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Chapter Six – Pansy's mistake

The weather was beginning to turn darker and the temperature of the castle had dropped dramatically with the approach of the end of October. Everyone had become more subdued and focused on a new heavy work load that the teachers had sprung on them. The Christmas holidays were a month and a half away which meant that the Annual Christmas Ball was approaching. Girls had began talking of who they wanted to take and what they were going to wear, but many did not have time to think about anything but their work, and in Harry and Draco's case; Sasha.

After his first meeting with the girl, Draco had been very intrigued and wanted to spend more time with her. He had kept this fact to himself as he did not want to wreck a good relationship with Pansy if there was no chance with Sasha, which was the likely situation as Harry had staked his claim. However, Sasha had begun smiling at him in class and would always stop to chat in the halls.

As for Harry, the situation with him and Sasha was at an all time low. Even if he was standing right in front of her, yelling, she would still ignore him. It was driving him insane. They had only shared two kisses in the past but he believed that he loved her. He didn't want to give up on her, no matter how stupid he made himself look.

Sasha, on the other hand was finding it easier to ignore Harry as he was annoying her to the point insanity and his charm had seemed to disappear. He no longer held that attraction of a handsome, classy man that she had always seen him as and that had caused her initial desire for him.

Malfoy however was holding a great sense of appeal; she was very drawn to him. Harry was almost scaring her though. He had a dark, almost psychotic exterior when he approached her.

One night Sasha had decided to stay up late to finish her essay. Her housemates slowly filtered off to bed leaving her alone.

Harry had been watching from stairwell to the boys Dormitory and had waited until she was alone.

"Hi, Sasha", his voice was cold and his eyes set on the girl.

She looked up briefly before shaking her head and returning to her work.

"What are you doing?" He asked, walking slowly towards her. His wand held tightly in his sweaty hand.

Again, Sasha ignored his question and began focusing on the cup of tea that was sitting beside her work.

"I just asked you what you were doing!" he said loudly and forcefully, making her look up.

"What the fuck does it look like, Harry?" she screamed back.

Harry ignored her answer, "I can't contemplate why you are ignoring me, Sasha".

"Because you are a silly little boy whom I have no interest in".

"You don't mean that".

"Yes", she looked at him with a frustrated expression, "I do mean it and I wish you would just leave me alone. How come you don't seem to get it! You can't make me like you and you can't force me to change my mind by stalking me", she said this all very fast. Her breathing was very heavy.

Harry bit his lip and felt his knuckles tighten, "Well you're just a misleading slut!" he yelled kicking the table that her work was on. The tea went flying into her, burning her arm. She screamed out in pain but Harry grabbed both her arms and pulled her close.

Gently he kissed her on the lips and whispered, "You'll come back to me. You are a worthless slut just like all the others". Roughly pushing her back into her chair he smiled slyly, "I will leave you alone, but you won't be able to leave me alone".

With that he walked away. Leaving Sasha alone with tears in her eyes and clutching her burned arm.

"Fucking cunt", she said in a whisper in an almost hiss, "I'm going to fucking kill you".

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"I think we should have another party", Malfoy blurted out at the breakfast hall on a Thursday morning, "I mean we have all been so up tight and stressed about work. It would be a good relaxant. It would give everyone a break".

He friends looked at him with approving nods and smiles.

"Yeah, that would be good. I'm so sick of studying that I think I might die from knowing too many charms", Blaise joked but no one laughed.

Malfoy could not pay attention to his friend as his mind was deep in thought of the best way to ask Bevan to invite his sister and confess his feelings for the beautiful blonde. His thoughts strayed to her, picturing her smiling at him, whispering sexy ideas in his ear and finally kissing him.

"Drake", Pansy had smashed his day dream by plonking herself down on his lap. The shock had made him jump.

"Shit, Pansy", he cursed.

