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Turns out Year 3 is gonna be all one chapter. I'm going off a checklist.

Chapter 7: Year Three

Over the summer, Draco and Kassidy hung out at her house more than at his house. And they were almost inseparable, that's how often they were together. They did pretty much everything together. They even went down to Surrey together just so Kassidy could catch up with Dudley, her old friend, share the news of Kassidy finally having a family, and to ask him to give Harry hell for them, to which Dudley completely agreed.

When Kassidy turned thirteen in June, Draco claimed he had a surprise for her, and led her to his house, and into the living room, his hands over her eyes.

"Can I look yet?" Kassidy asked.

"Not yet, we're not there yet," Draco said, leading her to the kitchen.

"Okay, you can look now," he said, removing his hands from her face. She rubbed her eyes before looking. The scene she saw was Draco's parents and her own parents, as well as a few of the friends the pair had accumulated over the two years at Hogwarts, gathered around the kitchen island with a relatively large blue sheet cake with the words "Happy 13th, Kassidy Williams!" with two lit candles in the shape of a 1 and a 3, as well as a medium-sized pile of presents.

"Oh my god!" Kassidy said, and had no idea what to do next, so she hugged Draco for a few seconds before she was asked to blow out the candles.

A month later, in July, the pair was alone, talking while sitting under a tree in the backyard of Malfoy Manor.

"Okay, what are we?" Draco asked.

"What do you mean?" Kassidy asked.

"We kissed last year, well, kinda, and I'm very confused as to what exactly our relationship is," he said.

"What do you want us to be?" she asked.

"I… don't know how to answer that…"

"Neither do I."

"Well, I don't know exactly how to word it, so this is my best try," Draco said before kissing her on the lips.

"I hear you loud and clear," Kassidy said with a huge grin on her face.

"So?" he asked.

"Dating, if you want," she said.

"Of course, I thought you heard me loud and clear," Draco said with a laugh, absentmindedly twirling a piece of Kassidy's auburn hair in his fingers.

"You're really cute, you know that?"

"I'm not usually one for cute stuff, but you're very easy on the eyes yourself."

"Don't lie, Draco, you're actually pretty good with the cutesy stuff," Kassidy said with a laugh.

Boarding the Hogwarts train, Draco and Kassidy put their stuff away and get on the train, walking down the corridor holding hands. People began to notice and talk.

"I totally knew those two would get together, it was so obvious by how they're always together."

"Draco and Kassidy? Really? I knew it would happen but I didn't think it would happen until fourth year."

That was just a sample of the things they heard. Kassidy looked to Draco when she heard bad things being said about them, and he squeezed her hand to tell her it was okay. The found an empty compartment, as neither cared to talk to anyone, really. Someone knocked on the compartment door, and Kassidy got up to open it. It was a floating hooded figure, and Kassidy backed away from it, clinging to Draco's arm as if for protection, although he couldn't offer much of that himself. It left within the next minute, as apparently it did not find who or what it was looking for.

"That was horrible," Kassidy said.

"I felt like I was never going to be happy again," Draco said.

"Same here, it was so scary."

"Don't worry, I've got you," Draco said, placing an arm around her in an attempt to make her feel safer.

"Oh my god, you actually fainted?" Draco said to Harry Potter after hearing the story.

"Shut up, Malfoy," Harry said before Kassidy and Draco mocked fainting to piss him off.

"Piss off, lovebirds," Hermione said.

"What strong words from a filthy mudblood," Kassidy said. Hermione stood up and almost attacked her, except Ron and Harry held her back.

"It's not worth it," Ron said, which caused her to sit down.

"Who the hell are you to call her that? You were Muggle-born too, weren't you?" Harry said.

"Wrong! I'm a pureblood who was raised as a Muggle because my parents died. I'm sure you understand that feeling, eh Potter?"

"You better leave her alone, Potter, or I'll have your neck," Draco said.

"What, is she your girlfriend?" Harry asked.

"Yes, actually, so if I catch you even look at her funny, it'll be your neck, understand, Potter?"

"Oh, I understand. I understand that you are a coward and you won't do anything," Harry said, causing those within earshot to gasp and Kassidy to lunge forward, wand out.

"You've crossed the line, Potter," she said. "Locomotor Mortis," she added, causing Harry to fall down, and a fight to break out between the five students, which was broken up quickly by bystanding Gryffindors and Slytherins. Nobody got into trouble as the fight went unnoticed.

