To Tame A Wild Heart || Book One (An Open SS Fan fiction)

CHAPTER 11 : Ghost In The Cabin PART 1*

Florina's POV:

The potions master zoomed away from us. We took that as the cue for all of us to get up and follow behind. David, who was surprisingly calm this whole time, gave me a weak smile as he too got up and offered me his hand. I nodded taking it.

He started softly, "How are you feeling now Woods?"

"I am much better," I grinned "Thanks for asking."

Our feet kept repeatedly sinking in the thick layer of snow with every step we took. There were many incidents where I would almost fall on my face as my feet kept getting trapped in the snow. I looked over to my right and it seemed David was facing the same problem but tried to hide it every time I glance at him. I chuckled softly.

"You know" he started again, tenderly filling the gap between us "You had me very worried back there. I thought I had almost lost you."

At first, David introduced himself as mysterious, calm and collected. Maybe cold too just like our beloved Potions master. So having him speak to me tenderly and closing the space between us struck me as peculiar and extremely out of character. 

In the few days that I have known him, I felt like he was pretending to be cold and detached unlike Severus, who never breaks character. Almost as if he was putting on an act. But he seemed to always fail whenever I am around him for a reason I will never begin to comprehend.

Maybe it was just me? But I did quickly pick up on that act. He simply wasn't that great of an actor. That thought spiked my curiosity to know him more. It couldn't have been because of his brother, he hates him! Or was that just an act as well.

I stole a sideways glance and saw my Fairy and the Elf glaring up at him, running to keep up. Rose flew faster and was glued to my side eyeing him like a prey. To my other side, Bubbles held my hand and was also staring at him without blinking. He however, didn't notice the elf's sudden unusual behavior and kept his intense gaze on me.

I glanced up at him to find his emerald orbs still giving me the peculiar gaze, "I am sorry for all the trouble that this whole thing has caused you both" I sighed pointing at Severus "I had no idea the invisibility shield would drain that amount of energy from me. It didn't happen in the past so why would it happen now?"

My rhetorical question wasn't directed to David but rather to Rose who was still clueless of the reason. He nodded, "Well, maybe because you used it on us three. The more people you use it on, the faster your energy would drain, don't you think?"

I looked over to see both Rose and Bubbles nodding in agreement but still eyeing him. Rose whispered apologetically, "Florina, he is absolutely right. How did that not cross my mind?"

I nodded subtly and turned to David to see him holding that peculiar gaze once more. 

"For your information Woods, the number of people you use magic on can determine not only the strength of the magic divided, it can also drain their magic for some time. Take him for example" he pointed at Severus who was ahead of us by a large gap "apparating all three of us to a distance as far as the Antarctic forest must have taken a toll on him. No wonder he was slow and disoriented from the moment we got here."

"What happened when we got here?" I asked.

"Well," he sighed as we began to get closer to Severus "as soon as we apparated here, you fainted. Actually... you seemed to be slowly dying. If it wasn't for the elf's strange demand, you might have been a goner for sure."

"What are you talking about?" I turned to him puzzled "What demand?" I dropped my gaze to the elf who was still clutching my hands and she simply shrugged.