Author's Notes-This belongs to J.K.R. I am borrowing it for my own sick pleasure. I only own Adina and 12 multi-colored floppy disks. Please do not sue for them. Oh, and try to ignore my bad puntuation, as I type too fast for my own good when I get a good idea and I have no beta reader. I know I said ten reviews, but I got impatient. Sorry, Please forgive me =). Happy Reading!
The corridor was freezing to his bare feet, and Draco briefly considered going back to bed now. 'No.' He told himself firmly. 'I have got to figure out how to fix this for her.' He turned into the last hall before the one where the library was. It was perfectly quiet, except for the sound of his feet. Then, from a dark doorway, he heard a sob. Curiosity piqued, he went to investigate.
He wasn't really expecting anyone in particular, but he was caught off guard when the crying person was Hermione Granger. "Hermione? What's the matter?" He mentally cursed himself. 'Why am I being nice to this mudblood? What has gotten into me?'
"Why are you being nice to me?" she asked after a few seconds of silence. "And what the hell are you doing out this late anyway?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing."
"There was trouble. In the Gryffindor dorms."
"That dosen't explain anything. What kind of trouble? Why are you here and not there? Is Adina all right?" Draco kneeled down next to her, hoping for an answer at very least to his last question.
Hermione stood up suddenly. "Why don't you just go ask her. Wait, why weren't you there anyway? Aren't you staying there with the rest of the Slytherins?"
Draco looked up at her. "I was, well, I..er, Oh fine. I was researching her prophesey and charms and stuff that she could use to hide."
"If she keeps up with what she's doing, nothing can hide her. I may even hand her over to Voldemort myself, the little bitch!"
"Hermione!"
"And what's with this 'Hermione' stuff? Since when don't you call me Granger?"
"Since I tried to be nice to you!" He yelled, rising to his feet and her bait. "Since I thought maybe you three aren't so bad after all."
"Oh, that's rich! Really, coming from you that might be a compliment, but wait. This only started when she got here. You two are both horrible, awful.., sickeningly hateful..." At this Hermione ran out of breath and she was so flustered she couldn't think of any more insults.
"Don't you talk about Adina like that! Me, fine, but you leave her out of it!"
"Leave her out of it! She could've killed someone! She confessed to doing it all on her own to us three! And you stand here defending her. I only hope she didn't hurt Ron or Harry."
"Killed someone! What the hell are you on about, Granger? Adina would never.."
"Oh, really! I expect if you go to the transfiguration hall right now, you'll find both Harry and Ron lying there because she made her escape!"
"Transfiguration Hall? Fine..." Draco said as he took off running that direction. 'I don't know what just happened back there, but she blames Adina. What the fuck has got her so worked up? She was hardly making sense. Kill someone?' He made himself stop thinking as he made nis way to the right hall. He was fully unprepared for the sight that met his eyes.
Harry and Ron were hanging from two candleholders high up on the wall. They were both struggling furiously to get free, but their robes would not come loose. Draco's first thought was 'Where are their wands?'
He ran over to them and asked "What the hell are you two doing? And where the hell is Adina?"
"Oh we're having a jolly good holiday here on the wall." Ron said sarcastically.
"Draco you've got to get us down." Harry said. "We've got to stop her."
"Stop her from what?"
"Leaving hogwarts. She's already had about ten minutes head start, so we've got to hurry."
Draco paled noticeably. 'Leaving? She can't leave me!' He took off running towards the froon doors of Hogwarts, forgetting about Ron and Harry.
"Oh, bloody hell! Now how are we supposed to get down!" Ron yelled after him. But Draco was already too far away to hear him.
Adina could see the door when she first heard someone coming up behind her. 'Oh, shit. Who is it?' she thought, as she tried to look and run away at the same time. For her, that was a very bad thing to try to do, and she romptly tripped over her own feet. She cried out as she hit the floor hard on her knees. She swore, rather colorfully, and looked back to see if her follower had caught up yet. 'First bit of luck I've had in a while.' She thought bitterly as she got up to get the rest of the way out of the castle. She made it to the stone steps out side of the door, when she noticed how bad her knees hurt. Adrenaline induced painlessness was beginning to wear off as soon as she saw exactly how bad she had hurt herself. Blood was running down her left leg from a very bad scrape, pairing perfectly from a little blood trickling down her right leg from a not-so-bad scrape. Both knees were bruised very badly already, leaving her with little hope that the pain would go away soon on it's own. "Fuck."
