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You Need A Shower.

Draco wouldn't tell me what he dreamt. I asked him a million times but still no avail. He got nervous everytime he kissed me and it was never quite the same as before. I kept telling him Hogwarts was safe and noone could hurt him here. He always said that it didn't make a difference. Nightmares started every night, not the same thrashing as before but I felt afraid to sleep without him.

Tonight I heard screaming in the common room. I scrambled down the stairs and Draco was panicking on the sofa. I guessed Crabbe had kicked him out.

"Draco? Are you okay?" I wrapped my blanket around my shoulders.

He nodded and pushed the duvet onto the floor. He was wearing a long sleeved shirt to cover his Mark but only boxer shorts below that. His cheeks were hollow and it looked as if he hadn't been sleeping for days.

"I'm staying here." I said stubbornly.

"No... You need sleep." He argued wearily.

"And so do you." I walked over to where he was layed and put my duvet on the floor next to him. I curled up ontop of the blankets and turned so I was facing him. Beads of sweat were piled upon his brow and his shirt stuck to his chest, even though it was freezing down here.

We both dozed off without talking until Draco started thrashing around again. I reached up to grab his arm and woke him. I quickly moved back again to look like I was still asleep.

He grunted and shifted his weight. "No... no. Where is she?" He whispered. He reached down and touched my shoulder. Instantly he calmed down, but sat up and kept breathing heavily. I felt the pressure of him standing next to me and then him moving over me. A hand touched my waist then a body was pressed against me.

Draco wrapped his arm around me and covered me with his leg. He was sticky with sweat but I ignored it. It was the first time he had chosen to show affection in days. His breath on my neck was warm and he buried his head into my shoulder. I shivered and he laughed gently. There were no more nightmares that night.

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I woke up, still wrapped in Draco's body. I snuggled closer to him and felt him do the same. "Morning." I whispered.

"Hmmhm"

"We've got detention again soon. You need to get changed. And shower."

He lifted his arms and I crawled out of his grasp. Still his arms were in the air. "What?" I asked.

"Can you help?" He said it in a little baby voice and I couldn't say no.

I pulled him up and he buried his head in my shoulder. "I need to get clothes, then I'm off to shower."

I ran up the stairs and came back down with red joggers and a turlte-neck shirt. I didn't see Draco so he was either getting changed or in the showers. When I walked into the girls bathroom someone grabbed me from behind.

"Guess who?" Draco whispered in my ear.

"Better be a girl 'cos otherwise I think they're in the wrong bathrooms." I span around and gave him a stern look.

"Pleeaase?"

"No."

"C'mon. Please?"

"No!"

He pouted and walked off into the boys showers. You know what? Noone else was up yet so I thought, why not. I snuck across the hall and heard the shower running and Draco's clothes were hung outside. I got undressed quietly and opened the door.

"Ahh!" Draco yelped. Then a grin spread across his face when he realised it was me. His eyes flicked me up and down and he stepped towards me.

Hands were in my hair running soap through it. I stood and smiled, my hands clasped around his waist. He looked concentrated on my hair but his cheeks were red and I knew he was trying not to look at me. I brought his head down and kissed him, immediately his hands took hold of my waist and pushed me against the wall. He pulled back and gave me an evil grin. Biting his lip, he held me against the wall and looked me up and down.

Then he was pressed against me, kissing me and touching my hip, my waist, my thigh. He was everywhere all at once. I could feel him hot against my side. I grinned and kissed his collar bone, running my hands down his chest. My hands stopped at his stomach and I looked into his eyes.

"Don't stop there." He whispered and brought himself closer to me again. His chin was resting on the top of my head and his forearms planted just above me.

I reached down and he let out a sigh which quickly turned into a moan. His arms slipped down the wall and he held onto my shoulders for support. I tried to kiss him but his mouth stayed shut, chewing his lip and suppressing a groan. I settled for his neck and gently bit at his skin. I smiled as he moaned my name.

"Isabella-" He whispered, looking down and pressing his head into my shoulder.

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We got dry by wrapping each other up in towels. Draco had the biggest smile on his face and couldn't stop staring at me. When I'd finished getting dressed he came over to me, still wrapped in just his towel, and nuzzled into my neck from behind. He sighed and played with the toggles on my sweats.

"Do we have to go to detention?" He asked. "I'd rather skip with you."

"No, we need to. Everyone's mad at us anyways for losing 100 points." I picked his white shirt up off the floor and passed it to him.

He scrunched his brow. "But that's so boring."

"At least it's only an hour though. We won't be long."

"But-"

I cut him off, "If you don't make me late we can come back here tomorrow?"

He grinned at this and threw on the rest of his clothes as quickly as he could. Boys. Too easy. He put an arm round my waist and we set off to see the dreaded Snape.

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"You're late." Called out Snape as soon as we entered the room. We scrambled to sit down but the Professor grabbed Draco by his collar and moved him to the other end of the desk.

"Where's everyone else Sir?" I asked.

"They have late detentions. You two are separate because you seem to have been caught on multiple occasions."

Multiple? What was he saying? Umbridge only saw us that one time and before that was... Hermione wouldn't turn me in would she?

"Uh, sir, what other occasion was there?" Asked Draco.

"At the dance Malfoy. You two dancing made some people feel uncomfortable. I have no idea why, I found it rather touching. Umbridge wanted me to talk to you about it seen as you both seem to be sticking together still. You mustn't be seen sneaking around together inside school, although outside cannot be controlled."

We sat in silence for an hour. Copying out textbooks. Until Snape said we were free to go. I practically sprinted to the Great Hall, I did not want to miss breakfast. Only a few people were left and most of the food was gone. I managed to grab a couple croissants and bits of fruit before the remaining people were kicked out.

I hurried back to Draco who was dawdling through the halls and passed him some.