Title: Daunting.

Summary: I knew in the end I would fight for him, kill for him and probably die for him, but I didn't care because he saved me from my worst possible enemy…myself.

Pairing: Draco & Harry

Rating: T (for now)

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, if I did stuff like this would have happened a long time ago!

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Chapter 2

"Our story began on the 5th of September, during me and your Dads 8th year. The war was finally over but was defiantly not forgotten and its remains lay spread everywhere the eye could see…"

I sat silently at the table, watching as the very few new first years were sorted. There were 10 this year maximum, small and nervous. I fought back a sigh, I knew this was going to be hard, that was inevitable.

There were no quiet murmurings this year, no hushed whispers discussing summers and new students, all that was left this year was the hard cold silence. I would not break that, it almost was a silent vow to myself that now I was free everything would change, everything! I could not lie and say I was not scared, fear ran through every vain in my body, turning my blood cold, but it made me all the more determined.

I had come back not knowing what I was doing only knowing that I wanted to make a change. A change for me and for everyone else around me. My mother had taken great pleasure in demands that I stay at home, that I not go back when I was surprisingly invited; she demanded that I stay to care and comfort her in her growing illnesses while father was as expected in prison and she had almost convinced me when I realised that I was doing what I had been doing my whole life, letting people control and manipulate me and I wasn't going to do it for any longer.

Hadn't that been what we had been fighting for in the war? Our freedom and our ability to choose what we wanted to do in life and who we wanted to be with, not who everyone else wanted us to be with or wanted us to become.

I knew I needed to break free from the mould I had been held in for so long and now it was finally time. I loved my mother, I did, but I needed to be me from now on, I couldn't continue to live my life how she had pictured it but how I now did. It wasn't beyond me that I knew how hard it was going to be for me it convince not only others but myself that I had changed but I was willing to take on the challenge, not matter how hard.

I took in no surprise when looking around to see the glares of others, I did not glare back, I resorted to looking down from there harsh gazes in favour of looking at the old wooden table.

Food appeared in front of me but I could not eat. It had been that way since the end of the war, Guilt took over when I tried to take a bite, so many people were dead that was not meant to die however I had survived and I had the nerve to eat food and enjoy life while they were gone? I knew it was silly but I did not care and no one else did so I assumed that it was okay.

The silence held strong as the first meal back at Hogwarts was underway. It hung low and pregnant in the room, waiting for an explosion. I could almost bare it no longer when the head mistress stood up and bid us good night.

I dawdled, not wanting to move with the crowds.

"In fact in just about 30 seconds is where our story started, just as I was walking into the entrance hall and so was he…"

"Watch where you're going Malfoy." Potter shouted as we both hit the floor with a loud clash.

"I'm sorry," I murmured quietly, picking myself up and trying to hurry away in silence, not wanting to cause a fight after I had cause a scene.

The other boy laughed cruelly, "Sorry? Your sorry?" I was just about to step round him, and was even contemplating running when he grabbed me roughly around the shoulders and slammed me against the nearest wall, "Don't come near me again ferret." And with one final glare he dropped his hold on my shoulders and stalked off, both with Granger and Weasley in toe.

And I knew in that moment that nothing was going to change and we were going to hate each other forever.

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