Chapter 7
Harry yawned when he woke and snuggled deeper into Jades strong embrace. Smiling wickedly, he leaned up and licked the magenta haired mages tanned skin.
Jade stirred slightly in his sleep, pulling his lover closer to him and nipping his ear. "Too early....," he mumbled.
Harry giggled and nuzzled hi bedmate. "Breakfast my dear....or I'll let Quicksilver wake you up..."
Groaning, Jade sat up. "Fine... I'm up already...," he said, sighing and climbing out of the bed nude.
Harry smiled and tilted his head to the side. "I think only select few other mages are as lucky as I am..." Sighing, he moved out of bed and shook out his hair.
Jade smiled back at the mage. "Oh yes.. don't you know it...they all want my sexy body...," he said, raising an eyebrow sarcastically.
"Oh yes, every single one of them..." Harry laughed and sauntered into the bathroom. "then again, you're lucky yourself..."
"Mmmmm... any chance of me getting luckier in the shower this morning?," he asked, grinning wickedly at the silver haired mage.
"I thought you said it was to early..." Harry called as he turned on the water and smiled as the steam ruffled his hair.
Jade came up behind him and wrapped his arms around the boy's waist. "With you, my little tea scone, it's never too early to get lucky...."he whispered, moving Midnight's hair to nip at his skin.
Midnight chuckled and gave the older mage a wicked smile as he pulled them both into the large clouds of steam.
Draco sat down at the Slytherin table and put a few pieces of bacon and a scoop of eggs onto his plate. He ate quietly, barely noticing the people around him.
"Wow, Midnight looks...glowing this morning..." Pansy said with a chuckle as she looked back at Draco. "I think your boyfriends being unfaithful Draco darling..."
Draco looked towards his supposed boyfriend and saw what Pansy was talking about. Midnight was glowing. He had on a long leather duster with silver clasps that jingled and flashed as he walked, allowing glimpses of his tight leather pants that left nothing to the imagination. He had knee high black boots with silver laces that matched a hip length tunic like shirt with silver trim.
Draco looked away and back at his plate, his embarrassment and anger returning. 'I can't believe I told him all about how much I liked Harry...him! Merlin, he was probably laughing at me behind my back the whole time...' he thought, scowling and drinking his juice.
"Good morning everyone!" Midnight smiled brightly. "How is everyone today?" he asked as he sat next to Draco and kissed his cheek.
Draco sat silently and continued eating, not looking up at the silver haired boy.
"Obviously not as good as you...," Pansy said, smiling and raising an eyebrow. "You're positively glowing, Midnight."
Midnight blushed and began to eat. "Well...it's nothing special..."
"You look like you just got some, but Draco doesn't look like he did," Pansy said, smiling. "Well.... Out with it.. who's the lucky person.."
"No one, can't I be happy in the mornings?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
Pansy held up her hands. "I'll drop it," she said with a secretive smile and a glance up at the staff table.
Draco finished eating and headed back to his room to gather up his parchment and quills. He stuffed them everything into his school bag and sighed as he saw Harry's planner sitting on his bed. Quickly, he stuffed that into his bag as well and headed down to potions as the bell rang.
Midnight quickly made his way to the dungeons and smiled at Greg and Pansy when he slid into his seat at the door closed and Snape appeared.
"Why are you late?" Greg whispered to the mage when Snape began to speak.
"I couldn't find my lesson planner, still can't..." he murmured back as he flipped open his book and smiled when he saw the potion they were making. "I love this potion..."
Draco quietly opened his book and began powdering pieces of a dragon eggshell for the potion, ignoring the War Mage entirely.
Greg looked at Draco and tilted his head in confusion. "Midnight, do you know what's wrong with Draco? He hasn't said a word all day....," Greg whispered to the silver haired boy. "It's almost like when we were in sixth year."
Midnight shook his head and frowned. "No," he replied. "What happened in sixth year?"
"It was when he was dating Basil. The night that they broke up, Basil tried to force Draco. When Draco refused, Basil was really mad. Draco disappeared for two days and then just re-appeared as if nothing had happened. He stopped talking and didn't start again until this year. He wouldn't even answer any of my letters over the summer," Greg explained, looking at Draco.
Midnight scowled and tried to force the dangerous feelings out of his blazing silver eyes. "I just saw him last night...if anything happened...I'll kill them..." he said quietly and began to slice a spiders liver with one of his daggers.
Greg shrugged. "Basil was in the common's all last night. He went to bed around the same time that I did," he said, sighing. "I just don't know what's wrong with Draco. He didn't say anything at breakfast, and didn't even taunt Weasly when we came in today."
"I'll ask what's wrong after class..." Midnight said slowly and he thought about everything that happened between last night and this morning.
It took most of the hour to complete the potion, Harry kept looking up at Draco and frowned when Draco ignored his warning and didn't wait to throw in his chopped cherry root. This ended up turning his potion a shade off of orange and caused Snape to frown slightly when the potion ended up being a hair to thick.
Harry and Greg got good marks not perfect, but fairly good. Snape made a comment on War Mage's being over confidant to which Midnight rose and eyebrow and flashed his dagger at. Snape didn't say anything else and walked away quickly to inspect another pairs potion.
After Snape inspected his potion, Draco put some of it into a flask and corked it. He set it on the Potion Master's desk and went back to his own area to clean it up.
Midnight smiled at his partner when they were done cleaning and picked up his bag. "Draco, my love, I need to see you after class..." he said as he walked over to the blonde and wrapped his arms around the trainee's waist, holding him tightly when he felt the boy ready to move away.
Draco nodded, trying to pull away from Midnight. When the Mage wouldn't let go, he waved his wand to clean up the mess on his table without speaking a word. He tugged Midnight's hand loose and stepped away, pretending to busy himself with locating a quill from his bag.
Midnight nodded and dusted off his jacket as a set of loud magical bells and whistles signaled the passing period. Midnight pulled Draco into an unused classroom and quickly shut the door, sound proofing it and adding an extra locking charm just for good measure.
"Are you alright?" he asked softly as he turned to look at the blonde.
Draco nodded, fidgeting with the hem of his black robes. He brushed his shoulder length blonde hair behind his ear, looking at the door.
Midnight frowned at the boy's nervousness and stepped closer to him. "You wear your emotions to clearly, tell me what's wrong..."
Draco stepped back, finally meeting the Mage's eyes and scowling. "Nothing," he said, moving towards the door skirting around Midnight and not touching him. He tried the handle and rose an eyebrow. "We're going to be late," he stated, his voice flat and emotionless.
"I'm a mage and really am only going to classes because Dumbledore wants me to...I'm 'under age'" he laughed. "I swear that man grows battier everyday..."
Midnight leaned back against a desk and smiled at the blonde. "So I can keep you here as long as I want and pass it off to him as training..."
Draco shrugged and sat in a desk, pulling out a piece of parchment and began proofreading his divination's essay. He made a small change in spelling and capitalized a word.
Harry yawned and pulled out his potions textbook and began to read. "I can wait as long as you can my love..."
Draco's stomach began to rumble about an hour later. He ignored it as the bell for lunch sounded. He pulled out a novel he was reading and found his place, slipping his essay and textbook back into his bag. The blonde still refused to speak to Harry, and his mood grew darker with each passing hour.
"Hungry?" Midnight asked softly as he moved closer and smiled at the blonde trainee.