Draco reached the doors just in time to see her jump off the side of the porch. 'What the fuck is she doing?' He promptly followed her, without, of course, jumping. He saw her land lying on her back, and she actually smiled and said 'perfect landing' before getting up. As she was running, he watched her hike up her robes to reveal black shorts, a dark green shirt, and untied boots. She ripped the sleeves off her robes and discarded the rest. He was entranced by whatever it was that she was doing and didn't realize that they were almost in the forbidden forest until it was too late to turn back. " Oh, shit." He whispered to himself " Adina! Please, wait for me!"
Adina stopped dead in her tracks. "Draco? Oh, goddess, Draco what are you doing here? Go back to the castle before I hurt you too!" She turned to face him.
"Adina Lexie Damita I am not leaving you in the forbidden forest alone at night!" Adnina took this time to tie one sleeve tight aroung her left knee, drawing Draco's attention to the blood that was still pouring. She ripped the cuff off the other sleeve before tying it around her right knee. She used the cuff like a ribbon, and tied her long hair into a messy ponytail. "What happened to your knees?" He said at last.
"I fell." She said shortly. "You should go back before you get hurt." She bent down to tie her boots, which Draco saw were black combats.
"I'm not leaving you."
"Well, I'm leaving you then. You can't come with me. I have to be somewhere where I can't hurt anybody. Especially you and my friends. Hermione hates me, Ron and Harry probably do after hanging them on the wall like that, and the rest of the house will after they realize it was me who did it!"
"Did what, Adina? Why was Hermione crying? And why are you running away from them all? From me?"
"Oh, Draco, I'm not running from you. I'm trying to save you. You four are all I have left and I know that three of you hate me. It's down to just you so I'm trying to protect you. And if that is not the stupidest sounding speech I don't know what is."
"I won't let you run from me. I'm going with you." He said firmly. They argued about it for another ten minutes before she gave in saying that if they stayed there much longer, they would be caught and the whole discussion would have been wasted. They made their way down a small path they had stumbled across, Draco walking in fron, wand out, and Adina limping along behind him. They came to a fork in the trail and Draco stopped. Adina just barley managed not to run into him, then asked which way he thought they should go. He smirked at her, then said "Well, this is your little charade. You choose." She looked at her feet to do eenie-meeny-miney-moe, and saw that he was barefoot.
"Draco Malfoy! You don't even have any shoes on. How on earth do you expect to run away with me if you're so ill prepared?"
"Well, when I snuck off to the library, I wasn't planning on taking a trip through the forbidden forest, not that I mind going woth you of course."
"You know, your shoes aren't the only supplies we don't have. I ran out so fast, I didn't get my wand or my back pack."
"Ok, your wand I understand, but your backpack?"
"I have two backpacks. One is for school things, and the other is packed and ready for me to run away. It's under my bed, but I wasn't planning on running until Voldemort caught up with me again. It sort of took me by surprise when I realized that I trashed the dorm so I left it. I didn't have time to go back to it before I left."
"So you've been planning on running away for a while now?"
"Yeah. I have got to be prepared. I get that from my dad. He was always going on about being ready and knowing how to react in certain situations. He kept a vault in the basement fully stocked so that we could fight off the coming off the new world order that he said was going to happen in my lfetime. Noone but me listened to him, of course he also said that Shania Twain was the devil."
"Who?"
"Muggle singer. Do you think you could get our stuff here? With that Accio charm, or something."
"Ok, is there anything else you want that's not in the back pack?"
"Umm, get your stuff while I think."
"Sounds like a plan. Accio shoes! Accio cloak! Accio nimbus!"
"Nimbus?"
"My broom. It'll help us travel better, don't you think?"
"Good idea. Ok, I need my backpack and Harry's invisibility cloak."
"Potter has an invisibility cloak? I'd kill for one of those."
"Well how about accio-ing for it instead. I think we should let the boy-who-lived live."
"Only if we have to. Accio backpack! Accio invisibility cloak! Ok, is that all? Don't you want your wand?"
