Teachers Pet

chapter 31: goodbye Gilderoy

I yawned and stretched as I woke up the next day, for a second I almost didn't remember everything that happened, so much had happened, and so much needed to be dealt with. I sighed as I sat in bed and looked out the window. I slowly got up and saw how much of a mess the room was from getting ready yesterday. I grabbed my wand and tidied my things up looking over to my roommates who were still asleep. I went to the bathroom and showered, turning the water as hot as I could handle to attempt to wash away yesterday. I ran my fingers over the marks on my chest and held back a few tears, I didn't know what to do about this feeling, I just remembered the fear I felt and his thoughts. Merlin his thoughts. They were vile and disgusting. I washed my face and the thoughts away, trying not to think about it. I got out and used magic on my hair and makeup and got dressed. Today everyone else went home for break, which I still haven't decided I was going to do. I really didn't want to be at Hogwarts alone, but even less did I want to meet my mom's new boyfriend, and hear her talk shit about Draco. It was still weird thinking about what happened and our plan. I was still a little hurt by what Draco did, but since I was never able to fully invest in our relationship, I would survive. Plus I loved having him as a friend. I looked over at the letter that stayed placed on my nightstand and picked it up reading it again. I thought about it for a moment and decided I'd be better off staying at Hogwarts. Plus who knows maybe it would be fun. I grabbed my wand and robes and headed to the common room to look for Draco. He walked out of his dorm and into the common room just as I was about to leave. "Hey Y/n." he chirped. "Hey I was actually looking for you." I said walking over to him. "Oh have you called off our plan?" he said with sad eyes, "No no, we need to handle a certain underwater sleazebag before breakfast." I said smiling. "Oh yes one moment." he said, turning and going back to his room and returning with Lockhart in the cup. I looked down in the cup and he was still there just swimming. "Perhaps we should just flush him." Draco said laughing. "You know that's not a bad idea, but I prefer him to die in Azkaban." I said smiling as we headed out of the room. I followed as he walked down the hall, "Draco where are you going? The Headmaster's office is this way." I asked furrowing my brows. "Well we need to get Snape first." I felt a pain in my chest at his name, he had disappeared after my solo, but I still had so many questions. Like did he really care for me at all? Why did he kiss me and then just say it was a mistake? "Y/n?" I snapped out of my thoughts and looked at Draco, "Y-yeah you're right." I said walking with him down the hall. "I figured you would be excited to see him." he said nudging my arm and wiggling his brows. I laughed and shook my head, "No, something happened last night with us and I don't know if anything will ever happen now, it's all so confusing. I went on explaining what happened, making sure he swore not to tell, knowing he wouldn't since it would just result in me spilling his own secret. We kinda made a deal to not ever tell each other secrets no matter what happened to our friendship. "Well that certainly is confusing, I'm sure you just need to have a talk with him." he said as we approached his classroom. "That's the thing I don't know if he will even give me the time of day, and I also don't want to chase him you know?" I didn't want to seem obsessed, I mean I didn't want him thinking I wasn't able to just leave him alone. It was only then did I remember I accidentally let slip that I was in love with him. "Oh fuck." I said out loud as we approached his door, "What?" Draco questioned. I didn't even know that I felt that way for him, I just thought I liked him a lot. "I told him I loved him last night, when we were fighting, and I just remembered." I said looking up at him, "Oh that's wow, what did he say?" I thought back to last night, "That our kiss was a mistake." I said softly looking down. "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sure he didn't mean it, he was probably just mad and scared." Draco said, trying to comfort me. "Yeah maybe." I looked at the door and knocked lightly.

