A/N: I figure that I just suck at this whole updating on time thing. -.-

It was lunch on the first Friday of the school yard that found the new group of friends discussing quietly among themselves, only Blaise noticed the devious looks Pansy sent Draco and Harry.

"So, it's official, the Order of the Phoenix has moved out of the Black House?" asked Blaise.

"Yeah, they were given ten hours to get their crap and leave," Harry responded with a smile.

Blaise shook his head slightly, but smiled nonetheless.

"When are we going to transfer the secret keeper spell?" Draco asked.

"I was thinking that we should go to today and get it done as soon as possible." Harry replied, taking a bite from his sandwich.

"How? We can't just leave Hogwarts!" Blaise exclaimed quietly.

"Of course we can. We have no more classes so no one will notice that we left." Harry replied.

"How are we supposed to get out without being noticed?" asked Pansy, furrowing her forehead in confusion.

"I know all the secret passages in Hogwarts, and I know which ones Dumbledore knows about and which he doesn't." Harry replied calmly, glancing at each of his friends.

As his eyes caught Draco's, a blush threatened to bloom but Harry managed to keep it down. Things between Draco and Harry had been awkward since the kiss.

"Okay, so we go after lunch then?" Blaise said, purposely trying to make the awkward tension a minimal.

"Yeah, that's a good idea. The sooner we leave than the sooner we can be back. We don't want to get back too late or it'll increase our chances of getting caught." Draco added.

The rest of group nodded their heads and quickly finished the little food they had left.

They made sure to make casual conversation as they left the Great Hall and continued to the Slytherin Common Room. Once they were sure everyone still at lunch they turned to each other.

"Okay, I have an invisibility cloak but it'll only cover two of us. The rest of us have to use disillusionment charms. You guys decided who's doing what while I get my invisibility cloak and the marauders map." Harry said, taking charge of the group without a second thought.

"Marauders map?" Draco asked, as Blaise worriedly glanced at Pansy who had a devious smile on her face.

"I'll explain when I have it." Harry said as he took off to his dorm. It took him a minute to find the items after digging through his messy side of the room.

Harry stopped at the door and looked back, running his hand through his messily styled hair.

"I should probably clean my side of the room," Harry mumbled to himself. He quickly waved his wand at the mess and left as his room started to tidy itself up.

Harry ran back to the group. He pulled out the Marauder's map and held it up for them to see.

"This is the Marauder's map."

"A parchment?" asked Pansy in confusion.

Harry smiled and placed the tip of his wand to the map.

"I solemnly swear I'm up to no good."

Blaise, Pansy, and Draco watched in amazement as the lines began to appear on the parchment.

"It belonged to my father and his friends, the Marauders. Shows the entire castle, who's in it and where, and best of all the secret passages." Harry stated as Draco grabbed the map from his hands.

"So this is how you always got around without getting caught!" Draco exclaimed in a breathless wonder.

Harry laughed, "Well the invisibility cloak helped."

Blaise tore the map from Draco's hands and began examining all the different sections, "This is amazing!"

"And you haven't seen the best part yet." Harry said as he took his map back, "I discovered this one day on my own and I never told the Weasel and Mudblood about it."

Harry pointed his wand at the map once more and whispered, "Mischief man."

Red marking appeared on the map, marking secret pathway unknown by everyone but whoever added the feature. Harry pointed at one secret pathway near the common room and behind a tapestry.

"That one leads us right out of the grounds where we can apparate." Harry said.

"Sounds good. Blaise and I will go under disillusionment and you and Draco can use the invisibility cloak." Pansy said, grabbing onto Blaise's arm and pulling him near her.

"Are you sure? I mean-" Harry started, a blush threatening to bloom across his cheeks.

"Of course I'm sure!" Pansy exclaimed, giving Harry a push towards Draco.

Draco instantly reached out to steady Harry, who had lost his balance a bit and had stumbled a few steps. Draco quickly let go of Harry as both of them blushed and decidedly looked away from each other.

"Ok, so um. When you get to the tapestry you have to tap it with your wand and say Saranio." Harry said, trying to cover up his awkwardness.

"Got it. You and Draco go first and then Blaise and I will follow a bit after. We don't want to risk making too much noise."

"Good idea Pans. We'll wait for you out of grounds." Draco said, speaking up for the first time.

Pansy smiled and turned to Blaise, who took his wand in response. Harry sighed and stepped close to Draco. He wrapped the cloak around them and made sure nothing was showing.

They moved quickly, hoping too avoid a large amount of students in the halls after lunch. As they neared the tapestry, Draco took his wand and had it ready.

"Saranio." He whispered, tapping the tapestry once they had neared it.

The tapestry faded out for and the pair quickly rushed into the tunnel. They watched the tapestry reappear before heading down the tunnel.

Harry's cloak was slung over his arm, no longer needed in the tunnel. Draco had used lumos to create a light to see by. Harry took out his map, bothered by the silence that had enveloped them, and searched for Blaise and Pansy.

"Blaise and Pansy are leaving the common room now." Harry said after several minutes of watching Pansy and Blaise walk around the common room.

"Good." Draco said with a nod, keeping a steady pace.

Harry glanced sideways at Draco as he put away his map. Draco's aristocratic features were strangely emphasized by the weak light. Harry looked away suddenly when Draco glanced over at him.

"Harry…" Draco started, unsure of what to say.

