"Doubt thou the stars are fire"
A/N - Hello, I've entered so many challenges recently, there'll be an actual multi-chapter story coming soon I promise! Here's my entry for "If We Were a Movie", it's from Letters to Juliet! So, here's the background, Harry takes the place of Sophie and Draco takes the place of Charlie, I'm sure you can work out the rest of the switches. So without further adieu, here you are.
Draco laid staring at the night sky, the stars were just beginning to appear and with every blink he made more appeared lighting up the rapidly darkening sky. The past week had been so hectic and confusing, he'd come here to deter his mother from finding her once true love and instead he'd gone on a trek to find this man and fall for another man himself. It wasn't in his nature to fall for some stranger he'd originally planned to beat to a pulp but it wasn't a strange man was it? It was Harry Potter, the man who'd hated him since their first introduction.
To top it all off he'd gone and insulted Harry so many times, saying that he'd only took it upon himself to help Narcissa with her mission because it made a good story and Harry always had to have his thumb in every pie. He then went and made it worse by telling Harry he'd never felt real loss, honestly he'd regretted it the second he'd barked at the other man but he couldn't take it back.
The scornful look his mother had shot him when Harry took off after the heated conflict was enough to send Draco over the edge, of course his mother had insisted he apologise but her suggestion wasn't really needed, he couldn't leave it like this, he needed Harry's help to make his mother happy or that's what he was trying to portray, the truth was he needed Harry, since their parting at the end of the war they'd not really seen each other and it felt like there was something missing in Draco's life, it wasn't the enemy in Harry that he needed but the amusing conflict that they both got caught in.
He'd apologised at dinner and they'd got along just fine since then but there was still a frostiness between them, he was so angry with himself for upsetting Harry and ruining anything that the pair had shared over the past week so when Harry approached him on the hill he was led on he was prepared for a fight, not that one was going to take place.
"Do you mind if I lay with you?" Harry called as he was approaching Draco, the blonde haired man bolted upright meeting Harry's gaze as he beckoned the other man to a spot on the grass next to him, "Sure, I didn't think you'd want to be anywhere near me after what I said yesterday." Harry just chuckled at Draco's remorsefulness. "Seriously Draco, it's okay, you apologised and everything's fine now, it was a heated moment and you couldn't be blamed for your outburst." He smiled and looked over at the other man who was sat there with his usual grin returning.
Harry didn't know what was going on, he'd come on holiday with Ginny and ended up spending the week with Draco Malfoy of all people, he was glad they were on better terms now but there was something between them he couldn't quite put his finger on. He lay back and stared at the stars, all he could think about was Draco and their relationship.
"I used to lay out and stare at the stars in the summer, they made me feel safe and it kind of felt like I was escaping from my stupid family.'Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move.'" Harry looked towards Draco who'd been staring at him the whole time. Draco finished Harry's quote, "Doubt truth be a liar, but never doubt I love." Harry rose from his place, his eyes remaining connected with Draco's the whole time. "You know Shakespeare?" Draco looked offended at the question, "I may be a wizard but I still know Shakespeare, my mother loves Hamlet, much more than the dreadfully romantic Romeo and Juliet." They both laughed at this, Harry had compared Narcissa's situation to that of Juliet Capulet earlier that day.
They lay back silently, just looking at the stars, Harry was glad they were fine now, he couldn't leave here with the coldness that they used to have between them. He closed his eyes and remembered the English lesson he'd had to endure before Hogwarts when they'd read Hamlet and this quote stuck out like no other he'd read before.
Draco looked over at the dark haired man next to him, he couldn't understand the feelings he had for Harry, his mother kept making remarks and he was beginning to believe what she'd been saying but how could he be falling for a man that he was once sworn enemies with, it's not the strangest tale in the book is it? Leaning over he kissed Harry without giving it another thought, his heart was beating ten to the dozen and a stirring in his stomach refused to let him break the kiss which was returned by the other man much to Draco's surprise.
Harry finally broke the kiss, "I'm sorry, goodnight." With that he ran off to his bedroom, Narcissa had been looking at the pair from her bedroom window when they'd kissed, she smiled and went to sleep. Harry got to his bedroom and shut the door behind him, sliding down the door into a heap he just lay there motionless, he didn't know what to think, they kiss had been what he needed, he needed the contact with someone, him and Ginny hadn't been close since she'd started at the Daily Prophet, but it couldn't be just anyone, Harry couldn't do that, it felt so right with Draco, the kiss seemed to plant the answer in his head, but he didn't know what to do with the answer, he didn't know what he was going to do. He fell asleep hunched against the door.
Draco had given Harry a few minutes to run before retiring to his own room, the kiss had been what he needed, he'd never felt anything for anyone up until that moment and he couldn't let it go, he needed more than just a kiss else he'd end up as unhappy as his mother had been in the marriage with his father, he couldn't let that happen to himself, he climbed under the duvet and just stared at the striped pattern till his eyes closed of their own accord sending him into a deep slumber.
A/N - And there we have it, part way through writing this I decided this is going to be a short mini-multi-chapter story so look out for the second chapter soon!