Pros & Cons

10. The Match

Violet's reflexes kicked in instantly and she had her wand out within seconds. She walked further into the room and turned a few times, surveying the clutter, but couldn't see Malfoy anywhere. Then in her peripheral vision she saw the blinding light of another spell narrowly miss her once again, but this one hit a pile of old desks that started to tumble from the impact of the spell.

She managed to dodge the first plank of wood that came flying her way but then a drawer landed on her ankle and knocked her to the floor. Once on the floor she brought her arms up to cover her head as desks started to crash around her.

She flinched as each loud bang indicated another near miss and moved her body as much as possible to avoid the metal knobs that had fallen loose from the drawers.

Once the final piece of desk landed she tried to wriggle her way out but her ankle was still trapped under the pile and she could feel a pounding in the corner of her forehead where the piece of wood had hit her.

"Malfoy!" She knew he had caused the desk avalanche, whether it be intentional or not.

"Gardner?"

"Malfoy, get these fucking desks off of me"

"Shit! Gardner I didn't know it was you"

Right... sure he didn't.

Malfoy clambered over the pile to where Violet was and started grabbing chunks of wood and hurling them to the side.

"Merlin's sake! Use your bloody wand" she huffed in frustration as the weight of the desks pressing her into the floor started to become unbearable.

"Right, sorry"

Violet felt the desks lift off her and she could finally move her ankle, she went to stand up but a stinging sensation shot up her leg and she yelped in pain before dropping to the ground again.

Shit. It's sprained. This is embarrassing.

She pulled herself towards a pile of chairs and leant her back against them, she pulled her knee to her chest so that she could inspect her ankle. It didn't look pretty, it was purple and quite swollen. To top it all off the pounding in her head had become a full on migraine and she was struggling to focus on one area of pain at a time.

Malfoy made his way across the desks to where Violet was sitting, she saw his eyes widen when he saw her and he immediately dropped to her side. His hand lifted to her face and she thought he was going to cup her cheek again.

Really? Not now...

But this time he lightly pressed his pointer and middle fingertips against her forehead, when he lowered his hand she saw that his fingers were covered in blood. Her blood.

He conjured a black handkerchief and started dabbing the cut on her head, "Gardner, I didn't know it was you"

"Right. And you wouldn't have done it if you did know" she scolded.

He frowned momentarily, "What were you doing here anyway?"

"Oh. I... followed you"

"Again? Gardner, are you going to make it a habit of stalking me" he looked up at her with a smirk across his face and tossed the handkerchief to the side.

"No. I needed to tell you something..."

A puzzled look crossed his face and his eyes darted back and forth between hers.

Harry thinks you cursed Katie Bell.

Did you curse Katie Bell?

Well they both sound just as shit as each other.