-PANDORA-

I would suggest making a list of pro's and con's of dating someone... my friends and I do it all the time *lol*
LOVE reviews! keep them coming! - Love Esme
======================================================================
In Gryffindor tower Harry went to sleep with a grin on his face thinking all was right with the world. While deep in the dungeons Draco tossed and turned in his bed, no matter how hard he tried, sleep would always elude him. He felt that anxious and gnawing feeling that always would come before some great change or decision would occur in his life. He got “the gnaw” as he started to call it the night before he first came to Hogwarts, when he was chosen for head boy, when he made the Slytherin Quidditch team.

The “gnaw” always came before something positive, that was his only solace for the incredible anxiety he was feeling. Everything rested on what she said tomorrow morning. He didn’t want to be so obtrusive as to pin his Slytherin Quidditch pin on her, a clear sign for all that meant the girl who wore it belonged to the player who’s name was emblazoned on it. He would love to see the Silver and Onyx pin with the proud name of Malfoy emblazoned on her chest for all to see. If she said yes, he would obviously give it to her… but only if she wanted t and chose to wear it.

The Gorgonians were waving at him again, he was certain of it. It had taken him all the gold he had saved from his allowances, risked his neck apparating all over hell and back, getting his house elf Roget to sneak into an aquarium in London and up root the strange looking plant. There were a large number to choose from, the gorgonians looked like snatches of hair rippling in the water. He got Roget to uproot one of the more vibrant red ones, deciding it almost looked like Pandora’s ruby tresses.

He charmed a water tight bubble around the plant so that it wouldn’t die. He stared at the plant, basked in moonlight. He had to admit, it did have a hypnotic and relaxing quality to it. “All this for a bloody plant” he grumbled to himself as he flopped onto his back. He watched as the bizarre flower swayed rhythmically in the water, his eye lids were growing heavy and he drifted off to sleep, dreaming of her long ruby tresses rippling through the lake as she was again, swimming naked in.

Pandora was busy with the “assignment” Draco had given her. She was sitting on her bed Indian style with a quill and parchment in hand. She was listing all the things Draco made her feel. It turned out to be a rather long list and she kept a muggle dictionary handy to define all those chills and tingles he gave her.

She knew her mother often spoke of love, and she was often called a love child, though she never really knew what it meant. She loved her mother, mermaids loved one another but they never had variations of love or used it like wizards did. She flipped through the dictionary and out of curiosity she looked up love.

Her eyes went wide from what she read, Draco had made her feel all of these things, they even defined the need you get when you love someone. She thought Draco so strange when he said he needed to see her, now she was slowly understanding. She read through the list of attributes of love : to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for, take great pleasure in, to need or require; benefit greatly from : Plants love sunlight. Her eyes went wider with the next two lines. “to embrace and kiss, to have sexual intercourse with.

She scribbled down the entire entry she found on love onto her list. Next to sexual intercourse she wrote “someday soon?”. She was putting a great amount of effort into her list, that she was going to “sort out” as Draco had instructed her to. She sorted the list into categories. Her list went on for pages but the beginning of a few categories looked like this :

Likes : things on you I like:
Love your eyes
Orgasms your skin
Kisses your lips
Happy your hands, your fingers are so long!
Pleasure your entire body, one especially
Excited your scent
Learning your smile
Flying everything

Dislikes: things about you I like:
Hate your laugh
Anger your voice
Impatience your very smart brain
Yelling your heart
Ignored your love
Lying your everything
Jealousy

She summarized her lists for Draco at the end of her very long parchment. “Dear Draco, I thought about you for a very long time and as you can see, I sorted my feelings for you into lists. I have decided that I like everything about you, even when you are mad, your eyes are so pretty, they look like a storm rolling off the ocean, I love it so! I only dislike these things : when you lie, yell at or hurt me or other people. As you may have noticed under the list that says “love” I have sorted that feeling out and it took a very long time. I think I love you Draco. I am very excited if I am, because my mother always said love was the greatest feeling in the world! I am ready for your question.

She worked diligently on her list and once the ink dried she rolled up her parchment and wrapped her pearl bracelet around it to keep it closed. She drew the covers over her and snuggled into the pillow, she felt so strange about the list she was going to give Draco, what if he didn't like it? or thought she did a bad job on it. She was proud of her list and was nervous about what he would say.