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The Pride of Slytherin - for Draca

Everyone had been shocked when Cassi Potter, the Girl-Who-Lived, was sorted into Slytherin. Even more shocked when it turned out she had become fast and good friends with the Malfoy Heiress, Draca Malfoy and the rest of the Slytherin bunch. In fact, when they realized that Cassi wasn't going to be their martyr once Voldemort rose again in her Fourth Year, she became even more popular among the Slytherin's. The rest of Hogwarts? A bit less so.

It was now Fifth Year and the holidays were upon them. She had the perfect gift for Draca, the Malfoys and even one for an additional guest should he be there. The next day, she and the rest of the students leaving to go back to their families would be boarding the Hogwarts Express to return to London where Narcissa would be, undoubtedly waiting for them.

"Usually it's me who is out here at all hours of the day," Cassi called out as she made her way to the Quidditch Pitch, spotting Draca with her broom.

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Soon they would be home for a month. A month without Gryffindors around. Without having to be treated as if their ambition was a bad thing, something to be avoided and ignored by so many in the school. That month at home though, then they were seen as wondrous things, as children to be cherished and trained. It's definitely what pushed Draca through the rest of the year. That and having Cassi by her side.

Though she would miss one thing. Flying. Even living where the Malfoy's did, it didn't mean it was open for such things as flight, and the school would throw a fit if they learned about it happening off school grounds.

Turning, she glanced towards the voice, one she knew so well, smiling faintly.

"Yes well, I figured if I was looking for you, I would find you here. Well, in that you would end up here eventually."

She had found it at the Dursley's and she, unfortunately, had found it here. Ambition was seen as a bad thing, something to be scoffed at and sneered at. The Slytherins were treated as though at any moment they would curse the other students with some dark curse. Not that, naturally, some of them didn't want to. No, there were times when those infuriating Gryffindor's were too much to take (bloody Weasley) but she wasn't going to give them something to actually pin to her.

Cassi was excited to return to Malfoy Manor and spend time properly training and enjoying the time away from Dumbledore's infuriating twinkling eyes.

She murmured a charm, one that would protect them from unwanted prying eyes and listening ears on the pitch without so much a flicker of her wand. Wandless charms were something the two of them had trained on the last year. "Naturally," she said with a little smile, walking in closer to her. "I miss flying when we're away. You'd think with all the money you Malfoy's have, you'd have your own private pitch by now," she teased her.

Being powerful was so much a bad thing to so many witches and wizards who lived in fear. They feared that which was stronger than them. In the form of he who should not be named. In the name of the Slytherins they would not name, but knew were still with him. Like the Malfoys, and now the Potters. Though so many prayed and waited for Cassi to change sides, to go back to being a "good girl". Draca wished someone would say that to her face. She wouldn't be able to ever breathe as hard as she would be laughing at them.

Draca felt the pressure of the charm as if fell over them, enjoying that sensation, and the privacy it provided them.

"I'll get with mum and maybe by next year," she teased. "Opening in the summer might be nice," she pointed out, though she wasn't sure her parents would let her have it. It wasn't the first time she had asked for it, after all.

"You ready to go home?" Home. This olace wasn't home, but it was necessary. That was what mattered.

At first, Cassie heard frantic whispers after she made her intentions and loyalties clear.

"How could she side with those slimy Slythersins?"

"Who will protect us from Who-Know-Who now?!

"How dare she side with the people who supported Him!"

"I always thought she would realize just how evil they were and ask to change houses. We'd take her!"

That last one had been Weasley. Not that she'd ever want to live in the same house as him. The mere thought made her blood boil.

None of them had lived through the life she lived until she turned eleven. No one saw just how judgmental and horrible muggles could be being confronted by something they didn't know and feared. How abusive. Cassie did though and she had used every bit of ambition and cunning she had at her disposal to change what would come of her once she knew what Hogwarts was and the ability to start over. Be more than the orphan girl with her horrible relatives.

Cassi grinned. "Summer is much preferable than winter," she agreed with a laugh. She knew Draca had asked time and again over the years to no avail. It never seemed to bother either of them much after a certain point. They found ways to amuse themselves that didn't include flying a broom.

