Her Eyes || Draco Malfoy

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It was like a dream.

We were sitting in an old treehouse, my head in his lap as he played with my hair and the stars looked down at us sparkling like diamonds.

The only sound was the sounds of nature as if we weren't there, the leafs blowing in the wind, the water from the beach hitting the sore and sounds of wolfs howling filled the air.

It was relaxing to us, the sounds of torture were no longer surrounding us, we could finally be at peace together again and we both made the decision not to return to hogwarts for our final year as we found it would be to risky and unsafe.

I couldn't use magic yet, the trace was on me still and Draco and I knew that there was a small group of death eaters looking for us after it was noticed we had ran away.

We knew this because we had to apparate back to the manor to collect our stuff and overheard my father and Draco's parents talking to about 5 or 6 other death eaters outside about us.

We had to stay on the down low so Draco put up wards around the place disguising the area so that death eaters couldn't find us because Draco ensured his parents didn't remember this place due to having not been here since he was 8.

"Youre so cute" he said looking down at me with a small smile on his face, "this is the most relaxed I've seen you" he continued now running his fingers under my eye.

I smiled tiredly at him, before yawning and closing my eyes for a moment "same for you" I murmured softly though the sound of worry in my voice wasn't hidden from him.

I knew he'd ask so I sat up and face him, my knees against his as we both crossed our legs "if they somehow find us—what will we do?" I asked softly, he seemed shocked by my question almost, as if he had never thought of it.

"We'll hide out somewhere—take as much as we can and leave" he started before closing his eyes and breathing out " depending on how serious the situation is then I'll surrender and you can find somewhere to go" he said, maybe he did think about it.

"but what if I don't want to leave you behind?" I asked seriously knowing that no matter how much I would argue with him he would never let me surrender with him.

"if you don't and they take you back we'll be prisoners, our parents would be getting punished while we are left to be tortured and rot away in the dungeons" he was telling the truth.

"They'll learn your weaknesses, your fears, they'll give you no mercy and I can't let that happen to you—never I made a promise to keep you safe" he sounded like he was trying not to cry, I didn't argue.

"If it comes down to it and its either you or me, it will be me," he was softer with his tone this time, it was almost a whisper "but we can avoid being caught by not going out alone, being careful when we do and staying inside unless absolutely necessary I know it'll be... claustrophobic but eventually they'll give us up and we can live with all the freedom, okay?"

"okay"

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I snuck out early the next morning, walking onto the beach barefoot and sitting at the waters edge in my bikini watching the sunrise.

I valued my alone time, so when Draco asked me where I was going, I pretended not to hear him, he knew how to tell when I was lying even when he was half asleep.

So now I stared in awe at how pretty the sky looked at the early hours of the morning and how the water seemed to have mirrored the sky.

It was so quiet, so peaceful it was almost like the war was never happening.

The quiet didn't last long though when Draco's voice suddenly cut through it and startling me.

I turned, seeing him as he walked around the beach, looking till his eyes found me and a smile formed on his lips.

"Aster-!" He exclaimed and I stood up running towards him "fuck never do that again you scared me" he chuckled as he hugged me tightly.

We had agreed, it was best that out in public, or the outside he called me Aster and I, him Ferret.

"Sorry—" I smiled pushing a strand of his hair out of his face as it messily sat just above his eyes "I was enjoying my alone time" I whispered tilting my head innocently to the side.

"I know but you have to be careful, the wards don't come out this far and if anyone-" I groaned cutting him off "I know that—I just wanted to watch the sunrise sorry" I argued, as I moved myself away from him and began walking back to the house.

He followed after me, not making contact with me seeing how on edge he was because of me.

"I'm not mad at you" he assured with an irritated like tone to his voice "just.. be careful when you go out next time Aster because if we get caught-" he stopped when I turned around suddenly getting annoyed with him as we walked in the house.

"I get it. Be careful. Stay inside. Don't get caught if you do go out. Don't go outside alone. We established this last night, so don't be a fucking broken record Draco" I hissed seeing his eyes widening at my sudden agression.

"and don't call me Aster unless we are outside, Malfoy" it came out unexpectedly and I watched as his eyes stung with pain "Iris-" he cut himself off "I'm sorry" he whispered reaching for my shoulder as I turned to avoid him.

"I'm going to take a shower, alone" I mumbled and he nodded as I turned walking away.

What he didn't know was when he thought I wasn't looking he fell to the ground, crying.