"Sorry, babe", She smiled sweetly, but her features held little beauty. Draco looked across the table and saw Bevan frown. Draco assumed it was because he had warned Bevan off Pansy and now he was with her. It looked as if he had lied to Bevan to just keep him away from Pansy so he could have the girl selfishly. However it was not the case. Draco had always been any easy target for girls. Once he had gotten over Harry's fame and attraction, he accepted almost any girl that asked him out because he couldn't say no for fear of Harry snatching them up and making Draco look like a fool.

"That's alright", he said absent minded.

"Hey-", she said seductively, beginning to make her fingers walk up his arm and across his shoulders, "do you think we should skip potions and head back up to the common room". She leaned towards his ear and licked the edge of his ear affectionately.

Draco felt a sudden chill filled his body, urging him to pick the girl up and carry her to his room to root her like mad. He had to admit, while he did like Pansy's personality, she wasn't very attractive but having her to root beat getting himself off every time he thought of Sasha.

"Fuck yes", he replied hungrily, turning to his boys he added, "We'll sort the party out tonight. I'm not going to potions, don't say anything though. I will talk to Snape later".

Blaise continued to laugh to himself while Bevan merely nodded in a similar fashion as how his two dim-witted cronies did.

Blaise watched his friend leave. Grinning slyly he turned to Mariana, "Hey, you reckon we could get away with it as well?" he raised his eyebrows in a comical fashion.

Mariana glared at him, it was an angry look but Blaise saw fear in her eyes, "No", she said bluntly.

Worried, Blaise leaned closer to her and put a comforting arm around her, "Babe, I was kidding. It's alright. What's the matter", he pulled her closer and kissed her forehead affectionately.

She shook her head rather violently. She had gone pale, "Nothing. Let's… let's just get to class", she said in a tired voice.

"Yeah, ok", without taking his arm from around her shoulder he helped her stand up. When he said he was joking, he meant that he was joking. He wasn't like his other friends who needed sex. He didn't actually mind. He did like it but he liked comforting a girl and spending time with her; loving her, kissing her and treating her as if she were the only person in the world. Not wanting to pressure her into telling him what had caused her to be afraid of what he said. He knew it wasn't because she was a virgin, as Malfoy had informed them all of his dirty past with her, and everyone knew that Harry had been around with almost every girl in their year; including Mariana. He swore to find out and make her not afraid eventually, until then he would enjoy spending time with her.

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It was almost becoming unbearable for Harry to be around Cho. All she did was nag and talk about how he didn't really show that he loved her. Harry was beginning to turn off and wait until the buzzing in his ears stopped to reply with "yes" and "Sure". But Cho saw through this and would hit him on the arm, making him angry.

"I really think that I am the only who is even putting an effort into this relationship!" she screeched at him one time. Harry winched at the tone but chucked evilly, "What is so funny?" she demanded.

Harry allowed his mind to drift to the thought that had made him laugh, for someone who's putting so much effort into the relationship she isn't trying to keep me happy. No sex from her, I'm no even allowed to feel up my own girlfriend. This whole thing is total bullshit.

"Harry?!"

"what?" he glared at her. They were sitting in the silent area of the library. Harry had hoped that he would be able to do his 'spending time with her' without her talking, but it wasn't working.

"HARRY!" she yelled, getting glares from the entire room. Lucky Madam Prince wasn't there or else there would have been hell to pay.

"What?!" he yelled back in a slightly quieter voice. This was the first time he had properly raised his voice at her. She stared at him in shock not expecting him to react this way, "You are driving me insane! Can't you just leave me alone? I'm here ain't I?"

She composed herself before answering him, "Yes well this is the first time I have spent with you all week. It's like your avoiding me".

Harry looked at her, breathing deeply, "I'm not avoiding you, but if I was it would be because every time that I'm with you you're nagging me about not spending time with you. Cant you just enjoy the time I do spend with you rather than making it horrible for me!"

Cho gaped at his honesty, she had not expected him to say anything like that, tears began to fill her eyes, "I do not nag all the time", she whimpered, "And I do enjoy the time I spend with you. How can you be so mean?" tears were running freely now.

