The flakes of winter snow gliding gracefully to the ground outside the
window momentarily distracted a man. His long tapered fingers reached up to
the silvery hair tied up in a ponytail. Pulling the leather band free, he
shook his silver-blonde hair. The weak light of the winter rays caught the
long strands of silver and danced upon them. He placed his quill down and
allowed himself to get lost in the beauty of winter.
Cold grey eyes softened and shut after a while as he involuntarily recalled a fragment of his shattered past. A fragment of warmth and struggle in his life.
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[FLASHBACK] 18 years ago.
Lucius Malfoy stopped his gazing at the snowflakes outside. His grey eyes flickered towards the table of Gryffindors across the hall. Stupid immature little children, he muttered inwardly in great disgust. He let his gaze travel over each 'hopelessly ignorant' child and reveled in the delight of classifying them into mudbloods, half-bloods and embarrassingly stupid purebloods.
Just then he noticed a pair of soft hazel-brown eyes staring right back. He nearly jerked but a few years of experience taught him to hold the youngster's challenging gaze steadily. The youngster stared back pointedly for a while before dropping the fierce gaze and turning away. But Lucius was momentarily impressed. For not a single child, not even his own Slytherins, dared to look back.
The boy might have dropped the challenge but Lucius would not step back. He observed the boy keenly. The kid was either a second or third year to him, or at least that was what his petite frame told Lucius. The kid was thin, not to the point of scrawny but nevertheless thin and a bit malnourished. The youngster had dark golden hair with occasional strands of brown.
Pureblood, Lucius analysed and added, an embarrassingly thin pureblood who was no better than the Weasleys.
The kid had stood up now. Pathetic child, Lucius shook his head in mild distaste and slight pity, he wasn't even as tall as his own friends. He reached up to the shoulder of one boy only. That boy being Black. A handsome-looking youngster whom Lucius delighted in giving detentions to. Trouble-maker with that Potter kid, Lucius faintly felt annoyance at the two.
Well, that boy wasn't worth his attention, Lucius turned his focus onto other things.
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Remus Lupin stared thoughtfully at the older Slytherin boy who had just glared at him pointedly. What was his name again? Oh yes, Malfoy. Horrible, nasty, sinister Slytherin prefect who was the secret bedroom fantasy of all the girls at Hogwarts and as Remus privately suspected, half the boys in his dormitory. How could such a menacing person ever be a fantasy? People were really weird sometimes.
Yet, if someone said that Malfoy was good-looking, there was no room for argument. He was probably the handsomest Slytherin ever. He must have been part Veela, his hair was a beautiful shimmering silver and his eyes were so mystical, in the grey whirlpools.
But still, Remus decided stubbornly, he was a bloody bastard who delighted in giving out detentions and taking off points from younger students, Gryffindors especially. He had once given Sirius a month-long detention which involved writing long essays about how he should discipline himself, how he should obey Malfoy etc. The essays were required to be at least ten pages long and each day, there was a new topic for Sirius to write about.
Horrible senior, Remus shuddered now.
'Earth to Remus, earth to Remus. What the hell are you bloody thinking about?' Sirius shook Remus' shoulders exuberantly in an effort to get him to stop day-dreaming. 'Huh? N-nothing. .just zoomed out for a while,' Remus snapped out of his trance, his hazel-brown eyes turning to Sirius.
'Better be . . thought I saw you staring at that slimy bastard, Malfoy. You weren't by any chance staring at him though, were you?' Sirius hauled Remus to his feet, nearly knocking over the petite boy. 'No, of course not. Why would I be looking at a complete idiot?' Remus lied easily and laughed.
'Very well, then we must be leaving for Transfiguration, you idiots,' James laughed as his friends gave him indignant looks at being termed 'idiots'.
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'Bloody Slytherin, what's the point of glaring at me during breakfast and causing me to keep zooming out?! That bloody bastard,' Remus muttered angrily under his breath as he hurried off to the library to do the extra work he had won for not paying attention in class.
'FUCKING HELL!' Remus exclaimed loudly as he knocked into someone taller. He stumbled backwards from the impact and raised his head just in time to hear Lucius Malfoy say coldly, 'That'll be thirty points from Gryffindor, boy, for swearing aloud at a prefect and a pureblooded one, especially,'
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Lucius Malfoy could not be more amused that day. The boy who ran into him was the plucky little Gryffindor who stared back. How very entertaining, he mused softly. His cold grey eyes and emotionless face betrayed none of his amusement as he sneered softly at the boy.
This was really getting interesting.
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Hello guys,
Care to comment at this first chapter. I'm sorry its pretty short but this is my first time writing and posting a fanfic here at fanfiction.net. For those interested, I have already co-written one slash with a classmate. To read, simply go and search for the title 'Unfated Destiny'. Would appreciate if you review both.
