Chapter Nine: Dirty Talk
Kellie let out an unexpected growl as Angelina decided to team up with Alicia and wake her up. "I'm going to hex you right now if you don't let go of my feet," Kellie shot reaching for her wand. She let out a hiss as her wand was not where it normally was placed on her nightstand, "Where did you put my wand?!"
"In my wands, love," Alicia grinned as Kellie sent her a glare.
"You do realize we double Potions this morning with Snape, right?" Angelina offered. Kellie shot out of bed and onto her feet as she became light headed as she looked at Angelina and Alicia.
Kellie let out an annoyed groan as she pulled out her robes, and got dressed quickly, "I'm hungry..."
"Breakfast is over," Alicia told her, "Miss Lucky I have a free period every Tuesday and Thursday morning."
"It's not my fault I didn't want to take Divination's," Kellie told them, "Besides, I'll meet up with you both in Potions, I need to go find the twins."
"They're running around somewhere," Angelina shrugged, "Well, see you in class."
Kellie watched as the two girls left. Kellie walked over to the mirror hanging in their room and pulled her blond hair back on her neck, a couple pieces not long enough yet to pulled back completely. She found herself decent enough as she left the room with her bag filled with her Potions Class requirements, and headed down the staircase. As Angelina said, the twins were not in the common room. Kellie sighed before thinking that Harry had to have been in class and made her way to the boys dormitory. She knew the twins didn't have Divination's, and only George was taking Potions.
She made her way up to the fourth year boys dormitory before opening the door. It was empty as she suspected. She spotted a folded up blank parchment stickint out from under Harry's books on his night stand. She tugged it out, not disturbing the books at all, including the sleeping Care for Magical Creatures book as she set the parchment on the bed. She pulled her wand out and tapped the parchment, "I solemly swear that I am up to no good..."
A map began to form with the four names she had come to know over the last six years of her life. She could remember the day Fred and George brought the map into the dormitory, George having to go grab Kellie who was studying in the common room to figure out what it was. "It's a magic paper," Fred told her.
"Well obviously," Kellie stated as she picked up the bunch of parchment. She looked at it all around, "It must have had some damage or impact to have been in Filch's office."
"Do you think you can figure it out, Kellie?" Fred begged her.
"Give me two weeks and I'll figure it out," she told them. A couple days passed and she lied the parchment down on Fred's bed like they had the day they received it, "I figured it out, looked into some things, thought things out, tried a few different things, and WHAM! I got it."
"Well..." Lee asked.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," Kellie said tapping the parchment. It began to turn into a map, "Messer.'s Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs proudly present the Marauder's Map." Kellie read, "These guys were genius."
Kellie scanned the map, Fred was with Lee pacing around Dumbledore's office. George was on his way to the dungeons. She looked at the map closely, unsure if she saw correctly. Alastor Moody was in his office, but he was staying still. He wasn't pacing or doing anything of the sorts. "Don't you have a class you're suppose to be teaching, Professor?" Kellie asked herself. She then saw in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom there was a Barty Crouch standing in front of the classroom, "Mr Crouch is teaching today? What a bummer, to bad I didn't have class... But still..." Kellie bit her bottom lip. She folded up the parchment and tapped it once more, "Mischief Managed."
She looked around the room before slipping the map in her bag. She was going to do some investigating. She made her way down the boys staircase, ignoring the other students that were saying something along the lines of, "Did she stay the night up there?" and other comments.
She made her way down the staircases quickly, breakfast was going to have to wait as she made her way to the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor's office. She gave a soft knock and heard no reply so she went to push the door open but it was locked. She looked around, making sure no one else was in the hall as she pulled her wand out, "Alohamora," the door still didn't budge. She let out an annoyed hiss as she pulled the parchment out. "I solemnly swear I am up to no good... No really, I'm not," Kellie said sarcastically as the map appeared. He was in there, sitting in the corner.
"Professor! It's me, I need to talk to you about something," she called into the door. She hid the map once more in her bag, leaving it in map form as she knocked on the door once more. "Professor?"
She frowned, pulling her wand out once more and flicking it, the handle on the door blew off with a loud noise. She looked around, making sure no one else heard as she finally was able to get into the office. "Reparo," she whispered as she fixed the door quickly and closed it behind her as she entered. She was nervous, Professor Moody was an ex-Auror, and most considered him mad, she knew she did. "P-Professor, I know you're in here! Where are you?" Kellie asked.
The trunk in the corner began to jerk violently, startling Kellie into a jump to the other side of the office. She gulped loudly as she looked at the trunk, sure it had to be a bogart or some other dark object. Her breaths short, and she could hear her heart pounding in her ears. She pulled out the Marauder's Map, wanting to know where the Professor was at. "I know you're in here!" she called out looking around- the jerking trunk catching her attention.
