Theodore Nott got what he wanted when he wanted it. 2 years ago he had the most beautiful girl in the wizarding world, however he had fucked it up by sleeping with Daphne Greengrass. Maisie wasn't willing to give him her virginity so he went and got it from someone else. Now looking in on their little session, dancing, twirling and laughing he hated Draco to within an inch of his life. He was the reason Maisie had broken up with him. Theo had sworn on his fathers grave that he would get his revenge.
Whereas inside the compartment the song had finished. Exhausted and laughing they flopped on the sofa. Looking at each other with grins spreading their faces. Maisie had always wondered how she had gotten so lucky. How she had gotten picked to be in Slytherin whilst being a muggleborn. The truth was she never understood really but she had cried to Professor Snape about why she was being bullied by everyone.
"They say I have dirty blood and that Salazar Slytherin would be turning in his grave thinking that a mudblood would be placed in his gracious house, if thats true then why am I a Slytherin and not a Ravenclaw or anything else?" Maisie had sobbed to her head of house one night during first year.
Snape looked at the young girl with some admiration, she reminded him of the love of his life Lily Evans. (Obviously not making him think of her like that shesh) however he thought about the young girls question throughly not wanting to let her upset and to give her an honest answer
"Maisie, I think you were placed in Slytherin house because not of what you are no because of who you are. You are ambitious very ambitious. You are very clever one of the best, the best Slytherin has seen maybe ever.
You have your head set straight knowing exactly what you need to get what you want in life. also not every Slytherin turns out bad. You will go somewhere with your future. Don't listen to the others and be proud to be in the house that a hat for centuries has been putting witches and wizards in houses like yourself. You are the first muggleborn to be in this house, let it go down in history because Slytherin could not ask for a better witch to be in their midst." Snape answered with a genuine smile, something very rare that no one ever saw.
"Thank you, sir." Maisie sniffled.
After the conversation she had had with Snape, she stood up to the bullying by her peers until people started to be there for her not caring that she was a muggleborn but a true born Slytherin. After 1st year was over she had finally become some what of an equal in the Slytherin group some were still prejudice against her however she had a close knit group of friends that included- Draco (being her closest friend), Blaise Zabini (mostly because Draco was, however starting to like her too), Theodore Nott, Tracey Davies, Jaclyn Rosier, she had also become friends with, Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom etc. All due to Hermione Granger.
Shaking her head back into reality, she was sat on a sofa in a compartment with her closest friend at Hogwarts. Draco Malfoy. Their faces were inches apart now, sexual tension electrifying the whole compartment, they were both staring at each other then their eyes darted to each others lips. Slowly they moved together, until the compartment door opened and they quickly moved apart.
Theo looked on the scene with rage brewing in his eyes. Ever since the downfall on Voldemort all the pure blood families were trying too boast themselves up the ladder back to where they were. Before choosing to return Theo's mother had lectured him on trying to make friendships with fellow students who before he felt where beneath him, to also start up the 'friendship' he had with Maisie 2 years ago.
Seeing Draco and her made his chest ache not in heartbreak but in envy/jealousy. He made himself known, Maisie looked at him with wide eyes almost frightened, whereas Draco looked furious.
"Alright Maisy moo." Theo asked in his sweetest voice he could muster also using an old nickname he used to call her when they were dating.
"I am okay Theo, you?" Maisie answered quietly, quickly side eyeing Draco too evaluate what he thought of the situation however all she saw was an empty seat as Draco had stood his anger getting the better of him.
"How dare you come wondering in here, after what you have done." Draco said through clenched teeth.
"DRACO SIT DOWN!" Maisie shouted, getting frustrated that he thought she couldn't handle things.
"What."
"Sit down and let me handle this, he has just asked me if I'm alright I understand that he hurt me and I have forgiven him to a certain point. A point where I can be friendly enough with him. Just calm down." Maisie said exasperatedly.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence Drake, and thank you Maisy moo for forgiving me." Theo said in an smug voice.
Maisie then turned her head too look at Theo "I haven't forgiven you for what you did to me, I only have forgiven that it just doesn't hurt me anymore and because you are a prefect that we will be working together so I have to be civil towards you. It is going to take years and years for me to ever think of you as a friend again even more if you're thinking of getting back together with me again. The trust has been broken you need to understand that."
