Harry Potter FF-
C-H-A-P-T-E-R E-I-G-H-T, READ IT! (Or at least the disclaimer)
Chapter 11-
Days past to quickly, the potion was turning out fine it was very difficult and my hands were covered in burns from any liquid I had splashed or when Draco got mad at me and almost tipped the cauldron over… so I was forced to grab the scalding hot cauldron and let out a huge string of curses right in front of some startled looking first years from Slytherin and Gryffindor, funny enough that small group of first years I scared the crap out of when I was studying for the first task was there. Those kids ran across the room and hid under some desks.
Draco laughed at that but I just slapped him with my bright pink hand
"DON'T LAUGH AFTER YOU JUST BURNED ME!" I yelled at him.
"YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GRAB IT!" he yelled back. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes, forcing my voice to be calm and collected,
"But I need this potion so I don't die when the task comes around." I hissed, opening my eyes to glare at him poisonously. He glared back and looked down at the potion which was a swirling blue,
"We're almost done. We just need to put in the Serine's Tongue and let it boil for three days." I nodded and looked down at the final ingredient,
"Anything special we have to do with it?" he looked over the notes,
"Take off the taste buds and slice it down the middle, pull it apart and the user needs to put three drops of their blood in it then re-close it and wrap the taste buds around it." I stared at him,
"Excuse me?" Draco looked up at me in annoyance,
"You heard me! Get going!" My lip curled up and I reared back in rage,
"Don't boss me around!" I snarled and kicked his chair away from me, "Now let me work. Go back to what you're actually supposed to be doing!" He glared at me, slightly confused.
"Idiot, I mean, GO BACK TO CLASS AND GET AWAY FROM ME!" he recoiled but raised his head proudly and stood up,
"Fine, good luck on your own." I sneered at him,
"I don't need your help anyway!" he swept away and I glared after him and snorted, turning back to my potion.
I muttered under my breath and pulled the tongue out of it's taste buds and grabbed a knife, carefully cutting it down the middle and pulling it apart, making a face,
"Ew…" I sighed and cleaned the knife and lifted it to my scorched palm and drew I across swiftly, wincing slightly at the pain. I took a deep breath and turned my palm over.
One, two, three drops and clenched my palm closed, pulling it back to my chest and reaching for a towel, pulling it tightly around the wound.
"There that'll work." I muttered and picked up the taste buds, carefully tying it around the rest of the tongue.
"Here goes." I placed the tongue in and watched as the potion hissed and screamed, startling the third years I was sharing the room with at the moment.
"Now, to wait." I waved my wand around the potion to create a barrier around it and walking up to the front of the class,
"Professor Snape, if it wouldn't bother your to much would you mind keeping all the students away from my potion?" I asked sweetly. He nodded,
"It will be no bother," he turned away from me and faced the class of third years, a few of them already drifting over to my potion, "Stay away from that potion or it is a week's worth of detentions." Snape said coolly and all the third years retreated.
"Thank you Professor, I need to go the infirmary wing." He nodded and went back to bullying small children.
I turned and walked out, clutching my hand to my chest. I made it up without seeing anyone and walked in. Madame Pomfery was looking over some charts when I came in. She looked up and frowned,
"Oh dear what happened?" I frowned,
"I burned and cut on my hand." She held out her hands expectantly and I hesitantly held them out.
"How terrible! Let's get you fixed up." she led me over to one of the beds and took out a small bottle,
"Episkey." The cut healed over my hand and she wordlessly took a cloth and poured the red liquid on the cloth,
"This may sting just a little." She said as she put the cloth on my hand.
I hate when people lie. It didn't sting a little, it killed. I tensed and yelped, trying to pull my hand back but her grip was to strong. She finally finished and grabbed a wad of bandages and wrapped them around my hands tightly.
"There we go, you may go now." I smiled,
"Thank you Madame Pomfery." She nodded and went back to her charts.
