Jade POV
I was currently lying on a soft mattress while my head was welded into a plush, puffy pillow. When my eyes did open my surroundings were white, white sheets, white walls and by god, white flooring, shock horror. I giggled to myself at my inane comments.
"Ah, miss Blackburn I see you are up and ready." I averted my gave to madam Pomfry who was standing there with some form of liquid that I hope I didn't have to drink, unfortunately for me I did.
She handed me the mug and slowly backed away, hesitantly I took as sip; disgusting ick whirled around my mouth, suffocating my taste buds and forcing itself down my throat.
I took another sip; the impact was worse this time causing me to choke on it slightly. I repeated the same routine until the mug was drained.
"You handled that better than most, everyone else who has had that on my watch has made a horrible mess."
"Gee, I wonder why?" Sighing I straightened myself up and flipped my legs out of bed. "Can I go to lessons today please?"
"Most students milk these situations, why do you wish to go when you are clearly unfit?"
"It's the first week back, I've made a new record for clumsy nubs, I need to go milk it."
"I will write you a note, if you are feeling at all unwell, you must come straight back."
Nodding I magicked myself into some random clothes from my wardrobe that matched. I brushed my teeth and put my hair up in a messy ponytail, I couldn't be bothered what I looked like right now. My skin was pale from blood loss and my eyes had bags under them.
Madam Pomfry came in moments later with a note.
"Accio school books." I mumbled and soon my school books for the day flew in along with my duffle bag to carry them in.
I walked down the empty school hall, all students were eating breakfast, I had no appetite for it so I left it.
Slowly making my way down to Transfiguration until I bumped into something solid, and then ungracefully landed on my but. Looking up I saw it was Malfoy followed by Zabini, Crabbe and Goyle- yippy I get the whole package today.
"Blackburn, what are you doing out of the hospital wing?" Malfoy asked rather shocked.
"Breaching the terms of my asbo, what does it look like?" I grumbled while straightening myself out and standing up again.
"What's an asbo?" Of course, he wouldn't know.
"Doesn't matter," I then pushed myself past them and started down the hall again before turning back to face the still frozen group, "by the way Malfoy, thanks for helping me." I graciously gave him a small smile then carried on my way.
Everyone had to show their homework to the class; Neville managed to turned himself half into a hawk and half human; Ron only managed to grow a tail and a mane; Harry had is face half morphed into a dog but with human flesh.
Basically, no one had managed it until it came to me. Slowly I made my way up to the front of the class and performed the spell before taking on my animagus form of a Panther cat.
"Perfect Miss Blackburn, ten points to Gryffindor." I changed myself back and took my seat next to Lavender who gave me a small smile.
After my free period I had defence against the dark arts with Snape and the Slytherins.
We waited outside until he motioned for us to enter, "today class, we will be doing your first practical after a long summer away from magic, we are going to freshen up on your duelling," an uproar of cheers came from the Slytherins, they really wanted to beat the crap out of us, Parkinson was eyeing me smugly. "I will be assigning you partners who I believe will challenge you to work better; Weasly, Granger; Potter, Goyle; Finnegan, Crabbe; Longbottom, Zabini; Thomas, Bullstrode; Parkinson, Brown; Malfoy, Blackburn…" I blanked out after that, great, now Malfoy had an opportunity to get back at me for ruining his relationship and being such a bitch to him so far this week, I knew he was an amazing dueller, I could hit a giant, or at lest I don't think I could. "If your partner struggles you should help them, this is peer teaching and you will not use it to get one up on your opponents. Off you go."
Everyone then went reluctantly to their partners and started duelling.
"Ready Blackburn?" Malfoy asked me while bearing his wand.
"Not really, let's go." He shook his head while we leant in to bow before turning away from each other.
"Expelliarmus." He yelled, I just managed to dodge before I took my strike.
"Levi corpus." Malfoy was immediately hung upside down. He shook from it and started again.
"Confundus." Suddenly I didn't know what was happening until I was hit with another spell that sent me flying.
I hopped back up, "Stupefy." It hit Malfoy directly in the chest and sent him flying, "Immobulus." I shot again, he froze. "Potrificus totalus." Now he was completely immobile. Slowly I walked over to him and pointed my wand at him smiling wickedly, "care to yield Malfoy?"
"Very well done Miss Blackburn, Mr Malfoy seems to be completely… stuck, help him up and start again, five points to Gryffindor." Snape walked off sneering, he obviously wasn't happy about awarding me house points.
Turning my attention back to Malfoy I helped unravel his body and pull him up, before releasing his hand quickly.
"Relashio." I whipped my wand and Malfoy was completely released from my hex seeing as I couldn't compltely unravel him.
"Since when were you good at duelling, Blackburn?"
I simply shrugged my shoulders and went back to my side of the room.
The lesson carried on like that for a while, Malfoy and I took it in turns on winning, not on purpose though, we were quite evenly matched. I smirked over at Parkinson when I saw her glaring at my close interaction with Malfoy.
At lunch instead of eating I wrote my essay on why the three unforgivable curses should never be used but learnt none the less from defence against the dark arts. It took me most of lunch to manage it, but I was proud of it once it was done.
The only downside was I now had broom practise with Malfoy and I hadn't eaten all day, crap.
When I did get outside with my broom dragging behind me he was already there waiting.
"You took your time."
"I tend to do that, let's get this over with." Sighing I mounted my broom; he did the same and pushed off.
Very, very, very, very carefully I copied his actions and halted to a slow hover.
"We are going to teach you how to actually control your broom today, how to direct it basically."
"You have to be mental."
"No, I leave that one down to you." Huh, evil, self conceited jerk.
Instead I just mumbled rude words under my breath.
"To move forwards carefully manoeuvre your wait so it is closer to the tip of the broom. Like what I'm doing." I watched as he demonstrated the instruction and flew over to me, "simple, now you try."
"Evil." I mumbled under my breath before trying what he just showed me, I managed it as well.
"Now to stop gently ease your weight towards the rear of the broom." I giggled at the terminology he's been using, proper teacher's style.
By giggling I lost my concentration for a fraction of a second did a loopy de loop.
Pale fingers suddenly wrapped around my broom's tip securing it in the same spot.
"Would you pay attention for five minutes, I said stop, not go all woop de doo da."
I giggled again, "Draco Malfoy said woop de doo da."
"And your point is?"
"Nothing teach."
"Good, now try again… properly this time." I saluted and then repeated what I had done before but this time managing to break. "To steer left you need to tug your broom slightly to the left while leaning slightly in the other direction, and vice versa for turning to the right."
I managed this as well, even though it did take me fifteen minutes.
"Good, now you can steer and hover, how about racing? We'll try that next time though."
"Bye teach." I said waving him off.
"One second Blackburn," I turned to face him, "stop not eating, I didn't see you at breakfast or lunch, you better be at dinner." Confused as to why he would even care I just nodded and walked off to Herboligy.
At dinner I had a reasonable portion of food, not too much and not little enough for people to comment.
When I turned around because I felt eyes on me I noticed Parkinson and her cronies either glaring at me or Malfoy who was watching me instead of his friends who were talking to him, until they noticed he wasn't paying attention and followed his gaze to me.
I blushed profusely and turned back to my dinner aware eyes were still on me.
That night I dreamt about Malfoy, how odd and rather disturbing I might add.
