Draco watched Alundra walk down the hall. Her silvery blonde in swaying gently in her
pigtails as she walked, her bright green eyes twinkling, and her beautiful smile that was
ever-present. She was beautiful, smart, funny, witty, clever....and...a Gryffindor. He couldn't
fall in love with her. Besides, love wasn't real anyways, to him that is. This was just lust. Besides,
father definitely wouldn't approve. She was rich, pureblood, and aristocratic, but simply because
she came from Gryffindor, he knew his father wouldn't approve. Then again, why should he care what
that old Buzzard thought? But then there was the fact that Alundra absolutely hated him. And she'd only
started at Hogwarts two weeks ago...
No, she wasn't a first year. That would be a little queer since Malfoy was in his fifth.
She was a transfer student. Her family had just moved back to London, which meant she'd have to
go to Hogwarts, because having school so far away from home would be too difficult to manage.
She glared at him as she walked by, and Draco felt a bit of anger surge up. What did she
have against him anyways? They'd poisoned her mind against him, those other Gryffindors. But Draco
insisted on pursuing. Hey, if she didn't start to like him, it wouldn't matter. People were most likey
passing off him pursuing her as him just teasing another Gryffindor...
Draco walked after her. "Hello Alundra..." He said, grinning. Alundra rolled her eyes,
and adjusted the sleeve on her black robes before countering.
"Hello Dragon breath..." She said, looking at him boredly. Draco didn't seem hurt by
this at all, instead he kept talking.
"Walk with me to potions class?" He said, trying his best to keep smiling.
"No, I'm sorry. I DO have standards after all..." She said, looking at her nails as if
they were more interesting.
Draco was pretty ticked now "Look you...Why do you have to be such a brat? I haven't
done anything to you...I've been nothing but nice to you since you came here!" Draco spat, glaring
at the indignant girl.
"Your point? The other Gryfindors told me about you, Draco Malfoy..." She said, poking him
in the chest. "Your rude to poor Harry Potter, And make fun of poor Ron to no extent, you call
Hermione a mudblood which I think is nothing for her to be ashamed of, and I can't even remember
the countless other things you've done to the REST of the Gryffindors..." She glared.
Draco's lips tightened in frustration and anger "You really shouldn't be making enemies
when you've only been here for what...Two weeks?" He said finally, then grinned as he checked the
time. (don't ask how, I dunno if they have clocks/watches here, but I'm sure there is a way to
find out what time it is) "Why, I do believe were late for Potions. I wont get in trouble, but you
will...Unless of course you walk in with me...I'll make an excuse for you..." Draco said, pleased
with how fate had turned out in his favor.
Alundra was ready to protest, when she realized using him to get out of trouble wasn't
so bad. "Alright..." She cooed, being kind suddenly. Draco noticed, but didn't seem confused
or have a need to feel suspicious. "Lets go then..." She grinned, and started walking, letting
Draco catch up.
They entered Potions class, and Snape was ready to yell when he saw Draco enter behind
Alundra. Snape was ready to let Draco slide, and yell at Alundra for not making a good impression
on her teachers, when Draco put a hand on Alundra's shoulder. Snape stopped. Draco half pushed,
half led Alundra into the Class.
"Well, perhaps you...ah...two could explain why your late?" Snape said, trying to sound
angry but just couldn't. The class began talking in an excited rush, the Gryffindors angry a
Slytherin was touching a fellow Gryffindor, the Slytherins unhappy that A Gryfindor was walking
around with one of them. Some of them assumed some rather...Not-so-nice things concerning Draco
and Alundra, but Alundra ignored their curious stares.
"Yes, you see sir. She'd dropped her stuff out of her bag and I helped her
with picking up her things...There was so much stuff in there that it took quite a bit of time"
Draco said, trying to be convincing.
"Well...don't let it happen again..." Snape said, irritable. "Take your seats..."
The two obediently sat down, Draco with Crabbe and Goyle, Alundra next to Hermione who was quickly
becoming her best friend. He then began his lesson, droning on about some potion that cured all
diseases. It was required curriculum, and it bored Snape as much as the students. He wanted to
teach something difficult, something that someone might get hurt doing...Of course, not badly. After
all, he didn't want to loose his job.
Hermione looked at Alundra, and finally whispered "What do you think you were doing?!
You let HIM touch you! That's just...That's just wrong!" She went on. Alundra shrugged.
