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A Matter of Time	By : AdaraB Category: Harry Potter AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 7796 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter 18 – The Yule Ball Part 2

Draco was worried. He had not moved from his spot for the last fifteen minutes. He had been watching for Ashleigh to return and there had yet to be a sign from her. Quickly, he walked into the Great Hall and over to where Harry and Ginny were dancing slowly.

“I need to talk to the two of you outside, now.” Draco demanded and led then out to the Entrance Hall.

Once they were out of ear shot, Draco explained what was going on and asked Ginny if she would go and see if everything was alright. Together, the three of them went down to the hall to the girl’s lavatory. Ginny continued inside while they boys stayed by the door. Ginny came out shaking her head.

“She’s not there.”

“I have a bad feeling about this.” Harry said with a look of dread on his face.

“Check the classrooms and the broom closets.” He ordered the two who obeyed immediately.

Draco turned and opened the first door he found which led to an unused classroom and stopped dead in his tracks.

“Draco, did you find her?” Ginny asked him as she saw him go rigid.

“No. I just know who took her. Blaise. I heard him and Pansy going over some plot the other day; they said it was a prank they were going to play on the Hufflepuffs. I should have known that Blaise wouldn’t give up so easily. If it had just been Pansy, I would have thought she was hiding something, she’s not smart enough to plot on her own.”

“We’ve got to find her and fast. There’s no telling what he’ll do to her. He thinks he’s in love with her or something. You two keep looking, I’m going to get Ron and Hermione and Dumbledore to help.” Harry yelled over his shoulder as he ran back to the Great Hall.

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As Harry ran toward the Great Hall he decided to change tactics. He instead ran up the stairs two at a time up to Gryffindor Tower. By the time he reached the Fat Lady he was well out of breath and had to huff out the password in between strangled intakes of air. When her portrait opened, he continued to run up to the seventh year boy’s dorm amongst many stares.

When he reached his room, he immediately went to his trunk and dug through it looking for the Marauder’s Map. Finding it hidden under a pile of parchment, he opened it and quickly scanned it for two names. With his expert eye, he quickly realized that neither was inside the school.

Harry started to panic at the thought of possibly loosing another family member. He knew Zabini fancied himself in love with Ashleigh, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t hurt her when she rejected him once more.

He forcefully made himself calm down and willed his mind to think of where he would have taken her. It dawned on him like the rising of the sun; he didn’t know why he hadn’t thought of it before. The Room of Requirement was the most logical place he could have taken her. The Slytherin common room was full of younger students and the classrooms were too out in the open. He quickly sent a message to Dumbledore, Draco, Ginny, Ron and Hermione via Patronus. After being given his message, the stag leaped away to deliver it as Harry made a mad dash to reach the Room of Requirement in time.

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Draco and Ginny were the first to receive the message as they had made their way back to the Entrance Hall after checking through every door in the hall. After hearing what the stag had to say, they both headed for the staircase in a hurry. Draco took them two at a time as Harry had, but Ginny with her gown and heals had a harder time of getting up the stairs at a fast pace. Finally admitting defeat, Ginny took her shoes off, hiked up her dress, and followed Draco at a much faster pace.

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Albus Dumbledore was dreading the message that he knew the stag would bring. Something had, as he had feared, happened to Miss Grey. He just didn’t know what as of yet. As the stag stopped in front of him, the music stopped and the entire population residing in the Great Hall turned to listen to its message.

“Zabini has abducted Ashleigh. I think they are in the Room of Requirement. Meet me there as fast as possible.” It said in a voice that echoed off of the hall’s vast walls.

There was a collective gasp and then the sound of running feet. Ron and Hermione had started out of the room as soon as the message had been relayed. Dumbledore was quick to follow. When reaching the stairs, Hermione had the same problem as Ginny and resolved it in the same way, placing her black pumps next to Ginny’s strappy gold heels.

With the aid of Dumbledore, they were able to take a shortcut that they had never seen on the map. It was a staircase that was off on the left of the landing on the fourth floor. The three quickly ascended the stairs and were brought out on the corridor of the fifth floor where the Room of Requirement was located.

Harry was already standing outside the door, map in hand.

“I thought it would be best if I had back up, especially since help is so close.” He said as Draco and Ginny came to a halt beside him.

“I know they’re in there, the handle is still visible. He must not be smart enough to require the room to hide their location.” He said with partial disgust. He was otherwise happy that he didn’t think of it because it would have been so much harder to get in rather than just by opening the door.

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He laid her down on the bed carefully, not wanting to hurt her. Her hair had come unbound and formed a dark curly halo around her head. He had never seen her as beautiful as she was tonight. Wanting to start their evening, he readied himself by grabbing his wand and laying the potion on the bed for easy access. With his left hand he closed her nose.

