Title: Snakeskin Boots and Platform Shoes

Pairing: H/D

Rating: PG13… for now

Summary: Erm… well… this is Post-Hogwarts and Harry and Draco are living extremely different lives than they were living in Hogwarts. Well… you'll have to read to find out the rest!

Warnings: SLASH! Well duh, since this is a slash yahoo group...

Disclaimer: Anything you recognize does NOT belong to me! I am most definitely

not making any money off of this! Everything (besides the plot) belong to the goddess JKRowling!

Chapter 1: A New Employee

Monday, January 1st, 2006

7:30am

beep beep beep

Harry Potter groggily turned over to discover where the intrusion of noise was coming from. After he'd woken up just a bit more, Harry realized that it was Monday and that meant that he had to work and that meant that the intrusion of noise came from none other than his alarm clock. Fuck.

After ungracefully falling out of his bed, Harry began stripping out of his boxers. He had exactly 30 minutes before he was supposed to be to work. Fuck.

The 22-year old was finally able to at least partially wake up after he showered but was still almost subconsciously dressing into his usual attire consisting of tight black pants, a tight black shirt, and his purple snakeskin boots with really pointy toes and Cuban heels. Harry checked his clock that read 7:53. He was already running late and he had yet to apply his makeup. Fuck.

Rushing into his bathroom, Harry hastily applied his black eyeliner, upon which sneezing and forcing the line to go straight towards his hairline. Harry decided to go with it and applied the eyeliner on his other eye to match. Next, he applied his dark blue eye shadow along with his white face makeup. He added the final touch as he applied the deep black mascara and was ready to go. As Harry jogged out of his flat, he noticed that the clock now read 8:04. Fuck.

Harry's vintage '65 Shelby Cobra convertible flew down the highway while Harry felt bad for any who got in its way. Grove Park Mall finally came into view and Harry had to check his appearance in his mirror once more to be reassured that the wind did not mess up his look. After all, they were getting a new employee today and he was taught to always make a great first impression.

Most of Harry's coworkers had already met the new guy, but Harry had yet to. Most of Harry's coworkers also knew that Harry happened to… prefer the male gender as opposed to females and kept nagging him about the new guy's looks. 'Oh Harry, he's just to die for!' 'You just wait, you won't be able to keep your mouth shut!' 'He's got the kind of look that makes you question your orientation!' And it had been like that ever since the new guy came in to be interviewed. Three months.

Harry pulled his beloved car into the employee parking lot and walked into the mall and straight towards Hot Topic. It was his day to open and that meant that he also had to make sure everything was ready to go before the customers start to pour in. They usually do inventory and what not the night before but he had to do it just to be safe.

It was 10 o'clock before he was sure that everything was ready to go and as he walked over to the locked gate, he glanced at the schedule and noticed that the other two employees that he would be working with for the morning and most of the afternoon were 'Jacob and Dray.' Dray. Must be the new guy. Opening the gate to the rest of the mall, Harry took a moment to bask in the quiet before people began filling up the mall with their noise and their bodies. Harry hated unwanted noise.

Jacob walked through the employee door and gave Harry a once over. Just like Harry, Jacob batted for the same sex and had always been a little bit smitten with Harry.

"Looking good today Harry! Is that a new piercing?" questioned Jacob as he pointed the bar that was sheathed through Harry's chin.

"Yeah. Hurt like a bitch." Harry smiled. He liked Jacob. He also liked piercings. He had a total of fourteen of them. Three on each lobe of his ears, one ring at the top of his left ear, an eyebrow piercing, a stud in his nose, a bar through his tongue, a bar through his chin, a ring on each of his nipples and a belly button piercing.

"I likey." Jacob smiled. "So, you uh, trying to make a good first impression?" Jacob looked pointedly at Harry's snakeskin boots.

The only response Harry had time for was a small shrug as another man walked through the employee door. As Harry had his back to the door, he had to first witness Jacob's naughty smirk and the man behind him say, "Sorry I'm late," in a distantly familiar drawling voice.

