The Deathly Hallows

Y/n was first the break the eye contact.

She looked around his room to see everything was broken. The bed was on its side, the furniture had clearly been launched across the room and the walls had multiple holes in. Shards of glass covered the floor, some with blood painted onto it. Y/n was horrified at the state.

How long has he been in here?

If she knew how bad he really got, she would of fought harder. She turned around to look back at Draco, to see him nearly at breaking point.

He obviously didn't want y/n to see what had happened to him whilst she was missing. He bit his lip and looked to the side, trying to fight back tears.

But he couldn't hold it in forever.

Y/n launched herself onto him, wrapping her arms firmly around his neck and felt his arms tightly around her waist. She smelt him immediately, all different types of memories flooding back. Memories of the Astronomy tower, how gut wrenching it was to watch him leave. How she thought she was never going to see him again.

All those feelings rose to the surface, and she choked into tears. Burying her face in his neck, she let out all her emotion, him doing the exact same.

Nothing needed to be said at that point.

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Downstairs, Harry, Hermione and Ron managed to escape from the snatchers and Bellatrix. After many hexes, Bellatrix was thrown to the floor and Hermione escaped her grasp. Harry apparated them all to The Burrow.

Molly opened the door and hurried the trio in.

"What on earth are you doing here!" Remus shouted from the kitchen, rushing towards them.

"We got caught by the snatchers, they took us to Malfoy Manor" Harry began.

"Did any of you get hurt?" Molly asked. The boys looked at Hermione.

"One of us did" Hermione muttered.

"You guys can't stay. It's not safe" Lupin said. "Bill said you guys need to apparate to his and Fleur's cottage."

"Okay, we'll go now" Ron told them. Molly wiped some tears from her cheeks. "It's good to know you're all safe, but he's right."

"We'll see you when, well-

"Just go guys" Remus snapped. The trio all held their hands out, ready to apparate again.

"Wait!" Remus began. "Where's y/n?"

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It wasn't an uncomfortable silence, more of a comforting type.

The pair had been sat in silence for about half an hour after they were done crying. They were sat on the floor by the door, Draco listening to downstairs making sure nobody was there. He heard a final slam, then an eerily silence.

Draco turned to look at y/n, to which she was already looking at him.

"They're gone" He said. The first time either of them had spoke since they saw each other. Y/n took a deep breath.

"Good."

Silence.

"Look, Draco I-

"Stay with me" He demanded. He stood up and helped her get up too.

"What?"

"Stay here, with me. Nobody knows we're here, nobody cares we're here" He told her. Y/n frowned.

"I don't know Draco. Harry needs me-

"Does he?" He spat. "They've left without you. I don't think he needs you y/n-

"Don't tell me how my own blood thinks! Of course Harry needs me-

"He's literally left without you!" Draco exclaimed, starting to feel angry.

"Because he knows you'd look after me-

"Stop making excuses-

"I'm not-

"Besides the point y/n! Are you going to stay?" His patience was thinning.

Y/n sighed and rolled her eyes. "I don't know."

Slowly, Draco walked over to her and put his arms around her neck. He crouched a few inches so she was eye level to him.

"Are you going to pick your head? Or your heart?"

She thought about it. Y/n thought about her brother who probably did need her, but looking in his grey eyes in that moment answered that question for her. Y/n leaned in and kissed Draco and he kissed her back harder. He stood properly and sat on his bed still kissing her.

"I'll stay" She said to him. And for the first time in months, he smiled.

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"I knew you saw me too!" Y/n giggled. She felt genuinely comfortable with him at that point. A few hours after they were left alone, Draco made sure the Manor was clear and they headed downstairs. They sat on the dining room floor, drinking random alcoholic drinks they found in Lucius's cupboard.

"I didn't-" He hesitated. "I didn't tell anyone where you where, you know." He shuffled awkwardly on the floor.

Y/n smiled sweetly. "I know. But how did- how did he know where we were?" She asked.

"Well, because you're a dumb fuck, you wrote me a drunken letter telling me you were at the Bloodstone Mansion."

"And you showed him?"

"Course I didn't fucking show him! You'd sent it to the Manor, not me. Pettigrew obviously found it and well...my heart stopped. Vol- he, said 'we've found them', and I just remember everybody rushing out the Manor. Including your Father. He seemed the keenest to find you."

"But they found us in the forest?"

