Disclaimer: Harry potter is not mine, k?
Claimer: plot line and original characters.
Previously in Chapter 5:
Virginia smiled sweetly at her daughter and told her that she could go play in her room. Cecilia got up and walked towards her room. After she was gone Virginia turned to Draco and said, "She's so loveable right?"
Draco nodded and couldn't help but wonder who Cecilia thought he was…
Opening the Door, To Your Heart
Chapter 6: With One Gesture
They had eaten lunch in a mute silence. Draco only commented when he was leaving, "Tomorrow is your first day, wait outside this building around 8; I'll be by." With that he closed the door on the apartment and now we go to the next day where things are going to start getting a bit more interesting…
"Cecilia honey, please quite down…" Virginia was chasing a frantic 3 year old across her apartment. Cecilia thought it'd be funny to run around naked, after she had taken a bath. Virginia hid behind a wall as she heard Cecilia's footsteps coming closer. Just as Cecilia came into view, she swooped up her daughter and fixed her with a glare,
"What did mummy tell you not to do?" Cecilia stopped struggling and unconsciously fixed a smirk on her face. Virginia's face changed from one of scolding to that of surprise; that smirk was a mirror reflection of a Malfoy smirk. She snapped out of her trance as she heard her daughter speak, "Not run naked after bath?"
"That's right. I expect better out of you missy," Virginia lightly scolded before getting Cecilia dressed. She grabbed a purse and jacket, and walked out with Cecilia in her hands. It only took two minutes to walk to Mizu Tokyo Daycare. Virginia dropped her daughter off and walked back double time to her apartment building. Draco was already waiting out front for her when she made it back.
"Late? Already? Not a very good impression you're going to make on your new boss?" Draco hinted and watched as Virginia attempted to regain her breath. "Shove it, Draco. I was dropping off Cecilia to the daycare." Virginia watched, slightly mused, as Draco smirked. Deciding that maybe she should tell Draco about the 'Malfoy smirk' that Cecilia made this morning, she opened her mouth but Draco was already walking ahead.
'Stupid, git,' Virginia silently thought, 'Forget telling him, he doesn't need to know.' She caught up with him and they walked silently for 5 minutes before Draco stopped in front of a huge skyscraper. She followed like a puppy into the huge building. Draco worked on the 77th floor. When they arrived on the floor, Virginia watched as Draco nodded mutely to all that bid him a good morning. She felt gazes on her as she walked closely behind Draco.
"I see that you got yourself a secretary, Draco," Virginia heard a silky female voice behind her. She slowly turned, but who ever the female was behind her she had no time to react as she was harshly shoved out of the way. Her quick reflexes, that she had learnt here, kicked in and she regained her balance. It looked like she had never even moved.
Virginia watched in mild disgust, as some blond head fawned over Draco. Virginia was slightly surprised as Draco put his hand on the blonde's shoulder and calmly told her something in her ear. The blond head must have been pleased at what he said because she grinned and excused herself from our presence; retreating into an office. I followed him, still silent, into his own office.
At a mild attempt at making conversation Virginia asked pointedly as she glanced out into Tokyo, through Draco's office window, "So who's the dumb blonde?" Draco actually raised an eyebrow, before quickly dropping it and replying with a sneer, "That blonde is Anastasia Goyle, my boss."
Virginia was surprised but caught herself before she did something that would show it. A thought struck her then and she voiced it out loud, "So Draco Malfoy reports to someone higher than him?" If she was aiming to bruise his inflated ego, she had succeeded.
"Not by choice. Anastasia is watching over me for my father," Draco eye's flashed liquid silver as he started to make his way to the door, "get yourself settled, your desk is over there, I'm going to meet with Anastasia, hold all my calls until I get back."
Virginia looked overwhelmed at the sudden pile up of duties, but she silently walked over to her desk and sat down with a pen and paper jotting down things to do. Draco was almost out the door when he turned back and walked over to Virginia. He lifted her chin with his finger and coldly spoke, "And for your information, Anastasia is not as dumb as her stupid half-minded brother." He released her chin and walked out.
