*None of these characters belong to me- they belong to J.K.Rowling.
-SLASH- warning! For all you Homophobes out there- this is not for your gentle little eyes.
Chapter 1: The Scarlet Coloured Parchment
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"Shit".
That was the first thought that passed through Draco Malfoy's head as he woke up into a blue cloudless morning, on his first week of his 6th year at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
He wore his cloths (a black sateen shirt, black trousers, and a long black cloak with silver ornaments), put a Follow-me charm on his bag, and walked arrogantly towards the Great Hall for breakfast.
He settled between Crabbe and Goyle as usual, and after he insulted them a bit to improve his mood (this time he even surpassed himself) he started nibbling on his pancake. Halfway through his bite, a weird sight caught Draco's eye.
Harry Potter, the most hated student by Draco in the whole school, was lying on his back on the Griffindor's table, with Blaize Zabini kneeling above him, in a very sexy yet irritating pose… Draco shook his head angrily.
"I MUST stop taking these "relaxation" potions Snape makes for me…" Draco mentioned to himself with annoyance as he left the table, losing his appetite every passing minute, and leaving his plate to severe torture by Crabbe and Goyle who were fighting over the half left pancake.
Draco checked his watch and saw that he had half an hour left before his first period, so he decided to go for a short walk to the lake and back. He almost reached the lake's bank when he noticed a blurred image of a girl, kneeling to the ground. She coughed and threw up, and suddenly began shuddering. Draco shook his head and felt thankfull for the fact the sight in front of him was not again an illusion caused by one of Snape's potions. He looked again towards the place where seconds ago was the girl, and discovered she wasn't there anymore. He walked towards the place (Draco, running..? As if!) and was surprised to discover only cloths. Draco mentioned to himself that he liked black sateen thongs and went back toward school.
Repulsively, his first period was in Transfiguration. He sat down at the last row and picked out of his bag a book he was recently reading, "Voldermort- A Biography". Lately Draco began to explore the dark side of the magical population. His father, Lucious Malfoy, was hoping that Draco too, when he grow up and graduate from Hogwarts, will become a Death Eater, and tag along to the Lord of Darkness's service. But Draco wasn't so sure anymore that this was the future he desired… "Draco Malfoy!!!"
A certain yelling Prof. McGonagall drew Draco's concentration away from the 869th page when she noticed one of her students didn't gasp with astonishment as she turned her desk into a Blast Ended Skrewt within a single flick of her wand. Draco raised the most scornful tone of speech he could as he answered "What?" to her.
"10 points off Slytherin, get out of this class and don't even CONSIDER returning before I get a 2 acres long summary of... of… what book are you reading???"
Draco grinned nastily as he replied "Voldemort, Biography" leaving Prof. McGonagall with a half terrified (she wasn't used to hear You Know Who's name) half wreathed expression on her face.
This could have been a fine memory, if Draco hasn't noticed that this day was getting very annoying.
Because he had almost two free periods until his next lesson, Draco decided to go and swim for a while, and maybe check if there was anything new at the place where he saw that girl in the morning.
The blonde Slytherin entered his room, put on a black swimsuit, and walked towards the lake. When he finally reached the bank, he noticed with surprise that the girl he saw that morning was now lying dead and naked on the ground, with a scarlet coloured parchment thrown besides her open hand.
Draco tried to identify who she was. She had a beautiful long black hair, and a well shaped body. Her lips were full and velvet, especially over the pale background of her skin, which was now almost transparent, for she was dead. Her eyes were closed, yet Draco knew that if they were open, they would be black, their hue exactly as her hair's… Draco remembered what was that girl's name.
"Cho Chang" he said maliciously, "I wonder what Potter will think about this".
Draco snatched the parchment and slid it into his pocket. "I guess I will pass swimming today" said Draco to himself with an artificial sad tone. He walked away from the dead body, and returned to his dormitories.
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"have you noticed Malfoy's reeeeeeeeeeally odd behavior today? Hermione asked Ron and Harry at lunch time.
