Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. If I did, I'd be rich and you wouldn't see me here posting this fanfic. I do, however, own Jade. Jade Miko is my character and no one else's.
~~Right, so if in this chapter of my fanfic, it seems that Snape's character changes a little, you would be right. In the first chapter, Sarah was portraying Snape. Now, in this 3rd chapter, I am the one portraying Snape. Oh Sarah, you know I can't thank you enough for basically writing half this fanfic! MWAH!!! OH, and Sarah, again so you don't get mad. This very beginning part was lost to me, so I made it up.~~
Remember me when you're out walkin'
When the snow falls high outside your door
Late at night when you're not sleepin'
And moonlight falls across your floorWhen I can't hurt you anymore
-Tim McGraw, "Please Remember Me"
Chapter 3: Torn Apart
Jade ate her dinner in silence, not speaking to any of the Gryffindors at her table. Many of them had heard what was going on between her and Draco, and weren't happy with it. They asked her numerous questions about her motives. She ignored all of them. Like they had said earlier, Draco and Jade faced each other in the Great Hall. Despite this, it was still quite difficult to see each other. Each could only catch fleeting glimpses of each other. And so the rest of dinner went.
When they were dismissed from dinner, Jade tried to make her way over to Draco, but there were so many people trying to get out, that it proved impossible. She was ushered out of the Great Hall with the rest of her Gryffindor housemates. Making her way just outside the Entrance Hall, she hoped that Draco would find her there.
"WHOA!" She cried suddenly as she was tackled to the ground by some unknown person. Lying on her face, she struggled to turn over so she could see her assailant. Recognizing who it was, she smiled. "Draco! When did you start tackling people?" she said.
Draco smiled. "It's your fault," he declared. "I would have never done anything like that before I met you."
Smiling, Jade rolled over so she was the one on top. Now it was Draco's turn to start struggling. "Hey, Jade, get off me!"
"Fine, fine," she said, standing. She offered her hand to Draco. Draco took it, but instead of using it to help himself get up, he pulled her back down onto him. "Hey!" she cried, but didn't resist. She was now sitting on his stomach. Draco squirmed underneath her. Jade smiled. "Am I getting a message from you? Do you want me to get up?" Jade asked innocently.
"Ug, please," Draco pleaded, then seeing Jade's face said, "Sorry, we did just eat, you know."
"Remember you are the one who pulled me down," Jade pointed out. She got off of Draco, offering her hand to him again. "I shouldn't even help you."
Draco laughed. "Yes, you should," he insisted, taking her hand and standing. "You should always help me. I'm helpless, remember?"
With that, Jade shoved Draco over again. "You are not helpless," she protested.
"Oww," Draco groaned. "My as—I mean my butt. What I did you do that for?" He laughed again. "Jeez, so sensitive! I was only joking," Draco said, winking.
Jade glared at Draco in mock anger. "Do you want to get up anytime soon?" She inquired. "Because if you keep saying stuff like that, you'll be on the ground all day."
"Um, sorry dear," Draco said, his voice apologetic. "Can I please get up now? My back hurts. Jade yanked him up off the ground. Draco went flying to his feet. "Damn, no that's muscle," he mused. Jade didn't say anything. She wrapped her arms about him and began to kiss his neck.
They had picked the most inopportune time to try this, for right at that moment, Snape walked down the hallway, spotting Draco and Jade. "Draco Malfoy get over here now!" he bellowed, extremely pissed.
Draco jumped. "Uh, oh."
Jade jumped as well, letting go of Draco. "Sorry," she whispered.
"Don't apologize," he whispered back. He walked over to Professor Snape. "Yes, professor?" he said.
Snape leered down at Draco. "I thought I told you about that one." Jade moved away a bit, sitting on the ground, pretending to study. Draco and Snape bickered back and forth for awhile. It wasn't long before they both began yelling. "Draco I told you not to converse with that one," he snapped, pointing to Jade.
