Gobstone Club for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)
Prompts
Gobstone: Green Gobstone- Mourning
Accuracy: (character) Dominique Weasley
Power: (words) signs
Technique: (dialogue) "you're breaking my heart"
Word Count: 1,070
The signs were right there and yet, Dominique ignored it. She ignored it and allowed herself to be distracted in those mesmerizing blue-gray eyes. She allowed the kisses to make her lightheaded and the touches to send shivers down her spine. She allowed her words to woo her and leave her on a loop. Dominique didn't see what eoneonce else saw or rather what everybody pushed Delphini to be. Delphini couldn't be what she always wanted to be, a Dragonologist. The Slytherin had shared the same love for as Dominique's uncle Charlie had. When Delphini had the courage to come over the Weasley's Household, Dominique often found her talking to her uncle asking about his job and what dragons he accounted.
Delphini liked living on the edge. It's the reason why she joined the Dueling Club even though everybody whispered about that Lestrange girl and most either gave up before the duel ever happened or threw such vicious spells at her, that the professor had to sometimes intervene. She played Quidditch even though Dominique begged her not to; it wasn't a secret that students from different houses hated Delphini's guts. While they only known that she was a Lestrange, Delphini's appearance gave away who her mother was. Bellatrix Lestrange had killed and torture millions of people, personally affecting Dominique's family, the Longbottoms', and the Tonks. If Victoire Weasley didn't like someone then most of all the girls' that wanted to be friends with her didn't like that person either, and since it was no secret that Delphini and Victoire couldn't stand the sight of each other.
It seemed to be a theme that ran in Hogwarts. A Slytherin and A Gryffindor bumping heads for everyone to see, it started with the Founders themselves then to Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy then to James Potter and Severus Snape then Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy and now to Dominique's girlfriend, Delphini Lestrange, and Dominique's sister, Victoire Weasley. Delphini had few allies here and there and most definitely in Dominique but with most of the school having animosity towards Delphini, who could really blame the way she turned out?
Dominique should have noticed immediately when Delphini had stopped talking about being a Dragonologist all at once. One day, she was giving Dominique facts about dragons no matter how boring they were and then the next she stopped, Dominique could barely get a sound out of Delphi to talk about the blasted things. Then their late night 'studying' came to a halt, Delphi had stopped coming to the Hufflepuff Common Room and wouldn't tell Dominique if it was alright to study in the Slytherin Common Room.
What finally raised Dominique's alarms from slight worrying to full-blown concern was when Delphini coming distant, blatantly ignoring her, and spending too much of her time in the Restriction Area of the Library. Dominique had waited a week or two, hopefully, for Delphini revert into her usual self but when that didn't happened, Dominique wrote her a letter and demanded that Delphini meet with at once.
She hadn't expected the Slytherin to answer but to her surprise she did with a single word:
Where?
Dominique gave her the time and place, and there was where she sat. On one of the comfortable couches of Hufflepuff near the dying fireplace. She tapped her foot rhythmically against the carpeted floor, wondering what had happened with Del. What had happened in the month to make her change? They had just come back from Winter Break, so maybe something happened at home. Dominique knew how cruel Delphini's caretaker, Euphemia Rowle, was and maybe the old lady pushed her too far this break and she was merely looking for ways to make her pay.
If that was the case then she had to talk Del out of it, even though she couldn't stand the lady herself.
The Hufflepuff's portrait creak opened, snapping Dominique out her thoughts and making her look up at the open space. Delphini had stepped in very slowly, looking over her shoulder and up at the staircase that led to the dormitories before she entered and made her way towards Dominique. She surprised the Hufflepuff girl by pulling her into a deep kiss, describing emotions that Dominique identified as desperation, regret, remorse, and guilt. It left her breathless and she pulled on Delphini's tie so they were even closer together. She kissed her back twice as hard hoping that her kiss conveyed love and support.
Delphini pulled away gasping, resting her forehead against Dominique's as she stared deeply into her eyes. There was nothing but the crackling of fire and their haggardly breathing and thumbing hearts.
"I'm sorry," Delphini said her voice hoarse. "I'm so very sorry."
She turned her attention towards Dominique's neck, kissing and nipping at it before her lips trailed up to her jaw doing the same thing and trailing her lips down to Dominique's freckled shoulder.
"What have you done?" Dominique choked, her mind torn between lust and terror.
Delphini ignored her, her focus on Dominique's weakness that left her trembling in the knees and stole her breathe and made her moan recklessly. Her hand trailed up Dominique's thigh and she allowed it as she was repeated over and over:
What have you done? What have you done?
This wasn't how she managed her first time with Delphini to be like. She had thought and hoped it to be romantic, imitate not this, this feeling of desperation and remorse as if this was the last time she would ever see Delphi again. And as they laid there, Delphi's head on Dominique's chest as she stared at the embers of the dying fire and Dominique stare up at the ceiling.
It was silent, left for Delphini to tell her what she had done or what she was doing but she didn't. Delphini didn't say a word and instead opt to running her finger up and down Dominique's freckled arm. Tears formed suddenly in Dominique's eyes and she took a shaky breathe.
"You're breaking my heart," the words came out choked and broken.
Delphini let out an ugly sob and placed her head on Dominique's shoulder, tears spilling down Dom's neck.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."
The words, What have you done, were stuck in Dom's throat and she wonder for days until three years later her answer came with Delphini's picture was on the Daily Prophet.