Hp: Fairy tale. I love you before I knew you
By
Bubblebear_s
Disclaimer: Everything you recognize is not mine.
Warning: Boy love.
Noted: This is only 3 shot short lovely story for the love of DRACO & HARRY paring for valentine day 2010. A fantasy story, mix up ending, a lot of AU and OOC. Please read and review.
Noted 2: Un-beta and this is dedicated to my lovely friend Jemz-chan.
The war ended. Everyone slowly recover and try to step out of the sadness and live their life in the light era yet he still can't seem to begin his own when he knew that he is going to die in a few years from now.
Chapter1 The after battle.
I didn't know why I'm still alive. Maybe it was because I didn't want any more death in my hands. If Alex didn't force me to accept his offer to be my guard, I might choose to die after my life purpose to finish this world of Voldemort finish. That war took many things from me. Ron, Hermiony, Serius, Remus, Dubbledore and many more names that I will always remember until my last breathe in this world.
"Harry, Harry.." Neville called after he saw the one who he was searching for sat beside the lake.
"Yes,Neville. What is it?" Harry turned around to look at his friend calmly.
"Headmistress want to see you before you go to breakfast, Harry." Said Neville.
"Thanks, Nev." Harry said in a soft voice and smiled a little at his friend before left to find the Headmistress.
After last year, when the final battle was occur, it left many people in a great depress and also in a great relif, too. After all Voldemort was gone. They lose many people in that last battle which affected everybody greatly in the wizarding world especially the news of the death of the great wizard like Dubbledor himself but still every life was continue to go on excepted the life of the savior of the wizarding world, the boy who lived. No one knows the truth about how he could finish Voldemor off. Death Eater fought with the Order. No one expected to live after this battle. Every thing was in a chaos when there was a light; a big warm light that spread quickly around the battle region. Then all of the Death Eaters began to collapse to the ground like they was knocked off by the light and that was left everything to stand still. No one dared to move. Suddenly the group of the mysterious warriors which offer to help the light side appeared in the center of the battle. With a wonder, all of them still had a clock to conceal their face from the world even if it looked more like a piece of cloth than the clock. They were also had been injured badly but that not important much in that moment. The important part was one of them had the sleeping boy who lived in his arms. Harry looked like he already death with his too pale skin and all of the blood that covered him and his barely breathing. The warrior gently put Harry down on the soft grass before they began to disappear one by one. When there was only the one who held Harry earlier left, he stated in a steady strong voice before he also disappeared. "Please take care of him."
/Knock. Knock./
"Come in."
"You want to meet me, Headmistress?" Harry said in a polite voice.
"Yes, how are you this morning, Harry?" Minerva said in a gently voice.
"I'm fine. Thank you."
Minerva looked searchingly at the sad green eyes of her student before she nodded and that was the sign which said Harry now can leave.
Harry smiled softly at his new Headmistress before he left to face the Monday after one week of the beginning of his 7 years.
The chit chat was slowly died down when the Headmistress came in the great Hall with the hood stranger behind her. She walked straight to the teacher's table while the mysterious person changed his direction to the quiet boy at the Griffindor table. The boy didn't look up once with the curious eyes like every one else in the great hall. He just continued to eat his breakfast quietly even with the stranger stood directly facing him.
"My coming isn't surprise you at all, highness?" The hood stranger asked in an amusing deep voice.
Neville and Ginny who sat beside Harry tensed when they heard the clam tenor of the guy voice. True. The war was the worse thing happened in their life but it also taught you many lesson. First rule was not to trust the stranger. They met each other eyes and nod when both notice that the other also ready to fight while Harry was still eating at breakfast like nothing was happening. The hood stranger observed the scene carefully. He smiled under the hood before pretend to sigh loudly.
"You won't let them attack me, right prince?" The voice sound teasing.
Harry stopped his eating before raised his blank face to look at the stranger before he gave a smooth answer out. "May be I will."
