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Chapter Eleven
Perfectly Mad
Day Nine.
Theo Nott laid down the book he had been reading and sighed, he still could not believe that so much had happened in so little time. Draco's little "project" with Granger did not seem to be getting him any where and from what he had heard from Blaise his old friend was getting no where closer to making Granger fall for him, something that both Blaise and himself had been thankful for.
So much had happened in the last few years and now that the war seemed only a few years away there was no time to lose with such games, Draco seemed stuck in a small box while he had to remember that there was a much bigger picture out there, what kind of person had time to play games at a time like this?
"Draco Malfoy" Blaise thought to himself while rolling his eyes lightly. Draco had changed so much over the last few years but he was always going to be one of the people that Blaise cared for, even if he didn't deserve it all of the time.
They had to save Draco before it was too late.
The door to the common room suddenly opened and Blaise jumped slightly so the book that had been resting on his lap landing on the floor loudly but Theo ignored it when he caught sight of a distressed looking Blaise standing in the door way. His dark haired friend was standing in the door way, one hand still resting on the handle of their door and his breaths coming in heavy gulps as he looked around the room with panicked eyes.
"Where is he?" Blaise almost yelled before Theo could even think of something to say.
"W-Who?" Theo asked when he had finally found his voice, something was wrong here and he knew that he was not going to like it "Where is who?"
"Draco!" Blaise replied like it was the most obvious thing in the world "Where is Draco?"
"Why?" Theo asked with panic thick in his voice from the mention of his other best friend "is something wrong? Is he in danger?"
"He will be!" Blaise replied in a tone that was dripping with nothing but loathing, he sounded so mad that Theo found himself taking a step back, he had never seen his friend like this before now "Now tell me where he is!"
"The kitchen, I think. He said something about getting something to eat and having a drink before bed."
Blaise nodded slightly in thanks and Theo called out to him before he could walk away.
"Wait! What's going on?"
"No time" Blaise simply replied before turning away and running down the stairs without saying another word.
Theo looked unblinkingly at the place where Blaise had been standing mere seconds ago before looking down at his book that was laying open on the floor and sighing once more. Within seconds he picked up the book, placed in on his bed side table and grabbed hold of his dressing gown, the night was growing late but he had bigger things to worry about than being caught in his night wear.
Something was happening and he needed to know what it was.
His friend needed him and right now nothing else mattered.
---*---
Pansy opened her eyes and wiped the sleep from them before closing them once more, she had no idea how she had managed to fall asleep in the first place but suddenly she no longer cared about the reason, instead she just wished that she could feel the bliss of sleep once more.
So dark….
She closed her eyes tighter and attempted to force sleep on herself, sleeping was so much better then being awake, awake she was still her in this room, trapped all alone in the darkness as the walls seemed to creep ever so closer with every passing second.
Please someone, make the darkness go away…
Pansy was used to the small spaces but she hated them more then anything else in the world, they made her remember home, being pulled along by her arm by her father with such force that she would have bruises for weeks, her mother yelling at her in anger, the gleam in theirs eyes that she would see right before they whacked their fists into her face, she could hear it now, the sound of their cold laugher as they pushed her into the darkroom under the stairs and the loud sound of the key in the door as they clicked it shut.
It's so dark and I can't get out, someone please, find me, get me out….
Hot tears ran down Pansy's face as she pulled her legs closer to her body and wrapped her arms around them tightly, she suddenly felt like a small child once again, bring trapped away from everyone else because she had not been a good girl.
She was a good girl.
Just not their kind of good girl.
She wanted to be good.
So she changed.
She became their "good girl"
Please mummy, I'll be good, I swear I'll be good!
She had given in and in return they had taken away her soul. That night Pansy Parkinson remembered everything she had tried to make herself forget, she remembered her parents screaming, the day she had given in and how good she had once wished she could be.
"I'll always be good mummy. I love you"
"I love you too, my good little girl"
---*---
"Where is she?"
Draco raised his eyebrows and smirked slightly before talking another gulp of his drink, he had known that Blaise was going to end up finding him soon and he was ready for this. He had no intention of telling him where he had hidden Pansy and no matter what he did that was not going to change. He put down his glass and cleared his throat before replying.
"I don't think I know what you are talking about"
Without thinking about what he was doing Blaise took a big step forward, he had no idea what he was planning to do but standing here and talking did not seem like it was going to get him any where. Theo reached out a hand to stop his friend but it seemed there was no need, before he could do anything Blaise has taken out his wand and calmly pointed it at his black haired friend, as soon as Blaise had spotted it he stopped walking and took a deep breath. He knew that Draco would not even think twice before turning on him.
