Destiny was taking her good ole' time getting to the student garden. Firstly, she was tired and secondly, the cat walking on the leash was being stupid, like always, and would not walk. How hard is it to walk on a leash? Destiny had done it..well, hers was a rope, not really a leash, but it is the same thing! Cats should be automatically programmed to walk on a leash.

Human nature..kitty nature..or something like that.

With Sly practically dragging behind her, Destiny spotted the familiar face she was looking for; Evelyn. Why she wanted to go to the Student Garden was a mystery, but Destiny wouldn't ask. It would just be an explanation that most likely would go in one ear and out the other. Totally normal for Destiny, strange for others.

'Eeeeveeeelyn.' she said in the middle of a yawn.

Way too tired.

Huh. Can one be hypnotized by a flitterbloom? It was so...sway-ie.

Breaking out of whatever trance thing she was just in, Evelyn turned to see who was making all of the noise, ready to take out her wand just in case it was someone she didn't want around at the moment. But no, it was only Destiny, who took her sweet time to get down here. Oh, well there was the problem. She brought Sly with her. While he was cute, fluffy, and adorable, he seriously lacked in the brains department and ate way too much grass.

"Keep him away from my plant." she mumbled with a smirk, before going back to staring at the flitterbloom. Sway-ie...sway-ie...

But, staring was for later! Right now, she had business to take care of! Letting out a big sigh, she nodded to herself before turning back to facing Destiny. Taking a few steps until she was in front of the Slytherin, she suddenly reached into her pocket and pulled out the jar containing the spider, holding it up so Destiny could see it.

Creepy creature demon thing...Eeesh.

Destiny was snickering as she watched Evelyn just stare at that flitterbloom plant. It was probably the only plant in the garden that Sly did not sink his teeth into. And she figured Evelyn must have cast some anti-cat spells or something around it. But there was no need for them spells now, for Sly was a changed cat. Still stupid, but changed.

'He doesn't eat grass anymore..' she muttered as she glanced down at the cat now chasing his tail. And she thought only dogs did that. But now the cat was so tangled up in his leash, he was rolling around on the ground. Stupid cat..

Heaving a sigh, Destiny bent down, picked the cat up and was about to start untangling him, when Evelyn like, speed walked and was awfully close to her. And she was holding out a jar..with something in it. Was that a..

'Spider!' she said excitedly, letting Sly fall free from her arms. He was a cat, and cats always land on their feet.

Even if they are tied up in a leash..right?

Evelyn didn't even wince when Destiny dropped Sly. She was too amused by Destiny's excitment from the spider. Really, how could someone love these things that much? A million eyes, hairy eight legs, little pincher things that totally invade people's space just because they were there...

Okay she has got to stop thinking about that. Giving herself goosebumps. Forcing a small smile on her face, she nodded again and quickly glanced down at Sly. He was okay right?

"So, do you like it?" she asked, jiggling the container slightly. The spider, although not large, wasn't a tiny thing either. It was of good size. Of course having those disgustingly matching eight legs, it was a gray color, hairy all around, almost looking like a baby tarantula. You would have NO IDEA, what she went through to capture this stupid spider for this stupid assignment she had to do.

Pure torment. Nightmares. Inner and outer pain. Showers...

Still smiling, she took out her wand, tapping the glass container for a moment and watching the spider twitch. It hadn't moved until then, making her slightly flinch and almost drop the container. Eesh. This thing was messing with her mind...

Grinning from ear to ear, Destiny took a few steps closer to the container that Evelyn was holding out. The spider inside was even better than the one she found herself in the tunnel leading to the Shrieking Shack! But where had Evelyn managed to find it? About to ask, the container started to shake and that left a frown upon her face. Why would Evelyn shake it? Did she want it to become as stupid as Sly?

'I do! I do like it!' she answered regaining her huge grin back. But..it wasn't moving. Had Evelyn found a dead spider, and used it as a trick of some sort? When Evelyn had tapped the container with her wand, Destiny jumped back a little not expecting the thing to actually move.

At least it wasn't dead.

Destiny reached out her hands to gladly take the container off of Evelyn, when she had a feeling something was wrong. Why would Evelyn, the one who HATED spiders, have one on her? And she was touching the container. The same container that held the littlebig guy!

Taking a step or two back, Destiny stared at Evelyn, 'Why do you have a spider?'

