My head was pounding, my stomach was churning, and for some reason my right arm was dead asleep. I groaned upon waking and cursed Blaise silently in my head for always convincing me to drink too much. Drinking too much sorted out problems one and two, the headache and being sick to my stomach, but I couldn't understand why my arm was asleep. I forced my eyes open and was a little baffled to see Gray sleeping next to me. I gently lifted her from my arm and sat up, shaking the feeling back into it. I tried to focus on the previous evening. I remembered the shots and dancing, and kissing Gray. Wait, what? Kissing Gray. It hit me in a split second. We were back together! It wasn't just some happy fantasy I had dreamt up.
I looked over to where she still lay sleeping. I registered thankfully that we were both still fully dressed in our clothes from the night before, and I also noticed, even more thankfully, two vials of hangover potion sitting on the bedside table. I took one and shot it back, sighing as its effects took hold, making me instantly feel better. Blaise was an excellent party host, and always had potions on hand for those too drunk to make their way home. I flopped back on the bed and watched Gray sleeping. I smiled to myself hardly believing last night had actually happened. I reached out and brushed a stray piece of hair off Gray's face and resisted the urge to wake her. She unconsciously leaned into my touch and sighed. I slowly and gently shifted so that I was holding onto one of her hands. I don't know how long I watched her sleep before she woke. Her eyes fluttered and her face scrunched before she fully opened her eyes. "Morning," She mumbled.
"Morning," I smiled. I reached onto the bedside table and grabbed the hangover potion, handing it to her.
"You're a saint." She whispered before downing the potion. "What happened last night?" She asked after a couple of minutes, I almost thought she had gone back to sleep.
"What's the last thing you remember?" I asked.
"Uhm, you were making fun of me cause I still hate parties, and then Blaise handed us some drinks, and it just gets less clear from that point."
"Well, we danced, and drank more, and I kissed you at midnight. Then you wanted to go home, but I pointed out that we were both too drunk to go anywhere, and so we borrowed a guest room here at Zabini manor."
"Hmm, okay." She nuzzled into my chest and closed her eyes. "Refresh my memory though, how did that midnight kiss go?" She opened her eyes and looked at me mischievously.
"Well, obviously it was a bit different, because we were both standing, but basically it was kind of like this." I nudged our mouths together and set about kissing her deeply. I drew back breathlessly a time later.
"Are you sure that's how it went? I feel sure I'd have remembered a kiss like that." I laughed.
"I'm sure it was more like –" I kissed her very sloppily and disgustingly. "As we were both pretty out of it. But I prefer you remember it the first way." She laughed and wiped her mouth.
"Gross Dray." She grinned up at me. "Well then, since I don't remember saying it last night, Happy New Year!"
"Since you won't remember me saying it back, Happy New Year!" She smiled and angled her mouth up in line with mine. The kiss quickly deepened and soon Gray was on top of me, my hands were buried in her hair and she was running her hands over my chest. She started unbuttoning my shirt, but I stilled her hands and dropped my head back on the pillows. She raised an eyebrow at me. "Gray, you have no idea how badly I want you, but…"
"But?" She prompted.
"Blaise is kind of unpredictable, he could stumble in at any moment. I think we should wait till we get back to my place before getting too out of hand." She nodded.
"I suppose that's true, so, you wanna go back to your place?" She laughed.
"I feel like you only want me for my body." I sulked. Her lip twitched up.
"Well why else would I want you?" I shrugged.
"You've got a good point there." Her lips curved as they covered mine. "Well I suppose we ought to be off." I declared when I could speak again. Gray smiled and rolled off me watching me as I stood from the bed. I took her hand in mine and we exited the room. A house elf appeared as we made our way to the foyer.
"Master Malfoy is you needing breakfast this morning, sir?" It squeaked.
"No thank you, please tell Blaise thank you for the party, we had a wonderful time, and I'll get in touch with him soon."
"Of course, sir!" Gray thanked the house elf before we continued on our way. Once we were out of the manor we disapperated, and soon we were back in my flat in London. As soon as the door was shut behind us, Gray put her arms around my neck and I swung her up into my arms. I carted her off to the master bedroom and set her gently on the floor. I lowered my mouth gently to hers and kissed her softly. She leaned in closer to me and deepened the kiss. She sighed as I broke the kiss, and gently feathered my lips down her neck. My hands roved over her back and found the zipper on her dress, I slowly slid it down and the dress slid from her body. Her eyes flicked up to mine and my heart stuttered. Her fingers ran over the buttons on my shirt before she undid them and pushed my shirt from me. She pressed her lips to my sternum and breathed deeply.
