I'm sooo sorry it's taken so long to update! It's just finals were crazy and especially with the girls winning districts and then placing second in the state! Yay! So this is not the finale..I'm sorry I know i said I'd do it in four parts but this one as pretty long and I figured you guys needed some hope that I hadn't abandoned it. and I PROMISE I won't! I even entered it in a contest over on devinatart so now I HAVE to finnish it. It might be a little while until my next update b/c i'm surently working on an epic length Merhur fic...I LOVE IT SOO MUCH! Thank-You all again!
Ginny had fallen into the boat and the three of them found themselves below the surface in the lakes slightly chilled water.
Draco suddenly found himself trapped on all sides by cool cloudy water, unable to breathe. He felt sharp pain in his chest and he began panicking, kicking his legs hard trying to break the surface. Every moment he felt more and more pressure mounting in his chest as he lost all sense of which direction was up and which was down. He continued trying to get his head to the surface but finally he could no longer take the pressure on his chest and his eyes closed.
"Draco. Draco." An angelic figure was calling his name, she sounded just like his mother."
"Draco! Are you okay? Draco!" Harry said pulling the blonde haired boy onto the shore.
"Don't ask if I'm even ok, it's not like you knew me your entire life or anything." Ginny said dragging herself onto shore.
"He can't swim, so shut the fuck up okay!" Harry shouted at her turning his attention back the only semi-conscious vampire prince.
"Draco I need you to open your eyes." Harry said, pulling Draco's head into his lap. He gently stroked the blonde hair away as he watched his chest rise and fall.
"Please for me." He added as Ginny just started at the two of them, Harry completely engrossed with Draco.
Just like that his lashes started to flutter and slowly his eyes opened, meeting green ones above his.
"You ok?" Harry asked, stroking Draco's cheek.
He just nodded unable to speak the four words that he had wanted to say for so long, "Harry, I love you."
"Harry let's go back to the palace I'm wet." Ginny complained.
"Ok fine, can you walk?" He asked, unsure if Draco was shaken up by the fact he had nearly drowned.
Draco shook his head-he was wet and cold and shaking slightly.
"Here I'll help, just put your arm around me like this..." Harry said gently taking Draco's arm and draping it across his shoulders.
"And then I'll just put my am here..." He said putting his arm around Draco's waist.
He very gently lifted Draco to his feet, unable to support himself he leaned on Harry for extra support. His heart was beating so fast, he was so close to the prince. So close.
Ginny stood not to far away from them, brooding over the way Harry looked at Draco, and not her.
"You ok, you're shaking?" Harry said to Draco who was soaking wet and cold.
Draco just shook his head and against his better judgement started to sob uncontrollably, remember the voice he'd heard in the water.
His mother's voice.
"What's wrong? Draco what's wrong?" Harry said alarmed at his crying friend.
They stopped walking at Harry set Draco down, "What'd we stop for we just got going and incase you haven't noticed I'm soaking wet and cold. So let's just go." Ginny said glaring at Harry and a resentfully crying Draco.
"What the fuck's your problem he almost just drowned! How the hell can you yell at him!" Harry yelled back at her, defending Draco.
"He's such an attention whore!" Ginny yelled back glaring at Draco, she'd done enough of bottling her emotions and now they were boiling over.
"You're the attention whore here! Why don't you just leave because no one wants you here!" Harry spat back.
"Fine I will!" Ginny screamed back turning on her heels and stomping back up towards the castle.
"You ok?" Harry asked Draco who just looked at the ground, ashamed for crying in front of Harry.
He continued staring at the ground, how could he look into Harry's eyes after crying. He just felt so alone, if Harry didn't kiss him he'd loose everything and even if he did he'd loose all his friends and family. On top of all this he'd heard his mother, he still missed her dearly. She'd died when he was still young of a human virus, which had made his father forever hate humans.
"It'll be ok; I promise." Harry said pulling the soaking wet and crying Draco into his arms.
Looking up into those emerald green eyes, Draco believed him.
Ginny was in a rage, to say the least. she couldn't believe Harry had just treated her like that, he had basically just traded her in for some BOY that he barley even knew! She was so angry, when she got back to the castle everyone would know about it.
"Oh dear, dear, dear! What a sad picture!" Said a woman coming out of the shadows, dressed in all pink.
"Such a pretty girl like you shouldn't be walking home alone while those two wallow in their pity." She said walking over to Ginny.
"Fortunately someone like me is here to help you sweetie."
"Who are you?" Ginny said taking a cautionary step back.
"My name is Dolores Umbridge, sweetie." She said smiling sickenly sweetly.
"What do you want?" Ginny said, her guard still very much up.
"To help you with your problem, here's what I'm going to do for you." Umbridge said pulling a small vial out of her pocket.
The vial had a pearl sheen to it, "All you need to do is put this in his food, and he shall be yours. Forever."
"You mean, he'll choose me?" Ginny said taking a very tentative step forward.
"He'll love you." Umbridge said holding out the vial to Ginny.
"What do I have to do?" Ginny asked taking the vial.
Draco and Harry arrived back at the castle an hour later than Ginny did and were greeted by very anxious friends. They were separated and sent to take baths and received a late diner and sent to sleep.
Staring up at his ceiling thinking of the blonde boy, Harry heard a knock on his door.
"Who is it?" He asked, breaking his chain of thought.
"It's me," Ginny said "I just wanted to apologize for earlier.
"Fine...come in." Harry said reluctantly.
Ginny came in slowly holding a small package.
"So, I'm really sorry for the way I acted it wasn't right." Ginny said lowering her eyes.
