it back in the slot. Turning the computer back over, she opened up to the screen, and cautiously pushed the power button.
Whirring silently, the screen lit up, the windows logo coming in full color with a loading bar beneath, moving as if it did this every day.
"YES!" she shouted, punching the air a couple times, and head banging to a rhythm she began to hum...
Until she noticed the kids across the hall staring at her like she was an alien. She stopped, mid head-movement, and gave a short wave. The black haired boy with glasses and the girl with bushy brown hair just started laughing, while the red head looked confused. Anastasia giggled to herself, and turned back to her laptop, before quickly doing a double take to the previous compartment.
Beside the black haired boy was a man, sleeping soundly against the wall, using his cloak as a blanket? He was by far too old to be a student, so he must be the other 'new kid' besides her on the teaching staff. Remus Lupin, if she remembered what Dumbledore had said. He seemed older then she had imagined, having heard he was only 7 years older than her. His fair brown hair was streaked with Grey, and his clothes seemed older than him, full of patches. Even from across the hall she could see that even with his coat, he was shivering slightly in his sleep.
She starred at him for a moment longer, before setting her fully awake laptop on the cushion beside her, standing up, and reaching for the trunk above her. After some fumbling around for a bit, she pulled out a heavy but small quilt, and heading across the hall. Knocking on the glass to get their attention, she opened the door and said to the kids, "Hey, you mind if I sneak around you and put this on him? He looks like he's a bit cold for comfort."
"Not at all." The black haired boy said, scooting over to give her room to maneuver. She slipped through, unfolded the quilt, placing it gently on the man. He didn't stir at all, so she stepped back and smiled at the kids.
"Yeah, I just thought that might help him." she said sheepishly, looking at the students.
"Well that was very nice of you. Are you a new teacher this year?" the girl asked, and Anastasia nodded.
"I'm the new Muggle Studies teacher, and I'm pretty sure he's filling in Defense against the Dark Arts. Names Anastasia Jones, by the way, and don't worry about calling me 'Professor' or 'Ma'am'. Just Miss Jones is fine." She paused for a moment, "Or even Stacy, that's my nickname. I honestly don't give a rat's ass."
The girl gasped, and the boys seemed to be taken aback for a moment, looking at her, and she laughed. "Hey, we're not at school yet, and I'm trying to use up all my foulmouthed language before I have to get in front of a class, so don't expect much right now, OK?"
There was a brief pause, before the red-head piped up, "you are going to make one bloody awesome teacher."
Stacy clasped her hands in front of her heart, and did a fake swoon saying, "Oh, thank you so SO much for such a wonderful compliment, you just boosted my self esteem and already too-big ego enough that I may continue on in life without problems."
The three children just stared at her for a moment, before she straightened up and said, "What?"
"Like I said bloody brilliant." replied the red head, and the other two giggled lightly.
"Well, as much as I'd like to stay and chat, I'm going to head back to my seat. See-ya." she said, and turned around. Just as she opened her own cabin's door, there was a shout, and string of cursing, to which Stacy abandoned her cabin and went to check it out.
_[2]_
Rin hadn't expected to get into trouble before even getting to the school. She didn't even expect to get into trouble the first day. While this might not be disciplinary trouble, it was trouble none the less.
Rin was walking down the hall from the restroom, looking down as she straightened her shirt, and was jerked back as she collided with somebody, hard. She fell to the ground with an 'oomph', and looked up to see a boy, about a year older then her, with platinum blonde hair and pointed features staring down at her.
"Watch where your going! Make a habit of running into people often, do you?" he sneered down at her, and she glared back up.
"Well, aren't you just a right old bastard. It was just an accident, don't have to go all PMS on me." She said, picking herself up and brushing her clothing with her hand. "What were you standing in the middle of the hallway for?"
"I was standing here because I can. Or don't you know who I am?" he said, seeming to puff his chest out in self importance. Rin starred at him for a moment.
"You're a worthless, egotistical, vain, narcissistic, big-headed and arrogant wimp who, if put in a fight with a skinny-ass gay pedophile, would get his ass kicked and raped hard by said man and possibly all the man's friends and/or dildos?"
Silence.
Rin smirked, did a Z-snap in the air, and said, "Boo-ya bitch," before pushing the boy to the side and moving past him.
Her pushing him seemed to knock him back to his senses, and he grabbed her right arm as she tried to pass, gripping it tightly and pulling her towards him to whisper vehemently in her ear, "What the fuck did you just say?"
Rin looked down at her arm, then back up at the boys face, which was only about 2 inches from hers and said, with a smile, "You just man handled me. That means I get to retaliate."
Before he could react, her left hand snapped up, grabbing his wrist, and yanking him hard to his right, her left, and bringing up her now free right arm and slammed her palm into the middle of his back, holding him steady against a wall with his face pressed into the glass.
Even with the his face into the glass, the boy was swearing loudly, making a ruckus. Rin sighed, "You really shouldn't grab at people. It's mean, and didn't your…" she trailed off, noticing a shadow that fell across her back. More like two shadows. Big ones.
She turned, and saw to huge boys, same age as the first, but much uglier, staring down at her. They looked at each other, then lunged down.