Why did she have a spider? Well, that was an extremely good question. Why did she have something that gave her nightmars? It all started during one, slightly disastrous, potions class. The assignment that was given, was not one she liked or hated. She liked it because, well giving the potion to an enemy and writing down the results was really amusing to her, but since she had mostly locked herself away in the dormitory for most of the year, she hadn't gotten around to actually doing the assignment. She was lucky that the professor was oh so CARING, KIND, and FORGIVING! Pffft...

Evelyn's smile widened even more when Destiny declared that she liked the spider. That was good. Definitely. But going back to the reason, why did she have the spider, well...Destiny wasn't exactly an enemy at the moment now was she. And Evelyn was not about to go and track down Kay or anyone at the right then, so she was thinking up the next best thing.

"Me? Well.." she started, bringing the jar up closer to herself so it was now eye level. It almost looked as if the spider had pressed itself up against the container away from Evelyn. Huh, it must have known it wasn't going to be getting a new owner. Tapping her wand onto the glass container once more, the spider suddenly burst into flames, making it scramble widely around in the jar.

It was right to fear her. Mwaha! "I like it too."

Why wasn't Evelyn answering the question?

It's not like Destiny asked her a hard question, one that would take twenty minutes to answer. It was simple. She should have known why she had the spider..

Destiny was expecting an answer somewhere along the lines of "Well, I saw it and thought of you!" or "Since you've been through a lot this term, I found you a spider." But none of those words came. Instead Evelyn had raised the jar to her eyes, and was the spider trying to..escape?

Odd behaviour for a spider.

MERLIN ON A ROCKING HORSE!

It..was on fire. The spider was on fire!

Destiny's jaw dropped as she saw the poor innocent spider run around in circles while on fire. She had no idea what to do. She knew she had to save the little guy, but she didn't know how! Get the jar, the jar!

Taking a few quick steps towards Evelyn, Destiny forgot about her cat lying by her feet. Stupid cat should have moved when he saw her coming, but since he was indeed a stupid cat, he did the opposite and moved towards her feet, which only made Destiny start to fall. Flailing her arms to catch her balance, not only did she knock the jar out of her friends hands, she might have accidentally slapped her.. right in the face.

Now face down in a bed of flowers, Destiny could only suspect Evelyn would be angry..

Oops.

Evelyn was surprised when Destiny suddenly tripped, although she was too late to stumble backwards. Not only was the glass jar knocked roughly out of her hands, she was...

...slapped in the face.

Gasping, she walked a few feet backward, her hand held up to her cheek as she stared open mouthed and wide eyed at Destiny who had finally fallen onto the flowers. HER flowers. The flowers that she had planted during her free time and when she was stressed. They were PERFECT until NOW.

This wasn't supposed to happen. Destiny was supposed to be the one that got angry. Not herself! As the seconds ticked on, Evelyn's expression grew more and more angry as she stared down at Destiny.

How dare she do that!? Not even her best friend could get away with slapping her in the face! She probably fell on purpose so she could make it look like an accident. But Evelyn was NOT falling for it! Bending down, she hauled Destiny up until she was standing and stared STRAIGHT into her eyes. Before...

SMACK!

Her hand went right across the other Slytherin's face. And, her wand dropped somewhere. Eh.

Yuck.

As Destiny was face first in some type of flowers, she didn't know how Sly could eat this stuff. It was gross, and not appetizing at all. She was glad that he was over that habit, unless he wasn't and he just was extra sly about it. Sly Sly.

Eh.

She didn't have much time to think about the flowers that were in her mouth, or the dirt on her face, as she was lifted up off the ground. WOW. Just WOW. Evelyn was like super strong and Destiny would have mentioned this, if she hadn't been looking into the black eyes of the devil herself. Why were her eyes bl---

SMACK.

That was something Destiny did not expect. The slap to Evelyn's face was an accident and she thought her friend would have realized that. And did it have to be so hard? Surely Destiny's wasn't hard enough to make her face turn.. Now staring at the face print in the dirt, she didn't know how she felt right now. She felt like she was going to cry..but she didn't.

She couldn't.

She pushed Evelyn off of her, and did the only thing that would keep the tears away.

SLAP

She slapped Evelyn back.

Evelyn's smirk was obvious as she saw Destiny's reaction. Was the Slythie going to cry? No one slapped Evelyn! Accident or not! But she was convinced that this was no accident...

