A/N: YAY!!! Another new chapter!!! Are you all as excited as I am?!?!?
Well. I am very excited, if you can't tell-I hope you enjoy!!!
Disclaimer: Same ol' stuff; everything is JKR's except my girl, Kristin and the plot!
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"Kristin, are you ready to go?" Kristin looked up at Draco and his extended hand, intended to guide her from the Potions dungeon back to the Slytherin common room in time for curfew.
"Uh- oh yeah- sure" she collected her thoughts and took his hand. "Oh wait! You go ahead. I want to talk to Professor Snape for a little while."
Draco kissed her hand chivalrously and entered the hallway outside the potions room.
"So you finally decided where your loyalties lie, I see." Snape walked by her, seemingly indifferent to her plight, but underneath the façade she sensed his smug attitude telling her that she should have listened to him from the beginning and not wasted a year on the Potter brat.
"I guess that I have. Professor Snape," Kristin wrapped her arms around the professor in a tight embrace, "thank you so much for everything. You've been just like a father to me and I really don't know where I would be without you," She let go and stood back a little, trying to remember a time in her year here at Hogwarts when she had seen the potions master more shocked. He stood there for a little while, composing himself.
"A father?" he asked. The underlying disposition of pride and arrogance were gone from his voice and all that remained was dumfoundedness.
"Thank you and I'm sorry for not listening to you earlier. Well, I have to be off if I want to be back in my room before curfew." She bounded for the door, seemingly unphased by Professor Snape's shocked expression.
"Kristin, wait!" she halted in her tracks and turned to face him. "Where are you going for summer break?"
"Hmmm; well, I'm never really sure of where I'm staying until I show up at the train station and some family is there, waiting for me."
"You mean, you don't have a home at all? Just one family after another?" He asked, even more stunned than he was just a few moments before. "How do THEY know where you're going?"
"Oh, Lucius set it up for me years ago to keep me moving so that the Ministry didn't find me and kill me in fear that I'd up like my father. I stay at two different houses during a summer break, six weeks at a time."
"That's not a proper way for a girl to live, Miss Riddle. I'll have a conversation with Albus first, but I would very much like you to stay with me during your summer holidays. Perhaps after your schooling as well, while you work on a career and getting yourself on your feet. How do you feel about it?"
"Are you serious? I would love it. Thank you. You have no clue how much this means to me," she gave him another before running out the door to tell Draco.
"I may have an idea of what you mean," the professor mumbled as the closest thing he may ever have to a daughter bolted happily from the room.
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"What are you so happy about?" Draco asked the bounding girl as she practically skipped to the staircase that would lead them from the dungeons.
"Snape invited me to live with him during holidays!" she exclaimed, practically screaming in delight and wrapping her arms around him.
"Really? That's awesome, Kristin! So no more shuffling from family to family, eh?" he replied, swinging her around in excitement. "Let's talk more in the common room, alright? We're going to be late soon."
Draco put his arm around Kristin's should as they walked together each in their own state of ecstasy: Kristin had finally found a home, a father, a somewhat stable environment where she could make herself a room with real furniture and all because she would return to it when school was done, providing Dumbledore approved; Draco knew where Snape lived and it was close, so he could spend his summer holidays with Kristin. When they reached the Slytherin common room, Kristin kept walking.
"Where are you going?" Draco looked at her.
"My room. You can get up without the stairs without them collapsing and it's less quiet than this place. I'm so excited I don't think I could sit still. I'd go crazy."
Draco couldn't help but agree with her; he'd always hated the common room. It was filled with the likes of Pansy Parkinson, throwing herself at him and Crabbe and Goyle, lost beyond recognition in their own stupidity. Besides, he loved Kristin when she was in these kinds of moods- she was very touchy and affectionate.
"So what exactly happened that you're living with Snape in the holidays?" Draco asked as he sat next to her on her bed.
Kristin told him the story, her body pulsing and nearly shaking with excitement and Draco could feel the energy in the room. Kristin didn't even know if she could yet and she was already this ecstatic, he couldn't even imagine what she would be like if Dumbledore let it happen. She smiled, laughed, and giggled, using her hands to talk and touching his arm and leg a lot when she was trying to prove a point. She got closer and closer to him as she spoke and her hand rested on his arm after a while. Suddenly she stopped talking and kissed him.
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'This is it,' Kristin thought as her lips finally met Draco's, just lips, at first, tentatively pressed to his, testing, to see if he really thought of her the way Snape always said he had, but he kissed her back, even pulled her closer so she opened her mouth up to him. Draco's tongue danced with hers excitedly, searching and exploring passionately, knowing all the other was thinking and using it plan where to go next. She ran fingers down his lean, muscular back and settled them on his hips where she moved them back and forth gently along his sides. But just as suddenly as it began, he told her to wait.
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"Why wait?" Kristin breathlessly replied to Draco's demand. "What's wrong? Please don't tell me you don't like me anymore. Ooooh, I could kill that Professor Snape. He told me-"
"Kristin," he put a finger to her lips, motioning her to hush, "that's not it. I do really like you and if you kill Snape you've got no where to go on holidays; I may have to give him a good slap for telling you, but that's really not it. I just don't want to be Harry's backup, you know, now that you can't have him you're settling for me. Or worse, Kristin, I don't want to take advantage of you."
"You're not. I made the first move, remember?" She leaned in to kiss him again.
"But you're still not over Harry, I know, and you will regret it when he comes to his senses and you guys are back together, so let's leave it with what happened here and not go further."
Kristin nodded and sat against the head of her bed. Draco, taking that as his cue to leave, started to get up, before she pulled on his robes gently.
"Please stay here. I'm alright now, but I don't think I'll maintain myself when I'm alone."
