Storm Clouds Always Roll In On A Wednesday
Chapter Five: Another Day, Another Fight
Draco looked down at Alex who currently had her eyes closed and a look of concentration on her face.
"What are you thinking about?" Draco asked quietly. He felt her jump. Well, whatever she was thinking about it was obviously important. He smirked at the thought.
Alex was pulled out of her memories by a voice that sounded vaguely familiar. With a start she finally realized where she was. She looked at Draco who smirked with amusement.
"Hm? What did you say?"
Draco noted that Alex still had a slight far-away look in her eyes. He rolled his eyes.
"I said," he began, "What are you thinking about?" She gave a slight smile and shifted so she was facing the fire and leaning against Draco's side.
"I was thinking about the first time we met." Draco raised an eyebrow.
"Why would you be thinking about that? As I remember, it wasn't a pleasant experience." His voice was full of irony. "After we realized we weren't figments of our respective subconscious, YOU hit ME, and proceeded to argue with me for half the time and the other half you spent sitting sullenly in a corner giving me distrustful glances every three seconds or so." Alex snorted.
"I HIT you because you tried to," she paused to think for a moment. "ravish me and I realized you were a REAL person trying to," she paused again and made a face. "ravish me. You acted like a total creep and deserved to be hit." Alex watched as Draco got an incredulous look on his face.
"I was not a creep. I was," he smirked. "and still am, a teenage hormonal boy. It's not my fault I thought you were a dream that was to be at my every beck and call." Alex laughed.
"You were a spoiled little rich boy." Draco frowned and Alex rolled her eyes.
"Soooooo sorry. I meant that you were a hormonal spoiled little rich teenage boy." Draco grinned.
"Were?"
He raised his eyebrows in a suggestive manner. Alex pushed him off the loveseat. He landed with an -oof- of surprise. Draco glared resentfully at Alex from his place on the floor. Alex shifted so she was laying on the loveseat with her legs dangling off the end.
"Anyways, what I meant by the first time we met was the first time we met in person, you dolt." Draco shifted so he was sitting on the floor cross-legged with his back up against the loveseat. He remembered that. It was his first time in America too. He tipped his head back and looked at Alex upside down.
"You mean when we went to that Christmas party?" Alex nodded. "And we ended up at the refreshments bar where some blonde trashy thing proceeded to hit on me?" Again Alex nodded, but this time more reluctantly. "And where you went out and practically gouged her eyes out because she wouldn't leave me and my gorgeous self alone?" Alex sighed and crossed her arms.
"I didn't gouge her eyes out, I just threw punch on her… and smeared cake down the front of her." Alex fidgeted with her hands and risked a glance at Draco who was silently laughing.
"What? I did it because she was a total bitch and I hated her frilly pink guts. She deserved it. She only did it because she noticed I was talking to you and she wanted to cut in." Draco now had a hand over his eyes and the other on his stomach. He didn't notice the scowl that was growing on Alex's face.
"It's not like you didn't laugh then either. You thought it was hilarious." Draco paused and looked at Alex through his fingers.
"It was hilarious because I wished you were doing that to Pansy." He snickered. "Remind me to invite you to the next party my Mother decides to throw." Alex scrunched her face up.
"Wonderful. I can imagine that going over reaaaal well with your dear ol' parents." Alex closed her eyes and put on a solemn face. When she spoke her voice was deeper and with a British accent, and her eyes were full of arrogance. It was a very good Draco Malfoy impression if she didn't say so herself.
"Why Mum? Well you see, I want to invite Alex Blake because Pansy will be there and I really think the two should meet… Well, yes, she was the one who was involved in the incident at that American's Christmas party. That's why I want to invite her. Just think of the entertainment of her and Pansy Parkinson wrestling on the floor with punch and cake all over them. I can assure you, all the males there will enjoy it. …Oh don't worry Da' you can always Avada Kedavra them afterwards." Alex snorted. The very idea was ridiculous. Alex noticed that Draco had yet to make a comment. When she looked at him she noticed his face was pensive and he was staring into the fire. Fuck!! Alex the screw-up strikes again!! She thought.
"Draco, I…" she began, but Draco cut her off.
"So what are you going to do about your Gandmother?" Alex looked at him bewilderedly. The sudden change of subject threw her off momentarily.
"Huh?" she paused and then remembered why she had needed to come here so badly tonight.
"Oh… Her. I dunno." She gave an uncommitted shrug, clearly uncomfortable about talking about her problems.
"I suppose I'll try and avoid her until Summer Vacation is over and then I'll be able to stay at Salem. What about you? What are YOU going to do about your Father?" Draco gave a short bitter laugh and threw his hand back over his eyes.
