Ch 12!!!!
Days past and a comfortable routine was worked out. Crabbe, Goyle, Ron and Blaise spent their time helping fix up the still shabby old house. Hermoine, Pansy and Theodore Nott wallowed away in the library. Millicent And Ginny spent huge amounts of time in their room talking about Merlin knows what. And not to forget our Hero's, they simply wandered, searching through the attic and unexplored rooms of the house trying to find anything that might help them discover the person to whom it seemed Harry would be bound.
Sitting in his room, Draco looked up as Harry entered and threw down a book in excitement.
"Draco come look at this, I think I've found something" Harry exclaimed, his emerald eyes shining brightly as he slipped through pages and stopped midway through the book, glancing at Draco before pointing out a paragraph in the book he was reading 'The rise and fall of the Dark Lords'
When the Dark Lords of the Founders age came to power they were a formidable fighting force capable of destroying heartlessly and using Blood Magic to force people to do their will, by binding them as slaves. Godric Gryffindor was one such individual, forced into servitude with a binding mark branded into his skin. According to legend, Godric fell in love with Salazar Slytherin and when they made love, it forged a bond so powerful it negated any hold his master had on him, transforming his mark of servitude into the Animagus form of his lover, a snake. The power shared by the two allowed them to defeat the Dark Lords of the time and they went on to build Hogwarts, the prestigious Wizarding School.
Draco looked at Harry blankly for a moment. "How does this help?"
"Draco, the dark mark is a mark of servitude correct?" Harry said, appreciating the look of dawning on the blonde's handsome face.
"You know that means in essence that you are going to fall in love with one of us" Draco said uneasily, looking almost hopeful for a moment.
"I think I may already be" Harry replied, turning away swiftly and muttering something about telling Hermoine.
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"Harry, this is the only way, tell me who it is" Hermoine prodded.
"Listen Moine, they have to love me remember, or else the prophesy is wrong and he doesn't love me. My god I can't even choose who I love" He sighed with a frown.
"Draco does love you Potter. He just doesn't want you to know it. He doesn't want the prophesy to be about someone else and get himself hurt" Pansy said from the doorway.
"Wha...how did...you.."
"Really Potter, be a bit more discreet in you're staring at him and maybe I wouldn't have noticed. Even Nott has noticed and he barely gets his head out of a book long enough to eat" She replied with a smile.
""Why always me?" Harry groaned, looking imploringly at Hermoine who shrugged in response.
"You're just lucky I suppose" Pansy grinned and gracefully lowered herself into a plush chair in the middle of the living room between Hermoine and Harry.
"If what you found is correct Harry then that puts a lot of pressure on you two to have sex" Hermoine murmured, a bright blush staining her cheeks.
"I'm begging you to tell me you aren't a virgin Potter" Pansy exclaimed. Harry simply nodded and lowered his head to try to hide his brightly flushed face.
"They don't call Draco the Slytherin Sex God for nothing" Pansy grinned. "Not that I would know, he prefers to lick the pole rather then plug the hole. But I've heard he's as good as they say he is" (A/N sorry for the crude humor of that, if you've read Stephen King's Dark Tower you may recognize the phrase)
"Not helping Pansy" Harry muttered, his face turning almost purple in all it's fluorescent glory. Blaise and Goyle entered the room covered in dust and looking slightly sick.
"Please don't talk about Draco's sex life in front of us Pans, you're the only one who has any interest in it" Blaise said.
"Says the boy who gave him a blowjob last Christmas" Pansy said archly.
"I was drunk Pansy and so was he" Blaise defended himself crossly.
""Can we get back to the matter at hand please" Hermoine exclaimed, clearly uncomfortable with the turn the conversation had taken.
"Oh fine, lets talk about Potter's lack of sex life then" Pansy said "That's perfectly on topic"
"Man I wish saving the world depended on my having sex" Goyle said with a grin.
"Goyle, if the world depended on you having sex I pity the world" Pansy snapped.
"The bottom line is that you and Draco have to shag, and probably soon" Blaise said.
"I don't work well under pressure" Harry joked. Pansy erupted in laughter and the others chuckled.
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Harry walked into the kitchen of his godfather's house and found Remus Lupin sitting drinking a cup of tea, talking amiably with Millicent and Ginny.
"Remmy, where is Siruis?" Harry asked with a grin on his face, eager to see his godfather.
"With Buckbeak I believe. He's grown quite attached to that Hippogriff" Remus replied.
"Harry, Milli and I were about to go for a walk in the back garden, would you like to come?" Ginny asked with a fluttering of her eyelashes. The girl was sweet, but took no notice of Order Business and so did not know or care about the prophesy.
"Umm..No thanks Gin, I have to talk to Sirius" Harry quickly made and exit and headed upstairs to his godfather's room, where he found the escaped convict sitting on the floor next to the large Hippogriff.
"Hello Harry" Sirius said when he noticed Harry in the doorway.