She moved towards it. She had fought off bogarts before, when Professor Quirrell was a teacher her third year, he had brought one in, and then Professor Lupin had it last year for all the students to try. A Bogart would change into that which she most feared. She tried not to think of it as she approached the trunk, her eyes on the map as well. "Pro-Professor Moody?" she asked as she flicked her wand at the trunk. The top flew open and it appeared empty until she forced herself to lean over the edge and look in. It was deep, as if it was another floor down to the bottom of the trunk.
She spotted a rather large old man with one leg and one eye sitting on the bottom, "Professor?" Kellie gasped.
"Who are you?" the man asked, "Would you mind getting me out of here. Although I do think you should leave, the boy isn't the nicest at all."
"Boy? Who are you talking about?" Kellie asked.
"Barty Crouch Jr, the Death Eater, he somehow escaped from Azkaban and he's been using Polyjuice potion and posing as me."
"Polyjuice... Crouch... Death Eater..." Kellie tried to process it all, "So you're the real Professor Moody then?"
"Yes," the man replied.
"How did this happen to you?" Kellie asked, "Wait! I'll go get the Headmaster! I'll be back!"
"Close the top, in case he returns while your gone. I don't want him to know anyone's found me," the real Moody told her.
"Right, Professor," Kellie nodded before closing the top of the trunk. She looked down at the map in her hands, Barty Crouch was walking toward the office. She figured it must have been the Death Eater that was posing as Professor Moody. He was all ready on the floor, and there was no way she'd be able to leave without getting caught. She tapped the map quickly, "Mischief Managed," she said hastily as she stuffed the map in her bag.
She quickly hid behind the trunk, unsure how well she'd be able to hide if he had that magical eye. She needed to tell the Headmaster right away. A Death Eater posing as a Professor. The door opened and the imposter staggered into the office, ripping the eye off as he rushed to the next room. Kellie held her breath, her heart racing as she watched silently from behind the trunk. She figured he must had gone to get more Polyjuice potion.
She felt that while he didn't have the magical eye on, it was the perfect opportunity to do anything like a surprise attack. She moved silently from behind the trunk, standing up in the shadows of the office as she waited for him to enter back in again. When he did, he was drinking from his flask, which she figured had been holding the Polyjuice potion the whole time.
"Stop right there!" she called to him as her wand was pointed at him. He was in the middle of taking a drink from his flask, "I know who you are!"
He finished his drink and looked at her amused, "Do you now, Miss Cotton?"
"You're a Death Eater, one of his followers!" Kellie told him, "And Professor Moody, the real one, he's in the trunk here."
"How did you figure this little disillusioned dream of yours, Miss Cotton?" the imposture Moody asked.
"Magic," Kellie told him, "I may be in Gryffindor, sir, but I'm as bleeding smart as any Ravenclaw, you can bet that much."
The imposture Moody smirked, "Well, now we can't have you going around and telling everyone my little secret, now could I?"
"I'm going to tell the Headmaster. Professor Dumbledore has to know!" Kellie told him, "And Harry! You put Harry's name in the Goblet, didn't you?"
"You areas smart as you say, I'm mildly surprised Miss Cotton," the imposture Moody ravished, "What else do you know?"
"I know that as a Death Eater you are much more experienced that I am, and that as a student who is against dueling and was born a Muggle, I stand no chance against you," she told him, "But as a Gryffindor, none of that matters in a battle. It's in the heart on who wins."
The imposture Moody laughed maniacally, "It does not matter what's in the heart, it matters who can attack faster!" he flicked his wand and Kellie quickly put up a defensive charm, a shield to block the attack. She realized then how stupid she was, cornering herself and leaving no room to escape.
"Imperio!" Kellie bellowed as she saw an opening in his attacks. It hit him dead on and she thought for a second that she had done it, she had used an unforgivable on someone.
She hesitated without any thought of what she could make him do and next thing she knew he was yelling out, "Obliviate!" and she felt herself hit the floor.
.:X:.
Light filled the surrounding area as she looked around the Hospital Wing. She was unsure of how she had gotten there. Last she knew she was hungry and was going to find George to go to the Kitchen to eat a very late breakfast. She rested her head back, not having the energy to get up. Her head gave a small twinge and she bit her lip. Ma'am Pomfrey bustled over, seeing that she was awake.
"You had quite the fall, Miss Cotton," she informed Kellie.
"Fall? What fall? It's not winter yet?" Kellie asked groggily.
