"You better stay the hell away from me you creep if you know what is good for you." She said as she backed behind a desk.
"Are you forgetting who had has the wand here?" He said as he followed her around the classroom. She ran to the door trying to open it and he chuckled. "I have been waiting for an opportunity like this." He said and paused. "Don't worry you wont remember anything." He said with a smirk as he walked towards her. She ran towards the desk trying to get to her wand and she was thrown across the room and she landed on the hard stone floor and she pulled herself up and was thrown against the wall and pinned there.
"HEL-." She yelled but he silenced her as he walked towards her. He ran his fingers over her cheek and down her neck and over her chest lightly, undoing the first few buttons on her shirt. She had never felt so helpless before, tears filled her eyes as her heart thumped in her ears as she tried to figure a way out of this, there was no way he was going to get this without a hell of a fight but what the hell could she do right now? She had to wait for the one moment when he let down his guard.
"I have been watching you for some time now, there is nothing as beautiful as an angry woman, so fierce, and I could hardly keep away from you." He said as he undid the rest of her shirt with one hand as he held his wand on her, keeping her against the wall.
"Remember there is no where for you to go." He said as took a step back from her and started to undo his belt. The hold on her disappeared as he dropped his wand and she grabbed one of the jars off of one of the shelves and she threw it at his head and she kneed him the best she could and ran off towards the desk and she felt her feet trip from underneath her and she tumbled to the floor, leaving her just out of reach of her wand.
"Where do you think you're going?" he said with a laugh. She grabbed one of the bottles of potion from off the desk and hurled it at him and she pushed herself up as she grabbed her wand and threw him clear across the room in to the shelves of caldrons that broke and showed down on him. She took the moment to fling the door open and ran out of the room. She ran as fast as she could out of the dungeons and tried to debate on where to go.
She burst in to Professor McGonagall's office, tripping on the doorway and heard a sharp gasp.
"Miss Walcott-."
"He tried to rape me." She said as McGonagall rushed over to her.
"Dear-."
"I knew he was scum, I should have gone with my gut." She said as tears fell down her cheeks and McGonagall helped her up.
"Lets get you to the hospital wing dear." She said with concern in her voice as she helped Rebecca out of the office and down to the Hospital wing.
"I'm fine, stop your probing." Rebecca said to Madam Pomfrey who frowned at her.
" Miss Walcott, you are not fine, you should be in shock. Most people are when something this traumatic happens."
"Well I'm not, I am pissed off, the nerve of that little shit, I should have ripped him a new one for what he tried to do." Rebecca said and got off the bed and grabbed her shirt.
"Miss Walcott you really should lay down." Madam Pomfrey urged.
"No, I am going to go take a shower and wash the germs off from that little prick and then I am going to down to breakfast, I am starving and I don't trust hospital food." Rebecca said and slipped her shirt on.
"Miss Walcott." Someone said and Rebecca looked up and saw Professor Dumbledore.
"Good morning sir." Madam Pomfrey said with a nod.
"Miss Walcott may I have a word?" he asked and Rebecca sighed and sat down on the bed as Professor Dumbledore closed the curtains.
"How are you feeling?"
"Very pissed off, how are you sir?" Rebecca said with fake enthusiasm as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Can we please not let this get out, the last thing I need is more rumors about me."
"It has already been taken care of." He said and she stared at the floor.
"I had a bad feeling about him from the start, he was always watching me, never missed an opportunity to get in my face."
"I am glad you are alright and I can't tell you how sorry I am that this happened."
"Have you heard any news about Professor Slughorn?"
"Not recently, last time I heard they were trying to regrow his nose back." He said with a small smile.
"That has to be painful." She said and bit her lip as she looked up at him. "Who will teach the class now?"
"I have owled someone else to take the position, I am sure it will be filled fairly soon." He said and she nodded.
"Alright well is that all? I am in desperate need of a shower." She said as she grabbed her wand off the night table and headed out of the hospital wing.
"Miss Walcott-."
"Poppy she is fine." Dumbledore said and Rebecca shrugged at Madam Pomfrey and walked out of the hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey turned to Dumbledore.
"I can't believe something like this happened Albus." She said and sighed. "I mean one of our students, in this very school."
"I know Poppy." He said with a nod.
"Becky where were you last night? You didn't come back after your detention." Lily said as Rebecca walked out of the bathroom drying her hair.
"That's because I spent the night in the hospital wing." Rebecca said as she walked to her trunk, thankful that it was just Lily and her.
"What? Why?"
"Well you know how I said that Blackwood was the scum of the earth?" She said as she pulled out her clothes for the day.
