Surviving Fate // Mattheo Riddle ♣️

Chapter Twenty-Nine - Locked In

Word Count: 2,092 words. 

Warnings: None. 

Lyra Black made her way to the Infirmary, stepping through the grand doors with a clear plan in her mind. Well... in a part of her mind.

Upon entering the room, she quickly aimed to spot the blonde-haired Slytherin she was looking for. She found him, sat up in one of the beds, and he wasn't alone.

Beside him, Harry Potter sat in a chair. The Obscurus would have assumed that they were having a conversation, if it wasn't for the fact that the Gryffindor had encompassed the other boy's lips in his as he kissed him gently.

"Don't mean to interrupt," she spoke up, causing the two of them to break apart suddenly. Their features relaxed upon noticing who she appeared to be. "But I need my cousin."

Harry stood from his chair, scratching the back of his neck nervously. A pink blush rose onto his cheeks as he began to move away.

"Yeah, of course," he replied with a smile. "Dumbledore was looking for me anyway."

Harry turned to look at Draco for a moment, giving the boy a smile. "Malfoy."

"Potter," the other boy replied with a similar smile, watching as he exited the room.

Lyra watched as he exited, head turning to make sure that he had left. When the door shut behind the boy, she turned her head back to the boy in the bed.

"What shenanigans are you getting up to?" she asked him.

Draco shook his head with a laugh. "Piss off."

The Obscurus gave it a moment before speaking up again. "Get dressed," she told him "I've figure out how to fix the Cabinet."

The blonde's eyes turned upwards to look at her, beginning to get out of the bed. "Seriously? How did you do that?"

Lyra shrugged her shoulder innocently. "Purely a mistake."

Malfoy nodded, hurrying to the end of the bed he had been lying in and taking the clothes from the trunk in front of it.

"A mistake?" he asked incredulously. "You never do anything by mistake."

"You'd be surprised."

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When Draco had dressed, Lyra and him found themselves rushing through the castle towards the Room of Requirement.

"Shouldn't we find Riddle?" he asked the girl beside him.

She shook her head, turning to him for a moment. "He's already there."

Draco nodded as the two of them turned a corner, coming up in front of the entrance. They stepped through quickly.

"Lyra?" Mattheo asked as she entered the room, quickly hurrying towards the Cabinet he stood in front of. "What's going on? You just completely disappeared on me."

The Obscurus ran their hand along the wooden structure, letting their fingertips brush it gently.

"Disappeared?" Malfoy asked. "What's he talking about?"

"I had to be somewhere," she told them, turning with a smile.

"I thought my father had called you," Riddle suggested to which Lyra simply shook her head.

"I went to Teddy," she replied. "He's as adorable as ever."

Both of the boys in front of her gave the girl an odd look. A confused look. One that clearly said that they didn't understand what was happening.