D/C- I know own, you no sue. I only own Carmillla.
The next day Carmilla was able to leave the hospital wing. She couldn't help but smile to herself. She was on her way to Gryffindor tower before breakfast when she was stopped by Professor Dumbledore.
"May I see you in my office before breakfast, there are some things that I need to discuss with you." Dumbledore said.
"Okay" Carmilla replied as she followed the headmaster to his office.
"What is it that you wanted to talk to me about?" Carmilla asked.
"I wanted to discuss the incident that happened yesterday evening" Dumbledore said solemnly.
"What happened in the great hall was totally unexpected. I didn't know that my father would locate me so quickly." Carmilla said quietly.
"Before any decisions can be made I will have to speak with your mother. The marriage may have to be a lot sooner than was planned. If your father knows where you are he won't stop until he gets you. He wants to be able to put a stop to your marriage." Dumbledore said.
"When are you going to talk to my mother about the date for the wedding?" Carmilla asked.
"I've asked her to floo here tonight, so that we may discuss some things about the wedding and what we are to do with you."
"What do you mean about me?" Carmilla asked
"You may be forced to leave Hogwarts until your married."
"But that's not fair why should I have to leave school, why can't I be protected here." Carmilla said heatedly.
"There's no need to get upset yet, nothing is definite. I'm sure your mother will have some idea of what to do when she gets here. Once we are finished talking I will send for you. That's about it for now you are dismissed."
"Thank you headmaster" Carmilla said as she left his office.
Carmilla made her way to the great hall for breakfast, she totally bypassed gryffindor tower. She wasn't in the mood to see anyone just yet. She knew that Harry, Ron, and Hermione would have some questions. She would have to deal with them but she would rather deal with them after her stomach was full. The great hall wasn't that full it was still early, so she had time to think about what she was going to say to Harry and Ron. Hermione would get the truth later but she would have to tell them something. They were bound to ask about the whole slytherin thing, she had no idea what she was going to say. She was so deep in thought that she didn't even see Hermione enter the great hall, until Hermione was sitting directly in front of her.
"Earth to Carmilla, you look like your daydreaming." Hermione said while snapping her fingers in front of Carmilla's face.
"Sorry I was just thinking" Carmilla said as she came back to reality.
"Lucky I got to you before Harry and Ron, I hope you have good excuse to tell them. They were bugging me all night last night about your so called slytherin. I got so aggravated I told them off and went to my dormitory." Hermione said with a roll of her eyes.
"I kind of figured they would be asking a lot of questions and to be perfectly honest I have no idea what to tell them. I mean I can tell you the truth but I have to make up something for them. If you got any good ideas feel free to throw them my way." Carmilla said lightly.
"You could just play dumb and pretend like you had no idea what he was talking about. They should leave you alone if you tell them that." Hermione suggested.
"Yeah that sounds like a plan, hopefully they'll buy it." Carmilla said.
"Well here's your chance to see, here they come." Hermione whispered.
"Morning" Hermione said cheerily.
"Good morning" Carmilla said quietly as she stabbed at her eggs.
"Hey Hermione, how are you feeling Carmilla" Ron said.
"I feel fine, I just had a feinting spell" Carmilla replied.
"We're glad to see that you're alright" Harry said
"Yeah you gave us quite a scare, we thought you went mental or something." Ron said while stuffing his face with pancakes.
"Well how do you think you would feel after being thrown into a stone wall. You probably would be in the bloody hospital wing for a week." Hermione said sarcastically.
"After that thing made his last comment you went down like a ton of bricks. By the way what did that guy mean about you and your slytherin" Harry questioned.
"I have no bloody clue, I think he was just ranting because I kind of showed him up." Carmilla lied.
"Oh ok" Harry said unconvinced.
Carmilla knew that she couldn't lie to them forever, but she would have to for now. She would tell them the truth when the time was right. She hoped that they wouldn't react to badly about the whole Malfoy thing. They would understand that she didn't have a choice in the matter. They would probably be more upset about her lying about it. She snapped out of her daze when she realized that she had double potions as her first class and she didn't have her homework done.
"Oh shit"
"What's the matter Carmilla?" Hermione asked.
"We have Potions right after breakfast I'm dead I didn't do the homework. Snape's going to give me another detention. I don't want to be forced to disembowel something." Carmilla said as she pushed her plate away and laid her head down on the table.