Draco shrugged, continuing to read his book and not looking at the silver haired mage. His stomach rumbled again and he shifted in the desk, reaching for his bag of cookies.
"Would you like lunch?" Midnight tried again, moving closer to him.
Draco shook his head and munched on his cookies, taking the edge off of his hunger.
Harry sighed. "Why are you so upset at me, tell me my love..."
"Can I leave yet?," Draco asked, raising his eyebrow and looking up at Harry coolly.
"Are you ready to talk to me?" Harry asked with a raise of his eyebrow.
"No. I'm not going to," he said, pursing his lips. "And I never will. Brushfire will be very mad if I don't show up for Divinations."
"Problem easily solved..." Midnight said as he pulled out a crystal ball from his bag and placed it in front of the blonde trainee. "Now are you going to talk to me? Because if not I need to go find my planner and get to class, because I have a lesson to teach in twenty minuets..."
Harry looked at his fingernails and waited.
Draco scowled and reached into his bag. He pulled out Harry's planner and slapped it onto the desk. "There's your planner," he said, crossing his arms over his chest and gathering his things back into his bag.
Midnight blinked and quickly grabbed his planner holding it to his chest. "Thank you...I must've left it in your room last night..."
"When you ran out," Draco said, standing. "Can I leave now?" He frowned down at the mage and moved to the door. "I really need to get to Divinations."
"Actually its time for D.A.D.A, lets go....thank you for my planner..." He looked at Draco and walked forward. "Shall we go?" He smiled sweetly.
Draco nodded and waited for Midnight to remove the wards on the room.
Midnight removed the wards as the bell rang for the passing period and quickly scooped up his crystal ball as he hurried out of the room to get to his class.
"Come on, well be late..."
Draco walked after Harry and moved slowly down the halls, turning and taking a different, yet slower route to the classroom.
Midnight smiled when he entered the classroom and went straight over to his magenta haired lover and kissed his neck. "Hey...I missed you at lunch..."
"Where were you?," Jade asked, shivering and slipping his arms around his silver-haired lover's waist.
"Dealing with an irate boyfriend..." he sighed. "Draco is very angry at me for some reason...oh well...mind showing me what I missed in...two minuets?"
"Mind if I snack on you?" he teased, nipping at Midnight's ear as he moved away and began the class.
"By all means..." Midnight chuckled tapping the chalk and turning to the class. "Mermaids...most people think that mermaids are beautiful creatures with long graceful tails and the upper torso of either males or females." He shook her head. "But that's no the case. I've seen them before, not quite so pretty. They are slightly grayish blue and covered in seaweed."
The lesson went smoothly until everyone was split into groups of four to work on translating the Merish alphabet.
"Draco..." Midnight said. "Why aren't you working in the group I put you in?"
Draco held up his half-finished paper in response. He rose an eyebrow in challenge and went back to his paper.
Harry looked at the other War Mages and sighed. "Draco, please work with your group, you might already know this, but they my not. Please, get into your group."
He didn't wait for Draco's response as he moved over to Jade and Bloodlust and sat on the desk to see what they were talking about.
Draco moved his desk over to the other students and continued working on his own, allowing the others to copy off his paper. He finished and took out his novel, opening it and ignoring the chatter of his group.
"Jade, what do you suggest I do? He is just blatantly being disrespectful..." Midnight said as he looked at the Mage-in-training.
Jade chuckled. "Beat him with a stick. While he's sleeping," the magenta haired man said, smiling.
Midnight laughed. "Don't tempt me Jade, I'll do it...and you know I will..."
"You could always do to him what Aqua did to me after I kissed her. Make him stand for two days straight holding up buckets of water and rocks," he suggested, sitting next to Midnight with his back to the class. "Or stick a snake....." he shuddered slightly, "in his bed while he sleeps." He smiled and reached for his lover's hand, stroking it softly.
"The bucket idea isn't all that bad...but he isn't under my command, Brushfire is his Mage." Midnight said as he shifted closer to the magenta haired mage and smiled. "And unfortunately if I remember Draco as I do, he loves snakes...so that's out..." he looked over and shook his head. "Excuse me dear."
Midnight slid off the desk and approached the front of the class. "Since Mr. Malfoy thinks that helping his group means letting them copy off of his already completed paper, I think it's only fair that I assign more work."
Draco ignored the glares of all the students and calmly took out another roll of parchment and his quill. He sighed in boredom and looked up at Midnight expectantly.
"By tomorrow, I want a complete five inch essay on the contrasts and similarities between the real merpeople and what most people perceive as the real merpeople. I want it all in Merish with a complete translation. I don't want each letter translated, I want words. That means if all of you aren't in the library, I don't think this will be done right, you may use any source you can think of. If you don't get finished you'd best not show up tomorrow..."
Midnight looked at each of them and rose and eyebrow as he walked back to the desk and sat down again.
Draco pulled out his novel again and continued reading, planning out his essay in his head. He ignored the malice directed at him from the rest of the class. He didn't care. He was too angry at Harry to even make the effort at pretending to care. When the bell rang, he quickly stuffed all of his belongings into his bag and headed for the door.
Midnight heard passing snips of conversation as the students filled out of the room. 'Lovers spat' was the common and when the room was empty, Harry groaned and slammed his head down on the desk.
"I refuse to go to Divination!" he mumbled pathetically.
"Why?," Jade asked, stroking his back softly.
Harry didn't lean up as he answered. "I just showed a the tiniest grain of my temper and I'm sure my friends are going to hate me. Something crawled up Draco's ass and died, so now I'm being challenged every moment I'm around him. And I don't feel well!"
"Maybe Draco gave you cooties?" Jade teased, leaning down to kiss Midnight's head.
"Knowing him the way I do, Most likely!" Harry sat up and looked at Bloodlust. "Bob...love of my life...go kill Draco for me...please?" he whined and was rewarded with a small chuckle.
Bob smiled sadistically and headed for the door, pulling out one of his daggers on the way. "Would you like his head? Or do I get to keep it?" he asked, completely serious.
"Keep his head, bring me his heart in a box..." Harry replied, with a laugh. "I'm joking with you, but no, I know you didn't eat lunch. What with Quicksilver talking to her food again as she most likely was. Go down to the kitchens and ask for Dobby, tell him a friend sent you."
Bob nodded and left the room to look for the kitchen or kill someone trying.
Jade kissed Harry softly. "Do I get to snack on you while he's gone?" he asked, wiggling his eyebrows comically.
"Do you I get to play the helpless student?" Midnight laughed as he was dipped back slightly.
"Oh... you'll have to stay after for a long detention. You've been quite the naughty boy, Mage Midnight," Jade said, kissing him deeply.
Harry smiled and locked the door with a wave of his hand as Jade lay him back on the desk.
Draco pulled out the dictionary and looked up a word, ignoring Tony's bouncing and jumping around. He sighed irritably and glared at his two inches. "I hate Merpeople....," he mumbled, ducking as a stuffed turtle flew over his head and absently threw it back. He wrote a few more lines, trying to ignore the feeling that the bottom had just dropped out on his life.
"Dracoo! why do you hate merpeople..." Tony asked as he bounced on hi be and threw his turtle at his blonde roommate again, trying to get his attention.
The blonde turned and gave his roommate a weak smile. "It's not that I hate Merpeople, I just don't really like Midnight too much at the moment. Or anyone beside you, really," he said, stretching and sighing.
