camellia withlock│draco malfoy ✓

38│fly

CHAPTER 38: fly

The order together with Melia is sitting in the kitchen having a meeting. Some of the others are out getting Harry and will be arriving shortly with him. She was allowed to be in the meeting while the other "kids" were upstairs because of her rank in Voldemort's army, but she isn't listening in on the conversation. She took her book with her and is reading.

Remus tries to close her book, "Are you listening, Melia?"

"No, and I don't want to listen." Sirius translates for her.

Remus was about to answer, but then someone opens the front door and comes into the kitchen. Then Molly goes to greet Harry. He looks at Sirius who smiles back at him before the door is closed. They discuss some more, and Remus dropped trying to get Melia to listen. When they were done, dinner was served, and everyone came down. Sirius and Harry shared a heartfelt hug in the hallway before coming in. When Harry came into the room, he noticed Melia right away and pointed his wand at her. She just pushed it away and looked over to Hermione.

"What? I told you we read it. I forgave you, but I don't know about them..."

"You forgave her? After what she did?" he looked disgusted at Melia before continuing. "She tortured Barty Crouch Sr. before he died and used the Imperius Curse on Hagrid and you just forgive her?"

Melia just shakes her head. She knew he wouldn't forgive her that easily. She opens her mouth to speak, but Sirius cuts her off, "Stop, don't destroy your voice even more. Let me translate."

"No, I don't care right now because he needs to hear it coming from my mouth," she moves her eyes from Sirius' over to Harry's. "This is the reason I only told Hermione because I knew how you would react. If it hadn't been for me and Crouch jr. you would have died or gotten seriously injured in the first task. Everything I did was to help you. And when it came to the torture of Barty Crouch Sr., I had no choice. It was him or me."

It's quiet for a while after that and then Melia gets up from her chair taking her book with her. "I'm not hungry," she says before going to the living room to read in peace. When she gets there, she collapses on the sofa couching. My stupid voice. Damn you, Bellatrix for destroying it.

After a few minutes, she gathers herself and moves over to the piano. She hasn't played since she was a little kid. Now that she has her memories back, she can do a lot of things she didn't know off. Like very advanced spells or knowing about different creatures or playing the piano. She thinks before playing one of her mother's favourite songs, that she used to play for her parents a long time ago. 'Fly by Ludovico Einaudi'. A beautiful song that she used to listen to a lot when she was in Oslo. Her conciseness must have remembered the song and made her play it even though she didn't remember why she liked it so much.

She hadn't noticed that someone had come into the room before she heard someone applauding her after she was done with the song. She looked up and saw Sirius sitting on the sofa.

"My sister's favourite song. What's it called again?"

"Fly."

"It's a beautiful song." Melia smiles at him before turning back to the piano to play another song. She doesn't know how long she played, but when she looked up from the piano again, it was very dark outside. Sirius was still sitting on the sofa with a book in his hand. She got up from the chair and went over to Sirius. He laid down his book and opened his arms for her. Melia nuzzled into his warmth and not long after you could hear her deep breaths, indicating that she had fallen asleep. Sirius didn't want to wake her, so they both slept there until she woke up a few hours later.

Melia tried to get out of his hold without waking him, which she failed at. He woke up and looked right into her eyes. She smiled at him apologetically, "I'm going to bed. I guess you'll stay here?" she just nodded at him and then he went to his own bedroom. She wandered off to the kitchen to make herself some tea. What she wasn't expecting to see was someone else sitting in there. She went to the stove to warm the water, avoiding him completely. He notices this and tries to speak to her. She still acts like he's not there.

"I'm sorry, okay?" she takes two teacups out of the cabin still not answering him. "Sirius and the others tried to reason with me, and I have to be honest. I still don't trust you completely, but I'm willing to try. You were once my friend and before you can be it again, I need to see that I can trust you. Not just words," the kettle squeals and she takes it off the stove. Then she pours the hot water into the two teacups and gives one to Harry. He smiles at her, but she doesn't return it. Her face is still blank, and she cleans up before leaving the room. She could hear Harry letting out a deep breath. Melia goes to her room, gives some sweats to Diana and sits down on the chair by the fireplace.

This room was hers when she was younger and Kreacher had kept it clean hoping that one day Melia and her parents would return. In the end, it was just Melia that returned. Her room had a dark grey coloured wallpaper and had dark brown flooring. The window had a bench underneath it so she could sit and look out the window. Not far from the window was a big four-poster bed with grey curtains and white bedding. By the door was a fireplace with two white and dark brown wood armchairs.

On top of the fireplace were pictures of her, her parents, some of them were with Draco and his family and one of them was a picture of her and Hermione the first time they were in Hogsmeade. In the far-left corner of the room was Diana's cage and on the same wall, there were built-in bookshelves with both muggle books and magical books. Melia went over to one of the shelves and picked out one before sitting down again. Diana came over to her and sat down on her shoulder. The owl had a habit of doing so. She liked being close to her owner and Melia didn't mind.

(A/N) the song is actually a song and is one of my favorite piano songs. It's on Spotify if you want to listen ↡

- Camilla ❃