Heya again, I don't actually know what everyone's reaction was to chapter 1 as I'm loading this straight after. So I hope you like it! P.S. If you recognise anything, chances are it isn't mine! J K Rowling rocks!
Over the next few weeks, Draco kept talking to me during Potions and whenever he got the opportunity to. I felt it was odd at first but was getting used to it. I even started enjoying the company. We weren't "friends" per say, just acquaintances, someone to say hello to in the corridors. Draco would never say anything to me if there were other Slytherins around though, which I found a bit off-putting.
I was walking to the Library one Saturday afternoon in mid-October when someone grabbed me from behind, put a hand over my mouth and dragged me to the nearest empty classroom. I screamed and thrashed around, trying to get out of the death grip my attacker had on my arm. My wand was in my jeans pockets so I couldn't reach it. I did the last thing that came to mind. I bit down hard onto the hand over my mouth. I refused to let go until the person had finally shoved me away and had to physically pull their hand out of my mouth. When I looked up to identify my kidnapper, I was met with a pug-like face. Pansy Parkinson. She had a group of about 6 Slytherin girls behind her as well. Shit.
"What do you want?" I spluttered. My question was met with a slap. I bit my lip to hold back the tears of pain as I drew my wand.
"Expelliarmus! Don't play games with me, mudblood!"
"Games?" I asked quietly. I didn't have a clue what she was on about but I got the impression she was furious about something and the best way to proceed was gently and carefully.
"Crucio! I said don't play games with me! You know what this is about!" She shrieked. I screamed and fell to the floor in the unbelievable torture. It felt as though I was being stabbed with a thousand knives all at once. Pansy lifted the curse almost instantly but it still had weakened me. She had used an Unforgiveable! She must seriously think I'm messing her around! I groaned as my joints ached in the after math of the curse. I understood know why it could turn someone crazy if used repeatedly. I tried to crawl to the door to escape from this lunatic but someone grabbed my hair and yanked me back. I whimpered as I thought through how I could possibly escape. It was a Saturday and it was reasonably warm, so most of the students would be out on the grounds. Only people like me and Hermione Granger would be going past this door to get to the Library.
"As I can tell we have an idiot on our hands, I will have explain in detail," Pansy said threateningly, "you want to steal Draco from me and I won't allow that to happen because we are meant to be together, so I thought I could make you so ugly that he won't be able to look at you without retching..." Pansy made an odd screeching noise that sounded like a cat was choking up a fur ball. I presume that's her laugh, scary...
"What uglier than you, you mean? Bloody miracle..." I muttered but unfortunately, she heard me and punched me hard in the face. For such a stupid girl, she can throw a good punch. I gasped as my right eye started throbbing painfully.
"Now, as I was saying, make you ugly, so we'll start with kicks, slaps, punches, pinches and then we'll going onto curses." I was scared stiff, this was going to hurt a lot. I discreetly looked around the room for my wand.
Pansy was advancing on me with her cronies and I didn't have time to think. I jumped up, ignoring the protesting aches in my joints and tried running towards the door.
"Immonbulus!" I feel flat on my face and I felt the tell-tale crunch of my nose breaking.
The next ten minutes, Pansy and her followers punched, slapped, kicked and pinched me, as they promised. I knew that when I finally got chance to look in the mirror, I would be covered in black and blue ugly bruises. That is if I survived this torture to actually see a mirror. Suddenly I felt very frightened for my life. I knew I was bleeding, from my noses and from my head. If they kept doing this then left me, I would die of loss of blood. To distract myself from the pain, I started to think through people's reaction to my death. My parents and siblings would be distraught. Especially my sister, we were best friends despite the age difference. But who else would be bothered about me dying? The teachers perhaps. And...Oh. The reason I would be dying. Draco Malfoy. Would he be upset? I think he might be, slightly. Everyone says he's a cold-hearted bastard, but really when you get to know him, he's really kind. So yes, I think Draco would be upset. I didn't want him to be upset because, to be honest, the past few weeks that we having been talking, I have started to have certain feelings for him. Like whenever I see him, there are butterflies in my tummy and I feel all warm and fuzzy. These were the thoughts that went through my head as I was being treated as a human punch bag. But, I found that the more I struggled against the curse that kept me immobilized, the more I hurt. So, I just laid there. I allowed myself to be beaten to a pulp by my crush's exe girlfriend.
