Just in case || Draco Malfoy

Fifty Three - Smaller And Smaller

"Why do you put up with me?"

"Because you are fire.
And I've been cold my entire life"

-A.R.Asher

...

I slammed the door of the cabinet behind me drawing my wand. The image of me running back in there, pulling him out, making him come with me - it briefly passed my mind. But I pulled it out of possibility and shoved the idea into daydreams.

"CONFRINGO!"

I turned my head away, wooden planks and jagged pieces of the door flying everywhere. When I turned to look back to it, it was destroyed. The pathway between me and Draco - gone.

I turned to my left to see my robes still lying on the floor. I quickly slipped them on to disguise myself as I walked through the halls as a student. It had reached nine - all students would be in the common room. I needed to get to the Slytherin common room and get the others. Then we can get out of here. Before turning to run through the room of requirement, the unopened untouched letter that I had written a few weeks ago to them lay in the ground. They hadn't seen it. I doubt they had even been in here.

...

"STUPEFY!" I yelled at Alecto Carrow. She hadn't seen me approaching before I stunned her and sent her flying down the hall. I had though about trying to be discreet slipping through the castle. But the realisation hit be that there would be guards at the entrance to the castle - they were going to know I was there regardless. Might as well eliminate an obstacle.

I burst through the Slytherin common room doors. I looked around desperately for the others while all eyes in the common room were on me. I couldn't see them anywhere.

I dashed through the common room, people parting for me as I did so. I span up the spiral staircase trying to get to Blaises room - he had his own room and I was sure they would all be gathered there if they weren't in the common room.

I flung the doors of his dorm open and sure enough, on the bed sat the four of them.

"Guys we need to go. I don't have time to explain. We need to-"

"We know Helena." Said Blaize. I looked towards them to see all four of them with their wands drawn. I looked at them in confusion.

"What do you mean? Look we don't have much time. The death eaters will soon be looking for me and-"

"Drop the bullshit" Cass exclaimed. "We know you are one of them. Carrow told us". I looked up at her

"What do you..." I said.

"He told us you ran off with Malfoy. Your one of them. He heard it off Snape. He made sure to tell us when we stupidly went looking for you" Cass said.

"You didn't check the cabinet though, did you? I wrote to you" I pleaded with them. "Do you really think we are on their side? I went to see if he was still alive! But they caught me. I had to lie. Listen, Harry Potter was just there. At the manor. I think he escaped. There was a house elf and-"

"How do we believe you?" Zack said. "You didn't even tell us where you were going"

"I didn't have the chance Zack!" I exclaimed to him. "I wrote to you! I thought I would be coming straight back through the cabinet, but I had to stay!"