"Because I'm not having a good time! Maybe if we had sex or even got a little dirty I would enjoy spending time with you, but unlike you, I don't enjoy sitting around being bitched at".

"Harry…" she was crying uncontrollably now.

"Well it's true, Cho", his anger was not leaving him. He knew he had to leave before he made it any worse. Not saying anything else, he stood up and left the poor girl crying in the library. All eyes were on Harry as he walked away, a dark gleam in his eyes.

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"Hey, Bev, reckon I could have a talk?" Malfoy had decided it was best to just tell Bevan that he wanted Sasha to come and that it was because he kind of had the hots for her. True, Bevan would look at him funnily and question his motives but it was better to deal with that and get her to come than for her to spend another weekend wrapped up in Harry's tight grip. He wasn't going to invite any other Griffindors. Sasha would be a special circumstance.

Bevan raised an eyebrow in agreement and walked towards his new friend, "What's up?"

"Look, I know you think that I lied to you about Pansy because I told you should stay away from her and now I'm with her but it wasn't like how you think. I didn't really want her, she blackmailed me into it", Malfoy confessed, giving Bevan a worried yet hopeful look.

Bevan began to laugh, "Malfoy, why would I care about you and Pansy?"

Draco looked at him suspiciously, "Well because you gave me a real dirty look this morning when she came up to me this morning".

Bevan laughed more, "No man, that's not how it is".

Draco relaxed and smiled, "Good". He sighed but looked at Bevan questioningly again, "Then what was that look about?"

Bevan blushed a little, "Well I guess I can tell you. You're like my best mate here. It's quite shameful though".

Draco nodded and waited for Bevan to elaborate.

"Well, you know how your all in relationships and you're all lovey dovey and that? Yeah well I'm just a bit jealous. That's all". He was very red now.

Malfoy gaped at his friend, "Are you serious?" Bevan nodded, "But Anna asked you out the other day. Why did you turn her down if you want a girlfriend?"

Bevan smiled, "I don't want a girlfriend. I want a girlfriend that I really like. You know, I want to be in love. I don't just want some girl that likes how I look. I want a sweet, kind girl that I love".

Draco nodded knowingly; I was how he felt about Sasha. "Did you have a girl in mind?"

Bevan nodded, "But she's taken. That's why I get kind of angry about it".

"And you're sure it's not Pansy?"

Bevan laughed, "It's definitely not Pansy. Trust me Draco, no offence but she really doesn't have that much going for her".

Malfoy pretended to look offended but nodded his agreement and added a roll of his eyes, "She's a shocker, isn't she?"

Bevan nodded.

"So who is this mystery girl? It's not Mariana aye? She's pretty attached to Blaise. Its driving Tanya insane", he smirked at the girls torment. She should never have dumped Blaise for him, she knew his reputation.

Bevan shook his head; keep the number of words he said to a bare minimum as always.

"Well, spill", Malfoy frowned at himself; he sounded like a nosey little girl.

Bevan sighed but opened his mouth to respond, "Well, it's really awkward because her boyfriend really doesn't like me, and I really don't like him because he treats girls like shit-".

"CHO?!" Malfoy instantly knew who it was. There was only one guy who treated girls worse that how he did and if Bevan liked Draco than there was only one person it could be.

Bevan glared at his friend and held his finger to his own lips, "shush!"

Draco nodded obediently, smiling broadly.

"Yes it's Cho but don't say it loudly".

"Hey I got an awesome idea. You know how I think your sister is awesome and I kind of have a thing for her except that I never get to see her?"

Bevan nodded as if the news did not surprise him at all.

"Well what if we invited her and Cho as 'special guests' and that way we can talk to them without Harry around".

Bevan frowned, "I don't know. I mean yeah we can invite Sasha but I don't want to get in between Cho and Harry. Especially since she would never leave the famous Harry for a nobody Slytherin like me". He face dropped as he said this.

