(y/n) - your name

(y/l/n) - your last name

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It was the dead of night as students were all fast asleep in their beds after a long day of classes, one particular student still awake. (Y/n) was hiding under her covers with an open book on her lap and her wand casting a low glow so she could read. She couldn't sleep lately and just tried to get herself to pass out while reading but it had become way past midnight. She jumps when she hears low chittering, something hitting against the window in the girl's dorm and she pulls down her covers and stops casting her spell to see Hunter hovering outside with a letter in his beak.

The Hufflepuff quickly jumps out of bed, using a chair to climb on to open the window and let the owl in. "Hello there Hunter." She whispers as the owl coos, hopping on the table in front of her. She chuckles lightly and pets the happy owl, opening her other hand to reveal his favourite treats. "What do you have here for me?" Hunter drops the letter and bounces over to eat his treats, (y/n) opening the letter to see that it was from Draco.

Princess, are you awake? Come to the kitchen.

The girl smiles as she puts the letter away in her trunk, letting Hunter rest on her bed as she sneaks out of the Hufflepuff dorms. She quickly leaves the house, closing the doors behind her quietly and looking out to see if Filch was anywhere before creeping to the kitchen. She opens the door slightly to see her boyfriend already inside with different ingredients and equipment on the table.

"What are you doing?" Draco lets out a shriek as he jumps in fright, turning around to see (y/n) laughing lowly by the doorway.

"You need to stop sneaking up on me like that!"

"I can't help it. It's a skill." She shrugs, closing the door behind her as she walks up to him. "Why are you awake this late?"

"I should ask you the same thing." The Slytherin raises a brow at his Puff, crossing his arms.

"I couldn't sleep. You?"

"I wasn't tired either. And I was bored so I thought we could make something."

"Ooo! Like brownies!?"

"Yes, we can make brownies." Draco smiles as he kisses the top of (y/n)'s head, seeing how excited she was as she looked over the ingredients. The couple started making the baked sweet, following a cookbook as they measured out the ingredients to mix in a large bowl. Somewhere along the way, they became a mess of flour and sugar, having a food fight with the white powder.

"Draco can you tie up my hair, please? My hands are all dirty." The boy looks over after he dried off his hands, chuckling at the adorable frizzy mess his girl was as she tried to blow her hair away from her face with a few strands escaping her hair tie.

"Come here." He says softly, pulling her towards him and gently pulling the hair tie off. He runs his fingers through her hair in a soothing manner, braiding her hair for her in a neat plait before tying it up at the end. "All done princess." He bums out as he kisses her neck, turning her around to tuck her fringe behind her ears and pushing her glasses up.

"Thank you." She leans up on her toes to peck his lips, the couple feeling the late-night sentiments as he gently wiped the flour off her rosy cheeks.

"Let's get you cleaned up." Draco grabs a damp cloth to wipe away the flour and sugar on (y/n)'s skin, peppering kisses along the way while she flinched from the ticklish feeling and washed her hands.

"That tickles. Stop." She giggles, gasping when he pulls her into his arms for a tight hug.

"Why didn't you use your powers to tie up your hair?"

"I'm trying not to use my powers too much. I don't want to be dependent on them. Also now I know you can braid hair so I'll be asking you to do it more often for me." The Slytherin wouldn't admit it but he was happy to braid his Puffs hair whenever she wanted. The Hufflepuff escapes her boyfriend's kisses to put the tray of brownie mix in the oven to let it bake, moving to make some tea for the both of them.

"Well in that case we should clean this up." Draco says as he nods to the dirty dishes and he laughs seeing (y/n) scrunch up her nose at the idea of getting her hands dirty.

"Nah." She waves her hands dramatically for all the dishes to revert back to their clean selves. "We can put it back at least."

"Lazy." He tsks, earning a smack on the arm from his Puff as he helps her put the dishes away. By that time the tea was all ready and so were the brownies, the couple sitting together at the kitchen table eating and drinking their tea.

"This is really good!" The Hufflepuff exclaims as she eats the brownie with a fork.

"Really?" The Slytherin jumps forward to take her bite from her fork, his girlfriend gasping in annoyance.

"We have a whole ass tray here!"

"Hmm not great."

"Not great!? Boi I think your tastebuds are messed up-" the girl's words get muffled when her boyfriend leans forward to kiss her, his tongue licking against her lips to taste the chocolatey goodness. He hums in delight, kissing her deeper which makes his girl whine lightly from the passionate kiss.

"You were right. It tastes spectacular." Draco smiles slyly as he nibbles against (y/n)'s bottom lip, pulling back lightly before sitting straight to drink his tea like he just didn't pull that move on her.

"You asshole." He snickers at her red cheeks as she hides behind her cup of tea.

