"Epelliarmus!" Tom's voice echoed once he made sure all the unwanted memories were removed. It didn't take him long to actually figure Flint's already vulnerable mind. After all, he was a trainee in Legilimency - an art of reading mind.  Amusement filled him when he realized how his girl had removed the memory of her almost transformation including the change of colour of her eyes but left her claim and victory over her opponent deliberately. It was like his badger wanted the snake to remember who was superior even when she was calm. Alexa was proving to be an efficient manipulator. Something Tom approved by heart. 

Alexa turned around at the sound of an intruder. Her wand flew out of her hand to the pale outstretched one of Tom. His pale, elegant fingers curled around the supple wood in a tantalizing way. 

The kneeling body of Odelia Flint suddenly became firm. Her shoulder straightened and so did her spine as she realized an object of her fascination had joined the scene. Her knight had come to rescue his princess.  With the feet that were now fuelled by the false hope of assurance, she stood up and mustered the softest pitch Alexa had a fortune of hearing through her.

"Tom!" She continued pointing a finger at Alexa, "This girl, she attacked me."

 The Slytherin Prefect, however, paid no heed. His gaze flickered hardly away from his queen, for her hypnotizing gaze pulled him in as a flame does to a moth. Her still violet eyes reflected surprise. Not a shock, he noted. His mouth, however, opened and spoke in the most authoritative manner.

"I saw who attacked whom, Flint" He sneered, as he turned in her direction. His hand reached forward to give the wand back to Alexa as he avoided looking at the girl. Her claim had excited him, yet it frightened him. How happy the silly act made him, made him realize how vulnerable he was acting. It was becoming really hard for him to look away from the penetrating gaze of the love-sick girl. His love-sick girl.

"Detention tomorrow night for you" He tried the hardest to look straight as his gaze flicked back to the hybrid girl. "And 50 points from Hufflepuff."

"But-"

"WHAT-"

Both girls reacted synchronously. The second one obviously from the female badger. Her love-sickness morphed to shock and disbelief. 

"Leave before you want to make it two." Tom disregarded Alexa for a moment and gazed icily at Odelia. The girl from the silver house threw a tentative glance at the other girl who hadn't turned back to look at her. The mocking smirk painted across her delicate lips. Oh! How badly she wanted to rub acid on the other obviously wounded girl. After all, she was a cause of why her house suddenly lost 50 points.

With a small nod, Odelia Flint left the scene. Her head ached. The clueless girl had no idea what she had witnessed. Or rather what she had forgotten.

As the other girl left, Tom turned his attention back to the only girl in the corridor. He tried hard to avoid her gaze cause he knew that, now that they were alone, they would be his undoing.

"Go back to your house, Alexa," he hushed.

He turned around to go other way having no idea what her name through his perfect lips did to her already hot body. He was cut short by her equally soft voice.

"I want detention too."

A smirk plastered on Tom's annoyingly handsome face. He spoke without turning. Avoiding her magnetic gaze at all costs.

"You already have two. Are you falling in love with them?"

It sounded so childish, but his mind didn't like the phrase in reference to this witch. The possessive freak in him felt uncomfortable while even referring to the scenario of her loving someone else.

"It is unfair how you prefects cut marks for other house people yet give only detentions to your house-mates. Aren't you supposed to be just and perfect examples?" She snorted.

That was how it was. As hypocritical as the situation was, for centuries, Hogwarts prefects left no opportunity to reduce points of other houses and guard their own. Tom was no exception.

"We are loyal to our house. I thought you would understand this the best. Isn't loyalty is like the big thing for you badgers?" He mocked back.

Alexa clenched her fists. Her nails almost digging in her palms. "That's the reason I want detention." If she couldn't score points at least she shouldn't be the reason for her house losing the points, her mind reasoned. 

He was about to ignore and leave the spot when her hand reached forward and her fingers curled around his elbow. The small pressure of her palm on his firm yet lean hand did the trick.

He could control no longer. Sneaking his left hand around her petite waist he yanked her to him. A squeal of surprise elicited from her throat as she put her hands on his shoulder to balance herself. Her fists gathered the fabric of his robes in anticipation. The thickness of his robes was not enough to abate the graze of her nails and the pressure of her fingers completely. And in place of being bothered his mind was oddly fixated on her face. Her parted lips and gush of air that suddenly left it echoed in his sharp ears. He just wanted to close the remaining inch between their mouths to capture the next gush that left her body into his. He never participated in actual intercourse before, but he had a rough idea of how the human population is maintained. How the men created heirs with their women. The restricted section of the library of that great school was not the place only for the dark magic. It had deeper, juicier descriptions of human anatomy as well. Tom remembered being curious once and stumbling across one such literature. The aftermath was still fresh in his mind. He remembered feeling suddenly warm and aching in certain parts. That day, he thought, he had uncovered one of the reasons behind the restricted section being restricted.  

The feelings made him feel vulnerable and disgusted. The continuation of life was a consequence of one very unhygienic process. The realization had hit him harder in his fourth year. And since then he made sure to avoid any physical interactions beyond certain limits. Hell! He had gone out of his ways to remain adamant to his beliefs. His beliefs were his foundations. But hell! He wanted to give no damn in that instance. Foundations could be damned. 

That instance he wanted to grab Alexa. Throw her across any flat surface. Preferably a horizontal one. Discard any barrier that separated them and just have his way with her. In any way possible. In every way possible. In all the way that was deemed even remotely possible.

He had no idea that a woman's claim would be his undoing.

That her claim would be his undoing.

That her capturing eyes would be his doom.

The enchantress had enchanted him.

He dipped his head and captured her mouth with the force that excited him like no other. 

Unknown to either of them, a set of mismatched eyes had seen the whole scene from the verge of the forest. They shone in curiosity as his mind contemplated the whole turn of events. He and his followers were waiting in the forest to strike. However, they got no opportunity. Apparently the detention that day had been postponed and their informer was a little too late. No matter, he was not unhappy. He got to see her in action. It excited him to see how much potential this girl had. His grand-daughter had. She would be a powerful asset to his cause. All he need was a proper trap.

"Ah! The boy again."

Gellert Grindelwald looked to his left. His eyes landed on his loyal servant. He raised a questioning eyebrow at Sition the vampire.

"The same she saved the other night, who saved her back," he huffed as he rolled his eyes in annoyance. That night's events were not that amusing for him anymore. He had to left hungry and thirsty after all. His ego got bruised after seeing both of them again.

Gellert turned back to the scene. His hand tightened around the unusual wand with knots in anticipation. Perhaps he did find a perfect trap. The trap which came in the form of a boy.

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Chapter 69: Grindelwald received the news of her detention.

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