((Ooc: I'm soooo sorry guys! I have been really busy...))

I was too shocked to say anything. I just started at Stevie... or Michelle with wide eyes. She wasn't a Potter? Well, that explanes her strange behaviour that she has had lately. But what angered me was that she said she didn't even want to be. When Kira ran out, I wasn't going to. Oh no... I ignored Wills remark of going to bed and stood up, glaring evilly at Ste... Michelle.
"How can you say that? How can you even think like that?" I asked her. I did my best not to scream, so my voice reminded me of Voldemorts hissing. I must have been very angry. "They cared for you, gave you a home... They loved you, for goodness sakes! If it wasn't for them you might have been on the streets somewhere!" I said, and carried on. "They gave you everything, all that you could have dreamed of! But you, you're this arrogant brat, you never understand what you have. Not even if you lose it. You take everything for granted! And if you don't get what you want, you think everyone is just being mean to you!" I spat. I sent an evil glare to Ephram and stormed out of the common room. On my way out I avoided eye contact with Will, cause if I would have seen his face, I would have most probably felt quilty. But I just had to get that out. It was the truth anyway, and I couldn't stand her awful, ungrateful behaviour.
I rushed to the third floor and made a face like I was on a prefect stroll. I just had to clear my head...

I looked at Stevie nervously, B's words where very strong and although I would have never said them to her face, they where mostly true. I walked over and placed my hand to hers,
"Don't get angry at her, she's just shocked and upset, you know how she gets sometimes" I said, looking into her eyes. "They both need time, don't judge them on how they react now... I'm sure when B comes to her senses she will apologise". I looked to the portrait and considered following her, but I thought Stevie may have seen it as a sign of me siding with B and the last thing I needed was her thinking we were all against her again. "I'll see you both in the morning, take care" I walked up to the dormetry, shut the door and climbed into bed.

I wasn't planning to go back to the common room, cause I didn't want to bump into Stevie. I spent the night in the Shriecking Shack, which I hadn't been to in a while. It was good to be there after all the time. Felt like home, altough for some it might have seemed bleak. I woke quite early in the morning. Hoping the girls hadn't waken yet I sneaked into the dorm and took my DADA notes and books. I headed straight to the Great Hall, which was rather empty still. Pouring myself some tea and takeing some toast I observed as the Hall started to fill one by one.

I got up rather early the next morning and put on my uniform, pinning the badge on the left side of my cloak and inspecting myself in the mirror. I was, afterall, a role model for younger students. I grabbed my books and headed down to the Great Hall for breakfast, I noticed B looking a tad bit messy.
"Morning," I smiled, then said bluntly "you look like you spent the night in a tent". I pulled my wand out and tapped it against her hair, it feel flat and neatly. "Couldn't sleep? What time did you get back?"
"About six this morning" She said simply.
"Six? You wandered the school until six in the morning?" I asked, spilling the milk I was pouring. "Do you know how silly that is?"
"Yes, I wasn't wandering the school, I went to the Shrieking Shack" I dropped the bottle of milk and it smashed on the ground. A few people looked up.
"Are you insane?" I asked staring at her, "B, if you where that upset you should have come and woke me. If Mc Gonagall finds out you left the school after what happened to Stevie, she will end up chaining all four of us to the common room!" I pulled out my wand once again and waved it at the bottle, it rapidly returned back to normal, but the content was still on the floor.

"Oh, Will!" I snapped, looking at him. "Don't be so dramatic! How on earth do you think I couöd have looked at Stevi... Michelle, or whatever her name is, after what I said to her!" I said looking into my cup now, to see my reflection. "I don't know what made me say all that. I guess I have just held it back for too long..." I said. "I don't regret anything though.." I added quietly and carefully, not wanting to upset Will too much with it. I took a sip. "We have all changed a lot... too much to be honest... I mean, look at me! I'm the embodiment of evil..." I said silently not looking up.

