Harry had already smoked two cigarettes by the time Draco joined him outside Hogwarts three nights after they had laughed together. Now he was working on his third staring hard at the Forbidden Forest. Draco sat next to him and watched silently as he finished his third and violently ground it out on the step next to the others. He lit another taking short forceful drags.

"What happened?" Draco asked softly. Harry jerked his head toward him and glared.

"Nothing" He said roughly taking another drag. Draco was not detered. Nobody smoked that fast when they were in a good mood.

"I saw Weasley and Granger glaring at you all through dinner."

"Well they're just prigs aren't they? The kind of people who when you tell them something personal and secret they get pissed at you for it. Bloody gits."

"I'm pretty sure this is the part where someone should point out you guys have been friends since first year and they must mean something to you. But I've always found them to be idiots so perhaps I'm not the person for it." Harry cast Draco a brief grin before taking yet another drag of his cigarette. Draco thought for a long moment about what to do. The last couple of weeks he'd found himself respecting Harry and even enjoying his company a very little bit. He wasn't sure however if this gave him the right to quiz harry about his problems with his friends.

"Do you. . .do you want to maybe talk about it?" He asked Harry surprising himself in the process. Harry stared at him.

"I find it difficult to believe you've ever uttered that phrase to anyone in your life before." Harry said without rancor. Draco smiled and thinking back realized Harry was right.

"Actually you're right. I've never given a damn before."

"What changed?" Draco opened his mouth to answer than closed it again. He really had no idea what had changed except that he didn't like seeing harry this upset and would really like it stop. He took a drag of his cigarette and didn't answer harry's question.

"They're mad at me, because I've no interest in dating Ginny Weasley."

"The Weaselette? I thought you'd already dated her."

"I did, that's the trouble. I broke up with her at the end of last year because over the summer I was going to be doing some very dangerous things. I didn't want to put her in danger."

"So why are they mad now? Its just as dangerous now for you to date her. It would draw Voldemort's attention to her and her family. Your friendship with Weasley already has and dating is even more dangerous." Draco reasoned not seeing the problem.

"Ahh but you see I told them I didn't want to date her even when Voldie is gone." Said Harry in a tone of amused bitterness.

"What changed?"

"She showed up in my bed last night after I got back from my smoke. Naked with silencing spells all cast. Telling me she just wanted to be with me this one time."

"Oh? And this caused you not to be interested?"

"Well it turns out that having Ginny Weasley naked in my bed helped me realize something." Draco's heart was suddenly going very fast and very loud he was surprised Harry couldn't hear it actually.

"What's that?" Draco asked and was embarrassed to find himself sounding quite breathless. Harry gave him a puzzled look at his tone before continuing.

"It was like I was staring at my little sister naked. Then she started touching me and I felt downright violated. Limper than week old lettuce to boot." Draco laughed softly at this description.

"So what did you do?" he asked amused and at the same time oddly disappointed though he couldn't place his finger on why exactly.

"I told her to get her clothes on and go to bed. She was not pleased."

"I imagine not."

"Yeah well she went and told Hermione and Hermione told Ron a much abbreviated version conveniently leaving out the fact that Ginny had been after sex and making it seem as though she'd come in for a kiss goodnight. They ambushed me this morning demanding to know why I had hurt her feelings like that."

"And you naturally told them the truth."

"Hermione thinks I was using her and Ron is taking it as a personal affront to his entire family. He figures I just think I'm to good for her."

"Well in all fairness, you totally are" Harry smiled wryly at this.

"Perhaps."

Two Days Later

For the first time ever Draco was outside before Harry. He wondered vaguely where the other boy had ended up. He'd actually been looking forward to talking to him tonight. The whole school had heard the story of Ginny's offer and Harry's response two it. The school was divided into two schools of thought on the matter. Either A. The Great and Noble Harry Potter would never dream of having Pre-Marital sex or B. Harry Potter is gay.

As Draco sat smoking he became increasingly angry. Where the fuck was Harry? He was supposed to be out here smoking with Draco. That's what they did. That was their thing. And now suddenly Harry had just given up Nicotine?

Draco did not try to analyze why he was so upset about it. He only knew that Harry was supposed to be out there with his wry smile and slightly tilted glasses. They were supposed to be discussing the world or their lives or something. Draco sat outside for a full half hour before calling it quits and stomping back to his dorm.

Several feet above in the Astronomy Tower Harry took a drag of his Cigarette and watched Draco shifting about and scowling with one of the telescopes. He didn't know why he'd chosen to come here instead of his usual spot. Nor was he quite sure why he'd spent a windy winter's half hour watching Draco through a telescope. He wouldn't know why he did it the next night either or the next. On the third night of Draco watching he began to wonder why he cared that Draco looked almost sad sitting down there alone.

On the forth night Harry was once again sitting on the steps of Hogwarts entrance when Draco came out for his evening smoke. They greeted each other as usual however there was a tension in the air that hadn't even been their before they'd developed their bizarre almost a friendship.

"I was beginning to think you'd given up smoking" Draco said and was surprised by his own accusatory tone. Harry was startled as well and turned his head quickly to look at him.

"I had some things I needed to puzzle out and I needed to be totally alone to do so." the apology in Harry's tone gave Draco pause and both boys were quite for a long moment.

"Anything in particular?" Draco asked.

"The whole school thinks I'm a poof."

"Nah its more like half of the school the other half thinks you're just terribly noble." Harry nodded to Draco's summation of things before turning to him and saying with great intensity.

"What do you think?"

"Well I know you're bloody noble, but I don't think that's why you turned down Ginny Weasley. You said you think of her as a sister."

Harry nodded his head slowly before whispering almost so soft that Draco didn't hear him.

"I think I'm a poof." Draco turned in surprise and saw the concern and shame on Harry's face. He reached out and patted him gently on the back.

"Don't worry overly about it Potter. I'm a poof too."

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