"You only don't like her because she isn't a Slytherin," Draco accused. "You don't even know her! I can hang out with who I want professor!" he shouted.
Snape shook his head. "I don't want to do this Draco, but maybe this will teach you a lesson…Twenty points from Slytherin. I'm not happy with you, Draco, and I'm sure your housemates won't be either. Good day," he said, nodding slightly at Jade and walking off. Jade nodded curtly at Snape as he walked away.
Draco came over to Jade, grumbling. "Grr, that ass!" he flared. "Taking points from his own house."
"McGonagall does it all the time," Jade muttered.
"Yeah, well she's a witch," Draco countered, "in more ways than one."
"Thanks, though."
"For what?" Draco inquired.
"For sticking up for me," Jade replied.
"Oh, it's nothing."
"Why does he care so much, anyway?" Jade demanded.
"Because of the same reason I cared at the beginning I think," Draco replied. "That and he dislikes Harry more then I do and he is a Gryffindor."
"You don't care anymore?" Jade asked.
"Not as much," Draco said. "I still don't like Potter, but I like you."
"After the way I've seen you two act around each other, I don't think you'll ever stop hating each other."
"I seriously doubt it," Draco said, scowling. "Potter is spoiled."
"Don't you try to get me to hate Harry," Jade snapped.
"I wasn't," Draco objected. "I was just telling you what I think."
Jade eyed him suspiciously. "Oh," she said, disbelieving.
"You got a problem?" Draco demanded.
"What are you going to do about it?"
"This!" And with that, Draco grabbed Jade, pulling her close. He hugged her tightly, kissing her.
When they broke, Jade stepped back, swaying. "Whoa, I should do that more often," she considered.
"Yes, you should," Draco agreed, smiling and blushing.
"Where did you learn to kiss like that?"
"I didn't," Draco replied. "Seen people do it."
"So, you're telling me, that with looks like those you've never kissed a girl— besides me—like that?"
"No," Draco said shortly, blushing.
"Damn."
"What?" Draco asked, surprised.
Jade wrapped her arms about Draco's neck. "Nothing!" she said innocently. Draco blushed and hugged her back.
"JADE!" Ginny Weasely came stalking over to them. She shoved Draco out of Jade's arms.
"Ow," Draco cried, rubbing his chest. "Bitch!"
"Ginny," Jade cried. "What are you doing?"
"Yes," Draco said rudely. "What are you doing?"
Ginny ignored Draco. "Jade, how could you?!" she demanded. She grabbed Jade's wrist and started pulling her inside. "Come on, we're going back to the common room."
"Jade…" Draco cried.
Jade twisted around, looking back at Draco, who was watching them sadly. "Ginny, let go of me!"
"NO," Ginny refused. "You can't be hanging out with Malfoy! He's a slime ball!" Ginny's grip tightened to a death grip on Jade's wrist, causing Jade to wince noticeably.
Draco noticed Ginny's grip tighten and Jade wince. "HEY, GINNY LET GO OF HER!" he shouted.
Ginny glared back at Malfoy. "I'm not going to let you do this to Jade anymore. She's coming with me, and not going to see you anymore." Ginny continued pulling Jade inside.
"Do what to her?" Draco demanded, storming after them. "I didn't do anything to her!"
Ginny ignored Draco. She began to pull Jade through the halls faster. "Ginny!" Jade cried, struggling. "Let go of me! Draco didn't do anything!" Ginny was now ignoring Jade as well.
Furious at this, Draco ran up and grabbed Ginny's free arm. "Ginny Weasely! Let her go, she doesn't want to go with you!"
"Don't you dare touch me! Ever!" Ginny yanked her arm free from Draco, using it to punch him hard in the nose.
Draco was knocked backwards, but didn't fall over. His nose was now bleeding. Putting his hand on his nose, trying to stop the bleeding, he growled at Ginny, "Grr, I'll get you for that, Weasley."
