COWBOY LIKE ME ⌗draco malfoy [SLOW UPDATES]

six

CHAPTER SIX

"So you and Malfoy have gotten close." Theo and Ellison were walking towards Hogsmeade, class had ended thirty minutes ago.

"What?"

"Daphne told me you were going with him to the ball."

"Oh, yeah, he asked me a few weeks ago. I guess I forgot to tell you."

Theo stopped walking, "El, you haven't been yourself since school started, is everything okay?"

Ellison, who didn't realize at first that he'd stopped, finally stopped walking and turned to him, "I'm fine, Theo."

"No, you're not. The only time I see you is during class, you're always passing notes with Draco, you walk around the castle at weird hours of the night, you have dark circles under your eyes every time I see you, you look like you've lost weight, you hardly eat with the other Gryffindors— actually I don't think I've seen you eat supper with them since school started. I'm worried about you. Is it your nightmares?"

She scoffed, "No, Theo, it's not my nightmares, it's something else that I can't tell you about. Stop worrying about me, okay? I'm fine." She pushed her hair out of her face and her long sleeve slid down, showing the smallest bit of black ink.

He looked down at her arm and then back up at her, "Oh.." He trailed off. "I see." He frowned. 

She looked down, trying to see what he was looking at, "Theo, I can ex-"

He cut her off, "Ellie, when did you get that?"

She started walking again, ignoring the question, Theo caught up with her, "Ellison, when did you get that?"

She glanced over at him, "Don't worry about it, Theo."

He sighed, "I can't just not worry about it, I've already seen it. When did you get it?"

"It's best if you don't know anything. I don't want to put you in danger."

"Ellison, is this why you've gotten close to Draco? Does he have one too?"

She frowned, "Theo, please drop it. I can't talk to you about this."

"Then I'll go ask Draco, if he won't tell me anything then I'll go ask my father. I want to hear it from you so just tell me."

She looked around, there was no one around them, she pulled him down a dark side street, "I took it right before school started, my mum is getting worse, I offered to take it and spy on Harry if Voldemort would promise to keep my mother safe."

Theo blinked, "Ellison, my father could have went to go and check on your mum everyday if you needed someone to do that. You could've let us help you, I don't understand why you would do this, we could've helped."

"Your father did help."

He stared at her, "What do you mean?"

She shrugged, "He was the one who took me to Voldemort. He was plenty of help."

Theo frowned, "My father did this to you?"

"No, he just told me where to meet him and that he'd set me up a meeting with the Dark Lord."

"Why didn't you tell me? I could've stopped him."

She shook her head, "I didn't need you to stop him. I took this willingly, I have to keep my mother safe and I will do anything to do that. I knew if I told you then you'd try and stop me. I didn't want to be stopped. All I ask of you is to keep this between us. Don't tell anyone."