(A/N: Hey you guys Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year, just wanted to say this is the last chapter before a small hiatus for the Holidays and New Year, I'll be back sometime in January and with that Enjoy!) Characters etc. belong to JK except for the plot.

Love Is A Terrible Thing.

To Love Is A Sin.

To Be Loved Is A Curse.

Jealousy is Love

Draco walked slowly behind Gwen, who was practically glowing, and they made their way through a burst of colour and sound that hand Draco put his hands over his ears in pain. He couldn't understand anything the noises were making since they were talking gibberish (they were actually talking backwards since they were moving back in time). Suddenly everything came to a sudden stop that made Draco fall over. Gwen stood as everything took its respective shape and detail, her dress was the only thing moving and her hair billowed slightly. He got up, slightly dizzy and walked a foot or two around.

They were in the school, only it was newer, and people were dressed in strange clothing and they were passing Draco and Gwen as if they weren't there. Gwen walked slowly down the hallway and made her way up the steps. He quickly jogged and was soon beside her. She didn't say anything and he followed her patiently as they made their way around the top floors and soon enough they were outside the Head's Dorm. He stared at the entrance: it was a regular door, no painting and there was actually nothing special about it. She took his hand and he was shocked at the warmth of it. He clasped back and she led him through the door. Once on the other side he looked himself up and down in amazement. She however looked at the scene before her.

A tall young man was lying down (across) the armchair beside the fire and Gwen (in the scene) was storming over to the boy who was reading quietly. She threw the goblet in her hand right at the back of his head. She missed and it hit the stone fireplace, shattering. The boy in the chair stood, fuming he was across the room in a second and was grasping her wrists. (A/N: FYI the guy is Sam :P lol) She wore a scarlet dress that brushed the floor slightly, but her shoes were shown every other step. The sleeves of the dress hung off the middle of her shoulders and were clasping tightly there before becoming wide (bell-like) at the bottom near her wrists. The torso of the dress was hugging her breasts and small waist with a fat gold belt forming a V down where her navel would be (in the middle of the V and her hips at the top points of the V) and kept going down the middle of the dress in a rectangular line. Draco was captivated by her (well, her body mostly).

Gwen had fear across her face, but also defiance. Draco made the best translation of what was going on. Apparently the boy had done something in Gwen's room she didn't like and she got mad. She made to slap the boy but he moved her against the cold stone. She squirmed uselessly and he allowed her to do so before laughing at her. She spit in his face.

"You're mad! What've I done to you so you hate me so?" The boy yelled at her, silencing any attempts she began to make to escape.

"You were born to my father's enemy." She whispered and he loosened his grip on her wrists as he felt her body tension relax.

"If I weren't alive, what t'would you do without me? Become a lost sheep?"

She had a sad expression across her face and he leaned his head towards hers. He rested his forehead lightly on hers, the tip of his nose along the middle of small one.

"You are the devil, you tease and please women on your own accord and leave before dawn, leaving the women heart-broken. I am not a milk maid you can impress with you words, nor shall I welcome you into my bed." She said in a whisper with a delicate voice that shook as she spoke. She looked down to the stone floor and didn't meet his green eyes she knew would capture her and would not allow her to leave.

She tried to move away but his mouth brushed purposefully against her exposed neck and the pads of his fingertips moved against her heaving chest that was tastefully exposed thanks to the design of the dress. She put her hand on his shoulder and looked him in the eyes. He used his other hand and put it behind the small of her back and pulled her body towards his. She used both her hands to slowly undo the ties at the front (top) of his tunic and began to slowly remove it and his hands slowly undid her tight knots at the back of her dress.

Draco looked at the Gwen beside him and he saw no shame across her face, she was gladly showing him this memory and she had a look of longing for that moment to be real again. Draco looked back at the scene unfolding before him.

Sam had begun to slide her arms from the sleeves of the dress that he pulled forward and down her torso. She wore no corset with this outfit and that left her breasts exposed to the boy along with the rest of her gorgeous torso. The dress hung off her hips and Sam began to kiss her passionately, their bare torso's pressing together; their skin against each other felt so right and good.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and she ran her fingertips through the ends of his hair at the back. She moaned in his mouth as his hands made their way upwards from the sides of her hips across the sides of her breasts and backwards to her back. He stepped lightly sideways, slowly turning his back to Draco and Gwen. The bad thing about the plain, non-secured doors in the old Hogwarts was that anyone could walk in on anything. And one person did so in this moment. A tall scared boy burst through the door and was out of breath.

