While She Sleeps (Sam)

[Rafe Colby]

It took a bit of creative spell work to bypass the protective charms that had been designed to keep boys out of the girls' dorms. The staff at Hogwarts clearly did not want students to figure it out. But Rafe could be smart when he put his mind to it. If only he had been motivated by something other than obsessive love, he probably could have been a good student with a promising future.

Unfortunately, he was not. He believed himself to be in love with Samantha, and was unable to see anything beyond this obsession. So he put all of his attention into figuring out a way to get into the dormitory.

Eventually, he realized that the solution was far simpler than it had seemed.

Unknown to many, Rafe was an animagus. He had mastered the difficult spell the year before. The only trouble was that his animagus form, that of a horse, was a bit unwieldy and impossible to hide. So he had stopped using it for a while. But as he became obsessed with Sam and getting into her dorm room, he decided to practice again, this time with the intentions of becoming something smaller.

It was supposed to be rare for someone to change their animagus form. But as he became more twisted and obsessed with Sam, his animagus form did, indeed, change. Now he appeared as a cockroach. What better way to get into the girl's dorm?

Once the spell was perfected again, Rafe tested it by transforming one night and walking slowly up the stairs to the girl's dormitory.

It worked. No alarm sounded, nothing happened. So he crawled down the hall until he reached the fifth year dorm. It didn't take him long to find her bed, then he transformed back into himself and sat on the end of her bed, watching her as she slept.

[Samantha Montgomery]

Samantha's sleep was important to her, it was altogether too rare and far too precious a thing since sleep was the only place she could truly escape the past. Of course dreams were also the place where the past was also a vivid thing. Pending upon the night and how her subconscious wielded it's unruly thoughts did she usually get a good night's sleep or wake up with circles under her eyes.

This night started softly, as she drifted into the realm of fantasy there was someone in the distance she was chasing after, he held a smile for her and she was so willing to do anything for him...but where was he leading her?

They frolicked together, through rainbow mists that tasted like ambrosia, she was...happy. Then everything changed. She felt it before it happened, the first strike of thunder, the clouds sweeping in, the darkness surrounding. He grabbed her hand and ran with her to find shelter. Running and running she tried to keep up with his longer legs when he turned and grabbed her. His gentle countenance gone. The look of love and friendship completely wiped away and in it's stead, anger, black hate.

Samantha gasped and turned on the bed losing her breath.

[Rafe Colby]

Rafe had noticed as her sleep had become fitful. He couldn't take his eyes off of her, the innocence and purity of her sleep, how fragile she seemed. It would have been easy to hold her down, wrap his hands around her slender white throat and squeeze. But he didn't want her dead. He just wanted her. Alive and beautiful in his arms. Yet she kept denying him, and it ripped at his soul, killing him little by little each day.

At one point, he reached out and touched her cheek, brushing away a stray hair that had stuck there. Shortly after that, she turned and let out a loud gasp. He immediately clamped his hand over her mouth to keep her from awakening her roommates. The Burke sisters slept nearby, and he was sure those girls would be scandalized by his presence. He couldn't have them wakening the rest of the dormitory.

[Samantha Montgomery]

Her eyes flew open to find an unwanted visitor hovering over her and her heart rate tripled. It wasn't so much Rafe she was afraid of, rather the fact that there was someone hovering over her to begin with. Given a few moments however she realized who her assailant was and began to struggle in earnest moaning since she couldn't scream.

[Rafe Colby]

"Shhhh!" he whispered, increasing the pressure on her. "Don't fight me, Sam. Please... I don't want to hurt you. In fact, if you promise not to scream, I'll let you go. Please... I just want to talk to you." His voice was low and soft, as gentle as he could make it, and he used his free hand to tenderly brush the hair off of her face.

[Samantha Montgomery]

She was breathing heavily anyway, but stopped struggling and nodded, she was afraid but not truly terrified, she had woken up to worse things in the middle of the night.

When he brushed her hair back she stiffened and shot him a hot look almost to chastise him for touching her. Her anger now was rivaling her fear and quickly surpassing it, the man was due for a severe tongue lashing.

[Rafe Colby]

Rafe slowly eased up the pressure on her mouth, releasing her. "Now, don't scream or anything, OK? Please. I promise, I won't hurt you again. I'm sorry about earlier. I'm really not such a bad guy when you get to know me."