"He isn't that bad..." She whispered quietly, without realizing what she'd said, or having
time to stop herself from talking. Hermione stared, wide eyed.
Hermione stared at what she'd said, mouth open "How can you say that?! He's mean to everyone
and their brother..."
"Hmm? Oh yeah. Sure...." She went on. Actually, she really didn't hate Draco at all...Actually,
it was the opposite. She had a major crush on him, but she'd never admit it. After all...She
was a Gryffindor. It'd already been explained to her quite plainly that those sort of things were
NOT accepted as far as Slytherins and Gryffindors going together. And She was perfectly happy
accepting this...
The bell rang, an everyone jumped out of their seats. Alundra walked over to Draco,
and smiled "Thanks for getting me out of trouble, dragon breath..." She said maliciously, and
the other Gryffindors laughed. Draco turned red with anger. He gritted his teeth, and was about
to say something cutting to her, when he stopped himself.
"Your welcome Alundra..." He then turned on his heel, and began to walk towards the door.
A Slytherin boy exclaimed rather loudly.
"Your just going to let her get away with that?!" He spat out at Malfoy. "I thought you
were supposed to be the biggest jerk in school! But you just let her off!"
Draco turned, and glared at him "Look you piece of filth, I don't need your opinion. In
fact, I'm sure everyone would be better off if you never gave your opinion again. That would be
one less idiot in the world we'd have to listen to..."
The boy stuttered, then turned red and walked out of the room. Pansy, who was still in
shock that Draco had helped a Gryffindor, glared at Alundra.
"Why you....you..." She stammered, red in the face.
"What?" Alundra said "Are you mad because I hurt your precious Draco's feelings?" She
grinned, a couple of Gryffindors stepped up behind her, as if they were a small gang picking
on a helpless victim. "Well you should be thanking me...After all, when Draco was trying to convince
me to go to the Yule Ball with him this year...He mentioned that his father forced him to take
you every year...Doesn't that hurt to know your only being taken out of pity? Or rather, force
because he doesn't want to disappoint poor daddy?" Draco's eyes widened at this, but Pansy's beat
his state of shock by a mile.
Pansy glared, tears welling up, she then did the only thing she could think of to do, and
smacked Alundra across her cheek, and it left a large red-mark. Alundra touched her cheek gingerly,
then glared at Pansy "You little wretch!" She yelled, getting ready to pounce on Pansy and beat
the crap out of her. But, the other Gryffindors pulled her back, Snape had walked out from his
private office aside from the classroom, to see what all the noise was. After not seeing anything
wrong in his opinion, he stepped back inside. Alundra pulled away from the Gryffindors holding
her back, and spat out her next choice of words like acid.
"How DARE you hit me...." She said, making Pansy flinch "If you ever do that again, I'll
make you regret it..." She then stalked out of the classroom. The Gryffindors stayed, now arguing
with the Slytherins. Draco however, came walking out of the classroom.
"In her defense...You had that coming..." He said, folding his arms over his chest.
Alundra grinned almost mockingly, then turned and said.
"Why? Because I told her the truth? All of you Slytherin's are alike...That's why I made
sure the sorting hat agreed not to put me in there..." She said, grinning, then suddenly covered
her mouth. "Oh gosh..." She muttered. She'd just let out the sorting hat had wanted her in
Slytherin all along.
Draco looked confused at first, but then caught on "You...Were going to be put in
Slytherin? Well, why didn't you let it put you in there? Your going to have a difficult time
in school you know...I'm sure its hard on people when they aren't with the people they should be
with..."
Alundra laughed lightly "Since when do you care about anyone but yourself, Malfoy?"
She said, leaning against the wall now.
Draco flinched, it hurt whenever she called him Malfoy..."Can't you call me Draco? And
I do care about other people I just...Well I..." He stammered
"Well you...you what? Spit it out Dragon breath, I don't have all day" She said, grinning
almost evilly.
"Just because you have lenient parents doesn't mean I do...My father expects
things of me...And if I don't follow through, well, lets just say it isn't pleasant...." He trails
off.
"Like I care about your home life, Malfoy?" She said, laughing. "I just want you and your
little Slytherin friends to learn that we're all the same here...Just because one person is Muggle
born, and the other pure, doesn't make them unequal. They're both wizards. And you know what's funny
Malfoy?" She began "Hermione, coincidently muggle born by the way...Gets much better grades than
you..." Draco flinched, and Alundra resisted the urge to apologize...He looked pretty good
when he was angry..."Now why do you suppose that is? Huh? After all, you are pureblood an-"
Alundra began, but Draco cut her off, slamming both hands onto the wall, one hand on either side of her so he was
looking down at her.
