Disclaimer, Summary, Warnings and Important Notes are in chapter one.
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"speech"
'thoughts'
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So far, DADA with Snape wasn't as bad as Damien thought it might've been. Truth be told, he actually enjoyed the lessons very much! Potions, however, was rather boring. Sure Professor Slughorn knew what he was doing and he taught it well, but Damien wasn't too fond of the man's attitude. He could go from happy to vain and nasty with a flick of a wand. Damien, lost in his thoughts on the past week, failed to realise someone was calling his name until he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Ah, Mr Riddle. I do apologise, it would seem that I interrupted your train of thoughts, but I was simply wondering if you would like to have some tea and a chat. You see it's very rare for us to gain a new student your age, so I was just hoping to have a little chat and see how you are finding Hogwarts so far."
"I…umm…" Damien looked around but couldn't find any way he would get out of going so begrudgingly, he replied "Sure, Headmaster."
—LINE BREAK—
Damien watched with narrowed eyes as Dumbledore poured the tea after having an elf bring a pot. He allowed the old man to take a sip first before he himself deemed it safe enough to drink. Dumbledore watched as the boy took a drink, his twinkling blue eyes searching Damien's face. With a smile hiding his thoughts and intentions, Dumbledore opened his mouth,
"Now my boy…"
—LINE BREAK—
"Hey, Damien, where've you been?" Blaise asked during dinner later that evening.,
"Hmm?" The said boy had been lost in thought, "Oh, I fell asleep in one of the hidden alcoves. Professor Dumbledore found me, said he was worried someone had hexed me or something." At this the surrounding Slytherins who had heard Damien looked at him in concern, "I guess the stress of OWLs and you know my...break up...I guess they just got the better of me and I was exhausted"
"That must be it." Mumbled Theo in response, but no one around them believed the tale Damien told was as innocent as he thought. As Damien sat there quietly nibbling at his dinner, he couldn't help but re-think the story he just told.
The rest of the evening he was quiet. Going to his dorm room, the raven-haired boy sat on his bed and mulled over his afternoon.
Sure, it was believable that he fell asleep, he hadn't been sleeping all that well as of late. But, for him to fall asleep in public AND in an alcove near the Gryffindor Tower, did seem a little too unbelievable. Concentrating hard, his eyes closed and fists clenched as he tried to control his breathing. Something, there was something. Deep in his mind, he could feel a block of some kind. He pushed on it. It threw him back. What was it? What was it? Eyes snapping open as he took in a deep breath, panting as though he had been running. He was close to getting answers. About to try again, he felt his vision waver. He'd exhausted himself in the attempt of learning the truth. Eyes closed a final time as he slipped into a restless, but well-needed sleep. Forgetting all that had transpired just then.
—LINE BREAK—
"Woah, mate. Are you alright?" The black-skinned boy asked when Damien entered the common room the next morning, prepared for the next day.
"Yes." Damien answered bewildered by the exclamation, "Are you?"
"Dami, you've got a nosebleed…" Theo murmured looking at the streaming blood in worry, the raven-haired boy eyes widened and he rushed off to the bathroom to clean it up. Returning 5 minutes later, Damien sighed and said they'd best get to breakfast. The rest of the day was filled with concerned looks from…well all of the Slytherins along with Neville. When he was walking around at lunch, Fred and George too looked at him with worry. But it was for nothing…at least that's what Damien kept saying.
"Honestly, it was a mere nosebleed. How just how, is that deadly?"
"He does have a point, you know. I mean I used to get nosebleeds all the time when I was younger I got them all the time, but then I grew out of them around the time I got my Hogwarts letter." Neville said in Charms which was a Slytherin and Gryffindor lesson.
"See! See, Neville gets it! Dear Merlin, I probably just hit myself!" Damien exclaimed in a whisper to the pestering Theo and Blaise.
—LINE BREAK—
Something was off. Damien wandered back to his room and remembered what he was doing last night. Delving deep into his mind, he came across a darkness. Crawling towards it, he saw…something. Something like a box. Surrounding the 'box' was thick metal chains. But what? What could it be? Thinking about it, there was something he was missing, a memory. Something that did happen, that someone made him forget. It was an Obliviate. He'd read about them in secret after the Gilderoy Lockhart fiasco and there was no way -no known way- to break an Obliviate. Foolishly, Damien pushed and pulled, shoved and tugged, but it only cracked the chains slightly. Growling in frustration, he tried to break them with more strength. There was an audible crack. Echoed through the room and Damien opened his eyes slightly. Glazed, green eyes saw four blurry figures in front of him. Giving them a lazy grin. He allowed his eyes to roll back as he passed out. Memories consumed his unconscious mind.
—LINE BREAK—
Wandering up to his dorm room, Draco sighed, life was difficult. On one hand, he was still furious with Harr -no it's Damien- and on the other, he just wanted his boyfriend back. But, he knew -whether he would admit it or not- deep down, it was his fault they were no longer an item. Entering the room, his eyes found the boy who filled his thoughts. He gasped as pale eyes widened. Running back to the common room, his eyes searched for Snape,
"Professor! Come quick!" Before darting back to the dorm room. Severus, followed by Theo and Blaise, entered the dorm. They too gasped. Damien sat on his bed with his hands scratching at his face, blood was pouring through his nose. Red tears leaked from his closed eyes and his ears leaked the crimson liquid. There was a loud crack that echoed through the room. They watched in horror as Damien's eyes squinted towards them and the boy gave a large grin with blood stained teeth before the youth passed out. Severus darted into action, quickly checking the boy out, making sure there was nothing serious.
"Sev? What's wrong with him?" Draco asked ever so quietly,
"He broke an Obliviate." The professor's voice was quiet and filled with surprise and awe.
Author's Notes:
Also, the nosebleed bit used to happen with me (Neville's point that is). I grew out of them luckily, but I remember one day when I had 3 nosebleeds, the first one my teacher thought someone had hit me! There's probably still a blood stain trail from where I was to the bathrooms lol!
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