Rebecca Warren and The Third Wizarding War

Chapter 23: Stetson's Warning

Rebecca had woken up to people talking. She opened her eyes to see the curtains of her bed pulled shut. She was back in the Wampus dormitory. She pulled back the curtain to reveal Morgan and Andrew.

"Bloody hell." Rebecca said at once as she pulled the curtain back to close. "Andrew, you're not supposed to be in here."

"If he hadn't helped me get you up here, you'd still be lying on the ground in that corridor." Morgan said. "Besides, everybody has clothes on, so open up because we need to talk."

Rebecca did as instructed. She pulled the curtain back once more and sat up.

"Why am I so exhausted?" Rebecca asked them as she propped her pillows up to where she could look at them properly.

"Maybe because not thirty minutes ago you were beating up Vanessa?" Andrew said.

Rebecca just remembered what she had done. "Oh..."

"It's a bigger problem than just 'oh'." Morgan said. "You nearly killed her. It's a good thing Lucy stopped you."

Rebecca pondered as she recalled the attack on Vanessa. "I have no regrets to what I did to her." She said cooly. Andrew and Morgan both looked at each other. "What was Lucy doing there anyways?" Rebecca asked.

"We asked for her help to find you." Morgan said. "We saw her as we went in the direction you and Vanessa ran. After fighting Cass and Sheila, Andy and I were too slow so she ran ahead and found you and pulled you off."

"I saved her life while you were being held back." Andrew said.

"Why?" Rebecca said. "She's going to keep bullying us again. She'll never stop."

"Well..." Andrew said. "When you were knocked out, Vanessa was pleading for me to help her, saying she was sorry, and if I saved her life she would never talk bad again. She sweared it and she wouldn't go to a teacher either."

"She's a liar." Rebecca said immidiately. "She just wanted to save her own skin. I'll bet in an hour the headmaster himself will be here to escort me out."

"We're actually not sure where she is." Morgan stated. "Lucy told us to take you here and she would deal with Vanessa."

Rebecca couldn't understand it. Why was Lucy so eager to help Rebecca after everything that had happened between them this year? "What did she mean by dealing with her?" Rebecca asked. Both of her friends shrugged their shoulders.

As it turned out, Professor Fontaine, the headmaster, never appeared, nor did anyone else, to take Rebecca away. The next day, Vanessa was nowhere to be found in class and neither was Lucy. In Defense Against The Dark Arts, Cassandra and Sheila were trying to cover up their scars. Rebecca was pretty sure Cass had a broken nose.

After class, Professor Stetson had Rebecca stay after. She didn't speak to her until after everyone left the room.

"Explain to me what happened to you and Miss Bancroft." Stetson said.

Rebecca was caught off guard. "What do you mean?"

"You know exactly what I mean." Stetson said. "I know you attacked her. Her friends had told me they got into a fight with Miss Wolfe and Mr. Lorrette. Miss Bancroft was last seen being chased by you. And then this morning she and Miss Parkinson were both found in a corridor beaten up and bloody."

"You mean Lucy was in a fight?" Rebecca stumbled.

"That is what she said when she had woken up. Miss Bancroft has yet to recover, but regardless, I have evidence to suggest it was you."

Stetson gazed down to Rebecca's hands which still had scars on her knuckles. Rebecca moved them to fold behind her back and swallowed hard. She wondered if Stetson had any authority to do something even if there was no actual proof she had done something, but Rebecca was confused on how Lucy was hurt.