Time [OPEN] Passing

[dove]

It was a crisp cold night the moon was nearly half filled and I was no where near bored. The Shrieking Shack was in my grasp. I could reach out and gently touch my fingertips to it. My mouth parted in aw I gracefully pushed the door open. Shrieking you can say. I giggled, though fear gribbed my sides. "Wow, it is dark in here." I muttered stepping in, surprised to notice that not a single cobweb hung in font of me. "Thank god." I muttered again. Looking around, I swiftly turned and closed the door. Making sure if someone happened to come in, I be able to get out a window or something. Using my wand I muttered my spell, and the light flashed on. A beautiful blue sparkle in the darkest of the shack. "Beautiful Just simply beautiful." I uttered, gasping slightly as I saw a huge spider. Than I parted my lips and drew in a shacky breath. "This isn't bad... this is actually rather peace. And where is all the shrieking!" I said, getting alittle louder near the end. Of course as if it had rehearsed it, a low shrieking sound sounded. "Yay!" I muttered, happy and yet the fear tryed to hungerly eat at me. But I was just to in to it. "Again! Again!" I said, louder and louder each time. Of course it stopped now. "Aww stupid Shack!" I yelled kicking the side of it gently.

So than with a flick of my wirst I went up stairs. Each stair groaned and moaned in protest, but i left that be. So lets see I climbed the groaning stair, muttering to them to stupid up, I was trying to force on the bed room I spotted. Than I looked at the door. There looked like there was claw marks dug deep into them, and I felt like I new them from somewhere.... somewhere. 'Fred.' I thought utterly confused and forgetting my brother who had left me, and joined the Order. Dang nabbit. I thought stupidly. When was that boy gonna keep his end of the promise. "I keeped my end, and yet all he does is sit by that stupid order and leaves me alone." Than I started fore-wards, my ear covered as I heard a ear slipting shriek. "Shut it!" I growled under my breath, than I notice something My cat was with me. "Snake!" I grumbled again.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

It was a cold night. The moon was almost half-filled, and the stars were bright in the sky. A crisp wind shrieked, almost, but not quite, covering the 'pop' that sounded in the night. Black robes with green trim billowed, signifying that this was a Slytherin student. And not just any Slytherin. This was Scorpius Malfoy. The white-blond hair he had inherited from his father gave him away, and showed his Veela blood.

Wand in hand, Scorpius headed for the Shrieking Shack. He heard a yell and paused, debating if he should go in. After all, what did he care if some wanna-be adventurer was in there? Probably just met one of the many spiders that live in there, he thought. He snickered. Those spiders could get really huge.

After another yell sounded, he shrugged. He would go in. Maybe there was someone he could hex in there. He stepped inside the doorway, and promptly Stupefied a spider. Scorpius shuddered. Ew. I hate these little buggers, he thought. Lighting his wand, he drew in a breath of musty air and coughed as he headed up the stairs. His lanky frame climbed the stairs easily, almost as if gliding up them. He opened the door and called out, "Hello?"

[dove]

Eyes widening I wipped around at the door opening slightly. "Shoot." I muttered under my breath and bolted for the closest thing to hide behind, which happen to be a chair. Covered in cobwebs, and what happen to be on it. A huge freaken spider. "Crap!" I spat, my eyes widdening at Snake batted it with his paw. "Stop it Snake, that person will find us." I whispered in a very soft voice. "Ummm who's there?" I asked, looking around the chair, just to peek at the boy. He had a black robe with a green trim. So I climbed to my feet and looked at him, wand drawn slightly. "Wh- Who Are you?" I was slide glancing at the hgue spider Snake was batting at and I was completely and utterly ready to bounce for-ward into the stranger's arms to get away from it. Touching my cat's pelt, he adandon the spider and joined my side, in a protective kind of way. "I'--- I'm Dove." I replyed, alittle frighten. What if this stranger was friendly or if this stranger was a foe.

