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The rest of the month passed quickly and she went through NEWTs like a knife through butter: easily and without much effort.
Andrea didn't know what was going to happen to her, if she would stop transitioning or continue to do it till she died but she was determined to enjoy every moment she had in the past. That meant definitely enjoying the party the Slytherins threw for having graduated. And apparently every other house had their own.
She never got the chance to attend one of these parties in her original timeline, what with the war and everything and now...now it was the first time that she felt like a seventeen year old and not a war hardened veteran.
The common room was filled to capacity. Music was blaring from speakers from all around her and Andrea would never know how they got their hands on alcohol but she deeply appreciated it.
People were dancing left and right, some were trying to suck each others faces off and in a corner some Slytherins that were smoking something.
She stumbled on something and her glass went flying, her drink spilling everywhere. Andrea pouted at her, now, empty hands until someone, she didn't know who, pushed a new glass in her hands and she drank it in one gulp, welcoming the burning it gave her as it went down her throat.
Someone else poured her another drink and she would never admit it to herself that she was drunk, but the room was getting bigger, the faces more blurred and her body was numb.
Shrugging she gulped down the drink and started moving to the beat of the music, ignoring everything else but the music.
Someone else pushed another drink in her hands and she drank it without question, never stopping from her dancing.
Throwing her head back she looked at the ceiling and...it was..moving. She started giggling and suddenly the world unfocused for a few seconds before focusing again on Tom's face.
Andrea just realised he was holding her head, holding her steady and she giggled again.
But then it wasn't Tom's face that was screaming at her but George's.
The room changed.
She was in a kitchen. Her kitchen.
She laughed, closed her eyes and continued dancing.
Then the world went black.
The first thing Andrea noticed when she regained consciousness was the absolute throbbing headache that she had. She opened her eyes and panic creeped up her veines when she couldn't see anything but it disappeared swiftly when she realised she had her face hidden underneath a pillow.
At that moment her body decided to wake up and she groaned. She was so sore.
Without warning her stomach turned, she threw the pillow off and turning she started to empty the contents of her stomach right on the floor. Only nothing was coming up. Groaning she shoved two fingers down her throat but that only succeded in making her gag.
Between that and her throbbing head she regretted waking up, and closed her eyes.
"I think that is what happens when you drink the amount of alcohol and Merlin knows what else that you drank", said Tom, intrerrupting her lament and she could feel him smirking. On a normal day his voice was soft and low but right now it felt like he was screaming in her ear, making her think that her skull was slowly splitting in two,"Please shut up.", even opening her mouth hurt.
Andrea felt Tom poking her side,"You have to wake up. The graduation ceremony is in an hour." Her eyes flew open and she saw him standing by her, dressed in the black robes that they were given for this event. Over his heart she saw the Slytherin crest and she knew that on the back was Hogwart's crest. She groans again and he simply points at a bottle potion on the nightstand,"Headache reliever. Take it and get up." Andrea rolls her eyes at him but does as he says and gets ready for the ceremony.
The ceremony takes place in the Great Hall and is not that interesting she thinks. The tables have disappeared leaving instead rows and rows of chairs and where the Head Table should be is instead a platform. The Hall is filled with students and parents and families and Andrea sighs.
The Headmaster's speech is boring and bland, which kinda helps with her still throbbing head.
The speeches that belong to the Head Girl and Boy speak of futures and happiness and fullfilment and Andrea barely holds a laugh in.
They rise, when it's over, so they can receive their diplomas and that's when Tom squizzes her hand and whispers in her ear,"Your graduation present." Andrea looks at him perplexed but there's a bang and she turns around confused.
The doors have opened and she can see Malfoy at the entrance curled up in a ball, eyes big and round, looking around scared and insane. His hair is not blond anymore but completly white and she blinks. She can see him muttering something but she can't hear what exactly.
And then she notices something else. He's stark naked, his body littered with cuts, some deep, some shallow, but all of them are infected.
A woman screams and the professors start reacting.
Andrea turns to look at Tom, who's face is completely shocked, like he doesn't believe his eyes but the looks in those blue eyes tell her everything she needs to know. She kisses him then and mutters her thanks between entwined lips.
That night they don't bother going to their dorms. They stay in the Room and Andrea shows him just how thankful she is.
Long after that, when Tom thinks she's asleep he whispers against her bare skin three words that she already knew months ago.
Andrea smiles and when she thinks he is asleep does the same.
She closes her eyes and goes to sleep, content.