Rain

By: Who Else? Me

Chapter Twelve

Surprise Attack

Sobbing and suffering. Dorothy felt Draco pick her up off the Quidditch pitch ground and slowly begin to carry her back to the school. She clung to him because her strength had not returned and her arms and legs were sore from "the game." She was still a panting lightly as he carried her through the one of the locker rooms. He set her down on a bench and looked at her. Her hair was clinging to her face from sweating so much and her body was shaking furiously. She still had tears streaming down her face and he brushed them away quickly.

"I'm sorry," he whispered, leaning forward and looking into her watery eyes. She blinked and more tears fell down her cheeks. He wiped these away too.

"I know," she choked out, placing her hands on his. His pale hands were cold under hers and she shivered slightly. His gray eyes had softened a little bit since she first met him on the train.

Suddenly, the warnings of both Pansy Parkinson and Dumbledor rang out in her head and she felt a sharp pain in her chest as her heart began to ache. She wanted to look away from him, reject him again and save herself but she couldn't. She just continued to stare into his silvery eyes that shone with longing just to touch her and comfort her. She felt her body being drawn into those eyes as they drank in every part of her body.

Draco reached up and ran his fingers through Dorothy's drenched, black hair and he knelt down in from of her so that he was eye level with her. He felt his heart begin to pound as he gazed into her blue eyes and felt her warm hand against his cold one. He gulped slightly and shifted his face so that his nose was just barely touching hers. She didn't object and he could feel her breath against his lips. The hand in her hair came down to cup her face and draw her forward.

His lips brushed against hers slightly before she regained control and jerked back. He looked into her eyes once more and saw she looked scared. His hand still cupped her face and she bit her lip nervously.

"I-I'm sorry...I didn't mean—"she began but he cut her off, pressing his lips against hers. She let out a muffled protest and gripped his shirt tightly in her hands. She was quite against such a surprise attack but soon loosened up and relaxed into his lips.

Draco continued to cup her face with one hand and he placed the other on the small of her back and pulled her closer. She was leaning back against the wall in this moment of peace. Her eyes fluttered closed and she was content to stay like this forever.

But...it didn't last.

"Draco? What are you—"came a voice from the entrance of the doorway. The Slytherin and Gryffindor broke apart suddenly to see Pansy staring horrorstruck at them. Dorothy's face turned beet red and Draco just stared up at his housemate.

"Hello, Pansy," he said as if nothing had happened. He untwisted his arm from Dorothy's back and stood up. The dark-haired girl felt a stab as he released her. She wanted him to hold her forever.

The pug-faced girl felt her eyes fill up with tears and she turned and ran away. Dorothy stared mournfully after her looked away from the pale boy before her. He looked back at her and then back at the doorway.

"We...should go, Draco," she said with a pained voice. "We shouldn't have done this..."

"What are you talking about?" he said spinning around and grabbing her by the shoulders and looking into her eyes again. "Didn't that mean anything to you?"

"Draco...we barely know each other. We just can't go around doing this until we're sure what we're feeling is love and not infatuation. We're hurting people doing this, can't you see? Besides, something is missing here. Something important."

"Like what?" yelled Draco, tightening his grip on her shoulders.

"Acceptance. No body will accept us. Gryffindor and Slytherin, don't be silly..." Dorothy tried her best to hold back her sobs and keep her voice from cracking but it was steadily becoming harder.

"No body accepted Romeo and Juliet but they still tried!"

"And look what happened to them! They died! It was just a story anyway. A hopeless romance, like ours," Dorothy replied, wiping a tear away quickly. "Besides, I don't think I could risk it...I know your father is a Death Eater. What would happen if you grew up and became one too, hm? And with the Dark Lord rising and everything...Don't you know my father and I are on that list? On the list to be killed? Why do you think I came here?"

Draco remained silent, looking at the floor and releasing Dorothy's shoulders. He seemed to be thinking hard because he was muttering something.

"I guess it's over then!"

"Draco, it never started."

But he wasn't listening, he'd started walking out of the locker room and away from her. When he'd reached the entrance he stopped and said something over his shoulder to her, clutching his broom tightly in his fist.

"Then from now on, we're enemies, got it? The only time I'll ever work with you is in herbology and that only until the Empherus plant is finished growing," he said, his voice low and growling. He vanished out the door and left Dorothy sitting on the bench, her heart aching and her body throbbing.

A/N: Okay! That was mushy and a little Mary-Sue so deal with it (in therapy). I went with the idea of them being caught by Pansy after all because I had this awesome idea from future chapters. I won't touch too much on the subject because I have to go meet up with my boyfriend. Ciao.

WEM

PS I'm gonna take a little bit of a break so that I can work on my original story, Wonderland X. I might post it on FictionPress. Feel free to read it if I put it up.