Disclaimer: The Extract is from Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Chapter thirty-eight; the suicide pact.
LYSANDER
A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia.
I have a widow aunt, a dowager
Of great revenue, and she hath no child:
From Athens is her house remote seven leagues;
And she respects me as her only son.
There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;
And to that place the sharp Athenian law
Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,
Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;
And in the wood, a league without the town,
Where I did meet thee once with Helena,
To do observance to a morn of May,
There will I stay for thee.
HERMIA
My good Lysander!
I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow,
By his best arrow with the golden head,
By the simplicity of Venus' doves,
By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,
And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen,
When the false Troyan under sail was seen,
By all the vows that ever men have broke,
In number more than ever women spoke,
In that same place thou hast appointed me,
To-morrow truly will I meet with thee.
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Although it was midday, and the sun was at its strongest, darkness' jaws swallowed the dusty moth ridden library whole; the pure density of it cascaded downwards, over shelf after shelf of musty , well thumbed books, the sharp twisting smell of it, mixed with pure secerets and something older than any book on the shelf clogged Kaiyas nostrils. Kaiya sneezed but continued on her heart thumping, speech crumpling, feet stumping, skin shuddering quest.
And there he was, in the dustiest, darkest corner of the whole library. Kaiya grabbed the nearest book and slipped her piece of deadly paper inside, she clutched it to her heaving bosom sullenly. She halted and took a deep breath before scuffling to Harrys table dejectedly.
"Ugh," Kaiya groaned as she flopped down dramatically.
"Hi Kaiya, what's up?" Harry asked.
"Oh it's nothing, just Malfoy," Kaiya replied, her dirty wedding dress fluttering about her as she shifted around.
"What's he done this time?" Harry asked resignedly.
"Well...I really shouldn't tell you," Kaiya paused, "but I will you deserve to know. I think Malfoy's been hitting on Ginny and she's well sort of been flirting back."
"What!" Harrys head looked like it was about ot explode and he felt as if he was going to jump up and strangle Kaiya.
"Well you have to admit they do make a good couple," Kaiya glanced at him through her tried eyes, "I have to go okay? I'll see you later." With that she waltzed of, as she did she purposefully dropped the little piece of paper so it fluttered over to Harrys feet.
"Kaiya you forgot..." Harry started to say, but stopped when he read the words scrawled on it haphazardly Sectumsempra, a spell for enemies.
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Dawns P.O.V
It was hot, too hot. The sun shone above us, it's bright light burning down a golden glow too hot to bare. I was walking through Ken Woods with Ray, and I felt lovely apart from the heat and...something was off, but I couldn't place what. We stopped under a tree and he looked at me with steely eyes that made me melt, I didn't love Ray, but he made me weak at the knees. The leaves of the tree acted as a shelter to the burning sky, only thin sumptuous rays seeping through like long curling fingers to caress our necks.
"Dawn I have to tell you something," he started to say, in his most serious tone. But in the distance I could hear faint shouts, coming steadily nearer.
"Dawn! Dawn! Dawn!" Those where the words being called out in a hysterical half crying voice. I turned and out of the trees came Buffy. Buffy bounded out towards me faster than a bull from its stool. I looked at her bemused, she seemed to be saying that Ray was dangerous, I started to laugh until I was being locked in a death grip by the very same man.
"Dawn!" Buffy shrieked her voice cracking. I looked down to see a long thin and deadly looking wand being pointed at my sister, I tried to move but it was useless he'd already performed some kind of mojo on me.
"Get of her right now!" Buffy yelled.
"Why, I'm her friend?" Ray asked silkily.
"You sick bastard! You killed her didn't you? You killed Eleanor Malfoy!" She screamed.
"Yes my love, yes I killed my sister and now I'm gonna kill yours," Ray tightened his arm around me making me wheeze and choke. "See you at the castle," He winked before we were being squeezed through time and space, into another dimension, Buffys screams of 'no' ringing in our ears.
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Harry crumpled the paper up in his hand, clutching it as tightly as he could. The young wizard felt a hot light behind his eyes as if all he could see was anger and hurt. Almost automatically Harry got up and walked out of the cavernous library and into the blazing hot marble hallway. The sun poured down a blinding light, many students took refuge under books, or walked behind tall, hench students like Gregory Goyle or Blaise Zabbini.