"No, Miss Cotton, it's only November fourth, we still have much over a month until the Winter comes," the matron explained, "Now, what do you remember last?"
"Leaving the common room to go find George," Kellie told her honestly, "What happened?"
"You had quite the tumble down the stairs, according to Professor Moody, hit your head pretty hard and knocked yourself right on out," Ma'am Pomfrey explained. Kellie could sort of remember that, but it was all a blur, and it made her head hurt, "Here, I'm sure your head must be hurting and you must be starving, Miss Johnson says you didn't have breakfast this morning."
"No, I slept in," Kellie explained as she took the potion that the matron offered, "What time is it?" she asked, unsure of where the clock was at.
"Dinner is nearly done. Mr Weasley and Mr Weasley will be sure to be here any minute," Ma'am Pomfrey informed her, "When they found out they would not leave and I had to have Professor McGonagall send them off to class, and for meals, or else I'm sure they would both still be here now."
"Oh," Kellie said lying back down. "I think I'm going to rest a bit, have them wake me if I'm asleep and they've returned."
It was mere moments later when the doors opened and the two red haired twins bombarded the bed with Lee. Kellie sat up, propped up by the pillows, "That was fast."
"Fast? You've been out all day!" Lee exclaimed.
"What were you doing that made you fall down the stairs?" Fred asked, worried.
"I was trying to find George," she told them, "Here, can you return to this to Harry for me. I don't know why I kept it on me."
"You took the map?" Fred asked.
"I had to find you guys somehow," Kellie explained, "I wanted to get breakfast with George and I didn't know where he was at."
"You wanted to have breakfast with me?" George asked, baffled.
"Yeah," Kellie said with a small blush, "Since we had potions together, I figured we would be able to grab a quick meal before hand."
George just stared at her for a moment as she looked away to Fred and Lee for support. "I always knew you liked him better!" Fred said rather dramatically as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"Fred!" Kellie said surprised.
"It's true, isn't it? That you like George better than me? It's because he got more O.W.L.'s than me and has classes to take with you, isn't it?" Fred began to ramble like some baffled child. Kellie was turning a deep red, more red than the Weasley's hair. "I knew it! Look at it, Lee! Guilt written all over her face!"
Kellie stared at Fred shocked, her face more red than it had ever been- or that she could remember. She couldn't believe Fred was saying this to her, and in front of George of all people.
"Ma'am Pomfrey said you'd be released tomorrow morning if you woke up tonight," George said, distracting her from Fred.
"Oh yeah?" Kellie asked, trying to regain her composer, but the blush seemed to be permanent on her cheeks.
George nodded, "Maybe we'll be able to go out to Honeydukes or Zonkos? We haven't been there in a while."
"That is true," Fred agreed, "Once we're done with Defense, we'll head out. Nobody will notice if we're not there for lunch, and it's not like we'll be gone for to long."
Kellie let out a small groan, "I hate Defense."
"I'm sure Moody likes you, that's why he gives you such a hard time," Lee assured her, "Or else he probably would had left you sprawled out on the floor."
"Weird how no one else was around," Fred stated, "Almost makes you wonder."
"Wonder what?" Kellie asked.
"What if he did something to you and then modified your memory?" Fred said his eyes growing wide.
"Fred, I'm sure that a Professor wouldn't do such," Kellie laughed, "Now, you three go to bed, it's growing late and all the red if making me color blind."
The three boys laughed as they agreed to depart, each giving Kellie a half hug as she was stuck on the bed. The morning came quickly and Kellie was able to leave. She grabbed her bag and left the Hospital Wing after taking one more energy revival drink. She scrunched up her nose, making a sour face. She spotted the twins sitting down with Lee at the Gryffindor table, and she made a motion to Lee and George to stay quiet as she snuck up behind Fred.
She placed her hands over his eyes and George stated, "Guess who?"
"Is it the Wonder Weasley?" Fred asked. Lee and George snorted. Kellie tried not to laugh, she knew it would give her away instantly, "I'm guessing not... hmm.... smells nice though, so it can't be a Slytherin."
A couple of Slytherin girls were walking by and glared at Kellie and Fred as Kellie held in her laughter. "Glad you're not saying Slythering, that'd be rather insulting," George stated.
"Hmmm.... Ravenclaws smell nice... is this Heather?" Fred asked, a smirk playing at his lips.
"No, but Ravenclaw is a good place to think," Lee told him.
"Not Heather, but Ravenclaw? Or smart like a Ravenclaw?" Fred asked George and Lee.
"The later," George told him.
"Hermione?" Fred asked.
"No, think older," Lee told him.
