Smile Like you Mean it

A boy walked down the pathway into Hogsmeade and away from the Shrieking Shack. He looked to be no older then seventeen and extremely attractive, many people actually doing double-takes as he passed them with a slight smirk playing on his lips. He's about six feet tall, dark hair against creamy fair skin and hazel colored eyes. The boy was also known as Lord Voldemort.

Not that anyone knew they were in the presence of the dark lord as he walked pass one of the many shops in Hogsmeade. But that's what he wanted, to be out in public without having Dumbledore trying to kill him and vice versa. The dark lord had done this many times not that anyone knew of it, only his most trustworthy death eaters knew and they wouldn't talk if they wanted to see the next day. He'd been doing it for months, almost a year now and no one was the wiser. And why did he want to be surrounded by wizards he couldn't give a damn about? Simple, he got to see his Harry.

He'd been watching the boy since his return. First with thoughts to kidnapped him right under the nose of the fool Dumbledore but then he started remembering everything... Those dreams long forgotten. In his last year of Hogwarts he had dreams of a past life, being a duke and falling head over heels for a dancer by the name of Jade but Jade didn't return the love instead going for the damn writer. And in the end he left Paris and never knew or heard about Jade again. Voldemort in turn searched all over hoping to run into Jade's reincarnated not knowing if he wanted to bed the person or kill them. And then he found Jade all over again by pure luck. Voldemort had been reading the daily prophet and noticed a picture of Potter on the front page, he pulled out his wand about to burn the paper when he stop suddenly and really looked at Potter. It dawned on him that Potter and Jade were the same person.

A part of him still wanted the damn boy dead, after all he had been the cause of his untimely downfall. But after watching Potter for so long he remembered why he wanted him in the first place. Potter was tempting when he didn't try to be and he didn't even know it. He would have Potter again and this time no one would stand in his way.

Voldemort passed walked past the Zonko's joke shop and was about to do the same for Honeyducks when a particular someone caught his eyes. Harry was in the candy shop looking at the various colorful candies. The dark lord ran his eyes down the boy's body and took note that he looked exceptionally stylish, the jeans hugging his legs and hip in just the right way, the black sweater bringing out his emerald eyes even more. Voldemort was tempted to try and steal the boy right then and there. But as he took a step forward someone placed their hand on Harry's shoulder. He watched as Harry turned around with a bright smile, he was smiling at Draco Malfoy. The Malfoy boy said something that made Harry laugh, jealously and hatred rose within Voldemort against Malfoy as he watched the pair interact with each other. With narrowed eyes he turned away from the shop and apparated. Harry was his and his only and he did not share what was his. But they would both learn soon enough.


Harry met Draco in front of the entrance hall where most of the students were gone, only a few older student mingling around and thankfully they paid no attention to them as they walked out together talking quietly with each other. Both had agreed to meet when all of the eager third years and upper-year students were gone, so they wouldn't have to deal with the stares and whispers that they were sure to get once they reached the town. Walking to Hogsmeade turned to out be enjoyable for them, as they talked of nothing in particular just relaxing in each other's company. Once they reached the town they headed over to Honeyducks.

"Best year so far?" Harry asked as they browsed through the shelves of chocolates.

"This year, of course." Draco smiled at Harry while dodging a brown-haired girl who was holding a huge jar filled with different colored candies.

"How come"

"Because we're friends." The slytherin answered, stressing the word friend, he turned around to smile at Harry who blushed but didn't look away. Still blushing he said lightheartedly.

"Because it's the best thing in the world to be my friend, I'm the boy-who-lived." Harry rolled his eyes as Draco laughed. "Do you want grab a butterbeer?"

"Sure but first I have to buy some more chocolate, I'm low." The blonde said and made his way over to the back of the room where the best chocolates were heldHarry waited for him patiently saying hello to various people until he got the feeling he was being watched which was difficult to tell seeing as he was in a shop full of people. Turning around he searched for a face but found no one until he looked out the window to find an older boy, who he'd never seen before staring back him before disappearing.

The boy was gone but Harry still stared at the window, he didn't know who the boy had been but he didn't like the way he had been staring at him. Harry couldn't place it but something about the way he staring at him was just creepy... But maybe he was over reacting. Someone placed their hand on his shoulder and Harry couldn't help but jump, startled.

