"I am supposed to go see him in his office tomorrow morning, great, I AM going home after all, well you know it was nice knowing you Lily, thanks to three stupid Slytherins I am getting sent home." Rebecca spat and threw the letter from her and laid back on her pillow and Lily picked up the letter.
"Well you don't know that." Lily said as she looked up from the letter.
"Well the last time I got sent to the headmaster, I got suspended for a week, and the time before that, I got kicked out of the dueling club, and the time before that, I was suspended for turning the teacher in to a duck which was completely on accident but they didn't believe me. So going to the headmaster is never a good thing."
"You could try thinking optimistically Becky."
"The world is out to get me; there is no use in thinking optimistically because the world is just so full of pessimism." She said darkly and Lily rolled her eyes.
"The world is not out to get you." She said and handed the letter back to Rebecca.
"You should see what he wants before you start thinking that you're getting sent home, just saying."
"You got kicked out of the dueling club? Why?"
"Well see it was during tournaments and I was in the lead, the guy I was dueling, Markus Hatter, dirty cheater had one of his friends use a trip hex from the crowd and I didn't take to kindly to that, so after he disarmed me I took the moment he gloated to beat him up, if I had had my wand I would have done much worse."
"You get in a lot of fights huh?"
"I got in a lot more back in Salem. I've actually been on my best behavior here." She said and Lily snorted and Rebecca gave her a smirk. "I was rather a handful; I think that's why they sent me here. I never actually did anything to expel myself so they probably figured this was the best way to get rid of me for a little while. They are supposed to send the top students, I wasn't exactly a top student like Andy but I was like an alright student."
"So you're saying they sent you here to get rid of you?" Lily asked.
"That's my conclusion." Rebecca said with a smile. "I'm actually surprised it took them almost two months to send me back." Rebecca said with a laugh and her stomach growled.
"I think we should head to dinner." Lily said as she got up.
"I am pretty hungry." She said and they headed out of the room and down to the Great Hall.
"Becca, what the hell happened today? I heard something happened at Hogsmead." Andrew said as he came up to her at the Great Hall.
"I don't really want to talk about it." Rebecca said as she went to walk past him, stupid Claire, this probably would have never happened if he hadn't gone to Hogsmead with her.
"Becca." Andrew said and grabbed her hand and she spun around and looked at him.
"Please talk to me." He said and Rebecca crossed her arms over her chest and looked at Lily and gave her a nod.
"I'll see you inside." She said and Lily nodded and walked in to the Great Hall.
"Becca what's going on?"
"I think I might get sent back." She said as she stared at the floor. "I have to meet with the headmaster tomorrow morning."
"Oh no." He said and leaned against the wall.
"What happened?"
"Three of them came up on me."
"Why didn't you just walk away? Becca I have-."
"They wouldn't leave me alone so I took care of it." She snapped and glanced towards the Great Hall.
"I'm going to go eat; I'll see you later-."
"Becca I'm sorry for not going with you." He said as he grabbed her hand and she turned and looked at him and shook her head.
"Whatever Andy, I'll see you later." She said and pulled her hand away from his and she walked in to the Great Hall and heard a few whispers around her as she walked to her usual spot and glanced at the Slytherin table and saw Evan glaring at her, his hand in a cast and a few of the Slytherins whispered amongst each other as they glanced at her and she looked around her and saw people watching her as they spoke to one another. She took her seat next to Lily and glanced down the table at James who looked at her and back to his food and she looked at Sirius and locked eyes with him for a moment and he gave a nod and looked back down at his food. She glanced around and pretty much saw the same weary look in everyone's eyes.
"Why the hell is everyone looking at me like I have the plague or something?" Rebecca snapped as she got herself some food.
"Rabastan Lestrange and Bellatrix Black are in the hospital wing, apparently you got them pretty good." Lily said quietly and Rebecca looked over at the Slytherin table.
"Everyone heard what happened they are saying you are some sort of crazy and dangerous person." Jenny said and went back to her food.
"Like they didn't know that, hell I was only defending myself." Rebecca grumbled and stabbed her potato and nibbled on it.
Dinner was relatively quiet, only a light conversation about the dance the next week. Rebecca finished her food and pushed around what was left on her plate and glanced around.
"Alright I'm going back up to the tower, I'll see you later." Rebecca said as she got up and headed out of the Great Hall and stopped at the stairs and looked back towards the Entrance Hall. The lake sounded rather night right now, she could be alone with out anyone whispering about her. She pulled her jacket around herself and headed outside and walked down the path that led down to the lake.
