Enchanted ──── Draco Malfoy

chapter eleven

chapter eleven : you can do nothing wrong, in my eyes.

SAPPHIRES PERSPECTIVE

snow had fallen, winter had come. i could no longer feel the tips of my fingers or the warmth of my blood. we were finally returning to hogsmeade after what had felt like an eternity of waiting. we had all promised mcgonagall we wouldn't have a repeat of last time although i doubted it majorly

fortis had been getting worse as the days went on, i couldn't bear to be around him, all of his conversations consisting of status and wealth and purity

fortunately, draco had improved around me. i could tell behind his eyes he was angry at me and my friends but i appreciated he hid it

that's all i wanted off him, he didn't have to be the best of friends with harry but i just wanted him to civil around me and him, to be truthful i couldn't care what was said without me there. boys will be boys and rivals will be rivals. i couldn't change their fate of hating one another but i could prevent my own of being in between it all

i admire both of them, in different ways of course

i believe harry's brave and funny, he's kind to me and always shows me compassion when i need it most, over the past four months we've bonded over silly things and he's made me laugh at times when i needed to most

we'd been friends before but after his quidditch match i've started spending a lot more time with him, ron and hermione. we make a good group but i'm still not entirely sure on where we stand

but with draco, i'm not entirely sure what it is. im drawn to him, heavily. when i'm with him it feels as though everything's right. like we're meant to be. im not entirely sure on what it is, what we're to "be" exactly but it's something i don't understand. i don't know if i ever will.

perhaps i'm mistaking something as little as a connection for something deeper and stronger, but it's weird. i feel like it's almost as if we where meant to meet. he just gets me. im proud to consider him my best friend, he's different around his friends but he's still my bestfriend.

me and draco stood together in the courtyard, angelic white snow plastered the floor, the air cold and brisk like the arctic

we both had slytherin scarfs wrapped around our necks, big coats and winter hats on, to keep us warm. we looked silly, you could barely see our faces from the amount of layers we had on

we joked as we made our way to hogsmeade, towards the back of the large group was the "slytherin lads" as they'd call themselves. fortis- who seemed to be their ring leader, blaise zabini, crabbe, goyle and pansy who for some unknown reason had attached herself to fortis's hip practically

i couldn't see the attraction to my brother that other people saw, im not talking just girls but boys to. perhaps it was a male thing i wasn't sure of but countless boys admired and looked up to him, bumming up to him at any chance they got. i thought it was embarrassing, wanting to prove yourself to someone so badly

but maybe i was just sour it wasn't me the attention was on. i often felt lost from the rest of my siblings, disconnected almost.

aurora was the gorgeous, confident one, fortis was the cunning and charming one, and lara was the smart and pretty one.

i couldn't help but compare myself to my siblings constantly. i wanted the brains of lara, the charm of fortis and the glamour of aurora. my mother often said i was a combination of all three of them put into one. but i always thought she was just saying that to make me feel better

my dad said, i was the mini him. i would be the one to lead our name and heritage to new strengths and developments. that i'd guide our family in ways i couldn't imagine, but i didn't believe it. if anything it'd be fortis. he had the ambition and charm to do it. whatever "it" is

i love my dad, i do. but he confuses me sometimes it's as though he speaks in riddles. when i'm with him it feels as though i can't trust a word he says but also in a way where you want to believe everything he says and does.

im not entirely sure what he has planned for us, but he has a plan for all of us. he calls us four his prized possessions. in his office he has a locked cabinet with draws labelled with each of our names on, folders placed inside with our "plans" for the future stored inside

his office is locked by some sort of spell, his cabinets with our names on are locked, the key to the cabinets are locked. he doesn't let us into his office without his supervision, even mum.

he'd do anything for us, i know that. i really do. but it scares me, the lengths he's go for us. our father's capable of things i can't even imagine. the only way i even knew all of this is from what i've gathered from different events

people talk. when you're a child and at the many parties your parents and their friends host. they talk. not to me but to each other

they assume you're not listening when you're sat somewhere in a corner on your phone or scribbling away in a notebook, but you are. it was my favourite thing to do. they assume you can't hear, but you can.

i've heard of the things he's done. that's been protected by our family and our friends. he's killed people to protect us, i know that. but he doesn't know i know.

i assume aurora, fortis and lara know. but we've never spoke about it to each other. perhaps out of fear or maybe out of respect. i really don't know.

i've told draco about it. maybe i shouldn't have but he's not said a word to anyone and i trust him more than anyone realises. i've confided a lot in him, usually our late night chats in the common room consist of dark family secrets and deep talks

i often asked if he thinks i'll turn out the same as my father. a common repeating question i'd ask. and he'd always reply the same "you could do nothing wrong in my eyes" a quote which often made me smile, even thinking about it now it brings a smile to my face

his family was similar to mine, his dad almost exactly like mine. it didn't take long of knowing him and sending laters back and forth to our families for us to be told our dad's were old friends. not surprising either of us

those similar to you, you attract. draco was exactly like me. he'd be at his family gatherings and be sat in the corner listening

i often imagine what life would be like if we'd have met before hogwarts. i can imagine us sat in the corner of a party listening to our mums, both drunk, gossiping away about our family affairs. they assume no one's listening. but we are. we always were.

after awhile of thinking, i realised we had arrived at hogsmeade. i'd gotten lost in my track of thoughts once again. "honey dukes?" he asked

i nodded, making our way to shop. ready to feel warmth, finally.

A/N : sapphires first pov chapter!! woohoo! im sorry if it gets confusing but the next chapters will be mixed. some will be the pov of sapphire, the narrator, draco? and maybe eventually other characters but they wont be as long of chapters as ones of the pov of draco, saph or the narrator unless necessary

also! in future chapters we will get a few parties and get to see the stuff draco & sapphire overhear

the van helsing chapters are ones you are not gonna want to miss!!