A/n- Written for the 'Open Category Competition', the '5 Drabbles Competition' and the 'Mega Song Lyrics Challenge'.

Disclaimer- I don't own HP. *sobs*

Prompt Used- Event: First Lie.

For Her Own Good.

Don't waste your time on me, you're already the voice inside my head

"I don't want your help, Astoria," He said, not exactly a lie.

He didn't want her help, he needed it.

Lies had always come easy, to Draco, but he'd never been able to lie to her. The person that Draco became whenever he was with her was the last shred of who he wanted to be that he had left.

"Yeah, well," she said, sitting down on the chair next to his, "you're going to get it anyway."

"And what makes you think I want your help?" He said, trying to put as much bite into his words as he could, but when it came to Astoria Greengrass, it wasn't much.

"That scowl on your face makes me think you need my help." She replied evenly, as if she'd expected his words.

He sighed, looked at the girl sitting next to him, and hoped that she never changed.

Astoria wasn't like anyone else he'd ever met. She'd grown up in an environment just as toxic as his, but she was still as sweet at sugar.

Unlike her entire family, Astoria wasn't charming in the pretentious way; it was her honesty that charmed you. She was as refreshing to his as a bout of fresh air through an open window in an otherwise closed up house. She was the voice in his head telling him to try to be better.

All in all, she was too good for the likes of him.

She was wasting her time on him, on trying to help someone who couldn't be helped.

"I don't want your help, Astoria." He said again, "Has it ever crossed your mind that I'm not yours to fix?"

"No, it hasn't," she said, "Because you are mine, and I'm not trying to fix you, I'm trying to help you."

The she turned to him and looked at his with those big blue eyes of her, "Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe I could help put a smile back on those lips of yours?"

How could he resist her when she said things like that? How was he supposed to do that?

But he had to, for her, so, for the first time in forever, Draco Malfoy lied to Astoria Greengrass.

"Let me make it clear, it's not that I don't want help Astoria. I just don't want your help."

And then he stood up and walked away from the only shred of happiness in his life.

For her own good.