No one answered at first, I looked to Draco and then knocked harder again. It opened quickly and there stood the tall dark professor, and I just looked away and at Draco. "Is there a reason you two are here at this time." Snape said obvious annoyance in his voice. Draco held up the cup, "We need to go see Dumbledore." he said respectively. Snape's eyes looked to the cup and flashed with anger, he looked back at me and we made eye contact, his now showing a hint of sorrow and guilt. I just looked back down and saw Draco's hand, I clasped mine around his and he looked at me smiling. "Of course, give me a moment." he said walking back into the room and then closing the door behind him as he exited. He walked passed us and down the hall, me and Draco keeping up behind him. We got to Dumbledore's office, and Snape muttered the password and let himself in, me and Draco following behind still. We walked in and Dumbledore was standing back to us getting a book from one of his shelves. "Hello what can I do for you all?" he said as he turned and smiled, walking over and sitting in his desk chair. I went and sat down in a chair and so did Draco, Snape standing behind us. "Albus there's been an incident." Snape drawled. "What happened, was anyone hurt?" he said looking at me and Draco. "Actually y-" he was going to respond but I cut him off, "No everyone is okay." I said looking up and Snape who looked at me slightly confused. "Ok so what seems to be the problem?" Dumbledore inquired waiting for one of us to spit it out. Draco took the reins and set the cup down in front of Dumbledore. "This is Sir." Dumbledore looked over into the cup and then looked back up at us. "A fish?" he questioned smiling, "It's not a fish." Draco said and Dumbledore looked at him confused and then looked up at Snape. Snape walked over to the cup and grabbed it, he carried it to a spot on the floor and pulled out his wand, he pointed it at the cup and it twisted and turned back into a soaking wet and very scared Lockhart. Snape looked at Lockhart, "Don't even try running Gilderoy." he practically growled, we all knew only an idiot would try to run in a situation like this, with two very powerful wizards on each side of him. Dumbledore got up and walked over to Lockhart, looking at Snape and then at me, I had my head down, not wanting to look at the disgusting excuse of a man that was making a puddle of water. "Well what happened? Why is he here and why was he a fish?" Dumbledore said now very concerned. "Nothing, I didn't do a thing she just turned me into a fish for the hell of it!" Lockhart scrambled out trying to get out of this, clearly he is an idiot for thinking anyone would have believed that. Snape looked at him and casted a silencing charm without even speaking and shut Gilderoy up. I felt Snape's eyes on me and I looked up at him for a moment. I felt Draco's hand grab mine and I turned to him, "It's ok he needs to know." Draco whispered to reassure me. I nodded and looked back at Snape, he still had his usual angry face on, but I could see in his eyes he felt sympathetic for me. I looked to Dumbledore and began. "Last night during the ball, I went for a walk down the hall to, um...mentally prepare myself for my solo," I said, lying since I didn't want to expose Draco, " and I ran into Gilderoy here and we had an exchange of words and he brought up how a few weeks ago I accidentally," I paused for a moment and looked at Snape, I was still afraid I would get in trouble, he just nodded his head slightly, letting me know it was fine. " cast the expelliarmus spell on him out of defense because I thought he was gonna cast one at me, and he didn't say anything about that. So last night he brought up how he did not punish me for that and I asked him well what are you gonna do about it? And he said I had a few options." I said now looking at the blonde man that was shaking his head as if I was lying, I turned my attention back to Dumbledore and continued. "He said I could clean for him, served detention with him, or I could pay off my debt right then. I didn't think much of it, and so I read his mind to see what he may have been talking about and he was thinking a lot of weird things and offered I just come to his room for a moment." Dumbledore looked at Snape quickly, whose eyes were still resting on me and then he looked at Lockhart, I looked down at my hands as I resumed, "And when I asked if he meant for detention, he then offered to meet me in a carriage." I looked at Dumbledore who was now standing with an angry look on his face, I had never seen him mad. "When I declined he slowly backed me into the wall, and he brushed my hair from my face, and I pulled back and went to walk away, but he trapped me against the wall. He said he would tell you about the incident and that I would probably be expelled." I paused for a moment looking at everyone, Dumbledore was still waiting for me to continue and Draco was still holding my hand and looking at me with sad eyes. I looked at Snape and then back down at my hands before continuing. "He placed his hand on my shoulder and then pushed down on my chest, I tried to resist it but my neck began to hurt and so did his hand, so I lowered down on my knees, I had thought maybe he just wanted the praise, but then he grabbed my jaw to force me to look at him," my voice began to waver slightly, I could feel my throat drying as I went on, "I pulled my wand on him and shot a spell, but he blocked it and knocked my wand away and then binded my hands and feet. I asked him what he wanted and he said I knew because I was smart. He stepped closer to me and I closed my eyes when I opened them, he had.." I stopped, this was getting harder the more I went on, I knew I had to tell him everything, but I didn't know if I could continue without crying. "He had untucked his shirt and thankfully a few moments later Draco came from around the corner." Dumbledore looked to Draco and then back at me. I looked over to Snape and he looked even more mad and had gotten more pale, I could tell he was livid and wanted to use the killing curse on the stupid man next to him. But I could also see in his eyes that he wasn't just mad, he was furious that the nasty man next to him had touched me, and hurt me, and almost did unspeakable things. I wanted to tell him that I was ok, and that I was so thankful he was there, but I knew I couldn't. My eyes began to sting and a tear slid down my cheek. "Draco was able to distract him when he noticed Professor Snape walking down the hall, Lockhart didn't see him and Snape was able to disarm him and help me. And now we are here." I finished, wiping a few stray tears.