That was the kind of person that he had turned into.
"I would think very carefully before doing anything else if I were you" Draco calmly said with a small smile, like always he seemed to have the upper hand and he loved it.
Theo narrowed his eyes at Draco and sighed in defeat, he had been hoping that there was something that he could do to try and help Blaise and Pansy but it seemed like they were going to lose.
"Don't do this Draco" Theo warned "You have no idea what you are getting yourself into"
"No Theo, I really think that it is the two of you that have no idea what you are getting yourselves into considering that you are the ones trying to threatening me"
"Hey" Theo said while raising his hands in surrender "last time I checked you were the one with the wand in your hand, not us"
"Be that as it may I can see that idiot friend of yours just itching to reach for his wand and personally I don't think that I am stupid enough to let it go that far"
A sound escaped Blaise's mouth that sounded scarily like a growl.
"Stupid, no but you sure are bloody thick headed" Blaise hissed "Do you even think about what you do any more or is being like your father something that comes naturally now?"
Draco's drip on his wand tightened and he stood up so fast that his chair fell backwards as a number of house elves scattered across the room to get out of harms way, they hated students fighting in their kitchen but could see nothing that they could do to stop it when it seemed like a fight was only seconds away.
"I am warning you right now and I shall only do it once, don't you dare ever talk about my father again. He is a great man and I believe that you would do well to remember that, the pair of you"
"She is your friend Draco, we are your friends. Please don't do this to us. Just tell us where she is and we will forget that this whole thing happened" Theo said in a defeated voice, he had no idea what to do, Blaise was seconds away from losing his temper and he had a feeling that the out come would be nothing good "All we want is to know that she is okay…we just need to know that you haven't done anything to her"
Draco watched them for a few long seconds before lowering his wand, picking up his chair and sitting back down like nothing had happened. He had a cold and emotionless expression on his face that reminded his two friends of his father.
"You want to know if I have hurt her?"
"Yes"
"Alright" Draco replied with a small nod "I will say this: she is not hurt and will be back tomorrow night in the common room like nothing happened"
"Dr-"
"Tomorrow night Theo. That's all I'm saying. If you carry on then it might be a bit longer"
"Why?" Blaise asked in a desperate voice "Why are you doing this?"
"She betrayed me Blaise" Draco said with a small shrug "No one betrays me and gets away with it, you should know that and possibly remember it for next time you decide to try and play hero for your little girlfriend"
Theo nodded, there was nothing else that hey would be able to do now, all they could do is hope that Pansy would be with them tomorrow, safe and sound like they hoped. He lightly pulled Blaise after his and was surprised at how easily he followed him. Blaise seemed almost in a daze as they walked out of the kitchen and back to their common room, he wanted more then anything to have Pansy standing with him and the thought scared him slightly.
He had always known that he cared for her.
It just wasn't in till he thought that she was in danger that he realised how much he did care about her.
That night Theo went to sleep thinking about how wrong everything had gone and all Blaise could think about was how he should never of let Pansy leave with that folder that day, how he should of forced her out of the room and talked to her for once instead of being cold.
He should of said he loved her.
There was so much that he should of done.
---*---
Day Ten
Hermione looked at the clock on the wall and sighed, she had been sitting in the same place for the last fifteen minutes and every second seemed to be passing more slowly then normal. Ginny had been feeling ill this morning and had asked if she could give the meeting a miss today, something that Hermione could find understandable but with the time now ten minutes passed the hour she was started to worry about the fact that she was still the only one in the room.
Pansy had yet to show up.
Hermione had known that this was something that Pansy had never been a hundred percent behind, maybe even something that she didn't care about, but in all the meetings that they had had so far she had never been late once, something that had been an unexpected but pleasant surprise to both Ginny and herself.
Hermione frowned as the seconds carried on ticking away, and she rolled her eyes in annoyance, just when she had been thinking that things with Pansy might be changing and her opinion of the Slytherin girl had gone up she had to go and pull something as childish as this. Then again it did sound like something that someone like her would do just to piss someone that they didn't like mind wondered to the events of yesterday and she leaned back in her chair while thinking about it, Ginny and herself still had no idea what had happened and after talking about it they had both agreed not to ask unless Pansy said something about why Draco had wanted to talk to her, although they might be getting on with Pansy for the time being that did not mean that it was always going to be like that.
