Always. (A Draco Malfoy Story)

Darker.

My heart continued to race as Draco continued to try and comfort me, "Darling, talk to me."

"I—I..." I have such a difficult time getting words out.

Was it real?

Did I imagine it?

His voice stopped echoing in my head the second that Draco came near me.
I tried to calm down but nothing was working.
This whole thing was making me sick.

I looked up to Draco, "I can't stay here anymore, Draco."

He nods, "We'll stay at the estate." He gets up and starts to pack a few of his things.

I stop him from doing anything else, "You can't stay there all the time. He pops in once in a while."

He ceases taking out his clothes from his dresser and sighs. He closes the drawers and looks to me, "I'll sleepover when I can. Just owl me when you need me."
He wraps one arm around my waist, holding me close to him while the other cups my cheek to wipe away the trails of tears.

I sniffle and try to regulate my breathing.
Draco smiles and takes my left hand and removes my ring for me, "Maybe I should keep this for now. For safe keeping."
He reaches over my shoulder to grab his chain and placed it through the hoop and neatly tucks the chain around his neck and under his shirt.

I felt a shiver go through my body, following a gust of cold air. I looked to Draco, "I have to go... He's gonna be at the estate soon."
I pulled him in for a kiss, really hoping it's not my last with him.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

-

I beat Voldemort to my bedroom, so I anxiously waited for his arrival.

I try to calm myself down, regulating my breathing and confirming stable things that are currently happening.

'I'm on my bed, in my bedroom.'

'I'm wearing a black shirt, and black jeans.'

'I see my mirror and the bedroom door.'

'Today is April 30th.'

'I am home.'

I could feel myself getting calmer by the second, but it was rudely interrupted when Voldemort popped into my bedroom.

"I require the diadem immediately." He orders.

I take a deep breathe in an out before replying. 'I need to stay calm.'

"Only if you tell me why," I reply back.

Voldemort hovers closer to me, but I remain cold and expressionless... even if I'm shitting my pants right now.

"You dare question my instructions?" He says intimidatingly, to which I just nod.

He stares at me for a second, then looks down to study my body language, smirks, then back up to meet my glare, "It... is a part of me."

I raise up one eyebrow, "What the fuck are you talking about?"

"No more questions, Joy. Do as I say, and be ready... I have a feeling that this will all be over soon."

-

Harry, Ron and Hermione waited patiently for weeks for Rosie's update about retrieving one of the last horcruxes.

"She should've found it by now!" Ron yells out.

"She has to be secretive about it, Ronald! Her father is the Headmaster... who works for You-Know-Who!" Hermione argues back.
She ponders on a thought for a second, "...Maybe she hid it."

Harry looks to her confused, "That's brilliant! Then we just need to get into Hogwarts undetected."

Harry suddenly drops to the floor in pain and cries out. His eyesight gets dark as he begins to envision something:

Harry can see Voldemort standing in a bedroom, speaking to someone.

"I require the diadem immediately." Voldemort orders.

Harry follows the the eyesight of Voldemort to see Joy, sitting on a bed.

Joy take a deep breathe in an out before replying. 'I need to stay calm.'

"Only if you tell me why," Joy replies back.

Voldemort hovers closer to Joy, but she remains cold and expressionless.

"You dare question my instructions?" He says intimidatingly, to which Joy just nods.

He stares at her for a second, then looks down to her, smirks, then back up to meet her glare, "It... is a part of me."

She looks confused, "What the fuck are you talking about?"

"No more questions, Joy. Do as I say, and be ready... I have a feeling that this will all be over soon."

Harry snaps back into reality and began to breathe spastically. Hermione and Ron both run over to help him up.
"Harry!" Hermione screams.
"What the hell happened?" Ron mentions.

Harry gets out a few words, "I-I saw him!" He clutches onto Ron's arm, "I saw him and Joy. He knows we're hunting horcruxes. He knows we're onto him."

"You can't keep letting him in Harry!" Hermione scolds him.

Harry grew defensive, "I-I didn't! I think-I think he let me in this time."

Hermione and Ron both looked at each other confused before turning to look at Harry.

Harry catches his breath, "He told Joy to find a diadem."

"Like a tiara?" Hermione tries to understand.

"I-I guess? Joy and Rosie can help us get it now." Harry stands up to announce, "We leave tonight. We need to get into Hogwarts."

-

That night, Snape notices that the sky was particularly darker today, versus any of the other days this week.

The clouds were fuller and more grey. The sky looks as if the sun was nonexistent in the Wizarding world, only the moon existed. The only lights illuminating for a long distance where the ones from Hogwarts castle.

He was startled when I apparated into his office unannounced.

"What are you doing here? You should be at home." He says.

I slowly walked over to him, anxious and nervous as ever, "I had another vision... his voice echoed in my head long after it ended. He...he said he knows what I'm hiding from him."

Snape rushed over to my and grasped me by the shoulders, "You'll stay at Cokeworth tonight. You may notify Draco."