We'll figure it out /Marauders Era

2. (Un)natural Behaviour

About one day, Emma couldn't stop thinking. This day was in every nightmare which she had. The Day full of dark and pain, it had formed her personality, now she knew that the days after that Day were much worse. Everything has gone down since that Day.

"Hey, Emma? Are you with us?"

"Always! What's going on?" she spoke quickly and without thinking. Yes, she was always with them, no matter what they did, she had to be with them. If she wasn't, it would have consequences.

"Avery wants to take Rakepick on date, you must help him," this voice belonged to Wilkes. He and his best friend Avery were in the same year, they've known each other since they were born and Emma was their friend. Sometimes, when Rakepick or Talkalot didn't forbid it.

"Why Rakepick, Avery?" Emma asked nicely but she though about murder or something like that. Whey every boy wanted Rakepick? What was on her? Yes, of course, she was like Evans in Slytherin but what about it?

"Why not? She is perfect, brave, strong enough, pureblood and beautiful," said Avery.

"Perfect. Are that the ideals which everybody talks about? Brave, strong and beautiful, it is like Gryffindor said that," she rolled her eyes and glanced on Avery. "And pureblood? If you think..."

"What do you mean?" Wilkes pointed out.

"Like I said it. If you think it, she is. This is not my problem," Emma knew that it was her problem but when she said something like that, everybody would listen to her. "Patricia is perfect choice for you, Avery, strong for defeating you in a duel, brave for trying it, pureblood," she shrugged shoulders, "and beautiful, I can't understand this criterium. I am a girl."

"Wow, you hate Rakepick so much, isn't that true?" somebody turned back and looked at them. "Although, before Rakepick, you've never said it, am I right?"

"You know nothing about what you did to me, what you all did to me, Severus. So shut up, okay?"

"You should shut up before Rakepick and Talkalot know what you were saying here. If you think that Avery or Wilkes help you, you are naive and stupid. They will never be there for you, no matter what you did for them. Try to find better friends, Vanity," Severus whispered these words carefully to Wilkes and Avery didn't catch them but Emma did.

"Like you weren't there for Evans when she needed you? Aren't all Slytherins the same?" she didn't need to whisper because Avery and Wilkes started conversation together without Emma or Severus.

"One day, these words will hurt you more than me now."

Emma felt a strange heaviness on her chest, it took her down into darkness more than before. She heard her own scream when she tried to escape of them. "I am not your puppet," she said them. They were just answering "Yes, you are." And now, she should feel pain for her words?

"No, Severus," she smiled at him, "you will feel pain like I did, one day. You, your friends and all these Slytherins around us. Everybody has their part of the blame."

"Well, well, well, isn't that our little drama queen?" earth shook when Rakepick came into Slytherin Common room. She didn't wear uniform almost every afternoon, nobody told her anything cruel because of it because Rakepick would clean mess on a ground with him. In her eyes, brave were shown, not brave like Gryffindor's brave but Slytherin's smart and meanness which she wasn't scared to use. "It seems that you don't have enough. Conjunctivitis," the rest of the spell was lost in Emma's painful scream.

It wasn't just spell, it was Rakepick spell. She made it with all formations, from harmless spell she formed dangerous magic as unforgivable curses.

Emma didn't see how Rakepick leaned towards her because she couldn't open her eyes. Pain under her eyelids were like fire. Then she heard this evil whispering: "If you wanted be bitchy on me ever again, you would become blind forever."