War Hero - Theseus Scamander

II

I never had a crush before. At least not a real one. I could look at people and admit that they were attractive but that does not mean I'll spend my evenings thinking about them or about their curly brown hair and dazzling smile. It was hard not thinking about Theseus that day. Lately my thoughts had been consumed by him and I would not have minded as much if I didn't keep getting in trouble because of them.

"Miss Malfoy!"

I immediately whipped my hair to the front on the classroom feeling incredibly embarrassed. My classmates laughed as I sank further into my feet hoping to be swallowed whole by the ground. Oh what a tempting thought.

"Would you care to demonstrate to the class how it is that you transform this piece of wood into something edible?"

I knew that Professor Moore wasn't asking me, she was ordering me. Standing up from my chair, I walked towards the front of the class with my head down. I did not feel like making eye contact with anyone. I heard a snicker and turned around to glare at Weasley. It almost made me feel pleasure seeing him squirm under my glare. His red freckles bleeding in with his tomato looking cheeks.

As soon as I got to the front of the classroom, ready to take out my wand a tall Gryffindor barged into the classroom. He looked tired and dishelved. He must've run all the way up here. It was Theseus. I could not tell what my heart was doing. Was it stopping? Was it racing? Fuck Merlin, I think I'm gonna faint. The last thing I saw before I knocked out was Theseus reaching out for me, preventing my fall.

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Opening up my eyes, everything seemed blurry at first. I saw specs of white, brown, red and gold. I was in a bed in a green hospital gown. I looked hideous. I felt hideous but mostly I felt thirsty. I looked to my right and saw Theseus sleeping in a chair. I immediately sat up right and I suppose the sound must've woken him up because a couple second later he opened his eyes.

"You alright?" Was the first thing the asked me.
"You took quite the fall there, knocking your head on the table."

"Thank you," I said.

"It's no big deal, Malfoy," he replied with a full smile. He knows me! He knows who I am! Butterflies immediately started forming at the thought of him knowing me.

"You know my name?" I asked trying to play it off but deep down I was internally dying.

"Of course I do, you're a Malfoy. Who wouldn't know a Malfoy?" He responded.

"Oh."

I felt disappointed and the butterflies went away almost instantaneously.

"You know, you should really be careful. You seem to fall a lot especially around me. One might even say you're falling for me," said Theseus cheekily.

"I am not! I'm simply not the most coordinated person," I replied looking anywhere but him. I felt like I had been caught red handed.

"Well I sure am glad you're doing well Ms. Malfoy," the words of professor Moore flowed throughout the room.
"Mr. Scamander here rushed you to the Hospital Wing as soon as possible. To be quite honest, I had never seen anyone so panicked before."

"Is that so? Well, Mr. Scamander I must really thank you then, and tell you that there is no problem. As you can see, I'm doing perfectly fine now."

"Call me Theseus,"
"Theseus," I repeated, almost tasting how the words felt in my mouth. It felt sweet.

He shook my hand and said, "now what should I call you?"

"Adhara," I said confidently shaking his hand back. His hand felt warm in my cold one. I almost didn't want to let go.

Author's note: Kind of a boring chapter but don't worry the story will start to get more interesting as it does on. I can assure you of that.