A/N: There are lyrics to a song in this chapter. once you read it is quite obvious, but if you can tell me the name of the song and the person/group that sings it then i will dedicate a chapter to you and have you guest star! pretty hott, huh?

Chapter Eleven: Damsel In Distress

"Hahahahaa!" The two girls giggles rang through the passageways of the castle. It was quarter until nine and most of the school was already safely inside their dorms. Autumn and Ginny were just now climbing out of the passage when their favorite prefect came struting down the hallway.

"What are you two doing out here? Guess your just looking for detention." Draco drawled. Autumn pushed Ginny down the hallway and told her to go on without her. She then marched right up to Malfoy, pulled out her wand, and said a spell.

"What are you doing!" Draco jerked his body away, but the spell had hit him, and his hair became un-gelled and fell into his face. Autumn smiled goofily and put her hands in his hair, she then preceeded to mess it up.

"That's much better now, love." Autumn said in a brittish accent. She began to laugh

"Well then, mate, guess I will be you seeing tomorrow." She giggled again at her impression of his accent. She began to prance away, when of course, Malfoy called after her:

"For Merlin's sake woman, what in the bloody hell is wrong with you?"

"Ohhhhhhhhh! Youuur not suuuuuuupposssssssed to say thhooose wordssss! AHa, that b..bb...badge says soo! Heeheehehehe!" Draco sighed, he could remember the first time he and his dorm mates sunk out and got wasted in fourth year. The next morning was hell, and he remembered it all too well. He pulled his wand from his robes and began to say an incantation to remove the effects of whatever she had ingested when Autumn grabbed his wand and began to play with it.

"ohhh, thisss iss good for dark magikkk! puuuurrrttty. teehheeehhee! purttyyy!" He took his wand back from her and she turned once again to dance away when he grabbed her hand. She began to sing, quite loudly and way off key:

"I won't forget the day that, that I came to; and I started thinking that there's more to life than perfect prom queens and silver spoons; and all I ever wanted was someone to knock me back to the bliss of ignorance because I feel like running head first into traffic!" she danced around and Draco sighed and shook his head. Draco grabbed her and said the spell. He waited for her to become coherent, but all he could feel was her body shaking in his arms. He grew angry, mainly at himself for not knowing how he felt, and let it out on her.

"Why do I always have to be your 'Knight in shining armor'? Why can't you have Potter do it, I am sure he would love the damned job and all the fucking mood swings!" He growled at her, she pulled away and scared at him in disbelief. She wiped her tears away as her lips became two thin pink lines.

"I don't know who told you I was a damsel in distress, but they were way off target, so don't flatter yourself by thinking I need you as my fucking knight in shining armor. Because I am sure as hell will never be a damsel, and if I am ever in distress you'll be the last person I will turn to." She stormed off, but neither were done with the other. Draco chased her down, part of him needing to get the last word in and the other half feeling guilty.

"Well if you don't need me, then why is it your always crying in my arms? Why are you always running to me?"

"There you go again. God, your such a prick! It has nothing to do with you! Your arms just happen to always seem to be the only ones around, so if your soooo damn tired of it then why don't you just leave me the hell alone! Oh wait, that would be to hard wouldn't it?" Draco let out a string of incoherent swear words before kicking a nearby suit of armor.

"Why do you do this to me?"

"I DON'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU!" she shouted "WHAT ARE YOU GOING ON ABOUT?"

"What am I going on about? I am going on about this!" He rushed over, grabbed her by the waist and kissed her. Right there, no warning, in the middle of the hallway. She felt herself begin to kiss him back when she pulled away.

"Wha..." She was speechless and he was breathless.

"Look at me, look at what you do to me!" He insisted. She looked over his body. There was color in his cheeks, he was breathing rather hard, his palms were sweaty, he was biting his bottom lip slightly, and his chest was heaving up and down. His hair was a wreck and hanging loosely in his eyes that shone with emotion which she had never seen. All of which she rolled her eyes at and turned away so he couldn't see her laugh.

"It's not funny." He spat

"Yes it is. Your mad at me because your attracted to me! It's so utterly ridiculous, it's funny!" He sighed and lowered his eyebrows at her.

"I am trying to be serious!"

"Well, Draco, what do you want me to do? There isn't much I can do." She grabbed his tie and pulled him closer to him and kissed his bottom lip gently. "Does that make it feel any better?"

