Chasing Shadows || Draco Malfoy x OC

Year 3- Ch. 12

!!T.W. - depiction of abuse!!

Eventually, Céline came too, when she opened her eyes she instantly shut them again, groaning in pain from the brightness of the day. She clutched her head, feeling like her head was ready to explode from the massive headache.

She tried getting up, but all she could manage was a sitting position. She took deep breaths trying to calm the pain, but then she thought back at everything that just happened and she felt the panic rise into her chest. She took more shaky, but deep breaths. She had felt this type of panic attack in a very long time.

She squinted her eyes open, frowning at the bright light, and pushed herself up. She checked her watch and it read a quarter past two. She felt like it was too late to meet up with her friends. They would surely know something was wrong, since she was barely able to keep herself up. The headache was making her dizzy and nauseous. So she decided it was best to get back to her bed and try to sleep it off.

It took her about thirty minutes to get back to the dorm, it's usually a fifteen min walk from Hogsmeade, but she had stopped a couple of times to vomit, since she hadn't eaten since the morning her stomach was hurting from heaving.

She felt disgusting so she pushed herself to shower, as she walked into her dorm she saw Pansy lounging on her bed filing her nails. When she looked up at Céline, she gave her a disgusted look, "Merlin, you look terrible." She said with no concern in her voice. "What happened to you?"

Céline didn't have enough energy to answer, so she only walked over to her bed, grabbed her neatly folded pajamas from under her pillow, some fresh underwear, her towel, and walked out of the dorm towards the bathroom.

She had to hold onto the wall, because she was starting to feel dizzy again. Eventually she made it to the shower, she peeled off her long sleeve top and skirt and then her underwear and stepped into the shower turning on the hot water.

She basked in it for a while with her eyes closed, her bottom lip quivering. Then she squatted down and placed her face into her hands and silently sobbed for 10 minutes, before she composed herself again and actually took a shower.

When she got out she looked in the mirror, she looked at her face, the small bump on the side of her head, where the headache was coming from. The pain subsided a little thankfully from the shower. Her gaze dropped down her face to her neck, then to her shoulders, where she saw a couple new small bruises from being shoved and old light brown bruises from when her father grabbed her shoulder. Then her gaze slipped down to her rib where she saw large splotches of dark and light greens and yellows. She turned to look over her shoulder to check her back and saw the same. Her eyes went back to look at the same green eyes reflecting, glossing over, before she blinked it away and then she went to get dressed.

When she got back to the dorm, Pansy was gone. So she sighed in relief and went to her bed and got under the covers. Closing her eyes letting her exhaustion and headache take over.