The eyes of Winter

Chapter 22...Words unspoken

Draco had left her alone that Sunday night, checking on her as
she slept after his meeting with Dumbledore. He tossed and
turned in his own bed almost all night thinking of what they
had spoke of. He couldn\'t bear to be next to her right now,
the guilt was too heavy on his mind and he knew the Headmaster
was right. He had to choose, one way or another. His path was before
him and he was going to choose the path that brought her to him.
Not to Voldemort.
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The next morning he made his way thru the dark corridors
to her room expecting her to still be sleeping, but when he
opened her portrait door he heard Winter laughing. A beautiful
sound, but what he saw made his blood seem to boil in spite of
himself.

She was on the bed sitting behind his teammate DJ Liu. Dressed in
a long hippie skirt and a black spagetti string top, that pushed her
heavy breasts up and out from her, making a near canyon of cleavage.
At least DJ had his back to her, but as he came down the steps he could
see she was brushing his hair. Smiling sweetly and looking better than she
had two days ago. DJ however was worse for wear, his hair tangled and giving
Winter trouble as she took the knots out as he yelped slightly.

\"Hope I\'m not interupting anything?\" Draco questioned slyly as
her face jerked up in suprise.


\"Malfoy.\" DJ\'s voice was cool until the pain from his head
made him yelp again. \"Ouch Winter! That stuff *IS* attached to my
head you know!\"

\"Stop it DJ! It\'s your own fault, you took it down and slept on
it now face the conciquences!\" Ripping another rats nest tangle thru
his hair down to the ends. \"I\'m almost done!\"

\"What in Merlins name are you doing Winter?\" Draco was trying to get her
attension once again, but the revelations she had remembered as she woke this
morning of the previous nights before held her back. Her face turning crimson
as it rushed back once again.

The dream, the way he had held her and her new found feelings maybe
being discovered, it was all too much. She remembered him rocking her
in his long pale arms humming softly, chasing her nightmare away with his
soothing touch.

\"What does it look like i\'m doing, Draco?\" (Oh shit i called him
Draco!)

\"Looks like you\'re doing what you do best...inflicting pain.\" He shot her a
look of knowing, with a smirk that said...\'I remember. Do you?\'

DJ yelped one final time as the comb broke through his last tangle.
Trying not to catch the tension that on on the air all around them,
he continued to look down at the dark green bedspread. Not really knowing
how this whole scene would play out. Feeling Winter beginning to braid it
now, softening her touch.

\"Don\'t forget, Liu. Quidditch practice after classes this afternoon! As
long as your hair can take it.\" Malfoy laughed, and it probably wasn\'t the
best thing to do.

The second Winter had tied the bottom securly DJ was up in Draco\'s face,
and with a swift motion of his neck had sent his long braid
flying in the blonde boy\'s direction. Within an intant wrapping and
closing it\'s way around Draco\'s throat. DJ pulling it harshly closing
the gap between them.

\"I know my hair can take it, but how about your balls? Quidditch pitch this
afternoon.\"

\"Quidditch pitch.\" Draco replied as he loosened DJ\'s braid and threw it back
at him. Smiling at his friend. This was thier way, rivalry between them on and
off the Quidditch feild had long been between them. Always trying to one-up each
other. it had been going on for years now. Who needs enemies when you have
house-mates?

DJ looked at Winter as he left. Speaking Chinese softly and smiling
in Malfoy\'s direction as she began to laugh.

When she heard her door shut she turned to Malfoy with her hands on
her hips and asked, \"What was that all about?\"

\"Nothing my dear, just some much needed house rivalry. Even if it is with
another Slytherin! All in good fun.\"

She shrugged and rolled her eyes as she began to rummage around her
trunk for something to wear to today\'s lessons.

