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Chapter 9

Rach and Remus climbed the seemingly endless amount of stairs to the Room of Requirement. The silence around the two was almost unbearable. Rach was still seething from dinner and wouldn't look up. Remus would, every so often, look at his girlfriend worriedly.

"What's wrong, Rachel?" Remus said, saying her full name for effect. "I don't like seeing you so upset."

"Kat and I got into a fight because I don't agree with her when it comes to Santana." Rachel said sadly.

"Well, why was Kat upset in the first place? I never even found that out." said Remus staring at his girlfriend.

"I guess it really all started when Sirius kissed her right?" Rachel asked when she stopped in front of where the Room of Requirement would be.

Remus nodded and looked sideways at her to see her reaction. He began, to anyone who would happen to pass by, to pace the floor. But in reality he was thinking, 'I need somewhere where me and my girlfriend can talk calmly.'

When the door appeared he went and quietly picked up Rachel off the floor. She had sunk to the ground and started hugging her knees and began rocky slightly. As Remus opened the door, he directed her into a room that slightly resembled the Gryffindor common room but instead of the many comfortable there was one couch placed on a rug in front of a rather large fire place which was crackling pleasantly.

Remus led Rachel to the couch and sat her down.

"Darling, I hate to tell you this," Remus started, cupping Rachel's face in his hand, "Kat was telling the truth. Santana did tell Sirius her secret."

"Oh. How do you know? Did Sirius tell you that or something?" Rachel asked, pleading him with her eyes to answer her as honestly as possible.

"On the train, Sirius told me that Santana said that Kat liked him. But I didn't know that was what caused the fight between you and Kat. I didn't know that it was a big secret either." Remus said stroking Rachel face as he talked.

Rachel leaned into his embrace and sighed. "So, Kat and I have been fighting over nothing. I didn't mean what I said. It just came out wrong. I didn't want to accuse Santana of something without knowing all the facts."

Remus pulled his hand away and gazed into Rachel's eyes. "So instead you accused your best friend of something you also had no proof of."

"Well, when you put it that way, I guess it does sound wrong." Rachel said as she rested her head on Remus' shoulder and started to shake.

Remus wrapped his arms around his girlfriend, whispering words of comfort in her ear. "You gonna apologize to Kat, right?

"Yea, I will." Rachel said enjoying the moment while it lasted.

Outside on the lake's shore

Kat sat outside by the lake staring at the water. 'This is our last year. We don't get another chance and I'm not even talking to my bestest friend in the whole world. I don't even have anyone to comfort me. Everyone else has boyfriends to talk and hold. It's not fair.' Kat couldn't take it anymore and started to cry.

This is how Lily, Hannah, and Jessica found her. Hannah and Lily sat on either side of her and Jessica sat behind her leaning back to back. Lily and Hannah both leaned their heads on Kat's shoulders and stayed quiet. They sat there in silence for about five minutes. Jessica was first to speak.

"Kat what's going on with you and Rachel?" Jessica asked intelligently.

Kat sat straight backed and stared at the water as she spoke, "It's nothing. We just got in a bit of a tiff."

"Liar!" Hannah said lifting his head from Kat's shoulder to stare at her.

"Kat, there is no need to lie to us. It was obvious that something is going the two of you and well Sirius too. I mean you didn't even sit with us tonight. We missed you." stated Lily also lifting her head.

"Well it's just that…" Kat started and then fell into Lily's arms bawling. Lily wrapped her arms around the shaking girl and rubbed her back. Hannah and Jessica got closer adding their support here and there.

"It's just S-S-Santana told Sirius my secret a-a-and I confronted S-Santana about it. After she s-s-stormed away, I-I told R-Rachel but she w-w-wouldn't believe me. So w-we haven't s-spoken since." Kat said in between sobs.

"HOW DARE HER! OH MAN, WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON THAT GIRL…" Hannah said shouting and standing up in anger.

"I don't know who I'm more mad at, Rachel or Santana." Lily said still holding Kat but looking up and Hannah and Jessica.

"I knew we couldn't trust that bitch." Jessica said, shaking her head.

Kat looked up at her friends from Lily's arms. "You guys realize she knows all your secrets too. That's why she made up that game."

"Oh my gosh, that's right." Lily said looking shocked as she remembered.

"Guys, it's getting late. I think I'm going to bed." said Kat standing up.

"Well, I can't let you walk up there alone and plus we live in the same dormitories." Lily said slinging her arm around Kat's shoulder.

"Actually, now you live in the same dormitory as James, being Head Girl and what not." Kat said giggling. "I'll be fine."