"Hullo Siri" Harry replied as he flopped down onto his godfathers bed.
"Draco trouble" The older man said wisely.
"How did you..."
"You really shouldn't stare at him so much." Sirius grinned.
"Is he the one do you think" Harry asked.
"He's powerful, but that doesn't always mean anything, do you love him"
"Yes, I think I do" Harry said. "But what if it isn't him, I mean the prophesy puts a lot of pressure on this person and I. What if I was wrong about the bond? What if it isn't like Godric and Salazar's?"
"Harry, just tell Draco how you feel and see where it goes. Don't pressure yourself or him. If the feeling is there everything else will follow I promise you. You've sacrificed almost everything, you shouldn't have to sacrifice your love life too" Sirius pulled the small boy into a hug and then let him go with a small shove towards the door. "Go talk to him"
Harry obediently walked from the room and towards the room he shared with Draco and Ron, hoping the blond would be there. 'If Sirius is right I have nothing to worry about.' Harry thought with a small smile before pushing open the door and finding Draco asleep on his bed, blond hair splayed like a halo around him. High cheekbones and a small upturned nose gave him regal features slightly offset by pouting pink lips. Harry's breath caught in his throat as he drunk in Draco's face before shifting his eyes to the now open mercury orbs of the person he was watching.
"I know I'm pretty Potter but you really don't have to stare" Draco smirked and stretched, the muscles in his arms and back sliding under the skin enticingly.
"I need to talk to you about the prophesy" Harry blurted out, unable to control what was spewing out of his mouth.
"What about, did you find something, do we know who it is?" Draco was immediately alert and wiping the excess sleep from his eyes eagerly.
"Kinda... If we're right about it being the same kind of bond Slytherin and Gryffindor had then I have to fall in love with someone and vice versa. I think I...well that is to say..."
"You've fallen in love with one of the Slytherin's and you think that's who the prophesy is about." Draco finished with sad smile. "Who's the lucky girl"
"Well there isn't a lucky girl exactly" Harry hinted. Draco's eyes widened and he looked into Harry's emerald orbs searchingly.
"Lucky bloke then" He said, his voice barely concealing a whisper of hope.
"Umm...I think it may be you." He rushed. "But if you don't feel the same I suppose it doesn't matter we could be wrong after all or maybe it's just a fluke or..." Draco pressed his finger to Harry's lips to silence him and smiled.
"I always wanted to be part of a prophesy" He grinned and replaced his fingers with his lips. Pressing their mouths together tenderly, reveling in the shockwaves of electricity wherever their bodies met. Harry wrapped his arms around Draco's neck and ran his calloused hands through Draco's corn silk hair. Draco wrapped his arms around the smaller boy's waist and pulled him flush against the taller boy.
Draco bit lightly at Harry's lower lip and the dark haired boy gasped in surprise allowing Draco ample time to slip his tongue in Harry's mouth and explore, tasting the other boy's mouth, strawberries and mint, probably remnants of his dessert mixed with an indefinable taste that could only be Harry. Harry shifted his weight slightly and Draco bit back a moan as Harry's thigh accidentally brushed against his swiftly hardening member.
Draco pulled away and surveyed the Dark haired boy's flushed face. Harry touched his bruised lips where they still tingled from the contact. Draco smiled softly and ran his hands through Harry's shoulder length black locks and kissed him chastely on the cheek.
"Just because the prophesy is about us doesn't mean that we have to jump into bed Harry, we can go slow as you like" Draco whispered into the other boy's ear, feeling the other boy shiver against him.
"The fate of the world depends on our sex life, there has to be something odd about that" Harry replied with a pained smile.
"You never get a break do you love" Draco said.
"No, the longer I stay a virgin the more people die" Harry sighed and turned away from Draco, pulling out of the tender embrace.
"Don't do it because of a prophesy, if we bond, I want it to be because I love you and you love me and we want to show the world that. Otherwise I don't think the bond would form even if we did have sex" Draco said, using his fingers to lift Harry's chin so that the shorter boy was looking him in the eyes.
"I do love you Draco, but I've never..." Harry cut off and rested his head against Draco's shoulder.
"I have, I won't hurt you Harry. I'd never forgive myself if I did" Draco kissed Harry on the lips sweetly. Only to be interrupted by the slamming of a door.
"Bloody Blaise got Doxy eggs all over me..." Ron was muttering as he stopped dead in the middle of the room upon seeing his best friend and used-to-be worst enemy in an embrace.
"You're a pouf?" Ron yelled, his voice cracking as Harry swiftly jumped away from Draco and opened his mouth to explain.
"No, don't even go there Potter, I've been sleeping in the same room as a bloody pillow biter, disgusting. You're sick and wrong and bloody gross. And as if that weren't enough you're carrying on with the bloody Ferret" Ron stormed from the room as Harry's eyes filled with tears and they spilled over the brims of his bright eyes. Draco glared after the redhead before enfolding Harry in a tight hug, wiping away the boy's tears with the ball of his thumb.
