I felt alive hearing the heavy panting coming from Draco. Hearing the desire in each moan he released sent my confidence soaring.

Everything came to an unbelievable finale shortly after I felt Draco's hands wrap around my ponytail yanking me closer to him.

I looked up to him from my crouching postion to his head thrown back in satisfaction. He took a few more breaths before looking to me, his hand reached forward to my face. I shuddered at his touch, I felt his thumb run itself across my lips before entering my mouth slowly. I sucked down on it firmly removing the last of his climax.

He released a sharp exhale in approval. I bit down on my lip hard trying to conceal the enormous smile spreading across my face.

"Mmm, god you are perfect." His breath still heavy.

I let out a slight laugh whilst rolling my eyes. In a sudden movement his hand was gripped around my face forcing me to look him straight in the eyes.

His face was more serious now. "I mean it Ivy, I don't want to see you think of yourself less than perfect ever again. After all..I wouldn't be stood here if you weren't" his classic smirk grounded me.

I couldn't help but laugh at his remark, his arrogance was just another thing I was obsessed with. I'd never met anyone that exuded so much confidence, well maybe except for my mother...she would of liked him. I know that for sure.

"You're a cock you know that Malfoy." I jokingly scowered my eyes at him.

"Mmm Malfoy hey? I like that coming from your mouth. Well I like anything coming from your mouth." The smirk changed to a very sultry smile, he knew he was the only person that could get away with shit like that.

He reached down for my hand bringing me to my feet again. "Well I only came to see if you were ok, I'll be doing that more often." The smile faded from his face slightly. "My father spoke with the Dark Lord today. I tried to ask what had happened but he made it clear that he wasn't going to speak a word of it until tomorrow with you."

"Probably just to make me sweat." I paced my way over to my bed picking up the large oversized t-shirt I had been wearing to bed. Not the sexiest of items but my manic packing hadn't left me with much option.

"What on earth is that?" Draco threw his head back slightly with laughter.

"Hey! Don't laugh! Not all of us have the privilege of looking sexy all the time!" I looked down to my very old huge t-shirt, definitely not my finest piece of clothing.

"Mmm if you say so...now get some sleep. We need to be prepared for whatever is coming our way."

"Yes..it's probably for the best." I sat up onto the bed, a sudden low hitting me like a wave. Knowing I was going to be alone with my own thoughts again and now I was going to have to sit alone thinking of all the horror stories I was going to have to go through tomorrow.

Draco followed me around to perch at the end of my bed. "This is all temporary you know, this will go away and then it'll just be us two. Doing whatever the fuck we want to do."

The smile crept onto my face, just knowing he even thought about a future beyond all this sent a warmth of hope right through me. A possibility of us, a chance at really living. He slowly leaned back till he was completely laying down at the foot of the bed.

"What do you think we'll do? When this is done." I moved my way closer to him resting on my elbows.

"Have the time of our fucking lives."

"Really? Do you not think that this is just going to be our life now? Do you think there's really any way we can escape all this?" I layed my head down onto the duvet so I was only inches from Draco who's face was looking up to the ceiling. We stayed silent for a moment, until Draco moved his head to the side to look into my eyes. He then went on to look over each feature on my face, he said no words for a long while instead he gazed at me with a look I'd never seen from him before. There was love there put it was masked by desperation and pain.

His voice croaked slightly through his whisper. "I promise you there's going to be more to our life than this."

-

The night dragged without him. No matter how hard I tried the only thing I could think of was what this morning would bring. What on Earth he would say to me.

Narcissa came and found me to say Lucius was ready to talk to me along with Draco.

I once again found my place at the table, the same deathly silence filled the room and the glares from Lucius hadn't changed.

"I have spoken to the Dark Lord on your behalf...for reasons I am sure will make sense some day he has agreed to your..allegiance." I exhaled somewhat louder than I had intended. Even though this was by no means what I wanted it meant that I would stay alive at least for now, at least I could be there for Draco. "However...you need to prove yourself before anything can happen. The Dark Lord will require you the beginning of the school year, he needs you to...perform a task on his behalf. Until then you must stay at Hogwarts. Away from Draco, we need as little distraction as possible." He drawled his words.

"What? I-I can't leave Draco. I need to be-."

"Please! Draco does not need anything from you. He needs complete concentration meaning that you are best as far away from him as possible." He went to stand up. Clearly he was finished with this discussion.

"This is ridiculous!" Draco spat his words and flew back his chair in anger.

"Draco-." Narcissa reached forward to try calm him.

"I advise you listening to me Draco, otherwise who knows what may happen to our lovely Ivy."