They didn't really talk. They were too different to have anything in common. But when they saw each other, they couldn't help but shiver. When they touched, they couldn't ignore the spark. No War Seventh Year AU.

A Song of Ice and Fire

By silver-nightstorm

Words: 450

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December 21st, 1997

Parvati shivered as she pulled off her green and purple mittens and scooped up some snow.

"You'll get it now, Lav!"

"Ohh, the gloves are coming off! I'm so scared!" Lavender retorted, sticking her tongue out and throwing a snowball. Parvati dodged and sent her snowball back towards her blonde-haired friend.

Nearly an hour later, both girls were soaked from head to toe from many snowballs and (on Parvati's part) many unfortunate falls into snowdrifts. They made their way back to the castle, giggling, and were almost to the doors when Parvati realized that her hands were still freezing.

"Hell," she muttered and stopped in her path, causing Lavender to do the same. "I've forgotten my mittens."

"D'you want me to come with you to get them?" asked Lavender.

"No, I got it!" replied Parvati. With a grin and a wave, she ran back to where her mittens rested in the snow. Picking them up and deeming them too soaked to wear, she hurried back into the castle. Lavender had already disappeared into the building and all Parvati could think of was grabbing a mug of hot chocolate, nibbling on some of Mrs. Finnigan's homemade gingerbread, and warming her fingers and toes by the fire. So deep she was in thought that she didn't even notice the tall figure in front of her until she bumped right into it.

Parvati Patil looked up to see Blaise Zabini, handsome and haughty, standing before her wearing a smirk. She tried to walk away from him several times and found that she couldn't so she huffed and placed her hands on her hips.

"You're a real prick, you know that, right?"

"I have been told that once or twice," retorted Zabini, amused, "but I'm really afraid I don't know what I did this time."

"Why can't I move?" demanded Parvati. Zabini pointed above their heads. Following his finger, Parvati groaned. Mistletoe. Charmed mistletoe. She bit her lip as she tried to think of a way out of the situation only to be brought out of her haze by the sound of a throat clearing. Her gaze jumped to meet Blaise's ice blue eyes.

"You know, you can just kiss me."

Parvati huffed. She took a half step to get close to Zabini and stood up on her tiptoes to be eye level with him. Grabbing onto the collar of his robes to steady herself, she leaned forward and planted a quick, light kiss on his cheek. Parvati's face heated up as she pulled herself from Blaise and walked away as quickly as possible. She hoped to Circe that Zabini hadn't noticed the blush that spread across her cheeks.

He had.

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One Character Competition – Winter – snow, shiver, hot chocolate, fireplace, gingerbread, snowball fight, mistletoe, mittens, freezing

The Pairing Diversity Boot Camp – Blaise Zabini / Parvati Patil – purple

100 Different Pairings Competition – Blaise Zabini / Parvati Patil – tall

100 Characters Competition – Parvati Patil – outside

Quotes Challenge – "You're a real prick, you know that, right?" "I have been told that once or twice."

I'm usually very good with the drabble word limit, but I can't help myself with these two. I think this paring has replaced Draco/Hermione as my number 2 OTP… XD

P. S. I am aware that this title is the name of the series for which Game of Thrones is the first book (and I'm a big fan of it, I'll get around to writing fanfiction for it soon :3). I just really like it and think it works for this pairing :)