Christmas Cheer Can Kiss My Arse
Chapter Two: The Message
Shinko
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Dedicated: To my dearest Invader
Before the end A/N: I rewrote the ending of Chapter 1 to suit the plot better, I will try to lengthen the upcoming chapters, but that might take longer than my whole one chapter a day. I myself am one of those people who hate to wait for new chapters for extended periods, so I try to get mine written and out pretty quickly.
Later on that evening when the teachers rounded up the students for their return to Hogwarts Draco was still baffled on the 'conversation' as he had come to call it. He was terribly confused and didn't understand what had overcome Potter to actually speak to him, civil words to him. Frankly, this pissed Draco off. Draco Malfoy hated many things in life, such as Christmas and Harry Potter, and those things never changed. Harry Potter was un-yinging the yang. Draco brooded about this all-night and part of the next day until breakfast where he found another topic to brood about.
Draco walked into the great hall, his uniform was in correct order, his blond hair was nicely combed, his shoes were shined, he prayed that Harry would not be civil today. He prayed that he wouldn't have to lay eyes on Harry Potter that day, he didn't think he could handle it. Draco sat down and took a piece of toast from the stack and smothered it in strawberry jam. The other Slytherins filed in one by one and started to disturb his peace. He was soon swept into conversations with Blaise Zabini over the IQ of the Gryffindors, Marcus Flint's younger brother over Quidditch and Pansy over the long-standing disagreement to date her. He felt his spirits rising a bit until the post came.
The owls poured in from the windows darkening the room for a moment. His eagle owl practically dive-bombed him with his newspaper, and all the letters from his pen pals and his weekly check-up letter from his mother. He believed that all men should keep contact with their mothers, even if they were as daft and brainless as his own mother was. He quickly shoved his letters and paper aside; he would read them in no one's company, but his own. Why should all the other Slytherins be allowed to know what goes on in Draco Malfoy's personal life? The majority of the owls had left when a snow-white owl swooped gracefully down in front of him. He recognized this owl immediately. After many years of trying to get this very owl to mail hate letters to it's owner he would cry if he wasn't able to recognize it. OK, maybe he wouldn't cry. Rule number 2 of the Malfoy Family Rule Book™ was 'A Malfoy must never cry.' So, no, Draco would not do that. He stared at Harry Potter's owl until it pecked at his hand. Draco Malfoy lifted a shaky hand to the bird and untied the small piece of rolled parchment from the bird's leg. He unrolled the parchment to stare at the scrawl of a boy who spent 10 years of his life living in a dark cupboard. He stared at Harry Potter's handwriting.
Malfoy,
Meet me at the bottom of the Astronomy Stairwell at 12 sharp tonight.
Yours truly,
HP
Draco rolled up the parchment and shoved it into his breast pocket and finished his toast in wonder. Tonight at 12, some sort of duel? Draco hated to be confused; it was perhaps listed third on his 'Things that I hate, and things I have to annihilate list.' ™ Against his judgment Draco Malfoy decided to meet Harry Potter. After all, Draco Malfoy had to know what was going on.
A/N: I got reviews. I GOT REVIEWS! You have no idea how happy you guys made me!
Irish Lass: Yeah, I know about the paragraphs. I put them in the original, but when it got to FFN something screwed itself over, and I'm not originally that good with paragraphs and I don't have a beta yet so there are bound to be mistakes. Don't worry about Harry being too nice though, I won't have him too OOC. ^__^
Siobhan: I'm so glad that you think it's intriguing, you have no idea how I've longed for someone to say that!
ForceMuette: I am thinking about maybe 1 or 2 more chapters to finish this, the Evil Plot Bunnies From Hell were gnawing on my mind so I had to get this down.
ShadowJardis: Thank you so much, and I did try on formatting this time, in the last chapter I don't know what happened. __
Kei- Kei: Don't worry! I will finish it! I will, I promise. Thanks for your review!
Janey: I expect to have a new chapter out every night, if my schoolwork allows me. I love writing season fiction. It's so much fun to write about my favorite characters playing in the snow, or carving pumpkins. ^__^
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