Stay With Me | Draco Malfoy [2]

Chapter 19 - Puking Pastilles

TW: Swearing and vomiting? (don't know if it counts as a TW)

Katianne's POV

After Hermione and Harry left with Umb*tch, Crabbe came and grabbed me, making sure that I won't escape; while the person who held my brother earlier left, seeing as he really had no use of staying anymore.

"I- uhm, Crabbe- how 'bout I take Kati- Potter instead." Draco said, dragging Neville over to where I stood. "Why?" The Slytherin gripping onto me quizzed. "Well, y'know... why not?" The blonde boy added on, causing me to silently chuckle at his lack of reasons. After their 'trade' happened, Draco pulled me aside.

"Can we talk about... what happened?" He whispered in a questioning tone. "That night- at the astronomy tower." Draco added on, while I gave him a look of confusion. "Out of all times, you decided that now was the best time to talk about it?" I asked rhetorically. "Well- sure." He answered, while I rolled my eyes in annoyance.

"I know right; I would love to talk about our kiss while your 'friends' are practically holding us hostage." I hissed sarcastically. "We're not holding you hostage, just-" Draco tried to explain, but I cut him off with a scoff, muttering, "Yeah, totally not." Though, our little conversation was cut off when Ron decided to speak up.

"I'm actually pretty hungry- ooh, can I have some of those sweets?" The redhead boy stated, pointing at a bowl of candy that was on Umbridge's desk; actually, let me specify, a bowl of puking pastilles the Weasley twins decided to put there. "Bugger off." The Slytherin holding onto Elliot exclaimed.

Though, not even a minute later, Crabbe and Goyle reached over to the bowl of 'candy', taking a few of it each before wolfing them down like it was nothing; while I sniggered under my breath. A few seconds later, the two Slytherins started grimacing before they let go of Neville and Ron, barfing all over the floor.

When the blonde boy wasn't looking, I ran out of his hold, going over to the person that grabbed onto El and punching him right on the nose. He groaned, immediately letting go of the blonde Hufflepuff. "Are you okay?" I asked him. "Yea, that was f*cking cool." The Diggory boy stated, a grin spread on his face.

As that was happening, Ron went to grab his sister, as well as getting all of our wands, while Neville shot a spell at the guy gripping onto Luna. "Thank you." The blonde Ravenclaw spoke in her usual high pitched voice, while the dark haired Gryffindor said, "It was nothing." as a blush creeped onto his face. "C'mon, let's go." Ron declared, all of us running out of Umbridge's office.

Though, before I could leave, someone grabbed onto my arm. I turned around, seeing Draco. "What?" I spat out. "I-" But before he could continue, he cut himself off to pull me into a hug. I widened my eyes and raised my eyebrows as I awkwardly patted his back. Then, he pulled away. "Good luck, on whatever you're doing. But like, please make it out alive. We still have to talk about- y'know." I nodded in response before finally leaving, running with the others.

"What was that about?" Ron asked, surprise painted on his face as we all arrived at the bridge. "What was what about?" I questioned back, pretending to be confused. "You and Malfoy- is there something going on that we don't know about?" He quizzed in a semi-angry tone. "Well-" I uttered out, trying to make up a reply, though we ran into Harry and Hermione.

"How'd you get away?" The curly haired brunette asked, which led to all of us to stop in our tracks. "Puking pastilles- it wasn't pretty." The redhead girl answered. "Told them I was hungry, wanted some sweets. They told me to bugger off and ate the lot themselves." Ron expounded, giving Hermione and Harry their wands back.

"That was clever, Ron." The Granger girl complimented him, sounding almost shocked- actually, let me rephrase that: she was shocked. "Has been known to happen." The youngest Weasley boy mumbled. "It was brilliant!" Neville then exclaimed. "So- how are we getting to London?" El asked.

"Look, it's not that I- we don't appreciate everything you've done, all of you..." Harry started saying, looking over to me. "But we've got you guys into enough trouble as it is." He finished saying, walking past all of them as I followed him. "Dumbledore's army is supposed to be about doing something real. Or was that all just words to you?" Neville asked, both Harry and I turning around to face them.

"Maybe you two don't have to do this all by yourself." Ron stated. Silence fell upon us, a slight breeze blowing through our hair. I sighed, before finally saying, "So how are we going to get to London?" Scanning over all of them, I noticed a small smile spread onto Luna's face. "We fly, of course." And I knew exactly what she was talking about, as I mirrored her smile.

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