This chapter has been brought to you by Food Poisoning, keeping young girls home from sports carnivals since 1 am!
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Al rubbed his temples slowly trying to make sense of his friend's words. Even Evanna, with her love for all things new, was trembling in fear of Scorp's descriptions.
"What do you want to do?" he asked trying to stay calm.
Scorp shrugged, "Mum knows and I expect that she'll get someone from the Department of the Control of Magical Creatures. I vote we just leave it to the poor sod."
Rose nodded in agreement. "Yeah. This year we should stay out of things bigger and more powerful than us."
Well, they tried.
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"If we had the map this wouldn't have happened," snarled Rose.
"Well sorry for thinking James should have it!" Scorp snapped back. "I mean, it's not like it was his father's!"
"Oh so what was Al? The son of the local Alchemist?"
Scorp sighed, "You know I didn't mean that but, no offence Al, James is the first born."
"No taken," said Al.
"I do believe we were set up," hummed Evanna.
"By who?" asked Scorp.
Rose threw a scrub at him, "By Ann of course!"
He threw it back at her, "Oh yeah! Ann, who wasn't even in the same room as us and couldn't possibly cause our potion to blow u- AHHH!" Rose had grabbed him by the front of his robes.
"That potion went towards twenty percent of our grades. I will not take blame for this and I will blame someone else. Understand?" He nodded violently and turned back to his caldron and scrubbed harder.
"Well at least I wasn't the one who decided to sneak in and swap the portions," he hissed under his breath.
'WHAT WAS THAT?"
"Did I say you could talk?" asked Professor Forma as he returned to the room. He looked at their caldrons with disappointment. "I guess you can go then." He sighed.
They left in a hurry, Professor Forma was a manic teacher who loved punishments… and he needed no reasons to dish them out.
Scorp halted outside a window. "Hey guys wait!" he called to his friends. They came to his side to gaze out the window.
Four men dressed in Ministry robes were heading into the forest wands held out.
"I guess the Headmistress got on to it quicker than we thought," said Al.
"Come on," said Scorp, "We don't need to bother over this."
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That night Scorp had something he hadn't had for a long time. A Gazer dream. He'd only had two others in his life, the night his grandfather was 'kissed' when he was two and when he was five and his mother got a promotion. Zane had finally explained them years later. Gazer dreams were restricted to present things, never past or future and it enhanced the Gazer's understanding of the situation. These dreams only occurred when something important was happening to a person the Gazer knew well.
That night Scorp dreamt of Lily Potter.
She was in her night robes out on the grounds, a piece of paper clutched in her hand. With his heightened understanding he knew that it was a forged letter, supposedly from him, asking her to meet him by the forest. Even while asleep Scorp growled, he knew it was Orion Dwyte a fifth year Slytherin.
Something big and dark flapped above Lily's head. She turned… and screamed.
And then he was awake and running, as fast as he could down the corridors and out onto the grounds. He looked around desperately, where around the forest had he seen it.
In the end he hadn't had to remember. Lily's scream pierced the night from the east side of the forest. He transformed and ran as fast as he could.
Lily was pinned to the ground, two of the hideous things onto of her. He sighed in relief noticing that she had yet to be bitten.
He pounced and landed on the back of one of the things. It screeched a horrible ear piercing sound and Scorp fell over himself as pain rushed through his head. He recovered quickly and returned to the fight. The creature however had other plans. It dugs it's claws into his hide and flung him away. He landed at least three metres away.
Fuck, he thought, these things are strong.
And then he remembered, he had pocketed his wand before running down there. He returned to his human form and pulled out his wand.
"Reducto!" he yelled and the air before the things exploded. Scorp frowned; they were supposed to blow up, not the fucking air!
However they did fly off for a moment, startled. Scorp took the opportunity and ran forward to pull up Lily.
"Run!" he bellowed at her, ignoring the fact that she was crying hysterically. It was her own bloody fault for being so stupid.
Although he had to hand it to her, she could run pretty fast. She was soon ahead of him streaming towards the castle.
And then it hit him, with such force that he slammed into the ground face first. Somewhere above he heard Lily scream.
Spitting dirt out of his mouth and yelled back at her. "Run you fool! Run!"
The pain increased on his back as the second thing landed on his back.
There was a sharp pain on his neck and he knew no more.
(A/N: No I'm not going to leave you with a cliffy! I'm not that evil)
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Scorp groaned and slowly opened his eyes. What had happened last night, all he remembered was Lily out on the grounds….
His eyes finally fully open he could see that he was not alone. Sitting in a chair to the right was James with Lily curled up on his lap, asleep. Standing to Scorp's right were Al and Rose who were looking everywhere except at him. And at the door was Charlie with his arms around Charlotte.
Scorp coughed. "'Sup peoples?" Six spun around, or shot up in Lily's case, to look at him.
"Oh thank god," whispered Charlotte as she took a step towards him.
He smiled confused. "What's wrong? You all look like someone died." He looked around, suddenly realising he wasn't in his dorm room. "Where am I?"
At which point Charlotte burst into tears and ran off. Charlie gave Scorp one last look before running after her. If Scorp didn't know any better he would have thought it was… pity.
"Ok what the fuck is going on?" he yelled. As soon as the words left his mouth a wave of nausea ripped through his stomach. His head felt like someone was stabbing it so he could only barely hear Rose screaming for a nurse before everything went black… again.
The next time he woke up there was no pain, only a pleasant tingling in his chest. He grinned when he saw Al sitting by his bed.
"Hey mate, where'd every one go?"
"James and Lily went back to the castle and… well Headmistress Bloom sort of fainted so Uncle Charlie is with her and Rose went to get some food."
He nodded. "Okay next question. What happened? Why am I here? Where is her? And what time is it? I'm hungry."
Al grinned, "That's more than one question. Ermm it's six twenty on Thursday. You're at St Mungos in a special ward set out for the Hogwarts attacks…"
"WAIT WHAT?" Scorp yelled, "WHY?"
Al gulped, "Well you see… look what do you last remember?"
Scorp thought back. He remembered having a Gazer dream about Lily being tricked to go out to the grounds at night… And then running, and yelling. And those things…
"No…" he whispered, "Oh no! No, No, No, No, No, No, No!!" he looked around wildly and spotted his wand on the bedside table. He snatched it up.
"Lumos!" he said. The wand glowed dimly and Scorp smiled at Al in triumph. "See! It still works!"
Al shook his head. "You just had a magical transfer, in a couple of minutes it will wear off so you can't use magic anymore. In twelve hours it will leave completely and you'll go into magical detox again."
Scorp just shook his head, "This isn't happening. This isn't happening! Fuck! Lumos! Lumos!" the wand did nothing. "LUMOS FOR FUCK'S SAKE!"
A/N: Now I'll leave you with a cliffy… and run behind a brick wall! Okay lets just have this out right now. This was not my idea. Admittedly I agreed happily to it but it wasn't my idea. If you want to kill someone kill my friend Cassidy, it was her idea.