I walked back down to the dungeon, planning to take a nap. I yawned as I made it to the door,
"Chamber of Secrets." I forced out between my yawn. The wall dissolved and I stumbled in, how long has it been since I slept? I couldn't even remember.
I walked through the common room I saw Draco and he stood up like he was going to say something but I ignored him and kept walking. I collapsed on my bed and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
"MORGAN! ARE YOU DEAD? !" Someone shouted rudely, interrupting my sleep. I groaned and waved my hand around, trying to get whomever it is to shut up.
"MORGAN DON'T DIE! WAKE UP!" I sat up and glared at the person, who turned out to be Amanda
"What do you want?" I groaned, trying to rub sleep from my eyes.
"You're alive! That's good! You've been asleep for two whole days!" I shot up out of bed,
"TWO DAYS!" Amanda nodded,
"We've been trying to wake you up forever!" I blinked and looked around,
"We?" she nodded,
"Ayla's been helping too but she went to go get some lunch right now." I shook my head,
"My potion's going to be done tomorrow! What's the date?" he stared at me like I was an idiot,
"It's February twenty second." I screamed,
"I ONLY HAVE TWO DAYS!"
She nodded slowly. I jumped up and changed, not caring that Amanda was standing two feet away. She made a strange squeaking noise and I heard her jump on something. I heard a thump and I pulled my robes over my head and turned around only to scream and yank my wand out.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING DOWN HERE!" I screeched, "HOW DID YOU EVEN GET DOWN HERE?" Amanda shifted awkwardly,
"I let him in." I glared at Draco,
"Hey it's not my fault you didn't notice me!" he tried to defend himself but his cheeks were bright red.
"BUT YOU COULD'VE LOOKED AWAY!" he had no comeback for that, his mouth opened a few times but nothing came out.
"Get out of here Malfoy!" I snarled. I saw him flinch when I called him by his last name but he retreated nonetheless. I turned to Amanda,
"You could've warned me!" she looked away,
"I thought you noticed him." I shook my head and stood to go upstairs.
"Did you see the look on his face when you called him Malfoy?" Amanda asked absentmindedly, "I've never seen him look so hurt." I shook my head and stared out the window at the snow fall,
"I sunk really low to do that, but I was mad." I sighed and shook my head, "Maybe I'll apologize later." I muttered.
Amanda nodded and we walked out in silence, as soon as we came into the common room I looked for Draco but he was of talking with Crabbe, Goyle and Parkinson so I sighed and walked out, staring at my feet.
I wandered randomly to the library and sat down; grabbing a random book someone left on the desk and flipped through it. When I found out it was a complete book on love potions I slammed it shut and stood up and stalked away.
With nothing to do I was stuck just walking around with no real goal. I finally made it to the Quidditch pitch for no apparent reason. I sighed happily and walked over to the Slytherin locker room and unlocked the door, walking over to my locker and grabbing my broom, I still only had the Nimbus 2001 Draco had bought all of us. I smiled at it and traced the beautiful gold letters with one finger and pulled out my robes, walking over to the changing area they were forced to make when I joined the team and changed into my robes. I was pretty upset that we weren't having Quidditch this year because of the Tournament.
I brought the broom out and stood in the center of the field, kicking off and flying through the air. I flew in lazy circles over the pitch, weaving in and out of the goals. When I reached as high as I could go I relaxed, scooting back on my broom until I was almost sitting on the immaculately trimmed twigs and laid forward, resting on my arms.
"How boring, I did nothing today." I sighed and stared over the grounds.
"Hey Morgan!" I blinked and looked around, trying to find the source of the voice. I sat up and spun my boom around, almost hitting another.
