A Thorn-Torn Soul of Thunder Weeps For the Rain

by Black-Diamonds
 
 

Chapter 13
Poisonous Blackmail
 

Draco hurt inside. He wanted to punch all the windows in the manor bare-fisted until blood
dripped down his knuckles. Love, love, L-O-V-E. So innocently sweet, yet so devouring...
blood, drips like a crimson rain; pooling blood...He’d subconsciously put his fist through a
glass-front cabinet of meaninglessly expensive china plates. It might have been his personal
little pain trip moments ago, but in reality, he winced from the sting of having tiny glass
fragments lodged in his hand.

Snape watched the Dark Lord fight his own inner demons and smiled semi-sardonically to
himself.

Women. Damn them. So beautiful and divine yet so bloody...bloody what? He couldn’t even
finish his own sentence. They were like vampires and damsels at the same time. They could
send a distress call straight to your heart and then leave you feeling much like a pile of dung.
Memories from all those years ago...

Snape retreated back to his own personal santuary of photographs and Barbara Streisand
muggle records.

*

Pansy Parkinson was not one of these vampires or damsels. She was an empty shell of a
person.

Pansy simply didn’t have inner-emotions. Not because she’d had them taken from her through
a broken-heart or a dementor’s kiss, but because they merely didn’t exist within her. She liked
to flaunt her expensive clothes(muggle and wizard made) around the manor, verbally abusing a
house-elf or two on the way. She liked to drape herself all over Draco, and spend his galleons.
Pansy went for the physical beauty. She never bothered to connect to Draco on any other level.
Plumping up some throw pillows in the drawing room, she waited for Draco that evening, like
a spider awaiting the fly.

He entered, his face stormy like a thunder cloud. Pansy seemed happier than usual, her makeup;
excessive, her attitude; too strange. Yet her words were...direct to the point.

“I know about your little midnight excursions...and I know that these times are not used for
obedience lessons with the mudblood.”

“If you don’t like it, you’re most welcome to leave. I shall be informing Hermione that she can
have your room and clothes.” Pansy’s face could not look worse if it had been hit by a hex.
Draco continued.

“That’s right. Leave. Leave tonight. But do not think about taking everything you have bought
with my money.”

“I’m the one in control here, so listen up Malfoy. I’m telling you now...you better go out beyond
the poppy fields tomorrow and kill that little bitch, otherwise,” She paused, pursing her dark full
lips together, “I’ll owl the Daily Prophet and tell them what a moron the Dark Lord is. I’ll give
them details of where this swinging little manor is, and I’ll have you banished faster than you can
say kapow.”

Draco glared at Pansy.

“They won’t be able to find this place...they won’t even be able to detect it. Don’t you think
I would have made this place child and idiot-proof already?”

Pansy snorted, a sound like a cross between a pig and frog, and tossed the pillow from her
hands over her shoulder. “Wrong, pea-brain. I know all the spells that take your wonderfully
dark charms off the manor. So,” Pansy grinned liked a martyr. “I guess you’ll be takin’
sweet-cheeks out to play with the daisies bright n’ breezy tomorrow, eh? Well, have a nice
night, Draco Malfoy.” She gave him a little finger-waggling wave and strolled leisurely out of
the room.
 
 
 


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