"Why? Not happy that War Mage Midnight is sleeping with War Mage Jade and my brother while going out with you at the same time?" He asked as he crossed his legs and bounced onto his bed becoming uncharacteristically quite and attentive.
"That's part of it... I'm just mad at him.... I've been very embarrassed and I don't really want to see him anymore. I can't break up with him, though, because it'll blow my cover." He said with a sigh. "I just don't want to pretend to like someone that I don't particularly like at the moment." Draco gave the Spirit Mage in training a small, weak smile. "It's just complicated."
Tony blinked and tilted his head slightly. "Let me guess...you found out something about War Mage Midnight that you wish you hadn't...you know him don't you..."
Draco's smile faded. "I wish that I didn't... trust me," he said, sighing. "And stop reading my energy.... It's not nice. I'll see you later, Tony. I'm going to go and see if I can't finish this essay in the library or the Great Hall." He grabbed his stuff and started to shove it into his bag. He liked Tony and treasured his developing friendship, but wanted to be alone to try to sort out his feelings.
"Sorry Draco..." Tony said as he looked down at the stuffed animal he was holding and began to play with its feet.
Harry frowned when he flipped open a book on the medicinal properties of strawberries and saw all of the words blank out. He scowled and quickly looked around and saw no one around but heard a few soft giggles and a quick 'shh'.
"I hate students..." He murmured as he shut the book and put it away, intent on going into the restricted section to get away from all of the stupid trick the Gryffindors and Slytherins were playing on him.
Draco put a volume back onto the second shelf and looked around the rest of the restricted section's mermaid volumes. "Dictionary...."he mumbled, running a finger carefully along the shelf.
"You won't find any Merish dictionaries here, and any you did find I don't want to know what you'd say to me in your report." Midnight said as he passed the blonde and continued on his way to a old beat up leather chair he knew was in a back corner. "Now get out of here before I give you a detention with Filtch..."
Draco rose an eyebrow at the Mage. "And here I thought you said that I could use any source I wanted," he retorted, continuing to scan the volumes.
"You can," he called. "Do you have written permission to be here?"
He sighed as he sank down into the familiar chair, flipped open a book he'd picked up on elven healing magic, pulled out his glasses and began to read the gigantic tome.
Draco laughed bitterly. 'This from the boy who frequented this section with out permission himself...' he thought, shaking his head. "You're one to talk..." he said, picking a book up and opening it as he sat in the middle of the isle.
Harry blinked and looked up from his book with a frown. "What do you mean?"
"You used to come up here all the time without permission," Draco replied, turning a page and scribbling down some notes.
Harry froze and dropped the heavy book with a resounding 'Wham-thud' as he felt his heart skip two beats. "W-" He cleared his throat. "I have no idea what you're talking about..." he said as he leaned down and picked up his book reopening it and taking a deep breath.
Draco rose an eyebrow and stood. He shut the book and shrugged. "Whatever," he said, turning to walk to another section on Mermaids.
Midnight laughed softly and looked at the blonde trainee that stood a bookshelf away from him. "You wouldn't be indicating that I am your missing Harry Potter would you?"
"You said it, not me. I'm just a stupid trainee. I wouldn't dare suggest that.... You might give me a ten inch essay on the 'boy-who-lives'," Draco said, shrugging and grabbing a Merish dictionary off the shelf.
"Not much to write about him..." Midnight responded. "The boy was never going to be a mage at the rate he was going...he did a lot of things wrong and screwed up more things than fixed them...but he made a lot of people proud when he graduated..." he smiled at the memory of his graduation. "He was even given his best friend's colors..."
"Mmm... so he screwed all the right people. I'd be proud too," Draco said, walking to the exit and trying not to look back. He felt slightly guilty as he said it, but he would be damned if he was going to be walked on.
"Prissy little daddy's boy..." Harry mumbled as he continued to read, ignoring the pain Draco's comment inflicted. "You'd better have that essay done or Merlin help you..."
"At least I had one," Draco replied, leaving the library and heading to the Great Hall.
Harry sighed as he lay in Jade's arms that night. "Teddy, Do you think I'm a slut?"
Jade laughed. "What would make you say that, my love? No, you are not, nor have you ever been, a 'Slut.'" He said, kissing his lover softly.
"Its just something Draco said when I saw him in the restricted section...which I'm planning to give him a detention for..." Midnight said with a smile. "He said that to graduate I slept with all the right people...he knows who I am..."
Jade stiffened. "How did he find out?" he asked, voice low and dangerous.
"I left my old planner in his room by accident...he must've seen though the scribbling I did over my old name..." Harry closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"What do you want to do about him?" Jade asked, stroking the bare skin on Midnight's back gently.
Midnight sighed and shook his head. "If it were a random person, I'd say kill them and be done with it. But I know this person...I've known him for years and even though we hated one another, I can't just make him disappear. I'd wipe his memory, but as a Seer Mage god knows what would happen..."
Jade kissed his lover softly. "Do you want me to talk to him?" he offered, moving Midnight so that the boy was lying on his chest.
Midnight laughed softly. "You'd most likely talk to him in the pouring rain while he was holding four buckets of rocks..." he shook his head. "No, I think erasing his memory would be the best option. We'll change a few details and make it so he never had the vision. I'll insist on teaching full time and we'll send Brushfire, Sonar, and Brushfire's trainee back to head quarters with a formal apology."
"Okay," Jade said, smiling at Midnight. He wiggled his hips gently, grinning. "I have no problems at all with that solution.... Although I still want to beat him with a stick while he sleeps...."
"You would..." Midnight responded. "Go to sleep Jade, we have a rough day ahead of us."
Jade sighed in mock disappointment. "Are you saying that I can't beat him???" he asked, the mischievous twinkle in his eyes belaying his disappointed tone.
"You're heart broken I know..." Harry laughed. "No beating students. We will talk to Aqua and Brushfire in the morning. Now sleep." He commanded closing his eyes and sighing at the fact that him and Draco we're never truly going to be friends or anything deeper.
Jade obediently closed his eyes and began to fake snore as his hand crept up Midnight's thigh.
Morning comes quickly when you fall asleep upset. Midnight gasped as he woke up to a bucket of ice water being thrown over him.
"Wakey wakey, Eggs and Baky!" Hellaine screamed as she bounced around and ran out of the room. "The Carrots made me do it!" she called as he last parting shot.
"I'm going to KILL you!" Midnight screamed back as he jumped out of bed and made a bad face at his sopping state.
Jade groaned. "Harry, if I didn't love you so much I'd never sleep in your bed again," he grumbled, grabbing a fresh set of boxers and pulling off his cold, wet ones.
Harry grumbled and nodded as he stepped out of his own boxers and tossed them across the room. "You and me both"
Frowning, Midnight made his way into the bath room and quickly stepped into the shower. "I love Hellaine, I really do, but one of these days...I swear..."
He showered and got out. "All yours...make it quick, we have to be at breakfast early."
"I don't see why I have to take one. I already got one today," he said as he stepped into the shower and turned it on. "By the way... I'm sorry to tell you but we can't wipe his memory."
Harry frowned. "Why not?"
"It'd fry his brain. He's a seer. His brain works in different ways than ours does. I tried to do a memory wipe on one once... Not pretty. He ended up drooling and speaking to his feet for the rest of his life," he said, brushing his teeth.