Harry scanned the crowed, he could see Ron and Hermione fighting their way towards him but he ignored them. Then out of no where Harry saw a shock of white blond hair, he dived into the sea of sticky student body and sprinted after Draco, Ron and Hermione just behind him.
Malfoy was nearing the main staircase, Harry was just a flight up, there was nothing for it, Harry jumped of the low balcony and landed sprawled ontop of Draco. Students screamed, halting and braking ranks to give them space as the two boys landed with a thud.
"Harry!" Hermione shrieked from a balcony above them.
"What the fuck are you doing Potter?" Draco shouted.
Harry jumped up and pulled Draco up with him, "fuck you Malfoy!" He shouted and threw him across the floor.
"What is your problem! You fucking maniac!" Malfoy yelled.
"You stay away from my fucking girlfriend, okay!" Harry shouted turning around to leave.
"But why would I, she's so sexy especially when she's talking about dumping you," Draco leered. Harry stopped in his tracks. "The only problem is," Draco continued, "She's a muggle lover and poorer than my old house elf, I mean really her whole family's a disgrace to her but little Ginny knows how to get her money that little slut."
"Take that back," Harry growled.
"No!"
"Take it back!"
"Make me!"
Harry roared and flung himself at Malfoy, but he was too quick. "Ferus Flamma!" Draco yelled. Flames immediately erupted in a eerie orange and red ring around Harry. Harry yelled as his hand caught alight, he quickly muttered the counter curse.
"One to me Potter, shall we say best out of five, hm?" Draco leered as Harry clutched his burnt hand in pain.
"This isn't a jewel Malfoy, this is about you calling my girlfriend a slut!" Harry seethed.
"What, I was only repeating the words you said."
"What?" Harry asked bemused.
"I heard you Potter, saying she was a slut and a poor filthy bitch who you only felt sorry for, who said I believed those things?" Draco smirked.
"I never said that," Harry shouted through his teeth.
"Oh really, well about ten other people beg to differ."
Harry looked around incredulously, he had never said those things and now the whole school would think he had, or Ginny would. Harry stared down the shadowy stairs to the entrance hall and the huge double doors; he wished he could escape, just run away.
"Gravatus!" Draco screamed. Harry doubled over onto the floor gasping, he felt sick to the skin, his whole body seemed to be turning inside out, Harry retched and broke out in a clammy sweat.
"Dear me Potter, this really isn't going so well for you. I guess your mother and father must have passed those weak jeans down to you!" Draco taunted.
Harry felt something inside him snap, he didn't know what made him say it, hell he didn't even know what it would do, "Sectumsempra!" Harry chocked pointing his wand shakily at Draco.
Malfoy screamed and Harry looked up triumphantly, but his expression soon turned to horror. A slash had appeared from Dracos right eye to his stomach, it just missed his heart. Blood was pouring out of it onto the marble stair case and Harry who had immediately run over to Draco and tried to stem the flow.
"Someone get a teacher!" Harry yelled. He felt like crying, he probably was he couldn't tell, the blood was everywhere, people where screaming and Draco was moaning. Harry felt a arm on his shoulder, it was Ron and Hermione.
"I...I didn't know," Harry chocked looking up at them pleadingly.
"Yeah mate we know but, your gonna have to move, Snape's here," Ron whispered.
Harry looked around, Snape was striding towards him, moving students out the way in the process.
"Get out the way Potter!" Snape yelled. Harry wobbled up standing by Hermione and Ron shakily. He was covered in blood and water from the spell he used to put the fire out. Snape bent over Draco and tapped his wound, making it knit together like a shoe lace.
"Zabbini, Goyle, Crabbe! Help me get him up to the hospital wing!" Snape commanded. The Slytherins immediately made their way over to Draco and picked him up effortlessly.
"YOU!" Snape yelled at Harry, "Fifty points from Gryffindor for assaulting another student and detentions with me every friday up until next Christmas!" With that he strided after the four Slytherin boys.
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The sun set an eerie orange light over the dusky Gryffindor common room. Harry sat in one of the arm chairs, glumly he hadn't even bothered to change his robes. Ron and Hermione where watching him warily and Ginny was no where to be seen. The very girl in question walked through the portrait hole with Kaiya at her side at about nine o'clock.
