Reason For Living
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AN: A great BIG thank you goes out gbheart for betaing!
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Chapter 1!
He woke to a loud gasp and thump beside his bed. Harry opened his eyes but soon regretted it and closed them with a groan, as pain shot through his head. One thought entered his mind 'Hangover' and he rolled over, curling into the warm body beside him, while mumbling to himself about lights being to damn bright. Slowly he realized that he wasn't alone in bed and flashes went through his mind. Hot breath. Deep blue-gray eyes. Needing skin to touch skin. A body on top of him slowly burying itself into him. His own voice panting and begging for more; harder, faster over and over again. Harry waved his hand and the curtains around his bed closed out the light so that he could open his eyes. He was greeted with a mass of white-blonde hair that could only belong to one person. Malfoy. Harry jumped up and out of his bed getting tangled in his blankets in the process, causing him to fall to the floor and land on a body that was later identified as Ron.
"MALFOY, WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY BED?" Harry yelled as soon as he made it to his feet, waking the sleeping blonde. Draco shot up with a groan and snapped back.
"Don't yell me head hurts you foooool . . . wait this isn't my room it's far too ugly. Where am I?"
He looked over at Harry and smirked at him.
"Nice package Potter."
Harry blushed and pulled his comforter up from the floor to cover himself.
"What are you doing here Malfoy?"
Draco just looked around.
"And where pray tell is 'here'? Although I'm fairly sure I can guess by the tacky decorating that I'm in the Gryffindor dorms."
"Yes you are - now tell me why?"
"Come on Potter, even you can't be so thick as to not be able to figure out why I'm here."
The dark haired boy just looked at him not sure if he should be mad or just plain confused.
"Oh sweet Merlin you are that thick. DO I always have to be the smart one? It's plain to see that last night in our drunken state we decided it was a good idea to come up here and shag like rabbits till the wee hours of the morning at which point I was too tired to bother with going back down to my dorms so I slept here. Honestly Potter haven't you ever had a one night stand before?"
Harry blushed and looked away when Draco pulled the sheet off of himself and began to pull his clothes back on.
"I'll just be leaving now and if you don't mind Potter lets never speak of this again, Merlin knows how long it's going to take for me to get this Gryffindor stink off of me and I've got to finish unpacking my bags."
With that he said Draco left the room in a flurry of robes,
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On the second day of the new school year there he stood, soon to be savior of the wizarding world. His team mates gathered around him with a look of disbelief on each and every face.
"You can't be serious Harry, please tell me this is just some cruel joke." Ron asked.
"I mean it Ron, I'm quitting the team."
"B-b-but why?"
Harry sighed.
"I've got bigger things to worry about then silly games. I need to focus on learning as much as I can right now - we all know this war is going to come to an end soon and I need to be prepared."
"You can't! Harry we need you and you love to fly."
"I'm not changing my mind Ron, so don't even try."
With that Harry turned and walked away from the pitch, blinking away tears knowing that there was no way around it.
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Five months later Harry was sitting in potions cursing Snape for pairing him with Malfoy. He knew Sev was just trying to be helpful in his odd way, but it really just made it harder on him.
"Go get the ingredients Potter."
"No, why can't you? Do I always have to do the grunt work for you?"
"Yes you do now get up and-"
Draco was cut off by Snape.
"Is there a problem here mister Malfoy?"
"Yes sir Potter here won't get the ingredients for us."
"I believe he's gotten them for the past several classes it's only fair if you get them once in a while." Snape answered, knowing that Harry had been having a lot of trouble getting around as of late. Draco looked as if someone had just told him that Dumbledore and the Dark Lord were secret lovers.
"B-b-but sir it's just Potter."
"Are you talking back to me mister Malfoy?"
"N-no sir."
With that Draco got up and gathered the ingredients for their lesson. Soon they were brewing without saying a word to one another. Just as Draco was about to add a baby mandrake leaf, he heard Harry mutter a breathing charm that would cleans all the air before it entered his body. The blond turned to his partner and sneered.
"What Potter not good enough to breath the same stinking air as the rest of us."
Then he cast a counter curse and removed Harry's breathing charm. Almost instantly Harry started coughing and wheezing. The dark haired boy dropped to his knees and Snape was at his side in and instant. Quickly hiding his concern, but Draco didn't miss it.
"What's going on here?"
"Well Potter thought he was better then the rest of us and cast a breathing charm on himself so he wouldn't have to smell the potion we're making and I so kindly informed him he was no better then us and removed his cha-"
"YOU DISPELLED HIS BREATHING CHARM!" Snape yelled now, unable to hide his worry.
"YOU have no idea what you've just done you fool idiot BOY!"
Snape dropped to his knees beside Harry and replaced the spell Draco had removed.
"Harry, Harry come on look at me. Come on that's it now can you tell me who I am? Come who am I?"
"Perrrfss S-ssseveers Sn--ssnnnape."
Harry rasped out still gasping for breath and Snape let out a breath he didn't realized he was holding.
"Good that's very good Harry now can you tell me where you are?"
"D-dddun-dungeons p-potions roooomm."
"Good, now Harry tell me do you think you can stand?"
"Yyess."
"Ok. Weasley, Finnegan come over here and help Potter to the hospital wing tell Madam Pomfrey that he got a good whiff of brewing body bind potion in stage three - she'll know what to do. As for the rest of you class is dismissed - Malfoy stay - now everyone get out." Snape snapped and soon the class room was cleared.
"Malfoy I'm very disappointed in you today. I know that you two don't really get along but what you did today could have very well killed Mister Potter."
"But how so sir the rest of us where breathing in the fumes."
"Did it ever occur to you that Mister Potter had a reason for putting that charm on himself? It's not my place to be telling you this and it goes without saying that what I'm about to tell you never leaves this room do you understand?"
Draco nodded.
"Yes sir."
"You see young mister Potter has gotten himself into quite a delicate situation - if you get what I'm saying."
"You mean he's pregnant? But I thought only pure bloods could. I mean isn't his mother muggle born - it's not possible."
"Draco my son, there is a lot you don't know about that boy. But that's not my point - my point is that because he's pregnant you could have very well killed him or his unborn today. I was hoping you would have noticed the strong glamour charm he has placed on himself to hide his growing girth from those around him, and his more clumsy nature. It's dire that you keep the secret Draco there are only seven other people that know aside from yourself; Dumbledore, McGonagall, Madame Pomfrey. Granger, Weasley, myself and of course Harry himself."
"But who's the father? We all know Weasley and Granger have been dating for years so that leaves him out, Dumbledore: eww that's just too nasty to imagine and you."
"That's the catch; Harry refuses to tell us who he is. Although Weasley and Granger seem to know but they both refuse to tell us."
"How far along is he?"
Draco asked crossing his fingers and praying that it was a fairly new development.
"About eight months or so give or take two weeks - Harry's really quiet about it and refuses to give up any details that might give the father way."
Draco went pail and felt faint.
"N-no no no no it can't be. No it's not possible." The blonde mumbled, before passing out.
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