Love,
Ice And Fire Vanessa
Cold grey eyes softened and shut after a while as he involuntarily recalled a fragment of his shattered past. A fragment of warmth and struggle in his life.
*******************************
[FLASHBACK] 18 years ago.
Lucius Malfoy stopped his gazing at the snowflakes outside. His grey eyes flickered towards the table of Gryffindors across the hall. Stupid immature little children, he muttered inwardly in great disgust. He let his gaze travel over each 'hopelessly ignorant' child and reveled in the delight of classifying them into mudbloods, half-bloods and embarrassingly stupid purebloods.
Just then he noticed a pair of soft hazel-brown eyes staring right back. He nearly jerked but a few years of experience taught him to hold the youngster's challenging gaze steadily. The youngster stared back pointedly for a while before dropping the fierce gaze and turning away. But Lucius was momentarily impressed. For not a single child, not even his own Slytherins, dared to look back.
The boy might have dropped the challenge but Lucius would not step back. He observed the boy keenly. The kid was either a second or third year to him, or at least that was what his petite frame told Lucius. The kid was thin, not to the point of scrawny but nevertheless thin and a bit malnourished. The youngster had dark golden hair with occasional strands of brown.
Pureblood, Lucius analysed and added, an embarrassingly thin pureblood who was no better than the Weasleys.
The kid had stood up now. Pathetic child, Lucius shook his head in mild distaste and slight pity, he wasn't even as tall as his own friends. He reached up to the shoulder of one boy only. That boy being Black. A handsome-looking youngster whom Lucius delighted in giving detentions to. Trouble-maker with that Potter kid, Lucius faintly felt annoyance at the two.
Well, that boy wasn't worth his attention, Lucius turned his focus onto other things.
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Remus Lupin stared thoughtfully at the older Slytherin boy who had just glared at him pointedly. What was his name again? Oh yes, Malfoy. Horrible, nasty, sinister Slytherin prefect who was the secret bedroom fantasy of all the girls at Hogwarts and as Remus privately suspected, half the boys in his dormitory. How could such a menacing person ever be a fantasy? People were really weird sometimes.
Yet, if someone said that Malfoy was good-looking, there was no room for argument. He was probably the handsomest Slytherin ever. He must have been part Veela, his hair was a beautiful shimmering silver and his eyes were so mystical, in the grey whirlpools.
But still, Remus decided stubbornly, he was a bloody bastard who delighted in giving out detentions and taking off points from younger students, Gryffindors especially. He had once given Sirius a month-long detention which involved writing long essays about how he should discipline himself, how he should obey Malfoy etc. The essays were required to be at least ten pages long and each day, there was a new topic for Sirius to write about.
Horrible senior, Remus shuddered now.
'Earth to Remus, earth to Remus. What the hell are you bloody thinking about?' Sirius shook Remus' shoulders exuberantly in an effort to get him to stop day-dreaming. 'Huh? N-nothing. .just zoomed out for a while,' Remus snapped out of his trance, his hazel-brown eyes turning to Sirius.
'Better be . . thought I saw you staring at that slimy bastard, Malfoy. You weren't by any chance staring at him though, were you?' Sirius hauled Remus to his feet, nearly knocking over the petite boy. 'No, of course not. Why would I be looking at a complete idiot?' Remus lied easily and laughed.
'Very well, then we must be leaving for Transfiguration, you idiots,' James laughed as his friends gave him indignant looks at being termed 'idiots'.
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'Bloody Slytherin, what's the point of glaring at me during breakfast and causing me to keep zooming out?! That bloody bastard,' Remus muttered angrily under his breath as he hurried off to the library to do the extra work he had won for not paying attention in class.
'FUCKING HELL!' Remus exclaimed loudly as he knocked into someone taller. He stumbled backwards from the impact and raised his head just in time to hear Lucius Malfoy say coldly, 'That'll be thirty points from Gryffindor, boy, for swearing aloud at a prefect and a pureblooded one, especially,'
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Lucius Malfoy could not be more amused that day. The boy who ran into him was the plucky little Gryffindor who stared back. How very entertaining, he mused softly. His cold grey eyes and emotionless face betrayed none of his amusement as he sneered softly at the boy.
This was really getting interesting.
************************************
Hello guys,
Care to comment at this first chapter. I'm sorry its pretty short but this is my first time writing and posting a fanfic here at fanfiction.net. For those interested, I have already co-written one slash with a classmate. To read, simply go and search for the title 'Unfated Destiny'. Would appreciate if you review both.
Love,
Ice And Fire Vanessa