(For Slytherin House's Drabble Collaboration but especially for Professor Leesha for being the awsomest head of house ever)
and the academy award goes to
by Nanaho-Hime
Life has always always been hard. Her mother hates her and her father is dead and she has to fill that gaping hole in her chest somehow. She likes to feel beautiful, and she likes it when she has money, but she rarely does either.
She doesn't have the kind of delicate Slytherin beauty that the Greengrasses have, or the Malfoys or the Zabinis or the Warringtons or the Montagues. She has hard features, a square jaw and bright eyes and cheeks that have a permanently flushed look and she knows that no one will ever call her beautiful
It wounds her a bit, because no one wants her, not anyone in the world, and it's a veryvery lonely, a veryvery long life.
So she pretends.
She's a fabulous actress, from the minute she sets foot inside Hogwarts. She's no fool, Pansy Parkinson, and she plays her role as the queen of Slytherin House flawlessly. She latches on to the obvious king, Draco Malfoy, from day one. She never feels any love for him, and it is a small victory for her.
(Because even though they all think she is a love sick fool, she's the one who's manipulating him, she's the one who's running the show.)
She really is a Slytherin at heart, manipulative streak and all.
She knows that she is destined for an ugly fall. Her lifestyle calls for it, and she doesn't expect any less. Karma's a bitch and Draco dumps her heartlessly but she doesn't care. Because she was the one who was leading him on and not the other way around. He doesn't know it but this is her victory.
It's her only mode of t escape, this act that she does, and really? She should win a fucking award or something.
I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.
It's like she was born to do it, and, God, it makes her feel so sophisticated.
(Like she's got the most beautiful fucking mask in the world.)