What was this new found scenario that was happening between Theodore and Pansy? Her arms around him, Theodore smirked, he hadn't tried to beat around the bush with Pansy. He usually led most girls on, got what he wanted if he wanted anything from them and went on his own merry little way. But Pansy had been a friend before anything and that in itself was different. Not only did Theodore confide in her as he did no one else, but he also was completely honest with her as to his own expectations of what a wife should be to him, which definitely wasn't typical pure-blood beliefs, but Theodore didn't care. He had a pure-blood wife to be, perfectly matched due to their parents doing and well, he wasn't about to let Pansy blindly play a role that not only made her miserable but Theodore as well. Afterall, he had spent his entire life watching his mother wait on his father hand and foot, never at an arm's length away from him, and they of course, had house elves like the majority of wealthy pure-blood families but Draco's father was set on having his mother practically on her hands and knees for him, catering to him like he was some sort of king and for what? Because that her 'proper place' and Theodore, known as heartless and cold to most people had grown to not find any pleasure in seeing the woman who birthed him treated with such indifference when she could be so much more than that.
Theodore had even tried so much as to speak with his father about the treatment of his mother, in which ended up in a disagreement that sent Theodore to the Zabini household for a week until they began speaking once again. Then he had tried to talk some sense into his mother only to have her burst out in tears and tell him that she 'loved' his father and to never speak 'ill' of him again, along with the typical 'you're an ungrateful son, your father has given you everything' lecture. Theodore however didn't see it in that sense has his mother had ultimately given birth to him and not his father, but he learned soon after, there are some things you just can't change, but that didn't mean that he'd expect that sort of woman for his own bride, as a matter in fact he'd be likely to slap some sense into a woman if she acted as his mother did in regards to his father or him.
However, Theodore was a private person. As most of the Nott family was. There were few select families that they socialized with and that was simply it, perhaps because they thought themselves too good for others.
Pansy looked at him and in turn, he returned her glance and then she kissed him, nothing extroardinary, just a small peck of a kiss, but none the less it was progress along their road of becoming husband and wife.
"Oh," he spoke with a raised eyebrow, a sheepish glance amongst his eyes. "Does that mean no poison in my tea now, beloved?"
A cocky smirk crossed his lips.
"You know, even married, I will not make any attempts at trying to reform you into something that you're not and well, you're free to do as you please as long as it doesn't humiliate me in the process."