Theo's face turned sour "You forgave him pretty quickly when he was calling your cousin a filthy mud blood, calling your friends blood traitors, poor and shit and your still best friends with him what the fuck is that all about."
Maisie massaged her temples she had had this conversation many times each with a different person she said calmly "I have always been on edge whenever he used to call Mione a mudblood or Ron and Gin blood traitors, it always got back to me and I wouldn't speak to him for days and days it wasn't until 3rd year when Hermione punched him that he came to me begging for forgiveness and to best mates like we used to be. The first time he ever called her a mudblood was second year, Draco and myself had become quite good friends, once he realised that like himself I was a human being looking past what his father had always told him about 'our kind'. When I found out that he had said that to my cousin I instantly recoiled and screamed in his face. From that day on we weren't friends until the moment I have just described and he never did it again. I have come to terms that they just don't get along."
Theo blinked in confusion "Oh" he said dumbly.
"Yes and he has been there for me ever since even when I don't think I need it he has my back, protecting Harry from Voldemort at Malfoy Manor and a lot of other things I am eternally grateful for, you are a coward that couldn't wait a few more weeks until I had come off my monthly cycle and started the contraceptive potion." Maisie stated tumbling off at the last sentence.
"You were waiting for what, you should of told me then I would of never thought about it, Daphne caught me in a situation- Theo gulped- anyway it sort of just happened I didn't even realise until she was on top of me bouncing up and down like a bouncy castle."
Maisie interrupted him holding her small, petite hand in front of him "stop I don't need too hear which position you through her into next, alright Theo just get out of our compartment and we will catch you on platform in Hogsmede okay and if my calculations are correct we should be arriving in about 5-10 minutes roughly and Draco and I need to go through a couple more head duties."
Waving him out of the compartment and Theo reluctantly left, leaving the pair of heads sat there looking remorseful and knackered.
'Finally somewhere I am happy to be' Maisie thought as she sat in the carriage with the thestral pulling it down the beaten track spreading mud everywhere as they trotted. Maisie had made a quick decision on the platform to sit with Harry, Ginny, Neville and Luna on the carriages and they were all happy to see her.
"Hey Maisie, how was your summer." Ginny asked happy to see her hugging her tightly before they got into the carriages, after a little while finally they set off "you didn't come to the burrow all summer, George missed you." She winked George and Maisie had always had a flirty bantering going on, however he was now happily dating captain of the Holyhead Harpies Angelina Johnson.
"He is happily in love with Angie, Gin." Maisie chuckled loudly.
"You still didn't visit us." Ginny said sadly.
"I know and I am sorry about that, I didn't know if your mother would accept me for what happened and me being a Slytherin. I know she only accepted it when Harry and I had a thing back in 3rd year but that only lasted a week because Draco as usual got jealous sometimes I wonder if he's like it with his other friends." Maisie chuckled once again thinking about Draco being jealous of Blaise.
"You do realise it's because he's crushing on you." Luna said in her usual Irish airy sort of voice.
"No he's not." Maisie said looking confused.
"He does I see the way he has been looking at you for 8 years." Harry piped in.
"Draco Malfoy is not crushing on me, I'm his best friend, that's all I'll ever be." Maisie stuttered as tears brimmed her brown orbs.
"Omg you're crushing on him too." Ginny said excitedly.
Maisie's whole face turned red as she answered hotly "I am not."
No one questioned her after that as they continued down the road to Hogwarts even though Maisie couldn't lie one of the things people questioned when the sorting hat placed her in Slytherin, however they knew this topic upset her even though they all had knowledge that they both had feelings for each other. It was up to them to notice.
Finally they arrived at Hogwarts each getting out of the beaten, paint peeling carriages, their trunks and everything already sorted and stored in their individual dormitories.
Maisie left the Gryffindors and Ravenclaw saying goodbye and that they should all hang out together sometime this year before they graduate.
Maisie hung back looking at the huge stone steps which had been previously repaired last year, images and memories flooded through her head from the war as she watched from the side lines as Draco wondered off when Voldemort wanted everyone to join his side, looking at into her eyes she saw the battle raging in his head. Until finally he mouthed I'm sorry and dropped her hand walking over to his mothers awaiting arms.