Slightly straining herself, I looked up and down the boy, struggling to see where his face had seemed so familiar and yet so strange. Sighing I looked away and nodded. Since I saw Aldebaran, and this boy I could tell one thing. They were not alike. The boy had blondish white hair and yet Aldebaran had brown. And well they were plan different. Stepping forward I nodded. "So what are you doing here?" I asked simply.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Scorpius smiled at the strange girl. So, she didn't know who he was? Strange. Almost everyone knew him. He was, after all, a prefect. And Slytherin's star Seeker to boot. That alone made him popular. He lowered his wand slightly, but didn't put it away. He had no clue if she was friend or foe. He gave her a once-over, and announced, "I'm Scorpius. Scorpius Malfoy. I'm a prefect and Seeker for Slytherin at Hogwarts."

So, her name was Dove, was it? Strange. He could swear he'd seen her before. He cocked his head and said, "You...have heard of Hogwarts, haven't you? You look to be about school age, Dove." He looked at her dusty robes, no doubt having got that way from crawling on the floor. He thought he saw purple trim, but he couldn't be sure.

Scorpius kept his hand on his wand and said calmly, "You should know, I utterly and completely support the Dark Lord, and hope to be a Death Eater as soon as I'm of age. What about you?" He still wondered if she was a foe. If she was...well, he could do Crucio alright. And Professor Snape had taught him a few spells, including one called Sectumsempra that he said Harry Potter had used on his dad in their 6th year. He then said, "I like to come here on occasion and practice my spells. And yourself?"

[dove]

'So he was a Malfoy. Shoot.' I thought looking at the boy with a calm face I nodded. "Oh Scorpius Malfoy.. now I remember you, your father is one of the Dark Lords Besties." I said smirking, than adding, "How rude of me. My first name is of course Dove, and my last is Harrington." He went on talking. "Of course I have heard of Hogwarts. I am a student there. It is also a reason why I do not talk to people like you." I said, slightly annoyed. "You see you Perfect people think your all high and mightly. But yet here you are talking to me. Odd no?" Than she heard him speak again. About the Dark Lord. He spoke, "You should know, I utterly and completely support the Dark Lord, and hope to be a Death Eater as soon as I'm of age. What about you?" I of coursed smile. "Everyone at hogwarts is loyal to the Dark Lord. But whatès the fun in doing what he says. You can break a few rules, like miss classes and such and saddly no, I will stay a witch till I beath my last breath, which saddly is not fun at all." I stopped and listen to him again. Wow this Malfoy talked alot when you asked him questions. "I like to come here on occasion and practice my spells. And yourself?"

I looked alittle stunned, but I rolled my eyes and sighed. "I do not know why I am here. I just love the sounds of the shrieking, only because I know that this place is not haunted, that it is just how the wind blows. Plus it is kind of relaxing." I stopped and crashed to the floor on my butt. "Well what spells are you learning." I asked, and yet it was a simply question. I was a 6th year, but more in likely gonna be forced back into the same year, only because I ditched to many times. Groaning under my breath I looked away, my wand still in hand, it's bright blue lightly shinning softly. "My bad I am noisy. You do not need to tell me if you want." Than I settled comfortly on the floor and waited for him to at least tell me some spells. Maybe I could us them.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Scorpius nodded. "Yup, that's me. My grandfather is and inner-circle Death Eater, as well as my father, Draco. Grandfather is practically the Dark Lord's right-hand man." He knew he was babbling, but ask him if he cared. Nope. He was proud of them, darn it. And besides, everybody who was anybody, including the blasted Order, already knew this information.

He looked hurt. "High and mighty? Well, of course. That's what it means to be prefect. The only thing better is to be Head Boy or Girl. Besides, I'm carrying on tradition. My grandfather was Head Boy and Seeker in his day, and my father was a Seeker and prefect. Why shouldn't I be happy? But it's not all fun and games. I have a lot of responsibility to shoulder, and I train hard to make sure my flying is top-notch."

Scorpius looked shocked. "Dove, it's not about fun. Not doing as he says means death. Or worse, torture. I've been on the receiving end of the Dark Lord's Crucio. It isn't pretty. It's worse then my father and grandfather's Crucio's." He puffed out his chest. "In fact, I've already met the Dark Lord. He wants me to join now, I think. Isn't it great?" His eyes sparkled with delight.

