Chapter 1: A Life for A Life

My first try at a real Dramonie Fanfic

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Disclaimer of canon characters of JK Rowling and plots that coincide with her work.

Chapter 1: A Life for A Life

I saved a life.

It wasn't just any life though. It was a witch, and not just any ordinary witch either. I save the life of a witch with fairy blood in her. As a thank you, she gave me one wish. One wish she would only make come true when my heart was really behind it in both pain and love. It wouldn't be a wish based solely on pain or solely on love, but on both, one that was wished with both the heart and the mind. Only then will that wish be activated, in a way of speaking. I never understood what she meant by that until later in life, a few years after the war. The night the war ended, a fairy witch roamed the lands of the world for a bit longer, my life was in chaos for almost three years, with me asking for my wish to be granted, and it's denied.

Life as a Malfoy was hard. It took almost four years to make right with the wizarding world, and that was only after going through many Muggle counseling sessions, mandatory, per the Ministry of Magic. Now, life seemed to be harder though, even after finally pulling through semi-well in society. I was currently being trained by father's manager in Malfoy's Potions Industry company and other affairs to take over. But the icing on top of that was the marriage I had to go through soon, to a woman I don't love.

If it were for the fact that the only person who can void an arrangement was my father, I would have done so a long while ago. But he was still residing in Azkaban and had no coherent voice or thought about the subject while still there. I don't know why Lord Greengrass didn't void the agreement himself, seeing as he is able to and he did know his daughter loved someone else. But I guess greed had some play in that decision as well.

The Malfoy's family was the oldest pure-blood family in existence, and with age, the name came with more money than the rest as well. Marriage to the Malfoy name will bring money into the other family as well as access to land so it was obvious he wouldn't want to lose that. A bit selfish if you asked me, especially after publicly self-claiming the Greengrass family, a family accepting of modern changes in our society. I don't think he realizes he would be defaming both our families by forcing us to marry as per agreement from when we were toddlers. So it was with those thoughts in mind, that I stood before this mirror in my chambers with a scowl on my face and a sense of dread filling me. I was wearing the best wedding robes our money could buy and there were only two minutes left to go, before I had to step out into the garden, to say a forceful I do and seal my fate forever to someone I don't love.

A knock on the door interrupted my thoughts and I swiftly opened the door to my room and let my mother walk in. She wore an equally firm disapproving scowl on her face as she walked up to me and extended her hand for me to take.

"It's time Draco," she stated stiffly and I sighed.

We both made our way out of my room and down many halls to the garden outside and down the aisle to stand before the Ministry Official. I sighed as I looked at the people gathered around and was shocked when I noticed HER sitting in the front row on my side of the guests. The Fairy-witch. She smiled serenely at me nodded her head at me with a twinkle in her eyes that confused me before the music started and Astoria Greengrass started down the aisle. I looked at her and couldn't help but feel like I was going to die. Like the life was getting sucked out of me, much like the Dementors made you feel when they were close by and I hated it.

"You okay Draco," Blaise asked from beside me and I snorted quietly in response.

"No," I whispered back and glanced at HER again. She was looking at me intensely as I was talking. A strange gleam in her eyes as my eyes shifted to the fast-approaching Astoria.

"I don't want to do this, not to myself or to her, she loves you for Merlin's sake Balise! I can't do that to my best mate," he continued in a whisper, his eyes shifting to said mate that stood beside him. A painful look on his face as he watched the girl of his dreams being forced to marry Draco because of a greedy father. He turned back to look at Astoria, adopting a blank look as she was only now about twenty feet away from them.

She was dressed in all white wizard dress robes and there was a forced smile on her face, seeming to want to cry as her father almost literally dragged her down the aisle towards where we stood.

I shifted my sight to HER once more and watched as her hands seemed to glow as she winked at me and finally I understood.

"I just wish, I could go back in time to a proper place in my life in which I can change the outcome of this arrangement. To a time where I can fall in love with a woman whom will love me as equally as I would love her. Where I will meet a woman who is my equal and whom will be the light of my darkness, and no matter how hard it is to get her to love me, I will always fall back on the person who brought me there and my friends will be happy living with the love of their lives in marriage instead of having to see them marry me."

With those words leaving my mouth I saw HER smile sweetly at me as she stood up from her seat, her hands glowing more brightly, gaining the attention of everyone present. Then her light whimsical and an almost dreamy voice spoke out as she raised her hands in the air.

"Your wish will be granted," she said and then I was covered in the light emanating from her hands. Golden light surrounded me and blinded me, a gut-wrenching feeling starting in the pit of my stomach, much like that of when one Apparated, before everything started to get fuzzy. It wasn't long before everything disappeared and everything around me turned black. The last thing I heard was her soft laugh as she continued to speak.

"A life you saved, a life you get, a life in time, with no regrets, to change a style, viewed a lifetimes while, from a loveless marriage to a love that's cherished, I send you to when it all began, and should help be needed all you do is call on my name."