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_prettyparvati (_prettyparvati) wrote in veritaserum_rp,
@ 2013-03-19 00:19:00

Who: Draco and Parvati
When: One week after Engagement
What: The newly reunited couple find keeping silent about their engagement harder than it looks. Protecting the ego of the wizard Draco edged out doesn't seem so important in the face of such sparking love.

Summer was the season for purebloods everywhere. It was the season of courting, of meetings and all sorts of scandals. Only two weeks had passed since the Dragonpox Ball, the night of Parvati's event triumph and the evening where her life changed back into a fairytale, and the new couple found themselves at another vast event. The Goldstein's were celebrating their 50th anniversary together and their manor was bright with guests, champagne and lots of entertainment.

Parvati's stylist had had a terrible time with her outfit. First, they wanted to avoid anything white; too much like a wedding dress. Her split from Jacob Brandon was wildly known, as well as his proposal, and they wanted to do everything to turn other's minds from the event. Second, nothing black - it would seem like mourning. Third, nothing red or particularly sexy - with her engagement to Draco soon to be public knowledge they wanted to avoid any chance of negative press.

So, innocent and girlish they had decided on an expensive chiffon gown. Standing demurely beside a few friends, Parvati dared a glance across the room at the blonde man she would soon call her husband. She wondered if he would notice that, with such constraints on what she could wear, she had chosen something that would imply the choice she made a few weeks ago. Green for Draco. His always.

It was so hard to keep her excitement and love in control. Although it had been her request to keep their engagement silent for sometime (in order to help Jacob keep face), she was going crazy not being able to shout it from the rooftops. Thus, Parvati turned to champagne. And lots of it.

An older pureblood witch tittered her apologies at hearing of her broken engagement and Parvati did her best to look both sad and brave - it was hard - that set of gray eyes across the room had her lips twisting upward.

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_dm
2013-03-19 04:16 am UTC (link)

Draco was normally a scotch man. It was a good drink to brood over, a drink that clarified murky thoughts about a business transaction or his family. It was a drink that kept him grounded after a successful merger, and one that took the edge off of a long day.

But after proposing to Parvati, scotch wouldn't do. The champagne that was being passed around seemed much more appropriate. To Draco, his secret fiancee's laughter was carbonated holiness, and the bubbly wine was really the only thing he was willing to pair that joyfulness with.

"How do you feel about Parvati Patil's recent broken engagement?" a wizard asked him, puffing away at a cigar and trying to evaluate the blonde's face. "You should probably express your condolences publicly, so that you can present yourself as a gracious gentleman."

"You think that'd be a wise idea?" Draco asked, eying Parvati's lower lip distractedly. "It wouldn't be better to leave her alone?" he added with false innocence.

"No, you want to present yourself as magnanimous, with good intentions."

Smiling to himself, Draco took another sip of champagne and tilted his head arrogantly. As humbled as he was from having lost Parvati, and as grateful as he was to have her back, Draco Malfoy was still Draco Malfoy, and he felt like king of the world.

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_prettyparvati
2013-03-19 04:35 am UTC (link)

Over across the room, in the absence of music (the band had taken a break), a few young witches had gathered together.

"Come on, Parvati. It's just us here - tell us the truth - people are saying Draco Malfoy showed up at the Ball and that's the reason why-"

Parvati cut a curious Millicent Bulstrode off quickly, her cheeks warming. "Yes, Draco did come - he had heard of the events and wanted to make sure I was alright, nothing more than that. We are just friends."

"Friends. Right." Hannah Abbott snorted. With the younger generation, the tales of Draco and Parvati had been well known and widely admired.

Parvati desperately wished Dina hadn't caught a flu, she could have really used her best friend's eternal support.

Astoria Greengrass smiled slowly, "If you're just friends then I don't suppose you would mind if I asked him to dance?"

Smoothly and without a trace of the homicidal rage she felt inside, Parvati barely blinked, "Go ahead." She reached for another flute of champagne, a flicker of amusement calming the anger. Draco's ring was warm against the soft skin above her breasts - she knew who he belonged to at the end of the night.

"Alright, I shall." Astoria's trick hadn't panned out, but the girl took the time to stride over to the men, elegant and pretty, aiming straight for the Slytherin.

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_dm
2013-03-19 04:47 am UTC (link)

"It appears Miss Greengrass has her sights set on you," the older wizard chuckled, patting Draco on the shoulder. In response, Draco tilted his head to eye the young witch up and down. Astoria Greengrass was very pretty, in an empty sort of way. Good arm candy, but nothing compared to--

Well, that's what Parvati was, right? Might as well say it.

Nothing compared to the love of his life.

But being polite, he decided he would grant Miss Greengrass a dance.

"So, Draco," Astoria began slyly, trying to think of something clever and flirtatious to say. Cutting her off with an eye roll, Draco took her by the upper back and led her onto the dance floor.

"I hear you had an exciting spa vacation in Bali, why don't you tell me a long and detailed story about that?" Draco suggested, his sarcasm unnoticed by Astoria. As the young witch launched into a tale that required absentminded "Oh really?" and "That's nice" responses in return, Draco caught his fiancee's eye over Astoria's pale shoulder.

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_prettyparvati
2013-03-19 04:59 am UTC (link)

Draco's wry glance had Parvati smiling into her champagne flute, the bubbles tickling her nose. She was fairly certain Astoria was engaging him with tales of her trip to Bali, and having had to live through that herself, found the whole thing rather entertaining.

As Astoria reluctantly let go of Draco at the end of the song, Parvati couldn't help herself. She picked up her pocket fireplace and touched it with her wand.

A few seconds later, Draco would be alerted of a text message. A small scroll popped out of the mobile fireplace, reading only:

You make a cute couple. ;)

Parvati made sure to flutter her eyelashes at him when he glanced up at her.

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	_dm 2013-03-19 05:04 am UTC (link)
	Draco snorted as he read the text. Taking out his own wand, he responded: "Of course. I'd make a cute couple with anyone." Grinning, he glanced to see Parvati's reaction before sending another text. "But you're the only one for me." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_prettyparvati
2013-03-19 05:13 am UTC (link)

She raised an eyebrow at his cheeky response before a radiant smile burst from plush lips. In an attempt to squash it, the young witch pinched her lips together in a strange pucker.

"Eat something very sour?" Ignatius Malfoy, Draco's younger brother and possibly the only younger wizard here who knew of their engagement, teased.

Parvati blinked at him as Hannah Abbott began to blush.

"Not quite. Hello, Ignatius, how are you?"

"Better than you, I heard. My dear lady, allow me to be a gentleman and ask you to dance?" His gray eyes twinkled in amusement.

"That would be very nice." Parvati agreed.

As the two waited for the next song to begin, Hannah tittered over the blonde. "Ignatius, the last I heard you were touring Europe. What brought you back?"

"Oh, just some big merger my brother has gotten us into." Iggy explained with a laugh, "Lots to do. Come along, Ms. Patil -" He swept her onto the floor with a flourish and a few of the gossipy witches and wizards relaxed. If she was dancing with the brother of the wizard she was rumored to be with, it couldn't be true - everyone knew how jealous Draco Malfoy was.

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_dm
2013-03-19 05:19 am UTC (link)

Indeed, Draco Malfoy was jealous. But he was happy and in love.

Which meant that he would beat Iggy to a pulp later, in the privacy of their own home, rather than in front of the whole crowd.

Eying his brother's hand and ensuring it didn't drop to Parvati's lower back, Draco sent Parvati another text message.

"Tell Iggy that I won't use magic when I smash his face in later. I've mellowed with age."

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