Halfway through her Transfiguration class, Brooke began spacing out. She rested her chin on her hand and watched Professor McGonnagal talk about animagi. Something that Brooke already knew, well basically every Ravenclaw knew what she was talking about, because they all spent their free time in the library. She turned her gaze to the window, and then felt Padma's gaze on her. She turned and smiled, then mouthed, 'I'm fine, really.' Padma gave her a look telling her, that she didn't believe Brooke. Brooke sighed and looked back at Professor McGonnagal, who gave her a stern look for spacing out. Brooke gave an apologetic smile before taking notes. Then she started spacing out again.
"Come on slowpoke!" Brooke glared and ran after Cameron. She laughed as she collided with him, and they tumbled down the hill, until finally they stopped at the bottom. She laughed again, and looked up at him as he was on top of her. He noticed that too, and looked at her awkwardly. "Uh..." He quickly moved away from her, and she sat up, looking at him. "Sorry about that." She laughed.
"It's okay. We fell." He nodded, and Brooke could almost see him blush a bit. He composed himself and looked at her, then he stood up.
"I'll race you back to the house." He said helping her up as well. She laughed, and smiled.
"Alright. Ready, set, Go!" Both dashed off, laughing the entire time.
"Brooke, class is over. Come on." Brooke shook her head, she could still feel the cool air as her and Cameron ran. She looked up at Padma who was standing. "Come on. We're going back to the Common Room" Brooke stood up, and then noticed Mandy standing by the door, carrying Brooke's things. Brooke laughed a bit and smiled, Mandy smiled back.
"I figured, you'd probably be too tired to carry them yourself." Mandy said with a laugh. Brooke gave her a thank you, then walked over to take her things.
"I'd rather take them myself." Unfortunatly, that wasn't a good thing to say. Padma looked at her with curiosity.
"What are you hiding?" Brooke ignored her and started walking. Padma and Mandy shrugged and ran to catch up with her.
The walk to the Ravenclaw tower, seemed endless to Brooke. But once they got there, she felt relief. She was with people like her. She watched as Padma and Mandy dropped their things and started talking to others. Brooke didn't really talk to many other the other Ravenclaws. She saw Luna Lovegood talking to someone that looked like he wanted to run away. She silently laughed. While everyone else was talking to other people, Brooke slipped out of the Common room, and made her way to the girls dormitories. She slipped out of her Ravenclaw uniform, and into a green outfit. She was planning on creating mischief. She pulled her hair into a ponytail, and pushed her wand into her sleeve. She slipped out of the room and out of the common room.
She made her way down the moving staircase. As she rounded the corner, she spotted a couple of students. She smirked as she thought of what spells she could use against them. A perfect spell came to mind. The Jelly-Legs Jinx. She readied herself, and raised her hand more. She was about to mutter the spell when she heard someone behind her. She lowered her wand and turned around. Draco Malfoy.
"Planning something there?" He said with a smirk. For almost a second, she was afraid of what he would do. "What do you think would be the best? I'd suggest the trip charm. Then maybe a skin color changing charm." Then she was really confused, as he pulled out his wand. She looked at him with a raised eyebrow. However she shook that feeling away and smirked at him.
"My thoughts were, the jelly-legs Jinx. You remember that don't you. End of 4th year?" She turned back to the students she planned on attacking.
"Of course I remember..It was a rather memorable course." She held back a laugh then looked at him.
"I'm Brooke by the way." She said with a smile. Draco smiled crookedly, and tilted his head.
"You know that as a prefect I can dock you house points correct? For causing trouble and hexing other students." He flipped his wrist so his wand was aimed toward Brooke instead of at the other students. "Of course, not knowing what house you belong in makes that difficult..." She lowered her hand as his wand turned on her. For a moment she felt a bit of fear. She hadn't had a wand poised her at her in a long while. Her breath caught in her throat, and she turned completely around and looked at him. Then her shock faded into a smirk.
"What are you gonna do?" She closed the distance between them, and whispered in his ear. "Hex me?" She pushed herself against the wall, and looked at him, a smirk still on her face, but with a bit of flirt thrown in. "Big bad Slytherin, attacking a poor defenseless Ravenclaw." She put her hand to her heart, and put on a mask of sadness, but it quickly faded back to her smirk. "I wonder what the Daily Prophet would make of that scene? The son of Death Eater, attacking someone who was unarmed. I bet Daddy won't approve, it would be bad for his image." She moved towards him again. "So, we can do this 3 ways. You can join me in hexing them. You can walk away. Or I can smear your image. You choice. Choose wisely." She said. She appeared so innocent. But she wasn't. She watched him raise an eyebrow and study her for a moment, before putting away his wand and crossing his arms.