"It be a nice change for Draco..." Harry said with a sigh as he stormed off to get dressed. "Then I guess our only other option is to kill him..."
Theodore turned off the shower and got out. He laughed. "I have no problem with death. I don't particularly like the little sod. Brushfire does though, she thinks he's a very good student." He grumbled, grabbing his towel and wrapping it around his waist.
"Should've been put back in Gryffindor...bloody Slytherin..." He mumbled as he looked though his closet. He pulled out a black silk poets shirt with large flared cuffs and collar, a pair of black pants that were so tight they looked like a second layer of skin, and a pair of black leather boots that folded over at the knee. Midnight dressed and pulled the whole outfit together with a silver belt made up of large triangles.
"What do you think?" He asked as he turned to Jade and held out his arms.
Jade grinned. "You look like my best wet dream come to life, Harry," he said, leaning against the bed post. "I'd make love to you again if I thought we had time."
"Me? Look at you...purr" Harry smiled and licked his lips at Jade's clothing selection.
The Magenta haired mage was wearing a magenta tank top with an jade green over shirt with ripped sleeves that he tied at his waist. He also wore jade shorts with magenta belt loops, inner lining of his pockets, and the under side of his rolled up shorts that stopped just above his knees and jade sneakers with magenta laces.
"You look like you have a bad boy...punk think going on..."
Jade grin widened. "Well then... I'm just going to have to prove to you that I'm a bad boy....," he said, advancing towards the silver haired mage. He grabbed Harry's chin and kissed him fiercely, loving the taste of his lips. Slowly, he began backing towards the now dry bed, taking Midnight with him.
"Mmm, Teddy I'd love to play with you until classes start, but we need to be at breakfast...so I can at least try to patch things up with Draco..."
Jade sighed. "Alright... but I'm taking you before D.A.D.A....," he said, kissing Harry again. "And you are not a slut. You worked very hard to get where you are. You should be proud of yourself."
Harry smiled and kissed Jade once more before straightening his hair and pulling them out of his room.
Harry looked around the room at all of the students who were in their seats and looking at their hands.
"Was Mr. Malfoy the only one out of all of you that completed this?" He asked as he led up a thick scroll and frowned.
"I let you use anything you could find...How many of you went to the library?"
Draco looked around and saw everyone's hand raised. He scowled at Midnight. The Mage was deliberately singling him out of the group for no other reason than pure spite. It was making him mad. He handed Greg the Merish dictionary he'd found the night before with a small smile.
Greg nodded his thanks and slipped the thick book into his bag.
"Gregory Goyle you give that book back this instant." Midnight said with out looking at him. "And of all of you who went to the library, who went to the restricted section to look for books, or went to Dumbledore, or went to find one of the five War Mages running around this school?" He nodded when nobody rose their hand.
"That's what I thought. I gave you ample opportunity to use every resource at your disposal and no one took the extra incentive...Two points to Slytherin for being the only house to turn anything in. Well done Mr. Malfoy. I expect that paper done by Monday. Now lets move on..."
When Draco was put into a group to research the mummies of Egypt, the entire group kept casting menacing, hateful glares in his direction. He did his work quietly, pretending to be a part of his group, but not really having anything to do with them.
"Draco," Pansy hissed dangerously, "I swear if you get us landed with anymore work, I'm going to curse you so badly you'll wish you'd died. What has got you in such a snit, because whatever it is, you'd better fix it and fast."
"Shut up, Pansy. It's not my fault you didn't do your essay. I offered to help, but you're the one who refused. I gave Gregory my dictionary, so you can both use it," he replied, glaring back at her.
"Mr. Malfoy, If you'd come up here real quick..." Midnight called as he looked up from the book he practically had his nose into see.
Draco stood and walked to the front of the class. "May I speak to you in the hall? Alone?" he asked, looking pointedly at the other Mages.
"Of course..." Midnight nodded and hopped off the desk. He lead the way into the hall and leaned against the wall.
Draco shut the classroom door and glared at the War Mage. "Look, I could give a rats ass about your little secret, but you're threatening my cover. STOP SINGLING ME OUT!! The more you do, the more pressure it puts on me. I'm not going to tell anyone, so you can stop assigning homework and giving detentions. Besides, if I really wanted to tell, everyone would know by now," he said, hands fisting at his sides.
"Look babe, I have yet to give a detention and the homework is necessary, so sod off!. Next I don't know what crawled up your ass and died but you need to check.... First, I'm not a secret, I'm a Mage and a damn good one and I don't want to be who I was anymore. Secondly, you're the one freaking out, I've never treated you badly, I've never hurt you in anyway. But you seem to think that you telling me you love me has changed me in some drastic way after learning my name. Now figure out your issues and figure them out quick. And just to tell you, you're singling yourself out in your own mind...its not me."
Midnight rose an eyebrow and crossed his arms over his chest, "Are you done now?"
"NO! I'm not. You have got to be the biggest..... AH!," Draco began and stopped, groaning as a splitting pain ripped through his head. He sank to his knees as a vision more powerful than any he'd ever had flashed in front of his eyes. He curled into a fetal position and moaned.
Midnight was running through the forbidden Forest as something large chased him. He was caught. Jade was bursting into a room full of Dementors and his face froze in horror as they captured him and tried to give him the Kiss. Tony was crying as blood gushed from a wound in his thigh. A large red eyed snake sank it's fangs into the helpless Mage in Training.
Draco desolved into tears at the sight of his roommate's torn, broken body. He dragged himself to his feet, forgetting Midnight and began to stumble to the divination's tower.
Harry caught him and shook his head. "Oh no, Its straight to Aqua for you..." He said as he easily lifted the trainee and held him close to his chest.
"Let me GO!" Draco sobbed, struggling until he slipped out of Midnight's arms and landed on the floor with a thud. He pulled himself up by the wall. "Don't touch me!" he hissed, wanting only to see that his roommate and friend was okay.
"Trainee halt." Midnight said. "No vision is real time unless you have a direct connection, I should know. Now calm yourself." He scowled and walked forward and moved to stand in front of the still trainee.
Draco sank to the floor and wrapped his arms around his knees, drawing them up to his chest. He cried silently, ignoring Harry. He'd never lost anyone as close to him as Tony was becoming. His weird roommate was becoming the brother that he'd never had. He mumbled a reply that vaguely sounded like 'go to hell.'
Harry sighed and kneeled in front of him. "Look at me, tell me what happened, I may not be your training mage, and you may not consider me a friend or anything close, but for some reason I consider you my friend and for alittle while there I thought we would be more. Now tell me what you saw..."
Draco used the last reserve of his control to stop crying. He wiped his tears on the edge of his sleeve and pulled a handkerchief out of his pocket and blew his nose. Slowly he stood, swallowing his emotions. "Take me to Aqua," he said in a calm, steady voice that was betrayed by the pain in his ice blue eyes.
"Alright, let me tell Jade and Bloodlust real quick and we'll be on our way. Come on." Midnight said as he walked back to the classroom and opened the door. "Jade dear, Bob, I'm taking Draco to the nurse, he isn't feeling to well. I'll see you later..." He smiled and caught Draco when he felt the boy move to run off. "Bye..."
Harry closed the door and kept hold of Draco's arm. "To Aqua...."
Hey everyone! Its another chapter! Omg very scary! Anyways, review and tell us what you think!