Suddenly, over the raucous laughter, I heard rattling and shouting. Is that...? No, it can't be, I mean, why would it be? And he can't be here to help me because surely the Slytherin bimbos would have put a silencing charm on the room, wouldn't have they?
The next thing I knew, the door had been blown off its' hinges. And there, like my knight in shining armour, was Draco.
Our eyes met and I saw expressions flick over his face at an alarming rate. Confusion, worry, fear, fury.
"Parkinson, what are you doing?" He shouted at the girl who now stood away from me with her hands behind her back, looking at Draco in what seemed anticipation.
"I was only killing off this disgusting mudblood." She scrunched up her nose as if she smelt something revolting.
"Killing? You were going to kill her?" He asked her threateningly as he made his way over towards me. He knelt down and once realising I was immobilized, released the curse. I gasped as all the pain, that had been somewhat withheld by the curse, came flooding back.
"Are you alright? Is anything broken?" He whispered so Pansy couldn't hear.
"No, to both questions." I moaned.
"Of course I was going to kill her, things like that don't deserve the air it breaths!" Pansy screeched. "And anyway, with her out the way, you can be with me again."
Draco lifted me carefully from the stone floor. I whimpered as all the aches in my body made themselves known.
"Even if you did kill her, I would never go back with you." And with that Draco left the classroom, with me in his arms.
"How bad are you? How long were you there? Did she say why she attacked you?"
"She wanted me to stay away from you and that she would make me ugly so that when you looked at me, you would retch. Then you would get back together with her." I mumbled, close to losing consciousness.
"What exactly did she do to you?"
"She put the Cruciatus curse on me, then just punched, kicked, slapped and pinched me. I think I have a broken nose though..." I told him. I snuggled into his chest and gripped his shirt tightly as pain raced around my body.
"It wouldn't surprise me..." He muttered angrily. He was walking briskly to, I presume, the Hospital Wing.
He pushed some doors out of his path with his shoulders and put me on one of the beds gently.
"Oh Sweet Merlin! What on earth happened here?" Madam Pomfrey came bustling out her office at the far end of the Hospital Wing.
"She was attacked by several other students; they put her under crucio and then proceeded to beat her up, Ma'am." Draco answered for me. I opened my heavy eyelids without realising I closed them. Draco was sat in the chair next to the bed, with blood on his shirt. He was looking at me with concern and when he noticed me looking at him, he gave a small smile and held my hand tightly.
"Oh my goodness! Well, it will take a good week for her to recover fully! What is your name, Miss?" The healer asked as she bustled around my bed, mixing potions here and there and forcing a disgusting green potion down my throat. I gagged and choked and tried to spit it back out again.
"Mr Malfoy, hold her down with her head back, will you?" Draco nodded and did as he was told. He held my head back but put his hand on a spot where Pansy had continually kicked me. I cried out and he quickly removed his hand to put under my throat instead. I swallowed the potion and laid back, defeated. Almost instantly, the pain vanished and was replaced by a warm numb feeling. I sighed contentedly.
"Madam Pomfrey, should I go get the Headmaster or at least report the attack?" Draco asked the nurse. Once he had the permission, he went off to Professor Dumbledore's office.
In his absence, Madam Pomfrey gave six other nasty looking and smelling potions to take to "get me all healed up".
Finally after a good quarter of an hour, Draco returned with Professor Dumbledore and McGonagall in tow. By this time, though, I was feeling rather sleepy thanks to the combination of the sun coming through the window, the pain I had gone through and, probably, the potions I had taken.
"Miss Moore, how are you feeling? Mr Malfoy has been telling me about the unfortunate event you experienced this afternoon. Do you mind retelling the story for me, please?" The Headmaster inquired kindly.
After retelling the story again, trying to give as much detail as possible, I was feeling exhausted. I was almost too tired to protest to yet another potion Madam Pomfrey was trying to give me.
"No, please Madam Pomfrey, I really don't need another potion!" I know I whined, but to be honest I couldn't care less.
"No, this is the last one Miss Moore, it is a sleeping potion, it will make you sleep until your body is strong enough to cope." I finally caved in after Draco intervened. And plus I didn't really want to go through the pain and boredom of healing. As I started to drift off, I grabbed Draco's hand and managed to say in the strongest voice I could:
"Go find my sister and tell her..."
Then everything went black.
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