"Why do you hate me so much?" Draco said, looking down at her, his eyes looking around
almost wildly at her face. "I have done nothing to you...Or your Gryffindor friends since you
came here...NOT A THING...." He said, and Alundra looked up, she was now slightly frightened of
him.
"I...I..." She stammered, and he grinned malovently.
"That's what I thought...You just took the other Gryffindor's word for it, and believed
the rumors about the people from Slytherin...That's really the only good reason you have...." He
said mockingly, and Alundra swallowed the lump forming in her throat. She then spoke, Waverly at
first but her voice grew in strength with every word she spoke.
"Because...If...I'm not...mean to you. I'm afraid...I'll....I'm afraid I'll fall in
love with you..." She said, it came rushed out. Draco's eyes widened. "I can't love you...Its not
right...I'm a Gryffindor, and I made a dumb decision to make the hat place me in there...Now, I
can't like you because it would cause major chaos between our houses...Now you know...So just
leave me alone...."
Draco studied her for a moment. This was weird...He'd never actually loved another person
before. Not even his own parents, whom he despised. So he wasn't sure if he felt for her, what
she seemed to feel for him. Maybe it wasn't lust...Could it be more? He then spoke quietly, still
looking down at her. "Why? I like you too..." He said, and was surprised about how right that felt.
He was about to take it back, but something kept him from it. "Who cares what our houses think?
Its just..." He swallowed, he knew what he was about to say was pretty far from the truth "Just
silly rivalry...."
Alundra looked up at him, she rose up a bit higher, so her face could meet his, and
slowly closed her eyes and leaned in to kiss him. Draco followed her lead, but suddenly she stopped.
"No...I can't do this...It isn't right...Its more than rivalry Draco, and you know it!" She then
slipped out from under his left arm and took off down the hall. Draco watched her walk off, then
went in the opposite direction. Perhaps she was right...But the 'game' was already afoot. They
both knew they would eventually give into how they felt. But what a dangerous game they had begun...
OOC: Ok, yes...Its sorta fluffy at the end but...Oh well, deal with it...It'll get better **evil
grin** trust me :)
pigtails as she walked, her bright green eyes twinkling, and her beautiful smile that was
ever-present. She was beautiful, smart, funny, witty, clever....and...a Gryffindor. He couldn't
fall in love with her. Besides, love wasn't real anyways, to him that is. This was just lust. Besides,
father definitely wouldn't approve. She was rich, pureblood, and aristocratic, but simply because
she came from Gryffindor, he knew his father wouldn't approve. Then again, why should he care what
that old Buzzard thought? But then there was the fact that Alundra absolutely hated him. And she'd only
started at Hogwarts two weeks ago...
No, she wasn't a first year. That would be a little queer since Malfoy was in his fifth.
She was a transfer student. Her family had just moved back to London, which meant she'd have to
go to Hogwarts, because having school so far away from home would be too difficult to manage.
She glared at him as she walked by, and Draco felt a bit of anger surge up. What did she
have against him anyways? They'd poisoned her mind against him, those other Gryffindors. But Draco
insisted on pursuing. Hey, if she didn't start to like him, it wouldn't matter. People were most likey
passing off him pursuing her as him just teasing another Gryffindor...
Draco walked after her. "Hello Alundra..." He said, grinning. Alundra rolled her eyes,
and adjusted the sleeve on her black robes before countering.
"Hello Dragon breath..." She said, looking at him boredly. Draco didn't seem hurt by
this at all, instead he kept talking.
"Walk with me to potions class?" He said, trying his best to keep smiling.
"No, I'm sorry. I DO have standards after all..." She said, looking at her nails as if
they were more interesting.
Draco was pretty ticked now "Look you...Why do you have to be such a brat? I haven't
done anything to you...I've been nothing but nice to you since you came here!" Draco spat, glaring
at the indignant girl.
"Your point? The other Gryfindors told me about you, Draco Malfoy..." She said, poking him
in the chest. "Your rude to poor Harry Potter, And make fun of poor Ron to no extent, you call
Hermione a mudblood which I think is nothing for her to be ashamed of, and I can't even remember
the countless other things you've done to the REST of the Gryffindors..." She glared.