"Come on Snape should understand you were in the hospital wing" Ron reasoned.
Carmilla lifted her head up and scrunched up her face " I don't think me being unconscious is a good enough excuse for him. He takes pleasure in making my life hell.What am I going to do?" Carmilla said
"I can let you copy mine this one time" Hermione suggested. Carmilla perked up.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah under the circumstances you shouldn't have to be punished, so I'll let you copy mine. But only this one time." Hermione said as she pulled out her Potions homework and handed it to Carmilla.
"Oh thank you 'Mione your a lifesaver" Carmilla replied as she hugged her Hermione.
"Lucky I came down to breakfast early I have just enough time to copy it." Carmilla said as she started to write furiously on her own piece of parchment. She wrote so fast that she barely understood what she was writing, just as she was finishing up the last sentence Dumbledore stood up to make an announcement.
"May I have your attention, this weekend will be the first Hogsmeade trip. All students from third year and up are allowed to attend. That is all for now." he said while returning to his seat.
"The first Hogsmeade trip of the year, you have to go Carmilla it's so much fun" Ron said.
"Hmm maybe I don't know" Carmilla said skeptically. Going out in the open where anyone could get at her wasn't a comforting thought. But she couldn't say that to Harry or Ron. "Let me think about it and I'll let you guys know later"
"You have to come, please don't leave me to be dragged into the quidditch shop alone I will go insane if I have to put up with these two all day. All the talk about quidditch I don't think I could take it. Please I beg of you come with us, we can go shopping while they go in the bloody quidditch shop." Hermione urged.
"Oh alright you talked me into it, but if the talk about quidditch gets to out of hand I swear I'll be the first one to hang myself." Carmilla joked.
"We'll try but we're not making any guarantees" Harry said while grinning.
"We better start heading down to the dungeons or we'll be late we wouldn't want to give Snape the satisfaction of giving us detention, plus Hermione would flip if she got a detention it would ruin her perfect record." Ron said. This earned him a slap in the back of the head. "Ow bloody hell 'Mione what was that for" Ron said while rubbing his head.
"That remark was uncalled for so you deserved a slap in the head." Hermione snapped. This caused Harry and Carmilla to laugh. "Are these two always like this" Carmilla asked.
"Oh yes they've been like this since first year. I never realized how entertaining it was, at least with you here I have someone else to talk to while these two are bickering." Harry said while putting his arm around Carmilla's shoulders. " Next time they have another argument I'll have to make some popcorn" Carmilla joked.
"Since those two are so enthralled in their argument we should start walking to class. They'll realize we're gone when they want us to take sides." Harry said as him and Carmilla walked out of the great hall. Neither of them noticed a pair of ice blue eyes staring with a twinge of jealousy.
Potions class went by a little uneventful. Well almost Longbottom got detention for the length of his homework not being long enough. The only thing that bothered Carmilla was the class assignment, Carmilla and Draco got paired up and he didn't utter a single word to her through the entire class. He got the ingredients and did his part, the only time he spoke was if she asked him a question. But other than that he said nothing to her. She found this strange but she didn't have time to put too much thought into it, her thoughts were interrupted by Professor McGonagall.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but I need to speak with Miss Hannigan"
"Of course" Snape leered.
Carmilla gathered her books and took one last look at Draco from the corner of her eye. He didn't even glance at her, she followed McGonagall to her office where Professor Dumbledore was waiting.
"Ah Miss Hannigan I hope your feeling better after yesterday's events, I spoke to your mother this morning she said that there is no need for you to leave Hogwarts. After I spoke to her about yesterday's incidents she had a vampire elder put an ancient protective shield on you and Mr. Malfoy so that if your father or anyone else tried to hurt you or take you off of the grounds without your consent, they wouldn't be able to. She also has told me that your wedding will have to be a lot sooner, she has already found someone to perform the ceremony and I have found a binding spell so that you will be married by wizarding law. Your mother wants to have the ceremony during winter break so that there won't be as many students here. Since most of the students do go home for the holidays. She wanted me to tell you that the only thing that you have to do is find a dress."
"But why so soon? I mean me and Mr. Malfoy are just starting to get to know each other." Carmilla said
"I know but your mother insists upon it, she says the sooner the better because now your father knows where you are. He's going to try to do everything is his power to see to it that you don't get married. There is also a matter that she wants to discuss with you but she said that she'll talk to you about it at a later time."
