A/N: I'm in the "I want to dedicate my chapters" mood, so this chapter is dedicated to:
LenasWorld, who is back! And I say this because she's been away and hasn't been reviewing and I have missed her reviews, but she's back and hopefully so are her lovely reviews!
Starkid McFly, who is one of my bestest friends and the person who actually gets me excited about writing more because I love telling her what's going to happen in upcoming chapters and that always gets me in the "I have to write more mood" and she always tells me to continue even when I want to delete all I've written. She's amazing.
Anyways: This chapter was surprisingly SO SO SO hard to write, so I'm sorry if it sucks!
Chapter 37
Marlene McKinnon & Remus Lupin
So my plan wasn't the most out-thought plan ever.
But I was still determined on following through with it.
I made sure to look irresistible, low-cut shirt, tight skirt and red heels.
You need to look blantly amazing to get a guy that has no reason to ever want to have anything to do with you.
But I'm nervous.
And I know it.
But that doesn't stop me.
I continue walking down each stairwell until I reach the last floor - the dungeon.
How else would I find myself a Slytherin? They're not really very sociable human beings and are known to spend their times close to their Common Room.
"Marlene McKinnon, alone in the dungeons."
As to prove my point there is a snake-ish voice greeting me.
I recognize the voice quickly and can't hide my scowl as I turn around. "What do you want?"
Snape gives away a hollow laugh. "Me? I don't want anything, well other than to know why a Gryffindor like yourself are doing so close to the Slytherin house."
"Actually," I say, realizing Snape can actually help me. "I'm looking for someone, someone you are going to go and get for me."
Snape's eyes darken and his eyebrows narrow. "I'm not doing anything for you-"
But I cut him off. "Get me Regulus."
Remus Lupin.
I stare at James, closing and opening my eyes repeatedly. "That's .. thats."
"Exactly!" James says, throwing himself on the bed.
"Is it true?"
James shrugs. "Sirius never said he didn't, I just.. Marlene seemed so.. positive, but.. he wouldn't... Would he?"
I open my mouth but can't form any words.
I want to say no. I really do.
"We should, talk to him." I finally say.
"You do it."
I give away a low sigh. "Why me? You're the one Marlene talked to-"
"Because, you're better with words." James says, nodding his head.
"Better with words?" I repeat shaking my head. "That's the worst reason ever."
"It is not!" James says. "It's just he-"
He closes his mouth quickly when the doors open and Peter and Sirius walk inside the room.
Peter doesn't seem to sense the awkward silence and heads for his bed and jumps on it.
Sirius on the other hand stares from me to James, his eyebrows raised. "What?"
"What, what?" James says, in a gleeful voice, but spares me a look that says 'We're screwed'
"Why did you go suddenly quiet when we walked in and why are you looking at me like that." Sirius' eyes narrow.
"We need to ask you something." I managed up, glaring at James for making me do this.
"Oh we do?" Sirius asked, his eyes staying dark and narrowed as he makes his way over to his bed.
"About something Marlene told James-"
"You talked to her?" Sirius' voice is childish and so are his words, but I ignore it.
"She talked to James."
"Lovely." Sirius mutters out, lying down on the bed.
"Did you cheat on her?"
Sirius' eyes fly open and he sits up again. "What?"
"Did you cheat on her," I say again.
"What the fuck are you on about?" Sirius says, standing up from the bed and taking a step towards me.
"Did you or did you not, Sirius?" James steps in.
"I did not cheat on her. She cheated on me!"
"Then why does she say you did-" James continues
"-Wait," suddenly its clear to me. ".. She thinks you cheated on her..."
"No shit? Well that's obvious!" spits Sirius.
"-Because you were with me."
"What?" James and Sirius both say, now shutting up and staring at me.
"At the full moon, you-" Remus turned to Peter. "You said you thought you'd seen Marlene out there when you and James went back to get your wands, because you had forgotten them. She must've seen Sirius all alone and... thought.. thought he was meeting up with someone."
Peter looks up clueless at me.
"Marlene thinks you were cheating on her," I turn to Sirius again. "You have to tell her-"
"Let her believe it." Sirius says, taking a step back and sitting on his bed.
"What?" all three of us manage up, even Peter seems to be catching on now.
"We're over. She's as dead as me as my mother is. Let her believe it. Hell it's better that she believes it, that way she knows I'm over her."
