Tormented By Memories | Draco Malfoy

11 - A T H I N G ?

Third Person

Over the past few days Alexandra and Hermione have gotten to know each other better. They have gone for late night reads in the library, and walks to talk about drama. Alexandra couldn't talk about Draco, she realized. Hermione doesn't like him, and she wouldn't be supportive of the relationship. Draco however has kept an eye on her. Watching the girl he liked hang out with the girl he knew as a mud-blood disgusted him. Tonight he was going to have a talk with her.

He wants to know why she is hanging out with that 'in his eyes' mud-blood. He wants to know why she is even talking to her. Hermione is not who he would've expected to befriend a Slytherin. Alexandra is a cunning person, smart, cunning, and ambitious. Draco wanted to know what she was up to being friends with her. 

And he needs answers now. 

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"Alexandra wait up!" Draco called after Alexandra in the brisk hallway, in the dim lighting. "I have a question. Whats going on between you and that mud-blood?" He asks her. She feels uncomfortable with him calling Hermione that. sHe decides to fight back. 

"First, it is either Hermione or Granger. Second, we are friends and I plan to be friends with her for a long time. I don't know why you have a problem with that." She says to him ruffling her eye brows together. She doesn't even know what is going on between them. "Oh, and what are we?"

"I don't know. It's up to you." He said smiling and smirking. It's up to you. She's been wanting to hear that come out of his mouth. But no she can't get caught up with him right now she has too much to worry about, not really but she gets easily confused and needs to focus on that. Focus. No, what are you doing?! Dammit. I am getting feelings, no please- She couldn't stop herself even with talking to herself. It didn't work. 

"I want to be something, wither it's a couple, or if you just want to be friends. I want something decided because it's been crossing my mind lately and on some nights kept me up thinking about it. So?" She asks him. He is silent for a moment.

"It looks like we're a couple, your stuck for life." He says smirking at her, he grabs her hand and kisses her knuckles. Something crosses her mind, Hermione. What will she tell Hermione? The smile that was on her face fades away.

"I- can we keep this a secret for a while? I need to come up with a way to tell Hermione I need to. It is important that it comes from me. If someone told her and it wasn't me she'd be pissed. And pissed Hermione isn't pleasant." She says scared and trying to come up with what to tell her.

"I know that. Just ask my nose." He says pointing to a bare tiny little scar with a serious expression on his face. She frowns at the tiny scar that is barely there.

"She could do much more than that. But we are keeping this a secret for now. No one can know. But for now." She tickles him up his arm, "For now don't we have some place to be?" She drags him to her dorm, through the quiet hall. A quiet hall was never good. As they were walking down to the underneath of the castle to her dorm, they hear Snape coming. They quickly put they're backs against the wall hiding themselves.

Snape passes them but, doesn't see them. Once he passes they laugh against the wall putting all pressure against the wall. Draco stops laughing while she keeps laughing. He watches her laugh mesmerized by her. He cups her cheek slowly turning her head to face him. "Come on let's go." He says grabbing her hand once again taking her to the common room.

They enter to a common room full of people, out of place they release hold of one another just in time, as many of them looked at them. Alexandra looked at the ground embarrassed. She quickly goes to her dorm not drawing much attention. Draco slowly pretends he is going to his dorm. He precisely sneaks into the girls dorms. Feeling lucky he opens her door, to a very panicked Alexandra. "What's wrong?" He says going over to her holding her tight.

"They all saw us I am certain if it I knew this would happen. Dammit why am I so dumb?" She asks herself mumbling into his chest. He hears this and feels sorry for her. However he blames this all on himself he was the one who grabbed her hand again not honking about the common room being full. "All my fault." She repeats again.

"No, I grabbed your hand and led you in there not thinking the common room would be full, I don't think you are dumb." He says trying to make her feel better. It works just a little bit. She still feels guilty, Blaise wasn't even in the common room which was surprising, she thought. They walked in like it was a normal thing. She smiled at the thought, they are after all a couple. But before anything else or anybody else knows, she has to find a way to tell Hermione; which will be the hardest thing ever.

"I need to find a way to tell Hermione. I need a plan, a clam plan that will not freak her out. Any ideas?" She asks him looking for a single sign she shouldn't tell him. He opens his mouth to speak then shuts it again. She stares in his eyes, "Please. I need a plan to tell her she will freak out if I just say, 'hey Hermione, how are you? Oh, by the way I am dating Draco.' I don't think that will go over very well." She says looking him dead in the eye with a serious expression on her face. 

"Okay, I guess you can pull her to the side away from any dangerous things; knowing her. No offense- well like I said pull her to the side and say, 'Hermione I need to tell you something really really on a sensitive topic you may or may not take smoothly-' make sure friend to stutter this part right here, 'I- I am d- dating D- Draco Malfoy.' She'll take it so well I guarantee." He smiles at her going in for a kiss when she dodges it. 

"But what if she doesn't take it well?" She asks actually excepting the plan but hiding it. She knows it won't work. It won't Hermione thinks she knows what she is talking about and especially with the topic of Draco, she will not support me not at all. Not one bit. She keeps telling herself. 

"Well it's a fifty-fifty chance. I bet she won't freak out. She'll be supportive, she'll fine trust me." He says taking her face right up to his face kissing her softly. "Now what did you say we were doing up here?" He says smirking to her. 

"Oh, I just said that to get you up here." She smiles to him. "Maybe you can sleep over." She says trying to convince him to stay. She didn't have to. 

"I was planning on it. You don't own me. I own you, if you are dating me I won you and you do what I say. But, you know I won't hurt you like Blaise would, I won't insult you. But, I do control you. I own you. No one else you belong to me-" 

"Alright I get it." She cuts him off. His face goes straight. 

"Positive aye? Don't answer that. Anyway bed, it is time to go to sleep. Even though I wanted to go to the Astronomy tower." He says with a sad face. She hops on the bed ear to go to sleep on his chest or lay on top of him. He lays next to her and picks her up and places her on top of him. "This is comfy." He whispers into her hair, as she lay on top of him. She falls asleep at the same time he does. 

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She wakes up to him gone. She surly didn't expect him to be gone. He loved waking up to her getting ready, though she didn't know if he did or didn't. He'd only witnessed it one time, and she didn't know if he did or not. She didn't like waking up to him gone. She wanted to be with him when she wakes up. He wasn't anywhere in sight not even in the bathroom. Okay, she thought this is going to be okay. He probably had somewhere to be. 

She gets up doing her usual routine. Annoyed she aggressively picks up her bag slamming the door as she leaves the dorm on.a quest to look for Draco. 

She walks down corridors looking for him. Corridor after corridor. it is early too early the potions classroom isn't even open yet. There is no way. She walks by it. See the door is shut. She keeps walking, and walking. Looking in bathrooms. Thinking he's fled the school. He has to be gone. But, he isn't gone. No, he is definitely not gone. 

She finds a floating blonde strand of hair that is about the same length of his hair that lands in her palm. She sees Hermione. She is about to ask her if she has seen him when she sees Draco talking to her.