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Chapter 6
Once his morning routine was done Draco opened his door, stepping out into the common room. He found that the three people there where engrossed in a Sunday paper. Granger had the paper cut up in to pieces as if it were a puzzle. Potter was looking at one pieces with great interest as Wesley looked like he was about to pass out of boredom.
When he closed his door, they all looked his way. Draco tried to act like he hadn't seen them choosing to walk out the hidden door instead. He was in no mood for whatever they were going to say to him and after his having Granger sit with him, he was sure it would be bad. He cruets his need too have someone with him last night.
His esp. headache was still causing him pain; Draco decided to make a detour to the hospital wing for something to help it. He wasn't sure what he could take, but if she just gave him some dragon tranquilizers he'd be fine. As he walked past people in the halls he could hear some of there thoughts. He didn't know how it worked, but he had learned a lot about his classmates just by walking by them. 'Gods I hope this is temporary' He also heard there thoughts of pity witch he hated to hear.
Draco step into the hospital wing and adamantly regretted it. There was a reporter there asking for his maniacal records. She said she had a theory on who the kidnapper was and Draco could hear her thoughts on who she thought did it. She though HE was the one behind it all and just want to see if he had been in with anything in the pasts two days. Thankfully the Med-witch told the woman to bugger off and then had flat out said 'that boy has been through hell in the past DAY. He doesn't need people like you in his business now please leave.'
It would have been great if the reporter hadn't turned around to see him standing in the doorway. She had practically ran over to him asking questions and dreaming up answers to those questions at the sometime. "I am not telling you a thing lady. All you're going to do is twist my words to fit some stupid story you have dreamed up." He had said before Madam Pomfrey came over to see what he needed.
"I have a headache Madam Pomfrey and I was just wondering if there was something I could take for it." He said as the reporter was being shoved out the door.
"What type of headache is it Mr. Malfoy, spell, potion, normal or…." The old woman asked as she walked to her medicine cabinet. Draco walked along behind her making a choice on which one to say it was. Finally he came up with the answer.
"None of those three Madam Pomfrey" He whispered before moving up next to her. "I have an esp. headache. I know there not normal and mine wasn't done by a spell or potion for I've had one before now. I just didn't say it before because I know what that woman planned to say about me and I didn't want to give her anything to work with."
She scrunched up her face as if she smelled something foul. "No need to explain Mr. Malfoy. I do have something to give you, but there will be side affects." She said pulling out a small purple bottle shaped like a fish. "This is Trifanea a very rare potion, hard to find, make and keep; one drop and your headache will be gone."
Draco nodded his head before asking what the side affects were. "Well you could go temporally blind, or it could make the headache worse if it comes back. It's not to be taken lightly." Draco thought about what to ask before asking another question.
"If it is so hard to fine, make and keep why do you have it?" The woman smiled a little as he looked to her for an answer.
"I had a girl in here a long time ago who got those same headaches. I decide to keep it around when I heard she had a son. Figured he might need it someday, like today." She said pulling out a spoon for him.
"Are you telling me my mom has esp. too?" Draco asked taking the spoon full of trifanea. She didn't answer him as she put the potion away.
"Are you going to take it or not?" She asked him as she locked up her potions. Draco drank down the bitter purple liquid before handing her back the spoon.
"Thank you Madam Pomfrey." She smiled and nodded her head before walking off to help someone else. He walked down to the dark arts class room wondering why his mother never told him she had ESP. It took him a moment to notice the voices of his classmates where gone. The potion had worked wonders and he could still see not a bad break for a man having a bad luck marathon.
His hands were getting sweaty as he walked up to Sue's office, knocking softly. Sue called for him to come on in. Draco felt his stomach do a flip flop as he pushed open the door calling in "Sorry I didn't get here sooner, I overslept." He saw she had set up for a tea party and hoped his luck was still good.
That feeling sunk when she came into the room in a big frilly dress and apron. She looked like a house wife or a little girl playing house wife or whatever little girls played. "I'm glad you're here now I can warm up the tea for our little party and we can pick out some outfits for you." She then waved her wand opening a 50ft wall filled with doll clothes. "See all the pretty clothes I have for you to choose from?"
It wasn't as bad as Draco had thought it would be, he end up playing doll-house with the woman and not having sex with her. It was crazy and he know she was dangerous, but watching her act like she was four years old made Draco more aware of what kind of person she really was. She belonged in a mental institution for the chronicle insanity! Once they where done 'shopping' Draco high tailed it out of there.
Sue wasn't talking like a sane person and if (denial) she really did have Draco's mother, little girl Sue was better than kidnapper-rapist-Sue any day. He just didn't want to be there when she changed back so he didn't have to have sex with her. Little girl Sue had told him his mum was just fine which meant for an hour, he could relax.
As Draco walked back toward his room, everything got fuzzy before it went all black. Draco didn't panic he know what was wrong. He was having the side affects from the potion he took earlier. Not wanting to draw attention to himself Draco ran his hand along the wall looking for a door. There where two bathrooms just down the hall the male bathroom didn't get used to much, as Peeves liked to hang out there and the girls never got used because of a girl ghost who cried a lot or something like that.
Either one was better then standing in the hall like a blind fool. Pushing open a door Draco took a step inside he hear a girl's voice cry out "You can't be in here this is the girls bathroom!" Draco closed his eyes as if it made a different.