"Percy? Ah! No! Not Percy! I said this person smelt nice, it can't be Percy!" Fred said trying to pull the hands off his face.
"No, it's not Percy, think younger," George told him.
"Oh..." Fred said getting it, "It's the Weasley Abuser!"
Kellie let go and hit him in the arm, "I am not a Weasley Abuser!"
"Weasley abuse!" Fred said rubbing his arm, "You just proved my point."
"Did not," Kellie said laughter filling her voice as she realized she had.
"So we're still up for Hogsmeade?" George asked her, changing the subject. She nodded as she bit into her bacon.
"I don't particularly want to see Moody," she stated, "I might have to tell him thanks for taking me to the Hospital wing."
"Yes, because having a Professor find is you so much worse than if it had been Quanta's, who probably would have attempted to kill you in your time that you lacked consciousness," George told her, having to be the reasonable one.
"Shush you," Kellie told him as she looked back to the food in front of her. She seemed so hungry the other day, but now, she wasn't as much as she thought she would be.
Ron came and sat down with the group of sixth years, a frown plastered on his face, "What's wrong ickle Ronnikins?" Fred asked ruffling the younger Weasley's bright red hair.
"Don't call me that," Ron said as he swatted Fred's hand away.
"Touchy now, are we?" George said with a smirk towards Fred.
"Just leave me alone," Ron gruffed.
"You're the one that came and sat with us, Ron," Kellie interjected before Fred or George could torment their little brother any further, "If you didn't want to talk about how you're pissy at Harry for getting something he doesn't want, then it has to be the way you feel about Hermione and the way she seems to always be with Harry, and side with everything he does, making you feel that she likes him and not you," Kellie said as she saw Fred and George's jaws both slightly drop. Kellie and Ron were like siblings, and Ron could never stay mad at Kellie if she said some rude remark as such. "You know Krum? He's been watching her too, I think he takes an interest in your woman."
"Kellie," Kellie took a moment to realize that it wasn't a Gryffindor sitting around her that had spoke. She craned her head around to see Clovis, "Do you mind if I sit with you?"
"Go right ahead, Clovis," Kellie said moving her bag from the seat next to her for him to sit, "What's up?"
"Some of the Beauxbaton girls are still rather upset about not getting chosen and want to go back to school so they're leaving this week back home."
"You're not going, are you?" Kellie asked Clovis. She didn't talk to the boy much, but he was really quite charming and good looking. Kellie, like Alicia and Angelina, liked to look at the Beauxbaton boys.
"Oh no, I'm much more excited to see if anyone survives," Clovis said with a rather charming smile. Kellie heard Ron choke on his pumpkin juice while Lee coughed rather uncharacteristically.
"That's a great way to think of it," Kellie miffed as she glanced to George from across the table. She looked back to Clovis, "What about Fleur?"
"She'll do fine, but if anything happens to her, it'll only affect the half of the school who have fallen madly in love with her," Clovis snorted, "It's the Veela in her."
"Explains her beauty," Kellie said rolling her eyes, "Ron, weren't you the one going on about the way she walks?"
Ron flushed a deep red as Fred and George grinned at each other, "Ickle Ronnikins likes the way a girl walks? Wait til Mum hears of this," Fred grinned teasingly at his younger brother.
"You better not say anything, Fred," Ron warned.
"So scary," Fred laughed, "Looks like it's up to you, George."
"You too, George! Mum would murder me if she heard any of us talking like that," Ron told him.
"Genius, that's why you keep it a secret that you speak that way to people," Kellie told him, "Isn't that right, Fred?" Kellie offered as Fred wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"Yes, but those simple minds of younger students just don't seem to have activated as early as ours," Fred sighed dramatically.
"That's rather vulgar to think of," Ron said, repulsed, "I think I'd done eating." He stood from his seat, "I'm going for a walk to try not to think of the way you three speak to each other."
"Don't be jealous, Ron," George told him, "We'll pay someone to speak that way to you once we get some gold."
Ron made a very rude hand gesture to his older brother before leaving the hall. The group broke into a fit of laughter before going back to their breakfast. Clovis left with a group of Beauxbaton boys that spoke about having a Wizarding Chess tournament back in the carriage, and Clovis didn't object to the thought. The four sixth years left at the table headed off to Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
George got to the door first and opened it for the other three, Kellie being the first in as the three boys were still gentlemen in their own ways. She looked to the front of the classroom where Professor Moody was writing on the chalkboard. He seemed rather rigid as he turned around to see who had entered. His normal eye landed on Kellie, who quickly looked away as she took her seat next to Lee behind the twins. The classroom filled up rather rapidly before the bell struck to signal the start of class.
