The Freedom of Dance [FINISHED!!]

[daisy]

Having snogged many times before, Cissa could tell Al wasn’t very experienced, but that didn’t mean he was a bad kisser, not at all. With some practice, she knew he could actually become a very good kisser, not that she knew whether or not the two would ever snog again. Around the same time that Al got over his seeming shock and snogged her back, pulling her a bit closer with his arms around her waist, Cissa began to realize what exactly she was doing and with whom. However she didn’t pull away, she didn’t want to have to stop and face exactly what she had started.

Cissa let Al be the one to stop the kiss and when he did, she slowly opened her eyes and looked back up at him. She caught her breath as he did the same, wondering what was going to happen now. With her arms still around his neck and his still around her waist, she wondered if he regretted kissing her back, or if he wanted to leave but didn’t know how without hurting her, or even worse, he was going to laugh at her for ever thinking he might like her back for even a second. Because she had, when he started to kiss her back she had thought for a moment that he might actually like her the same way she liked him.

Unknown to either of them, as he looked down at her and she looked up at him, they were thinking the same thing, though not in the same words. What in the hell did I just do? Cissa asked herself. She’d just snogged a Potter…a Weasley-Potter. Her brother was going to kill her, her mother was going to kill her, even her dad will kill her. Thinking about it, Scorpius would probably kill Albus first, then kill her.

Looking up at Al, she bit her lip, “So…now what?” She asked quietly, looking him in the eye.

[[This is making me think Romeo and Juliet a bit XD]]

[mgirl03]

To say that Al was a bit scared would be...sort of an understatement. Every thought that he had brought him more terror. Scorpius was going to kill him, Rose was going to kill him...and Rory, James, Lily, Dad, Mum...everybody was going to have his head. What had they just done?! They had just snogged, and what was worse? He had liked it. He had liked it a lot, and he really, really wanted to do it again. He had a crush, a crush that had seemed to appear out of no where and yet here it was.

Blinking for a moment, he stared down at Cissa until she stared back up at him and asked 'what now?' Well, he really didn't have an answer to that. His mind was too clouded by worries of what other people would say, and if...what if he was a bad kisser?! He had no practice, and she'd probably kissed a bloke before, but he-he was like an inexperienced child! Shaking himself mentally, he forced himself to think about the situation at hand, and not about his kissing skills.

"Well...bloody hell...I don't know," he said softly, still staring down at her. His eyes were drawn to her lips again, and in a fit of recklessness he brought his hands up to either side of her face and kissed her deeply again, but only for about ten seconds before he pulled back again.

"Now...er...well..." Al trailed off, his face flushing again. He knew what he wanted to do, but his idea would never be accepted. It would get them both into a lot of trouble, that was for sure. Drama was inevitable, too. However, before he could stop himself the words were pulled from his mouth as if by a summoning charm. "Cissa, would you like to be my girlfriend?"

[daisy]

Cissa gave Al a small smile at his reply, he was probably having the same thoughts she was about his friends and family and siblings. This was going to be an interesting conversation…if they ever got past the worried part… Cissa’s thoughts cut-off when Al brought his hands up to her face and pulled her into another kiss, though this one much shorter than the first one. When he pulled away, Al looked back down at her, and she stared right back up at him.

She wondered what he was thinking when he hesitated, a slight flush across his cheeks. However, she didn’t have to wonder for long when the words she had wanted to hear crossed his lips. Cissa smiled up at Al, before practically whispering, “I’d love too.”

A small sigh passed between her pink glossed lips before she asked, “What are we going to tell everyone else?” Cissa knew he was probably thinking the same thing. This was going to be the shock of a lifetime to everyone within the walls of the castle, a Potter and a Malfoy going out. Taking Al by the hand, she pulled him over to a newly appeared couch in front of a newly appeared fireplace so they could talk. Cissa knew they would have to talk about everything before they left the room of requirements and faced the world. They had only started talking that day, and now they had kissed twice and were going out. Cissa mentally shook the thoughts out of her head and turned to look at Al.

[mgirl03]

Heart beating wildly in his chest, Al waited with anticipation for Cissa's answer. He was afraid, for a moment, that she might say no. Maybe she didn't want to date him, maybe she just wanted a snog out of him! However, his fears were quenched when she whispered her answer, one that made his stomach jump. She would love to! He...he had a girlfriend! And...she was a Malfoy. Oh bloody hell.