Sam covered Gwen with his body and he turned to see the boy. He obviously knew the boy, and he started to yell at him.

"Will! What the bloody hell?" He asked the boy who fought himself to breathe.

"Lord…Salazar…approaching…angry…Lord…Godric…coming…as well." He gasped out before sitting on the floor grabbing the stitch in his stomach. Sam moved with Gwen out of view from the boy where she could put her dress back on. She put her hand on the wall as Sam tightened the strings to the back of her dress. She gasped as he did one too tightly. He didn't apologize but merely shoved her through a secret panel behind the bookcase. He spoke instructions to her solemnly.

"Follow the passage, you'll come across three doors, take the one on the far right it will lead you to the Grounds outside. Go on." She gave him a glare before he shut the bookcase door behind her. He walked slowly back to his armchair and tied his strings together when he finished fixing his tunic and was casually sitting the chair, he motioned for the boy to come over and he sat in the other chair. By now he had caught his breath and they were acting casual and making conversation when Salazar Slytherin burst in. He was a tall menacing man who scared Draco (and nothing scared Draco except for the Dark Lord). The Father had his wand brandished and was walking about the room upturning furniture furiously. "Where is she Sam?!" He yelled at his son who looked at him with a confused expression.

"Who father?"

"The Gryffindor girl!" he shouted as Godric stormed in. Draco was scared of him, not because he was scary but because he was so majestic Draco felt shame for being in the Slytherin House.

"Salazar you don't think of my daughter or even speak of her in any terms or I shall remove you from this earth!"

Salazar glared at the man before pointing his wand at his son who blinked in response. "She's not here father, why would that filth be here?" He said angering Godric who also pointed his wand, but not at Sam. He held it steady at Salazar.

"You would be willing to kill your own son for having feelings for my daughter but I will kill you if you threaten any student, be your child or not."

Draco watched the scene with something in the pit of his stomach. He feared for Gwen and the boy.

"Father, why don't you observe the Grounds…perhaps your daughter resides in the gardens she grew Lord Godric?" He said to his father then to Godric who willingly went onto the giant stone balcony where the Window would soon take the place of. He scanned the Grounds quickly before spotting his daughter sitting on the grass with her dress spread about her. She was brushing her fingertips against her roses and daisies and numerous other flowers about her. Salazar saw this and was embarrassed for thinking his son would collaborate with the Gryffindor girl. He lowered his wand and eyed the girl suspiciously.

Godric excused Sam's father stating he was not in his right mind a few moments before. He said his father would not lay his wand at Sam again. After they reluctantly left Sam asked his friend to leave. He then made his way through the passageway and Gwen transported Draco down to the Gardens where the tall hedges acted as walls and blocked the view from everyone else. The Garden's where like a maze and a hedge in the corner was covering a stone door that Sam emerged from.

She was crying silently and gasped when Sam touched her shoulder. She slapped his cheek and began to yell at him.

"How dare you?! How dare you take advantage of me, of my father's trust in me, of your father's sanity?"

Draco frowned at this comment. He began to think before he pushed it to the back of his mind for later. Gwen pushed Sam away when he tried to kiss her. "Go away Sam. I do not love you today." She said in slightly noticeable Irish accent.

"Not today?"

"Not today, nor tomorrow. Go." She said.

It was almost a game, Draco thought. They loved each other one day then didn't the next. It was madness.

Sam began to walk away when he looked over his shoulder slightly and whispered: "I do not love you at all."

Draco saw the devastation across her face as she covered her mouth when he left the Gardens through its maze back to Hogwarts.

There was a stone backless bench in a small patch that was unplanted but the green grass around it sufficed. She was on her knees and put her head down on it over her arms and began to cry. Draco was getting slightly touched by the scene but Gwen put her hand on his arm and began to led him a few feet away.

"This is enough from this day." She said sadly and then the setting was beginning to change again, and then stopped abruptly.

They were in the Head's dorm again except this time the window was there, but the stained glass wasn't yet existent.

