His fingers closed around her throat tighter and tighter. The rage in his eyes brought fear into her heart. The air was being forced from her lungs and spots were forming at the edge of her vision.

"Please. Stop. I can't breathe." She tried to use her longer nails to claw at his arm and pull his hand away. When she managed to pull one of his hands away he only brought his other hand up to replace it.

There was no love in his eyes, he was pissed. "Take your hands off of me!" she growled and gasped for breath as his fingers threatened to choke the life from strength from being a beater was no match for his brute strength and force.

"What did I tell you before the game?"

"To make sure you won. . . "

"What did you do instead?"

"I won." she whimpered, "It's not my fault! I can't control what everyone else is doing."

"You're smart. You're a Ravenclaw after all. You should have figured it out." he punctuated each word by forcing her back until she hit the wall

"I'm sorry."

"Sorry doesn't cut it. The whole fucking school is laughing at my house!"

She started to cry as he pushed the hair out of her face, "You like to learn right babe?"

She nodded feeling afraid of where this was going

"Then you should learn to listen to what I fucking tell you." he loosened his hold on her neck and moved in closer before roughly forcing himself onto her

"Stop. Please stop." She fought against his hold, kicking and hitting with everything she had, only managing to push him off before falling onto the floor and crawling away from him

He wasn't the nicest man but even when he was enraged he hadn't taken it out on her before and she honestly never thought she would see the day his love turned into such violence.

They had been together more than a year and were starting to plan for a life outside of Hogwarts.

"You stupid cunt, get your arse back here." he screamed

Tears streamed down her face and her vision blurred as she tried to crawl away. He pulled her up by the hair and pushed her into the wall again and cocking his fist back.

"Hey! You bloody fool! What do you think you're fucking doing?" Someone yelled from behind them down the corridor.

"Fuck. Leave us alone, we're talking."

"Talking doesn't make a woman cry you fucker."

He turned to face the,"Look this isn't any of your business Weasley."

Their footsteps got louder the closer they got and peeking around she was able to see two redheads running at them

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One of them pulled her attacker away and the other knet down at her side and smiled softly, "Are you alright my love?" he asked his ginger hair standing up and his goofy grin making me smile

The other one ran up to Marcus and threw the first punch using his whole body weight to knock him over.

The redhead by her side lifted her into his arms and squeezed her close. Looking over to the fight she saw Marcus was against the wall now and held there by the other redhead.

"No man has the right to put their hands on any woman!" he yelled as his fist colliding with is face

She looked up at the boy holding her and saw his bright red hair and his wicked proud grin.

He looked down at her and smiled, "My lady, we Weasley twins have come to your rescue. Our Gryffindor pride would never allow us to stand back and let a fair maiden such as yourself be harmed by such a brute."

He smiled at her speaking so posh that she was able to laugh through the tears. She knew that he was trying to distract her because his fingers were digging into the flesh of her leg and it hurt. So she shoved her face into the crook of his neck and clung to him feeling weary

"I should have been able to do this myself," She whispered

"Never blame yourself for this. Sometimes our bodies and brain don't agree with each other."

She smiled

"Fred, are you done yet?" Her red-headed twin called out rubbing circles on her back to soothe

"Never, George! He could never make up for what he was doing to her! He had no right!" Fred yelled back and they heard Marcus groan on the ground

"Make him stop. Please. I don't want you to get in trouble." She whispered from between George's neck and shoulder.

"Fred."

"George."

"Fred."

"George."

A moment of silence passed, Marcus groaned a final time. "Fine."

Footsteps approached them and she clung tighter to him still.

"Don't worry fair maiden, it tis only my brother Fred. He has brought justice and vengeance for you." he tried to pry her away from his shoulder and she didn't let go.

"Fair maiden?" Fred laughed "What are we? Her knights in shining armor, George?"

"Yes! I am her knight and you are the valiant steed Fred."

"Now George I did all of the beating. You ran her away. So that would make me the knight and you the steed."

They continued to bicker about who played what role and She couldn't help but giggled.

"The fair maiden giggles George!"

"She does Fred. We'll give her something to giggle at!" Suddenly hands touched her sides and tickled without restraint. Her head flew back laughing loudly and uncontrollably while her arms flailed about making contact with Fred's nose and George's shoulder.

"Woman, that's how you repay us for saving you" Fred and George mumbled holding their wounded body parts.

"I'm so sorry! Did I really hurt you?" She panicked not wanting to repay them this way

"No! We're only joking!" they smiled and laughed at her panicked face.

She jumped down from his arms and looked up at them

"Come on fair maiden we shouldn't stick around too long. This brute's friends might come looking for him." Fred stood and held his hand out to her .

She took his hand feeling so small compared to the two twins, so weak.

They started to walk away when she blurted, "Hey, you're identical!"

He pulled along as they looked at each other and then back at her . "Are we really?" Fred said and he looked at George, "Can't be, he's too ugly."

"Don't listen to him, he's the ugly one," George said

"Come on now we'll walk you to your common room. Can't leave you out here all alone after all."

"Yeah, what were you doing out here with him anyway."

"Don't tell me that ugly lug is your boyfriend."

"Was. He was my boyfriend. He's not anymore." She said looking down and away from their eyes.

"Good smart girl," Fred said patting her shoulder

"I'm not a Ravenclaw for nothing," she told them proudly

"Well, what were you two doing out here so late."

"Figured you be celebrating Ravenclaw's Quidditch victory with everyone else."

"That's why we were out here today was Slytherin against Ravenclaw and he was sour. He wanted me to let them win."

"You play on the Quidditch team? Were you the one to knock him on his arse during the game? Bloody hell that was brilliant" George looked amazed and downright proud

"George, did you hear this?"

"Yes, the fair maiden knocked Slytherin out of the running for this year's Quidditch Cup!"

"George, I think I'm in love."

"No way Fred, I'm in love. Besides you're too ugly to ask the fair maiden to love you."

They seemed to have a revelation and they suddenly stopped walking and turned to her.

"How stupid of us Fred, we never asked her name."

"Yes, fair maiden what's your name?" They looked at me expectantly.

"Hunn." She told them

"Did you say, Hunn?"

"Or Hunny Bunns." They laughed at their own stupid jokes

"Hunn. Hunny Bunny."

They started laughing, doubling over holding their stomachs as they howled with amusement.

"Yes, laugh away, like I haven't heard it all before."

"Awww Hunny don't worry."

"I don't like to be teased." she told there angrily

They continued to laugh and that only made her move angry

While they laughed she moved along the corridor until she reached the entrance to Ravenclaw tower.

She got to the Eagle knocker and stood proud. "I wish to enter."

"What has an eye, but cannot see?"

The twins rushed forward but she already knew the answer. "A needle."

The door opened wide and she slipped through the open door and it closed quickly behind her causing Fred and George to crash.

"Let us in!"

"We didn't mean to eve you! we got carried away."

She ignored them,but waited to see if they would answer a riddle.

"For you to enter you must answer this."

They groaned, "Yes?"

"What is broken every time it is spoken?" the Eagle asked

"Glass. Glass breaks when you sing right?" Fred guessed

"No." the Eagle replied

After that guess she didn't stick around . They wouldn't enter, they had only brute force not logic and brains needed to out think the words themselves.

She walked into her room and slipped into bed without waking the other girls. Her head hit the pillow, She was exhausted from the match against Slytherin, the fighting took everything out of her.

Their teasing really upset her, maybe they didn't mean it but after everything that night it was safe to say that her tears broke the silence.