A/N:

Ok, this is a Draco/Kindra piece, also a first on fan fiction for myself, and my cohort in this is AmorMortal.

DISCLOSURE: Um... only Kindra is my invention, so in the words of someone wise, "Don't sue me!! I don't own them. Blame the author for what you don't like!" So, no own, no sue, no money, ... unless you count in thoughts... in which case you'd have less then what you started with :D

Blessings upon you,

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"It's finally spring!" Kindra announced the news to Hermione, who was walking with her to their 5th period class, which was History of Magic. They passed Harry, who was supposedly going to the same class. He was stuck in the library though, with, astonishingly enough, his nose in a book. Kindra pointed this out to Hermione and added, "You've taught him well." She winked and nodded in his direction. Hermione blushed a deep shade of red and nudged her with a book.

After classes, Hermione, Harry, Ron and Kindra went out to the lake for an improvised picnic. That night, there was going to be a dance and everyone was very nervous. Rumors were flying. All sat down but Ron, and Ron said, "Erm, I'll be right back, I need to go... talk with someone... for... homework purposes. " He got up and went over to a group of twittering girls closer to the lake.

Kindra watched him saunter over to the lake and rolled her eyes. She wondered about Hermione's choice of crushes. She cleared her throat and said loudly, "Hermione, I know I've asked you this a thousand times, but who is it that you like?" Kindra gave her a wink. Hermione blushed again and said, "Well, I haven't really chosen anyone yet..." She nudged Kindra in the ribs. Kindra got up, rubbing the spot where book had met rib and said, "Well, then I'll leave you to... decide plans." She winked and walked away.

Draco Malfoy was sitting next the lake with his broom by him. He had just finished with Quidditch practice and was thinking about which girl he was going to take to the dance. He looked around the lake. Many people were there. Some he knew, some he didn't. He looked towards Potter and his friends. He spotted a girl walking away he'd seen before, but couldn't quite place. She was about 5'2", very slim, and had astonishingly green eyes. You could tell she belonged to Slythern, by her robes. He decided to ask her. It was better to ask her than Pansy. He shuddered at the thought of taking Pansy again.

Kindra saw Draco walk toward her, and she looked around, seemingly not to notice him and his very sexy walk. He walked up to her and said, "I'm Draco Malfoy. No doubt you've already heard of me. Who might you be?"

Kindra replied, "My name's Kindra and yes, I have heard of you."

"Well, that is good, and I was wondering... Would you like to go the dance with me? You will be envied by all of the girls." Draco flashed his handsome smile.

"Um, sure why not? I will meet you in the common room," Kindra said with a smirk.

"Ok, see you then," Draco said and walked away down to the Slytherin common room. "I won't have to take Pansy after all," he said to himself.

Kindra waited for Draco to be safely in his dorm before she went up the stairs from the Common Room to hers. She decided that, since it was a formal dress dance, she would wear a dress she loved, and had been meaning to wear for some time. It was green, and elegantly long. Kindra had sewn it to look a little more... "her". She put a light top over it, and put her hair up in a complicated ponytail. She slapped on a little makeup, and was ready to go downstairs. Thinking twice, she brought a book with her, just in case Draco decided to make an entrance.

Draco got up to his dorm and walked over to the trunk at the end of his bed. He pulled out his acid green robes and long black cloak. He got ready in a matter of moments, checked the mirror to make sure his hair is nice and slicked back. It took him a while to make it go back to being perfect. He walked down the stairs to the common room. Draco saw Kindra sitting by the fire. She looked beautiful.

Kindra looked up and saw Draco walking towards her. "You wouldn't be waiting for me, perchance," he said as he flashed his smile again.

"No, actually I am waiting for the house elf to return." She smiled.

Draco held out his arm. "Shall we be off?"

"Very cheesy," thought Kindra, but she put down her book, took his arm, and they walked to the Great Hall together.

The Great Hall was packed with people, and when Draco and Kindra showed up, a slow song began. "Would you like to dance...?" He looked around quickly. Kindra accepted and followed Draco to the dance floor. He took her hand in his, and placed his hand on her hip.

Kindra, not used to dancing this way, took her hand back, put his other hand on her hip and placed her arms around his neck. She whispered into his ear, "This is how we dance, now-a-days..." She grinned at him and they kept dancing.

"So, what kind of stuff are you into?" He looked down at her and smiled.

Kindra, not knowing what he meant, decided to take the safe road. "I like rock, metal, and alternative, though I do like some classical stuff."

"Well, actually I was talking about homework and Quidditch and stuff like that..." He was trying to start a conversation but this was all he could think of.

She said, "I think the person who thought up homework should be shot in the stomach and hanged. I wish they'd just make us do the work in class, not make us do it in our spare time. And I love Quidditch, in fact, you beat me out for seeker on the house team." Kindra looked up at him and smiled.

