The Beautifully Tragic Life of Kassandra Snape

chapter 49- Cormac (TW: SA)

It's the evening of Slughorns dinner party and were sat on a round table, the foods okay but I'm rather bored of the entire affair.

"So tell me Cormac do you see anything of your Uncle Tiberius these days?" Slughorn asks the brown haired boy as we begin our desserts. Something about him truly unsettles me but I can't quite put my finger on what it is about him.

"Yes Sir, in fact I'm meant to go hunting with him and the minister for magic over the holidays." He replies and he looks at me while he licks his spoon and I think I've caught on to why he creeps my out so much. It's his eyes, the way they wander all over my body, it makes my skin crawl.

I am so done with this dinner, I want nothing more than to leave and get Arabelle. I barely even really register when Ginny arrives, looking anywhere other than the boy in front of me, just itching to get away.

We are free to go and out of curtesy I help Slughorn gather the empty plates and glasses and make my way to the corridor when I'm pushed the wall.

"I've been waiting to do this for a long time Kassandra." The slimy posh voice of Cormac whispers into my ear as he forces my legs open with his knee.

"What are you doing? Please leave me alone." I plead with him, I try to push him off of me but he doesn't budge and I end up being met with his hand connecting with my face twice, my eye getting the brunt of the force and he quickly grabs me by my throat as tears run down my face.

"Shut the fuck up and don't resist me and I'll make this easier for you." He growls as he starts to lift my skirt up and I find myself completely frozen, I can't move and close my eyes waiting for it to stop.

"God you're beautiful. I can see why Lorenzo can't get enough now." He whispers but I don't respond. I just close my mind off and shut everything down, waiting for it to stop so that I don't have to think about what is going to happen to me next.

Suddenly I feel the weight of him cease and I catiously open my eyes to see that Cormac is now on the floor and a furious Blaise is now stood in front of me and I have to focus really hard to be able to hear what he is trying to say to me.

"Kass are you okay?" He asked frantically searching my face for any sign that I've been hurt and thats when I taste blood on my lip, presumably from that second punch and my eye throbs.

My words fail me and I can only shake my head no and he turns back to the vile boy on the floor and delivers a powerful kick to his stomach and he lies cowering on the floor.

"If you touch her again or even look in her direction and I will fucking kill you!" He yells as she turns back to me with a supportive arm around my shoulder as we make our way to the common room. I burst into a sprint once I see Arabelle and quickly take her in my arms as my heart races.

"Mummy, what's wrong with your face?" She asks and I pull back to be confronted by several looks of horror from Lorenzo, Draco and Aimie as they see the state that I'm in.

"What in Merlin happened!" Lorenzo yells to Blaise, who whispers something in his ear and Lorenzo goes white as a ghost, fists clenched in fury.

"I'm going to take Arabelle up to the dorms, this is no conversation for a child." Aimie says as she picks up a reluctant Arabelle and carries her up the stairs.

"Kass are you okay?" Lorenzo asks me, crouching down to get a look at my face and he pulls me into his comforting arms.

"Look at her fucking face Enz, of course she's not okay!" Draco yells and I look into confusion as to why he is reacting with such fury. I thought he didn't care.

"What the fuck happened Blaise?" He shouts to his friend as he angrily bushes fingers through his hair.

"When I went looking for her he had her pinned to the wall.. I think... I think he was going to rape her so I pushed him off and took her back here." Blaise tells him in a calm voice and I flinch at the use of the R word.

I don't remember when I fell asleep but I'm dreaming, my mind playing awful tricks on me as it replays the scene in my head, only this time Blaise isn't there to save me, no one is and I wake startled drenched in sweat and tears still in the common room sofa with a blanket over me and I try to relax slightly to try bring my heart beat back to a normal pace.

"Kass-" I immediately recognise the voice of Draco Malfoy and turn my head to the boy sat on the opposite sofa.

"Where's Arabelle?" I ask.

"It's okay, I gave her my bed to sleep on so she's with Lorenzo." He tells me which relaxes me more.

"Kass I'm sorry. What I've done to you over the past months is unforgivable. As much as I want to tell you everything that's going on I can't but I will tell you this. I didn't mean anything I said to you that night, I thought that if I pushed you away you'd be safe. I'm only doing this to protect you Kass, but I've realised just how wrong I've been going about it. I thought that if you hated me then it would keep you safe but I didn't. I don't deserve your forgiveness but I hope maybe one day you will forgive me." He says and I close the gap between us and drape my legs over his and pull him into a hug, he stiffens at first but soon relaxes.

"Draco, I promise that I won't pry anymore, I don't care what it is that you're doing but you need to look after yourself, you look so pale, so tired. You need to make sure you get enough sleep and I need you to stop pushing me away."

"Kass I promise I'm done trying to keep away from you and Arabelle now. It's impossible, I care for you too much. Maybe it makes me weak but I don't care i can't do it anymore." He tells me.

I pull him towards me and place a delicate kiss on his lip and we both fall asleep like that. Wrapped up in the arms of a boy I love, a boy I never thought was coming back yet here we are and that feeling is more powerful than any other emotion I've felt this day.

Love.