Everywhere was Dark. Faint noises of footsteps could be heard in the distance. Where was she? Who was with her? What had happened.
Karma sat at the Hufflepuff table, He scanned the Great Hall for what must have been the 5th time that morning, searching for the familiar face of Rebecca. "Who are you looking for?" The voice of Hannah Abbott bought him back to reality. "Huh." He said completely not hearing the question.
"You keep looking around as if your looking for someone." She replied
"Only Rebecca. I Haven't seen her since yesterday morning." He sighed
"I heard that she had a very violent duel with Malfoy and was sent to the hospital wing." Wayne Hopkins added. Karma finished his breakfast hastily and took off towards the hospital wing.
Upon arrival he was greeted by Madam Pomfrey. "Hello Mr Karmaton, What brings you here today?"
"Um Hi Madam Pomfrey I was looking for Rebecca Potter. I heard that she was in here yesterday after a duelling accident." He answered.
"You heard correctly but I sent her back to her common room yesterday evening."
"Oh. Well thanks anyway." He returned and then headed back to the Great Hall.
When he got there he walked towards the Slytherin table and straight towards Daphne Greengrass who he knew to be a friend of Rebecca. "Daphne?" He asked "Do you know where Rebecca is?"
"Rebecca? No sorry. She not in the Hospital wing?" She replied
"I've just been there and Madam Pomfrey said she had been sent back to the Common room."
"Now that I think of it, Her bed was messed up this morning but she wasn't in the common room this morning." Daphne said with concern clearly in her voice. "I'll ask Harry, Ron and Hermione." He sighed. And with that he turned towards the Gryffindor table. "Oi Karmaton, How's Your Girlfriend? Hope she's not to dumb minded after yesterday!" Malfoy snickered from across the table. "Shut Up Malfoy. Your the reason she ended up injured in the first place!" he shouted back. "I hope that when I find her, She comes and kicks your ass!"
"Ahh, Where's that Hufflepuff Kindness Karmaton?" Zabini commented.
"Not with you." He replied simply and with that he took off towards the Gryffindor table.
"Trouble with Malfoy." Harry said knowingly
"Yeah." Karma answered "Anyway I came to ask if any of you had seen Rebecca?"
"No, Haven't seen her since Defence against the Dark Arts yesterday." Ron replied. "She not with you?"
"Seriously Ronald, If she was with him, He wouldn't be looking for her." Hermione said matter-of-factly
"Only asking." He threw back.
"I've asked Daphne if she was in the common room, But she's not and her beds messed up but empty. She's not in the hospital wing where she was yesterday. I'm really worried." Karma spoke
"Lessons start in about 10 minutes, I'm sure she'll be there" Harry comforted.
Rebecca had been sat still on the cold concrete for too long that she had lost track of time. She couldn't remember anything that had happened and still she didn't know where she was. The whispering still continued and she could barely make out what they were saying. "Protect her." "End of days." "My plan." What did it all mean. Who was going to protect who? What did they mean by end of days? Who's and what plan? Everything felt like a whirl and she felt so alone in a dark corner of the earth, Nobody knowing where she was or who she was with. suddenly out of the darkness, Two beady red eyes looked right at her as if they were staring right into her soul and she quickly became more afraid.
Lessons dragged that day for Karma and he suddenly realised that Potions had become more boring then it was before. He could barely concentrate on the voice of Professor Snape at the front of the class telling the what to add to the potion and how to add it. For some reason, Snape sounded different, His voice had a different tone to it as if he was trying to be too boring on purpose. Like a forced voice. The rest of the class didn't seem to notice as they were probably too busy trying to pay attention to what Snape was saying. Karma suddenly had the idea to ask Snape at the end if he had seen Rebecca as he was Slytherins head of house. Surly he would know. So he put Rebecca to the back of his mind and continued to make an Antidote of common poisons.