"Are you ok?" Draco asked as he stared at Harry.

"Y-yeah why wouldn't I be?" Harry asked hoping his heartbeat would slow down."I called your name but you didn't answer me"

"Sorry, er... ready to go?" He said smiling hoping Draco would ignore his odd behavior.

The slytherin did and after paying they left the candy shop and headed over to the Three Broomsticks. Entering the pub they found it just as filled as Honeyducks had been and both boys had to push their way to the bar to place their order.

"Oy Harry come over here!" A voice yelled over the loud chatter of the pub, both Harry and Draco turned around to find a large group of gryffindors near the middle, all of them talking, eating, drinking and laughing. Harry turned to Draco with a pleading smile.

"No way we just came here for a butterbeer." He didn't want to be surrounded by a bunch of gryffindors, he wanted to be alone with Harry.

"Oh come on their so use to you now they won't even care." And with that Harry grabbed his hand and led him through the tables until they reached the others. The gryffindors all greeted Harry nicely and even nodded to Draco who nodded back but was already tugging on Harry so they could leave but was soon distracted by a red haired boy.

"No way you can't make me do that!" Ron said turning red in the face.

"Ah but Ron you're the one who picked dare." Seamus smirked. "Do it."

Ron narrowed his eyes before getting on top of his chair. "I wear girl underwear!" He yelled red as a tomato.

It was very lucky for Ron that the pub was a noisy place and therefore not everyone had heard but the nearby tables did and shared a laugh with the other gryffindors who were beside themselves. Ron who was redder if that were possible had sat down quickly and covered his face with his hands, shaking his head and muttering under his breath.

"Whatever possessed Weasley to do that?" Draco asked between gasp for air.

"It's a muggle game Hermione taught them, Truth or Dare. You either pick truth and answer whatever they ask you truthfully or go with the dare and do whatever you're asked to do." Harry told him still laughing over Ron's dare.

"Sounds like fun." The blonde said, making a mental note to never play the game or at least not in public places.

"Loads but we better leave before they rope us in"


Harry was nervous, that was the only way to put it. He had a great time with Draco going all over Hogsmeade talking as if they had been friends for a long time, not that he'd hadn't noticed Draco's subtle touches on his arm or on the small of his back but Harry acted as if he didn't notice. Why ruin the mood when they were having such a great time together? But now it was evening and when most of the students were heading back to Hogwarts, Draco had asked him to have dinner and foolishly he had agreed. It would have been ok if they had gone to somewhere like The Three Broomsticks but Draco had led him to a restaurant he'd never been before but knew it to be where couples went. And as Harry told himself repeatedly, they were not on a date. But he allowed Draco to guide him to one of the tables in the restaurant and both of them sat down, not saying a word. The blonde smiled at him and Harry returned the gesture but quickly looked down to see if there was anything to distract himself with, and to his luck there a menu in front of him.

"What are you in the mood for?" Draco asked as he picked up own menu.

Harry shrugged. "Anything is fine with me."

He decided on meatloaf with a side of mash potatoes with vegetables, Draco had the steak.

"How come you never talk about your family Harry?" Draco asked suddenly, they had been eating in silence, which suited Harry fine, but it seemed the slytherin wanted to talk.

"My family?"

"Yeah you live with your aunt and uncle right?"

The last thing Harry wanted to talk about was his home life but how could he tell this to Draco without raising any suspicion? "Yeah but we really don't get along too well"

"How come?"

Harry shrugged as he picked up his glass. "I think my aunt was jealous of my mum being a witch and Vernon... Well he just hates anything not 'normal"

"But being a wizard is normal."

"We know that but he doesn't." Harry said darkly. "Can we change the topic Draco, I don't have the best relationship with my relatives, end of story/"

"Sure."

After that dinner went on more pleasantly but Draco noticed that whenever the conversation trended on more personal ground Harry would promptly shy away from the topic and change the subject all together. By the end of the night he knew Harry's favorite color, food, classes all the simple things. But he didn't know anything of what really made Harry do the things he did or the way he acted, in the end Harry was still pushing him away.

"Tell me something no one knows about you." Harry asked they ate dessert.

"Something no one knows" Draco said smirking.

"No one."

"I hate being an only child."

"Really?"