"Blackmailing a Malfoy isn't the wisest of choices you know. Neither is threatening one. And as for my father not approving of something it wouldn't be the first time. I'd get the Crucio or something worse.. if that's even possible. And that would be the end of it." Draco just waved a hand though as if it didn't really matter to him either way. "But if you'd like to see your house loose points, by all means go ahead and hex the students. I can assure you I won't be complaining when the Slytherins win." Brooke's gaze softened as she heard his words pour out of his mouth. She took a breath and looked at him.
"You get Crucio'd?" She asked almost quietly. She had only been hit with that curse once. And it almost killed her. "And besides, I'm not the kind of person who cares about house points. I don't care who's banner waves at the end of the year. Does it really make a difference in my life? Someone's better than everyone else. Isn't that how every war starts? Someone wanting to be better then the rest?" She stopped herself, before she started babbling. Something that she was known to do amongst her friends. She sat down on a bench and looked up at him. Draco tilted his head and watched her, then spoke ignoring her question,
"You may not care about house points but plenty of your house buddies do. They wouldn't be too happy if you managed to get all of their house points down in one day now would they?" Brooke laughed.
"As If I care." She stood up, and gave off the appearance of not caring. She noticed him glance where her wand used to be. "Something wrong, Mr Malfoy?" She was curious as to why he was looking for her wand. It was, of course, hidden in her sleeve.
"No, nothing at all..." She smirked, and glanced at those students again. She lifted her left hand, after feeling her wand in her right sleeve. She moved back to her place on the wall, and peeked around it. "Tarantallegra" She muttered quickly sending the spell directly towards the students. She didn't care. Unknown to her, her wand fell out of her sleeve when she said the spell. She quickly hid from the student's gazes when they started dancing. She giggled quietly, trying not to draw the student's attention. "So, how many points?" She asked, referring to his previous statement about docking points. Her breath caught as she watched him pick up her wand. She had dropped it?!
"A lot of people would have had to pick up their wand in order to finish the spell.. I see you didn't unless... you have a spare wand somewhere up that sleeve of yours." Draco was grinning, his eyes held a wickedly happy glint. She quickly smirked to cover up her shock.
"How can you be so sure that that's a real wand? Are you sure it's not a joke wand?" She said, she reached out her hand to grab the wand, then stopped. Knowing him, there was no way, he was going to give up her wand, without some kind of fight. She quickly dropped her hand.
"First of all, you wouldn't want this wand back so badly if it was a joke wand... and second, that still doesn't help your wandless magic case." He said, smirking.
"So what are you going to do? Turn me into a teacher, send me to professor Dumbledore? Or are you just gonna let this slide? And return my wand to me, I doubt it will help you any." She reached out her hand again to grab her wand. He laughed and raised his hand up and behind him so her wand was out of reach.
"Why do you want it back so badly? You obviously don't need it. And I'm not going to do anything.." He took out his wand swiftly, stepped backward so that he was in plain view of the students and muttered the counter spell, "Quit playing around and get to class before i dock you points and give you detention!" he snapped. The students looked shocked but only for a second before they were scrambling over one another to leave. He looked back at Brooke and smirked, "Well? shouldn't you leave as well?" She glared at him.
"I will leave as soon as you give me back my wand." She was contemplating on if she should just knock him down to grab her wand. Then, apparently without thinking, she jumped on him, knocking him to the ground, and she grabbed her wand. "Now, I think I'll take my leave." She got up quickly, still gripping her wand. She took a few steps back, still glaring, then began walking in the direction of the towers.
"Impedimenta." Brooke stopped in her tracks, and Draco stood up, a look of pure ice and hate on his face. "No one does that to me.. and I don't think you will leave." She growled and turned around to look at him. She pointed her wand to herself.
"Finite Incantatem." Once the spell left her, she raised her wand to him. "Wanna try that again Malfoy?" Every spell she had ever been taught rushed at her at once. She didn't know which one to use, but she knew she was going to use something. What right did he have to one: take away her wand, then stop her when she tried to leave? Just because he was Draco Bloody Malfoy, he thought he could do whatever he want? Well Brooke wasn't about to let him think that any longer. Draco raised his eyebrows and sneered,
"Maybe I will Brookelynn. D'you want to try and tackle me down again?" He gestured to her hand with his own, "Why do you have that trained on me when we both know you don't need it?" She kept her wand raised. Obviously, he didn't know what her full name meant to her. Fear struck her, and she didn't allow herself to be caught up in a memory now. Not when she was about to fight the Slytherin in front of her.
"You won't be thinking you're mister high and mighty much longer, after I get through with you." She said, narrowing her eyes. He gave a short but quiet laugh,
"Is that a promise Brookelynn? I can't wait for that.." Draco narrowed his eyes at her, keeping his wand pointed toward her. She glared at him.
"Don't call me Brookelynn. Averte Statura" She turned swiftly, as she heard him get blasted back. and headed back to the Ravenclaw Common room, before he had time to attack her back. Once she could see the common room in sight, she leaned against the wall in took in a breath. She was so dead for that. She took in a deep breath and spoke the riddle that the portrait presented to her, then walked in.