Poking The Dragon - 𝐃.𝐌 / 𝐌.𝐂

Chapter 41

"Draco let go of me!"

He's dragging me into the hallway, out of the great hall. His hand gripping my arm tightly, "You're fucking hurting me Draco!" I try and wiggle my arm out of his grip. And I fail terribly.

Finally, after turning into a small hallway he releases his grip on my arm and shoves me away from him. Causing me to collide with the stone wall harshly, I scrape my arm and fall down on the ground. Feeling my side bump into something.

"What the actual fuck Draco?" His angry gaze is very intimidating, "You are what the fucking me? Me?!" I back down as he approaches me, "You are such a fucking sly bitch!"

I look at the ground, retracting my knees to my chest. "You give me hope in the beginning of the fucking evening that I could finally, finally ask you to be with me. Only me. And you end up fucking dancing with him?!"

I can feel tears starting to fall down my cheeks as he continues to yell at me, "Hey! Leave her alone!" I look up to see Michael approaching.

This won't end well...

Draco throws his hands up in the air, "Oh look! Of course you would run in and save the fucking day."

Michael rushes over to me first and drops by my side, "Are you okay?"

"No..." I whisper softly, still focussing my gaze on the floor. He helps me up and I wobble a bit, trying to find my balance on my heels.

"You'll pay for this Malfoy." Michael grits through his teeth, Draco just laughs sadistically. "What are you going to do? Some quidditch tricks?"

In a flash Michael's fist collides with Draco's face, "You fucking dickhead." He mumbles, he attempts to hit him back but Michael ducks quickly and lands a blow to his stomach.

"Please stop!" I cry out, Michael looks over at me. Dropping his hands to his side, Draco however still has a furious look in his eyes. "Please..." I mumble whilst crying loudly, suddenly a panicked look forms in Draco's eyes. A sudden realisation hits him when he looks over at me and sees my bloody arm and ripped dress.

"Em, I-"

"Don't fucking talk to me Draco." I mumble, I attempt to walk away but I almost lose my balance. Michael quickly catches me and wraps his arm around me. "I'll walk you to your dorm." He says softly, "Thank you." I say quietly.

I look back at Draco as we walk away, "You did this yourself Draco." I say loud enough for him to hear. I can see his eyes tearing up, this was all him.

"Are you sure it's okay if I walk in?" I nod slightly as we walk through the entrance to the Slytherin common room, "I'll personally hex anyone who dares question you being here."

I point him in the direction of my dorm, and he makes sure I sit down on my bed carefully. "He fucking ripped my dress." I mumble softly, looking at my waist to see a rip in the expensive fabric.

"Do you want to take it off?" Michael asks softly, I just nod in response. "Can you grab me a jumper from the cupboard and some sweatpants?" I say whilst carefully taking off my dress, as soon as I remember that I'm not wearing a bra I decide to wait for a bit until Michael has collected a jumper for me.

"You kept it?" He says, I look over at him to see him holding his blue jumper in his hands. A smile rises to my lips as I realise, I must've left it here before the summer. "Well, I couldn't bring myself to burn it." I say with a soft chuckle, he smiles as he walks over with the jumper and some sweatpants.

"Can you turn around?" I ask him quickly; I see a blush creep on his face before he turns around. The small motion making me laugh.

Taking the dress off cost me more trouble with the nasty scrapes and bruises to my side and arms. I let out a small yelp of pain as I try to slide it down, "Em, I could help..." He says softly,

"If you want to."

I didn't have to ask him twice as he instantly was by my side, helping me take the dress off smoothly. He slid the jumper over my head as soon as the dress was on the ground, knowing I didn't have a bra on. I step out of the dress and sit down on the bed.

I remove the garter and take out my wand, tying it up in my hair in a quick bun. "Do you want me to heal you?" He says softly, I nod slowly, raising up the jumper to reveal my bruised side.

"Merlin, what the fuck did he do to you?" He whispers as he traces the bruises with his fingers, "Oh you know, just threw me across the hallway into a rocky wall." I say with a chuckle, trying to find some humour in the serious matter.

He performs some sort of charms on my side and I feel the pain disappearing from my body. "That should subdue the pain, you'll still get a nasty bruise from it though."

"Em!" Lydia barges in the room with wild eyes, "What the hell happened?!"

"Oh, Draco threw me across a hallway into a rocky wall." She gives me a confused look; she turns her gaze to Michael. "You can go now." She says eyeing him carefully, "Thank you." I whisper to him.

He kisses my forehead softly, "Take care of yourself please." I give him a quick reassuring smile, as soon as he's gone Lydia sits down next to me.

"Draco came in looking for Blaise he was all kinds of confused. He went from being fucking angry to crying. As soon as he said what he did to you I came straight here."

"I'm fine, Michael helped with the pain." I say shrugging it off, "He was planning on asking you tonight, you know that right?" I nod softly, knowing fully well we both screwed it up.

"What happened Em?"

"Well, I was a bit annoyed to begin with. He didn't want to dance, and I of course love to dance so I was a bit pissed about that. Then Ron, the head boy, came to say hi so I was just politely making conversation with him and his girlfriend. After they were gone Draco got pissed at me for being kind to them because apparently, he's a blood traitor and his girlfriend is muggleborn. I walked off angry because he was literally so fucking pissed. I then ran into Michael whilst looking for you and he immediately noticed something was wrong, so we talked for a bit and he invited me to dance. And I did. Then Draco found us, and he was so fucking mad."

She sighs and shakes her head, "You three are so fucking unbelievable." She wraps me in a hug, "You know I actually liked it better when you couldn't attach yourself to someone." I can't help but laugh as I wrap my arms around her, "At least I always had you by my side."

"Well then, there's one simple solution for this whole ordeal. You're going celibate."