"More than ready," she said with a nod. Hogwarts had never felt like home to her. She had heard stories where everyone felt this place was more their home than anything but to Cassi? It felt just as much like a prison as the Dursley's did. Unless she was in the Slytherin Common Room, she felt the castle was listening and reporting back to Dumbledore. She didn't care how paranoid that sounded. The old man was a coot.

Draca had heard the comments as well. They thought it was cute to say it in those sort of whispers that were guaranteed to make sure that she heard them. It had also led to a handful of punishments over the years when she had taken revenge on those that said it. Especially Weasley. Not that he had stopped saying it, or she had stopped seeking revenge. Draca had just gotten smarter at it, and had found her revenge in ways that couldn't be directly linked back to her.

In the end though, Draca knew how she felt. None of them had been there for Cassi. Only the Malfoy's had taken Cassi in after learning what she had been through with her muggle relatives. Only the Malfoys had truly been there for her, teaching her the wizarding world and the life that she should have always had. They could whine and whisper all they wanted, but they hadn't been there for her in the end.

"It is, but the advantage to winter is less people visiting means we have more time for training." Summer meant training on their brooms. Winter meant an entirely different kind of training.

"Me too. I need time away from them all," she said, rolling her eyes. "I'm going to end up punished again over Weasley before the year is over."

At the beginning, Cassi had tried to assure Draca that she didn't need to take revenge on those who wanted to talk about her. But the girl had despite that and it was probably one of the things that Cassi appreciated - that she was worth taking revenge for. Now it was simply a means of not getting caught. She was sure that if either of them were caught, Professor Snape would not take too kindly to it. Slytherins were supposed to be sly and subtle when dolling out revenge.

She felt a smile spread on her mouth. A true smile; one that Draca and Narcissa only really got to see. "Despite how tough it gets, I enjoy the challenges Cissa and Lucius give us," she said, glancing at Draca. It gave her a challenge. One that she realized, knowing she no longer had to hold herself back from learning simply because the Dursley's didn't like her doing better than Dudley, she reveled in.

Cassi smirked. "You just have to do better in not being spotted, darling," she said, looking at the other girl. "Come, let's fly. Then we can go home tomorrow." She could not wait to give Draca the necklace. She had spent months working on it and finally it would be where it belonged. With Draca.

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Cassi was, to Draca, worth so much more. She was worth fighting for, and protecting, even if she knew well that Cassi could defend herself. It didn't stop her though from doing what she felt was needed. Draca had just gotten better at hiding what she was doing, and how, and letting Ron pay for his big mouth.

"It is probably going to get tough too," she admitted, rolling her eyes. "But I'm glad for it. No matter what Dumbledore and the others think, we will be ahead of things." And being ahead meant, in the end, they would win. "We have to help you catch up though,' she teased, smiling.

"I would rather be spotted and punished than any of them thinking they can treat you as a prize to be won,' she said, tones flat and hard. "Let's go then. Tomorrow life is better for a couple of months." No Dumbledore. No Gryffindors. No Ron Weasley.

Cassi was, honestly, impressed by nearly everything Draca sent back to Ronald Weasley in response to his big mouth and irrational flipping out. It amused her if she was being completely honest and she expressed that to Draca if no one else.

"Probably," she agreed. "I have found that those trainings make things here at Hogwarts a little easier in some cases." Admittedly, not all but there were some. Her potions homework was much better than when she had first started. She nodded in agreement to being a head despite whatever Dumbledore and the rest of the school believed. Most Slytherins, as far as she was aware, were more ahead due to family. Cassi laughed and sent her an amused look. "Not by very much," she teased her. "Just when it comes to dancing."

She could be graceful on a broom but take her dancing? She was like a baby giraffe learning how to walk for the first time.

"We look out for our own," she agreed and gave her a grateful smile. "I look forward to tomorrow. I can finally give you one of your gifts." And she'd have Draca to herself for the most part. She enjoyed those times most of all.

Truth was, Ron had helped Draca hone a lot of her skills. Not that he had ever meant to, but in pushing her as he had, in treating Cassi the way he had, he had encouraged Draca to do better, do more, and to not get caught in doing it. She should thank him one day... with another hex.

