"Oh Merlin. Don't sit here. Don't sit here," muttered Scorp. Rose looked at him concerned.
"What's wrong?" He just shook his head at her the look of panic plain on his face. He hadn't told any of the others about what really happened in Jamaica and he had hoped it was going stay like that.
But this? The universe hated him, obviously.
No, the universe loathed him, he thought as Ann walked over and took a seat about three people up from him. The food appeared on the plates and everyone began to dig in. Evanna took this moment to bring up new classes. Especially Divination.
"What do you think the teacher will be like?" she asked Scorp.
He shrugged, "Don't know. I heard she's female though…" he drifted off wistfully. Getting what he was thinking about Rose hit his arm, "Scorp Nom!" Scorp stiffened. She had said his name really loudly. But there was no way Ann could know his new name. He cast a look her way.
She met his eyes, a shocked expression on her face. She then took in his hair and her eyes darkened. She made to stand up but thankfully James stopped her.
"Hey, new girl. You can't get up during the feast. If you've gotta go to the toilet just hold."
Ann looked at him, her eyes still dark. James flinched a bit but held his ground. Finally Ann backed down and sat in her seat again. But she continued to throw looks at Scorp. Charlotte dismissed them all too soon.
Scorp jumped up, grabbed Rose and starting pulling her away quickly.
"Ouch… hey Scorp what's wrong?"
"Nothing," he snapped, "Grab Al and Evanna" Confused she did as he asked and they all ran in a chain as fast as they could to the common room. They arrived even before the prefect.
"Shit," gasped Scorp.
Rose whacked him over the head, "What in Merlin's name was that for?" He just shook his head in despair. He didn't want to imagine what Ann was going to do to him because of the hair.
Finally the prefect came jogging up the stairs, "Hey!" he yelled, "You have to stay behind me at all times.
"Sorry," gabbled Scorp, "My owl is sick and I had to get up here really fast to give her medicine on time." He lied quickly with ease.
The prefect swallowed it up and turned to The Fat Lady.
"Trinsatlan," he said and the portrait swung backwards. Scorp made to jump through but was suddenly grabbed by the back of his robes. The person continued to hold onto him as they dragged him away. Surprised he could see Rose, Al and Evanna staring at him stunned expressions.
He titled his head backwards and saw the back of Ann's head. He could feel the blood pouring out of his face.
"Ann! Ann! Let go of me! I'm sorry ok? Just let go!" he yelled at her. She obliged, dropping his head onto the stone floor. She spun round and glared at him.
"WHAT THE HELL SCORPIUS? HOW COULD YOU? THE COLOUR… HIS HAIR… BETRAYED ME… BECOMING JUST LIKE HIM!" She stopped, gasping through her rage.
"And what's more you're hanging out with Potters! They're related to him! How could you?" there were tears in her eyes now.
Scorp pulled himself up from the ground, "Ann, Al isn't like Adam. None of the Potters are."
She glared at him through her tears, "Then what about that Dursley girl! DURSLEY Scorp. How could you talk to her?"
Scorp struggled to remember when he had talked to Cassidy. She was in Ravenclaw so he wouldn't have…
"You were spying on me?" he yelled.
Ann had the decency to look embarrassed, "I didn't know it was you at the time, what with YOUR FUCKING HAIR!" She slapped him in the face.
"OW! Lay off Ann!," he yelled back her, "It's just hair colour! So what?"
"So what? SO WHAT? First the swords then the hair. You're worship the sonofabitch! Don't you remember what they did to us? My parents? DON'T YOU REMEMBER RYAN!"
Her words stung him. He gritted his teeth, "Of course I remember Ryan. I remember every damn moment of Jamaica because I can't sleep without seeing it all! How do you sleep Ann? Well? Or do you still ley awake at night wishing you had killed Adam yourself? It's over and you need to GET OVER IT!" He turned and walked away from her.