"Ok. If anyone asks why anyone of you is out of bed, just say the Head Girl asked you for help." Lily said also getting up.

"Of course, Head Girl Jessicae Rabbit, what ever you say." Hannah said, hugging her friends' good-bye and started up to the castles.

"HANNAH!" said Lily blushing.

"Kat, you're going to be ok right?" Jessica said, hugging her good-bye.

"I'll be fine. I'm a big girl now." replied Kat walking next to Jessica on their way back to the castle.

"I know." Jessica said stopping Kat and looking really serious. "You best make up with Rachel or I swear I won't talk to you guys again."

"Um…ok Jessica. I'll make up with her." Kat said looking really nervous.

"Good." said Jessica smiling dashing off into the castle.

Kat stared at the water a little longer before heading in. She walked the hallways briskly, wishing she had James invisibly cloak. She wasn't really watching where she was going; only thinking about what was going in her life. She didn't realize she run into someone until she fell to the ground. When Kat looked up, she saw that she had knocked Rachel over. Remus was standing over both of them, holding out both his hands to help both of his friends up.

"Uh, sorry," Kat said quickly, "I, uh, didn't see you."

"No, it was my fault, I wasn't watching either." Rachel said brushing herself off.

"Um, see you." Kat said as she turned to leave.

Remus grabbed her arm.

"You don't have to go. We're all friends here, right?" Remus said directing his last question toward his girlfriend.

Kat turned around, and Rachel looked at the floor.

"Doesn't anyone besides me have something to say here?" Remus asked aggravated.

Both the girls paused a moment then looked up at each other.

"I'M SO SORRY!" both the girls screamed at the same time.

They gave each other a big hug then broke apart.

"It's entirely my fault what are you talking about?" Rachel asked, near tears.

"Well, yeah, but I didn't know what else to say." Kat said with a smile on her face.

"Listen, I'm so sorry that I ever blamed you for anything! I don't know what was wrong with me. I just wasn't thinking straight." Rachel gushed to her best friend.

"Well, I do know that thinking straight isn't one of your strong points." Kat said still smiling.

"Thanks." Rachel said smiling as well.

"But, what are we going to do about Santana?" Kat asked shaking her fists in anger, from just saying that girl's name.

"Hmm," Rachel said quietly.

"We need some where, where we can think, with out any interruptions." Kat said thinking out loud.

Remus and Rachel turned and looked at each other and smiled.

"I think I know a place." Remus said smiling.

Seven minuets later, Remus, Rachel, Kat, and Sirius were in the room of Requirement.

"Kat and Sirius have a score to settle as well." Remus said in response to Kat's question of why Sirius had to come too.

All four of the friends found themselves in a large room, with four comfy chairs. One purple for Rachel, one dark red and black for Kat, one navy blue for Remus, and gold and red for Sirius. Again there was a lovely crackling fire in front of the chairs.

"Okay so is everyone on the same page now?" Remus asked after 20 minutes of explaining everything to Sirius.

"So, Santana was lying about everything?" Sirius asked.

"Yes, we aren't sure why but for some reason she's out to get Kat." Remus said.

"And we might have a way to figure out how." Rachel said with a sly look on her face.

"But she was lying about everything?" Sirius asked again, hurt.

"Yes," Kat said in a solemn tone, "everything."

Sirius' face fell, but recovered quickly wanting not to show too much of a weak spot. (A/n: too late, I know.)

"Um, yah so what was this um, plan you all have?" Sirius asked quickly.

Rachel stomped on Kat's foot as she was about to say something smart.

"Stop," Rachel said quietly, "not now."

Kat made a face but nodded her head in agreement.

"Well, what Kat and Rachel have cooked up is pretty daring." Remus said. "And involves a lot of people, thankfully, all the people are our friends."

"Me and Kat are still mad at each other." Rachel started.

"Really," Sirius said, "you hide it so well."

"This is the plan now do-" Kat stopped herself. "We are talking about the plan now."

"Oh, right, I knew that." Sirius said laughing.

"Right anyway," Rachel said, "Me and Kat are going to "hate" each other still and no one knows different except you two." Rachel pointed at Sirius and Remus.

"Wait, don't I know? What, we still hate each other?" Kat asked pretended to be shocked.

"Oh yah," Rachel said sarcastically, "how could I ever be your friend again. Any who, okay so I gonna be playing double agent. I'm going to be talking to Santana like we are best friends and yah know get some more information out of her so we can trap her in her own web of lies."

"Meanwhile, Rachel has already told me that Santana likes somebody around here." Kat added.

Sirius looked at Remus with a questioning look on his face.

"Not anyone in here!" Kat said aggravated. "She likes Rusty. So I'm going to go out with him." Kat said simply.

