Death Eaters Daughter Part Two

Two Hundred Fifty Nine

My world stopped moving
Breathing was difficult under his gaze, confessing he was still in love with me both broke and healed me
"But you got married? Hermione got married to Ron and Harry got married to Ginny...they all married each other because they loved one another"

"I don't love her" he was back to playing in my now clean hair

"What made you ask her? Or did she ask and you felt weird about saying no?"
My own failed proposal popped into my head

"Duty"

"Duty?"

He nodded his head
"She's from a pure blood family. It was the Dark Lord's wish and so I had no choice"

"Fuck that"

He smiled
"Not that I don't agree, I just can't think as freely as you. You're telling me that no one has caught your attention?" He paused for what felt like an eternity, holding his hand in my hair "late at night when I would look at the moon, I would think of how you've changed over the years. You're even more beautiful than my mind could conjure up, I'm sure you have loads of gits begging for your heart. A heart that is so compassionate, loyal, fierce"

My heart thumped against my chest
"I didn't say that" I said with my eyebrows raised "You should see the line of suitors I have"

He gave me a knowing look, like even after all the time that has passed between us he knew I was bluffing
"Oh? But you said you couldn't be happy, is there a duty to perform for dragon riders too?"

"No, we are as free as the wind we ride through. Well I suppose not for me anymore..."

He moved his hand to my knee and began making soft circles with his thumb
My knee was on fire, but unlike before i welcome the heat
"I'm sorry" he said again

"Don't apologize for something you didn't do"
He continued making eye contact, his stare was piercing into my mind. Like he was trying to decode something. I looked down at the hand resting on my knee
"Your hand is so callused now" I took his into my own and started tracing the marks that have made their way onto his skin from our missing years together

"I've done a lot to make them that way"

"I'm sorry"

"It's not your fault" he said taking my hand and tracing it now
"Yours are still soft, dragon riding doesn't scar?" He said with a sly tone

"I moisturize my hands" I said going to take mine back but he held on

"Of course you do" he kissed the palm of my hand, right over my heart line, before letting me out of his grip

I put that same hand over my chest, where my obnoxious stupid heart was running wild
I wouldn't be surprised if he could hear how his words affected me

"So tell me about these suitors, gives me names" he purred out

"Why would you want their names?"

"So I can eliminate my competition"

"You're married why would you care"

"Because just like you, I want to be happy one day again. You're what makes me happy"

Fuck there he goes again
"You're what makes me happy too"

He smiled sweetly, then his smile turned down and his eyes darkened
"Are you going to give me names?"

"You're being serious"
He raised his eyebrows, as if to tell me to stop avoiding the question

"Mmmm...uhm...well" i placed my hand over my mouth "well so I lied about the many part but there has been one. I haven't really let anyone close enough to me for there to be more"

"Name?"
I can't believe he's serious

"You know him"

"I swear if you say Neville"

I laughed, for first time in a while I truly felt like laughing
"Fred"

"Of course" he said scoffing

"He asked me to marry him a few days ago"

"So you're engaged?"

"No"
He looked at my curiously
"I said no when he asked"

"That surprises me"

"Really?"

"There was a time when you couldn't decided who you loved more. Back then if he had asked you to marry him I know you would have said yes. You even told me I was invited to the wedding even though he hated me for being in love with you too"

"Time changes things"

"Some things don't change"

"You still truly care for me?"

"Can you not tell? Read my emotions"

I felt my shoulders slack
"I lost that power. I stopped letting myself feel emotions the day you left me...grief and despair is an overwhelming emotion to feel from so many angles"

"You can't feel any?"

I shook my head no

"Have you tried opening yourself up to it again?"

"I don't know if I want to...we're in a war and it's hard to feel it's affect on people"

"I wish you could feel how I'm feeling right now"

"Whys that?"

"I haven't felt this much for anyone in five years. I want to know how it affects you, I want to see your eyes shine when you feel how much I love you"

"You weren't lying when you said you were in love with me still?"

"No" he said "I wouldn't lie about that"

"I'm still in love with you too"

"Tell me you love me" he said, his eyes swirled with emotions

"I love you"

"Say it again"

"I love you" i placed my forehead onto his own and my hand on his cheek

He put his hand into my hair and the other on my neck
"I love you" he said back "I need to get you out of here"

"Come with me...please"

"Cora...I can't" he kept a strong grip on me "you don't understand how badly I want to though"

"I don't want to leave you"

"You're not safe here" he pulled out of our connection

"I don't care"

"I care" he said with no room for argument "I can't protect you from them, they will use you to toy with me. Blaise brought you here for that exact reason he wants me to be hurt. Seeing you in this cell bloody and in pain...I've never felt that much rage. He's not surviving the night"

"Find my wand I'll kill him"

"I'll find your wand but I am going to be the one to kill him. Let me have this, he hurt you because of what you mean to me. He won't stop hunting you down if he lives, he said he was going to come back to kill you tonight. Knowing him he hasn't told anyone you're here, once he enters the dungeon he's done"

Draco's head whipped to the door
We were both quiet, I could hear the soft sound of footsteps approaching
"He's back" he said