“Enervate.” He quickly put his wand down, grabbed the vial, uncorked it with his teeth and brought it to her lips. By this time she had opened her eyes and saw what was happening. She attempted to keep her mouth closed while struggling to get him to release her nose but she couldn’t move her arms or legs. Unsuccessful, she opened her mouth to breathe. He took this opportunity and poured the potion into her mouth. Throwing away the vial, he clamped her mouth closed so she could not spit it out.

“Swallow.” He ordered.

She held the potion in her mouth in defiance until the last possible moment. She finally conceded when the need for air became desperate.

Satisfied, he released her from her invisible bonds and sat back waiting for the potion to take effect.

Ashleigh had no idea what the pink potion was or why Blaise was making her drink it. As soon as she had though, she felt different. It was a sort of burning desire that she couldn’t place for a moment but then it became clear. It was love. She turned to Blaise where he was sitting back, leaning against the head board. She crawled up to him, sat on his lap and kissed him hard on the lips.

Breaking contact for only a moment, she whispered “I love you, Blaise” and then went back to her work of devouring his lips.

Blaise couldn’t believe how well his plan was working. He threaded his arms around her hips and pulled her up to him, crushing their lips together. As she was lifted from her seated position, she carefully changed her position so that she could straddle his legs.

Blaise moaned into her mouth as she did this, thinking of the possibilities. Slowly his hands made their way down to her bum where he firmly gripped her while moving his tongue in her mouth for the first time. At this Ashleigh moaned and ground her hips into Blaise’ lap, feeling the hardness that was already present there. As Blaise moved his hands under her dress he thought he would absolutely die if he wasn’t able to feel the skin that was so urgently pressing against his thighs. He found her skin to be silky smooth as he caressed her thighs freely; he was just about to move on to her bum when a loud bang interrupted his thoughts. He tore his lips away from Ashleigh and looked around for the sound of the noise.

When his eyes landed on the wide open door, they also landed on a very angry Draco Malfoy. He also noticed Dumbledore and his band of merry Gryffindor's behind him all gasping at the sight they made. Blaise would have cared a little bit more if Ashleigh hadn’t chosen that moment to start nibbling on his neck.

“Miss Grey! Please remove yourself from Mr. Zabini this moment.”

Slowly, Ashleigh turned to look at the Headmaster and carefully got off the bed. Draco rushed to her side, inquiring about her health.

“An explanation would be appreciated Mr. Zabini.” Dumbledore demanded firmly.

“She loves me, not him! She belongs with me and she chose me!” Blaise insisted.

“We shall see.”

As Dumbledore questioned Zabini, Harry’s attention was diverted to his cousin where she stood fighting with Draco who seemed lost.

“You don’t love him, hell, you don’t even like him!”

“I do love him Draco. You can’t tell me who to love!” Ashleigh insisted, crossing her arms in a huff.

“Harry?”

“Yes, Professor?”

“Would you go and fetch Professor Snape? We need his assistance. And ask him to bring along a vial of Veratisearum as well.”

“Yes sir.” He replied as he dashed down to the dungeons.

As he left the room Dumbledore turned to the room of teenagers. He silently put a containing spell on Blaise so that he would not be any more of a hindrance. Draco, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were busy trying to convince Ashleigh that she was under a spell and not really in love with Blaise.

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Harry reached Professor Snape’s office door and knocked with urgency.

“Enter.” He requested, sounding annoyed.

“Professor, we need you up in the Room of Requirement. Zabini abducted Ashleigh and put some sort of spell or used a love potion on her or something. Professor Dumbledore wants you to bring a vial of Veratiserum as well.” Harry said hurriedly.

Snape quickly got up from his desk and when to his supply closet. When he returned he held two vials and exited the room without a word. Harry followed trying to keep up with his professors long, quick strides.

As they entered the Room of Requirement Harry saw that the scene had not changed. Draco was still holding onto Ashleigh’s arms as if he was afraid to let her go while his friends tried to talk some sense into her.

“Ah Severus, thank you for coming so quickly. Now we may question the boy since he is of age.”

“I thought we should perhaps test any vials that may have contained a potion first. If she has ingested a love potion, I’m sure she would appreciate knowing before we question him, if not for the sake of legality.” Severus replied in a silky, knowing tone.

“Yes, that would be best.”

Snape walked around the bed and found the discarded vial on the floor. Picking it up, he took a blue vial out of his pocket and uncorked it. Carefully, he poured the blue potion into the now empty vial and watched for the reaction to take place.

“It seems Miss Grey has been dosed with Amortencia…”

“I knew it had to be a love potion!” Draco stated interrupting the Potions Master.

“that was laced with Aphrodisiac.” The Potions Master continued in a disgusted voice.

“The Veratiserum, Professor?” Dumbledore asked. He was at a complete loss for words other than to ask Severus that simple question.

It took only a moment for Snape to force the boy to drink down the potion.

“Why did you abduct Miss Grey?”

“I needed her alone with me. I love her and Draco had her. I needed to make her see that I’m the one she loves.”

“What were your intentions with Miss Grey?”