"YOU LIKE THAT FAG?" Sirius screamed from across the room.

"Sirius, hold you self together, Kat doesn't like Rusty!" Remus said shaking his friend.

"But she's gonna go out with the loser!" Sirius said fuming.

"Well who else is she going to go out with to make Santana mad? This is all just and act Sirius, get with it." Remus said looking at his friend. "Beside Rusty's your friend man, what's with you tonight?"

"I'm having a bad night that's all." Sirius said calming down and sitting back in his chair.

Kat and Rachel sat quietly in their seats. Not knowing where to go from here.

"Well," said Remus, being the sensible one, "we should probably go up to bed, it's near 1 o'clock and we all have classes tomorrow."

"Yeah, uh huh sure, what ever you say." Sirius said sullenly.

"Okay, well Rach and Kat, you have to remember to still be mad at each other. Say nasty things about each other or give each other mean looks! What ever you can to that you can convince everyone that you still aren't friends. And Rach, don't forget about Santana."

"Oh, don't you worry, I won't." Rachel said with an evil glint in her eye.

"And I get to talk to Rusty tomorrow about setting up a "date" and holding hands or something like that." Kat said thinking.

"Actually, to start as soon as possible, I'll talk to him tonight and send you an owl tomorrow morning about what will happen at breakfast." Remus said.

"Even better, we just can't let Santana see." Kat said.

"How about me and her leave earlier for breakfast and you still pretend to be asleep?" Rachel asked.

"What ever, just get her outa my sight quickly before I like haul off and punch her okay?" Kat said sincerely.

"Sure thing," Rachel said, "anything for a friend." She finished by putting her arm around Kat's shoulders.

They walked back to the Tower laughing. It was good to be friends again. They went to split to go up to their separate dormitories. Rachel and Remus shared a long, passionate kiss. Kat and Sirius stood in awkward silence until Kat hugged him and said, "Thanks for being so cool about this." Then she kissed him on the cheek. Rachel and Remus had finished and were busy staring are the blushing pair. Kat quickly linked arms with Rachel and walked up the stairs.

Girl's Dormitories

"So, what was that all about?" Rachel asked.

"Um nothing, I was just being nice. Is that such a crime, Marchy? Are you even listening to me?" Kat stared at Rachel.

Suddenly, laughter erupted from Rachel's bed. Kat got off her bed and tackled Rachel with her pillow. They put up a silencing charm and then continued to beat the crap out of each other. (A/N: For all you peeps with dirty minds, they are just friends and both like guys a lot.) After awhile, it calmed down and they laid head to feet. (A/N: Kat's feet are by Rach's head and vice versus.)

"So, why won't you go out with Sirius for real? What you told us might be true but I can tell it's not the real issue." Rachel asked her best friend.

"Well, I guess it's about time for you to know. But you can't tell anyone until I think it is ok." Kat started. "So, you probably remember when me and Sirius would disappear at the same time. Sirius would always say that he was going to see his girlfriend, which was true. But I would say that I was going to do homework or practice. Yeah, that was a lie. I was um…sneaking off to meet Siri…" Kat couldn't finish sentence when Rachel shouted.

"What?!?!? You mean you actually… and…wait why didn't we know? I mean Sirius obviously really likes you and you seem to like him. So why don't you go out?" Rachel asked confusedly.

"It's because when we "went out" before he didn't want anyone to know about us and he continued to go out with other girls. I just don't want that to happen again. It really hurt last time I went though it. I thought he had really liked me but…" Kat started to sniffle and had to stop.

Rachel looked at her best friend in shock. She wasn't sure who she was madder at; Kat, for keeping it a secret, Sirius, for being an ass, or herself for not noticing.

"Why didn't you tell us before?" Rachel asked sadly.

"Well back then, I was still uncertain and I didn't know if you guys would understand that I was going to out with one of the biggest players in the school." replied Kat still looking at the sheet. She looked up at Rachel hesitantly and saw Rachel's sad and confused face.

"Kat, I need time to think about this." Rachel told Kat.

Without asking, Kat climbed out of Rachel's bed and into her own. She closed the curtains and cast a silencing charmed. She promptly started to cry.

The Next Morning

Rach got up really early. She just couldn't sleep. 'Well, I guess I won't have pretend to be mad at Kat after all.' Rachel laughed bitterly to herself as she gathered stuff for her shower. She noticed that Kat was not in her bed. 'Oh yea, she goes on morning runs. I guess I better hurry up so I don't have to see her.' Rachel washed her hair and stepped out of the shower. 'Shit. I forgot my clothes.' She wrapped her towel around her and walked into her room only to bump into the one person she didn't want to see that morning. Kat. She glared at the girl, grabbed her clothes and walked back into the bathroom and locked the door.

