Welcome to my Oneshot collection! It's going to contain certain scenes that didn't quite fit into my multi-chaptered fic Libérée Délivrée, so I suggest you go read that first before you dive into the following oneshots.
There's no chronological order, I will write and upload scenes as they come to my mind, but don't worry, I will let you know in each AN where the current chapter is set.
Most of the Oneshots will be pretty short, some of them longer, depending on my inspiration while writing. The updates will come rather slow, but it will give you something to read every once in a while, while I am working on the sequel to LibDel (as I call it for short).
This one is set in the 4th year, somewhere between the beginning and Yule Ball.
To clear things up a little, in my story, Blaise wasn't in Hogwarts from the beginning. He transferred from Durmstrang to Hogwarts after his third year. He and Draco have been friends as children, until they went to different schools.
Enjoy!
"Can you tell me again why we're hiding?" Draco rolled his eyes as he ducked behind a statue with Blaise, carefully peaking out from behind it.
"Are you seriously asking that? Didn't you see the horde of chicks following us around?"
"Dude, if a horde of girls is following you, you don't run away. You enjoy it. Why run away when you can have whoever you want?"
"I don't want any of those hormone-crazed hysterical bitches..." The blond mumbled, eyes never leaving the corridors in front of them.
"It's not like you have to marry them." It was Blaise's turn to roll his eyes.
"You know my parents. They've tried to engage me to Pansy from the very beginning." Blaise let out a sigh and shook his head. Draco could be so stubborn when he wanted to. Deciding to let the topic slide for now he moved so he could also watch the corridors.
"What are you looking at?" he finally asked when there was nothing interesting to see, aside from several students walking by.
"No-..." When Draco failed to finish his sentence, a stupid grin taking over his features, Blaise raised an eyebrow, looking back at the corridor. Some Ravenclaws just passed by, seemingly coming from their Tower.
An Asian and a brunette ahead, with two blondes right behind them. The two in the front were snickering about something he couldn't quite catch. The shorter blond was reading some colorful magazine, holding it upside down and showing something to the girl next to her, who had a frown on her face.
It were mere seconds until they rounded the corner, leaving Blaise to wonder who exactly left his friend to look like a love-struck fool. Speaking of Draco, the boy was leaning back, trying to force the smile off his face. It went way faster when he realized Blaise was staring at him.
"Okay, this has to be the gayest thing a ever says, but... Oh. My. God. You are in love." Draco glared at him, a blush grazing his pale cheeks.
"It's not really love. We're 14! It's just some sort of crush..." Blaise's eyebrows almost touched his hairline when his friend didn't even really deny it. Amusement etched its way on his face as he turned to look at where the girls just left, as if he could still see them.
"Who is it? The brunette? A little too chatty for my taste, but hey, I won't judge."
"What... no! I'm not talking to you about that!" Draco's embarrassed blush was worth the glare, at least that's what Blaise thought. It was a shame that he wouldn't just tell him. No, instead the blond left their hiding place and practically fled from his friend.
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"So... I've heard Draco has a crush on some Ravenclaw..." Blaise had tried to get Draco to talk about it, but the blond was being quite stubborn. It was a trait they shared, so Blaise wasn't about to give up. So far Hogwarts had been rather boring to him, aside from the Triwizard Tournament that's going to take place soon. Draco's little love life, as shocking as it was Draco even had a love life, was the best way to amuse himself.
But since his friend didn't want to talk, Blaise decided it was time to get to get the heavy weapons. Asking Pansy.
He had made sure he was alone with the girl, because he had a feeling Draco would skin him alive if he found out he was talking to her about him.
"Oh please, don't mention that stupid bitch in my presence. It's just a tiny little crush. A way for him to kill time until he gathers up the courage to ask me out." Okay, maybe asking Pansy was the wrong approach. Apparently she hated this girl, seeing her as a danger.
"Ah yeah. Who exactly is it? He won't tell me." Pansy scrunched up her face, making it even more unattractive than it already was.
"Why do you even wanna know?" Blaise had a hard time staying patient with her.
"Oh, you know me. I'm curious. And if I don't approve of her either I could talk Draco out of going after her." That was the hard truth. If this girl, whoever she was, wasn't good enough for his friend, he would go miles to keep him away from her.
Pansy seemed pleased to have a potential ally in her wrath against the girl.
"... Believe me, she's definitely not worthy of him. She's a mere halfblood. Not even wealthy. And the name, Elsa Winters. Psh, as stupid as herself."
"Well, if she's in Ravenclaw I doubt she's as stupid as you say..."
"She is! She's making friends with stupid people, that makes her stupid too. She's even close with Loony Lovegood. Another freak in Ravenclaw, even though she clearly doesn't belong there."