Had she really thought that things were going to be better between them just because her and Ginny had gotten on for one night?
The very thought almost made her smile she could not believe that she had thought Pansy to be a better person just because she had not called Ginny any names for a full two hours.
With a sigh of defeat Hermione stood up and started packing away her things as she thought about how disappointed Ginny was going to be when she told her that Pansy had never bothered to show up this morning. She scowled at the thought, while Ginny had not really said anything about it Hermione could not help but think that her friend had been secretly pleased with her new found friendship in the black haired Slytherin girl.
That morning Hermione left that room thinking that she knew one thing for sure: Pansy Parkinson was not a nice person.
---*---
"What do you mean she didn't show up?"
Hermione took a deep breath and tried not to lose her temper with her friend, she had been asking the same thing for the last ten minutes and Hermione could not understand why, she knew that Ginny and Pansy had gotten on yesterday but that did not mean that the girl was simply going to change over night because they managed not to kill one another for an hour.
"I have told you Ginny, I showed up, waited for her and she never showed. There is nothing else too it really, she must have had something better to do with her time"
"And you are sure that you waited long enough? She could of just been running late this morning and did not show up on time"
"Yes!" Hermione scowled "I waited there for almost an hour and she did not show up. Would you rather I had waited longer?"
Ginny sighed and leaned back in her bed, she knew that she was annoying Hermione with her questions but there was something about this that did not seem right.
"Sorry" she sighed as she closed her eyes, she had been feeling ill since late last night and her head was hurting her "I don't mean to annoy you Hermione, I guess I just thought that she seemed different the other day. I was under the impression that this was starting to become something that she cared about now, not some silly game. I really thought that she was going to show this morning"
Hermione smiled kindly and nodded as she placed Ginny's homework on the bed side table, one of the things that she had always loved about her red headed friend was how she always tried to see the best in people, even ones as mean and dark as Pansy Parkinson.
"I know Ginny, believe me, after what you told me about how she was with you even I was ready to start believing that she had changed some how. I guess some times we can all be wrong about people"Ginny nodded while looking out of her window, there was still something about this whole thing that was bothering her, some thing that was telling her that there was something wrong with this.
Suddenly a thought entered her mind.
"Hermione, what do you think was really happening yesterday when Draco and Blaise came to get Pansy?"
Hermione shrugged.
"No idea, maybe its some Slytherin thing that we don't understand"
"Yeah" Ginny replied with a thoughtful nod "I guess it could be something like that…do you remember seeing her at dinner?"
"No" Hermione said with a small frown "To be honest I don't really pay attention to her when I don't have to. It's not like we're friends after all"
"Have you seen her at all after she left yesterday?"
"No, Ginny what's going on? What's with all the questions, is something wrong?"
"No, no nothing is wrong…at least I don't think that it is…I just have a bad feeling about this"
"About what?" Hermione asked with a frown "About her not showing up?"
"About everything. About her seeming so scared when she left, about Draco and Blaise personally coming to get her. About how Blaise was when we saw him in the hall way yesterday and about how we have not seen her since. Do you really not think that there is anything wrong with all of that when you look at it all together?"
"I don't know" Hermione replied slowly as she thought about it all "I had never thought about it like that really…but I am sure that its nothing too bad. It's Hogwarts after all" Hermione concluded with a small nod, she had always believed that nothing really bad could happen in school grounds.
"Lots of bad things have happened in Hogwarts before Hermione, not that I need to remind you"
"True" Hermione agreed reluctantly "but they are her friends, they would never do something bad to her"
"But its like you just said Hermione, it could be something Slytherin that we would not understand"Slowly Hermione sat down at the end of Ginny's bed and frowned before turning to look at her, she could not remember the last time her friend had fought so hard for something.
"You really think that there is something bad happening here don't you?"
"Yeah" Ginny said with a small nod "I know it sounds silly but I really do"
Hermione turned away and sighed, she did not agree with what Ginny was saying but could see how much it was worrying her.
"Alright" Hermione finally said "I will make you a deal, you spend today trying to get better and tomorrow, if and only if we don not see Pansy or hear from her then we will go and speak to Dumbledore personally about this, alright?"
"Alright, Deal" Ginny said with a smile "Thank you"
"Yeah, yeah" Hermione sighed whole getting up and picking her bag "I have some homework to do but I will come back and see you later. In the mean time remember what I said, get some sleep!"
With that Hermione left the room and closed the door behind her. Ginny sighed and pulled the bed covers around her, there was something wrong here and as soon as she managed to get out of this bed she was going to find out what.
