Chapter 6: Questions in the Hospital Wing
"–I entrusted her to you, Malfoy, and look what happened? I was gone not five minutes, and I have to be called back because she fainted. You are lucky you are one of my favorite students, I will give you another chance to escort her, since this doesn't seem to be your fault. Madame Pomfrey said that she'd be okay, but I want you to remain here until she wakes up. Good? Goodnight." Snape was speaking very fast, Malfoy had come to realize that he spoke fast when he was angry. Snape marched out of the room, and Malfoy stood there with a strange far-away look on his face. He turned a little and sat down in a chair beside Vyk's bed.
"Oh...you're awake. I hadn't noticed, but are you alright? I don't quite know what happened..." He'd lost his train of thought as soon as her big blue eyes looked into his. They were a strange blue with some green in them, but they were rimmed in heavy black eyeliner. She smiled and a few lines wrinkled at the corners of her eyes. She had a heart shaped face that was pale and freckled. She has thin lips that were a deep shape of red. His eyes traveled to her hair, it was brown but with a red tint, and hung is big twisted ringlets beside her face. She is so beautiful.
"What?" she asked. He'd been staring for a while and she'd started getting suspicious. Malfoy shook his head, but continued to look at her. She looked at him, he knew what he looked like. Blonde hair, pale skin, blue eyes, lips, nose, he was what he always was, except now he was sixteen, older, and certain feelings had erupted within him over night in the last few years.
"I was just wondering if I could call you Larissa instead of Ms. Kilnern." Malfoy managed through a croaking voice. It made her laugh and smile.
"Sure you can call me Larissa, but my friends call my Lacy." she teased. She smiled at him again, he hadn't understood her joke. She looked away. "Where are we?"
"In the hospital wing. Pansy went and told Snape you'd fainted." Malfoy was looking at the bed.
"Pansy? Who is Pansy?" She asked. "Pansy? You met her, she was sitting by me when you came in." Malfoy replied.
"Oh the one who was latched onto you the whole time? Or the one who wanted to escort me, so you couldn't? Because they both seemed a little skanky to me." She looked back over to him, and he was once again looking back at her.
"Yeah, her. I think she wanted to get me into trouble about "not taking care of you" of something like that..and I kinda did." Malfoy looked down at his hands in his lap.
"I'm sorry, how is it your fault? You couldn't do anything." Lacy tapped him on the head and made him look up at her.
"I have no idea, he supposes I should have asked if you were feeling okay and stuff. I don't complain to him, or I'd get detention." Malfoy looked back down at his hands.
"Oh. Okay. Well..can we go, or do I have to stay here?" Asked Lacy looking around.
"I guess we can go..sure..why not? Let's go." Malfoy stood up, and offered his hand to help her out of the bed. They didn't say anything on the way back to the common room, and when they finally reached it no one was in the common room.
"What time is it?" asked Lacy aloud. "I dunno..late I suppose. Well your dormitory is that way," he pointed to a door. "I can't go in there with you, because boys aren't allowed in the girls section. But I think it's door number 6..okay...so..Night." Malfoy started stammering at the end.
"Night," said Lacy as she reached the door. She opened it up and turned back around to say, "Oh, and Malfoy?"
"Yeah?" he asked.
"I didn't faint." She said it and smiled and walked inside the door and closed it with a snap.