So chapter two... just goes on from chapter one not much to say except read and review if you want to...
"Gabby…."
I jumped when he suddenly groaned. He quickly and gracefully strode over to my side and knelt so our eyes were more or less on the same level. He reached out a hand and gently pried mine from where it was torturing the fabric of the seat. The softness of his touch made fire race across my skin from where we were connected.
"Gabriella Jelousie Knight, I'm going to tell you now that I'm terrified of what I've become, of what I'm supposed to do…" Twining our fingers together he said quietly, "I'm terrified that I'm going to lose you to this hate filled world and those in it."
I nearly well fainted there but I forced myself to remember how to breath. "Draco I will always be there when you need me most." I removed my free hand from the other chair arm and traced a finger gently down his face and along his jaw. "I won't let what's happening outside these walls to break what we have. The world could explode and I would still care only about you."
"It's not the world I'm worried about." He said, unconsciously leaning forward closer to me.
"You're missing the point," I said impatiently. "I don't care what powers are wielded by Voldemort." I watched him gasp with a sad smile on my face. "I'm not scared of him. Actually, I feel sorry for him that he has been deprived of witnessing the emotion of love which so many others are lucky to experience. I feel sorry for those he's killed too, but I refuse to be frightened by someone who will only see my fear as victory. Lord Voldemort is helpless when it comes to the mental and physical bonds of emotions that have nothing to do with dread or hate. Whether it's between a mother and son, father and daughter, or two confused students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry…. Happiness, comfort, and love are a shield against Him that only we can break if we let the horror and hatred and loneliness into it."
He had been quiet during my short yet strong speech. Now I searched his eyes praying maybe something that I said would get through.
Silence.
I let go of his hand and pushed myself up from the chair and away from him. I walked the few steps between me and the window I had first been looking out of. "Think of it this way if your still undecided," I told Draco hoping that he heard me. "Harry Potter survived Lord Voldemort before because of the love his mother had for him."
"She died for him though," came the faint response.
I shrugged my shoulders not turning around. "If it came between the choice of dying and you living or living and you dying….I'd be dead either way for without the one who is your whole heart and soul there is no real living. Voldemort, no matter how hard he tries will never be able to fathom the power of true love."
He stayed quiet.
Anger ripped through my veins at his silence. "Are you going to say nothing?" I whipped around with more stinging words on my tongue.
And swallowed them when I found Draco had moved silently to stand right behind me. He grabbed my shoulders, not roughly but with strength and determination behind his movements and crushed me to his body. I gasped just once before his mouth was on mine.
"How can I say anything when you take my breath away?" he whispered against my lips. "How can I possibly express my feelings for you when I can't even comprehend them?"
"You don't have to understand them." I told him pulling away slightly so I could talk properly. "You let them guide you. It's instincts of the oldest kind and you just have to give yourself to them. Regardless of what others say or think or order you to do, Draco, you do what feels right to you and no one can force you otherwise." I could sense his hesitation and the reason for it as if he had yelled it at the top of his lungs. "Lord Voldemort can do nothing that will make me stop caring for you."
"Gabriella, Gabriella, Gabriella…." he whispered my name over and over again. Pressing his forehead to mine he sighed. "I'm following your advice." I stayed silent and he answered my unspoken question. "My heart has never had a very loud voice in my decisions but now… You are the only person I have ever felt this way for." He pulled back and looked in to my eyes. "I just want to hold you close and protect you from the evil in the world but I had convinced myself I couldn't because I'm part of the bad things that have created the evil. Gabby I can't protect you from myself."
"Then don't," I told him hotly. He raised an eyebrow at the venom in my voice but I went on. "I don't want you to try and protect me. God above knows I have the whole entire Order of the Phoenix doing that because Harry asked them to." I kissed him fiercely on the mouth.
He kissed me back but I felt his confusion at my attitude like a taste on my tongue.
I broke away. "Don't be like them." I whispered, nearly begging. "Give in to the longing I know you're feeling because I'm feeling it too. Let the fear and unhappiness go and just enjoy the fact that we're alone together in a room sealed to everyone that can give us whatever we require." I kissed his neck tenderly before gently moving it up his skin where I paused just below his ear. "Surrender Draco Malfoy to the love I am offering to you."
I do not know how it happened but the next thing I knew I was pressed up against the wall with Draco looming in front of me braced with his hands on either side of my body.
"You realize that you're playing with fire Gabriella." He leaned closer to me and my deep breathing seemed to do nothing for the dizziness in my mind.
I shivered at hearing the huskiness of in his voice. The raw emotions woven into that sentence is what gave me the courage to respond. "I was already burning."
He closed his eyes momentarily before he opened them again. What I saw took away the little breath I had left. His eyes flamed with emotions I recognized right away. Before I could even try to say something his mouth was on mine and my hands were on him.
I unbuttoned his black jacket and slipped it off with one hand while the other went up to tangle in his soft hair. The cold stone wall against my back was forgotten as he kissed my neck, lightly brushing my hair away.
I heard his ragged breathing in my ear. "You are quite the seductress. I just thought I would warn you, you are going to get what you're asking for."