"My wand won't do any one any good away from Hogwarts." Adina sat down to readjust her make-shift bandages while they were waiting for their things. Draco sat next to her, idly wondering how long it would take. About a minute and a half later, they heard a whistling sound and looked up to see a pair of black boots hurtling towards them. Draco caught them with ease, then dropping them in order to pull his cloak out of a tree, where it had gotten tangled. He waited for a few more seconds, before his Nimbus 2003 came into view. He didn't catch it, rather let it hover at perfect mounting distance from the ground.
"Well, that's all my stuff, then, now for yours." Draco stated the obvious, so well, too. Adina waited rather impatiently for her thing while Draco put his shoes on.
"Damn. Forgot socks."
"I think I have some of Harry's in here." Adina offered, catching her backpack. "You can have them. I'll just wrap the sneak-o-scope in something else."
"Why did you wrap a sneak-o-scope in Potter's socks?"
"I didn't. He did. I't s his and I took it out of his trunk about a month ago. Thought it would come in handy one day."
"You stole from Potter?"
"Yeah, twice now" she said, "What with this thing and all." She was now repacking her back pack, taking out Harry's socks and putting in the invisibility cloak. Halfway through with this, she changed her mind and took it back out. " We should put this over us when we fly."
"Good idea" Draco said, mounting his broom and pulling his cloak on. He, like Adina, changed his mind, pulled the cloak off, and handed it to her. "Here, you need this more than I do", indicating her shorts and t-shirt versus his jeans and sweatshirt.
Adina stuck her tungue out at him before accepting the cloak. She pulled it on, then slid on her back pack. "Okay, I hope this covers us both." She climbed onto the broom behind Draco and tugged on the cloak so it was covering them both, and the broom.
"Hang on." Draco kicked off, and Adina wrapped her arms around his waist. She was slightly afraid of falling off, but trusted Draco enough to lean upo against him and close her eyes. She would never have admitted it, but she was dead tired. "Ok, so where to?"
"Wherever the winds of fate may take us." She quoted. Draco smiled and kept going straight.
Far below, someone with a large round magical eye was watching. "The Dark Lord will be pleased with me. For not only have I killed Alastor Moody, but I bring him the news of the girls leaving Hogwars. And I will earn the right to make the boy sorry he helped her." His pale, pointed face twisted into an evil grimace, then tossed his head back in laughter, white-blond hair falling haphazardly. He disapparated with a small pop.
A/N--PLEASE REVIEW!! EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WITH A CHOCOLATE DRACO AND SPIKE ON TOP!
The corridor was freezing to his bare feet, and Draco briefly considered going back to bed now. 'No.' He told himself firmly. 'I have got to figure out how to fix this for her.' He turned into the last hall before the one where the library was. It was perfectly quiet, except for the sound of his feet. Then, from a dark doorway, he heard a sob. Curiosity piqued, he went to investigate.
He wasn't really expecting anyone in particular, but he was caught off guard when the crying person was Hermione Granger. "Hermione? What's the matter?" He mentally cursed himself. 'Why am I being nice to this mudblood? What has gotten into me?'
"Why are you being nice to me?" she asked after a few seconds of silence. "And what the hell are you doing out this late anyway?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing."
"There was trouble. In the Gryffindor dorms."
"That dosen't explain anything. What kind of trouble? Why are you here and not there? Is Adina all right?" Draco kneeled down next to her, hoping for an answer at very least to his last question.
Hermione stood up suddenly. "Why don't you just go ask her. Wait, why weren't you there anyway? Aren't you staying there with the rest of the Slytherins?"
Draco looked up at her. "I was, well, I..er, Oh fine. I was researching her prophesey and charms and stuff that she could use to hide."
"If she keeps up with what she's doing, nothing can hide her. I may even hand her over to Voldemort myself, the little bitch!"
"Hermione!"
"And what's with this 'Hermione' stuff? Since when don't you call me Granger?"
"Since I tried to be nice to you!" He yelled, rising to his feet and her bait. "Since I thought maybe you three aren't so bad after all."
"Oh, that's rich! Really, coming from you that might be a compliment, but wait. This only started when she got here. You two are both horrible, awful.., sickeningly hateful..." At this Hermione ran out of breath and she was so flustered she couldn't think of any more insults.
"Don't you talk about Adina like that! Me, fine, but you leave her out of it!"
"Leave her out of it! She could've killed someone! She confessed to doing it all on her own to us three! And you stand here defending her. I only hope she didn't hurt Ron or Harry."
