A/N: Thank you to Dristi for being my first reviewer for this fic! By the way, shame on you to all you guys who are putting this on your alerts and faves and not reviewing! Tell me what you think, I want to know! You know who you are! I almost wanted to wait for a while to accumulate more reviews, but I decided that would be mean to the people who did review. so voila!
Try to Love Again: Part Two
Remember my last (lol):
That same night, he owled Sirius.
Sirius's name was now cleared (long story, that oneā¦) and he was on holiday in Italy to relax a bit before coming back to finish his auror training. Must've been nice for him to get a little note from his godson telling him to please come save his best friend.
But, of course, he came. I didn't know that he had arrived, because I was with Draco at the time. He used Harry's map to find me. When he finally made it to the Slytherin common room under the invisibility cloak, it took him a while to figure out Draco's locking charm. A simple "Alohomora" obviously wouldn't work on it. But still, he was a former marauder and Draco was a sixteen-year-old. It wasn't too much trouble.
When he finally barged in and ripped the cloak off, he disarmed Draco first thing. It wasn't necessary, though, as Draco's wand had been on the arm of a chair in the corner of the room. Sirius seemed unable to move for a moment as he saw me lying on the green silk sheets and crying silently, Draco on top of me. I had long since learned that fighting only made it worse.
I remember the white-hot fury that flashed through Sirius's eyes as he came back to himself and leapt across the room towards Draco, his wand simply forgotten as he tore him bodily from me. He threw him down off the bed, and Draco hit the wall, seemed to wake up from his trancelike state, and slumped against it, tears streaming from his eyes and blood from his lip where he had bit into it as his head hit the wall.
Sirius left him there for the moment, turning his attention to me. He wrapped my naked form in Draco's satin sheet, and I tried to hold back but couldn't stop myself from flinching at the contact. He noticed and understood, abruptly releasing me from his embrace.
"Can you walk?"
I nodded. He handed me the invisibility cloak and I followed unseen behind him as he dragged Draco with nails digging into his arm through the corridors to Dumbledore's office. Sirius whispered to me, telling me that I could go to Gryffindor tower or the hospital wing and he'd take care of it, but I said I'd stay with him. I didn't want anyone to see me, and I felt safe with Sirius.
Draco was a sobbing mess by the time he collapsed into a chair in Dumbledore's office. I turned away from him, shutting my eyes to the pain I was (albeit very indirectly) inflicting on him. I knew it was for the best, but that didn't make it easy.
They forced him to break the spell he had on me, and I told Dumbledore what I absolutely had to about everything. Draco was sent to St. Mungo's.
Dumbledore agreed not to press legal charges (after I begged him). When we were finished, I went to Grimmauld Place with Sirius.
I needed to get away, at least for a little while. I didn't want to face the questions and later pity from my friends or the dagger-glares from Slytherins for putting their prince into a psycho ward. I didn't want to face my family either, didn't want to have to tell my parents what had happened, listen to them worry over me, hear threats to Draco's life from my brothers. And what I really didn't want to hear was that this has happened before, that I should know better than to be so trusting.
So I went with Sirius. I was comfortable with him, he would leave me alone when I wanted to be (unlike some people I know), and he could use the company. I sent Harry a message by patronus before I left, telling him that I was fine and where I was going.
Sirius and I didn't say anything to each other as we walked through the castle grounds, stepping just through the gates before apparating to Grimmauld Place.
I find that I prefer shorter chapters- on one hand, it gives you guys less to read, but at least I update faster, and it makes me feel good when I update :-) Now REVIEW people!
