Draco apparated in front of the white Victorian house clutching his traveling bag. The entire neighborhood was silent and the streets were lit with the dim streetlights. Draco looked up to the sky and watched the thick feathery snowflakes fall. The atmosphere was calm and for some reason this felt unnerving to him. He had just come from Gwenda's house and felt entirely self-conscious wondering if he smelled like her or his appearance betrayed where he was. He walked to the door and pressed the doorbell, waiting for Jade to answer it. He wrinkled his forehead, ringing the doorbell again, craning his head to see that the lights were on in the living room. She was probably in the bathroom.
Draco reached into his pocket and pulled out his keys to the house. Placing the key into the lock, he turned it and easily opened the door. Draco walked into the house and saw Jade sitting on the sofa, her face turned away from him, staring into the fire. Her fingers softly touched the angel that someone had given her a few weeks ago for Christmas.
"Why didn't you open the door?" Draco asked irritably, shutting the door behind him. She didn't answer him but kept staring into the fire, her face hidden from her hair. Draco narrowed his eyes at her and went to leave so he could sleep early. He stopped to see that there were fresh flowers placed in the vases, rose petals sprinkled around the ledges and candles that were burning. He rolled his eyes at her trying so hard for him. He went to leave but her quiet voice stopped him.
"How was your trip?"
Draco answered her without turning around.
"Great. I'm tired. I'm going to sleep." He said going to leave again.
"But don't you want to spend our anniversary together?" she asked sarcastically. Draco spun around to her back stand up and turn around slowly. Her eyes were red and swollen as if she had been crying for a while. She smiled her heartbreaking smile and walked up to him, still in her gown.
"Jade…were you crying?" Draco asked.
"Are you asking because you care or because you're blind?" Jade asked.
"Why are you speaking to me that way?" Draco asked through his teeth.
"Poor Draco. I say a few little things to you and it stings you. Well imagine if the person you've loved, the last person that you had in this world left you for another woman? That person who you gave up your family for, your unborn child for, your friends, your life; the same person left you." she told him, her eyes glittering with tears.
"How could you do this to me? How could you hurt me that way? What have I ever done for you to kill me?" Jade asked furiously as tears started to stream down her face.
Draco paled and was thrown into shock. How had she found out?
"I'm not going to waste my time asking why. All I know is that this relationship has been one of the biggest failures we both ever had. I'm sorry for wasting my time and yours trying to fix something that I couldn't." Jade said walking past him but Draco caught her arm and pulled her back in front of him.
"Let go of me." Jade growled.
"You can't leave without listening to me first." Draco growled back.
Jade shoved his hand away but Draco blocked her path, resisting her pushes and shoves.
"You cheated on me! You slept with another woman. You spent Christmas and our anniversary with her! You don't give a shit about me you never have!" Jade screamed. She tore a wedding picture off the wall and threw it against another picture.
"I gave up my family for you! I gave up my baby for you! Everyone that I ever loved and I depended on you to support me but you grew away from me." Jade screamed in agony.
Draco went to appease her but she slapped him as hard as she could, pushing him away. His heart twisted as he felt helpless to their situation. What was he going to say to her to keep her?
"You're never going to change. You've always been selfish. You've always looked after your own self interests, never mine." Jade hissed.
"Shut the fuck up! You think I'm selfish? If I was selfish, I would have left you a very long time ago but I kept you around because you're parents wouldn't take you back in." he screamed at her.
He breathed heavily feeling furious because she thought he was selfish? She pointed a finger at him and smiled.
"There is what I had been waiting for. That's why this marriage failed right? Because you've 'kept me around.' I can see that now you've clearly expressed your concerns about yourself, I'll apologize for sticking around. I don't need you Draco but I've always wanted you. I wanted you as a friend and a wife but you hardly ever wanted me in any way." Jade said wiping her face with the back of her hand.
"My mother was right…I was asking for trouble if I was ever going to be with you. She told me I was naïve; that marriage wasn't a joke and I needed to take myself seriously. She told me that one day, I would regret this marriage greatly and I would come back home on my knees begging for them to take me back. She was dead on Draco. I regret this marriage and I regret you and you're going to regret hurting me one day because I loved you Draco. You're never going to find another woman that would love you the way I did; not even Gwenda. If I had been with someone who cared about me…who appreciated me, that's all I needed but that was too difficult for you. I'd be happy with someone else and I'd probably be with children too. If I had known this 6 years ago, I would have never let you get to me."
She walked past him and Draco stood there feeling his life fall apart all around him. He never wanted to leave Jade and never had the intention to leave her. He loved her but didn't know how to tell her that. He had always loved her but always took her love for granted. He knew that if she left, he was going to crumble. He wasn't going to allow her to leave, she couldn't leave.
