The Snake and The Seer

Emerson

Everyone had gone to bed in the common room, perfect time for me to sneak out and go see Quinine. I mean, it's almost been 3 days and we haven't gotten into trouble yet from sneaking out, what kind of teenagers would we be without a little bit of arson or vandalism? The common room door shut surprisingly quietly behind me, whew. That task was over, now its just the task of not being caught by Snape, Peeves, or the Bloody Baron, a very hard thing to do. 

I took my shoes off before I left the common room, which left me in my socks, but at least it would be quiet. I was almost to the Hufflepuff common room when I heard a very familiar cough from behind me. 

"Uh oh..." 

"Uh oh indeed, now where might you be headed Miss Black?"

"Uh nowhere...I gotta run! Bye Remmy," Before I could make a grand escape, Remus grabbed my ear. "Owch, owch, owch, please let go. Owch." He let go of my ear only to gently grab my wrist and quietly walked me back to his office. 

"Now, stay here and try to be quiet. Quinn is on her way, she's using Harry's cloak, like you should have been. I raised you to sneak around better than that. " This man is full of it, he raised me on literature and how to make proper tea. 

He sat down and handed me a cup of tea, I swear this man has a never-ending supply of the stuff. His office was one of the more comforting ones in Hogwarts, despite all the dark magic and elements we have to study. It almost feels like I'm at home, the way he set up his things in neat stacks. The smell of old paper and his tea. It's home, I just hope it'll be like this after the first moon. 

I heard the door creak open as quietly as an old door could, and soon enough the freckled face of Quinn peaked through the door. 

"Uh Remmy? I may have, and this is hypothetically, scared Mrs. Norris and she may have told Filch I was out of bed. Only hypothetically though." Remus pinched the bridge of his nose and handed her a cup of tea. 

"Alright, I'll go talk to Filch and tell him that you had permission to be out of bed. I'm assuming you two will be awake most of the night talking, as usual. So I'll leave you be, uh Emmy I'll have someone bring you a change of clothes for tomorrow. You too Quinn, you two behave. Goodnight girls." He bent down and kissed the top of my head before ruffling Quinn's hair and leaving the room. 

"Okay, now about earlier today. You're gonna tell me everything, or I'm gonna force it outta you." She sipped her tea intensely and stared me down. Well shit, I have to tell her the truth now. I'm not proud of it, but I was going to tell a small white lie, but the rest of it would be the truth. 

"Okay okay...I'll tell you the truth. The truth is, I'm worried. The dementors are still hunting for dad, and I just want him back. You know he didn't do it, just like I know he didn't...But no one believes me. So I cried to Draco about it, and of course he had to be sweet and hug me and make it go away. And of course by my luck, Georgie saw Draco come up to me and hold my hand, oh quit that. It's not like you don't dream of snogging Fred." I threw a small wad of paper at her and laughed when she nearly dropped her tea. 

"Okay, but Fred is much better looking than Draco, he looks like a sheet of paper." Rolling my eyes, I continued to talk.

"And of course Georgie couldn't keep his big mouth shut. Then Fred made a huge deal out of it, made me cry, then I hid by the Black Lake for a couple hours. Okay, now I really don't wanna talk about my love life or my daddy issues. What's been going on with you?" I stood up and grabbed one of Remus's sweaters from his chair before sitting back down. Its drafty, don't blame me. 

"No offense, but you kinda look like a dork." She smiles and throws the paper back at me. 

"Oh shush, Quinnie. Its not like you don't steal Fred or Cedric's hoodies." She stuck her tongue out at me and started to talk about what had been going on in her life.

"Well, Fred and I have been closer than usual...And I think he likes me back, which I hope to Merlin is true and it's not just my imagination.  Other than that, it's really just been Cedric being overprotective as usual, and lots of homework." Shrugging she sipped her tea and wrapped one of the blankets that Remus had in here around herself. 

"Well I'm pretty sure the homework only seems like a lot because you're very focused on a certain ginger." I chuckled and she rolled her eyes. 

A couple hours had passed and the things Remus left for us came in useful, despite how inviting his classroom may look, its freaking cold. 

"Oh hey Emmy? I'm sorry about earlier with Fred and George. I know they don't really approve of your relationship with Draco, but that isn't an excuse for how they acted."

"Thanks Quinnie, but its okay. I get it, now its almost daylight, should we be at least a little nice and clean up this mess in here?" She nodded and we started to clean up Remus's classroom for him, what kind of hoodlums would we be if we weren't nice occasionally? 

//Woah I wrote another one, I did pretty good I'll say for myself. Over 1,000 words, that's a big improvement for me. Well I hope you enjoyed it my guys.\\

~Cate