But she was surprised to find herself being pushed away from Destiny and then...she was slapped again. NOW she was certain that THAT was no accident. No tripping, flowers, or cats were involved with that one.

Rubbing her cheek, she turned her gave back to Destiny, her expression none too happy. Her friend was acting more like a Gryffindork than anything! Slapping her twice?! That was definitely brave of her to do...

Pfft. She couldn't stand Gryffindorks.

Lowering her hand for a moment from her face, she suddenly raised it up again, looking as if she was going to strike another time but she didn't. She let her right hand just sit there in the air before...

SLAP!

Her left hand came up and slapped Destiny right back again. Trick shot!

Destiny had to admit, her second slap was much better than the first. Mostly because she had missed seeing her first, since she was falling into flowers and the second was not an accident.

She didn't flinch when Evelyn raised her hand up again, instead she narrowed her eyes and waited. Evelyn wouldn't dare slap her again, and it was evident when she lowered her hand. Ha! That meant Destiny had won, and Evelyn had LOST. LOST BIG TIME too! Smirking at this slap fight victory, she was too busy gloating in her head to notice Evelyn raise her other hand and slap the other side of her face.

OW!

Now she had the same stinging sensation on BOTH sides of her face. What was wrong with this girl? Evelyn had started it, and Destiny was going to finish it.

Hooking her foot around the back of Evelyn's knee, Destiny pulled..

Hoping to get her friend onto the ground.

She would be easier to slap that way.

Evelyn, now feeling a little more satisfied with that last punch, suddenly felt something on her knee, and then found herself on the ground.

Whaaaat?!

Staring up at the tree tops and Destiny for a moment, she frowned and moved quickly, getting her own feet behind Destiny's feet, and then kicking the rather hard, hoping they would move out from underneath the girl.

Though it wasn't without a cost. Her feet were still slightly sensitive, and the new skin on her back from healing the burns was still a little touchy as well. It did not help her to be landing on hard dirt and rocks.

Sitting up, she glared at Destiny while wiping the dirt from her hands and back of her shirt...and hair. Ugh, she was going to have to take ANOTHER shower aft- OH JEEZ!

WHERE DID THE SPIDER GO!?

Bahahaha!

Destiny laughed when Evelyn had fallen to the ground. She was just on her way to pounce on her when next thing she knew, she was falling down as well. Evelyn totally stole her move! It wasn't the exact same move Destiny used, but still quite the same. Knocking her down, such a tricky move.

Lying on her back, Destiny turned her head from side to side looking for something to throw. Something along the lines of a big rock perhaps? Instead of the big rock she pictured in her head, her eyes fell on a stick, but not no ordinary stick. The dark wood was familiar, and soon she remembered it. Smirking to herself, she reached her hand over and picked up the wand, slow enough where Evelyn can see what it was.

Pushing off the ground with her free hand, Destiny sat in an upright position and just stared at Evelyn. Wrapping her hands around both ends of her friends wand, she held it out in front of her.

'I'll break it..'

Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted something moving on the ground. Looking up from trying to get the dirt out of her fingernails, she saw Destiny sit up and was holding...something...

Ohhhhhh.

Narrowing her eyes, it barely registered in her mind what the Slytherin had said. What she was thinking of...was the FINGERPRINTS that were being put on the wand, and it was NOT her own! But when the words finally did register, she gasped and shook her head, laughing slightly.

"You...wouldn't...dare!" she said, maneuvering so she was sitting on her knees instead. Destiny wouldn't dare do that! Would she? It was her wand! No, her friend, wouldn't do that unless she too wanted her wand snapped.

After a moment or so, and without any good enough plans to get her wand back, she did the next best thing. Jumping forward, she tackled Destiny to the ground, trying to grab her wand back.

Destiny did not break eye contact with Evelyn as she held out the wand. Even if her eyes were black and slightly creepy looking..why were they like that? It was a question that would have to wait to be asked.

'I wouldn't dare?' she asked raising an eyebrow. Did she not know Destiny took dares seriously? Must not have. She held the wand out further away from her body and moved her hands in a breaking manner. No, she wasn't stupid and would NEVER break Evelyn's wand no matter how many times she was dared. It was just amusing to see the look on her face as this all happened.

What happened next was not amusing at all.

Evelyn tackled her to the ground and started wrestling the wand out of her hand. Great. Now she was once again lying on the ground, only now she had a crazy girl on top of her. Destiny raised the wand above her head and wrapped her legs around Evelyn's body hoping to keep her still.

