Draco stroked her back and placed his hand on her shoulder. Kerkera moved her head and accidentally caught his thumb in the side of her mouth.

"Kerkera," he whispered. Then he ran his thumb over her lips. Carefully, Kerri brought up a hand and placed it on top of Draco's. Draco slowly entwined their fingers and gently squeezed her hand. Kerkera breathed out slowly so that Draco felt the hairs on his hand prick up. Then he saw Kerkera's eyes fluttering shut. Then her head fell back onto his chest. Draco let out his breath and relaxed back into the pillows. The fact that she was asleep on top of him gave Draco an inner comfort. There he could keep an eye on her and make sure Blaise or anyone else could get to her. Draco thought back to the common room. Just seeing Blaise making a move on Kerkera like that had filled Draco with an uncontrollable amount of anger and outrage. No, no one should be able to touch her except for him. She was his.

But…was she? Draco had never heard her mention it, and Snape had only said that she was in his care.

Sighing, Draco lay back and let the thought cloud his vision. As it was the holidays it was about time Draco caught up on his much needed sleep.

A tapping on the window woke Kerkera. Her eyes fluttered open. She was lying next to a sleeping Draco. Finally she had a chance to look at his peaceful face. His body language gave off one signal, at peace. The tapping happened again. Kerri looked up form the bed and saw a tawny owl sitting grumpily on the other side of the pane in a small pile of snow. Smiling Kerri opened the window. The owl fluttered inside, leaving a trail of snow behind it. Kerri watched as the bird landed on top of the fireplace and hooted loudly. Kerkera ran towards it, quietly begging it to be quiet. Draco's once peaceful face had grimaced at the sudden noise. Kerri sat next to him and placed a hand on top of his messed up hair and shhhed. Soon his face fell smooth again and Kerri went to the owl. There was a letter bound to it's leg. Pulling the letter off Kerkera opened the window and the owl flew back out into the dark grey clouds. Kerri opened the letter and looked at it. She could make out some of the words and managed to fix them together to make the sentence;

Draco,

Party, tonight, in the Hall. Bring Kerri! It'll be fun!

Blaise.

Kerri smiled to herself with pride. She was learning to read! This was great. Ok, so that was only a small part of the longish letter but still! Her teacher Draco (the one in the mountains) had taught her how to spell her name, his name and several other things. But they had been lost and jumbled in her mind ever since…well, Kerkera didn't want to think about it. But a party! That was great! A chance to get out of the room and dance, sing, flirt, everything! Draco had taken her to parties before and she had always had loads of fun!

"Draco," she whispered, leaning over his sleeping form.

"what?" he moaned, opening his eyes. He saw Kerri leaning over him and suddenly thoughts of early flooded back. He felt himself going hard.

"Oh shit!" he hissed, huddling in a ball on the bed.

"What's wrong?" asked Kerkera, putting a hand on his arm.

'god, don't do that, it isn't make the situation any better!' he thought.

"Umm…stomach ache," he muttered.

"Ok…" said Kerkera, uncertainly, guessing what was actually wrong at once, "Anyway," she smirked to herself behind his back, "You got a letter form Blaise, there's a party tonight,"

When Draco felt himself calm down he reached out and took the letter from Kerkera.

"Sorry 'bout last night, yada, yada, yada, Christmas party, tonight, bring Kerri, sorry again, Blaise" he read the off the letter to himself. Then Draco looked up at Kerri. She was kneeling behind him, staring with those chocolate eyes.

"You wanna go?" he asked, waving the letter at her. Kerri smiled at him. "What about everyone else? I thought no one should know about you?"

"Ya," said Kerkera as though her plan was obvious, "secret! I could go as…Keira, a distant relative who came over for Christmas. No one would ask questions."

"I dunno," sighed Draco. Kerri crawled over to him and crouched next to him.

"Where's the fun in not going?" she whispered. It suddenly occurred to Draco how much more friendly she was being. Her evil bigheaded temper seemed to of cooled off. She was being a lot more purposely sexy too. Maybe she was starting to trust him.

Not that I care! Thought Draco quickly, it just…makes the job easier. Yeah, that's right! Draco looked at her again.

"Please?" she whispered again, pouting,

"Fine," he whispered, "You go sort out an outfit."

"Why now?" asked Kerri,

"Cos girls take a whole afternoon to get ready!" Draco pointed out.

"Haha!" smirked Kerkera sarcastically as she walked into the bathroom.

"Hang on," said Draco to himself, "She hasn't had a bath since…Ew that's gross!" then he paused and thought about what he just said, "Did I just say Eww? Oh my GOD! I'm turning into a girl!"

"Nothin' new!" Draco heard Kerri shout from the other side of the door. Smiling to himself Draco went to the wardrobe to get out his clothes for the party. As he parted the strictly neat clothes another thought popped up in his mind. Kerkera was in the bath, naked or in a swimming suit, possibly a bikini. Draco smirked to himself as he pictured what she would look like in a little green number, her wet hair curling in dark strips over her shoulders.

"What's the harm in just looking? I mean, it's my bathroom, I can do whatever I like, right?" he muttered to himself. He walked in the door and grasped the emerald handle. He breathed out and quietly opened the door.

The room was filled with steam and the smell of some random flower, probably jasmines. The bath was the size of a small pool. Draco's mum had insisted that as Draco was head boy he shouldn't have to share a room or bathroom with anyone. The multicoloured bubbles seemed it be almost bursting over the sides. The steam had temporally clouded Draco's vision. He couldn't see the edge of the bath. In one moment he had landed head first in the soapy water.

"What the hell?"

Draco felt hands on his chest. He opened his eyes slightly. Kerri was pushing upwards from underneath him. She was wearing a bikini, a tanned one with straps made of seashells and pearls. Her hair was fanned above her head and drifting lazily in the water. Suddenly, Draco felt his head break the water's surface. He looked up to meet the face of an angry Kerri.

"So," she said, annoyance etched across her olive face, "would you care to tell me why you are in this bath tub, fully dressed, when you knew that I was occupying it?"

"I thought that this was my bathroom," he said coolly,

"And?"

"I simply left something in here," he whispered, reaching up and gently caressing her wet cheek.

"What was that then?" asked Kerkera, trying to ignore how close their faces were to each other's. Draco gently started to pull her chin close to his face.

"Umm," stuttered Kerkera, gently stepping out of his grip.

"What's wrong?" said Draco, trying to recapture her in his stare.

"I, umm," struggled Kerkera, "I…I dropped my…necklace at the bottom of the pool. Umm, I have to go get it before I forget,"

"Ok," sighed Draco, leaning against the side of the pool.

"Sorry," she whispered. Draco looked up and they held each other's gaze for a few seconds before Kerri dived into the deeper parts of the water.

"God Damnit!" Draco moaned, kicking the water. He had been so close, again!

"Still," he sighed, climbing out of the water and walking to the door, "there's always tonight,"

Kerri watched from the surface of the water as Draco shut the again. What was that?

A/N; Oh ain't i nice? Three luvly chappies at once! Now show how much u luv them and review! Please! I give you cookie!