Ace of Spades

Chapter 19

Chapter 19

To find the Slytherin Aces, it was quite the trek. I couldn't find them anywhere so it got to the point where I had to find Whitehorn to even have a chance of finding them. I hated the fact they were so secretive but I couldn't blame them. I had my own secrets hiding in my shadow.

She sat in the library with fellow Seventh years trying to study for their NEWT exams. I knew interrupting their studying would be inbeneifical but I had to find them. I had spoken to her maybe once before but never by myself.

"What is it, Potter?" she asked lightly, skimming through her notes page by page. "It isn't a good time."

"I need a word with you," I said to her. "All four of you."

She knew which four I was talking about, raising her eyebrows lightly before she packed away. Her friends knew I wasn't talking to them so they let her go with ease. Molly Whitehorn flicked her hair over her shoulder before picking up her bag.

She was much taller than me when she stood, turning her head to prompt me to follow her.

"This better be important, Potter," her words were not cold but they held no tone of emotion. A pure void of feeling. Her dark eyes didn't help, deep pools of something not quite there, a darkness of some magnitude that the normal Wixen would have described it as just a lack of emotions, or, in the cases of people like me, who saw exactly what was there.

Nothing.

I ignored this and continue on, frowning, "When Umbridge is involved, it is."

Whitehorn hardened her jaw, the first true twitch surfacing, "That bitch again, huh? We'll see about her. Let's find the boys before anything. If this is about her and us, it must be important, huh, Potter?"

She glanced at me from the corner of her eye, faintly smiling. I returned it. We reached the cage of the restricted area and she made me wait there. She went off to find the boys, quickly returning with all three. Theo shot towards me.

"What did the bitch do?" he asked instantly, looking over me for any injuries. "She didn't hurt you, did she? She's been known to use her blood quill on students."

I rolled my eyes. "She put Veritaserum in my tea and I drank it,"

Whitehorn craned her neck around a bookshelf before frowning, "Let's move this conversation to the Head suite. One of you escort her."

She put her hand on the nearest wall. It shook as a door materialised out of the stone wall, shimmering into existence. Ever the gentleman, Theo opened the door as she strode in, passing without a word.

"Escort me?" I crossed my arms tightly, cocking a hip with attitude like the teenager I was. I even raised an eyebrow to emphasise my point. "And where do this thing go to exactly? And how? Like what kind of Magic could make th—"

I slapped Draco's incoming hand to cover my mouth.

"Cover my mouth and I'll bite your hand," I slapped his hand away with a glare.

I had no shame in saying those words because I was completely willing to go along with my threat. Ever since I had that Mandrake leaf in my mouth, and with my need to wait until the next storm, I had an ache in my bones. I needed to sink my teeth into something, Magically or not, I didn't know.

I stated my next words clearly, "I'm not going somewhere I don't know."

"Right, well, I've had enough," Theo clasped his hands together, looking at each of them before landing on me. "Viktoria, darling, don't kill me."

He stepped close before crouching, almost like he went from one location and appeared in the other, arms reaching out for me. My view changed, now higher as he tucked my withering form onto his shoulder, letting me claw at his back in retaliation. My clawing moved his untucked shirt, making it ride a few inches up. A glimmer of something on his skin, like golden thread stitched into his skin.