✧CHAOS IN THE CLOCKTOWER✧

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Aurora had simply been on the return from the owlery as she told her mother and father in a letter that she'll give the gifts next holiday as she wanted to be there for when they would open them. Not that they were excited, well Walburga of course, but Orion found it adorable that his daughter thought he needed anything.


Christmas was more for the younger generation, an excuse to get each other gifts. Or in Rabastan's case, an actual reason to give Aurora jewelry.

It was a simple walk back as she was on her way from the separated Owlery to head up to the library. However it had been a girl that shouted out her name, and hesitantly did she turn to see an unfamiliar face. 

Well not entirely unfamiliar, but enough that she didn't have a name.

Whatever the girl was spewing, she had been angry on two accounts. One for whatever her brother had pulled in playing with her feelings and dropping her for the next piece of abatable arse.

"I don't control my brother." She simply stated, but an even worse damnation was that she was after Rabastan as well. And Aurora wasn't territorial, as that was a K9 trait. Not feline.

But in terms of packs or a leap as she found out her kind called them, they were indeed territorial. 

As well as nocturnal most times.

"We shagged you know." Aurora chuckled at the thought, rolling her eyes at the Slytherin. 

"If you're that desperate darling, I'm sure there are others who will gladly take what you're offering. But you simply chose the wrong boys." Ms.Black had always been taught to be polite, even if the conversation was taking a turn.

And the added bonus she had read in a muggle construct of psychology, that speaking in the same voice just aggravated them further.

So when she turned away on her way to eat, she had been blasted with a hex. Having her get knocked down to the ground. 

"MERLIN WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!" She shrieked, alerting an all too ready professor as he stormed through the hallways in determination to find the source.

Aurora seemingly rose, which the sixth year had allowed. But as the girl faked fixing her uniform, she simply revealed her wand and fired three different spells to rendered her pinned to the wall and disarmed. 

"I see that it's fairly impossible to talk sense to your convoluted mind darling, but don't you dare bloody fire a shot and not think that I won't retaliate. I take enough shit and giggles for what my brother does, and to do NOT want to HEAR another BLOODY WORD from your ignorant arse!" She screamed, but in record of heights that Professor Slughorn had looked at the scene.

The older Slytherin had been pushed up against the wall by some invisible entity as her wand was on the ground.

"Goodness gracious, what is the meaning of this?" Slughorn offered, looking between his own house student and to Aurora. Her head sporting a small cut on her forehead as she looked off to her potions professor.

"She decided to fire a spell at me professor, she—" But of course the blubbering Slytherin cried out bouts of slurs and damnation in using Aurora's world against her.

"Ms.Black I am deeply disappointed, deeply disappointed. No matter what your family says, your families ordeals stay at home." Aurora seemingly had stayed silent and nodded, but the mention of detention was rather dreadful as her tears welled up.

Of course, why would she need to feel safe in bloody Hogwarts? Of course the Slytherin's would protect their own, so as the other girl had been escorted by her head of house. Aurora hurried along down up the hall in hopes of finding McGonagall not seeing a student.

However as she was zooming down the hall, Remus had caught the loud whiff of blood and it had been horribly reminder, and however he had known that it was Aurora just pained him to atternity as he rushed after her.

But what set him back was the fact that she was heading to his head of house instead of hers.

He assumed after what happened with her and her brother in front of the professor that they had become closer, or confined into the elder witch. Whatever it is, he needs to know.

Luckily on Aurora's account the women had been free, but seeing the young Black crying and bleeding. She instantly rushed into action to heal her herself.

Closing the wound and offering a tissue. She sat right beside her, just like before as Aurora explained the situation and how Professor Slughorn automatically believe his in house student over her, the 6th year had used her families values against her.

"Professor I swear I didn't say a word against her, she was the one to talk about my brother and Rabastan. I even tried to walk away, it wasn't my fault that she can't fight once it's a fair game." She cried, and the women simply chuckled. Saying that she would speak with Professor Slughorn to look into the situation and null the detention.

But in the course of the situation did the professor send a letter home, leaving out the contents or else he might as well just sent her home with more of a praise than a scolding.

However, Aurora had never served the detention and with the lack of knowledge about what was going on. Orion had decided to keep the letter in hopes of hearing his daughter's side of the story, given the fact that it had been. Her fifth year of school and this being her first detention.

Even Regulus had managed a few, but they were being boys at the time.

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At the moment, Aurora and Rabastan had been snogging in the clock tower as she was enjoying the last few moments together before they truly had to get going. Their gifts were in the corner for the moment being as they were more so drawn to one another than just the objects.

But deep down Aurora had adored the way his ring had turned out.

However in the midst of their session, Aurora felt a strange poke protruding through Rabastan's trousers. It only took a few moments for it to click in her mind on what it could be.

And it wasn't his wand.

They were merely kissing, though as her mind wandered to the many romantic novels she prides herself in giving her active mind a break from the knowledge. She learned the bare minimum, but it was more or less a reaction to being...Aroused.