"What the fuck man?! Harry is a cunt; you'd be doing her a favour by taking Cho off him!"

"Yeah but she loves him. I know it".

Draco shook his head, "Well I will invite her anyway, aye?"

Bevan shrugged.

"Come on!"

"OK".

"Cool, but you have to invite Sasha for me ok?"

Bevan nodded, "But won't Pansy react really badly?"

"I just want to talk to her. I won't do anything; I mean she's your sister after all".

Bevan ginned knowingly, "Sure you won't".

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"Where are you going?"

"To a party", Sasha grinned, "A Harry-free party".

"I haven't heard about any party that the Griffindors are invited to", Parvati eyed her friend suspiciously. Lavender just scowled. They were all sitting in the girl's dormitory. Hermione was having her hair straightened by Ginny.

"It's a Slytherin party. Slytherin and their family of other houses only", Hermione said knowledgably.

"Who does a nerd like you know that?" Parvati looked at Hermione as if she were dirt. She hated when Hermione knew things that she didn't as the girl was just a nerdy book worm.

Hermione scowled, "Because I was invited".

"How could you have been invited? You are a muggleborn, your related to no wizards or witches", she had a dark look on her face that show anger at Hermione's invitation and not hers.

"Well, not that would you know but I am actually third cousin's with Mary. Shock horror!" she mocked Parvati's look of surprise.

"How did you hide that?"

"I didn't hide it. No one every asked why I go to study with her so I didn't tell anyone".

"I knew", Ginny replied, poking her tongue childishly at Parvati.

"That's great, Ginny" Parvati said sarcastically.

"Are you not coming, Hermione?" Sasha flashed her a huge fake smile.

Hermione raised one eyebrow and shook her head. She had not realised how separated the girls of Griffindor's seventh year had become. Lavender hated Sasha, as did Ginny. Hermione was not fond of her when It came down to it and Parvati seemed to have a thing against the two smarter girls; Ginny and herself.

"That's sad. Well, see you guys later", she walked out of the room, taking all the light with her. In actual fact though however it was getting dark and clouds had begun rolling in, but Sasha's appearance was definitely mesmerising and sparked life in the room.

"Cant believe she's going to a party without us", Lavender scowled. Her demeanour had changed radically since the arrival of Sasha. She used to be a very happy, smile at everything girl. Parvati was always the scowling, angry one, but compared to Lavender she seem positively insane with happiness.

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Malfoy had been staring at the door all night. He had decided the party would be a very formal one. Only because he wanted to impress his guest of honour. Pansy had been over the moon at the suggestion and had stated that it would be like the ball but better as there would be no loser Hufflepuff's.

Half an hour after the party had official begun, Malfoy was beginning to think that Harry hadn't allowed the goddess to join them. But as promised she arrived. While she was indeed dressed formally, she still had allowed room for much of her lovely tanned legs to show and her cleavage made him wish he could climb in her dress with her breasts. Her dress was a nice thin strapped cocktail dress that matched Slytherin's colours just so she could feel like she belonged. Her hair was tied in a graceful ponytail that hung down to the left side of her shoulder.

The minute she saw Draco she smiled, waved and made her way towards him.

"Hey!" she said happily, gently embracing him in a loose hug, kissing his cheek.

"Thanks for the invite. Bev told me that you thought it would be nice for me to meet the rest of your house", she smiled brightly making him want to throw himself at her.

"That's fine. Thought you might like to get away from Potter", he let it slip before he thought of what he was saying. Winching, expecting her to say how horrible he was, slap him and leave, he closed his eyes and mentally kicked himself in the balls.

"That's very thoughtful of you. I was thinking the exact same thing", she smiled evilly.

Malfoy gapped at her, "Really?"

Yeah" she walked passed him, allowing her hand to gently touch fingers his, "Maybe we should have a seat". She winked and walked towards a couch that was situated in the centre of the room creating a large circle.