Draco nodded cutting a piece of his cake. "Yeah, I always wanted a younger brother or sister. It gets boring during the summer and I guess it would have been fun to have someone else to talk too or play with... What?" The slytherin trailed off as he looked up to find Harry smiling at him.

"Nothing that's just sweet."

"I'm not sweet." Draco glared but couldn't keep it up as Harry's smile widened.

"Yes you are."

"Fine, tell me something no one knows about you."

Harry was silent, there was so many things people didn't know about him that he didn't want anyone to know about him. But Draco had shared with him something he never told anyone so it was only fair to return the gesture.

"I was suppose to be in Slytherin." He said quietly and watched as Draco's eyes widened.

"You're lying."

Harry shook his head. "Really, the sorting had said I do well in slytherin."

"Why aren't you in slytherin then?"

"Because I asked to be put anywhere but slytherin"

"Why?" Draco asked out loud, thinking back to how different things could have been if Harry had been placed in slytherin house. Would they had been friends instead of rivals?

"Honestly because you were placed in slytherin and I couldn't be near you, that and hearing that Voldemort was also in that house didn't up it's popularity in my eyes."

"So you're in gryffindor because of me?" Harry thought for a moment before nodding his head, a slow smile appearing on his face. "Yea I guess you can say that." Draco sat back in his chair.

"Bloody hell."


Jade sat across Draconian watching his lover as he wrote the ending to Spectacular, Spectacular. He loved times like this for then he let his mind wander and he imaged a different lifestyle, one that didn't include selling himself. That he and Draconian were a happy couple who didn't love in secret. But the reality always came back and brought his head back from the clouds, he was a whore and sooner or later Draconian would leave him.

It was three weeks after their fight and while Jade was doing better health wise, the duke had become more enthusiastic in his pursue of him which angered Draconian to no end but he made good show of hiding it. But in the past three weeks Jade had been showered with new beautiful clothes, jewelry as well as trips all over Paris. But every night it was Draconian that he went back to and gave his love to.

The play was going on nicely, all the songs coming together and Jade was happy but he couldn't help feeling that sooner or later something bad would happen and ruin everything.

Draconian looked up from his typewriter to look up at Jade who wore a pensive look on his face. "What are you thinking about?" He asked momentarily forgetting his writing.

Jade looked up and smiled softly. "About you." He said getting up from the bed and making his way over to the blonde where he sat on his lap.

"About me? Would you be thinking about me kissing you?" Draconian asked inching closer to Jade.

"How did you guess?" He said before closing the space between them and accepting the slow, sweet kiss.

"Did I tell you how much I love you today?" The blonde asked they parted.

"Yes but tell me again."


"Now, uh, this new scene is the scene where the sitar player writes a secret song for the courtesan, so whatever is happening, however bad things are, they remember their love and um lets take it from your line Jade." Draconian said moving off the stage while the actors took their places.

"We must be careful." Jade whispered looking apprehensive.

The Argentinean moved forward grabbing both of Jade's hands into his own. "Fear not, we will conduct our love affair right under the maharajah."

"Cue the music!" Draconian said never once taking his eyes off Jade.

Never knew I could feel like this
Like I've never seen the sky before
I want to vanish inside your kiss
Everyday I'm loving you more and more
Listen my heart can you hear it sing
Telling me to give you everything
Seasons might change, winter to spring
But I love you till the end of time
Come what may
Come what may
I will love you till my dying day

The Argentinean sang his part, Draconian following along, singing softly to himself. He remembered why he wrote the song in the first place so Jade would understand that no matter what he would be there till the end.

Jade took his cue and started to sing his part, and while he kept eye contact with the Argentinean he looked more to Draconian while he sang.

Suddenly the world seems like such a perfect place
Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace
Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste
It all revolves around you
And there's no mountain too high
No river too wide
Sing out this song
I'll be there right by your side
Storm clouds may gather
And stars may collide
But I will love you till the end of time

As the song went on the duke sat in a chair away from the stage watching as the run through of the play came to an end. An uneasy smile covered his face as he kept his eyes on Jade. So focused on his beauty that he didn't notice one of the dancer's as she approached until she was right next to him.

"This ending is silly. Why would the courtesan choose the penniless writer- Whoops! I mean sitar player." She smirked callously before walking off, taking her seat next to the other dancers still smirking.

Come what may
Come what may
I will love you till my dying day!

All the actors sang the last bit holding on to the note until the music faded out and turned to the crowd and...

