Counter Dimensions

“So what\'s your favorite color?" I asked Parker.



"Promise you won\'t tell anyone, especially Draco." I nodded. "Ok, it\'s the lightest teal you can get before it turns white."



I laughed so hard my sides hurt. What a girly color!



"What about you; what\'s your favorite color?"



"Neon green."



We were still sitting in the library, it had been over two hours since the Dark Lord had called for Draco, and I was starting to get a little scared. I wonder what it was he wanted? Probably something to do with me. I hope he doesn\'t want me to kill someone.



"A green, really?" I nodded. "Wow! I figured with as much as you hated Slytherin you\'d hate every color green there is. Especially with you\'re new memories."



"Actually being a Slytherin isn\'t all that bad, but neon green has been my favorite since I was little."



He frowned and I knew a memory question was coming. "Do you remember that or is it from that stock of memories that you think are yours."



I shrugged. "I\'m not sure." A tear rolled down my cheek. Before I even had time to react Parker was hugging me. It was comforting but it wasn\'t Draco.



"I\'m sorry, sometimes I don\'t think before I speak, and I always seem to hurt you."



I patted him on the back. "It\'s ok, it was just one tear."



"Rini-" he started, barely speaking above a whisper, but stopped and pulled away from me. "Draco," he gulped, "it\'s not what it looks like."



I turned around smiling, but my smile quickly turned upside down. What\'s he mad about, I wonder?



Draco rushed in and threw Parker away from me into a bookcase sending hundreds of books ontop of him. I screamed and tried to get up and help him but Draco pushed me back down. "Don\'t even think about moving!" I simply nodded and watched as he walked over to Parker\'s cowering form.



"Draco please it really isn\'t what it looked like. We were just talking!" Parker cried.



"I\'m pretty sure talking doesn\'t require you to touch her." He punched Parker in the face causing his eyebrow to split open and blood to trickle down his cheek.



"Draco, man, I wouldn\'t even try to get with Hermione, I know she\'s yours; man, every guy in Hogwarts does. Why would I do that; why would I go behind your back and try to get with your girl."



As Draco moved to kick him I jumped in front of him and pushed him back. "He\'s telling the truth Draco! He brought up my memories and I was crying, he was only trying to comfort me. There was nothing more to it."



He looked me in the eyes and his face fell, he turned to Parker and offered him his hand. "I\'m sorry, mate. I should have known better."



Parker nodded and took his hand allowing Draco to help him up. "So what did our Dark Lord want from you? An arm, a leg, maybe a lung?" he asked dusting himself off.



Draco smiled lightly and walked us into the bedroom to the sitting area by the fire. "He wants to meet with Hermione."



I gasped. "When? I mean I don\'t even remember anything right now. How am I going to meet with him and be able to answer him correctly? He\'ll kill me before I even have a chance."



Draco took my hand. "I told him the same. He\'s willing to allow me to be present and to help you with anything that you need."



My eyes nearly popped out of my head. "What? Why would he be so nice?"



Draco lowered his eyes. "Well considering that he\'s named me his heir and you along with me, I don\'t really think he would want anything to happen to you."



My eyes still hadn\'t recovered from the moment before and now I\'m sure that my mouth was hanging open. "You and I are going to be in charge?" he nodded. "But why doesn\'t he just find a way to live forever? I mean that is why he took over, to rule, and if he gives that to us then what will he have?"



"You seem pretty sympathetic to the Dark Lord to have all those memories of hate for him."



I blushed not really knowing what to say, until Draco wrapped his arm around me. "Oh, babe, I\'m only kidding," he said as he kissed my forehead.



I exhaled slowly and allowed the color in my cheeks to go back to normal. "When is this meeting?"



"This weekend."



"What?!" I felt lightheaded and grabbed the chair arm squeezing my eyes shut. "That only gives us two days! How am I supposed to be prepared for this?"



Draco pulled me closer to him and rested his head on my shoulder and his lips against my neck so when he spoke next I felt every breath and movement. "I\'ll help you." It was almost a whisper and with it being so close to my skin I jumped.



"Babe, could you please not do things like that when I\'m in panic mode?"



A mischeivious smile crept across his face and he motioned towards the door with his hand. Parker obediently got up and left the room and Draco closed the portal. He inched closer to me the skcheming look never leaving his eyes. "How about we finish what we started before I was called away to duty?" His hand rested on my thigh and started moving up.



I pushed him off me and stood up. "I don\'t know you that well right now, much less myself, so I\'m not quite sure I want to rekindle those memories before I get my other ones back."



He sighed deeply. "Fine! I understand. Would you like me to call Parker back in here?"



I looked at him confused. "Why would I want you to do that?"



