ꜱʟʏᴛʜᴇʀɪɴ Qᴜᴇᴇɴ | ʏ/ɴ ꜱɴᴀᴘᴇ & ᴅʀᴀᴄᴏ ᴍᴀʟꜰᴏʏ

nineteen.

Y/N walked down to Hagrid's hut as she held the letter for her mother close to her chest and she felt a heavy weight on her shoulders. She walked closer to see Hagrid lighting the fire and waiting for her on a log before he smiled towards him. Y/N sat next to Hagrid and he could tell something was wrong, "what's on ya mind?" Hagrid said as he grabbed a stick from beside him to poke the fire. "It feels different to write to her during a time that I don't have the person I thought was going to help me through my hardest times at Hogwarts" Y/N said as she opened the letter to see what she had written. "Sometimes people leave sooner than we expect because something better is coming" Hagrid said as he placed a marshmallow on the end of his stick.

Y/N opened the letter as she read the part about Draco, he wanted to hear it two years ago and the year before that and now she reads it alone to herself.

I really love you mummy but not the way I love him. He's the apple of my eye and I've never loved one like him. He's my best friend and my everything. Let me come home, home is wherever I'm with him, take me home. Through the fights and struggles, I never loved one like him. Moats and boats and waterfalls, alleyways and pay phone calls. I've been everywhere with him. It's true, we use to laugh until we think we'll die. Barefoot on a summer night, never could be sweeter than with him. And in the streets we run free, like it's only me and him. Draco. I was falling deep, deeply in love with him and I never told him just like I never told you how much I loved you. Let me come home, home is where I'm alone with him. He broke my heart but I want him to take me home.

Y/N felt a tear fall down her cheek before she threw the letter into the fire.

Y/N sat staring out of the window in the Slytherin common room, she felt sad as she wanted to tell Draco how much she loved him as she never got the chance to tell her mother. She felt like it was too late and she had again lost another important person in her life, "can't sleep princess?" Pansy asked as she put a blanket over Y/N before sitting in front of her. "Four years and it still feels like yesterday I held her lifeless hand" Y/N said as she wiped another tear from her face, "I wrote about Draco" Y/N continued and pulled out her own copy of the letter, she always remembers to keep a copy to remember what she tells her mother. "What did you write?" Pansy said and Y/N handed the letter to Pansy as she read it before she looked up at Y/N. "You should tell him" Pansy said as she folded the letter in her hands and Y/N shook her head, "I told him that he broke my heart" Y/N said. "And he did" Y/N continued as she pulled her knees closer to her chest, "okay princess" Pansy said as she pulled her friend closer as they cuddled on the window sill together.

Draco was training with his quidditch team and kept getting distracted at the thoughts of Y/N's letter she wrote to her mother. Pansy had given Draco the letter to read and Pansy told him to give it back to Y/N when he felt ready to talk to her. Draco didn't know if he was ready to talk to her, their kiss on her birthday was bringing back their feelings but Y/N had reminded Draco that he broke her heart. Y/N's letter to her mother was another addition to what Draco was feeling, he knew that the letter was personal but Draco also knew that Y/N was honest in what she wrote to her mother. Draco felt Crabbe fly up beside him, "why don't you go take a break Malfoy?" Crabbe said and Draco nodded towards the boy as Draco flew down and sat on the quidditch training grounds. Madam Rolanda Hooch came to check up on the blonde boy, "everything all good shortcakes?" Madam Hooch asked and Draco nodded as he pulled the letter out again. "Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears" Madam Hooch said as she watched the Slytherin team chase each other on their brooms. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do" Madam Hooch continued as she smiled down at Draco before whistling to the boys to come down.