He shook his head. "Not everyone is. I heard of a few who actually want to join the Order." He spat the word 'Order' out like it was a dirty word. "Can you imagine? So, what House are you in, Dove? And that means...that you don't wish to join the Dark Lord? Because there's only two sides to this war. You're either with the Order or the Dark Lord. There is no 'neutral' as some would like to think."

Satisfied that she wasn't a foe, he relaxed his grip on his wand and conjured a chair to sit in. Scorpius crossed his legs and spoke. "Well, there's the Imperius curse. I've mastered that. Then there's the Cruciatus curse, which I can do alright. Then, of course...the Killing Curse. Avada Kedavra. I haven't got enough power to kill adults yet, but I can kill bugs and children. Muggle and Mudblood children anyways. Oh, and Levicorpus, which hangs you upside down in the air by one ankle. That's a non-verbal one, though."

[dove]

I nodded softly. "Yeah I'm in the Delacroix house. So don't wave that wand around wth that killing spell alright." I said, answering his last question after I was silent threw his whole answering my questions ordeal. I had answered, well simply stated his last answer so I knew that I was in trouble if he used that darn killing spell. "So I see, I can guess your father and Grandfather are proud. Lucky Lucky you." I replyed rolling my eyes slightly. "Oh sure, so meeting the Dark Lord, is his nose really all bent in or is it normal like yours and mine?" It was a simple question. A question she wanted to ask people who had seen the dark lord before. "Oh I forgot to answer you isn't it great question. Opps. Well It's only great if you want it to be great. It just all depends on where you want your life to go." I said my wand on the ground now. So Scorpius wouldn't see me as a threat any longer, just so girl who needed someone to talk to. So I looked at him slightly and nodded. 'I know there's no neutral idiot. ' I fought back the words, to only keep them in thought. "Want to show me? Well all but the killing curse. I'm afaird that will be forbidden to me." I rolled my eyes and climbed to my feet. My eyes linguring on Scorpius as he sat in the chair cross leged. I held back a bust of laughter than lingured in my throat. "I want to try Levicorpus!" I said happily.

I thought about turning Flich upside down by one ankle. That would be awesome. "Of course, I us it for personal needs, such as turning some dude that roams the halls upside down." I smirked darkly. My eyes wide and pleading. "Oh please!" I asked. Wanting to bounce, but keeping still just in case. So I stood there looking at him. Waiting for his answer, so I might as well look and see what he was thinking, well guess, by his body langauge. So I looked at him, from his blond white hair to his shoes. Than I Nodded in approval. 'Okay so I guess you can say he's cute, but soooo out of my lead.' I thought angerly.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Scorpius shook his head. "A fellow student? Never that. Unless they outright defied the Dark Lord. Then..." He mimicked casting a curse. He looked at her robes again. They were pretty dusty. He asked softly, "Would you like me to clean those for you?"

He nodded, then shrugged. "They are proud of me. And actually, his nose is like two slits on the front of his face. He doesn't really have a nose, per say." He watched as she set down her wand before pocketing his own. He stood and waled to her. "OK, so you swish and flick with your wand, and think 'Levicorpus'. Try it on me."

Scorpius eyed Dove. Hey, she's pretty cute. And in Delacroix...not bad, he thought. But Scorpius was never one to beat around the bush. In fact, tact was not one of his strong suits. So he came right out with it. "Has anyone ever told you you're pretty cute?" he inquired.

[dove]

I grinned. "Ha ha, Like I dis obey the Dark Lord. You know how easy it is to kill me with a flicker of his wand." Of course I rolled my eyes and slightly flushed. It wasn't often you find nice people in Hogwarts. "Ummm sure...." I looked down now just noticing my dirty robes. "Oh my, they never get this dirty." I whispered, looking at my robe than I looked at my cat, "Snake, get over here." I muttered, my eyes narrowed, as my cat strutted towards Scorpius. He sat on his butt and grinned. I forced back a responce to my cat's action.