"You used floo powder, right?"

"Yes?"

"They must of heard you say the Forest of Dean before you left" He sighed. Y/n sat in realisation and what she had done.

I'm the reason we got caught.

Her lip started to quiver and her eyes started to string. She quickly wiped the tears before saw.

"It's not your fault. You and them stupid pricks were bound to be found."

"What? You think they wouldn't of got caught if it wasn't for me!"

"For fuck sake! You lot were probably running all over the place! I'm surprised it took this long-

"It was my fault Draco! Stop blaming it all on them-

"You don't get it do you? Always blaming yourself for fuck all-

"It was my fault-

"No it wasnt!"

"YES IT WAS!" She screamed.

Draco laughed and threw his head back. "We've been together after nearly a year and you're already arguing with me?"

Y/n wiped her frustrated tears and sniffled. "Not my fault you're an argumentative bugger."

"You tend to piss me off Bloodstone" He laughed. Y/n looked at him from across the room.

Slowly, Draco got up from the floor, and held out his hand. She looked at him in confusion but took it and stood up.

"Look. I don't want to waste any more time than we already have. We're in the middle of a war for Christ sake, we could be ripped away from eachother at any given moment."

"Again" She whispered.

"Exactly."

Draco pushed some loose strands of hair out of her face. He stared at her for a while, admiring how beautiful she was to him. Y/n kissed him, never wanting to let go. When she pulled away, all she could see was his gorgeous face. The moonlight shone upon his features, making his eyes glisten and porcelain skin look pretty damn perfect.

"Draco?"

He sighed but laughed. "Must you interrupt everything?"

"Well, I never got to have a dance with you at the Yule Ball."

"And?"

Y/n slid out of his grip. She walked over to the radio and tuned it to the perfect song. Walking back over with a smile, she took his hands into hers. "You spoke about not having much time left, and I've always wanted to dance with you."

He didn't say anything. Draco twirled her around the dining room dramatically, making her errupt with laughter. Y/n pulled in and out of his frame, laughing and smiling. He grinned, watching the most amazing girl look so happy right infront of him.

Following their dance, y/n placed her head on his chest and swayed in his arms slowly. Draco placed a sweet kiss on her head and swayed her body in time to the song.

They didn't have fancy ball gowns on or a flute in their hands; just them on his dining room hall floor, swaying to a song playing faintly.

"I love you" Y/n whispered swiftly.

"Always, y/n Bloodstone."

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It was hard to make out from the cracks in his broken clock, but y/n could tell it was early in the morning from the singing birds and cotton crimson skies.

She turned to her side to see Draco fast asleep. His hair messy but his face peaceful. That was one of the things she loved about him; how peaceful he looked whilst sleeping. Not one frown on that angelic face, just so...calm.

Y/n didn't envy him- she didn't feel calm at all. All night, her head was racing with manic thoughts. Where was Harry, Ron and Hermione? What if somebody knows she was still at the Manor? What if Harry needed her?

Too many what if's.

Y/n rose from the broken bed and walked over to the window. Her favourite time of day was very early in the morning. Nobody was around, the sky would always be a stunning array of sunrise shades, she liked to think of it like she was the only person on the earth.

Turning around to Draco to check if he was still asleep, she saw he hadn't moved at all. It made her wonder when the last time he slept was. All she wanted to do in that moment was crawl back into the warm sheets and tangle herself back in his arms and legs.

If you stare too long, you'll change your mind.

Giving her head a shake, she looked over to his shattered splintered desk and saw some loose parchment on the floor. Grabbing a pen, she dabbed it in black ink and began writing.

Her decision was final. Just like he thought to himself earlier that day, the right decision isn't always the easiest.

Y/n placed the parchment on the pillow beside him and turned on her heel. She'd learned previously lingering around wondering would of done more harm than good.

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Draco woke up with a sick feeling. He forced his eyes open and shot up from bed.

"Y/n?" He shouted.

"Fuck, Y/N!"

He stood up from bed and looked around the room. Turning back around, he saw a piece of parchment on the pillow. He threw his body on the bed and hurriedly opened it.

And no matter how many times he read it, the words stayed. The ink had bled so deep into the parchment he knew it was engraved.

The last words y/n Bloodstone wrote.

'I choose my head.

- y/n.'

T H E E N D

L O V E A N D S N A K E B I T E S

20/08/20- 24/05/22.