After another moment, she asked Al the same thing that had been on his mind. He tried to think as he was towed to the couch, and sat down next to her, still holding her hand but staring into the newly formed fireplace. After a moment he sighed also, shaking his head slightly. He had to think this through, all the way--think of his arguement, think of how he was going to break the news, everything.

"I...don't know," he said truthfully, glancing at her while running his free hand nervously through his hair. "I mean...everybody will be shocked, to say the least. In particular, my brother, my sister, and Rose will probably go ballistic. So...well, what can we tell everybody?"

He paused, letting that sink in before he said softly, "We'll just tell them the truth. We like each other, we're dating, and they can stuff it if they don't like it..." He trailed off, thoughts on Scorpius again. "Oh, Merlin your brother is going to want my head..." He sighed again, hand still in hair as he rested his elbow on his knee.

[daisy]

Cissa listened to Al’s words and watched as he ran his hand nervously through his hair. That seemed to be a nervous habit he had picked up from someone and Cissa found it always made her want to run her fingers through his hair to fix it. Resisting the urge for the time, she nodded in reply to his ideas.

With a small smirk, she commented, “Don’t worry about Scorp, I happen to know he likes your cousin Rose, so it’s rather hypocritical for him to have a problem with us.” She giggled quietly, “I don’t think Scorp knows that I know.”

“Though, I’m pretty sure that your whole family will want my head, and the same for my family and yours.” Cissa sighed, and with a small smile she continued, “Things are going to be rather interesting, aren’t they?” Silently she added, at least I wasn’t sorted into Slytherin, that would’ve made all this even harder. Smiling at her boyfriend (wow it was weird to be able to think of Albus Potter like that), Cissa figured she’d just take things as they came. If her mother or dad sent her a howler, she’d take it in stride, just like she did in her first year when she was sorted into Ravenclaw instead of Slytherin, she mentally shook her head, refusing to think about that for the time. She wasn’t going to randomly start crying here while trying to figure out how to tell the world that a Potter and Malfoy were dating, as she sometimes did when thinking about her mother and what happened in her first year.

[mgirl03]

So Cissa knew about Scorpius crushing on Rose? Hm, interesting...well, that gave Al a little hope--he hated to do it, but he could always bribe Scorpius with the help with Rose, as long as that meant a little less drama and his head still attached to his neck. He decided to tell Cissa that he knew too, so he straightened again and took his hand out of his hair, placing it on his knee.

"Yeah. he actually came to ask me for help," Al said slowly. "With talking to Rose, that is. So he, at least, has nothing against us....but as for the rest of our families...yeah, they're going to make this quite interesting..."

Tapping his fingers against his knee for a moment in silence, he allowed his gaze to wander back over to the fireplace. Staring into it a for a bit, Al tried to collect his thoughts and his courage at the long road that lay ahead. So..he would just tell his family, one by one or all together at the same time. He'd rather get it over with--he could handle what they threw at him, and even a howler from a his family wouldn't stop him from dating Cissa. He was going to do what he wanted, what made him happy, and he knew that this girl wasn't anything like the other pureblooded fools, and that she didn't follow Bellatrix.

Even though this was the first time the two had talked face to face, Al still knew a lot about Cissa. She was sorted into Ravenclaw, and had heard many a rumors that she was disgusted by Bella's morals and ways. So at least he wasn't dating a death eater, althoug he knew his family wouldn't see it that way.

"I think maybe...we should get back to our dorms," Al said after a moment, looking at her again. "I don't think I'll be letting anybody know tonight but...wouldn't you agree that we should just tell people as soon as possible? Hiding it would never work, and it would only make the enevitable explosion worse." He watched her, waiting patiently for her thoughts on the situation.

[daisy]

Cissa smiled at the thought of how much inner-struggle it would probably take for Scorpius to actually ask Al for help with Rose. She had had to figure it out for herself, and she was his bloody sister. “I’m glad that he’s actually going to try to talk to her, he’s liked her for ages.” Cissa commented with a smile. Her smile slid off of her face when she added, “He was afraid of our mother and dad’s reactions for a while there, but now he’s finally doing what he wants. It’s nice.”

