Chapter 5: Not Meant For This

"Watch it you idiot!" a voice lashed out cutting through the silent tunnel. It was nearly impossible to see anything as the two tall figures strutted through the darkness.

"You're the idiot. To be an actual idiot one's IQ must be lower than twenty. Mine's 6.5 times higher," a cool, yet feminine voice chilled; "besides you know me. I never walk straight. It's like the unwritten rule."

"You know just a second ago you soundly like Granger," Malfoy, the first figure retorted.

Smirking Jade shrugged saying, "oh, so it's Granger now…I though you hated her."

"Shove it Jade."

"You're the one with the dick."

Next thing they knew, a door slammed open and they were both pulled into a blood red room. Like every other room in the underground tunnel, it felt like zero degrees on the Kelvin scale.

"My Lord," Draco mumbled bowing down to the figure before him.

…

Twenty minutes later the two teenagers emerged from the room silently.

"Oh yes and young Malfoy I'd prefer you to keep your comments on your manly hood to yourself. I don't want you to deinnocentize my niece's ears," a harsh voice called out before they left.

"Of course my lord," Malfoy replied.

Only when the doors close did the two start breathing. Walking back the route they came, Jade placed a hand on Draco they turned a corner.

"Draco?"

After a moment of silence, he responded, "Yes Jade?" He looked down at her softly.

"Have you ever though you weren't meant for this?" she asked giving him a hopeful look.

Heaving a sigh, Draco looked up toward the ivy and moss covered ceiling and replied, "I was never-I was born to do this. I'm a Malfoy, it's what I have to do. It doesn't matter what I think. I'm-"

"A Malfoy, I know. But have you ever wanted to escape from all this? Escape from it all? To be what you wanted to be? You-"

"Jade, that's enough," Draco snapped sharply. She immediately shut her mouth but kept eye contact with him, pleading with her eyes. Sighing Draco rubbed the sides of his forehead before answering calmly, "Jade it would only make trouble for me if you start making me think about these things. I'll only be devastated. My destiny's been written out for me."

"But-"

"Let me finish," he snapped. Shutting her mouth she looked down. "Jade you don't get it. You don't have the dark mark. I do. I can't change whom I was born to be. It's not my choice. It was the ascribed status I was born to, it might be involuntary but it's still there. Okay? Now get over your silly ideals and see life as it really is."

Jade remained silent before looking unto another direction and saying, "Okay," her voice cracking.

With a sigh, Draco asked, "What's with all these questions anyways?"

"No reason really…"

"Jade…"

"Well you see…"

"Jade…"

"Okay, okay…Draco it's your heart. How do you know this is your destiny? Why can't it be-"

"Stop right there," Draco said glaring at her lightly, "you don't know me. I can't explain how I know this is my destiny. It just is. Don't try to convince me with your diluted beliefs and crap. Besides, since when did I have a heart?"

Turning Jade backed away, not out of fear but in saying in her motions 'I don't want to argue anymore,' she turn and said, "Never mind, I swear I didn't mean anything by it. I guess it'd be best if I left." With that se trotted away disappearing within a second as the darkness consumed her.

'He doesn't know. He doesn't know his destiny. He's meant to be with Granger' She though before apparrating.