"Hay Harry," she whispered carefully. Harry barely acknowledged her. "I heard what happened," she said sitting down next to him. Her head sinking into the plush pillows the minute she lay on them.
"Oh yeah and I bet you're really pleased," Harry sighed.
"No I'm not. How could you say those things about me and then attack Draco out of no where when he's been so nice lately?" Ginny implored.
"What! I didn't say any of those things, I only 'attacked' him because I thought he'd been bugging you!" Harry seethed, the red of the fire reflecting in his green eyes.
"Well that isn't what I heard!" Ginny said just as pissed.
"Oh sorry I forgot you love Malfoy now don't you!"
"I don't love Draco..."
"So it's Draco now!" Harry seethed standing up in front of Ginny furiously.
Ginny stood up to, "Harry I just think you need to control your temper a bit and maybe you should apologise to me for saying I'm a poor, filthy slut!"
"Well there's no need now that you have your new boyfriend!"
"Fine maybe I will go out with Draco and see how you feel then!" Ginny screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Fine you do that! And don't come sniffling back to me because I'm sick to death of you!" Harry roared. Ginny let out a high pitched wale like a banchee, tears streaming down her peachy cheeks and she ran out of the common room; leaving Harry to storm up to his bedroom.
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Ginny stumbled through the cold hallways of Hogwarts, her head spinning and her eyes brimming with tears. She felt like she was having a bad acid trip or something, the horrors of her life were chasing her through these thavomless corridors. All maggots and worms, all coming to chase her and rid her of her impurities.
The fiery red head came to a shuddering halt just outside a painting of a pink cod fish. Her breath hitched in her throat, chocking her, strangling her a dark emptiness filling her whole wretched being.
"Ginny?" Came a tentative voice from behind her. Ginny turned so her bleary vision rested on Kaiya.
"Oh god!" Ginny sobbed.
"Sh, sh," Kaiya soothed taking Ginny in her paper like arms, her bones jutting into Ginnys sensitive flesh, "he's an assholl babe. He said all those horrible things about you and then attacked Draco, Draco whose been so lovely to you."
"I know kay kay, I know. I...I mean Draco and I snogged a while ago and ever since then I've just been feeling like I need him," Ginny snivelled her voice thick with tears.
"Ginny I think you should go and see him now. I mean now we know Harry's an assholl and that Draco really isn't as bad as he makes out he is," Kaiya said seriously.
"Really?" Ginny asked sceptically.
"Well do you wanna see him?"
Ginny looked at Kaiya thoughtfully, "Yeah, yeah I do. I wanna see him and I wanna tell him about everything and I need him," Ginny said her tears falling again.
"Then go and Ginny...just remember that no matter what happens...I love you, you're m...my best friend," Kaiya said trying to stifle tears. Ginny nodded and with tears still flowing down her cheeks she made her way to Dracos room.
Ginnys P.O.V
I new I had to love him the minute I saw him lying on that cold hard couch, his torso all bandaged up and a blank expression gracing his lovely face. His eyes seemed to be blank, just empty pits, I wanted to cry again, I did cry again and that's how he saw me. The common room was deserted and even if it wasn't I still would have done what I did. I stumbled over to him and he opened his strong arms to me, we lay like that for what seemed like ages. I cried and he soothed me, he said Harry was a sod and I was to good for him and I believed him.
I looked into the burning fire that sent orange light out over the cold plain room. I remembered how thin and fragile Kaiya and Faye always felt when I hugged them, you could play the piano on their ribs and use their bony fingers as tweezers. Draco told me I felt like a breath of fresh air and that he loved me. He said he had loved me since her first laid eyes on me, I sobbed my heart out and said I loved him to.
That night was the first time I had sex with someone. Draco and I snogged for ages and as his fingers trailed up my thigh, I told him I was a virgin. He kissed me and said he loved me and asked if I wanted to do this and I did. I wanted to make love for the first time to my worst enemy right there in the green, silver and orange Slytherin common room. Right there on that hard uncomfortable couch and we did.
I made love to my worst enemy by the light of a warm fire, in a cold room I hate. And I loved it, more than oxygen.