"Oh. Yes, father bought the whole team brooms that day..." He looked at her and added, "Sorry 'bout that that."

Draco felt his head and ears pound as the music was turned up for the fast song that had just started over the speakers. He said, "Would you like to go somewhere less noisy to talk? We could go to the Lake, or to those tables out there, or..."

Kindra interrupted with "The Lake sounds fine."

Draco took Kindra by the hand and led her out of the castle and over to the lake. They sat down in the grass, and watched the squid lazily drift through the water in the moonlight. "You know," Kindra said, "I've always wondered... What does the squid eat? I mean, people toss it bread or other food every so often, but it's so big, it has to eat something else to survive."

Draco thought about that for a while. "Umm, I really don't know what it eats. I have never been in there so I don't know what it can eat. You should ask Potter," he said, rolling his eyes, "He has been down there. I really do hate him." He looked at her and realized Potter was her friend. He looked down at his hands. "Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to offend you."

She looked back at him and said, "You didn't offend me. He's sort of a friend of mine, though. When you stay around him for any length of time, he starts worrying about this, or that, or badgers you to let him look on your parchment..." She smiled. A little stretched, but she didn't want to start defending Harry in front of Draco, as they didn't really like each other. She looked away, a little ashamed as it was.

"So..." Draco looked around trying think of something to say but everything had slipped his mind, all he could think about was Kindra. She looked so scrumptious in her dress and it had a style all of its own.

Draco looked down at her robes. "You look really pretty tonight." She blushed. Draco laughed to himself. "Did you realize we match? We didn't even try to do that. My mother picked mine out for me."

Kindra looked at his robes. They did match, and the colour looked quite good on him. "It really brings out his eyes," she thought. "Your mother really does have good taste. It looks really good on you," she commented.

"Well, you look just beautiful tonight and I am the luckiest guy around to have you for my date." Draco looked down and over at her. Kindra blushed again, and this time she turned away so he would not be able to see the colour rising in her pale cheeks.

Draco frowned down at her. She was looking away. He thought, "Have I done something wrong? Did I say something to offend her? Oh, I want to kiss her," but he wasn't sure if she'd be angry if he did. "Just give me a fecking sign."

Kindra thought, "What is wrong? Why is he so quiet?" And then it dawned on her that she'd have to take the first move. She looked up and said, "The stars are beautiful, I've never been able to see them so clearly. I'm glad I get to see them with you."

"Yes, I know, they're beautiful." He said, never looking up. He looked into her eyes and with a small voice whispered, "Kindra?"

Kindra looked at him. "Gods!" she thought, "He's finally going to kiss me!" They both leaned forward. When they touched, it is as if they'd put a paper clip in an electrical socket. The kiss was perfect. "I am glad that you like me in the same way I like you," he told her softly and kissed her again.

The second kiss was much longer, though just as perfect. After it ended, she said, "Of course I like you, why else would I let you kiss me?" She smiled and kissed him again.

He looked in to her eyes... "You should come stay the summer with me... I mean if you want to..." he said, almost a whisper. She whispered back, "I'd like that. I could get out of that stuffy orphanage. Could I really stay with you?" She didn't know why, but she felt like whispering. She couldn't believe it; she might actually get away from her prison, AND be able to stay with Draco.

"Yes, you can come stay with me. Mother and father would love it. As long as you don't mind my father ranting and raving about work and muggles and mudbloods," he said, looking down at the ground. He wasn't sure if she would be ok with this, being that one of her friends was Granger.

She quickly said, "No, I don't mind. I'll just not hear some of what he says. I'm good at that. I might even be able to discuss some stuff with him about muggles." She smiled at him, and raised his head with her hands. "I don't think your family could disappoint me. It IS a family." She looked at him, then sighed and laid face down on the ground.

He looked amazed, someone who really cared for him. "I am so glad that I asked you to the dance tonight," he said, getting up, picking up some stones and making them skip across the water one at a time.

"I'm glad you asked too. Otherwise, the only Slytherin left was Pansy, and have you seen her acne?? Gross." She flipped over and smiled up at Draco.

He replied, "Yeah, it is getting bad." He looked at her and grimaced. "She thinks that I am her boyfriend. I have told her many times that I am not but she won't listen. Yeah, it is getting bad." He looked at her and smiled.

Kindra wanted to tease him, but not offend him. "It sounds like someone has a crush on you," she teased.

He smiled. "Well, I heard that Longbottom has crush on you and Pansy is not as nearly as bad as that," he said jokingly.

She laughed. "That's true, he told me so last week and tried to give me flowers, but I said to him, 'I will NEVER go out with a sniveling little Gryffindor like you'. But then to lighten things up, I let him copy off my history parchment. I kind of felt bad for him, you know? I mean, I didn't like HIM, and now I like, well, you." She looked up at him again. "Pansy ever try that with you?"

