Title: Already Gone

Genre: Romance

Summary: A sweet romance between an innocent Harry and a loving Draco. What trials will the pair face? DMHP

Disclaimer: So…a disclaimer eh? It isn't mine…shakes head

Chapter 1

"Err, Potter? Can I speak with you for a moment?"

Harry stared up at the other boy blankly from his place sitting at one of the back tables in the library.

"Harry?"

The small boy gestured to the seat in front of him.

The blond boy sat down.

"What do you want?"

"Well…I wanted to know if you were alright?"

"Excuse me?"

The Slytherin stared back at him. And then shrugged.

"Just because we are rivals doesn't mean I don't like you." He said amusedly. "I haven't seen you with the other two halves of the Golden Trio."

Harry shrugged.

"I don't want anything to do with them anymore."

"What?" Draco asked shocked.

"You heard me. You know about the Order from your father of course, well I was left with the muggles again this summer even though Dumbledore promised me I wouldn't have to. Anyways, they didn't write me all summer, even though I wrote to them about once a week."

"Maybe they couldn't."

"They could have, and they lied to the other people in the house. Sirius asked if they had been writing to me, and they always said they were going to write to me then they would disappear into some room in the manor. But I never got one letter."

"Was someone stopping them? The letters I mean?"

"No. I asked them on the train if they got my letters. They said they did and then kicked me out of the compartment." He shrugged. Harry had explained the situation without a single emotion in his voice or on his face, contrary to how he usually was, wearing his heart on his sleeve.

"Well then…"

Harry nodded.

"What happened from there? We've been at Hogwarts for a month and a half now."

"Weasley and Granger," Harry said in slight anger. "Have told the whole bloody house a bunch of crap about me. And now they won't speak to me."

"Unbelievable…"

"Well believe it. They told my secrets as well. Stuff I was keeping private, for a reason! They told the whole damn house about my connection to bleeding Voldemort. They don't even understand it! I didn't ask for it. I can't control it damn it."

"Of course you can't. Father told me all about it from Voldemort's side. Those Gryffindors are a bunch of gits. Who the hell would believe you had joined the Dark Lord? Even the Death Eaters aren't loyal to the idiot."

"What do you mean?"

"You mean you don't know?"

"Dumbledore doesn't think I'm old enough to know anything so he wont let anyone tell me." He sneered. "Mind you he won't even let Sirius know what is going on, and he is an adult."

Draco shook his head in disgust.

He looked around and saw that the library was filling up now that the bell signaling the end of classes rang.

"This isn't an appropriate place to talk anymore."

Harry gathered his books as did Draco. Harry waited for Draco to suggest somewhere better to talk.

"Come on, we can go outside. The weather is still nice."

Harry followed him quietly, shrinking his huge stack of books and putting them into his bag.

Draco led them straight out past the lake to the cliff, under which the Slytherin Dorms were housed.

He sat on the edge, and let his legs hang over the rocks. He looked down at the lake below. Harry hesitated.

"Don't worry, it's safe. I won't let you fall."

Harry placed his bag with Draco's and cautiously made his way over to the edge.

As he was slowly sitting down his foot slipped on a pebble and he nearly fell, but luckily Draco caught him around the waist. Harry fell on something soft. He looked into Draco's eyes which were a lot closer then they had ever been before. Draco had pulled him into his lap when he fell. The strong arms were still wrapped around his waist.

Harry and Draco both blushed lightly. But Harry didn't get up.

"I'm sorry."

"It's alright, I told you I wouldn't let you fall."

"Thank you."

"No worries."

"Err…I should get up…"

"You don't have to. I don't mind."

"What?"

"Oh…Umm…Oops?"

"I've never seen you speechless Malfoy." Harry teased.

"Well I've never seen you in the lap of a boy Harry." He teased back, stressing Harry's first name.

"Well you haven't seen me that much then have you?"

Draco arched an eyebrow.

"I see the secrets that Weasley and Granger blabbed never really made their way to the Slytherin House."

"What?"

"I'm gay Draco." Harry stared at Draco, daring him to say something.

TBC