The transfer had hurt so much, her entire body spinning beyond
her control into a red vortex of pain. Every muscle ripped from their
moorings every bone splintered and disconnected, and then the pain
of sheer rebirth turning to the joy she found in the night.
Her wings had caught her just before she hit the ground, the
bloodlust was at bay. They may have invoked the curse but she was
quite capable of holding her own, this was her body after all.
Rising she felt the moonlight against her skin and it made
her smile, and then she was over the top and hovering looking down
at those that had helped her. She would explain, but later, first she
had to make herself safe.
***
He looked at the Dragon, perfect a pure black but ever scale's
edge reflected the same metallic silver of her hair. Looking into
those eyes he saw the pure lavender colour they must have had when
she was a child and smiled.
She was beautiful in this form, exotically so, but lovely. Then
she turned mid air and headed for the forbidden forest. He felt
Hermoines hand gripping his arm and looked down.
"Harry, God, she's, she's magnificent"
He nodded in reply, moonlight catching his glasses, Malfoy had
almost jumped after her, it had been disturbing, the look on his face.
Then there was a high pitched cry and he followed its direction to the
forest.
A huge black shape had risen, silhouetted against the moon,
there clutched between claws and mouth was one of the more dangerous
denizens of the forest.
It didn't look as though it was being devoured, more like
drained, as if she was sucking the blood from it. Then the thing was
released and the Dragon threw back its head and cried out.
In all reason it should have been a horrible thing to hear, but
it wasn't it was more like the roar of the lion given after hunting to
reassure that all is well with the forest. But more it was a high
chiming song of victory.
His eyes moved to Snape who was watching and there was a smile
at the corner of his mouth even as the Dragon turned back towards them.
She was big, she had to be the length of a cricket pitch but
sinuous, it hit him then, she was the image of her tattoo.
Draco Malyfantus, he had more questions than he could think of, but
there in the moonlight hovering above the tower it almost seemed to
dissolve, like a well cast illusion into smoke.
He moved then almost automatically and was there to catch Ama's
body as she fell nude into his arms. She smiled at him, those bruised
eyes glimmering with quiet satisfaction
"Many thanks Harry, I normally stay grounded to change back, but I
didn't want to risk landing on you"
He set her down and retrieved the robes he'd brought for her
she grinned her thanks to him and gently pulled the robes over her
head. The tight braid she'd been wearing was gone, and her hair spilled
in a shining cloud to her waist.
Her eyes were fixed on Malfoy who had stayed near the edge of
the tower and there was pleading written in them, what for he wasn't
sure of until she spoke.
"I couldn't tell you Draco"
Watching he saw Draco shake his head in disbelief.
"All we did and you couldn't tell me about *That*"
She shook her head and he could see the urgency in her the
fact that whatever she told herself and them she needed Malfoy's
understanding about this.
"I didn't know myself until I hit thirteen, sexual maturity, but your
parent knew, fuck it, how was I to know that you didn't know until now?"
He saw Malfoy's arsenic skin become bloodless in the moonlight,
whiter even than his hair.
"They knew?"
"Of course they knew"
She almost spat the words
"They thought it was great, their only child bound to me"
Me was said with such loathing that he almost moved forward,
but he stilled when he met Professor Snape's eyes, it was as if this
had been a long time in the coming this purge. He felt Hermoine move
closer to him and Ron at his back, he didn't blame them, he felt a
little out of it himself at this moment in time.
Malfoy hadn't moved, but he saw some of the blood return to him
just as he shifted forward.
"Finish it Amaris, one way or the other, the choice is yours"
He watched fascinated as she paled, and then she looked down
at her hands and then up again, then she sighed, her shoulders slumping
her posture defeated.
"You win, you always won when we were children and you win now"
Malfoy moved then, his mouth twitched at one corner it was
the first real smile he'd seen from the white haired boy and it
surprised him there was an almost living joy in those storm silvered
eyes.
"Now Amaris, I don't want you changing your mind, and I never won as
a child, you used to let me win, for my pride."
He saw the acceptance in her eyes then and she rolled up the
sleeves of her robe, her arms bore scars but the most noticeable were
the long ragged ones leading from her wrists to her elbows in ridged
white lines.
Snape's intake of breath was audible but he couldn't take his
eyes from the pair in front of him Malfoy had mirrored her action, his
arms didn't have as many scars as hers but the long ragged marks were
a perfect echo, her eyebrows lifted in a question and one of Malfoy's
eyebrows quirked.
"Aged 9 3/4 how about you?"
