Lysander Scamander and Molly Weasley II
It had gotten to the point where she couldn't even form functioning sentences anymore. She'd just sniff, hiccup and make strange moaning noises.
Every so often there'd be a quiet 'you fucking idiot' or a 'what did you think he was going to do?' muttered at herself.
"Molly…" Lysander decided to step in. "What's wrong sweetheart?" He sighed, moving across the corridor to crouch infront of her.
"What do you do when…" Molly paused to hiccup, "when you think you love someone.. but" She paused, taking in a huge breath, "but they just break your heart every day?" She sobbed, her voice cracking at the end of her question.
"Well, they can't be a very good person to love if they keep on hurting you Molls" He sighed, running a hand through his hair.
"But he is a good person" She cried "A very good person… the- the.. best person.."
"Molly, look I don't know what to tell you… You're, you're such an amazing person Mol, you stand up for yourself, you're your own person, you're feisty and gorgeous and I don't know how anyone could not love you. You're so strong and compassionate to the ones you care about. Look, this person, whoever it is… they're not worth your tears. Okay? Come here love" He muttered wiping the tears from her eyes and cheeks with his thumbs and tilting her chin up to look at her before hugging her tightly.
"Much better… there's a beautiful girl" He grins. "Come on, let me walk you back to your dorm" Lysander muttered warmly.
They wandered down to the Slytherin quarters, Lysander's arm firmly around Molly's tiny waist. Her tears had resolved to mere sniffles every few minutes now.
As they approached the doorway, Molly hugged Lysander tightly before pulling back and asking quietly as she opened the door to her common room, "If Lorcan…" She hiccuped, "If he comes.. looking for me, can you not tell him I'm here. I… I don't want to talk to him" She murmured a few tears threatening to fall again.
Lysander nodded as an automatic response and watched as Molly smiled slightly for the first time in hours and closed the door.
"Wait… what?" Lysander whisper shouted into the corridor, his eyes going wide. Was she talking about….
No… she couldn't have been. It's probably about something else.
It has to be…
… right?