Draco slammed the door to his dorm room open, finding Blaise and another 6th year chatting on a bed. He glared at the boys and they immediately picked up and left the room. Draco let out a sigh and sat shakily on his bed, putting his head in his hands, fingers entwining in his silver-blonde hair.
After a few moments he looked around and realized his cloak was missing and he had some blood on his shirt. He quickly threw his clothes off and stepped into a scalding hot shower. Drastic temperature change, calms one down he thought shakily. He leaned his head into the water, letting it burn over his back and through his hair, pushing the damp blonde strands into his face.
His stomach suddenly gave an awful lurch and he snatched his hand from where it had been bracing him against the wall, wrapping it tightly around his pale middle. A dull ache spread and bubbled inside his middle for a few moments as he stood bent over trying to block out the pain. His head began to swim and he shook it, groaning as the feeling was made worse.
The pain slowly subsided and he was left there bent over, the scalding water drumming down across his back. He turned off the shower and stepped out, grabbing a towel and throwing it over the sink. He looked into the mirror through his curtain of damp blond locks, gasping at the feeling of the cold air bombarding his body. There were angry red flushes across his shoulders and neck, and as he turned he noticed most of his back was tinged an angry red color as well.
He sighed and began rubbing the towel across himself, drying his hair roughly with it and then wrapping it around his waist. He exited the bathroom, steam curling up towards the ceiling behind him from the doorway. He quickly dressed and threw himself on his bed, trying not to think. The incident outside broke into his mind and he felt a rush of shame for a second.
Trying to keep himself busy had worked for a little while, but it wasn't working anymore. He felt…different now. Like he was being forced to take a good hard look at himself. He wasn't exactly liking what he saw…pain started shooting through his stomach again and he groaned, clutching at it. He needed to get out of there…
He threw some cloths on and grabbed the invisibility cloak his great uncle had recently given to him and threw that on too. He sneaked out of the room and through the common room, sneering openly at the slytherins lazing around and discussing trivial and pointless matters.
Once out of the common room he wandered around aimlessly, killing time until it was full dark, the time when the library would be the least occupied. Invisibility cloak still wrapped around him, he went towards the library. To his satisfaction he found the place quite deserted upon his entrance, with just a few students dozing on books here and there.
He turned and headed to the many rows of book shelves, quickly losing himself in the maze. He went off looking for more books on transportation, but the gleam of letters caught his eye. He turned and ran his fingers along the spine of a new book, reading the title. It was an advanced DADA book…
He plucked it from the shelf and kept wandering through the stacks, finally finding a transportation book and settling in at a desk in the back. He began to flip through the transportation book, but after a short while he abandoned it for the DADA book. It was a short book, to him at least, but it looked pretty interesting…
He went through the book quickly, realizing that he knew at least half the stuff in there, he just never used it. He needed a more helpful book…He got up with the cloak still wrapped around himself and headed towards a place he had only been a few times before, most in the time that he had had the cloak. He carefully entered the restricted section and scanned the spines of the books, looking for a DADA book that would actually help him. Something with counter curses maybe…
The search began slow, but he finally passed a book that caught his attention. He pulled it out carefully, alert for any strange qualities the book might possess. He was a bit jumpy since he had opened a screaming book on one of his first times in the restricted section. The book appeared to be safe and normal so far. It was a heavy book, its cover in a strange half black, half white pattern. He carefully opened it to the first few pages and scanned through them.
Apparently the book held both dark magic and light magic, the worst and the best, etc. He flipped through a few more pages and found what he had been looking for. A list of chapters on countering dark magic. A small smile spread across his face and he closed the book, slipping it under his cloak and exiting the restricted section. As he was passing through the advanced spells section, another title caught his eye. "Advanced spells for the Human body, a medical book". After a moments thought, he plucked it off its shelf and continued on his way to his desk.
He began to flip through the black and white magic book to see if it held anything of real interest. To his pleasure he found that half of it was relevant, and that he wanted to read more. He pulled out a piece of parchment from his pocket and a pen and began noting down the chapters and pages he needed to check out. Once almost done he put down the pen and twisted his hand, trying to relive it of the pain from writing. The other book he had picked up caught his eye.
He slid it closer to him and opened it, flipping to the list of contents. He scanned the list and flipped the book to the page he wanted, skimming it until he found the spells he wanted. He read through the list of vision correcting spells and carefully thought over each one before selecting two and writing their names and pages on the piece of parchment. One was a sort of contacts spell, an alternative to glasses, and the other was a complete correction spell that had to be re-done every 6 months.
He preferred the last spell. He read through a few more spells and then closed the book, writing the name of it on the parchment as well and then got up to put it back where he had found it. Draco looked around him, his eyes sore and black spots bubbling in his vision, he noticed no one was in the library anymore, it had become after hours and the librarian was gone. Deciding it was time to leave; he picked up the black and white book and opened it. Picking up the piece of parchment with the listed chapters and pages on it, he placed it inside the book and flicked his wand at it, muttering a long spell.
A thick wad of parchment appeared and began copying half of the chosen pages of the book in small neat black print across itself. He knew better then to try and take the restricted book out of the library without permission and after hours. He flipped through the freshly copied pages and then threw his invisibility cloak on. He got up and replaced the book, then sneaked off back to his dorm, intending to come back the later for the other half, or maybe for the book itself.
author's note: its been forever since i updated with school and no computer and such, i hope people are still reading this. Well i had to cut this chapter short but hopefully a new longer one with more dialogue is coming next. enjoy! plz R & R, suggestions are welcome!