Virginia watched his retreating back, before snapping out of her thoughts. She heard the phone ring beside her and hesitantly picked it up, "Draco Malfoy's office." She listened as some bastard told her off, she calmly handled the situation before hanging up the phone in anger. 'I don't need Malfoy's problems on my shoulders,' she thought defiantly as she looked at the clock and noticed that she had been sitting there handling phones for 2 hours. It was already 10:10. She picked up herself and walked out the door, she was almost out when the phone rang again. She debated with herself before surrendering and answering it, "Draco Malfoy's office."
"Virginia! Thank GOD I found you! Cecilia was injured! There was a fire at the Daycare!" Hoshi's announcement rippled shocks through her body and she hurriedly yelled back into the phone, "I'll be right there!"
She asked a brunette, in a hurry, which office was Ms. Goyle's. The brunette pointed to the door at the end of the hall, in its lonesome. She politely extended thanks and walked towards it. 'I don't care if he's busy I need to go to Cecilia.'
As she walked closer she noticed that the door was slightly a jar. Against her better judgment she stormed right in. Her mind froze, her heart stopped beating, and her body shook. Draco, fully clothed, was sitting in a chair opposite a table. On that table, the dumb blonde was slowly undressing. Her personality suddenly reverted to when she was in school, "I-I-I'm sorry." She adverted her eyes as the stunned blonde covered herself with a jacket. Draco looked even slightly surprised himself.
Her personality switched back as she remembered that her daughter was injured, "I'm taking the rest of the day off." She turned and slammed the door shut, as an echo rung through the air. She huffed off towards the elevator, but her wrist was caught by a familiar hand,
"Why are you taking the rest of the day off?" Virginia thought, but only for a second, of telling him about Cecilia before angrily screaming, "It is none of your business."
"So you're telling me that it had nothing to do with what you just saw?" Draco was calm as she struggled to get her wrist loose. Her eyes snapped up to his, and he felt the full force of her anger after she spoke through her clenched teeth, "It has nothing to do with you, or your dumb blonde, for that matter!"
"Then why are you skipping out on the rest of the day?" Draco's calm voice was really beginning to frustrate Virginia, and before she knew what she was doing she slapped him on the face and spoke harshly, "The Daycare that Cecilia goes to caught on fire, NOW LET ME GO!"
Needless to say that Draco didn't need more convincing as he brought Virginia closer to him, against her pleas, and apparated with a POP! No one even saw them disappear.
Draco had apparated them to an alley. Virginia shook herself free and ran into the street. She looked up in horror as Mizu Tokyo Daycare was up in flames, smoke, and dust. She glanced at the small children being rushed out of the building, when her eye caught the unmistakable hair color of her daughter. She ran towards her and saw cuts all over her gorgeous face and her hair in disarray. Virginia's eyes filled with tears as she watched her daughter get wheeled away into an ambulance.
She rushed towards it, and climbed in and sat near her daughter's body. The ambulance was almost ready to pull out when Virginia heard the familiar sound of Draco, "Stop!" The ambulance paused and Draco opened the doors and sat down beside Virginia. Remembering what occurred earlier; Virginia fixed Draco with the most unpleasant glare that she could muster under the circumstances.
They traveled in the most uncomfortable silence till they arrived at the hospital only a minute after they left the scene. Paramedics came in and rolled Cecilia's bed into the operating room, she had bleeding on her knee, which Virginia had only noticed when they exited the ambulance. She sat down in the waiting room in nervousness. Her prayers and thoughts interrupted by Draco's question,
"How'd you find out?" Virginia slowly brought her eyes to his, "Hoshi called me, in your office. Then I rushed out to find you, only to find you with your dumb blonde." She had purposely sneered the last part. Draco actually looked mused for a second before curiously asking,
"I told you her name, so why do you insist on still calling her 'Dumb Blonde'?"
"She's a bitch and a slut," Virginia had replied with out even a second to think about what she was saying, and the way she was implying it. Draco picked up on it though,
"Are you jealous?" Draco's accusation actually caught Virginia thinking about her answer,
'Am I jealous? I had told him that I want a relationship, and not just the physical aspects of a relationship. I want to date him, yeah, but is that really why I might be jealous? His relationship with Cecilia, maybe that's it. He was so nice to her and when I saw him holding her with his finger in her hand, everything just clicked, and the picture looked complete. Complete?? All of a sudden I want the picture to be complete? I thought I only wanted to date him, and now all of the sudden I want him permentally in the picture?! What is wrong with me!? I want him as a husband?! HUSBAND?! What AM I thinking!? Malfoy could never be my husband! Those types don't marry for love, and that's the only thing I would accept as the foundation of my marriage. Am I talking about marriage?'
