A/N- This is the firt chapter of The Whipping Boy. I hope you like it!
Chapter 1- Pain and Promises
"Frederick, are you coming? We need to start walking to Binns, the wizard! We have that test today, remember?" Cygnus said.
Frederick jumped from his bed.
"Oh, I forgot about it!" Six year old Frederick said and changed into his robes as fast as he could, and Cygnus laughed.
A few minutes later, they were in the corridors of the manor, and Cygnus was still laughing.
"It's not funny!" Frederick said, annoyed.
"You should have seen your face!" Cygnus said, still laughing.
"I didn't laugh when you slipped and fell face first into your pumpkin juice, and it was a lot funnier!" Frederick said.
"Touché." Cygnus said and stuck his tongue out.
Cygnus kicked a small pebble at Frederick, but missed, and hit a servant instead.
Frederick stayed to apologize in Cygnus' name, but Cygnus kept walking.
Frederick ran after Cygnus to keep up with him.
"What took you so long?" Cygnus asked.
Frederick punched Cygnus' shoulder lightly. "I was apologizing. You should learn to do that."
Cygnus shrugged. "They are just servants, and they can't do anything about it anyway."
Frederick frowned. "So? There is this thing called 'manners'. Use them. Also, they can report it to Father."
Cygnus put his hand on his forehead. "Oh, I forgot!"
A few minutes later, they finally reached the classroom.
"You are late. Again." Binns, the only wizard in the city and their teacher, said angrily.
Cygnus glanced at the new mechanical clock.
"We're only late by 10 minutes!" Cygnus said.
Binns looked at the boys, angrily and said: "Shut up! Let's get this over with!"
Precisely 36 minutes later, there was a knock at the door.
Binns sighed and said: "Come in!"
The door was opened, and Cassius, the head servant, was seen.
"Lord Nicholas has called for you, Cygnus. You too, Frederick." Cassius said.
Cygnus jumped up and exited the room, and Frederick followed.
Cassius led the two children to Nicholas' room, and bowed as they entered the room.
"Sir, here they are." Cassius said, bowed and left.
"Ah, Cygnus, Frederick. I have some good news." Lord Nicholas said and looked at them. "Sit."
They both sat, and Cygnus blurted out: "What's the good news?"
Nicholas smirked.
"It is time for your punishment, Cygnus, for two things. You have injured a servant and you were late to class. Fortunately for you, you aren't receiving any physical punishment, as Frederick here- He is your whipping boy."
Frederick paled, not knowing what a whipping boy is, but not liking the sound of it.
"What is a whipping boy?" Cygnus asked.
"Ah, whipping boys are the ones who get the punishment in your stead, if I am not here. I am the only one allowed to hit you."
"But isn't Fred my brother! How do you do that thing to him?" Cygnus asked, angrily.
"No. He is simply an adopted boy, who is raised for this purpose. Every time you do something wrong, he gets the punishment."
Frederick frowned sadly, but said nothing.
Cygnus looked at his brother- It doesn't matter what his father thinks, he is his brother- and frowned. As he turned back to his father, he said: "But, now that you are here, he doesn't get punished, right?"
"Ah, normally you'll get punished, but Frederick needs to get used to it." Nicholas said and turned to Frederick.
"Frederick, that'll be 1 whip for everything Cygnus did, and another one for punching my son."
Frederick bowed and stepped forward. Nicholas took out a whip and turned Frederick so his back was pointing at Nicholas.
"One." Nicholas said, and whipped Frederick for the first time, making Frederick fall.
"Get up!" Nicholas said, and the six year old kid did as he was told.
"Two." Nicholas said, making the boy fall again.
Nicholas pulled Frederick by his ear and made him stand.
"Last one. Three!" Nicholas said, and whipped Frederick extra hard, so Cygnus will learn his lesson.
Frederick fell down and fainted.
"Cassius!" Nicholas said, and the servant immediately entered and took Frederick and the crying Cygnus to their room.
