"Why Would I Go Out With Ron?"
Felicity walked into Beauxbatons with bloodshot eyes, dragging her suitcase behind her. She could remember talking to her mother and father very clearly in her mind.
"How dare you! This is terrible for your reputation!" her mother yelled at her.
"I'm sorry." Felicity said quietly.
"Sometimes, sorry isn't good enough. I have done some research on spells and found one to take the baby away so that our family will not have to go through the embarrassment." her father explained.
"What? No!" Felicity said in horror. Amazingly, it was the first time she had yelled at her parents.
"Do you want to bring shame to your own family?" her mother asked sternly. By then, the tears were spilling down Felicity's face.
"It's not fair! That's murder! You can't kill the poor thing when it's not even able to make any decisions for itself yet!" Felicity screamed. Her mother turned to her father and he pulled out his wand, pointing it at his daughters stomach. "No!" she tried to shield it, but her mother held her still.
"Try not to squirm too much, please." her father said with no emotion in his voice.
Felicity walked up to her old room at Beauxbatons and dumped her suitcase there, rubbing her eyes and turning to look at all the familiar objects. She wondered what her friends had gotten up to while she was gone and what they'd do when they saw her again.
"Felicity! Oh darling, it's you!" One of her old friends, Elizabeth, walked through the door and walked up, hugging her and kissing the air on each sides of her face. "Are you all right? Your eyes look a bit bloodshot." she said. Felicity found the way she spoke strange, as it was a lot more proper than the people at Hogwarts spoke.
"I'm fine." she said, putting a hand on her stomach and looking down, fighting the tears.
"Well if you're sure. Come along dear, we should go see Sophie." she said, taking Felicity's arm and leading her away.
Downstairs, they saw Sophie talking to some other girls who looked over at them and then walked away. Sophie turned around and squealed in happiness.
"Felicity!" she said, running up and hugging her. "I can't believe you're back!" Felicity shrugged, a slight smile on her face.
"Yeah, it's a bit weird." Felicity admitted.
"Weird?" Elizabeth laughed. "Don't you mean, strange?"
"Yes, strange." Felicity said, smiling. "I'm sorry, going to a different school for a while just seemed to completely disorient me."
"I suppose it would." Sophie said, shrugging. "What was it like going to a school with boys?" she asked. Felicity immediately slipped into her safe façade and began telling them all about her time at Hogwarts. Well, about a ninth of her time at Hogwarts.
Draco walked into the great hall and sat down next to Blaise, not even noticing that Maddie was sitting on the other side of his friend. In his mind, Felicity was now just a girl that had passed through his life and didn't matter any more. It had to be that way.
"Hey, Parkinson!" he said, looking over to where Pansy was sitting next to Flint. She heard his voice and looked up immediately, excitement in her eyes.
"Yes, Drakie dear?" she said sweetly.
"My right arm's cold." he said simply. Pansy's eyes lit up and she ran around the table, sitting down on his right side and leaning against him with a huge smile. "Thanks." he mumbled.
"You're welcome! I'd do anything for you!" she said.
"I know." he said quietly. Blaise glanced over at him with a frown, but decided to talk to him later. Maddie entwined her fingers with his and he smiled down at her.
"I am so lucky to be your girlfriend!" Maddie said, smiling. Blaise grinned.
"And I'm lucky to be your boyfriend." he laughed. Maddie leant her head on his shoulder and he kissed her forehead.
"Oh my gosh! See? I told you it wouldn't last!" Draco turned to see Hermione standing there with her hands on her hips. Harry was beside her slowly nodding his head.
"What do you want, Granger?" Draco asked, narrowing his eyes angrily.
"Where's Felicity? Is she up in her dorm crying? Or are you surrounding yourself with girls because she managed to dump you?" Hermione asked. Pansy tightened her grip on him so that he couldn't jump up, and he growled low in his throat.
"Looks like she dumped him." Harry said, grinning.
"Felicity didn't dump me!" he spat.
"For some reason I doubt that!" Hermione said. "I think she listened to me and wanted to see if she would be a better person without you, am I right?"