“To make her see that she loves me.” For a moment he looked like he was trying to fight the truth serum. “And to have sex with her and eventually get her pregnant so she couldn’t leave me.”

At his statement there was another collective gasp and Harry and Draco lurched forward to attack him, only stopping when Snape held up his hand.

“What potion did you give her?”

“Amortencia with Aphrodisiac.”

“How did you get her here?”

“When she came out of the girl’s lavatory, I stunned her. I didn’t let her fall though. I carried her up here.”

“Is there anyone else who knew of this plan?”

“Pansy Parkinson.”

“What did this plan entail?”

“I would get Ashleigh and put her on a love potion and keep her on it. That way, I could have Ashleigh and Pansy could get Draco back.”

By the end of the interrogation, Draco was seething and ready to pull Blaise’s head off with his bare hands. He was partially glad that he knew that the potion was only effective for an hour though. That meant that in approximately forty minutes he would have his girlfriend back and in one piece at that.

Harry was relieved as well. From what he heard, his cousin’s life was not in danger. Well, except for her love life. He walked over to Ashleigh and gave her a hug. When he pulled away, he noticed for the first time the unbelieving look on her face.

“It’s a lie. I know he loves me and I know I love him. You all just made him say those things so that I would go back to Draco.” She turned to Draco as she said this and then addressed him. “Draco, I don’t love you. I love Blaise. I don’t know why you’re trying to tear us apart but if you’re going to be like this then we can’t even be friends anymore.”

Draco was hurt and he couldn’t believe that his girlfriend, who he knows is being influenced by a love potion, was doing the hurting. He also never thought he would feel this badly at her words especially because of the situation, but he did. He then realized that he had feelings for this girl that he didn’t think he was ready for.

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After another thirty minutes of nearly tearing Draco’s heart out, Ashleigh stood slouched against him crying and begging for his forgiveness at her harsh words. Draco assured her that everything was fine and that she didn’t need to apologize for her actions because she wasn’t fully in control of her actions.

“But I said that I didn’t love you! I mean, I don’t really know if I love you yet. We’ve only been together a couple weeks but I certainly don’t love Blaise!” She insisted, not understanding how he couldn’t be angry with her. She let him touch her for Merlin’s sake.

“Mr. Zabini’s parents have arrived to escort him from the school.” Dumbledore informed them as he walked over.

“You will no longer be in danger from him as he has been expelled, I am truly sorry that this has happened to you my dear.” He said looking somber.

“It wasn’t your fault professor.”

“I will be escorting Mr. Zabini down to his parents. You may go back to the ball if that is your wish or retire to your dorms, the choice is yours.” He said grabbing Blaise by the arm and directing him toward the door.

“Wait!” Ashleigh said walking over to Blaise. She stood in front of him before kneeing him hard in the groin. He slumped over in pain and she stepped back with a look of disgust on her face before saying “I could never love you!”

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The group had retired to Ashleigh’s rooms for a while to make sure she was alright. She assured them she was and so they left leaving Ashleigh and Draco to themselves. Draco took a look around her bedroom while she was changing in the bathroom. When she came out she wore only a dark blue pair of pajama pants and a black tank top. She padded over to her bed and climbed under the covers.

As soon as she emerged from the bathroom, Draco’s heart just about stopped. He took in her clean face, curly hair and semi-revealing pajamas and the fact that she wasn’t shy around him at all. The fact that she wasn’t wearing a bra didn’t escape his notice either; it was rather chilly in the dungeons after all. However, he thought she looked just as beautiful as she had earlier in the evening.

She had asked him to stay the night. He assumed she still felt scared and wanted some extra protection. He had already changed into his pajamas which consisted of black and grey striped pants and a black muscle tank that showed off his muscular arms and chest. He had gone back to his dorm to get them while she talked with Harry for a while as he tried to calm her down.

He walked over to her and gave her a kiss goodnight and prepared to leave the room to make his bed on the couch when she grabbed his arm. He looked back at her and she patted the bed next to her and pulled down the covers so he could slip in.

“Are you sure? I don’t have a problem sleeping on the couch.”

“I’m sure.”

He slipped under the covers and lay down next to her, turning the lights off with his wand as he settled down. After putting his wand on the bed side table, he lay back sighing when Ashleigh wiggled her way under his arm to rest her head on his shoulder and wrap her arm around his torso. Draco was extremely happy with his situation; he had been wondering for days what it would feel like to hold her like this. He thought back on the evening, the good part of the evening, and how wonderful it was. He also remembered a thought he had wanted to share with her.

“Ashleigh?”

“Yeah?” She was still awake thinking about the finer points of the evening trying to get to sleep.

“You know, you looked rather sexy tonight. I especially liked that glossy lip color; it made your lips move so smoothly over mine.” He said huskily, remembering their kiss as if it had just happened.

“Well then, I’ll have to wear it more often than won’t I?” She asked and leaned up to give him a long kiss.

Neither had a problem getting to sleep.
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