Chapter 19: Fallen Angel
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Draco's POV
I woke with a start to find Hermione leaning over me, a worried look on her face.
Wait...when did she become Hermione to me? And worried? Why would she be worried?
I blinked at her, confused.
And sure enough, her expression immediately morphed into one of annoyance.
Yep, I must have been hallucinating.
I winced as she straightened up, and the bright white walls glared into my eyes.
"What is it?" She asked anxiously.
Wait...anxiously?
I shook my head, feeling completely disoriented.
"Nothing, it's just... the walls." I mumbled.
And then I shot upright, my head missing her chin by a mere inch. "The room, the room has a magic-cancelling field!"
She frowned at me, not understanding.
"What are you talking about, Malfoy?"
"They can't hurt us magically inside this room! We can escape!" I panted, almost shaking with the effort of staying awake.
Hermione frowned at me. "Sleep first, Draco. We'll talk later."
"No!" I struggled. "We have to escape! I can't take it anymore!"
"Sssh." She whispered, lowering my head onto her lap and running her fingers through my hair, smoothing out the tangles gently. "Sleep, Draco. We will escape soon enough. Now you need to rest."
I stopped fighting at that, slightly reassured.
Besides, her hand felt good as it combed through my hair.
That was how I drifted off to sleep.
Hermione's POV:
His hair was all tangled up and messier than usual, bearing the marks of constant ruffling, frustration, and the lack of showering. (The last one I couldn't exactly blame him for, I suppose) I smoothed it with my hands, trying not to notice how soothing the action was to me.
My eyes traced his pale, slightly ashen face, flicking over his heavy grey eye bags and painfully sunken cheeks. His aristocratic nose, however, still stood as proudly as it ever did.
I eased him off my lap and onto the ground. His rumpled hospital gown blended into the white surroundings perfectly, and his platinum blond hair did not do anything to make him stand out more against the stark white walls. His face was startlingly pained in his sleep, his brows furrowed and his mouth set in a stubborn scowl. It was as if he were straining against the basic need to sleep, as if for him it was confinement, not reprieve.
He looked almost like a fallen angel. Beautiful enough, and more than troubled enough.
I knelt down cautiously beside him and brushed aside a lock of his hair from his forehead. My hand moved of its own accord to slowly, slowly smooth out the frown on his face, before drifting to cup his jaw carefully. I hesitated slightly before kissing him lightly on the top of his head.
Yes. Just like a fallen angel.
Pansy's POV:
A single tear slid down the face of my counterpart in the photo, her eyes wide and pleading, before being swallowed by the unrelenting flames on the end of my wand.
I laughed a little. It sounded garbled. Like choking. It tasted vile as it rolled off my tongue from deep inside my gut.
"Silly girl." I whispered. "You're already dead."
I watched calmly as the betrayed faces of Draco and Blaise burnt into ashes.
I calmly scorgified the remains of the photo the three of us had taken in our third year. We had been happy then, I remember. Young. Stupidly carefree.
That Pansy was gone. Long gone.
And this one knew that her old friends were not worth crying over.
My shaking hand reached for another vial of Dreamless Sleep, conveniently placed in the liquor cabinet, to steady my nerves. My house elf appeared in front of me with a pop, anxiously eyeing the vial in my hands.
"What?" I snarled.
"Miss... Miss Greengrass has arrived, Mistress." The elf bowed deeply, fidgeting a little.
"Very well." I swallowed the potion in one gulp. "Bring her to me."
These days I could hardly tell the difference between water and Dreamless Sleep.
A/N: I'm sorry I've been so long guys! And there is absolutely no excuse.
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