"Yes?"

"Ah…Um… About the kiss the other day…" Draco said, carefully watching Harry's face to determine his reaction.

Harry's face remained impassive as he responded,

"Draco, I don't think that right now is the best time to discuss that. We need to keep our focus for the secret keeper ritual later and we don't have that much time before Blaise and Pansy catch up to us. I don't know about you but I would personally like to have this conversation I private."

"Yeah. Um… sure." Draco said, looking away.

Harry sighed, recognizing the dejected tone in Draco's voice right away.

"How about later tonight, once we've gotten back?" Harry suggested.

"Yeah," Draco said with a small smile.

They walked a few minutes before they noticed a growing light at the end of the tunnel. They approached the opening at the same pace but halted at the entrance, peering out into the edge of the forest.

"Maybe we should get under the invisibility cloak again, just in case." Draco suggested.

Harry nodded and stepped closer to Draco with a small blush that was thankfully hidden in the dark, since Draco had put out his wand light and put it in his pocket.

Once they were both fully covered they stepped out into the open. They turned around and saw that they had just exited through a cave at the edge of what must be the other side of the Forbidden Forest.

Harry let his mind wander as they waited for Blaise and Pansy a few feet away from the cave entrance.

"Harry?" Draco said.

"Hm?" Harry said, looking up and immediately regretting it.

His eyes immediately connected with Draco's and his body seemed to be paralyzed, chest to chest, their faces only inches apart.

"I was going to ask if you could check if Blaise and Pansy were almost here." Draco said softly and slowly.

"Um..uh." Harry mumbled, nervously licking his lips.

That seemed to drive Draco over the top and Harry soon found his mouth attached to Draco's. Draco's hand gripped Harry's waist while the other ran soothingly through Harry's hair.

Harry instantly relaxed and his arms snaked (a/n: ha, get it? Slytherin, snakes, snaked? …. I'm easily amused…) around Draco's neck, pressing their bodies flush against each other.

Draco nibbled softly on Harry's lower lip, asking for entrance to Harry's mouth. Soon their tongues were moving slowly against each other, in a slow, passionate dance of lovers.

This kiss was not like the other, which had been a frantic, lustful kiss. This kiss was more a slow, loving kiss shared between true lovers and neither wanted to stop.

Draco pulled away for air before beginning to attack Harry's neck with soft kiss, nibbling, and sweeps of his tongue. Harry moaned softly, clutching Draco's shoulders and pressing their bodies impossibly closer together.

"Draco? Harry?" Pansy's voice called, breaking the spell of the moment. They quickly separated.

"We're here." Harry said, as he pulled the cloak off.

Blaise raised an eyebrow at their flustered appearance and Pansy was smiling widely, seemingly close to exploding into girly squeals.

"Let's all hold hands and concentrate on Grimmauld Place."

Only Pansy moved to hold hands. Harry sent Blaise and Draco a questioning glance.

"Harry you couldn't possibly be thinking of a group apparation?" Draco asked, gazing at Harry as if he was off his rocker.

"Yes, I was thinking of that."

"But that hasn't been done successfully in centuries! Even the simplified partner apparation hasn't been attempted for a century!" Blaise exclaimed, backing up a few steps.

"What do you mean done successfully?" Pansy said, backing up herself in fear.

"In the past few centuries, anyone who has tried a group or partner has been splinched! Everyone! The entire group! Not one wizard or witch spared!" Blaise exclaimed.

"How bad?" Pansy asked, eyes wide with fear.

"They've all died after minutes of terrible agony." Draco said softly, almost regretfully.

Harry rolled his eyes and spoke, "Honestly. What are you guys? A bunch of housewives?" Everyone's eyes narrowed dangerously at the insult.

"Besides, don't you trust me? My strength?" Harry asked.

Harry could the resolution on their faces begin to crumble. They all looked at each other, unsure of whether to attempt the apparation or to continue protesting it.

Harry held out his hand and that seemed to crumble the last of their protests. Blaise and Pansy were the first to step up and grab his hand. Draco hesitated before stepping up and grabbing Blaise's and Pansy's hand.

"If I die, I'll haunt you, Harry." Draco said.

Harry smiled before speaking, "On the count of three, everyone turn ok?"

"One."

"Two."

Harry almost flinched as everyone tightened their hold on his hands in a very painful manner.

"Three."

That same suffocating feel encompassed them for a few seconds before they fell onto the floor in the opening hall of the Grimmauld Place.

Harry and his friends stood up and brushed themselves off.

Kreacher!" Harry said strongly, summoning the house elf.

Kreacher appeared with a crack. His face showed shock at Harry's pureblood air and his new choice of friends.

"Master Potter seems to be a pureblood and new pureblood friends."

"Yes, Kreacher. I am a pureblood, turns out my mother was a pureblood adopted by a squib branch of her family."

Harry noticed that Kreacher seemed to look at him in a different way, more respectful.

"Kreacher, my friends and I will be having a draining ritual. Prepare snacks."

Kreacher nodded and bowed before disappearing with a crack.

"What an ugly house elf," Draco remarked, his featured distorted by a look of disgust.

Harry laughed, "Come on. Let's start."

A/N: There! I finally finished it. -.-' I deserved to be shanked for not updating in such a long time. But on the bright side, the next chapter is almost finished. That should be up before the end of the week.