10 Minutes Earlier with Kat

Kat was on her 5th lap around the lake when she saw an owl flying toward her. She stopped and held out her arm. 'It must be a reply from Rusty.' She opened it up.

'Dear Apple-of-my-eyes,

Sure, I'll go out with you. I just wanna ask you one question; what took you so long? Ha, ha small joke, but what are the limitations? Hugging? Kissing? (or just a peck on the cheek?) And how long are we talking here, because there are plenty of ladies just waitin' for the 'RUST MAN'!

Your Love Machine,

Chewbacca'

Kat had to laugh. She wanted to reply immediately so she ran upstairs.

Back to the Girl's Dormitory

Kat stood there dumbfounded. 'I guess she's mad at me for real this time. But I can't say anything because we are supposed to be mad at each other. Hmmm…'

Kat dashed over to the nearest hard surface and began scribbling a message on the back of Rusty's note. She finished and slid it under the bathroom door.

"THE RUST MAN," Rachel half screamed in horror as she threw open the door, "Who does he think he is?"

"Shh, shut up you'll wake up you-know-who." Kat said smiling.

Rachel looked over at Santana's four poster bed then back at her best friend.

"Did you even read what I wrote?" Kat asked.

"Oh," Rachel said as she read the back.

'Marchy, read the front – Chessy'

"That was completely pointless!" Rachel said smiling.

"I know but it got you to smile." Kat said. "Can you please not be really mad at me?" Kat pleaded. "I didn't tell you because I thought you all would think I was a slut."

"Why would we think that?" Rachel asked.

"Because I was messing around w/him while he had other girlfriends…" Kat said ashamed.

"Well why did you mess around with him then? Or let him have other girlfriends?" Rachel asked completely perplexed.

"It was a no-strings-attached kinda relationship. We were just fooling around and stuff but then I realized I liked him and we stopped."

"You don't mean you all-?" asked Rachel horrified.

"NO! What kinda girl do you think I am?" Kat said disgusted.

"Just checking," Rachel said quickly, "so why don't you go out now? I mean it's more than obvious he likes you!"

"It's just weird." Kat said simply.

"Well," Rachel said as she thought it over, "okay." She smiled and gave her best friend a huge hug.

"Okay now bitch, get outa my sight. I have things to do with my best friend." Rachel said as snobbily as possible.

"What, have you been taking lessons from her now?" Kat said evilly.

"No, what ever are you be talking about? I learned everything I know from," Rachel looked Kat up and down, "you."

"Yeah, I'm sure." Kat said huffily as she got her stuff to leave.

Rachel stuck her tongue out and went back to the bathroom to finish fixing her hair.

"Hm, I think I wants… purple hair… hmmm how long?" Rachel asked the mirror.

"Well darling you haven't had it short in a while…" the mirror continued to ponder on that thought.

"Short, loud, and obnoxious… I LOVE IT!" Rachel squealed.

Rachel began with a simple shrinking spell, and then found some gel.

"H-okay, mohawk or spiky?" Rachel thought aloud again.

"Mohawk!" came a muffled voice from the other side of the door.

"What the-?" Rachel asked.

"Mohawk, I WANNA SEE YOU IN A MOHAWK DAMN IT!" Kat said whining.

"Shh! I'll do it but don't wake, well you know." Rachel said as she opened the door a crack.

"Lemme see lemme see LEMME SEE!!!" Kat said impatiently.

"I'm not done yet!" Rachel said as she closed the door.

Rachel quickly fixed her hair and added a simple coloring spell.

"There." Rachel smiled smugly to herself. Her hair was about shoulder length and flipped out with the top of her hair a dark almost black color and it ending in purple.

"Hmm, I don't know. Do you really wanna see it?" Rachel said taunting her best friend.

"Not really I was bored earlier, now I am enjoying listening to Santana snore like a chainsaw."

Rachel quickly opened the door to see what was going on.

Kat was sitting on the edge of her bed looking at Rachel.

"Hey, that's not fair." Rachel said. "You tricked me."

"Well then why did you open the door so fast when I mentioned Santana?" Kat said a little upset.

"Pish, because I wanted to hear too!" Rachel said smiling broadly. "Okay so what can we do with you hair?"

"What are you talking about?" Kat asked fingering her sloppy ponytail.

"Well DUH! You're going out with Rusty now, and trying to make Santana feel, well we won't go there or I won't have enough time to help you." Rachel said smartly.

