Title: Achievement
Summary: Adrian has always wanted to be a Healer
Pairing/Characters:
Adrian Pucey
Rating:
K
Warnings: N/A
Notes:
N/A


He'd never really connected well with the other Slytherin students. Adrian hadn't been in the wrong house, no definitely not. He'd been just as ambitious and ruthless as everyone else in Slytherin, sometimes even more so than the others, but he'd never been cruel.

Slytherin in recent years had turned into a dangerous place to be different in. It turned into this power play of connections and violence. He'd never really understood it all that well.

Adrian Pucey just wanted to be a Healer. He'd wanted to be one ever since looking after his sick mother at home until she passed away in his seventh year.

It was hard having such an ambition in Slytherin, though Adrian never gave up. Other houses hated him purely because of the colour of his tie, and his own house alienated him for not fighting to be top dog or following the current top dog.

None of that mattered now. The times Adrian would be yelled at for not going hard enough on (in other words, hurting) the other players in Quidditch or being smacked around for not participating in the bullying of a poor second year, none of it mattered.

Adrian walked through the doors to St Mungo's on his first day, smiling for the first time since his mother's death.

"Dr Pucey! Come and join your fellow Healers in Training."

"Yes Sir."

None that happened in Hogwarts mattered anymore, because he was where he wanted to be. Everyone else could be jealous of him, because he'd achieved his dream, and they were rotting away. He'd won.


(w.c 264)

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