\"You shouldn\'t piss DJ off like that. He is my best friend you know.\"

\"I know, but what about me Winter? Where do I fit in your world? I learn
something new about you almost everyday, but I never seem to learn it from you.\"

He had done it, backed her into a corner with his questions. No defences to
ward him back, and somehow she really didn\'t want to push him back. It was
only herself that held on now. She sighed deeply, not really knowing what
or how to say what she felt for this man.

Winter started towards him untieing her skirt and letting it fall to the
floor as she came toward him. Watching as his eyes met hers, knowing
the look in her eye. Her long legs carried her swiftly to him, and she
whispered in his ear,

\"You ask too many questions.\"

Draco was about to protest when her mouth found his, but her kiss was like never
before. It was like all her power, her domination was gone. Replaced by the sweet
tenderness that had laid dorment within her. He was losing himself in her as she
moved him to the bed pushing him down on it without leaving their embrace. The
roughness of her hands was gone too, the urgency of her lust for him replaced by
soft exploring of his neck and chest. Looked over before in the heat of passion.

His shirt discarded unto the floor, she smoothed her hands over his now
warming chest, and the hard muscles below it. Quidditch had been good to him
over the years. It had filled him out and now she was driving him crazy with the softness
of this new touch over the parts it had helped him create.

\"Draco,\" she began softly, \"have you ever been in love?\" Her light blue eyes
moving up his body until they met his own gray ones.

\"Maybe. What do you call this?\"

\"A state of utter confusion.\"

He laughed softly under his bre It It was hard to believe that two people
who command control of almost everything they do have no control of th
ow
own over the emotions that filled them. It struck him as funny, and not many
things did.

\"Do you think we have to give it a name?\" He sat up a little to look fully at her.
\"I mean can\'t we just enjoy each other? It seems wrong to label our emotions for the simple sake of trying to figure out what he have. Just as long as we know it\'s there,
isn\'t that enough?\"

She smiled at him. A typical Malfoy statement, but she understood fully. He was
just like her. He just couldn\'t say the words, for that she loved him, and somewhere inside she knew he loved her back. Yet something still wasn\'t right, it hung between
them like a noose. Secrets like shadows are often hard to tell who they belong to.

She could feel the heat building within in her, and she straddled him in one quick
motion. From somewhere deep inside the old familiar feeling began to take hold.
The want, the desire to rule him, to make him beg her for his gratification. She had
never had sex the \"normal\" way, and the thought of it both scared and excited her. Even
though they had come to the realization that each one could love, she didn\'t know just how to express it. It just wasn\'t easy to forget everything and become someone else, and she was detemined not to. Love just wasn\'t in her vocabulary, not until he said it, and if need be she would draw it out of him like blood from a vein.

\"I see someone feels better today.\" He smiled up at her as she continued to
rub up and down his chest, coming dangerously close to other things. Her face mirrored the strange mix of new and old emotion. Calmer more serien, but her eyes still blazed
with the passion he brought out in her.

Winter started nipping and sucking lightly on him, sending cascading shivers down
the back lines of his neck. He let out of soft moan as she gently sqeezed his right nipple.
Running the light pink bud between her fingers, increasing the pressure until he moaned
again. Obviously enjoying the two worlds of pleasure and pain that she brought together
for him.

\"Give in to me, Draco. I will never let you forget your promise. I care not for labels
that others would impose on us. Between us, that\'s where it belongs. Just as we belong
right where we are. You are mine.\"

Winter lips pressed hard onto his, and she sucked at his mouth hungrily. He grabbed her
almost violently, full of need and passion, clutching at her sides bringing her down on him.
Hugging her closely, filled with this strange new emotion. It was breathtaking for him. Made him want to laugh and cry all at once. Never had he been loved, no one not even his parents had truly cared. Now this woman who filled his heart with warmth, and fulfilled his body with lust and pain, his mistress was giving herself to him. Not just sexually, but emotionaly with every shred of heart she had left.

