It's Immortality My Darling~ Draco Malfoy X Reader

Chapter 9

Disclaimer:
My story doesn't follow the correct timeline of the Harry Potter movies, even though we're at the beginning of 5th year, Voldemort has already began taking over the wizarding world and Sirius Black is dead. Thankyou!

The rest of the lesson went by extremely slow, I could feel eyes burning into me almost the whole time, those eyes belonged to our professor. I tried my best to keep my eyes down, to not look up but sometimes the urge was too strong, I just can't get over how different Severus is now. Now and again we would accidentally make eye contact which was extremely awkward, but it was nice at the same time, I never thought I'd get the opportunity to meet him again.

All of this was way harder than I ever expected, never did I think I'd bump into anyone I used to know, except Dumbledore of course. Even though I only attended one lesson, I'm extremely overwhelmed and I don't think I'll be able to go to another just yet, all this was too much.

Once potions was over, I basically jumped out of my chair and ran out of the door, luckily for me I was sat on the back row which gave me the advantage of getting as far away from my friends as possible, it sounds horrible I know, but I'm not ready to answer any questions from them just yet, I need time to plan out what I'm going to tell them. As I sped walk through the halls I must have barged into 15 other students by accident, in my head I didn't know where I was heading, trying to get as much distance between me and that whole situation as possible. However once I reached my favourite spot inside the entire castle, I'm pretty sure my feet definitely knew where they were taking me.

I stood at the top of the astronomy tower, just letting the fresh air along with the wind which accompanied it hit me, it wasn't a hard hit but a soft yet much needed hit, it's like I can finally breath, like I've been holding my breath since I first realised who my new professor was, when I first realised how real this was.

I closed my eyes, holding onto the railings in front of me and emptied my mind. This is why I loved this spot so much, it was just so relaxing and peacef-

*creak*

I quickly snapped my body around, watching the door open, fuck sake did one of my friends follow me up here? What do I even say to them?

However who revealed themselves after the door swung open was nobody I would have ever expected. Harry Potter stood in front of me, a small smile on his face as he awkwardly raised his hand to give me a small wave. Honestly I'm shocked, I didn't have any idea why he was here, without thinking about it I copied his action and gave him a small wave in return, furrowing my eyebrows at him in confusion.

"I- I hope I'm not intruding" he stuttered, clearly anxious. Even though he was waiting for a reply from me, I just stood there waiting for him to tell me why the hell he was stood in front of me right now. "I noticed you ran out of potions, so I thought I'd come and uh check you was ok after you know... what happened" he continued not even looking at me now, instead looking at his feet, I'm sorry but are his boring, plain black shoes more important than me right now?

"Well thank you Harry but I'm perfectly fine" I tell him sternly, turning around and taking my previous position near the edge of the tower yet this time I took a seat on the floor instead of standing. I didn't hear anything else for a minute or so, I presumed he left after realising he wasn't needed or was just stood there creepily staring at my back, not that I'd blame him, I've got a cute back but per usual I didn't care enough to look and check.

However once I heard footsteps approaching me I knew he was still here, to say he's that awkward you would think he'd just fuck off but no, instead taking a seat on the floor next to me. I turned my head to look at him hoping he would explain what he thought he was doing exactly yet he was just staring at the view in front of us, probably thinking of what he was going to say next or he could just be counting clouds or something. Who knows?

We sat for 5 minutes, not speaking a word to each other but the silence around us was a comfortable one, maybe having someone to just be present was what I needed, we might not have been taking but having him there did feel nice and comforting. "You know Y/n..." he begins, there he goes ruining a good thing. I don't bother looking at him yet I can feel his eyes on me, I know what's about to leave his mouth next, he's about to ask me a thousand questions about class that I just can't be arsed answering, well making lies up for. "Yesterday when I thought I recognised you? I think I know where from now" he continues, this grabs my attention making me snap my head to look at him, I could swear on Merlin we've never met before so what is he on about?

As soon as we made eye contact he turned his head away from me, looking back outside. However my eyes weren't leaving him until he explained what he was on about. "Do go on" I encouraged, now shuffling and turning my whole body to face him while I waited expectedly. "My god father Sirius, he had this picture in his house which was taken back when he was at school of him and my parents with some of their old friends" he began, I know exactly where this is going, he's figured it out, it's over, " when he died" he continued, what? Sirius was dead? That couldn't be true. Why hadn't I heard about this?

My face must have dropped or portrayed some sort of negative emotion as he stopped talking after speaking them words, "are you alright?" He asked me, his eyes full of genuine concern, it's fine Y/n as far as Harry is concerned you've no idea who he is talking about, pull yourself together, "Yep I'm fine" I lied "Just trying to figure out where this is going, so please continue" I managed to get out, inside I was desperate to cry and morn over the news I'd just heard, Sirus was a good man and an extremely good friend.

Harry furrowed his eyebrows at me in confusion but carried on anyways "Like I was saying when he passed, I got a few of his old things, that picture been one of them. From the moment I saw you walk into the great hall I've been trying to figure out where I recognise you from, and then it clicked. The picture. You was in it." Fuck. I did the only thing I could think of in the moment, I began laughing at what he had just said, attempting to belittle his theory as much as possible hoping it will make him realise how stupid it sounded. "I don't understand? You know how silly that sounds right? I chucked, turning my body back to its previous position to show him my lack of interest in this conversation.

"Yea I didn't understand either" he began to chuckle like I had just done, "I literally stayed up all night last night, trying to figure it out, coming up with all kinds of theories, but as soon as Snape thought you was your mum today, I knew it must of been her in the picture" he told me, laughing at how silly he found himself, I laughed along with him nudging his shoulder " You really are something else Harry Potter" I informed him causing him to roll his eyes at me with a huge smile on his face.

Everything was silent for around 2 minutes, a comfortable silence just like before, both of us staring into the outside world.

"As much as I'd love to stay I really must get going to class, not all of us are as rebellious as you Slytherins you know" he joked, standing up and brushing himself down to get any dirt off that may be on him from the floor. "Well thank you for keeping me company up here, it's much appreciated" I told him, a serious tone in my voice so he would be convinced I meant it, which I did.

He gave me a warm smile as a goodbye and began heading for the door "Oh and Harry?" I begin, he quickly turns back to look at me, his brows furrowed in confusion " I'm sorry about your parents and Sirius by the way, they were good people" I tell him giving a reassuring smile, that's when I realised what I'd just said "I uhm mean I've heard they were" I laugh nervously, correcting myself while giving him a small wave hoping he will just leave and save me some embarrassment, he gives me a small, unsure smile yet heads down the astronomy stairs anyways.