Draco
It was cold, it was the same coldness that had been wrapped around me whenever his presence was there. Whenever I was at the Manor. I needed to get out of here. I need to get out of here before anyone else sees me, I was sure there were prefects patrolling including my girlfriend. I knew it was pointless hiding something from her, but I don't want her seeing me in such a weak state. I couldn't move my legs, it was like I was frozen to the ground, and then again I had cried, my head at my knees as I think about the Dark Lord.
If we don't succeed, I and Lilith along with my family will be killed because of our stupidity. What does he expect from us? He expects underage wizards to kill the Dark Lord? I could hear myself sobbing and weeping as it echoed into the bathroom walls.
"Malfoy?" A familiar voice called and as if my feet were frozen a while back, it was gone in an instant. It was instinct, I instantly stood up putting myself into a stance, my wand out pointing where the person's voice had come from. Suddenly the person had come into view and saw Lilith's friend, the one that Blaise's loves and my cousin.
"Black." I said holding my wand still, but she looked at it for a while, staying where she stood, "What are you doing here?" I gulped.
"I'm a prefect Draco." she spoke softly, "What are you doing here? Does Lily knows you're here?" she asked and I immediately shook my head, "I thought it was Moaning Myrtle crying here a while ago, I came in to comfort her." She said her eyes roaming around the bathroom, the boys' bathroom specifically. Her eyes landing on me, "but it turns out it was you."
"Get out." I snarled slowly.
But her green eyes locked with mine, still remained on where she was standing, my eyes locking with hers.
"I don't care if you're my cousin, but don't make me hurt you." I said calmly yet lowly my wand still pointing at her. She chuckled a little, her eyes glinting with amusement.
"You wouldn't." she said confidently.
"You'll be surprised to know what I can do to you, Black." I muttered darkly, holding my wand firmly at my grasp, raising my wand higher and my whole body trembling. Seeing from here the wand that I was holding was shaking as my fingertips shook.
"Go ahead then." She said stubbornly as she stepped forward towards me, her shoes clinking into the bathroom floor echoing, then her eyes mocking and taunting as she said in a mere whisper, "Do it."
She was inches away from me, we both stared at each other, neither of us moving as I don't know what I was going to do. Should I hex her? No, Lilith will get angry at me. Should I push her? Should I run away? No I will be a coward. I blinked a few times and decided to lower my wand slowly, my hands shaking as I put it back into my pocket, glaring at her.
She was like Lilith. She was stubborn like her. Do all women have that trait?
"If you tell anyone," I started, looking at her seriously, "Anyone, about what you saw-" I continued my teeth gritting, but she had cut me off.
"I wouldn't do that." She said shaking her head, "I'm not a snitch." She laughed as if it was an inside of joke of hers.
I stared at her, unsure, despite she was a close friend of Lilith and was my cousin, I was still unsure about her. Looking at her eyes, her eyes weren't lying, the eyes after all were the windows to our souls. I continued to scan her face and sighed going to the sink, putting my hands on the cold sides of it, both of my hands resting there, gazing down at it. I suddenly tensed as I felt her place her hand on my shoulder in a friendly manner, but relaxes afterwards.
"Do you want to talk about it?" she asked slowly and softly. I chuckled darkly
"Is this your act on being my cousin, Black?" I chuckled and she made a sound with her tongue, "It doesn't suit you."
"I'm trying to be nice here Malfoy." She said, her voice pissed. I shook my head, the duality of women.
"You literally never asked me before." I said now turning around, my lower back leaning onto the sink looking at her with amusement while her face looked pissed, I scoffed at that, it was our first time talking like this, this was more comfortable than my talks with Lilith. Maybe because she was my cousin, probably that's why I was comfortable with her now.
"Okay, bloody hell! I won't do it again, then. Sorry for asking." She said sarcastically and turning away her gaze from me, her arms crossed at her chest, but made no movement to go away from here.
"That's more like it Godfrey." I smirked and she looked tense but had a small smile afterwards, then I had said, "you know, you're mudblood surname suits you better than your pureblood one."
"What is it with you and mudbloods?" she said rolling her eyes,
"It's what my father taught me." I said shrugging,
"Well then, your father is a twat." She said, we both stared at each other for a while before laughing softly at what she said. My father was more than a twat.
"Now, do you want to talk about it?" she asked now, seriously isn't she gonna let that go? I sighed shaking my head and mentally getting angry at myself as I felt tears brimming at my eyes once more, desperate to leave my eyes.
"I can't." I muttered quickly, "You will think probably that I am a pathetic person."
"Well you already are," she said then cleared her throat as I let out a small growl, "I mean, what is this about that you think that I will look at you more pathetically?" she inquired. This woman is getting on my nerves, I want to hex her. "Crying isn't a sign of weakness Draco. It shows that a man like you can be vulnerable and be able to feel those emotions."
I looked up at that, pain in my eyes, my eyes were stinging, and the tears just won't stop flowing. What made me shock is what she did next, she had leaped forward hugging me. Her arms hugging me tight and I felt the familiar warmth that I feel whenever Lilith hugs me. I was still processing that another human being had hugged me without fear, and shocked that someone was hugging me. We both stood there for seconds, which felt like hours, I was hesitant. Should I hug her back? I raised my hands hesitantly.