Course she felt some fluttering butterflies in her stomach, especially when it was his hands holding her close. But everything she adored seemed to be innocent, however Rabastan had been growing more feverish as she kept up the pace.

Her mistake it would seem.

"Raba...What is—" She tried to play it safe and just simply ask, but the smirk risen on his face as he kissed her again. So she had felt it, and by the blush growing on her face he knew that she knew what it meant.

"What would you say...We move things along?" Okay perhaps it had been the fire whiskey he had with his mates prior to meeting Aurora that was fueling this, however him asking for something so internally valuable to the young girl?... It caused her to stand complete shock and in awe.

After what happened with the girl in his own house she was doubting him now, yes doubt was filling in her already overworked mind.

She was looking forward to vacation, forward to a week of festive activities as Mrs.Potter had owled her directly stating that Aurora, Mrs. Potter and Hope would have a girls day within the mist of it all.

Aurora's never had a normal girls day, she's had expensive designer dresses made from scratch. And tailored to her every curve, she's had jewelry made the same way.

But here...Now? All of that had been thrown out the window as she simply slapped Rabastan across the cheek. 

"How dare you...Did you just ask to shag?!" He was caught in a very bad reaction, and there was no way shape or form that he could possibly take his offering back. 

Perhaps his mates had been giving him the wrong information on asking a girl that, but he thought she was feeling the moment as well.

Little did he come to realize that with the pureblood tendencies, Aurora was extremely religious in regards to her virginity and the idea of ruining the purity of herself and her aura just on a drunken whim with him?

Not a chance.

So with that she grabbed her satchel and threw the gift she had gotten for him on the ground. 

"Merry Christmas and happy new year...Lestrange." She spit, and he could've thrown himself off the clocktower at that very moment as his drunk desires got the best of him.

He attempted to call after her, but they were on numbed ears as Aurora seemingly caught herself crying as she returned to her common room. Trying to sneak back in had failed miserably.

First it was Harper that demanded what had happened, and it shocked them all to see how calm Isabella had taken this. When it came to the male species they usually went to her for advice, and it was working grandly as Aurora claimed he asked to shag.

And Merlin did it go downhill from there.

Rabastan had yet to leave the clocktower, even after it had rung so loudly. He wasn't crying...no, there was just some devils dust in his eye that made his vision foggy.

The young Lestrange didn't mean to come off as so cold or so much as an arse like he had. But picking up her gift that she so carelessly dropped onto the floor did he wipe the dust caused tears away to see the little box clearly.

Popping opening the thing did it reveal a ring, a serpent by the likes of it. The ring curled around and around in a coil, his eyes green emeralds and his mouth seemed to be unhinged.

Putting it on his pointer finger had it fit perfectly, but confused as to when she had the time to go ring shopping he looked to the box. But there had been no title.

Then it hit him as he leaned his head back to the wall.

Aurora had made the ring in Alchemy.

She said something along the lines of proving to her parents it wasn't all that pointless of a struggle for her to commit to, so all her gifts must be rings.

He twirled it around and around, watching eyes shine almost, and yet he couldn't be caught wearing it just as it would be even worse if he didn't wait until Christmas.

Instead he looked into the signed engraving inside, and Merlin was he that much closer to throwing himself off the tower.

In her handwriting had it clearly spoke the words: Love Rory

It was cute, it was beautiful. 

It was her.

"Fuck...Fuckfuckfuck." He whispered, over and over again. And it hadn't been until his feet had been frozen that he was in any mood to get up to walk back to the common room. What sort of request had he asked anyway?
 It was cold and uncomfortable in the clock tower, there hadn't been any build up...He should've been a gentleman instead of a bastard that he turned into being.

The same that he scolded his own mates for being.

However it had been Rachel, the girl that had seemingly given Aurora her first detention of her entire school career.

"Darling...Is everything is alright?" Rabastan still in the cutting edge of rage looked to the girl in his house, her lingering touch sending rather similar vibes to what Aurora had given him earlier.

Yet he had given the simple: "No," Response before attempting to walk away again, however she had been quite the tease time and time again. She's slept with Avery a few times, more than he himself could count.

But truthfully, she was damaged goods. And Aurora was damn right to deny him, as if he had any right over her future husband.

A new bout of pride swelled into him, that she was loyal. Loyal enough to herself, family and husband to not spend the glory moments with him in the clocktower—Oh for goodness sake he was just being draft.

"Anything I can help you with?" She questioned, and whether it was innocent or in the realm of sexual favors. Rabastan wanted a truly witty comment to bestow the situation, only to feel her hand grip the likes of his bulge. 

One of what that had been still bothersome since Aurora had left.

"I'd be happy to help...In anyway I can..." She cooed, gripping him further. Now it really felt pleasurable, but the man simply gripped her wrist and pushed her away. 

"I don't want what you're offering Byston." He calmly rejected before finding himself up the steps on his own accord. 

Without the escort.

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Date Posted: 03-11-19

Time: 11:23

Words: 2284