I felt the sun shining on my face, as I fluttered my eyes open. A cool breeze was coming from a window with a white silk of the drapes blowing into the room. I turned my head to see Malfoy asleep next to me. I sat up slowly, pulling the sheet up with me, to cover by somehow naked body. I looked around the room, seeing the sea shells and the light colored walls; I could hear the ocean slowly hitting the beach from the window when an arm pulled me down on the bed. I smiled and looked at Malfoy, who leaned over and kissed me, then kissed my head. I knew I was smiling. "Good morning," He said pulling me closer to him, his voice heavy with sleep.
"Malfoy," I heard the name, but it didn't come from my mouth. I closed my eyes again, hearing the name, again. I knew the voice, it was my mums. I fluttered my eyes open, seeing a blond haired man writing something down.
"Lilybug!" I heard my dad say. He came into my sight pulling me up into his arms. I looked back to the man with blond hair who had something bright pointed at my eyes. He pulled it away as my mum came into view kissing my forehead.
"Lily, can you tell me your full name?" The man with blond hair said, I had seen him before, but I couldn't place it.
"Lily Luna Potter," I croaked out.
He nodded his head slowly. "Can you tell me when your birthday is?"
"September third" I said trying to sit up. My head was pounding in pain, "Who are you?" I asked numbly.
"Lily you are at St. Mungo's hospital, you are on the third floor, I am Healer Malfoy, and I've been assigned your case." I looked up to my mum and dad who were on my side, "Do you remember what happened to you?"
Now it made sense, My Malfoy had his eyes, wait, he isn't my Malfoy, his son, there, his son has his eyes. "I was flying with my brothers." I said trying to sit up again, but my dad held me down, his other hand placed in mine.
"What about before that honey?" My mum asked. She was concerned, I could tell from her face, she only had that look when we left for school, or something bad happened.
"I—" I started, I closed my eyes, the day filling my head. "What day is it?" I asked quietly. "How long have I been out?"
"Three days," Healer Malfoy said picking up my leg gently feeling it with two fingers. "Your leg healed nicely, you were lucky someone helped your fall. Can you tell me what happened before you were flying?"
"I was pulling weeds," I told them, my mum let out a little laugh as my dad let out a sigh of relief, "I got cut."
"That would explain why poison was in her system, you were right," My dad said to older Malfoy.
"I didn't know they were poisonous," I whispered, feeling stupid, really really stupid. Healer Malfoy gave me something in a cup, I tried to reach out, but my dominate hand was stuck. I reached out with my right hand but my fingers were still numb. I put the purple liquid to my mouth and took a drink of it. It tasted good. I looked up to him and he was smiling.
"Finish that and if you are still feeling numb we can give you more." He smiled then looked to my parents, "Keep her off a broom for a while, you play for Gryffindor correct? I heard she is good."
"Better than me," I heard my mum said as I watched Malfoy smile and nod.
"She should be ready to head back to school by tomorrow or so, right now she just needs rest. Lily, do not try to pull your arm out of the sling, it won't heal right then you will have to come back and see me," I could hear him teasing in his voice when I looked to my arm. "You are very luck your brothers responded so quickly."
My parents both stood up as I saw my father hug my healer. I know there is some bad blood when they were younger, and that they weren't exactly friends, but my dad looked over whelmed with emotions. The older Malfoy patted my daddy on the back before my mum kissed my head and the all walked out the door.
Well, now that I might owe my life to a Malfoy, I had no clue what time it was, all that I knew was that I had tests coming up and I was out of school. And older Malfoy had younger Malfoy's eyes. I looked around the room seeing chocolate frogs, flavored beans, a big bear, and more stuff I couldn't make out. All my cousins were back at school or work and I was stuck here alone. My mum left some of my school books by my bedside, I guess as a not so subtle hint for me to work.
I fell asleep about an hour later and woke up seeing blonde hair, "Hey, shouldn't you be at school?" I asked weakly trying to sit up.
"Go back to sleep," his voice was different, lighter, gentle, I closed my eyes again to see the older Malfoy feeling the tips of my fingers.
"Sorry," I told him sitting all the way up, my book falling from my chest to my lap. "I thought you were—"
"I know," He said with a smile, "He hoped you were alright." I nodded; I didn't know what else to say. His son was dating a girl who wasn't me, or stupid enough to suck poison off her finger I bet. I bet she was everything I wasn't. "He is back at school, I'm sure you will see him tomorrow, only if you get some more rest." I nodded again and sat back down as Teddy and James walked into the room.
"Lily!" James said about to jump on my bed before older Malfoy gave him a look he stopped and took a seat next to me. "Quinn says hello and feel better."
"We brought you food," Teddy said putting it down on the small table next to me. James took the seat next to him and opened up the bag handing me a cup of my favorite soup. I took it and snagged a spoon.
"So, what happened after I fell?" I asked scooping the food into my mouth.
"Well, we rushed over and you were almost a ghost color, we fooed you over here while Al got ahold of mum and dad. You wouldn't respond to anything for a while, so then they called Malfoy in." James said, he added a nasty tine to the Malfoy's name. "I really don't see why Quinn is friends with his son, but anyways, he knew something was up and then mum and dad came and you woke up two days later.
