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Evie walked into the Gryffindor common room, something that took a lot of convincing and quite a few white lies. She found Harry in no time, seeing him leaned over a book with his sleeves rolled up. He looked beautiful near the fire, his face illuminating in the slightest. Evie made her way toward him, resting a hand on his shoulder as he jumped and looked back at her.
"Evie." Harry gasped, not expecting anyone to be down here at this hour, "How'd you get in here?"
"I wanted to see you." she spoke softly, her bandaged hand running across his face. Evie moved and took a seat in his lap without any hesitation or awkwardness. Harry went stiff as his body shook slightly, letting himself get use to her as she leaned back. He then realized her mood, feeling the way she clinged onto him.
She was scared of something.
"What's going on with you?" Harry questioned as his hands shook slightly when they wrapped around her body that was sat on top of him.
"I hate it here." Evie spoke as she sighed, "I hate all the people here, I hate everything and everyone."
"Why do you say that?" Harry asked, not use to this negative side of her. He didn't like it one bit, he liked her when she was herself and always tried to see the good in others. But maybe this was who she was, and he'd been too blinded to see it.
Evie ignored his questioned, not wanting to explain it again as she turned slightly to look at him, her motion making Harry flush but stare at her with soft eyes, "I hate everyone but you."
He gave her a half smile, thankful she'd said so because he knew he'd overthinking her words about hating everyone, "I don't hate you either."
"I'd hope not." Evie laughed as she moved again to lay her head down into his neck, straining her own slightly to do so but found it worth it in the warmth and comfort feeling, "I hope you don't mind i'm here, I can go if you need to finish this."
"No, you stay." Harry said quickly, too quickly that made him scold himself and flush in embarrassment, "Its only a letter to S.... Snuffles."
Evie remembered Harry saying Sirius's code name was Snuffles back at Christmas... a day she wished she could have gone back to right now. Evie hummed at his words, shutting her eyes and listing to his loud and quick heartbeat that she could hear from the other side of his chest, "Is everything okay?"
Evie could tell he was wondering why she'd decided to come in here, knowing it wasn't like her to leave Ravenclaw tower in the middle of the night just to take a seat with him in the middle of the common room, "I was too scared in my dorm room."
"Scared of what?" Harry's words were quick and panicked. What could Evie possibly be scared of and why didn't he realize it sooner? More importantly, why had she come to him.
