Chapter Seven: One Crush Revealed
An overwhelming spinning sensation and lots of colors made Harry groan and close his eyes not caring in the least that he was still in the arms of Lucius Malfoy, "This is some how Seamus's fault," he muttered.
"How can you being dizzy be his fault, you're the one who drank the coffee," Tom pointed out, he was watching Lucius's face the man seemed puzzled, not sure what to do with the teen.
Straightening and sitting back down Harry let his head hit the desk as he groaned again, "Not sure, but I'll find a way to blame him," suddenly he peeked at Lucius, "No worries I'll have them under control soon."
"Good," Lucius said sitting down also, he could still feel the teens body heat against him and it disturbed him to realize he was attracted to the teenager.
"Now Harry you can either stay a student or you can become a teacher of your own subject if you so wish, think of it like a peace offering," Tom said which made Lucius blink at him, "Oh yes Lucius did I forget to mention that Harry is now my equal in most everything."
For once Lucius was struck speechless, when he did find his voice he asked Harry a question that had been bugging him, "How do you remember so much information?"
"Hmm, oh I deposit useless memories into a pensieve," Harry said getting blinked at he raised an eyebrow at them, "What?"
"Where did you get a pensieve? – Better question where did you get that idea?" Tom asked gazing at Harry a smirk in place the teen was acting way to sly at the moment to be a lion purely.
Sitting back Harry crossed his arms while surviving the men he sat with, a year ago he would be freaking out by now but right now he felt calm, "Well…Snape really should keep a better eye on his belongings," he watched both their eyes widen and knew why back in second year Severus Snape had complained about loosing his pensieve, come to find out Harry had it all along, "And I got the idea from a book in the restricted section that likes biting people."
"A lot of books in the restricted section like biting, thus why they are in the restricted section," Tom said smirking at the teen, "Now student or teacher?"
"Student," Harry answered after a moment before chuckling, "How else will I keep my boys under control, have they managed to open my trunk yet?" hearing firecrackers going off he laughed, "I'll be back," darting up he started out the door and the two in the office heard, "Dean put Neville Down! Seamus Spit That Out!"
Blinking at each other they left to go see what the teens were doing, it seemed they had set off firecrackers in Lucius's classroom, which scared the hell out of the sixth year Gryffindors, and Slytherin's. Neville was stuck to the ceiling, Dean was laughing his ass off as he sent curses everywhere and Seamus was eating what looked like a chocolate kitten. Harry walked in drew his wand and unstuck Neville before flipping Seamus into the air and shocking Dean with a jolt of lighting.
"Clean up this Mess," Harry snarled at them and the adults watched as the three started darting around the room cleaning up everything, "I mean the entire mess you created during my break!" and they picked up the pace before running out of the room to clean the hallways.
"Harry!" Ginny hollered running down and leaping at him, yet he side stepped her and she hit the floor in her attempts to hug him, sitting up and shaking it off she reached for him again but he was quicker and dodged her grip again, "I feared you were dead!"
"Well obviously I'm not," Harry said rolling his eyes, he darted away again before simply binding her with ropes, "Look Ginny I'm not interested stop it!"
"Okay," Tom said moving in the room to grip Harry's shoulder, "Lets get some more coffee in you before your temper back fires on us," leading the teen away he did not bother unbinding the girl.
Lucius watched as Harry sat in the office sipping coffee and enjoying the world again, the snapping tone was gone and he was all smiles again. Which did nothing for the blonde's nerves, as he looked exceedingly tasty. The teen was relaxed again until Severus opened the door and he froze up glancing at the man who gave him a cool look before moving on to talk to Tom.
"I heard of Potter's waking and the incident with the pains he calls friends, now what is to happen?" Severus asked glancing at the teen, yet his eyes strayed over to Lucius who seemed to be inspecting every inch of the teen with a praising eye.
"Hmm," Tom looked up before turning to look at Harry, then back again to Severus, "He has agreed to work with us, as my equal in most everything, so first thing is first training him properly, which means Harry's work load will double."
"No problem," Harry said sipping the coffee before flicking his wrist so his schedule showed up he settled it on his lap, "Lets see if I cut the boys study time down to ten hours a week then that leaves classes, six hours of sleep a night and ….Hmm I have three hours everyday with nothing to do."
"Then for two of those hours you'll be with us training, and that last hour use to rest," Tom said before turning to hold out his hand for the schedule, getting it handed over he saw that the teen did in fact write in Parsletongue, "Hmm, your friend Seamus can read this?"
"Yeah he picks up languages well, he may not be able to speak it but he understands half of it spoken and can read it fluently," Harry answered before glancing at Lucius who was eyeing him like a piece of meat, sipping his coffee he watched the blond watch him and wondered when he would realize Harry knew what he was doing.
Tom and Severus sat back to watch as Harry watched Lucius, it took the blond five minutes of silence to look up and catch those green eyes before realizing he had been caught, straightening he turned to his friends and went to say something but Severus interrupted him, "Now that Lucius is done…examining our new friend," he said the word with contempt, "We can go back to discussing this schedule."
"Finished," Tom said handing the new schedule to Harry he saw the teen read over it and blink in shock, "What?"
"Why does this have me listed as an Apprentice?" Harry asked lifting his eyes to those of the other man.
"You know Wizarding Politics better then I do it seems so might as well hone that skill some," Tom said before adding, "And it's only for three months, then you go to Severus to learn more about Potions and then to me for Dark Arts."
Lucius felt as if his friend and Lord had slapped him in the face by giving him the teen to work with, 'Not good,' was his only thought as he refused to glance back at the teen.
