Whatever It Takes

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Chapter 1
- forests, and feelings -

"Draco! Draco! Where are you! Draco!" I ran through the forest just minutes before it got too dark to tell my way back to the castle. "Draco! You promised!" I walked over to a tree I didn't recognize and sat down and began sobbing harder.

"Natasha are you okay?" A familiar voice said walking out from behind a tree.

"Remus! What are you doing here?!" I ran over to him wiping my tears. "I-I-I-I c-can't find D-Draco I don't know what to do!" I said the beginning to sob again.

"Nat! Listen to me. I need you to find draco and run as far and as fast as you can away from me!"

"W-what?"

"Just do it! Do you understand!?"

"Y-yes"

"Run! I promise I'll tell you later. Run!" I began running as fast as I could.

"Draco Malfoy! Come on! This is getting serious!"

"Nat! Nat is that you!?" I saw him sitting at a tree with his arms hugging his knees to his chest.

"What's wrong?" I crouched down next to him and moved his bangs away from his eyes.

"I-I-I-I d-don't know." He said sobbing.

"Hey, hey, it's okay, it's okay. But we need to leave now!" I reached my hand out for him. He took it, relieved. We began running for the castle when we heard a low sounding howl. "No. No! Remus! We have to go. Now!" We began sprinting as fast as we could not following the path we were on. "Draco! Run!" I screamed as I turned around after stopping to catch my breath. Just a few trees away from Draco there were eyes.

"Nat!" He screamed. "Nat come over here now!"

"No! You need to come here! He is in the trees, just behind you!"

"Nat. Listen to me. Slowly walk over here." He said trying to be calm and pulling out his wand and pointing it towards me. "Nat on the count of three I need you to duck. Okay?"

"Yeah, okay." I said with a shaky breath.

"One. Two. Three... Stupify!" He screamed just after I ducked.

"Please! please! Please! Don't tell me that was what I thought it was." I ran over into his arms and buried my face in his chest.

"It's not what you thought it was" he said playing with my hair. "Nat I know it's scary, but you need to listen to me. We can not stay here we need to run." He said lifting my face up so I could see him. "I know you have it in you! Your a wrestler for fucks sake. You need to run! I'm right behind you."

I started sprinting and I heard Draco's foot steps behind me. "Nat you are so fuckin lucky your my best friend!"

"Trust me I know." We had finally made it out of the forest 'thank Merlin!'

I couldn't stop running even though I knew I was safe I ran into the castle and straight to the bathroom and to no surprise there was the very annoying ghost, myrtle.
"Oh hi, myrtle." I said out of breath and beginning to cry again.

"Did you almost die again?"

"Yep." I said burying my face

"No shocker there. Well if you did die you could have shared the bathroom with me."

"Hard pass." Just then I felt a hand on my shoulder and familiar voices. "Hi Hermione, what are you doing here?"

"Well draco wanted me to come check if you were in here because he didn't want to accidentally walk in on anyone, not like anyone ever comes in here."

"Of course he did." I said standing up and walking out the door to hug draco. 

"C'mon Nat, let's get you to bed." Mione said trying to pull me off of draco but I didn't let go I just stood there in his arms. He was a lot taller than me and made sure not to let me forget it. He didn't let go of me which ment a lot to me, it meant he needed it just as much as me. I don't know why but I couldn't stop crying I just sobbed quietly in his arms and I think he noticed but he didn't say anything.

After around ten minutes and around 30 people walking passed and some people checking in on me I finally let go of Draco but he didn't let go of me. I looked up at him and noticed that he was also crying but his wasn't a 'we almost died' cry it was a 'I can't lose you' cry, or a 'dont leave me' cry.

"Draco are you okay?"

He didn't answer which made me worry, I put my arms back around him and he began to cry even harder. After probably what was 30 minutes he let go of me and I looked deep in his eyes which were red and puffy from crying.

My bangs were in my face and he gently moved one piece behind my ear and grabbed my hand.
He walked me down the corridor not letting go of my hand and pulling me closer as we walked through the dungeon to the common room.

We got into the common room and I sat on the couch. "Nat, could you sleep with me?"

"Wow I thought we were just friends." I said trying to lighten the mood.

"You know what I mean, stop thinking like that." He said rolling his eyes.

"Yes, I'll sleep with you."

"Thank you." I knew he needed something to keep his mind off of things.

Draco sat on the couch watching the fire I sat down on the other side of it and started thinking. The way he makes me feel could I be... No! No... Maybe. Ughhhhh. I can't believe it. I of all people. Hermione and Ginny were right. Best friends can never be just best friends one always has to like the other. They were convinced that he liked me but no. I was the fool. I was the one that liked him.