"For today's lesson we are going to take a break from the imperius curse and work on defending yourself from other hexes and spells. Is anyone able to produce a shield charm?" he didn't wait for anyone to raise their hand, "Mr Jordan, why don't you come up and demonstrate a shield charm for all of us?"
Kellie looked quickly to Lee who was surprised the Professor Moody had called on him instead of her for once. "Miss Emerson, would you please demonstrate a simple expelliarmus spell against Mr Jordan?"
Tommy Croft's blond girlfriend stood from the back of the class and walked forward as Lee had and stood on the dais in front of everyone. "Expelliarmus!"
"Protego!" Lee shouted as he deflected the charm.
"Good, good," Moody nodded, "Now, I want everyone to pair off with their partner, Miss Cotton, Mr Croft, since your partners are taken, you are to work together."
Kellie nodded and looked to Tommy who pointed to her and motioned for her to come to him. She sneered silently at the Hufflepuff as she turned back to the twins, "Sorry love," Fred said with a small smile.
Kellie walked to the back of the classroom and looked at Tommy off-handly. They hadn't really spoken since the first train ride their first year, even though they lived in the same area for a long time. "So..." Kellie said, being the bold one to start a conversation.
"We should get to practicing, no?" he said smugly. Kellie stared at him tiredly, "What's wrong, Kellie? Defence to much for you?"
Kellie was about to retort when Moody spoke once more, "Everyone has been practicing non-verbal spells, so I would like to hear silence, no speaking, whispering, and chatting-" he looked around the class, "Understood?"
There fell a silence as everyone clearly understood. Kellie turned back to Tommy, wondering who was going to attack and who was going to defend. She opened her mouth, "Do you want to at-"
"Miss Cotton, what part of all I want to hear is silence do you not understand?" Professor Moody shot.
"Professor, I was simply-"
"Silence!" Moody bellowed, "Ten points from Gryffindor for not following directions!"
Kellie fumed as she glared at the professor, "Five points from Gryffindor for disrespecting a Professor, Miss Cotton, it is wise you get back to the object at hand."
Kellie let out an annoyed groan as she turned back to Tommy, annoyed. She figured she would attack first, I hope you're ready Tommy... Kellie thought before she thought of the jelly-leg jinx and sent it out her wand. Tommy acted quickly, a shield going up quickly in front of him. He smirked at Kellie, thinking he had impressed her.
There came a large blast from the middle of the room. Everyone jumped to see Fred and George pulling themselves back up off the ground, the two had sent a charm or hex at each other at the same time, the two colliding and causing an explosion. "Beautiful," Lee remarked as he returned to his table as the class ended, "Really George, you should focus more."
"What's that suppose to mean?" George demanded defensively.
"At least you two got to work with someone you're remotely fond of," Kellie told Fred and George.
"Hey Kellie," Kellie groaned, this could not be any good. She turned to see Tommy leaning on the table behind her. She acknowledged him and he continued, "There's a Hogsmeade trip this weekend and I was wondering if you'd be able to go with me? Maybe we could practice non-verbal spells," Tommy said with a crooked smile, his dark hair tossed carelessly around.
Kellie had to admit, he did grow out of his geeky Muggle-looking ways. She stared at him indifferently, "What about Erica?" she finally asked.
"We broke up," he shrugged, "No big deal really."
Kellie glanced over to the twins who shared a very annoyed expression. She turned back to Tommy, "Do you think I could think about it?"
"Awe, really?" Tommy smirked playfully at her, "Let me know by dinner then," he said with a wink before leaving the classroom with his friends that were waiting by the doorway.
"You're not seriously thinking of going with him, are you, Kellie?" George asked as they went to the common room to drop off their things before heading to Hogsmeade for lunch.
"Why? You wouldn't get jealous if I said yes, would you?" Kellie teased George who gave her a deadpan stare, "He's a childhood friend, remember George?"
"Yeah, because the way he smiles and looks at you is really in a friendly matter," George stated with a roll of his eyes.
"He's only looking out for you, darling, no worries," Fred said pulling Kellie with him up the boys dormitory staircase. Ron was coming down and he smirked, "Let's go talk dirty to each other and make little fun pokes at ickle Ronnikins," Fred said just loud enough for Ron to hear as the two passed him.
"You disgust me," Ron said scrunching up his face.
"He's so jealous," Fred said gleefully as George and Lee joined the duo in the boys dormitory.
Disclaimer: I am not JKR
A/N: Chapter 8 was suppose to be called Arrival of the Champions, I forgot to title it. lol Reviews?