Chapter 13
~Chimera~
Warning: English is not my first language, so you might encounter mistakes. Also, none of my stories are betaed.
'Where have you been!' I half yelled when I saw him in the threshold.
'Eager?'
'Hardly' I scoffed 'I know you set up Adrian's betrothal, so you have to have known I'd have to look for another partner. I can't do that if you keep scaring everyone away!'
'So?'
My body went rigid and my voice started to tremble.
'If you wanted me dead, you would have done it yourself.'
He lifted his eyes and stared at the ceiling, a dark starry blue that reflected the sky outside. 'Too messy' he replied shrugging his shoulders.
I felt my hand curling into a fist, the nails digging painfully into my palm. I wanted to slap him. Badly.
I launched my body at him and grabbed at his neck, his back gave a thud as he hit the now closed door behind him. My hand squeezed itself around his neck, but it was far too small to enclose it, I made to grab him with my other one as well, but he stopped me, although he made no effort to unclench my first hand.
'If I am to die I should at least do a little damage first.'
'Do you want to die, Granger?' he asked, completely unfazed that my nails were piercing his skin. His eyes were partly covered by his lashes, serious. For the first time ever I saw a more mature Malfoy, void of all pretence and hate; such powerful were the words and his voice that my body started to shake wholly and for a split second I had this weird image of him cradling me, patting my head as though I were a little child. I guess that in that moment I was one, I surely was as vulnerable as a new born. I continued to look at him, with tears in my eyes, watching his strong features and calm demeanour. It was the first time I'd seen him act maturely and it scared me to the core, for that was when I completely understood my position in that new world. I wasn't the last of the resistance and the only position I would be taking for the rest of my life wasn't on a battlefield, but straight from the pages of the Kamasutra. And that made me angry.
'Of course not you bloody moron!' I felt the tears roll down my face as I shouted the words. 'I don't. I really don't.' I whispered afterwards, like a child, releasing his throat and sliding down as my legs gave way.
'I don't I don't I don't' I kept whispering it desperately.
I'm sure he enjoyed my being down on my knees in front of him, but for once he didn't let it show.
'Well then, I guess we'll just have to do something about it.'
And then he said it: 'What are you willing to do for your life, Granger?' The same question I had been asking myself ever since we'd lost the war. I'd been trying to avoid the answer for equally as long, because much to my humiliation that answer was "anything", he knew it, he'd always known it, just as he knew I wouldn't be able to say it.
'When will you be able to let your pride go, Granger? It'll be the death of you.' He whispered looking at my mouth, his tone almost disappointed.
He side stepped my body and made his way to my reading armchair.
'Now then, I do believe I've asked you to pleasure yourself, I think we can both agree I've been very patient so far. Will you be testing my lenience today as well?'
A/N: Hello there. Please leave a review, they mean a lot to me and, as many of my reviewers can attest, I always try to answer to them. That being said, if you leave an anonymous review I won't be able to answer to it until I post the next chapter. And speaking about posting chapters, I'm afraid I won't be able to post next week, I'm shooting for the week after that. (The original idea was to post one chapter per week, but this weekend my colleagues and I had a bonding field trip; as you can imagine I didn't get to write anything, I would stick to my original plan, but since I also didn't do any studying last week, my plan wouldn't be at all realistic -180 pages won't learn themselves, you know *sigh*-). In the meantime look up my previous recommendation (chapter 12) or Short-Circuit-Soulmate's "The Fine Line Between Love and Hate" those are my most recent readings on fanfiction.
Review reply Axitamae: Hey! I always put a disclaimer out there because I want people to know that if I make mistakes it isn't for my lack of trying. Thank you for the review and its positive tone :D. as for the updates, see above.
PS: i wanted to clarify something DZAuthor AKA DZMom pointed out (really good observation by the way): in my last chapter i mentioned Draco being the head of the family. What i meant was that since his father passed away, Draco is the one in charge of taking care of the Malfoy name. As of yet, my story's Draco is not married. Whether he is or isn't is still a mystery for the most part and i'd like it to remain that way until the next chapter or so :D