\"Yes, Winter. I have not forgotten my promise. You are my Mistress, and I wouldn\'t
have it any other way.\"

Hugging her tightly again, he kissed her filling her with unknown feelings she never knew
existed. Her lust still present, but subdued by a new feeling. One that made Winter smile inside, a ray of sunshine in an otherwise bleak territory. She had never dared to think her blonde adonis would even consider her as anything else. In only a month he had broke through her personal barriers, and begun to heal the wounds that ran deeper than a river. Never did she think that the moment their eyes first met, he would change her life forever.

She ran her long fingers thru his hair, not pulling this time. Her touch seemed so gentle
compared to before. Teetering somewhere between old and new emotion. Fighting against
each other but making a perfect blend of what he needed. Her touch was intoxicating, as she explored his pale skin.

\"You\'re so beautiful, Winter. \" Draco\'s breath hot in her ear, panting from the long kiss
he had just pulled back from. \"I promise that I\'ll never let anything happen to you. I\'ll defend you with the last breath in my body if I have to.\"

She pulled her head up to meet his gaze. Giving him a questioning look, \"What are you
talking about?\"

He sighed heavily, \"Nothing. Nothing you need to worry about. Just know...you are my world, and I won\'t have it destroyed. Not by anyone or anything.\"

Worry was now evident on her face. \"Now you\'re talking weird, Draco.\"

\"Don\'t look at me like that. It\'s nothing, just me thinking out loud.\" He longed to tell the truth, but could she handle that on top of everything else. Soon she would know, there was no getting around it. Sooner or later she would know of the Death-Eaters, and their plans for her. He would stop it, or die trying. The hands of Voldemort himself would never have to power to rip her from his arms. He finaly had something worth fighting for, and by Merlin he was going to do it if need be.

\"You promise everything\'s alright?\"

\"Yes Winter. I promise.\" Hurting to lie for the first time. The guilt was heavy on him now, and he could not take her right after he had lied straight to her face. He jumped up, trying to retuck his shirt tails in. Trying to think of an excuse. Breakfast, yes breakfast.

\"Ready for something to eat?\" Hoping she would not protest to hard. He was jumpy , hoping also she wouldn\'t notice.

\"Who needs breakfast when you\'re so ediable?\" She teased him, but gave in and began searching for something to wear to classes today.

If something was bugging him, she didn\'t want to think about it now. Draco would come around in time, and right now she wanted to stay in this illusion. That everything would be fine, forever. Yet deep down she knew it wouldn\'t last, nothing ever does. Pushing the thought back as she kissed him one more time.

\"Tonight my dear, something special for you. I promise.\" He smiled at her look of anticipation, as they walked together to breakfast. Not arm in arm as usual, but hand in hand.


****Dear readers, sorry for lack of updates. Had to have my computer tower rebuilt.
Cost me and arm and a leg, but i\'m back and running smoothly. This chapter was kinda
lovey, cause I owe it to my Beta, Julili. She likes to see Malfoy being a sap! But hey don\'t
we all!!! XOXO to Julili. If no one else reads it, i\'ll keep writing just for you. Not to mention
my sanity, but hey who needs 4 years of music you collected!! That\'s right my DJ music
program went BOOM!!! I swear my head is going to implode if I think about it anymore.
Anyway, maybe my spell-check will run right now. Everything else is fine, except my music.
(Grumble Grumble)....Amidda Buddha...Shaolin**** PS please R&R!!!****

A/N...Due to some questions about DJ\'s hair, I highly suggest you watch
the movies \"Once upon a time in China\" with Jet Li, \"Iron Monkey\" with Donnie
Yen, or \"Croutching Tiger, Hidden Dragon\" with Chow Yun Fat... to see what
hairstyle i\'m trying to get across to you. If you watch Iron Monkey you can see
the Kung Fu move DJ slipped in on Draco with his braid. Just a suggestion to
you all...LOL....I know a shameless plug for my other obsession..kung fu movies!
Shaolin