The New Old Girl
Hermione's POV
Mackenzie was acting strange ever since she came back. Now, she was a crawling bloody mess on the floor. Ginny and I just had to follow her.
I slowly opened the recently closed door of the Girls Room and tip toed to Mackenzie's bed with Ginny following behind me. All the curtains were closed and I could here sobbing from the inside.
Mackenzie sighed. "Sometimes, I don't even know why I'm still breathing."
"Mackenzie?" I called pulling the curtain aside. "Are you okay?" Now, I could see what had happened to her. She had a busted lip, a nasty gash on her head, and a bloody nose. Her body was twitching.
She wiped some of her tears away. "What do you want?"
Ginny entered the picture. "We just wanted to make sure you were alright."
I took a seat on the bed beside Mackenzie. Her eyes were still puffy and red from all the crying. "I just wish I could be with my friends. But they're in school." She raised some kind of shot glass with I think held a liquid with high alcohol content. Before she connected it to her lips, I swatted it away to the floor. She hissed. "What do you think you're doing? I just had that delivered to me by my cousins!" She has a cousin? More like two?
I shook my head disapprovingly. "I am not going to tolerate the sight of a fellow Gryffindor get drunk."
Her face was now unreadable. Her very tone laced with a bit of bitterness. "That wasn't alcohol, Ms. Granger."
Ginny looked at her with a glare. "Fine, we'll just have to taste it before you drink it."
This made her alert. "What?" She shook her head. "No. It's not for you. Only I can drink it."
"Tell us what's wrong, Mackenzie," I lifted her chin so that I could see her face in the dimly lighted quarters. There, I saw the bloody gash on her head. It was trailing blood down to her cheeks.
Ginny spoke up. "We can bring you to the hospital wing." She said in a hopeful tone. Apparently, she was right. This gash can be treated immediately with wizard magic. "Or we can heal it for you." I wasn't sure if we got the spell right already. Healing spells were one of the hardest spells to do.
Mackenzie just stood up with no emotion and walked to her trunk she never let anyone look inside. "No need. I can manage." She brought out a medical emergency kit from her trunk. Bandages, Gauze pads, you name it. It was all there.
Faster than you can say fiddlesticks, she was all patched up. She even twisted her hand back in place. It was creepy.
"If you don't mind me asking," I started after the awkward silence. "Where did you get those wounds?"
She shrugged like it was no big deal. "Bullies."
Ginny and I looked at each other with pity in our eyes.
"Now, if you don't mind," Mackenzie said removing her robe. Leaving her in her uniform. "I'm gonna go get some fresh air." She snapped her fingers and her attire was totally different. Like she was a hunter...no, she was like a huntress.
Mackenzie picked up some folded metal contraption and a bunch of arrows in a bag from her trunk. She pressed a button on the metal contraption and it expanded to a full size, deadly looking bow. "Thank the gods, Arianne made this." She muttered in a barely audible tone.
The bag was slung over her shoulders as she walked to an open window.
She crounched on the frame of the window and looked down. "That fall is gonna give three seconds tops." What she thinking of jumping to end her life.
I looked at Ginny with fear. This was not a good feeling watching someone suicide.
Mackenzie thankful stood up and turned to us. With her bow in one hand and an arrow in the other, she said these words. "Tell Professor McGonagall, I will see her later." Then my worst fears that moment came true. With a smile, she free falled backwards before Ginny and I could reach the window.
"NO!" I screamed choking out a sob as I sank to the floor.
Ginny was just staring outside the window. "Hermione, come look."
Why the hell would she want me to look at the dead body of Mackenzie? But I looked out the window, enough to see Mackenzie swinging on some kind of rope. This made her land safely on the ground.
Ginny and I looked at each other and bolted out the Girls Quarters and into the common room. There, I could see only Harry and Ron looking around frantically.
"Hermione!" Harry exclaimed rushing towards us. "We heard the scream. What happened?"
I didn't say anything but gestured Ron and Harry to follow Ginny and I to Mackenzie.
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