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Kat == and Vogel (My new partner, tell me what you think of our writing, if you don't like it or if you do...review and tell me!!)
Harry yawned when he woke and snuggled deeper into Jades strong embrace. Smiling wickedly, he leaned up and licked the magenta haired mages tanned skin.
Jade stirred slightly in his sleep, pulling his lover closer to him and nipping his ear. "Too early....," he mumbled.
Harry giggled and nuzzled hi bedmate. "Breakfast my dear....or I'll let Quicksilver wake you up..."
Groaning, Jade sat up. "Fine... I'm up already...," he said, sighing and climbing out of the bed nude.
Harry smiled and tilted his head to the side. "I think only select few other mages are as lucky as I am..." Sighing, he moved out of bed and shook out his hair.
Jade smiled back at the mage. "Oh yes.. don't you know it...they all want my sexy body...," he said, raising an eyebrow sarcastically.
"Oh yes, every single one of them..." Harry laughed and sauntered into the bathroom. "then again, you're lucky yourself..."
"Mmmmm... any chance of me getting luckier in the shower this morning?," he asked, grinning wickedly at the silver haired mage.
"I thought you said it was to early..." Harry called as he turned on the water and smiled as the steam ruffled his hair.
Jade came up behind him and wrapped his arms around the boy's waist. "With you, my little tea scone, it's never too early to get lucky...."he whispered, moving Midnight's hair to nip at his skin.
Midnight chuckled and gave the older mage a wicked smile as he pulled them both into the large clouds of steam.
Draco sat down at the Slytherin table and put a few pieces of bacon and a scoop of eggs onto his plate. He ate quietly, barely noticing the people around him.
"Wow, Midnight looks...glowing this morning..." Pansy said with a chuckle as she looked back at Draco. "I think your boyfriends being unfaithful Draco darling..."
Draco looked towards his supposed boyfriend and saw what Pansy was talking about. Midnight was glowing. He had on a long leather duster with silver clasps that jingled and flashed as he walked, allowing glimpses of his tight leather pants that left nothing to the imagination. He had knee high black boots with silver laces that matched a hip length tunic like shirt with silver trim.
Draco looked away and back at his plate, his embarrassment and anger returning. 'I can't believe I told him all about how much I liked Harry...him! Merlin, he was probably laughing at me behind my back the whole time...' he thought, scowling and drinking his juice.
"Good morning everyone!" Midnight smiled brightly. "How is everyone today?" he asked as he sat next to Draco and kissed his cheek.
Draco sat silently and continued eating, not looking up at the silver haired boy.
"Obviously not as good as you...," Pansy said, smiling and raising an eyebrow. "You're positively glowing, Midnight."
Midnight blushed and began to eat. "Well...it's nothing special..."
"You look like you just got some, but Draco doesn't look like he did," Pansy said, smiling. "Well.... Out with it.. who's the lucky person.."
"No one, can't I be happy in the mornings?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
Pansy held up her hands. "I'll drop it," she said with a secretive smile and a glance up at the staff table.
Draco finished eating and headed back to his room to gather up his parchment and quills. He stuffed them everything into his school bag and sighed as he saw Harry's planner sitting on his bed. Quickly, he stuffed that into his bag as well and headed down to potions as the bell rang.
Midnight quickly made his way to the dungeons and smiled at Greg and Pansy when he slid into his seat at the door closed and Snape appeared.
"Why are you late?" Greg whispered to the mage when Snape began to speak.
"I couldn't find my lesson planner, still can't..." he murmured back as he flipped open his book and smiled when he saw the potion they were making. "I love this potion..."
Draco quietly opened his book and began powdering pieces of a dragon eggshell for the potion, ignoring the War Mage entirely.
Greg looked at Draco and tilted his head in confusion. "Midnight, do you know what's wrong with Draco? He hasn't said a word all day....," Greg whispered to the silver haired boy. "It's almost like when we were in sixth year."
Midnight shook his head and frowned. "No," he replied. "What happened in sixth year?"
"It was when he was dating Basil. The night that they broke up, Basil tried to force Draco. When Draco refused, Basil was really mad. Draco disappeared for two days and then just re-appeared as if nothing had happened. He stopped talking and didn't start again until this year. He wouldn't even answer any of my letters over the summer," Greg explained, looking at Draco.
Midnight scowled and tried to force the dangerous feelings out of his blazing silver eyes. "I just saw him last night...if anything happened...I'll kill them..." he said quietly and began to slice a spiders liver with one of his daggers.
Greg shrugged. "Basil was in the common's all last night. He went to bed around the same time that I did," he said, sighing. "I just don't know what's wrong with Draco. He didn't say anything at breakfast, and didn't even taunt Weasly when we came in today."
"I'll ask what's wrong after class..." Midnight said slowly and he thought about everything that happened between last night and this morning.
It took most of the hour to complete the potion, Harry kept looking up at Draco and frowned when Draco ignored his warning and didn't wait to throw in his chopped cherry root. This ended up turning his potion a shade off of orange and caused Snape to frown slightly when the potion ended up being a hair to thick.
Harry and Greg got good marks not perfect, but fairly good. Snape made a comment on War Mage's being over confidant to which Midnight rose and eyebrow and flashed his dagger at. Snape didn't say anything else and walked away quickly to inspect another pairs potion.
After Snape inspected his potion, Draco put some of it into a flask and corked it. He set it on the Potion Master's desk and went back to his own area to clean it up.
Midnight smiled at his partner when they were done cleaning and picked up his bag. "Draco, my love, I need to see you after class..." he said as he walked over to the blonde and wrapped his arms around the trainee's waist, holding him tightly when he felt the boy ready to move away.
Draco nodded, trying to pull away from Midnight. When the Mage wouldn't let go, he waved his wand to clean up the mess on his table without speaking a word. He tugged Midnight's hand loose and stepped away, pretending to busy himself with locating a quill from his bag.
Midnight nodded and dusted off his jacket as a set of loud magical bells and whistles signaled the passing period. Midnight pulled Draco into an unused classroom and quickly shut the door, sound proofing it and adding an extra locking charm just for good measure.
"Are you alright?" he asked softly as he turned to look at the blonde.
Draco nodded, fidgeting with the hem of his black robes. He brushed his shoulder length blonde hair behind his ear, looking at the door.
Midnight frowned at the boy's nervousness and stepped closer to him. "You wear your emotions to clearly, tell me what's wrong..."
Draco stepped back, finally meeting the Mage's eyes and scowling. "Nothing," he said, moving towards the door skirting around Midnight and not touching him. He tried the handle and rose an eyebrow. "We're going to be late," he stated, his voice flat and emotionless.
"I'm a mage and really am only going to classes because Dumbledore wants me to...I'm 'under age'" he laughed. "I swear that man grows battier everyday..."
Midnight leaned back against a desk and smiled at the blonde. "So I can keep you here as long as I want and pass it off to him as training..."
Draco shrugged and sat in a desk, pulling out a piece of parchment and began proofreading his divination's essay. He made a small change in spelling and capitalized a word.
Harry yawned and pulled out his potions textbook and began to read. "I can wait as long as you can my love..."
Draco's stomach began to rumble about an hour later. He ignored it as the bell for lunch sounded. He pulled out a novel he was reading and found his place, slipping his essay and textbook back into his bag. The blonde still refused to speak to Harry, and his mood grew darker with each passing hour.