Rin released the blonde boy, ducking below the boy to the right, and shoved her whole weight up, hitting him in the stomach with the flat of her back. As he gasped in pain, she grabbed is left arm, pulling him down off of her, and using his body to block the second boy. She took a couple steps back as the first collapsed on the floor beside the blonde, and the last one stepped over them both, aiming a punch at Rin.
Rin grabbed his fist as it came towards her, and held it, keeping him trapped as she brought up her own fist and wailed on his face. After about 3 punches, she felt an arm wrap around her waist and lift her up, pulling her away from the boy.
"Well, that was fast." Said the women holding Rin, and Rin turned her head slightly to see the placid face of her mother.
"Oh, uh, hi?" she said sheepishly, smiling. Stacy shook her head.
"Here no more than an hour and your already picking fights. What am I gonna do with you?"
_[2]_
The hall, which had previously been empty, was now packed with students who had watched the fight, and now wanted to see how the new teacher would handle it.
Stacy looked around at them all, and asked, "OK, who was it that started this mess? Any of you see?"
One Ravenclaw girl, who had already changed into her robes and was wearing a prefects badge, spoke up. "They both kind of started it. She ran in to him and he verbally yelled at her."
Stacy sighed, "Alright then, which one of them was the first to get physical?" All hands pointed to the light-haired boy.
A black haired boy piped up from the back, "She was really only acting in self defense."
"Shut it Longbottom!" the blonde yelled, and Stacy glared at him.
"Alright, all of you get out of here, back to your seats. You 3 stay." she finished, pointing at the three boys who fought. She set Rin down. "Your in trouble too, Missy. But I'll deal with you later. Get back to our seats." Stacy said, and Rin skulked away.
"Now what house are you all in?"
"Slytherin"
"Well, You each have detention, 2nd day of classes, after dinner, with me. I'll also talk to your head of house. What are your names?"
"Goyle,"
"Crabbe"
There was a pause,
"What about you Blondie?"
He sneered , but then smirked, and replied, "Weasley".
Stacy starred at him a moment, and then asks, "Whats the smirk for? Something funny?"
"Nothing professor."
She starred at him a moment longer, then said, "Look me in the eyes." The boy cocked an eyebrow, but did as she said. They starred at each other for another minute, before Stacy looked away. "Mr. Malfoy, I would very much appreciate honesty in the future, OK? No using other students names to get out of punishment." She turned and walked away.
_[2]_
There was a girl, holding a stack of papers. She appeared to be posting one to a wall. Sirius trotted up behind her.
She didn't notice him, and after a moment, he gently head-butted her. She jumped, and turned around. She jumped again at the sight of him.
He took a step back, staring at her, then a crying came from his mouth. He remembered why he came. Bending his head down, he set the kitten on the ground. He took another couple steps back.
The girl gasped, and swooped down to grab the kitten. She hugged it, cooing in its ear, before looking back at him. She blinked a couple times. "Thank you." she said, and he woofed in return. He turned and walked away.
The fliers the girl had been holding before were on the ground, forgotten where she had dropped them upon seeing the kitten. A picture of said kitten adorned every one of them.
_[2]_
Rin walked through the opened glass door of the compartment, and collapsed onto the seat, crossing her arms. That punk was really pissing her off, and he wasn't even there anymore. Just the thought of him grabbing her roughly enraged Rin to no end. She sighed, looking over and spotting her mothers computer. She gently reached over and pulled it closer, opening it to see the background and desktop fully loaded. She smiled, knowing her mom had worked on the battery for 3 straight weeks to make sure it worked in magical places, such as the Hogwarts express and Hogwarts itself.
Rin jerked up as she heard a light knock, and whipped her head around to see a black haired boy with green eyes looking down at her from the open door way.
"Hi, are you with the new Muggle Studies teacher?"
Rin smiled, "Yeah, that's my mom. I'm Rin, Rin Jones, nice to meet you."
He held out his hand, "Names Harry. Harry P-"
"Hey kiddo, I hope you realize your still in trouble." Stacy said as she walked up, looking at the other compartments, and not taking notice of Harry's presence till the last moment. "Oh, sorry, didn't see you there."
"Oh, no problem." Harry said, and held out his hand, "I'm Harry by the way, Harry Potter."
Stacy shook his hand, "Nice to meet you Harry, I-" She stopped, and looked at him. "Harry Potter?"
"Um, yeah," Harry replied shyly, looking down.
Stacy and Rin looked at each other, back to him, then back at each other before for shouting, "POTTER PUPPET PALS!"
Harry fell backwards as Stacy dove into the room, trying to get to the computer as the same time as Rin, But failed as Rin had an upper hand with her close position. Rin pulled the computer into her lap, and opened up the Internet Explorer window, clicking the URL and typing in Youtube.
As she was doing this, Harry was helped back to his feet by Ron and Hermione, and they all entered the compartment and tried to look over Rin and Stacy's shoulders. Stacy pulled the computer away from Rin, albeit forcibly, saying, "We have to share. Don't you want to show them?"
"Show us what?" Ron asked, staring at the laptop like it was a ticking bomb.
"Why, the magical wonders of Potter Puppet Pals, of course!" Stacy piped up, and turned the screen to face the teens. Reaching around and clicking play. The following minutes would never be forgotten by anyone in that compartment.
