YNs pov
“NEVILLE” I scream, pouncing on him the second I see him in Herbology class, literally jumping onto his back as I'm laughing all giddy.
“OMG YN, what happened?” He asks me when I finally let go of him and stand in front of him, grabbing his hands and still jumping up and down from the excitement.
“I know how to make the sleepy juice thingy, I can make it in this period alone!” I exclaim and Neville's face is overcome in shock before happiness take over and were both jumping up and down in the middle of the classroom, the deadlines in two days and we were both heavily worried.
“OMG, let's go make it now!” He says dragging me by the arm to Professor Sprout to ask for permission to leave. We leave the both of us skipping down the halls like mad idiots.
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TIME JUMP
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It's after dinner and I just finished writing down the recipe for both of my concoctions, the Cooling Cubes and The Elevated Draught of Living Death. I can't give them to Neville yet though because I have to test out my Cooling Cubes before I can give him the recipes. I sneak out of our dorms and go into the kitchens with Richwint. He hands me my trays and a croissant after complaining about how he didn't see me at lunch today.
I eat the croissant while I walk back to the dorms and stop off at Dracos, perks of having a rich dad? A dorm to yourself. Perks to be friends with someone with a rich dad? You can use the dorm without worrying about roommates walking in. I open the door to Draco on his bed reading Twilight.
“Your guilty pleasure read huh?” I tease as I drop the trays on his desk, he jumps up chucking the book under his sheets before looking at me with disdain.
“I wasn't reading it.” He spits at me before standing up and giving me a hug.
“Sure bud.” I reply as I hug him back, I rather like hugging.
“What do you need?” Draco asks, nothing goes by him. If I go to his dorm out of my own free will he knows I need something.
“I need you to perform a spell and I need to borrow 40 Galleons, I'll pay you back of course.” I am quick to add on.
“I'll happily do a spell but whatever do you need the money for?” He asks suspiciously. I tweak his nose and reply.
“That's for me to know now and for you to figure out later, you trust me.” I say full of confidence, I know he trusts me. I probably know more about his home life than I know about Herbology, and I know a LOT about Herbology. He tells me everything.
“I trust you.” He says with a smile before reaching into one of his drawers that's literally just filled with money and hands me the galleons.
“Now, what spell do you want me to do?” He asks, picking up his wand and looking at me.
“I want you to light my arm on fire.” I say nonchalantly. He instantly explodes like I thought he would, screaming profanities and nos.
“I just need a small fire to apply my burn medicine on, don't worry, it’s completely safe.” I reassure both him and myself. I explain to him about how the Cooling Cubes work and I can see the fight slowly draining out from him.
“Ok, you're 100% sure everything's going to go to plan?” He asks one last time before readying his wand.
“Yeah, like 75%.” I mumble the last few words hoping he doesn't catch my uncertainty.
“Incendio.” Draco says pointing his wand at my arm and instantly I can feel the scorching heat I look down to see flames licking up my whole arm and to see my skin already wrinkling and peeling, on instinct a scream is wrenched out of my throat, I reach out to grab one of the cubes when someone comes storming in. They see me on the ground my arm charred and Draco with his wand up in shock and they immediately pounce on him knocking over the trays in the process, pushing them far out of my reach.
The last thing I hear is Draco screaming about the cubes before my vision goes black.
MATTHEOS POV
I wake up to a tug on my hair and the most beautiful girl i've ever seen.
“Good morning Love, is it time to get up already?” I ask getting off of her, knowing if I don't do it now I’d probably never get up. I’d probably hold her tighter and bury my face deeper into her.
I turn around to see her walking up to me with my pillow in her hands talking about seeing me in class.
“Kicking me out already? Really feeling the love.” I say in mock heartbreak putting both my hands against my chest like she shot me. She doesn't find it amusing and starts pushing me and my pillow out of her dorm.
Is she mad at me? Truly? Is it because of my nightmare last night? Oh god, she's never going to talk to me. I knew I shouldn't have slept over. Why am I so stupid around this girl? I'm about to ask her if it's about last night but she completely cuts me off and speaks.
“I personally don't think you’d fit in my robes but if you're willing to try you can stay.” She says harshly but then pauses for a second before speaking in a softer tone.
“I was only saying you should go because your robes are in your dorm dummy and you have to get changed.” She says, stepping forward and cupping my face in her hands before putting them in my hair and shaking it about. Dragging her nails on my scalp once or twice but it doesn't hurt, it just makes my back go tight and a shiver run down my spine. When she puts her hands out my hair there's sort of an awkward pause as she's expecting me to leave but i'm trying to prolong this moment with her to last forever.
“Of course.” I say with an idiot smile and a whole lot of courage because I then lean down and kiss her on her cheek like I always see her doing with Pansy and the golden trio. It lasts only a second and afterwards I immediately turn around and walk away, playing the role of unaffected but really i'm grinning from ear to ear.
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TIME JUMP
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It's after dinner now and me and Theodore are hanging out in the common room. He's reading a novel he had stolen from YNs room a few minutes ago. I went with him in hopes to see her but she wasn't there. He's engrossed in the book but I keep wandering back to this morning and the smile on YNs face during potions. It practically lit her whole face up and I could tell some people in the class noticed because at least half the guys in our potions were staring at her, some because she had talked to Snape and most lingered their eyes on her. I don't believe she noticed though since she didn't say anything, to us or them.
“Hey, I think I'm just going to head to our dorm, I’ve got a bit of a headache.” I say to no one in particular but Theodore nods and says goodbye as I walk up the stairs to my dorm.
A scream sounds through the room causing everyone to look up to the source of the sound, I lock eyes with Theodore and I think he realizes it at the same moment that I do because he jumps up and starts running up the dorm stairs, that was 100% YN.
The scream came from the dorm a few doors down and I run in to see Draco with his wand pointed at YN and her laying on the ground her whole arm on fire, I swallow the bile forcing itself up my throat and immediately run and latch onto Draco, something clatters behind me but I pay it no mind. All I can think of is how I should’ve strangled this ferret the second I could. I vaguely hear Theodore come in and see what's going on, YN dying, and me beating up Draco.
Wait, YN is dying. She's dying! I jump off Draco and see her fighting to close her eyes and Draco starts screeching about cubes in between cries. I look at her to see Theodore holding her up and Draco running over and grabbing something off the floor and placing it on her still burning arm, I look and I can see some of her bones peaking out. This time I can't push down the bile and puke into Draco's bin a few feet away.
“She said, she said it would be fine, she said nothing bad would happen.” Dracos panicked mutter is the only thing I can hear other than the sizzling of YNs arm.
“You idiot, you did this to her.” I scream, pinning him against the wall but he's not even looking at me, just staring at YN with tears in his eyes.
“Guys, this isn't fucking helping, we need to take her to Madam Pomfreys.” Theodore yells, breaking the momentary silence in the room. I instantly drop Draco and he collapses in on himself against the floor and I scoop YN into my arms, her arms not on fire anymore and there's a hard blue solid wrapped around her arm now.
Me and Theodore stride out the Slytherin dorms with an urgency, people in the halls turn and look at us with confusion and then horror, the blue does little to conceal the appearance and everyone who looks can see her bone and blackened skin.
We finally get to Madam Pomfreys and the second she sees YN in my arms she lets out a cry and instructs us to place her on a cot and leave. I don't leave though, even as Theodore tries tugging me out the door, even as Madam Pomfrey wraps and medicates her arm, even as the sun sets and Madam Pomfrey's left and the room is pitch black. I stay and I open a window letting in some light knowing that YN can’t sleep in the dark.
I stay.