Cliff diving
This was madness.
Absolute insanity.
Any second now, he was going to wake up in his safe, luxurious hotel bed, next to the gorgeously tanned body of Hermione Granger, and write this all off as a bad dream.
He was not standing on the precipice of a cliff overhanging the dark waters gathered at the base of a waterfall. Granger was not prattling on about how the guide said it was safe and how the water should be deep enough.
Should be.
Other tourists hung about on the rocks below, calling to one another, some jumping from lower ledges in the rock face.
But typical miss Gryffindor had to find the trail to the highest point, and now she was here, she wouldn't be called a coward for backing down.
Well, he wasn't a Gryffindor at all, so he was perfectly capable of keeping his pride in check. He was just about to say so when Granger said, "Right, well, see you at the bottom." And in a flurry of hair, red bikini and tan limbs leaped from the cliff into the dark waters below.
She emerged, tossing her mass of hair back and blinking in the sunlight.
"That felt amazing! And not a scratch! Your turn, love, come down to me." Draco shook his head at her. "Please! Trust me; I won't let anything happen to you."
"No… I'd rather not. Glad your safe I'll be down in a moment."
"Wait!" He carefully peered over the edge at her, where she had found a place to sit in water. "If you jump, I'll say yes. Show me you trust me…"
"How did you-"
"If you don't jump, I'll say no, and all your carefully laid plans will go to waste. You'll have to ask me again….back home...maybe in front of other people…." She was grinning widely as if she'd been waiting to call him out of ages.
"Why do I have to jump off a bloody cliff to prove that I trust you?!"
"Because I'd know you trust me more than anyone else. It's ok to be afraid, I am too...but I want to do it with you."
Draco cursed, kicked a nearby tree root, paced a few times, trying to think of a way out of it. Hermione waited patiently below, only polite interest on her face.
He swore again, cursing every last deity, demanding more courage from them, looked over the edge again
And jumped.