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Draco- Finally

Triniti- She doesn't own Harry Potter...

LLL- Right.. -_- Always crushing my dreams :,(

She stands in the stairs, completely saddened and angry. Slowly, she makes her way back to the gryffindor common room. The entire walk back she scours her memories for Draco, but absolutely nothing pops up. She is at a complete loss. She walks to the common room and tries to think about what Draco told her but instead she always goes back to thinking about just Draco. She walks up to her room and shuts the door.

"He's trying to help?" She plops down on her bed, recalling his words and removes her sweater before pulling up the left sleeve of her shirt. There is a mark engraved into her skin. It is a skull with a serpent trailing out of it's mouth. She cringes as the mark burns. "What is this?!" She squeezes her arm as the unbearable pain sears through it. With a grunt of dislike she thinks to herself, 'I bet Draco knows what this is. But I wouldn't dare ask him for help anymore.' She pulls her sleeve back down, grabs a towel and makes her way to one of the main bathrooms where she takes a shower. By the time she returns, there are three girls are in the room, gossipping amongst themselves.

They all become silent at the sight of her and she gives an awkward smile. "Hi. I'm Triniti."

One of them stands up with a straight face. "You're new here?"

"Yes…"

Her expression turns into a sudden smile. "It's great to meet you. We are your , Sarah, and Lake. Welcome to Gryffindor."

Triniti smiles at the warm welcome "Thank You." She walks over to her bed, lays down and almost immediately falls asleep. Her nightmares are scattered with faint memories of her parents and Draco's father. The same reoccurring snapshots.

The next day she wakes, she dresses casually and walks down to the great hall. When she arrives she sees owls flying down to tables and delivering mail. Off to the far left she notices Draco and two large boys tormenting a boy from Hufflepuff, not giving him the mail he received. Draco catches sight of her and she rolls her eyes, walking over to the Gryffindor table. She grabs a bagel but sees no one that she knows at any of the tables and walks out. Draco eyes her the entire time. Triniti bites her bagel gradually as she walks around outside and explores the fields of Hogwarts. She sees a large forest many meters away and a small shack. Not too far away from the school she spots an enormous tree and walks towards it. She rubs the bark on the tree and says, "You look lonely. And lost. Maybe we're one and the same."

"TRIN!"

She looks over to see Draco running towards her. Before she can make any movements something hits her hard in her back and sends her flying. She slides along the grass and looks up quickly to see where the strike came from. The now moving tree swings more branches her way and she rolls, just barely dodging them. Some of the smaller branches swipe at her arm, drawing blood. Draco pulls out his wand and yells, Petrificus Totalus , the entire tree becomes stiff and he runs over to Triniti, pulling her to her feet.

"Come on. That won't last long at all."

Triniti gets up and they run all the way to the castle doors. "What...what was that?" Triniti asks, out of breath.

"The Whomping Willow. Very important tree on the campus. Very dangerous as well."

"Why the hell….?"

"Don't ask."

"How did you know I was there?"

Draco clears his throat. "I kind of followed you."

She looks at him, anger showing. Quickly, she calms down and looks furiously at the ground. "Thank you… For helping me," she grumbles quietly. He tries to hide the pleasure he is feeling from her obvious embarrassment. She then bends to the ground, holding her left arm that is bleeding. He pulls her up.

"Let's go." As quickly with a few people seeing them as he can, he takes her to the slytherin common room. Before the enter he tells her to sit on the floor while her removes her socks and tie. He then throws his green scarf around her and they enter the Slytherin common room. The entire place is practically glowing green and Draco rushes her up the stairs and to a room. He shuts the door and locks it.

"What are you doing? This is against the rules."

"Yeah. Rules. Says the girl who broke into Dumbledore's office yesterday."

She pouts and he grabs a blade off of the dresser. He walks over to her and cuts the left sleeve of her shirt off. "HEY! What are you doing?!" She cringes when he moves her arm with the cuts.

"We have to heal these. They are really deep."

"Why didn't you just take me to the infirmary?"

"Do you really want them to see your dark mark?"

Her eyes widen and she looks down at the serpent. She'd completely forgotten about it and she says nothing on the matter being that she promised herself she wouldn't ask him for anymore help."Why the hell did you even have to help me?"

"I don't know," he says, dabbing the wounds with a towel. "I just knew I had to protect you."

"I can protect myself thank you very much." Her arm tightens again from the pain and she looks at him impatiently. "Why don't you just heal it with your wand?"

"I don't know any spells to heal abrasions like this."

"Wow. Poor excuse for a pureblood if you ask me."

"Yeah," he sighs, "I get that a lot." She feels bad for the remark now that she sees how sad he looks. He runs his fingers over her dark mark as he finishes bandaging her up.

"Why don't you want to tell me about my past?"

"You don't need to know."

"Is it that bad?"

"Yes," he whispers.

"Well what about me and you? How do we know each other?" She crosses her legs on his bed, studying his facial expressions.

"We trained together, but never got along. Everything is always a challenge with you. Everything I did, you did better."

"Ha." Triniti lets a laugh escape but Draco is serious. "So… What's this on my arm?"

"The dark mark. Deatheater mark."

"Deatheater?"

"It's too much to explain now."

"Then when Draco?!"

"Never." He grabs both of her arms. "I thought…." He takes a deep breath. "I thought you were dead. You can never go back to that life again. You may think you're more powerful then everyone else because that's how you were raised but you aren't. You just aren't Triniti," he whispers. She bites her lip against the pain she feels from him squeezing her freshly wrapped left arm. He releases her.

"I don't need you to protect me."

"You know," he huffs, "that's the same thing you said before The Order attacked the mansion. And I listened. I'm never making that mistake again."

"That's why you've been following me…."

"It's more complicated than that."

"Then help me understand," she stands up and tries to get him to look at her. "Come on, bighead!" He looks at her, eyes wide and starts laughing. "What? Why are you laughing?"

"I haven't heard you call me that in a long time."

"I… called you that? But I don't remember…. It just came out."

"Some things just never change I guess."

"Yeah," she mumbles, sitting back on the bed and looking on the floor. All she wishes now is that she could remember. Draco walks closer to her and pulls her head against his chest, bringing her into a tight embrace. This action confuses her but the longer she stays there, the better she can hear his heart beat. It's calm… relieved.

"The last thing I expected was to see you walk into that classroom yesterday?"

"Then why were you so mean? If you knew me…"

"I told you, i thought you were dead…. I couldn't even be sure if that was you or if my mind was playing a trick on me." He rubs her blond hair with his hand.

"Draco…." She moves his hands off of her. "You said we didn't get along. So why are you like this? It won't be like this if I get my memories back will it…. That's why you won't help me."

"No. Now, i'm just trying to help you. You can't get those memories back."

Triniti stands and walks past Draco. "I think I should go now." He grabs her arm and pulls her into another tight embrace.

"Not yet…. Just a little longer."

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