Chapter 24-
Airykkaa walked towards the Slytherin common room silently, tired but not wanting to be bothered by anyone. When the door silently opened Airykka recognized three voiced arguing, Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle. She crept closer, hating to eavesdrop, but needing to hear something of Draco's voice.
"How much longer are you going to wait for that bitch to give it up?! Its been two months already and you still haven't had her!" Goyle hissed cruelly.
Airykkaa's heart sank and she bit her lip, she wished that she wasn't hearing this but she couldn't pull herself away.
"Yeah, it's about time your pet Mudblood earned her keep." Crabbe chuckled, thinking the whole situation was great fun.
"It can wait a bit longer," Draco began in a snide tone, "I'm not in a big hurry." he finished nonchalantly.
"If she hasn't laid you by now Draco, she's not going to for awhile." Goyle replied, in a matter-of-fact tone.
"You could be right, I mean, I have waited two months, but I think it would be worth it to wait a bit longer." Draco hissed.
Airykkaa sunk to the floor as she listened to a slew of insults upon her virginity and finally when Draco spoke up again she appeared from behind a wall. Draco's jaw went slack and he immediately regretted everything that he had said previously.
Tears were flowing down Airykkaa's face, "Is that all I'm worth to you?!" she screamed, her voice cracking as her heart broke. "Big shit, you've waited two months! I've waited sixteen years!!!"
"Airykkaa please..." Draco started as he came closer to her, but was cut off as he received a sharp smack to the face.
"Don't touch me." she growled as she continued to cry, and she stared at him a few moments longer before she turned and ran toward her dormitory. Lee and Estelle happed to catch the last bits of the conversation as they entered the room. Estelle was furious, and Lee was rather angry too, but more concerned for Airykkaa.
"If you ever hurt her again, I'll kill you," Estelle said to all three of the boys and stared at them blankly.
Lee stood beside her and stared toward the dormitory as he motioned for Estelle to check on Airykkaa, "And I'll help her hide the bodies." he said, and walked away.
That night Airykkaa had spent the whole night crying until she fell into an uneasy sleep from exhaustion. She often woke up and started crying again. Estelle finally came over to her bed and hugged her, comforting her and hoping that she could ease some of the pain.

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Pike had tossed and turned all night, and hadn't been able to sleep. His stomach ached, but he refused to eat anything. His head hurt and his heart was still in tiny pieces. Close to sunrise Pike had decided that he was going to take care of it. All of it. He reached under his bed and grabbed a bag full of various containers and proceeded on storming towards the Gryffindor tower. Pike was going to prove that he loved her, even if it was going to be the last thing he would ever do.
As he reached the steps he quickly got out of view of the fat lady, he had grown fond of her, and he knew that she would be heartbroken if she had to watch. Looking out of one of the window panes he saw the red glow of dawn and figured that Eden would be out in about a half an hour, just enough time for him to finish. After a few moments he opened the bag and began to ingest all of the pills in the containers, tossing them aside when he was finished. He began to feel woozy and smiled, soon he wouldn't have to hurt anymore. He'd be free, and he wouldn't have to feel anything.
He took a small bag out of his pocket and sniffed the contents. His nose burned, but he didn't care. He wanted to stop hurting, he wanted to be free from Eden's cruel betrayal. He watched the sunrise, and he missed watching it with Eden. He would have done anything for her. As everything around him felt like it was sinking, and his mind pulled him into a great blackness, the last thing he said or thought was, "Dear god I'm sorry Eden, I love you." Moments later the blackness claimed him painlessly. He never even heard the painting creak open or Marcella scream.

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Airykkaa sat bolt upright in her bed, immediately sensing something was very wrong. "Pike." she breathed, knowing it was something with him, and bolted out of the room in her pajamas. They both had an uncanny ability to sense each others feelings, even if they were nowhere near each other. Her mind raced as she blindly rushed toward the infirmary, feeling her senses pull her towards it.
Her heart sank to her stomach as she saw her father sunk to the floor outside the infirmary doors. She began to feel the worst as she crept nearer to the infirmary in silence.
Snape shook his head as he saw her edge closer. He was holding one of the medicine bottles and he reread the labels over and over, "He took so many!" he mumbled, in complete total and utter disbelief.
"Daddy?" Airykkaa said, intensely quiet but clear enough to make out, "Is he okay?!"
Snape shook his head, even he couldn't know, with all of his knowledge to what chemicals would do tot he human body. "Airykkaa," he started, "my guess is he's bordering. If he makes it, he may never be able to function again." she said, trying not to be blatant, but his shock rendering all of his own senses useless.
She made a move to get into the infirmary, finding many of the staff trying to block her way, "Get the fuck off of me!" she screamed, "Pike!" Forcing her way through, not caring how she would get through she burst straight through six staff members, each of whom ended up on the floor by the time it was over. She sprinted over to the bed where Dumbledore and Madame Pomfrey bustled about. She knew enough that when she reached the bed she stayed out of the way, and she noticed a few of the house elves crowding around Eden, Jasper, Marcy, and Ray.
She eyed Eden up and down and immediately knew it had something to do with her, "What did you do to him?!" she screamed, taking no note of the tears that poured down her face.
"I... I didn't..." Eden began, shaking her head, not able to finish her statement before she burst into a fresh bout of tears.
Airykkaa's eyes held some unholy glow to them , trying to fight back her rage, she turned to Marcella, "What happened?!" she hissed, not caring about the jump of fear that her friend and fellow prefect took.
Marcy shook her head, "I went to go to the bath, and he was just laying there..." she didn't have the heart to finish. "Where could he have gotten it all?" she asked herself.
"Got what?" Airykkaa asked as it began to hit her.
"All of the narcotics, I've never seen that many pill bottles in the same room before." Marcy said, still trying to comprehend what had happened.
Airykkaa took a step back, knowing exactly where he got them from, "That son of a BITCH!" she screamed and walked furiously out of the room back towards the Slytherin dorms, feeling drained already from her emotions. As the door to the dorm opened she rushed in wildly, and from first glance, everyone in the room who saw her backed away. She spotted Lee talking to Aidan quietly, and she rushed over to him. Lee felt a hand solidly grip his shoulder and swing him around, feeling the other hand striking him hard across his face.
"Why did you give it to him?!" she hissed, "WHY?" she wailed as she sunk to the floor. Lee rubbed his throbbing face and searched her mind desperately to find what she was talking about as she became more and more distraught.
"He didn't?!" Lee stammered, "He wouldn't!" he tried to convince himself.
Airykkaa nodded dumbly as she felt now completely drained, "He did. And YOU gave them to him you bastard!" she growled, upset and anxious, desperately needing someone to blame for it.
Estelle peeked her head out of the dorm room, wondering what the noise was all about. At first she spotted Lee, with a massive red handprint across the side of his face, and then her vision spotted Airykkaa laying curled up on the floor in tears. Before she could make it over to them, Lee had already broke into a dead run out of the doors and toward the infirmary. She walked over to Airykkaa, knowing the red mark was from her, but not caring. If Airykkaa had hit Lee it was for a VERY good reason. Airykkaa told Estelle all that she knew had happened, which wasn't much, and Estelle helped a very weakened Airykkaa to the infirmary, with Draco following a short distance behind. he had no intention of letting her go.