Hidden Pain (Drarry) [BEING REWRITTEN]

Chapter 16: The Effects

Draco

My eyes open and I blink to process where I am. Everything comes back in an instant. Harry. Snake. Tree. Unconscious. I sit up quickly and look around and don't see the snake. I start to panic. What if it took him? My eyes land on a figure laying on the floor across from me and a few meters away. I scramble up and walk towards it. I reach the body and turn it over so I could see it's face. Harry. But he looked- different. There was blood on his mouth and it looked like he had fangs. I looked closer and saw that he also seemed to have scales on his neck going up to scatter around his face. The scales were aqua green and shined in the light. The lantern was broken next to him and luckily hadn't started a fire. His wand was in his hand and his hand was limp. I don't know what happened to Harry, but what I do know is that we need to get out of here. After making a plan I picked Harry up. I our wands in my robe pocket and walked to the edge of the crater. I shifted Harry so I was carrying him over my shoulder with one arm to support him. I jumped and grabbed at a stray branch sticking out of the wall of dirt and pulled myself up. I held onto the branch and with the other I hoisted Harry over onto the ground of the edge of the crater. Once he was up I pulled myself up and over the edge. I picked Harry up again in both arms to support him and started heading back to Hagrid's hut. We didn't get any of the things on the list for our detention, but when they see and hear about our situation I'm pretty sure they'll let it slide. Can't exactly focus on picking plants while your partner seems to have turned into a half snake reptile thing. I just hope he'll be alright. When I finally made it out of the forest I looked at my watch and saw that it was 1:30 in the morning. Geez. I didn't realize we were there for that long. I walked to the hut and saw Hagrid waiting for us. "Yer late, thought something happened to ya" he said only looking at my face. I stared at him blankly before answering. "Well something did happen and we didn't get any of the herbs" I said. He looked at my arms and saw Harry and his eyes widened. He took Harry from my arms and started towards the castle with big strides. I jogged behind them trying to think about what could've happened. What was the snake we saw? What did it do to make Harry turn into a half-reptile? I kept thinking as I followed Hagrid and we eventually were inside the castle. As we walked the halls and stairs to the hospital wing people kept staring. Harry was a half-reptile and I was covered in dirt and cuts, without a doubt it looked weird. I kept my head down the whole time as people whispered, pointed, and stared. We finally got to the hospital wing and my head started pounding. I couldn't hear right and my vision was blurry. I staggered over to a hospital bed and sat down while Madam Pomfrey examined Harry. They were talking, but I couldn't hear anything. Then my vision went black.

Harry

I wake up and my vision is blurry. I sit up and look for my glasses and when I find them I put them on. Everything comes into focus and I see that I'm in the hospital wing. There were curtains put up around my bed, no doubt to stop people from looking in at me. If I got here them people saw me. "The patients need rest, please let them do so!" I heard Madam Pomfrey say exasperated. I couldn't help but smile a bit. I got up and opened the curtains a bit so if someone looked in they'd only see my eye. I looked around and saw no one. I saw Madam Pomfrey's shadow in her office and walked out. I looked around and saw more curtains around a bed. The only beds occupied were mine and the one next to it. I walked over and peeked through it. I saw Draco laying down on the bed seemingly rigid. I walked over, pulled up a chair, and sat next to him. His face was covered in cuts and dirt. His usually slick blonde hair was messy. I sighed and looked down. You don't look the same anymore. What do you mean. Find a mirror. Now. It's for the best you know now. I got up and moved the curtains and looked around the hospital wing. In the corner of my eye I saw something shiny. I spotted a mirror laying on the floor and walked towards it. How conviently placed too. I picked it up and looked at my reflection. I froze. I had two fangs that could only be seen when I opened my mouth. I had aqua green scales on my neck and scattered around the bottom of my face. My eyes weren't bright green, one of them was dark blue. The snake had multi-colored scales and dark blue and aqua green were some, that must be were they came from. This is what the snake must have meant when it said good luck. I looked at myself in horror and dropped the mirror shaking. There was a shattering of glass and I put my shaking hands up to my face. I sank to my knees and sat leaned back on them still shaking. Madam Pomfrey came rushing out of her office and rushed towards me. "Harry! What happened!?" she yelled, concerned. I didn't say anything and started panicking. "What happened to me?" I whispered, tears starting to leak from my eyes. I turned to look at her. She was looking at me with concern. "What did that damned snake do to me?!" I yelled, "Why do I look like this?!" I was still crying and I put my face in my hands. "Come on Harry," she placed her hand on my back and guided me to the bed. "I'll explain everything later, right now you need rest" she said. I curled up into myself and cried myself to sleep. Now I was more of a freak. No one would want me. Not even Ron and Hermione. I would be alone. It's all over for me. This is the end of the line for the golden boy.