Isolation x Draco/Reader

Nouveau Ember

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"Hope deferred makes the heart sick;
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."
- Proverb of Solomon

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I hadn't really seen much of my new friends since Halloween, and November rolled over me like an icy wave. It was a hard time of year for me. A lot seemed to happen upon this month in regards to my previous relationship.

Memories once amorous and warm were now snuffed out into black and crimson remnants smouldering in my mind sometimes in hot flickers of rage, now just cooled by apathy.

I found it harder to concentrate on my studies and foggy days blurred into weeks. I skipped breakfast in favour of sitting on the end of my bed in my dorm wrapped in a thick wool caftan, silently trying to goad myself into joining the rest of the living day.

Everyone seemed busy in themselves truthfully. I rarely spotted Draco, Blaise and Theo together outside of classes. Draco was in a foul humour lately whenever I saw him, and even Hermione seemed rather consumed by her thoughts when we sat next to eachother.

Unable to sleep one night, I decided to take my blue caftan up with me to the astronomy tower. I found myself pondering on life and it's purposes, and my own purpose within this grand scheme. Existential crisis at its finest.

Something about searching the stars calms me. Albeit, it should have the opposite effect when you look up to admire the heavens and its infinite vastness. But when I look up at the twinkling celestial bodies and how they coexist and intermingle in the sky, wonder carries me away and I can breathe again, somehow.

It's as if they assure me that there is meaning behind all of this, and it's okay not to have found it yet. Like a promise that there is far more to be discovered, if I would just wait and see.

   The students at Hogwarts were rather rambunctious this evening. Scattered all over the many levels of the tower as I climbed my way up, I ran into couples kissing in corners, and clusters of friends hovering under the archways along the corridor. I finally reached the astronomy room, and started as I realized I was not alone.

   Leaning over the banister and gazing downward was none other than Draco Malfoy. He seemed in a melancholic reverie, all by himself in the tower and in his head.

   He looked beautiful and ethereal in the moonlight, I found myself blushing as the thought entered my mind. His platinum hair was illuminated to a ghostly white, his skin almost as pale, and the shadows cast on his face by his chiseled features made him look stoic and tragic.

   I almost thought better of interrupting him, and was about to leave when he turned to me with mournful grey eyes. His lips parted slightly as recognition moved into his features.

   "I thought I might be alone up here." I greeted, approaching him carefully.

   "As did I." He replied coldly with a raspy voice.

   "I can- go, if I'm interrupting something." I said unsurely. He relented a little.

   "I wasn't really doing anything. Just thinking." He turned back out to face the still night. I wrapped my blanket tighter around myself.