Love or Something like It—A Remix
By chibiCIRRUS

Author's Note: I originally wrote this story around Christmas time, but I decided to expand it a bit. I actually ended up cramming the original story into one chapter, hence the "Remix" part of the title. Anyways, sit back and enjoy!

Disclaimer: If I owned them, I wouldn't be writing fanfic. Unless, of course, you count Elizabeth. I do own her.

On with show!

Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

--Erica Jong

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"It's just snow. You do know what snow is, don't you, Eliza?" Liz Rider jumped and turned around and came face to face with two beautiful gray eyes that belonged to…"Malfoy? I didn't even know that you knew what a library was, and yet, here I see you."

"Funny, Rider. Did you think of that yourself or did you have Potter write down a bunch of smart quips for you to throw at me?" Draco had come to the library to get away from the Christmas festivities of the raucous Slytherin common room. He was sick of all the fuss Pansy and the others made over Christmas. It was, after all, just another holiday. He'd hardly been expecting to find the new girl, his latest arch nemesis here.

"You know, Ferret, very well that I do not need Potter to spoon feed me. And anyways, even if he had written down a bunch of insults to fling at you, I'd hardly be using them now. We broke up this morning, or didn't you here all the excitement at breakfast?"

"Eliza Rider and Harry Potter, Hogwarts' dream couple, broke up? Amazing, simply amazing, who would have thought that—"

"Would you just cut it out, Draco? It's hard enough as it is without you laughing in the background. And anyways, haven't I told you not to call me Eliza? The name's Liz, just Liz."

"Well, well, well," drawled Draco, "the mudblood does have a mind of her own. Usually she just goes on agreeing with everything the Dream Team says."

"Shut up, just shut up Malfoy." Sadly, however, it was true. Ever since she had started attending Hogwarts in September, Elizabeth Rider had done nothing but follow in Harry, Ron, and Hermione's shadows and study. She practically lived in the library whenever she wasn't with them. And whenever she was in the halls by herself, she was constantly picked on by the Slytherins, especially Malfoy who had taken a liking to calling her Eliza, a name which greatly got on her nerves.

"And why don't you just go away? Just…just…just leave me alone, okay?"

"Your wish is my command, dear lady. I shall depart now and take my leave," Malfoy said with a bow and a smirk.

"You know, Malfoy, it's mean to pick on people when they're heartbroken…Malfoy? Malfoy, are you…there?"

Liz turned around to find that Malfoy had, indeed, left her.

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"So, mudblood, what are you reading today?" Malfoy asked as he stole Liz's book from right under her nose.

"Malfoy! What the hell are you doing here? And give that back, you can't just go snatching people's books away from them when they're reading, you know."

"Hmmm…I've never heard of this one before. What's it about anyways, Eliza?"

"My name's not Eliza, Malfoy."

"Oooh…Temper, temper, Eliza. So, what's this play about anyways?"

"It's about two star-crossed lovers from feuding families whose deaths end up ending their long standing dispute."

"Wait a minute, you mean they die? What sort of a play is that?"

"It's Shakespeare, Malfoy. Gods, even you should know who he is."

"Well, was he a muggle? Because if he was, I wouldn't have heard of him."

Liz pauses and studies him for a moment, considering. "Here," she said, handing him the book, "you can borrow it if you promise to bring it back in one piece."

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"I want to be like them. Romeo and Juliet, I mean."

"You mean you want to die? Honestly, Draco. You do know that there're places for people like you, don't you?"

"Draco, huh? Why so familiar all of a sudden Ellie?"

"Does it matter? Do you really want to die that badly, Draco?"

"No. I just want to find love before I die. And eat some homemade cookies that someone made just for me out of love. That and have sex. Although, I do already have the last one covered."

"Eww, gross! I so did not need to know that, Draco. Anyways, I think it's kind of pointless to want to be like Romeo and Juliet. They end up impulsively killing themselves. They could have gone on living, maybe even finding someone else to love."

"Yes, but the point is they didn't want to. They found the person that they wanted to spend their entire lives with and ended up realizing that they couldn't live without that person. I've found someone who I feel that way for, I just can't ever manage to tell them how I feel."

"Sorry Draco, but Harry's not gay."

"I'm not even going to grace that statement with a comment, Rider."

"Oh, but I think you already have, Malfoy. Tell me who it is exactly that you're too scared to tell you love her."

Draco smiles. "She's amazing. She's beautiful, talented, smart, and funny, even though she doesn't think so. She's got a beautiful voice and amazing eyes and because of her, I've become a different person in a matter of weeks. She's…a goddess."

"A goddess? Please tell me this goddess has a name, ferret boy."

"I'm not sure if I should tell you."

"Why not? I mean, come on, Malfoy. How bad can she be? She sounds wonderful, unless…unless…oh no. Please, please, please don't tell me you're talking about Millicent Bullstrode. Oh please, Draco. I couldn't stand the monstrosity of the concept."

"It's not Millicent Bullstrode, I assure you, Liza. It's…someone else."

"Oh really…who?"

"I can't tell you that, mudblood."

"Yes you can. C'mon Dray…You can tell me."

"Believe me, if I could, I would."

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-chibiC