Though the Christmas holiday had been a nice break, Mia was glad when the rest of the school returned. She'd ended up spending most of the holiday either helping Draco with his homework, or letting him show her all the secret passageways of this incredible school. He really didn't seem as bad as everyone made him out to be. He was rather sweet really.
That was the topic of Mia's internal babble as she said goodbye to Ginny and walked to her Defence against the dark arts lesson. Draco. When Ginny had got back to school, and asked Mia what she'd been doing, that was what she'd said. Spending time with Draco. And what was wrong with that after all? But Ginny didn't seem to agree, neither did her two twin brothers who always seemed to be bumping into her somehow. All three of them seemed to love bad-mouthing 'Malfoy' as they called him. Why couldn't they even call him by his first name? It was all so silly.
Turning the corner into the corridor of her lesson, a small smile flickered over Mia's features as she saw Draco, though it flickered slightly as she saw his two cronies on either side. What was the point in them? They were both idiots and probably couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag. Mia shrugged to herself inwardly, stopping her internal babble and moving into a newly made space between Crab and Draco.
No words were spoken, no 'hellos' no 'how are you's' But the acknowledgement of each other's presence was there. As always.
"Enter Class" Said the voice their D.A.D.A teacher, Professor Lockheart. All the others girl were falling over him, giggling at the chance to speak to him. But why? He wasn't even that good looking. Sighing Mia followed Draco into the class, glancing around as she noticed the normal desks that filled up the classroom, were now pushed to one side, and professor Snape appeared to be standing at the opposite side of the room. Standing behind Draco, she waited for the rest of the class to file in. This was such a pointless subject for Mia in her own opinion. She couldn't even do anything. Well, she could cast spells on others, but if others tried to do the same to her… It wasn't a pretty outcome. Still for unknown reasons to herself, or anyone else for that matter, Mia had a lot of power. More than she could handle. She could take a guess at why she had so much, something to do with her parents. She'd read about an article somewhere, saying that someone born from a descendent of Slytherin, and one of Gryffindor, would had too much power. But that couldn't be the situation. Her mother was after all, 100% evil, and as far as she new, Not, a descendent of Slytherin, and there was no way her father was going to be a descendent of Gryffindor. So that option was out the window.
Pushing the thoughts to the back of her mind, she looked up as Lockheart stood up on the huge table she'd only just noticed in the middle of the class room. How could she have missed that?
"Now class, today you're going to have the treat of seeing me duel poor old professor Snape over there, but don't fret, I wont harm your beloved potions master. Much"
The female portion of the class laughed at his pitiful attempt at a joke. All except Mia that was. Whilst Snape just stood there looking un-amused. Both professors took their places on the table and faced outwards.
"Ready?" Lockheart questioned, smiling down at the girls gathered infront of him, though his question was obviously directed at Snape.
"Ofcourse" He replied in a scarily silky voice.
Both professors took 3 steps forward, before turning around to face one another, Lockheart casting the first stun spell, which Snape blocked easily. Mia didn't pay attention to anymore of the duel, she didn't like either professors that much. Instead she let her internal babble start again, though this time on a different topic. What would happen if someone tried to cast a spell at her? Would it be like when Tonks had when they were younger? Mia couldn't remember a thing about it. One minute Tonks was shouting at her for messing up her room, and had got her wand out, and the next thing she new she was lying on the floor, with an incredible headache and Tonks was panting on the floor in a heap. She never would tell Mia what had actually happened.
Lockheart getting sent flying across the room caught her attention at last, and she stopped talking to herself long enough to her him ask for another volunteer. This time one of the students. What a stupid idea, he was obviously going to be better than them. Hmm, he'll probably pick Harry, she thought to herself. That would be interesting to see who would win. Possibly Harry, it would be funny to watch.
"Use Mia"
A voice said, that made Mia look up shocked at it's holder. Why would Snape suggest that? He knew she couldn't. Shaking her head, Mia tried to hide herself behind Draco, maybe if Lockheart couldn't see her, he'd ignore Snape's suggestion.
Unfortunately, he didn't.
"Perfect, Mia come up here, don't be shy I wont hurt you"
Mia shook her head again; trying to back away from the class, though other members had started to push her forward towards the table, and before she new what had happened she was standing on it, looking down at everyone.