"I'm technically asking for two things…" I said breathlessly extremely aware of his soft lips trailing along the skin of my neck. He drew back and I regretted my words immediately. "Draco-"
"No, I'm sorry Gabby." He put a hand on my cheek. "I would love to be as strong as you think I am but I'm not."
I shook my head and hid my face against his chest not wanting him to see the tears that had gathered in my eyes. "You are strong."
He stroked my hair gently. "You're stronger."
I pushed him away half-heartedly. "If you're going to talk all night after everything I've just said you might as well put your jacket back on."
He did not move though he said, "That might be the better idea."
I stifled a gasp of hurt by biting my lip.
He heard anyway for he turned my face up towards him. "Gabby... we don't have the proper protection for what we were about to do. I don't think you want to have a kid at the age of sixteen. I could be wrong but I know for a fact that I don't want to be a father yet."
I could not help but laugh which I suspected worried him a little considering the circumstances. "I truly don't want to be a mother any time soon and I don't want to sound like a doxy but you are forgetting what room we are in."
He glared at me which made me worry if I had had overstepped a boundary until he said, "Don't ever call yourself a doxy again. You're not even close to being such a woman." He kissed me which left my brain fuddled. We separated and he said, "For your information-"
His sentence was cut short as something bounced off his head and hit me before it fell to the ground. Suddenly several somethings fell from above us. It did not hurt but we looked around wildly to see what it was.
Suddenly Draco chuckled and let go of me to bend down and pick up an object from the marble floor. "Well this could certainly change somethings."
I did not say anything, just pulled him back up so I could wrap my arms around his neck and kiss him. I didn't need to ask what he held in the small square package in his hand.
"So are you still planning on surrendering to the love that I'm offering?" I asked undoing his belt as I felt him slip my jacket off from around my shoulders.
"It's a very good possibility," he whispered making a grin spread across my face as I felt his teeth graze my earlobe in an affectionate nip.
God above! My mind screamed as the small act he inflicted on me made my heart pound and my stomach clench in anticipation.
Vaguely, I felt him pull at my jean's waistband.
Excited, my hands left their jobs and helped him out with pulling my pants the rest of the way till they pooled around my ankles. I kicked them away and ran my fingers up his body and under his sweater to trace the shapes of his pectorals. I smiled smugly when I felt the shivers go through his slender body. He hurriedly lifted his shirt over his head.
I glimpsed the Mark on his arm only fleetingly before his mouth came instantly back to mine. We moved and sank down on the couch I had levitated over to the window. I straddled him with my legs on either side while the only things covering me were a thin t-shirt and my undergarments.
"Gabby," he moaned against my throat. He buried his face in my hair as I kissed his bare shoulders and collarbone. "I don't want to do what the Dark Lord instructed me to but if I don't He'll kill-"
"Shush," I ordered him pulling away and putting a hand on his cheek. He turned his face and kissed my palm. It tickled but I managed to keep my thoughts fairly coherent. "No more talking about anything outside this room. Do you got that?"
He nodded and I removed my hand. His mouth came back to mine once he was free. His tongue traced my lips begging for the access I had only granted once before and that was in a drunken daze outside the Hogs Head Inn, many Hogsmeade trips ago. I had been so hesitant before but now I obliged and soon our tongues were dancing into each others mouths. He tasted so good I could not register anything except him. That is until I felt my shirt being gently lifted over my head breaking the connection of our bodies momentarily.
The cold air on my revealed skin was soon overlooked as Draco's chest pressed against mine while his mouth teased my lips. With his assistance and never breaking the link our lips created, I made quick work of pulling his black jeans down and casting them aside.
And made the surprising discovery that he did not wear undergarments. I adverted my eyes just as a rock hard length pressed against my thigh.
I gasped as warmth pooled below my stomach making me ache for him in ways I could have only imagined. I managed to catch my breath enough to say, "well that answers the eternal question of boxers or briefs."
He laughed and I closed my eyes as he kissed the hollow below my neck. Then he stopped and asked in a serious voice. "Are you sure Gabriella Knight? You know we don't have to do this."
I forced my eyelids to move back so I could meet his blue gaze. "If we don't tonight, we might never get the chance in the future. Things are changing, being out in to motion. I trust you Draco Malfoy. Others might not but I do."
"You have no idea how that makes me feel," he said.
I leaned forward and he kissed my lips gently with not as much desperation as before. It felt like we had all the time in the world to just bask in each others presence.
His fingers danced down my stomach making me giggle helplessly as they tickled my skin. Then he stopped when his fingertips brushed the crease of my underwear.
"Gabby?"
He moved back just slightly and I found myself staring in to two deep pools of blue. I found myself thinking I could drown peacefully in them. Then it registered that he was silently asking for the permission I had given to him long ago. I flashed a challenge at him with my eyes.
He answered it. Kissing me again he closed the distance between his body and mine. Liquid fire coursed through my veins and stars dotted my vision as his strong hands caressed my sensitive skin. The universe had shrank until it only consisted of myself and the gorgeous man above me.
We were lost to the world beyond the walls of the annoyingly helpful Room of Requirement.
*******Author's Note*******
So....tell me what you think. Criticize, compliment, question my sanity? It's all your decision. Want more?