His answer made many people both students and the teachers stop still their activity and more carefully listen to the going on conversation between the stranger and their hero. The boy who lived or now the man, Harry Potter, just said that he would let his friends attacking this mysterious guy. This situation might turn ugly if Harry need to ask for their friends assistant. Everyone knew Harry love his peace more than anything else so he wouldn't attack anyone that cause nothing. He was now the most powerful wizard who could do anything he wanted but the only thing he pleading from all of them was just to remain as Harry not Harry Potter, the saviour of the wizarding world. He claimed that Dubbledore was the one who finished Voldemort off when the reporters asked him but his friends and everyone who was in the fight knew better than to believes that. They said nothing to rebuke that claimed because they now respected his being as Harry not the Harry Potter. Neville and Ginny glanced confusedly at their friend weird behavior but their alert attention never waver from this stranger either. They gripped their wand tighter while their friend still nonchalantly played with his cold breakfast when the stranger coming closer. However many people began to get anxious and cautious towards the maybe dangerous stranger. The air became tenser afterward but the hood figure never took any offence of it and stood there relaxingly.
"No,You won't, prince." The stranger said in a confident voice.
Harry sighed and gave assured glance at his friends beside him before smoothly asked his worry out loud. Harry caught his friends curious and worry glance his way sometime but he just ignored it and turned his focus solely on the conservationist with him.
"I will if you don't tell me why you are here? Is something happen? Is he alright?"
"No. Nothing happen in our realm. The High King is fine, prince. But he is worrying about your health because of your willing shred of blood."
Harry tensed and paled a little before he quickly composed himself into a poker face. "It's just an accident." He said in a soft voice.
"Yes. But you are the one who allow it." Said the knowing voice. Harry avoided every one's eyes and began to tug at his now cold breakfast again. He knew instantly that he should drop the matter when he saw little prince reaction. Just for now. Thought.
He shook his head at the acting front before turned to walk straight at the waiting Headmistress and nodded at her direction.
"Student, this year we will have another late tranfers student. He will begin his 7 years here with the Griffindor."
The hood stranger began to take his hood off to reveal the face of the handsome young man, bronze skin, straight silk shining dark shoulder length hair, and the very strange colour of the eyes, one was sky blue and the other was the shade of the amethyst.
"Greeting all mortal friends. I'm here to do my duty not to study. But I will do my best with the study and all of you can call me Alex like prince always call." Alex politely smile while people clapping. Then he began to take a step to sit beside Harry however he was stopped half way by the cold voice of the one and only potion professor or now also the deputed headmaster. "What is your duty?"
Alex turned his challenge look towards the cold cobalt eyes before gave his answer. "It is non of your concern, Sir. But I'm warning all of you here, if you dare to intercept my duty or is the one to cause it to fail, the consequence won't be pretty." Alex charmingly smile but it didn't reach his scary narrow eyes before walked towards Griffindor's table direction and gratefully sat beside the quiet boy after Neville move to make more space at the teen side.
Harry gave a thanking smile at Neville.
"You should know better than to threaten them, Alex."
"Yes, but still the last time we met you said you can take care of yourself and make me promise to let you live in this realm alone and then yesterday I feel like shit because I know you are hurt and I couldn't protect you from those harm."
"Don't exaggerate thing, Alex. And I don't need a baby sister." Said Harry in a still smooth soft voice but you could easily conduct his anger underline tone.
"Yes, you do, prince. You are too stubborn and he is too ignorant for this to work out.
"I don't need them and they seem to be happy like they always are." Harry hissed out in a cold voice and refused to acknowledge this toppic more.
"If you choose to ignore the bond then you need to go back at our realm. It's the strict order from the High King. He don't want you to die when you become twenties of ages. At lease in our realm you can live another ten years or more if you choose one of your suitors."
Harry suddenly rose from his chair and would have left the great hall but Alex smoothly intercept his way and stop his stride with the gentle hand on his check.
"Please."
Harry touched the hand and gently lower them before shown Alex his determine greenest eyes.
"I don't care even if tomorrow is the day I die, Alex. And I will not leave this realm." Harry said in a clear loud voice to confirm and insist his old final decision.
Alex calmly faced the stubborn teen and said back in a gentle voice.
