The last of my choked breath's left my empty body, despite the fact that my deepest secret had been spoke loud enough for Draco to hear I hadn't yet processed any of the other information that had been shared. I was devastated, something that I shared about my darkest time had been used against me to win an argument. Something so life changing was chucked into the world like it was nothing.

"Ivy...look at me." I heard his words but my body couldn't process to respond. "Ivy. Look at me now." This time his voice wasn't soft, it was stern and harsh and something about it made me stand up right just at his tone. I looked up to him immediately. His face was serious but not with the usual anger that smoked across the surface it was more of a concern.

"Draco..I don't even know what to say. It's not..it's not what it sounded like..I mean..." I played Harry's words over and over in my head like a record. Each time it cut deeper. Then like a flash his whole speech synced in my head...'your father a death eater'....'your father a death eater'....'death eater'. "Draco..your..you..Harry what he said..that wasn't true.." my eyes were darting around as my anxiety flooded my body. "That's not true..Draco.."

I backed away from him, with each step I took back Draco took one forwards. What Harry said couldn't be true. I knew my family weren't perfect but my sister was never a death eater...she was very ill and he took advantage of her. She never even in her darkest time would of committed to that. Not him.

"My sister...she was never a death eater Draco. She would never of done that..Harry doesn't know what he's talking about. He twisted what I said but your father...did he twist that...tell me that's no true." I carried on cautiously stepping backwards until I hit the rock hard wall behind me. Draco followed me until we were inches from each other.

"Why does that concern you Ivy. My father has nothing to do with me. Whatever he does is nothing to with me..let alone you" he'd returned to the Draco that was no longer out of my dreams.

"It doesn't..I just I mean it's...you know who...that's not just nothing Draco" he huffed loudly and began walking in the other direction. "Draco?! What are you just going to walk away from me?! Draco?!" He turned quickly on his heel, his face was like thunder. Before I could catch my breath he was already in my face.

"If this is a problem Ivy, walk away. I'm not going to stand here and tell you everything is fine and nothing is wrong because it's not Ivy. By the sound of things your life isn't perfect either. What I will tell you is..." he took a deep breath. I could see the struggle in his face trying to get the next words out of his mouth. "I'm still stood here Ivy. Whatever is going on in your life I'm still stood here. I'm not asking for you to explain yourself Ivy because none of that matters. I'm stood here with you and I'll stand here with you for as long as you want me to. Whatever you are thinking of me right now, trust me I've had it before but I want you to be different Ivy. I need you to be different. I want you to be mine, through whatever and if you can't do that then that's fine but I'm asking you to walk away from me now. So now it's up to you. You need to decide."

Draco's words were spiralling around my head. This is everything I had dreamed of hearing but never did I ever want to be in this scenario...never was I asking to be with him despite knowing nothing about his family nothing about his connection with..with you know who. Knowing nothing about what the hell was going on with him but...as I looked up to his face....he was mine...whether I chose it or not my heart already had. He was mine and I was his. He was asking me to put everything I believed in on the line for him...but even though every small piece of decency I had left in my body told me to run...my heart told me to stay. He was home. He was safe. He was fucked up and we were toxic but he was me..he wasn't a crush or a high school sweetheart. He consumed me, he gave me feelings I had never dreamt of. I couldn't lose him but this was it now Ivy. If you agree this was it, whatever you find out you work through because he would stand by me and I will stand by him...always.

I threw my arms up around his neck, it took a couple seconds for his body to relax and loosen under my grip. He reciprocated my action by throwing his arms around me. So tight it took my breath away. Whatever this was and whatever this would be this was us. Together. He pulled back and pulled my face into his hands. His face looked over mine for any sense of regret before pulling me into his.

I was wrapped up in his lips, his mouth moved with more passion than ever before. The way he held was like no other time. I felt I could break beneath him at his overwhelming power. I knew this is what he needed, what he longed for...he needed me like I needed him and that was all I could ever ask for. I wouldn't be alone...