A/N: Like I always said… I need a beta!
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Sweet Moments
Chapter 1 : Like a Fungus
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The war had been over for almost two years. Thank to Merlin that the Evil Lord Voldemort had vanished forever from this world. And predictably, Harry Potter became the World Savior, even if he had said for a million times that he was not powerful enough to destroy Voldemort, that he was just the same as regular Magical folks, and that the only reason he could defeat Voldemort was his unbelievable luckiness and his mother's love.
But did they believe him? NO! He swore to God if there would be one more mother who asked him if she could use his name for her baby's name, yet AGAIN! Or if someone asked, AGAIN, that could they hanged his photo in their house for evil repelled charm? He swore to Merlin that he would kill them all! Really!
But leaving the ridiculous matters aside, his life was pretty good. Voldemort had vanished, and his life was peaceful, his relationship with Ginny was also fruitful. That was what he thought…before that event, before the last week accident! Before Draco Malfoy, in one of Ministry's gala, – they loved to held this kind of events after the War, waste of money, Harry personally thought – had climbed on the platform. Harry who was worked as Auror who should be guarding the security could only watched Malfoy with an awed and horrified expression. Then, the most humiliating event happened that day, since Draco bloody Malfoy had given a romantic and awfully sappy speeches about the war and then continued it with declared his eternal love for him. The nightmare…
And since that day…
"Harry do you think I am sexy?"
"Harry...Let's have romantic dinner, please…"
"Haaarrryyy…Do you want to go for a date with me?"
Harry this, Harry that, that was the only words uttered from those pink and kissable lips, NO! Stop it, Harry, don't go there… Harry thought that he would go crazy soon. And what made it worse was that Ginny, his girlfriend, only thought the whole 'Malfoy things' was funny. And unfortunately, also the rest of Wizarding world. Well, except Ron, the Blessed Ron. The angry red head almost choked the blond to death after one day, he saw the blond approached him when they went to mission. Unfortunately, the predictable happened, the Malfoy-Weasley's feud was infamous, after all and their bickering had almost failed the mission itself with their loud shout…
One day, Harry had confronted Ginny and asked the dreaded question… Why wasn't she afraid that the blond will succeeded to seduce him? And guessed what Ginny had said…
"Oh, please … Harry. Like you want the sickly blond…"
"W…what…" He sputtered indignantly.
"Oh, please, Harry…Your type was always the tanned one, me, Cho Chang. And just look at Malfoy Junior, he was too pale; almost like he never expose himself in the sunlight's ray. He looked like a leukemia patient, in severe stadium, I must say… Well, if… only if…one day, you admit to yourself that he is gorgeous or you change your preference to a sickly one, which is impossible… You have to admit that he have the worst personality, ever…"
"Besides," Ginny had to drop the last bomb. "You're not gay."
Needless to say, Harry was not pleased with Ginny's arrogance. And Harry didn't want to hear it again… Really since when the red head girl became so pompous. Did she think that Harry was immune to Draco Malfoy's seduction?
Looked at Malfoy, he was gorgeous, Harry mean, really, really gorgeous, with those sinfully slender body and marble skin, and his hair, his silver hair which was almost glistened in the moonlight night.
And his personality? Well, Harry knew how unpleasantly bad Malfoy's personality had been at Hogwarts but now he thought that Draco's spoiled act was rather, nnn, endearing? Yess, that was the right word, he didn't think Draco was cute or whatever…
Oh, who he was kidding… Draco Malfoy was gorgeous, even Harry had to admit that and every man would feel very, very, flattered if someone like Draco constantly threw his gorgeous self at them. And Harry, he was just a normal man. He was afraid that someday his defense would crumble and … and…
Nah, never mind…Like he would let that happened… After all he was not gay, right… Right?
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Harry really hated one of his mentors in Auror department. His tormentor name was Jawkish and he truly had a personality as cruel as jaw! Didn't he know that even the Savior of the Wizarding world needed a vacation or time to relax? NO!
He had to train 24/7 under the unforgiving sun and the bitchy cold wind of night. Really, how much a man could take before he collapsed, especially if there was someone who always took their strength for granted and worked them like a slave? He wanted to became an Auror, damn it! Not a slave-to-be!
So, when he went home for a whole week training in some muddy and soggy country – for infiltration case, his mentor had said – at two o'clock in the morning, he didn't expect someone would waiting him. He was quite surprise to saw pile of rump clothes in front of his apartment door.
The first thing he thought – who was the people who threw their unused garbage in front of his apartment? But his disgust was disappearing when he recognized a mop of blond hair beneath the crumpled clothes and the movement of the said pile of rump clothes. And he was right, beneath the white material, unmistakably, was the extraordinary Draco Malfoy, who had been sleeping cutely.
