Chapter 12

Neither spoke the entire time; they didn't know what to say really.

"What do you think you're doing?", Snape welcomed them back at the castle, "do you realize what kind of danger you're putting yourself in?", he said, specifically to Dey, but she stayed in silence, "both of you will see me tomorrow for detention and 80 points will be taken from Gryffindor"

"80?", both snapped

"What about the two gits that went all over her? That's why we're late!"

"They already have their punishment, but as I have clear is the third time you hit another student"

"Two of those was that head boy, for wanting to have his way with her!"

"Silence or I'll take more points."

George was going to keep talking, but shut his lips and took a deep breath. Then he let them go.

"Where were you?", Harry said getting off the couch, along with Fred, Hermione and Ron

"Hogsmeade.", Dey said like nothing happened

"Why are you all messed up? Who did this to you?", Fred asked George

"They ended up worse, so don't worry."

"Worse?", Hermione said, "who are 'they'?"

"No one"

"…I'll tell you tomorrow, Harry. I'm tired."

Dey just walked away to the girls' staircases in the silence.

"Dey!", George called, making her stop and turn in surprised, both looked at each other while the others looked at both, "…goodnight.", he ended up saying from all the pressure.

Dey just gave a soft nod and a half smile before she kept going up. Then everyone looked at George, but he was staring blankly at the way she went. Then he left to his room. Harry and Fred exchanged grins before they all turned in. When Harry got to his room, Dey was already there and had taken off her jacket and had her shirt lifted as she looked at her back in the mirror. She had a bruise.

"What the hell did you two do?", Harry asked, wanting an answer now for her bruise

Dey sighed before she sat on her bed and he sat with her. After a few seconds of silence she told them about the two guys and George beating them up.

"That's just- they should pay for that! They can't just keep going this to you, treating you like nothing!"

"I know…I'll see what I can do, Harry"

"…did something else happen? You look…like if something else happened."

"…Then…I wanted to scream…it was like so much: George ruining the date, then our argument, then…he just left me…then those idiots, they were beating him up…it was strong."

"Did George do something? Like at the library?", Harry asked and she nodded

"He didn't left, he hugged me, but it still felt like I was going to scream."

"Did you?"

"…No…he um…he ended up kissing me…", Harry's eyes opened wide, not expecting that, "that's when I calmed down"

"…wow, didn't expect that."

Even if he was smiling, Dey was staring blankly to a wall.

"W-why aren't you…is something wrong?"

"I'm confused", she answer lowering her head, "do I like him?"

"…I really think you do, Dey. C'mon, I know you haven't liked anyone before, but you must know by now."

"Yeah, but…", she et out a sigh, "Maybe I just need some sleep."

Harry nodded after hesitating, accepting her idea. It felt like a lazy Sunday after that night. Dey and Harry were just walking around, not really knowing where to go.

"Where are we going?", Harry finally asked

"I don't know. I'm following you."

"…I was following you", He said before both laughed

"What ever. I don't have anywhere else to go anyways."

"So it's a random tour of the castle I guess"

"Sure.", she said with a chuckle

When they turned into a corner, Dey felt she bumped with someone. When her head slowly went up to look after the impact, she caught George's stare.

"Hey", Fred said with a smile, "how are you two on this lovely day?"

"I'm good. We're good", Harry said with a grin

Both grinned at each other and then they turned to Dey and George, who were still looking at each other.

"Hey, Dey…", George finally spoke

"…Hi", she said, finally getting her stare off him and to the floor

"Deyanira!"

Everyone turned to where the voice came from to see Michael, waving at her.

"Can you come for a second?", he called

"I'll-I'll be right back", she said, looking at Harry

She walked away to him, while George traced her every step. The three guys stayed looking to her, how she laughed and smiled at Michael. Then he grabbed her hand and she slowly stopped laughing. It looked like he was asking her something serious, something that let her speechless. George just turned around and walked away. Fred looked at his brother, then back at Harry.

