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"Give you a chance? Give YOU a chance?" Daniel snapped angrily. "You of all people should know that I can't give you a chance." He stepped forward towards Draco with an angry look in his eyes. Anger driving him forward with more torque than the fear trying to pull him back. "Five YEARS of torture and teasing, and out of the blue, just because you stood up for Neville, you want me to give you a chance. Well I can't believe you would do something like that out of what's right, or because Crucius was doing the wrong thing. I just can't."

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Jake looked to Crucius then at Anna Marie. Maybe he should...? No...it can't be done.
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Unless...

He licked his lips and looked at Crucius with a calmer sort of state of mind, trying to keep his anger down. "Let me take Anna-Marie. I've got a few spells that I've been wanting to try, but couldn't because of past management. Now that someone else is running the show and more to our favor, I feel like it's the best time for me to try it."

"Then let me apologize! Let me make it up to you in the years of peace to come! I realize that I can't say that I'm sorry to everyone that I've hurt, but I've made a small dent, having started with Raven, and Neville. If you don't accept my my apology, then fine, that's your prerogative, but with Dumbledore as my omniscient witness, I am sorry for the things that I have done. I'm sorry for the countless remarks, the violent spells and hexes. I'm sorry for all the hurt that I caused, but if you're too blind by your hatred of me, and not only me, but of other Slytherin's, then that's all on you." Draco said finishing his speech out of breath, a tear in his eye. He'd spoken fervently, and meant it.

Raven took Draco's hand. "He fights for the side of good. His life is at stake too. If Voldemort found out, he'd kill not only Draco, but me, and anyone else he associates himself with. I stand by his side. We're not saying that you have to stand by us, but tolerate us at least. Understand that we are good. I've always been on the side of good. My parents are dead because of Voledmort. My mother became soft, and my father began training me to fight against him while I was young. We are mean because we have to be, and nice because we want to be."

Crucius smirked at Jake. "Please, don't return her in pieces...We do need her for her abilities..." He reminded, ignoring the glare he was receiving from the white haired girl. "Have fun! She can be a handful..." He stated with a chuckle as he turned to walk back up to the school. Maybe he could find Neville and repay him for his actions earlier.

Anna-Marie scowled as Jake grabbed her arm and yanked her away from Crucius. She was a witch after all, why were they treating her like a doll, tugging her back and forth. She glared at Crucius as he turned to leave. She was still too upset with Jake to want to be left alone in his presence. .

Elle calmed herself and nodded her head in agreement.She hadn't had a god group of friends since Kingsley began pulling her out of chool all the time. He never would tell her why but it was sure it had to do with where she came from, and that horrible mark on her arm. She was o sheltered. She'd heard whispers about Death Eaters and a leader they had, but she knew no one liked to say it out loud. As she was thinking she stopped and looked over at Cam. He seemed to know a lot about the wizarding world. Maybe he could help her piece the clues together. "Cam, I have some hints to my history, Just little things I've been told to hide, abilities and such. And a mark." she waited a moment for him to respond and slowly began to roll up her left sleeve.

She hesitated a moment to say, "Kingsley said no one should ever see it. Because it means something terrible. But I don't know what. But I do know it's been there since I was born. Kingsley at least told me that much. He's pretty much kept everything else a secret." She bit her lip as she continued to roll up the sleeve to reveal a deep black mark of a serpent wrapped through a skull deep in her soft pale skin. Her eyes looked to his face to see his reaction. "What Kingsley could'nt protet me from is the whispers of all the other sudents. One does hear things about Death Eaters...and a Dark Lord?" she said studying his face.

Jake Defi returned the smirk, and then immediately dropped it when Crucius's back was turned. He gave the teen a nasty sneer behind his back and turned to leave himself, practically dragging Anna-Marie along towards the Forbidden Forest while murmuring unintelligent and nasty words about Crucius and the Death Eaters, and his job, and everything else.

Upon reaching the base of one of the bigger trees at the edge of the Forest he rounded it and placed both he and Anna-Marie behind it so anyone at the school couldn't see them. And he made sure by peeking around the sides before he stabbed the tree with his sword, right next to the Seer's head. "Okay...let's get one thing straight. You..." He jabbed a finger into her chest, not really meaning to but he wasn't about to apologize because at this point, whether she knew of his intentions or not, the little bit of pain she'd have to endure from his finger was way less than what he was trying to do. "...need to stop..." He paused, to let his words sink in but not long enough for her to speak up. "...hating me." On the last word he brought his index finger away from the Ravenclaw's chest, and hooked a thumb at himself.
Doing so, however, his thumb connected with his own chest, and he mouthed an "ow", rubbing the spot where he had hurt himself.

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Daniel hesitated that Draco had called his...semi-bluff. He truly felt that killing Draco and putting himself and everyone else out of his existing misery was the only answer he could come up with. Thankfully Raven stepped in with the voice of reason between the two arguing boys. The Gryffindor wouldn't have known what to do if this had escalated into a fight, or even a duel.

Daniel Evans pulled his gaze away from his...well..Harry Potter's arch-nemesis, and to Raven before he once again hesitated. He didn't know. He honestly didn't know what Draco could do to show his newfound...innocence. The young man opened his mouth, then closed it, then opened it again, then closed it once more before shaking his head in frustration. "Just...find it yourself. Then come to me when you have.". With that he left, whether Aideen followed or not. It didn't matter. He was going to the Common Rooms to find his and Jake's hidden stash of bottled Butterbeer.

Elle smiled appreciatively at the spell he used to keep their coversation private. Her eyes stayed locked on his as he spoke. She was amazed at herself for her trust in him so suddenly. But he seemed to have mischievious air about him and he seemed willing to do something crazy like break into the headmaster's office. "One does hear things about Death Eaters and such. Kingsley tried very hard to protect me from the evil he says. I think he was trying to keep me from knowing something serious. And I've heard whispers about a dark Lord, but ofcourse no one dares to say his name out loud.' she said pulling down her sleeve so no one could see it as they walked by.