Blaise had his eyes narrowed in concentration, looking at nothing in particular. It's been only a few weeks since he came here and barely knew people from other houses. From what he saw and heard, the Gryffindors were the Slytherins' sworn enemies, especially since Draco's first year when famous Harry Potter refused to befriend him. A guy named Neville Longbottom and a mudblood called Hermione Granger were one of the favorite punching bags of Pansy and her gang. To Blaise's surprise seemed Draco to keep out of those bully attacks.
Anyways, Blaise didn't really care about the other houses, not even bothering to learn the names. Loony Lovegood sounded familiar, he had overheard Pansy talking about her some time ago. She was said to be a completely insane girl. And Elsa Winters... hm. This year they didn't share many classes with Ravenclaw, but he believed she was in their year.
"... And she thinks she's so beautiful with her long blond hair. I bet it's dyed." Blaise had completely tuned out Pansy's rambling, but the last part he heard.
A blonde. That cut it down to the two girls in the back. Since the smaller one probably was a year or two under them and she had been reading a magazine upside down – which was really insane – that meant it was the other girl.
Blaise couldn't fight the triumphant grin when he figured out who Draco was crushing on. This was going to be a lot of fun... for Blaise.
"Tell me more..."
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That evening at dinner time, Blaise casually leaned over to his friend, trying to keep the smirk off his face. Draco let out an annoyed breath and concentrated on his food to keep from glaring at Blaise, not about to give him the satisfaction.
"Still not going to tell me?"
"Nope." Draco kept his face blank, becoming wary by the look on his friend's face.
"Will you tell me if I can guess who it is?"
"No." It had been easy to keep the others from teasing him about his crush, but Blaise was a completely different story. If he found out there was no way in hell he would ever hear the end of it. Mostly because Blaise was the only one of his fellow Slytherins who wasn't scared of him when he got angry.
"Come on. I'm sure I can find the girl that stole your heart." Blaise ignored his friend's glare and let their shoulders touch as he lifted his head a little higher to see the Ravenclaw table better. "So... you already said it's not that little brunette..."
The smirk was turned to a wide grin as he watched Draco from the corner of his eye. The blond's face twisted in realization before he buried it in his hands, rubbing his forehead with his fingertips.
"Who told you?" He's known Blaise long enough to be able to tell he already found out and was just going to tease him about it for fun.
"Pansy, of course." He patted his friend's shoulder. "But it's not like you made it that big of a secret from what I heard, Mr. Romantic Valentine."
"Oh god." Draco sank further in his seat.
"Don't worry, I won't tease you about it... much." Draco elbowed him in the ribs when he laughed and sat straighter again. The food was abandoned for the time-being as his eyes found Elsa at the Ravenclaw table, laughing about something Luna said.
Blaise followed his gaze and shook his head.
"Damn, that girl really must be special if she can get you to act like that."
"She is special. I don't know what it is, but I feel so... so drawn to her. There's something in her eyes; they're so deep and just so stunningly blue. She always has this mysterious aura around her, like there's even more to her than she already shows. So many things to find out." Draco let out a small sigh. "I just feel better around her, you know? She actually makes me think about what I'm doing, and I actually want to be a better person for her, only to see her smile. Ugh, her smile. It makes something flutter in my chest, and I get all warm and fuzzy." The blond cleared his throat and shook his flushed head when he realized he'd been talking while staring at Elsa. Fortunately most of the Slytherins around them had already left, so no one else could hear his embarrassing speech.
"Okay, I changed my mind. That was the gayest thing a guy ever said." Silver eyes rolled but refused to look at his friend, who had his face in a frown. "But seriously, how can you say it's only a crush when you feel so strongly for her?"
Draco shrugged. As much as Blaise was going to tease him, he had to admit it was nice to have someone to really talk to about that matter.
"I don't know if she feels the same... or even something similar. I don't want to scare her off. Right now I'm just glad we're friends."
"Dude... are you scared of asking her out? Draco Malfoy, scared of asking a girl out?"
"I'm not scared!" Draco defended himself, stabbing the meat on his plate with way more force than necessary.
"Then go for it! Isn't there this Yule Ball thingy around Christmas? Go ask her to go with you. If she agrees, you have the perfect opportunity to see if she's into you too. If not, you at least know there's no hope and you can stay friends at least."
Draco frowned at his plate. He had planned to ask her ever since their summer vacation a few weeks ago, but he's been putting it off as long as possible. But now that Blaise was starting to taunt him too, he couldn't be a coward any longer.
"Fine, I'll ask her to be my date to Yule Ball."