"Yeah?"
"Well turns out he actually was and tried to rape me." She said as she slammed her trunk shut.
"W-what?" Lily stuttered with shock on her face.
"Yeah, but who would have guess huh? Oh yeah me, scum of the earth and I didn't hardly even get a chance to kick his little perverted ass like I should have, no I had to run. Oh I am so pissed off." Rebecca said as she walked to the bathroom and shut the door.
"Becky, that cant be true, not in Hogwarts."
"Well believe it or not. Don't say anything to anyone either please because that's the last thing I need."
"Becky are you alright?"
"Yeah I'm fine, don't I seem fine?"
"I'm so sorry Becky." She said and Rebecca walked out.
"Don't be, I'm fine, very pissed off but I am fine, he didn't actually get any where." She said and grabbed her book bag. "Come on lets go get some breakfast, I am starving." Rebecca said and walked out with Lily following closely behind.
"Are you sure you're alright?" Lily asked and Rebecca stopped and turned around.
"Yes Lily I am fine. Really I am, it takes a bit more than that to bring me down please don't worry about it." She said as she pat Lily on the shoulder and she nodded.
"Come on I'm starving." Rebecca said as she threw her arm over Lily's shoulders and led her out of the tower.
"Professor who?" Rebecca asked as she started to laugh.
"Professor Poopoulos." Lily said as she rolled her eyes as Rebecca started to laugh harder. "Very mature Becky."
"Oh come on, cant you see the humor? Would we call him Professor Poop for short?" Rebecca asked and Lily sighed.
"It's a little funny Lily." Jenny said from across the table as Rebecca continued to laugh.
"Ooh there he is." Tessa said as they saw a rather short man walking towards the high table. His eyes looked timid and scared from behind the large horn rim glasses that kept slipping down his nose which he kept pushing up. He was no taller than 5'3, shorter than Rebecca. His robes were a little big for him and he kept tripping over them as he walked.
"He is our teacher?" Rebecca asked as she watched him.
"Apparently." Lily said and went back to her food.
"Ah he is so pocket sized." Rebecca said as she sat him sit down next to Hagrid which made Professor Poopoulos look like a mere child sitting next to him.
"I can't wait to meet this one, looks like an interesting case." Rebecca said and ate some eggs.
"Hey Lily." James said as he walked by and Lily smiled.
"Hi James." She said and he smiled widely and nearly tripped over Peter as he forgot to turn around and Lily gave a small laugh as he looked around trying to play it off cool and she turned back to her food.
"I never thought I would see the day that Lily Evans would smile at James Potter, willingly." Tessa said and Lily's cheeks turned pink.
"It's very cute Lily."
"Hey uh Lily." James said as he came back over.
"Yes?"
"Might I walk you to class?"
"Uh sure." She said with a smile and his smile got even wider.
"Alright." He said and hurried back over to his spot in the middle of the table and Tessa and Jenny burst in to a fit of giggles.
"Oh hush up you two." Lily said as she bent her head and continued to eat.
Rebecca stared at the stuttering little man in the front of the classroom trying to talk about the uses of the Ginkgo trees, his glasses falling down his nose every few seconds wondering where the hell Dumbledore had gotten this guy. Rebecca glanced at Lily who was leaning back in her seat trying to pay attention but Rebecca could see the despair on her face and she glanced at the other students who had the same look on their faces.
"A-A-Alright class, p-p-p-please turn to p-p-page fifty four." He said and everyone flipped open their books.
"I will p-p-partner you up." He said as he pulled out the class list and started to pair everyone off. Rebecca leaned back in her seat waiting to hear who he paired her up with, hoping it would be with someone she knew.
"Miss Walcott and Mr. B-black." He said and Rebecca's jaw dropped as she turned around and looked at Sirius in the back who gave a small groan.
"Sir- will you please pair me with someone else, please?"
"Th-th-this will be f-f-fine, p-p-p-please get started." He said and continued to pair off people and Rebecca glanced at Sirius who leaned back in his seat.
"Well are you going to come over here?" She asked.
"No, you can come over here."
"No you come over here."
"Naw, not going to happen." He said as he leaned his chair back and balanced on the back two legs and she rolled her eyes as she glanced over at Lily and James working together and Remus and Tessa, Andrew and Claire, yeah she would be the one stuck with the person she hated. She looked back at Sirius who was throwing a ball of parchment up in the air and catching it.
"Sirius get over here."
"No, you."
"Stop being immature and get over here."
