Chapter 13: The Blood

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Harry
"You didn't give me ink" I say. "You won't need it" she says in her sickly sweet voice. I narrow my eyes and turn to the parchment. I make a line and a searing pain forms on the back of my hand and a thin red line forms on the paper. I turn to my left hand and see that a thin cut had formed. I write the whole sentence ignoring the pain in my hand and when I finish the first 'I must not tell lies' sentence I turn to my hand. Sure enough the sentence is on the back of my hand in my handwriting. I look up at Umbridge and she just smiles at me. I glare. I scribble more and more sentences ignoring the pain in my hand. The pain grows more and more consistent but I don't make a noise. I won't be weak in front of her. Sorry but not today. I've soon weakness enough for the first month of school thank you very much. I'm biting my tongue all the while and eventually I bite through it and hiss. Umbridge looks up and smiles and grabs my hand and looks at it. Blood drips from the cuts that form the words 'I must not tell lies'. "You can go now" she says. I pack my things and run out of the room. I look at my watch. It was 11:58. Run the voice says. I listen and sprint down the castle and across the castle grounds to Hagrid's hut. When I get to the front door I check the time again and doubled over panting. 12:00. I barely made it. I hear a door open and close but don't look up. I'm to focused on the stitch in my side. I'm still panting and hear footsteps coming up behind me. Draco. I think. I hope slightly. Most likely. Haggis walks up to me and claps a hand on my back making my knees almost give away. "Yer okay 'Arry?" Haggis says in that gruff voice of his. I not quickly and stand up straighter my left hand curled up with the nails digging into my skin hanging by my side. "Yeah, I'm fine" I croak. Hagrid gives me a smile and looks past my head. "Ah Malfoy, how nice of yer to join us" Hagrid says. I turn around and see Draco standing a few feet away. I smile weakly at him and a smile tugs at the corner of his lips. Right. We're pretending to be enemies when we're actually friends. My bad. I wipe the smile off my face and turn to Hagrid and raise my eyebrow at him deciding to keep the act up and he looks at me. "Right, anyways Malfoy here was caught stealing from the potions cupboard" he says answering my question. "Ah" I say. Stupid. Why did I say that, I could've done better, come on Harry pull yourself together. Just act like you always did in front of teachers with him. How? He's nice now. I dunno, figure it out golden boy. "So! We're gonna be picking potion ingredients for Snape and then some plants for Madam Pomfrey!" Hagrid says, cutting through my thoughts. "You boys go together and we'll meet up at the hut in 2 hours! Here's the list of things, I'm sure you know what they look like" he says handing us a piece of parchment and lamps. He heads off into the forbidden forest with Fang and I turn to Draco. "Well?" I say "What are we waiting for?" He looks at me and I grin and stride into the forest with him behind me.

A/N
That's a lot of reads. O_O Short chapter this time too. also. It's been a while, sorry. Kinda lost my passion for writing this story and Harry potter in general. And I'm terribly sorry. I will try to keep writing and get my passion back but until then I will do my absolute best. I will try my hardest to get ideas for this story. I will be back, I promise.
~Author

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