Unconsciously Virginia spoke quietly saying, "Maybe I am." She thought, 'Did I just say 'Maybe I am' out loud!?!' Virginia stole a glance at Draco to find him smirking, very lightly. Virginia buried her head in her hands and mentally thought, 'I loathe myself.'
A doctor came out and walked into the waiting room, "Is there a Virginia Weasely here?" Virginia's head snapped out of her hands as she stood up quickly, causing her to become a little light headed. Fighting it off, she walked to the doctor, "Yes, that is me."
The doctor looked at her and spoke in a very official voice, "Your daughter, Cecilia Malfoy, has minor cut across her face and a slightly serious knee injury, a piece of glass was in it, so we had to remove that, and then stitch it up." If Draco had doubts about how muggles treat wounds, he was going to address them now,
"So she's going to ok you're saying. When can she be released?" The doctor's gaze floated past Virginia's left shoulder to the blond man standing there, "Who might you be?" Before Draco had the chance to reply, Virginia blocked the doctor's view of Draco and replied simply, "A friend."
"Right, yes. She can be released tomorrow if she makes it through the night with out any troubles," The doctor most definitely said something wrong as Draco gently pushed Virginia aside and said sternly, "She will make it though…right?" He had added the last word to make certain that nothing will go wrong. The doctor loosed his tie slightly under the stern glare and muttered, "O-of course, s-sir." Draco nodded and the doctor split from the scene.
Draco turned to Virginia only to find her with her head bowed; bangs falling across her face, covering her eyes, and her wand in hand crossed diagonally on her chest. He murmured to the red-head, "Virginia?" She apparated before he could say more. Draco glanced around the room and thankfully noted that no one saw her oddly disappear.
It was already late night, almost 11. The Kimochi Park had already closed but one was still within the gates of the park, because that one had apparated there. Virginia Weasely stood in a patch of tall beautiful green grass, looking up at the star filled night. The cresent moon was, shinning towards the east, casting a moonlight glow on the park.
{Switch to Virginia's point of view}
It's so beautiful here. I come here to think sometimes when things in my life aren't going the way I want them to. The wind picked up and lightly caressed my face. Closing my eyes, I leaned into the soft feeling. I opened my eyes as the wind died down and I remembered why I was in the park in the first place.
I had run away. From everything in my life; Cecilia, Draco, that hospital. Draco? Does he really count as in my life? I sighed and raised my head to look at the moon, so pale. The way Draco had almost, not to make it too many words, threatened the doctor, surprised me. I smiled lightly as I thought how fatherly he was acting. Draco Malfoy acting fatherly, Ron would pay big money just to know.
My smile changed to a sad one. Things like that will never be, so I really should start banishing them. Draco Malfoy will never be, as I said before, a permanent part of the picture. It's crazy to think that he would even want to be. Nevertheless I now realize that inside my heart, I'm not really happy. I want that completed picture; I want that family. I want the guy that will always be there for me. I close my eyes and try to in vision him.
I see him standing 5 feet away from me; it's so dark that I can't make out his face. I can't even make out his hair color. I reach forward…
I'm jerked out of my dream as I hear footsteps behind me. By now I've memorized the sound of those footsteps and recognized the owner of them, "Hey." His voice was oddly—comforting? I slowly turned to face him, the moonlight now bouncing across my face, lighting it up. I could have sworn I heard a sharp intake of breath from him, but that was dismissed as he came closer to me.
I couldn't keep my eyes locked with his so I settled my gaze on a near by bush towards my left. "Why'd you run?" he asked me. It was such a simple question, but I…I didn't know the answer myself. I lamely shrugged and replaced my gaze towards the moon, my back now facing him. He didn't say anything for awhile and I wondered if he left, turning I saw he was still standing there, watching me. I forced out of my mouth a sentence, "Why are you still here?"
