Dramione Drabble Christmas Challenge
Lights shining through the decorated leaves of a tree that is only brought out once a year. They shine through, casting multicolored rays that play with the gentle flicker of flames from the fireplace. The gentle flicks of light warming the room with their heat.
The crackling sound of the burning wood is like a siren song to the two figures that enter the room.
Blindfolded, Hermione lets Draco lead her in. The first feeling she has is a wash of heat on her right side, instantly warming her body. She smiles as she feels his hands touch her shoulders, leading her towards the warmth.
“Draco, where are you taking me?” she says with a smile.
“Well I wanted to surprise you” came the reply in the voice that always manages to bring the blood to her cheeks.
He leads her a couple of steps more before releasing her from his touch. At this, Hermione feels that her body is incomplete.
“Okay” he says, “you can look”
She takes the blindfold off her eyes and stares. Pure amazement. The Christmas tree lit up top to bottom, shining next to the roaring fireplace. Laid out in front of the burning wood is a brilliantly coloured red blanket with all sorts of sweets and tarts on gold plates.
“Butterbeer?” Draco asks her as he sits next to the blanket, tapping the spot next to him for her to join.
“Yes please” she says with a smile. “I can’t believe you did all this!” Hermione says with a slight wetness to her eyes.
She watches as Draco pours the liquid from a large silver jug into two goblets
“Well it’s Christmas, I…I couldn’t really think of anything else to give you, so I decided that I would treat you like the Queen you are to me instead. This makes her blood rush even faster. She tries to cover her reaction by taking a sip from her goblet.
“Really Draco you, you didn’t have to” she says, very glad he had though.
“But I wanted to” he says staring at her, studying her figure. This makes her blush as her eyes dropped to a plate of pumpkin pasties.
Draco reached out and took the cup from her hands and placed it next to his own. He then moved his body closer to hers; she could feel the body heat seeping from him into her as she looks into his eyes.
Their faces were close now, close enough that she could taste his breath. The sticky sweet taste from the liquid they had both consumed. She felt his hand gently touch her calf. That’s the thing with Draco, he may put on a tough stern exterior, but when it came to her, he changed into the man that only she knows is there.
Leaning in closer so that their lips were moments away from touching, Hermione closed her eyes, awaiting his taste.
“I love you,” he whispers before crashing his lips onto hers. She responds with the same pressure. Lips moving over and under each other, Draco moves his hand up her calf and onto the back of her thigh, he can feel the Goosebumps forming as she gently moans in his mouth. A slight smile forms on his lips as she does this and she can feel it.
Hermione opens her eyes and breaks away only just. Staring into his eyes, both breathing harder than before. She whispers back “I love you too”.