'He's not going to go ahead with this, surely. They both know not to' She thought to herself slightly panicked. What if she embarrassed herself infront of class? Or actually hurt him. That wouldn't be good.. She'd be hated. Possibly killed by all the girls.
Stumbling over to Snape, still shaking her head she tried to get him to see sense,
"You can't do this, I'm not allowed to do this, I don't know what might happen!"
She whispered quickly, worry obvious in her voice. Though Snapes silky laugh made her take a step away from him. Why was he laughing? This wasn't a laughing matter.
"Don't worry Mia, it'll go fine" He muttered before pushing her forward slightly and stepping down off the table.
Mia swallowed loudly, turning slowly to look at Lockheart, he can't seriously go through with this, Can he..?
"Get your wand out ready Mia, We need to give you a little fighting chance atleast"
He laughed lightly, and once more, the female proportion of the class chimed in. Shaking her head again, starting to feel like one of the bobble headed dogs, she pushed her wand further into her back pocket. Maybe if she didn't get it out, he wouldn't bother and would pick someone else. But that didn't seem what was going to happen.
"Please just pick someone else"
She whispered, almost begging. There was a terrible feeling in her gut, like this wasn't going to end well.
But Lockheart just smiled at her encouragingly, not seeming to take in her plea.
"It's your own choice, but if you don't want to defend yourself, this wont be a very good duel"
He half shrugged before turning and taking 3 steps towards the end of the table. Mia shut her eyes, biting down hard on her bottom lip, was there still time to run? Maybe if she was really fast she cou-
Mia awoke in the hospital wing, once again, with a splitting headache. Her eyes flickered open slowly, and she waited for them to adjust to the lighting. How'd she get here? Pushing herself up slowly, she winced, every part of her seeming to ache. What the hell had happened?
"Mia?"
Someone questioned, and she turned her head slowly to see a worried, and slightly scared looking Draco. Blinking a few times in confusion, she nodded,
"What?"
Draco watched Mia for a few seconds before sitting down on the chair by her, still seeming on edge.
"What happened to you Mia…"
He asked quietly, looking down at the floor, not being able to keep eye contact with her anymore. What had she done? It couldn't have been that bad… could it?
"I don't… I don't know…"
She whispered, shutting her eyes and wishing she could just go back to sleep, not have to think about what she could have done.
Lockheart turned, a small smile on his features as he pointed his wand at Mia, slightly confused as to why the girl was so scared, it wasn't going to hurt that much.
"Expelliarmus"Mia's hand shot up, moving infront of her and to the side quickly, deflecting the spell.. How was that even possible? The class blinked several times in confusion to what they'd just seen. All eyes now on Mia.
Mia's arm dropped back to her side, her eyes opening slowly, though the green colour of them suddenly gone, replaced by almost black, and the well known green streak in her hair, also gone.
"I did warn you"
She said, in an almost demonic voice, taking a step towards a confused and stunned Lockheart. Mia's hand slowly rose infront of her towards Lockheart, as if she was holding it out to him, and her head titled sideways slightly,
"But you wouldn't listen"
She blinked once more closing her fist slowly, the action causing Lockheart to double over in pain, a spine-chilling cry parting his lips. The whole event however, making a smile play across Mia's features, her hand still continuing to close.
As if having enough of seeing Lockheart in pain, Snape finally stood up and pulled out his wand, pointing it at Mia and muttering a spell. A small scowl replaced the smile that had been on Mia's features, as she turned and blocked the spell Snape had sent at her, though loosing concentration on Lockheart, he's screaming stopped.
"That wasn't very nice"
She said crossing her arms and frowning, but turning her head to glance over at Lockheart, The smirk back on her face.
Somewhere between Mia holding her arm out again to torture Lockheart, and him pleading with her not to, Snape had regained his composure and sent another spell at Mia, this one catching her off guard and sending her flying backwards into the wall, knocking her out.
Snape smoothed out his clothing and glanced down at where Mia had landed, not seeming bothered that she could be injured.
"Mr Malfoy, I trust you are able to take Miss Lestrange to the infirmary, yes?"
All eyes moved from Mia's motionless body to Draco, as the scared looking boy gave a small nod and walked over to her, carefully scooping her up in his arms and carrying her out of the room down to the infirmary.
Authors notes: Ok, so I wrote this chapter pretty quickly, I had the idea for this years ago, so I'm glad it's finally up. Hope you like it, and please review, Thankyou to everyone who's actually reading this story and following it Z-Nugget xx