Sanctuary ~ A Draco Malfoy Love Story

Prologue

A/n
This is my first fanfic pls appreciate :)

Alessa's POV
A bright green light blinded me. Screams deafened my ears. I felt as if I was falling but couldn't scream. Then I saw him.

I woke up in cold sweat. My cheeks were stained with tears. I sighed and turned on my table lamp. It was just 4:36 in the morning. I slumped back into my soft silk sheets and looked at the ceiling. After some useless staring, I got up and decided to take a walk in the gardens behind the Avery Manor.

I was walking softly down the marble staircase when I suddenly wished Draco was here, he could always comfort me in these situations. It's okay, I thought to myself, I would see him later in the morning. I opened the door to the garden, it was dark, so I wordlessly lit up my wand. The cold September breeze was refreshing. I walked past the roses, lilies, and hydrangeas. It reminded me of the Malfoy's garden. It was similar to mine, except that they grew peonies instead of lilies. I laid down on the empty path of soft grass and gazed off to the stars.

I was grateful that no one knew about my connection to Tom Riddle. Only my adoptive parents and the Malfoy's knew. If anyone else knew, I'd be an outcast or even banished from Hogwarts. I've seen pictures of him when he was in Hogwarts. We had the same hair color, a deep black, and the same eye color, a dark brown. We inherited these from our mother. Our mother's death was faked to after Tom's birth. She then had an affair with another pureblood which resulted in Maeve Gaunt, now known as me, Alessa Avery.

The Avery's were nice enough to adopt me as their own as they do not have a child and also because they thought they'd get an extra bonus from Tom if he came back. They were truthful enough to tell me everything once I was old enough. Which for them was eight. They, as loyal death eaters agreed to take in the last of the Gaunt pureblood line. Being in the inner circle with the Malfoy's made Draco and I best friends ever since we could talk. He's always been there for me in my ups and downs, bullied others for me and vice versa.

We weren't know as the nicest people in Hogwarts, my hatred for Female Weasel taking the best of me sometimes. And also Granger, that stuck up nerd who punched Draco in the face. Who does she think she is? Potter and I, although not in best terms, sometimes talk. He's enjoyable when he's not talking about that stupid scar or about Tom. He probably knows about my relationship to Tom as he started asking me questions about him at the end of second year. That bastard Tom blew my cover, and to Potter out of all people! I don't think he told anyone else, as no one brought it up to me, ever.

Apparently, Draco wasn't happy and, perhaps a tad bit, jealous of Potter's relationship with me. Which was what Blaise told me. In all honesty, he wasn't a horrible person, just another stuck up Gryffindor who thought they ruled the world, but Draco had nothing to be jealous about. We just talked sometimes about nightmares. Apparently Potter's scar hurt when he has dreams. Funny. I miss bullying the Gryffindors, the Weasley's were my favorite targets. They probably couldn't even afford more brain space to put in more knowledge.

The girl is annoying though, she's, dare I say it, such a Gryffindor. She thought she could jinx me. Granger got on my bad side ever since she punched Draco. I may have hexed her head to expand like a balloon and almost exploded. It would have been fine. Madam Pomfrey could just grow her head back. Draco laughed when he found out I got a week's worth of detention for hexing the muggleborn, or mudblood, as he would have said it.

I spotted the constellation that Draco was named after and smiled. I missed him a lot, especially after I spent most of the holiday with the Greengrass' in Italy. Father said that there was important 'ministry' business they had to attend. I knew it was actually death eater meetings that they attended, as my dark dreams connecting me to Voldemort became more frequent. I always had Draco beside me to comfort me when we were in Hogwarts.