And cute was not quite the right word. He was angelic. His blond hair laid disarray, his pink mouth pouted cutely, though Harry couldn't understand how a person could sleep with his mouth pouted? And his alabaster skin looked pinkish from the cold. Really, did the blond forget the heater charm, and his cheeks which were looked like a red apple, yummy and delicious.
"Draco..." Harry shoved the blond gently. But the blond didn't even stir from his sleep. So, with a strength Harry didn't know where it came from, he took the blond up and carried him in a bridal style to his apartment. At first, he wanted to let the blond took the sofas but when he saw his innocent and peaceful face he was disheartened immediately. With a sigh, he put the blond in his room and let him sleep in the same bed as him. What Harry didn't realize was a smile that presented in the corner of his mouth almost the entire night.
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Draco was ecstatic, his effort wasn't fruitless. The Adonis Gryffindor finally noticed him. Harry Potter finally opened at him. Actually Draco was quite enamored with the Potter boy since they had met at the Madam Malkin shop. Please, who would want to spend a countless of time and money just to tease the boy you hated? Draco wouldn't, he had teased Harry because he looked so cute when he was flustered and when Harry was angered? Boy, he looked so hot…
At first, he was afraid, especially with his father's hatred toward the Boy who Lived and others significant thing. But, hey, the war was over, wasn't it? And his father was nicely put behind the bar in Azkaban. And, the heir thing you asked? Oh, he just needed to swallow a pint of male fertility potion and let Potter bred him.
And the red head bitch? Oh, he had the perfect solution, apparently, even the Mud, oops, He meant the Muggleborn witch hadn't been too fond with Harry's choice of partner. She was too uncontrollable, too immature, egoistic and etc, etc… Draco didn't care; the most important thing was that Hermione granger, one of Harry best friend had prefer his side and helped him to win over the said Potter boy.
And Hermione, yes, Draco called her that, already, set a date or more likely a trap for the black haired man. The plan was already forming; Hermione would call Harry for dinner and asked him about his feeling for Draco. Then when Harry would say his undying love for Draco, the blond would come and say the same thing. They would become the happily ever after couple and let the red head bitch burned in hell. Hua...ha…ha…ha…
Okay...back to reality. So, right now, Draco was hiding in other table which was covered by some bush or moss or plant, whatever – Draco had to pay the owner so he could grow the bush earlier – and unabashedly listened or eavesdrop their conversation.
"Seriously, Harry. I just asked about your feeling for Draco? You don't need to be so shocked!" Ahh, blessed Hermione and her brightness, right on the points!
"Really, Herm…what do you want me to say? And Draco? Since when did you call him his surname? I can't recall your relationship was that good enough for you to call him that…." Did he hear jealousy in Harry's voice?
"It doesn't matter if I call him asshole or Draco or some others degrading names." Hey, he was not that bad. "The important thing is your feeling for him. I am not stupid, Harry. I know you… And I know the way you look at him…Harry, Harry?"
"But Ginny…"
"Oh, please. You never love him, anyway. Both of you become couple because that was what expected from you. So, both of you did it."
Please, just a little more…
"I..."
Yess…
"Just be honest with me, Harry. Am I your friend or not?"
Yes…just a little more and he will say…
"Okay, okay! Jezz, you people are nosy!"
Yes, please say I loved Draco…
"For me…"
I
"I always think of Draco…"
Love you…
"As a fungus…"
What!
And with that statement Draco's little perfect world was crumbled. He was so stunned with Harry's statement that he couldn't even move, couldn't hear and couldn't speak – Well, it was weird for the chatter-box Draco – with a powerless body, he called his house elf, Spiky and ordered him to transport him to Malfoy Manor. He didn't even hear what Harry said to placate the angry Hermione Granger.
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Harry was worried, for almost a week, he didn't even saw a single strand hair of Draco Malfoy. Indeed, it was really strange, especially since the blond used to follow him everywhere after his mind-blowing confession.
It was weird, and if he was honest with himself, he felt lonely…very lonely… So after the tenth day, he had enough of Draco's disappearing act and decided to comfort him but not before he finished his problem with Ginny.
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At last, Harry thought when he stood in front of Draco Malfoy's room. At first, the house elf who greeted him, didn't even permit him to enter the intimidating Manor. He swore that the house elf, named Spiky, almost bit him savagely. But then, Narcissa Malfoy came to his rescue, well, he didn't know that he would have to owe the Lady Malfoy twice, especially for this kind of matter. Nonetheless, he did it; he came here, after so many wrong turn and trapping room with a dangerous creature in Malfoy super extra big Mansion – the house elf had disappeared a long time ago, leaving Harry alone, the last thing Harry remembered from the said house elf was his rather colorful cursing word – then Harry found Draco's room.