Draco got up and started pacing in front of the fire. "I know you have feelings for him, you always have and even now when you don\'t even know him, well remember him, you still like him and you\'re scared of me."



I walked over to him and wrapped my arms around his waist and rested my head on his back, my precense startled him and he froze. "Why would I have had feelings for him if I\'ve been with you my whole life pretty much?"



He turned around in my arms and held me away from him at arms length. "Because you always run to him and ont time in 4th year you and I got into a really bad fight and we sort of broke up and instead of us working it out right away you started dating him."



I looked at him through wide tear rimmed eyes. "For how long?"



He turned away. "Why does it matter how long?"



"Just answer the question Draco, how long did I go out with him?"



"Almost a year." Tears flowed from his eyes.



I look his face in my hands and brought his eyes to mine. "It took us a year to make up?"



He shook his head. "No we made up a month after the break up but you thought you love him more than me so you stayed with him."



I let my hands fall and took a step back. "So why did I come back to you?"



"I don\'t want to say because then you really are going to hate me."



"Draco Lucious Malfoy, you had better tell me now or start praying for help!" I yelled causing the lights and fire to jump.



He stepped back. "The Dark Lord wanted us to be together. At first we were forced back together but then I thought things were finally getting back to normal..."



"Until I lost my memory?"



"Well actually no. Just last year the Dark Lord told us that we were to be his heirs that\'s when I thought I was going to lose you again because you started running to Parker again, but I trusted you and I gave you your space when you needed it. Finally this summer I was sure we were doing good again and I asked you to marry me, just to make it official, and you said yes, and now you lose all your memories and think you\'re someone completely different. I can\'t take this Rini, I can\'t take worrying if you\'re going to leave me." The tears were flowing like a river down his pale cheeks now.



I sat back down on the couch and patted the spot next to me, Draco walked over and sat down leaving too much space between us for me to be comfortable, so I scooted closer and took his hand. Giving it a little squeeze I started talking, unsure of what I was truly saying. "I can\'t promise you anything in my current condition except that I am positive I will not leave you. You have been the one who\'s been taking care of me since I lost my memory. Now I don\'t know why I have no memory of my life before, but you\'re here to help me, and I\'m more than willing to learn." I reached up with my other hand and wiped away his tears. "Now I\'m pretty sure there are plenty of things that I need to be taugt right now, so get to teaching, Professor!"



He smiled, although strained, it was still a smile. "You were never like this before." I gave him a quizzical look. "This caring. Before it was hard to even get you to smile, now all you care about is other people and their feelings."



"And do you wish me to become that person again?"



He shook his head and pulled me into his arms, so that I was sitting in his lap, frankly it caused me to laugh. "No I love you even more like this. I had to hide all of my emotions around you because I was afraid you\'d see me as weak."



I smiled and kissed him gently, almost too much so, blushing I turned away. "Your could never be weak. It was me who was weak. If I was the one hiding my emotions and it caused you to do the same, then that makes me weak."



Draco grabbed my face and turned me back towards him. "Listen to me; you are not weak and you never have been. I\'m pretty sure you\'ve beat the hell out of me before."



"Maybe physically, but mentally and emotionally I\'m weak."



He leaned forward and kissed me, sending me head over heels. Was this what it was like to love someone? When had it happened? When had I fallen in love with Draco Malfoy? Was it when he started veing nice to me, when I first woke up? Was it when he kissed me in McGonagall\'s class? Or was it the constant care and watch he kept over me? Had he made me fall in love with him or was it supposed to be like this? Was I meant to think of this for the rest of my life and wonder if I was bewitched or naturally in love? As my mind contemplated this my body took control and my wants for Draco took me to another world.



When my mind finally caught up to my body I was laying next to Draco in bed with only a sheet covering me. My head was rested on his chest and his hands rested on my lower back and my left shoulder, both searing a hole into my skin. In a very mild manner so as to not offend him I lifted my head.



"Did we just do what I think we did?"



"It depends, what do you think we did?"



"I think I just had sex with you."



He shook his head and I sighed. "No we made love."



I just knew that my eyes rolled to the back of my head and that my body went stiff and clammy. "We- we did w-what?"



His eyes held a tiny, miniscule amount of fear. "We made love, dear. Two people, such as ourselves, do not just have sex; we are in love so we made love, naturally." He looked at me almost heartbroken. "If you didn\'t want to you should have told me; I wouldn\'t have forced you to do something you didn\'t want to do." He started to sit up, but I pushed him back down and gentle kissed his cheek.



"No, it\'s not that I didn\'t want it, don\'t get me wrong, it was amazing; it\'s just that I was occupied with my thoughts to even really know what was going on."



Draco smiled in a reassuring way. "Well I\'m sure we could reinact the moment."



I smiled as he kissed me.