Her eyes almost laughed, but he could feel the burning heat
of her skin from here.
"Ditto"
Then she removed a knife from thin air, it was a wicked looking
thing and he remembered it being tucked in her belt earlier. She
laid it on the ground and removed her robe again. She was obviously
used to casual nudity, but he wasn't used to her doing it.
Bending briefly in a sinuous movement that made him uncomfortable
if it didn't affect anyone else, she took the knife from the floor and
stood again before cutting a line in her flesh above her heart.
The blood ran dark in the moonlight across the skin of her
breasts that almost seemed to be glowing and she spoke, and her tone
rang with magic.
"By blood and by fire bound within,
every fine deed made, every visceral sin.
I've called across centuries, accepted my heart
I've known we would meet and again but to part.
A torment of boundaries,
One soul, Two bodies.
All in one heart.
My name rides my blood, my soul rides the wind
so take me within you, all that I am.
Both Dragon and woman kind, more magic than man
born more of magic, creator more serpent than man.
Hold hard to your course take me now, or never.
Both phantom darkness and true loved treasure"
She was glowing now all bar that trail of blood that had
caressed her stomach and now dripped to the floor, Malfoy moved then
across the flatness of the tower roof, a prowling graceful slide. The
white of his hair flaring in the glow that surrounded her body his
silver eyes burning like molten metal as he leant forward and set his
mouth to the bleeding wound.
For a moment there was no sound, her head had fallen back the
moment his lips had touched her skin and the glow was brightening.
Malfoy drew back and the silver of his eyes was but a line like the
moon at eclipse his pupils were distended as he went slowly to one
knee before her almost wrapped in the glow from her body.
"Heart of my heart, soul of my soul.
I am gathered to you and made whole,
Sworn into service long carried within.
All is done,
Let it end, and begin"
Malfoy's words lacked the sheer power of hers, but they seemed
to mark something because the glow brightened until it eclipsed them
both, all that could be seen was the dark outlines of their bodies
and then not even that. And he had to turn his eyes away.
When he could safely look back again Malfoy was standing
looking at Ama's face, she almost smiled looking drained. An unspoken
question must have come from somewhere because her eyes flared, that
bruise colour brightening.
"It was worth it My Drake, it was worth it all"
And then she dropped to the floor, out cold.
her control into a red vortex of pain. Every muscle ripped from their
moorings every bone splintered and disconnected, and then the pain
of sheer rebirth turning to the joy she found in the night.
Her wings had caught her just before she hit the ground, the
bloodlust was at bay. They may have invoked the curse but she was
quite capable of holding her own, this was her body after all.
Rising she felt the moonlight against her skin and it made
her smile, and then she was over the top and hovering looking down
at those that had helped her. She would explain, but later, first she
had to make herself safe.
***
He looked at the Dragon, perfect a pure black but ever scale's
edge reflected the same metallic silver of her hair. Looking into
those eyes he saw the pure lavender colour they must have had when
she was a child and smiled.
She was beautiful in this form, exotically so, but lovely. Then
she turned mid air and headed for the forbidden forest. He felt
Hermoines hand gripping his arm and looked down.
"Harry, God, she's, she's magnificent"
He nodded in reply, moonlight catching his glasses, Malfoy had
almost jumped after her, it had been disturbing, the look on his face.
Then there was a high pitched cry and he followed its direction to the
forest.
A huge black shape had risen, silhouetted against the moon,
there clutched between claws and mouth was one of the more dangerous
denizens of the forest.
It didn't look as though it was being devoured, more like
drained, as if she was sucking the blood from it. Then the thing was
released and the Dragon threw back its head and cried out.
In all reason it should have been a horrible thing to hear, but
it wasn't it was more like the roar of the lion given after hunting to
reassure that all is well with the forest. But more it was a high
chiming song of victory.
His eyes moved to Snape who was watching and there was a smile
at the corner of his mouth even as the Dragon turned back towards them.
She was big, she had to be the length of a cricket pitch but
sinuous, it hit him then, she was the image of her tattoo.
Draco Malyfantus, he had more questions than he could think of, but
there in the moonlight hovering above the tower it almost seemed to
dissolve, like a well cast illusion into smoke.
He moved then almost automatically and was there to catch Ama's
body as she fell nude into his arms. She smiled at him, those bruised
eyes glimmering with quiet satisfaction
"Many thanks Harry, I normally stay grounded to change back, but I
didn't want to risk landing on you"
He set her down and retrieved the robes he'd brought for her
she grinned her thanks to him and gently pulled the robes over her
head. The tight braid she'd been wearing was gone, and her hair spilled
in a shining cloud to her waist.