---*---
Pansy jumped slightly at the sound of the lock on the door clicking open suddenly, the old door creaked painfully as the door slowly opened and light erupted around the room for the first time in hours, the bright light caused Pansy to snap her eyes shut and cover them before she could reopen them, it seemed like it had been forever since she had seen any sign of light. She peaked through her fingers to see Draco standing in the door way with a cheerful smile on his face, he looked happy but there was something false about it that made her skin crawl, she knew that every smile that came from him had to be fake in some way. He closed the door behind him and leaned against in silently with the smile still in place, he seemed pleased to see her how she was: bunched up in one of the corners, her knees tucked into her body, her skin pale from lack of food and water and covering her eyes from the pain of the light, maybe he thought that she must of learned what ever lesson he wanted her to.
"Feeling better are we?"
Without a word she lowered her hand and nodded slowly, it had been so long since she had talked and she did not want to give him the pleasure of hearing how weak her voice must be right now. All she wanted to do was get out of here and back into her bed, she had missed everything about life out side of this room.
"Good" he said with a small nod "and you are never going to do anything else like that again are you?"
She shock her head and he frowned.
"I'm sorry, I don't think that I can hear you. Answer me when I talk to you Pansy"
She slowed painfully and grimaced, she hated doing what he asked but she wanted to get out of here too much to try and be smart with him.
"No" she finally croaked, she had been right in thinking her voice would sound weak and unused, it sounded painfully small even to her own ears. "I will never do something like that again"
"So you admit it" he said "You took the book from me?"
"Yes, it was me"
He sighed and walked towards her slowly, she back away more and wanted to cry, she did not want him to get too close to her. She had been wrong to think that there was still something good about him. No one that was good would of even thought about doing what he did to her. He leaned down in till his eyes were level with hers. She wanted to look away but as soon as her eyes locked with his she found that she could not look away, there was something so dark in them that she did not trust what he would do if she did not look at him.
"I am so disappointed in you" he muttered "You know that what you did was wrong?"
"Yes"
"And you are never going to do anything like that again are you?"
"No, never again. I promise"
"And your going to distance yourself from Granger and Weasley and let me get on with my little game aren't you?"
"Yes"
He nodded before straightening up and offering her his hand with a small smile. She hesitated but quickly took hold of his hand when she saw his eyes darken in annoyance, she just wanted to forget about this whole thing.
"Good girl. I knew you had more common sense then that" he said as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders and started moving her to the door "Now lets get out of here. I happen to know that there are some people who are waiting to see you my dear"
"Blaise?" the small question was out of her mouth before she could even think about it and when he smiled she wished that she had not said anything at all, she did not want him to know that there was someone that she cared for. He would only try and find some way to use it against her in the future.
"That's right" he laughed "That little want to be hero has been very worried about you. He really cares about you"
Even though it was Draco saying it the thought of Blaise caring about her made her heart skip a beat, he had been all that she had been thinking about lately.
"But before we see him I think that there is something that you need to understand" the grip he had on her tightened and she bit her lip to stop herself from yelling out load, the lack of food had made her weaker then normal. "He is helping me at the moment and while there is something that I want then it needs to be the first thing that he is thinking about. I am sure that you can see how I worry that his feelings for you could get in the way of what I want. I never allow things to get in my way. You leave him alone and I am sure that everything will be alright"
She could feel her eyes slowly filling with tears and she looked away from him, she did not want him to see. She hated crying but she found that she could not help herself, there always seemed to be something getting in her way when it came to Blaise and herself, all she wanted was him, not some big war between the light and dark side getting in the way.
"Do we understand one another?" he asked as he gently turned her face beck to his, her tears spilled from her eyes as she tried to blink them away. He watched her tears as they slowly moved from her eyes to her chin and silently fell but his face showed no sign of emotion.
"Pansy?" he said when she remained silent.
"Yes" she finally muttered "I understand. I'll s-stay away"
He leaned over and gently kissed her forehead, if anyone had seen it then they would of thought that it looked almost caring but Pansy could feel it, the true hate that was in it.
"That's my good girl"
"Please mummy, I'll be good, I swear I'll be good!"
"I'll always be good mummy. I love you"
"I love you too, my good little girl"
"That's my good girl"
For once Pansy wished that she could do something for herself.
Hope you liked it! I know that Draco is coming off to be more evil then some people would like but he needs to be for this story to work, I will admit that I have never made him like this before but writing it is so much fun!
Haraldzidla xx