"You don't care but the High King cares deeply for you and so do I, my prince. "
Harry looked at the sincere eyes of his friend, his shadow guard who chose to put his life in Harry's hand when he chose Harry as his master. Alex was not just the normal elf but he was the shadow elf, the guard and the warrior of the elf. They were very in high reguard in the elf realm and there was only twenty shadow elfs live right now. They were the one who chose someone to be their master not the other way around, usually they chose the High King generation from generation like the tradition but Alex chose Harry and Harry was only a half royal elf which only Dubbledore knew of the truth.
"I'm sorry."
"No need to be sorry, little prince." Alex ruffled Harry's hair affectionately.
Someone coughed loudly to gain Harry and Alex's attention.
"Excuse me, but who exactly are you, Alex? I accept you to be a transfer student because you have the letter from Dubbledore that allow you to come in and out if you want because it's a debt we need to repaid the mysterious troop who help us fight with the dark lord. However with the way you threatening my students earlier and the confusing conversation that take place a moment ago with . I don't think you can continue to stay here as a student anymore if you don't explain yourself right now, young man." Said the headmistress in a strict voice and her pose is easily to grip the wand inside the robe to fight if anything transfer in that sense.
The other teachers and the older years of the students look at Alex carefully and also ready to back up if the other choose to do something against their once comrades while the year younger look fearfully at Alex.
Alex turned to look at the headmistress calmly and also gave her a little sincere smile like he approved of her decision to attack if need be before he said.
"Thank you to do as I once asked."
"Do what?" Asked the headmistress confusedly.
"Take care of him." Alex simply said but it make many people who facing the war and still alive remember the one mysterious who said the same sentence before disappeared.
"Y..You are him." Minerva said in a still distrusting voice.
"Yes."
"Then why are you here?"
"To do my rightfully duty and add with the High King's request."
"What is your duty?"
"Isn't it already obvious?" Alex looked around him and found that most of them were still in a distrusting guard face. He glanced to look at the scold face of his master before he answered back in a serious yet drawling voice. "If he don't want you to know, then I can't tell you."
"Who?"
Alex turned to look at Harry which made every one eyes in the Hall to turn to Harry's direction, too. Harry didn't like the way this situation lead at all because to explain all of this he need to reveal his true self as a half elf and to do this he need to take off the concealing charm which he always wear after his inherited in fifth years.
"Alex. This is one of your stupid plan to make me reveal my true self to them, isn't it?" Said Harry in a chilling voice.
"Yes and I'm sorry but It's necessary. They do need to understand why you must be back at our realm or why you need to be bond."
"This is your entire fault. I hate you."
"Hate me all you want. It doesn't matter if you still alive and happy, prince." Alex said in a sincere voice which made Harry immediately did regret his last sentence.
"I'm sorry.I didn't mean it." Said Harry in a guilty voice.
"I know." Alex smiled softly at his little master.
After Harry broke his eye contact with Alex, he looked around to find that every one were looking at him questioningly. He sighed loudly for finally accept his tragic fate once more before he snapped his finger to change back into his true form. His hair become straighter, longer to reach his mid back, his earlobes become sharper at the edge, his face are more refine and look a little more delicate, his eyes shape became more like an almond round shape and his figure slightly slimmer while his high stayed the same at 5 foot 8 inch.
Every one was now staring at Harry shockingly, many with wide eyes, some with also hanging mouth and some with a lustful gaze.
"As you can see. I'm en elf or more specific just a half royal blood elf and Alex, he is my personal guard. His duty is to keep me safe and now with the request of the High King ,my great great grand father, He want me to go back to the elf realm because I refuse to be bonding with my mate."
"Who is your mate,Harry?"
"It's not important, Headmistress. Believe me when I said they don't need me in their life and I know they are perfectly happy with their lover right now." Said Harrry in a sad tone but confidently. He swept his eyes to look across the room to find the silver eyes look at him strangely. Harry quickly broke the eyes contact and then snaped his finger once again to make the concealing charm up. He looked almost like his father but still with more delicate looking and slimmer build.
"Why do you still need to concealing yourself, Harry?" Asked Headmistress with a worry edge.
