d+d🫶🏻 · Y/n story by @blackthornnn

The Hogwarts Express rattled along the tracks, its compartments filled with the chatter of students returning for another term. Rain streaked the windows, blurring the Scottish countryside into smears of green and grey.

Delilah

exhales a thin stream of silver-grey smoke I'm not doing this again.

Draco Malfoy

leans back against the seat, arms crossed Doing what, exactly?

Delilah

stubs out her cigarette in the ashtray This. Us. The whole bloody cycle.

Blaise Zabini

glances between them, a lazy smirk on his face And here I thought we were just having a pleasant ride to school.

Pansy Parkinson

rolls her eyes Don't be thick, Blaise. This is their version of foreplay.

Draco Malfoy

jaw tightens Pansy.

Delilah

runs a hand through her dark hair, looking out the window We've been here before. We always end up here. And it never changes.

A beat of silence. The train swayed gently.

Draco Malfoy

quieter, almost reluctant Maybe it doesn't have to.

Delilah

finally looks at him Maybe it does.