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Chapter 3:

The Shower

It had been three days since the meeting took place and Marcus was gone once again, this time to Paris to interview a new assistant. His followers always believed that Marcus would fool around on his "business" trips but Aurora knew better than that. Angela had been the love of his life and he would never cheat on her, even after death. Aurora prayed she would find a love like that one day, but for right now all she had was him.

"Would you get your bony ass off of my pillow already! I'd rather not have it smell like dragon shit tonight" she snarled as she pushed him off of the bed and onto the cold floor.

"Hey that hurt!" Draco whined as he massaged the arm he had fallen on. Ever since she had decided this was their room he had found more bruises on his body than he had all his life.

"Well that's what you get for calling me that blasted name and sitting on my pillow! I told you never to call me that name again so it's your own damn fault you fell off the bed you prat." Aurora hissed at her whining counterpart.

"Oh, I fell did I?" Draco asked as he walked around to where she was sitting at the edge of the bed carefully watching the lithe beauty with mischievous eyes "well then, have a nice fall!" he said as he grabbed her midsection and flung her to the ground landing directly on top of her while bracing himself so as not to give himself any more bruises than she already had.

"You prat that hurts on tile floors!" she screamed as she smacked his chest trying to get him to get up. She had decided that the pure white carpet that was previously in his room simply would not do as she had a tendency to spill things, and although he offered to make the carpet stain resistant she utterly refused and with a flick of her wrist replaced the once lovely white carpet with a dark green marble.

"No complaining about this horrid marble. Remember, you were the one that changed it not me, so only I am allowed to complain." He said as he slowly grabbed her hand and pulled both of them up. "Why do you hate that name so much anyways, you were the one that picked it not me."

"I had to pick someone! I couldn't just walk up to Dumbledore and say "Hi I'm Aurora Malvagità, my father is Marcus Malvagità" he would have sent us both to the loony bin! Remember the Malvagità line is supposed to be dead." she huffed as she walked into the bathroom to fix her hair.

"Why the hell did you pick that goody-two shoes Hermione Granger then? Didn't your father give you dozens of choices of girls you could be" Draco huffed as he watched the tall beauty walk back into the room.

"Well yes, he gave me a few choices" she said as she lay down next to him in bed "but you should have seen the one he wanted! He told me I could either be Hermione Granger; bushy haired, bookworm, know it all or Kelli Larson; glasses wearing, flute toting, can't walk a straight line, BAND GEEK!" she shrieked as she remembered the description of the girl she would have to become. "What would you have chosen, book worm or band geek, cause I think I made the smarter move. I mean could you really picture me playing flute for Merlin's sake? I'd probably end up killing someone with it!" she screeched as she stalked back into the bathroom. All this talk of band geeks made her need a shower.

"Well I'm sure you could have used the extra musical skills but I think if your brain was deprived of any more oxygen you might die" Draco said as he followed her into the bathroom to finish their conversation.

"You know if I wasn't naked I would slap you right now" snipped Aurora from behind the shower door.

Draco just laughed at the hatred emanating from the young girls voice. She always threatened to hurt him but the one time she actually slapped him she was more upset than he was about it and she vowed never to hurt him again, well at least not purposely. "You know love I bet even if you weren't naked you wouldn't slap me. You would feel too bad about it." That was a mistake.

In a flash Aurora was less than an inch from his face with a look of pure malice in her eyes. "You don't think I would slap you? Well… you're right, but I can be just a cruel without even touching you." and with that she slowly turned around and stepped back into the shower allowing him to realize exactly how close she had been to him without him noticing she was completely nude.

When Aurora finally emerged from the bathroom she was shocked to see an empty room. Normally when Draco left the bathroom he just went back into their room to read or fiddle with the broken window latch, but now he was nowhere in sight. "Where the hell did he go" she asked herself as she quickly slipped on a pair of shorts and Draco's old quidditch jersey and raced out of their room.

She looked for hours trying to think of every place he would go to get away from her but then she realized maybe he wasn't trying to get away from her. That's when it hit her.

Draco had left the room quickly after Aurora had gotten back in the shower. He couldn't just sit in the next room while she showered after what just happened. That's why he was here, the small tree house Marcus had built for them after Angela died. He told Aurora if she ever felt like she wanted to run away to run here, then she could be alone but he would always know that she was safe. Now, it was Draco's turn to run. He wasn't sure why he ran he only knew he had to get away from his very naked best friend.

"If you run off like that every time you see me naked Draco I'm going to start to think you don't like me anymore" the soft voice brought a smile to Draco's face but it soon faded as he realized what she had just said.

"You know teasing someone like that really isn't very nice." Draco snapped at her as she leaned against the far wall. The shocked look on her face made him think he had gone too far but she quickly scooted over so her knees were touching his.

"I'm sorry love. I didn't mean to make you run away I just wanted to get you back for insulting me and throwing me on the floor" Aurora said as she stared at him, silver boring into silver waiting for one to flinch or blink. Draco was the first to look down but he had a small smile on his face. He carefully took her small hands in his and looked back into her eyes.

"If you ever do anything like that again, I will make sure you can not get back into that shower, you got me?" He said as a smirk appeared on his hard features. Aurora smiled back and nodded. She knew he was only kidding about locking her out of her shower, or at least she thought he was only kidding.