"No, you are not right!" Draco yelled, shaking Pansy off and standing up to face Hermione. "Felicity's parents took her off to Beauxbatons again."
"Oh? So just because you might have to start working with a long distance relationship you give up?" Hermione asked in disbelief.
"You are what we call a filthy mudblood, so you wouldn't understand!" he said.
"I would understand if you explained it, perhaps!" Hermione said. "But no, if you just sit there with all your explanations hiding away, I won't understand."
"Why do you want to understand? Why do you even care?" he snapped.
"I'm not a fan of people that get what they want from girls and then get rid of them." she said, raising an eyebrow as if challenging him to think up a comeback. Strangely, he smirked.
"Why? Have you had first-hand experience with someone like that?" he asked. Hermione narrowed her eyes, glaring at him. "Look, Granger, just go mind your own business and go out with Weasley already." he turned and sat back down, Pansy immediately latching back onto him.
"Why would I go out with Ron!?" she asked, her voice rising. Draco chuckled and began talking to Pansy, ignoring Hermione.
"Elizabeth, I'm just going to write a letter to someone at Hogwarts, do you mind?" Felicity asked. Elizabeth looked up with a smile and shook her head.
"Go on! We'll wait for you." she said kindly. Felicity smiled and walked away, her smile falling from her face as she got up to her dorm. Pulling out some paper and a quill, she sat down to write.
When she was finished, she went up to the owlery and selected an owl, tying the letter to it's foot and sending it out through the window with directions. She sighed, wondering how long it would take the owl to fly from France to England. Sighing, Felicity walked back down to join her friends.
"Hey Draco, you seen Liss?" Maddie asked, popping her head around the corner and raising an eyebrow. Draco turned from where he had been talking to Pansy and shook his head. "Oh man, I haven't seen her for days! Do you think she's okay?"
"She's fine." he said, turning back to Pansy.
"Do you know where she is?" Maddie asked, walking fully into the room.
"Yes." he said bluntly, clenching his teeth and staring into Pansy's eyes. This was to avoid looking at anything else, however Pansy thought he was admiring them and smiled.
"Well then, where is she?" Maddie asked.
"Not here, obviously." he said. Pansy frowned, wondering why he was being so difficult. Maddie was wondering that, too.
"Draco, where is she?" she asked firmly. He sighed, rolling his eyes and staring at the other side of the room.
"Beauxbatons." he said.
"What? Why did she go back there?"
"Ask her parents, not me."
"But you obviously know something."
"I said, not me." Draco looked over, glaring at her before standing up and leading Pansy out of the room. Maddie groaned in annoyance and went off to try and find Blaise.
Draco saw an owl flying towards him and frowned, putting his arm out for it to land. It dropped the letter on the ground in front of him and flew off again. He rolled his eyes, bending down to pick the letter up.
"Who's it from?" Pansy asked, looking up at him with interest. He skimmed over it and grimaced.
"Felicity." he answered.
"What does she want? Is she trying to steal you off me again?" she asked, fear in her voice.
"She can't." he mumbled.
"What do you mean she can't?" Pansy asked, confused.
"Well she's already got me. You and me aren't dating, Pansy."
"But I thought-"
"That's your problem."
"Huh?"
"Never mind." he sighed.
"Draco! Oh my gosh! Felicity left Angel here!" he turned, a frown on his face as he saw Maddie running up with a small white bundle in her arms. "You have to get her back to Felicity!" Maddie stopped in front of him, taking deep breaths and holding Angel out to him. He slowly took the white cat in his arms and looked down at it.
"Why me?" he asked.
"Who else?" Maddie asked, shrugging as if it was obvious.
"You could take her back." Draco said, looking up at Maddie and frowning slightly. Pansy stepped forward.
"Yeah! You can!" she put her hands on her hips and glared at Maddie.
"But don't you think it would be more romantic if her husband-to-be turned up at Beauxbatons with her kitty-cat?" Maddie asked, batting her eye-lids and giving him the pleading look.
"I guess." he shrugged.
"But he doesn't want to be romantic for her!" Pansy argued, grabbing him and pulling him away from Maddie.
