(A/N): Hey Guys! So, this is the eight chapter, if you include the prologue, and it's back to Leo's point of view. Yay! I'm currently three chapters ahead of the uploading rate, so go me!
I started this story in 2012. I was fourteen. Its been almost ten years. If you don't like something in the early chapters, it's not going to suddenly change ten years after I wrote it. If you're going to review this story with criticisms, please log in so I can actually reply to you and not have to leave messages like this in chapters so you might actually see it. And if you're just going to bash the story for being inaccurate, again, please remember that I was fourteen, I wasn't born in the 1960's, and I have never been outside of Australia. And some things are inaccurate because that's what people in that time period thought- not necessarily what I think, or know today.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo, Elaine, Nicholai, Quiggly and the spell in this chapter!
Leo
After my trip to the kitchens, I had joined the others for lunch in the Great hall, and afterwards attended our Charms lesson with Professor Flitwick, and now it was time for the lesson I had been looking forward to all day: Defense Against the Dark Arts. Apparently, the post of DADA teacher was cursed, and that no teacher lasted more than a year, so I was kind of looking forward to seeing who we would be having for this year.
"I hope they actually know what they're talking about; my brother told me that the teacher they had last year refused to teach them about anything but Doxies." Elaine told Lily, and I winced as I saw the professor walking towards us. She wasn't in robes like the others, but instead wearing a pair of dark blue track pants and an old shirt that looked to be made of many other shirts sewn together. She was in her late forties to early fifties with dirty blond hair that was steadily turning grey and she had light blue-green eyes set in a kind yet stern looking face, though they were masked by a pair of ellipse shaped glasses.
"She doesn't look that bad!" Lily chastised, slapping me on the arm for wincing.
"That's not why I'm wincing. Think about, teachers are supposed to wear their robes everywhere right? The only reason she wouldn't is because she's planned a lesson that will leave us with almost permanent damage to our clothes." I waited for a second while Lily thought it over before she groaned quietly.
"I hate school..." She complained, not an hour later as she tried to pull the bright pink sludge from her school jumper.
"How are you clean?" Elaine squealed at me as she tried to pull a large chunk of the gloop from her hair, glaring at my clean physique.
"Because I used you as a human-shield, remember? And hid under that table when she wasn't looking?" Our teacher, Professor Swan, had taught us a fun hex, 'Foedis Offerre', which covered your opponent in the goo I had mentioned earlier, and set up a dodge ball-like game. I had hidden behind tables and even Lily and Elaine at times, because honestly, who wants to be covered in sticky goo for the rest of the day?
"What the-?" Lily cried as James Potter and Sirius Black ran past us, shooting Foedis Offerre at each other. Well. I guess that shuts me up, I thought, smirking as Sirius managed to hit Potter in the eyes with the bright pink goo, and he smashed into a wall before bouncing off due to the large amount of goo acting as a shield between him and the wall.
"We should get out of here before they turn it on us. Come on, we'll go to the dorms to get you guys more clothes, I don't really fancy being seen with you if you look like that." I told them smugly, gesturing to their goo covered clothes, and they shared a look before grinning at me evilly.
"Oh crap." I muttered before turning on my heel and racing away, the girls not far behind, seeing as I was trying to run at a normal, human pace. Even being only half-vampire, I was faster than any human, but slower than any vampire. I was also stronger, a lot stronger. I raced around the corner and crashed into Remus and Peter, not having been looking where I was going. I glanced back around to see my two friends catching up, so I pulled Remus and Peter to their feet before racing off.
"I suggest you run!" I called back over my shoulder, and they looked confused for a second before Lily and Elaine came round the corner, and the two boys started running from them as well, Remus because his uniform was almost as clean as mine, and Peter because even though he was covered from head to toe in the stuff, apparently didn't want any more on him. As I turned the corner, way ahead of any of them, I spoke the password to a portrait that hid a secret passage to outside common room and climbed in, pulling the door shut behind me as quietly as I could. I heard Remus and Peter pass, and then Lily and Elaine, and I breathed a sigh of relief before following the passage to outside the common room.
"Godric's sword." I panted to the portrait of the Fat Lady, and she tsked at me before letting me in.
"Just don't let your friends get their mess on me." I grinned at her before slumping into one of the plush red armchairs facing the portrait.
A few minutes later, Remus and Peter raced in, panting and laughing breathily, and before the portrait could swing shut Lily and Elaine darted through. They were panting as well, and as they finally regained their breath, they lifted their head to see me lounging in my armchair, one eyebrow raised.
"How in the hell did you get here so fast?" Lily asked suspiciously, before Elaine spoke.
"Yeah, you just kind of disappeared." I gave her a small smile and stood up, walking over to them.
"I know the secrets of the castle, and everything within." I raised an eyebrow slightly at Remus and he instantly paled. "Therefore, I have ways of getting around that I must never tell you about. Or, it should at least wait until your birthdays." I joked before raising my wand at Lily, Elaine and Peter.
"Remus, will you help me with this?" He hesitated for a second before moving to my side, and pointing his wands at them as well.
"Aguamenti!" I exclaimed at the same time as Remus yelled, "Scourgify!" With my spell, water shot from the tip of my wand, and hit the pink goo, making it loosen, and Remus's spell hit them, and the goo disappeared in a flourish of bubbles.
"See? All clean." Remus shot me a look, and I raised an eyebrow, trying to look haughty, though i knew I probably looked like I had smelt something horrible, Which, I guess, is what being haughty looks like.
"I'll need that one for when Sirius and James finally decide to stop coating themselves in goo. And stop using that spell." I grinned at his joke and looked to Lily and Elaine.
"Well, at least you don't have to get changed now." Lily and Elaine burst out laughing, only to stop as Sirius and James entered the common room, covered completely in a foot thick wall of bright pink, sticky goo. Remus and I shared a look before raising our wands again.
(A/N): So, yes, Leo knows that Remus is a werewolf, and I will explain how he knows in the next chapter. Also, Foedis offerre in latin literally means 'Disgusting goo' which is why I named this chapter so. Please review and/or check out my other stories!
I started this story in 2012. I was fourteen. Its been almost ten years. If you don't like something in the early chapters, it's not going to suddenly change ten years after I wrote it. If you're going to review this story with criticisms, please log in so I can actually reply to you and not have to leave messages like this in chapters so you might actually see it. And if you're just going to bash the story for being inaccurate, again, please remember that I was fourteen, I wasn't born in the 1960's, and I have never been outside of Australia. And some things are inaccurate because that's what people in that time period thought- not necessarily what I think, or know today.