He smirked, the first clue I had that he was who he was, and not some possessed body, "You should never apparate in a public muggle place." He sounded like he was scolding a child, and I am most certainly not a child,
"Couldn't handle it." My soft mumble was heard, of course, by his ears. He walked till he was beside me and we watched the starry sky in lapsed silence. Unable to last with out at least saying something; I voiced the first thing that came into my head, "Do you know what she did this morning?" Of course he didn't, but that's how I brought up the topic so I continued,
"She smirked." I could sense his puzzlement as to why this was a big deal and I added, "A Malfoy smirk." He didn't say anything for a second before admitting, "She does have her father's attributes then." I lightly smiled and faced him, "She really is like you in so many ways. I wonder sometimes if that's a good thing."
"There is nothing terrible about being a Malfoy," was his reply and I could only smile again lightly at his defensive position. When I didn't say anything he spoke again, "Let's go back and visit her." I glanced once more at a twinkling star before nodding and saying, "She still doesn't know who you are…I never told her."
"You didn't?" he seemed slightly surprised at this. I nodded in assurance and offered, "You're free to tell her what you want. You can tell her that you are her father or you can tell her that you're just a friend of mine." My voice seemed uncertain about the 'friend' thing and I pulled out my wand ready to apparate. He looked like he was thinking it over and I reached out and snaked my arm around his neck and said, "Come on Draco." We disappeared with a pop.
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;) Next chapter you'll find out if Draco tells Cecilia that he is her father or just a friend of her mother's. Sorry about that.
I got a very touching review from Gin and August. I have dedicated this chapter to the two of you, and I wish you luck in your future writings. I'll be e-mailing you both later some time.
THANK YOU ALL!! :) you're reviews keep me going with this pace.
Anastasia is a bitch rite? ^^ lol. But don't worry this is a d/g pairing so don't worry. Things will start looking different for Draco soon after Virginia ______________. ^^ eheh? You have to wait till the 1st for that.
Preview for Chapter 7: With My Temper
That blonde bitch is seriously getting on Virginia's nerves when she goes back to work the next day,
"…Draco is not always going to be around to protect you, Bitch…"
Of course Virginia retaliates at the threat and does an unmoral thing,
"…I don't need to be protected. On the other hand you might want some right now…"
Claimer: plot line and original characters.
Previously in Chapter 5:
Virginia smiled sweetly at her daughter and told her that she could go play in her room. Cecilia got up and walked towards her room. After she was gone Virginia turned to Draco and said, "She's so loveable right?"
Draco nodded and couldn't help but wonder who Cecilia thought he was…
Opening the Door, To Your Heart
Chapter 6: With One Gesture
They had eaten lunch in a mute silence. Draco only commented when he was leaving, "Tomorrow is your first day, wait outside this building around 8; I'll be by." With that he closed the door on the apartment and now we go to the next day where things are going to start getting a bit more interesting…
"Cecilia honey, please quite down…" Virginia was chasing a frantic 3 year old across her apartment. Cecilia thought it'd be funny to run around naked, after she had taken a bath. Virginia hid behind a wall as she heard Cecilia's footsteps coming closer. Just as Cecilia came into view, she swooped up her daughter and fixed her with a glare,
"What did mummy tell you not to do?" Cecilia stopped struggling and unconsciously fixed a smirk on her face. Virginia's face changed from one of scolding to that of surprise; that smirk was a mirror reflection of a Malfoy smirk. She snapped out of her trance as she heard her daughter speak, "Not run naked after bath?"
"That's right. I expect better out of you missy," Virginia lightly scolded before getting Cecilia dressed. She grabbed a purse and jacket, and walked out with Cecilia in her hands. It only took two minutes to walk to Mizu Tokyo Daycare. Virginia dropped her daughter off and walked back double time to her apartment building. Draco was already waiting out front for her when she made it back.
"Late? Already? Not a very good impression you're going to make on your new boss?" Draco hinted and watched as Virginia attempted to regain her breath. "Shove it, Draco. I was dropping off Cecilia to the daycare." Virginia watched, slightly mused, as Draco smirked. Deciding that maybe she should tell Draco about the 'Malfoy smirk' that Cecilia made this morning, she opened her mouth but Draco was already walking ahead.