"You've done nothing wrong Harry, nothing. He's just being stupid, it's alright" Draco ran his hands soothingly over the other boy's back and whispered in his ear, guiding him over to his bed and pulling the small boy into his lap, rocking him back and forth slowly. Holding him carefully as though afraid he might break.
"But I have done something, I've disappointed them. It wasn't supposed to happen like this Draco. I was supposed to be the Hero, I was supposed to be their savior and get married to a nice witch and have kids and be a role model for the Perfect wizarding family" Harry's voice turned bitter as he went on and the tears stopped, replaced by anger. He leapt out of Draco's arms and started to pace the room like a caged animal.
"Harry, bugger them if they don't like it. You deserve happiness more then they ever will and if they don't like that I make you happy then that isn't your problem it's theirs." Draco placed his hands on Harry's shoulders and pulled him back into his arms.
"You can't make everyone Happy Harry, you only have to make yourself happy and make the best of it." Draco soothed the other boy, holding him close as the tears started again.
"I've spent my whole life making others happy. I don't know how to make myself happy. I wasn't exactly shown affection as a kid so a lot of human contact scares me a bit" Harry looked carefully away from Draco as he said this and Draco noticed.
"Why Harry?" He asked softly, trying not to scare the sweet boy in his arms and only now noticing that the small body was tense. Draco loosened his hold and Harry immediately sat next to him, not close enough to touch, but not horribly far away either.
"I had never received a hug until Hogwarts. I wasn't seen as important enough to waste affection on" Harry smiled bitterly and stood.
"I don't know if Ron was right or not. But I don't think I can afford to care. The entire wizarding world is riding on my having fallen in love with you." Harry rummaged through his trunk and pulled out a letter, the one Draco himself had written the Prophesy on.
"You're the only one that fits. If what we are assuming is correct it doesn't matter what Ron thinks. I lose my best friend but the wizarding world is saved." Harry smiled bitterly and sighed.
"You gain something to you know Harry. A bond isn't something that goes away, neither is the feeling behind it" Draco smiled at the smaller boy who gave a shy smile back and nodded.
"Thank you Draco" He said sincerely before standing on his toes and kissing the taller boy.
"Let's wait Harry. I want you to be sure you know what you want. And I don't particularly like the thought of forming a bond with you in the middle of a room we both share with Weasley, homophobe that he is" Draco kissed both of Harry's eyelids and pulled away from him slowly.
"Alright" Harry agreed and looked out the door through which Ron had fled.
"I think it's almost supper" Draco said, taking the smaller boy's hand and leading him from the room. Not dropping his hand even then they were in the kitchen. He pulled the boy into the seat next to him and smiled pleasantly at Mrs. Weasley.
"Hello Molly" He said
"Hello Draco, you're a bit early for supper. Harry dear do eat a bit more your looking a bit peaky" She fussed, delighted to have someone to mother for the moment. A loud crash was heard from the parlor as yelling drifted into the kitchen and spells were heard crashing around. Mrs. Weasley ran from the room with Draco and Harry hot on her heals. They arrived to find Blaise and Ron fighting. Wands slashed through the air and oaths were yelled.
"Take that Back Weasley" Blaise shouted.
"But it's true, the slimy faggot had his hands all over Harry" Ron cried, as a beam of red light shot from his wand.
"Draco's a better person then you'll ever be, faggot or not" Harry yelled, causing Blaise to lower his wand, while Ron merely pointed his at Harry.
"Coming from the little gay wad he's buggering" Ron sneered, stalking out of the room.
"I taught you better then that Ronald Weasley." Mrs. Weasley screamed, following her wayward son up the stairs, shouting all the way.
"Nice choice of friends Potter" Blaise muttered, stalking into the kitchen to eat supper. Harry and Draco followed silently. Walking back into the kitchen to find all the Slytherin's, Sirius, Remus, The Weasley's minus Ron and Mrs. Weasley, Tonks, Moody and Hermoine assembled there. Hermoine immediately crushed Harry in a hug, which he desperately tried to evade.
"Oh Harry I'm so sorry about Ron. I don't know why he would do something like that. He'll come around I know he will, you know what his temper is like and..." She was cut off by Draco pulling Harry gently away from her and guiding him to sit down.
"It's ok Moine, it's his loss really" Harry smiled and Draco's heart broke. He saw what Harry meant by disappointing everyone. He couldn't even be upset about his best friend's betrayal because he didn't want anyone to worry. Draco couldn't imagine the pressure he was under simply because of his name.
Hermoine looked worriedly at her friend but nodded and sat back down next to Pansy, who blushed lightly when their hands brushed under the table.
A/N Ok this is the new chapter. Please Review. Next update may be a week or two away, sorry, but I have almost no computer time! Review!