Redamancy (d.m)

Chapter seventy nine-dangerous nature

TW: SA

Back through the doorway, my newfangled hair swinging over my shoulders as we strode past the guard still slumping hazily in the aftermath of my imperius curse. No one noticed us return, just as no one noticed us depart in the first place.

"Remind me why we couldn't just grab this thing and apparate out of here?" I whispered up to Draco as he guided me across the bustling floor and towards the main entryway
"If you bothered to listen you would know that the magic that surrounds Elysian castle makes apparation impossible" he muttered scornfully
"Well I can't very well walk right out of here with-" I straightened my face into a pleasant smile when I heard an anxiously familiar voice call a not so familiar name from behind, "hello, Graham"
"May I have a word, Lacey?" He asked earnestly, a subtle glint in his eyes
"I'm actually a little busy right now" I calmly replied, though worry was stirring violently in the pit of my gut
"It'll only be a moment, I promise" he insisted with a smile that I returned hesitantly
"Sure" I said, turning back to catch Draco's stormy expression as I was lead away from him, mouthing, "I'll be right back"

The look he shot back conveyed both of our troubles;our time was limited, and the poly juice potion wasn't going to last forever. Graham nodded politely to the guards stationed at a doorway as we exited the main ballroom, drawing more distance between myself and Draco. We walked quickly down a winding hallway, finally stumbling upon a dimly lit library

"What's with all the privacy?" I commented, trying to lighten my anxiety as he twisted open the door handle, pushing it open and leading me inside, "are you about to deliver some top secret-"

A gasp slipped off my tongue directly into the mouth that descended hungrily onto mine, cutting off my air flow as well as my words. He pushed me, his movements hectic, against the door he had just opened and shut, clearly having done this before, just not with who he was currently doing it with now, a piece of information unbeknownst to him in the moment. I plastered my eyes open in shock, glancing around at the deserted library before forcefully pulling him away from me

"Hey hey, take it easy" I said, heaving with panicked breaths as his eyebrows furrowed slightly
"Is everything okay?" He asked quickly, searching my eyes for the fault that I kept well hidden from him
"Yeah I just think we should slow down" I stammered, forcing down the lump blistering in my throat
"Since when have you ever liked it slow, Lace?" He hummed with a cheeky grin, sliding a hand from the door down to my waist, yanking my body closer to his before returning his mouth onto mine and starting to undo the ribbons behind my back
"Seriously, can we just get back out there?" I pleaded as I pulled away, making his eyes narrow as he scoffed
"What's gotten into you?" He demanded, taking a step back with the same insolent expression
"Nothing, I just don't feel up to this right now" I answered briskly, crossing my arms over my chest
"You're never like this" he insisted, shaking his head stubbornly, "if I'd known you were gonna be so boring I would've ditched you a while ago"

and so, naturally, I raised my fist up and struck it harshly across his left cheek. When he came up from where he was crouched in pain, the pit of his eyes were hollowed out, shadowed by a baleful atrocity

"Oops" I quipped with an fierce smirk, "there was a bug on your face"
"Oh was there now?" He gritted, a hand cupping the bruising already forming on his cheek, "you think you're so fucking smart, don't you?"

He took a stumbling step forward, making my hand fly subconsciously to the area of my leg where a dagger sat idly strapped underneath my dress

"But what you don't realise, My sweet Lacey, is that I'm more powerful than you ever will be" he snarled, finally closing the space between us and pining my helpless body by the neck to the wood of the door behind me, "so now, it seems you're left with two choices", a corrupt smile creeped unsettlingly onto his once handsome features as he slid his hand up the back of my thigh, making my flinch against his touch, though thankful it wasn't the one with a blade attached to it, "one;I go telling my parents that the lowly ball worker attacked me, and I let the executioner sort you out" I squeezed my eyes shut as I tried to tug my wrists away from his grip, only causing his foul pleasure to increase, his fingers now burning lines onto where they were tracing the hem of my underwear before groping at my rear , "or...two; you let me do to you what we both know you want me to, and I'll keep my mouth shut about your little mishap"  it was no use, he was far too athletic for my sake, not even breaking a sweat as he continued to secure my wrists tightly above my head as he crept his hand upwards past my stomach to tug at the straps of my bra , "it's all up to you"