Hemlock

Disclaimer: Don’t own, don’t sue, and don’t care! No flames please unless you want to light my cigarette for me!

Wooo, I’m feeling the juices flowing today (not that kind your perverts!) There is some Mary Sueness in this chapter because I feel like it!

-Aggie

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Hermione’s mind was in a whirlwind. She was surrounded by monsters and things she couldn’t even describe. She even she saw a purple leprechaun fucking a blue elephant. This was insane! Then those things came back. She didn’t know what they were but they were small and they bit into her skin. She began thrashing trying to get them off her but found her arms wouldn’t move so she cried out for help. Suddenly she heard signing. She didn’t understand the words but the voice was so soothing, it made those creatures go away.

Faire taire petit l'un,
le Sommeil bien,
Laisser les ailes de l'aigle,
vous Porter par la nuit.
Ecouter ma voix,
Sentir ma chanson,
Entendre les mots
Qui vous portent toute la journée.
Dormir
le Sommeil
de Sommeil

Severus finished the lullaby and sighed. It was one his moth used to sing to him when he couldn’t sleep and he found that when she became restless he’d sing or hum and it would calm him down. Normally he wouldn’t do this, but understand the circumstances he felt it might help. He watched as the sun came up over the horizon. Suddenly Hermione shot up and began panting. Her eyes slowly began to change back to their normal color and her breathing became regular. Severus sat forward waiting for something to happen. Hermione looked at him, looked at her surroundings and then fell back onto the cot and fell asleep.

Severus waited for her to stir again but when she didn’t he got up went over to Poppy’s office and flooed the Headmaster.

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Aggie was in a mess. She looked around for Hermione in the club outside and when she didn’t find her she went outside and asked around. They said they saw her getting carried away by a man dressed in black. Worried, Aggie went back to their flat and waited to see if she would show up. When she didn’t come home by dawn Aggie began flooing all their friends to see if they had seen Hermione. It was almost noon by the time she decided to contact some of Hermione’s old school friends to see if maybe one of them had seen her.

Unfortunately, almost all of Hermione’s friends didn’t want to speak to her because they believed she was responsible for Hermione’s out of control behavior. OK so she did kind of have a small part to play in her friend’s wild lifestyle, but a majority of it was Hermione’s doing.

Finally she managed to get in contact with Ginny, Hermione’s former best friend’s sister. “Hey Ginny!” Aggie exclaimed. Ginny’s smiling head appeared in her fireplace, “Hey Aggie! What’s up?” She took in a deep breath and began to retell last night’s event, leaving out the part about how Hermione disappeared with this one guy and never came back to the table. Ginny furrowed her brow and then said, “Maybe we should check Hogwarts. Its possible the guy you’re talking about could be Professor Snape. Although I don’t know why he would help her.” Both ladies then agreed to meet up at the Three Broomsticks and then apparate from there.

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“Ginny!” cried a familiar voice. Ginny squealed as she ran into the arms of her former Head of House Professor McGonagall. The two women embraced for a long time and reluctantly pulled away form each other. That’s when Minerva noticed the young woman standing about 10 feet away from the two of them. “Ginny dear, who is this uh…. nice young lady?” she questioned with some restraint in her voice. The woman standing before her was not Minerva’s idea of a young lady. She wore a green tank top with a fishnet shirt over it, black shorts that appeared to have been cut shorter than they were originally intended to be, and black combat boots. The woman’s hair was also questionable. There’s only one woman that Minerva knew could pull off pink hair and it certainly wasn’t this one.

“Oh! Professor, this is Hermione’s friend and roommate Aggie. She’s American,” Ginny boasted. Ginny had never met an American before and upon meeting Aggie was so thrilled she spent almost every second talking to her and asking about where she came from.

Immediately Minerva’s eyes narrowed at the young woman, her motherly instincts kicking in. So this was the young woman responsible for what happened to Hermione last night. When Hermione had awoken about an hour ago, she recounted the story of how she and Aggie went to this club called Avada. Afterwards they had drinks and then Hermione couldn’t remember much afterward, or so she said.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you…Agnie,” Minerva said, purposely mispronouncing her name, which made Ginny give her a questioning look. “Umm, it’s Aggie ma’am. And its nice to meet you too,” she said sticking out her hand. Minerva looked at it and then looked at her. She then turned to Ginny and said, “Well Hermione is here. Professor Snape brought her in last night and I must say we were worried she would even survive the night. She was pale, her eyes were pure white, and was sweating so much we had to continuously Scourgify her.” Again Minerva looked disdainfully at Aggie and told the both of them to follow her to the infirmary.

Ginny followed close to Minerva while Aggie hung back. She didn’t like being treated like she was garbage. What worried her though was that Professor McGonagall said Hermione’s eyes were pure white. She knew there was only one thing in that club that would cause that and the person be damned if she got a hold of them. It was a drug called Hemlock, named after what it’s created from. While the flower itself is poisonous, if prepared a certain way, can take you on “another plane of existence”. Sounds like fun and games until you tried it. Now Aggie had done a lot of drugs in her youth and has experienced numerous highs that range from a buzz to an atomic orgasm. Hemlock was something she never wanted to experience again and if Hermione had done it (after she told her repeatedly not to) she was going to rip her a new one.

By the time she realized it they were standing outside the infirmary and Minerva was looking at her to see what she was going to do. Aggie smiled politely at the woman and walked past her “accidentally” bumping into her. She smiled when she heard her gasp and begin talking in hushed tones with Ginny.

Again she smiled and continued walking into the infirmary, to see how Hermione was doing. This was going to be a fun day indeed.

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Yes, I predict something interesting is going to happen in the next chapter! Enjoy!