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Chapter 6: The Rabbits
Before Albus knew it, the Christmas Holidays were over and he was on the train sitting next to Kilee and Scorpius explaining Lily's prophecies.
"Sounds barmy if you ask me," Scorpius announced when Albus finished.
"I dunno," Kilee frowned, "The Cannons losing sounds pretty accurate to me…"
"Of course it does, they lose every year," said Albus, rolling his eyes, "But the rest of the stuff she said, all this 'Divine Thorn' crap…"
"Well," Scorpius shrugged, "I completely agree with you, Al, but if you stretch it a bit you could come up with us having to finish off the Death Eaters once and for all. Other than that it's a load of dung."
Albus's reply was cut off by Kilee's response to the word dung, which was vomiting.
"What was that for, Kiles?" Albus asked, bewildered.
"Motion sickness and thinking of dung on top of it," Kilee shuddered, "I hate trains."
The rest of the ride passed in almost silence. Scorpius had gotten a chess set for Christmas and he and Albus played for awhile. Albus lost every game. Eventually, the train pulled to a stop and the three friends disembarked. However, just as Kilee was stepping off the train, Rose appeared, tripped her, and threw a water balloon at her head. It hit poor Kilee square in the forehead.
"I really hate that girl," Scorpius scowled as he and Albus helped Kilee (who had broken her foot) up the stairs and into the Entrance Hall, then up to the Hospital Wing. Madam Pomfrey was fixing up three other students who looked as though they too had encountered Rose's wrath.
"Dear, dear, Miss Finnegan," Madam Pomfrey clucked as she looked at Kilee holding on to her two friends, "What'd you do now?"
"I think she broke her foot," Albus informed the nurse as Kilee carefully sat down on the edge of the bed.
"Yes, that looks broken," said Madam Pomfrey.
A moment later, Kilee was all patched up and they were slowly ambling towards Hagrid's hut, discussing the Rose problem.
"We really need a way to stop her," said Scorpius.
"I know," Albus agreed, "I talked to Teddy and he gave me a few pointers in case she ever tries anything again."
"Which she will," Scorpius said glumly.
Kilee sighed as she knocked on the half-giant's door. Immediately Fang started barking. Moments later the three friends were ushered inside and offered a cup of tea by Hagrid. Just as Albus was beginning to stop being angry, he was Rose and Molly-Ana Magdalena coming down the path to Hagrid's hut.
"Oh no, she can sense happiness now," said Scorpius with a groan.
"Who?" Hagrid asked, walking over to the window. When he saw Rose his face lit up, "Oh! Rosie's 'ere. Haven't seen 'er in awhile."
"I think we need to keep it that way," said Albus as he watched Rose get closer.
Kilee whimpered and attempted to hide behind Albus as Hagrid watched, bemused.
"When she knocks, don't answer!" said Scorpius.
"Now come on," Hagrid began with a frown, "She's perfectly nice…"
Kilee let out a high pitched derisive laugh. "Nice?!?" she squeaked, "She's the freakin' devil!"
Hagrid looked even more confused, but before he could say anything Rose knocked on the door. The reaction was immediate. Scorpius sprinted to the far back wall and trained his wand on the front door. Albus grabbed the back of Hagrid's moleskin and uselessly attempted to hold him back while Kilee dived under the table, whimpering.
"Cut it out, you guys. I invited 'er 'ere and I've got to let 'er in," said Hagrid, trying to shake Albus off.
"You can't! Please Hagrid!" Albus pleaded as he was dragged after Hagrid toward the door.
"Run!!" Kilee screamed as she jumped out the back window.
Scorpius and Albus were quick to follow, leaving a stunned Hagrid behind. Unfortunately, Rose saw them. Kilee, Scorpius, and Albus all froze under Rose's now manic eye.
"Retreat! Retreat!" Kilee shrieked.
The three friends took off running, Rose and her goon not far behind. Hagrid was watching from his hut, confused.