"I've missed you." She whispered.
"I've missed you too." I whispered back. I wrapped my arms around her and just reveled in the feeling of having her near me again. Her lips trailed from my chest to my mouth while I slowly backed her towards the bed. In a matter of seconds we were both divest of clothing and I was on top of her on the bed. I guided myself down her body, trailing kisses as I went, paying particular attention to the spots I knew made her squirm. She was already breathing heavily by the time I reached my destination. I glanced up at her from between her legs, she was watching me, and that fueled my fire even more. I did a delicate dance with my tongue on her sensitive bits, and she was soon moaning out my name on a climax. I stopped for a moment to let her come down before starting again. I let my hand take the place of my mouth as I made my way back up her body. She slid both of her hands into my hair and directed my mouth to hers, I knew she wasn't far off another orgasm, so I stopped working my hand and looked into her eyes. I slowly pushed inside her and quickly set a gentle pace. I set my hand back to work and latched onto Gray's mouth again. I stilled as Gray finished and then pumped quickly another couple times before finishing myself.
I pushed myself off to the side and Gray quickly cuddled into me. I slung an arm around her pulled her closer to me. I pressed a kiss to the top of her head and sighed. "I forgot how talented you are." Gray breathed out after awhile. I smiled.
"I don't know if I should be hurt or flattered by that statement." She smacked me lightly on the chest.
"Flattered of course. I guess forgot isn't the right word." She rolled onto my chest and batted her eyes at me. I smiled and shook my head.
"Flattered it is then." I leant forward and captured her up in a kiss. She smiled against my lips and pressed herself closer to me.
"I'm starving." She muttered against my lips a couple minutes later.
"I could eat." I agreed. We made our way to the kitchen where Gray had some pasta left over that we heated up. I scarfed it down pretty fast and turned my attentions back to Gray. She raised an eyebrow at me.
"What are you looking at?"
"You. I'm sill just in disbelief that we're back together. I've missed you so much." She cast her eyes down and frowned.
"I never wanted you pining after me, you know?" I grinned and got up coming to stand near her. I tilted her chin up and looked her in the eye.
"How could I do anything else? You're all I've ever wanted." Her cheeks flushed and she looked away from me.
"I've missed you too, you know? I feel like I did right after our first fight." I raised an eyebrow at her. "Like I made us spend all this time apart, and in the end, it wasn't worth it, cause here we are right back together again." I sighed and rested my hands on her shoulders.
"I didn't mean to make you feel bad. We both made mistakes, I know I made a ton, but, the only thing that matters is that we are back together now." She nodded and finally looked back at me.
"I love you Draco, so much." I tilted her head back and kissed her softly.
"I love you too." I swept her up into my arms and carried her towards the master bedroom again. She cocked an eyebrow at me as I set her down in the bathroom. I turned on the taps for the bath and smiled at her.
"Is this your way of telling me I stink?" She asked. I laughed and shook my head.
"I just thought it'd be nice."
"It would be." She agreed. She shimmied out of the nightie she was wearing, the only thing she needed to rid herself of, while I let my pajama pants pool at my feet. I stepped into the massive tub and flicked my wand towards the faucet. The water sped up and stared creating light blue bubbles that smelt of vanilla. Gray got in and sat across from me, playing with the bubbles. As soon as the bath was full I shut off the water and looked over to Gray. She grinned and pushed towards me. She rested her head against my shoulder and laid a hand on my chest. I put an arm around her and traced patterns up and down her back. "Do you remember what our first fight was about?" Gray asked seemingly out of nowhere.
"Our first fight as a couple, or our first fight ever? You liked sparring with me before we got together." I grinned thinking of some of the spats we used to get into. She laughed and shook her head.
"After we were together."
"I'm almost afraid to bring it up." I joked. "It was right after we had had sex for the first time, and you were upset because I had slept with quite a few ladies. You were feeling insecure and I kind of fucked everything up more by getting angry at you."
"And then you said that we were both new to relationships, and we would eventually figure everything out. Do you think we'll get it right this time?"