"Careful!" Draco said, shoving her away and making sure he didn't drop Angel.
"You're not really going to take it to her, are you?" Pansy asked quietly.
"I'll floo there, it won't take more than a minute." he said, shrugging. Maddie grinned to herself, pretty certain that once he saw Felicity again he'd forget Pansy and make sure he stayed with his fiancé.
"I can't believe you!" Pansy said, pouting and folding her arms.
"Then don't, just don't go anywhere till I get back." Malfoy turned, walking off with Angel in his arms.
"It's not fair! This is all your fault!" Pansy said, stomping her foot and glaring at Maddie who simply shrugged with a smile.
"Yes, I guess it is all my fault that they're going to get together. Oh, I'm so amazing!" she said, skipping off.
Felicity walked with her friends through the halls of the school building, listening to their upper-class speech and wondering what had happened to her at Hogwarts.
"So Felicity, what do you think about having an extra study lesson after classes to prepare ourselves for exams?" Elizabeth asked.
"Why?" Felicity asked immediately. "I mean, uh.." she swallowed as all her friends stared at her in shock.
"Are you okay? Is there something seriously wrong with Hogwarts? Because I'm starting to think so." Elizabeth said, furrowing her eyebrows. "Maybe you should go lie down for a bit." she suggested. Felicity nodded slowly and turned to walk back up to her room but stopped dead in her tracks, staring straight ahead.
"Felicity?" one of her other friends asked, putting a hand on her shoulder. Felicity couldn't tear her eyes away from his face and the genuine smile in plain view. Shrugging her friends hand off, she ran straight towards him, stopping only just in time so as to not crash into him.
"Draco! What are you doing here?" she asked, taking Angel in her arms as he held her out.
"You forgot her, so I decided to drop her off for you." he shrugged, still smiling. Felicity smiled and then led him over to her friends.
"Guys, this is Draco, my fiancé." she introduced. "Draco, these are my friends."
"Oh my gosh, he's gorgeous! Why didn't you tell us you had a boyfriend?" Sophie asked, gushing over him immediately and batting her eyelids. Draco smirked, obviously enjoying the attention.
"I'd love to stay and chat, but I need to talk to Felicity for a minute." he said, taking her by the arm and leading her a bit away from them.
"What's up?" Felicity asked curiously.
"How are you doing? Do you need me to get you any medicine from Madame Pomfrey?" he asked, pure concern in his eyes. The smile fell from Felicity's face and she looked down.
"No, I don't need it." she mumbled.
"Hey, it's no problem for me to grab some medicine for my next trip here." he said, taking hold of her shoulders. "Is that what you meant? Or do you really not need it any more?" he questioned.
"I don't need it any more. And what do you mean next trip?" she looked up at him again with a questioning look.
"This isn't the only time I'm gonna bring a bit of Hogwarts to you." he said, grinning slightly. Felicity blinked, looking down quickly as tears formed in her eyes.
"You're so romantic." she whispered, smiling.
"Only for you." he said. "Granger's been saying you dumped me."
"That's horrible! Why would she say such a thing?" Felicity looked up again, a tear rolling down her face.
"She's Granger, did you expect anything less?" he asked. Felicity shrugged and sighed, stroking Angel's fur. "So what's this about not needing medicine anymore?" he asked, going back to the original topic.
"There's nothing there." she shrugged.
"Nothing.. where?" he asked slowly. Felicity blinked a couple more tears out of her eyes and looked away. "Your parents got rid of it didn't they?" he said, lowering his voice.
"Yeah." she mumbled. "I just.. I can't keep up the façade any longer! Ever since I was able to talk I've been pretending to be someone that I'm not." she said, trying not to drop Angel. Draco reached out and put his arms around her, pulling her close for a hug but being careful not to hurt Angel.
"It's okay, I understand." he said softly. "I'm always going to be here for you, all right?"
"You're the most confusing guy I've ever met." Felicity said, her voice muffled as her head was on his shoulder.
"Ever since I met you I haven't been able to figure myself out." he said quietly.