Dumbledore stood in shock and fury, he walked back over and stood in front of me resting a hand on my shoulder. "y/n why did you tell me last night?" he asked with sad sparkling blue eyes. "I didn't want to ruin everyone's night." I mumbled looking down at my feet. He sighed and looked over at Snape, who just closed his eyes for a moment, no doubt to calm down. "Okay, thank you for telling me Y/n that was very brave." Dumbledore said looking back at me. It's not like I had a choice, if those two hadn't saved me, and what I thought was gonna happen happened I probably never would have spoken of it. "Now, Severus and I will discuss our next actions, although I already have a pretty good plan in mind," he paused looking at Gilderoy who was practically shaking from fear, "You two go ahead to the great hall since breakfast will start soon." he said smiling at me. I nodded and took Draco's hand as we got up and headed out of the office and to the dining hall. As soon as the door shut Snape quickly turned to Dumbledore. "We need to get the ministry here immediately or I will escort him to Azkaban myself." Snape spat out quickly. "Yes I am well aware Severus." Albus quipped back, just as frustrated. He looked over to Gilderoy and undid the silencing charm. "You're most certainly fired, and I will see to it you will not leave Azkaban ever again." he said angrily, Snape smirked at this and gave Lockhart an angry stare. "Goodluck getting me locked away for doing nothing." Gilderoy said, trying to be sly. "What do you mean doing nothing? You cornered a student, left bruises on the girl, bound her wrists and ankles, disarmed her, and attempted to assault her!" Snape sneered at the man who flinched at his voice. "Don't worry Severus, he won't step foot near this school, or any school for that matter, ever again." Dumbledore chirped. "Now why don't you take him somewhere he can't escape while I alert the ministry and we wait for their arrival." Dumbledore said smiling. Gilderoy was now crying and Snape nodded and grabbed him by the back of his shirt and dragged him out of the room.

"Where are you taking me? Let me go, I didn't do anything!" Gilderoy said, squirming trying to escape Snape's tight grasp. "You are lucky I didn't hex you the minute I found you with her." Snape growled. "Got a little crush on the girl have you Severus?" Gilderoy said, teasing, Snape turned him and grabbed his collars, shoving him up against the wall, wand pointed to his neck. "One more word and I will sew your mouth shut and make sure no one can open it." he hissed his eyes black with rage. "She's got a pretty little mouth doesn't she? Way too pretty for you." Lockhart retorted, he didn't want to seem intimidated. Which was a bad move. Snape didn't say anything; he just pushed him harder against the wall, his breathing getting heavier as he dug his wand further into the man's neck. "What's wrong Severus? Upset that I beat you to her? Upset I was able to have the little slut on her knees?" he sneered. Severus looked at the ugly man and released his grasp, "Ah much b-" he was cut off when Snape drew his fist back and punched him across the face. Severus had never been one to use the standard way of hurting someone, why would he when he was a very powerful wizard? But he was furious and needed the man to feel this pain, without getting into trouble by using an unforgivable curse. Gilderoy looked back up at Snape and raised his own fist, Snape caught it and struck the man once more. This time causing the man to slide down the wall unconscious with a bloody nose. Snape grabbed the back of his shirt and then dragged the man down the hall.