Winter Wonderland

[Chyou Jin Howard]

How could Chyou forgot about what happened last weekend? That jerk, that devil, that blood traitor! She thought as she slam the door, walking down to the common room and pointed her wand at the younger students, smirking. She walked toward them, still with her wand pointed at them. But after hearing a loud explosion, her mood was ruined. She walked away from the common room, to the dark, cold, unfriendly corridors. It was in the middle of the night and Chyou was about to pretend that she was patrolling. But really she wasn't, it wasn't her turn anyway. But she needed some fresh air and she would do whatever she wanted.

The girl stopped looking at the dead end, and walked closer to it. She was so small and she looked so fragile, but in fact, she was far from it. Chyou worked out each night just to make herself stronger and stronger, she was much stronger than girls on her age or girls older than her. She pointed her wand at the pillar not too far from her. "Confrigo" The spell was cast, she could see the target exploded. A smirk appeared on her face. She pulled the cape over her head so it was covering some parts of her face and walked to the other direction. After three steps, she bumped on someone, much taller and bigger than her. She didn't even look at him or her and she wasn't even sure if that was a professor or a student. "Watch where you going!" She said rudely and stepped to the side, ready to leave the mysterious someone alone.

 

[Andrew Sedgwick]

As Head Boy, Andrew had recieved more and more responsibilties. It was getting late, and it was almost his turn to stop patrolling and head back to his dormatory to get some well deserved sleep. As he made his way quietly through the dark corridors, recieting his work for his N.E.W.T.s, he felt someone fall into him, and a familiar voice hit his ears. "Hey. Watch it" he said, putting a hand ether side of the girls shoulders so that he could talk to her. In a second, he pulled the cape off her head, "Chyou" he said, looking down at the girls troubled face. He was well aware his friend was a prefect, but even she should have been asleep right now. Leading her by the arm, they walked the way they'd come, ignoring any fights or arguments she was going to give him. As the reached the main entrance of the school, Andrew stopped and turned to face her. Between the two there were secrets, and not even Andrew knew what was going on with the girl most of the time, however he wasn't about to abandon his friend. "What are you doing?" he asked kindly. "I hope you wern't sneaking around again" he added, knowing what happened last time she she left the school building and came across some students..​

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[Chyou Jin Howard]

Chyou heard a familiar voice, how could she ever forget this boy? She kept quiet as he lead her, she was too upset to argue with him. "Does it matter?" She said flatly, glaring at Andrew blankly. "I'm always out here at this time Andrew" It was true, she practiced every night and worked out every night when everyone was asleep. At least there was less distraction at night than morning. "You better go, I don't want to hurt you" Those who knew Chyou should know that she couldn't control herself when she lost her temper. Right now she could control it, but she wasn't sure what was going to happen in the next five minutes. What if she started thinking about that girl again? And began to be extremely jealous of her in the next five minutes? Andrew could be in trouble, or at least she could be in trouble for casting random spells at anyone or anything near her. She took a few steps backward and placed her wand inside her pocket.

 

[Andrew Sedgwick]

"You think i'm going to leave you here like this?" he asked, waiting for a reply. How could he just wander off, not knowing what Chyou was going to do this time. Before he got one, he turned, and took a seat on the wall that ran around the pathway. "Fine. Go ahead" he said, willing her to do whatever she had to do to. He knew she wouldn't hurt him. And if she tried, he knew how to block her. He paused and watched to see what Chyou wanted to do. Where you was going to go. Prehaps if he gave no indication, she'd be more inclined to drop it and talk to him.

After a moment, Andrew reverted his eyes back to Chyou, before lightly patting the seat beside him and signalling that she could join him. It was late but a few minutes outside wouldn't hurt. "What happened?" he asked simply, knowing that if she was going to tell him, she would in her own time. One thing he'd learnt from Chyou was that she would never be pressured into doing something she wanted, nor let anyone else tell her what to do. Her temper was exeptional, but he'd known about that for a long time, and he wasn't prepared to have that get in the way of them. Like he'd told her before, he'd be here if she ever needed him.​

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[Chyou Jin Howard]

The flashback started playing in Chyou's head again. She was looking at spot, not moving an inch, her sight was blank as if she was petrified but standing up. Right after it ended, she looked down to the ground, as her heartbeat starting to race faster and faster. "D@mn it" She cursed under her breath and sat beside Andrew. "Nothing!" She said as if she was offended, but he hadn't done anything wrong. "I... Don't know what is wrong with me" She definitely couldn't tell about the boy and the boy and the father of hers. "Forget it, I... I'm alright" She forced herself to smile, it was a fake smile. She had never smiled before, it took her hours to practice how to plaster a fake smile that looked real back when she was little. "Are you not cold?" The young girl brushed the snow that fell on her coat, wondering if Andrew was alright with the weather.

