Hell Harbours no forgiveness
Chapter 9
Draco sighed as he raked his fingers through his hair. Fuck.
He re read the letter.
"Son,
Our guest is getting impatient, we understand you care for your friend but you have no choice, his mothers power and wealth is growing and that is a valuable asset. He is a skilled duellist and his mind is also another asset our Lord longs to have under his control.
Recruit Zabini or we will send someone else to do it, by force if necessary. Dolohov is working on the mother.
Lucius Malfoy."
Fuck. How could he drag his best friend into this life? A life he didn't enjoy living himself.
"Whats that your reading?"
...
Blaise blinked and rubbed his eyes as he stares at Draco.
"Nothing" Draco mumbled as he shoved the piece of parchment in his pocket. "Mother misses me."
Blaise pouted as he stretched. "Is she missing me too?"
Draco gave a hollow chuckle before leaving the room. "Ill see ou at breakfast."
Blaise frowned at Dracos unusual distant tone and attituded before he dragged himself out of bed. He really had had the worst nights sleep. He had lay awake all night, the feel of her lips embedded in his mind, and when he had finally fallen to sleep all he did was dream of her.
He stretched again before he pulled on his robe and entered the common room.
"Just tell him Draco, he deserves to know"
Draco shook his head violently as Blaise stepped back into the shadows of the dormitory.
"I cant, he'll hate me."
"You have to. Or you will die."
"Shut up pans, you know i fucking cant"
"Cant what?" Blaise said as he stepped out from the shadows. Pansy turned to face him, her thin face turning scarlet before she mumbled something to Draco and sped out of the entrance to the common room. "Whats wrong Draco?"
"Nothing Blaise, don't worry about it." Blaise nodded and let the matter drop, but he didn't forget it and tucked it into the back of his mind for a later date. "Coming to breakfast?"
"Lead the way"
Blaise followed Draco down to the great hall and took his normal seat in between Draco and Astoria.
"Astoria" Draco nodded as he sat down.
"Draco" she smiles, earning a glare from Pansy. "Feeling better Blaise"
Turning to her Blaise nodded, she looked round the room before pointedly raising her eyebrows at him before biting down into a slice of toast.
"I see" Blaise mumbled before piling his plate high with food.
Five hours later it was potions class. He took his usual sear next to Hermione and took a deep breath.
"Granger" he nodded.
"Blaise." She replied not looking at him, he noted the furious blush that took her cheeks as she flicked through her potions book.
"Befuddlement draught today" she mumbled as she moved toward the equipment cupboard. "You fetch the ingredients."
He watched her scurry towards te equipment cupboard before he stood and walked to the back off the class, where the many phials and jars containing hundreds of ingredients littered the walls. He picked up a handful of scurvygrass before he felt a sharp elbow in his ribs.
"Watch what your fucking doing weasel" he sneered as he locked eyes with the scowling res head.
"Look Zabini" he hissed his name with what Blaise noted to his great satisfaction was extra anger. "I don't know what you did to Hermione last night but I'm bloody warning you, if you so much as harm one hair on her head, I will fucking kill you."
Blaise chuckled causing Rom to turn redder than his roots.
"Oh weasel you do entertain me, I plan to harm more than the hairs on her head, if you know what I mean." Blaise gave a sly wink before grabbing the rest of his ingredients and sauntering back to his desk. He watched as Hermione checked the ingredients once over before she added tree stalks of scurvygrass to the cauldron and set it to boil. His hand brushed against hers as they both reached for the sneezewort and herd her take a sharp intake of breath.
"Relax Granger."
She turned to him then and frowned.
"What happened yesterday it was an accident, and I will not let you use it to mess with me head" she looked into his eyes. "I mean it Zabini, do not think you have this over me" She gave him a pointed glare before turning away and adding a spoon full of loveage the cauldron.
He watched her for the rest of the lesson and mulled over her words. Did he want it to be a one time thing? Was it an accident? He frowned as he was pulled deeper into his thoughts.
The feeling of someones hand on his shoulder pulled him out of his thoughts and he looked up to see Draco.
"We need to talk." His face was sullen and Blaise nodded, he had a feeling the conversation from this morning was about the resurface sooner than he had thought.