She nodded then, knowing the lessons echoed some of their lessons at Hogwarts, which put Cassi, and Draca, ahead of the game as well. "Now come on. Dancing is really not all that bad. Is it?"

She batted her lashes at Cassi, unable to help but smile. She rather enjoyed those lessons, and made no effort to hide that.

"That we do, and tomorrow things get better." Draca perked up then. "Do I have to wait?"

Cassi glanced over at her before laughing softly. "No, but only when I get to dance with you are they tolerable," she teased her with a smile. "You're much more graceful than I am." It was one of the few things where Draca was naturally better than her at it and she was more than okay with that.

The other lessons? The other lessons they were fairly well matched. She rather liked them, honestly. They kicked her arse, literally and metaphorically, but she felt stronger afterward. Far more capable. Something she was sure Dumbledore simply would not stand for by any means.

"Tomorrow things get much better," she agreed then laughed. "Yes, you have to wait. It'll be waiting for you when we get home."

"It can't be that bad," she said. Given she wouldn't dance with anyone but Cassi though anymore, maybe that was why she thought it was not so bad. She definitely thought being with Cassi made it so much better. "I promise I'll make sure it's not that bad at all," she offered, smiling at her, wanting Cassi to enjoy any time they might spend together.

"Tomorrow so much better. I think you can handle things until then," she said with a smile. "Can't you?"

"They're not that bad when I'm dancing with you," Cassi said with a smile. She didn't mind her lessons so much when she got to do them with the other girl. Dancing was even enjoyable when she danced with Draca because Draca just knew what to do. She smiled brightly. "I'm holding you to that, Ms. Malfoy," she teased her.

"I do believe I can. The question is, can you," she asked with a playful smile, reaching out to tug on a strand of her hair.

"Well, I would suspect when you're doing just about anything with me. I'm a Malfoy, after all." And though she played that card, she didn't entirely believe it when it came to Cassi. They were different, and she was different from everyone else out there in Draca's mind. She was so much more than the rest of them were or could ever be.

"Why would you challenge me in that way? Do you think I'm incapable of handling anything put to me?"

Cassi laughed and shot her a wide smile. "Oh, that is the only reason," she teased her with a little wink. But it wasn't the only reason. Not in the least. It was all about Draca herself. Something she had started to truly realize at the beginning of the year.

"Because I know you can't resist a challenge, my darling. I absolutely know you can handle anything and everything put in front of you. Now, let's see if you can beat me across the pitch. Up for it?"

"I'd like to hope there's other reasons, more personal reasons," she teased, liking that look on Cassi's face. Confidence looked so good on her, after all.

Damn but those challenges worked well on her. Shifting, giving them both a bit of distance to pick up speed. "I'll even let you count us down."

She pretended to think about that with a drawn out hum. "Mm, nope - only reason," Cassi gave her a teasing smirk. It definitely wasn't by any stretch of the imagination and she was sure Draca knew that as well. "Although, I do admit, your wit and flying skills are high on that list..." And she was beautiful.

Absolutely beautiful.

"How sweet of you," she said with a laugh and shifted onto her broom. She enjoyed the way Draca's eyes gleamed with the challenge.

"One... Two... THREE! Go!"

Cassi took off into the air and headed toward the other end of the pitch.

Oh but that makes Draca beam. She's used to compliments on her beauty, but that Cassi recognizes other sides of her means the world to the girl. So much more than she wants to admit, but her smile says it all.

That shift was enough though, drawing herself up and gripping the broom a bit tighter, preparing.

The moment three was said, before Go was truly out of Cassi's mouth, Draca launched herself into the air. It wasn't cheating, not entirely. Just anticipating.

Oh but that smile. Cassie felt a warmth spread across her cheeks and along her neck. She loved the way Draca smiled like that.

As soon as she said 'go', Cassie kicked off from the ground and launched into the air, racing off to the other side of the pitch. She loved the way they could compete against each other and still enjoy it. It didn't matter to her who won but that didn't mean she wasn't going to try and beat the other girl!

She couldn't wait to spend some much needed time away from Hogwarts with Draca. It would help tremendously being away.

Edited 2017-11-08 02:42 (UTC)

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