"Sirius-"
"You are not to tell her the truth," Sirius' eyes grow dark. "As far as your concerned I cheated on her, many times if you wish."
I stare at my friend.
He can't be serious!
He's reached all boundaries of madness.
But still I just nod my head and say nothing.
Beside I don't have the time to meddle in other people's drama when I've yet to solve mine.
Marlene McKinnon
Snape surprisingly does what I ask him to and without all the questions. Maybe he's just glad to have a reason not to talk to me anymore, at least I am glad to not have to talk to him and see his greasy hair.
And more surprising, Regulus' voice greets me only few minutes later.
"I was told you were requesting me?"
His voice is almost as cocky as Sirius'.
I turn around to look at him.
He's almost as handsome as Sirius.
Almost as full of and in love with himself as Sirius.
Almost.
"I am." I reply, keeping my head up high and voice strong, even though my insides are screaming at me that this is a horrible idea.
"What do you want?" Regulus is getting impatient. "Last time I talked to you, you told me to stay away from you, and if I remember right my darling brother tried to do my face in."
I roll my eyes. "I have an.. offer for you."
His eyes grow a little bigger, "Offer?"
"Like you probably know me and your brother aren't together anymore."
"I think the whole school knows that."
"I need to make him suffer."
The words slip out, but it's the truth and at times like this, the truth is the only thing I can use.
"And how do I come into that?"
"Well," I cross my arms. "You want to make him suffer as well, right?"
"Right." Regulus says, laughing a little. "It's basically what I want to do for a living."
I roll my eyes.
"But I'm not going to shag you," Regulus says, his arms crossing.
I scoff. "Don't even think for a moment I'd ever shag you."
"Then what do you want?"
"A snog."
Regulus laughs.
I shift my weight over to one leg, still staring him into the eyes - I've decided they are a complete different color than Sirius, they're more green than gray.
"You want me to snog you?"
"In front of people." I add.
"What's in it for me?"
"Other than you get to snog an older girl and annoy your brother?"
He laughs. "Fair enough."
I smile a little. "Meet me in front of the Great Hall for dinner later."
"Always a pleasure McKinnon," he says before turning around.
Phase one of the plan is now completed.
- Hunting for Happiness -
It's almost scary how similar Regulus is to his older brother.
I walk towards where he stands, waiting like he promised for me in front of the Great Hall, back pressed against the wall.
I mouth out "Good boy." and swear I can see him smile.
"So what do we do now?" he leans in to whisper, the people that are on their way to dinner have already started to notice us and point and stare.
"You kiss me," I state simply.
His lips are smaller, more pout-y and not the faded pink color.
They press against mine and that's when I realize just how not similar he and Sirius are.
He isn't bad at kissing-Regulus-but still he doesn't manage to make my knees week and goosebumps to form on my arms.
I kiss him back, more eagerly than I should, as to prove a point to our audience.
His arms snake around my waist, pulling me against him.
I pull away after a minute or two, smirking when I notice just how many people we have watching us.
There is no way in hell, Sirius won't find out about this now.
Remus Lupin
Once again I find myself stuck in an empty room with Blaire.
This time its her that drags me away from the Great Hall and into an empty classroom.
And this time I gladly follow her.
I'd rather face her than face Sirius right now.
The angry, livid but probably very hurt Sirius.
"We keep meeting like this." Blaire says, hoisting herself up on an empty desk.
"We do." I agree, pressing my back against the door.
"Remus, I'm so sorry." Blaire says, biting her lip.
"We should take a break."
The words fall from my lips before I can stop them, but I can't force myself to regret them.
Not until I see her crestfallen face.
"Wh-what?" she says, her voice trembling.
"I have too much going on."
I'm a werewolf.
"We haven't been honest with each other lately."
You've been lying to me.
"My personal life is a mess."
My friends all hate each other.
"I see." suddenly Blaire's voice has changed, its more steady and harsh.
She pushed her body off the desk. "So you've just changed your mind about me have you? You know Remus, people always said Sirius was the arragont fool. But it's obvious they haven't met the real you."
She walks towards me and out of instinct I turn away from the door, which she opens.
She gives me one last look, her eyes and the anger terrifying me.
"Andare all'inferno" she spits out in her perfect Italian-accent before she storms out the door.
I stare after her and sigh.
