From the Stars to the Stars → Draco Malfoy

ii. Canes Venatici

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     Eyes were not the only thing that Orion's mother, Persephone Mikaelson, had passed on to her–how they carry both the sea and storm; people could find both tenderness and rage all in one person's eyes

     Not once or twice had people mentioned how she was basically the spitting image of her mother, from the way she talked, to the way she held her head up when she walked into a room–knowing exactly what she's worth. The determination that she had; knowing exactly what she wanted and how to get it. Both Orion and her mother craved something that people tend to flee from, they craved both that little morning light that creeped through the greenhouse, enough to keep the flowers standing still and the cruel shadows of the night that hid the monsters from people's sight.

     Orion got her tenderness from her mother, that one was true. Though her patience was not at all like Persephone, it wasn't necessarily as her father's either. Her ability to stay calm amidst chaos was also the one thing she got from her mother, for her father had always been the eye of the chaos.

     Her inability to hold her own rage, though, that one she got from her father. Niklaus Mikaelson was known as the merciless king. The one who wasn't afraid to dagger his own sibling, letting them sleep for a couple of hundred years until he decided they were still worth his time when they had the audacity to step just an inch out of his line, after all the Mikaelsons, the earth's original vampire siblings, has always had a funny way to solve their own problems.

     Orion Mikaelson had always had a hard time controlling her anger, even for the smallest little thing. So, when she got out of bed after she drank the stomach cramp potions and found Neville in front of the Grand Stairs about to have his lunch and having him told her about what Draco Malfoy had done in Potions class to Harry and Ron, all that she wanted to do was crush the blond until he could no longer run his mouth around.

     She walked through the Great Hall furiously. Her eyes scanned through the Slytherin table looking for a certain platinum blonde-haired git. God, if it wasn't for Neville, she wouldn't know that Draco caused fusses in Potions by making Ron and Harry his assistance and on top of that, he mentioned Sirius Black to Harry. She had to skip the first lessons before lunch and she spent half the day in bed with a bad stomach cramp, which could easily be cured by one of Madam Pomfrey's cramp potions. However, she refused to take any potion because she thought she could still manage and just sleep it off.

     "Where's Malfoy?" asked Orion to a group of Slytherin first-years who immediately looked up to her, brows furrowed when they saw how red Orion was.

     "Outside with Marcellous, I reckon," one of them answered nonchalantly, trying their hard not to stare as she immediately darted her eyes towards her plate of lunch. Orion immediately turned around, about to leave the Great Hall when Draco and her cousins stepped into the Great Hall and were about to walk to the Slytherin table.

     "Oh no, this can't be good," muttered Cassiopeia, when she saw Orion walking towards them.

     "Why did you say that?" Orion snapped, eyes squinted, finger-pointing to the blond in front of her.

     "Say what?" asked Draco, grabbing Orion's finger to lower it down.

     "Whatever you said to Harry."

     "I said a lot of things to Potter," Draco sneered.

     "Why on earth would you even mention anything about Sirius Black to him?" Orion scowled, fist clenched.

     Draco let out a low, sneering laugh.

     "You sure he's not your boyfriend?" he asked, looking at her up and down. Draco began to cross his arms across his chest, his lips twitched when he saw how uneasy the Mikaelson girl had become just because he accused the Gryffindor as her boyfriend.