The Forgotten One

Peter's Not A Man

-chapter 14-

Sirius mutters a spell under his breath and pulls me under water. I close my eyes and slowly open them. I realize that no water is stinging my eyes and I can breathe. Actually breathe.

I look at Sirius. He has a bubble thing surrounding his head... Must be the same thing for me. It's allowing us to breathe under water.

Simple Bubble-Head Charm. I hear Sirius's voice in my head.

Right. I think back. Who entered the room?

You don't want to know. Sirius says.

Please? I beg.

Connor.

Who's Connor? I ask.

The blonde drunk boy from the Common Room.

You saw him? I ask.

Yes.

I'll handle him.

N-

Before Sirius can finish, I swim up and surface in the pool. The Bubble-Head thing disappears.

Connor looks at me.

"Hi!" I wave at him. "I didn't see you there!"

"'ello," Connor says. I can tell he's drunk. His words are slurred. "Care to join me?"

"Sure!" I hop out of the pool and throw on my tee-shirt on over the swim suit. I walk over to the couch and sit down next to Connor.

"What're you doin' here all by yer self?" Connor asks.

"Oh, I'm just enjoying this beautiful night." I lie.

"All by yer self?"

"Yup." Connor puts his hand on thigh. I tense up but soon relax to seem like I like his hand on my thigh. Which I don't.

"Wanna do something?" Connor asks.

I try to say no but I end up saying "Yes."

What?! I didn't want to say yes! I wanted to say no!

Connor put a spell on you. I hear Sirius' voice inside my head once more.

To do what? I ask.

Connor suddenly pushes me back onto the couch. Connor straddles my hips, his knees pressing into my sides so I can't move.

To do whatever he wants to you. And you have to let him.

No! Sirius! You have to help me.

Connor starts to leave kisses down my neck. He starts to lift up my tee-shirt, and I try to slap his hand away, but I can't move. So instead, I'm now just in a thin layer of swim suit.

Sirius! I plead. He's going to rape me or something!

I won't let that happen.

Connor starts to slip down the string of my bathing suit. If he successfully gets that down past my shoulders, I'll be exposed from the mid stomach up, and then all he'll have to do is slip it down the rest of the way.

Oh my god. Please. Please. Please! Let this be a nightmare!

Suddenly Connor is knocked to the floor.

"The hell?" He mumbles. I shift my eyes to my left and see Sirius standing there, his hand in a fist.

Sirius Black punched a guy for me.

"Don't ever touch her again," Sirius says, his voice threatening. "Or God help you." Sirius says a spell and suddenly I can move again. I pull the straps back up to my shoulders fully and grab my shirt, slipping it on. Sirius takes my hand and drags me out of the Room of Requirements.

I feel the tears make their way down my cheeks.

Sirius comes to a stop. "Hey," he says softly, brushing away the tears with his thumb. "No need to cry."

"Y-yes t-there i-is." I say. "H-he a-almost r-r-raped me." I burst into tears. Sirius envelopes me in a hug.

"It'll be okay," he says.

"How do you know?" I ask him. He looks me in the eyes.

"Because I just do."

"I don't want to go back and see the girls." I say, referring to Alice, Marlene, Emmeline, and especially Lily.

"Then stay with me." I look up at Sirius.

"What?" The tears almost immediately stop after he says that.

"Stay with me in my dorm."

"Um... I'm not sure if you saw, but back there, not just a few minutes ago, I almost got you-know-what."

"You don't have to sleep with me," Sirius says. "I just thought it'd be safer if you have four men to protect you in case anything happened at night."

"Four men?" I ask. "More like three. Peter's not a man."

Sirius laughs. "Okay. Three men to protect you."

"Alright." I agree.