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Olivia didn't regret the detention she found herself serving after she started another fight with Pansy Parkinson in the common room. Pansy walked around with claw marks on her cheek from Olivia's nails for four days, seeking attention from anyone who would give it to her, before she got them healed by Madam Pomfrey.

Their little fight had been purely physical. Olivia had just gotten back from Dumbledore's office when she'd heard her talking about how she'd seen she and Draco sneaking into one of the old potions classrooms together.

She didn't have any intention of actually finishing what she'd started in the corridor but one minute she was standing by the entrance to the common room and the next she was launching herself at Parkinson.

The male Prefect and a random seventh year boy had to pull her off Pansy and then the Prefect marched her right back to Professor Snape where he had no choice but to award her a detention.

She took it with a shrug and turned up after night hours without an argument. It was hardly a detention when her godfather was there and he and Snape used it as an excuse to focus on her lessons around control. Of course Remus gave her a lecture about her behaviour beforehand but he did it from a place of love and kindness.

When Olivia asked about her biological father's opinion on the matter Remus merely grunted that he was proud of her.

So when she returned from her slew of detentions it was with a smug smile. Though before they were over Professor Snape warned her it wouldn't happen again, that if she attacked another student or started another fight she would receive a proper detention.

Part of her wanted to try and see what would happen but she could picture Professor Snape's face when the Prefect or Head boy dragged her back to his office again. Part of her didn't think she'd get away with being so lucky twice.

It wasn't even worth it. Olivia had enacted her revenge on Pansy. She got the fight she needed. She had moved on... until the next time Pansy decided to crawl under her skin again and she retaliated.

Next time Olivia would ensure it would be Pansy who ended up sitting a detention for it.

Her feud with Pansy was practically irrelevant though when she still had the fall out with her Gryffindor friends to deal with. She had spent the better part of two weeks purposely ignoring them and avoiding them wherever possible. Some days it was downright impossible and sometimes it hurt her heart to ignore Fred and George as they shouted her name down the corridor but she had nothing to say to them.

Hurt still clung to her heart. The way they had treated her in that corridor in front of the whole school had been nothing but soul-destroying for her. That was what hurt the most. It wasn't that Pansy had spilt her secret to everyone and ruined what little privacy she had left. It was the fact that some of her best friends had turned on her. Had called her a liar and blamed her for keeping it from them.

It was the fact that they couldn't see past her want and need for some private time to learn to navigate a relationship with a boy she'd very quickly fallen head over heels for. She'd never been in a relationship before. Never felt that way for anyone before.

She'd kissed a few frogs, yes, and she had one failed date back in third year but that was it. It was unexpected for everyone including herself. She never in a million years thought she'd fall into a relationship with feelings for someone. Her mother had even warned her about it but she shrugged it off like it was nothing.

'People tend to find the love of their life in fourth or fifth year, Olivia,' she had said to her the day they went out shopping for her school supplies, 'a lot of relationships that form in Hogwarts usually end in marriage. People tend to marry their school sweethearts, it's just how it works.'