The you I never knew I needed

Chapter 6

    Dalia Riddle woke early the next morning, bitterness dripping from her expression as she stormed into her brother's dorm room. She quickly swung the door wide open and set off a bright light from the tip of her wand with one word.
"Lumos."

    Inside the room her cousin slowly sat up, groaning and cursing at her for waking him up. Her eyes dart over to Callum's empty bed and she clenches her fist tightly around her wand.

"Where the hell is he?" She shouts.

"I- I don't know." Draco stuttered, as he quickly scrambled out of bed now startled by her sudden rage.

    She stomps over to him holding her wand to his throat and pinning him down. Her eyes blazed with fury.

"You pathetic rodent! Don't. Lie. To. Me!" She hisses.

    Draco flinches, shrinking against the bed as his bottom lip begins to tremble.

"I- It's not a lie I swear. He must have slipped out earlier."

"You're lucky you have dear old daddy to protect you, otherwise I would have burnt you alive years ago." She whispers, now grinning wickedly.

    She steps away from her terrorized cousin, twirling her wand in between her fingers as she smoothes over her expression. The door slams shut seconds after she leaves causing Draco to flinch once more.

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    As she struts down the hallway with her head in the air her hand grazes the handle of a dagger, discreetly tucked neatly inside her skirt. Once she reaches the astronomy tower she quickly hides against the shadows, slowly edging closer toward Callum.

"Hello dear sister."

    Callum turns to face her as she slowly crept out of the shadows.

"Give it back." She hisses.

"Whatever do you mean?" His eyebrow raises slightly and the hint of a smirk forms across his lips.

"Don't play games with me!" She shrieks, lunging at him.

    She whips out her dagger and hastily snakes her arm around his neck, pulling him back slightly.

"Perhaps our uncle was right, you do have a nasty temper in the mornings." He hums seemingly amused.

"Give me my wand back or I will slit your throat." She growls.

"Quit playing games Dalia, you already have your wand."

"Enough! You know exactly what wand I mean."

Callum began to laugh in a low tone and she quickly tightened her grip. "Unfortunately for you, that wand does not belong to you. You won't be seeing it any time soon."

"You bloody fool! If you don't give it to me.. I will..  I will burn you alive!" She snaps.

"Isn't it funny?" He whispers.

"What are you getting at?"

"How quickly you lose your composure the moment things don't go your way."

"Give me the wand! Give me the wand!"

"Over my dead body." He says in a low cool tone.

"I can arrange that." She hisses.

"Is that so? Wouldn't be a very smart move on your half now would it? Seeing as with me dead you'll never lay eyes on the wand ever again." He hums.

"Then I will kill her." Dalia whispers. "I won't even have to use magic. I'll burn her alive, and make you watch. Not just watch but listen too, listen to her terrified shrieks and painful cries."