'Stupid, git,' Virginia silently thought, 'Forget telling him, he doesn't need to know.' She caught up with him and they walked silently for 5 minutes before Draco stopped in front of a huge skyscraper. She followed like a puppy into the huge building. Draco worked on the 77th floor. When they arrived on the floor, Virginia watched as Draco nodded mutely to all that bid him a good morning. She felt gazes on her as she walked closely behind Draco.
"I see that you got yourself a secretary, Draco," Virginia heard a silky female voice behind her. She slowly turned, but who ever the female was behind her she had no time to react as she was harshly shoved out of the way. Her quick reflexes, that she had learnt here, kicked in and she regained her balance. It looked like she had never even moved.
Virginia watched in mild disgust, as some blond head fawned over Draco. Virginia was slightly surprised as Draco put his hand on the blonde's shoulder and calmly told her something in her ear. The blond head must have been pleased at what he said because she grinned and excused herself from our presence; retreating into an office. I followed him, still silent, into his own office.
At a mild attempt at making conversation Virginia asked pointedly as she glanced out into Tokyo, through Draco's office window, "So who's the dumb blonde?" Draco actually raised an eyebrow, before quickly dropping it and replying with a sneer, "That blonde is Anastasia Goyle, my boss."
Virginia was surprised but caught herself before she did something that would show it. A thought struck her then and she voiced it out loud, "So Draco Malfoy reports to someone higher than him?" If she was aiming to bruise his inflated ego, she had succeeded.
"Not by choice. Anastasia is watching over me for my father," Draco eye's flashed liquid silver as he started to make his way to the door, "get yourself settled, your desk is over there, I'm going to meet with Anastasia, hold all my calls until I get back."
Virginia looked overwhelmed at the sudden pile up of duties, but she silently walked over to her desk and sat down with a pen and paper jotting down things to do. Draco was almost out the door when he turned back and walked over to Virginia. He lifted her chin with his finger and coldly spoke, "And for your information, Anastasia is not as dumb as her stupid half-minded brother." He released her chin and walked out.
Virginia watched his retreating back, before snapping out of her thoughts. She heard the phone ring beside her and hesitantly picked it up, "Draco Malfoy's office." She listened as some bastard told her off, she calmly handled the situation before hanging up the phone in anger. 'I don't need Malfoy's problems on my shoulders,' she thought defiantly as she looked at the clock and noticed that she had been sitting there handling phones for 2 hours. It was already 10:10. She picked up herself and walked out the door, she was almost out when the phone rang again. She debated with herself before surrendering and answering it, "Draco Malfoy's office."
"Virginia! Thank GOD I found you! Cecilia was injured! There was a fire at the Daycare!" Hoshi's announcement rippled shocks through her body and she hurriedly yelled back into the phone, "I'll be right there!"
She asked a brunette, in a hurry, which office was Ms. Goyle's. The brunette pointed to the door at the end of the hall, in its lonesome. She politely extended thanks and walked towards it. 'I don't care if he's busy I need to go to Cecilia.'
As she walked closer she noticed that the door was slightly a jar. Against her better judgment she stormed right in. Her mind froze, her heart stopped beating, and her body shook. Draco, fully clothed, was sitting in a chair opposite a table. On that table, the dumb blonde was slowly undressing. Her personality suddenly reverted to when she was in school, "I-I-I'm sorry." She adverted her eyes as the stunned blonde covered herself with a jacket. Draco looked even slightly surprised himself.
Her personality switched back as she remembered that her daughter was injured, "I'm taking the rest of the day off." She turned and slammed the door shut, as an echo rung through the air. She huffed off towards the elevator, but her wrist was caught by a familiar hand,
"Why are you taking the rest of the day off?" Virginia thought, but only for a second, of telling him about Cecilia before angrily screaming, "It is none of your business."
"So you're telling me that it had nothing to do with what you just saw?" Draco was calm as she struggled to get her wrist loose. Her eyes snapped up to his, and he felt the full force of her anger after she spoke through her clenched teeth, "It has nothing to do with you, or your dumb blonde, for that matter!"
"Then why are you skipping out on the rest of the day?" Draco's calm voice was really beginning to frustrate Virginia, and before she knew what she was doing she slapped him on the face and spoke harshly, "The Daycare that Cecilia goes to caught on fire, NOW LET ME GO!"
