The Consequence Of Power

Pansy's Revenge

Rhiannon stepped in front of the mirror with the white dress that Draco bought her, she did look amazing in it. She walked up to the window and the weather was slightly foggy, the sky was cloudy and gloomy and it was almost nightfall. She walked up to her nightstand and grabbed the note, the one to tell Draco to meet her in the forest at midnight, she held it in her hands and closed her eyes, searching for him and saw him in the Slytherin Common room. She felt the note leave her palms and her stomach started to get that piercing pain again, she held her stomach and felt anxiety run through her. She wondered why she was so anxious, it was only Draco.

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Draco sat down on the sofa in the common room reading a book that he hated but he knew Rhiannon really loved this book so he decided to read it. Goyle, Blaise and Pansy walked in and all of them sat down "Hey Malfoy, what are you reading?" Blaise grabbed the book out of his hands "Hey, don't be a dick man" He tried to grab it back but he leaned away and started reading off a romance part of the book and they all started to laugh "You guys just don't know romance and that's fine" Draco laughed and ripped the book out of Blaise's hands "I will take my book somewhere else thank you very much" Draco stood up "Come on man! we were just bugging you" Goyle and Blaise stood up and followed his upstairs.

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Pansy giggled as the three guys walked upstairs, she sat there looking at the fireplace, twirling her hair between her fingers. Then she heard an odd swoosh sound and in the corner of her eye she saw a piece of paper land on the sofa, she shot her head in the direction of the paper, leaned back and looked at the stairs to make sure no one was coming back. She stood up and grabbed the paper, quickly opening it and read it and her eyes widened. Draco? meet her in the forest at midnight? well, what a good idea. Pansy looked up and it clicked, why wait any longer? As she said, Draco couldn't be there for every minute of her life.

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Rhiannon left the castle and walked into the forest, the breeze blew through her dress as she walked, she stood in the middle of the forest where it all happened, where her and Draco shared their first kiss and where they confessed their feelings. This spot held so many memories and she hoped it would hold many more. She got on her knees and put her hands on the ground, closing her eyes and could feel the roses starting to grow from the bare dirt, the petals seeping through her fingers. She opened her eyes and saw a huge bed of red roses, a smile curled on her face as she felt this all becoming a reality, Draco dreamt of this so she made it real. She stood back up and brushed off the dirt on her dress, walking over to the log and sat down to wait for Draco to show up, still anxious if this wasn't good enough or maybe he would think she was weird for doing this. She looked down at her arm, her exposed carved arm, she promised herself she would never show this off but after being able to see Draco show his off and him showing her off she needed to embrace who she was and what  she had to do to survive. It felt like lots of time had passed, having no way of telling the time so when she saw him walking into the forest she would know it was time. She stood up and stood in the middle of the roses, trying carefully not to destroy them with her heels. She swayed her hips side to side and watch her dress dance in the breeze, feeling it swoosh from side to side, making her feel like a princess waiting to be saved by her prince, she begun to twirl in circles with her eyes closed, all her anxiety went away for a moment, no worries, no regrets, she was filled with love and freedom. Her ears were drowned with the sound of running lake water and the beautiful sounds of Mother Nature, owls whistling, the breeze blowing dry leaves and the sound of her dress snapping in the wind. Careless was what she felt for once, no more rules, no more boundaries and most importantly no more hiding. After tonight things would change, her and Draco would show the world how mud bloods and pure bloods could find love with one another and that it should not be seen as a crime. She heard branches break, she quickly stopped and her vision was blurry, as it slowly came back she was met with a thestral, she walked toward the creature and this was not Ezra, but her son, Arlo. "Where is your mother? you got so big" She patted his beak and Arlo bowed his head, she was dead. "I am sorry Arlo, I understand" She rested her forehead on his for a few seconds before taking it off "Why are you here?" She asked, the creature flapped his wings squawked at her and stepped backward "What is it?" She asked, stepping closer to try and calm him down, he sensed danger and he kept telling her danger over and over "What is danger? Arlo, it will just be me and Draco here?" She rubbed his beak but he wouldn't calm down. Behind her she heard footsteps "Arlo I need you to leave okay, Draco is here and I will come to see you after okay, we can bond over the loss of our mothers" She smiled at him and he backed up into the fog, lowering his head once more. She turned around and stood in the middle of the roses, holding her hands behind her back, taking a deep breath, ready to show him how much she wanted this, how much she loved him. As the footsteps got closer she saw a cloaked figure "It took you long enough! you know you don't have to wear that old cloak anymore" She giggled with a smile but the figure did not speak, the pain shot through her stomach out of nowhere but she ignored it, she didn't want any more worries. Hands exit the sleeves and the hood came down. Rhiannon's smile instantly faded as she was met with short black hair, hazel eyes and a grin, Pansy. "What? I don't understand! What are you doing here?" Rhiannon said with panic, the pain in her stomach becomes almost unbearable, she walked closer to Rhiannon, still not saying a word until she was right in front of her "Well, Rhiannon you must know I am a death eater now and I have proved myself worthy of a task, a task I think we both know what it will be. I don't want to babble on about useless information" She started to walk around Rhiannon, her face lowered to her ear from behind her "We both know you need to be swept off the earth for life to be perfect again. You Rhiannon, are the cause of all evil, death and suffering" Her breath lingered on her neck and down her back, leaving cold shivers of fear, she was frightened of her now. "Pansy, please. Draco will be here any second"
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, I took this before he even saw it" She cut her off and walked back in front of Rhiannon, holding up the note and as her eyes met the note she started to feel more panic set in, knowing he wouldn't be coming for her, he won't save her. She was alone. "What do you want?" A tear rolled down her cheek "What I want is for Draco to be freed from your love spell, for the Dark Lord to be happy and proud of me. All I want is to be seen" She walked closer, their faces almost touching "What I want is to see your blood leak from your stomach and to watch you die. Watch your friends die, the world will be run by us and I will have Draco by my side to comfort him from the loss of his pathetic mud-blood princess" As those words left her mouth, pressure erupted in her stomach, matched with the sharp pain he had been feeling, her breath stopped as she tried to struggle for it to come back, she was to scared to look down, her face said it all. "Do you feel that? That's how it felt when you stole the person I loved" Rhiannon slowly looked down and see a silver dagger shoved into her stomach, she started gasping for air now that her breath was back "This isn't a silly potion, this is real, painful, a slow death" She twisted the blade, causing her to squeal before she ripped it out of her and she dropped to her knees. Blood was all she saw, her white dress was now red, just like her nightmares. Pansy kneeled down in front of her and lifted her chin with her bloody dagger "This is why I said Draco won't always be here to save you, you are alone and you will die alone. Just how it's meant to be with your kind" Rhiannon's eyes faded in and out, the blade was shoved into her stomach again, she couldn't make a sound anymore, blood just poured out of her mouth. She ripped it out again and tossed it to the side. Pansy stood up "Goodbye, Rhiannon Black" Pansy evaporated into black smoke and into the sky. Rhiannon fell on her side from weakness and the pain, more blood pooled out of her mouth and stomach. She tried to scream for help but her voice was to shaky and strained from the pain, she was scared, she didn't want to die like this.