As the chase continued, Albus directed them towards the forest, desperately… he knew Rose was afraid of it…
"What are you doing?" asked Kilee, "We can't go in there; we'll actually earn detention then!"
"What's the difference?" called Scorpius, "Chances are we'll get one anyway! Might as well be fore something we've done instead of psycho lady." He jerked his thumb in Rose's direction as a hex just missed his head.
They ran into the forest and ducked behind a tree.
"She shouldn't follow us here," said Albus, "She's terrified of the forest."
And, sure enough, for a moment Rose stopped and seemed to consider her options. Just the, however, Professor Vector walked up behind Rose.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
Scorpius groaned as Rose adopted her angel face. But before she could speak up, Albus felt Kilee grab both of their hands and very quietly sneak deeper into the forest, taking them with.
"Lumos," said Albus, holding up his want.
Luckily, or unluckily depending on how you look at it, the three friends were now so far in the woods that they couldn't see out. It seemed as if they could actually stay out of trouble, for once. Then it happened.
A cute little bunny hopped out at them.
"Awww!" squealed Kilee, "Look at how cute he is!" She ran up to the cute little bunny and began to pet hit. "Do you think I can keep him?"
No one answered her, because six more cute little bunnies had hopped over to Kilee. Kilee giggled happily and began to pet all the ones who came near her. "I love bunnies!"
Soon there were at least 125 cute little bunnies surrounding Kilee.
At first Albus thought this was pretty amusing and Scorpius did too, but by their watches it was almost curfew. Albus didn't want to escape trouble just to get into more of it.
"C'mon Kilee, it's time to get back to school," Albus informed her. But the bunnies wouldn't let her stand back up.
"I think they want Kilee to stay," said Scorpius.
"Ohh… I'm sorry bunnies, but I have to go now," Kilee told her new friends. But they still wouldn't let her stand up. And ten more bunnies had just hopped toward her so she was now almost buried by the cuteness.
"Kilee!" Albus screamed. He ran over and picked up one of the Rabbits. It bit him on the finger, hard.
"Aaargh!" he yelped, shaking it off. The rest of the rabbits were now jumping on Albus.
Scorpius pulled out his wand and began blasting the bunnies off his friend. However, while it may have saved Albus, Kilee was now being carried off by the bunnies.
"Help!" she yelped.
Scorpius stunned one of the rabbits and picked it up. "If you ever want to see your friend again, put her down!" Scorpius yelled. It was no use; the rabbits continued to carry Kilee away.
"Now what?" Scorpius demanded, chucking the rabbit over his shoulder.
"Dang it! I wish we had the Holy Hand Grenade!" Albus muttered as he and Scorpius ran after Kilee.
"The what?" Scorpius frowned.
"Never mind. Muggle thing,"
They continued to run after Kilee, but soon they could no longer see her or the bunnies. In desperation, Albus used one of the Master's tricks: He let out a loud yodel. Immediately, three owls began attacking him.
"Gerroff me!" Albus yelped batting away the evil birds.
Then, Scorpius yelled, "Accio Kilee!"
Kilee came flying through the air, rammed into Scorpius, and knocked him to the ground.
Suddenly, the ground began to shake; over 600 rabbits were running toward them.
"RUN!!" screamed Kilee.
And run they did. As they sprinted out of the forest and onto the now dark grounds, Albus thought they must have been a funny sight. Three first-years, one being attacked by owls, (he was going to murder Teddy), being chased across the grounds by a bunch of rabbits. And they were all screaming bloody murder.
Just as they were about to get into the safety of the castle, one bunny fastened his teeth onto Albus's arm.
"Get it, get it!" screamed Kilee.
Scorpius began to hit it over the head as they slammed the castle doors shut. But it didn't let go. In a moment of crazy epiphany, Albus began to pet it. It immediately became just a cute little bunny again.
"I think I just found Rose's birthday present," said Albus.
Cackling evilly, Kilee left for the Ravenclaw tower, while Scorpius and Albus headed to Gryffindor. He fell asleep imagining the look of Rose's face when she got a killer rabbit for her birthday…