Needless to say that Draco didn't need more convincing as he brought Virginia closer to him, against her pleas, and apparated with a POP! No one even saw them disappear.
Draco had apparated them to an alley. Virginia shook herself free and ran into the street. She looked up in horror as Mizu Tokyo Daycare was up in flames, smoke, and dust. She glanced at the small children being rushed out of the building, when her eye caught the unmistakable hair color of her daughter. She ran towards her and saw cuts all over her gorgeous face and her hair in disarray. Virginia's eyes filled with tears as she watched her daughter get wheeled away into an ambulance.
She rushed towards it, and climbed in and sat near her daughter's body. The ambulance was almost ready to pull out when Virginia heard the familiar sound of Draco, "Stop!" The ambulance paused and Draco opened the doors and sat down beside Virginia. Remembering what occurred earlier; Virginia fixed Draco with the most unpleasant glare that she could muster under the circumstances.
They traveled in the most uncomfortable silence till they arrived at the hospital only a minute after they left the scene. Paramedics came in and rolled Cecilia's bed into the operating room, she had bleeding on her knee, which Virginia had only noticed when they exited the ambulance. She sat down in the waiting room in nervousness. Her prayers and thoughts interrupted by Draco's question,
"How'd you find out?" Virginia slowly brought her eyes to his, "Hoshi called me, in your office. Then I rushed out to find you, only to find you with your dumb blonde." She had purposely sneered the last part. Draco actually looked mused for a second before curiously asking,
"I told you her name, so why do you insist on still calling her 'Dumb Blonde'?"
"She's a bitch and a slut," Virginia had replied with out even a second to think about what she was saying, and the way she was implying it. Draco picked up on it though,
"Are you jealous?" Draco's accusation actually caught Virginia thinking about her answer,
'Am I jealous? I had told him that I want a relationship, and not just the physical aspects of a relationship. I want to date him, yeah, but is that really why I might be jealous? His relationship with Cecilia, maybe that's it. He was so nice to her and when I saw him holding her with his finger in her hand, everything just clicked, and the picture looked complete. Complete?? All of a sudden I want the picture to be complete? I thought I only wanted to date him, and now all of the sudden I want him permentally in the picture?! What is wrong with me!? I want him as a husband?! HUSBAND?! What AM I thinking!? Malfoy could never be my husband! Those types don't marry for love, and that's the only thing I would accept as the foundation of my marriage. Am I talking about marriage?'
Unconsciously Virginia spoke quietly saying, "Maybe I am." She thought, 'Did I just say 'Maybe I am' out loud!?!' Virginia stole a glance at Draco to find him smirking, very lightly. Virginia buried her head in her hands and mentally thought, 'I loathe myself.'
A doctor came out and walked into the waiting room, "Is there a Virginia Weasely here?" Virginia's head snapped out of her hands as she stood up quickly, causing her to become a little light headed. Fighting it off, she walked to the doctor, "Yes, that is me."
The doctor looked at her and spoke in a very official voice, "Your daughter, Cecilia Malfoy, has minor cut across her face and a slightly serious knee injury, a piece of glass was in it, so we had to remove that, and then stitch it up." If Draco had doubts about how muggles treat wounds, he was going to address them now,
"So she's going to ok you're saying. When can she be released?" The doctor's gaze floated past Virginia's left shoulder to the blond man standing there, "Who might you be?" Before Draco had the chance to reply, Virginia blocked the doctor's view of Draco and replied simply, "A friend."
"Right, yes. She can be released tomorrow if she makes it through the night with out any troubles," The doctor most definitely said something wrong as Draco gently pushed Virginia aside and said sternly, "She will make it though…right?" He had added the last word to make certain that nothing will go wrong. The doctor loosed his tie slightly under the stern glare and muttered, "O-of course, s-sir." Draco nodded and the doctor split from the scene.
Draco turned to Virginia only to find her with her head bowed; bangs falling across her face, covering her eyes, and her wand in hand crossed diagonally on her chest. He murmured to the red-head, "Virginia?" She apparated before he could say more. Draco glanced around the room and thankfully noted that no one saw her oddly disappear.
It was already late night, almost 11. The Kimochi Park had already closed but one was still within the gates of the park, because that one had apparated there. Virginia Weasely stood in a patch of tall beautiful green grass, looking up at the star filled night. The cresent moon was, shinning towards the east, casting a moonlight glow on the park.
