Lumos (ON HOLD)

Taking Care of Malfoy

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Charlie stomps through one of the many hallways of Hogwarts, scanning the few students around her for silvery blond hair and a smug expression accompanying it. A few students turned to see why a first year was storming so angrily down one of the main halls, but she scowls them off and they soon turn back to their own conversations.

After walking down what seems like a hundred winding, maze like corridors, she spots the unmistakeable silver blond hair and the hulking figures of Crabbe and Goyle. Charlie walks calmly (really, really not) across the passageway.

"How badly damaged is the weasel then? Nice to see that the stupid oaf might finally get sacked. Maybe it'll burn down the shack he calls a house!" Malfoy taunts, seeing Charlie stomp over.

"See, boys! I told you she was fiesty!!" Draco announces, referring back to their first day at Hogwarts. Charlie turns around so that she could compose her face (and constrain herself from punching Malfoy a smug face) before calmly telling him to 'shut his cake hole or else he would find himself mysteriously falling from the Astronomy tower window' Malfoy raises his hands in mock terror.

"Oooohh, I'm sooo scared!! Crabbe, save me!" Malfoy smirks at Charlie's withering glare. She saunters up to him and brought her forearm across his upper chest. Charlie pins him against the wall and says slowly,

"If. You. Dare. Mock. Me. Again. You. Are. Going. To. Be. In. Quite. A. Large. Amount. Of. Pain. Do you understand me?" Charlie stares at him. Draco snickers and imitates her in a high-pitched, cliche girly voice.

"Oohh, if you ever mock me ever again, you're gonna be in soooo much pain!!" He laughs and then chokes as Charlie pushes her wrist up against his throat. Malfoy stares straight back at Charlie and, before she can comprehend what is going on, brushes his lips against hers. She steps back and stares at Draco in horror (yeah, right, girl, you want more!!) and shock, before she turns and sprints out of the hall. The last thing she hears before she turns the corner, is Malfoy's mocking laugh again, and although it's probably her imagination, she thinks she can hear a note of something else, nervousness, maybe?

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Hermione stops halfway through her comment and stares, open mouthed, at Charlie, who is lying on her bed, facing the canopy.

"He WHAT??????" Charlie groans at Hermione's outburst.

"Ugh, he kissed me and now I don't know what to do, because I have this weird fluttery feeling and I HATE having feelings, they are stupid and make you weak." Charlie scowls at the red and gold curtain, that is wrapped around the bedpost. She frowns and flops over onto her stomach, turning her head to watch Hermione choose her next words carefully.

"Wait, wait, let me get this clear, you think you might have 'feelings' for Malfoy?? Ew, that's disgusting, how could someone of your, um, calibre, like something like that!?" Hermione screws her nose up in repulsion at the mere thought of it.

"Hey! You have a crush on Dean, for goodness sakes! (AN: I have NO idea if this is true, but I figured she couldn't like Ron already, especially since he's a bit of a jerk to her.) So don't get me started on that." Charlie huffs in annoyance, she couldn't believe that even after what Malfoy had said and done to her and her friends, that she had gone and gotten feelings for him. Yes, she understood that she did have a crush on him, but she was in no way about to act upon that 'minor' fact.

"I have to tell Ron and Harry, that he kissed you! As repulsive as the thought of kissing Malfoy is, it's still quite sweet, isn't it?" Hermione sighs and tugs at Charlie's arm, pulling her off the bed. She stands up off the floor, dusts her clothes off and follows Hermione out the door.

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"He WHAT???" The chorus of Harry and Ron's outrage rises up from beside the hospital bed which is occupied by Ron. Charlie groans and flops down onto the adjacent bed.

"Ugh, that's disgusting, I going to kill Malfoy!" Harry snarls. Charlie's eyebrows rise up her forehead, as she stares at him in disbelief.

"Sure you are Harry!" Hermione rolls her eyes at Harry's annoyed expression.

"Yes, how chivalrous of you, you'll save me!" Charlie says in a high voice, snorting at the idea of Harry attempting to beat up Malfoy of all people. Hermione laughs at the thought too and collapses next to Charlie on the hospital ward bed.

"Girls." Ron and Harry roll their eyes in sync. Ron bolts upright into a sitting position as none other than Malfoy comes through the hospital wing doors. Charlie growls at the glimpse of platinum blond hair.

*AN: MUWAHAHAHA, suckers! Cliffhanger! Ooh this is a new experience, I don't usually write cliffhangers!! Btw, don't blame me, blame Pepper_Pott . She told me to end the chapter there!! Haha, you guys don't get to find out what happens till next week!!
Just kidding (two weeks, knowing me!)
Love you all
~howling-wolf~