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Warnings: There is violence and mention of abuse and this story is very, mature so please take precaution, I've warned you so no flaming. There is strong language throughout this whole story. So you've been warned don't like it don't read it.

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Harry was pushed down on the hard, cold stone floor, he wailed and curled up into a fetal position, his tears stinging at the corner of his eyes, threatening to fall. He didn't know what he did this time to aggravate his red-headed lover, he felt a kick on the side of his ribcage and bit his lip from screaming in agonizing pain, he knew he deserved this punishment, he made his lover mad so he deserved the consequences that came along with it."You're a filthy whore, staring after that blonde headed git, I've seen the way you look at him, don't think I haven't bloody well noticed!" Another kick to his ribcage, he choke back a sob, holding and hugging and reassuring himself that everything will be alright."R-Ron p-please..", he cried out to his best friend, now lover. He wished that everything went back to the way it was before. When they had first started their relationship.

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Draco stared at Potter. He had watched Potter an awful lot lately, the way he constantly looked down with pained eyes, but tried to hide it behind a fake smile. He wondered if his friends had noticed, he snorted inwardly, of course not, the Know-it-all Granger always had her nose in books to not even care about The-Savior-Of-The-Wizarding-World. Draco picked up hints about Potter and Weasel having a thing, his suspicions were confirmed when he had caught them snogging behind an alcove and chose to walk back to where he came from. Now Draco chose to study the face of the Weasel, he always despised him out of all the Weasel Clan, he noticed the wink Weasel gave to Hermione. Rage boiled within his veins, he did not know why, but when he glanced at Potter, he saw that Potter was staring at him and Draco chose his cue to leave. He gathered his book bag and slung it over his shoulder as he stalked out of the Great Hall to his morning classes.

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Harry had noticed the wink Ron gave to Hermione, he just thought of it as friendly gesture, he ignored the way Hermione had flirted back with his boyfriend, he looked away hurt, to find that Malfoy was staring at Ron, who in turn to stare at him, he saw the way Malfoy stiffened, got up and took his leave out of the Great Hall. Harry wondered what that was all about, "I'm going to class now," He announced his leave, but was ignored by his friends, which he saw were ogling at each other. He got up and slung his bag over his shoulder and walked out of the Great Hall, there was still 15 minutes till morning classes began. He decided to walk to a hidden alcove he found his fourth year.

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Draco had hidden in the shadows, waiting to see if Potter would come out soon, his thoughts were interrupted by the Great Hall opening and saw Potter walking quite fast in the halls, he decided to walk right after him, he was going to get down to the bottom of this, he never saw hurt in those startling emerald green eyes, he didn't know why he cared if Potter got hurt or not, but he wanted to find out anyway. His thoughts interrupted him 'because you actually do care', he waved his thoughts away, he sneered, he possibly couldn't care for The-Boy-Who-Lived. When he saw where Potter was going he called out "Potter."

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Harry tensed, he didn't really want to fight so early in the morning, so he turned around and looked smugly at Malfoy, "What Malfoy?" He saw how Malfoy raised his hands in defense, which Harry thought of weird, there was announcements the first time they had arrived for the "8th years" and the normal first years, that there should be house unity, since the war was over, Ron had forced him to come back with him so he can keep a "watchful" eye on his boyfriend and take their NEWTS together with Hermione, he knew deep down, Ron only wanted to come back for Hermione, which hurt him worse when he heard rumors that they found both of his best friends snogging behind the bleachers of the Quidditch Pitch.

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Draco, saw how Potter got lost so deep in his thoughts, he snapped his fingers at him "Hello, Potter are you in there" he snapped at him and saw how he startled the Golden Boy. He sneered at him and said "Well if you're done thinking about glory and fame, I'd like to know something." He saw the emerald green eyes narrow at him and looked like he'd lash out at him with his magic at any given moment, then he heard the Gryffindor sigh and sag his shoulders downwards. What happened to him? Why hadn't he hex him into the next century? Not that he would want him too anyway. He noticed that Potter looked even more tired than he had during the war. He wanted to know what caused him to sag his shoulders like that and wanted to know what happened to him in general? He had a strong sense of feeling that Weasel caused his distress.

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Harry didn't have the energy to fight with Malfoy, he decided to sag and tilt his head down, looking at the floor, he'd been tired more than ever lately and just wanted some peace and it had made it worse when Ron thought he was lusting after Malfoy, when in reality he never noticed him and only wanted to be loved by his best mate and lover, but it took a great ordeal to convince Ron to hold his hand in public, or kiss him in public. He remembered how Ron was so eager to show him off when they first got together and saw how happy he looked, he wanted to know when will it ever go back to that or when it will get better. He held back a sob and started when he heard fingers being snapped at him. He looked up tired and said "Shove it, Malfoy, I don't want too argue with you and I'm not in the mood." He sat down on the ledge of the alcove and leaned his head on the cobbled stoned wall and sighed.

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Draco had noticed the choked sob and his eyes soften, he didn't know where his change of heart came from but he decided to follow it, when he noticed that Pot-, No Harry, he decided to call him by his surname, it felt foreign on his tongue but decided to go with it. He moved gracefully to sit next to Harry and before he thought about it, he gently touched the Gryffindor Seekers' arm and noticed that, Harry flinched. His brows knitted together in slight confusion and wondered what caused him too react to one simple touch.

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Harry knew Malfoy noticed his flinch, when he had touched his arm. He cursed inwardly at himself for reacting like that, but in reality he had a big purple bruise from when Ron punched his arm, in a not so friendly way, he also had other bruises he wish to not show anyone, he sighed again and looked up into those sparkly grey eyes of one Draco Malfoy, he noticed the care in his eyes, but he dismissed it. Malfoy couldn't possibly be capable of caring for someone else than his own being, he couldn't care less, so why should he start now. He heard the bell warning that all lingering students still in the Hall or Great Hall eating breakfast, had only 5 minutes to report to their morning classes. Just great, he slung his bag on his shoulder once more, he had potions with Slytherins. He groaned inwardly, just what he needed a headache in the morning. He walked away forgetting Malfoy for a moment then turned and said "Coming Malfoy?"

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Draco watched Harry with caring eyes, he wanted to let the other know that he wasn't in a malicious mood to cause him pain, that would be horrible on top of what he must be going through, with all the praises he's received during the hall like if he was some sort of God or Merlin himself. He heard Harry speaking to him and snapped out of his thoughts and his mouth moved automatically, without him realizing what he was going to say, "Yeah." He got up and secured his strap to his book bag on him and followed Harry to the dungeons and realized, he never got to ask Harry what he wanted to know and decided to put it off for later.

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