Or when he saved her life, Bellatrix Lestrange had grabbed her from Hogwarts last year walking her down to the room of requirement where she tried to carve mud blood whore into her forearm, her cousin had a very similar scar before the blade touched her skin Draco saved her however left with out saying a word.
Reeling back into reality, she shook images of friends and family dead out her fuddled mind and approached the stone steps, taking one at a time. Meeting Draco in the entrance hall he took her hand and said with a trembling voice "ready."
Maisie only nodded, both of them walking into the place where the dark lord had been killed. The sorting ceremony happened and ended with houses building up the numbers which they had lost in the war or the ones who chose not to return. The feast began and ended with students all full to the brim with food, feeling that warm fuzzy feeling of tiredness before being dismissed Headmistress Minerva Mcgonagall stood to make the usual speech.
"Hello fellow students its nice to see old, familiar faces and to see new faces amongst us. I would just like to point out to our new first years and anyone whom has forgotten the forbidden forest is still out of bounds and not to be entered by any student. I would also like to point out that there is a curfew, which is to be kept by. Your in house prefect and heads will be patrolling the corridors making sure that rules are being kept by. When they aren't patrolling members of staff will be. Qudditch will be played again and the captain has already been chosen from each house and will be posted on the pin board in your dormitories. Another thing I would like to add before you can all go and start unpacking is to introduce the head boy and girl this year Maisie Granger and Draco Malfoy, I think that's all the notices for now any questions just ask a member of staff, or a prefect or one of our heads. Enjoy your year, now off too bed, prefects show the first years to their dormitories. Draco and Maisie come over to me." Headmistress Mcgonagall finished.
Wondering over to the high table, Mcgonagall showed them and explained to them their dormitories and the rules that they had to follow too.
Finally they reached the entrance the portrait hole for their common room the picture was of a snake and a wild flowers patch saying the password 'Albus Dumbledore' the portrait hole opened up revealing a beautiful cosy common room.
It wasn't like the Slytherin common room they were situated on the first floor and hidden in an alcove covered by a tapestry, the inside was colourful like a wild flower garden. They had plump plush brown leather couches plus armchairs similar to that of the Slytherin common room. With two staircase trailing off upstairs which would obviously lead to their bedrooms. They had a small little kitchen as well if they wanted a cup of tea and coffee.
"Shall we check out our rooms." Draco asked.
Maisie once again nodded and they both went up to their separate rooms excited to see the wonderment of their individual places of living.
Maisie entered and looked at the magnificent room, her owl was perched on a stand, which was situated on a beautiful classic mahogany desk, which already had all her books on it with a new roll of parchment on top of it. Also another place in her room was a vanity table for her to do her hair and makeup in the morning. A huge wardrobe and book shelf stood in the corner. The best part was the huge four poster bed with the wild flower bed spread. She noticed an adjacent door off of her bedroom intrigued she walked over and opened it, it was a bathroom. They had to share a bathroom.
A couple hours later and Maisie was sleepy she headed off to bed. Leaving Draco in the common room. She got dressed and ready for bed wearing a pair of knickers and her one of her dads shirts which fell mid-thigh. Her hair in a messy ponytail and finally snuggled down into bed ready for sleep to overtake her.
She tossed and turned finally giving up on the fact that sleep wasn't coming to her. Her clock on the bed side table read 12:00. She thought in her head 'no you can't' however after 5 minutes of thinking she got up out of bed and went through the bath room door, entering Draco's room. Before nudging him awake she looked at his face in a peaceful slumber. Having felt the breath on his face, he stirred and arose looking into her big brown eyes.
"Hey" he said groggily.
"Hey, I couldn't sleep." She said now anxious, that this was bad idea. Tucking a stray hair behind her ear.
Draco scooted over to the other side of the bed and held the duvet up for her to get in. She slide into the bed and snuggled into his side, his arm wrapping around her.
"Goodnight Draco." She said now falling a sleep peacefully.
She was finally home.
"Goodnight Maisie." He answered falling back into a peaceful slumber.