Forever After?
Draco was trying to think of some way to ask you to marry him. He wanted it to be special and right. You guys had been through so much together, he just wanted it to be special. He thought of a few different places, but none of them seemed right.
Then one day while walking through the halls, the room of requirement showed up. Draco walked through the door. It was a beautiful room. Floor to ceiling mirrors with vines of flowers everywhere. There was a pedestal in the middle of the room. In the corner by the door there was a suit and an amazing dress. He knew this would be perfect.
A week before graduation, Draco and you went on a walk. Taking in the grounds, it being your last year. He took you down the hall to the RoR. He stopped in front of a door you didn’t remember seeing before. You had no idea what was going on.
“One second.” He walked in, closed the door, and then opened it again. Now he had on a suit.
“Beautiful.” He said as he put his hand out for you.
You smiled and took it. He led you into the room and spun you around once and a dress appeared on you. You mouth dropped.
“Draco, this is beautiful.”
He smiled. He led you to the pedestal in the middle of the room. You smiled at him.
“Hey...” you said nervously.
He looked at you.
“You know,” He said. “I remember the first time I saw you, like it was yesterday.”
You looked down.
“I had just got on the train and found a spot to sit when you walked on. You were like a ray of sunshine. You were talking with your friends, so you didn’t notice me. And to be honest I didn’t think much of it. We were so young and once we were sorted into different houses you were pretty much out of my head. But that day in the hallway. After that you were all I could think about. And we have been through so much since then.”
He knelt and got a box from his pocket.
You put your hand over your mouth.
“And I can’t imagine being with anyone else. Will you marry me?”
“Oh Draco! Yes! Of course!”
He put the ring on your finger and got up. You kissed each other. Then the door opened and all of your friends started coming in. Right as Neville was walking in a strange man pushed him out of the way, Neville hit the wall. The man made a bee line for Draco. Draco stood in front of you.
“What do you want?” Draco asked.
“You Draco. You need to come back. It is where you belong.”
You pushed your way in front of Draco.
“He isn’t going anywhere. You don’t know him, that never fit him.”
“Girl you better back off and let him go.”
“Babe—” Draco started.
“No! He is not going any—”
The man cast a spell and you flew back and hit the wall. Your body cracked the mirrors and your head hit the floor when you fell. He then grabbed Draco’s arm. Draco tried to get out of it but then his arm started to burn. You were fading in and out. You saw your wand and tried to crawl toward it.
Behind Draco, Neville was looking for anything to use. He finally found a rod. He came up behind the man and hit him across the head. He fell right to the ground. Once you saw that Draco was fine you stopped trying to get your wand and passed out.
“Dude, are you okay?” Neville asked.
“Yeah, I think so.” He was rubbing his arm as he was getting up.
Neville found the man’s wand and tied him up. Draco started walking over to you. He finally rolled up his sleeve and looked at his arm.
“Shit.” There was a faint dark mark, right back where you had taken it from.
He rolled his sleeve back down. “Babe, hey.” He shook you gently.
You opened your eyes for a few seconds and smiled.
“Yeah, okay, let’s go.” He picked you up and walked you back to your room. Neville went and got Hermonie.
“If we bring her to Madame Pomphrey again, she will have our heads.”
“No problem guys. Everything looks fine, she is just a little shaken up.”
“Thanks Hermione.” She smiled and walked out.
Draco sat on the edge of the bed.
“I’ll be back in while.” Neville said then walked out.
Draco sat there holding your hand. He took the ring off your finger. He turned it in his fingers. You slowly opened your eyes. You saw Draco sitting there, you lifted your hand from his lap and put it on his stomach. He took a deep breath.
“How are you feeling?”
He still hadn’t looked at you.
You shook him, “Hey, you going to look or talk to me?”
A pause.
“I don’t think we should be together.”
“What?” you said as you sat yourself up.
You saw that he had a ring in his hand. You looked at your hand.
“Every time we are together, you get hurt or something happens.”
“What about for better or worse? … I love you.”
Neville almost came in but heard you talking.
You punched Draco in the shoulder.
“Will you look at me!”
He stopped looking at the ring in is hand and looked at you. “I love you too. That is why we can’t be together. I hate seeing you in pain.”
Tears started in your eyes. Draco got up and kissed you on the forehead.
You grabbed his hand, “Please…” He walked away, you held onto his hand for as long as you could.
He made it to the doorway. He saw Neville out of the corner of his eye. He didn’t look at him and he turned the other way. Neville put his head against the wall. You put your head in your hands.
“Neville…” you had a feeling he was out there.
He turned the corner. You looked up.
“Hey.” He said.
Tears running down your face. He walked over to you and sat on your bed. You curled up next to him. It wasn’t long before you fell asleep. Luna came by a few minutes after.
“Is she okay?”
“Yeah, Draco broke up with her. I think.”
“Oh, do you need anything?”
“Nah.” Luna got a chair and put it next to the bed.
Draco took a long walk and was coming back to make sure you were okay. He couldn’t stop looking at the ring and thinking about you. He knew it was probably a bad idea, but he had to make sure or at least talk to Neville.
Then all-of-a-sudden he got slammed into the wall. He fell to the floor. The ring flew out of his hand. He lifted his head, shook it, and saw that it was the same guy from the RoR. The guy kicked Draco in the side then picked him up by the neck and held him in the air against the wall. Draco was holding himself up as best he could, so he didn’t pass out. He was saying something, but Draco couldn’t listen. He was busy thinking of a way to get out of the mess he was in. He remembered he had his wand in his back pocket. He knew he had to grab it and do a spell quick before he would pass out. He let go of the guys’ hands, grabbed his wand, pointed it at his chest. He blasted backward out a window. Draco tried to take a breath, but it was hard. Then he saw the ring, he tried to crawl over it, but passed out reaching for it.