'Say Uncle!'

This was now extremely difficult. Finding herself practically pinned to the Slytherin, along with the little phial now digging into her ribs making it hard to breathe, plus the fact that Destiny was saying something about...saying uncle...she was confused and out of breathe!

Why in the world did she want Evelyn to say Uncle? Was that another muggle thing? Gah! Muggles were so weird!

Trying to reach her wand, since it was just out of her grasp, Evelyn instead placed her hands on Destiny's shoulders near her neck, and shook her. Maybe this way, it'll make the girl drop the wand! HA!

"Give *shake* it *shake* to *shake* me!" she yelled, though it was even harder to talk then to actually shake the brains out of her Slytherin friend.

Bahaha!

Pinning down Evelyn was probably the best thing to do, since now it was a lot harder for her to move. At least her lower half was not moving. Good, because being kicked would not have been fun at the moment.

Then, Evelyn had took a hold of her shoulders. Oh Merlin. She was going to choke her! Destiny was going to DIE! All over a spider and a wand! In that split second, Destiny wondered if there was a place spiders go when they die.. But the thought was shook out of her head, literally, as Evelyn started shaking her.

The only thing sound she could get out at the moment was a very shaky 'Gaaahhhhh!!' What was wrong with Evelyn!? Destiny was sure she felt her brain come just a tad bit loose through this whole ordeal, and when she fails all her finals, Evelyn would be the one to blame.

She unwrapped her legs from around Evelyn's body and the hand that was not holding the wand, was brought up to Evelyn's face yet again.

SLAP!

It almost amused her the noise that Destiny had just made, but almost though. She was too angry to really laugh or feel happy at the moment.

In the next second though, she felt that she could breathe again, and that now familiar stinging feeling on her face. She slapped her again! Gasping, Evelyn stopped the shaking and sat up, staring at Destiny for a moment in shock.

That was the third time the girl had slapped her, and that was the girl's third strike. Three strikes and you go home!! That's what the muggles said right? Well, Destiny was going to be running home now!

Raising her hand, she made it into a fist before bringing it down on Destiny's nose. Not enough to really make it bleed or break it like she had done with other people, but really to just make it hurt and distract the girl. Right after, she took out the tiny phial of the glowing yellow potion, and opened it up, waiting for the right moment where Destiny would open her mouth and pour it in.

THERE! Hurredly pouring the potion, she dropped the phial and smacked the girl's hands away before clamping her own hand over the girl's mouth before squeezing her nostrils together. Now she HAD to swallow it.

And she still had to get her wand back dangit. TWO TIMES this year someone took it from her.

If you want someone to stop shaking you, slap them. It had worked this time, and Destiny's head had finally stopped moving. Her eyes, on the other hand, were still spinning. Was the Earth moving extra fast or something today?

When she regained control of her eyes, thanks to a million quick blinks, they widened as Evelyn raised her FIST and brought it right down on her nose. What the hell? Grabbing her nose with her free hand, she was slightly relieved that she didn't feel any blood flowing. That didn't mean it didn't hurt though.

'What wa--' she started but the rest was drowned out by the gurgling noise from the liquid being poured into her mouth. Merlin! Evelyn was POISONING HER! She was going to DIE! As her hands were slapped away from herself, she tried to kick her enemy friend off of her, but failed. And in the next second she couldn't breathe! Now she was really going to die! Flailing about underneath Evelyn, she felt her throat burn from lack of oxygen. The only thing she could do was swallow the potion, and with a big gulp it was down.

As soon as it went down, the flailing ceased and she let Evelyn's wand roll off her hand all dramatic like..

Yeah. She thought she was dead.

Evelyn didn't know how long she held tight to Destiny's nose and mouth, but she knew Destiny needed to breathe rather soon. She just wished the girl would SWALLOW the dang potion!

Although, during the whole process, Evelyn received a rather hard kick to her stomach, now making HER the one that needed to breathe. Oh Merlin, BREATHE!

Moving away from Destiny, who was now limp, Evelyn fell backwards onto her back and held her stomach, trying to gasp for air. That hurt. Taking short and quick breathes, she angled her head so she could see Destiny. She wasn't moving. She wasn't moving!! Was she dead?! OH MY GOD! SHE KILLED DESTINY! SHE KILLED HER BEST FRIEND!

