Chasing Shadows || Draco Malfoy x OC

Year 4- Ch.30

Just as Céline got up semi- slowly as the pain was settling into her rib cage, Professor Snape approached her. "Come with me, Miss Everhart." Then he started walking away.

Her eyes widened, unsure of what to do. She looked at her friends who had the same expression. She looked at Draco, his face was just as confused as everyone else. "Now, Everhart." Snape called for her without looking back.

She, as quickly as she could, followed her professor out of the Great Hall down to the dungeons towards his office. She had never been to his office before, she didn't get into any trouble last year to earn a trip to his office. So she was nervous as to why he was taking her there now.

He opened the door to his office and went straight to his private cupboard of potion ingredients. "Sit." He said. She immediately went to a chair sitting up against the wall. She wanted to ask him why she was here, but he made her nervous so she stayed quiet as he worked at his cauldron.

After about thirty minutes, she mustered up the courage to ask him why she was there. She just wanted to go to bed, since the pain around her body was starting to get unbearable. The dungeons were so cold, so it was making her body ache. "Er— Professor.." she said hesitantly, "May I know why I am here? Did I do something wrong?" Her hand gripped the front of her robes, as she tried to mask the pain.

"I'm not sure." He said coldly, "did you do something wrong, Miss Everhart?" He never looked back at her as he stirred the cauldron.

She looked at him confused, "No? I don't believe I did, sir?"

"Then I wonder why Dumbledore asked me to brew you wiggenweld potion?" He finally faced her, his eyes narrowed. Her face paled. She wondered how the headmaster could have known she was in pain.

"I—I am not sure, sir..." she stuttered.

"You clearly look like you are in pain, Miss Everhart, I will not ask how you got to be in such a state, because I simply do not care enough to know." He said indifferently as he turned back pouring the freshly brewed potion into four small vials. "I am only doing this because it was a request from the headmaster. He seems to be worried about you."

He turned around and handed her one of the four vails. "Take one, now." She immediately did and shivered at the bitterness of it. But started to feel the pain subside, she sighed in relief. "Take one once a day for the next three days. And the next time you are hurt, Miss Everhart, be sure to go to the hospital wing. Not me. Tomorrow after your classes the headmaster wishes to see you. The password to the common room is 'ambition'. You may go now." He handed her the other three vials. She stood up, thanking him and leaving quickly.

So many things were swirling in her head as she walked down the dark dungeon. It was cold and dreary, she wrapped her arms around her middle, tightening her robes around her.  She mumbled the password to the stone wall and magically a dark wooden door appeared. She pushed it open and entered the common room. She looked around  and smiled.

She had greatly missed the Slytherin common room over the summer. Though she had only spent her third year there, she felt like she had been there from the beginning. She felt more at home at Hogwarts then she ever did at Beauxbatons or even the family Manor. She walked up the staircase and turned left down the hall. She looked for one of the plaques that read "fourth year" she opened it, thankful that the first door she opened happened to be the right one.

She saw her friends sitting and chatting. She hid the potions under her robes,and she entered. They all looked over to her. Daphne and Tracey stood up from the bed and walked over to her.

"What did Professor Snape want? You were gone for a while." Daphne asked.

Céline shrugged, "He took me aside and asked me if I had gotten into trouble. Said that Professor Dumbledore wants to speak with me tomorrow after classes." She wasn't lying, she just chose not to bring up the potions. She didn't want her friends to worry.