I did the right thing.
.. Right?
Marlene McKinnon
Sirius is livid and it's obvious, its both painfully and surprisingly thrilling to see how obvious it is.
Instead of ignoring me he sends me glares all through dinner, even though we sit far away from each other.
I ignore the girls and their "disgust" over how low I'm sinking to get back at him.
It worked, and that's all that matters.
"I need to talk to Regulus,"
Mary almost chokes on her bread at my comment.
"Why? You snogged him, Plan's over right?"
"I just need to have a word with him." I say, waving a hand towards Regulus where he can be spotted exiting the room.
To be honest I just want to.. thank him.
I don't know why but I feel like I need to.
I stand up, "I'll see you at the Dormitory." I tell the girls before ignoring their protest and walking away, knowing that Sirius' eyes are following me.
I look around when I pass the Great Hall doors but I don't see Regulus.
He's probably on his way to the Slytherin Common room so I head down to the Dungeons.
I've never noticed just how dark this part of the castle is before now.
It's also very cold.
And creepy.
There is a cough behind me and I stop in my steps.
I look around but see nothing but darkness.
What the hell am I doing?
"Back here again, McKinnon?"
I know that voice.
I wish I didn't but I do.
The familiar taunting voice of Avery.
There is a laughter, a laughter I know as well, a laughter that doesn't belong to Avery, but his oh-very-creepy friend Mulciber.
Both of them are crazy and in love with the Dark Arts.
Hesitatingly I turn around and see them both behind me this time.
"Avery. Mulciber." I force up a nod, realizing that my Gryffindor courage seems to have jumped out the window and so seems my ability to move.
"Looking for young Black?" Avery drawls out, taking a step closer to me.
"N-No." I'm stuttering now.
To be fair Avery is very scary, especially when you're alone in the dark with him. And Mulciber.
"We saw your little display earlier," Mulciber announces.
"Oh," I try to make my voice sound careless and my hand travels towards my pocked where I keep my wand.
Avery's eyes follow my fingers.
He takes another step towards me, which causes me to take another step back.
But I feel my back pressing against a wall.
Avery takes another step forward and there is no place for me to go.
My hand reaches into my pocket for my wand, but he's faster, he grabs my hand mid through, his other hand grabbing my wand and throwing it away.
It gives away a low sound as it makes contact with the ground.
"Let go of me." I manage out in a low but poisonous voice.
"What's the matter?" Avery laughs, bringing his hand up to brush over my cheek.
I bring my hand up as to slap him, but before I can Mulciber grabs it.
Now I have no free hand. And nowhere to run.
"We just want to get a part of all the fun, you know." Avery says, his voice victorious. "Sure if you can do Regulus a favor you can do one for us as well."
But I have the feeling Avery doesn't just want a small snog.
I struggle, truing to loose my hands from their grasp, but I can't.
They're stronger.
Avery leans towards me, his thick wet lips making contact with my neck.
"You'll enjoy it sweetheart." he promises.
"EXPELLIARMUS!"
Mary's voice is angry and so powerful that her spell forces Avery let go of my hand and sends him flying to the floor.
Mulciber lets go of my other arm and instead he turns towards the angry brunette, with his wand raised.
He opens his mouth but before he can make out a word Mary's wand rises again.
"STUPIFY!"
I watch as Mulciber yelps as his body makes contact to the stone wall behind us, leaving him unconscious in the floor.
"Mary!" I gasp up, my voice breaking as I yell out her name.
Mary points her wand at the two guys lying on the floor. "Touch her again and I wont let you off this easy." she yells out, holding her wand high.
Avery grasps for his wand that lays scattered on the floor few feets away.
"ACCIO WANDS!"
Mulciber's, Avery's and my wands all fly into her other hand.
She stands, fuming with anger, pointing all wands at the two boys.
"Lene, come here." she says, never removing her eyes from them.
I do as I'm told and hurry behind her.
Never before have I felt so safe behind the petite brunette.
Or so weak.
"Go and bring McGonagall." she tells me, her voice still dripping with anger.
Even I'm afraid of her, so I turn around and run for it to do like she ordered - my heart beating faster than it has ever before and my whole body shaking.
A/N: I THINK I spelled the Italian words right, I wasn't sure if to put "Via" instead of "andare" but I decided to trust google translate.
Translation: Go to hell.
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