A tall woman clad in blues and who had dark raven black hair stood with her hands on her hips and tapping her foot at two people sitting in the loveseat couch. They both had their heads bowed in shame.

"Flooding the school; flooding it because you were trying to drown each other. Correct me if I am mistaken but are you two not in love?"

"Not today." They both said and Draco was extremely confused now. Sam and Gwen were soaking wet and were trying their best not to touch each other. How did Rowena Ravenclaw know about them? And if she knew why didn't she end the feud between Slytherin and Gryffindor? All these questions had valid answers that Gwen would not give him willingly. He needed to figure it out on his own. He watched patiently.

"Gwen, darling freshen yourself up while I have a word with Sam." She said sweetly to Gwen who rose and pulled her soaking, heavy dress off the floor and exposed her smooth calves, which made Sam practically have a coronary. She left the room and made her way up the stone steps to her room and shut the door sharply.

"You have no sense at all. You are young, and you are aggravating a young girl who gives you her heart freely yet you reject it every time, which in turn causes her to hate. You need to speak with her. Wed her!" Rowena practically shouted at him, keeping as quiet as she could. Sam remained silent and took the lecture.

"She loves you, and you love her, do not act as though she were beneath you in status. Both of you are the Heirs of the most powerful wizards in the world; you can accept your fate and take Gwen as your wife. Your father will not find out if it is what you need. Time is of the essence, yet you duel each other for dominance. You are both acting like children and are not accepting your responsibilities to this world and the future of the witches and wizards of the centuries." She stopped and allowed him to answer her question:

"What do you need from her?"

"I need assurance."

"Assurance of her love?! Sam Slytherin you are mad, you and her need to bond and love and care for each other if you do not…terrible things will behold you in your short future."

He took no heed of her warning but stood and slightly bowed to her before leaving to his room. Rowena shut her eyes in anger and left the Dormitory. When Gwen didn't do anything Draco turned to her and began to ask her some questions:

"What was wrong with Salazar Slytherin's sanity?"

"He was…slowly going insane. When Sam found out, he was devastated and when I tried to comfort him, he hit me. He didn't mean it but his father's temper got the best of him. He healed that night, he slept in my arms and I comforted him when he needed me. And he does the same in a few days from this day. When I realize what we must do to keep our fathers from murdering each other it nearly drove me insane. He showed me how he can be but how he acts the way he does to protect me. And I didn't believe him and left Hogwarts that night; I didn't get very far of course before Salazar apprehended me and punished me."

She took a small breath.

"Sam came to save me and he too was punished. I would show you that night, but it is not for today, today is for the past. And that night is a little too close in the future for you to see. For now I will take you back to someone you know. And someone you love."

The scene changed once more and they were outside the Great Hall and Gwen was no longer with him, but it was still that time, and it was still a memory. Emerging from the Great Hall, with a confused look on her face (since Sam also disappeared) was Hermione. She saw Draco and Draco saw her and they walked towards each other. Draco embraced her and she clasped at him, showing him how much she needed him.

He decided to tell her the truth about how he really felt and he put on a hard face.

Down the hallway Sam was leaning on the stone watching them and then a tap on his shoulder surprised him, this was a memory: no one could see or hear him! He turned and saw the love of his life. He embraced her with all his might and began to cry into her shoulder. This was the first time they've seen each other in centuries, even as the specters they could not see each other.

"I've missed you so much you have no idea how much my heart's been aching for you." He gasped out, his voice shaking. He was bearing in soul for her. There was no use in lying anymore.

"I know." She said holding him at the back of his neck and kissed his cheek.

"Do you love me today?"

"I have loved you every day of my life and in this life I live now." She said poetically and kissed him on the lips passionately and he hugged her against him as he shared the kiss. A force in their stomachs pushed them away from each other and new tears began to form for both of them. This was their punishment. They could not love.

Draco held Hermione at arms' length and looked her in her brown eyes:

"Hermione…I…"

-A/N: Oooo cliffy!! Thanks to EVERYONE who reviewed and took the time to do so luv all of ya! Lol as I said before I'll see you guys after the break, enjoy your holidays you guys, and relax, we all need it! LoL. Happy New Year everyone! -

-Krystal-