"Because I'm not good in control of my enthralling charm with my true self and I don't want anyone to effect by it." Harry smoothly replied and smiled charmingly to decrease the worry tone he could hear.
"Prince,You.."
"Alex, I don't really hate you. But I'm really angry with you right now." Harry said this quickly to cut Alex off because he knew what Alex going to say.
"Fine ,fine, I won't say anymore but shouldn't you need to eat your breakfast more than that?" Alex accusingly pointed at the innocent small breakfast on Harry's plate while also lifted his left eyebrow to look straight at the green eyes of his little master.
"So what?" Asked Harry coolly and he began to play with his food instead of eating it.
Alex didn't answer back right away. He just sat down beside Harry once again and concentrated to have his plate with all the healthy food he want and with the mischief different color eyes of his, he lift his spoon with now full of food in front of Harry who turned to look and blinked blankly at him. "What.."
Alex immediately shoved his spoon in his master mouth when he saw the opportunity. Harry glared hotly at him while many students who saw this scene just look amusedly their way or many like Headmistress and his friends at Griffindor's table looked impressive and someone like Professor Snape just smirked in full force.
"Aren't you going to chew, prince? Or you need me to do it for you too." Alex said playfully but it only make Harry's glare more intensified ten force of heat. Alex couldn't help to chuckle softly when Harry began to chew slowly with the sulky face and continued his breakfast on his own with now more food in his plate that could probably rival 's plate whenever he visited.
"Could you please stop giving food to me? I'm too full and don't want to eat anything anymore." Said Harry frustrated at his guardian. Alex noticed that Harry was really full before accepted the claim. Then he went back to look around the area with interest when his mismatch color eyes crash with the silver ones. He shifted to look at the girl beside the boy who tried to do anything to gain the boy's attention. It look too ridiculous to him to believe that they were a couple when the boy have no little bit interest to the girl and if you carefully look at them, it's obvious that the boy was annoy at the girl's flirting behavior. May be just may be he will find some way to make his prince acknowledge that and then bond with his destiny mate instead of forcefully drag him back to our realm at the end of the year.
"Draco, aren't you listening to me?" Said Pansy frustrated at her intended fiancé after she noticed his attention else where beside her.
Draco looked coldly at her and with all his supreme manner that he know in his every blood cells, he just stood up, turned around and then walked out without a glance back to his supposed girlfriend in many ones believe and would be reality if his father was still alive and only when he was unable to postpone that dreadful duty. Mother would careless for any one he chose but father always believe in the pure blood way that drove him and mother insane. He did love his father but when he grew up he began to notice the error way of his father that when his mother and him live in a separate manor from the main one.
He aimlessly walked in the corridor towards Slytherin dormitory.
'Why is my sense perk up when Potter cancel his concealment charm? And why am I felt like I just want to curse something so badly or may be some one with that bronze skin and that annoy knowing mismatch color eyes to the end of the earth? And why is he look too close to Potter to just be a guard duty? Shouldn't he be more respectful and out of Potter's personal space? And why he can make a raise out of him even I couldn't do that after fifth year? And why I felt so angry with…. With what? '
/May be you are not angry. You are just jealous of someone./ Stat the inner thought helpfully.
Draco stopped his stride suddenly when he heard his vampire side's opinion. And with the static second pass he continue his stride again. 'Jealous? Jealous of what? Don't be ridiculous. There is no one in there that I could feel that type of emotion for.' Draco sneered at his inner thought.
/Are you sure, myself? Um..what about the green eyes beauty?/
'Are you kidding? Hell no! Why am I going to jealous over Potter?'
/Hum..I never said it was the yummy gorgeous Harry Potter./ If the inner thought could have a smug voice, he swore it was what he heard at that moment.
'Are you crazy?'
/Um.. no but I'm sure we are already crazy enough to argue over ourselves. Shouldn't you agree myself? /
'Oh just shut up already.'
Draco resumed his thought while tried to shut up his vampire side and continued towards his first class.
'May be I shouldn't take too much of those suppress potion. Because of that his vampire side is now more like a second personality of his instead of being one person.' Draco regretfully sighed before composed his manner and went in his first class to wait for the rest of the students to come.
TBC