"I don't like this ending." Duke Valmont stated still smiling uneasily.

Everyone stopped smiling and stared back annoyed. Jade let go of the Argentinean's hands glaring and folded his hands over his chest as Draconian turned sharply to stare at the duke. Everything and everyone just seemed to stop at his statement. Harold moved forward.

"Don't like the ending my dear Duke?"

"Why should the courtesan choose the penniless sitar player over the maharajah?" Valmont said waving his hand around. "Who is offering a lifetime of security? That's real love." He continued talking as he stood up from his chair. "Once the sitar player had satisfied his lust he will leave the courtesan with nothing. I suggest that in the end the courtesan choose the maharajah"

"S-sorry..." Toulosue spoke up. "Sorry but that ending does not uphold the bohemian ideals of truth, beauty, freedom-" He started to say as he advanced forward from the back of the stage.

"I don't care about your ridiculous dogma! Why shouldn't the courtesan choose the maharajah"

"Because he doesn't love you!" Draconian yelled out.

The words echoed loudly throughout the room, Jade's eyes widened as he looked to Draconian but quickly looked back to Valmont whose eyes narrowed as they shifted between the two of them.

"H-him... Him. He doesn't love him." Draconian said weakly, trying to correct his mistake. "He doesn't love him." He repeated once again with a little more force but the damage was already done.

"Now I see." The duke whispered staring at Jade who looked back indifferent. "Monsieur Harold this ending will be rewritten with the courtesan choosing the maharajah and without the lover's secret song. It will be rehearsed in the morning, ready for the opening tomorrow night." Valmont said.

"My dear duke that'll be impossible-" Jade cut in.

"Harold! Oh! The poor duke is being treated appallingly." He said moving off the stage, towards the duke. "These silly writers let their imagination run away with them." Jade came to stop in front of the duke and no one dared to say a word as Jade wove his charm around the duke. "Now why don't you and I have a little supper and then afterwards we can let monsieur Harold know how we would prefer the story to end. Hmm?" He smiled as he caressed the duke's cheek.


Jade stood still as the women helped him removed the headpiece he was forced to wear during rehearsals. "Thank you Elizabeth." He said once it was removed and she left with Jade about to follow if it weren't for Draconian coming out of the shadows taking a hold of his arm.

"I don't want you to sleep with him." He said looking desolated.

Jade looked around before turning back to his blonde lover. "He could destroy everything." He whispered. "You promised me... You said you wouldn't be jealous." Draconian only shook his head, wrapping his arms around Jade's waist. "I have to go."

"No, no!" He held on tighter not ever wanting to let go. Jade sighed.

"You promised... You promised me." Draconian still didn't let go, he wouldn't no matter what he promised. Jade rested his head against the blonde's so that they were cheek to cheek. "Come what may." He sang softly into his ear.

Draconian looked up at Jade and without words stepped back, releasing Jade from his grasp. "Come what may." He nodded and without another word walked away.


Draco woke up from the dream, a frown marring his face. "How is it possible for someone to be having a bad day before they even wake up?" He asked out loud.

"Talking to yourself is the first sign of madness you know." The mirror in his room said.

"Shut-up"


Harry had a bad feeling when he woke up, too many things were going smoothly and he knew something bad was bound to happen. He thought, well hoped he was just being paranoid. But he was proved wrong. It all started when Ron and him were walking to the great hall. Hermione had decided on having an early breakfast with Ginny and the two were back in the gryffindor common room chatting nicely with each other. Leaving Ron and Harry to have breakfast with each other which on any other day would have been fine but presently there was a silence between them, it wasn't tense but not exactly pleasant either finally Ron felt the need to break it.

"So how was your date with Malfoy?" He asked awkwardly.

"It wasn't a date, we're just friends"
Ron snorted. "Yeah and your family really dose like magic."

Harry shot him a glare and walked faster but Ron kept up with him. "I'm just saying you two don't look like friends. And Malfoy makes no show of hiding that he likes you." The redhead said as they entered the great hall.

"Ron just stop ok? Draco and me are just friends, nothing more." Harry all but snapped at him as both boys sat down.

They sat down with Ron a little put off at being snapped at and Harry grateful that he kept silent. Both ignored the tense mood that settled and started to fill their plates up with eggs, toast and beacon. Harry kept his eyes on his plate eating slowly, not really hungry but he couldn't ignore the feeling anymore, he felt as though people were staring and sure enough when he looked up the other houses were staring back at him.

