A/N: Woohoo! 100 Reviews! First time ever for any of my stories. I love you guys! Ahem, anyways, here's a new chapter of The Prince's Knight! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: You guys know that I don't own Harry Potter, just the Knight family and Elizabeth (sadly).
NOTE: This entire chapter is in Draco's POV.
A/N (2/7/13): I took out the few sentences with Draco's dream. It just didn't need to be in here and didn't really fit so I took it out. Sorry!
Draco woke with a start, breathing heavily. He looked around the dormitory, then at the magic powered clock on his bedside table. It was not even 4:00. The Slytherin Prince shivered and rolled out of bed, and sat there in thought. Did he really just have a wet dream about Alex? Draco shook his head vigorously and stood quietly. After that dream, he was going to have to take a very long, very cold shower. Then hopefully he could get some more sleep without being further interrupted by his psychotic subconscious mind.
Draco rubbed his eyes sleepily as he walked down the stairs. Classes were cancelled all week for the tournament but the Slytherin Quidditch team still had to get up early for practice.
"Good morning, Draco."
"Alex," Draco fought to hide his blush as images from his dream reappeared in his mind's eye, "Did you sleep down here?"
"No."
Something in Alex's voice made Draco blink and look at his friend suspiciously, "Did you sleep at all?"
"No."
"Alex," Draco sighed, massaging his temple with his fingers in frustration, "You need to get a full night's sleep."
"I'll be ok. I had something to do anyway," Alex said absentmindedly, looking down at the scrawling on the parchment before him.
"What are you looking at?" Draco asked curiously, making an attempt to read over his shoulder.
Alex rolled up the parchment and stuffed it in his bag, giving the Slytherin Prince a withering look, "Don't we have practice in a few minutes?"
He gave the bewildered prince an amused look before he left, heading for the pitch for the usual rough Slytherin practice.
Draco was confused and it was affecting his concentration, which is never a good thing in Quidditch, even if it is just practice. A violent shove from his right shook him from his thoughts.
"Draco, you idiot, pay attention!"
"Alex," Draco growled warningly.
"He knocked you out of the way of a Bludger. You need to wake up, man," Blaise said from above them, "Or someone is going to get hurt."
Draco turned to apologize to Alex, but the small Chaser was already darting around the pitch with the Quaffle in hand.
Why did the Knight boy always put himself in harm's way to make sure Draco wouldn't get hurt? That's what always made Draco think all of the time. The Knight family sure was a strange one. Out of the corner of his eye, Draco spotted a flicker of gold. He whipped his broom around and dove after it, successfully catching the tiny little Golden Snitch.
He called out to the team and waited on the ground for them to land.
"Good practice, guys," Draco started.
"Woah, who is that?" Blaise interrupted, looking past his captain.
A mere fifty feet from the huddle was a man dressed in tattered Muggle clothing. He was hunched over slightly and his eyes were darting around suspiciously.
"I saw you demons flying in the air!" he shouted suddenly, his voice high pitched with fear.
"A Muggle?" Draco looked bewildered, "How did he get past all of the enchantments?"
The team watched the man cautiously. He was muttering to himself quietly before shouting again, "I always knew you existed!"
"The enchantments affect the mind, making people think that they forgot an important appointment or something like that. He's not right in the head. He must have been able to pass right through," Alex said quietly, discreetly moving between the man and the team.
"I'll take one of you back to prove it to the world!" he said suddenly, pulling out a sharp blade from the pocket of his ripped up jacket.
"Alex! Get out of the way!" Draco ordered, in a panic as the man charged the much smaller wizard.
Alex ignored the Slytherin Prince and sidestepped the crazed man. As he passed, Alex grabbed his knife arm and bent it back, at the same time tripping the poor fellow. Within seconds, Alex had effectively disarmed the man and pinned him to the ground.
All was silent before Alex snapped irritably, "Well? Someone go get Professor Dumbledore."
The startled and somewhat frightened team took off in a flash, leaving Draco, Blaise, and Alex alone.
"Alex, I-uh-how did you do that?" Draco asked in shock.
"Training."
"Why-?" Blaise started, trailing off in confusion.
"Why what?" Alex asked seriously, purposefully not helping them complete their thoughts.
"Why do you know Muggle hand-to-hand combat?" Draco had finally gathered his thoughts and was able to voice them without sounding idiotic.
Alex glared up at his two friends, "It is not Muggle combat."
Before they could question their friend further, Dumbledore arrived with Professor Snape in tow behind him.
"How did this happen?" Snape asked sharply as Dumbledore silently conjured some ropes to bind the Muggle prisoner.
"He's mentally unstable. That must be why the enchantments didn't keep him out," Alex said, getting up once the man was tied securely.
"Mr. Zabini, if you would, go to the dormitory and calm down your team? News about this doesn't need to spread through the school so do your best to keep that from happening. You two, come with me to my office. We have much to discuss," Dumbledore said, nodding to Snape calmly.
The trio of friends exchanged looks before obeying the Headmaster's orders.
"See you guys soon," Blaise said softly before trotting off towards the dungeon.
"Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Knight, stop dawdling!" Snape snapped loudly, spurring the two into movement, "Don't keep the headmaster waiting!"
Alex and Draco quickly made their way to the headmaster's office, followed by a silently brooding Snape that was given the task of levitating the captive behind him. Snape nudged the two aside and gave the stone gargoyle the password and silently walked up the stairs. They were just outside of the door when Dumbledore called them into his office.
"Ah, Mr. Malfoy, Miss Knight, come in."
A/N: Is Draco attracted to Alex? Will the next chapter reveal Alex's true identity to Draco or will she be able to bluff through it again? Find out next time! Please review!