It had begun in their first year. Nobody had known, not even his closest friends. Nobody had known that Draco Malfoy was in love with an apple. He had been unloved by his Death Eater parents for all of his life and so he loved that Apple was never rude to him and did not cause him to cry himself to sleep at night. He was now in his sixth year and his secret had still not been discovered. He had however been forced to use Apple to test a vanishing cabinet in the Room of Requirement, and that had been the final straw. He had left his family to start a new life with Apple, away from everyone.
Draco POV - Third year
Apple! Where are you! I have been looking for you for at LEAST five minutes now! Look - Professor Flitwick has shown me how to perform a charm on you that will stop you rotting, and I have stolen some healing balm from Madame Pomfrey that will heal you if anyone takes a bite out of you by accident. Thinking about it, if anyone does take a bite out of you I can just tell my Father that they hit me and then he will curse their families - yay! I wonder if Potter, Weasley or Granger like Apples...
Oh, sorry Apple, don't worry, i won't purposely get them to eat you! I am sure that it would hurt you so I will make sure to keep you safe. I will keep that balm only for emergencies.
Apple POV
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Draco POV - Fourth year
The Triwizard Tournament, how I wish that I was old enough to enter - I would make you so proud if I won. What!? In Apple years you are 19? No! Please! I may have put a speaking charm on you last week but you cannot write your name on the paper. Wait, you'll ask someone else to do it for you? You can't. They'll think they are going mad if an apple starts speaking to them, and besides, you are not an official member of Hogwarts so it wouldn't count. I know the Goblet of Fire is a binding magical contract but still! Anyway, I didn't receive a letter from home this week and my Father didn't say goodbye to me on the platform so I am going to go to my room and cry.
Apple POV
Hehehe, I'm not 19! I was just having a joke!
Draco POV - Fifth year
Thank God for Transfiguration lessons! Today, after I had finished the assignment in record time, I asked Professor McGonagall if it was possible to turn an object into a human. She said that it was possible to change an inanimate object to a human FORM, but they would not be able to think, move or speak. Well, you can already think and speak so combined with an animation charm, you should be a human just like me! You know, I reckon that lovely Professor Umbridge would let you join the inquisitorial squad! We get pumpkin juice and cauldron cakes every week but we also have to help her stop people being naughty, so we get to act like spies which is great fun - you would enjoy it!
Apple POV
Professor Umbridge won't let me join! I can't believe that she said you were either playing a prank on her or having hallucinations, it's not fair!
Draco POV - Sixth year
Oh Apple, I love how you are nice to me, and never rude. You never tell me what to do, or force me to do things I don't want to do. I know that you have to stay in your Apple form so people don't ask questions but your speaking charm still works, and yet you never insult me! Oh Apple, I love you so much more than all of my family combined - they tried to make me declare my loyalty to their creepy friend Lord Voldemort, but I told them that it would be too hard to hide a Dark Mark at school. I did go to one of their meetings though, remember? You came too and that bald, nose-less lunatic thought I had brought you along as a snack for him, like a Teacher's Pet! After he had EATEN you, he threw your core over his shoulder into a dusty corner!I had to accio you back - that's just insult to injury!
Apple POV
Ouch...
A Few Weeks Later...
Draco POV
NO! Apple! I cannot believe it - I am not even a Death Eater and yet I am being made to do the Dark Lord's bidding and use you to test the vanishing cabinet in the Room of Requirement! Thank heavens I still have some healing balm left from regrowing you last time, but I cannot bear to think of you being hurt again. Oh Apple,what am I to do?
Apple POV - In the Cabinet
Bye bye Draco dearest, I will see you later Sweetiepie!
Dark...
I can hear strange sounds...
Light...
Scary looking lady - wow woman, you call that bird's nest hair?!
Ouch! Hey, don't bite me or Draco will curse your family!
What do you mean Draco is your family?
Dammit, he can't curse you without cursing himself too!
Dark again...
Owwww, I want Draco!
Light at last
Oh Draco,how I have missed you! Your mean and nasty aunt took a bite out of me; can you kiss it better? Oh right, the balm will heal it. Thank you my dearest Draco!
Draco POV
Apple! Oh you poor thing! I have an idea, let us run far away from here,somewhere where the Death Eaters will never find us and I will never have to kill Dumbledore. Oh, think about it Apple, I will not have to live with parents who cause me to cry myself to sleep at night!
A/N
Happy Birthday Maisie!!!
So that's the background story stuff out of the way, now we can crack on with the ACTUAL story, that is not written in an awful monologue form - phew!!!
*Emily*
