Stronger for You

Chp. 10 Only in Dreams

"For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud." - Dumbledore.

Draco’s P.o.V.

I blink my eyes open in the dream world. It was that sort of dream where you knew it was one, but it felt real too. One of those surreal sort of things.

I look around; it was a pretty decent place. Homey and comfy, a bit bumpkin-like place. The pond glittered in the setting sun, the trees ranging around it and offering spots of shade. A sandy shore reflects the sun’s rays.

“Draco” I whip my head around at the voice. Her voice. She was standing there, in a gorgeous bathing suit. Her body glistens with a thousand water droplets, her hair damp and dripping along her shoulders. It was shorter than I remembered.

Her storm grey eyes danced with flames and her skin was flushed.

My breath flew out of my lungs. By Salazar, she was so beautiful. And so…alive. My heart nearly beat itself out of my chest. Every molecule of my entire being was attuned to her. I blink and find myself in front of her without having moved. She’s looking up at me with an amused expression.

“Jacky” I whisper as she grins widely, her ruby red lips stretching over white teeth. I caress her cheek, pressing our bodies closer. Her eyes close as I bend my face to hers, brushing my lips against her own.

The contact nearly makes me come undone. I wrap my arms around her body, lowering us to the ground. The sand brushes against my arms as I linger over her.

Please, let me be dead. That was the only way this could really be happening. Maybe I was killed in my sleep? I hope so.

I look back down at her and all of the bad things go away. The horribleness of the past month and I feel as if I’m transported back to the first night we were completely together in every way.

“I love you” I say the words I’ve been aching to tell her. She stays silent, only her eyes widening telling me that she understood. I lean closer, our lips about to touch once more. I sigh as they do; closing my eyes.

“Forever” I murmur against them. They are scratchy and chapped; unlike they were two seconds before. I pull away, opening my eyes.

I choke back a scream and jump to my feet. She’s decaying right before me; her face drying out, her eyes turning yellow, her hair falling to the sand. Her skin was cracking and her body seemed to shrink as the seconds ticked by.

I close my mouth and force my face to indifference. I wouldn’t let this haunt me. I would remember only her beauty, her compassion. This wasn’t her.

I tried to turn away, but found that I couldn’t. I was forced to watch as she fell apart right before my eyes, causing them to try to tear up and making me swallow painfully several times to stave off the cries.

Yet, as she finally turns to dust, I cannot hold myself in check. I fall to my knees, reaching out for the dust as it flies away into the air.

“Jacky!”

I jerk awake, panting heavily. Drenched in sweat, my hair falling over my face and the sheets twisted around me. Before I can register much more, my door opens silently and my mother hurries in, her wand out. The shimmer of charms alerts me to silencing spells over my door.

“Mother?” I question. She puts a finger to her lips and looks out the door for a moment more. As nothing happens, she closes it just as silently before rushing to my side, scooting me over and sitting on the edge of my bed. She stares into my face, scrutinizing me with narrowed eyes.

“Draco, tell me about what has been bothering you so. I’ve had enchantments over your room for several nights but your screams still escape.” She pleads with me. I gape at her before composing myself.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I lie. She glares at me before dropping it. She can never stay too mad at me. Her eyes soften and her nose scrunches in the way it always does when she is about to cry.

“What happened? What happened that haunts you so? You have not cried in such a long time.” I duck my head in shame as she brushes away the tears on my face; something I just noticed.

“I can’t. Don’t make me say it out loud, mother.” I ask quietly, my eyes fixated on my sheets. She shifts and wraps her arms around me tightly, causing me to tremble.

Two things no man can resist. Their mother’s hug and the embrace of their lover’s. The two safest places one could ever be.

I had lost mine, watched her murdered before my very eyes.

My mother was all I had left.

My throat closes up and suddenly sobs escape. I clench my hands around my mouth to stop them. I refuse to cry like this. I refused to.

“Draco, honey please.” Mother whispers. I shake my head.

“I’ll add my own charms and take sleeping potions, Mother. I won’t speak of it. I won’t.” I tell her. I look up at her with fierce eyes and she nods in defeat, her eyes red.

“I am always here, Draco, if you want to speak. Never forget that.” She got up and left. I saw her hands shaking as she closes the door. I sit staring at the door for hours afterwards, unable to really think. The image of Jacky rotting was stuck in my mind. I couldn’t get rid of it no matter what I tried.

I searched my mind for the memory I had locked away. My hands grip the sheets as nothing appeared. Please! Please, I’ll do anything to see her again. Just once.

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Merry Christmas Eve my lovelies! I hope you liked the chapter. The next one is BIG. BIG people. A major revelation in the story. I hope you all can handle it :) It will be up Christmas Day <3