New Room

Dumbledore guided the boy's up the staircase and to a portrait neither of them had encountered before. Dumbledore quickly muttered a password and the portrait of a very beautiful pale creature opened.

The room was huge and Harry couldn't help but gasp, the walls were sliver and the palest of blues, far too pale to be linked to Ravenclaw though. Harry smiled until his eyes rested on the beds. One was perfectly normal and whilst both looked extremely comfortable Dumbledore had moved the bedcovers up from one of them revealing bright sliver wrist and ankle cuffs.

Harry felt Draco stiffen beside him and felt some sympathy for the blonde. It seemed he knew why the cuffs were there.

Dumbledore beckoned them to come forward and they moved to the cuffed bed.

" Veela's are quite merciful creatures unless you threaten their mate of course, but an unbonded Veela is in constant crave for their Mate, at night the crave becomes extreme, if Draco was to sleep without being cuffed into his bed. Through no fault of his own it is likely he'll try to bond with you Harry. The Veela side will take over and he'll be unable to stop himself. Now whilst this may be unpleasant for you Draco you understand this is necessary, for the time being at least."

Draco looked heavily with disgust at the cuffs but nodded all the same.

" They work to your touch Harry, Draco won't be able to cuff himself to the bed."

Draco felt his blood boil, wasn't enough he had to be cuffed to his bed every night without the added torture of having Harry have to cuff him there. Harry, he noted with slight consolation didn't think much of it either.

" Why to my touch ? I mean I know I'll have to un cuff him but why can't he cuff himself to the bed ?"

" Safety reasons. To allow Draco to cuff himself would mean that we would have to have it so that anyone could cuff him down. I'm sure you can see the dangers in that."

Grimly Harry nodded and he felt even more in control of the blonde than before. He didn't like it.

" Yeah your right, Harry's my Mate I trust him, i'm not going to be popular when this gets around the school. Dumbledore I pledge my alliance to you, I pledge my alliance to The Order, I'll defend my Mate to the end, even it means fighting my parents."

Harry took Draco's hand, making Draco turn to his mate. Harry's eyes were wide and with his eyes magically fixed the green was no longer hidden from glasses. Draco nodded and hoped this would earn him some brownie points towards his Mate.

" You would do that Draco ? Turn against your family if you needed to, for me ?"

Draco nodded and rose Harry's hand to his rose petal soft lips he went to kiss it when Harry snatched his hand away.

" I can't do that Draco. Not yet, we're not even friends."

Draco felt pain bubble in his chest and he felt himself shake slightly but putting his Malfoy facade firmly in place he nodded and turned to Dumbledore with a serious expression, an expression he hoped told him to leave.

" It's late I'll leave you boys alone now. Make sure to tell the portrait your password."

Harry watched Dumbledore go and felt extremely uneasy. It was Draco that broke the atmosphere.

" I guess I'll get ready for bed ?"

Harry gave a shaky sort of nod and sunk into one of the sofas. He couldn't believe what had just happened. It seemed he had sat for mere moments before Draco called him over.

When Harry turned he had to try hard not to blush, he couldn't hide the fact that what he saw was more than easy on the eye.

Draco had fine well muscled Quidditch six pack and his legs were nicely shaped, of course both had seen all of eachother but in flesh was even better. Draco smirked at Harry.

" Like what you see Potter ?"

Harry had to bite the inside of his of his cheek to stop himself blushing. The seemingly good atmosphere however was ruined when Draco sat down on the bed and then looked at the cuffs. The cheeky teasing expression left his face and was replaced by a solemn and serious look.

" Chain me up Potter "

His tone was teasing but his expression was as far from it as possible. Harry slowly walked forward and looked straight into Draco's sliver eyes.

I love his eyes, his eyes are such a shimmery silver- WOAH WHERE DID THAT COME FROM ! FOCUS !

It was Draco's hand moving across in front of Harry's face that brought Harry back. Harry gave a startled shake before turning back to Draco sheepishly.

" I really don't want to tie you down Draco, and I think with time I might like you, like you a lot and we might not need this but i'm sorry I-"

Draco rose a hand and put it on Harry's lips effectively silencing him.

" I'm not going to lie and pretend i'm happy with all this tying down but your my Mate and I won't force you into bonding with me."

Harry shot Draco a grateful look before gently reaching for Draco's nearest wrist. As soon as his fingers touched Draco's skin a jolt of electricity shot through them both. Harry quickly let go stunned by how just touching 'his Veela' could send so many sparks.

Draco looked deeply into Harry eyes but stuck to his word and didn't push him.

" I'm not going to get chained down by myself Harry."

Draco said softly, almost wistfully.

Harry nodded and gently took Draco's wrist, his skin felt like he remembered it in their dream. Soft, silky and exquisite, gently Harry pulled Draco's wrist back, slowly as to not accidentally hurt him. Harry positioned Draco's wrist and clicked the silver cuff shut.

Draco tried to keep his features static but the change in emotions must have shown because he could see renewed guilt in Harry's emerald eyes. Gently Harry clicked the cuffs shut on Draco's ankles.

He looked at Draco and quickly he moved to the other side of the bed and took Draco's other wrist.

" You'd better remember to un cuff me in the morning Potter ?"

Harry rose an eyebrow and continued to move Draco's wrist back and into the cuffs, he clicked them shut when Draco let out a pained hiss and closed his eyes. Harry looked at Draco concerned.

" It's ok just caught my skin there Harry."

Harry said nothing he felt his pity increase as he saw Draco laid out in the bed like that, he didn't look very comfortable. Gently he placed the the bedcovers over the tied Veela and without another word got himself ready, his mood dead as the situation slowly sank in and the commitment he had made came to his mind.

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