"Ha, well than I'm glade your going to follow in your father's and grandfather's footsteps." I smiled. I was right. His nose was weird. I held back my laughter again and nodded. "So two slits, something like snakes I bet. Oh it'll be so cool, just to look at it!" I said smiling, imaging herself poking his weird nose, 'Haha just to bother him would be like my biggest prank ever!' I thought daintly as I picked my wand from the ground. I flushed tomatio red. "Umm actually no one has." I looked away embrassed. 'Oh great now look at me.' I thoughted. Than turned. "Ummm okay here I got." I said 'LEVICORPUS!' I barked the thought out, flicking my wand at Scorpius. 'Oh crap if I hurt him, I'll die.' I closed my eyes.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Scorpius grinned back at Dove. "That is true. But who had to flick his wand? He can do it with a thought, or so I'm told." He smiled at her flush. Removing his wand out of his pocket, he flicked it and murmured, "Scourgify!" All the dust and dirt disappeared, leaving the robes sparking clean. The deep purple the the Delacroix house was clearly visible now. He conjured up a chair for Dove to sit in. Motioning to her to have a seat, he put it away again.

He let out a yelp as an invisible force grabbed him by the ankle and hoisted him upside down. His wand fell out of his pocket and clattered to the floor. He managed a smile for her. "Very good. Now for the counter-spell. Barely flick your wand and think 'Libicorpius'. He put his hands over his head and waited for her to release him.

[dove]

Smiling at my ability to hang Scorpius by his ankle made me of course, proud I was able to do it so. So there I was stocked that I was able to hang someone upside down, when he told me the counter spell. I smiled. and nodded, but only when his wand had fell to the floor. I gently picked it up and put it on his chair. Than I nodded. 'This is sooo cool. Oh why didn't I know all these cool spells!' I thought as I blinked at the upside down Scorpius. 'LIBICORPIUS!' I roared in my head. Lightly flicking my wand I pointed it at Scorpius and smiled.
"I'm sorry, didn't know it was that different." I started. Closing my eyes to make sure I didn't see the impact. 'Wow, so lets see, I used a new spell on him, and I know the counter spell, so lets see if it works on Snake? He'll kill me of course.' I thought smiling. Opening my eyes I flicked my wand and roared in my head 'LEVICORPUS!' I watched Snake being lifted into the air. I snickered and than roared the counter spell in my head. 'LIBICORPIUS!' After about three seconds I watched Snake crash to the floor and puff his chest out and growl. I padded my cat between the ears. "Oh, It was tempting."
I sat on my chair and looked at Scorpius.
"So, a Death Eater? Won't you miss being well, human?" I asked.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Hands still over his head, Scorpius fell to the floor with an 'oof'. He stood up and dusted himself off. Picking up his wand, he placed it in his pocket and nodded his approval. "Very good. Now, I assume you know the basic disarming spell, yes? Expelliarmus? Or the Stunning spell, Stupefy? The counter-curse to Stupefy is Enervate." He frowned. "What do you mean? I'll still be human. I have no plans to go all snake-like like the Dark Lord."

Reading the look on her face, he smiled again. "Don't worry. Some of these spells aren't taught until higher years, and some not at all. My parents let me practice at home over the summer, and taught me some Dark magic." He looked quite pleased with himself. "In case you didn't know, if you are underage and practice magic in an adult witch or wizard's house, the Ministry won't know." Locking his hands behind his head, he said, "OK, Stun me. But bring me right back afterwards, OK?"

[dove]

I frowned slightly and tahn rolled my eyes. "Oh well I didn't know. Your just lucky your sweet and nice to me. Or I be kicking your butt." It was a joke, well all but the nice part. So there I was smiling gently at him, and than I flushed. 'Shoot I've been staring to long.' I turned my head away and notice Snake sitting on the chair I know left. "Snake... can you please stand back..... I wouldn't know what I do with out you..." I bent down and pressed my lips to his furry fore-head. "Your like the dark brother I wish I had." Than I patted his head and watched him walk away, threw the door to the outer all. "Ummm, are you sure I won't hurt you Scorpius? I mean, what if you turn out like a cripple after wards. I'd be soooo dead. I'm not one to do this but..." I whispered and closed my eyes. Keeping them closed I nodded. "what if I kill you."My eyes flickered open and I looked at him. My eyes a gentle and worried blue. But I didn't wait. I knew he would be okay, or at least hoped, than and only than did I flickered my wand and very gently, and yet clearly spoke, "Stupefy." I waited a few seconds than muttered clearly "Enervate." 'Please tell me I'm not going to learn ever dark spell he knows.' Than I smiled again and nodded.