"Killed someone! What the hell are you on about, Granger? Adina would never.."
"Oh, really! I expect if you go to the transfiguration hall right now, you'll find both Harry and Ron lying there because she made her escape!"
"Transfiguration Hall? Fine..." Draco said as he took off running that direction. 'I don't know what just happened back there, but she blames Adina. What the fuck has got her so worked up? She was hardly making sense. Kill someone?' He made himself stop thinking as he made nis way to the right hall. He was fully unprepared for the sight that met his eyes.
Harry and Ron were hanging from two candleholders high up on the wall. They were both struggling furiously to get free, but their robes would not come loose. Draco's first thought was 'Where are their wands?'
He ran over to them and asked "What the hell are you two doing? And where the hell is Adina?"
"Oh we're having a jolly good holiday here on the wall." Ron said sarcastically.
"Draco you've got to get us down." Harry said. "We've got to stop her."
"Stop her from what?"
"Leaving hogwarts. She's already had about ten minutes head start, so we've got to hurry."
Draco paled noticeably. 'Leaving? She can't leave me!' He took off running towards the froon doors of Hogwarts, forgetting about Ron and Harry.
"Oh, bloody hell! Now how are we supposed to get down!" Ron yelled after him. But Draco was already too far away to hear him.
Adina could see the door when she first heard someone coming up behind her. 'Oh, shit. Who is it?' she thought, as she tried to look and run away at the same time. For her, that was a very bad thing to try to do, and she romptly tripped over her own feet. She cried out as she hit the floor hard on her knees. She swore, rather colorfully, and looked back to see if her follower had caught up yet. 'First bit of luck I've had in a while.' She thought bitterly as she got up to get the rest of the way out of the castle. She made it to the stone steps out side of the door, when she noticed how bad her knees hurt. Adrenaline induced painlessness was beginning to wear off as soon as she saw exactly how bad she had hurt herself. Blood was running down her left leg from a very bad scrape, pairing perfectly from a little blood trickling down her right leg from a not-so-bad scrape. Both knees were bruised very badly already, leaving her with little hope that the pain would go away soon on it's own. "Fuck."
Draco reached the doors just in time to see her jump off the side of the porch. 'What the fuck is she doing?' He promptly followed her, without, of course, jumping. He saw her land lying on her back, and she actually smiled and said 'perfect landing' before getting up. As she was running, he watched her hike up her robes to reveal black shorts, a dark green shirt, and untied boots. She ripped the sleeves off her robes and discarded the rest. He was entranced by whatever it was that she was doing and didn't realize that they were almost in the forbidden forest until it was too late to turn back. " Oh, shit." He whispered to himself " Adina! Please, wait for me!"
Adina stopped dead in her tracks. "Draco? Oh, goddess, Draco what are you doing here? Go back to the castle before I hurt you too!" She turned to face him.
"Adina Lexie Damita I am not leaving you in the forbidden forest alone at night!" Adnina took this time to tie one sleeve tight aroung her left knee, drawing Draco's attention to the blood that was still pouring. She ripped the cuff off the other sleeve before tying it around her right knee. She used the cuff like a ribbon, and tied her long hair into a messy ponytail. "What happened to your knees?" He said at last.
"I fell." She said shortly. "You should go back before you get hurt." She bent down to tie her boots, which Draco saw were black combats.
"I'm not leaving you."
"Well, I'm leaving you then. You can't come with me. I have to be somewhere where I can't hurt anybody. Especially you and my friends. Hermione hates me, Ron and Harry probably do after hanging them on the wall like that, and the rest of the house will after they realize it was me who did it!"
"Did what, Adina? Why was Hermione crying? And why are you running away from them all? From me?"
"Oh, Draco, I'm not running from you. I'm trying to save you. You four are all I have left and I know that three of you hate me. It's down to just you so I'm trying to protect you. And if that is not the stupidest sounding speech I don't know what is."
"I won't let you run from me. I'm going with you." He said firmly. They argued about it for another ten minutes before she gave in saying that if they stayed there much longer, they would be caught and the whole discussion would have been wasted. They made their way down a small path they had stumbled across, Draco walking in fron, wand out, and Adina limping along behind him. They came to a fork in the trail and Draco stopped. Adina just barley managed not to run into him, then asked which way he thought they should go. He smirked at her, then said "Well, this is your little charade. You choose." She looked at her feet to do eenie-meeny-miney-moe, and saw that he was barefoot.
