From the Stars to the Stars → Draco Malfoy

iv. Coma Berenices

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     Orion cursed herself lightly as she dragged her feet to the seventh floor. She just received an owl from her Aunt Freya telling her that she and her wife are going to New Orleans this holiday. Orion loved New Orleans, but she hasn't put her foot back on that city since the day her parents died. New Orleans, although beautiful and was her father's home, for the most part, was a war zone. Every corner of New Orleans were witnesses of who her father was; a monster. Orion would rather call her father evil rather than a monster.

     She slammed the door to her ballet room when she found someone was already in the room, sitting on the piano stool.

     Turned out Orion was not the only one skipping Hogsmeade weekend.

     Draco Malfoy was wrapped in his black coat, playing something on the piano when he stopped abruptly at the sound of the slammed door.

     "What are you doing here?" Orion asked, eyeing him up and down suspiciously.

     "This isn't your private room, Mikaelson. I have been here since last year. Now, if you don't mind," he said while nodding his head towards the door, motioning Orion to go out.

     "Listen," Orion let out a long sigh. "I need this room for practice, I haven't been able to practice, okay? Let's just use this room together." Orion said, trying to compromise with Draco. She was waiting for Draco to lash at her, when he sat there in silence, just examining Orion.

     Draco then rolled his eyes as an answer and let his gaze and fingers back on the piano. He looked up Orion for the second time, thinking of what to say to make her leave, but gave up when he saw Orion sitting down to put her pointe shoes on, maybe he could share the room for this one time, and then he let his fingers back on the keys and started playing.

     Someone's feeling festive, Orion thought when she heard Draco playing the first notes of Jingle Bells, and she almost laughed right there, but decided not to jeopardize her chance of getting a moment to practice by making him mad, and therefore, him forcing her to leave, so she just let it slide and try to practice her pirouette.

     She was on her 7th pirouette turns when she realized that Draco was not playing Jingle Bells.

     But it don't snow here, it stays pretty green,

     The lyrics came up to her mind rather quickly. Orion could've sworn she heard this song before when she went to New Orleans a couple of Christmas ago.

     What's the rest of the lyrics? She thought for a second when she couldn't form another line from the song on her head, so she let it slide.

     She was on her 12th pirouette turns when she realized;

     Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on.

     And then she fell and she landed on her left foot the wrong way. She cringed when she remembered she heard a crack from her bones, but at that moment she also just realised, Draco was playing River by Joni Mitchell.

     Draco Malfoy was just playing a muggle song.

     Draco quirked an eyebrow when he heard a thump and a crack on the floor, he was just about to ignore it when he saw Orion on the floor from the side of his eyes.

     "Did you just hurt yourself?" asked Draco who immediately stopped playing.

     "No," Orion answered in a low tone, however, her face said otherwise. She held her left ankle, secretly hoping the pain would just go away when Draco stood up from his seat and walked to her while rolling his eyes.