"Umm, I wasn't planning on doing anything different." Kat admitted.

"Well then hurry up and get in here we don't have much time." Rachel said smiling like a little kid on Christmas.

Ten and a half minutes later (a/n: oddly specific I know) both girls left the bathroom looking ravishing. Kat now had hair down to the middle of her back with a caramel-y hair color with blue streaks. Some of her hair was bone straight and some was in little curls. Her make had been done up, but you couldn't tell because it matched wonderfully. Kat was wearing blue jeans and black converses with blue flames. With that she was wearing a black shirt that had a cloudy crystal ball and said, "wow, there's going to be a bit of fog today." (a/n: I stole it I know but I love that!)

"There, now how does that feel." Rachel said beaming.

"Weird." Kat said looking around her trunk at the end of her bed.

"Oh, there we go." Kat said picking up her robes.

Rachel put her hands on her hips and looked like she was about to cry.

"I thought you really hated it." Rachel said.

"Are you freaking kidding??? Have you seen my hair? Have you seen you're hair?? Oh me gee you rock so hard girl!" Kat said.

"Well, yah, yah I do." Rachel said blushed slightly.

"Besides I absolutely ADORE what you are wearing. It totally suits your hair style."

Rachel looked down at here black and lavender Etnies (a/n: they're tennis shoes), jeans with a lavender and black stripped skirt over it and Jessicae, black and lavender hoodie.

"Are you sure. I'm not wearing too much black you think?" Rachel being serious.

"Oh trust me, you aren't." Kat said smiling.

Suddenly there was a large snort from Santana's side of the room.

"Oh shit, leave, NOW!" Rachel said. "I'll talk to you later, lots, PROMISE!"

"Okay, okay, I have to go met 'the rust man' anyway." Kat said smiling and rolling her eyes.

They hugged briefly before Rachel went to go check up on her 'friend.'

"Hello? Santana… YOU ALIVE?" Rachel screamed.

"WHAT IN THE BLOODY 'ELL?" Santana woke up screaming.

"Oh, I'm so sorry I thought you were up." Rachel said quietly.

"Um what? Oh yah, sorry. I forgot where I am for a second." Santana said yawning.

"Well hurry up now, first day of classes and we have to still get you ready." Rachel said grinning like a small child again. "So what do you normally wear, like out around places… that aren't worth hundreds of gallons." Rachel asked eyeing Santana's trunk.

"Hey, I can dress just the same as everyone else around here." Santana said.

Santana stumbled into the bathroom and locked the door.

A few minutes later there came a loud shout from the bathroom.

Rachel knocked slowly on the door.

Santana answered the door. "It talked."

"What?" Rachel asked confused.

"That, thing, it talked to me!" Santana said pointing at a hand mirror.

"Oh, I'm really sorry. I musta left that in here from earlier. I doesn't do anything bad." Rachel said turning the mirror around in her hands looking at it.

"But it talked." Santana said dumbfounded.

"Right. Yes, my mirror talks but that's all." Rachel explained as if she were with a child.

"I don't like it to talk." Santana said with wide eyes.

"Okay. Fine, I'll take it then. Now hurry up and get ready we don't have much time." Rachel said stashing the mirror in her nightstand drawer.

Santana watching Rachel put it away and quickly closed the door.

"What the fruit loop was that all about?" Rachel wondered to herself.

A few minutes later, a totally completely different person stepped out of the bathroom.

Santana was wearing sparkly jeans with a silky green halter top thing, with a sparkly jean jacket over that. (a/n: for some strange reason I can picture Raven wearing something like this…) And on her feet were some Jessicae pointy things that closely resembled heels.

"Wow that is a very interesting outfit." Rachel said eyes wide.

"Well, it's something that I would wear any other day." Santana said smiling down at her shoes.

"Well you do know that we have to wear our robes during the day, right?" Rachel asked timidly.

"Ugh, are you kidding me?" Santana groaned.

"'Fraid not." Rachel said picking her robe up off her bed.

"Harrumph." Santana said as she sat back down on her bed.

"I'd wear more comfy shoes too…" Rachel said off handedly looking at the heel on Santana's shoes.

"Fine, I have a pair of green shoes in here somewhere." Santana said waving her want around.

A pair of low cut, green converses floated their way out of Santana's overly large trunk.

"How are these?" Santana said yawning.

"Sure, fine what ever." Rachel said not paying attention.

"You okay?" Santana asked curiously. "You're acting rather strange, well, stranger than usual this morning."

"What are you talking about?" Rachel asked laughing. "I always act like this. You just haven't ever been in school with me in the morning. I can get a little cranky when I'm having cappuccino withdraws."