The party is over and everyone is starting to leave. I look over at Claire who's sitting on the couch with her new cat. Alex and Beth have gone, I assume they're asleep and Draco and Olly have started to clean the room.
"Hey Elena?" Draco yells to me.
"Ya," I say
"Have you seen my wand?" He asks
"No," I say
I put down my cup and walk towards Draco who's looking extremely nervous.
"I can't find it anywhere," he says looking through the couch.
"I'm sure we'll find it," I say
Draco and I look around the room and I go to check his room. I open his door to see a completely organized room and I instantly feel like a slob.
When I was little Logan used to give me candy when I cleaned my room. I would usually just shove everything in my closet but he never knew. I loved all the little things Logan did for me when we were younger. Ever since he got his Hogwarts letter, the little things slowly disappeared.
I look around Draco's room and don't see how anything could get lost I his room. I walk over to his small desk and see a picture of us in a cute picture frame from our date a while ago. I can't help but smile at the sweet picture.
I open his closet and look around. There's nothing but clothes and a few books on a small shelf.
I close the door and start to head for the door. I'm stopped as something catches my attention under Draco's pillow and I'm forced to look at it. I walk over to his bed and sit down and lift the pillow. It's a large knife with a beautifully detailed grip.
"Elena, have you found it?" Draco asks swiftly entering the room.
I turn around holding the knife and hold it up to his sight.
"What's this?" I ask sternly
"Nothing" he snaps trying to snatch it out of my hand.
I pull away quickly and stand up.
"Draco," I say stepping towards him. "Why do you have this? What is it" I say glancing down at the dagger in my hand.
"It's just for safety," Draco says grabbing the knife from me. "Have you found it?" He asks throwing the knife in his bed.
"No, not yet," I say returning to my search.
I tuck my hair behind my ear so I can see clearly and bend down to look under his bed.
"It's not under here" ..
I'm interrupted by a scream and I snap around to see that's happening.
Draco stands still looking at the still open door and looks back at me.
"What the hell was that?" He asks in shock.
Draco reaches his hand out to me and he helps me up. We start walking quickly down the corridor and see a crowd of people around someone lying on the floor.
"Elena" Beth cries as she walks towards me.
"Beth what's wrong, what happened," I say trying to look at who's on the floor.
"It's Claire, she's not breathing" Beth cries looking at the crowd.
"What?!" I say letting Beth go and pushing through the crowd.
"Claire," I say reaching for her hand.
"Ms. Bell don't touch her" I hear Snape's voice command.
I pull away from Claire and look at professor Snape as he strides quickly toward me.
"Ms.Bell please escort all students from the common room," he says looking at Maddy.
I stand up and look at Draco for help. He pushes through the crowd and starts pushing people back away from Maddy.
"Everyone return to your dorms" Draco commands.
The few remaining people from the party start to leave and some run off to tell their friends what happened.
"Mr. Malfoy if you would please bring the head master here," Snape says crouching beside Maddy.
Draco runs out of the common room without a second thought and I'm stuck with Snape.
"Do you know where she was earlier in the night Ms.Bell?" Snape asks
"She was here, it's her birthday so we threw her a party," I say.
"Was she given any small gifts? Any jewelry?" Snape asks
"Just the bracelet she's wearing," I say pointing at her pearl bracelet.
Snape looks at the bracelet and lifts Claire's hand to get a closer look at it. Snape unclamps the bracelet and lays it on the floor.
Draco and Dumbledore burst into the room followed by professor McGonagall.
"Severus," Dumbledore says calmly.
"She's been cursed Headmaster," Snape says standing.
"Oh dear," Professor McGonagall says.
"How so?" Dumbledore asks
"With this" Snape says levitating the bracelet to Dumbledores sight.
"Where did she get this bracelet, Elena?" Professor McGonagall asks
"Um, let me look, we wrote down who all the gifts were from," I say running over to the table with the list of gifts.
I quickly look through the list and find it.
Pearl bracelet - from Pansy
"It's from Pansy," I say looking up.
"Severus if you would go find Ms. Parkinson," Dumbledore says.
Snape walks out of the common room towards the girls' dorms and professor McGonagall follows him.
"Ms. Bell are you sure it was Ms. Parkinson that gifted this bracelet?" He asks
"Yes," I say confidentiality
"Very well, Mr. Malfoy please escort Ms.Bell back to her dorm and return to your chambers as well," Dumbledore says stepping towards Claire.
"Come on," Draco says putting his hand on my back.
Draco and I walk back to his room and he closes the door behind us.
"What's going on? Two people attacked in one day?" I say sitting on Draco's bed.
"Ben and Pansy too? What are they doing?" Draco questions as he sits beside me.
"Well, they both hurt people that I care about," I say realizing the connection between Claire and Draco.
"This isn't your fault," Draco says trying to comfort me.
What if it is? What if they hurt more people I care about? What if they go after Logan and Mike?
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Arctic Love
FanfictionDraco Malfoy is known to be the bad boy of Slytherin. He has a close group of friends consisting only of Slytherins. He finds it hard to meet his parents expectations and still be happy at he same time. Just when he thought life couldn't get more co...