"I know we will. All the things that tore us apart are out of the way. We were never the problem. It was our circumstance." She nodded against me.
"We were happy, weren't we?"
"The happiest I've ever been." She looked up at me with soft eyes at those words.
"I don't want to make you unhappy again." She sighed.
"You only did things that made me unhappy because I was wrong in the first place. I should have gone to Dumbledore with you. I never should have taken this." I indicated my arm where the dark mark was still visible. It had lightened considerably since Voldemort had died, but it was still there all the same. "I don't want to make you unhappy again either, love."
"Good, we agree then, we will both be happy and happy with each other rather than being at odds and apart." I laughed and nodded. I gently put my hand on the side of her face and leant in to kiss her.
"I don't care what we are as long as we're together."
The rest of the holiday Gray and I rarely separated from each other, and I wouldn't have had it any other way. The last night before we were to go back to Hogwarts was upon us and Gray and I were sprawled out on the couch. Gray was on top of me and we were watching some chick flick that Gray had chosen. I was running my fingers through her hair and trying to think of a convincing argument for her and me not to go back to Hogwarts.
When the credits started rolling Gray stretched and then draped more fully over me. I ran my hands over her back and hugged her for a moment. She shifted so her arms were pillowed under her chin and looked at me. "What are you thinking about?" She asked.
"Tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, going back to Hogwarts is kind of going to suck."
"Why?"
"Because there will be other people there, and things we have to do, and places we have to be." She smiled.
"Are you going to turn jealous on me?" she laughed. I pouted.
"Maybe. It's been nice having you all to myself. I don't want to go back there and have the Weasley's glaring at us and have to go places where I can't see you, or touch you, or…" I trailed off and kissed her.
"You're not trying to convince me to stay here, are you?" She asked as she pushed back slightly from me a time later.
"I'm not silly enough to think I could convince you. You are after all a Ravenclaw. Trying to keep you away from Hogwarts is like trying to keep me away from you." She scoffed and rolled her eyes.
"It won't be that bad. We can stay in each others' rooms, and we have a couple classes together. We can sit together at meals. So, don't be so dramatic." I sighed and kissed her again.
"It'll limit the amount of times a day I can do that."
"Yeah it will, but, that'll make the times that we can do it that much more special." I groaned. "Plus, I feel like all we do right now is make out or have sex, school might make us a little more interesting."
"What's more interesting than snogging and making love?" She sighed.
"Don't be like this Dray we are going back to school tomorrow. End of story."
"Well can I at least have my way with you tonight?" I asked with a wink. She laughed and shook her head at me.
"Depends what your way is." I raised my eyebrows twice at her and nipped her jaw quickly. "Fine you can have it your way." She laughed again. I flipped her so she was under me on the couch. I quickly slipped the shirt she was wearing over her head and was pleased to find she wasn't wearing much else. I slid her knickers off and sat up. I took in her form, happy when she didn't try to cover herself. I thought back to the early days when she would get so shy.
"You're beautiful." I told her. She grinned and used her foot to trace down my stomach lightly pulling the waistband of my pajama pants down.
"You're not bad yourself."
"Oh, so flattering." I smirked before standing an shedding my pants. I leaned back over Gray and gently bit down on her neck. She reacted with a moan and I slid my hand down her body to play with her. Once she was wet enough I entered her and flicked my hand back and forth quicker. I stilled as I released, and realized that Gray had finished too. I slid off her to the side, and then pulled her on top of me. She kissed my chest gently and looked up at me.
"You do make a convincing argument." She grinned.
"Good." I smiled and gently pressed her up closer to me, kissing her softly.
"We're still going back tomorrow." She said after a couple of minutes.
"Do I need to convince you again?" I asked. She shrugged. I picked her up and carried her off to the bedroom. Our last day of the holiday was spent wrapped in each other, and at the end of the night I fell asleep with Gray in my arms, still feeling so grateful that we were back together.
AN: Once again, like a broken record - Sorry for the wait! This chapter was super hard to write and I don't really know why. I'm also not 100% happy with it, but, I dunno what else to do to improve it. Annnyway. Thank you to love . fiction . 2017 for the review. Big thanks to anyone who reads, favs, follows, and especially reviews on this story, it means a lot to me! Thanks for reading, hopefully you enjoyed it!
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