"I am actually quite comfortable over here." He said not even glancing at her. She grabbed her things and got up as she walked over and kicked his chair and it fell over and he tumbled to the ground. The whole class looked over as she started to set up her things and glanced down at him.
"You really shouldn't do that with your chair, it's very unstable." She said and he got up with a glare.
"Is e-e-everyth-th-thing alri-right?" Professor Poopoulos asked as he came over.
"Everything is peachy sir." She said with a false smile and then turned and glared at Sirius. "Why don't you get the supplies?"
"Why don't you get them?"
"Because I am setting up the cauldron." She said motioning to the cauldron.
"Why don't I set up the cauldron?"
"Fine do you want to set up the cauldron?"
"No."
"Then go get the supplies."
"I don't want to do that either."
"Sirius just do it." She groaned as she turned and looked at him.
"I'll watch." He said and she took a deep breath.
"Sirius." She said darkly and paused. "Go get the supplies." She said trying to stay as calm as she could.
"Hmmmm, no." He said and smirked at her.
"Go die." She spat as she grabbed her book and walked over to the supply cabinet to get the supplies.
"Is everything alright over there?" Lily asked.
"No, I am going to murder that little prick." Rebecca said as she looked back at Sirius chatting with the girl in the row in front of them.
"It's just for today, alright? Try to keep it under control." She said and Rebecca rolled her eyes and took the supplies back to the table and separated everything.
"Sirius why don't you juice the newt eyes?" She said as she pushed the jar over to him and he looked in to the jar and looked up at her.
"I dare you to eat one." He said as he pushed the jar towards her.
"What?"
"I dare you to eat one and you never back down from a dare." He said with a smirk and she looked down at the newt eyes.
"It will make me sick." she said with digust.
"So." He said with a shrug.
"You're an asshole, juice the eyes." She said and pushed the eyes back towards him and she got to mincing the leaves and chopping the roots.
"Just one." He said as he held the eye out to her on the end of his knife.
"Sirius that will make me sick." She said as she pushed his hand away.
"I knew you wouldn't do it." He said and she glared at him.
"Sirius I am desperately trying to get through this class with out strangling you, if you wish for me to do so, please continue as you are, otherwise get with the assignment." She growled and turned back to the cauldron.
"What about this? Betcha won't eat this." He said as he held up a dried Billywig.
"That's a bug."
"Yeah, you won't eat it. Girls are squirmish about bugs." He said and she narrowed her eyes and grabbed it and threw it in to her mouth and swallowed it and gave him a smug look as he looked slightly disgusted.
"That's gross."
"Get back to work." She said and turned back to the cauldron, she rolled her eyes to herself wondering what the hell would possess her to eat a bug. Well if it would get Sirius to shut up and work on the assignment, but then again...
"Will you eat this?" He asked and she tightened her grip on her knife as she turned her head to look at him and his eyes fell to the knife and he turned back to mixing.
The rest of class passed with hardly a word as they worked side by side, only a few comments here and there.
"I think you should do the write up seeing that you hardly did anything." Rebecca said as she poured the potion in to a flask.
"I did too do something; I juiced those newt eyes and mixed."
"Yeah well I did everything else, its not that hard, and its just a few questions which you should be able to answer if you paid attention." She said as she took the flask up to the front.
"I didn't pay attention, you do it.' He said as he pushed the book back over to her.
"You are the worlds biggest asshole you know that? I hate you; you can't do the most simple of things." She said as she pulled out her notebook and started on the questions.
"With you doing it, it will be done faster and I have time to chat with that gorgeous blonde with the lovely legs." He said with a smirk as he leaned forward to get the attention of the blonde and started to talk to her. He jumped and grabbed his leg and looked at Rebecca who glared at him.
"What the hell was that for?" He asked as he pulled up his pant leg to reveal a welt.
"For not doing a god damn thing." She snapped as she finished the paper and took it up to the front as the bell rang. She came back and grabbed her things and walked out of the class.
The first snow brought an excitement through out the castle. The ghosts sang Christmas carols as they floated through the halls. The castle was decorated with festive decorations; Hagrid had even brought a few large trees from the forest that were set up in the Great Hall with decorations. Snow had been enchanted to fall from the ceiling in the Great Hall. Mistletoe was hung up in the halls which many of the students steered clear of.
"I can't believe how much snow there is." Rebecca said as she stared out the window of the common room.
"I love the snow; it makes everything look so pretty." Jenny said from the couch with Tessa as they read one of Tessa's girly magazines.
"Can you believe the team is out there practicing right now?" Jenny asked as she looked up from the magazine.
"It's so cold out there, I can't believe James made them practice." Tessa said and Rebecca rolled her eyes.