"Let me know?", he asked Harry as he started to walk backwards

"Sure", Harry said with a nod before Fred turned around to catch George

Even if Harry wanted to know now what was that all about. Hermione and Ron came looking for him to check something for DA, so when Dey stopped talking to Michael, they also took her along. During the little meeting, Harry couldn't just ask her what had happened, but he did notice she was very distracted. George stared at his reflection from one of the crystal shelves in the trophy room. It flicked with the flames behind him, making contrast with the dark room, darker at night. A door opened, making him turn around with anticipation to who it was. Dey went down the staircases and suddenly stopped when her eyes looked up to him.

"H-hey", George said first with a half smile

"…Hey", she said and walked closer, "do you have the supplies?"

"Oh, yeah", he said before he grabbed one of the buckets that were on the floor with a towel

"Thanks", she grabbed them and turned around, but after a few feet she turned again, "thank you"

"…for what?"

"Yesterday…for coming back and helping me.", she put on a little smile, making him smile completely

"You're welcome"

After she turned again to start cleaning the trophies.

"Sorry for…you know…your date", he said as he cleaned, "I was…I thought he could do something to you…also it was almost night, he could have seen you."

"…forget about it…", she said and went to the other side to see him trough the trophies, "anyways…h-he asked me out again…", George stopped cleaning and turned to her

"He did?"

"Ah, yeah…"

"Oh…brilliant, then", he said before turning again to keep cleaning

Deyanira stopped cleaning, getting tired of going piece by piece of what happened yesterday.

"George?", she said and he slowly turned to her, while she walked around the shelf to face him, "w-what was that about?"

"…What?", he had a clue of what she meant, but tried to avoid it

"…the kiss.", she said with a sigh

"Oh, that", he said and turned around to keep cleaning, "nothing of course"

"…nothing?"

"Yeah…I wanted to distract you and since I'm a good kisser, well at least I've heard.", he said with a fake grin

"Really?", she said crossing her arms

"Yeah. It wasn't anything serious. We're just friends after all."

"Oh…", she said, turning around, "then I guess it never happened."

"What?", he turned to her

"The kiss.", she faced him again, "since you've kissed so many girls already you may not remember how special your first kiss it's suppose to be, so I'll just pretend it didn't happen and have a real, special, first kiss. And you can just add it to your record.", she crossed her arms, and took a deep breath, feeling her voice was breaking. George stayed in silence for a while; he didn't mean that to happen., "I think it'll be faster if we clean half and half. You stay here, I'll take the other side.", she said grabbing her bucket and turning around, she needed to be far from him now

"You can still have it with that git on your second date!", he said as she walked away, and she turned to him with dagger eyes, that also were filled with tears

"I said no!", she snapped, "I didn't accept it so I could be free to make some decisions!...", he just stayed in silence, what else could he say after he fucked it up, "now I know which ones to make"

With that she turned around right when the first tear escaped her eye. She walked between shelves and trophies to get as far away as possible, but when the wall hit, she sighed and broke down. She was hurting badly and now she had to stand trough this for hours until she was done. She didn't waste any time though; she sucked it up and started to clean as quickly as possible and well so she wouldn't have to do this again. When she was done she walked to the entrance and George caught her from afar, between the trophies. He knew he needed to fix this soon so he finished up quick and ran out behind her. He caught her a few feet away from the supply closet and he called her, but she just looked behind for a second before picking up her pace. She reached the common room with him just a few feet behind. When she went in the room, she slammed the door in is face, waking Harry up.

"Please, let me talk to you", George said from the other side.

Dey took a deep breath and opened the door.

"Harry and I won't need your help anymore, so you can stop looking out for me."

"But Dey-"

"Oh, but if you tell anyone, I'll scream right in your ear, alright? Night"

She slammed the door again on his face and went to her bed. She lay down giving Harry her back as he slowly got up.

"Dey…?", he said, almost whispering

"I don't wanna talk about it

By her breaking voice, Harry could tell she was hurt and with the scene he saw, he could tell with who it was.