Chapter 4

Severus had sat everyone down at Alice's insistence. He hadn't wanted to, but Alice had been right, this involved all of them now.

"What is it Sev?"

Severus sat down and thought for a moment on how to say this. He turned to Harry slowly.

"Harry, I loved Lily very much. I was devastated when she chose James over me. I did two things to get back at her for it. The first was that I called her a mudblood, and the second was that I went out and found a woman who looked just like her."

Severus paused for a moment. "Vivian was a muggle from America who was passing through England on her tour of Europe. We slept together, just one night…and then we parted ways."

Harry tilted his head to the side and scrunched up his nose. "Eww, you had a crush on my mum!"

Severus laughed softly. "Perhaps now you can see why I was so cruel to you for so long. I felt that I was the one that should have been with your mother, not Potter. You should have been my son, not his."

Severus turned to Alice for a moment before looking back at his hands, knowing he had to tell all of it.

"I have told you all of the boy that we have to find before the Volturi does. The boy who can mimic the powers of others. Recently, a vision brought some things to light. I saw the boy looking at a picture of his mother. His mother was the Vivian. The boy we have to save is my son."

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Asher was completely broke. He didn't even have a penny.

He was currently in St. Louis and needed to head North West if he wanted to get to Forks, Washington. It had already been over a week into his journey and Asher was beginning to feel anxious, but there wasn't much you could do if you were a hitchhiker.

Karaoke Night. Winner gets $500.

Asher couldn't believe that he was doing this, he really couldn't. Asher took a deep breath as he stood before the crowd and began to sing.

Asher was exhausted when the contest finally ended just after midnight. He had holed himself up in a booth and was sleeping in the corner of it.

"And the winner is Asher!"

Asher jerked awake as his name was called out. He made his way to the front of the club and took the money before leaving as quickly as possible and heading to a nearby diner to buy himself some food.

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Draco looked upon the crowds of kids and thanked any god that was listening that Severus had brewed a potion to prevent his bloodlust and return his eye color to normal…for now. He would have to take the potion every twenty four hours, but at least there would be no slipping up for him.

Carlisle and Esme had enrolled him and Harry into school. The two would be juniors at Forks High School and Severus would teach them magic at home.

"Take a deep breath Draco. Relax. You'll do fine."

Draco snarled lightly at Harry. "And how do you know that. You're no seer."

Harry looked slightly hurt. "I know because I've come to know you and I know that you are strong enough to deny any temptation that Snape's potion may not destroy."

Harry turned from Draco quickly and made his way into the main building. Draco began cursing himself for being such a jerk.

As the day went on it was discovered that he had all of his classes with Draco, it was also discovered that Jessica Stanley had a thing for Harry Potter, and that Draco Malfoy did NOT approve. During lunch Draco had broken completely.

Jessica was hanging on Harry as he was trying to eat. Draco was sitting across from him and growling so quietly that even the Cullens would not have been able to hear him.

It was as Jessica leaned over to show her cleavage that Draco stood and slammed his hands down on the table, forcing himself to hold back his strength.

"Back off! He's mine!"

Harry looked up at Draco with a deep blush, his jaw hanging open. No one was able to bring him out of it until the bell rang for the next class.

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"Harry, I'm sorry!"

Harry ignored Draco as they got out of the car, and instead headed inside to head to his room and do his homework. Harry spelled his door shut so that no one could bother him.

Esme frowned when she watched the boy she saw as a son run up into his room.

"Care to explain what happened, Draco."

Draco would have been blushing if he had still been human; instead he looked away and allowed Emmett to tell the story.

"Jessica was totally hanging all over Harry, and when she started showing off her cleavage Draco totally lost it and told her to back off because Harry was his."

Esme looked at Draco as if he was a moron.

"In front of everyone Draco? No wonder he is so mad!"

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Draco made his way into Harry's room after the other had gone to sleep. He sat down at the end of Harry's bed and took a deep breath when Harry stirred.

"Malfoy? What the hell do you want? Get out of here."

Harry turned away and curled back up.

"I can't go away Harry. I never will. I do not regret saying what I did Harry, but I should have told you how I felt before I blurted it out like that. What I did was cruel and I'm sorry."

"How you feel? That I am an object?"

Draco's eyes widened. "Of course not Harry. Y…you're my singer. I knew it the moment I saw came to you. I knew it the moment your scent reached me."

Harry snorted. "Great, so I smell good. That doesn't mean anything Draco."

At least Harry had stopped calling him by his last name again. Draco sighed and looked out the window.

"I don't know what to say to make you believe me Harry. You've been hurt so many times before. Especially by me. But…ever since…I've been feeling…things. It's as if my heart beats when I'm around you. I can't stop thinking about you, no matter what I do. I can't help these feelings that are taking over me and I'll be damned if I let Jessica take away any chance I have of being happy with you."

Harry sat up slowly and looked at Draco in the darkness of his bedroom. He turned on the side lamp so that he could see Draco better, and placed his new glasses on so that he could see more than a blurry image.

"You do realize that we are two boys right?"

Draco laughed softly. "I am very aware of that Harry."

"Two boys can't be together Draco."

Draco growled and pinned Harry to the bed.

"Just because your aunt and uncle say it doesn't mean its wrong Harry. Do me a favor and forget everything they have every said to you because not a single word of it is true. You are not a freak, you are not worthless, you are not a burden, and the two of us being together is something beautiful…not wrong. While we are on the subject of what you should forget, you are NOT ugly, you are NOT just like your father…though I have never met the man, and you are NOT…hmmph!"

Harry's hands were pinned above his head by Draco; there was only one possible way to shut the blonde up. Harry's warm lips collided with Draco's cold ones, effectively removing Draco from his current train of thought.

Harry pulled away slowly with a deep blush on his lips, shivering from the feel of Draco's body, though the shivers had nothing to do with the coldness of his body.

"I…I like you too. But I have school in the morning and unlike you I need sleep. So can I please go back to bed now?"

Draco laughed softly. "Only if I can sleep beside you."

Harry rolled the thought around his mind for a moment before nodding and moving over so that Draco had more room on the bed.

Draco felt like something was going right in his life for once, and so did Harry.