Chapter 1
Summary
We all know the tale of the great Harry potter and his friends we know of their loves, their laughs, their fun and their tears, but this tale is not about them. Its about a boy named Draco Malfoy and a certain little Lady, and their trials throughout their young adult life. Finally a story that hasn't been told before!OC/ Draco
AN; Updates will not come at a regular pace and for that I am sorry, I only have access to internet about once a month but have access to computer everyday, confused? Me too! Anyway, All criticisms are accepted, aspiring writer who would love some input
Sky Calls hung her head as her smoky eyes travelled over the letter once more. Her mother sure had a way with words that was unlike that of any other. She lifted her legs from where they hung over the windowsill and brought them to her chest resting her head on her knees as she drew her eyes closed and tightened her hand into a fist.
Unfortunately the sound crumpling paper and the knowledge that her mothers perfectly crafted words and fancy unnecessary letter lead were being squished into oblivion did nothing to sooth the swelling feeling of tears in her eyes and the lump in her throat. It did however distract her attention from the Slytherin boys that were slowly making the way towards her down the corridor.
"Ahhh, just the eye candy we were searching for, Sky princess, heard your mama's searching for her baby girl's prince charming? Think I should place my bid?" The leader of the group, with his greasy hands said as he stepped forward and pulled Sky from her perch and far to close for her liking. As his hand moved to her cheek Sky stood there like a motionless doll and prayed for the horror to end. " Could get used to it I think, having a pretty little thing like you at my beck and call, there to fulfil my every need..."
With that Sky had had enough and managed to push herself from his grasp, dropping the letter from her mother as she did so. When she moved to pick it up she unintentionally drew their attention to it and the boy who had been plaguing her with his unwanted attention earlier dived to pick it up before she did.
Sky sighed as his eyes first lit up with the excitement of using what was in the letter against her then darkened rapidly at the sight of the family name of the person her mother was discussing a betrothal with.
"Come on guys." He said as he shoved the letter into her hand and ran off. Just as Sky expected him too. Then they left.
Shaking her head Sky tore up the letter and placed it in the first trash bin she saw on her way back towards her common room. Thoughts off her future plaguing her mind like a rapturous disease. Her mother should have known that Sky wanted more than just what her mother had.
Sure, Marriage was in her future one day, and so were children, but right when she was done school? And to a man she wouldn't even love at that. Such was the life her mother had planned for her. The same as it was for her mother before her and her grandmother and every woman in the Calls family before them.
One would think that the fact Sky hadn't been put in Slytherin would clue them in to the fact that Sky was destined for far more than what they had planned for her. She remembered it as if it was yesterday. She also still felt the sting of the hurtful words her father had spouted afterwards. Telling her that it was her fault, for being so interested in books and the like. Her fault that the sorting hat had placed her in Ravenclaw instead of Slytherin.
"Sky!" Riena Cordello called as Sky entered the Ravenclaw tower and sat down in one of the soft blue chairs and pulled a Herbology text onto her lap. Riena was Sky's closest friend, a girl who was orphaned at a young age and adopted by a father who only took in children for the government support money.
Excetra Cordello, her adopted brother was on the other side of the Room with Kyle Murrow. He was also one of the unfortunate children taken in by Riena's adopted father. This wouldn't have been a problem, save for the feelings he holds for his 'sister' and the way she feels for him in return.
Kyle, a half blood who's mother died when he was young completed this group of study passionate Ravenclaws. Friends with a history that made them nearly inseparable. Even if Sky's parents thought that their pretty little well bread daughter was too good for those she hung out with.
"Mom send another letter? Who is it this time?" Riena asked, knowing full well what the situation was with Sky's parental figures.
"Don't know why you take the 'discussion stage' so seriously, she's cancelled what? Four of them now?" Ex intercepted as Sky, having ignored Riena's question kept reading the text.
"She's arranged for me to go on a date with this one." Sky muttered as she closed the book, her mind to frazzled by the day's event's to concentrate on studies.
"It really is too bad your parent's can't see how talented you are, how passionate you are about your studies, how ambitious you are. You'd make a wonderful doctor, Pop even said so." Kyle piped up as he sat in a chair near Sky his fingers fiddling nervously with the sandy blond hair that framed his face. His father was head nurse at St Mongo's hospital, and had told Sky during a visit to the Murrow home that the hospital really needed a doctor like the one that Sky wished to become.
"Yeah well your Pop almost got fired for 'encouraging false hopes' as my mother put it." Sky said to the boy as she narrowed her eyes and instantly regretted her harsh behaviour. "I'm sorry, It's just... I don't think she's kidding this time, and the person she's chosen is just...vile! I saw him picking on younger students the other day, and rumour has it that he's even been marked!"
"What?" Riena exclaimed and stood all at once. "You can't mean... The guy Potter was talking to Granger about in Potions class?" Sky nodded and stood as well in order to head towards the girl's dormitory.
"I think I'll head to bed guys, I'm tired." As they watched her retreat up the winding staircase.
"Who is the guy?" Kyle asked as he also got up to leave, not really wanting to watch as the Cordellos said their good nights. However the name that Riena uttered caused him to stop in his tracts.
