Draco could tell without opening the box what it was, and a look of fear crossed his face, but Harry stopped him before he tried to speak.
'Relax, I'm not asking you to marry me or anything.' Harry laughed as Draco did relax and forced a slight smile. 'It just considering.' Harry tilted his head towards the mark but make a point not to look at it. 'I've been worried about you. About you being safe. So, I was looking up protection charms, and I found one that works on jewelry.'
Draco took the box then. 'I didn't see you as much of a necklace or bracelet guy, but I figured everyone wears rings. So you could just say your mother gave it to you or something.'
The box opened to reveal a thick white gold band with a dragon carved into it. He held back a laugh remembering the awkward conversation he and Harry had about the dragons. As he was inspecting the ring, he noticed that Harry had been paying attention and it was an arctic dragon. Or it just happened to be a happy accident; since other than they were white there were very subtle differences that most people would never notice. Draco put it on his right hand and felt a slight wave of warmth flow through his body. He wondered if he would always feel warmer with it on or if it was just his imagination.
'Shhh,' Harry said when Draco opened his mouth to speak, and then was kissing him. For a moment, Draco was going to protest. Harry was always doing that, and it made it impossible to have serious conversations with him. 'You were going to show me everything you learned remember?'
'Yes.' He remembered. He was just a bit nervous about it, and things kept coming up. 'Just sit there.'
'I am,' Harry said while Draco attempted to gather his thoughts. Harry pressed against him and moaned, 'Draco' in a way that was almost begging and got Draco hard again in seconds. Harry was already, though Draco was not sure if that was still or happened again once they had started talking about sex. He hadn't been paying close enough attention with everything that was happening. Either way, he decided that he had teased Harry enough and started to whisper the spells he learned.
He wanted to be on top so that he could control everything. The books had given him many different tips and having the other person in control the first time had been one of them, but Harry had never - He trusted Harry, but that did not mean he wouldn't unintentionally hurt him.
All the spells he used were on himself, so Harry wasn't going to be able to tell that he was doing anything. Draco could tell that they helped. He had used a toy to practice and everything because he didn't want to have to stop in the middle of it all because of pain.
He was positive he was ready for it, but he still started with kissing Harry to distract himself. That was one of the tips to continue kissing through the entire thing (if it were possible) to keep his mind off the pain. It, in conjunction with the spells, worked perfectly. He hardly felt any pain as he slowly guided himself down on Harry. Draco went slowly up and down and though it took him a while, he finally found the spot he wanted. Then he could concentrate on Harry's reaction.
Harry was silent and that worried Draco.
His face was unreadable, so Draco couldn't tell if he was in pleasure, pain or just simply bored. His eyes were closed, and whenever Draco kissed him, he responded just like he always had before. Harry didn't move a muscle and let Draco move at whatever pace was the most comfortable for him.
'Are you okay?' Draco asked him afraid that Harry was in pain or hating it.
Harry opened his eyes then tried to respond. 'Yes,' he choked out before he pulled Draco into a kiss and came as he moaned against Draco's lips. 'Fuck, yes. I love you,' he repeated a couple of times before he pulled back and rested against the pillows again. 'Fuck.' Harry shook his head at himself. 'I was trying not to.'
Draco nodded with relief and kissed him to stop him from explaining further.
They repositioned so that they were both lying down with Draco's head on Harry's chest as Harry played with Draco's hair, and Draco played with his new ring.
'I'm sorry.'
'Don't be, I still enjoyed it,' Draco assured him.
'It's still not the same.'
Draco just shrugged. He didn't care that he had not come he was still happy. He almost voiced that but stopped as he mulled over the fact that he was happy. When was the last time he could have said that? Never. It occurred to him that he had never truly been happy. It was why he failed to ever cast a Patronus, not because he lacked skill, but because he had nothing happy enough to think about. He might have started to cry at that, but Harry shifting underneath him pulled him from his thoughts.
'What're you doing?'
'Just relax,' Harry said in between kissing down Draco's chest and pushing him to his back.