"Draco Malfoy! You don't even have any shoes on. How on earth do you expect to run away with me if you're so ill prepared?"
"Well, when I snuck off to the library, I wasn't planning on taking a trip through the forbidden forest, not that I mind going woth you of course."
"You know, your shoes aren't the only supplies we don't have. I ran out so fast, I didn't get my wand or my back pack."
"Ok, your wand I understand, but your backpack?"
"I have two backpacks. One is for school things, and the other is packed and ready for me to run away. It's under my bed, but I wasn't planning on running until Voldemort caught up with me again. It sort of took me by surprise when I realized that I trashed the dorm so I left it. I didn't have time to go back to it before I left."
"So you've been planning on running away for a while now?"
"Yeah. I have got to be prepared. I get that from my dad. He was always going on about being ready and knowing how to react in certain situations. He kept a vault in the basement fully stocked so that we could fight off the coming off the new world order that he said was going to happen in my lfetime. Noone but me listened to him, of course he also said that Shania Twain was the devil."
"Who?"
"Muggle singer. Do you think you could get our stuff here? With that Accio charm, or something."
"Ok, is there anything else you want that's not in the back pack?"
"Umm, get your stuff while I think."
"Sounds like a plan. Accio shoes! Accio cloak! Accio nimbus!"
"Nimbus?"
"My broom. It'll help us travel better, don't you think?"
"Good idea. Ok, I need my backpack and Harry's invisibility cloak."
"Potter has an invisibility cloak? I'd kill for one of those."
"Well how about accio-ing for it instead. I think we should let the boy-who-lived live."
"Only if we have to. Accio backpack! Accio invisibility cloak! Ok, is that all? Don't you want your wand?"
"My wand won't do any one any good away from Hogwarts." Adina sat down to readjust her make-shift bandages while they were waiting for their things. Draco sat next to her, idly wondering how long it would take. About a minute and a half later, they heard a whistling sound and looked up to see a pair of black boots hurtling towards them. Draco caught them with ease, then dropping them in order to pull his cloak out of a tree, where it had gotten tangled. He waited for a few more seconds, before his Nimbus 2003 came into view. He didn't catch it, rather let it hover at perfect mounting distance from the ground.
"Well, that's all my stuff, then, now for yours." Draco stated the obvious, so well, too. Adina waited rather impatiently for her thing while Draco put his shoes on.
"Damn. Forgot socks."
"I think I have some of Harry's in here." Adina offered, catching her backpack. "You can have them. I'll just wrap the sneak-o-scope in something else."
"Why did you wrap a sneak-o-scope in Potter's socks?"
"I didn't. He did. I't s his and I took it out of his trunk about a month ago. Thought it would come in handy one day."
"You stole from Potter?"
"Yeah, twice now" she said, "What with this thing and all." She was now repacking her back pack, taking out Harry's socks and putting in the invisibility cloak. Halfway through with this, she changed her mind and took it back out. " We should put this over us when we fly."
"Good idea" Draco said, mounting his broom and pulling his cloak on. He, like Adina, changed his mind, pulled the cloak off, and handed it to her. "Here, you need this more than I do", indicating her shorts and t-shirt versus his jeans and sweatshirt.
Adina stuck her tungue out at him before accepting the cloak. She pulled it on, then slid on her back pack. "Okay, I hope this covers us both." She climbed onto the broom behind Draco and tugged on the cloak so it was covering them both, and the broom.
"Hang on." Draco kicked off, and Adina wrapped her arms around his waist. She was slightly afraid of falling off, but trusted Draco enough to lean upo against him and close her eyes. She would never have admitted it, but she was dead tired. "Ok, so where to?"
"Wherever the winds of fate may take us." She quoted. Draco smiled and kept going straight.
Far below, someone with a large round magical eye was watching. "The Dark Lord will be pleased with me. For not only have I killed Alastor Moody, but I bring him the news of the girls leaving Hogwars. And I will earn the right to make the boy sorry he helped her." His pale, pointed face twisted into an evil grimace, then tossed his head back in laughter, white-blond hair falling haphazardly. He disapparated with a small pop.
A/N--PLEASE REVIEW!! EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WITH A CHOCOLATE DRACO AND SPIKE ON TOP!