Quietly, he opened the extravaganza door and entered the extravaganza room only to find his blond sobbed silently in his four poster bed.
"Draco…" he called unsurely, because according to the house elf, it was Draco himself, who didn't want Harry to enter. Swallowing, he prepared for the next battle…
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"Draco…" That voice, Draco would never forget it, it was Harry's voice. Surprised, he turned his head around, only to find his assumption was correct. Harry Potter was standing in his room, he was here…
Draco's cry which was ended from his surprise became harder. "Shh…shh…Draco, I am sorry, love. Sorry…Please, please, don't cry. I am here, love…"
"LOVE! HA!" Okay, Draco the betrayed house wife acts was ended here, now it was time for the vengeful Draco. "That's rich, Potter! Especially come from you, the man who said that I am a fungus!" In his tirade Draco never realized a red mark in Harry's face, or more likely a hand-like red mark. In fact, later, when he had calmed down, he would be very very angry to know the meaning of the slap-like mark in Harry face.
"What! Fungus? Draco I've never…"
"Don't lie to me, Potter! Remember last week? In your date? With Granger?"
"Date?" Harry obviously tried very hard to remember it. "Oh my god, you are there! That's why Hermione acted so strange! Both of you, planned it together?"
"Cih, it isn't important! Now, your memory is already coming back. So, right now, I asked you to leave this Manor immediately because if you're not! Then I will personally force you to go! And never, I repeat, never try to find me again because I won't meet you again, EVER!"
And then, Harry did something that Draco didn't expect. In fact, it was the last things Draco would think of from the noble Gryffindor. He laughed and laughed very hard that Draco could almost see the tears in the corner of Harry's eyes.
"You didn't listen…" Like that statement could explain Harry's hurting word.
He shook his head dejectedly. "No. I don't want to listen. Please leave now."
Harry's mouth opened widely then his expression became so serious. Then, Harry grabbed and hugged Draco, almost suffocating him. "NO! Listen to me Draco!" But Draco didn't want to hear, he struggled half heartedly, this was after all, the last time Harry would hug him. "Please…" then he added quickly. "Just fifteen…no, five minutes…That's all I ask from you." Draco nodded, giving up from Gryffindor's stubbornness. He knew that if he rejected Harry's simple question, the Gryffindor would only did some drastic measure to make sure Draco listened to him.
"It is because you didn't hear our conversation until it finished…" Harry said, Draco didn't know why but he thought that he heard a fondness tone in Harry's voice. Draco's heart was fluttered inside, it was liked a thousand of butterfly had fly in his heart. But Draco wouldn't hope, not this time, because the last time he wished, it had been hurting him so much….
"Listen…" Harry said, he grabbed Draco's cheeks and their eyes stared each other, one filled with hope and the other filled with determination. "I said that you are like fungus."
"Truly, fungus is a disgusting plant, well, if you can call it that…" When Draco saddened from Harry's word and tried to struggle from his statement. Harry only tightened more firmly and explained further. "It will always grow no matter what you do. So you just have to annihilate it over and over."
"I don't understand…" Now Draco really wanted to cry. Did Harry think he was so ugly, ugly like a fungus?
"Shhh…I am not finished here," He said again, this time more serious. "You have to destroy it repeatedly but sometimes. No…I mean eventually, you will grow tired to destroy it. So the funguses will décor your room entirely, no matter how you curse or sigh tiredly. And it will only matter of time until you will get used with it and finally…" Harry swallowed; it seemed that he had difficulty to utter the last word. "Finally, you will grow fond and probably will feel lonely if it disappears."
"I know…" Harry said hopelessly. "That it is wrong to think you as a fungus but I find it as the most perfect analogue. Draco…you are a fungus. A fungus that already fill my heart entirely. So, please…"
"Never said you don't want to meet me again…Because…Draco Malfoy I lov…"
And Harry's voice was gone completely because at that time, Draco had kissed him breathless. And the saying. "I love you…I love you…" was uttered by the crying blond.
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"So, Harry what do you think about that dress?"
"Nnnh…Harry. Do you think that June is a good month?"
"Harry…What do you like Lilly or Carnation?"
Really Harry swore he would became nuts! His cute, gorgeous and magnificent blond lover had asked about a suspiciously large, I meant really, really, large amount about wedding related questions since months ago. Sometimes, he was afraid that he would be the first groom who had surprise weeding party. Especially, with his unpredictable and slightly neurotic lover and manipulated female best friend…
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And that was why… Today, he brought a beautiful and expensive – nothing was good enough for his lover, after all – engagements ring in his pocket. He couldn't wait to see Draco's expression when he saw it. But he guessed that his fantasy would not be as good as the real reaction his lover would do. Really, life with Draco would never be boring…That was for sure…
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