Disclaimer: I do not own any of the wonderful characters in this story. The beautiful J.K. Rowling does.

Author Note: This is my first published fanfic. I'm kind of nervous about it but also excited. Please review. ^_^

The war was over and only a few students had returned to Hogwarts for the eighth year, Harry Potter being one of them, after Hermione begged him to.

Harry was sitting in the windowsill of the common room. Being that there were only thirteen eighth years, they had their own wing of the castle. The common room had aspects of all four houses.

Harry sat looking out the window, blood flowing slowly from his wrist. He could see perfectly where Fred had died. He thought of Fred, Snape, and Lupin and Tonks and the others who had died in the war. His eyes started to sting but he refused to let the tears fall.

A loud bang drew Harry from his thoughts. He looked over and saw Draco picking up the couple of books he had dropped.

"Sorry," Draco mumbled.

"It's okay."

Harry turned back to the window, staring out.

Both he and Draco had changed since the war. And Draco was the only one that knew of Harry's recent cutting habits. Draco had walked in on him in the showers one night. He saw blood mixed with water on the floor and rushed quickly to the only shower that was on. He saw Harry sitting under the water, no shirt, pants still on with fresh cuts. Draco had looked over Harry and saw raised white lines from where cut marks had healed and some pink ones that were in the healing process. Draco turned off the water and bandaged Harry quickly. Draco had then found himself bandaging Harry at least once a week if not more over the course of a month and half. Tonight, was no different.

Draco also felt depressed. But he expressed his differently. He hardly ate and didn't really sleep and the circles under his eyes were a sickly shade of purple.

Draco sighed as he saw the crimson color on Harry's hands. He walked over to him and pulled some bandages out of his robe pockets.

"I don't want this anymore," Harry said as Draco doctored him up. "I don't want to be here."

Draco looked up into Harry's pain filled eyes and kissed him softly on the forehead.

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Author Note 2: The next chapter will be up soon!