Draco's lips tightened in frustration and anger "You really shouldn't be making enemies
when you've only been here for what...Two weeks?" He said finally, then grinned as he checked the
time. (don't ask how, I dunno if they have clocks/watches here, but I'm sure there is a way to
find out what time it is) "Why, I do believe were late for Potions. I wont get in trouble, but you
will...Unless of course you walk in with me...I'll make an excuse for you..." Draco said, pleased
with how fate had turned out in his favor.
Alundra was ready to protest, when she realized using him to get out of trouble wasn't
so bad. "Alright..." She cooed, being kind suddenly. Draco noticed, but didn't seem confused
or have a need to feel suspicious. "Lets go then..." She grinned, and started walking, letting
Draco catch up.
They entered Potions class, and Snape was ready to yell when he saw Draco enter behind
Alundra. Snape was ready to let Draco slide, and yell at Alundra for not making a good impression
on her teachers, when Draco put a hand on Alundra's shoulder. Snape stopped. Draco half pushed,
half led Alundra into the Class.
"Well, perhaps you...ah...two could explain why your late?" Snape said, trying to sound
angry but just couldn't. The class began talking in an excited rush, the Gryffindors angry a
Slytherin was touching a fellow Gryffindor, the Slytherins unhappy that A Gryfindor was walking
around with one of them. Some of them assumed some rather...Not-so-nice things concerning Draco
and Alundra, but Alundra ignored their curious stares.
"Yes, you see sir. She'd dropped her stuff out of her bag and I helped her
with picking up her things...There was so much stuff in there that it took quite a bit of time"
Draco said, trying to be convincing.
"Well...don't let it happen again..." Snape said, irritable. "Take your seats..."
The two obediently sat down, Draco with Crabbe and Goyle, Alundra next to Hermione who was quickly
becoming her best friend. He then began his lesson, droning on about some potion that cured all
diseases. It was required curriculum, and it bored Snape as much as the students. He wanted to
teach something difficult, something that someone might get hurt doing...Of course, not badly. After
all, he didn't want to loose his job.
Hermione looked at Alundra, and finally whispered "What do you think you were doing?!
You let HIM touch you! That's just...That's just wrong!" She went on. Alundra shrugged.
"He isn't that bad..." She whispered quietly, without realizing what she'd said, or having
time to stop herself from talking. Hermione stared, wide eyed.
Hermione stared at what she'd said, mouth open "How can you say that?! He's mean to everyone
and their brother..."
"Hmm? Oh yeah. Sure...." She went on. Actually, she really didn't hate Draco at all...Actually,
it was the opposite. She had a major crush on him, but she'd never admit it. After all...She
was a Gryffindor. It'd already been explained to her quite plainly that those sort of things were
NOT accepted as far as Slytherins and Gryffindors going together. And She was perfectly happy
accepting this...
The bell rang, an everyone jumped out of their seats. Alundra walked over to Draco,
and smiled "Thanks for getting me out of trouble, dragon breath..." She said maliciously, and
the other Gryffindors laughed. Draco turned red with anger. He gritted his teeth, and was about
to say something cutting to her, when he stopped himself.
"Your welcome Alundra..." He then turned on his heel, and began to walk towards the door.
A Slytherin boy exclaimed rather loudly.
"Your just going to let her get away with that?!" He spat out at Malfoy. "I thought you
were supposed to be the biggest jerk in school! But you just let her off!"
Draco turned, and glared at him "Look you piece of filth, I don't need your opinion. In
fact, I'm sure everyone would be better off if you never gave your opinion again. That would be
one less idiot in the world we'd have to listen to..."
The boy stuttered, then turned red and walked out of the room. Pansy, who was still in
shock that Draco had helped a Gryffindor, glared at Alundra.
"Why you....you..." She stammered, red in the face.
"What?" Alundra said "Are you mad because I hurt your precious Draco's feelings?" She
grinned, a couple of Gryffindors stepped up behind her, as if they were a small gang picking
on a helpless victim. "Well you should be thanking me...After all, when Draco was trying to convince
me to go to the Yule Ball with him this year...He mentioned that his father forced him to take
you every year...Doesn't that hurt to know your only being taken out of pity? Or rather, force
because he doesn't want to disappoint poor daddy?" Draco's eyes widened at this, but Pansy's beat
his state of shock by a mile.