"No, it just makes it worse." She laughed, she could see how genuinely frustrated he felt.

"Haven't you ever felt like this or anything like it before?"

"No! If so, do you think I would be putting up with it?" He snapped

"Not even with Pansy?" Autumn was quite shocked, especially considering how gross it was to see those two together.

"No, especially not with her!"

"You were never attracted to her at all?" He sighed and she took that as a yes.

"Then why did you date her?"

"My father wanted me to." He said simply. Autumn was taken back, she had forgotten all about pureblood society, and Draco, being a Malfoy in all, was a huge part of it. He looked down at her, waiting for an answer, while she thought on it for a while. The clock chimmed nine and both teenagers jumped. Autumn, instinctively, began to walk back to her dorm and Draco followed.

"Your just going to walk away? What am I supposed to do?"

"Just don't think about it to much." She shrugged her shoulders

"Oh thanks, next time I want an obvious answer I will be sure and come to you!"

"I honestly don't know what to tell you! It's not everyday that a guy who is attracted to me comes to me for advice about how to rid himself of the attraction. Normally they ask if I would like to go out on a date or something, so this is all new to me too!"

"Is that what I am supposed to do?"

"Well, yeah I guess, but you don't want to pursue your attraction do you?"

"I don't know." Autumn sighed in response.

"Now we are back at square one." She shook her head "And we are at the Fat Lady. Night!"

"Wait!" He called

"What?"

"Kiss me again..." She looked at him as if he was crazy and had horns growing out his head. He took a step towards her, he was looking down at his feet.

"please" he whispered. She had never had a guy ask her to kiss them before. She didn't know what to do, so she kissed him. This time he didn't pull her closer or kiss back passionately, he let her do the work while he concentrated on what he wanted. With her eyes closed, she slowly pulled away.

"Good Night" he whispered. Draco Malfoy turned and faded into one of the shadows down the hall. Autumn stood a moment, thinking about what it was that she wanted, before entering the common room.

Things were relatively quiet for the remainder of the term and all of two weeks later, Ginny and Autumn boarded the Hogwarts Express to venture home. Ginny was heading back to the Burrow and Autumn was heading back to America to stay with her grandparents.

"But, I thought that your grandparents were mad at you or something."

"I thought they were too, but apparently not mad enough to leave me alone." Autumn sighed and looked out the window. She had never got along with her grandparents. They had always been mainstream and great members of American pureblood society and the overall magical community. Autumn's mother, Summer, had always been willing to put on a show for whatever ball or party they were showing and never embarass them. Autumn, on the other hand, had never wanted to be apart of any of it. Her grandparents never understood it, why wouldn't their granddaughter, who had every advantage in life, want nothing to do with everything that they had provided for her. The answer was simple, the society in which they wished her to be apart of was the very same society that had torn apart countless lives and homes. She was not going to be like them, she was not going to be one of them. She could have gotten out of it if they hadn't of owled her father, and of course he made her go. Now Autumn's winter break would be spent at some boring, dull, pointless winter ball at her grandparent's estate.

Most of the train ride was silent, every once and a while Dean or Ron or Hermione or some other Gryffindor would come in and chat, but Autumn continue to look out the window, thinking of how miserable she would be tomorrow. There was a knock on their compartment door, Ginny opened it to find Malfoy, then slammed it in his face and sat down. She knew all about what was happening between Autumn and Draco, and of course she was against it, but not because of her hatred of him, but because she knew he would hurt her. In Ginny's mind it was for Autumn's own good. Autumn looked over at Ginny, who was now standing proudly in front of her handy work and laughing at Malfoy as he yelled curses at her through the door. Autumn sighed, stood up and pushed passed Ginny, opened the door and stepped out of the compartment.

"Yes?" She said impatiently

"I wanted to talk."

"Well, isn't that what we are doing now?"

"Just nevermind!" Draco shouted. He brushed passed her and walked to the other half of the train.

"Whatever." Autumn walked back in, sat down and looked again out the window. She knew Ginny had been eavesdropping, it was the only way to explain the look of faint amusement on her face.

When they reached King's Cross, everyone said a long good-bye, before parting ways. Autumn grabbed her trunk and headed for her apartment in London, from which she would floo to her grandparent's estate in New York. Where the 'fun' would begin...