"Sure, tons of times but I could never get away from her... She is in our House, and she goes in my dorm. She wakes me up in the middle of the night... just to tell me she loves me. It is awful, and I just can't seem to get her away. I told her I didn't like her and she won't listen," he said, smiling at Kindra. "Maybe you could do something about that."

"Well, are we, that is to say, are we... going out?"

"Well, I don't just kiss girls and then never talk to them again. I would like you to be my girlfriend, that is, if you want to."

"And I never kiss guys and never talk to them again." She smiled. "Yes. I think I'd like being your girlfriend, and in that case, I should be able to get Pansy off your back quite easily." She smiled again and said, "And since I'll be at your house..."

"Thank you, I have been trying for so long to get her off my back..." He walked over to her and sat down next to her. "I will write to mother tomorrow to tell her you are coming for the summer."

"I hope your father and mother will let me stay. I know I can get permission from... someone to get me out of my... home..." She looked down. If Draco's parents didn't like her, she wouldn't be able to stay with Draco at all, and she'd have to go back to the orphanage, and she hated it there. She loved coming to school only because it got her away from there, and, well, now Draco was there too...

"They will let you do whatever I tell them to." He smiled.

Kindra smiled with him. "It's nice that your parents let you do what you want, it must give you a lot of freedom. Say, where is the wildest place you've ever been?" She looked up inquiringly at him, a small, mischievous grin on her face.

"Umm... Well, I am not supposed to say anything to anyone but I have been to the Dark Lord's... Headquarters, with my father. It was very crazy there because you had to bow and say 'Yes, my Lord,' and a lot of weird things," he said. "I remember it, it was last summer. I never got to see Him though; He always just sat in His chair."

"You've been in the presence of our Lord? Wow, now, THAT must have been very cool. I've never even seen a picture of Him before." Kindra was absolutely amazed, Draco's family be very high up to have been in His presence. Kindra had always leant more towards Him then Dumbledore, having had a lot of similar experiences as He Who Must Not Be Named.

"Yes, it was cool. I just hope that I can help when I get old enough, and when He takes over, it will be perfect."

Kindra looked at Draco. She loved that he was actually in a position to help serve Him, but she didn't want to get off track. She looked into his eyes. "I like you," she said quietly.

"Yes, I know this," he said softly and smiled with his handsome smile.

Kindra looked at the sky again, suddenly aware of when and where they were. "You know, if we don't get moving right now, someone's going to find us either out here, or in the halls. Would you like to go back now? We can sit in the common room..." The wind had picked up a little bit, and was ruffling his carefully done hair.

"Yes, lets get going. But even if we were caught, Snape would get us out of it." He smoothed his hair down.

She smiled. "Yes, I'm sure he could... Gotta love Snapie."

He got up and put out his hand. "Here, let me help you up."

She smiled again and accepted his hand, and since she was very light, she was up in seconds. "You don't want your cloak back, do you?" She started to undo the front clasp.

"No, you keep it, it looks better on you than it does on me and I have other cloaks." He smiled and took her hand in his. "Let's go."

She stopped and looked at him. This cloak of his was a good 4 inches too long for her, and it would drag on the ground. "Oh, well," she thought. "It is a nice dress cloak though." As they went towards the castle, she quietly put a spell over them both to make them invisible, just to make sure.

They walked down to the Slytherin Common Room and go in. Draco went to the couch near the fire, sat, and patted the spot next to him.

Kindra laughed quietly, and sat near the spot he pointed out, only a little closer. She leaned her back against him, and sighed. He put his arm around her and stared in to her beautiful green eyes. She looked back at him, and wanted very much to kiss him again. She started forward, and kissed him gently.

Her kisses were like candy and he couldn't get enough... "Well, I would love to sit here and do this forever but I need some sleep and so do you." He got up and held out his hand to her again. She took it, reluctantly, and got up from the fire. "I know, I know. Oh shoot, and I still have to finish McGonagall's paper... Oh well, I'll do it tomorrow. Good night, Draco." She smiled sleepily, and yawned.

He pulled her into his arms and kissed her one last time. "Until tomorrow," he said and headed off to the boy's dorms. He looked back at her. "I can't wait to see the look on Pansy and Longbottom's faces when they see we are going out."

She laughed, imagining their faces, then turned, went up the staircase, pulled back her curtain, and fell on the bed, almost asleep. His last words rung in her ears, "Until tomorrow," she muttered, and fell asleep, still rapped up in his cloak.

Draco walked up the steps and into the boy's dorms. He put his pj's on and laid down. Her kiss was still on his lips. He went to sleep thinking of her.