I stared at her, frowing slightly. I didn't think that I had changed very much, I was still the same person I essentially was when I was in my first year. Maybe a little more reckless, but still the same person.
"You are not evil" I said, getting irratated. "And don't say rubbish like that, alright? I need to ask Ginny about some homework, meet up with you in DADA". I hurried to the third floor and opened the door to see Ginny with a giant cage that was empty.
"Morning" I said, knocking on the door.
"Oh, morning Will, You're early" She noticed I was staring at the cage. "Oh, they're Thestrals! Can't see them, huh?". I nodded awkardly. "Yes, well while the Hogwarts ones are tamed, in their natural habitat they are quiet nasty. I am planning on teaching some defense spells today".
"I came here early for a purpose..." I said "It's kind of about Stevie. My mother and Ron arn't very helpful, and you seemed to be the next closest person to him when he was younger. Did you know anything about her adoption?" She looked up quickly.
"Adoption?" She said.
"You seriously didn't know she was adopted? Mum and Ron can play dumb, but be serious, a three year old Stevie just doesn't pop out of thin air does she?" I folded my arms. "I need the truth, have all of you known about this?" Ginny seemed to be getting angry with me.
"William!" She said sharply "What happened seventeen years ago is not mine, nor your bussiness! Now, you should go get some breakfast and come back here later!" She turned around and I could tell I should go. Before I left and said quietly,
"Fourteen"
"What?" She asked.
"This happened fourteen years ago when she was adopted" I said raising my eyebrows. She watched me closely. "See you in about an hour for class" I smiled and walked out the door.

I looked up when Will ran off. Maybe I was talking rubbish, but it didn't feel like it... I felt different. And I hated the start of last year, when I become what I was now... I should have never gone up to the attic in Grimmuald Place. Me and my big curiousity. See where it got me? After a while Will returned. I tryied to make a good face, although I failed. I quickly tried to start a topic to talk about, but couldn't say anything.

I noticed that B was acting a little odd around me, seeming to be almost nervous in my presence. But I didn't bother her with questions about this, my mind was going on about Ginny's little slip up then. It was odd for her to make a miscalculation in the time, or maybe I was just over reacting like normal.
"It's eight o'clock" I said finally "Guess Stevie and Kira have over slept once again! I should pick them up a muggle alarm clock for christmas" I picked up my books, B looked at me vacantly. "An alarm clock is a... oh, forget it, lets get going!"

OOC Sorry i havent updated, my comptuer's been broken OOC
Ephram wrapped his arms around my neck, "It's ok" He said. "Even if they dont udnerstand, thats allright, they will in time" He said and kissed my cheek. "Ephram...I almost feel too mature for this place. Like this is kids stuff, I have no interest in being here." I said looking around. "I dont even want a job in the magical world. I
'm NOT who everyone thinks I am. I said wiping my eyes. "And because of that I'm not going by Stevie, anymore, its Michelle. And thats that" I said. "Listen, I need to go talk to my mom" Ephram said pulling away and setting his arms around my waist. "I love you, no matter what you want to be called, your amazing, you know that?" He said. I was staring at my feet, he put his finger under my chin. "I guess" I said, He hugged me again. "We'll get through this" He said and kissed me.

OOC: I AM SO SORRY, oh my gosh but you won't even believe what happened, it's AHH, just sorry!! Oh Will - I was on the bart going to San Francisco and I met an exchange student from Australia, lol, he said he didn't know you, LOL.

I woke up late and rubbed my eyes picking up all my bags, accidently leaving my pajama shirt on and throwing a robe over it.
I ran down the stares, tripping over the Portrait Hole, my books flying up in the air. I heard the woman in the Portrait Hole laughing a bit, and I rolled my eyes picking up my books as I saw a hand extending down to me. I looked up to see Michael laughing a bit as well.
I smiled taking his hand, "You're a funny girl," he said and I let go of his hand.
"I'll take that as a compliment," I said a bit confused to what he meant and continued walking to class, as he followed.
"How's Will been?" he asked.
"Okay, I guess, why?" I looked to him.
"Well you guys are going out, right?" he looked a bit confused.
"Wha-?! Oh, ohh, yeah, yes him and me we are, yes, yeah," I said quite quickly and slapped myself on my forehead. He looked even more puzzled then before.
"Well, I've got to go to DA- just class, yeah," I said rushing off, talking to myself, "Stupid, stupid, stupid."

ooc: Lol, did he say 'G'day'??