"Trinsatlan," he snapped at the portrait and pushed his way into the common room. It was empty, thankfully. Tired from the feast they had all gone to bed. He sat down on an armchair. Minutes later Ann pushed through the portrait hole and stormed up to her dormitory. Irritated he curled up and nodded off.
He was awoken by a hard knock against his head. He rubbed his eyes and looked up coming face to face with Rose.
He yawned and stretched, "Is it morning already?"
She grinned evilly, "Well if Truth o'clock is morning…"
"It's still only ten," Al chimed in from the background.
"Then why the hell are you waking me up?" he snapped.
"These two wanted to know why you and the new girl were yelling at each other."
"Oh great. Evanna's here too," snapped Scorp bitterly.
Rose whacked him again, "Don't be mean."
"Don't be ugly," he retorted childishly. Rose lifted her hand to hit him again and he jumped away.
"Hey!" He pointed at her, "Hey… No. No. No more hitting!"
Rose crossed her arms, "Fine. I'll stop hitting you if you spill about the new girl."
"Ann…" he mumbled.
"What?" asked Rose.
"Ann," he repeated louder, "Her name is Ann. I met her in Jamaica when I… well you know, when I ran off."
Rose's eyes darkened, "Oh really? And…?"
He swallowed, "Ok, so I didn't tell you everything about Jamaica. Umm you might want to sit down."
They did, staring intently at him. Well, Al and Evanna were staring intently at him. Rose was glaring suspiciously.
"Ok. So the first day I got to Jamaica I met a kid called Ryan. He took me back to his house, seeming really scared. I found out that he and his mum were wizards. The reason they were so scared was that a few months before I arrived the muggles found out about wizards. In an effort to keep it secret the wizards sealed the island. No muggles getting in or out. They obliviated all the memories but it turned out some of the muggles had a resistance to magic. They.. err they didn't like the idea of wizards being around so they started killing wizards using wizard technology. You know how they can track underage magic?"
They all nodded.
"Yeah well the muggles took of the ministry and stole all of our technology, adapted it to theirs and made it so it would detect any magic. So I decided to stay and help. Ryan took me to a rebellion group, made up totally of kids. Ann was the leader. We did some attacks, killed a few of them at then we launched a huge attack . In this attack we killed most of them until there were only three left. I was about to kill the leader… Adam, when the America Minister of Magic turned up and took therm away. Ann left the island shortly after that. The End. Can I go back to sleep now?"
The others just gaped at him. He scowled, "See this is the reason I didn't tell you! Can we please just forget about it."
"Well probably not since this girl has turned up at Hogwarts," said Rose bluntly. Scorp nodded solemnly and muttered something under his breath.
"What was that?" Rose snapped.
'I said, 'Yeah especially since she's going to try and get revenge on everyone related to Adam…"
Rose shrugged, "What has that got to with anything?"
He sighed, "Adam… his last name. It was Dursley."
Al gaped, "So his relatives…"
"Yeah. That would be you guys. And me if you think about it, but then again she wants to kill me anyway."
"Why?" Evanna said inquisitively.
He pointed to his hair, "Adam had this colour hair. She feels I betrayed her by dying it this colour. You might want to warn Cassidy by the way. She's his closest relative here so she'll probably go for her first."
"You're kidding right?" said Rose, "She really isn't going to kill us?"
He gave her a look, "Rose this is the girl who cold heartedly killed all the people we captured by herself because she'd seen her parents brutally killed in front of her. Yeah, I'm serious."
"So," began Al, "We're going to have to watch her. And protect Cass. You think we should tell Professor Bloom?"
Scorp nodded, "Yeah. I'll talk to Charlotte tomorrow."
A/N: I feel horrible. I'm in the beginning stages of the flu so I feel drowsy and tired all the time. Plus I am hungry. This, above all else, is the reason you should take pity on me and press the button you see below. Think of it this way. The more reviews I get, the better I feel, the better I feel the quicker I get6 better, the quicker I get better the faster I update. The chain of fan fiction people, it works for everyone.