Jade appeared in the hallway, carrying a suitcase of her things and a cloak wrapped around her.
"Jade you can't leave me." Draco said as she passed by him.
"I can Draco; I will." Jade told him. She walked over to the coffee table and touched the crystal angel wondering if she should take it with her. She finally picked it up and turned to him.
"Take this. I'm going back to my family but you don't have anyone else in this world. I don't want you to be alone-"
"So don't leave me! Jade, we can talk about this-" he stopped to see her smile but she puckered her forehead and her eyes filled with tears.
"There's nothing left to say between you and I. There's nothing you want to hear from me…you're not even listening right now. I'm telling you to let me go Draco but you're not listening. You're keeping me around to make me miserable but that's not how I want to be treated. Listen to me and just let me go Draco." Jade said, handing him the angel.
"Jade I love you." Draco said seeing her stop and stare at him, drilling her glare into his soul.
"Don't you ever say that to me again. Don't you ever say that to another woman ever again. Your kind of love destroys lives just like it has mine." She opened the door and walked out. Draco made one last attempt to bring her back but found himself rooted to his spot, watching her walk out, crying.
Jade walked outside seeing the snow fall heavily, making it hard for her to see anything. She was too distraught to think or function. She was going to take her car and drive back home to live whatever she had life she had inside of her. She was going to shamelessly beg her parents to death to bring her back and admit that Draco had been indeed one of the biggest mistakes she committed in her life. Jade didn't notice anything around her as she made her way towards her car.
"JADE WATCH OUT!" Draco roared.
Jade didn't have time to look up. There was a bright flash of light and a car hit her at full speed, causing her body to fly several feet in the air and back towards the ground. She gasped in pain, feeling her chest explode, putting her through the most intense pain she had ever felt. Her legs were shattered and her head collided against the pavement, immediately blinding her vision. The last thing she heard before her eyes closed were Draco's calls of her name.
When Draco saw the car hit her, his heart sank into his deep, empty, dark and meaningless soul. He took one step forward and the next after that and found himself running as fast as he could towards where Jade was lying on the road. A man with sandy brown hair and deep brown eyes who was driving the car got out, pale and horrified at what he had done.
"Oh my God, I'm so sorry I-" he stopped when Draco shoved him out of the way.
"Jade! Jade! No! This isn't happening. Jade!" Draco shouted when he fell onto his knees and picked her head up. Blood gushed from the side of her head and mouth as he held her in his arms.
"Jade you'll be all right. You're going to make it Jade. Fuck what did I do?" Draco asked himself as he held her limp body in his arms. He sat there, listening to the ambulance sirens and cradling her in his arms wishing that he could start over to avoid that this very moment.
Draco waited outside of the emergency room, not being able to sit down and wait patiently. He paced back and forth not being able to dare to think how life would be without her. He instead thought fiercely about how he would make it all up to her once she was all right and well. He'd give her anything she would want and he'd forget everything, all the world for her. He swore that he wouldn't even think of Gwenda or another woman after this very moment. If there was anything that Draco could do to keep her to himself, Draco would happily do but he wasn't going to give her life away. He needed her.
The door to the emergency room door opened and a doctor walked out, taking off his stethoscopes.
"I'm sorry Mr. Malfoy. It's been too late; she's lost massive amounts of blood. They're no more." The doctor told him, looking gravely at the young widower in front of him.
"They?" Draco asked hoarsely, feeling his throat dry.
"She was a few weeks pregnant Mr. Malfoy." The doctor informed him.
As if there was nothing left for Draco to live with, Draco found another world of his erupt. In one night, his wife and child died. He felt himself die with them.
"Her body is inside for you. I'm very sorry for your loss Mr. Malfoy." The doctor said. He saw the young widower walk into the room and he closed the doors, hearing him burst into wails and agonizing screams.
At the sight of her body, Draco told himself that she was sleeping. He had seen her like this almost all his life; she was too beautiful to be dead. He touched her softly, still feeling the faint warmth on her skin. His hand traveled to her chest and he pressed his hand over her chest knowing that there should be a heartbeat but there was none. He broke down then, feeling his throat tighten and his head throb. He cried and screamed as he ran his hand through her face and hair wishing that she would wake up and tell him that it was all a joke. He cried into her chest smelling the blood and her perfume still lingering on her.
"Please come back. Please come back Jade. I'll do anything for you. I'll do everything it takes to make this right again. I'll do anything to bring you back…please don't leave me. I'm sorry I couldn't love you. I'm so sorry." he moaned. He cried harder when he heard her silence, curling up into her as she lay dead in his arms.