"You're right it wasn't. I hope you apologized to Draco too." Harry said, his green eyes showed anger in their emerald depths.
"I did, I made you guys some chocolate...I figured it might help." Ginny said holding out the small bag to Harry, her previous words laced with lies.
"Wow, it smells wonderful." Harry said taking the bag.
He lifted it up to smell some, "It smells so good...like fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, birches and..some kind of shampoo...that's weird." Harry said.
"Draco loved it, you should try it." Ginny lied.
"Ok." He agreed taking a piece and eating it, Ginny not able to look away.
She flashed back to Umbridge's words, "All you need to get him to eat is a bite, and you must be the first one he sees after he eats it. After that he's all yours my dear."
Harry took a bite
Draco awoke early in the morning to a chirping sparrow flying about the room.
After Pansy transformed into her human state she tackled Draco hugging him and shaking him, Draco clueless.
"I can't believe you did it! I mean it's not like I doubted you but you're not exactly I womanizer...how can you be Precious Prince Harry has a dick! Which you'll see...not just see! Oh my gawd who tops and bottoms!" Pansy said gushing to a very confused Draco.
Draco was still unsure what was happening and just watched as his best friend filtered about the room joking and transferring from human to sparrow. Eventually Draco decided he had had enough and promptly stalked over to Pansy and placed a hand over her mouth and glared at her.
She promptly licked his hand and he pulled away.
"Such childish manners from the Prince's fiancee!" She said crossing her arms.
Draco's jaw hit the floor.
"Don't tell me you didn't know...you're not actually that daft are you?" Pansy said shocked.
Draco shook his head and ran his hands through his hair, completely shocked.
"You mean...you don't know you're ENGAGED to him? Honestly Draco how daft can you be!" Pansy sneered sinking down next to him on the bed.
"But you are my best friend after all...so I expect to be the maid of honor and have at least a 25% stake in the wedding." Pansy said smirking.
Draco gave a half smile and looked down at his slightly shaking hands.
"Everything'll be fine...get dressed before you go down for breakfast...Merlin forbid you do down like this and we have to watch him shag you on the table." Pansy said softly kissing Draco's cheek before she got up walked to the window and leapt.
He couldn't believe it..he was going to actually get his prince.
However he was snapped out of his haze when the chamber ladies came in to run him a bath. They bustled about the room tidying it up and pushing Draco along while gossiping about people Draco didn't know.
Half an hour later the ladies bustled out telling him breakfast is in five minutes so Draco hurried down ready to finally see the prince, his fiancee.
His fiancee.
He just couldn't believe that the prince could be his. Could be his to have and to hold forever.
Draco practically ran down to the grand dining room, he couldn't wait to see his prince. However, the scene that greeted him was not the one that he was expecting.
Ginny was tucked into Harry's side and the pair seemed to be laughing over something. He looked down at her with those green eyes so filled with...with love. Draco was flabbergasted? How could this be? He had been so sure, and Pansy had said they were engaged, his blonde head was spinning, none of this many any sense.
"Oh, look Harry it's what's his name...didn't you say last night you had something to say to him?" Ginny said grinning wickedly and further curling herself around Harry.
"What?" Harry asked grinning stupidly as he stared down at his soon to be bride.
"Oh Harry whatever am I going to do with you?" Ginny said smiling up at him.
"Love me, my sweet!" Harry said refusing to take his eyes of her and sweeping her into his arms.
Ginny threw her head back and laughed obnoxiously.
"You have such a lovely laugh, I wish I could listen to laugh all day everyday." Harry said.
"But isn't there something you want to tell him." Ginny said wickedly.
"Tell him you want him to leave, that you love me and you never want to see him again." Ginny whispered in his ear.
Harry looked up, eager to please, and met Draco's light blue eyes.
"I love Ginny, I want you to leave, and I never want to see you again." Harry said.
Draco's world crashed down on him. His chest felt entirely to tight and his head felt like it was going to explode.
Harry didn't love him.
He would belong to Umbridge.
Harry didn't want him.
His throat felt dry and scratchy, and he could fell the tears spring to his eyes. Before a tear could even fall he took off running to his rooms, not wanting to look back to see Prince Harry one last time.
He ran too his rooms as fast as his legs could carry him, trying to manage the tears now threatening to fall.
Malfoys don't cry in public.
Once safely behind the door his legs and will power failed and he broke down. he'd been so sure the Prince had loved him, and now he felt humiliated and unwanted. How could this have happened? Pansy said Harry was marrying him, but he was with that girl. THAT GIRL. Maybe she'd done something..? No that was impossible; she was a human after all. It was himself, clearly the prince didn't love him. And now he had no home to return, and no warm embraces from the prince. After sunset he would belong to Umbridge, but as awful as it sounded he was happy about it. He had just lost his prince, his father surely knew about his deceit and would never forgive him. Draco continued crying wondering how Umbridge would make him spend the rest of his life.
"God damnit Draco you are not going to sit here wallowing in your own pity. We are going to stop that wedding and get you your prince or my name isn't Pansy Parkinson." Pansy said gliding into the room via the open window.
Draco looked up and offered a weak smile to his best friend, sniffling because when humans cried their noses also conveniently filled with snot.
"Blaise get Severus to get me some kind of antidote for any mind altering spells...wait no, get me an antidote for love potions. Also I want the King altered, if anyone can it's him and the elder wand." Pansy said bustling about the room.
Blaise just gave her a fond smile before turning around and hoping out the window.
"Let's get you to the forrest, we have a wedding to stop." Pansy said, her eyes twinkling for the first time in a while.