A Surprise Romance
One day, you worked up the courage to talk to him. You looked for him all day, but of course you couldn’t find him anywhere. You had pretty much given up trying to find him, when, finally, he was at the end of the hall. Of course, he saw you too.
You started walking through everyone and just as you were a few feet away from him Crabbe and Goyal ran up to him.
“Dude, come on, we have to go.” Crabbe said, and they pulled Draco with them.
You watched as they ran away. Your head dropped and turned to walk back to your dorm. Just as you turned, he looked back, wishing you would have made it to him.
Later that night, you went walking around the school before curfew; which was getting earlier and earlier each day. You turned a corner and Draco was right in front of you
“Ah… Hi.”, you stammered.
“Shhh.”, he said as he grabbed your wrist. He looked around, opened the door next to you, and pulled you into the Prefect bathroom.
“Can we be in here?” you asked.
“Shhh.”, he said again. He gently pushed you against the wall, “Stay here.”
You nodded your head yes.
He went to see if anyone else was in the bathroom. No one was there. He came back into your eyesight.
“Can I move now?” you asked.
“Sorry. Just had to make sure no one was in here.” He looked at you.
“Hi.” you said.
“Hi.” he said back.
“Where have you been this year? Haven’t seen you around as much.”
He looked away. “A lot of stuff has been going on.”
“Oh… Well, that sucks. I miss seeing you around.”, you say.
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
After all he had done this year, he couldn’t believe someone would still care for him or like him. “You do know who I am right?”
“Draco Malfoy.”
“But you don’t know what I have done.” He said and walked away.
“Maybe not. But you look like you could use a lot more love in your life.” You put your hand on his shoulder and turned him around.
He looked at you and then kissed you. He put his hands on your face and you put yours on his waist. Then his hands moved down your body to your waist. He picked you up. You wrapped your legs around his body and your hands around his neck. He was kissing you with such urgency and passion you didn’t want it to stop.
Then he stopped. “I should probably go. They will be looking for me.” He said breathing heavily.
“Who?”
“Ah…”
“It’s okay you don’t have to tell me.”
He smiled and gave you a kiss. “Meet me here tomorrow, same time.”
You nodded. “Okay.”
He gave you one more kiss and walked out. You waited a few minutes and walked to your room a smile on your face.
You hadn’t seen him all day, which by this point, wasn’t unusual. But you thought that you might see him at least once throughout the day.
After classes were done you waited in the common room until the correct time. It couldn’t come soon enough.
Finally, it was time. You made your way to the Prefect bathroom. You tried not to run even though you are pretty sure you ran half the way. You made sure no one was around before you went in.
You took a few steps, “Draco?” you said. You walked a little farther in and stopped. You heard someone sobbing. “Draco?” you said a little louder. As you turned the corner you saw him standing over a sink.
He saw something, you, move in the mirror. He whipped around and pointed his wand at you.
You put your hands up, “Draco! It’s me!”
He immediately dropped his wand and dropped to his knees. You have never seen him like this. He has always had it together. Or it seemed like it anyway. You went over to him, knelt down and lifted up his head with your hand. He looked at you, put his head against your stomach and wrapped his arms around your waist. You ran your fingers through his hair. After a while he said, “I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do what they are asking me to.”
“Run away. Leave.”, you said.
“I can’t. They’ll find me.”
“There are ways, Draco, to never be found.”
“You don’t understand.”, he said half crying.
“Then help me too.”
“But you’ll leave.”
“You don’t know that.”
He let go of you and lifted his head up. Then he undid his sleeve and rolled it up. You could see something black on his arm. You hoped it wasn’t what you thought it was. Then he lifted his arm to you. The Dark Mark. You had no idea what to say. You just hugged him. You weren’t going to run out on him. Not now. He has no one. Well, no one good. He put his arms around you.
“Are you hungry? I can go grab some food from the Great Hall?”
“That sounds great. You want help?”
“No, I got it. You just stay here.”
Draco walked to the Great Hall. The minute he walked in he saw Harry talking the Katie Bell at the end on the hall. Katie was staring at him, and Harry turned around and saw she was staring at him. Draco panicked, he turned around and made his way back to the Prefect bathroom. He really didn’t want to go there because he knew you were there. But he was panicking and couldn’t think of anywhere else to go in that moment.
He burst into the bathroom, “You need to go. Hide.”
“What? Why?”
“Just hide please. The stall.” He pointed and went to the sink.
You go into the nearest stall, and he went back to the sink. You could hear footprints, then a voice. Then suddenly Draco whipped around and sent a spell across the room. As soon as he did hat another one went right past him. You had to stop yourself from yelling his name. Draco and whoever else was there, were throwing spells left and right. Somewhere going under the stalls and into the other stalls next to you. You were looking through the slit in the stall but couldn’t see anything.
Then Draco ran into view.
He looked right at you.
Then was hit with a spell.
He fell back. You could see red on his shirt. You wanted to run over there but couldn’t. The other person came around. You still couldn’t see who it was. Then Snape came in. The person left almost immediately. Snape started saying some spell and all of Draco’s blood started going back into his body.
“You can come out of there.” He said.
You slowly come out of the stall. “Is he going to be okay?”
“Yes. It may be a few days.” He put Draco on a stretcher and took him to the hospital wing.
Right before curfew that night you went to the hospital wing. Hoping no one was around. You didn’t care if people knew about you two, but on the other hand you knew his family. So, you don’t necessarily want everyone to know. You got there and saw him lying there.
Madam Pomfrey came over, “Dear, you are supposed to be in your common room.”
“Please, just for a few minutes.”
“Okay, just a few minutes.”
You smiled as she walked away. You slowly walked toward Draco, not wanting to wake him. You grabbed a chair from a nearby table and put it as close to the bed as you could. You sat down and pulled your legs up to your chest.
He moved but didn’t wake. You looked at all the bandages on his chest. His arm was wrapped too, where the tattoo is. You put your head on your knees and closed your eyes. You quickly fell asleep.
A few minutes later you woke up to someone touching your arm.
“What are you doing here?”
“Making sure you are okay.” You said and smiled. He smiled back and held your hand.
“You should rest. I am going to go before Madam Pomfrey sees I’m still here.” You kissed him and he held on to your hand until he couldn’t anymore.
You hadn’t seen him around for a few days, which was normal now. You were walking back to the common room when you saw him cross the hall in front of you.
“Draco!” you yelled and ran up to him.
“Babe, I can’t. I have to go.” And he kept walking.
You went up to your room and sat in the window, staring off into the distance. When you saw a group of people down below.
One of them was Draco.
Then one of them shot a beam of light into the sky. Everything went even darker. You tried to make out what it was. You looked out the window again, at the people down below, and swear Draco was looking right at you. He turned and walked away with the others. You wondered if you would ever see him again.
You jogged out of your room and took the stairs that went outside. Everyone else was doing the same. Once you were outside you looked up in the sky. The Dark Mark.
You sure have been seeing that a lot lately.
Then you looked down and there was a group of people gathering around something. As you looked closer you could tell it was Dumbledore.
You knew that nothing was going to be the same. Everyone knew nothing was going to be the same.