The Assassin and her Prince

New Mornings

TW: NIGHTMARES 

Alina woke with Blaire standing over her, her screams fading. Alina sat up and quickly pulled her hair up out of her face.

"Alina, you were screaming in your sleep, you almost broke the silencing charm I put on the room when I woke up to you. Are you okay?" Blaire was holding her shoulders, bracing her.

"I'm okay, but can you not touch me for a minute. I need to calm down." Blaire nodded and stepped back, only to sit on the foot of the bed, carefully watching her.

"Seriously Blaire, I'm okay. Just a bad dream is all." She gave a half smile

"That wasn't just any bad dream Alina, I've heard screams like that before. I know those screams. What did they do to you?"

Tears began to gather in Alina's eyes, "He was a monster Blaire." She started to cry, her whole body shaking with anxiety and terror.

"Oh minha,  I'm so sorry. Tomorrow, I'm taking you to Madam Pomfrey. She'll have some dreamless sleep potions for you. You'll be able to truly rest." She touched the side of Alina's face and kissed her forehead. She walked back to her own bed, "I'm going to help you." She whispered. And Alina fell back to sleep to the steady breathing of her roommate.

Alarms were screaming. Alina shot out of bed, her dagger in her hand, fully awake and alert. That's when Blaire gave the loudest yawn ever and slammed her hand on the clock by her bed.

"Oh, you're already up. Let's get ready and- Alina put the knife down." Alina relaxed and did as she was told, putting the ornate dagger on her night stand.

"Come on, I'm gonna teach you some spells to help you get ready." And with that, Alina was ushered into the bathroom.

"So, your new best friend is going to be a concealment charm, I know you showed me and the boys already, but the whole school doesn't need to see.... all that. Obscuro." Blaire waved her wand at Alina's body, and the scars disappeared. Alina almost cried in shock, she'd never seen herself without scars.

"Next, your hair. Hmmm, I think we'll curl it and put it up." She sat Alina down on a stool and got to work. The wand curled her thick hair in two minutes, and Blaire pulled it up in a messy bun with face framing pieces pulled out. The curls looked beautiful in the bun and the hair around her face made her look almost... pretty.

"Okay and now a bit of makeup, Pulchra." And her face suddenly had mascara, blush, and a light pink on her lips.

"Minha! You're so pretty! Okay, your robes should be laid out on your bed, as well as some clothes to go under them. Go go go, I'll be out in a minute." Alina walked out of the bathroom to see a green and black plaid skirt, a white button up, a green and silver tie, as well as the Slytherin robes she wore the night she was sorted.

Alina had never worn a skirt before, too afraid people would see her scars, but with the concealment charm, she thought she might be okay. That's when she noticed the skirt was short, very short. But it wasn't that bad when she got it on.

Blaire came out and helped her tie the tie, and she put her leg holsters on. "Hmm, I feel like those should have a sheath connected for your gorgeous dagger. And oh! It's green!" She magicked a connected sheath, the perfect length and size to accomodate the dagger.

"Thank you! I've always had it uncomfortably on my lower back, but now it won't hurt anymore!" She hugged her friend, much to the surprise of both of them.

"Let's go downstairs and meet the boys, Theo will have our breakfast and timetables." 

They walked down the stairs and found the common room strangely empty, her friends were sitting on the couches, and another boy was with them.

"Alina, this is our friend, Albus Potter. He's in our year." Blaire said, sitting down next to Theo.

"Oh hi. If he's friends with you all, why wasn't he with us on the train?"

"I was sitting with my siblings, Lily and James. James is two years older, Lily is two years younger."

"Oh that's cool, I guess." Alina stated, looking over at Theo to see what was for breakfast.

"Here Scorp, got you a couple apples. Blaire, I got you pancakes and pumpkin juice, Albus got toast and bacon, and I wasn't sure what you liked Alina so I grabbed waffles." Theo said, handing her a plate.

"Thanks, I actually love waffles. Good call. Do you have my timetable Theo?" He nodded and handed it to her.

Double DADA (whatever that was) first thing with Hufflepuff, Potions with Gryffindor, Herbology with Hufflepuff, lunch, Ancient Runes with Ravenclaw, another potions class with Gryffindor, Arithmancy with Ravenclaw, muggle studies with Ravenclaw, and study hall last thing with Gryffindor.

"Any classes together?" She asked

"Yeah, I've got potions, ancient runes, and study hall with you." Theo said

"What's DADA?" 

"Defense against the dark arts" Blaire said

"I've got potions and arithmancy with you Alina." Albus stated, taking another bite of toast

"I've got DADA, muggle studies, and Herbology with Alina." Scorpius says between mouthfuls of apple.

"Arithmancy, herbology, and study hall, yay! I've got classes with you! Plus one of us is in all your classes so we can help you find your way there."

Once they had finished breakfast, it was time to go to class. Her first class was double DADA with Scorp. He had kind of ditched her on the way there, so Theo had to take her instead, almost missing his own class.

When she walked in, she was one of the first there. She ended up sitting at a desk in the very back. She stretched her legs out, and her robes fell, exposing the hilt of her dagger, which was in front of the gun.

Scorpius walked in a few moments later, and sat directly next to her. She was a little mad at him because he ditched her and she would've gotten lost if it wasn't for Theo.

"You ditched me."

"Huh?" His face bore confusion.

"You ditched me. They said this morning that you all would help me get to my classes, and then you didn't. Theo had to, and just barely made it to his own class. So thanks Scorp." She spat the last part out.

"Oh, sorry about that. I went to check on one of the ghosts, I didn't see him last night at dinner and wanted to make sure he was alright."

"What ghost?"

"Fred Weasley."