Harry turned around, almost reluctantly, as he had a hunch to who was standing behind him. Sure enough, the man "Dray" was in fact Harry's old enemy from Hogwarts – Draco Malfoy. Harry just stood dumbstruck as he took in the site is front of him. Draco was dressed almost identical to how Harry was dressed. The only difference was the shoes. Instead of wearing purple snakeskin boots, Draco's feet were clad in platform shoes that are usually worn by women. Not only that, but Draco's number of piercings rivaled that number that Harry had. Harry noticed four piercings in both of Draco's ear lobes, a ring at the top of each ear, and although that was all the piercings that was visible to Harry, he did not for a second believe that those were the only holes in Draco Malfoy's body.

After recovering from complete shock, Harry finally found his voice. "Malfoy?"

"…Potter!"

"…You guys know each other then?" Jacob almost had a knowing look on his face. He probably figured that the two extremely attractive guys had met before and well, whatever happened after that was history.

"Fuck off Jacob. What the hell are doing here Malfoy… and dressed like that!"

"Well obviously the same as you," gnarled Draco but looked like he was actually impressed with Harry's image.

"You… you can't be serious! You aren't the new guy – the new guy's name is Dray— Oh..." Harry never was much for the quick uptake of things. "But still! What the fuck are you doing here? You hate muggles!" Harry shouted but then took a guilty look at Jacob and lowered his voice, "You hate muggles Malfoy!"

"Potter, you never were much for the quick uptake of things. Didn't you ever realize that you never saw me on the opposite side of the battlefield? Did you ever question why I was never in complete agony over my arm while Snape was? Or were you just that unobservant?" Draco practically growled. Not much had changed about Draco's personality or the way he spoke to Harry since the last time they saw each other.

Harry was at a complete loss as to what to say. He honestly had never realized that Draco never clung to his arm with agony and Snape and the other death-eater students did. Harry had also not realized that he not once saw Draco across the battlefield. In fact, the last he had seen Malfoy was at Graduation – before the war. "Whatever Malfoy. Let's just get to work shall we?"

At this point Jacob had no idea what was going on and decided that he would talk to Harry about it when they went out clubbing that night. There were never any plans made or anything, it was just known that they (whoever could go) would go clubbing Monday's, Wednesday's, Friday's and Saturday's. Harry had yet to miss a single outing. And Harry had yet to miss a night where he didn't end up 'hooking up' with a new bloke or getting completely wasted. Most would call him easy, but those who truly knew him would simply call him loving.

The air inside the shop was extremely tense throughout the rest of the day. Draco fit in perfectly to the atmosphere associated with 'Hot Topic' and was soon enjoying himself with his new job. Harry on the other hand had had quite enough of whatever game Malfoy was trying to play. Harry had come to live in the muggle world to avoid contact with his past (minus a few close friends of course). Malfoy must have found and decided he wanted revenge for everything that ever happened between the two boys. That must be it. I may have been completely unobservant in school but I know that I would not have missed a transformation in Malfoy as great as this. Something's going on.

"Hey Jacob," Harry called, "could you come here for a second I need to talk to you."

Jacob always loved it when Harry would personally call for him. Call it a school boy crush or a school boy attraction but he just could not get enough of Harry. Jacob happily walked over to where Harry was located at the register and asked, "what is it now?"

"It's about Malf—Dray. It's about Dray. Do you know a lot about him?"

"I know as much as he said in his interview and as much as he let known in his resume… but that's about it. Why? You interested?" Jacob gave Harry a suggestive eyebrow wiggle.

"What!" Harry sputtered. "Of course not! Yuuuuuck! Gnawhgsjk – Anyway, tonight after my show would you tell me everything you know? Pleeease?" It was rude of Harry to use Jacob's attraction to him this way, but he really needed to know what was going on with Malfoy.

Jacob's smile broadened at the prospect of seeing Harry perform and then getting him all to himself afterwards. Tonight should be fun… even if it is all about Dray. "Course, mate! Now get back to work!"

A/N : So what'd you think? Think it has promise? I know that I have like 2 other unfinished stories out there but my muses left me dry and this was the only plot bunny complete with muses that I have right now so I really hope you liked it! Anyway, since I'm a review whore, I want lots and lots of reviews and just because I'm so nice, I'll give you guys some teasers!

TEASERS:

Unexpected "guest" to Harry's "show"

Details behind Draco's past

Hmm… maybe a little bit of UST!

REVIEW!