She sat down on one of the large rocks on the shore and laid back as she looked up at the full moon that was slowly rising. She heard something off towards the forest and she sat up and listened closer. There was no mistaking that sound, a howl. She had heard that many things lived in the forest, even werewolves but Rebecca highly doubted that, werewolves were usually driven towards people due to their blood thirsty nature, surely there wasn't, it had to have been a mistake of the ears. She lay back down and looked back up at the moon and sat up when she heard it again. Perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to sit out here by herself, especially when something that sounded oddly like a werewolf was out in the forest. She got off the rock and headed back up to the castle.
She walked past the Great Hall and saw it was empty and wondered how long she had really been out there. She spotted the large clock outside the Great Hall and saw she only had 5 minutes until curfew. She started to rush up to the tower, knowing she would never make it in 5 minutes and only hoped that she might get caught by James or Lily in hopes of evading a detention or docking of points.
She hurried down a hall and one second she was walking, the next she found herself on the floor and she heard a small snort and she flipped over on to her back and pulled out her wand and looked around, her ears sharp. She heard a small scuff behind her and she turned around quickly.
"Depulso." She said and there was an 'oomph' from somewhere and Rebecca saw James, Peter and Sirius sprawled out on the ground.
"What the hell?" Sirius groaned and Rebecca looked down at the piece of parchment by her feet and she bent down and picked it up.
"No, give that back." Sirius said as he lunged towards her and she flicked her wand and he ran in to an invisible wall and fell back as she examined the parchment.
"Marauders Map." She said as she looked at a spot where 4 dots were marked Rebecca Walcott, Sirius Black, James Potter and Peter Pettigrew.
"What is this?" She asked as she looked up at them and Sirius had his wand out at her.
"Give it back now." He said with anger in his eyes.
"Its nothing." James said quickly and she dropped her wand and flipped through it more and saw Lily, Jenny and Tessa in the tower, Dumbledore in his office. The parchment was wretched out of her hands and she looked up at Sirius who tapped it and the parchment and it went
"That's a map of the school, it shows where everyone is, right?" She asked as she looked at James who looked at Peter.
"Rebecca don't say anything about-."
"That's brilliant, did you guys make that?" She asked curiously.
"Mind your own business Walcott." Sirius snapped and she glared at him and then wondered where they were going, it was not too long ago she had found them sneaking around after hours.
"Where are you guys going?"
"Like I said mind your own business." Sirius said darkly.
"You should be going back to the tower Rebecca, or I am going to have to report you." James said and Rebecca looked at him and then looked back at Sirius with a glare.
"Right well have fun." She said and turned to leave.
"Don't try following us either or we'll know." Sirius said and she turned around and continued to walk to the tower.
She got up to her room and saw Lily pacing the room.
"Becky where have you been?"
"I went down to the lake, must have stayed longer than I thought, whats up with you? You look…mad."
"Potter isn't here for rounds. That is part of his Head duties, I knew it was a bad idea to make him head boy, Remus at least stuck to his duties."
"I saw James, Peter and Black sneaking around somewhere on the 4th floor not too long ago." Rebecca said as she sat down on her bed and scooped up Kimba in her arms and laid down.
"Oh well, he is going to hear about this tomorrow." Lily said and grabbed her cloak.
"I will see you guys later." Lily said and headed out of the room.
"Well here it is." Lily said as she led Rebecca to a Gargoyle statue and turned to Rebecca.
"Right, well I guess I might see you later, depending on how this goes." Rebecca said and Lily nodded.
"Alright, good luck." She said and headed down the hall and Rebecca looked at the statue and waited. What exactly was she supposed to do? Just wait here? She looked around at the empty halls around her and wondered if Professor Dumbledore was late. She pulled out the letter that had been sent to her and read through it again. It just asked for her to meet him in his office at 8AM. Her eyes fell to the bottom where there was a small note scribbled.
I like lemon drops.
Yeah well that was a good thing to know if there was some sort of trivia on what kind of candy that Dumbledore liked.
"What the hell do lemon drops-." She started and the Gargoyle sprang to life and stepped aside, revealing a staircase and she looked back at the letter and back to the staircase and looked around before walking up the stairs slowly, glancing around every so often until she reached the top. She came to a large oak door with a Gryffin door knocker. She chuckled to herself and reached up to grab the knocker when she heard Professor Dumbledore from inside.
