Lexi Layyer my only weakness*hp fanfic*

Deal

I couldn’t hear anymore of Lucius and Narcissa’s words. I’d already heard enough. After mumbling an excuse to leave, I scrambled out of my armchair, out the breakfast room and up the stairs, to Lexi’s bedroom. I had to find her. I had to tell her.

But I threw the bedroom door open only to find it eerily empty. I frown. “Lexi?”

No answer. I take two steps back into the corridor and call her again. Frowning, I venture into her room, as if I’ll just magically find the answer of her location in there.

I hear footsteps coming down the corridor and my hopes soar, but Lexi doesn’t arrive at the doorway. Instead, it’s the last person in the world I want to see at that particular moment.

“Draco,” I growl malevolently.

Draco takes one look at me, smirks, and slumps against the doorframe. “Well,this is embarrassing,” he says. “…Both of us turn up at the same time to see the same girl and she’s not even here.”

“Why are you here?” I demand angrily, marching over towards him, in no mood to put up with him.

“Whoa, whoa, easy boy,” chuckles Draco, holding up his arms in a ‘surrender’ gesture. “Well, the same reason you are. I just like being around her.”

“Leave her alone, Draco,” I say firmly. “You’ve hurt her enough already.”

“Shut up, Blaise,” he mutters, wincing, his cheery demeanor quickly slipping.

“Why don’t you get it?” I press. “When will I ever get through to you? Or are you too stubborn to even be able to admit it to yourself?”

“Admit what?” Draco frowns.

“Look at you,” I scowl. “No matter how much you think you care about her, you can only ever hurt her. It’s happened before, and it’ll happen again. So leave her alone.”

“Just because Lexi and I aren’t the perfect happy-ever-after couple doesn’t mean we don’t belong together,” Draco says. “We’ve both been through a lot together…”

“Eurgh, I can’t stand hearing all thisbullshit!” I exclaim in frustration. “She doesn’t belong with you, Draco!”

“Look, whether you like it or not, Lexi and I always come back to each other,” Draco cuts over me. “And if feelings keep coming back, then they’ve never really left, have they? Just like mine and Lexi’s feelings for each other won’t ever leave. No matter what.” He hesitates. “…Besides, I’ve vowed to myself I won’t hurt her again.”

Listening to him say all these things is just too much and before I even know what I’m doing, I snap.

“Shut the fuckup!” I exclaim, charging towards him, ready to punch the living daylight out of him. I just can’t believe it – won’t believe it – that he might possibly be able to snake his way back into her heart, again.

Draco catches my arm before I can do anything and grips it tightly. And then, before I know it, he’s laughing.

“Look at us,” he sighs bitterly, dropping my arm. He pulls his hands over his face and it takes me so much by surprise that I almost forget I’m angry.

“We’ve been best friends for six years,” Draco continues. “And it’s all gone in an instant, just for one girl.”

I want to keep shouting insults at him, to make sure he feels so low he’ll never go near Lexi again, but his words have me stumped. Because they’re true – ridiculous, but true.

Still – “I think we both know Lexi’s not just any girl,” I tell him, and despite everything, we both smile.

A pause. But I can only squash my burning curiosity for so long. “You really love her, don’t you,” I murmur.

Draco’s eyes look faraway. “With everything I have.”

I’ve known Draco Malfoy for six years, and in that time have collected a pretty accurate impression of him – spoilt, self-absorbed, arrogant, bigoted, cowardly, snobby… I’d only put up with him because he was, in terms of blood, an equal… still, in this time, it was safe to assume that was as far as his character stretched.

But hearing him say those words showed a side to him I never even knew existed. He sounded so genuine, so determined, so dedicated it took be my surprise.

It looked like Lexi really did bring out the best in everyone – even someone like Draco Malfoy.

I sigh. “Well in that case I think we ought to call it a truce.”

Draco’s eyes flicker to mine. “What do you mean, ‘in that case’?”

“We’re both in love with her, and she needs all the protection she can get,” I say. “She doesn’t need us fighting over her on the sidelines compared to what else will be happening soon.”

Urgency’s quickly spreading all over Draco’s expression. “What do you mean, ‘all the protection she can get’? What’s going on?”

I sigh deeply. “He’s coming, Draco…Voldemort’s coming for her. And I don’t know what he wants with her, - or what he wants her to do, but… Lexi’s going to need all the support she can get.”

It takes Draco roughly a minute to take this all in. Finally, he holds out a hand to me. “All right. Your truce is accepted.”

We shake hands. “For Lexi?” he asks.

I nod stiffly, gripping his hand. “Always..”