Winter 2: The Son of Winter Draco POV As I lay there, I held her soft and lovely fair skinned body in my arms as she slept. Her waist length black wavy hair gently lay across the pillows and me. Her breathing was so soft, that I had to strain to hear it, but I knew it was there as I watched her chest rise and fall in rhythm with mine. I watch her as she lays in perfect, unbroken peace. The sun started to rise and the sunlight trickled into her hair and showed me her halo of gold. Such a gold that not even my money could buy better. Her gold was purer than mine ever could be. My father has blood on his hands. I have blood on my hands too. My family is filled with murder and coldness, while she is warm and caring, though she has been through hell and back. Her warm hazel eyes show all her emotions. Those eyes. Those beautiful eyes flutter open and gaze into mine. "Hello love." I say and for once truly smile without any trace of a smirk. She gave me one of her sleepy, but filled with love and compassion type of smiles that I have come to know and love so well. Those smiles make me safe.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* "Draco!" my father yells from my door. "Get your lazy and good for nothing ass out of bed this instant or I will completely erase all her memories from your mind!" The door slams magically behind him. He hates it that I fell in love. "Malfoys do no fall in love and certainly cannot love!'' I remember him saying to me when he found out that I was dating Rowena. Rowena Snape. Only I my dreams do I get to hold her anymore. I dream of her almost every night since we parted for good. It was at the beginning to the summer when I finished my 5th year at Hogwarts. I told her in my coldest tones and I put on the best act I could. For her sake I broke all ties with her. It is now the end of summer and I have to go back to Hogwarts in a couple of days. I will have to see her father. That will be the hard and terrible part. Him thinking that I never loved her. I fear my father's wrath more than her father's though. Rowena would never allow her father to harm me no matter how much I harm her. She is crazy like that and I love her for it. I get out of bed and start to pack. My father got everything yesterday from Diagon Ally. I have not gone out of the manor since I came home in June. I pack a picture of Rowena and me just for laughs and to remind me that somedays you still have to face the world though you feel like crap. I pack the picture of her and me from when I went and spent the summer after 4th year with her. In the picture, we are soaked from head to toe because re ran through the rain with the rest of the exploration team that decodes the ancient script of ancient runs. She lived in Egypt. Her strength has kept me alive and striving. Rowena.