"This is just fantastic leave it to her to dump some more stress on my shoulders." Carmilla mumbled.
"I'll have Professor McGonagall write you a note for your tardiness to class."
"thank you headmaster." Carmilla said as she took her note from McGonagall and trudged to her charms class.
Instead of going to Charms she decided to skip the class altogether, she needed some time to think. She would wait until charms was done and then go to her next class. She walked to the astronomy tower so she could have some time alone to think. She hated her life, she hated everything that was happening to her. She wished that she had never been born. Nothing was going right maybe she was better off just giving in to her father. At least things would be easier. She shook those thoughts out of her head, she knew that she couldn't be like him. She couldn't be a cold blooded killer. She had been so consumed by her thoughts that she didn't even notice the tears that were falling down her cheeks at a furious pace. It was the first time she had ever cried in a long time, to her crying was a sign of weakness. Weakness was not something that you could let the world see. That's what her father always said to her when she was little. Time just flew by as she sat at the astronomy tower balling her eyes out like a baby. She had just enough time to make it to transfiguration, she wiped at her eyes furiously. She didn't even realize how red and swollen her eyes were. When she got to transfiguration Harry, Ron,and Hermione were already seated. She walked right past the table full of slytherins, Malfoy included in the bunch. Before she could even make it to the seat next to Hermione a snide remark had to be thrown in her direction. This was not the time to mess with her she was not having a good day. Leave it to Pansy to start with her at the most inopportune time.
"Aww what's the matter the poor little half blood all upset she looks like she has been crying" Pansy said with a laugh.
Carmilla sighed and threw her bag down, this time she wasn't sure that she could control her temper. She walked up right to the slytherin table and faced the pug.
"Listen I thought we had an understanding you don't bother me I don't bother you. But since your to thick to understand let me simplify it for you stupid arse. Leave me alone I'm not in the mood, today will be the day that you regret talking to me." Carmilla said her voice in a dangerously low tone.
"I'm not scared of you" Pansy said shakily.
"I don't care if your scared of me, but I don't think your parents would be too happy if they got owled telling them that their precious daughter had her heart ripped out and eaten by the class vampire. I wonder how they would react to that, keep pissing me off and you'll find out." Carmilla spat. Pansy cowered back into her seat, while Carmilla picked up her bag and went to her seat. She plopped down in her seat and took out her books and parchment.
Ron turned around with a bewildered look on his face. "Bloody hell would you actually do that, I mean could you actually do that?" Ron asked.
"Yes if it wasn't for the fact that I've learned how to control my temper a great deal, that pug would be heartless right now. Vampires are known for their bad tempers and we usually kill first and ask questions later. She's lucky I'm not like that, she'd be dead already. Come to think of it, it's been a while since I've had a human heart. I really could go for one right about now." Carmilla taunted. She turned around and smirked to the slytherins, well mostly to Pansy. Pansy looked as pale as a ghost.
"Don't worry guys I'm just kidding, I'm not hungry for a human heart. I'm just doing that to scare her so she'll leave me alone." Carmilla whispered.
"You did one hell of a job, she looks like she's scared to death." Harry said as he looked at Pansy.
"That's what I was going for" Carmilla replied.
The rest of lessons went by rather uneventful, the slytherins well most Pansy didn't utter a single word for the rest of the day. It came time for dinner and everyone was making their way to the great hall. Carmilla was walking by herself minding her own business, when someone grabbed her from behind and pulled her into the shadows. She couldn't scream because her mouth was covered so her first instinct was to bite her attacker.
"Ow what did you do that for its only me"
"Next time don't grab me from behind and pull me into a dark corner Draco.You scared me half to death, what do you want anyways." Carmilla said coldly.
"No need to be testy" Draco replied.
"I have every right to be testy, you don't say one word all through potions class and now you want to talk to me. What is up with you?" Carmilla said crossing her arms over her chest.
"I guess I was a little mad this morning, that's why I acted the way I did in potions."
"What could I have possibly done to make you mad, I haven't seen you since last night in the hospital wing." Carmilla said sarcastically.
"This morning when you were with Potter, Weasley,and Granger I got a little jealous."
"Jealous of what?"Carmilla replied hotly.
"Well when Weasley and Granger were arguing you and Potter looked well a little too friendly, then when he put his arm around you I got jealous because its not fair I want to be the one with my arm around you. Plus I saw the two of you leave alone I thought something was going on." Draco said looking ashamed.
