Gone Awry Chapter 23 - The Promise, a harry potter fanfic

When morning arrived Ash woke up, her head in Draco's naked chest while his two strong arms where wrapped around her body. She could still feel the sweat and sex on their body as she smiled at the memories of the last night.

Silently she watched Draco breath calmly in his sleep, his chest rising up and down.

Slowly she pried of his arms and started searching for her discarded clothes. Finding them she quickly, she pulled them on.

Trying not to wake him, she slipped out off his bed and hoped that she could vanish out of the room without waking anyone. No such luck.

"Ash?" she heard a sleepy voice whisper, as soon as her feet met the floor. She looked around and saw Draco eyeing her, eyes still half closed due to sleep.

"Morning love," she whispered.

"What are you doing?"

"Gotta get ready for our Hogsmeade date."

"I've got a better idea. How about we stay here and have a little more fun?"

Ash giggled as Draco's hands snaked around her waist and pulled her back onto the bed with him while pulling the curtains close again. "No chance," she laughed and turned to look into his eyes. "I'm hungry and I want some food."

Draco rolled his eyes and let go of the girl in his arms. "Alright, lets get ready, I'll meet you in the common room in an hour?" he asked defeated, while Ash grinned at him and carefully placed a kiss on his lips.

"See you in an hour." she said and slipped of the bed walking towards the room door. When it suddenly opened revealing Blaise.

Shocked Blaise looked at her. "Hey..."

"Morning," Ash blushed. Busted she thought slyly.

"So that where you left to yesterday..." he stated flatly and shook his head. "Uh, bad image, get out of my brain," he mumbled to himself while shaking his head violently making Ash laugh.

"And you always say that I need to grow up!"

"Oh, get a life!"

"I've got one," she smirked and silently placed a kiss on Blaise's cheek before leaving the room to get changed.

"What is it with you two?" Draco glared, once the door closed behind the blond.

Blaise who had been staring after her turned to look at his best guy friend. "What do you mean?"

"You two always being so touchy and all. She's mine."

"Merlin Draco, we're only friends!"

"Sure you are," Draco's eyes screamed murder before they looked at Blaise mockingly. "You know, she loves me. She'll never love you and your sorry ass."

Blaise jaw set as he glared at the naked boy with sex hair. "Draco... Ash and I are only friends. I don't understand what you are trying to say," he chanted.

"Keep on telling yourself just that. Because friends is all you'll ever be," Draco mocked. "I see how you look at her. I see how hurt you look when I touch her in a way that you will never be allowed to touch her. I see it all."

Blaise kept staring at Draco as if he'd lost his mind. The dark skinned boy turned away from his friend and walked out of the room again, forgetting whatever he had come in to get. Draco smirked knowing that somewhere deep inside him, Blaise knew that the blond boy had struck a nerve.

All the while Ash sneaked back into her own dorm and was about to enter the bathroom when the curtains on one of the beds were ripped open, revealing a grinning black haired girl.

"Where have you been all night, young lady?" she asked with a knowing voice. Her grin broadening when Ash blushed every shade of red that existed.

"Um..."

"Oh bloody Merlin... you really were with Draco."

Seeing as there was no chance of denying it Ash slowly nodded, a grin starting to spread over her face. Tracy squealed and patted the bed beside her. Ash obeyed the command and jumped onto the bed next to Tracy.

"You've got to tell me everything!"

"I don't know what to say. We went to his room and had sex. About five times," she said the grin on her face growing broader by the second.

Tracy looked at her shocked. "five times? Gosh you guys have energy... and how was it?"

Ash's eyes sparkled. "Awesome. In his case I guess the saying 'Practice makes perfect' fits," she laughed. She didn't kid herself that he didn't have a lot of practice before her. But that was alright. She wasn't Virgin Marie either.

Tracy bombarded her with a few more questions before she let Ash finally take a shower, in order to get ready for the date she was about to have with the boy she had just spend the night with.

As soon as Ash came back into the room Tracy had new questions that needed answering. "How was the morning after?"

Ash looked at her. "Alright I guess... I woke up, watched him sleep a bit more and then got dressed. Right as I wanted to leave he woke up and I convinced him to go to Hogsmeade, instead of staying in bed today... Oh, at the moment that I wanted to go, Blaise actually came into the room. That was a bit awkward," Ash shrugged, not noticing that Tracy's lips thinned a bit.

"What did he say?"

"Um, not much. Just joked that that was a bad picture that he needed to banish from his mind," Ash laughed when she remembered Blaise shaking his head. "Oh well, I've gotta go now! I'll see you and Blaise later, OK?"

Tracy smiled at her and nodded. "Yeah, see you later." And while Ash skipped out of the room, Tracy slowly got up and went to look for Blaise.

She found him sitting on their usual spot in front of the lake window.

"Hey," she whispered quietly.

He looked up at her surprised and smiled - Tracy however noticed that it didn't reach his eyes. "Hey."

"How are you?"

"I'm fine."

"You know what fine means right?" Tracy chuckled making Blaise chuckle while nodding at their groups inside joke.

Silence spread between the two of them. "I'm happy for them," Blaise suddenly broke the silence. "They look happy together," he stated staring out into the green water.

"Yeah, I think they are."

"I don't know what's wrong with me."

Tracy looked at him shocked, "nothings wrong with you"

He shook his head, "I mean I'm really happy for the two of them, they're my best friends and they're happy together... but I just can't get rid of this feeling... it sucks."

"I know that jealousy is a bitch. But you can't let it over run you."

"But I can't tell her, either."

"No you can't," Tracy agreed, "not yet anyway"

Blaise sighed, "Draco said that he knows how I feel about her." Tracy looked up at him. "Is it really that obvious?"

