Ten
Pairing: Pansy Parkinson & Draco Malfoy
Word Count: 315
Summary: Draco persuades Pansy that what they have isn't love.
Author's Note: Argh, I'm sorry I'm so slow with these. If you feel like I'm neglecting you you can try my fic 'taste your beating heart' which is another collection of pairings fic, which this was intentionally written for until I realised it would fit in here. On a good note, I'm 10% done! That must be good, right? Well anyways, as you know, feedback is ALWAYS appreciated, it motivates me like nothing else :)
"I love you," she says, quietly, her voice slightly cracking on the last syllable. She's supposed to be confident, calm, collected- and usually is, but when she's alone with him, she falters. Especially in silent, emotional instances like these. When it's just him and her. Draco and Pansy.
"You don't," he says immediately, without even pausing for thought, pressing his lips to hers.
She pulls away and puts a hand on his chest. "No- I do."
Draco sighs and closes his eyes, pinching the bridge of his nose before opening them again to look at her, those steely grey orbs penetrating hers so deeply she daren't look away. "Pansy, what you and I have- it's not love. It's amazing, it's exciting, it's great, it really is. But it's not love. Okay?"
She bites her lip and looks down at her hands, which are now twisting in her lap.
He sighs again. "Love doesn't exist, remember? Why should we bother with all the heavy stuff when we can just continue to have fun? Because we do have fun, don't we?"
She nods because they do- they have fun picking on younger students from other Houses and bitching about Potter and his clan.
He puts a hand on her shoulder, the closest his hands ever get to touching her face- she so wants him to stroke her hair or her cheek- and steers her to looking at him again. "So let's just continue having fun, shall we? No more nonsense about the l-word. We can forget this ever happened, can't we?"
She nods again and this time she smiles with it. "Okay."
He smiles and kisses her again, and this time she kisses him back because she knows it's the best she can get.