Love at the Ministry (Percy Weasley/ Kelina)

Chapter Nine

A/N: Hey, so a couple things! In this fic, Voldemort died after he gave Harry the lightning scar, and never came back. Next, I changed Percy's age so that he was a seventh year when the Yule Ball came around

Also, this chapter is entirely flashback!

Enjoy:)

Hogwarts. Kelina's seventh year.

"Miss Parker, a moment?" Professor Moody asked the girl as she was packing her stuff to leave. She looked up, confused as to what Moody could want with her. "You too, Mr. Weasley."

Great, Percy.

"Now, as you know the Yule Ball is in two weeks, and some of the other professors are wary of all those students during the dance. We need the two of you to help supervise."

"So we can't go to the dance?" Kelina asked, mildly disappointed. Yeah, she was Head Girl for Slytherin house, and it came with a lot of responsibilities, but she hoped that for one night, she'd get to feel pretty, and have a night where she didn't have to worry about giving out detentions or taking house points.

"No, you two will be able to go and dance, but just need to keep an extra eye out on the students. Make sure nobody's doing anything...suspicious." Moody said. "It would probably be best if the two of you stuck together."

"Us? Why would I want to work with her?" Percy said, disgust riddled on his face.

"Oh, don't flatter yourself Weasley, I don't want to be with you either." Kelina replied, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Come on, you two!" Moody barked. "You two are the brightest students in class and you will be working together. Understood?"

"Yes professor." The two of them said in unison.

"Dismissed."

Not only did Kelina have to go to school with Percy, be on the same night duty schedule as him, and now she has to attend a freaking dance with him? This is the worst possible outcome she could think of. Recently, she'd been trying to be more positive, maybe this could be good. It would be nice to look at Percy and want to scoff and roll her eyes.

"Look, we're obviously not happy about this, but I'm not going to get in trouble because of some school rivalry. I have bigger and better plans, ones that don't involve getting in trouble because I couldn't get along with a classmate." Percy broke the silence, turning to face the girl.

"Wow, classmate? I think that's the nicest thing I've ever heard from you Percy." Kelina put a hand over her chest, acting like she was touched, before dropping it along with her fake smile.

"Would you just stop? I didn't know you could be so immature."

"Immature? You're fueling this rivalry just as much as I am." Kelina shot back.

"Whatever, okay? Let's just get this over with." Positive, you can be positive Kellina.

"Fine, but I'm not matching you." She said, turning to walk away from the boy.

*

The night of the Yule Ball, Kelina was touching up her hair and makeup before making her way down to the Great Hall. She hated to admit it, but she was starting to hate Percy Weasley less. The two of them weren't really getting along, but it was a lot better than before. They were able to do nightly duties without starting any petty fights, and went so far as to look over their homework answers together. Maybe Kelina even felt a little more towards the boy. I mean, his hair was a really nice color, and when he was directing students on where to go, it made her feel-

No, okay, no.

The girl looked one last time in the mirror before leaving the Slytherin bathrooms. The two of them were going to meet fifteen minutes before the dance started, at one of the benches they frequented often, on nightly duties of course. So, she sat, waiting for the boy to arrive.

She was still early, Percy wasn't supposed to show up for five more minutes. She could wait five more minutes. Nervously, she picked at a part of her dress, but carefully enough that it didn't tear it.

Twenty minutes went by and Kelina was still sitting there, waiting stupidly for the boy to arrive. She had made plenty of excuses in her head, he lost his tie, one of his friends had asked him to do his hair, his brothers had played a prank on him before this, and he was trying to clean it up. But it was useless, he wasn't coming. There was still a small flicker of hope in her though, and that's what caused her to stay and wait for him.

Another twenty minutes went by when someone finally came over to her.

"Kelina? Why aren't you inside?" George Weasley had come up to her, taking a seat next to her.

"Oh, I'm just waiting for someone." She responded, shooting a small smile at the boy. She had always liked George, he was the quieter twin, and he was the one who told his twin that they were not going to play any pranks on her.

"Well, how long have you been waiting?" Merlin, she'd been waiting for almost an hour.

"Not that long, I'm sure he'll be here soon." She lied. She really didn't want to be pitied right now.

"Hope he gets here soon! You won't believe it, Percy's actually dancing inside." George said, trying to make the girl feel better, as he stood up. Kelina's head snapped up.

"Huh?" She asked, hoping she heard him wrong.

"Crazy, isn't it? Guess the girl he brought must like dancing or something. It's like they're connected at the hip or something. See you in there!" George made his way back to the Great Hall, and Kelina let her head fall down slowly. At this moment, she was completely lost. Not only did Percy not show up to the bench they had talked about, he brought a different girl to dance with. Slowly and sadly, Kelina stood up, and tried her best not to cry as she made her way back to her dorm, where she felt she'd spend the rest of her life.