Chapter 13 - Emerlyn's plan.

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With an anxious heart, I turned around to face him. His hair was messed up and his eyes seemed more gloomy in the darkness of the moonlight. "Yes?"

"Why are you up this late?" He walked over to me. He was acting normal, he didn't figure anything out.

Yet.

"Oh, I couldn't sleep..and I needed a breath of fresh air," I responded.

"Darling, I thought you seriously got offended by me removing the cushions"

"No, I don't really care"

He raised a brow. "You don't?"

"I mean, I wasn't offended."

He had a proud but vicious smirk planted on his face.  I knew by this look he hadn't figured out anything and had probably just walked into me standing alone on the gloomy balcony. 

"How about you?"

"You know...I'm a light sleeper, and I woke up and saw you weren't there and became worried so I came looking for you if you were alright" explained Draco. 

God, I could feel my heart melt. 

He walked closer, his shoulder met with mine. His eyes met the stars. "I've been wanting to tell you something.." he slowly spoke as his hands met the black curved fence of the balcony.

"What is it?" I questioned, he seemed pretty serious.

His silence indicated hesitance. He was hesitant to blur whatever was stirring up inside him.

"Actually, I'll save it for another day; it's pretty late. We should head back to sleep"

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Sitting in my bed, knowing Draco was still awake was slowly starting to terrify me. If I didn't want to be caught tomorrow, I'd need Draco to be asleep right now. I had sworn to myself I'd go to any extent to make sure I'd kill all five of the killers and keeping myself hidden from the world was part of the promise.

But something was keeping me behind, I wasn't sure what the guttery feeling was. 

I waited for Draco to fall asleep.

He didn't so without a choice, I'd make him fall asleep.

"Here, drink this" I handed him a glass of cherry juice. "It'll help you fall asleep faster."

"It looks like poison" he chuckled holding the long thin glass with the red juice. 

"It is" I sarcastically responded. 

"You know even if you gave me poison, I'd drink it..." 

"Then drink it."

He drank the juice staring intensely into my eyes, the eye contact growing more dangerous by the second. As usual, I was the one to break the lock and look away. Within moments his eyes shut and he fell into a peaceful sleep. 

I had mixed a sleeping potion into his juice. I didn't know what it was, I felt guilt rush into me like water tides crashing onto land. I didn't harm him in any way, perhaps I had actually helped him fall asleep.

But the thought of doing Draco wrong even by mistake was horrifying. 

If this continued, eventually when the time would time; it would be hard for me to kill Lucius. I brushed the thoughts away and without realizing fell asleep as well, next to Draco.

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I woke up alarmed from the void state of sleeping and viewed the clock.

7:02 AM.


Instant panic filled my mind. I was supposed to be there by 7!

I tried getting out of my bed, but Draco had gripped my waist with his arm so tightly it was impossible to escape his grip. I tried several times attempting to move his arm but he just wouldn't move.

Maybe it was a bad idea to give him the sleeping potion, as this potion would put him deep asleep for a good six hours and I'd have to wait one more hour until he woke up, but it'd be too late. 

Finally, I intertwined my fingers with his and softly pulled them away from me. Rushing my way into the clothing shop where the fabric was from. 

There was no one there, but the shop was open.

Practically even the streets of London were empty, just the people rushing to work were present. The owner of the shop faced me.

I took a breath, I know he was innocent and he didn't deserve this.

However, I had sworn to myself that I was ready to go to any extent, and this would be just one.

"Ah, Mrs. Malfoy, what brings you here?" he questioned leaning by the chair.

"Imperio!" without a doubt I pointed my wand to his level, shooting the spell at him.

White light entered him, and from the relaxed position he sat in, he now sat straight and attentive. 

"You will now do as I say.."

END OF FLASHBACK. (That was such a long flashback.)

"And, so it wasn't him that was talking, it was me that was controlling," I expressed to Tom, my whole plan. 

He looked genuinely startled by the plan I had created in one night and had managed to follow along with it and make it successful. 

"How did you even come up with that?" 

"Dunno...I was in a state of panic and knew I couldn't let him take the lead any longer." 

We chatted for a bit longer, exchanging words and sharing a heartfelt conversation. When the urge to tell him a specific event grew in me.

"Tom.." I called him softly out of the blue. 

"Yes?"

"Isn't it weird, that I felt more guilter about giving Draco a harmless potion than killing my last two victims.." I let out the suppressed thoughts in me. 

"I mean, there are plenty of explanations for this and the most reasonable one would be, Draco is innocent and that is why you felt guilty."

"Still..just...a harmless..potion."

"Maybe, it's because you've grown to care for him."

I was going to retort words back at him, but before he gave me the chance to speak; he spoke himself.

"I know you're going to get defensive just like the last few times either I or Serena mentioned!" he came to a halt for a second. "But just think about it yourself, Emerlyn..."

"Give it a thought yourself, any type of love is built through trust! and it isn't specifically the potion that scares you, it's rather that losing Draco's trust is what breaks you." he continued. 

"This gets more complex but I want you to figure that out yourself." 

It felt as though my whole reality had changed, I was stunned and speechless. 

I wanted to defend myself in any words I could find, but there were none. I was blank, my mind was blank, and my heart was blank. 


A/N: We were slowly getting into the middle of the story now and things are getting seriousss.











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