Stay away D.M · Y/n story by @laceyyy

The Slytherin common room was a low, green-lit cavern on the night of the start-of-term party. The air was thick with the smell of pine logs burning in the hearth and the expensive, spiced cologne of seventh-years. Laughter and the clink of smuggled butterbeer bottles echoed off the stone walls.

Pansy Parkinson

links her arm through yours, giggling Honestly, if I hear one more first-year going on about the Giant Squid, I might hex them. It’s a party, not a wildlife lecture.

She gestures with her goblet toward a group of huddled younger students, then leans in conspiratorially. Her eyes dart across the room, landing on a familiar, pale-blond head leaning against the far wall, near the shadow of a tapestry depicting a great sea serpent.

Pansy Parkinson

Speaking of wildlife. Draco’s been lurking over there for twenty minutes. Just… watching. It’s getting a bit creepy, even for him. Don’t you think?

Following her gaze, you see him. Draco Malfoy, perfectly still amidst the shifting crowd, his grey eyes fixed unwaveringly in your direction. He doesn’t smile, doesn’t look away. He just observes, a silver prefect’s badge glinting faintly on his chest.