3 hours and 6 minutes later, Cassius got up from the corner of Frederick's bed. He was sitting there for hours, waiting for Frederick to wake up so he could apologise, but Frederick was still unconcious. Cygnus left the room, planning to return after dinner to check on him.
Frederick woke up just in time to see a door close in front of him. He looked around and realised that he is in his room. Frederick layed down as he was a bit tired, even after so many hours of unconsciousness, and suddenly felt his back burn. He jumped to a sitting position, surprised, and touched his back lightly with his fingers, feeling the burn again. Then he remembered- He was a 'whipping boy', Cygnus got himself into trouble and Frederick got punished for it. Apparently, it's going to be like this until the day Lord Nicholas dies, and Cygnus replaces him. This was so unfair. Cygnus should at least come and apologise!
Cygnus was already at the dining room,but he wasn't hungry. After a few minutes of not eating and looking sadly at Frederick's empty chair, Cygnus asked to be excused and left the dining room.
Frederick stood up slowly and walked to the door. He was hungry, he wanted to eat, and it was dinner time.
Suddenly, a knock on the door.
"Frederick? You awake?" Cygnus' voice said from the door.
Frederick looked at the door. "Cygnus?" He replied.
"Yea, it's me." Cygnus said, and Frederick allowed him to come in.
Cygnus opend the door and immediately started apologising.
"Frederick, I'm so sorry! If I knew I wouldn't have done anything! You didn't do anything! It's all my fault! I-"
"Yes, I know it's your fault, and you're forgiven on one condition." Frederick cut him off, as Cygnus was giving him a headache. He really wouldn't care less if Cygnus went on and on saying how it's his fault, as it was true.
"Really?" Cygnus said, smiling.
"You need to promise to at least try not to get in trouble." Frederick said, and Cygnus nodded.
"Promise?" Frederick asked, and Cygnus nodded again.
"Promise."
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"Master Godric?" a small house-elf by the name of Quiggy said as she Apparated into Godric's quarters.
"What did you learn? Anything important?" Godric Gryffindor, a powerful man well-known for his bravery and for his magical prowess, said.
Quiggly nodded: "Sir Binns told Quiggy and Junji that Nicholas Malfoy summoned both children to his room, so Quiggy suspected Nicholas was telling Frederick and Cygnus that Frederick was a whipping boy, and Quiggy was right, Sir. Then Nicholas punished Frederick, Sir." Quiggy bowed.
Godric shook his head. "I have more important things to do than scout the two boys, even if they are the only Muggleborn wizards we know of. Salazar, you were right, building the school is more important than these two kids."
Salazar Slytherin, Godric's less known but still famous friend, sighed. "Now that you have been proven wrong, does that mean we can continue building the school? Helga has already built both greenhouses, Rowena and Cornfoot already planned out the library, which we would have completed already, if not for this ridiculous idea of yours to stalk those two Mud- Muggleborns!" He corrected himself just in time.
Godric sighed, not noticing Salazar's mistake, and the two friends returned to build the library.
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Rowena Ravenclaw was going through the book list for each year for the school, when Helga Hufflepuff, her best friend, sat down in front of her.
"Rowena." Helga said her name to get her attention.
"Hmm?" Rowena said and looked up from her parchment.
"Have the boys told you yet? Godric has finally stopped looking after those two Muggleborn wizards."
"You do realise, that Divination is completely ridiculous and that only 1 prophecy out of Delilah Trelawney`s 36 predictions acually came out to be true?" Rowena said. She never was a big fan of Divination.
"There were rumors about a criminal that wielded two wands..." Helga responded.
"Since when do I believe in rumors?" Rowena said. "You know what? Say there is a bi-wanded criminal on the loose, still only 2 out of 36 predictions ended up being true. Not a very encouraging number."
Helga threw her hands up in defeat and said: "Anyway, what I came here to say was; Now that Godric and Salazar have stopped spying on the two, they finally started building the library!
Rowena looked at Helga, shocked.
"What do you mean, 'started'?! They haven't even started yet?!"
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