Heir of Darkness and Heart of Light || Regulus Black

Chapter 19

Aelori's day didn't start well. Far from being good to be exact.

Here she stood, books clutched against her chest. Her back against the cold stone wall and a wand pressed against her throat.

Even if the week started off on the wrong note, she still had a smirk on her lips. While her ember eyes watched those silver ones.

She pressed herself more against the wall when a dark blue gloop fell down on the ground near her black shoes.

"I could kill you right here." Regulus' words were full of venom.

Aelori bit the inside of her cheek to keep in a laugh. The blue gloop was all over his hair, which she knew was a very precious thing for him. It was always neat and well kept with some lose hair framing his face. But now...

"Now where is the fun in that?" Aelori replies back to him, showing a sickening grin.

Regulus punched his fist against the wall, right beside her head. It didn't make her flinch as she has scars that would show him how pain really felt.

Regulus pushed himself straighter, which made Aelori really notice that he was only a few centimetres away from her face.

He started to walk away, the blue gloop making a path from where she stood all the way to the Slytherin common room.

Once Regulus was out of sight, she let out a breath. Turning towards a glistening light in the corner of the corridor.

"You can come out now." She called to the invisible people, who quickly became visible after they pulled off their blanker.

"How do you keep doing that?" James said quickly before the other boys could say anything.

"A master never reveals their secrets." She winked at the boys and started to walk away.

She heard footsteps against the ground and turned her head to her right to see Remus walking beside her.

"Hello Remus." She politely said.

"I would keep it short, but there is a quidditch match soon. We have to play against Hufflepuff, which we would surely win."

Aelori hummed at him, but kept on walking.

"There would be a party, you can bring Pandora with you."

This made Aelori stop in her tracks. She has never been to a party here. Pandora had said some things about it, but she never knew she would get invited to one. No less by one of the Marauders.

Oh yes, she has heard of the reputation the boys had. She had mixed feelings about them. She knew they were fun to be around and were a really tight group. But on the outside, they can be bullies.

She heard of the scandal with the Snape boy. Yes, he and James both made some mistakes, but James has been tormenting him since his first day at Hogwarts.

"I will be there." She finally decided to tell Remus. The boy gave her a smile and turned around to his friends.

"By the way boys." Aelori yelled at them, and they all stopped in their tracks. "Next time, you will take the blame."

"Just stop always directing our pranks towards you to someone else," Sirius yelled back at her. "Then you would not have to take the blame."

She smiled at them and shook her head. She turned around, following the gloop, because she had to go that way.

It didn't really fit in her plan to take the blame for the boys, but it was already done. It screwed up her plan even more when she screamed 'sorry my bad' to Regulus Black, the person she was trying to be nice to.

With that in mind she quickly went in search for Pandora, only to find Evan standing against the wall, holding a cigarette between his fingers.

"Hey Evan."

"Hello little fox."

Aelori blushed at the nickname he has given her. She never really got to talk to him after that day.

"I heard you had some trouble with the Slytherin prince." Evan's grin was as wide as it could go.

"How did the news travel that fast, you weren't even there."

"I didn't hear it from anyone, really." He took another drag off his cigarette. "But someone with blue gloop walked right past me."

He pointed to the floor and there were still some blue spots on the floor.

"Repeating your name with the word 'bloody' before it, over and over again."

Aelori tried to keep in a smile, but Evan could see right through her.

"Look, I like your pranks and all," He started in a serious tone, but it was far from it. "But I already have to hear your name every time I am in my dorm, it is hard to be free of you, you know."

Aelori wasn't one that gets quiet after hearing something like that, her sharp tongue kept her from doing so.

"You can keep Black's wet dreams a secret, I don't want to hear about that."

Evan inhaled wrongly and quickly coughed out the smoke that was stuck inside his throat. Laughing in between coughs.

"What is so funny here?"

Aelori turned around to see someone she has never met. He wore Slytherin robes, his hair was dark blond, and he had blue eyes.