"Welcome to Care of Magical Creatures! Today, I've got a pleasant surprise for you. We get to work with a Hippogriff!" Hagrid said.

"Yay," Draco said in a bored tone.

"This here is Buckbeak. Now, when dealing with a Hippogriff, make sure you don't insult it, as it could attack you. Walk up to it and bow. If it bows back, you are allowed to touch him. Harry, how about you try?" Hagrid said. After Harry tried, and succeeded, Draco pushed his way to the front and walked towards the creature.

"Let me try. You're not dangerous at all, you great little brute," Draco said, causing Hagrid to shout a warning before Buckbeak attacked him, causing Draco to fall to the ground, and Hagrid had to calm the hippogriff.

"It's killed me, it's killed me!" Draco whined.

"No worries, it's just a scratch," Hagrid said.

"Hagrid, he needs to be taken to the hospital!" Hermione said.

"I'm the teacher, I'll do it," Hagrid said, picking Draco up off the ground.

"You'll regret this!"

"Class dismissed."

"You and your bloody chicken!"

Draco was in the hospital wing overnight. He was hurt pretty badly, but not as badly as he's making it out to be. Kassidy had followed Hagrid and Draco into the hospital wing, and was with him now as he was asleep as he was getting his arm mended. As the injury was pretty serious, Draco had to stay for a few hours before he could go back to the Slytherin Dungeons. Madame Pomfrey found a sling and fixed it to where it won't hurt him to wear it.

"Draco, I think you're being a bit melodramatic," Kassidy said to Draco when he woke up.

"Shut up," Draco said.

"Draco?"

"Yeah?"

"You're an idiot."

"I'm your idiot."

"That was cheesy."

"Yeah I know."

"I like cheese. Be cheesy, I think it's cute when guys are cheesy." Draco smiled at this.

"You think I'm cute?"

"Yeah, in a manly way," Kassidy said.

"Well I think you're adorable so we're even," Draco said, causing Kassidy to kiss him, being mindful of his arm.

"But next time, listen to the teacher. Hagrid clearly said not to insult it and what do you do? Insult it."

"Sorry, I'll listen next time. I'll be out of Quidditch during our first game," Draco said.

"Well, we'll miss you, but I hope you find a replacement Seeker in time or we forfeit," Kassidy said.

"Easy."

"You better hope so."

It came time for the first Quidditch match of the year, between Slytherin and Gryffindor. Draco had found a replacement Seeker, and he was sitting in the stands, cheering his own team on. The teams come out, and play begins. Kassidy saves the Keeper from being hit by a Bludger, and saves the Seeker from falling off his broom. Kassidy swung at a Bludger about to hit her, but leaned too forward and caused her broom to tip forward, dumping her onto the ground from a few feet up. She sat up and winced at her sprained wrist. She tried to stand, but fell back to the ground as her ankle was sprained too. It was at that point that Harry caught the snitch and won the game for the Gryffindors again. Two of Kassidy's teammates ran over to help her to the hospital wing.

At the hospital wing, Kassidy was in and out pretty quickly, as it was just sprained joints, and she met Draco outside, in the courtyard. They sat under a tree and talked.

"Great game out there today," Draco said.

"Thanks. I just wish you were out there with me," Kassidy replied.

"I wish I was, too, but my arm."

"You're being a bit melodramatic. Let me look at it," Kassidy said. She carefully unwrapped the wound, and it wasn't as bad, but when she touched it, Draco winced pretty hard.

"Does it really hurt that bad, Draco?"

"Yeah."

"Well, I hope you're better by the Quidditch championship or we'll lose for sure," Kassidy said, rewrapping his wound.

"Oh, I will be."

"Your replacement sucked, I'm sorry."

"Did you hear about what happened during Gryffindor's match with Hufflepuff?"

"No, what happened?"

"The dementors came onto the field and Potter fell off his broom."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Dumbledore was livid."

"I'm sure he was. They were instructed not to interfere."

"Oh, those things are scary."

"Yeah, I know, I was there."

"Oh, Draco, shut up."

"Make me," he said before Kassidy kissed him, ruffling his hair a little bit. Kassidy saw Potter and his two friends walk out and the pair stood up. They come towards them.

"Ah, come to see the show?" Draco said.

"You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach!" Hermione said, pointing her wand at Draco's neck.

