As the World Caves In

'Home'

Skye

   "Any luck?" Draco asks when I exit the house and he steps back from the door. "Nothing" I respond disappointed and start walking towards the car but he grabs my hand. I turn to him with hopelessness in my eyes "Are you okay?" he caresses my face. I close my eyes "No" I whisper and go closer to him as he opens his arms so he could hug me. He tightly embraces me as I sob "It's gonna be okay" he says reassuringly. Dray lets go off me and puts both of his hands on my face so he could look at me. He wipes away my tears "I'll make you some hot tea once we get back" he smiles softly. He puts his arm around me as we walk back to the car and Dray starts the car.

     When we get back to our mansion Narcissa is standing in the front door, waiting for us anxiously. "Are we late?" I ask my boyfriend. "I don't think so.." he hesitates. I get out of the car and gulp because who knows why Dray's mom is waiting for us so eagerly. As we get closer to the house I can see my dad standing behind Narcissa. "You're late" she says seriously. I look at my watch, we've only been away for 1,5 hour. "Sorry mom" Draco looks down sadly. I keep staring at my father wondering if that's his normally serious face or if he's mad. "Can we go upstairs?" I ask timidly as I look at Narcissa. "Separate rooms" father enunciates threateningly. I nod and go past them to enter the house. We go up the stairs and when we get to the top "Meet me in the kitchen in 10" he says softly. I go into my room and Draco goes to the guest bedroom.

     The next 10 minutes I spend without him is torture because I keep reliving what happened just half an hour ago with the Weasleys. Trying to distract myself I open my door and look across the hall to see Draco's room but unfortunately his door is locked. I slowly go down to the kitchen where I can see Dray making tea for me. This sight I see before mysef makes me smile, I'm so lucky I have him. "Hi baby" I hug him from behind. "I made you tea love" he turns to me and hands me the cup. I kiss him softly but he puts his hand on my waist to pull me closer. "So do you wanna talk about what happened in there?" he breaks the kiss but keeps his hand on me. "Apparently my brother did go to the Burrow but only to give me a message saying that I shouldn't look for him." I sum it up for him. "Yeah like that's gonna stop you" he jokes but it is the truth, he knows me well. I giggle softly and he kisses me on my cheek lovingly.

     Rest of the Christmas break goes swimmingly. Dray and I kind of forgot about the mission we have, which felt refreshing, we were actually having fun. But as all good things the vacation ended too and we had to snap out of it and get back to reality because school's about to continue. "I don't wanna go back" I say as we're laying in bed with his arms around me, facing each other. "I know but we have to..." he responds melancholic as he moves a strand of hair out of my face. "We're gonna be fine, right?" I ask concerned while fondling his face. "I'll protect you at any cost" he says firmly. Norbey appears in my room "Mistress you will be scheduled to leave in 15 minutes" he says as he briefly looks at me then covers his eyes, trying not to be respectful. "Thank you Norbey" I respond kindly and the house elf disappears. "How are you so kind?" Draco strokes my hair but I just giggle.

     We get to the train station say our goodbyes to our parents, they're both acting cold though so we leave and load our luggages on the train. "So what about our next plan?" I ask him as we get on the train. "She'll have it soon" he answers shortly so we won't get caught because we're trying to assassinate our headmaster. We sit down in our usual compartment "Hi Blaise" I greet him whe he sits down in front of me. "Apparently you guys came over to my house during the break. I covered for you two so can I know why I had to do that?" he says instead of greeting us. "We had business elsewhere" Draco responds mysteriously. "What's with all the secrets?" Blaise asks angrily but in a calm tone. "None of your business Zabini" my boyfriend shuts him down and Blaise scoffs. I look at Dray as I take his hand to comfort and affirm him that he's doing the right thing by not telling him about our task. Blaise looks at us with hate and suspicion but we're used to that, at least we have each other.

     The train slowly stops as it rolls into the station near Hogwarts. I turn to Draco to get up from my seat but notice that his face is once again pale, he must be nervous because we're here "Hey you okay?" I ask as I gently caress his face. "Yeah" he says with a straight face. I thought we weren't going to lie anymore. I take my hand off him slowly in disappointment. I understand that we have a facade to keep up but I thought he'd always tell me the truth. "Do you love me?" I ask randomly which makes Dray look at me weirdly. He looks around and when he sees that most of the students are gone he answers "Of course Skye" then forces a small smile on his face. "Then why are you lying about being fine?" I ask concerned. "I just didn't want to look weak in front of others... You're the only one I can be myself with" he explains as he blushes. "You're still great at flirting" I kiss him and he grabs my neck as he wants to stay like this forever. I wish it could be like that. One day maybe.

     When we reach Hogwarts they search us again just like they did at the beginning of the year. Fortunately we're cleared so we continue our path and go into the slytherin common room. "Home sweet home" I say a bit sarcastically but it really is the only thing I can call home at the moment. I sit down on the couch exhausted as I think about what this year still holds for us. We thought up a new plan, I really hope this one will work, because I don't want to watch Draco kill someone.. He couldn't. If it comes to that point I'll do everything in my power so he won't be the one that has to say the killing curse. "Do we already have quidditch practice tomorrow?" Blaise asks annoyed. "Yeah and if you don't show up I'll replace you" I threaten him but he just scoffs furiously. We might have been a bit hard on him... "You know Skye I might not play quidditch anymore..." Draco turns to me. I take a moment to process what I've just heard. He wants to abandon my team, which was the only thing keeping me together last semester. "Wh...What why?" I ask confused. "I only stayed last year because I know you needed it but you're doing so much better now." he explains as he grabs my hand to comfort me and leans in closer to me"I need more time to work on the cabinet" he adds. He needs more time to fix it... Does he not believe that the poisoned mead will work? "Oh okay.." I say gloomy but force a smile on my face to encourage him.