Tom walked into the great hall to find Y/N reading and walked over to her before he sat opposite her and reached out to grab her hand making her look up. "Hey" Y/N smiled making Tom feel his heartbeat a little faster, "hey" Tom said as he played with Y/N's new ring. "I was wondering if you wanted to help me practice using a quill" Tom asked and Y/N giggled at the question before she pulled her hand away and pulled her quill out from her robe. "Sure, do you have something to write on?" Y/N asked as she put her novel down, "oh, yes" Tom said as he pulled out a piece of paper. "You have to sit here" Y/N said as she pointed to the space next to her and Tom widen his eyes, "so I can teach you" Y/N continued and Tom cleared his throat before he walked around the table sitting next to Y/N. Y/N placed the paper flat between them before she moved closer to Tom making him freeze and lean against the table, their arms were touching as Y/N started writing 'how to use a quill' along the top of the paper making Tom smile down at the younger girl. "First the way you hold a quill is important" Y/N said as she held the quill between her fingers before she held it gently, "you have to hold the quill gently as they are easily breakable" Y/N continued as Tom followed along with his own quill.

During the time Y/N was teaching how to use a quill to Tom, Pansy ran into the great hall, "you have to come outside, there's a fight" Pansy said, "a punching one" Pansy continued as Y/N grabbed her belongings and ran out of the great hall leaving Tom alone to follow slowly behind. Y/N and Pansy got out into the gardens to see Mattheo fighting with Ravenclaw guy in the third year. Tom walked behind Y/N before he noticed that the fight involved his brother and he pushed his way to the front pulling his brother away as Snape held the other back. "I wonder what happened" Pansy said as Y/N looked towards Tom and Mattheo yelling at each other walking to the Slytherin common room.

"Why did you punch that guy?" Y/N asked as she dabbed Mattheo's cheek with a damp cloth making him flitch from the pain, "he said something about me being a mud blood and buying my way into Slytherin" Mattheo said as he stared at Y/N who was trying to be gentle. "You shouldn't listen to dumb people like that" Y/N said as she wiped Mattheo's dry blood from near his eye, "most of those people happen to be in Slytherin though" Mattheo said and Y/N knew he was talking about Draco. "Still don't listen to them" Y/N said as she stood up from the couch and walked to throw the cloth away before Draco approached her. "I think this belongs to you" Draco said as he handed Y/N a letter and she opened it to see it was the copy of the letter she sends her mother every year. Y/N looked up annoyed but before she could open her mouth Draco pressed his finger to her lips, "Pansy" he said and Y/N rolled her eyes, "I saw she went into your dormitory" Draco said and Y/N nodded before she walked into her dormitory ready to yell at Pansy when she noticed a bouquet of white tulips and red roses on her bed.

She noticed a note next to the bouquet and read it

For the weeks and months I missed. I'm falling deeply in love with you and I want to tell you how much I love you. I'm sorry I broke your heart, let me take you home

Y/N felt something warm in her body as she looked back at the flowers and smiled a little to herself. She looked up to see her empty vase but two sunflowers and a small red rose as she started placing the other flowers inside her vase.

Draco stood up in the Astronomy Tower as he watched the sunset on Hogwarts as the night sky started to take over as he thought about what Y/N may think about his gift and note. He was nervous that she had already moved on and that she would fall for one of the Riddle brothers as she is always hanging out with them. Draco saw students running back inside the hallway of Hogwarts as it was about to be dinner, but Draco wasn't feeling hungry. Draco walked down from the tower and into the hallway as he saw students piling into the great hall. Draco walked past as he was on his way to the Slytherin common room when Severus stopped in front of him. "A young Malfoy boy should eat" Severus said and Draco looked down at his shoes, "I'm not feeling hungry Professor" Draco replied before Severus furrowed his eyebrows together. "Draco, look at me" Severus said and Draco looked up to see Severus concerned, "I was once your age and in love as well" Severus said. "It may seem hard at the moment but something better will happen and you will laugh back on this day as you think it's silly" Severus continued and Draco felt his heart drop more. "Go eat son please" Severus said, "you can sit next to me if you want" Y/N said as she walked past the two men making Draco look up in surprise. "I said if you want" Y/N said turning around before smiling briefly at Draco and turning back around to walk into the great hall.

Pansy hugged Y/N as she sat at the table next to her, "I might have to thank you" Y/N whispered towards Pansy as she giggled to herself. "Don't thank me, just do what's in your heart" Pansy said as Blaise smiled at the two girls and Draco sat next to Y/N as the food appeared in front of them.