Light in the Darkness

Chapter 53

Adelaide quickly took a shower, scrubbing off the caked on pig's blood and trying hard not to gag. She performed a quick drying spell on her hair before throwing her clothes and robe back on and making her way into the Common Room.

Draco was already there waiting for her, staring irritably into the green fire place. She walked up to him, hesitant to break him from his deep thought. "Hey..are you ready to go?" she weakly smiled.

He nodded his head, still not breaking his gaze from the fireplace. They walked into the hallway in a painful silence. As they approached the doors to the great hall, Adelaide stopped abruptly. Draco noticed her pause and softly grabbed her hand, giving her a reassuring nod, "Don't show them you're nervous."

Before she could prepare herself, he dragged her into the Great Hall. The Hall chatter died down significantly as they walked in. A few people stared nervously at them, she looked over towards Fred and George to see their reaction. She didn't want to believe it was them, but she needed to make sure.

They looked at her with a slight sadness and pity, she knew it wasn't them. However, next to them was the two Gryffindors who had tried to publicly shame her in the Great Hall a couple years ago because of her parents which turned into a huge fight between them and her Slytherin friends. They smirked maliciously at her and Draco and whispered something to each other, chuckling.

Her blood boiled to a dangerous level, she pushed into his mind forcefully.

Clear as day, she saw the boy holding a bucket filled with the dark liquid making his way up the stairs, whispering towards his friend who also had a bucket in his hand. She saw him quickly scribble down "Pureblood Pigs" on the balcony. He whispered to his friend, "Look, there they are." and he pointed towards Adelaide and Draco as they walked in hand-in-hand. The two smiled viciously before pouring the buckets of blood over them and running away down the corridor.

She ripped out of his mind. He fell onto the floor from the force of her mind intrusion, his smug smirk quickly being replaced by a look of horror. She admitted she shouldn't have done that, not even the Ministry used legilimancy to extract a confession because it was so taboo, but quite frankly her rage took over and she didn't care. She pulled Draco back and whispered, "It was them." she motioned towards the boy who was scrambling to his feet and whispering fearfully into his friend's ear.

He looked at her with a desperate glare, "How do you know?" she leaned in, "You forget I'm trained in Legilimancy darling." He sent a blood thirsty smirk to the boys who looked like they were being marched to their own execution. Draco and Adelaide finally reached their seat and the Great Hall slowly began to fill with chatter again.

Blaise coughed, "That wasn't awkward at all." before taking a sip of his drink sarcastically. Adelaide announced, "It was two Gryffindors."

Viola's hand twitched angrily. It was rare seeing her genuinely angry, to be completely honest it was a tad bit frightening. "Of course it was." she growled, glaring at the Gryffindor table. Adelaide was worried that any moment the goblet in her hand would shatter from her grip. "Flint and Draco will take care of this. Won't you?" she growled looking at Flint, who's eyes grew wide seeing her like this.

Before he could answer, Draco cut in with a sharp, "Yes, I'll handle it." Adelaide looked at Draco suspiciously, she wasn't sure what he was up to, but seeing how angry he was, she almost pitied the two Gryffindors. She remembered how one stood over her larger than life asking her if she knew if her parents were Death Eaters and the other chiming in to accuse her of being one. If she remembered correctly, Blaise threw the first punch and it erupted into a pretty nasty fist fight. She left before she could see the result and George found her crying in the girl's bathroom.