Chapter Eight

Emily was avoiding Remus, who had spent most of the next few days trying to talk to her. After a week of him trying, he had stopped. They were back to not talking to each other. The weeks went by without any problems. It was winter and another Hogsmeade weekend. Emily did the list again before just sitting down. She looked over at Fred and George making a snowman, then she noticed the foot prints.

She watched as the twins grabbed someone, obviously invicible, back inside the castle. She got up and peeked. She watched the twins give Harry the map. She grinned and walked away. Emily walked around the castle, before taking out her instructions. She looked down at what she was supposed to do next.

She thought her next task was a bit weird, and she would have to wait awhile before she did it. The day went on as usual, until Filch ran up to her.

"Make sure all the students are in the Great Hall," Filch quickly said, "He's here."

Emily nodded her head and ran off to find any students who were not in the Great Hall. Though, she could only help for so long, before she had to go back to her room. She saw a potion on her dresser, which she quickly drank. She turned around and locked the door. She than went to the small window in the room and stared outside as the last bit of sunlight disapeared.

The next day, when she woke up, she saw Dumbledore in her room, sitting on her bed.

"What is it now?" Emily moaned.

"Just making sure you're doing your job," Dumbledore said, with a smile, "I do need you to do the next one soon."

"And just how am I going to do that?" Emily asked, looking over at Dumbledore.

"You will figure it out," Dumbledore said, before getting up and leaving her room.

Emily just laid there, thinking about how she would do her next task.

The weeks went by and Emily was back to walking around the halls. She stopped and saw Neville sitting in the hall. She walked over to him to see what he was doing.

"What are you doing?" Emily asked.

"Reading about plants," Neville said, peeking over the top of his book, "there very fasinating."

"It is getting late and you don't want to miss dinner," Emily said, looking around.

Neville nodded his head, got up and left the hall. Emily watched him go and looked down. She saw a piece of parchment, which she quickly picked up. She looked at it with a grin. She put it in her pocket and went back to walking around. She headed up to the portrait to the Gryfindor common room. Sir Cadagon looked at her.

"Password?" Cadagon asked.

Emily took out of the piece of parchment and said the last password. He nodded his head and swung open. She looked around before going inside. She looked around the common room, which was empty. She headed up the boys stairs and into Harry's dorm room. She looked around and went over to Ron's bed. Under Ron's bed was a cage with Scabbers. She got the cage and looked inside. The rat started squeaking loudly at the sight of her.

"Oh be quiet," Emily hissed, and the rat went quiet.

Emily took a small vile of blood out of her pocket and poured some of it on Ron's bed. She took the rat out of the cage and destroyed it. She quickly left the dorm room and ran out of the portrait hole. She looked around and oddly no one noticed her.

She quickly ran down stairs and into a random hall. She set the rat down on the floor and walked off. She pulled out her instructions and crossed out another task. She took the piece of parchment and just dropped it on the ground. She went to her room and closed the door.

She sat on her bed, but quickly got up when she heard a knock on the door. She slowly opened the door to see it was Remus.

"What is it?" Emily asked, folding her arms.

"I honestly think we need to talk," Remus said, entering her room.

Emily rolled her eyes, before closing the door. Emily turned to Remus, who had sat down on her bed. She went over and sat down next to him.

"What do you want to talk about?" Emily asked, looking at Remus.

Before Remus could say anything, there was another knock on the door. Emily rolled her eyes, before getting up and answering the door. It was Filch with his cat.

"You're supposed to be watching the halls tonight," Filch said, "you might want to get on that."

"Ok," Emily sighed, "just one minute."

Emily closed the door and turned to Remus, who had stood up. Emily walked over to him. They stared at each other for awhile, before Remus wrapped his arms around Emily's waist. Emily wrapped her arms around Remus's neck with a smile.

"Do you want to go for that walk now?" Remus asked.

"Well, I have to walk around anyway," Emily whispered, before she kissed Remus.

After a few seconds of kissing, they left Emily's room. They walked down the halls, holding hands. They walked in silence for about two hours.

"You should get some sleep," Emily said as they walked up the stairs.

"I don't need it," Remus smiled, "it is after all sunday tomorrow."

Just than they heard a scream. They quickly ran to see it was coming from the Gryfindor room. Cadagon looked at them and quickly swung open without asking for the password. They quickly ran inside. Remus quickly ran to where the screams were coming from. He got half way up the stairs when someone pushed him down. Remus hit the bottom of the stair case, knocked out. Emily pulled out her wand and looked at the person. Emily wasn't shocked at all to see that it was Sirius.

She pointed her wand at him. He stopped and looked at her. He slowly moved in around her and closer. She didn't seem to be doing anyhing. She grinned and gave a small nod, which made him smile. You could hear people coming down the stairs, Emily turned to look. Sirius quickly grabbed her wand and hit her with a spell. She flew back and hit the wall. Sirius dropped the wand and quickly ran out of the portrait hole.

Emily tried to stand up, but there was a sharp pain in her left leg. Students were piling into the common room. Remus had gotten up and looked around.

"Someone get McGonagall," Remus yelled.

Percy quickly ran out of the portrait hole. Remus went over to Emily.

"I think my leg is broken," Emily said, trying to hide the pain.

Remus looked at her leg and saw blood. He pushed up her pant leg to see that there was a bone sticking out of her leg. Some students gasped. Emily looked and quickly looked away.

"Can you fix it?" Emily asked.

"I can," Remus said, pulling out his wand, "but, I'm sorry, I got to push the bone back in."

Emily gave Remus a dirty look, before looking away. Some students had turned away, while others watched with interest. Remus looked at Emily, than at her leg. Remus put a hand over the bone, he looked back up at Emily and pushed the bone back in. Emily closed her eyes tightly and dug her nails into the floor. Remus quickly mended it, but it stil hurt.

McGonagall came into the room. She looked over at Remus and Emily and quickly went over to them. Remus helped Emily stand up, but she kept off her leg.

"Take her to the hospital wing," McGonagall said, "Poppy can clean her up."

Remus nodded his head and he helped Emily out of the room, while McGonagall asked what happened.