His Queen, Her King (Draco x Reader)

Chapter 33

"There you are, I've been looking for you all day? You missed our picnic date down at the lake" I say putting my stuff down on Draco's bed. "Did you hear what happened? Someone cursed Katie Bell, the girl from our potions class, she's in hospital but she doesn't remember much" I carry on looking up at Draco sitting on his desk, his shoulders stiffening as I mention Katie.

"I've got a lot of homework to catch up on, sorry I missed our date, lost track of time" He mutters not looking at me. I walk over to him and put my hand on his shoulder making him jump.

"Hey it's okay Draco, I was just worried about you. Blaise told me you've barely been sleeping all week" I tell him and walk around to sit on the edge of his desk so he's facing me. "This isn't about the letter from your mother telling us to stay here for Christmas is it?"

"I'd rather be here" He says simply, still looking at his hands on his lap. I kneel down in front of him taking his hand. I notice a red mark on his wrist and gently go to grab his sleeve. As I pull it up he stands quickly making me fall to the floor. "God Y/N just leave it alone! Why can't you take the hint?!" The sudden raise of his voice makes me jump and I get my balance before standing up, keeping my distance as he paces around the room.

"Draco...I'm sorry I just want to help you" I tell him. He stops dead centre in the room.

"You can't help me! No one can help me!" He shouts, grabbing hold of my shoulders tightly. I wince slightly at the painful contact but stay still as he glares at me. "You think you can save everyone but you can't Y/N"

"Draco you're hurting me, please calm down and we can talk about this" I say trying to get out of his grip. His eyes suddenly widen and he backs away from me quickly looking at his hands.

"No no you need to stay away from me" He says backing away from me. I shake my head and walk over to him grabbing his hands.

"And I told you over and over that I'm never going to leave you" I tell him and fight against him trying to pull his hands away from me. I grab his hand and put it against my chest. "Draco I'm here, I'm safe and I'm trying to help you so just let me in" I feel his body start to shake and his knees buckle pulling me to the floor with him, I pull him into my arms as he sobs.

"I'm sorry" He repeats over and over. I hold him tighter, rubbing his back.

"It's okay you're going to be okay" I tell him, kissing his hair. "Draco tell me what's going on" I pull up his sleeve seeing his mark red raw from whatever he was doing, it looks almost burnt.

"I didn't pass my trial as easily as we thought...Voldermort gave me another task" He says, still in my arm's. My heart drops and I pull him up to look at me, the both of us still knelt across from each other.

"What does he want from you?" I ask him honestly and another tear slips down his cheek.

"I have to kill Dumbledore" He admits and my eyes widen. "Katie was me, I gave her a cursed necklace that would have killed him but she must have touched it before giving it to him"

"Why didn't you tell me?" I whisper, a feeling of hurt washing over me. He sighs, pulling his sleeve back down.

"They told me not to, they said they needed to trust me first" He admits. "I can't kill him Y/N but if I don't they will kill you" I put my hands on his cheeks.

"They won't kill me and you're not going to kill Dumbledore, we are going to fix this together" I tell him.

"How?" He asks with tears in his eyes. I take a deep breath.

"Because we're in this together now" I say and then look him dead in the eyes. "And if it comes to it, I'll kill Dumbledore, I'm done protecting them when they're not protecting us" Draco's eyes widen.

"But..." He starts. I shake my head, cutting him off.

"We need to start protecting ourselves, Draco and I'm tired of them taking things from us. We can't run from this, they will find us so we're going to fight like hell to keep each other and our friends alive" I answer honestly.