Castle Grounds

open, green spaces.

sits on the grass doing homework

Lauren ran outside with her notebook. She found a comfortable looking rock and sat down. She opened the notebook and began to draw.

sees a girl drawing and rolls her eyes and finishes her homework

Jake walked outside and saw Lauren with her notebook, he walked to her

''hee, where were you, i saw you in the forbidden forest but then you were gone?'' he sat next to her

puts her homework in her back and takes out her notebook and writes in it

Lauren snapped the notebook shut, embarrassed.

"I couldn't stay in there a minute longer, could I? Nara insulted me, I would've exploded! I called my dad, he got mum to take me to St Mungos to get my leg fixed up." she extended said leg, staring at it. "Good as new now." She was about to add about her mission, but stopped herself. She didn't know how it would go herself yet."

''yeah you were right so i finished what you really loved to do, i tortured her again'' smirked Jake

''what did your dad say about Nara?'' he asked her

"He wants her on his side. I gotta take her to the forest and summon him. She'll never come, though." Lauren groaned.





****





Irene swung herself outside on her crutches. She needed fresh air, and time to think. Her sorry state made her prime target for any bully in the school. She hoped she coulde be alone out here.

sees irene and walks up to her
"hey ! how are you i saw you fall down the stairs"

"I'm still alive," IRene replied, smiling ruefully. "What about you? I don't think we've met before..."

''we will find a way, maybe we should take one of her crushes to get her into the forbidden forest?''

"yay "
laughs
" im ashely green "

"Nicholas, maybe?" Lauren suggested.


"Nice to meet you, Ashley. You already know who I am!" Irene laughs.

laughs
"very true "

''yeah shall we work on the plans together?''

"Why else d'you think I mentioned it, Lestrange?" asked Lauren, teasing.


"Can you keep a secret, Ashley?" Irene asked, deadly serious.

"yes i can "

"I hope you're not lying. I just need to talk to someone, anyone about it!" Irene cried, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"im not lying whats wrong ????"

''let's talk then. how are we going to get Nicholas to the forbidden forest, we don't need him we also could say he is outside and lead her into the forbidden forest and then grab her and go deeper and summon your dad. i think that the first days that she is out of the hospital she will be staying close to Draco, Draco is easy to get rid of him but how'' Jake looked at Lauren

Irene wiped her cheeks. "This would be so much easier with Amethyst, she already knows half the story," she muttered. "I - I have these nightmares, most nights. About my sister, and my mum. You see, my twin sister, my mum and I were in the car onthe motorway 6years ago. We crashed. My sister was killed instantly. I got this," gestures to a thin scar on her neck, "and mum blamed herself. She did drugs, alcohol, the whole thing. It was hard for me to leave her in First Year. I live with her on our own, see? I don't know my dad. Anyway," Irene's eyes startdd to water again, "she got more and more depressed. Then, eleven days ago, I got this." she pulled out the crumpled letter. "It's a su-suicide-" Irene couldn't finish, she broke down in hysterical sobs.


"you know him better than me, you tell me," Lauren replied, crossing her arms.

"o gosh im so sorry "
hugs her

''but it is your task, i will help you but i don't want to hear well done Lauren if i made up the plan of course and you are just like your dad, loves to plan''

"Thanks," Irene sniffed. "I guess I'm a loner now, then. No mum, no dad, no sister, nor any other relatives. Orphan." she rolled the word on her tongue, realising it was what she had come to.

"I wanted to die," she whispered. "I tried to poison myself. It didn't work. And now," she gestured to her broken body. "I guess its not my time yet."

***

"I have no idea how to get rid of Draco. Unless... You get Matt to occupy him." she smirked.