Chapter 10
Emma made her way to the court on the morning of her hearing, very nervous. She didn't want to lose, and didn't know how she would react if she did. She sat up the front and when Lucius Malfoy entered, he death stared Emma and she suddenly felt so scared that she didn't want to leave her chair when she was asked to present her case.
She showed them her criminal record which was clean, aside from the accused murder, and then Lucius's record – it was about five pages long. And when he was asked where he was the night the man died, he admitted that he killed the man. He was sentenced to a long time in Azkaban and Emma was set free. After they were dismissed, Emma packed up her things and found Malfoy at the back of the room. He'd come to the hearing! She ran up to him and threw her arms around him, relieved to feel him again.
"I can't believe I won!" she said ecstatically and then Lucius spotted them. He now knew why his son had demanded to know why he had killed the man. His son was fraternizing with a non pureblood.
"I am very disappointed in you Draco," he sneered.
"I'm disappointed in you too Father," he replied and Lucius stormed out of the court.
"Come on, let's go get your things back from the Ministry," Malfoy said and led her to the Ministry of Magic. They handed over her wand and all her other things and had the choice of keeping the apartment if she wanted to.
"I'll keep it," she said after looking at the sad pout on Malfoy's face that was telling her to keep it. Then they went back to their building and went separate ways for the evening. It was only at nine o'clock that there was a knock on her door and she opened it to find Malfoy. The first thing that came out of her mouth was "I love you."
She had been thinking about it all afternoon and decided it was right to tell him. He responded by kissing her and shutting the door with his foot. They made it to the lounge and got intimate up to the stage where her shirt was off, her jeans undone but not off and his shirt was undone. She kissed him a little longer when she felt she couldn't do it and stood up.
"I'm sorry Malfoy, I-I can't do this right now."
"What do you-" but before he got to finish his sentence, he was asleep. Emma had sent him there. While he slept she sat and watched him, thinking about their relationship and where it would be going. Frustrated at the fact that she was getting a number of different outcomes, she went to bed.