Sweet and Low

by BelivetheBeauty

Astoria has known her fate since she was a child.To be married.Not for love, never for love.In a world where all that matters is your blood status and proving your faith to the Dark Lord, how will fifteen year old Astoria survive a war torn world where she finds herself beginning to fall for her insufferable fiancee.Draco Malfoy. A side must be chosen and Astoria is in the middle.

34. Someone to trust

"So...he was there?" Astoria demanded sitting up to cross her legs as she watched Draco sit back against his headboard. They were wrapped in his blankets,Draco's bed curtains around them. The darkness felt less scary with him there.

"Yes..I didn't admit it was him though." Draco admitted still looking at his hands with the utmost interest as he retold the story of Potter and his cronies storming the manor,there had been a fight with the mudblood and his Aunt Bellatrix (Who scared the magic out of Astoria)

Than they'd nabbed Ollivander who had apparently been kept for involving the Dark Lord's wand. Draco didn't seem too clear on the details. Than they'd also grabbed Lovegood who the Lord's followers had snagged as leverage and to shut her loudmouthed father up.

There had been a huge debacle and Draco had lost his wand. He had his mother's now and had been detaned to the manor by Him. "Why not,and-" She cut off slightly as she noticed the look on Draco's face. "Reasons you can't quite really explain to yourself?" Astoria asked knew how those reasons felt.

"Something like that." Draco admitted before opening his arms. Feeling herself smile slightly Astoria slid into his open arms with a smirk. "You never smirked before you and I were friends" Draco added. She nodded faining thoughts. "Rubbed off on me"

She noticed the gray circles under his eyes. Noticed the slight gray tint to Draco's face. "We don't fight as much as we used to" Astoria added as Draco allowed a very slight grin that didn't look that true,it didn't reach his eyes. "-I don't have the energy anymore." he muttered still looking beaten down.

Things really were different. Astoria looked down feeling lonely again. She wished he wasn;t like this...wished the Dark Lord didn't make him like this, introverted and sad. Quiet and to himself. "Listen, I like spending time with you,Stori,I do...it's just I have to just keep my family safe..and it's all lieing on me to redeem this after what my father did...I just-I have to do this right,and save my arse at the same time and-" He trailed off,closing his eyes suddenly. "Merlin,I'm just so tired."

Looking down Astoria kissed his head gently. He squeezed her side slightly.