"First of all there's nothing to be jealous about, I didn't ask Harry to put his arm around me he just did. We're just friends that's all nothing more. I can kind of understand how it must have looked. But there's nothing going on between me and Harry."Carmilla said quietly.
"I feel dumb now for acting the way I did towards you in potions" Draco said with a laugh.
"You should I was freaking out because I didn't know why you weren't talking to me. I was scared I thought I did something wrong"
"No it was just my stupid male pride that was bruised so I felt the need to take it out on you." Draco replied.
"Promise me you won't ever do that again, because being ignored really stinks."
"I promise" Draco said while pulling her into a hug. " Now let's go eat" he said.
"Wait we have to enter separately" Carmilla said.
"Oh yeah I forgot, meet you after dinner." Draco said hopefully.
"Yeah we kind of need to talk about some things, if you get what I mean." Carmilla said as she started to walk towards the great hall doors. She entered the great hall and took a seat on the side of Hermione. A few minutes after she took her seat Malfoy entered the great hall and made his way to the slytherin table and sat on the side of Pansy.
Through the entire meal Carmilla and Draco kept on glancing at each other. Luckily no one noticed that the precious prince of slytherin was so enthralled with the half blood princess.
"So Carmilla your still going to Hogsmeade with us?" Harry asked.
"Yeah I wanted to do some shopping for some clothes." Carmilla replied.
"Oh no I refuse to go in a store while you shop for clothes" Ron said with a shudder.
"Girls and shopping don't mix with me, I don't have the patience to sit in a store while a girl trys on everything in the store." Harry said.
"Fine then you and Ron can go in the quidditch store and me and Hermione will go shopping then we'll meet up later." Carmilla said.
"That sounds like a plan. That way none of us have to endure anything we don't want to. You don't have to go in the quidditch store and we don't have to watch you try on every article of clothing in a store." Harry replied.
"Glad that's settled, thank goodness I don't have to sit in that damn quidditch shop. It's so nice to have another girl around for a change. With these two there is way too much testosterone in the air." Hermione said.
"Don't worry with me around that will all change." Carmilla said with a smile.
Everyone spent the rest of the meal chatting among themselves and discussing the upcoming Hogsmeade trip. Carmilla was trying to formulate an excuse to give Harry and Ron so that she could leave without them getting suspicioius.
"I think I'm going to go to the library and start my homework." Carmilla said while gathering her bookbag.
"The library I think Hermione is rubbing off on you, I thought Hermione was the only one that actually lived in the library but I guess not." Ron said with a look of disbelief.
"I'll see you guys later." Carmilla replied as she walked out of the great hall. She looked behind her to make sure that no one was following her. There was nobody in sight so she made a dash for the staircase so that she could get to the third floor before anyone seen her. She whispered the password and entered the room. She had to handle it to Dumbledore the man knew how to decorate a room.
The room was decorated with gryffindor and slytherin colors. There was two sofas and two big comfy chairs, there was a huge fireplace. The room had its own bathroom and a bedroom. Carmilla raised an eyebrow at the bedroom. She wondered why on earth there would be a bed in the room but before she could think about it, she heard the potrait moved and Draco entered.
"I must say Dumbledore does have taste, he does know how to decorate. But I'm wondering why there is a bedroom in this room." he said as he put his bookbag down.
"I have no idea but we have more important things to discuss besides why Dumbledore would give two hormonal teenagers a room with a bed. I swear the old man must be going scenial." Carmilla said in disbelief.
"Well what do we have to discuss" Draco said while grabbing her hand and leading her to one of the sofas.
"Well the reason why I got pulled out of class today was because of the incident that happened in the great hall with Diomedes. My father knows that I'm at Hogwarts its only a matter of time before he tries again to get me back." Carmilla said glumly.
"So what do we do now?" Draco asked his voice filled with concern.
"At first Dumbledore told me that I might have to leave Hogwarts and go into hiding until we were married."
"What, that's absolutely ludicrous how are we going to get to know each other if your in hiding." Draco said with a look of shock.
"Let me finish first. He talked to my mother and she said that I would be able to stay, just that the marriage will have to be a little bit earlier."
"How early?" Draco replied.