"Hungry?" Midnight asked softly as he moved closer and smiled at the blonde trainee.
Draco shrugged, continuing to read his book and not looking at the silver haired mage. His stomach rumbled again and he shifted in the desk, reaching for his bag of cookies.
"Would you like lunch?" Midnight tried again, moving closer to him.
Draco shook his head and munched on his cookies, taking the edge off of his hunger.
Harry sighed. "Why are you so upset at me, tell me my love..."
"Can I leave yet?," Draco asked, raising his eyebrow and looking up at Harry coolly.
"Are you ready to talk to me?" Harry asked with a raise of his eyebrow.
"No. I'm not going to," he said, pursing his lips. "And I never will. Brushfire will be very mad if I don't show up for Divinations."
"Problem easily solved..." Midnight said as he pulled out a crystal ball from his bag and placed it in front of the blonde trainee. "Now are you going to talk to me? Because if not I need to go find my planner and get to class, because I have a lesson to teach in twenty minuets..."
Harry looked at his fingernails and waited.
Draco scowled and reached into his bag. He pulled out Harry's planner and slapped it onto the desk. "There's your planner," he said, crossing his arms over his chest and gathering his things back into his bag.
Midnight blinked and quickly grabbed his planner holding it to his chest. "Thank you...I must've left it in your room last night..."
"When you ran out," Draco said, standing. "Can I leave now?" He frowned down at the mage and moved to the door. "I really need to get to Divinations."
"Actually its time for D.A.D.A, lets go....thank you for my planner..." He looked at Draco and walked forward. "Shall we go?" He smiled sweetly.
Draco nodded and waited for Midnight to remove the wards on the room.
Midnight removed the wards as the bell rang for the passing period and quickly scooped up his crystal ball as he hurried out of the room to get to his class.
"Come on, well be late..."
Draco walked after Harry and moved slowly down the halls, turning and taking a different, yet slower route to the classroom.
Midnight smiled when he entered the classroom and went straight over to his magenta haired lover and kissed his neck. "Hey...I missed you at lunch..."
"Where were you?," Jade asked, shivering and slipping his arms around his silver-haired lover's waist.
"Dealing with an irate boyfriend..." he sighed. "Draco is very angry at me for some reason...oh well...mind showing me what I missed in...two minuets?"
"Mind if I snack on you?" he teased, nipping at Midnight's ear as he moved away and began the class.
"By all means..." Midnight chuckled tapping the chalk and turning to the class. "Mermaids...most people think that mermaids are beautiful creatures with long graceful tails and the upper torso of either males or females." He shook her head. "But that's no the case. I've seen them before, not quite so pretty. They are slightly grayish blue and covered in seaweed."
The lesson went smoothly until everyone was split into groups of four to work on translating the Merish alphabet.
"Draco..." Midnight said. "Why aren't you working in the group I put you in?"
Draco held up his half-finished paper in response. He rose an eyebrow in challenge and went back to his paper.
Harry looked at the other War Mages and sighed. "Draco, please work with your group, you might already know this, but they my not. Please, get into your group."
He didn't wait for Draco's response as he moved over to Jade and Bloodlust and sat on the desk to see what they were talking about.
Draco moved his desk over to the other students and continued working on his own, allowing the others to copy off his paper. He finished and took out his novel, opening it and ignoring the chatter of his group.
"Jade, what do you suggest I do? He is just blatantly being disrespectful..." Midnight said as he looked at the Mage-in-training.
Jade chuckled. "Beat him with a stick. While he's sleeping," the magenta haired man said, smiling.
Midnight laughed. "Don't tempt me Jade, I'll do it...and you know I will..."
"You could always do to him what Aqua did to me after I kissed her. Make him stand for two days straight holding up buckets of water and rocks," he suggested, sitting next to Midnight with his back to the class. "Or stick a snake....." he shuddered slightly, "in his bed while he sleeps." He smiled and reached for his lover's hand, stroking it softly.
"The bucket idea isn't all that bad...but he isn't under my command, Brushfire is his Mage." Midnight said as he shifted closer to the magenta haired mage and smiled. "And unfortunately if I remember Draco as I do, he loves snakes...so that's out..." he looked over and shook his head. "Excuse me dear."
Midnight slid off the desk and approached the front of the class. "Since Mr. Malfoy thinks that helping his group means letting them copy off of his already completed paper, I think it's only fair that I assign more work."
Draco ignored the glares of all the students and calmly took out another roll of parchment and his quill. He sighed in boredom and looked up at Midnight expectantly.
"By tomorrow, I want a complete five inch essay on the contrasts and similarities between the real merpeople and what most people perceive as the real merpeople. I want it all in Merish with a complete translation. I don't want each letter translated, I want words. That means if all of you aren't in the library, I don't think this will be done right, you may use any source you can think of. If you don't get finished you'd best not show up tomorrow..."
Midnight looked at each of them and rose and eyebrow as he walked back to the desk and sat down again.
Draco pulled out his novel again and continued reading, planning out his essay in his head. He ignored the malice directed at him from the rest of the class. He didn't care. He was too angry at Harry to even make the effort at pretending to care. When the bell rang, he quickly stuffed all of his belongings into his bag and headed for the door.
Midnight heard passing snips of conversation as the students filled out of the room. 'Lovers spat' was the common and when the room was empty, Harry groaned and slammed his head down on the desk.
"I refuse to go to Divination!" he mumbled pathetically.
"Why?," Jade asked, stroking his back softly.
Harry didn't lean up as he answered. "I just showed a the tiniest grain of my temper and I'm sure my friends are going to hate me. Something crawled up Draco's ass and died, so now I'm being challenged every moment I'm around him. And I don't feel well!"
"Maybe Draco gave you cooties?" Jade teased, leaning down to kiss Midnight's head.
"Knowing him the way I do, Most likely!" Harry sat up and looked at Bloodlust. "Bob...love of my life...go kill Draco for me...please?" he whined and was rewarded with a small chuckle.
Bob smiled sadistically and headed for the door, pulling out one of his daggers on the way. "Would you like his head? Or do I get to keep it?" he asked, completely serious.
"Keep his head, bring me his heart in a box..." Harry replied, with a laugh. "I'm joking with you, but no, I know you didn't eat lunch. What with Quicksilver talking to her food again as she most likely was. Go down to the kitchens and ask for Dobby, tell him a friend sent you."
Bob nodded and left the room to look for the kitchen or kill someone trying.
Jade kissed Harry softly. "Do I get to snack on you while he's gone?" he asked, wiggling his eyebrows comically.
"Do you I get to play the helpless student?" Midnight laughed as he was dipped back slightly.
"Oh... you'll have to stay after for a long detention. You've been quite the naughty boy, Mage Midnight," Jade said, kissing him deeply.
Harry smiled and locked the door with a wave of his hand as Jade lay him back on the desk.
Draco pulled out the dictionary and looked up a word, ignoring Tony's bouncing and jumping around. He sighed irritably and glared at his two inches. "I hate Merpeople....," he mumbled, ducking as a stuffed turtle flew over his head and absently threw it back. He wrote a few more lines, trying to ignore the feeling that the bottom had just dropped out on his life.
"Dracoo! why do you hate merpeople..." Tony asked as he bounced on hi be and threw his turtle at his blonde roommate again, trying to get his attention.