B and I got to class and relised that Ginny wasn't anywhere to be seen, but the cage that looked empty was still there. I looked at B, relising she could see them.
"Ginny said we will be using defense spells on them" I told her, taking my seat. We waited a few minutes and the rest of the class came in, including a rather messy Kira Weasley and a distant Stevie Potter. "Hey guys, she's not here yet" I told them "Kira, you are wearing your pajama top!"
"Yeah, I was in a rush" She muttered sitting behind us with Stevie.
"I can tell" I grinned, then I turned and faced the front of the room as Ginny hurried in looking out of breath.
"Alright!" She smiled "Now, in this cage are Threstals! We will be using shield charms, before Hagrid died he managed to teach them to charge on command-- yes William?" I had put my hand up.
"Why are you late, Professor Weasley?" I asked, trying not to sound rude.
"I will be the one asking about tartiness, Mr Granger, now if there are no other questions could we please open our books to page 321, advanced and quick shield spells!"

((Ooc: I'm at school at the moment, but I just wanted to say that, you should be all able to see thestrals, considering you all witnessed my 'death' last year, exept for Stevie, I don't remember about her...))

ooc: Ah! That's true, my mistake! Sorry everyone! *Just imagine that instead of seeing nothing I saw them!*

OOC lol OOC
I put my hair up into a ponytail, I wanted to sleep. I had such a headache, everything was just rushing around in my head. I felt like it was going to explode. Ginny looked at me and stared for a moment. I didnt know what she wanted but I flipped out. "What?!" I said irratated. "Will everyone leav eme alone?!" I said and got up, carrying my books and stormed off. A picture fell on the floor.

OOC: LOL, no he didn't, but ya know he was still the ultimate of... awesome!

I watched her storm off and looked at the picture she dropped on the ground. Ginny looked a bit lost for words but quickly picked her self back up just as I had picked up the picture on the ground.
She continued talking as I looked from the Threstrals to the picture of what looked like Stevie at age 3 with who must have been her brother.
"Are you all ready? Alright then, come on everyone, stand up," I heard Ginny faintly.

I was staring at the door, we were friends with Stevie, yet she was in the same bad mood as she had been before. I knew I didn't understand what it was like to have a parent lie to you, but I did understand having a parent that wasn't my own.
"Will?" said a voice "Will? Can you hear me?" I sat up sharply, Kira was staring at me, I had been day dreaming.
"Wh-what?" I asked looking around as everyone formed small groups.
"We have to get in groups of four to preform the charm" said Jason Longbottom, standing with Kira and B.
"Oh right," I said getting up and pulling out my wand. Ginny had waved her wand as soon as I did this and my desk and chair had joined the others against the wall.
"Right!" Ginny smiled walking over to the cage and opening it.
"Proffessor!" I said quickly "Most of us can't see them!" I looked around, all four of us could see them, but moth of the rest of the class couldn't. Ginny didn't seem to listen as she swung open the gate. One of them looked straight at us, it's red eyes focusing on me. Suddenly he begun to ran at us. "Here it comes!" I cried waving my wand "Tisctatora!" I summoned. An orange wave shot from my wand, the Threstal tripped back a bit, but continued at me. "All of us at once!"

"Tisctatora!" We all called out in unison. The Thestral was pushed back into the cage. "Guess that was too much..." I said as it stood still there now. The other few Thestrals stopped and looked at the cage.
"What are they doing?" Kira asked. I too looked as they just stood. I looked at Ginny for a moment, she was looking back a us. I didn't really understand what was going on, as the other creatures just stood where they were. I leaned a bit closer to Will "Why was the first one coming towards us like that?"

It was as soon as B had muttered these words that the other thestral's were sniffing up in the air, all their heads turned directly to us. I leaned out and pulled Kira back protectivly.
"What are they doing?" Ginny asked staring at our wide eyes.
"They are... well... they are kind of staring at us!" I said, squeezing my wand nervously. Suddenly two of them began to run straight at us, I went to raise my wand but I was too slow. It collided with B, knocking her to the ground. I felt Kira raise her wand to it, so I did the same thing.
"Tisct-" I was interrupted by another Thestral knocking me down on it's way to get B. "Get off of her!" I shouted, jumping on it's skeletal body, it's wings sprung up, knocking back Jason and throwing me a good few two meters to the ground. "They're attacking B!" I called to Ginny.
"Expelliarmous!" She cried, the Thestral's around B where knocked against the wall, she waved her wand around the room, it gave off a high pitched noise. All of the thestal's bowed to their knees at the sound of it. "Get back to your cage!" She shouted, they all rushed back into it and Kira slammed the cage door shut. Some students hurried to help B.
"What was that about? They didn't touch anyone else but B!" I cried, getting to my feet.