{Switch to Virginia's point of view}
It's so beautiful here. I come here to think sometimes when things in my life aren't going the way I want them to. The wind picked up and lightly caressed my face. Closing my eyes, I leaned into the soft feeling. I opened my eyes as the wind died down and I remembered why I was in the park in the first place.
I had run away. From everything in my life; Cecilia, Draco, that hospital. Draco? Does he really count as in my life? I sighed and raised my head to look at the moon, so pale. The way Draco had almost, not to make it too many words, threatened the doctor, surprised me. I smiled lightly as I thought how fatherly he was acting. Draco Malfoy acting fatherly, Ron would pay big money just to know.
My smile changed to a sad one. Things like that will never be, so I really should start banishing them. Draco Malfoy will never be, as I said before, a permanent part of the picture. It's crazy to think that he would even want to be. Nevertheless I now realize that inside my heart, I'm not really happy. I want that completed picture; I want that family. I want the guy that will always be there for me. I close my eyes and try to in vision him.
I see him standing 5 feet away from me; it's so dark that I can't make out his face. I can't even make out his hair color. I reach forward…
I'm jerked out of my dream as I hear footsteps behind me. By now I've memorized the sound of those footsteps and recognized the owner of them, "Hey." His voice was oddly—comforting? I slowly turned to face him, the moonlight now bouncing across my face, lighting it up. I could have sworn I heard a sharp intake of breath from him, but that was dismissed as he came closer to me.
I couldn't keep my eyes locked with his so I settled my gaze on a near by bush towards my left. "Why'd you run?" he asked me. It was such a simple question, but I…I didn't know the answer myself. I lamely shrugged and replaced my gaze towards the moon, my back now facing him. He didn't say anything for awhile and I wondered if he left, turning I saw he was still standing there, watching me. I forced out of my mouth a sentence, "Why are you still here?"
He smirked, the first clue I had that he was who he was, and not some possessed body, "You should never apparate in a public muggle place." He sounded like he was scolding a child, and I am most certainly not a child,
"Couldn't handle it." My soft mumble was heard, of course, by his ears. He walked till he was beside me and we watched the starry sky in lapsed silence. Unable to last with out at least saying something; I voiced the first thing that came into my head, "Do you know what she did this morning?" Of course he didn't, but that's how I brought up the topic so I continued,
"She smirked." I could sense his puzzlement as to why this was a big deal and I added, "A Malfoy smirk." He didn't say anything for a second before admitting, "She does have her father's attributes then." I lightly smiled and faced him, "She really is like you in so many ways. I wonder sometimes if that's a good thing."
"There is nothing terrible about being a Malfoy," was his reply and I could only smile again lightly at his defensive position. When I didn't say anything he spoke again, "Let's go back and visit her." I glanced once more at a twinkling star before nodding and saying, "She still doesn't know who you are…I never told her."
"You didn't?" he seemed slightly surprised at this. I nodded in assurance and offered, "You're free to tell her what you want. You can tell her that you are her father or you can tell her that you're just a friend of mine." My voice seemed uncertain about the 'friend' thing and I pulled out my wand ready to apparate. He looked like he was thinking it over and I reached out and snaked my arm around his neck and said, "Come on Draco." We disappeared with a pop.
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;) Next chapter you'll find out if Draco tells Cecilia that he is her father or just a friend of her mother's. Sorry about that.
I got a very touching review from Gin and August. I have dedicated this chapter to the two of you, and I wish you luck in your future writings. I'll be e-mailing you both later some time.
THANK YOU ALL!! :) you're reviews keep me going with this pace.
Anastasia is a bitch rite? ^^ lol. But don't worry this is a d/g pairing so don't worry. Things will start looking different for Draco soon after Virginia ______________. ^^ eheh? You have to wait till the 1st for that.
Preview for Chapter 7: With My Temper
That blonde bitch is seriously getting on Virginia's nerves when she goes back to work the next day,
"…Draco is not always going to be around to protect you, Bitch…"
Of course Virginia retaliates at the threat and does an unmoral thing,
"…I don't need to be protected. On the other hand you might want some right now…"