Obediently he followed her, sitting so that he could face her easily and that their knees touched.

"So, are you not so keen on our dear friend Mr Potter?" She asked, as a house elf walked passed offering drinks. She leaned over Malfoy slightly so he could see further down her dress and grabbed a martini, "Oooo, what's this?"

"It's uh… um… it's a… muggle drink that they have at fancy parties". He watched as she tried it, smiled slyly and removed the olive. She placed it on the tip of her tongue and swirled it sexily before biting it and letting it slide down her elegant throat. Malfoy felt himself get suddenly hard by her action.

She giggled at his expression, "Draco, you look as if you want to jump in after my olive".

He blushed and snapped back to reality, "Aw no, I was just thinking how can you eat it? I have never been fond of olives".

"Oh", she took another small sip of her drink as people moved around them. To Draco they were moving slowly and noiselessly as he was focusing on Sasha alone.

"So, you asked if I was not keen on Saint Potter?" he swallowed. He was annoyed that he was letting her get to him this way. He was no longer coming off as the arrogant, self assured man that he was.

The girl giggled a little, and gave his a flirtatious grin, "Yes, only because you seemed to have a lot of anger in your voice when you mentioned him a moment ago".

Draco shrugged, "No, its not that I suddenly do not like our 'god'-", Draco emphasised the term 'god' sarcastically, "But I have just noticed that he's been keeping you looked up in your Griffindor tower quite a bit".

Sasha raised an eyebrow, "So you're upset because you are worried about how he's treating me?"

Draco nodded, but really he only cared because he had not had a proper chance with Sasha and Harry had had her all to himself.

"That's very sweet, Draco", she smiled flirtatiously again and placed a hand on his knee, "But you don't need to worry about me. Plus Harry doesn't have any influence over me. I stay up in the tower so that I don't have to go to parties that he's at". Her voice had become almost a whisper as she had slowly leaned into Draco. Her lips close to his ear.

"You're avoiding Potter?" Draco sat back a little in shock so he could see her eyes, "Why?"

Sasha sighed and pulled away from Draco, "Because he scares me. It's like he thinks he owns me. I wish that someone would just get him off my back and let me choose who I could be with", she batted her eyelashes at Draco and put on a sad look.

"What has he been doing?" Draco looked at her in worry. He did not put it passed Potter to force himself on a girl. He never took no for an answer.

"Well…" She gave Draco an unsure look, hoping he would urge her to talk.

"You can tell me, Sasha", this time it was Draco who put his hand on her leg in a comforting way.

"He attacked me the other night", she paused to allow this information to sink in. She wanted to see his reaction.

Draco's eyes sprung open in shock, "What?!"

"It wasn't bad. He didn't hit me or anything but he threatened me and he pushed me making my tea fall on me", she held up the side of her wrist to allow Draco to see the still red marks on her petite, porcelain skin.

Draco grabbed her arm and pulled it towards her, "Did you not go to the hospital wing?"

She shook her head, "I didn't want to have to lie and say I burnt it myself by accident".

"You could have told her what really happened".

Sasha shook her head, "I don't want him to get in trouble".

Draco frowned at her, "Sasha, this is pretty serious".

She shrugged, "Oh well, all I care about is avoiding him so he will get over me".

Draco didn't agree but nodded and released her arm, "I will talk to Harry". He dint know why it meant so much, but he needed this girl to feel safe, he wanted her to be free.

Sasha gave him a scared look but nodded, "Thank you, Draco". Before he knew what was happening, Sasha and thrown herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck and had thrust her lips onto his. Losing control of himself he put his strong hands on her waist and pushed himself into the kiss.

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It happened to be at this point that Pansy had sought out her boyfriend. She was missing his comforting hugs and his passionate kisses. Though the party was not large, it was hard to spot people and Pansy had asked around to find out where Draco was. Tanya had said by the couches with an evil smirk, knowing that Pansy was about to get the same treatment that she had received when she had caught Draco with the Patil sluts.