"My mother wants the ceremony to be performed during christmas break. There aren't that many students here. I know everything in the past few days has been a lot to swallow and like I said before you can back out at anytime. Well not anytime it would be really cruel if you stood me up at the alter, then I'd have to hunt you down like a dog and kill you" Carmilla said trying to force a smile.
"Its just that wow christmas it seems so close, I mean there's so much to do isn't there."
"Apparently not to my mother, as I was told everything is taken care of the only thing I have to do is get a dress. I guess all we have to do is show up." Carmilla said quietly.
"Talk about an easy wedding, usually the bride and groom are the ones that are stressing over every little detail. Instead its the bride's mother is the one running around like a maniac." Draco said with a laugh.
"I know somehow I always pictured how my wedding would be and believe me it was nothing like this. But what can you do. You know what they say when life gives you lemons you make some lemonade and go on the corner and open up a lemonade stand to make some money."
"Huh" Draco said with a look of confusion.
"It's a muggle saying." Carmilla replied.
"Oh" Draco said forming his mouth in the shape of an 'O'."So when are you going to look for a dress?" Draco asked as he started to take out his homework.
"I'm going to look for one when I go to Hogsmeade this weekend. I'll ask Hermione for her opinion since she's the only one that knows. Plus I don't think Harry and Ron really have that much sense when it comes to womens' clothes." Carmilla said while shaking her head.
"Too bad that I can't go to help you pick one." Draco said sadly.
"I know but I'll show it to you when I get back if you want. I promise that once we're married if you want we can make it public. Right now its too risky to let anyone know. If anyone in your house found out I'm sure that one of them would go to your father and that will ruin everything. Can you imagine if Pansy found out, you know she would be jealous that you didn't marry her. Trust me once the christmas break is over we'll ring in the new year together." Carmilla said reassuringly.
"I'm sure that there will be quite a few shocked people in both gryffindor and slytherin. How do you think Potter and Weasley will react."
"They'll probably freak out and get pissed at me for not telling them. Then once they calm down I hope they'll accept it. I mean I had to I didn't have a choice in the matter. I was just lucky enough to be able to marry somebody that I actually like." Carmilla said her cheeks turning red. This caused Draco to blush slightly.
"What assignment do you want to do first?"
"How about Potions, I'd rather get that assignment out of the way first. The rest of my homework won't take me that long to do." Carmilla replied. They each did their assignment not really saying much to each other, just sneaking glances at each other and giggling every so often. Once they finished all their assignments it was still early.
"Well now what do we do, its still early and we're all done with our homework." Carmilla said.
"We could go for a walk" Draco suggested.
"That would be nice except that we can't be seen together." Draco gave her an evil smile. He took out his wand and pointed it directly at Carmilla. Carmilla's eyes got as wide as saucers.
"What are you doing?" Carmilla said shakily.
"You'll see" He directed his wand at her hair "Mutation capillus pigmentum ad fulvus", he then pointed his wand right between her eyes "Mutation oculus pigmentum ad fulvus" and finally he pointed his wand to her throat and mumbled the last altering spell "Mutation vox". He quickly cast the same spell on himself. "There now we can go out for a walk together and no one will be the wiser." Draco said in a voice that didn't sound like him. Just as he was about to walk away Carmilla grabbed his arm.
"You forgot something"
"What" he replied. She pointed her wand to his robe and mumbled a spell of her own his slytherin emblem changed in the hufflepuff. Then she changed her own to ravenclaw. "Can't be to careful if anyone from our own house sees us, they might wonder who we are." Carmilla said as she took his hand in hers. They exited the room and went for a walk. They walked by people and no one gave them a second glance this caused them to laugh. It was quite nice to be able to be together and no one gave them dirty looks or whispered when they walked by. Once they walked around most of the grounds they decided they should get back to their dormitories before it got too late. They went back to the room and quickly did all the reversal spells to change their appearance back. Carmilla would leave the room first then Draco would leave five minutes later.
"I'll see you tomorrow then same time same place" Draco said hopefully.
"Same time same place" she replied. Just as she was about to leave Draco grabbed her arm and kissed her quickly before she left the room. "Sorry I had to do that" he repied while blushing.
"No need to apologize I wanted to do that to but I'm just to shy to. I better get going." Carmilla said. Carmilla left and made her way to her common room, five minutes after her departure Draco left and headed toward the dungeons.
a/n- reviews are nice I like them a lot. :0)