She looked so beautiful, flushed and damp from sleep. A little ray of moonlight cascaded in through the window and spilled across her bed, lighting up her hair with a ghostly glow. Her lips, slightly parted, were positively begging to be kissed.

Unable to resist, he bent down and took her in his arms, smothering her protests with a kiss.

[Samantha Montgomery]

Samantha had never before realized how completely lost Rafe was. Before what was a small annoyance was now something truly to be feared, but she would not cower.

When his hand lifted from her mouth she took a few short breaths just staring up at him wondering how the madness had escaped her, when suddenly he crushed his lips to hers.

Outraged. Indignant. And terribly sore she was still for a moment, then all hell broke loose, she bit his lip kicked out at his ribs and started yelling. Her small fists doing their best to hurt him as she thought of some curse to knock him back.

[Rafe Colby]

"Ow!" Rafe hissed as she bit down on his lip. She kept punching and kicking at him, but he didn't let up. Instead he grabbed her wrists, pinning them over her head with one hand.

"Shhhh," he hushed again, covering her mouth. "I told you, don't make any noise. I don't want to hurt you, Sam, please don't make me. I love you... don't you get that yet? If you would just let me, I could make you happy, I promise."

[Samantha Montgomery]

She struggled and tried to bite his fingers, it wasn't fair that he was stronger than her. Then with alarming clarity she calmed herself and recalled her lessons with Frank by the lake, clearing her mind and focusing on a heavy vase-like structure she summoned the item with enough force to break it against Rafe's skull. She sent a small prayer heavenwards for Frank's assistance. This whole situation was beyond bearing.

[Kassia Burke]

Kassia had enough trouble sleeping as it was but she woke startled when she heard the briefest yell. She sat up and took a look around but didn't see anything out of the ordinary, then again it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust. Then she heard a Vase shatter and it came in the direction of their Slytherin Champion's side quarters.

"Samantha?" she called slipping out of her bed.

[Rafe Colby]

The vase struck Rafe on the side of his skull, and he felt just the briefest flicker of pain before he slumped over her and didn't move. He was still alive and breathing, just momentarily unconscious, leaving Samantha trapped underneath of him.

[Samantha Montgomery]

Samantha hadn't been seriously attacked since her mother's Death, and this attack was a different sort. She somewhat felt violated and abused but in an entirely different way that made her skin crawl, now Rafe was on top of her and she was trapped she couldn't help the few tears that sprang to her eyes as she tried to push him off but was unable to do so.

She groaned at his weight and kept pushing.

[Kassia Burke]

Kassia made her way to Samantha's bed quickly enough and gasped at the situation. There was a boy in the girl's room, well that was surprisingly enough not that surprising but he was slumped over the very proper and pristine Samantha Montgomery. Kassia's mind whirled a bit at the revelation until she realized that Samantha was trying to push the boy off of her and was ...crying?

"Samantha?" she called again. When she heard Samantha gasp and faintly call out a "please" Kassia worked quickly to get Rafe off of her. Kassia was willing to fight the man if he was forcing Samantha, but then she realized that Rafe was unconscious and that around him were shards of the vase Kassia had heard shattering. Just what had happened here?

They rolled Rafe onto the floor and Kassia glanced at Samantha who had curled into herself on the bed staring down at him in angry wonder.

"Are you okay?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

Samantha was far from okay, but she was quickly getting a hold of her senses. She would be fine, she was just startled by the event itself.

"We need to get him out of here." she didn't want the scandal associated with her name, by the look of understanding in Kassia's eyes Samantha smiled, at least Kassia wasn't judging her. She had done nothing wrong but was the victim of someone else's designs.

Now...how did they go about getting him out of the room? Samantha got down and tried to lift him as Kassia got the other side, they barely managed the feat at all but got him to the stairs at least and out of the girl's dorm.

[Ashton Lane]

Ashton was missed by both ladies who were less than delicate with their unwanted guest as noted by the way they practically threw him down the stairs and then made their way back to their rooms. Unusual, Ashton thought, and went to investigate. Turning the man over he recognized him as Rafe. He raised an eyebrow.

"What were you doing in the girl's dorm I wonder." he murmured mostly to himself, then nudged the boy with the tip of his shoe. Finally he sighed and bent down to revive the guy.