The blonde turned and gave his roommate a weak smile. "It's not that I hate Merpeople, I just don't really like Midnight too much at the moment. Or anyone beside you, really," he said, stretching and sighing.
"Why? Not happy that War Mage Midnight is sleeping with War Mage Jade and my brother while going out with you at the same time?" He asked as he crossed his legs and bounced onto his bed becoming uncharacteristically quite and attentive.
"That's part of it... I'm just mad at him.... I've been very embarrassed and I don't really want to see him anymore. I can't break up with him, though, because it'll blow my cover." He said with a sigh. "I just don't want to pretend to like someone that I don't particularly like at the moment." Draco gave the Spirit Mage in training a small, weak smile. "It's just complicated."
Tony blinked and tilted his head slightly. "Let me guess...you found out something about War Mage Midnight that you wish you hadn't...you know him don't you..."
Draco's smile faded. "I wish that I didn't... trust me," he said, sighing. "And stop reading my energy.... It's not nice. I'll see you later, Tony. I'm going to go and see if I can't finish this essay in the library or the Great Hall." He grabbed his stuff and started to shove it into his bag. He liked Tony and treasured his developing friendship, but wanted to be alone to try to sort out his feelings.
"Sorry Draco..." Tony said as he looked down at the stuffed animal he was holding and began to play with its feet.
Harry frowned when he flipped open a book on the medicinal properties of strawberries and saw all of the words blank out. He scowled and quickly looked around and saw no one around but heard a few soft giggles and a quick 'shh'.
"I hate students..." He murmured as he shut the book and put it away, intent on going into the restricted section to get away from all of the stupid trick the Gryffindors and Slytherins were playing on him.
Draco put a volume back onto the second shelf and looked around the rest of the restricted section's mermaid volumes. "Dictionary...."he mumbled, running a finger carefully along the shelf.
"You won't find any Merish dictionaries here, and any you did find I don't want to know what you'd say to me in your report." Midnight said as he passed the blonde and continued on his way to a old beat up leather chair he knew was in a back corner. "Now get out of here before I give you a detention with Filtch..."
Draco rose an eyebrow at the Mage. "And here I thought you said that I could use any source I wanted," he retorted, continuing to scan the volumes.
"You can," he called. "Do you have written permission to be here?"
He sighed as he sank down into the familiar chair, flipped open a book he'd picked up on elven healing magic, pulled out his glasses and began to read the gigantic tome.
Draco laughed bitterly. 'This from the boy who frequented this section with out permission himself...' he thought, shaking his head. "You're one to talk..." he said, picking a book up and opening it as he sat in the middle of the isle.
Harry blinked and looked up from his book with a frown. "What do you mean?"
"You used to come up here all the time without permission," Draco replied, turning a page and scribbling down some notes.
Harry froze and dropped the heavy book with a resounding 'Wham-thud' as he felt his heart skip two beats. "W-" He cleared his throat. "I have no idea what you're talking about..." he said as he leaned down and picked up his book reopening it and taking a deep breath.
Draco rose an eyebrow and stood. He shut the book and shrugged. "Whatever," he said, turning to walk to another section on Mermaids.
Midnight laughed softly and looked at the blonde trainee that stood a bookshelf away from him. "You wouldn't be indicating that I am your missing Harry Potter would you?"
"You said it, not me. I'm just a stupid trainee. I wouldn't dare suggest that.... You might give me a ten inch essay on the 'boy-who-lives'," Draco said, shrugging and grabbing a Merish dictionary off the shelf.
"Not much to write about him..." Midnight responded. "The boy was never going to be a mage at the rate he was going...he did a lot of things wrong and screwed up more things than fixed them...but he made a lot of people proud when he graduated..." he smiled at the memory of his graduation. "He was even given his best friend's colors..."
"Mmm... so he screwed all the right people. I'd be proud too," Draco said, walking to the exit and trying not to look back. He felt slightly guilty as he said it, but he would be damned if he was going to be walked on.
"Prissy little daddy's boy..." Harry mumbled as he continued to read, ignoring the pain Draco's comment inflicted. "You'd better have that essay done or Merlin help you..."
"At least I had one," Draco replied, leaving the library and heading to the Great Hall.
Harry sighed as he lay in Jade's arms that night. "Teddy, Do you think I'm a slut?"
Jade laughed. "What would make you say that, my love? No, you are not, nor have you ever been, a 'Slut.'" He said, kissing his lover softly.
"Its just something Draco said when I saw him in the restricted section...which I'm planning to give him a detention for..." Midnight said with a smile. "He said that to graduate I slept with all the right people...he knows who I am..."
Jade stiffened. "How did he find out?" he asked, voice low and dangerous.
"I left my old planner in his room by accident...he must've seen though the scribbling I did over my old name..." Harry closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"What do you want to do about him?" Jade asked, stroking the bare skin on Midnight's back gently.
Midnight sighed and shook his head. "If it were a random person, I'd say kill them and be done with it. But I know this person...I've known him for years and even though we hated one another, I can't just make him disappear. I'd wipe his memory, but as a Seer Mage god knows what would happen..."
Jade kissed his lover softly. "Do you want me to talk to him?" he offered, moving Midnight so that the boy was lying on his chest.
Midnight laughed softly. "You'd most likely talk to him in the pouring rain while he was holding four buckets of rocks..." he shook his head. "No, I think erasing his memory would be the best option. We'll change a few details and make it so he never had the vision. I'll insist on teaching full time and we'll send Brushfire, Sonar, and Brushfire's trainee back to head quarters with a formal apology."
"Okay," Jade said, smiling at Midnight. He wiggled his hips gently, grinning. "I have no problems at all with that solution.... Although I still want to beat him with a stick while he sleeps...."
"You would..." Midnight responded. "Go to sleep Jade, we have a rough day ahead of us."
Jade sighed in mock disappointment. "Are you saying that I can't beat him???" he asked, the mischievous twinkle in his eyes belaying his disappointed tone.
"You're heart broken I know..." Harry laughed. "No beating students. We will talk to Aqua and Brushfire in the morning. Now sleep." He commanded closing his eyes and sighing at the fact that him and Draco we're never truly going to be friends or anything deeper.
Jade obediently closed his eyes and began to fake snore as his hand crept up Midnight's thigh.
Morning comes quickly when you fall asleep upset. Midnight gasped as he woke up to a bucket of ice water being thrown over him.
"Wakey wakey, Eggs and Baky!" Hellaine screamed as she bounced around and ran out of the room. "The Carrots made me do it!" she called as he last parting shot.
"I'm going to KILL you!" Midnight screamed back as he jumped out of bed and made a bad face at his sopping state.
Jade groaned. "Harry, if I didn't love you so much I'd never sleep in your bed again," he grumbled, grabbing a fresh set of boxers and pulling off his cold, wet ones.
Harry grumbled and nodded as he stepped out of his own boxers and tossed them across the room. "You and me both"
Frowning, Midnight made his way into the bath room and quickly stepped into the shower. "I love Hellaine, I really do, but one of these days...I swear..."
He showered and got out. "All yours...make it quick, we have to be at breakfast early."
"I don't see why I have to take one. I already got one today," he said as he stepped into the shower and turned it on. "By the way... I'm sorry to tell you but we can't wipe his memory."
Harry frowned. "Why not?"
