Loving You - Dramione/Blinny Veela

Ch. 30

Blaise listened as Draco told him everything that had happened between drinks of firewhiskey. Draco was upset with himself for losing his temper with his mate, and had already downed two glasses of firewhiskey out of guilt for yelling at her.

"Mate, you fucked up bad," Blaise stated when Draco had finished.

Draco glared at him. "Thanks, I had no idea."

Blaise shrugged and said, "At least you know she loves you."

"Yea, but she said it out of anger. She might not have even meant it," Draco said sadly as he looked into his glass. "I shouldn't have accused her of only accepting me to keep me alive."

"No, you definitely shouldn't have," Blaise agreed. "Though we all know you have a tendency to lose your temper easily and try to hurt the other person you're arguing with as quickly as possible."

"I didn't want to do it to her though," Draco said, finishing his third glass. "She deserves better than me."

"I'm not going to deny that," Blaise sighed. "But at the same time, she's obviously the person you need."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that she's helping you change into a better person," Blaise explained.

Looking at his friend, Draco raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, clearly I'm becoming a better person since I reverted back to yelling and trying to hurt her so I can win the argument."

Blaise rolled his eyes. "Yeah, but when was the last time you did that? You two hardly argue, and this argument most likely needed to happen so that you two can progress in your relationship."

"Maybe," Draco trailed off. "I hope she can forgive me."

Blaise opened his mouth to speak but then paused, turning his head towards the door. "Ginny's coming."

Draco listened then and heard footsteps, looking at his friend. "How do you know it's Ginny?"

"Because it's her scent."

Almost immediately, the door burst open to reveal an angry redhead, who stormed over to Draco. Ginny stopped in front of him and pointed at him.

"Now you listen to me, Malfoy," She started in a low, threatening voice. "You need to learn that Hermione doesn't normally operate on emotions, so she is trying to figure this out the best she can. She deals with situations logically because that's the only way she knows how, and she's not used to going based off of what she's feeling. It's terrifying her since she doesn't always know how to think a situation through emotionally, and now that she's been practically thrust into an emotional situation, she's panicking. It also doesn't help that she has no basis for a romantic relationship except for my idiotic brother. The fact that she is having her emotions run something for practically the first time in her life is extremely difficult for her, and you should not be making it any more difficult!"

Draco stared between the finger pointed in his face and Ginny's anger-filled eyes. He was too scared to say anything, but he didn't have to as Ginny pointed towards the door and continued.

"Now, my best friend is sitting on her bed, crying because she's told herself that the man she loves only thinks she's accepted him to save his life. You better go over there and convince her otherwise, or so help me Merlin, I will change you back into a ferret and use you as target practice for hexes!"

The two boys stared at her with wide eyes, too scared to move. Draco then slowly stood up, inching his way around her and practically running out of the room. Blaise sat in his spot, watching her with a frightened look on his face while she fumed silently, pouring herself a shot of firewhiskey.