It was the Christmas ball and Barty had asked you to be his pair. It was quite out of the blue but you accepted it, you two were friends for a while, after all. Now, you were waiting for him on the stairs, he was already late...

Meanwhile, Barty was injured, far from the castle. He got into a fight and came out very hurt, a huge wound bleeding as he struggled to keep walking. He lost his strength and fell to the ground, dragging himself to rest his back against a tree. He had his hand over the wound as he only thought about you now.