Ocean's Away Chapter 4
The faint glow of the early morning light filtered down through the castle's Infirmary's windows as Nelli lifted her head delicately off of her mate's shoulder.
Blinking slowly in the sunlight, she yawned and thought back to everything that had happened last night.
One moment she was swimming happily in the lake with her friends, and the next minute she had been rescuing Draco from an untimely death.
She smirked as she thought back to what Draco had said about his supposed death.
Leave it to the Slytherin Snake Prince to become immortal.
Memories of kissing her mate made her stomach flutter with little butterflies as her insides clenched hard at the new sensation.
So this was what it was like to have a mate.
Nelli jumped as long, pale fingers brushed her blonde hair out of her face.
"Good morning, little princess." Draco's voice drawled as she turned to face him.
Her face scrunched up cutely as she mulled over her new nickname.
"Princess? Really? Not feeling very original are we?" she huffed as she gave him a fake pouty face.
"That's what you are, aren't you? The princess of the Sirens, that has become the mate of the winged creature of darkness? Rather cliché isn't it?" Draco said as his pitch black eyes met her own.
She supposed it was rather cliché.
But, this was her life now and she had better start fully accepting it.
"So princess, breakfast in bed or breakfast with company?" Her mate questioned as a slow smirk spread over his thin lips.
His wings fluttered behind him as she quirked an eyebrow at his winged antics.
"Do we really have a choice? After all we are supposed to be recovering from a terrifying incident. Madam Pomfrey should be around here somewhere. I bet she's dying to ring our necks for sleeping in the same room, let alone the same bed." Nelli said as Draco rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Of course we have a choice, love. We always have a choice. I'm not a Malfoy for no reason. There's a method to my madness I promise you." He said with his trademark Slytherin smirk.
No sooner had she opened her mouth to argue with him, the curtains burst open around the bed that they were now haphazardly laying in and Madam Pomfrey herself appeared with a none too happy look.
"Mr. Malfoy, I do believe it's time for you to change back into your human form and exit the room. Your highness it would be wise of you to say goodbye to Mr. Malfoy and head to my office so we can discuss some changes that will be occurring."
Draco snarled at the mediwitch, but the witch's expression only grew into a hardened look.
"Mr. Malfoy, get yourself under control or so help me, Merlin I will lock you in the broom closet until you can sort out your issues." The witch said in a clipped tone.
Nelli placed a hand on her mate's shoulder who looked like he was two seconds away from ripping the angry witch to shreds.
"Draco, behave yourself. We can't afford to get ourselves into more trouble than we already have. Just do what she says and I'll meet you down at breakfast." She chided as Draco stilled for a moment before letting out an annoyed squawking noise.
Madam Pomfrey raised an eyebrow at the two students interactions before rolling her eyes dismissively as Draco slowly rose from the bed and stalked over to the door.
There was a flash of light before Draco reappeared as his human self.
"If you're not downstairs within the next fifteen minutes, I'm going to come here and bring you down myself." He said as he eyed his mate and the mediwitch warily.
Now both Nelli and Madam Pomfrey rolled their eyes as he stalked out of the room, finally leaving them in peace.
Turning to the young siren, Poppy crossed her arms over her chest and looked down at the new mate of the Serpent Prince.
"You've got your hands full with that one, I'll say. Good luck in getting him to do anything." She said with a sigh as Nelli nodded blankly in agreement.
"Now go wash up in the girl's lavatory and meet me back here in my office. If you're going to be mated to a veela, than you're going to need to know what exactly you just agreed to."
Madam Pomfrey said as Nelli none too gracefully removed herself from the bed.
"Darling, you're in for quite a journey." The mediwitch mumbled to herself as she watched the young girl trip over her own feet and stumble out of the room.
Little did Nelli know, the mediwitch's words would become much more than a warning.