"Oh, Hi Draco." He sneered at me,
"Oh so you're calling me by 'Draco' again?" I frowned sadly,
"Ya, sorry about earlier you just kinda startled me. I didn't know there would be a guy in the girl's dorm. I actually thought there was a jinx put on the door to keep guys from coming in." he nodded,
"Amanda did some intense talking to a portrait, it was a little strange." I giggled,
"Yah, that would work I guess." I smirked, inching the broom closer,
"Wanna race? Chaser versus Seeker?" he straightened up on his broom,
"You itching to lose Champion?" he sneered. I grinned and started circling him, making his neck snap around to try and keep his eyes on me,
"Oh I don't think so, I'll prove that you are not the fastest person on a broom."
"Challenge excepted." I stopped so I was right next to him,
"Five times around?" he nodded.
"Ready…" I started, prepared to move if he decided to be a bum and cheat,
"Set…" he said with a knowing smirk, so he knew I was prepared for him to cheat.
"GO!" we both shouted, taking off.
For the first three rounds Draco and I were perfectly tied, he kept trying to knock me off course and I kept trying to get him to go spinning but we were both to used to avoiding bludgers and other players so we were evenly matched.
When we got to the fourth round I grinned and slowed down. Draco looked behind him in confusion and we finished the last lap and I leaned forward, shooting forward, catching him off guard.
"What the—!" he shot forward just after and we were tied again.
"Get ready to lose!" I called and tried to put a little more speed in my broom but so did he.
We finished our starting point in a perfect tie. I yelled in annoyance and pulled up as did Draco,
"Looks like we're evenly matched." I growled. Draco frowned and didn't say anything, he just swung around to face me,
"Ready to go?" I frowned and rose up, shaking my head and returning to the position that I was in when Draco came,
"No, I like it up here." I purred, drifting higher and higher.
"Morgan, its time to go back to the castle." I shook my head childishly,
"No way dad." I laughed. He rolled his eyes,
"What is up with you? You're acting all weird."
"This is how I always act, you just never noticed. And I'm still not coming down." I added backing away as he moved forward.
"Morgan, you're being childish." He growled. I shrugged, shifting on my broom so I was more comfortable.
"I haven't been in the air for such a long time." I sighed wistfully, "Just let me have my fun." He rolled his eyes,
"You must've been in the air for hours now, come down." I pouted,
"No." he shook his head,
"Morgan…" I stuck my bottom lip out,
"No." he groaned and shot up to grab me. I whined in annoyance,
"I don't wanna go down!"
Draco ignored me and grabbed my arm tighter and started to pull me down. I pulled on my arm and whined even more,
"Drrrrraaaaccccoooo!" I dragged it out and pulled on my arm,
"Stop being so childish and come with me. The potion is going to be done in an hour or so and I don't think you've eaten in the past two days." I frowned,
"Actually I think it was five days." I muttered, my stomach giving a loud growl.
He chuckled and jumped off his broom, taking me with him but I fell off awkwardly, putting us in a heap.
"Why do I keep falling on you?"
He shrugged and sat up, taking me with him so I ended up sitting on his lap. I blushed and tried to move and stand up but he wrapped his arm around my waist and rested his chin on my shoulder,
"D-Draco?" I asked, my face bright red,
"Mmhmm?" I tried to look at him but I couldn't move my head far enough,
"Are you okay? I've never seen you act so…" What was the word I was looking for? Gentle? Caring? Open? I couldn't figure it out so I just decided on: "expressive." He chuckled,
"I'm just a little worried about your task coming up." I smiled and placed my hand over his,
"Don't be, I'll be fine." At that moment I stopped thinking, "I'm more worried about you." I felt his head move,
"What do you mean?"
"Well they said that the creatures will take away the person the champion cares about most." I said softly looking away. I felt his breath hitch and I tried to maneuver myself so I could see him but I had no such luck,
"Draco, lets go change, we need to get our potion finished." I said sweetly, still fighting to stand.
"Okay."
He stood up easily and once again dragged me with him. We got changed back into our normal clothes and started to make our way back in silence. I smiled as we walked and glanced at him, reaching for his hand and squeezed it gently. I saw a tiny smile light up his face as he retuned the pressure.