'Harry, you don't have to.'
'I want to,' Harry said and continued on his way.
Draco was tensed, but after all of their previous activity, Draco was fully teased and didn't last more than seven minutes after Harry took him into his mouth. He came calling out Harry's name.
'Mate?' Ron asked with concern in his voice. 'You alright?'
'Why wouldn't I be alright?' Harry asked only half paying attention with a smile that would not go away no matter how hard he tried.
'You're smiling,' Ron said as he shared a look with Hermione.
'Isn't that normally a good thing?' Harry laughed at his friend's expressions as he finally looked at them instead of slightly past them.
'Who were you looking at?'
Hermione was always more one for the direct approach.
'No one. Why would I be looking at someone?' Harry asked her as he turned back to his meal.
'You've just seemed a little distracted lately,' she explained while watching him curiously.
'And that means I have to be interested in someone?'
'No,' Hermione agreed, 'It doesn't, but the smile that you've been wearing constantly would mean that something good happened."
Harry laughed at her choice of words, yes 'something good' happened. He wondered if everyone found sexual things in everything others said after they finally had sex. He bit his lip after she glared at him, but shrugged his shoulders instead of answering her.
'Why is it such a big deal?' Hermione asked.
'What do you mean?'
'Why can't you just tell us who you're seeing? I mean we already know it's a boy.'
'Shh, just because I let you know doesn't mean I want the whole school to know,' Harry whispered. 'Besides, I never said I was seeing anyone.'
'So you bought a ring for yourself?'
He nodded.
'Really, then where is it?' She looked back and forth between both his hands to find nothing. 'A ring as expensive as that and you don't even wear it?'
'You bought some bloke an expensive ring?' Ron looked at Harry stunned as he finally caught on to what they were talking about. Ron then turned to Hermione. 'How expensive?'
She opened her mouth to answer, but Harry cut her off.
'That doesn't matter,' Harry told them sternly. 'I'm just not ready to let anyone know yet.'
'Not even us?' Ron squealed.
'I don't think you're ready to accept it yet. Just give me some time.'
'Okay,' Hermione finally backed off, but Ron looked just as upset as before. 'You're serious with this guy then?'
'I'm in love with him,' Harry kept his voice low, but not to a whisper.
Hermione answered with a forced smile.
Since Hermione knew that Harry was seeing someone, she finally noticed how much he saw of him. They met at least every other night since after the holidays. The more time that passed, the earlier that Harry would leave her and Ron in the evenings. To make things worse, she swore she saw the ring Harry bought on a certain Death Eater's son during their potions class. Two months passed and Hermione's curiously couldn't take it any longer. Just after Harry left the common room, she got up to follow him.
'Where are you going?' Ron asked her, and he closed his book.
'I'm going to follow Harry,' she responded not even slowing down.
'Wait up! I'm coming with.' He jumped up from the couch.
'Hurry, or we'll lose him.'
'Maybe we should lose him.'
She gave him a confused look.
'That way he doesn't notice us following him.' He nodded towards the dorm room.
She nodded, and he ran to grab Harry's Invisibility Cloak and map from Harry's trunk.
When he got back, they found Harry headed towards the seventh floor, and they ran to meet up with him there. They were out of breath when they got there and quickly threw the cloak over both of them. When Harry opened the door to go in the room, Ron put his foot in the door so that it wouldn't close. There was already someone there, and they imminently started talking. Which was lucky for Ron and Hermione or they would not have been able to get by Harry unnoticed.
'Did you leave the door opened?' They heard a familiar voice ask.
Harry turned and looked at it in confusion and then went to close it.
'I thought I had, sorry,' Harry mumbled and then climbed on the bed. 'I must have forgotten after I saw you.'
He blushed, and Draco rolled his eyes.