"Neville lend me your newspaper." Harry asked his dorm-mate.

"Why? There's nothing in here about you."

Harry rolled his eyes. "You're a terrible lair Neville, give me the newspaper please?" Holding out his hand Neville reluctantly handed over the paper.

Harry flipped to the front page and was stunned to see a picture of Draco and himself, and taking a closer look he realized it was in the restaurant where they ate last night! They were staring at each other smiling when Draco reached over and what looked like the blonde stroking his cheek (Which to clarify he was just wiping chocolate off the side of his lips.). Numb Harry read the caption:

Harry Potter's New Romance

Harry Potter, also known as the boy-who-lived was spotted yesterday around Hogsmeade with a fellow sixth year boy, Draco Malfoy, the only son of Lucius Malfoy. Both looked very close with each other and ended the day with them having dinner at Hot Spots. A source tells us that both boys have been 'talking' a lot lately but insist their friends. Could this be a new secret romance that Harry Potter has been keeping to himself?

Harry stopped reading there even though the story went on to another page. He was overwhelmed with anger, he just so sick of the press always having to be in his business that he couldn't even go out on a damn dinner without turning into news the next morning. Forgetting his half-eaten breakfast, Harry rose from the table and stalked out of the great hall only to run into someone. The boy reached out and steadied Harry as he stumbled, once he was balanced he looked up and groaned.

"Nice seeing you too." Draco smirked an eyebrow going up in a perfect arch.

"Leave me alone Draco"

"What's wrong now?" The blonde rolled his eyes. He wasn't in a good mood and now yet again for the millionth time Harry was dismissing him.

Harry glared and threw the paper at Draco who caught it surprised and looked down to the picture of them. He was shocked by the picture but not by the paper.

"You knew it was bound to happen. Harry you're famous in this world and everything you do will be under a microscope be it the truth or a lie. The thing is not to let them get you down." Draco told him.

"I want them to leave me alone though." Harry pouted though he would never admit that he was.

"And that's never going to happen." Draco said nonchalantly taking Harry's hand into his own, he noticed that he'd been doing that a lot over the past few weeks but never once had Harry complained and it just felt right.

"Now stop pouting-"

"I'm not pouting"

Draco rolled his eyes but kept walking in the direction of the great hall. "Yes you are, so stop because it doesn't suit you"

Now it was Harry who rolled his eyes but he couldn't stop the smile that seemed to tug at his lips. It amazed him at how easily Draco could calm him and make him feel carefree, that even when they entered the great hall, with most of the school looking on as they sat down at gryffindor table Harry didn't seem to mind it as much as he normally would have.


And that is the end of chapter six and I'm off to bed because school starts in less then eight hours and I should be dreaming of candy and boys not up trying to come up with an ending for this chapter. But I just feel so bad for not updating in such a long time that I did and I hope you guys liked it! I'll finish review and correcting the chapter tomorrow...er today I mean, after I get home from work! Love ya and hopefully you are sleeping well just like I'm about to be in a minute! 3-7 (12:47AM)

Thank yous:

Skimmie- Updated! Did you like?

Belonging- Harry will eventually open up but not for awhile, I'm known for my drama and it's just to early (for me anyways) to be putting everything out on the table. But when he does it'll be all that much better... Well hopefully ;0)

Marie Sienna Elvin- Aw I'm sorry you but if it makes you feel better, it wasn't my idea either. Lillie Chan wrote this first but never finished it and I asked to take on the story. But I hope you keep on reading!

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A-Brighter-Dawn- I still can't believe you read my story! Not that I'm not happy about that though ;-) and I love your story, looking forward to the next chapter! And I put Voldie in just for you babe... But don't worry he'll play a bigger part more later on in the story. Did you like the date?

Awed- Personally I loved how Ewan McGregor sang! And he was so hot in that movie... But I'm getting off track! I'm so happy you like this story as well! But sorry I don't know what story your talking about, look around though you should find it some where! Did you like this chapter?

zoomaphonethepirate- Aw thanks babe for liking the story so much but don't worry about the ending of the story... While Jade and Draconian will end like the movie, the story won't. No tears kay! ;0)

Until next time ciao loves!