"It'd fry his brain. He's a seer. His brain works in different ways than ours does. I tried to do a memory wipe on one once... Not pretty. He ended up drooling and speaking to his feet for the rest of his life," he said, brushing his teeth.
"It be a nice change for Draco..." Harry said with a sigh as he stormed off to get dressed. "Then I guess our only other option is to kill him..."
Theodore turned off the shower and got out. He laughed. "I have no problem with death. I don't particularly like the little sod. Brushfire does though, she thinks he's a very good student." He grumbled, grabbing his towel and wrapping it around his waist.
"Should've been put back in Gryffindor...bloody Slytherin..." He mumbled as he looked though his closet. He pulled out a black silk poets shirt with large flared cuffs and collar, a pair of black pants that were so tight they looked like a second layer of skin, and a pair of black leather boots that folded over at the knee. Midnight dressed and pulled the whole outfit together with a silver belt made up of large triangles.
"What do you think?" He asked as he turned to Jade and held out his arms.
Jade grinned. "You look like my best wet dream come to life, Harry," he said, leaning against the bed post. "I'd make love to you again if I thought we had time."
"Me? Look at you...purr" Harry smiled and licked his lips at Jade's clothing selection.
The Magenta haired mage was wearing a magenta tank top with an jade green over shirt with ripped sleeves that he tied at his waist. He also wore jade shorts with magenta belt loops, inner lining of his pockets, and the under side of his rolled up shorts that stopped just above his knees and jade sneakers with magenta laces.
"You look like you have a bad boy...punk think going on..."
Jade grin widened. "Well then... I'm just going to have to prove to you that I'm a bad boy....," he said, advancing towards the silver haired mage. He grabbed Harry's chin and kissed him fiercely, loving the taste of his lips. Slowly, he began backing towards the now dry bed, taking Midnight with him.
"Mmm, Teddy I'd love to play with you until classes start, but we need to be at breakfast...so I can at least try to patch things up with Draco..."
Jade sighed. "Alright... but I'm taking you before D.A.D.A....," he said, kissing Harry again. "And you are not a slut. You worked very hard to get where you are. You should be proud of yourself."
Harry smiled and kissed Jade once more before straightening his hair and pulling them out of his room.
Harry looked around the room at all of the students who were in their seats and looking at their hands.
"Was Mr. Malfoy the only one out of all of you that completed this?" He asked as he led up a thick scroll and frowned.
"I let you use anything you could find...How many of you went to the library?"
Draco looked around and saw everyone's hand raised. He scowled at Midnight. The Mage was deliberately singling him out of the group for no other reason than pure spite. It was making him mad. He handed Greg the Merish dictionary he'd found the night before with a small smile.
Greg nodded his thanks and slipped the thick book into his bag.
"Gregory Goyle you give that book back this instant." Midnight said with out looking at him. "And of all of you who went to the library, who went to the restricted section to look for books, or went to Dumbledore, or went to find one of the five War Mages running around this school?" He nodded when nobody rose their hand.
"That's what I thought. I gave you ample opportunity to use every resource at your disposal and no one took the extra incentive...Two points to Slytherin for being the only house to turn anything in. Well done Mr. Malfoy. I expect that paper done by Monday. Now lets move on..."
When Draco was put into a group to research the mummies of Egypt, the entire group kept casting menacing, hateful glares in his direction. He did his work quietly, pretending to be a part of his group, but not really having anything to do with them.
"Draco," Pansy hissed dangerously, "I swear if you get us landed with anymore work, I'm going to curse you so badly you'll wish you'd died. What has got you in such a snit, because whatever it is, you'd better fix it and fast."
"Shut up, Pansy. It's not my fault you didn't do your essay. I offered to help, but you're the one who refused. I gave Gregory my dictionary, so you can both use it," he replied, glaring back at her.
"Mr. Malfoy, If you'd come up here real quick..." Midnight called as he looked up from the book he practically had his nose into see.
Draco stood and walked to the front of the class. "May I speak to you in the hall? Alone?" he asked, looking pointedly at the other Mages.
"Of course..." Midnight nodded and hopped off the desk. He lead the way into the hall and leaned against the wall.
Draco shut the classroom door and glared at the War Mage. "Look, I could give a rats ass about your little secret, but you're threatening my cover. STOP SINGLING ME OUT!! The more you do, the more pressure it puts on me. I'm not going to tell anyone, so you can stop assigning homework and giving detentions. Besides, if I really wanted to tell, everyone would know by now," he said, hands fisting at his sides.
"Look babe, I have yet to give a detention and the homework is necessary, so sod off!. Next I don't know what crawled up your ass and died but you need to check.... First, I'm not a secret, I'm a Mage and a damn good one and I don't want to be who I was anymore. Secondly, you're the one freaking out, I've never treated you badly, I've never hurt you in anyway. But you seem to think that you telling me you love me has changed me in some drastic way after learning my name. Now figure out your issues and figure them out quick. And just to tell you, you're singling yourself out in your own mind...its not me."
Midnight rose an eyebrow and crossed his arms over his chest, "Are you done now?"
"NO! I'm not. You have got to be the biggest..... AH!," Draco began and stopped, groaning as a splitting pain ripped through his head. He sank to his knees as a vision more powerful than any he'd ever had flashed in front of his eyes. He curled into a fetal position and moaned.
Midnight was running through the forbidden Forest as something large chased him. He was caught. Jade was bursting into a room full of Dementors and his face froze in horror as they captured him and tried to give him the Kiss. Tony was crying as blood gushed from a wound in his thigh. A large red eyed snake sank it's fangs into the helpless Mage in Training.
Draco desolved into tears at the sight of his roommate's torn, broken body. He dragged himself to his feet, forgetting Midnight and began to stumble to the divination's tower.
Harry caught him and shook his head. "Oh no, Its straight to Aqua for you..." He said as he easily lifted the trainee and held him close to his chest.
"Let me GO!" Draco sobbed, struggling until he slipped out of Midnight's arms and landed on the floor with a thud. He pulled himself up by the wall. "Don't touch me!" he hissed, wanting only to see that his roommate and friend was okay.
"Trainee halt." Midnight said. "No vision is real time unless you have a direct connection, I should know. Now calm yourself." He scowled and walked forward and moved to stand in front of the still trainee.
Draco sank to the floor and wrapped his arms around his knees, drawing them up to his chest. He cried silently, ignoring Harry. He'd never lost anyone as close to him as Tony was becoming. His weird roommate was becoming the brother that he'd never had. He mumbled a reply that vaguely sounded like 'go to hell.'
Harry sighed and kneeled in front of him. "Look at me, tell me what happened, I may not be your training mage, and you may not consider me a friend or anything close, but for some reason I consider you my friend and for alittle while there I thought we would be more. Now tell me what you saw..."
Draco used the last reserve of his control to stop crying. He wiped his tears on the edge of his sleeve and pulled a handkerchief out of his pocket and blew his nose. Slowly he stood, swallowing his emotions. "Take me to Aqua," he said in a calm, steady voice that was betrayed by the pain in his ice blue eyes.
"Alright, let me tell Jade and Bloodlust real quick and we'll be on our way. Come on." Midnight said as he walked back to the classroom and opened the door. "Jade dear, Bob, I'm taking Draco to the nurse, he isn't feeling to well. I'll see you later..." He smiled and caught Draco when he felt the boy move to run off. "Bye..."
Harry closed the door and kept hold of Draco's arm. "To Aqua...."
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