Ron and Hermione got closer and came almost to the foot of the bed. Hermione's suspicions were confirmed, and she bit her lip to remain silent. She hadn't, however, planned on Ron gasping when he saw Draco kiss Harry. Hermione quickly threw her hand over his mouth and pulled him back and to the ground by the couch. He glared at her, but she just put a finger to her lips, indicating that they should remain hidden and not let Harry know they were spying on him. Ron, however, glared at her and started to argue silently with her in gestures.
'Did you hear something?' Draco asked as he eyed the area that Ron and Hermione had previously been. They both went still and silent as they waited for the moment to pass. Thankfully, Harry had been too caught up in snogging Draco to notice anything, and he just shook his head.
Hermione and Ron held their breath as Draco looked around the room, and then smirked before he started to kiss Harry again.
'Mmmm,' Draco moaned. 'I want you so bad.'
'Really?' Harry asked in between kissing his neck and nibbling on his ear.
'Yes, I want you inside me,' Draco said and then pushed Harry back against the bed. The way they were sitting made Harry diagonal on the bed, but Draco stopped him when he went to straighten himself out and lean against the pillows. 'No, stay just like that. And don't move.'
Then he climbed on top of Harry.
'Okay.' Harry laughed, and Hermione had to grab Ron's arm to keep him from launching himself at them.
Draco started to kiss down Harry's body and even went down as far as Harry's hips. 'What are you doing?' Harry asked, sounding nervous.
'Shh,' Draco said, 'Just relax.'
Then he continued with what he was doing, kissing down Harry's hips and then down and up his thighs. Harry looked down at Draco in astonishment as put the tip of Harry's prick in his mouth and swirled his tongue around it a couple of times. Quickly after, Draco went back to straddling him and then began to whisper spells that Hermione couldn't hear the incantations to, but she got the gist of it and pulled Ron toward the door.
Harry slid down the bed a little and pulled Draco to his mouth, which threw Draco off balance for a second, and he had to grab onto Harry's head and the headboard to regain his balance.
Ron, once again, almost burst out from under the cloak as Hermione had been trying to get him through the door.
It had not occurred to her that Harry would have been that intimate with his boyfriend. She hadn't planned nor had she wanted to see all of that. She and Ron continued their heated argument through gestures under the cloak. Where Ron wanted to stop them immediately and confront Harry, Hermione wanted them both to leave. Hermione eventually won, and they were trying to make their way through the door as quietly as possible.
Though with all the noise Draco was making, they had no reason to be quiet any longer.
'Oh Harry,' Draco moaned loudly. Even he knew he was overdoing it a bit, but Harry didn't seem to notice it. In fact, Draco rather liked Harry's reaction to it. 'Yes, yes!'
Harry had hardly moved at all the last time, and Draco was grateful for that at the time, but with Draco's constant encouragement Harry was doing most of the work that time. Even though, just like the time before, Draco was on top of Harry. After Draco had started to move freely, Harry joined him meeting him in the middle with thrusts of his own. Draco ended up bracing himself and letting Harry do all the movement from underneath him. Once Harry found a rhythm, Draco found it increasingly easier to overdo his moans.
'Where did this come from all of a sudden?' Harry managed to say in the middle of everything.
Draco had always known he was possessive. Once he realised they were being watched, he just wanted whoever it was to know that Harry was his and to stay away. Whoever they were had Harry's Invisibility Cloak, and therefore must have been rather close to Harry. Draco decided that if they were going to perv and watch, then he was going make sure they knew how happy Harry was with him. But Draco did not want to tell Harry any of those things at that moment.
It more likely the fact they were in the middle of having sex and not so much the question Harry asked that had Draco answer, 'I love you.'
He claimed Harry's stunned mouth in a kiss that caused them both to climax.
Hearing those words changes things. Draco knew that from when he heard them from Harry before, but he wasn't prepared for Harry's reaction. He knew that it would make him happy.
'I love you, Draco,' Harry said as he started to roam his body and kiss every part of it. Then he kept repeating it over and over again. Like Harry had wanted to say it much more than he already had, but had been holding back. Having Draco say it opened a floodgate, and it was all Harry wanted to say.