"Are you a ghost?" He asked in a cool tone just in case it wasn't the ghost.
"So what if I am?" That was all the answer he need he relaxed a little bit
"Is there any other girls using this bathroom?" He asked sweetly
"Not at the moment no" The ghost girl huffed
"Then I am sorry, but I need to stay here for a little bit." He smirked a little "You see I am blind at the moment and do not wish to make a fool of myself. I assure you I will leave once my sight returns." He could hear the ghost girl give off a wild moan.
"OH how awful for you, do you want me to go get help." She moved toward him making him feel cold. "Oh please, oh please I can do this I really can, PPPLLLEEEAASSSEEE." She cried Draco covered his ears shaking his head yes just so the ghost would leave.
"Don't bring just anyone!" He called after her hoping it wasn't too late. Placing his hand on the wall he moved to the far end of the bathroom wondering what would happen next. He didn't have to wonder long when a thunder of voices filled his head. He recalled the med-witch telling him there would be side affects, she hadn't said there might not be, she said there will.
The voices were to loud making him feel like the walls he couldn't see where closing in on him. He put his hands back on his ears hoping to close out the noise. He didn't have much luck. He didn't know someone had enter the bathroom and told the ghost girl to get a teacher until a voice in his head came in clear.
"Malfoy are you alright?" Hermione Granger called out. "Malfoy can you hear me? If you can just nod you're head." He nodded his head yes. "Myrtle said you couldn't see, are you in pain too?"
"Yes" He said with some affront. Granger moved around next to him for a moment. She then placed a cold cloth over his eyes.
"I sent Myrtle to get a teacher, just sit back and try to relax." She said in a soft tone. Draco didn't know how or even why but he took hold of Granger hands making them rub his temples. When he let go she kept rubbing them. "Is that making it better?"
Draco had to think about it before he realized "Yes it's making it much better." He wonder why if hadn't worked when he was doing it, but it worked when she was doing it. This was brought on by stress after all and he had gotten some of the stress off his back. He took a deep calming breath. "I think it stopped." He said removing Grangers hands.
"That's good; do you know why you want blind? If I know I might be able to help you." Her voice was soft like the night before when she told him he could cry. He had been tempted to cry his eyes out but not in front of one of the golden trio. There was no telling what she would do with that information.
"It's from a potion I took for my headache. Madam Pomfrey told me this was a side affect. At the time the headache felt much worse…." He trailed off as he felt her hand touch his forehead. It was soft and warm as it blushed over his cold calmly skin. Draco didn't like her or anything about her, but his mind, body and if possible soul needed someone else who wouldn't be after his family or there money. Being as no one in the world could be trusted he would have to settle for someone he knew was after his family.
He need to feel safe like everyone else did. He needed to feel wanted in a good way like everyone else did and he need to feel love not like everyone else. He needed a deep trusting lover, who could understand him and keep him safe form the Sue Twila's of the world. What he got was a person who just wouldn't kick him for the moment. That would change of choice. Whether it be when his mother was found or a week from this moment he didn't know.
"Are you feeling sick like you might throw up, or not?" She asked as she pushed his hair behind his ears.
"I just feel tired and I still can't see." He replied allowing her to move him so he was leaning on her shoulder. 'She must be overwhelmed with pity for me.' he thought as he felt her hand on his.
"Can you walk?" She asked softly making Draco feel warm all over. He didn't like the feeling at all. He sat up moving a bit away form her.
"Yes, but I can't see where I am going." He snapped at her feeling vulnerable and ashamed of himself for allowing his body to feel that way. He couldn't go off feeling warm when his mother was lost, when he was under the control of an insane woman and when another person he couldn't trust was only inches away form him.
"I could use the revilers sight spell allowing you to get back to your room. After all you wouldn't want me to walk you there and I can stay here until someone comes without getting in trouble for it." Draco could have protested, but he liked the sound of that idea.
"What are you waiting for? Do it all ready." pointing her wand to Draco eyes she said "Revalies" Moving the wand too her own eyes. "Lemiresa" again she point the wand at his eyes. "Lemiresa" Then hers "Revalies" Draco now had Granger eyes sight he could see what she could see and vice versa.
Getting up he half ran to his room once inside he said "Thanks for the help to the air around him." A small brown owl flow in the window holding out it's leg to him. Draco removed the latter before giving the bird an owl treat. He opened it forgetting that what he saw Granger saw too. It read:
I told you we'd be in touch. I don't want your money yet, I have other plans meat me tomorrow after school. I'll tell you when and where later.
That was all it said Draco felt his heart skip as things got black again. The spell had worn off and his mother's kidnapper if not Sue Twila was playing a sick game with his heart. When there was a knock on his door he shoved the latter in his pocket not wanting someone to see the later.
"Yes come in." He called out the door opened and someone came inside.
"How's that esp. headache still load or is it gone?" It was the med-witch coming to check in on him. Meaning that ghost girl had taken her sweet ass time finding someone to go get him. "Ms. Granger told me you were in a lot of pain before is there any pain now?"
"No pain I still can't see, but the pain is gone." The woman sat him on the bed making sure to check him out from top to bottom.
"The blindness will wear off in an hour or two. You just stay here for now and I'll have you're dinner sent up to you."
"Alright then" He said before lying back on his bed and listening to the women leave his room. He was alone with nothing to do but think and it was a terrible two hours of pain filled thoughts.