"Look at me." He demands. "You're going to know it's me that's doing this to you. I'm the one making you feel this way."
She opens her eyes and watches his face as he enters her. She doesn't close them or try to look away as he starts to move inside of her. She digs her fingers into his hair and pulls his blond locks in her hands. He seems to like it and with a groan he starts moving faster. When she looks into his silver eyes, eyes she thought she loved, she feels a little guilty that she called him another name the last time they did this.
"What's my name?" he asks her between thrusts.
"Draco." She moans knowing why he's asking. His ego must be terribly bruised.
"Say it again."
She bites his ear lobe when a sizzling sensation runs through her body. "Draco…" she says in a voice that's between a gasp and a moan.
He pushes up on his hands and looks down at her. "Scream it."
His voice leaves no room for argument so she grips his shoulders and meets his thrusts with her own hips. She ends up screaming his name until she's hoarse.
He falls on top of her when he's finished and breathes heavily in her ear. Her breath is short and her face is flushed as she traces patterns on his back. "Will you unlock the door?" she asks him, figuring now is the best time to ask. He hasn't let her out in two days.
With a sigh he gets up and starts getting dressed. She pouts at his back. "Draco, please unlock the door. You can't keep me in here forever."
He pulls a shirt over his head and bends down, placing a kiss on her frowning lips. "I'll be back later." He says.
She stands up and wraps the sheet around her body. "You can't do this to me!" she yells her anger getting the better of her. "You said you didn't want me to be a prisoner!"
He turns to her. "That was before you decided to ruin everything."
What the hell. "I ruined everything!?"
He nods his head totally committed to his deformed idea. "Yes, do you think I would just let you run around and go back to Nott? I'm not stupid, I know that's what you want to do now, but I won't allow it." He walks over to the door and places his hand on the knob. "Do you have any idea how bad that hurt me?" He hisses over his shoulder.
Good, she thinks to herself. He deserves to hurt after everything he's done to her. She crosses her arms and sits back on the bed. He's so selfish, he only cares about himself. "Fine, "she says. "Leave, I'm sure I'll see you later, after all I have no where to go."
He shoots her a pained look and her heart melts. Damn him for playing with her emotions. She stands up and walks over to him and he quickly turns away. When she was hurting he didn't seem to mind our care…but then again she's not like him. She can't forget that she loves him no matter how hateful he's being. She puts her hand on his back.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you." She says trying to keep the bitterness out of her voice… he should be apologizing, not her.
He sighs. "I know… that's what makes it worse."
"I don't want us to fight anymore. I don't want to hate you Draco. So will you please just let me go home?"
Something flashes in his eyes when he looks at her and his eyebrows furrow angrily. He leaves and slams the door behind him. Ginny sighs loudly as she bangs her head against the locked door. This is hopeless.
X
Astoria hears quiet sobs as she walks down the hallway of Malfoy Manor. She fiddles with the edge of her shirt deciding what she should do. She knows Ginny's in that room and she knows Draco would be mad if she talked to her. He just stormed out of the house and hour ago going God knows where in a fit of rage. She hears another sad cry so she slowly edges up to the door frame.
"Ginny?"
All noise on the other side of the door stops. "Who's there?" she asks with a voice thick with tears.
"It's Astoria. Are you alright?"
She hears some feet shuffling and the shadow moving from underneath the door. "Can you unlock the door?" Ginny asks in a soft voice.
Astoria turns the handle to clarify that it's locked and then she takes out her wand, that doesn't work either. "Can't you open in from in there?" she asks knowing doors only lock from the inside.
"No, Draco has the key."
Anger shoots through her at that name and she narrows her eyes at the door because of the situation he's put them in."I'm sorry Ginny; I don't know how to open it then."
"It's okay." She answers with renewed tears.
Astoria looks down at the floor suddenly feeling sympathy for the other woman. "Maybe I could check his room… the key may be in there."
"Oh, thank you!" she says with renewed hope.
The brown haired woman walks all the way to Draco's room and hesitates before she goes in. She's not supposed to go in there unless she's personally invited by Draco and he hasn't asked for her since Ginny' been in the house. She almost turns away when she remembers Ginny Weasley's sad voice from before so with a new sense of courage she opens the door.
Draco's room is decorated in dark colors and expensive fabrics. Silk hangings and greens sheets cover his gothic style four poster bed and with light steps she walks up to the bed side table. She's seen him put keys in the drawer there before. When she opens it she notices four silver keys and she has no idea if one of them, if any, will open the door to Ginny so she takes them all and walks back to the other room.
Ginny's waiting patiently by the door when she returns and stands up straight when she hears keys being messed with.
"Did you get it?" she asks.
Astoria frowns at the four keys. "Um, I don't know. I have a few here… one of them may work."
Ginny crosses her fingers as she hears the other woman try the keys. Her hope seems to fade a little bit when the first three don't work but the last turns with click noise and the door opens to reveal a very uneasy looking Astoria. Ginny jumps and runs to embrace the other woman tightly.
"Thank you so much!" she says and runs over to the wardrobe pulling out clothes and dropping them on the floor to pack later.
"Are you going to leave?" Astoria asks her as she looks around the room. Draco must have had this room redone. Her eyes widen a little; he's going to be so mad if he knew she helped Ginny. Her posture becomes rigid waiting for her response.
Ginny stops moving and stares blankly into the wardrobe. What am I thinking? I can't leave, she says to herself. "No," she answers quietly, tears prickling her eyes again.
Astoria lets out a relieved breath.
"I can't leave." Ginny continues. Speaking more to herself now. "He'll just do the same thing he did before." She falls to the floor and sits Indian style while staring into the hollow darkness of the wardrobe before her.
"What are you going to do now?" Astoria asks timidly. Torn between wanting to help her and not wanting to anger Draco.