Pansy glared, tears welling up, she then did the only thing she could think of to do, and
smacked Alundra across her cheek, and it left a large red-mark. Alundra touched her cheek gingerly,
then glared at Pansy "You little wretch!" She yelled, getting ready to pounce on Pansy and beat
the crap out of her. But, the other Gryffindors pulled her back, Snape had walked out from his
private office aside from the classroom, to see what all the noise was. After not seeing anything
wrong in his opinion, he stepped back inside. Alundra pulled away from the Gryffindors holding
her back, and spat out her next choice of words like acid.
"How DARE you hit me...." She said, making Pansy flinch "If you ever do that again, I'll
make you regret it..." She then stalked out of the classroom. The Gryffindors stayed, now arguing
with the Slytherins. Draco however, came walking out of the classroom.
"In her defense...You had that coming..." He said, folding his arms over his chest.
Alundra grinned almost mockingly, then turned and said.
"Why? Because I told her the truth? All of you Slytherin's are alike...That's why I made
sure the sorting hat agreed not to put me in there..." She said, grinning, then suddenly covered
her mouth. "Oh gosh..." She muttered. She'd just let out the sorting hat had wanted her in
Slytherin all along.
Draco looked confused at first, but then caught on "You...Were going to be put in
Slytherin? Well, why didn't you let it put you in there? Your going to have a difficult time
in school you know...I'm sure its hard on people when they aren't with the people they should be
with..."
Alundra laughed lightly "Since when do you care about anyone but yourself, Malfoy?"
She said, leaning against the wall now.
Draco flinched, it hurt whenever she called him Malfoy..."Can't you call me Draco? And
I do care about other people I just...Well I..." He stammered
"Well you...you what? Spit it out Dragon breath, I don't have all day" She said, grinning
almost evilly.
"Just because you have lenient parents doesn't mean I do...My father expects
things of me...And if I don't follow through, well, lets just say it isn't pleasant...." He trails
off.
"Like I care about your home life, Malfoy?" She said, laughing. "I just want you and your
little Slytherin friends to learn that we're all the same here...Just because one person is Muggle
born, and the other pure, doesn't make them unequal. They're both wizards. And you know what's funny
Malfoy?" She began "Hermione, coincidently muggle born by the way...Gets much better grades than
you..." Draco flinched, and Alundra resisted the urge to apologize...He looked pretty good
when he was angry..."Now why do you suppose that is? Huh? After all, you are pureblood an-"
Alundra began, but Draco cut her off, slamming both hands onto the wall, one hand on either side of her so he was
looking down at her.
"Why do you hate me so much?" Draco said, looking down at her, his eyes looking around
almost wildly at her face. "I have done nothing to you...Or your Gryffindor friends since you
came here...NOT A THING...." He said, and Alundra looked up, she was now slightly frightened of
him.
"I...I..." She stammered, and he grinned malovently.
"That's what I thought...You just took the other Gryffindor's word for it, and believed
the rumors about the people from Slytherin...That's really the only good reason you have...." He
said mockingly, and Alundra swallowed the lump forming in her throat. She then spoke, Waverly at
first but her voice grew in strength with every word she spoke.
"Because...If...I'm not...mean to you. I'm afraid...I'll....I'm afraid I'll fall in
love with you..." She said, it came rushed out. Draco's eyes widened. "I can't love you...Its not
right...I'm a Gryffindor, and I made a dumb decision to make the hat place me in there...Now, I
can't like you because it would cause major chaos between our houses...Now you know...So just
leave me alone...."
Draco studied her for a moment. This was weird...He'd never actually loved another person
before. Not even his own parents, whom he despised. So he wasn't sure if he felt for her, what
she seemed to feel for him. Maybe it wasn't lust...Could it be more? He then spoke quietly, still
looking down at her. "Why? I like you too..." He said, and was surprised about how right that felt.
He was about to take it back, but something kept him from it. "Who cares what our houses think?
Its just..." He swallowed, he knew what he was about to say was pretty far from the truth "Just
silly rivalry...."
Alundra looked up at him, she rose up a bit higher, so her face could meet his, and
slowly closed her eyes and leaned in to kiss him. Draco followed her lead, but suddenly she stopped.
"No...I can't do this...It isn't right...Its more than rivalry Draco, and you know it!" She then
slipped out from under his left arm and took off down the hall. Draco watched her walk off, then
went in the opposite direction. Perhaps she was right...But the 'game' was already afoot. They
both knew they would eventually give into how they felt. But what a dangerous game they had begun...
OOC: Ok, yes...Its sorta fluffy at the end but...Oh well, deal with it...It'll get better **evil
grin** trust me :)