"I'll get my pajamas," he said as he started to the door.
Disclaimer: Same ol' stuff; everything is JKR's except my girl, Kristin and the plot!
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"Kristin, are you ready to go?" Kristin looked up at Draco and his extended hand, intended to guide her from the Potions dungeon back to the Slytherin common room in time for curfew.
"Uh- oh yeah- sure" she collected her thoughts and took his hand. "Oh wait! You go ahead. I want to talk to Professor Snape for a little while."
Draco kissed her hand chivalrously and entered the hallway outside the potions room.
"So you finally decided where your loyalties lie, I see." Snape walked by her, seemingly indifferent to her plight, but underneath the façade she sensed his smug attitude telling her that she should have listened to him from the beginning and not wasted a year on the Potter brat.
"I guess that I have. Professor Snape," Kristin wrapped her arms around the professor in a tight embrace, "thank you so much for everything. You've been just like a father to me and I really don't know where I would be without you," She let go and stood back a little, trying to remember a time in her year here at Hogwarts when she had seen the potions master more shocked. He stood there for a little while, composing himself.
"A father?" he asked. The underlying disposition of pride and arrogance were gone from his voice and all that remained was dumfoundedness.
"Thank you and I'm sorry for not listening to you earlier. Well, I have to be off if I want to be back in my room before curfew." She bounded for the door, seemingly unphased by Professor Snape's shocked expression.
"Kristin, wait!" she halted in her tracks and turned to face him. "Where are you going for summer break?"
"Hmmm; well, I'm never really sure of where I'm staying until I show up at the train station and some family is there, waiting for me."
"You mean, you don't have a home at all? Just one family after another?" He asked, even more stunned than he was just a few moments before. "How do THEY know where you're going?"
"Oh, Lucius set it up for me years ago to keep me moving so that the Ministry didn't find me and kill me in fear that I'd up like my father. I stay at two different houses during a summer break, six weeks at a time."
"That's not a proper way for a girl to live, Miss Riddle. I'll have a conversation with Albus first, but I would very much like you to stay with me during your summer holidays. Perhaps after your schooling as well, while you work on a career and getting yourself on your feet. How do you feel about it?"
"Are you serious? I would love it. Thank you. You have no clue how much this means to me," she gave him another before running out the door to tell Draco.
"I may have an idea of what you mean," the professor mumbled as the closest thing he may ever have to a daughter bolted happily from the room.
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"What are you so happy about?" Draco asked the bounding girl as she practically skipped to the staircase that would lead them from the dungeons.
"Snape invited me to live with him during holidays!" she exclaimed, practically screaming in delight and wrapping her arms around him.
"Really? That's awesome, Kristin! So no more shuffling from family to family, eh?" he replied, swinging her around in excitement. "Let's talk more in the common room, alright? We're going to be late soon."
Draco put his arm around Kristin's should as they walked together each in their own state of ecstasy: Kristin had finally found a home, a father, a somewhat stable environment where she could make herself a room with real furniture and all because she would return to it when school was done, providing Dumbledore approved; Draco knew where Snape lived and it was close, so he could spend his summer holidays with Kristin. When they reached the Slytherin common room, Kristin kept walking.
"Where are you going?" Draco looked at her.
"My room. You can get up without the stairs without them collapsing and it's less quiet than this place. I'm so excited I don't think I could sit still. I'd go crazy."
Draco couldn't help but agree with her; he'd always hated the common room. It was filled with the likes of Pansy Parkinson, throwing herself at him and Crabbe and Goyle, lost beyond recognition in their own stupidity. Besides, he loved Kristin when she was in these kinds of moods- she was very touchy and affectionate.
"So what exactly happened that you're living with Snape in the holidays?" Draco asked as he sat next to her on her bed.
Kristin told him the story, her body pulsing and nearly shaking with excitement and Draco could feel the energy in the room. Kristin didn't even know if she could yet and she was already this ecstatic, he couldn't even imagine what she would be like if Dumbledore let it happen. She smiled, laughed, and giggled, using her hands to talk and touching his arm and leg a lot when she was trying to prove a point. She got closer and closer to him as she spoke and her hand rested on his arm after a while. Suddenly she stopped talking and kissed him.
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'This is it,' Kristin thought as her lips finally met Draco's, just lips, at first, tentatively pressed to his, testing, to see if he really thought of her the way Snape always said he had, but he kissed her back, even pulled her closer so she opened her mouth up to him. Draco's tongue danced with hers excitedly, searching and exploring passionately, knowing all the other was thinking and using it plan where to go next. She ran fingers down his lean, muscular back and settled them on his hips where she moved them back and forth gently along his sides. But just as suddenly as it began, he told her to wait.
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"Why wait?" Kristin breathlessly replied to Draco's demand. "What's wrong? Please don't tell me you don't like me anymore. Ooooh, I could kill that Professor Snape. He told me-"
"Kristin," he put a finger to her lips, motioning her to hush, "that's not it. I do really like you and if you kill Snape you've got no where to go on holidays; I may have to give him a good slap for telling you, but that's really not it. I just don't want to be Harry's backup, you know, now that you can't have him you're settling for me. Or worse, Kristin, I don't want to take advantage of you."
"You're not. I made the first move, remember?" She leaned in to kiss him again.
"But you're still not over Harry, I know, and you will regret it when he comes to his senses and you guys are back together, so let's leave it with what happened here and not go further."
Kristin nodded and sat against the head of her bed. Draco, taking that as his cue to leave, started to get up, before she pulled on his robes gently.
"Please stay here. I'm alright now, but I don't think I'll maintain myself when I'm alone."
"I'll get my pajamas," he said as he started to the door.