Tracy laughed, "Yeah it is. But she's absolutely oblivious."

Blaise laughed as well and shook his head and smirked. "Damn. I feel like a girl now. No good. Lets go and do something," he said turning back to his usual self.

When Draco appeared in the common room Ash was already waiting for him. After a short kiss they joined hands and started making their way towards the carriages.

Walking up to them, Ash stopped for a second to look at the dark horses that pulled them, Thestrals. A wave of sadness flooded her, like every time she saw these magnificent beasts. It reminded her of the reason why she was able to see them, the death of her parents.

"I don't think they should keep using Thestrals as carriage horses," she stated when Draco came to a stop next to her.

Draco looked at her confused. "Why's that?"

"Whoever can see them, is reminded of the time that they saw someone die... isn't that sad?"

"I guess so... You can see them?"

"Yeah..." she answered but didn't say anything else. Up to this time, she had only told Blaise about her past and she wanted to keep it that way. Sensing that she didn't want to talk about it, Draco didn't ask any further questions.

"You know that you can tell me everything, right?" Ash smiled up at the blond teen holding her hand and nodded but she didn't utter a word.

Quietly they went into one of the carriages and drove down to Hogsmeade.

Their first stop was the Three Broomsticks, where they got something to eat and drink, before walking through the small town, towards the forest.

"You know... you never talk about your life back in Germany."

Ash tensed a bit, "yeah..."

"Tell me about it!"

"Well... I don't really know what there is to tell, I'm in England now. I don't want to live in the past, but in the present."

Draco frowned at her, "what do you mean?"

"Before I came here, I lived in the past. I couldn't forget and forgive, but since I'm here I decided that its a start of a new life, no need to think back."

"I don't know. I like thinking back. Life was easier then."

"Was it? Really? Or did we just not notice the horrors around us?"

Draco smiled. "Its still nice to remember the sorrow free life before school."

Ash looked at him and smiled at his peaceful face as he remembered a happy memory from his past. "Yeah, life before school was bliss," she said while remembering the first time she and her parents had gone to the park together in winter and had an gigantic snowball fight. Life truly was bliss back then. The smiles, the laughter, the fun... "But school changes things."

"Yeah, school changes things," Draco agreed. They both fell silent.

"Ash... Why did you come to England anyway?"

"Draco, please. I - I can't talk about it right now."

"Will you tell me at one point?"

"I will."

"Promise?"

Ash raised an eyebrow and looked at him, he was still looking straight ahead. Did she really want to tell him about her past? About her friends who would never remember her? About the horrors she saw before she came to England? About why Patrick had attacked them? ... Yes, she would. He deserved to know. Especially because he never rushed her to explain, never asked who the person that made them go through the torment really was. "Promise," she smiled.

Finally they reached the edge of the forest and like they did the other times they had come here, they transformed into their animal forms - Draco wrapping himself around his girlfriends waist - and dashed through the thicket and onto the lonesome clearing at the cliff that they had spend the end of their first date.

The beautiful view still made them gasp, when they reached the edge. Unlike the first time though, they didn't change back right away, but stayed in their animal forms. Lying down next to each other on the warm stone and watching the nature bloom, listening to the birds chirp and the sun wander through the sky.

Imagine how this will look in spring, Draco hissed and moved his head so it was looking at her.

Magnificent, Ash agreed and looked at him again. Lets come here again when spring is in full bloom. Not before that though.

The yellow snake let out a soft chuckle. Alright, but then you've got to tell me about your past.

The gray wolf scowled a bit but then nodded her head, It's a deal.

The snake shook its head, Its a promise.

Again a comfortable silence fell over the two as they continued starring over the cliff and onto the panorama sight in front of them.

All of a sudden Draco changed back into his original form and turned to look at the surprised gray wolf with the red streaks. "Ash. Sing something for me."

The wolf coxed her head to one side before changing back to her own human form. "Sing for you?"

"Yes. I want to hear you sing."

Ash blushed, she never actually sung for someone. Of course she had sung in front of other people, even solos and on a stage, but she never actually had someone she ever sung too.

"What do you want to hear?"

"Anything. Just sing the first thing that comes to your mind."

Ash's tongue brushed over her lips. "But there's no music."

Now it was Draco's time to crook his eyebrows at her, "You don't need any."

"Alright... Its a song that I'm learning right now in Muggle Music - I'd sing you one of the songs from Music, but we're doing a little show on Halloween and you'd bore yourself if you'd already know the songs," she said softly with a smile before taking a deep breath and let the lyrics leave her mouth in a magical tune that filled the clearing with wonderful vibrations.

What makes some one special?
I suppose it all depends,
it's what's unique in each of us
that we all share as friends.

The difference is our differences,
maybe small or great,
variety adds spice to life,
so we should celebrate!

In Harmony, harmony!
You're you, I'm me,
together we can live in Harmony!

If there was only one note.
How boring life would be,
I'm glad there are so many notes,
in many different keys!

I hear each voice singing,
with a special quality,
and when we sing together,
we bring music to the sea!

In Harmony, harmony!
You're you, I'm me,
together we can live in Harmony!

You're you, I'm me,
together we can live in Harmony!

When the last note escaped her lips, she quickly shut her mouth and looked at Draco expectantly. His eyes where big in wonder as he stared at her, mouth hanging slightly ajar.

"I love you," Draco whispered looking into Ash's emerald green eyes, making her gasp.

Smiling at him, she quietly marvelled at his face and expression while the setting sun tainted his face in a soft red light. Staying silent she leaned up to him and gave him a loving kiss before whispering "I love you too."

Song: In Harmony from Disney's The Little Mermaid

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