"Guess they don't like me very much!" I said as a couple of students helped me to stand up.
"No they don't just attac who they don't like! There must be something else..." Ginny said with a thoughtful face, then spoke up. "This lesson is now over. You are all free to go and get ready for your next class!" She said, then looked at us. "You four stay here." She commanded. When the class was empty and I was now sitting on one of the chairs, Ginny was walking back and forth. I looked at Kira, Jason and Will nervously.
"It's because of last year, isn't it?" I asked silently, looking up at Ginny. She stopped and looked at me.
"What?" She had probably been in deep thought.
"About what happened last year? At Grimmuald Place? They can't stand the Voldemort in me, right?" I asked. It all fell silent. "For a while I thought it was gone, but now I feel it's coming out again! To imagine I would have almost used Crucio on Stevie a few days ago!" I said quietly and looked to the ground.

I watched Ginny's eyebrows rise as B mentioned that she almost used curcio. I didn't have time to ponder on it as I said simply,
"Thestral's can sense dark magic" they all looked at me "We learnt about it in Care of Magical Creatures, there was a myth that great ancient wizards would smite their evil enemies by sending a herd of thestrals... I guess the evil from Voldemort was what they sensed" I folded my arms.
"Birgit, I will have to write to Hermione" Ginny said simply "If there are some problems involved with the possesion then she needs to know" I looked at B worried.
"I thought that... last year, when he returned, he left your body you said. He was nothing more then a leech" Jason told me.
"Possesion to regain life is very dangerous, I know only too well" Ginny said "If a single drop of Voldemort's dark magic was left behind there is a chance of it using cell division to spread".
I watched on worried, walking over to B and placing a supportive hand on her shoulder. "We are going to fight this, what ever it is. We are not going to let Voldemort manipulate her" I stared at Ginny. "Is there anything Mc Gonagall can do?"

I hid my head in my hands on the table. So there it was, I was too dangerous to be here. I should be sent off to some godforsaken island where I couldn't hurt anyone. Where I wouln't be of any threat. What did I ever do to deserve this? Because of being a Black? No that couldn't be it! I admired my father, and being a Black was a blessing. It had to be something else. Maybe it was because Draco liked me... What a blessing that is indeed... I felt like crying, but I knew it wouldn't help so I kept it up.

I squeezed B's shoulder, I could tell she was really uncomfortable just feeling the tense muscles. I knew it would be best to get her alone so she wasn't on the spot.
"I think I should go find Stevie and tell her about this" I said, "How about you guys head back to the common room?"
"Yes, I'll go talk to Mc Gonagall, you should go and get ready for Charms. If you feel like lieing down I can tell to Flitwick, he should be okay with it" Ginny said to B. I turned and headed out the door, down the hall and down the flight of stairs. I had no idea where Stevie was, but something told me she would be with Ephram. I stopped and thought about my pass time-tables,
"Ravenclaw... seventh year... he should be in potions!" I hurried down to the cold dungeons. I knocked on the door and the voice inside stopped, I opened it to see the class full of seventh year students and Snape.
"Ah, Mr Malfoy, why do we have the pleasure?" He asked sarcastically.
"Is Ephram Pomfrey here?" I asked. Snape looked around and said stiffly,
"No...Is that why you choose to interupt my lesson?" My stomach dropped as he watched me.
"Sorry, sir" I said and shut the door. Wherever Stevie was, Ephram was with her.

OOC Sorry Guys, I've been at a friends house and its kind of hard to update with us both on the computer lol OOC
I was lying face down on my pillow. I turned over and looked out the window, I must have looked a mess, I had taken my contacts out and put glasses on. I had been crying, I wanted to leave, I wanted that small portion about my real parents being dead to be a lie, I wanted someone, but not Harry Potter. Harry Potter made my life something it wasnt, and I had made up my mind that I was going to see him ,and find out why he adopted me. I was going to the