ethereal {draco malfoy romance}

4.

 Upstairs in Gryffindor tower, the dormitories were full of buzzing students unpacking their trunks in their new rooms. In one of these were five overly-hyper third year girls. Faye was thrilled with everything she had seen of her house so far, sighing contentedly as she laid out her last belonging, a photo frame showing herself with a woman and younger boy. The other girls in her dorm - Hermione luckily, and three others, Parvati, Lavender and Alice, who she had concluded were really quite nice - were already fooling around playfully. Faye had just missed a levitating pillow when something tapped the window nearest her bed. Investigating, she discovered an owl on the ledge, rapping it's beak on window very loudly. Faye shot a desperate glance at Hermione, who bound over to her.

"Oh! Don't worry, it's just Professor McGonagall's owl."

She opened the window and let the noisy bird in, untying something from it's ankle, and shooing it back outside.

"I know he's a bit antsy for an owl, but we don't see him much anyway. Must be important then! Here - " she handed the piece of parchment to Faye, who read the note aloud.

Faye Callas,
The headmaster has requested you join him in his study

to discuss your arrival. We hope you are settling in well,
welcome to Gryffindor house.

Professor McGonagall

P.S. Please consider lemon drops.

Hermione seemed very calm about this.

"Ah well, at least you've finished unpacking! You better go on now, you shouldn't be gone long."

Faye regarded her skeptically. "Alright. But if I return to see Ron's eaten all the chocolate frogs..."

"Just go, will you?! As if I would ever let him, anyway." Hermione stated huffily, pushing her towards the door.

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Faye was walking quickly to Dumbledore's office, after having taken a few too many wrong turns, when she spotted someone walking toward her in the corridor. The shockingly pale head of hair was hard to mistake, though he was reading something and consequently hadn't yet noticed her.

"Draco? Hello again."

Draco's head snapped up at her voice, regarding her warily.

"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off making friendship bracelets with the Gryffindors?"

"Sorry to disappoint your paranoia Draco, but I'm here for Dumbledore." She replied smartly, enjoying making the Malfoy blush ever so slightly. "Anyways, what are you doing out? I thought you'd be off putting dye in Harry's shampoo, judging from what I've heard."

Draco scoffed, "oh please, I'd never do something so childish."

"I never said I believed what I heard, Draco."

Faye's voice was soft in the empty hall and her words made Draco watch her carefully, looking for a trace of malice on her face, though he found none. She kept his eye contact, smiling slightly, as silence filled the corridor. He seemed increasingly skeptical of her, but eventually spoke slowly, as if gauging her reaction.

"I am seeing Snape."

Faye raised a delicate eyebrow at him. "Now, I appreciate your honesty, but don't you think he's a bit too old for you?"

Her joke shook a laugh out of the blond, who seemed slightly more relaxed.

"You're very odd Faye Callas."

Faye simply nodded in response.

"You're also a Gryffindor."

Faye nodded again.

The Slytherin didn't seem to have anything else to say, just stared at her, slightly dumfounded. She suddenly remembered her rush to this meeting - this meeting which she had been standing outside of for five minutes.

"Terribly sorry to cut this short but I'm late for the headmaster, so I should go in now." She said, turning to the large statue Hermione had informed her was the door to Dumbledore's study. Tilting her head back towards the blond, she smiled slightly,

"But I do hope we can continue this some other time."

Mumbling the password 'lemon drops', Faye stepped into the now-visible staircase.

"See you around Draco!" she threw down, leaving a very confused boy in her wake.

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AHHHHHH!!!! I KNOW I KNOW I'M A TERRIBLE PERSON!!!
I haven't updated recently AND this is such a short lil chapter - but it did have tons of Draco in it!

Really am sorry about not updating, I had mock exams and a pile of schoolwork to do so I've been so insanely busy BUTTTTT I will be uploading the next chapter oh so soon <3 so thank you very much for reading and sticking with me!! Let me know how you're liking it!

xx emelia