Just The Two Of Us Tonight (Astoria)

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Draco felt so odd. Tonight, he was at home... to relax. No rushing off to the office. No quick dinner with his wife with some brief conversation. No working in his study. For the first time in what seemed like ages, Draco Malfoy, The Minister of Magic, had a night off. It almost amazed him.

However, he knew right away how he was going to spend it, and that was by being a husband to Astoria. He loved his wife dearly, and had hated their times apart due to his work and her work. Some nights he had not even slept in the same bed with her, but ended up on his cot in his office or passing out in the study. He didn't do it by choice. Exhaustion simply took over. But now he was awake, alert, and ready to treat his wife like the queen she was.

Draco had Astoria's favorite dinner prepared and bought her a bouquet of her favorite flowers along with a beautiful necklace. Tonight was their night, and Draco spared no expense for his beloved. At the moment, he stood by the door, awaiting her return home.

ASTORIA YVAINE MALFOY

[ASTORIA YVAINE MALFOY]

One would think being the wife of a offical would be glamorous, the truth was it wasn't. It simply was perceived that way by outsiders because of the social side of it.. The charity balls, gala's, various black tie affairs and being on the arm of someone political would of course appear glamorous it did even to Astoria once upon a time. It had tempted her the thought of being the Minster of Magic's wife and all the prestige that came with that title.

However the cruel truth was notoriety and fame had come to her and her husband at an unthinkable cost, it took precious time, and ate at the intimacy of their marriage notoriety, fame, and obligation to ones office became important things in his life in Draco's life. Least that is what Astoria had felt long ago it was the aspect of being like her mother and her grandmother that had caused Astoria to throw herself head first into her career and why she had passionately drove herself onward with the possibility with being the best professional mother there was.. She knew that if she didn't and rested her soul purpose for existing on her son than it would eventually hurt when he didn't need her anymore.. It was a painful and frightening thought to Astoria the thought of not knowing what her purpose was for, or worse yet not having hers slowly becoming obsolete.

She wasn't expecting much when it came to coming home, after all she now often slept alone.. She recently entertained the thought of taking a lover when Draco's business took him from home over night. Particularly when she began to add up that he was more there than than home more there with Hermione than her.. Yes the thought of a lover circled just to make him jealous or to see if he would even notice or even care.. Sadly the thought ended with with just that a thought because Astoria was just that a good woman devoted to a fault, and there had always only been Draco and the thought of someone else touching her made her feel lewd and disgusted.. So it slowly happened Astoria simply adapted a role like most other neglected wives they served more, they gave more of themselves.. Squib Aid Society, Serving as an Advisory to the Board Staff of St. MUNGO'S and various other committees she busied herself with so she would not think about who didn't need and who didn't love but who DID need her..

So for Astoria it wasn't often that she would not have a free night.. Astoria planned her evenings with that mind as nights alone where painful nights of worry and hurt and speculation, and then eventual guilt at being weak enough to even think it.. So it wasn't a night she was looking forward too indeed she had almost begged Ajax to have dinner so she wouldn't need go home.. However all attempts failed and she resigned herself to going home and curling up with a good book, and perhaps play again with the idea of adopting a child from the orphanage she volunteered with the third weekend of every month.

However the ideas that were spinning in her mind came to a stand still as she pushed open her front door and was greeted with not only a mouth watering smell of a citrus cream sauce but the site of some stormy gray eyes that even after many years of marriage still had the power to silence her words, her breath, and even her heart.

"Fancy seeing you here, Stranger Are you lost? " She teased him as a single tear ebbed down her eye as she realized even still in his long absences she loved that man more than he will ever know.. " Well regardless your a sight for sore eyes.. "

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Notes: Hope it worked.. We haven't played them together at all so I'm just trying here..

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Draco knew his wife was beautiful of course, and always thought that. But he had forgotten just how beautiful she was until he gazed upon her as she walked in. He forgot her eyes, her flowing hair, her lips, how she was the angel or light in what was often an otherwise dark world for him. He took her in his arms and kissed her after she spoke to him. When the kiss was broken, he stroked her hair.

"I was lost without you, have been so for some time," he said, smiling. "I'm sorry, Astoria, for all the time away. I took an oath as Minister, but often it has made me forgotten my oath I made to you at our wedding. You don't know how much I have regretted that. I love you, my beautiful wife, and tonight I want to show you how much I do."

He then motioned his right hand to the kitchen.

"To begin, your favorite dinner," he said. "Followed by a few other surprises here and there."

He then stepped in and pulled her chair out for her at the table.

ASTORIA YVAINE MALFOY

[ASTORIA YVAINE MALFOY]

So easily it happened, that desire to put past wrongs aside, to bottle up every lonely, dismissed feeling she had often felt. Just for one night to been his only want, and only focus. He had that effect on her he always had, and for Astoria she figured she would go to her grave feeling that way.. He held her heart with the even the slightest of efforts, and now when he had put so much into to she was simply caught off guard.

He caught her by the waist and she simply just looked at him in shock and then he kissed her softly and she simply kissed him back. Till at last he broke the kiss like he always did.. He was always the first to pull away.. She looked down as he pulled out a a chair at the table... Looking for her words but with every emotion pumping in her mind she felt at a loss.. "

She took a seat in the offered chair.. " You have truly out done yourself.. My dearest"


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Draco smiled when Astoria said he had outdone himself.

"I only hope it can begin to be enough to make up for lost time," he said. "With summer coming up, I hope you and I can go some place together, just us. Spend a week somewhere alone doing as we please and not what is required of us." He knew that was easier said that done. Every summer the Malfoys did pretty much the same thing as far as vacations- the trip to Greece with the Notts and the Zabinis. And though he enjoyed time with Astoria, Scorpius, Cole, and of course Blaise, he was sick of that same trip over and over again.

"But for now, let us dine and converse," he said. Once Astoria has sat down he seated himself. "Anything you wish to talk about, my dear?" Draco didn't want to bring up work or any other drama either of the two had, but he welcomed anything that had concerned his wife as of late. he wanted her to know he was a listening ear for her.

ASTORIA YVAINE MALFOY