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Prompt 35 - Sensual

"Here are the Blacks, Malfoys, Lestranges, Crouchs, Yaxleys and Flints," Draco sighed, throwing a thick stack of parchment on the book that was open in front of Theo Nott who was clearly not paying attention to Malfoy's announcement. His eyes firmly planted on someone else in the room; someone who was just now being introduced to his constant pain. Rolling his eyes at Nott's chosen focus, Malfoy continued, "One of these days you will actually lust after someone who is available to you. First Pansy, now," he looked over in the direction where Nott was actually looking, "her. Well, at least this time her family isn't going to stop you."

"Yeah," Theo muttered turning back to his book now covered in parchment. "Just her head this time."

"And a bit of her heart, by the looks of it," Draco added, leaning back in his chair. "So what do you make those?"

"You know it's not that simple," Theo responded, looking carefully at each document before moving on to the next one. "And this is only a start."

"What other ones do you need? That we don't already have."

"Prewetts, Longbottoms, Bones, I doubt the Weasleys actually have one but that would be nice, McMillan, oh and most importantly – Smith."

"I'm working on that one."

"Not very hard as you are still sitting here bothering me."

"Fine, I'll leave you on one condition," Draco said, smirking as he stood.

"What?" Theo asked, looking up at Draco warily. He knew that tone all too well. The last time Draco used it, Theo found himself agreeing to research the familiar heir charms.

"Stop staring and thinking sensuous thoughts about her," Draco whispered knowingly.

Theo had heard enough, preventing Draco from continuing he hissed quietly, "Just because you..."

"I wasn't finished," Draco interrupted. "I was going to ask you to do something about it. Maybe she could help you with this," he said flicking the papers in Theo's hands. "As this isn't necessarily a type of charm that Flitwick would teach in his class. She may find it interesting besides it's already a challenging subject."

"Like she..."

"Would you stop whining like a little girl," Draco said angrily in hushed tones. "Pansy's parents came between the two of you years ago. Not me. So would you finally move on. She is right there. Available. No parents to come between the two of you. Stop being logical about this and shooting yourself before anything happens. Instead of staring after her, driving us all mad, would you finally grow some balls and do something about it."

"No." Theo said firmly, gathering up his papers and books as he stood. "It hurt enough to watch you take Pansy away. I'm not going to throw myself at a girl who clearly wants someone else."

"Even if he doesn't want her?"

"You were my best friend," Theo hissed. "And you made it a game. I learned my lesson from you. Not Pansy"

Draco just watched as Theo stormed off and out of the common room.

"That went well. I'm impressed. About time Theo told you how he really felt; only took him what eight years?... I, personally, never understood why that boy always preferred suffering in silence about what you did to him," Blaise's cool voice spoke from behind as he clapped his hands mockingly. "So you are what? Zero for two today by my calculation?"

"Shove it Blaise," Draco growled starting to walk away.

"Or maybe I should correct myself," Blaise's comment caused Draco to stop in his tracks before Blaise continued by saying, "I'll give you one for two, but you should really try to save that boy from himself. It won't fix what you did to him but it may be a start," he whispered before heading out after Theo.

Draco just looked at him like he had grown a horn on his head, shaking his head, he was about to follow him out the door and kick some sense into Theo if he had to when a small voice asked him, "Is everything okay?"

Turning he saw Granger's bright brown eyes looking up at him, thanking Merlin and every other deity he could think of, he sighed and honestly replied, "No," quickly trying to figure out how to make this go Theo's way, he continued, "Look I shouldn't be asking but can you go check on him. He's probably nose deep in the library and if I get near him he will probably start chucking books at me."

"Sure," she smiled; Draco noticed how sad the smile was. How much effort she was putting into it when it was clear all she wanted to do was cry. "I could stand to get out of here."

She was gone before he could even get a thank you out.

"Impressive Draco," Millie Bulstrode said from her seat on the couch.

"You better not..."

"I know Draco," she said with a laugh, her face back in the book she was reading. "We all know. It just may help your situation if you let Asteria see that side of you. You know Smith has a thing for her."

"Millie," he growled.

"I'm just saying," she replied sweetly before he stalked back to his room.