 

[Andrew Sedgwick]

Andrew simply listened, and stared at her when she sat down. When she claimed she was fine, there was nothing more Andrew could do except for comfort her. "How can i be cold with you sitting beside me" he whispered, before planting a kiss on her head. "You?" he asked back, wrapping an arm round her shoulders to stop her from freezing. It was obvious Chyou had alot on her mind, although how much, Andrew wasn't quite sure. All he could do was be here. "You can stay strong" he said. Chyou's strength was one of the reasons that attracted him to her in the first place. She might have been young, but she was strong, both physically and mentally. She wasn't like any of the other girls. Chyou had independance.

A short while later, a shiver ran down Andrew's back, and he decided before their legs changed colour, it was better to get back inside. "Come on" He stood slowly, realizing just how cold it suddenly was, "if you're going to make a scene, at least make it one where it's warm" he grinned, taking out his wand and firing a bullet of bright red flames into the fireplace that sat just inside the main entrance. They wern't far from the door, but Andrew couldn't wait just to warm himself up a little.​

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[Chyou Jin Howard]

At firs, Chyou wasn't listening to Andrew who was whispering to her but she couldn't pretend as if nothing happened after he kissed her on the head. Of course it was nothing, but no one dared to even wrap their arms around like him to this violent little girl who was trying to look strong while she was actually pretending to be strong. Not that she was weak but sometimes it was too much for her and she couldn't control her self, she couldn't stop her from being depressed over all her problems. "Don't be silly, you wont be warm with me beside you" She nudge him by his stomach and stood up smirking. Now, she was just messing around, she wasn't much of a flirter and wasn't good at flirting, oh no, not at all. She followed him to the main entrance and watch him lighting up the fireplace. "Impressive" She said flatly not meaning it at all. "What do you think about casting that spell to the professor?" What she meant was burning a professor which was quite impossible.

 

[Andrew Sedgwick]

Andrew smiled at her attitude. "If i was to set fire to a professor, i wouldn't be doing my title of Head Boy much good would i now" he replied, wondering if that's something she would actually considering doing for fun. He hoped not. He didn't want to see her getting expelled. Instead he pointed his wand at her, and non-verbally cast a new spell. Soon there were a dozen blue birds flying around the dark room. "We could set something off in a class though" he mentioned. Even he had a fun side, and a side that wanted to rebel, even if it was just a little bit. They had most of their classes together, and there hadn't been something fun for a while in this school. A few years ago there had been a plant fight in herbology. Prehaps Andrew could convince something like that happening again, of course, no one must know he started it. He wasn't going to make Head Boy a bad name.​

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[Chyou Jin Howard]

Seeing blue birds flying around the room, Chyou took out her wand, exploding each one of them. She just learnt the spell this morning and this is a great timing for her to practice the spell, we at least she got targets, instead of exploding pillars. The girl spared a bird, she lowered her wand and placed it back to the pocket. "I am good" She said as if she was surprised. "Ohh nooo... I got a detention once and I don't want to scrub the floor without magic ever again" She shook her head, the girl seemed perfect in the professor's eyes, she acted as if she respected them with her whole heart but actually she did that to be one of their favorite students. "I don't want them to not give me anymore O's, so I'll have to decline the offer of yours"

 

[Andrew Sedgwick]

"Smart" Andrew said simply. "Though i suppose, if you want to stay the teachers pet, it wouldn't be the best idea to wander round the school in the middle of the night" He flicked his wand and put out the fire, making his way down the corridor he'd first come down when he'd bumped into Chyou. He still hadn't found out why she was here yet. "You should go to sleep" he spoke quietly, not facing her, but continuing to walk down the corridor. He was heading back to the dormatory himself. Even if Chyou wasnt, Andrew was tired. It had been a long day and he had classes to study for. As much as he loved Chyou, he wasn't going to be able to stay up all night with her.​

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[Chyou Jin Howard]

Of course what Andrew said was right about Chyou should not wander around in the middle of the night. "Ugh, I can't practice during the day, and after all there are a lot of students out in the night doing what I'm doing and yet the professors doesn't care or at least they haven't caught us." She paused and continued talking. "And I can always lie!" She was a good liar and had fooled the professors many times. Chyou was quite surprised that Andrew walked back to the dorm all by himself, she trailed him and tapped his shoulder with a finger of hers. "Oh come on, are you really going to sleep this soon?" Usually Chyou stayed up until morning, lately she hadn't been able to sleep well. "I thought you don't have any class in the morning" She said but she wasn't sure, she could be wrong.