'Dear Dark Lord is he... ummm okay...?' I asked myself, and well of choice was still puzzled by his the Ministry of magic comment. Of course I couldn't do it anyways, since my parents were human, and my wizard and witch parents were dead. The only family I had left was my adopted brother. I froze. A dark glow crept across my face. 'Fred..... yo stupid idiot, why in your right mind did you leave me here. You should of stayed.' I thought, very lightly placing my wand in the pocket of my robe, and than seeing as Snake had reentered the room, let him jump onto my lap. "Love you Snake..." I whispered, very lightly, that if Scorpius heard it, it would of been, well, different.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

With a 'thud', Scorpius hit the floor. He could see, but not hear. A most unusual feeling. He waited patiently for Dove to unfreeze him, and realized with a shock that he had come to trust hr in the short period of time that he had known her. Father would approve, he thought. There were precious few that he would trust to freeze him and leave him vulnerable like this. Not even his father would just Stun him without trying something rather...nasty.

As Dove unfroze him, he sat up with a groan. "Ow. I forget how much hitting the floor without a cushion hurts. Good thing I had my hands behind my head." He gave a smirk before asking her rather bluntly, "Hey...wanna be best friends?" He hoped she'd say yes-he was become fond of her. And she was a supporter of the Dark Lord besides. A perfect match. Plus, she was cute.

With a wave of his wand, he conjured up a couple of practice dummies. They would blow up if Avada Kedavra was cast at them properly, and twitch if Crucio was cast. If Imperius was cast...well, they'd fall over. He wasn't that good at magic yet. To be able to conjure things was a spectacular feat at his age, but then Transfiguration and the Dark Arts were his speciality. He looked at her and inquired, "So...are you pure-blood, half-blood, or Mud...Muggle-born?"

[dove]

"Of course." I blurted out also randomly at his ask to be best friends. But than I flushed again. Stupid me. Anyways as I looked at him, I smiled. "Oh it's fine you can say Mudblood in font of me... I got to get used to it." Narrowing my eyes gently I asked him a simply question. "As long as you don't mind me as one." I un narrowed my eyes and nodded. "I don't need to ask you." I laughed and stretched my arms. "I already know mostly every thing about your family. You guys are like Legends. I'm still stocked your standing around here." I shook my head and covered my mouth as I yawned. My cat, Snake seemed uncomforable now. "Fine you great lump get off me." I muttered, forgetting Scorpius again. "Ummm my bad, I talk to my cat... weird I know." I closed my eyes and an embrassed smile frew on my face. So little time, god would my brother and adopted parents be pissed. I always fell to hard to fast.

'Get now I'm staring again.... but best friends oh my god.... I can't believe it!' My mind was like a a gust of wind blew in a bunch of bramble brushes. My thoughts clung and I was now caught staying off into space. I looked away from Scorpius, and at the dummies. "So what are these dummies for? Oh I'll name them." I climbed to my feet and walked over. "Joe, John, Jordan and Bella." I grinned, what ever was left he could name. I wanted to and look and see what he was doing but I just too three long steps backwards away from the dummies. I nodded gently. 'Okay so dummies, what is he going to do to you? I hope it's something funny... OH or stupid... stupid funny.' I thought very gently wanting to lie down and close my eyes and remember tonight. Looking at the moon from the window I sighed. It was a sad sigh.

'What if our friend ship never lasts. He'll be a Death Eater, highly ranked in the Dark Lord's army while I'm the stupid mudblood who's thrown into battle and more in likely killed.' I kept looking at the moon. My heart was thobbing gently as I looked back and smiled. 'Twist my words if he asks me what wrong... what would I say? Just watch be blurt out the truth.' I stopped my battle against myself in my head. Looking away again, I sat on the dusty floor with my knees to my chin. Bored. 'Wow... this was such a random night.... thank god.' I thought a smile burning the tips of my mouth.

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