Black Love - Fantastic Beasts

Part 11

After her last History of Magic class with Prof. Binns, Casey quickly apparates to her hut.

Her heart skips a beat when she saw Credence trembles hard inside the wardrobe. He was trying hard to control himself not to change back to be an obscurus and Casey senses his fear and urgency.

So Casey kneels down in front of him and pull him into a soathing long hug while muttering a calming spell. Credence relaxes a bit and Casey swears she could hear Credence loud heart beats together with a stammering inner voice;

'Yyy...you're back...'

Credence feels so relieve when he saw Casey. He really thought Casey had left him thoroughly there and would not come back anymore. But seeing Casey's in front of his eyes quickly melts his heart. His inner need to be an obscurus because of his anger and resentment of being left alone quickly subsided.

"I... I thought... You're going to leave me.."

Credence manages to say. Casey slowly rubs Credence's back before whispering;

"I'm here... I won't leave you..."

But of course, Casey has to leave that night. It's not even weekend so Casey can't possibly spends a night at her hut.

It's hard for Casey to calm Credence's down before Credence reluctantly let Casey apparates back to Hogwarts. That is why, leaving Credence alone at the hut doesn't seems like a good choice at the moment.

Casey makes up her mind. She needs professional help.

So tomorrow, exactly after her last class which is Potion, instead of apparates back to her hut, she quickly walks towards the headmaster office.
Before she could knock, the door is already open for her.

"I know you're coming Casey..."

Headmaster Dippet starts. His back was facing Casey before he slowly turns around. He casted a nice warming smile towards Casey and Casey could sense his sincerity.

"Sir... I need to talk to you..."

"Is this about that boy?"

Casey scowls. She didn't see that coming. However, it is not hard to expect such thing from Headmaster Dippet. He also has a talent of reading things ahead of time. Casey takes a deep breath, trying to keep her composure before continues.

"His name's Credence sir..."

Headmaster Dippet frowned a bit before walks towards Casey and stand right in front of her.

"You know what he is don't you?"

Casey nods. She could clearly sense anxiety from Headmaster Dippet. But she still wants to try.

"I know he's an obscurus... But he's not a squib. He has the ability... So... I wonder if... you can let him stay here and study like the other students..."

"You know it's not possible Casey... We can't change the rules. He's overage. Besides, Ilvermony didn't accept him before. We can't do it as well..."

"Sir please... He needs our help..."

Headmaster Dippet frowns before intensely staring in Casey's eyes. Casey could sense his confusion, as if wondering why Casey, the self-centric Casey suddenly behaves like this.

"That's not the only reason right sir?"

Casey continues. She can clearly read what's in Headmaster Dippet's mind. His nervousness and fear. Feelings that he never showed before.

Headmaster Dippet takes a deep breath before continues.

"You well know my reason Casey. You know I can't lie to you. He's an obscurus which means he is dangerous towards the other students. You know I can't jeopardy my students' lives simply because of my sympathy towards the boy. Besides you could always pretend this thing never happen and send him to the ministry... They know exactly what to do with him..."

"You know they will kill him if they know about his existence sir..."

Headmaster Dippet simply shruggs at the matter-o-fact.

"Sir please, at least let him stay inside the castle where he would be safe. At least, I can help attend to him without having to worry someone might barge in my hut and takes him away..."

"Casey, he's not your responsibility!"

Casey sighs deeply. She knows that this is going to happen. She did envision this before. But, although she already knows the consequences, she still has hope. Simply because for once, she hopes she can change the headmaster's decision.

"I'm sorry for taking much of your time sir..."

Casey spoke after quite a long awkward silence between them both. She then trudges out of the room.

But before she could apparate to the Black Hut, she feels a sharp tingling sensation when a big warm hand suddenly pats her shoulder.