Another Weasley (FTM OC)

Chapter 9: Matches and Murderers

Cayden was really glad to see his friends after the winter break. Classes were starting up again and he was really looking forward to Tuesdays with madame pomfrey. This week they were finally getting to medicinal draughts. At the end of the day after dinner Cayden heads to the hospital wing and walks into the familiar room. After the winter break there are fewer students but there were a few who always showed up, a fourth year Hufflepuff, a seventh year Gryffindor, a sixth year Ravenclaw, a sixth year Hufflepuff, and of course Cayden. Madame Pomfrey starts teaching and a girl runs into the room.

"I'm so sorry I'm late there was an energy I had to lose." Cayden recognized the voice and dreaded turning around. "Oh you're here too, its nice to see you again." The white haired girl goes up to him and sits next to him.

"Well thank you for joining us Ms.Lovegood." Madame pomfrey says as she continues on with her lesson. Soon enough she splits everyone into pairs and being the two youngest Cayden and Luna get paired together.

"I love the energy here, its so positive and calming. Don't you feel it, isolated from the school, nothing to distract you." Lovegood starts.

"We should get to working on the drought." Cayden says starting to gather the materials needed.

"Yes of course. I knew we'd find each other soon enough, people like us always find each other." She says not looking at anything in particular. Cayden honestly can't understand what Ginny see's in this girl. That was until she started working. Yes she was new but she was good, she didn't make mistakes and unlike others she was patient. She didn't overtake anything and didn't do anything she didn't know how to do. Cayden respected that, it made his job easier. The two worked in silence for the rest of the lesson and Cayden had to admit they worked perfectly together. Madame Pomfrey sure seemed happy to see the two together. Once the lesson was over Luna started talking again.

"You know there are ways to block others' emotions, maybe you wouldn't be so grumpy if you used them." She says.

"So what, you're an empath too?" Cayden questions.

"Yes, it's very common in my family, my mother was one, her mother was one, do you know if it runs in your family?" She asks.

"No, I don't speak with them." Cayden says.

"Oh." Luna looks sad. Cayden feels guilty, he pushes it back it's probably not even his guilt plus he has to get back to his dorm. He walks down the stairs as Luna walks up.

Months pass and everything seems to be getting back to routine. Cayden had been hanging out with his friends more and he'd even started talking more to Luna becoming quite fond of the bizarre girl. She was very kind and very talented, definitely a Ravenclaw if he'd ever met one. Quidditch matches were coming back and many people were talking about the Gryffindor v Ravenclaw match that would 'make or break' Gryffindor. Slytherin was all cheering on Ravenclaw and hyping them up in the halls. Even Cayden started appreciating the energy surrounding the school. Classes come and go and once he gets back to his dorm he chats with his friends until he gets tired and heads to bed only to find a familiar face laying on his pillow.

"Hello scabbers. Run away from the mean cat now?" Cayden laughs as he picks up the small creature. He makes a small nest for the rat like he used to as a kid and places scabbers in the centre before heading to bed himself. Once he woke up he found that scabbers had been pickling dried blood out of his fur. Cayden picked him up and brought him to the bathroom washing out the fur and checking to make sure no real harm had been done. The cut was fairly shallow but it definitely bled a lot. He got the rat some orange slices in the dining hall and brought it back to his room for the creature before picking up his books and heading to class. No one in his friend group questioned the new mascot that they now had but they all played with it making little mazes out of the board games Blaise had. Pansy had even made a makeshift hamster wheel for the creature. It was rare for slytherins to have pets other than owls. Maybe a first year will have a cat for a few months but most parents wouldn't buy such a low class animal as a rat but even Nott the most pretentious of them all enjoyed the new company.