"Please come in Miss Walcott." He said and she grabbed the handle and twisted it and gave a small push on the door and stepped inside and she was met with a rather large and tall room.
Off to one side was a large fireplace at least as tall as herself, another wall was covered with portraits of people who were off dozing, there was a large window on another side that over looked the grounds and the lake and up along the last wall was a large book case that covered the entire wall two stories high which had a spiral staircase that led up to the second story. The room was warm and had candles floating in the ceiling. Dumbledore sat at his desk with a small smile on his face, dressed in midnight blue starry robes.
"Hello Miss Walcott, how are you?" He asked and she closed the door behind her.
"Am I going home?" She asked and he gave a small chuckle and folded his hands.
"No Miss Walcott, will that put you at ease?"
"A bit." She said as she slowly walked towards the large desk. She glanced around the office and there seemed to be curious little trinkets all over the office. Her eyes landed on a stone basin not too far off on a small table shimmering like light hitting the lake.
"Is that a pensive sir?" She asked as she looked back at him.
"It is." He said and she looked around and her eyes landed on the phoenix and it looked at her with slight interest and he ruffled his feathers and gave a few small flaps.
"His name is Fawks by the way."
"I've never seen a phoenix before, he is beautiful."
"Thank you, would you have a seat Miss Walcott?" he asked and waved his hand and a large plush chair appeared out of no where and she took her seat. He picked up a small bowl and held it out to her.
"Lemon Drop?" He asked and she shook her head.
"No thanks." She said and he put the bowl down and took one for himself. He grabbed one of the glass cups on the desk and filled it up with some water and motioned to her if she wanted some. She shook her head and folded her hands on her lap as he took a small drink.
"Do you know why I have called you here Miss Walcott?"
"I would have to think it has something to do with what happened at Hogsmead yesterday."
"Yes it does-."
"They started it; I mean I can't really prove it but-." She said and he held up his hand and cut her off.
"Miss Walcott you do not need to explain yourself, a few students saw the whole thing and reported it, you have done nothing wrong." He said and she took a deep breath and leaned back.
"Well if I am not getting sent home what am I here for?"
"Mr. Lestrange and Mr. Black's fathers tried to press charges but seeing that it was Mr. Lestrange and Miss Black who started the fight, I have managed to have the charges cleared." He said and she held her breath as she waited for the bad news to come.
"You will however be suspended from Quidditch-." He said and the glass sitting on the desk shattered and water spilled on to the desk but she hardly noticed.
"Now hang on a second, that's not fair!" She halfway yelled as she jumped out of her seat and gripped the desk.
"Miss Walcott-."
"No, I will admit, I could have handled what happened at Hogsmead a little better but I do not think that is grounds for suspension, I mean give me detention or something, dock house points-."
"Miss Walcott the decision has already been made; there is nothing I can do about it."
She started to pace back and forth and she stopped at the window.
"I can't believe this bullshit." She muttered as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
"Miss Walcott, I suggest that you stay as much away from-."
"What do you think I have been doing? Staying away from them, exactly like I was told, I didn't even try to start anything; they just came up to me, what else was I suppose to do? They were going to- it doesn't matter, they came up to me and they were told to leave me alone as well." She said as she turned and looked at him.
"Miss Walcott there is nothing I can do." He said and she looked back out the window.
"May I go now? I would prefer not to break anything else." She said as he waved his wand and the mess was cleared up, the glass cup put itself back together like new.
"Yes you may go." He said and she turned to leave.
"Miss Walcott." He said and she stopped in her tracks and took a deep breath.
"Please try not to let your anger get the best of you. I know that's not something you really want." He said and she closed her eyes as she clenched her fists. If there was anything she wanted to do it was to beat some Slytherin heads in right now.
"Alright, have a good day Professor." She said and opened the door.
"You too Miss Walcott." He said and she shut the door behind her. She leaned against it as she buried her face in her hands and took a deep breath. This wasn't the end of the world, it wasn't. She could have plenty of fun in the stands. Who the hell was she kidding, this was what she had been looking forward to the whole year, quidditch, and now it was gone.
Well there you have it, thanks for reading, i cant believe i have had a thousand hits! Incredible! So i dont think i will be able to write for a while, i know this came out a little late and I'm sorry, i have finals for the next two weeks so i dont know how much writing i will be able to get done but i will try my best. Please rate and review =)