Royals (Draco Malfoy x Reader)

Chapter 82

I was eating quickly eying the door waiting for Draco as I conversed with Blaise, who was trying, yet failing miserably to flirt with me. Just then, a mild commotion draws his attention. At the back of the Hall, a group of girls surrounds a new arrival. "that's Katie bell!" he eyes the girl and sure enough there she was. Katie Bell was pale but smiling, greets the other girls. After a moment, she looks up. Finds Harry standing before her, of course, he was oh so nosey.

Katie's eyes shift. She goes ashen. Harry turns, follows her gaze and finds Draco, who had just entered the hall, staring at her. Katie backs away, retreating to the other girls. Draco spins and flees from the room. I stand bidding Blaise a farewell as I take off after him. Draco hurtles through the corridors, forehead gleaming with sweat. I trail behind him quickly. 

Draco enters the bathroom and lurches to the mirror, steadies himself against the sink. Then, with a great, heaving shudder begins to cry. "Draco..." I move quickly towards him rubbing his arm slightly in comfort.  The door opens and He stops, stunned. Draco's eyes shift. Horrified to be exposed. He wheels points his wand. The lamp next to Harry's head shatters. flames spider up the ceiling. Draco grabs me roughly pulling me along as The cistern behind us explodes and Water sweeps the ceiling, rains down. Draco howls in rage as he tries to shield me from the flying pieces of the cistern.

He shoves me roughly into the corner, he spins back to face harry "you absolute tool! you could have hurt her!" he raises his wand in a fit of blind rage "Cruci--"Draco doesn't even get the words out "SECTUMSEMPRA!" the world seems to move in slow motion as blood squirts from Draco's face and scarlet slashes ooze through the white of his shirt. He staggers and cries again and collapses. Harry glares at his wand in horror, then slashes across the floor, the water running red with Draco's blood. "Don't touch me! Don't you dare touch me!" Draco sobs trying to wriggle away from Harry.

"Draco!" I move quickly from my spot my chest heaving as I dropped to my knees in front of him applying pressure to his wounds with one hand as I poise my wand at harry with the other. "how dare you!" I cry my hand shaking aggressively. Snape bursts through the door. Seeing Malfoy -- and the nature of his injuries -- he eyes Harry with keen curiosity. "Severus, please! Please help Severus you swore!" My eyes move from Harry to the dark-haired professor drops to his knees in front of me the other side of Draco. 

 He traces the tip of his wand over Draco's wounds, murmuring an eerie incantation. Instantly, the skin begins to knit itself together. I watch as Harry backs away, Snape's ancient chant ringing in my ears, blood floating like crimson flowers on the floor, backing away until he reaches the door and running off like a coward.

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My feet pound on the floor as I move through the halls towards the Gryffindor common room. "let me in!" I hiss angrily to the fat lady who recoils at my fury. "do you have the password?" she peers at me curiously and I hake my head. "let. me. in!" I demand again pointing my wand at the painting. "I cannot!" she retorts and just then the paining swings open and out comes lavender brown. I slip in past her my wand still drawn. Harry sits numbly, the Potions textbook lying limp in his hand. Hermione, Ron and Ginny sit together, a bit apart, keeping a kind of vigil.

"you!" I hiss my face red in anger, the four jump at the sight of my presence "you evil little rat!" I move to attack him and am pulled back by two people, Dean and Neville. "let me at him!" I thrash violently in my captors grasp. "I'll kill him! the boy who lived will no longer be alive! let me at him!" I continue fighting to try to get Harry who now was hiding behind Ginny and Hermione.

"a coward! that's what you are! a Gryffindor my ass! attacking someone in a moment of weakness! You are as good as dead Harry potter!" I'm released and I step closer to them all. "move! he's going to end up like mummy and daddy! your little order isn't here now!" I point my wand at Hermione and Ginny who stand their ground unmoving from their position.

"did you tell them! How you attacked Draco?" the two girls and Ron look at harry whose eyes widen in shock. "Pray to Merlin there's an afterlife!" I move to barrel through the two girls before I am lifted into the air ad thrown over a shoulder. I notice a flash of green and the familiar scent of cinnamon and grass. "Blaise! let me down!" I kick the boy as I try to escape his tight grip. "You're lucky you two caught me walking by, you would all be dead if I wasn't" Draco acknowledges the two boys as he lugs me out of the common room. "your death will be painful Potter!" I call as the painting slams closed behind me.