camellia withlock│draco malfoy ✓

18│alice in wonderland

CHAPTER 18: alice in wonderland

Warning! This chapter talks about how the main character is unable to eat and her being in a depressive state + a cursing word.

Melia is sitting by the window looking out towards the garden. She's been sitting like this for the past few days. Only getting up to sleep for an hour or two, then going back to the window. Eating is something she hasn't done either. Both Draco and Narcissa have been trying to get her to do anything else than sit in the window all day and night.

"Give the girl some time, Bella!" someone hisses from outside his bedroom.

"Fine, but I need her soon."

"The school year is still a month away. You don't need her until that!" she says before knocking on the door. She walks in and places a glass of pumpkin juice on the small table beside the girl. They have noticed that pumpkin juice is the only thing she's able to drink without vomiting it up again. That's why she hasn't been eating. Because everything she consumes comes out again in a very unpleasant way. She walks out again and leaves the two alone.

Draco has been reading a lot to her lately. Mostly muggle books like Oliver Twist, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice. Now he is reading her a book Melia got sent in the mail yesterday by Hermione about a girl named Carly who is deaf and is looking for her missing friend. Which is hard when people don't believe a young girl who can't hear. She struggles, but eventually finds her friend. The book gave Draco an idea and made one of the house elf's get him some books on sign language.

Because of all the screaming Melia did, her voice broke and she won't be able to speak for at least a few months. Just until her voice heals. It was nothing that could get fixed by medicine or spells. It had to heal on its own. Not that she would be speaking a lot if she had her voice, but now she won't be able to speak to Draco at all.

He moves her chair so that's it facing him and starts to read the book about sign language. Trying to learn it himself while also trying to show it to Melia. After a few days, she started to participate and learnt the ways of signing different words. Two weeks later they were able to form simple sentences to each other. And today she had her first smile in over a month. Who thought that learning sign language could get her to smile?

She walked down to the kitchen to see if there were some pumpkin juice left in the fridge, but before she was able to get there Bellatrix grabbed her arm and took her to the living room. She sat her down on the sofa and started to explain to her about her first mission for the Dark Lord. Her mission was to help Harry get through the two first tasks of the Triwizard tournament safely so that he can get to the graveyard at the last task without problem. She was told that she would get help by a death eater at school, who she presumed was Barty Crouch jr. She was also told to get to the graveyard herself, that she would know when the time was right.

"Do you understand, dearie?" Melia nods her head. "I didn't hear you?" Hear you? You destroyed my fucking voice! "You stupid bitch!" Bellatrix lifts her hand as if she's going to hit her, but no pain comes. She opens her eyes and sees Narcissa holding Bella's hand.

"You know she has lost her voice! She can't speak!" Narcissa says angrily at her sister.

"I thought she was just pretending?!"

"No, you destroyed it!" she let's go of Bella's hand and looks at Melia, "Go upstairs, dear. I think Draco is looking for you." Melia almost runs out of the room and up the stairs to his room. She opens the door and closes it quickly behind her. Draco runs to her right away asking what happened. After trying to explain with the signs she has learnt, she falls asleep on the bed in Draco's arms while he was reading Alice in Wonderland for her.

Melia wishes her adventures here could be as marvellous and enjoyable as Allices' adventures. The only thing good about this place is Draco and 'Mione, but what Melia doesn't understand yet, is that there are so many more people that care for her. Harry and Ron care about her in their own weird way. Molly and Arthur, Remus, Sirius, Blaise. So many people she forgets about because almost half of her life has been a lie.

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"Melia, Draco we're going to be late! Hurry up!" Narcissa shouts from downstairs. They both walk down the stairs. Draco in his new suit and Melia in a black dress she got from Nissi the other day.

"You look lovely in that dress, dear. I knew it would fit you perfectly when I picked it out."

"Thank you," Melia signs to her. The two children had been learning some signs to Narcissa and Lucius so that she doesn't have to rely too much on Draco. The girls put their cloaks on before they apparated away.

"Welcome to the Quidditch World Cup!"

(A/N) Whenever something is written with a line under, it means that someone is using sign language.