I hesitantly wrapped my arms around her small figure, hugging her back. A deadly silence had embraced our surroundings, and I was hoping that no one will see us. suddenly, my body started shaking as gore images entered my mind, imagining Lilith's dead body and my parents', I was crying against her shoulder. My knees giving in slowly lowering myself, Agape had followed my lead not breaking the hug and now we both were sitting down on the cold floor. I was now crying openly in her arms, as I couldn't control my emotions anymore.
"He's going to kill me." I muttered between sobs, and hiccupped, "He's going to kill Lilith." I said hugging her tight as I imagined it once more. "He's going to kill my family." I said again between sobs, as I cried uncontrollably at her shoulder, she kept quiet as she caressed my back telling me to calm down and it wasn't going to happen. I was not even calming down at the slightest, we weren't sure that it won't happen, knowing the Dark Lord, he wouldn't hesitate to kill.
"Everything will be fine." She spoke calmly, her voice consoling me, "One day, everything will be okay, it will be over soon." I didn't say anything but I shook my head. We weren't even sure if Potter will be able to do it. If believing in Potter was the thing I will do, then it will be the last one.
"Voldemort-" she said and I immediately pulled away from her looking at her venomously.
"Don't-" I said panting, "Don't you dare say that name!" I cried out weakly in desperation and fear.
"You shouldn't be afraid of his name. I am not afraid of it, neither you should be." She said, and her gaze had fallen on my left forearm where my Dark Mark was engraved, same as Lilith's, and same as the others. I just wanted to have a normal life, having the luxury of being a Malfoy and her I was, I was branded.
She reached onto it, and I immediately jerked away from her. She took a back as I did that, not expecting me to do that to her. I glared at her, her green eyes staring into mine, her eyes were calm and she whispered,
"It's okay Draco." she said calmly, "I know." She said and I looked at her confused,
"What do you mean, you know?" I hissed gripping my left forearm.
"I saw Lilith's." she said. What? She showed her? why didn't I knew this?
"She showed it to you?" I asked gaping, but she shook her head,
"The day I had entered the Slytherin Common Room, we had a fight. I am sure you know that," she looked at me pointedly, and I slowly nodded. So it was true the rumors of non Slytherin entering the dungeons "I knew about the incident with Linda and I accidentally ripped her clothes, at the left one particularly, and saw it."
I said nothing but I still glared at her as she pulled my arm gently, she took a shaky breath and a deep one as she slowly rolled up my sleeves until where my elbow was. Then there was it right before our eyes, my Dark Mark was now shown to her, I grimaced as I saw the skull and the snake. I looked at her, I was watching her but her expressions showed no fear, no disgust.
"See? Well you look at that. I don't care." She spoke softly as she stared at the Dark Mark. "It's just a mark, Draco. It does not define who you are." She said and I shook my head.
"It defines me who I am. I serve the Dark Lord. Me and Lilith, we were branded by this stupid mark. We never wanted this." I muttered the last part, my voice becoming a whisper instead.
"Yes, the Dark Mark is within you, Draco." she said nodding, "but it is up to you if you live with its purpose." She said and I stared at her for a while, a smile lingering on her lips. The crying had stopped, we both were just staring at each other as I processed what she had said. Then she continued, "What matters is what you truly believe in."
She was right, but the Dark Mark was now engraved on our skins forever.
"I'm so scared..." I muttered shakily. "He's going to kill me." I repeated, "He's going to kill Lilith along with my family when we mess this up."
She hugged me tightly as I started to shake uncontrollably, my chin was at her shoulder, and she was caressing my back. "Do you think Lily will let that happen?" she chuckled, "Seriously Malfoy, you need to trust Lilith whenever it comes to life or death situations." She chuckled and I let out a strained one.
She pulled back from the hug, getting on to her feet dusting herself. She held out her hand to me, I stared at it for a while. "Come with me," she spoke, "We'll go somewhere else, and not in this bathroom." She said her nose crinkling.
"And where is that?" I asked as I took her hand and also standing up running a hand through my hair fixing it as it was a mess. Also my hands running through my face to wipe the dried tears.
"You'll see." She said giving a grin, while I rose a brow. "Oh come on you twat, we'll go somewhere else so you could cheer up instead of weeping in this cold bathroom." She rolled her eyes. Was this her way of comforting me? The effort. I scoffed mentally.
"I'm used to it." I said shrugging and her eyes suddenly looked at me with pity, and it was my turn to roll my eyes. "Don't look at me like that, it's disgusting."
"Whatever."
Lilith
I smiled as I saw the two together side by side. I had heard distinct voices a while back and thought they were students, snogging at the bathroom but turns out it was the cousins. I had learned to control my magic for a bit now, I can choose whenever I want to use my sensor thingy or not.
I wonder where the two were going. I shrugged as if I had someone talking to me, smiling, I went back to the dungeons.
I suppose that the cousins should have their cute little moments.