Ginny pulled Jade even faster. They were now extremely close to the Gryffindor common room. Draco was following them, trying to decide what to say that would get Ginny to stop. "DRACO!!!" Jade managed to scream as she was pulled into the now open portrait hole.
"Jade!" Draco tried to get into the portrait hole, but it slammed shut before he could even get a leg in. He went to the boy's bathroom to get a tissue. He headed back towards the Gryffindor common room. Draco sat in front the statue next to the Gryffindor portrait hole, waiting. It seemed like hours to Draco before the portrait hole finally swung open, when in reality it was only a few moments. Draco looked up and listened, trying to figure out who it was. "Uh, oh," he whispered, recognizing Harry. He got a book out of his bag and pretended to read it.
"Malfoy?"
"Yeah?" Draco looked up to find Harry standing in front of him. "Oh it's you. What do you want, Potter?"
"Why are you sitting outside our common room?" Harry demanded. Draco could hear Jade's angry shouts coming from within the common room.
"I'm waiting for someone," he replied coldly. "Do you mind?" Draco stood, looking past Harry to the closed portrait hole. "Jade?"
"You don't have to worry about her anymore," Harry stated.
"Yes I do," Draco objected. "You can't tell me who I can or cannot worry about."
Harry glared. "I can and I will. Jade isn't your concern anymore."
Draco stamped his foot. "You guys have been treating her worse than I have been!" Draco took a deep breath. He spoke with a calm fury. "Hell, she's nicer than any of you put together." He walked past Harry, speaking through the portrait hole. "Jade? JADE!"
Harry shoved Draco against the wall, pinning him there. "Shut up!" Harry ordered. "We are only doing what's best for her!"
"How should you know what's best for her?!" Draco shoved Harry off and pushed him repeatedly. "Let her make her own decisions, or are you too much of a control freak that you have to control everyone new? Aren't you happy running the school? Need a little more power, don't you? Well for once, Potter, let someone else decide what they want to do." Harry, not being able to get a word in edgewise, was forced to back up each time Draco shoved him. He wasn't looking behind him, and he backed up too far. He backed off the edge of the stairwell, tumbling down them and falling to the landing with a sickening crack. Draco stood at the top of the steps, staring down at Harry. He gasped. "Oh, shit."
Harry was lying unconscious at the bottom of the steps, his leg twisted at an odd angle. Draco ran down the steps and picked Harry up. He moved as fast as he could to the infirmary, cursing the whole way there. When Draco entered the infirmary with Harry in his arms, Madame Pomfrey was making up a bed. She stopped when she saw Draco come in with the unconscious Harry. She had barely laid Harry on the bed when Draco began bombarding her with questions. "Mr. Malfoy, calm down," Madame Pomfrey pleaded. "What happened?"
"Um, we—he—I—um," Draco took a deep breath. "He wouldn't let me hang out with my friend, pushed me around, and said he was doing what's best for her. I told him he didn't know what's best. He doesn't have control over her, can't tell her who to hang with. He pushed me against the wall. It got out of hand; I pushed him back and he went down the stairs. Is he going to be ok?"
Madame Pomfrey didn't respond, trying to take in all Draco had just said. She examined Harry's still body. "He has a broken leg and a concussion," she looked sternly at Draco. "You shoved him down the steps? Mr. Malfoy this is a serious offense."
"I didn't mean to," Draco babbled. "It was an accident! I didn't know we were so close to the stairs. I thought we were on flat ground I swear!"
"Even so," Madame Pomfrey said coldly. "I shall have to report this to Snape."
Draco looked at his feet. "I understand."
"Now off with you," Madame Pomfrey said.
"Yes ma'am," he said, but didn't move.
Madame Pomfrey, noticing this, said, "Unless you would like to wait here until he wakes up?"
Draco shuffled his feet. "I should stay to see how he is," Draco said half to himself. "I'll wait."
~~~
You'll find better love
Strong as it ever was
Deep as the river runs
Warm as the morning sun
Please remember me
-Tim McGraw, "Please Remember Me"