"Hermione, no! It's not worth it," Ron said. Hermione backed away, before punching Draco straight in the face. Kassidy lunged forward and aimed a punch at Hermione.

"Kassidy! Time and place!" Draco said, but she had already moved her fist back, and was showing no intention of hesitating, so Draco grabbed her elbow.

"Time. And. Place," Draco said, giving Potter and his friends a glare as he led her away.

"She was asking for it," Kassidy said. Draco stopped inside the building and held her face in his hands.

"Yes, but there's a time and place for everything. Now is not the time, nor the place," Draco said.

"Since when have you been an expert at this?"

"Since I learned that that's one of the few things that calms you down. Now, let's go to the common room and talk there," Draco said, and Kassidy walked with him, pouting a little.

A few months later, Draco's arm is healed and he's back on the Quidditch team, and the Quidditch championship is at hand. It was Slytherin vs. Gryffindor, Slytherin in the lead by 200 points in the championship.

The players go out onto the field and play begins. Kassidy avoids getting hit by a bludger but hits it away from one of the chasers, then blocks the other bludger from hitting Draco, almost dumping herself off of her broom in the process.

"You okay, Kassidy?"

"Yeah, fine. I plan on not getting hurt this time," Kassidy said, before turning around and hitting a bludger towards the Gryffindor team.

"Catch that snitch, babe," Kassidy said before racing off to save a chaser from a bludger. The Slytherins couldn't score much because the Gryffindor Keeper wouldn't let the ball in, and the Gryffindors kept scoring because the Slytherin Keeper couldn't keep the ball out.

It all went to the Snitch, Draco vs. Harry. "You can do it, Draco!" Kassidy said before a bludger hit her in the stomach and knocked her off her broom and the wind out of her lungs. She wasn't too far from the ground, so she fell a short distance and curled up into a ball on the ground, her long auburn hair a mess and fanned out around her head as her hair tie had broken. Draco saw this and raced harder as he chased the Snitch, almost winning, and becoming even with Harry, both reaching for the golden snitch in front of them. Just a little farther, Draco thought, just a little bit faster. But Draco's broom caught on the ground as he made his way back onto the field, he was tipped over, and he landed next to Kassidy, who was still catching her breath.

"You okay?" Draco asked.

"No," Kassidy replied breathlessly. "You?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Gryffindor wins 310 to 100! And Gryffindor wins the Quidditch cup!" the announcer said.

"Come on, Kassie, you need to go to the hospital wing," Draco said.

"I need… a stretcher… or something," Kassidy gasped.

"I need help over here!" Draco called. Marcus Flint ran over.

"What happened? I noticed she dropped out, but I had no idea what happened."

"A bludger knocked the wind out of her, and she needs a stretcher or something. Get a hold of Madame Pomfrey, quickly," Draco said. Marcus ran off and Draco knelt down and brushed her hair out of her face.

"Marcus is getting help for you, don't worry," Draco said.

"I can't breathe," Kassidy whispered.

"You'll be okay, you'll recover from that soon, but there could be more damage, that thing hit hard."

"Ow."

"I know."

At that point, Marcus and one of the Slytherin chasers came by with a stretcher, per Kassidy's request, and helped her get to the hospital wing.

"Oh my god, what happened this time?" Madame Pomfrey said when they brought Kassidy in.

"She got hit in the stomach hard with a bludger, and she still can't catch her breath," Draco said.

Within a few minutes, Madame Pomfrey had gotten Kassidy to where she could breathe, and Kassidy passed out fairly soon from not enough oxygen. Madame Pomfrey mended any other damage caused by the bludger.

"Draco, are you okay? I saw you tip your broom and tumble pretty badly."

"I'm fine, Madame Pomfrey, thank you, though."

"Let me check you to make sure you're okay," she said, and did a concussion test, which Draco passed.

"You're okay, but be careful, you tumbled pretty badly," she said.

"Yes, ma'am."

"She'll be out for a few minutes but she'll be fine."

It was the end of year feast, Kassidy walked into the main hall with a bandage around her head and torso from her Quidditch injuries. Draco kissed her forehead when she sat down.

"How much you wanna bet your parents will freak when they see your bandages?" Draco asked.

"They'll definitely freak."

"You get better soon, you hear me? When I come around a week from now, you better be on the road to recovery," Draco said.

"My injuries weren't that bad," Kassidy said.

"Quidditch was two weeks ago."

"Shut up."