"What d'ya mean Herm?" asked Ron, his mouth full of mashed potatoes, and glanced at the Slytherin, just to be sure. Draco sat at his table, holding a scarlet coloured parchment and smirking maliciously. Draco turned suddenly to look directly at Ron, who quickly averted his eyes back towards Hermione.
"I wonder what he is reading..." added Hermione.
"Whatever that is, Herm, I'm sure YOU have read it already" said Ron, making Harry giggle.
Hermione gave Ron an admonitory glare and turned back to look at Draco again, when suddenly she noticed he was looking straight back at her.
He looked her in the eyes, and Hermione noticed the familiar mockery, which always appeared in his liquid silver eyes while looking at Harry's, Ron's or her direction. Hermione turned her eyes away, breaking their eye contact. She glanced at the parchment for the second time, and suddenly felt like she saw that parchment before..
Her eyes widened with terror as she realized why that parchment looked so familiar.
She got up from the table violently, dropping her chair back, and strode furiously over to the Slytherin table.
"Give it back Malfoy!!" she yelled at the still maliciously smirking Draco, and tried to snatch the parchment from him.
Draco waved with the parchment to tease her, and while his smirk widened, he answered her "I don't think so, Granger" and disapparated.
"But… But.. How?!" she screamed desperately, and told herself that if Malfoy knows how to apparate, then she definitely needs to learn how to apparate too. Wait, it's illegal… Arrrrrrrgh!
Hemione stormed out of the room through the Great Hall's doors, ignoring Ron's yelling after her, leaving a very confused Harry and Ron behind.
"If I were Malfoy, where would I disapparate to?" Harmione wondered, while slowing down and stopping at a diverge of two staircases, one leading down towards the dungeons, and the other one up, towards one of the Hogwarts towers.
"Oh, to the Slytherin common room, of course!" she said, satisfied, and went down towards the Slytherin dormitories. At one of the sharp turns in the steep staircase, someone suddenly bumped into her from behind. They rolled down to the end of the staircase.
The strange person got up immediately, and ran away before Hermione even began to realize what was happening.
She tried to get up on her legs, so she could check if everything was in order, when suddenly, whether it was for the shock of the fall or for the hit she got on her head from one of the stairs, Hermione lost her balance and fell unconscious to the hard floor.
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The steaming water washed over Draco's body, and relaxed him a bit. He hummed to himself a Nittle Graspar song, and let the water wash all the problems this strange day brought over on him.
"So… Granger and Cho were having an affair..." he thought to himself, after analyzing again in his head the content of the scarlet parchment he found near Cho Chang's dead body earlier that morning.
"I wonder if Potter actually knows about this", he suddenly thought.
According to his knowledge, the Raven Haired boy was totally smitten with Cho ever since the 3rd year. Harry met Cho at a Quidditch match, while playing against her team, Ravenclaw. Harry won that game, unfortunatelly for Draco who was hoping that Harry will fall off his broom during the match, and break some essential bones before winning. However, Harry managed to catch the golden snitch, and won that game.
"In any case, that doesn't matter anymore" Draco continued "For now Cho belongs to the past".
Draco didn't know how to feel about her death. In one aspect, her death will break Potter's and apparently Granger's hearts, and that thought definitely warmed Draco's heart. However, Cho was acknowledged as a very attractive girl, and was adored by most of the male population at Hogwarts.
Her presence will be missing at the school corridors, and in those wet dreams boys have, and now probably wouldn't be including Cho anymore, for they wouldn't want to fantasize about a dead girl (well, maybe except the Slytherins. The fact Cho is dead won't bother them. It will only make things much more interesting).
Draco closed the shower tap, went out of the shower, and wiped himself dry slowly with his towel, immersed in thoughts. He wore black Boxer panties that he found in his drawer, and went into his bed, covering himself from toes to nose with his warm, fuzzy blanket. He decided to take advantage of his free time before the afternoon lessons, and take a little nap.
"At least Cho's death won't affect me that way" he mumbled right before he fell asleep, "for I am gay anyway".
Draco smiled to himself slightly, and dove into the world of dreams.
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