chapter fourteen | a whole new world
Hogwarts 1978
Thankfully, Mia had not fallen pregnant after failing to use contraception but that occasion had served as a fair warning to her that pregnancy was not a joke. Madam Pomfrey had sighed as she watched Mia burst into tears about possibly being pregnant before waving her wand and muttering a few spells. The elder lady consoled her before discreetly letting her know that 'no, it wasn't a pregnancy, it was a stomach bug'. Yet before the witch could run off in relief, the medic sternly gave her a talking too about protection before shoving a few pamphlets and muggle condoms down her satchel. Then, the witch gave the student a lemon sherbet before sending her off on her way.
Marlene was waiting outside the Hospital Wing, awaiting her practically sister to come out with either of two outcomes: a pregnancy or some sort of food poisoning. She was leaning against the marble walls near the large wooden door that led into the Hospital Wing. The blonde was hurriedly mentally preparing two responses for both outcomes when Mia came out, running into her friend's arms.
The blonde Ravenclaw patted her friend's back as she tightly hugged her, in a comforting hug rather than a python asphyxiating a mouse hug. She patted her back for a minute or two before softly pressing for the answer, "Well?"
Mia shook her head, "It was a stomach bug, and Madam Pomfrey gave me a good telling off before handing me pamphlets."
"Damn right she did! You two were so stupid to not have used protection!" Marlene kissed the top of her head in a motherly affectionate way before bringing the two of them to walk down the corridor towards the stairwell to take them down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
After heavily avoiding Sirius in fear of him finding out about her possible pregnancy, Mia rushes to find him in the Great Hall with Marlene on her tail. Her brown eyes eagerly scanned the Hall for her raven haired boyfriend, finding him seated at the Gryffindor Table with the rest of his little boy band and Lily Evans. She sprinted over, wincing as she accidentally stepped on someone's foot before rushing over.
Sirius hadn't seen Mia sprinting over like an Olympian, and therefore hadn't expected the sudden momentum filled hug he got from behind. Of course he knew it was Mia with his added animagus smelling skills, the person smelled like cherries and oranges, which seemed a bit unusual at first considering how oranges and cherries didn't usually mix but Mia was a unique individual.
He leaned back into her hug, glaring at James and Peter, who were laughing their heads off at him for some god-forsaken reason. Remus was no where to be seen, most likely in the library or the Tower. It was the day after a full moon. Lily smiled sweetly at Mia and Sirius, simply adoring the relationship the pair had.
"Did you miss me?" Mia asked, gently leaning off him and taking a seat next to him on the bench. Marlene had sat next to Lily and the pair were now talking about the upcoming NEWTs.
"Of course I did, woman." He jokingly grumbled, "you ignored me for nearly a month before Marlene comes telling me about girl problems or something."
"I missed you." She smiled as she poured out a glass of pumpkin juice for herself and refilled Sirius' cup. "I'm sorry for not talking to you for so long."
"It's fine." Was it? She wondered as Sirius grazed her thigh with his right hand as they sat there, eating their breakfast. His touch was warm, feeling like home and it was addictive. "We got up to much trouble in the space of three weeks." His mouth pulled into a sly smirk as he remembered charming heating charms on the Hufflepuff boys dormitories, letting the Slytherin Common Room flood with pink water and slipping in love potion into Avery's goblet and watching him slobber over Mulciber.
"Sounds like you got up to a lot." She leaned onto his shoulder as they snacked on biscuits and grapes, listening to James bicker with Marlene over Quidditch and Lily and Peter trade Potions and Charms notes.
This felt like home to her, and this was how it all was always going to be.
"Now who can name the three unforgivable curses?" The Professor, who called himself Professor Proudfoot, asked the seventh year class full of all four of the classes who'd been good enough for the NEWTs level of Defence Against The Dark Arts. Several hands shot up, some stayed down and a few hands intertwined under the tables.
The greying man pointed at Peter, who had his hand down. "Uhm." The boy tried to think for a second but shook his head, "I don't know, Sir."
This clearly wasn't the answer that the Professor wanted as he threw the boy a look of severe distain before prancing back to the messy chalkboard at the front. There was clear graffiti on it with poorly drawn images of penises, breasts and a dodgy caricature of the professor himself.
Proudfoot swiftly waved his wand and the penises, breasts and caricature disappeared, leaving a shiny new chalkboard. Sirius heard James groan at his artwork being vanished, which resulted in Lily giving him a look of disappointment. Remus chuckled at the couple before dipping his quill into his blue ink pot, to prepare to furiously scribble down the upcoming notes.
The rumoured ex-auror Professor swished his wand and watched as three words came up on the board.
DEATH
TORTURE
OBEDIENCE
Mia's eyes lingered on the word torture as she remembered Dolohov's use of the Cruciatus curse on her only last summer, before she blanked out and he slit her throat. Sirius's hand tightened over hers as he remembered how he had failed to protect her enough and how his own bitch of a mother had tortured him senseless before he ran out of his own home.
"Now if I have refreshed your memory, can anyone tell me an unforgivable curse?! Unless you all are illiterate, incompetent brats?!" Remus, Lily and Pandora's hands flew up as the Professor scanned the room for students who looked stupid enough for him to shout at.
"Lockhart!" A blonde Ravenclaw from Mia's house shot up from his desk, before falling backwards as his chair swung.
"Y-Yes, Professor!" The boy answered after readjusting his position.
"Unforgivable curse." Proudfoot gritted out.
"Diffindo?" He asked, before his eyes widened as the Professor furiously ran his hands through his hair.
"THE WHOLE LOT OF YA, IDIOTS! WHAT'S NEXT, IS A DEATHEATER GONNA KILL YOU WITH A TICKLING CHARM? ARE THEY GONNA INTERROGATE YOU WITH ITCHING POWDER?!" Everyone sat the edge of their seats as they awaited his total meltdown to end.
"Crucio, Sir!" Avery smirked as he watched Sirius' jaw clench. "It tortures you, doesn't it?" Everybody remembered Mary McDonald's mangled body in fifth year and how triumphant Avery and Mulciber looked. There wasn't enough evidence to incarcerate them so they left freely while Mary was traumatised for the rest of the year.
"Correct, Mr?"
"Avery, Sir." The Professor's eyes darkened as the family name registered in his mind. Avery Sr was rumoured to be a benefactor for the supposed Lord Voldemort.
"Good, Mr Avery." He waved his wand again and under the word torture, crucio materialised for the whole class to see. "You can't battle this one, it drives you mad with insanity if you can even make it past three uses of this on you before passing out."
"Since the whole lot of ya can't even tell me three of the most notorious curses to be uttered on this planet, I'm gonna have to baby you buffoons." Lily groaned at the Professor undermining her intelligence.
The whole class knew what he was going to say next. Proudfoot waved his wand and the words previously on the board vanished as new words appeared.
THREE FOOT LONG ESSAY ON THE CRUCIATUS CURSE
DUE TOMORROW
"Well shit." Sirius murmured to Mia as the whole class stared at the chalkboard with fear.
"Well shit indeed." She replied as they all began to pack up.
A/N:
omg it's been such a long time since I've updated, I'm so sorry. :(
If you all could reread the first part of the story jic you find new stuff in future chapters. It would be nice.
Otherwise, Mia has an older sister named Kitty.
that's it rlly.
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