Alternate Universe - brothers Draco & Harry

Chapter 19 - the Werewolf

The next few days were intense, and it felt like everyone, both students and professors, had gone slightly crazy. Headmaster Dumbledore seemed to be more on edge this past year, Severus Snape was acting even more shifty. And when it came to the students, Saskia finally realized that she needed to come clean, and explain to her sister what she had done.

"Saskia!" Aurelia voiced, very confused. "Where are you taking me? It hurts, you're pulling my wrist so hard!"

"Shush, just be quiet and follow me." The girls went up the long stairs to the Astronomy tower, here students studied astronomy and looked at the stars. It was the only class that happened at night. The tower was large, round, with a half-open roof and two balconies. The ceiling of the tower was a magical sky, stars always shined here. Thankfully, no students or teachers were present.

"S, why are we here?"

"There is something I need to tell you," Saskia said, looking very nervous. Aurelia rarely saw her sister get like this, almost nothing rattled her. "And I think there are a few things you've been keeping from me too, A."

"I've not been keeping anythi-"

"Theodore Nott," the moment Saskia said that name, Aurelia's face dropped and she went quiet. "Now," the girl continued, clenching her fists nervously. "I need to confess something. You'll be mad, you'll get upset. But I need you to know now that I have not the slightest idea why I even did it."

"You are starting to scare me-"

"You are friends with Draco Malfoy," this sentence confused her. 

"I know that much-"

"NO, A. I MEAN. You are WAY BETTER FRIENDS than you can even imagine," Saskia stated, taking in a very deep breath. "Ever since year 2, I have been secretly meeting with Draco in the evenings. Not too often but often enough. We would study together, sometimes we just talked, joked, and played games. Not only that, I did all this whilst pretending that I was you."

"What..." Aurelia's eyes went wide in horror. She could not believe what she was hearing. "Why would you do such a thing!?"

"I don't know," Saskia breathed out, looking away, up at the illusion of stars. "At first, it was an accident. I was in the common room and so was Draco. He mistook me for you, and since I was tired and didn't want to fight with him, I just said I was. It escalated from there... After a while, I began to enjoy spending time with him. He was so nice and kind to you, but whenever he heard my name, he turned so cruel. And I was just tired of it."

"I cannot believe this..."

"Oh, it get's worse," Saskia chuckled coldly. "Last night something happened. Draco and I were talking, making jokes like usual. He was calling me by your name. And then... he put his hand on mine. When he did, Theodore Nott walked in the common room and he blew up at me, well, at you, really." Aurelia stayed quiet, her mouth hanging open.

"This is where I came to realize that you are hiding some things from me as well, A. Like the fact that Theodore Nott himself calls you A, not just me," Aurelia looked away, slightly ashamed. But Saskia continued, "Theodore blew up. Said that you had been cosying up to Hercules, choosing him over Theo, probably when talking about who'd teach you to fly. He was quite upset, to say the least. And then he accused you of also cosying up to Draco, which, do not worry, Draco set him straight. He said... umm... that he had no feelings for me or, I mean, you."

Aurelia stood silent for a moment, trying to process all that she had just heard. After a moment, she finally lifted her eyes, meeting her sisters gaze before she began to laugh. And laugh she did, almost like a maniac. Saskia was bewildered, she thought her sister was losing her mind.