Kyle, who was utterly infatuated with Sky, even though he knew the difficulty that there may be if she ever did return his feelings, knew he could never, even if he had been a pure blood, earn favour over Sky's parent's if this boy was the competition.
"Why?" He asked himself as he crawled into bed. " Why did it have to be Draco Malfoy."
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Draco smirked as he pulled Pansy close. She straddled his lap and giggled as he opened her blouse a little more.
"Draco, not in front of everyone!What will Crabb and Goyle think?" She said feigning innocence as she helped him undo it a little more. Truth was no one had the guts to go against his wishes. Not now that he had been marked anyway.
Thinking of the mark caused it to burn slightly in a reminder of his task. With that reminder he stood suddenly and allowed the girl on his lap to fall to the floor.
"Ouch! Draco! What the..?" She sputtered at his feet rubbing her bottom while Crabb and Goyle laughed hysterically.
"I don't have time for this." Draco muttered as he began to walk off. Pansy stood and grabbed his hand. "Is this about her Draco?"
Draco glared at her, his eyes narrowed and his mouth drawn in a thin line. Figures she would remind him of the letter he had received from his mother a little while ago, she was still trying to grasp at the few desperate holds she had at a family. That was why he'd gotten the letter. As if he needed something to distract him from his task.
The Dark Lord would go crazy if he knew that Draco was being distracted by his mother's meddling. However what was Draco going to do? Tattle on his own mother? Besides the girl his mother had in mind had her own connections with the Dark Lord. Her father being Equal to what his father was before he lost favour.
"She sure is a pretty little thing. You know I'd understand, but Draco." Pansy pulled herself close to him and touched her hand to his cheek. "She'll never understand you like I do, she'll never worship you like I do, don't go Saturday."
Draco smiled. Her display was almost touching, and if he hadn't already made up his mind. He was going to work on something on Saturday but he was going on the date with the Calls girl like his mother wanted.
"Stay out of my business Pansy, I'll do what I want when I want. It has nothing to do with you." Draco sneered as he turned to walk towards the Boys dorm but then changed his mind. The dingy grey was getting to him and he figured it would be good to get a head start on what he needed to get done. His head and his body alive with the sensations that Pansy and the mark had caused.
"So your Mother put a bid in for the Calls chick for you? How fair is that? Not only do you get everything you want but you get everything everyone else wants?" Some older Slytherin muttered giving Draco a hard time. He turned his eyes on him in a glare that promised a lot of pain.
"Do you really want to start something? It's not like you had a chance with her anyway, your papa doesn't have enough money to bid on her and your no Ravenclaw or mudblood, so it's not like you could win her heart." Draco growled as he walked away. "Give up, she'll be mine in no time."
Truth was Draco had very little interest in the little blood traitor. But he did want the same as his mother. His family back together once again. If the girl was the key to that then, he would just do what had to be done.
Your going to get stood up on Saturday, she wont go, it'll just be you and an empty seat, then her mother will give up on your generous offer and find her a new little match and it'll be done." The boy continued.
"What makes you so sure that is what's going to happen?" Draco challenged as he tried to escape the prying boy before he made his way towards the room of requirement.
"That's how it's been for every guy up until now. You'll never get Sky unless your willing to fight for her. And she's not that important to you is she, your not willing to fight for her are you?" Draco sneered at the uncertainty in the boy's vice.
"Does it matter?" Draco laughed as he finally shook off the boy and entered the room of requirement, he was going to have to work hard if he wanted to have some free time. If this Sky girl was as uninteresting as she seemed he'd have his mother cancel the engagement and that would just be the end of things concerning the betrothal.
Shaking his head slowly he pushed thoughts of Sky from is mind. He had work to do after all.
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Riena sighed in contentment as she sunk into her bed glancing over at the closed curtains of her friends four poster bed.
For that past two years Sky, Kyle, Ex and herself had held and maintained the top marks in their grade, their year, and if it hadn't been for a certain over achieving Gryffindor, the best in their grade or the whole school.
It wasn't any surprise to them when three of them were made Prefects .Ex and his Quiditch Captains badge coveted him the same privileges as the prefects, so even though responsibilities had managed to lay themselves as obstacles in their way, the four of them remained the closest of friends.
Truth was, as far as students were concerned, the four of them were the best, maybe that was why Riena had so much difficulty understanding why Sky's parents would try to trap her like they were trying to.
Riena was also worried about her friend, she'd seen a change in Sky since summer vacation and it was starting to worry her. She used to be a perky outgoing girl, but for some reason, her once outgoing friend was now inverted and very quiet. She and everyone else had tried to reach out to Sky and help but it was all to little effect.
A mere touch on Sky's arm had caused her to flinch away and run to her dorm to hide in her bed. No one could.
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Sky heard her friend slip under the covers and frowned at the black mark on her arm that burned her skin.
Her parent's had insisted that she be marked as soon as possible, arguing to the Dark Lord that their only daughter was about to be corrupted by the temptation of Mudbloods and blood traitors. The Dark Lord had been more than willing to break his own rules in order to have a talented witch like Sky on his team.
Settling beneath her blankets she sighed as the realization hit her. Her soul was no longer her own.