Her eyes were fixed on Malfoy who had stayed near the edge of
the tower and there was pleading written in them, what for he wasn't
sure of until she spoke.
"I couldn't tell you Draco"
Watching he saw Draco shake his head in disbelief.
"All we did and you couldn't tell me about *That*"
She shook her head and he could see the urgency in her the
fact that whatever she told herself and them she needed Malfoy's
understanding about this.
"I didn't know myself until I hit thirteen, sexual maturity, but your
parent knew, fuck it, how was I to know that you didn't know until now?"
He saw Malfoy's arsenic skin become bloodless in the moonlight,
whiter even than his hair.
"They knew?"
"Of course they knew"
She almost spat the words
"They thought it was great, their only child bound to me"
Me was said with such loathing that he almost moved forward,
but he stilled when he met Professor Snape's eyes, it was as if this
had been a long time in the coming this purge. He felt Hermoine move
closer to him and Ron at his back, he didn't blame them, he felt a
little out of it himself at this moment in time.
Malfoy hadn't moved, but he saw some of the blood return to him
just as he shifted forward.
"Finish it Amaris, one way or the other, the choice is yours"
He watched fascinated as she paled, and then she looked down
at her hands and then up again, then she sighed, her shoulders slumping
her posture defeated.
"You win, you always won when we were children and you win now"
Malfoy moved then, his mouth twitched at one corner it was
the first real smile he'd seen from the white haired boy and it
surprised him there was an almost living joy in those storm silvered
eyes.
"Now Amaris, I don't want you changing your mind, and I never won as
a child, you used to let me win, for my pride."
He saw the acceptance in her eyes then and she rolled up the
sleeves of her robe, her arms bore scars but the most noticeable were
the long ragged ones leading from her wrists to her elbows in ridged
white lines.
Snape's intake of breath was audible but he couldn't take his
eyes from the pair in front of him Malfoy had mirrored her action, his
arms didn't have as many scars as hers but the long ragged marks were
a perfect echo, her eyebrows lifted in a question and one of Malfoy's
eyebrows quirked.
"Aged 9 3/4 how about you?"
Her eyes almost laughed, but he could feel the burning heat
of her skin from here.
"Ditto"
Then she removed a knife from thin air, it was a wicked looking
thing and he remembered it being tucked in her belt earlier. She
laid it on the ground and removed her robe again. She was obviously
used to casual nudity, but he wasn't used to her doing it.
Bending briefly in a sinuous movement that made him uncomfortable
if it didn't affect anyone else, she took the knife from the floor and
stood again before cutting a line in her flesh above her heart.
The blood ran dark in the moonlight across the skin of her
breasts that almost seemed to be glowing and she spoke, and her tone
rang with magic.
"By blood and by fire bound within,
every fine deed made, every visceral sin.
I've called across centuries, accepted my heart
I've known we would meet and again but to part.
A torment of boundaries,
One soul, Two bodies.
All in one heart.
My name rides my blood, my soul rides the wind
so take me within you, all that I am.
Both Dragon and woman kind, more magic than man
born more of magic, creator more serpent than man.
Hold hard to your course take me now, or never.
Both phantom darkness and true loved treasure"
She was glowing now all bar that trail of blood that had
caressed her stomach and now dripped to the floor, Malfoy moved then
across the flatness of the tower roof, a prowling graceful slide. The
white of his hair flaring in the glow that surrounded her body his
silver eyes burning like molten metal as he leant forward and set his
mouth to the bleeding wound.
For a moment there was no sound, her head had fallen back the
moment his lips had touched her skin and the glow was brightening.
Malfoy drew back and the silver of his eyes was but a line like the
moon at eclipse his pupils were distended as he went slowly to one
knee before her almost wrapped in the glow from her body.
"Heart of my heart, soul of my soul.
I am gathered to you and made whole,
Sworn into service long carried within.
All is done,
Let it end, and begin"
Malfoy's words lacked the sheer power of hers, but they seemed
to mark something because the glow brightened until it eclipsed them
both, all that could be seen was the dark outlines of their bodies
and then not even that. And he had to turn his eyes away.
When he could safely look back again Malfoy was standing
looking at Ama's face, she almost smiled looking drained. An unspoken
question must have come from somewhere because her eyes flared, that
bruise colour brightening.
"It was worth it My Drake, it was worth it all"
And then she dropped to the floor, out cold.
