Rain
Chapter Twenty-Eight:
Rain
(This is a song fic with a song that I wrote called - what else? - Rain)
Plip, plip, plip.
The rain poured down on the platform of Hogsmeade Station as all those who had come to bid farewell to her assembled by the train as she dropped her trunk off. When the conductor to her luggage away and Coal jumped in one of the side doors to protect himself from the rain, the sorrowful girl made her way over to the group. Professor McGonagall, who'd accompanied the students, along with Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, put up an umbrella spell around the students.
Dorothy walked over to Ron, Harry, and Hermione first. Hermione wasted no time in giving her friend a big hug good-bye. Dorothy shook hands with Ron and Harry, saying her farewells as she did so. Many hugs and handshakes later, Dorothy was standing in front of Draco Malfoy, staring at him solemnly. They nodded at each other and Draco looked away as she moved on to the two professors.
"It was good to have you at our school this year," said McGonagall, wiping her eyes. "Goodbyes always make me sad. I hope you'll manage to come back to school next year."
"Well," began Dorothy. She knew Draco was listening to her every word but ignored him. "With my dad dead because of a Death Eater I can't necessarily stay in one place for long. We'll have to see how the summer progresses though, won't we?"
Dumbledore, with a twinkle in his eyes, handed a wrapped package that looked a lot like a book to Dorothy. She looked at it puzzled and just when she was about to open it, the headmaster stopped her.
"Please open it on the train," he said. "I thought you might like it since I couldn't help but take pictures this year."
"It's a photo album?" asked Dorothy, still looking curiously at the package.
"I guess you'll have to see," replied Dumbledore, leaning in to whisper something to his possibly ex-student. "I'll see you next year." Dorothy gave him a bemused look but he simply tapped one of his temples as if he knew something that everyone else didn't.
"We're leaving in five minutes, Ms. Agel," said the conductor, stepping over Coal and into the train's corridor.
The dark-haired girl waved, dismayed, as she stepped into the train through the side door, Coal jumping up into her arms. When the train began to pull away, all of those standing on the platform saw the few tears running down her cheeks and slipping past her smile. They seemed to almost blend with the rain until her part of the train disappeared and no one could see her anymore. Draco stared after the end of the train for a while, his gray eyes squinting through the rain. He only moved when he felt Dumbledore pat him on the arm and beckon him to move along with the rest of the students.
Meanwhile, on the train, Dorothy had picked a compartment near the middle of the train, looking in a few a noticing that some were occupied, but not by students. Adult wizards and witches were reading their issues of the Daily Prophet or Witch Weekly as the train drove on. It must be a normal source of transportation for those adults wishing to go to Hogsmeade to buy stuff from the shops. Dorothy's compartment, however, was completely empty, just as she liked it, and once she sat down, and Coal curled up next to her, she looked down at her package from Professor Dumbledore.
"Wonder what it is…" she muttered, running her hand over the normal brown paper that covered it. She wasn't all that sure she wanted to open it but something was pushing her into doing it.
With a quick movement, she tore the paper off the top and stared down at the cover. 'Dorothy Alice Agel' was what the cover read.
Goodbye, angels
Don't look at me
She flipped open the cover of this photo album and stared at it, fresh tears welling up in her eyes. A picture of her, on the three-legged stool, with the sorting hat on her head. These pictures moved…
I'm lost in the drizzle
The rain makes it hard to see
The next page had herself and none other then Draco Malfoy staring at each other from across the Great Hall. One tear fell on this picture and Dorothy had to choke back a sob.
Where were you
When my life came undone?
Dorothy looked up and listened. The rain hitting the roof of the train sounded familiar…like the first time she had ridden the Hogwarts Express to school.
Where were you
When the clouds covered the sun?
Dorothy turned yet another page in her photo album, this time looking at Draco Malfoy put some ice cubes on the Empherus plant while she trimmed the leaves and Pansy glared at them from across the room.
Rain
You've come again
Another picture showed Draco standing over Dorothy as she cried into an upside-down book, and another was her following him down the Grand Staircase with people murmuring around them.
Rain
Can't you stop this pain? (Let me go…)
Dorothy sobbed as she continued through the book. Draco sitting in front of a table covered in a blanket, with Dorothy looking out from underneath it. Them planting the Empherus plant. Her putting on the ring and him playing mindlessly with the chain around his neck. Some many pictures of love…how could she have forgotten her heart so easily…
All of my heart wrenching nightmares
Suddenly come true
The last picture in the album was a picture of Dorothy, Draco, Hermione, Harry, and Ron, all standing outside the train station, Dorothy in tears and Draco with a pained look on his face. All but Dorothy were waving goodbye while the one leaving held her cat to her chest as the train drove away…
"How?" asked Dorothy. "That happened just moments ago…how could he—?" She stopped and looked at the Dumbledore in the picture as he winked at her and she smiled, though tears still dripped down her cheeks.
It takes all I have to stay…
…Where are you…
A/N: Well that's it for Rain. I know I like, ended it super quick but all of these ideas for the second story just came flooding to my mind. Remember it's called Conquest of the Heart. It will be in Draco's and Dorothy's POV…and there will be plenty of conflict. I know I left a lot out in this story but I plan to try and not skip anything in this one. So look for Conquest of the Heart, coming out soon. Ciao for now.
Who else? Me.