Grudges

Chapter 23

Victoria was disgusted with herself, but mostly she was disgusted with her so called best friend. Her hands were shaking, she didn't know if it was from anger or disgust. She kissed Harry. Draco was sitting in front of her, but she couldn't bring herself to look him in the eyes. After everything she had said to him it must've been terrible to see her with Harry Potter of all people.

"Victoria?" Draco was the first to speak, they were alone in the common room, where they had waited for the potion to wear off. She felt disgusted with herself, her green eyes brimmed with tears at how soft Draco's voice sounded when he spoke to her. "Victoria. Look at me." He grabbed her chin and brought her face up so their eyes met. "It wasn't your fault."

"I'm so sorry Draco. I didn't mean any of that I never had feeling for Harry and I never would. I am so sorry." A tear escaped from her eye and he was quick to wipe it from her cheek.

"Victoria. I know you didn't mean it. I knew something was wrong the moment I saw you. It was all Hamilton."

"I can't believe she would do that to me! Merlin and I thought she was my best friend! She was supposed to be there for me, and have my back, what could I have possibly done to her to make her hate me this much?" Victoria was furious with Skye, she could barely breathe as she continued to rant "So what she doesn't like you? It's my life dammit! I'm allowed to love whoever I want to love! She's such a bitch I can't believe her."

"...so you love me huh?" Victoria's breath caught in her throat as her head whipped around to look at him, her green eyes wide.

"....well shit." Was all she said, Draco stood and stalked towards her with a smirk on his face, slowly backing her into the dark gray wall of the common room, the only sound in the room was the crackling of the fireplace as he placed his hands against the wall to trap her in. "Haha we keep ending up in this situation." Victoria said while avoiding eye contact.

Draco leaned down and kissed the shell her ear before whispering "I" he placed another kissed right below her ear "Love" and another on the hollow of her neck and trailed a few more upwards before reaching the corner of her mouth "You." He pressed his lips to her, moving them in a slow, passionate kiss, pressing her up against the cold wall of the common room. As the kiss escalated he wrapped his hands around the top of her thighs and lifted her, carrying her to the couch and sitting down, making her straddle him.

Victoria pulled away and rested her forehead against his, smiling broadly. "I love you, Draco."

She went to bed happy that night, smiling as she fell asleep in the comfort of her bed, watching the fishes swim by happily. Sadly, she was not expecting the nightmares to come.

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Skye held onto Fred's hand as the whole D.A looked at her with either hatred or disappointment. "Fred are they still looking at me?" Skye whispered as she scooted closer to him. Most people agreed saying Draco was an ass but agreed that Skye shouldn't of messed with their relationship.

"Okay guys that's enough. We've all messed up before." Fred said as he looked around at everyone. One by one people started talking amongst themselves. Skye kissed Fred lightly on the cheek as a thank you. It still didn't help the gossiping of students around them.

"My bet is she has Fred on a potion right now." Lavender Brown said just a few feet away from them. Fred tried to pull Skye back but failed as Skye marched right up to Lavender and slapped her in the face.

"Don't you dare ever say anything about me and Fred." Skye hissed. Lavender held her cheek in shock as she took a couple steps away from Skye. Fred gently grabbed Skye's arm and pulled her back.

Class went on and the tension in the room eased as they all started having fun learning new spells. Everyone was now looking at Harry as he explained how to cast a patronus.

"You need to think of the happiest memory to be able to cast your patronus." Harry explained as he casted his. A large stag pranced around the room then suddenly disappeared. Everyone stared in awe. "Okay, your turn."

Skye stood there thinking as she watched people start to cast their patronus. What was her happiest memory? It couldn't of been anything with her childhood because that was filled with books and study material.

"Ready Fred!" George said with a smile.

"Ready George!" Fred replied and casted their patronuses. "Alright!" They said together as a coyote danced around George and a hyena danced around Fred. Skye took a deep breath and thought back to one of her happiest memories.

"Are you guys seriously trying to get me? Ha I finally showed you." Skye had her hands on hips as she looked at the two ginger haired boys that sat on there butts. Both boys were covered in bright pink glitter and Skye had planned it all. She walked over held out her hands to help them up. Only to have them pull her down with them and smear glitter all over her face. All three of them laughed as the glitter was thrown between them.

"I'm Fred-" "and I'm George." The twins said with a bright smile.

Skye laughed a bit as she thought back to it. Meeting the twins was probably the best thing ever.

"Expecto patronum." Skye said as a raven flew out of her wand and flew in between her and the twins. She couldn't believe that worked. She watched her raven with a bright smile.

"What was your memory?" Fred asked her as he watched her raven. Skye looked at Fred and George and laughed.

"Glitter war." she stated making all three of them laugh. The class was filled with patronuses that was until a loud thud hit the wall making everyone go silent. Everyone watched as Harry went towards the wall.

"It's Umbridge." Harry said as he ran back and the wall exploded. Skye saw Umbridge with her squad of goons. Malfoy being one of them. They were all caught and couldn't do anything about it. Umbridge had chosen a few of them to take in for questioning Skye being one of them. Malfoy had a tight grip on Skye's arms making her growl.

"Malfoy let me go," she spat as she struggled to get out of his grip. Instead of following Umbridge he turned a corner leading Skye towards the dungeons. They had stopped in a dark corner.

"What the fuck Malfoy let me-" Skye stopped mid sentence when she saw who was waiting for them.

"Fancy seeing you here."