NO no no no NO NO...that wasn't supposed to happen. She was going to be SOOOOO expelled for this!! "Destiny." she mumbled, finally able to take longer and deeper breathes, although her stomach was hurting like crazy. "Destiny! Hey DESTINY!"

WAKE UP! Like...NOW!

Owwwww.

Destiny nose hurt and she did not like it. She couldn't believe her friend would do something like that to her. She now realized that she was not dead, but fully alive and breathing again. What was that potion she poured down her throat? It didn't taste all that bad, and if one is to be poisoned, make sure the potion tastes good.

Now that she was sure she wasn't dead, she had to retaliate, and get Evelyn back. She could just turn around, lunge on her and punch her. Ooor, she could jump up and kick her..again. Oooor she could.. hug her?

Opening her eyes, Destiny sat up straight and faced Evelyn, not even caring that her eyes were black. Evelyn was her BEST friend! With on quick leap, Destiny was on top of her giving her the BIGGEST best friend hug ever!

'Evelynnnnn!'

For a moment, Evelyn thought the potion really didn't work, and Destiny really did die. Her parents were going to kill her when they find out about this. Or WORSE! Disown her and throw her to the streets!

But...NO! Destiny was moving! And if looks could kill...however, Evelyn didn't care. Destiny was alive and breathing and if she wanted to punch her than...well no she still couldn't do that.

Although, it seemed like punching was the last thing on the girl's mind now. She was, hugging her! Eeewww! Hugging! If Destiny wasn't invading her space before, she was definitely doing it now. "Get off." she muttered, trying to push Destiny off but she seemed to be glued to her.

"Get...OFF!" Get off! Her hair was getting dirty and she needed her wand still. Plus she needed to write down the effects of the potion since it was obviously working. Although, Destiny was a really good actress. She could just be pretending...but whatever.

Yes! This was much, much better. Destiny was not letting go of Evelyn, not even for one second! They were like..BEST FRIENDS! 'Evelynnnn!' she cooed while squeezing her even tighter. Surely a tight hug would not kill anyone..

Get off? 'Why would I do that, BEST FRIEND!?' Pffft, Destiny was not going to let go of her. Why? So someone else can come over and steal her away? Don't thiiink so. Not today, not ever. Loosening her grip on Evelyn a little bit, she started to giggle. 'Remember..' she started but was stopped by a mouthful of giggles, 'remember when..remember when you punched me?'

Letting go of Evelyn, Destiny flung herself backwards rolling around in a fit of giggles.

She was happy!

It was official. Destiny had gone completely mental. She didn't remember the others, or Destiny for that matter, acting THIS crazy in the Three Broomsticks.

Best friend? That's right! She was the BEST friend. And if people didn't like that, then they could go on the list. But she couldn't even think about the list because Destiny was being even more mental then before. If that was even possible...

Though a giggle did involuntarily escape her lips when she heard what Destiny was laughing about. "Yea...and and, remember when I slapped you? That was hilarious!" No it wasn't really, but Destiny was creeping her out. To much friendship and...kindness...going on at the moment. She couldn't take it.

Standing up, she wiped any dirt or leaves that may have stuck to her outfit before looking for her wand. There it was! In the dirt and covered with fingerprints. Of course. Bleh. Picking it up, she wiped as much of the disgusting stuff off of it before turning back to look at Destiny, who was still giggling.

Perhaps she could somehow sneak away and leave her here? It was worth a shot. And she just HOPED that Sly would NOT eat her flitterbloom. Or else she wasn't going to be stopping Tiki from hugging him the next time she sees that happening...

Destiny will still rolling around on the ground when Evelyn mentioned her slapping her. That made her immediately stop rolling and she just stared.

Staaaare.

It was hard to act serious when giggles are trying to erupt from your mouth like a waterfall. 'Remember when I slapped you?' she asked before the giggles started up again. With her sides aching with laughter pains, Destiny sat up and tried to think of something not funny. Ehh, nothing was coming at the moment and she still giggled.

It only took Evelyn standing up for her to stop giggling. Where was she going? She was going to find a NEW friend! Merlin no! That is just unacceptable.

Before Evelyn could leave her there like an unwanted piece of fruit, Destiny lunged at the legs of her best friend and clung to her. No way she was letting her leave. Destiny didn't want to be unwanted! Especially unwanted fruit!

'Don't go.' she pouted and looked up at her.

'Please.'