"Quidditch doesn't stop because of a little snow, the game must go on." Rebecca said as she got up and picked Kimba up from in front of the fireplace and sat down on one of the plushy chairs with him in her lap. He meowed and gave her a glare and she stuck her tongue out at him.
"Mister you are going to sit here and let me pet you." She said as she stroked his fur and he faced away from her and she laughed and ruffled his fur and pushed him off her lap and he landed with ease on the floor and walked back to the fireplace with his tail high in the air.
"Are you going to Hogsmead Rebecca?" Lily asked as she looked up from some homework.
"I don't know, maybe, I need to do some shopping." She said as she positioned herself on the chair so her back was against one arm and her legs dangled over the other towards the fire.
"James asked me to Hogsmead." Lily said as she looked back down at her book.
"And?" Rebecca asked as she raised an eyebrow.
"I said yes." She said with a small smile as she stared at her book and Jenny and Tessa squealed.
"Surprise there." Rebecca said as she levitated one of the magazines over to her and started to flip through it.
"Are you guys going home for Christmas?' Jenny asked as she looked at everyone.
"Yeah." Tessa said.
"Me too." Lily said.
"Me as well, what about you Becky?"
"Probably." She said glancing up.
"What do you usually do for Christmas Becky?" Jenny asked.
"Well you know, chill out at home, spend time with the family, my cousins come over, have dinner, open presents, all that good stuff." Rebecca said dryly.
"You don't sound too…excited." Tessa said and Rebecca shrugged.
"My mom and I don't get along very well so sometimes it makes the holidays not so exciting shall we say." Rebecca said not looking up from the magazine.
"I love Christmas, waking up in the morning and opening presents, Christmas breakfast, Christmas dinner with the family, I love it." Jenny said with a grin.
"Me too."
"I suppose Christmas is alright, when Tuney and I aren't fighting." Lily said and Rebecca looked up.
"Tuney? What kind of name is that?" Rebecca asked humorously.
"Petunia, my older sister."
"Oh yeah you mentioned her." Rebecca said and went back to the magazine. She glanced at the staircase as she saw Remus walking down with Peter, looking sick again. She wondered why he was always sick, what if he had something serious?
"Hey Becky." Remus said as he walked over.
"Hey Remus." She said as she laid the magazine on her lap.
"I was going to head up to the library to work on ruins if you want to come."
"Yes!" She said as she jumped up. "I am having the hardest time with these Roman ruins, let me grab my bag." She said and went up to her room and grabbed her backpack.
"Remus this doesn't make any sense." She said as she looked down at her paper.
"What?" He asked as he glanced over at her paper.
"By light of boon?" She said and he chuckled.
"That's an M." He pointed out and she checked her charts and groaned.
"Everything looks the same." She grumbled and sat back. "I am not even halfway through with this and its due tomorrow."
"Just take your time, its not that hard, look here. See the small tick mark on the right? That's an M, and if it's on the left it's a B." He said and she looked at him. He was horribly pale and there were dark circles under his eyes, he looked truly worn out.
"What?" He asked as he looked at her and she shook her head and looked back down at the paper.
"You know what? Fuck this, lets go do something fun. I haven't done anything fun in a while." She said and got up.
"What brought this on?" He asked as he leaned back in his seat.
"This library, it's so stuffy, lets go for a walk outside or something." She said and grabbed her coat and put it on.
"I really think we should finish this."
"Well it can wait. Come on."
"Becky its due tomorrow, we really can't wait."
"Come on, just a walk and then we can come back up here and finish it up." She said and gave him a pout.
"I really think we should finish…" He said and looked up at her giving him a pouty look and he sighed and got up and she smiled wide.
"Thank you. Come on." She said.
"Let me just pack up." He said and she pulled out her wand and tapped the stuff and it went back in to the bags.
"Come on." She said as she grabbed her bag and his and hurried out of the library.
"Becky wait up." He said as he followed after her.
"Do you need another jacket?" She asked as she turned around and he almost ran in to her.
"Perhaps it would be a bit better."
"Alright, well how about I meet you downstairs? Take the bags up with you?" She asked as she held them out to him and he took them and slipped them on his shoulder.
"See you downstairs." She said with a wide grin and went down the stairs and he watched after her with a small smile and shook his head to himself and headed up to the tower.
Alright there you have it, thanks for reading, i hope you enjoyed it. Please rate and review =)
I wont be updating for a while, i am going camping this weekend, yay! So the next chapter should be out by Wednesday or Thursday. Have a good weekend everyone!
