𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐓𝐀 𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐀

Chapter 14

Mörkret skall flykta snart ur jordens dalar

Så hon ett underbart ord till oss talar;

Dagen skall åter ny, stiga ur rosig sky,

Sankta Lucia, Sankta Lucia

. . .

Darkness shall take flight soon, from the earth's valley's.

So she speaks a wonderful word to us;

A new day shall rise again from the rosy sky,

Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia!

"Sankta Lucia" ("Santa Lucia"), Sigrid Elmblad

Theo had gone to bed late that night. Draco and Corner which was saying something, were both fast asleep when he walked through the door to their dormitory. He remembered thinking "Good, Draco will finally get a good night's sleep." because he was really annoying when he didn't, Theo and the others had long before concluded.

Quickly, he got ready for bed,slipped under his new, clean sheets and fell asleep within seconds.

But that sleep did not last for as long as he would have liked.

A scream that sounded like it was coming from a man under Crucio ripped through the air, full of terror and gave a start and was on his feet before he knew it, wand at the ready.

"What the hell is going on?" he heard a voice, that he seconds later realized belonged to Corner asking over the shout of death. That meant that that the shouting must be coming from –

"Draco!" he lunged forward, as if in battle, to Draco's bed and cast Lumos wordlessly. He saw how Draco was crying out in a voice that would haunt Theo for weeks, and he saw how he twisted and turned in his sheets, never even taking a breath.

"Draco!" he shouted and grabbed a hold of the blonde, desperately shaking him to try and wake him up, but Draco seemed to scream even louder and twist even more in Theo's grip.

"DRACO!" Corner turned on the lamp that was sitting on Draco's bedside table, because Theo had dropped his wand when he had reached for Draco and the light had gone out.

And just like that, in the yellow light of Draco's paraffin lamp, Draco gasped for air, and started to breathe heavily, falling back in his bed with exhaustion.

"What the hell?" Corner muttered and stared down at Draco and Theo sitting on his bed, still with his hands on his shoulders.

"It's the light." Theo thought out loud more than answering Corner. "When it's dark he'll get nightmares, when there's a source of light he can sleep peacefully."

"Then why didn't he wake when you turned on your wand?"

"Maybe it has to be non-magical light, like candles and paraffin."

"That's mental."

"So are you." And with that Theo rose and went back to his own bed, but not before checking that Draco had enough paraffin in his lamp.

"You better not turn it off," he said to Corner who was reaching out to just do that, "or else he'll start to have nightmares and scream again."

With an annoyed sigh, Corner lay down mumbling something, but Theo couldn't care less. It was getting worse, this Lucia-thing, the closer they came to the day of the ceremony, and Theo was desperate to find a way for Draco to escape his nightmares.