Ginny shakes her head. "Nothing…" She slumps her shoulders and looks at her hands. "Will you lock the door on your way out?"
She almost says something as she stands up but thinks better of it. Before she closes the door she turns around and looks at Ginny who's lost in her own miserable thoughts. She's never been gladder that Draco doesn't love her. Obviously he doesn't know how.
X
"Get out of my office." Spits Draco as he walks into the room and towards his desk.
Theo's response is to lift his feet up on the desk in front of him and relax his body further into the chair.
When Draco walks past him he hits his legs so they fall to the ground. "Leave."
"Is Ginny at your house?" Theo asks watching Draco's expression closely as he takes his seat.
"What's it to you?"
Theo shrugs. "Just wondering." He says lightly. "Oh, I managed to steal the Klaus account." He says conversationally.
Draco narrows his eyes. "That's a million dollar account, Nott, and your company doesn't deal in manufacturing."
Theo shrugs again. "It does now. In fact I'm trying to take the company in a whole new direction."
"Oh, and what direction is that?" Draco asks spitefully. Obviously hating the other man.
He smiles. "The direction that destroys yours."
This time Draco laughs. He leans back in his chair and folds his hands behind is head. "Is that so?" he asks and Theo nods his head. "and how are you going to manage that, hmm? Steal all of my costumers and business partners."
"People do like me better then you."
Draco stands up. "Good luck with that." He puts his hands on the table and leans forward. "If it's war you want Nott… then war you'll get."
Theo stands up and adjusts his cloak. "That's not what I want but if it's what I have to do to get her back then so be it."
He turns to leave but Draco's voice stops him. "She loves me." He says, almost like he's convincing himself.
Theo smirks at him. "If you say so."
X
Draco storms into Ginny's room ready to yell out of sheer frustration but stops when he sees her. She's sitting in the middle of the floor in a silk night slip staring at her hands. Clothes and shoes are all over the floor.
"What are you doing?" he asks suspiciously.
"Waiting for you like always." She says flatly.
He takes a step closer to her. "Why is the room such a mess?"
She inhales deeply. "I guess I was bored."
"Bored?" he asks while looking around.
"Bored." She confirms without emotion.
He sighs before he sits down on the edge of the bed. He runs his fingers through his hair and then turns to look at her. She hasn't moved. "Come here." He says to her.
She rolls her eyes before she gets up and walks over to him. He pulls her down on his lap and hugs her tightly. He stares out the window as he holds her to him. Something is obviously bugging him and her curiosity gets the better of her.
"Are you alright?"
He looks at her and nods his head. He's obviously lying but she doesn't want to press the matter so she relaxes a little into his chest trying to get comfortable.
"I want you to be happy with me." He says quietly after a few moments of silence and she raises an eyebrow when he places his hand on top of her stomach. That's strange.
She stops herself from saying her first thought which was, are you kidding me? So she takes a deep breath before she responds to him. "If you would have asked me to marry you two months ago I would have said yes." She tells him just so he knows how much she loved him and how much he messed up.
He puts his forehead against her shoulder. "I already told you why I couldn't do that."
Theo didn't care about those things she wants to say, but again holds her tongue. "I don't understand how you can do all of this to me but you don't have the guts to marry me."
He chews the inside of his mouth thinking of how to proceed. Finally he gives up and sighs. "If I asked you now, would you still say yes?" he doesn't know why but he needs to know.
She's quiet for a long time before she stands up. "No." she says and walks to the window.
He clenches his fist and tries not to lash out at her. He didn't know one word could be so painful. "Well, that doesn't matter because you're mine now." He hisses at her back as he stands from the bed. He's angry with her, and angry with himself. "I'll never let you go."
"I know." She says flatly not rising to his mad words.
Her lack of emotion upsets him more and he goes over to her and spins her around. He pushes her up against the wall and kisses her hard. Grabbing her wrists when she puts them around his neck he pins them to the wall in a painful grip. Draco closes in on her so there's no space between them and moves away from her mouth to trail harsh, possessive kisses down her neck. Every area he touches he feels like he's claiming.
"You're hurting me." He hears her say vaguely but he doesn't seem to register her voice because he's too caught up in his own emotions.
In one movement the slip is gone from her body. He pulls her against him and drags her back to the bed, falling on top of her. He continues his burning exploration of her body and he's so crazed with the need to conquer her that he doesn't notice when she starts crying and he doesn't listen when she asks him to stop.
X
Astoria knocks on Theodore Notts door. It's raining hard and her cloak is soaked so thoroughly that it's starting to dampen her clothes. She lifts her hand one more time to bang on the wood but the door swings open before she gets the chance. Theo's standing there with a surprised look on his face.
"Astoria." He greets her and moves aside to let her in.
She shakes some water from her hair and turns to him. "Why aren't you with Ginny Weasley any more?" she asks seriously, cutting right to the chase.
He studies her for a moment before he answers not totally sure why she would want to know. "She broke up with me." He tells her not wanting to dive into the full story.
She shakes her head. "Why did she break up with you?" she asks him and he notices that she's on the verge of crying.
"Why do you want to know?" he asks suspiciously. She could be working with Draco.
She sniffs loudly and a tear rolls down her cheek. "Because someone needs to help her. He's keeping her locked away in a room."
"What?" he asks angrily.
"He won't let her out. I don't know what's gotten in to him. He's crazy." She turns to him. Theo's face is getting angrier by the second. He didn't know Draco was going to do something like this. "I couldn't go to sleep tonight because I kept hearing this weird noise so I got out of bed and followed it. It was coming from her room. She was screaming, telling him to stop… I don't know what was happening…I can't do this anymore. You've got to help her."
Theo grabs his cloak. "Show me where she is."