"What CAN I do? I can't do anything about it. I either join the bloody Death Eaters, or I die. Father made that clear enough. Unlike your parents, my Father doesn't compromise. It's either his way or death."
Alex felt her chest tighten painfully. Draco can't DIE!! He's all she has! She can't lose him! Alex started breathing faster and heard the blood rushing to her brain. Death Eater or Death? No!! Either way she'd lose him! She remembered what it was like without him. -Emotions swirling around her, getting lost in a bright fog, pain, death, torment, all alone… no one could help her. She just wanted to die.-
She remembered taking the muggle sleeping pills- and knowing she took too many and hoping she really would never wake up. Everyone had tried so hard to help her, and she had felt like there was nothing left to live for. It hurt every time her parents had looked at her, every time she flinched from the touch of another human being. -Drowning in the pain, wishing for death. It hurts so bad… Why am I alive? Just kill me… No!! Don't touch me!! Leave me alone!! I'm broken…-
Draco had saved her. She was nothing without him. Die? NO! …Death Eater? Alex wouldn't even consider him becoming one of those, those, things that had killed her parents. Her parents were good people! They didn't deserve to die! Neither did Draco!! Either way, Death Eaters would destroy him.
Alex was snapped out of her thoughts by the feeling of someone prying her hands apart. While she had been thinking she had clenched her hands. Alex felt like she was coming back from far away. She could hear Draco speaking, but it was distant and hazy.
"Alex! Alex! Bloody hell… Snap out of it! Alex? Come on Alex, I can't help you if you don't let me!" Alex felt herself being pulled into her body. Now she could hear the blood that was still rushing to her head, and she could feel the pain of her nails biting into the soft flesh of her palms. Oh shit! She couldn't breathe! Why couldn't she move her body?
Alex felt like she couldn't get any air, she felt like she had just ran a mile. She couldn't get her breath back! Short gasps of air escaped her erratically heaving chest. She knew what was happening. What was that word? She was… hyperventilating!! That's it! Her body screamed for air. Could she die in her dreamscape? Was that even possible, she wondered? BREATHE!!
Alex felt her body being shaken and heard Draco's voice again. She felt a tinge in her right cheek. Did he just slap her?? Again Alex heard Draco's voice, this time much louder and clearer, like maybe he was right in front of her. "Breathe Alex! C'mon Alex, you're not a bloody mermaid! You need AIR, so quit gaping like a fish out of water and breathe the effing stuff!" Oh, well when he puts it like that…
Alex suddenly gasped and sucked in a deep breath of air. Wonderful Air! Magnificent Air!! Never again would she take it for granted!! Alex realized she had control of her body again, she pried her hands apart and looked down at her hands in her lap. Focus…Focus… There were little half crescent moons indented in her hands. She was still breathing hard. Alex also became aware that someone's hands were still on her shoulders.
She looked up into Draco's concerned face. She gave a weak smile.
"Oops?"
Draco frowned at Alex.
"Oops?? What do you mean, 'oops'?? What the bloody hell happened?"
Alex opened her mouth to speak when she felt a wave of dizziness. She looked at Draco and she knew he had felt it too. They were waking up. Another wave hit them both. Alex looked at Draco apologetically and gave a shrug.
"Looks like we're waking up Draco." Draco gave Alex his classic Malfoy smirk.
"Don't worry Alex, we're not through here. And there's always tomorrow." Draco watched as Alex started fading out of view and knew that she was seeing the same thing happen to him. What the bloody hell happened to her? Draco watched at she went away completely, with him following a moment later. And the room? It waited until the next time it had to be used, like a haven is supposed to.
Draco woke up to the feeling of being surrounded by silk and knew he was in his own bed. This was confirmed a moment later when a house elf appeared next to his bed. Timidly, it spoke.
"Master Malfoy? Flinky is here to make sure that Master Malfoy is up and getting ready for breakfast Sir." Flinky twisted the bottom of her pillowcase with nervous fingers. Draco groaned. Another day…
"Fine. I'm up. Now go away." Flinky flinched at Draco's cold and cross tone. She just knew that she was going to get boxed in the ears at least once before the end of breakfast. Flinky bobbled her head in a bow and quickly backed out of the room while talking.
"Flinky is going to prepare Master's bath now Sir." Draco didn't bother to answer; he was concentrating on not collapsing in pain from the injuries he received last night for punishment from refusing the Dark Mark. Father was NOT going to be pleased to see him. Another reason to act as if nothing is wrong, his father wanted him to submit and would be damned if he did! Draco sighed. Another Day…
AN:: Well, another chapter, another 5 days... . I'm already halfway through the next chapter so I might have it up by tomorrow...buuuut...maybe not. Thank-you all for your wonderful reviews!! I LOVE THEM!!
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