Pulling herself back to their current problems, Cissa knew she would face crap from her mother at the very least, and definitely her Aunt Bellatrix once she found out about Cissa dating a Potter. She shivered slightly at that thought, but didn’t voice it. That was not something she wanted to think about right then.

“Yeah, I won’t be planning on telling anyone right away…though of course I won’t try to keep it a secret. Those never seem to really work well.” Cissa nodded in agreement. “And yeah, we probably should head back to our dorms…it’s almost dinner I think, and I want to change out of these before that.” She added, gesturing to her leotard and tights. Though just as she said that, a pile of her own clothes appeared in one of the corners.

[mgirl03]

Al gave a small, relieved nod at the fact that she wasn't planning on telling anybody tonight either. He wanted one more night of peace before the whole school exploded into dramatic chaos--he knew that was what this relationship would lead. to. At her mention of wanting to change out of her clothes, Al gave her hand a small squeeze and then dropped it, standing up as he looked down at her. He ran his hand through his hair again as he gestured towards the door with his now free left hand.

"I'll just leave you to it, then," he said, slightly awkwardly as his hand dropped from his hair to the back of his neck. He rubbed it, contemplating something before adding, "I would walk you to dinner but...I hope you don't mind, I should go, I have something that I need to take care of." And this wasn't a lie either--he had just thought of somebody who he would have to tell tonight, and before dinner, because otherwise she would kill him.

Leaning down quickly, he connected his lips to hers again, wanting to feel them mold agaisnt his one last time. He found that he rather enjoyed kissing her, as every time it brought a pleasant tingling to his lips and made his stomach squirm a bit. Pulling back, he smiled down at her before shoving both hands into his pockets. Any other guy might have done something romantic, like touch her hair or her face--but Al wasn't any other guy. He was still awkward and nervous around girls, even if Cissa Malfoy was now his girlfriend.

Hoping he wasn't being rude, he waited to see if Cissa would object to him not accompanying her to dinner. It wasn't like he was trying to avoid being seen with her...although in the back of his mind he knew that it was a very tiny part of it. No, the real reason was that he needed to talk to Rory right now, before dinner.

[daisy]

When Al stood after giving her hand a quick squeeze, Cissa did the same, knowing he was about to go. A small giggle escaped her lips when she realized how nervous he still was around her. She supposed those kinds of things didn’t just disappear like that, she would have to slowly get him more used to being around her, as his girlfriend.

Cissa kissed him back when he brought his lips back down to hers for a short moment, before pulling away again. She smiled up at him, thinking that it seemed his kisses were better than anyone else before, even though he clearly wasn’t as experienced as some of the guys she had kissed before. Cissa felt kind of bad for comparing them…but as Al came out on top, it wasn’t that bad.

Her smile turned into a grin when she saw him shove both his hands into his pockets. Seeing he was waiting for a reaction to his earlier words, Cissa told him, “Don’t worry about it, I’ll see you later. And since we still want to keep it a bit of a secret for now, it’d probably be better for us not to be seen walking to dinner together.” She pecked him quickly on the lips before adding, “See you tomorrow?”

[mgirl03]

Trying not to let out another sigh of relief that Cissa wasn't offended or angry with Al for not walking her to dinner, he gave a small nod and smiled down at her. Her peck to his lips made his smile widen a bit, and he almost took his hands out of his pockets to touch her hair and face. Almost, but decided in the end that there was no way he could do that. He wasn't that good with girls yet.

"Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow," he said softly, smiling at her one last time before he moved towards the door, hands coming out of his pockets so that his arms could swing naturally at his sides. He opened the door, stepping out into the hallway after he checked to make sure that he wouldn't be seen. Once outside, he let the door closed and watched as it morphed back into stone, deciding that the room was so cool that he wasn't even going to tell Lily and James about it. No, it would be so much more fullfilling if they found it for themselves, like he had.

"They may even get a relationship out of it," he murmured to himself, shaking his head as he hurried in the direction of the Gryffindor common room. Hopefully Rory was somewhere around, so that he could tell her, at least, about the events that had just happened. And see if his own best friend would accept Al's totally unexpected news.

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