 

[Andrew Sedgwick]

Andrew turned when he heard Chyou mentioned something about practising. "Practising what?" he asked her, wondering what it was she did at night whilst the rest of the school slept. "And yes i do. I have school" he mentioned. He had a mock potions exam tomorrow, something he'd been quite nervous for. Andrew was one of those model students. Always going to bed at the right time, always doing his homework before the deadlines. He assumed that it was due to his upbringing, and the fact when he was older he wanted a good job. Even now he was 17 he still had never gotten drunk, or taken advantage of his age.​

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[Chyou Jin Howard]

Did Andrew not know that there were a lot of psychopaths learning how to cast spells at night or was it just Chyou? "Spells?" She looked at him and listened to what he had to say. Well Chyou wasn't going to stop him "I understand" She said feeling a little disappointed. Well at least she could go back and start destroying the same old pillars again after this without being bothered although she would rather be around him, but again she wont force him to do what he didn't want. "Good night then" She took a few steps backward and faced the other way around, taking her wand out of her pocket, helding it tightly.

 

[Andrew Sedgwick]

When Chyou turned her back on him, Andrew took out his own wand, aiming it straight at her. "Petrficus Totalus" he said, not bothering to whisper. By the time she'd heard him it would have been too late, and Andrew smiled as she froze in place, her wand raised. He moved round so that even though she couldn't move her eyes, she could still see him. He turned, facing the wall, and held his wand up, so that from the end of it spark fire, as she traced a sentence in the air in front of them.

Be Mine.

When Andrew was finished, he turned back to look at Chyou's frozen features. He couldn't let her stay like that for long. As fun as it was, he felt she needed to be a little more humane. He wandered off behind her, hiding somewhere in the darkness of the corridor, before undoing the jinx set on her, and watching in the shadows for her reaction.​

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[Chyou Jin Howard]

Right after Chyou turned around, she was petrified and fell down to the ground. `You punk! I'm gonna kill you`((wait.. she can still think right?)) She thought not being able to move her body. What was it with him, petrifying her? At first she thought he was going to pull a prank or even tortured her, well after all this was Durmstrang not Beauxbaton. But turned out to be the other way around. After a while lying on the cold ground, he ended the spell. Seeing the writing, Chyou didn't know what to say. No one had never done this to her. She walked, still with her wand held tightly, trying to find that guy. "You punk!" She shouted, finally finding where he was hiding and pushed him by the chest and looked away for several seconds before looking at him in the eye and tip toed, planting a kiss on his lips and finally pulled away, crying. Wait what? Crying? All these years she had been all alone, wanting someone to treat her kindly but people were just so cruel to her. She had never cried in front of anyone before. "Why am I crying?" She wiped her tears and looked down, turning herself to the other direction. "You dumb, weak, filthy girl" She said to herself.

 

[Andrew Sedgwick]

It was fun teasing her, although to be honest, Andrew wasn't quite sure what she'd do to him once she got her hands on him. Before he knew it, her voice was closer than he'd thought, and all of a sudden he felt himself being shoved backwards, nearly hitting the cold stone wall. It had been a risk. But with Andrew moving schools next year, he wasn't going to leave without asking her first. When she kissed him, he wanted to put his arms round her, except she pulled away, and before anything, he noticed she was crying. With one hand he lifted her chin so that he could face her, and with his other free hand, he gently brushed her tears away. "I wouldn't say you were dumb, weak, or filthy" he smiled, stepping closer to wrap his arms round her in a huge hug, his arms acting like some sort of safety barrier between them and the rest of the world. "More like clever, strong and pretty" he whispered in her ear, still holding her to his chest. "And i take that as a yes then?" he asked, smiling once more.​

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[Chyou Jin Howard]

Chyou was embarrassed already for crying in front of Andrew, he now had discovered her weakness. It was love, something that she had never had or experience before. She looked away even though he lifted her chin, she didn't dare to look at his eyes and didn't dare to give a comment. "You're just saying that to make me feel better" She said softly and wrapped her arms around him tightly. She was comfortable being around him, and she felt safe with him by her side, at least at the moment. "Come on, I don't want you to sleep in class and fail your classes because of me" She backed off a little and smiled at him for the first time. No, it wasn't fake, this was the first time she smiled at him without even faking it. "And I swear to Merlin if you petrify me one more time, I'll kill you" This time she was joking, well of course why would she kill him?

 

[Andrew Sedgwick]

Andrew smiled back at her sudden outburst of confidence "Deal" he said, leaning forward and kissing her very lightly, before taking her hand and leading them back up the corridor. "You need to sleep too you know." he warned, giving her hand a little squeeze. He wouldn't petrify her again. Unless of course she was about to fly into a river or something. "And you know, i'm not just saying it. I really mean it" As the walked he turned his head to look at Chyou, and he was proud of her. She'd been through alot these last few years, coping with her dad or something like that, and even now she was staying strong to herself. ​

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[Chyou Jin Howard]

This night was pretty magical, and it seemed like Chyou was in a wonderland. No violence, no verbal attack, this kind of night was rare, if only she could stay like this forever. But sadly she couldn't, it was in her blood to rebel and to hurt other people. "In a couple of hours" She said making sure about herself being on bed later on. When Andrew said that he meant what he said, Chyou looked away, she didn't mean to be rude but she didn't want to look like a fool blushing. "Are you going home on Christmas break?" She wasn't planning on leaving the castle except if she had a place to stay.