Disclaimer: I don't own any Harry Potter characters, places, or things. I just own Brie and the plot.
Me: Ok, so here's chapter 10-
My inner: Finally…
Me: Shut the fuck up. Anyway, so picking up where I left off last time-
My inner: Forever ago…
Me: SHUT THE FUCK UP. Anyway, Brie and Draco…
My inner: Who's Brie again? It's been so long since I heard that name…
Me: SHUT THE FUCK UP! Ok, Get this! We had this Fourth of July cook-out and I met a woman named Brie. It was amazing! Lol.
***Brie's POV***
After a *ahem* fantastic morning after the ball with Draco, we spent the entirety of Christmas day with all our friends and parents. Everyone got some great gifts and the rest of Christmas break just messing around. Finally the day came that we all had to pack up and head to school.
Things over break had gone well. Greg and Cho were seeing each other, and the dates were going well, (and the snogging, according to Cho) but they weren't an official couple. Pansy, Cho, and I spent lots more time with Millie, and we 4 became comfortably close. Pansy and Theo were happy; Vince and his family had steadily begun to rebuild themselves, and Blaise had become more comfortable talking about his father. His relationship with Astoria was a little rocky, but well all the same. Draco I and were doing great. Everything was perfect for the for the first time since I lost my own dad.
Returning t o school was nothing short of excellent. Tasting all that food, talking to less close friends, and seeing Ginger Beast with that giant cast on her nose were all grand memories recorded in my soul. Classes resumed the following Monday, in other words, tomorrow. After all us ladies had performed our nightly rituals, we tucked ourselves into bed, with great plans for the rest of the year.
A/N: Ok, I know that this next thing is really unexpected and ridiculous. And I know that things move outrageously fast in this story. But I quite literally just realized that all my criteria for year 5 is already done. All Brie's 5th year stunts have been pulled, she's fixed everyone up, and Draco and she are together. This note is really just an apology for the massive time skip that's about to happen and it's also a warning. This is not a dark fic, but some dark shit is about to go down. You ready? 'Cause I'm not…
***Brie's POV***
'Holy shit! My 5th year is already over!'
It had finally hit me that 5th term was done, Umbitch was gone, and we were half way into summer! Cho, Pansy, Millie, and I were just out driving about muggle London. Millie nor Pansy had ever see it before, so we thought it would be a fun trip. I had just turned 16 and had received my muggle license, so we weren't doing anything wrong. We had been to quite a few shops so far and the trunk was already overloaded. 'And it's only 3 o'clock…'
Pansy sat next to me in the front seat while Millie and Cho sat in the back. Cho read a muggle magazine while Millie investigated a freshly bought muggle cellular phone in wonder. Pansy did puzzles from a word find puzzle book while I drove the car. We were looking for a bite to eat. "So Brie? What's texting?" asked Millie as she stared at her owner's manual. Cho and I were laughing just as Pansy looked up from her book and screamed.
Lurch SWING flip *slam* bang HiT pain gush blood {pressure} "gasp" BLINDNESS confusion ScRaTcH "grunt" bam Bash pull agony ARM !thump! …shatter… push SMEAR crack fling?
Echo
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I opened my eyes ad blinked for a moment. 'It hurts everywhere' I turned my head and looked up and the broken blood painted windshield of the car. 'Blood…blood?' The foul red goop was directly in front of me. I felt it then. My head. There was an undeniable sting as my fingers caressed the warm fluid that drenched my upper forehead.
I felt my heartbeat quicken. "Pansy? Pansy I'm bleeding…" I looked over to the seat she sat in. She was grotesquely hunched over and extremely wide eyed. Her puzzle book was clenched between her fingers. Then I remembered. The sounds, the pain, so fast…
My chest started to heave incredibly as I pated. I looked to the backseat in panic and saw Millie and Cho both horribly twisted and contorted. I didn't know how to react. So I just did the same thing I did when I lost my father. I started screaming. I screamed and screamed until I had no energy left. I heard someone saying something before the lights went out again.
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White. There's white everywhere. It's warm and peaceful, and it reminds me of home in Godric's Hollow. Like snow. White has always been one of my 3 favorite colors, and it seems to clash with the numbness of my body. Like two puzzle pieces that look as though they go together even though they don't.
I turned my head to the left and things became a tad clearer. There was a limp form on a bad next to me. I realized I was on a bed too. The figure was so familiar, skinny with long raven hair. 'Cho…' Her torso was bandaged and her arm was in a sling. A large purple bruise accented her right eye. I sat up and immediately regretted it. My head began to pound and my stomach felt like it had just imploded. I slammed back into the bed and groaned.
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A woman clothed in the same comforting white entered the room a few hours later. "Well sweetie-pie, you should be out of here in about a week. You suffered a severe crack to the skull, but that will fix straight up overnight with some skele-grow. Same deal for the fractured ankle. However, it's those ribs that are gonna take a bit. The ribcage has to be healed in small doses due to it's proximity to the vital organs. Too much skele-grow for the ribcage would cause it to grow to much to fast in certain areas, and that would cause you more damage than the accident itself did." She rattled off, staring at the clipboard.
"What about the others? Will they be ok?" The nurse smiled with badly crooked teeth. "Miss Bulstrode suffered a fractured spine, 2 broken legs, and a busted nose. She has the most damage. But that can all be fixed with certain doses of skele-grow. However, her legs will be weak for quite some time due to the impact levels. She'll be in a wheelchair for a few months." The nurse smiled again. She wasn't going to say it; she didn't have to. I saw it in her eyes.
"Pansy died, didn't she?"
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One long week later, Cho, Millie, and I were released from St. Mungo's hospital and sent home with several care packages and letters. Visitors were not allowed in St. Mungo's unless the resident was permanently hospitalized. We arrived at Millie's house and received a warm, but tearful welcome. Everyone was there, including the Nott's, the Malfoy's, the Crabbe's, the Goyle's, the Zabini's, the Bulstrode's, the Changs, the Greengrass's, and the Parkinson's.
Pansy's death had taken quite a toll on everyone, but there was no toll heavier than the one on the families of Parkinson and Nott. An hour after Theo was made aware of Pansy's death, he had poisoned himself. They were to be buried together tomorrow. Pansy's neck had cracked; she died instantly. Theo's drugs had simply made him go to sleep; to enter a slumber from which he would never awaken. I'm glad neither of them suffered.
"This sucks." I muttered into Draco's chest. We had opted to all sleep over at the Bulstrode family manor that night. We had been in our beds less than 5 minutes before I crept away to knock on Draco's door. 'There is no way I'm sleeping by myself tonight.' Draco kissed my forehead gently. "He loved her like mad, you know that?" I smiled for once. "Yea…"
I had bitter-sweet dreams that night. I dreamed of Pansy and Theo together, in an endless forest blanketed in snow. We all got up early the next morning and adorned our black dress robes. The procession lasted quite a while, and I was tired all over again by the time it was over. "Things are going to get better Brie. I promise." Draco said.
What neither he nor I knew or understood, or even knew or understood that we didn't know or understand, that things were about to get 10 fucking times worse.
A/N: Ok, I know the chapter is short and it's been waited on a long time and I'm sorry. I just wanted those events to be contained in a chapter by themselves. Next chapter will be regular length. As always, read and review! Make my day! Thanks!