comforting
for the march creativity challenge
blaise x millicent platonic - "that is definitely not true." / "of course it is. (insert name) said so."
wc 607
"You two can go on without me," said Blaise to both Theo and Daphne. "I need to check something."
It had overall been a normal day. They had classes without much event. Then he'd had dinner in the Great Hall with his friends. Now they were heading back to the Slytherin dungeons to complete their homework, but he'd heard some soft sobbing nearby that he was curious to check on. Hopefully the person was alright...
"Are you alright, Blaise?" asked Daphne, her eyebrows furrowing in concern. Neither of his friends seemed fazed by the sobbing, but then again it was rather soft and quiet.
"I'm fine, Daph. I just want to check on something. I'll see you in the common room, alright?" he replied softly.
Daphne smiled and nodded, and she and Theo began making their way back to the Slytherin common room.
Blaise followed where the sobbing was coming from, and it eventually led him to the far end of the corridor.
"Millie?" he asked gently. He was surprised to see his distant friend in such a state. She never cried. Actually, she never really showed much emotion at all. "Are you alright?"
She turned around slowly to face him. "Blaise," she replied evenly. "Yes. I'm fine."
"You don't look fine," he ventured, sitting down on the steps next to her, listening as she sniffled. "What happened?"
"It's just some stuff Flora Carrow and Tracey Davis said earlier…" she trailed off. "But it's nothing."
"Judging by your face, it's definitely not nothing," he said firmly. He knew that his friend had a reputation throughout Slytherin House as well as the entirety of Hogwarts in which she rarely - if ever - displayed emotions and weakness. "What did they say?"
"Well, it's been going on for quite a while," she admitted, blinking rapidly. "We've been friends for quite a long time, you see."
"I've been telling you since first-year that you were far too good for those idiots," insisted Blaise. "What've they been doing?"
"Just little things at first. I tried to ignore it. They betrayed me. They completely turned on me. They were pretending I don't exist. They were saying I was way too fat to even be seen with them."
"That is definitely not true," said Blaise firmly.
"Of course it is," she said venomously. "Flora said so. Honestly, I've gone from being their friend to wanting to Crucio both of them. I don't even know what I did for them to turn on me. They just...did. But it just really hurts sometimes, what they say. Then, you know that awful, awful rumor - the one saying that I have the eating disorder?"
"That was them?" he snarled in anger, already ready to bash both Flora and Tracy's heads together.
She nodded, trying to hide her tears. "When they saw me crying over what they said...they announced to everyone in the common room: 'look! The fatty actually has feelings!' I couldn't be in there anymore, Blaise."
Blaise cursed himself for being so oblivious as to what was happening with her. "Don't worry, Millie. We'll get revenge on both of them."
"I want that more than anything," she said, her eyes narrowed in hatred. "I want them to suffer."
Blaise's eyes glinted, "Well, we could use the Cruciatus…"
Millicent raised an eyebrow.
"I'm kidding," he said quickly. "We'll find another way to make them pay. You know that we will. There has to be something in that huge library."
"Something in which they'll regret making me look bad in front of all of Slytherin," agreed his friend darkly.
And the two embraced, sealing their promise of revenge.
also for-
hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry assignment # 6 - history of magic task 4 - write about someone who is unfairly bullied/picked on/singled out
insane house challenge - 505. (action) crying
365 prompts - 309. time - dusk
writing club -
character appreciation: 18. write about being betrayed
count your buttons (dialogue): "You know that we will."
liza's loves: vanisher - write about someone falling out with their best friend
please R&R :)
-Ana