Riddle Me This

Chapter 42

Catherine's POV

I was a lot happier in the passing weeks. Did I see more of Draco? Only slightly, because he started to come with me to breakfast everyday. But no one questioned if we were still together or not. If Draco passed me in the corridors, he'd give me a small smile. If he was in the common room, he'd give me a kiss, or snog. And in class, before the lesson started and after it ended, he'd give me a peck on the cheek. I never followed him to the Room of Requirement again. And we haven't shagged since the night I followed him. But I didn't care, and neither did Draco. What mattered was, our relationship, though not perfect and normal, was back, and that's all that really mattered to me.

One day, Draco had said he was going to come to the Great Hall to spend sometime with our friends and I, which had me nearly bouncing on the bench with excitement. I saw him walk in, and stood, ready to call him over, but Draco had stopped walking. He was staring at Harry, and turned, looking a little frazzled. And Harry followed him. And I went after the two of them. Something was about to happen.

I was behind Harry by quite a bit, halfway thinking that I had lost him. And that worried me. But when I came across the sound of spells being cast in one of the boy's bathrooms, I quickly understood what was happening, and hurried to find Snape. Luckily, he was in a corridor not far from me.

"Papa!" I said as I got closer to him. "Draco and Harry are dueling in the bathroom. Come on." Snape quickly followed me, and once we had made it to the bathroom the two had been dueling in, everything was silent besides the sound of rushing water. Snape hurried in, and I'd be damned if I didn't as well. And I saw Harry just standing by the sinks, and when I looked down, Draco was lying in the water, bleeding out. I gasped as I pushed past Harry and whipped out my wand.

"No, I'll heal Draco. This was done by one of my spells." Snape muttered, quickly starting to use a countercurse. As soon as he was done, and the bleeding stopped, I bent down, laying my forehead against Draco's as tears streamed down my face. "He'll be fine now, Catherine." I didn't respond, simply moved Draco's head to my lap and gently brushed my fingers through his hair. "He still needs to be brought to the hospital wing." I nodded, following Snape as we headed that way.

I sat next to Draco's bed, holding his hand tightly as I watched him. The others had come in, asked what had happened. I told them the truth. Harry had used a spell he had never used before and didn't know it's effects on Draco. And that Draco had almost died because of it. No one spoke after that. Well, except for Pansy.

"Cat, you need to sleep in your own bed and eat." She said, pulling gently on my robes to move me.

"I can't. He needs me." I said as I reached out and gently fixed Draco's hair again.

"Tell you what." Blaise began. "I'll stay with Draco while you go eat. If anything changes, I'll let you know. And I won't take no for an answer." Pansy took that as her cue to move me out of the Hospital wing. And as we walked, I saw Harry, and then red. Before I knew it, my wand was out and I was stunning him. The hallway went silent as I approached Harry.

"Bloody hell, Catherine what was that-" Harry didn't finish his sentence as I broke his nose with my fist.

"Who the bloody hell uses a spell they've never heard of?" I screech, flicking my wand to fix Harry's nose, only to punch him again and break it. "Who casts it on someone for that matter if you don't know what it even does?" Another flick of the wrist, refixing the nose, before I punched him again, breaking it a third time. "You almost bloody well killed him!" Flick, fix, break. "I just got him back you gormless twat!" Rinse and Repeat. "And if you ever do it again." I only fixed it this time, grabbing Harry by the front of his robes. "I may just do the same to you." And I sent my knee straight up into his groin. When I let go and stepped back, Harry fell to the floor clutching himself. I simply walked past him and headed to get myself something to eat, feeling loads better.