"You love it."

"Shut up."

The couple spend their night together, gossiping and talking shit about some of their classmates until they decided it was time to head back to bed. The Hufflepuff cut up the brownies and covered up the tray with cling wrap, summoning a pen and paper to write down a message for the house elves that they can eat the brownies whenever they like.

"Let's go before we get caught." Draco urges as he opens the kitchen door, (y/n) jogging up to him as he exits.

"We're not going to get caught. There's no one here-"

"-and what do you two think you're doing up this late?" The two freeze in their tracks, looking at each other in pure fear, recognising the voice behind them.

"I thought you were making us invisible!" The Slytherin whispers to his girlfriend who winces.

"I wasn't using my powers..." she says lowly, the both of them turning around to see McGonagall looking at them with her arms crossed and an unhappy expression on her face. "Hi miss..."

"We couldn't sleep so we just sat outside our common rooms." The platinum blonde-haired boy tries to ease the situation.

"Even so, students are not allowed outside of their houses after curfew. Now I understand that you both could not sleep but it is not excusable." They lower their heads in understanding. "10 points from both Slytherin and Hufflepuff will be taken."

"Not too bad." (Y/n) whispers to her boyfriend who nods in agreement, remembering the last time they got caught past curfew.

"Mr Malfoy, head to your house and try to get some sleep. As for Ms (y/l/n), I need to speak with you privately."

"Oh, shit..." the Hufflepuff looks at her boyfriend who also had a grim expression on his face.

"I'll see you tomorrow." The Slytherin says as McGonagall walks away. "Come see me in the morning ok. Let me know what happened." He kisses his Puffs forehead before kissing the back of her hands as he squeezes them tight. For some reason, he had a sinking feeling in his stomach that made him very worried. "Promise me." He lifts up his hand, his pinky out and his girlfriend curls her pinky around his.

"I promise Draco." She nods, kissing his cheek before running off after the professor.

Draco was confused as to why the Gryffindor teacher was down in the dungeon's corridor and not where her house is. And why was she dressed in her normal day clothes instead of her night ones? The boy walked silently back to his house, unable to shake off the feeling that something was going to happen.

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"Have you seen (y/n)?" Draco asked for the millionth time to the students around him, every one of them shaking their heads as they walked past him on the docks. He ignored the confused whispers, trying to look over the multiple heads out in the open looking for his girlfriend desperately. She didn't come to see him in the morning or even after breakfast and he grew worried when she didn't even come to see him while everyone was heading out of the castle to watch the second task of the Tri-wizard competition.

Where is she!?

She promised she would come see me!

She never breaks her promises!

Draco felt sick to his stomach, desperately trying to look for (y/n) as his friends pulled him into one of the boats to row across the lake. He had to see her, he had to make sure she was ok! Anxiousness and panic filled his entire body, spinning around to look at the other boats hoping to see her but his heart sunk to his stomach when he didn't.

Something is wrong, very wrong...

The boy was pulled up on one of the viewing towers, overlooking Potter who looked nervous while Dumbledore introduced the second task. He talked about something being stolen from each of the champions and explained the rules for the competition. The cannon fires and each of the champions dives into the water, the poor Slytherin boy leaning his head in his hands. He couldn't focus on the competition, just absolutely worried about his Puff.

The hour ticked by excruciatingly slow for those above the water but it ticked by quickly for the champions, especially Harry as he swam around the Black Lake trying to find what was stolen.

Oh no...

Leased to a craggy rock were four people drifting eerily, eyes closed, bubbles trailing like pearls from their mouths; Hermione, Gabrielle, Cho and (y/n).

Draco watched the water cautiously as the time ticked by, watching the waves crash over as the time for the second task was almost over. Cedric came up with Cho and Krum came up with Hermione. He ignored the people cheering around him, standing up straight when he saw (y/n) burst out from the water and gasping for air just before the clock strikes the end of the second task. 

"(y/n)!" Draco quickly rushes down the stairs, shoving past people as she swam to the edge with a young girl, helping her up on the platform first. "Move!" he snaps at everyone as he grabs a towel, ignoring the shocked looks as he helps his girlfriend up on the platform and wraps the towel around her shivering body.

"Draco..." (y/n) stutters out, feeling so cold and confused about why and how she was out here in her shirt and trackies. 

"You're safe now." he brushes her hair back, not caring that he was openly hugging her tight in front of everyone as he pulled her head against his shoulder. He didn't want to admit that he was scared shitless, absolutely worried that someone had taken her away from him after finding out about her powers. "You're ok..." he stutters lightly, kissing her forehead as he held her in his arms, ignoring how his clothes became wet when all he cared about was his Puff being safe again.