Class drew to a close and the students began to collect and tidy up their equipment. But not before Snape assigned the Homework to the classes dismay. "A 2 foot long essay of the common uses of Poisons, The good and the bad. Due for next week." He announced and the class dared not complain. Once everyone had gone Karma sheepishly made his way up to the front desk to ask the professor the question he'd probably asked everyone that day. "Professor?" He said meekly. "What is you?" Snape relied with haste.
"Due to you being Slytherins head of house, I was wondering if you had seen Rebecca Potter by any chance."
"No and why should I have." The professor said with a tone of Authority in his voice.
"No reason, Its just that nobody has seen her all day."
"Be gone with you, I do not have time for this." Snape snapped.
"Oh one more think Professor, Are you ok, you seem different today?" Karma asked with fear clear to everyone that heard it. "Watch your mouth Karmaton or you'll be ending up with detention, 10 points from Hufflepuff." With that Karma strolled out of the classroom before he got into anymore trouble.
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Karma regrouped after dinner in the Great Hall. "Any sign?" Harry asked Karma.
"None." He replied. "What about you, Was she in lessons?"
"No." Ron answered.
"I'm really worried guys." Hermione put in. "What if she was taken or worse murdered." Hermione had begun hyperventilating. "Calm down Hermione, It's not that bad." Harry assured
"I have an idea." Ron announced. "Lets ask the Ghosts, They watch the castle day and night. If they've seen Rebecca, then they will know."
"Great lets go." The rest of the agreed.
The four of the ran down to the dungeons which they believed would be the most logical place to start considering Slytherins Ghost, The Bloody Baron hung out down there. The curfew was getting closer so the knew they would have to be quick. They searched the entire of the Dungeons until they finally found the Blood Baron.
"Ah what do we have here!" The Bloody Baron almost yelled.
"Um excuse me Mr Bloody Baron but did you see a girl last night walking around the dungeons?" Hermione asked politely "I Believe I did young wizards and Witch."
"Great." Harry exclaimed "What happened to her? Where did she go?"
"If I remember correctly, She walked out of the Slytherin common room and head on down the Corridor just down there." He pointed to the corridor leading to Snape's office. "However she didn't get very far as soon she was caught by The Professor and pushed quite violently into his office. I heard shrieks of pain and shouting and then nothing so I passed it off as playful fun and wandered up to the north side of the castle to meet with the other ghosts." H e said almost cheerfully. "Thanks Sir." Hermione thanked happily and grabbed the other boys and lead them to the ground floor courtyard.
"So Snape has something to do with it." Hermione said as if she had achieved something.
"That's funny because did any of you have potions today?" Karma asked.
"Yeah we all did." Ron replied.
"Didn't you guys see that Snape was acting like he was trying to be Snape instead of just passing it of normally?"
"Now that you mention it, Yeah he was acting weirdly. Do you think last nights events has something to do with it." Hermione said. "We need more evidence, Curfews almost upon us, we'll continue the investigation tomorrow But I have a bad feeling about this." Harry added sadly. Everyone agreed and the Gryffindors separated with the Hufflepuff at the Grand Staircase and they both made their was to their common rooms awaiting for the next day to arrive.
Why was it always her who got into trouble? she kept silently asking herself. Everyone got the long straw and she always got the short straw. Was it because she was the misplaced Slytherin or the Potter she wasn't meant to be. She continued to think until a pair of cold strong arms grabbed her around the waist and slung her over a pair of hairy shoulders. If she wasn't gagged then she would have screamed until her voice went raw but instead she just struggled until she grew tired for she didn't have much energy left. After a While she was flung onto more cold Concrete and she looked up into a face of a monster. He was Hairy and had an evil look on his face, No wait, scratch that, he had the face of evil. Somehow Rebecca knew deep down that she knew who he was, someone from a dream or someone from a nightmare. or A nightmare waiting to happen. once she realised she was trapped in a cell, She gave up hope and slid down the end of the back wall trying to cry herself to sleep. Just then a voice took her out of her daze. "Miss Potter." It Spoke. She knew that voice, she defiantly knew that voice. Turning to face the direction it came from she saw who it was and spoke with utter shock. "Professor?"