Smiling widely, Pansy had set of in search of her extremely handsome boyfriend. Scanning the room, her eyes fell on Sasha's sparkling appearance. Sneering, she looked to see who the stupid boy kissing her was.

When she recognised the slicked back, blonde, perfect hair her heart stopped momentarily. It was a minute before she actually stopped and actually took in what she was seeing. Instantly anger took her. She was going to kill that bitch. With short but fast strides she walked towards the two that sat together, arm in arm, on the couch.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing to my boyfriend?!" Pansy growled with little composure.

Sasha broke the kiss first and stared at the angry short girl who stood in front of her.

"Your boyfriend?"

"Babe", Draco stammered, "It's not what you think", he said weakly, still in the kiss he had just shared with Sasha. He didn't care if Pansy dumped him. Sasha had kissed him and that was all that mattered.

"Of course it's what I think", Pansy screamed, "She was kissing you. I can't believe that you let this happen after Tanya dumped you. I thought you would have learnt a lesson!"

Draco just shrugged, "Look, it's no big deal. It was just a kiss".

Pure hatred flashed across Pansy's face. Her eyes were almost aglow. She looked at Sasha, "Get out!"

Without waiting to be told again, Sasha stood and headed for the door.

Draco stood as well; ready to go after her but one look from Pansy told him that if he did, he was a dead man. Sasha stood and headed for the door.

Draco stood as well; ready to go after her but one look from Pansy told him that if he did, he was a dead man. You didn't fuck with Pansy.

Once Sasha was out of the room and everyone at the Party had taken their gaze from Draco, Pansy whispered to Draco, "Stay here", and she headed out the door after her rival.

Outside the Party, the halls were dark and each breath from one's lips was turned to a cold steam.

Pansy stopped and listened for the sound of high heels clinking against the cold concrete ground. Soon it was obvious that the girl had gone left and Pansy followed. Anger was her fuel.

Walking faster, in order to catch up to Sasha, she turned a corner and saw the girl standing before a set of stairs that lead out of the dungeon. She wasn't moving, merely looking towards Pansy as if she was expecting her.

"Come to beat me up?" Sasha asked casually, Pansy could not see it but there was a smirk across the girls face. Her true intentions were unknown to the girl before her.

"Who do you think you are to come into a Slytherin party and kiss my boyfriend?" Her voice was quiet but it was saturated in hatred.

"I came to you're party because Draco invited me and obviously I kissed him because he was gagging for it", she let out a small laugh at the end.

Pansy felt her face growing darker with rage. Stepping forward more she said, "You are an arrogant whore. You are never to go near Draco again or I will kill you".

Sasha laughed evilly again, "I don't believe you, Pansy. And as for me staying away from Draco; that's not ever going to happen. He wants me, your just the second rate whore he sleeps with to keep him getting too frustrated".

Pansy had heard enough. Taking a final step towards the beautiful Griffindor who was only slightly taller than her, she swung her fist at her perfect face.

Though her fists were small and she was not a strong girl, the impact of the hit was very powerful. Sasha cried out in pain and fell to the floor, grasping her face. The impact of the punch had split the skin on the blonde girls cheek and there was red streaks beginning to cascade down Sasha's face.

Pansy, feeling superior, leaned down to her opponent and whispered, "Stay the fuck away from him or I will use my wand next time and you will regret it". She then stood up to her full height and turned to leave when Sasha responded.

"You're going to wish you never did that, Pansy", her eyes no longer held the calm, happy sparkle they normally held. They flashed red and drove daggers into Pansy's eyes.

A little frightened by this, Pansy hurried away, leaving Sasha leaning on one arm and using her other hand to hold her face, alone on the floor.


A/N: I know its probably very confusing about how Harry and Sasha are acting but it will be explained. Or maybe you can already tell… Sasha's insane! Also im not sure if i should have a focus on Blaise and Mariana... any ideas? im just getting the feeling its getting 2 cluttered... review