"Draco," Ellia muttered, crawling out from under the fallen wardrobe to where her ex-boyfriend lied still in place. The rubble corroded around them and kept them enclosed and separated from the much needed oxygen, however there was just enough to save them. "Draco," Ellia muttered again, this time a little louder as she reached her ex-boyfriend. Cuts were scattered from corner to corner on his pale skin, the blood running down from them and staining his white blond hair. His once perfect skin with just the smallest stubble, was covered in cuts. She endangered him, Ellia did. He came for her, and he could be close to death because of her. His breathing was slow and unsteady, but still there and his heart was thumping away. "C'mon, I need to get you out of here." She clasped onto his arm, how frail and fragile it was, before using her remaining strength to apparate to just outside the Hogwarts gates. The enchantments on the house had been broken, they were free to leave. The air was brisk and still, as well as a pleasure to Ellia to inhale the fresh air once again. She herself had suffered a minor broken rip or so, or at least that's what it felt like. Yet that was on her mind. Saving Draco was. How could she have been so stupid to follow Patricia, after everything that she had put her through before. The torture, torment, not to mention stealing her boyfriend. She should've tied her in the hall, so she couldn't enter the room. The stupid girl could've taken her wand, why she hadn't thought of that. The Auror's could've got her easier then, they could still get her now. If she had the energy to send a spell into the roof, then up she could apparate. She could be anywhere by now, she could be following Ellia's footsteps. But surely she couldn't get inside Hogwarts.
She slung him over her shoulders, before trudging towards the castle. Already the cheers of Hogwarts students filled her ears and it was as if she had returned home. A warming and welcoming place, which had taken so many people from Ellia's lives and buried them deep under the rubble of the old school. However, there was still a strong sense of security inside the castle boundaries. Cheers and cheers echoed around the area, a sense of happiness. Yet the cheers weren't for Ellia or Draco, but instead for the quidditch players who were encased in a match currently.
"Somebody help!" She shouted, her voice croaky and broken from the dust that drowned her lungs. As she edged nearer and nearer to the fields, the weight on her shoulders increased. "Somebody help!" She repeated herself, the cheering now being joined by chanting. If she could just catch one persons attention, just one, then they could attract Pomfrey, or McGonagall. The closest stall to her was the Gryffindor stall, luckily for her. Grabbing a stone that was nearby, she lobbed it into the stall, the cheering pausing for a minute. Two girls spun around, Ellia identifying them as Hermione and some other girl. "Help!" She shouted, as the two were alerted by her attention. She dropped to the floor, unable to carry him any longer, before the girl beside Hermione ran off to get the attention of a Professor. Hermione leaped over the stalls fences, sprinting towards Ellia as Draco's body hit the floor.
"Ellia, what on earth happened?" Hermione said, rushing to her side and helping her back onto her feet.
"Patricia. I cornered her at Spinner's End, the Auror's were going to get her. Then I had her, had her captured, and she cast a spell on my room. She made the room collapse, and Draco was caught in between it all. He needs medical attention, now," Ellia explained to Hermione, stumbling on her words in fear as she looked on at Draco with Hermione.
"But why would she want to hurt Draco?" Hermione asked Ellia, as the girl returned to the Gryffindor stall, making her way through the crowd to where they were.
"I don't think she knew he was there, I didn't expect him to be there," Ellia breathed, as McGonagall came rushing behind the girl with Madame Pomfrey and Professor Flitwick.
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Snape's Daughter (Book Three)
Fanfic'You find yourself in a dark place.' An official orphan mourning the loss of everyone surrounding her, Ellia now faces her final battle against somebody she once held close to heart, in fear of loosing them. In the concluding book in the trilogy, wi...