I nodded slowly, collecting all the information. "He said I might be able to go back to school tomorrow. I just hope my arm is healed before the next match."
"Lils," Teddy signed, "Do you really want to hop on a broom so fast after a fall like that? And two broken bones?"
"Yes."
"I'm just saying, it is really fast and—"
"I don't care Teddy, I poisoned myself, I'm an idiot for doing it, but it had nothing to do with flying. I promise I will take it slow when I get back to school." I reached out and grabbed his hand giving him a small smile. He looked down and nodded slowly.
The rest of the night was pretty eventful, we went through my bag of goodies from my Uncle George and Uncle Bill gave me loads of flavored beans, I think I was sicker with everything I ate than from getting myself sick. Teddy and James left when the nurse came in and ushered them out. I hated being alone in this creepy place, but older Malfoy came in and gave me more potion; he was out of his white robes when he did, I didn't say much to him, just a thank you. I fell asleep studying.
When I woke up my mum and dad were sitting in the chairs drinking hot tea and talking about the wedding. I sat up quickly, because, well, I don't really want to hear about it. My parents were holding hands as my mum's head was on my dad's shoulder. I sat up and drank the potion that was in front of me as older Malfoy walked in. He did a few more tests and told me to take it easy when I got back to school. My stuff was already there, all of my gifts that were next to me when I fell asleep were there too I guess. I gave my mum and dad a kiss goodbye, telling them I would write as I threw the powder into the fire place and found myself standing in the joke shop in Hogsmeade. I stepped out and brushed the dust off of me with my good hand. "Good to see you alive." A voice said from the counter. I smiled as Malfoy walked over. "Head boy here to get you to your bed," he opened the door and I followed him out.
"Thanks," I said stepping into the cold air. "Why didn't Rose come?" Oh. Crap. That must have made it sound like I was upset it was him, but I should be…. But we are kinda friends now? Right?
"I had the free period, she didn't." He shrugged, walking up the street, but I stopped, I was in Hogsmeade, I had already missed my first hour of classes, and didn't have to start them up until tomorrow. I turned on my heel and headed for the Three Broomsticks, Malfoy was shouting till he grabbed my arm.
"What are you doing?" He let go of my good arm as we walked in, the place almost empty, I walked up to the counter, "Two Butterbeers, please" I told the bartender.
"To go," Malfoy added as we both pulled out our money. I glared at him as I put the money on the bar.
We were soon on our small walk back up to the castle, I had my bottle hanging in my sling as we walked, we had made small talk, but it was kind of hard to come up with things to talk about when we used to hate one another and were now trying to be civil. The fact that I wanted to kiss him didn't escape my memory. "How did your interview go?" I asked after a moment.
"Well, I hope, I will find out in a few weeks." He shrugged taking another drink. "Can I ask you something?" He looked over at me as I looked back. "Why are you dating Lysander?" I was taken aback. "I figured it out. I sent the note to the other one, and I know I didn't get it wrong then, the spell didn't go wrong. So why date him?"
"Why are you dating Millie?" I asked without thinking that sounded bad.
"We have known each other for a long time and" he stopped and shook his head, "why does it matter?"
"Why does it matter that I am dating Lysander?" I asked back. We had stopped in the middle of the walk way up to the castle, I'm sure people could see us.
"Because I have been on your bad side enough to know when you are plotting and planning, and I know you are doing one or the other."
Should I tell him, would that blow up all of this, or would he think it was because of him? "It has nothing to do with what you did." There, that sounded better. Well, I guess not, he shot me a strange look. "Alright, well, I kissed Lorcan the night after when urm, yeah," was I blushing? Crap! "Tara, the girl Lorcan likes and who can't really stand me, saw it and to cover it up he said it was Lysander I kissed and now I'm sucked into the mess."
He nodded, very slowly, why would he even care about fifth year problems. "What I don't get is why you care. Not to be mean or anything, but you have never hesitated away from something because someone didn't approve. Then again, maybe I don't know you at all." He started walking up back to the castle, I played catch up to him, but when the doors opened I found myself trapped in Al's arms and Malfoy gone. I looked around for a moment before my cousins and the Quidditch team took turns to hug me.
I walked up to the common room, then to my bed and laid in it. My dad told me how ugly the curtains were, and he was right. I hate them, but I looked at them anyways, I didn't want to study, I just wanted to be alone with my thoughts. If Malfoy thought he knew so much about me, what did I know about him? I mean what a real friend would know. Or maybe the best thing I could do for our friendship now was to just let him be happy. Maybe that is what I was doing altogether. Everyone can be happy right now, but me.
I sat up and jumped off my bed. I am not that type of girl. I am not the type to throw a pity party, nor am I the girl who lets someone else tell me what to do. I knew I shouldn't have walked out of my room, I knew I should have taken a nap and not let my anger get the best of me, but somehow that was me. I marched down the stairs, people saying welcome back and good to see me. I walked into the Great Hall during study period and sat right next to Lorcan, with no Tara at his side. Hugo and Lysander shot him a look before they started around the tables to pull me away, or to interfere, but they wouldn't make it in time before I spit it out. I have never spoken to my friends like this before, and I hope that I will never have to do it again. "I really hate you right now."